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108 Answers to LOST's Supposedly Unanswered Questions
Damon Lindelof has recently come under fire for Prometheus, the sort-of-a-prequel but actually completely a prequel to Alien. People on the INTERNET are saying that the lack of answers in PromETHEUS is just like the lack of answers in one of Lindelof's other popular projects, LOST. LOST comes up a lot when answers are involved. It was even recently mentioned in Buzzfeed's "32 Really Frustrating Things in Life."
What the ... Faraday?
LOST is also mentioned every May during finale season. Many Googleable lists of the "X Worst Finales Ever" will pop up, and LOST is usually in the number one slot, right above Battlestar Galactica and Friends. Battlestar Galactica because hearing "I'm an angel of God" in the very first episode makes a person surprised and angry when a main character turns out to be an angel of God. Friends is of course on these lists because of its final episode, "The One Where Joey Became Joey." Although, to be fair, it was still better than the Joey premiere episode, "I Miss My Fucking Friends."
"I'll be there for you," they said. "Like I was there for THEM," they said.
Now, I'm not very subtle about my love for LOST. I have made too many or not enough songs about it, but I still know that the show had problems. Nothing happened for about a season and a half, certain characters existed, etc. But "unanswered questions" is not among the show's flaws. You might not LIKE the answers, but they exist, and I can go no further in life without revealing them to you. I've already ruined The Dark Knight Rises for everyone, so I might as well improve LOST for you to even it out. I have your answers. You can trust me, because I'm a person typing to you on the Internet. Actually, just ask Damon Lindelof:
That tweet refers to a LOST Answers blog that I update infrequently, by which I mean "rarely," so, yeah, using only "infrequently" would have worked just fine. On said blog, you can find information on why certain people weren't at the Church, why Jack and Juliet's Sideways son was actually Jack and Kate's real-life son, and many other apparently creator-approved explanations of the mysteries of LOST.
So. Now that I'm officially creator-approved, let's get to it.
Spoiler Alert.
QUESTION 1: "So, it was purgatory, yeah? Right? YEAH?!?"
ANSWER 1: No.
Apparently a lot of people think that the Island was purgatory and everyone was dead the whole time. In a recent the Verge interview, Lindelof was asked why he made the whole show bloody purgatory. Lindelof spent the next few minutes explaining to the interviewer that everything on the Island happened in real life and the show was not, in fact, purgatory. Of course, all Lindelof had to do was show him a line from the finale: "Everything that's happened to you is real." Pretty straight forward, but maybe it would have helped if the Architect from The Matrix said it.
"... ergo, the Island is a series of tubes. Ergo, other stuff."
The likely cause for this false theory is that over the credits of the finale, ABC chose to show images of the crashed plane in silence, with no characters around. It was apparently meant to simply allow the audience to reflect on the series, not to claim anything about the plot of the show. The characters did not die when their plane crashed. I COULD stress that enough, but I guess I just don't want to take the time.
The longer answer for this is "The Island is a conscious place that can travel through time and space. It contains the source of all life. Water and Light combine at its center to form an energy that fuels Life, Death and Rebirth throughout existence. The Island, like all life, can make choices and be manipulated. If the light at the Source of the Island ever goes out, everything ends."
But the shorter answer is still "Magic." Magic is actually the answer to many Unanswered Questions, and if you hate that fact, then LOST just wasn't for you. Since the beginning, the central argument in the show was about Science vs. Faith. As it turns out, the winner of that battle is "a little bit of both." Our protagonist Jack started out as a man of Science, and he saved the world after he learned to balance his beliefs with his new found Faith in the Island. John Locke, on the other hand, operated on blind faith, and it broke him. He helped save the Island, but he also ended up being the face of the villain. On the other hand, Jack, the balanced one, was our hero.
So, yeah, Science won a little and Faith won a little. Among the show's sci-fi elements, like time travel and pushing a button every 108 minutes to stop the end of the world, there is also magic and ghosts and an afterlife. There is the unexplainable; a Monster in the jungle, and Magic on Magic Island.
This is a type of question asked frequently. "What's the deal with [any number of things]?" or "What's up with [any number of things]?" These aren't really questions, because they don't actually know what they're asking. The deal with airplane food is that it's food of varying quality that can be sold or given free on airplanes. What's up with the numbers is that they were the six remaining numbered Candidates to replace Jacob as Protector of the Island.
So, OK. Walt. What's the deal with him? Let's go with the longer answer again ...
Walt was always "special." He had premonitions, he attracted birds like a freaky magic bird kid and he had a clear connection to the Island. Walt was eventually kidnapped by the Others and studied by them, because he was a very special child. Unfortunately, Walt's father was a bit of a humongous wang who ended up murdering two people and ripping Walt away from the Island; away from his destiny. He stayed off the Island and lost his father. That's what we saw, so that's the deal with him, right? It's a sad answer, but some answers are sad. "What's the deal with John Locke?" He thought he was special until he attempted to kill himself. Ben convinced him not to, and then he murdered John. Sad already, and then Locke spent the entire end of the series looking like the villain. Pretty sad story, as was Walt's, but that's what happened.
Although, for even more on Walt, we can thankfully watch this extra epilogue from the Season 6 DVD:
In the epilogue, Ben Linus convinces Walt to escape Santa Rosa Mental Hospital in order to return to the Island. Ben told him he needed to help his father, Michael. We can easily presume from this that Hurley would eventually finish cleaning up the mess Jacob and Brother made, and he would step down for Walt to take over. That's what happens to Walt eventually, in another story we don't need to see. Chances are, he eventually became Island Protector and lived for hundreds of years, which is why he wasn't in the Church at the end. As Jack's father says, the people in the Church were there because the time they spent together was "The most important time of their life." Walt had other people to move on with, from HIS most important time. A time of peace and safety on the Island, with King Walt and Aaron and Ji Yeon, and probably Vincent still. We can only assume that Walt just Richard Alperted the situation and made Vincent immortal with his Magic Water and Light powers.
To understand this, we need to understand the nature of Time in LOST. The rule that the show has given us is "Whatever happened, happened." It's a paradox-correcting rule, and it eliminates the idea of linear time or circular time. It's more like a big splat of paint on a wall. Everything in the past, present and future (which is to say, everything) happened at once. One big splatter of Magic Water and Light on a wall that creates every moment of existence. The Magic Water and Light of Life explodes in a giant splatter of Everything. And whatever happens in that splat, happens.
So at the end of Season 5, Jacob's Candidates are in the '70s and the Incident is about to occur. The Incident that caused the creation of the Hatch, which caused the survivors to crash on the Island in the first place. 1970s DHARMA has drilled a hole in a particularly large pocket of Magic Island Energy, and it starts to escape, grow and collapse in on itself. If the survivors can set off the nuclear device Jughead, the Magic Island Energy will neutralize and the Incident will be avoided. The survivors would never have come to the Island at all. Time fixed.
Pictured: Stock photo of Time.
Except that's not how Time works. Everything that happened, happened. In the present, Jughead was sitting in the Hatch, waiting to be detonated as a Failsafe if someone didn't push the button. Sayid mentioned the nuclear device, Jughead, when they first arrived at the Hatch. Back in the '70s, the bomb didn't go off. The Incident continued, but eventually enough construction equipment got sucked down and plugged the hole. The bomb was kept in the Hatch for later use.
But let's look at the Sideways World from Season 6. In it, the Island is dead at the bottom of the ocean. Ben's father speaks of having left the Island years ago, so we know it existed when they were on it: right before the Incident. This Sideways World is a reality where Juliet DID blow up the bomb, and the Island sank. And a sunken Island means death for everyone; an Afterlife. The lack of Island also means that the Hatch was never built, so the plane never came to the Island, so they never went back in time to blow up the bomb that created the world in the first place. To correct this, the rules of Time have to create a second reality that interacts with and affects the original timeline. Two realities that exist at once, and occur because of each other. It's sort of like a second splat on the wall. It's smaller, but it still affects the shape and color of the original splatter. The only reason Desmond unplugged the Island and continued the Regular World's existence is because he got a vision of the Sideways World. The only reason the Sideways World exists is because of actions taken in the Regular World. Both realities happened, because whatever splatted, splatted.
As Jack's father said in and about the Sideways World, "This place is a gift you gave yourselves." Through chance, free will and paradox-correcting Magic Paint, a second Purgatorial Splat was created by these people. In this splat, the characters can say goodbye and forgive each other before returning to the Magic Light and Water that creates all life. These Oceanic passengers went through a very important time on the Island. They saved the world and created a place they could meet one last time, before moving on.
The longer answer here is "Egyptians." The longest answer is "Egyptians, probably."
This is in another category of question that doesn't work. It's the same as wanting to know where Jacob's mother came from. Chances are the answer is "brought there by someone else." OK, then where did THAT person come from? Who was THAT person's mother or father? This is information that belongs in an appendix of an Extended Universe Encyclopedia, not the narrative of a television show. If you want to learn more about Midi-chlorians and who Boba Fett's father is, just get the Expansion Guide. The Statue wasn't there because it was integral to the plot. It was there to enrich the setting in which the story played out.
An important thing people forget about LOST is that from the beginning, the Island was a character. The finale gave almost all of the characters perfect, appropriate send-offs. The character of the Island, however, didn't get a satisfying end. From the beginning, the Island gave Locke visions and had a mysterious agenda. It wanted things. Yes, Jacob and the Monster manipulated certain events, but there were things even they didn't understand. They were, after all, essentially kids when they took on their forms and roles on the Island. There are rules they don't understand and things at play that they can't comprehend. That's the Island. It is the Universe. It's the Rules. It's God. It needs Jack to go back. It won't let Michael kill himself. It is a being as well as a place. A being that Jacob doesn't understand, but is sworn to protect.
So, many questions can honestly be answered with "The Island did it." The cabin was a place that moved around seemingly at random. Characters would often peer in and see their own eye reflecting back at them. John Locke saw a wigged version of himself sitting in a rocking chair in the cabin. The Monster, as we were told, can only take the forms of people who are dead. Moving a cabin or location around is not a power attributed to the Smoke Monster, or Jacob. The only thing with the power to move objects through time is the Island itself. Locke even had a vision about where to the find the cabin. Visions aren't a Smoke Monster or a Jacob game. They're an Island game.
So if Existence and the Sideways World are two splatters of paint, then the Island is the paint brush. It is a conscious entity that affects how the paint splatters. Yes, the Smoke Monster played a long con to kill Jacob. Jacob played a long con to get rid of Smokey and to get Jack & Co. to fix the Island. The Island, however, was playing the longest con. Throughout its existence, it uses MAGIC ISLAND MAGIC to push people into making certain decisions that could lead to its survival.
It's not.
There was a certain expectation LOST presented for itself in the pilot. Tell the audience what happens to the characters, and explain the questions raised in the first episode. We know what the Island is, what the Monster was, why there were polar bears on the Island, why the characters were brought to the Island, and what happened to them. They saved the world.
Also, Magic was involved.
(Author's Note: I allude later on that Jack eventually became The Smoke Monster. It didn't seem to fit the conceit of the piece, but enough people have asked me about it that I'm including it here. I'll try to keep it "brief" and "simple", citing only information we were given in the show.)
Jack and The Smoke Mother
The Mother was the Protector of the Island.
The Mother explained to her sons that going into The Source would result in a fate worse than death (i.e.- Becoming a Smoke Monster).
The Mother destroyed the Man in Black's village in a most Smoke Monstery of ways, seen here:
What I'm getting at here is that, as Protector of the Island, Mother both had the powers of Jacob, and was a Smoke Monster. She split her duties and powers between her two sons, and made it so they could not kill each other. It would make sense that the Protector of Important Magic Island would be the incredibly powerful cloud of black smoke that can read people's memories and kill them in seconds. Rousseau was right: The black smoke IS a security system. A very important one, meant to patrol the Island and protect it for as long as it can. Mother was this being, and she also had the power of Jacob: to make rules, to give others abilities, etc. Full-on Island Protector.
But she couldn't decide which was deserving of the role. She loved them both. So she made it so each would get a part of her. The Gray Mother split herself into dark and light. The problem here is that The Man in Black became the Smoke Monster. He became a security system that wanted to leave its post. That was problem with the Broken Island for so long: One of its protectors had no interest in protecting anything. Both protectors wanted the other dead, but neither could kill the other. Thankfully, Oceanic 815 crashed and Jack was eventually all "Fine, I'll save the world."
So. How are Smoke Monsters made? They dip themselves into The Source. Into the Water and Light. Jacob tossed his Brother down and then his Brother cracked his skull, fell into The Source, and emerged as the new Smoke Monster. Later, Jacob found his body draped over a nearby rock and tree:
The Water and Light absorbs the essence of a person and turns them into a Smoke Monster. But they don't need the person's body. So The Source moved the body outside.
So what happened to Jack in the finale? He went down to The Source. Desmond unplugged the Island and was unaffected because of his Magic Time Brain. Jack had to plug it up again, though, and the Water and Light DID affect him. He sacrificed himself because he knew the Water and Light would kill him.
But the Water and Light doesn't kill you. We've SEEN what it does. It turns someone into a Smoke Monster, into a Protector of The Island. The person needs to be dead, though, as The Man In Black was dead when he reached The Source. Then it spits out the body. So after Jack was consumed by Light and Water, where did we next see him?
The same place The Man In Black showed up.
The Source spit Jack out once it absorbed his essence for Smoke Monstering. But Jack wasn't dead yet. He was stabbed and bleeding, but not dead yet. Not like the Man in Black already was when he fell into The Source. So Jack walked into the reeds, lied down with a dog, and died. His eye closed. The show was over.
But then, because Jack was now finally dead, a new Smoke Monster burst from The Source. And this time, it was a Security System that wanted to stay. One that even needed to stay. Jack's whole arc of the show ended with himneedingto stay on the Island and to do whatever he could to protect it. He believed in the Island, and he believed that he belonged there. Now he was even more correct than he thought. Jack could now happily float around in his new form, helping Hurley clean up Jacob's mess, and protect the Island he loved, in the form of something he once feared. He did this for many many years, until Hurley's reign ended and they could both pass off their power and position to Walt, the next true Protector of The Island.
Now let's go to the Sideways, where Jack keptalmostremembering his life. Every other character had one moment when they remembered everything that ever happened to them. Jack, on the other hand, needed several. A moment with Locke, a moment with Kate. He kept not quite being able to remember. Now, one could argue that this is just because he's Jack. He's stubborn and resistant, and just needed a while. However, he wasn't that way in the Sideways. That was one of the main points in that world. Everyone had evolved and grown in their lives, and they displayed the traits they'd developed in their time on the Island. Sideways Jack was not as stubborn as Real Life Jack.
SO. What's my point? Jack spent we-don't-know-how-long as a Smoke Monster on the Island. It could have been years or decades or centuries. Hurley lived a life just as long, but he never changed forms. Hurley remained himself. Jack, however, was Smoke Monster Jack. We saw what being a Smoke Monster can do to a person. As Mother said, it can be "worse than death". You lose some of yourself. You take the form of other people, you float around asblack smoke. Yes, its essence is you, but much of you is lost over the years.
Jack needed those extra pushes in the Sideways world, because he was so far away from it. He spent his life as Jack, but then he spent X amount of years as another entity. He lost a bit of himself, and each time Locke or Kate touched him in the Sideways, he got a little closer to remembering his life before the Smoke. He needed a drastic wake-up call like his father explaining everything to him in order to truly wake up from his life.
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What's food worth anyway?
What's food worth anyway?
Food has become amazingly inexpensive since World War II. Is agriculture to be celebrated, or to blame?
by Hoard's Dairyman staff
Many of us in agriculture stay involved in local pro-agriculture organizations. While each has its political tilt or bias, I hope we can all agree that Farm Bureau does a great job promoting the national Food Checkout Week each year. This year, Food Checkout Week was February 19 to 25. The purpose of the week is to show that of all the money you make in a year, on average it only takes until mid-February to pay for a year's worth of food.
A month or two of income really pays for a whole year of fruits, veggies, meat, sweets, and, of course, dairy? It's true, and Farm Bureaus all over the country promote the week, including some that orchestrate giveaways to random grocery shoppers, allowing them to fill their carts to the max in a certain amount of seconds.
But what takes our money now?
So we're spending 1.5 months of our money on food. Are we doing better or worse than in the past? And what are we spending or saving the rest of our money on?
While most in agriculture celebrate this triumph, some of us (and many outside of agriculture) question its "success." For example, every improved technology means less time per task, and more cows and acres per farm for the same amount of profit. Think of the money spent on general agriculture public relations campaigns in recent years. Those weren't happening in 1940.
It's a double-edged sword no doubt. But no matter your opinion on whether we need "slow-food" or "inexpensive food," farmers need to simply identify our markets and do our best to sell into them. A farm with no market is no longer a farm. And remember that agriculture, when it comes to occupations, is essentially off the map (here's another NPR info-graphic on where people work – agriculture is not mentioned).
That's why we need to continue telling the beginning of the story of food. Invite friends, neighbors, and co-workers to your farm this summer. It's 15 percent of their expenses, but 100 percent of your farm's income.
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NEW CUMBERLAND - Five offers and five rejections.
That's the way Chester fire Chief John Hissam sees the latest decision by the Hancock County school board regarding the sale of Newell Memorial Field.
The board voted 4-1 on Tuesday to have a second auction for the football stadium, which the district has been trying to dispose of as surplus property since June. Board member John Manypenny voted against the auction but did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Hissam has made repeated attempts, including two with the assistance of the city of Chester, to buy the football field and retain it for community use.
The latest attempt, proffered by the city and the fire department on Nov. 5, would have had the fire department writing a check for $250,000 to the city, which, in turn, would have paid the school district. The fire department would then have taken ownership of the stadium.
But the school board passed on that offer on Tuesday, opting, instead, to approve Superintendent Suzan Smith's recommendation that the stadium be once again put up for auction. The auction has been scheduled for 10 a.m. Nov. 30 in the school board room in New Cumberland.
"The decision of the board was disheartening," Hissam said. "We've tried every avenue we can think of that's above-board to try to get them to see our point of view, and it hasn't worked."
Hissam said the members of the Chester Volunteer Firemen's Association, the fire department's registered charity, will sit down "within the next few days" to decide on the next course of action.
"For whatever reason, the board doesn't want us to have the field," he said. "We haven't given up yet, but we're still in the position of trying to find out what to do."
School board President Jerry Durante, citing advice from the Bowles Rice law firm, said the problem has been the questionable legality of the offers.
Durante said West Virginia law does now allow for a political subdivision to act as an agent in such a transaction. What's more, the school board could sell the stadium to the fire department but only for a "nominal consideration," he said.
The latest offer from the fire department was not nominal, he said. "I think it was a fair offer had it not been for the concern I had about the regulations that restrict the board in its conveyance of public property to a public agency ... then to a 501 (c)(3) organization," Durante said. "My intent is to stay within the letter of the law and the spirit of the law."
Smith would not comment on the latest offer from Chester, saying, "I have consulted with our legal counsel and have been advised that this (auction) is the best and cleanest way to handle this, so ... that is why I recommended it to the board."
As with the first auction, held Oct. 25, the minimum bid for the 4.25-acre piece of property will be $250,000, Smith said. All the auction rules will be the same.
Newell businessman Tommy Ogden, co-owner of Builders Wholesale in Chester, said he will be at the Nov. 30 auction prepared to bid at least the minimum amount.
Ogden, who explained his interest in the property in a Nov. 4 letter to the editor of The Review, outlined his proposal to the board on Tuesday.
"I want to do what's best for the community," he said. "If I would happen to win the auction, I would want to keep the field for the community and try, to the best of my ability, to develop the south end of the field."
Ogden said his proposal is similar to the fire department's, but with "a splash of economic development thrown in. ... There is another opinion out there that is more pro-business."
Ogden said he would consult with Hancock County commissioners on how to develop the south end of the property. He also would like to see the fire department hold its annual Fall Bash on the property.
"In no way am I competing with the fire department. I want to be partners with them. I want to keep the field the field. ... I have nothing but the utmost respect for Chief Hissam and his department," Ogden said.


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The array of federal biodefense programs created in the years after 9/11 is on track to remain in place through federal fiscal year 2018. There will also be some new provisions that officials hope will encourage more development of medical countermeasures that can be stockpiled for emergency use.
Earlier this month a House of Representatives bill (HR 2405) to reauthorize those biodefense programs for the next five federal fiscal years cleared the chamber on a simple voice vote. President Barack Obama's administration has declared its support for HR 2405, adding that it "looks forward to working with Congress to improve and strengthen the bill, for example by authorizing a strategic investor for medical countermeasures, as its consideration shifts to the Senate."
The Senate version of the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act (PAHPA) Reauthorization of 2011 (S.1855), introduced last month, was the subject of a closed-door "executive session" on December 14 by the chamber's Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, on its way to an expected approval by that chamber.
Among the bill's most important provisions is renewing the federal Special Reserve Fund (SRF) to purchase medical countermeasures against such diseases as anthrax, botulism, and smallpox for the Strategic National Stockpile. The SRF was created through the Project BioShield Act of 2004, one of two bills that are being renewed through the new legislation. The other is the Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act of 2006, which established the Biodefense Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
"The first legislation made these programs happen, and now the reauthorization is an issue of how to make them more operational and functional," Dara Alpert Lieberman, senior government relations manager for the public health defense group Trust for America's Health, told GEN.
Both the House and Senate versions of PAHPA Reauthorization would fund the SRF at $2.8 billion over five years, from FY 2014 through FY 2018. The original 10-year PAHPA authorized $5.6 billion.
"While certainly everybody would like to see the SRF be a little bigger in order to incentivize more industry, it's actually a very reasonable number," Phyllis Arthur, senior director, vaccines, immunotherapeutics, and diagnostics policy, for the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), told GEN.
It remains to be seen how, if at all, the House and Senate will prevent Washington from draining the fund for other purposes. Three times since FY 2004, most recently in FY 2009, money from SRF was transferred to homeland security. Additionally, last year Sens. Richard Burr (R-NC), Judd Gregg (R-NH), and Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) introduced a bill that rescinded a $2 billion transfer from the SRF to fund increased education state aid.
To discourage such draining of the fund, both the House and Senate versions of PAHPA Reauthorization require HHS to alert Congress on the potential impact of diminished funding levels whenever the amount of BioShield funds available for procurement amounts to less than $1.5 billion. The House goes even further by stipulating that appropriations to the SRF are not available for use other than for payments made by the HHS Secretary to a vendor for advanced development or procurement of a security countermeasure or for associated administrative expenses.
Also in both the House and Senate versions of the PAHPA Reauthorization is language creating "regulatory management plans." Through this drug developers can establish formal frameworks for obtaining scientific feedback from and interactions with officials regarding the development and regulatory review of countermeasures. While details differ, both bills require the plans to spell out the data that would be required for approval, including protocols and developmental milestones. The plans are also supposed to help drug makers work through complex scientific issues such as developing animal models.
"These are the kinds of timelines that interest industry," Arthur noted. "It's really just having consistency in terms of communication to and from the agency and consistency in feedback when trying to solve some of the regulatory hurdles. This is a good way to make sure that work is staying on track or that issues are being identified. If we're not on track for certain portfolio products but there's a good reason why a scientific hurdle hasn't been accomplished, that would be identified in the report. It's not really to blame; it's more to track and to make sure that we understand where the priorities are over time."
The Senate bill also clarifies FDA's review process for medical countermeasures. It requires FDA to take material threat determinations by the US Department of Homeland Security into consideration when reviewing products. As Lieberman noted that would put into statute a practice of FDA's Medical Countermeasures Initiative that was only expanded to CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) in April; the $170 million program was launched in 2010 strictly for activities related to preparing for and responding to an influenza pandemic.
"The idea behind codifying was to make sure that those reviewers working on medical countermeasures were acutely aware of what the products they were working on were designed to do," Arthur explained.
Also to that effect, Section 304 of the Senate bill charges the HHS secretary with accelerating countermeasure activities by ensuring the appropriate involvement of FDA personnel in interagency activities, ensuring FDA involvement and consultation in flexible manufacturing activities, and promoting the development of countermeasure expertise within FDA. Section 306 also requires the HHS secretary to submit an annual report detailing FDA's medical countermeasure development and review activities, including identifying regulatory science priorities and scientific gaps.
Closer coordination among government agencies and faster decisions will be essential if countermeasure developers are to spend a decade and roughly $1 billion to bring these drugs to market. To that extent PAHPA should prove helpful. How to achieve both will require more time to hash out in conference, since that accounts for many of the differences in the reauthorization bills.
"Because diseases or conditions requiring the use of CBRN countermeasures important to national security have historically occurred infrequently, manufacturers have asserted that a commercial market sufficient to justify investment in the development of CBRN countermeasures does not exist, and therefore economic incentive must be provided by the public sector by providing a guaranteed market," Ryan C. Morhard, legal analyst with the Center for Biosecurity of UPMC, told GEN.
Obama's administration has positioned itself as supportive of more biotech business activity in countermeasures. In 2010, HHS announced a strategy for its Public Health Emergency Medical Countermeasures Enterprise (PHEMCE) that included encouraging translation of research; providing testing, development, and manufacturing services with mature pharmaceutical partners; and involving the federal government as a strategic partner and investor to countermeasure developers. That same year, the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology issued its own study designed to speed up development of flu vaccines.
The proposed PAHPA Reauthorization will codify into law some of their recommendations, and in some cases, set funding for these and other biodefense priorities. Both the Senate and House bills, for example, call for plans to implement HHS' PHEMCE strategy.
The most significant biodefense measures go beyond PAHPA legislation, however, to the annual budget bills that future Congresses will decide for all the agencies involved. So while PAHPA may set a fairly sound direction, a better indication of Congress' commitment to biodefense will be as simple as following the money.
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"To implement Islamic law and to educate non-Muslims (on Islam) can only be done by force," the associate professor told a forum entitled 'Hudud: Its dilemma and implementation' organised by Malay-language daily Sinar Harian in Shah Alam.
Qualifying his assertion, Ridhuan (right) said this is because the "negative attitude" of non-Muslims towards Islamic law makes it unlikely that they will voluntarily accept its implementation.
Being Chinese is not a religion or a cult. The community is never known for it's uniformity or homogeneity. That's why Ridhuan and millions of other ethnic Chinese had embraced Islam, Christianity and other religions.
He should propose a national referendum on the implementation of Hudud. He should find out what the Malay Muslim think of Hudud too.
He was wrong to suggest that the Chinese community would have preferred a corrupt Umno to a holy Pas which is dead set to implement the Hudud law. His anology reflects a serious problem in Malaysia which an academic like himself should have contributed to help us find a remedy.
It merely means there is a serious lack of choice in the Malay leadership. Give us a good, responsible, professional, progressive and democratic third force and find out which one we would prefer.


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Malone University will have representatives on hand to explain its accelerated degree completion programs in management and nursing at a series of information meetings. The meetings will take place at 6 p.m. on:
January 3 (Malone Management Program and RN to BSN Degree Completion) on the Malone University campus located at 2600 Cleveland Avenue N.W. in Canton;
January 11 (MMP only) at the Malone University Continuing Studies Center, Grand Bay Corporate Center Building 2, Suite 104, 6900 South Edgerton Road, Brecksville; and
January 19 (MMP only) at the Courtyard by Marriott, 100 Springside Drive in Fairlawn.
A counselor is available to meet with potential students for academic advising. For more information or directions to any of these locations, please call the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies at 1.800.257.4723 or 330-471-8500, or visit our Degree Completion web pages.
The Malone Management Program is one of the first accelerated degree completion programs of its kind with 25 years of assisting the adult learner attain a baccalaureate degree. Malone's bachelor of arts degree in either organizational, project, marketing, health services, or environmental management is designed for nontraditional students with a minimum of five years of work experience who have some post-high school education. The degree may be obtained in as quickly as 14 months. Since the program began in 1984, more than 3400 adult students have completed their degrees; in fact, the program boasts an impressive 80% graduation rate. Classes meet once a week from 6-10 p.m. for 54 weeks at Malone University in Canton, the Continuing Studies Centers located in Brecksville, and at Lauren Manufacturing in New Philadelphia. Small class groups advance through the entire program taking one class at a time. A student also has the option of taking the Malone Management Program entirely online.
The RN to BSN program: Registered nurses with a nursing diploma or associate degree can earn their BSN degree at Malone University in 14 months, including clinicals and group projects. Classes meet one night a week. This convenient schedule allows you to keep working while you attend. You're with the same group of classmates for the duration of the program, completing one course before moving on to the next. Tuition covers books, class materials and related course fees, too!
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Malone University, a Christian university for the arts, sciences, and professions in the liberal arts tradition, affiliated with the Evangelical Friends Church, awards both undergraduate and graduate degrees in more than 100 academic programs. Malone is recognized by the prestigious Templeton Foundation as a leader in character development, named an NAIA Champions of Character Five Star Award winner, and is ranked among the top colleges and universities in the Midwest under the category Regional Universities according to U.S.News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2011.
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5 Facts Everyone Gets Wrong About Depression
I was diagnosed with clinical depression about two years ago. Sadly, this didn't lead to me beginning a wacky romance with a free-spirited girl who taught me to embrace life and love myself for who I am. I just started taking prescription drugs, made a few lifestyle changes, and felt smugly justified about listening to Joy Division.
All the time I spent not Silver Linings Playbook-ing it up made me realize that a lot of what I thought I knew about depression was about as accurate as what elementary school children know about where babies come from. If you haven't experienced mental illness for yourself, there's a chance you believe ridiculous things like ...
#5. Depressed People Are Constantly Miserable and Alone
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Despite what we see in pop culture, depression is not a constant parade of doom and despair. That's one of the reasons people have so much trouble noticing that their friend is depressed -- how could Steve be depressed when he hosted such a smooth and bubbly orgy last week?
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"Is he sad because I made fun of his cold feet?"
People will often feel at their best when they're socializing, because life's problems fade into the background when a stranger buries their face in your junk. But when you're alone, curled up in a ball of fear and panic like a kitten cuddling with the yarn ball of sadness, that's when depression fucks you over. Your friends aren't there to see it, and you don't want to talk to them about it because your brain is telling you that the shits they give will be precisely zero.
There will also be times when you feel fine on your own but miserable with friends. Your mood almost seems to be random, like your brain is playing roulette with your emotions and it's had too many comped drinks. That may explain the public nudity charges, but it doesn't really fly with a judge. Trust me on that one.
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"I can't believe he got an Xbox One and a PS4. This is bullshit."
Even when you're being treated, you're not always going to be at 100 percent. I have days where I wake up and feel like I'm going to rip life a new Saturday, but on other days I lie in bed for hours because the only thing I think would be worth getting up for is throwing myself in front of a bus made out of swords. Then there are the days where I do nothing but eat Oreos and masturbate. That has nothing to do with the depression; I just really like eating Oreos and masturbating. I call it cookies and cream. I'm not apologizing for that joke.
The point is that when you're depressed, you're in a constant battle with your dumb brain for control of your life. You can win and turn those crappy days around, but you have to know the fight is happening. Don't assume the battle is won, or that there isn't even a battle going on. You may be fighting for the rest of your life. Depression is the Warhammer of illnesses, basically.
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#4. Depression Just Means Being Sad
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When you hear that someone's depressed, you assume they're sad, because duh, it's right there in the name. It's not called happission. But while most depressed people do feel like they're having a week-long case of the goths, it punches everyone's crotch differently.
Some people end up with an anger trigger that the Hulk would consider extreme. That's because one way to feel better about yourself is to make other people feel like shit, so a nice bout of telling your neighbor's kid that his finger paintings look like they were done by a quadriplegic chimpanzee can be just the thing to pick you up. Sure, you're still depressed, but at least you're not a stupid idiot that can't even paint a simple kitty cat. This is especially problematic, because friends and family will be less enthusiastic about reaching out to someone who might bite their hand off.
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"You call this an intervention?! I've seen alcoholics give better interventions!"
Contradictory symptoms are part of what makes depression difficult to detect. You might have trouble falling asleep or you might oversleep, and either way you might not realize that it's part of a bigger problem. I was sleeping until noon on weekends for months before I started to wonder if it wasn't only because I was staying up late to alphabetize my pornography.
I also lost a lot of weight, because when I'm having a bad day, a couple handfuls of blueberries and Cheerios seems like a good meal. That's not a joke, that was literally my supper on several occasions. And I found myself fidgeting like I had spent the night in a hotel overrun by bedbugs, even on the days when I hadn't replaced my blood with heroin.
That's just me. Others might find themselves having trouble remembering things, or gaining weight, or having trouble remembering things, or listening to blues music and smoking cigarettes in the rain, or having trouble remembering things. And of course these all add up to create new problems -- for example, it's hard to get motivated to take care of all your mundane day-to-day tasks when you're sad, tired, and lacking nutrients from two-thirds of the food groups.
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"I could do the dishes, or I could just sit here and fantasize about killing myself. Then I wouldn't have to do the dishes!"
And then there's the reduced sex drive. I don't get laid, so I didn't really notice any difference, but sexual side effects do affect many depressed people. If you're in a relationship and can't make Mr. Smith visit the hat shop (is ... is that a sex metaphor? I'm really bad at sex, you guys), your partner might be unsatisfied or worried that you find them unattractive. And then you'll worry that you're making your partner unhappy, and then you'll be unhappy, and then you'll be even less in the mood to bring your horse to water.
Even your libido melting away like a Popsicle in the sun isn't a guaranteed side effect. One study found that some depressed women have more sex, because they're using the fun of orgasms to fight depression's other symptoms, which raises the obvious question of how I go about joining their support group.
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#3. Antidepressants Don't Work
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Everyone's heard that antidepressants are a scam. And not just from Sunshine Flower, the hippie who runs the local food co-op, but from the mainstream media. Often it's accompanied by a scary statistic that says more people in America are on antidepressants than water, or a commentary about how in the good old days people didn't need Big Pharma shoving pills down their throats. You even see it in pop culture. Garden State is a movie about a man whose life improves after he stops taking his prescribed medications, and we all know that Hollywood would never lie to us.
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"Just flush your meds and you too can bang Natalie Portman!"
First of all, depression rates are rising because we're getting better at diagnosing it. It's the same reason a lot more people were identified as mentally handicapped after people stopped assuming a donkey kicked them in the head as a child.
It's true that in some cases antidepressants are not effective. That's because the human brain is immensely complicated, and we don't know much more about it than the monkeys knew about the monolith in 2001. You're trying to fix a biological computer, not a tangled Slinky -- of course the same treatment isn't going to work for everyone. But for some people antidepressants absolutely do help, and it's irresponsible to claim otherwise. It's like saying that because cancer screening doesn't have a 100 percent effective rate there's no point in getting checked.
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"Based on current medical knowledge of the human body, I can confidently tell you that you have either cancer or gremlins."
The science behind antidepressants is complicated, heavily debated, and poorly understood. I'm not going to get into it, in part because any medicine beyond a splint is basically wizardry to me. But the real issue is that people misunderstand what antidepressants are supposed to accomplish. They're not magical feel-good drugs that wipe away all your problems just in time for you to win the big game; they're one part of a multifaceted treatment process. A long and tedious part -- it can take months of experimentation to determine what drug or drugs in what dosages are appropriate for each person, because again, brains are hard.
People who are anti-antidepressants say things like half of all people who try them quit after four months because they're not getting results. Well, maybe that's because it can take six weeks just to figure out if they're working, never mind the time spent fiddling with the prescription to get it just right. If you're expecting to cure a major mental illness in less time than it takes to play an NFL season, you may be a different kind of crazy.
The point of antidepressants isn't to solve all of your problems; it's to keep you from feeling overwhelmed so you can solve them yourself.


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- Resolved objects in the field of NGC 4649 (Table A1)
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- Forbes, Duncan A.; Faifer, Favio Raul; Forte, Juan Carlos; Bridges, Terry; Beasley, Michael A.; Gebhardt, Karl; Hanes, David A.; Sharples, Ray; Zepf, Stephen E.
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- Images were taken of NGC 4649 using the GMOS in imaging mode on the Gemini North telescope on 2002 April 10, 11 and 14. The internal Gemini program ID is 20020410-GN-2002A-Q-21/Q-13. The instrument consists of three 2048 × 4608 pixel CCDs, with a scale of 0.072 arcsec pixel−1, yielding a 5.5 x 5.5 arcmin2 field-of-view in a single pointing. We obtained three pointings close to the galaxy centre: the north-east (field No. 1), south-east (field No. 2), and east (field No. 3). The images were taken using modified Sloan g and i filters (centred at wavelengths of 475 and 780 nm, respectively). Both g and i images had exposure times of 4 x 120 s, and the subexposures were dithered to remove the gaps between the CCD chips. The seeing for the three fields were similar in the g and i filters, with 0.6, 0.7 and 1.0 arcsec for field Nos 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Table A1 gives the photometry for the resolved objects. Table columns include x and y position in pixels, defined in a rectangular system with its origin at the galaxy centre with x positive towards west and y positive towards the north (columns Xpos and Ypos); galactocentric radius in arcsec (column RadGC); Modified Sloan i magnitude (column imag); Modified Sloan g−i colour index (g-i) and their errors (columns e_imag and e_g-i). Finally, column _RA contains position computed from Xpos and Ypos, assuming the position of M60 centre at 12:43:40.20+11:33:09.0 (right ascension part) (pos.eq.ra;meta.main); and column _DE contains position computed from (Xpos, Ypos), assuming the position of M60 centre at 12:43:40.20+11:33:09.0 (declination part) (pos.eq.dec;meta.main). The table is provided in full for download here in PDF; for other formats including ASCII and HTML, see the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics VizieR record here: http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-source=J/MNRAS/355/608.
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- Swinburne University of Technology. Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing
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- Originally published as supplementary material to: Forbes, D. A., et al. (2004). Gemini/GMOS imaging of globular clusters in the Virgo galaxy NGC 4649 (M60). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 355(2), 608-616, http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08333.x, Table A1
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The tour supporting "Uno!," "Dos!" and "Tre!" picks up soon, but first the band is playing some intimate shows and heading to SXSW in Austin, Texas. The first of the intimate shows is tonight at the Fox Theater in Pomona, where fans have been in line since midnight.
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Perry Buck has earned a seat in the Colorado House of Representatives.
With 87 percent of ballots tallied in Weld County, Buck, a Republican from Greeley, had received 64.6 percent of the votes, while Democrat James Shelton was far behind at 35.4 percent.
In Larimer County, early voting numbers showed Buck had a 19,594 to 14,856 lead.
District 49 incorporates Windsor, a little bit of Johnstown, Estes Park and the rest of Larimer County, with the exception of the city of Loveland and the city of Fort Collins.
"I'm very thankful to those who voted for me, and very excited to serve," Buck said. "Hopefully each time I come back home, they'll tell me I'm making them proud.
"That's my goal."
The District 49 seat was left vacant when B.J. Nikkel, R-Loveland, was moved out of 49 and into District 51.
Buck, a political activist and business owner from Greeley, is also the wife of Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck.
Buck said her love for politics started when her mother served on the Greeley-Evans District 6 school board for eight years. Her father served as a Weld County commissioner for eight years, and served in the Colorado House for two terms.
During her campaign, Buck, a self-labeled conservative, has expressed support for limited government, small-business development, water storage, particularly the Northern Integrated Supply Project, energy of all forms and choice when it comes to education.


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Some of Chynna Fudale's teachers seem to be wearing thin on patience this year, but the Hart High School 10th-grader doesn't blame her instructors.
Palmdale residents Tim and Rachel Burhans had attended Lamaze classes for about five weeks, as they prepared to give birth to their first child. But preparation was cut short when Rachel Burhans went into labor seven and a half weeks early.
Michael Ott was living every aspiring director's dream, traveling to foreign countries and promoting his first film.
Jessica Kwon only slept for three hours on Tuesday night. But when her alarm went off just before 5 a.m., the Valencia High student diligently packed up her bag and headed to school.
Moriah Levy is 13 now, but she still remembers the harsh words of a third-grade peer.
At 11 a.m. on a Monday, Bret Wims scribbled some notes in his journal.
A Goodwill store employee from Newhall who had apparently shot himself in the head remained in serious condition at a local hospital Thursday.
Patti Handy has heard the story all too often - a teenager overdrafts several times in one day after swiping their debit card at the mall, Starbucks Coffee and lunch with friends. All the while, the teen is unaware they didn't have enough money in their bank account. A $4 vanilla latte becomes a $49 pain-in-the-wallet fee owed to the bank, added to four more $25-35 fees.
Fewer Santa Clarita residents are losing homes to foreclosure compared to last year, but more are without jobs, according to city numbers.
Local Jews on Thursday morning exchanged greetings of "Shana Tova," or "Happy New Year" in Hebrew, coupled with kisses, handshakes and welcoming smiles for fellow temple members.
Editor's note: The final in an occasional series on the people who keep the SCV humming while the rest of us are snoring.
Tammy Craven stood in her driveway, her body covered with goosebumps, as she watched horses leap from trailers and trot onto her acres of Acton land.
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Jay Hodes and wife, Esther, spent the past week writing checks to charities, studying Jewish texts and making amends with certain friends or relatives.
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Google CEO Larry Page on Apple's "thermonuclear war": "How well is that working?"
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Larry Page took over as CEO of Google in April of 2011, although insiders say that the job was always his, Eric Schmidt was simply "keeping the seat warm" until Page was ready. On the technology side of things, there wasn't much doubt the Page had the skills, but when dealing with the media, Page was a bit reserved at first. But, he's growing more confident, and in a a new interview with Wired, Page is ready to take swings at Facebook. He even commented on Apple's "thermonuclear war" with a confident and clear "How well is that working?"...
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3. techguy22 (Posts: 227; Member since: 09 Aug 2012)
you tell them.
7. -SEUL8TR- (Posts: 113; Member since: 13 Jan 2013)
Me to that was funny....
5. blingblingthing (Posts: 529; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
The android operating system mirrors Google so well. Doesn't stay still or have one focus. Don't be surprised if in the near future Google has a chain of fast food restaurants.
12. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
How is this a bad thing? Creativity leads to great ideas.
20. tedkord (Posts: 11554; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Exactly right. Android does so much more than competing mobile OSes. Great for power users.
28. blingblingthing (Posts: 529; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)
Wow. Guys misunderstanding my post. I point is Google is so diversified and so willing to add fields to their portfolio that I wouldn't be surprised at some point Google adds fast food to their offerings
Android as well just doesn't sit their and make the browser better, they are constantly adding features and tweaking the interface.
38. dorianb (Posts: 593; Member since: 24 Oct 2012)
Man I hope they can cross breed McDonalds fries & Chick-fil-a wedges. That would be awesome.
9. MeoCao (unregistered)
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are way more talanted and important than Jobs for tech development.
Page and Brin make Google a creative COMPANY where every1 can express him /herself and the result is clear.
Job was the only creative man at Apple, and he managed by fear.
Apple uses fear to compete as well: thermonuclear, lawsuits... and it works sometimes: HTC for example. But tyranny can never win, creativity will triumph always in technology.
10. -SEUL8TR- (Posts: 113; Member since: 13 Jan 2013)
Creative, my foot, more like stealing and modify what already exists!
13. cripton805 (Posts: 1440; Member since: 18 Mar 2012)
Oh please. This would be like saying Apple copied the creator of the original cell phone by copying the actual Cell Phone part of it.
18. rcwfox2002 (Posts: 41; Member since: 20 Dec 2011)
Palm, Blackberry and even windows was out before Iphone. He took the PDA idea and improved it. So SEUL8TR is correct in saying all he did was modify the the existing technology (PDA),
64. oNutz (Posts: 2; Member since: 19 Jan 2013)
The difference is that Jobs was not A BOARD-MEMBER of Palm, Blackberry or Windows like Eric Schmidt was at Apple. C'mon, be honest if you had a company and your "trusted" BOARD-MEMBER hi-jacked all the stuff that "your" company had been working on....are you telling me that would not be a problem for you??
66. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
What specifically did Schmidt hijack? There is nothing about Android 1.0, other than the dominance of the touchscreen, that was unique to iOS at the time.
14. MeoCao (unregistered)
Are you talking about Jobs? It's partly true, but Jobs was creative in his own way: he could use available technologies to make compelling products like no1 else. He was like a good cook, with available materials he could make great meals.
The bad side of Jobs is he tried to patent the materials and prevent other from using the materials to make meals themselves.
17. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
htc is NOT an example of apples victory or bullying in lawsuits........they are an example of "pay your dues" to HELP YOURSELF get free of what could hold you down in the future!
in other words........be a man and pay what you owe so you wont have to worry about anyone later on....
#lesson in maturity
21. tedkord (Posts: 11554; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Bull. No one should owe Apple for anything that existed before they released it. And much of what Apple are suing for has massive prior art and obviousness.
When Apple made the claim in court that, "a tap is just a zero length swipe..., " it became clear to the world what their ethics really are.
26. XPERIA-KNIGHT (unregistered)
be that as it may, but it doesnt change the fact that HTC is free of worry now....and also dont worry, apple is already recieving their due for the corrupt business decisions that they made.......HTC is not the one that has to worry......and thats all that matters
34. tedkord (Posts: 11554; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
Yes, they are free of worry. They paid their protection money to the Mafia, and now something bad might not happen to their nice business.
29. jsdechavez (Posts: 731; Member since: 20 Jul 2012)
Jobs was a legend already even before the smartphones. Maybe the other guys had it easy then.
30. MeoCao (unregistered)
Apple's impact can be felt only in US and few more affluent countries, and that influence is not always positive.
Google reaches out to people all over the world and it changes everything by spreading the knowledge, makes it freely available to every1.
Apple has more money, yes. But its stature is pale before Google.
41. 1v1addict (Posts: 17; Member since: 16 Jan 2013)
@MeCao "Steve Jobs managed by fear"
What kind of fear ?
He is just a person with "in your face style"
When he don't like what you make, he just said it
42. MeoCao (unregistered)
This is well known fact, Jobs could call somebody assh*le in front of hundreds people b-c he did not like the result, may be you like his style, but it was intimidation no less.
Still not convinced? Have a look at this
11. Cynipap999 (banned) (Posts: 138; Member since: 15 Nov 2012)
Larry Page is correct in saying, "Apple only does a very, very small number of things, and that's working pretty well for them" but he neglected to add that, excrementally, Apple does more than any other company in the history of mankind and should be meritoriously acknowledged for it.
19. disneydad (Posts: 114; Member since: 26 Mar 2012)
I could smell the foul stench of your ignorance and fanboyism when I came aboard this post...
Honestly, you can't possibly believe that last sentence you typed Cynipap. GE, DuPont, Kodak, Sony, and Xerox have done more for electronics than Apple can shake a retread iPhone at. "In the history of mankind"?? What are you, 12? Is your memory limited to your visit to the Genius Bar and the time you made a mixtape of Apple commercials for your road trip?
23. technut (Posts: 62; Member since: 03 Aug 2012)
LMFAO! You speak the truth.
25. Cynipap999 (banned) (Posts: 138; Member since: 15 Nov 2012)
Learn to read, dear boy.
Allow me to introduce you to R.I.F. : disneydad, meet R.I.F.
37. VZWuser76 (Posts: 4144; Member since: 04 Mar 2010)
So Apple has done more than anyone in the history of mankind? I'm sorry but, no. Let's take it back a step further. Franklin, Edison, Tesla, etc have done more than Apple. They did all the hard work without any technology to help them. Without their work there would be no Apple. I'm not saying Apple doesn't do anything, but they are not the greatest inventors in history. The GUI that Apple started with wasn't even their own invention, it was Xerox's. What Apple is great at is taking existing ideas and tech and putting it in a neat little package. But for you to call out Google for copying and sweep Apple's misdeeds under the rug is the epitome of irony.
55. disneydad (Posts: 114; Member since: 26 Mar 2012)
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....I read it as incrementally. LOL
That completely changes the comment. I don't know if that's the proper usage of excrementally but now the comment makes more sense.
57. jroc74 (Posts: 6004; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
This is one of the few times I had to look up words to know what they meant in the context of the post...LOL!!
54. Althorius (Posts: 23; Member since: 25 Sep 2012)
Don't feed the trolls.
22. tedkord (Posts: 11554; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
In actual fact, Apple does less for the world then pretty much any other major company. With Steve Jobs moratorium on charity while Apple sat on billions, it was a shameful act.
31. nerdyking (Posts: 7; Member since: 26 Dec 2012)
ifan detected... beep beep beep ...
50. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Hold on now, folks. C-pap said "excrementally". I am willing to agree that apple has more than likely added more excrement to the world through its products and policies than most, if not all, companies so far in history. And while they should be called out on it, I am not sure it should be done "meritoriously", since it isn't an accomplishment that any decent person or company would be proud of.
27. faisolbauuz (Posts: 121; Member since: 05 Jan 2013)
"you may have the greatest maps in the world, but if nobody uses them, it doesn't matter. Our philosophy has always been to get our products out to as many people as possible." one more reason why google is better than apple
32. gallitoking (Posts: 4718; Member since: 17 May 2011)
not surprise by Page's comments.. he is the CEO of Google what are thing can he say?.. the war on Android was declared by Jobs.. now he comes forward with his comments but where were you Page when Jobs was alive huh...
35. tedkord (Posts: 11554; Member since: 17 Jun 2009)
About time you showed your face around here again. Theres been a noticeable lack of crazy since Taco was banned. Mxy has been trying to take up the slack, but he's just one guy. It'll be easier on him now that you're back.
49. 1v1addict (Posts: 17; Member since: 16 Jan 2013)
He doesn't have guts to confront jobs
58. jroc74 (Posts: 6004; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
At this point in time....I hope he doesnt confront Jobs. That would be a lil weird...
59. jroc74 (Posts: 6004; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Was he even asked this question while Jobs was alive? I wonder about some of yall sometimes....
And if we remember correctly...they admired Jobs and wanted Jobs to work for them. I wish the fanboys were like the Woz....it would be more civil....
68. lolioslol (banned) (Posts: 182; Member since: 10 Dec 2012)
Go home chickend*ck, you are DRUNK (on apple juice)
36. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
Both android and ios feel like they were designed 10 years ago.... Oh wait, they were designed 10 years ago.
Modern opearating systems like Windows Phone and BB10 will eventually make these antiquated platforms look obsolete in comparison, so unless google is working on something new behind the scenes, I don't think Mr page or Mr schmidt should be acting smug toward anyone
39. PapaSmurf (Posts: 10452; Member since: 14 May 2012)
Android 4.2 is ahead of it's time. iOS 6 on the other hand....
45. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
46. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
Sure, the guys with 70 percent market share shouldn't "act smug."
47. MeoCao (unregistered)
You are right!
WinMo, WP or whatever MS calls it will always be fresh b-c MS makes a new OS every few years after another failure.
And when Nokia abandons WP what will be left?
51. -box- (Posts: 3991; Member since: 04 Jan 2012)
Why would they abandon it? It has consistently positive growth, and Nokia has both loyalty and cachet on its own. While it is possible android-ers might buy an Android-powered Nokia for its natural superiority were there to be one made, there is so little profit and certain possible.market share with that, as well as limited manufacturing capacity, and no money from Daddy Warbucks, I mean Microsoft, to tide them over while the platform takes off.
52. MeoCao (unregistered)
Come on, how 920 sells? From 4M lumias sold last Q I guess there were only less than 1M 920s. Is that growth what Nokia wants?
The strength of a company is in its people, but how many employees Nokia has now?
Nokia success with Android is not guarranteed, but this is its only chance.
Nokia should act quickly before it's too late.
60. jroc74 (Posts: 6004; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Funny you say that when Android has changed alot from 1.6 to 4.0....iOS tho.....not so much.
63. jroc74 (Posts: 6004; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Since its taken MS this long to answer the iPhone...its about time for MS. RIM too. Funny how if I remember right execs from both MS and RIM basically laughed at the orig iPhone.
Look how that turned out.
40. kdealltheway (Posts: 94; Member since: 21 Oct 2012)
Tesla, that Serb was a genius.
43. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
lmfao... you guys are hilarious, seriously. You don't get to become CEO of anything, let alone the biggest mobile phone platform in the world, by being a nice guy. Behind that fake Larry Page smile is a complete asshole, trust me.
53. Shade (Posts: 7; Member since: 16 Feb 2011)
You do realize he didn't just become the CEO out of thin air, he co-founded the company. So it's not like he just came into this position.
44. darac (Posts: 2156; Member since: 17 Oct 2011)
"How exciting is it to come to work if the best you can do is trounce some other company that does roughly the same thing? That's why most companies decay slowly over time... incremental improvement is guaranteed to be obsolete over time."
Brilliant thinking.
Hats off to you Larry
48. Edmund (Posts: 656; Member since: 13 Jul 2012)
and yet he keeps trying to improve android incrementally?? Every aspect of Linux, from the kernel to the antiquated use of a JVM, is outdated, period. You can polish a turd all you like but it'll still be a turd.
56. Sniggly (Posts: 7305; Member since: 05 Dec 2009)
what makes Linux a turd? It seems to work pretty well on a worldwide basis.
I smell iFanboy. Or perhaps Windows fanboy?
61. jroc74 (Posts: 6004; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
If he hates on Linux....he cant be an iPhone fan.
62. jroc74 (Posts: 6004; Member since: 30 Dec 2010)
Dude.....go back and look at how Android changed from 1.6 to 4.0. Now compare iOS 1 to 5. And try that again...
Almost the entire UI of Android has changed. And all companies improve their software incrementally. What do you think happens when bug fixes take place?
Its the companies that improve incrementally and try to act like its a major change that Larry is talking about.
65. Shino (banned) (Posts: 196; Member since: 23 Jul 2012)
Oh, Dear Mr. Larry the Thief. Didn't your mom teach you that stealing is bad? Because of your stealing and Samsung's stupidity, the asian guys paid $1.1 billion, which Giggle should gave paid. Because of you. And now you are talking?! Wtf?
67. willard12 (Posts: 1665; Member since: 04 Jul 2012)
Stealing? Meaning, Apple invented something and Google stole it. So, what 1 thing has Apple invented/created/innovated? Name just 1, any 1, take your time. Slide to unlock...no, universal search.....no, pinch to zoom...no (and invalidated) , scroll bounce...no (and invalidated). Apple has invented NOTHING. They are the good artist that steals, remember. On the 1.1 billion, I don't recall Samsung having paid a dime at this point.
69. oNutz (Posts: 2; Member since: 19 Jan 2013)
I just want you to imagine having a company that sells "anything". Sneakers, yo-yos, belt-buckles - I don't care what kind of doo-hickey it is. It doesn't matter.
Imagine for one moment, YOUR trusted board-member launches a product that looks and feels very similar to the product that your team has been working on for years.
You're telling me, you wouldn't be the slightest bit miffed?
That's a YES or NO question by the way.


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Sometimes people will go to great lengths to get what they want and that is the focus of the often comic and occasionally poignant short plays presented by the Somerset Community College Reader's Theatre Company to be held on Friday, September 27 at 8:00 p.m. The performance will take place in SCC's Stoner Little Theatre, located on the SCC Somerset Campus at 808 Monticello Street in Somerset. Admission is free.
The evening begins with Drinks With Charles by Jim Gordon. John Alexander plays Charles Fleming, an investment advisor with a "can't fail" scheme to make money. In response to an invitation to a small gathering by Sara, one of his clients, Charles has visions of even greater wealth building. But the ladies have some plans of their own. Katie Lowe portrays Sara, with Caitlyn Wheeler playing Helen, Dana Floro taking the role of Barbara, and Kimberly McClendon as the Narrator in this entertaining tale filled with twists and turns.
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Can you remember the first film or feature-length cartoon you saw with your parents? What was the first film you went to with your friends – no parents?
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Incline suffered its first loss of the season, 34-0, in a Division III football game at undefeated Yerington on Friday.
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Conn said Yerington's large linemen pressured Incline quarterback Christian Biscotti throughout the game, forcing him into two interceptions. Biscotti finished 6-of-19 for 75 yards. Senior fullback Sean Herrera carried the load on the ground, rushing for 91 yards on 16 carries.
Incline ran 59 offensive plays to Yerington's 46, but converted only 1-of-12 on third-down plays while losing three fumbles.
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