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Is there a command that will put out continuous pings, so I won't have to keep typing the ping command myself manually?
pick a card, any card
is this the kind of thing you're looking for?
Hi Dan:
Thank you.
I will be looking into them. I need to monitor a continuous ping on my laptop.
I need to ping an AP for a site survey.
I bought a new AP and it isn't compatible with my old Orinoco Gold Classic card, where I use to use the Orinoco site survey software.
Now all I can do is manually ping the AP and see its signal strength. The chip set in the AP isn't compatible with my Orinoco card. So maybe one of these programs will at least do a continuous ping for me to test connectivity.
Try netstumbler its free and works ok for signal strength, SNR, AP discovery, .......
ping 0.0.0.0 -t
Sorry I mis read. Use angry ipscanner. Download.com has it. It pings any range of ips you enter.
Hello Flawireless:
Will it ping anything that way? I thought it would have to specify the exact IP address of the device being pinged?
I guess the -t makes it continuous?
I did ping -t "IP address". Wow. It's neat.
I'm at least able to see the received signal strength, but also I can get a "round trip" ping. I can now know that there is two way communications due to the continuous ping.
Since the Orinoco Gold card client site survey software can't work with non-compatible APs (due to AP non-compatible chip sets in the APs ), this continuous ping with the signal strength is the next best thing.
I don't know what all chip sets are compatible with the Orinoco client manager software, except I believe all the Prism chip sets are compatible. Anyone know for sure? Is Intersil the only chip manufacturer that makes the Prism chip sets. Maybe Prism is a trademark name by Intersil...not sure.
I wonder why AP manufacturers choose to make APs with other chip sets? Maybe they got a super cheap deal from the chip manufacturers. But when they do I can't use my Orinoco Client Manager site survey software. And I'm not going to spend more then $3000 to get a program that will let me do site surveys with any AP. Most of us don't install enough WiFi installations to pay for software that expensive.
The Orinoco Client Manager software may work with other chip sets...I don't know what they are though. Except I know it won't work with the new Valuepoint SuperAP 500 g I bought recently.
Off hand I only know of several APs that will work with the Orinoco Client Mgr software. I found it to work with a few access points: Linksys, Senao, Engenius. And of course, I guess it works with the Proxim products, since Proxim sells the Orinoco product. Other then that I don't what other APs it will work with.
I haven't done the 0.0.0.0 yet. I'm not sure what that will do. What should I expect?
I just put in 0.0.0.0 because I didn't know the address you wanted to ping. You were correct in putting in the address.
Hi FlaWireless:
That shows how "network challanged" I am...lol.
Fortunately I'm backed up by out network team. They usually work on enterprise networking solutions all day. I'm just the one guy trying to build up the public wireless part.
The hard part of this is the marketing. In the h otel situation I see tht people get WiFi inmstall jobs of because who they know and not necessarily what they know about WiFI. I've seen that around my location.
The hard part for me isn't putting in a good WiFi installation, but its finding people to give proposals to. Although I'm always trying to learn more about putting in good WiFi.
I feel pretty good about the site surveys, but I'm always learning more from people such as yourself.
I have been in wireless and rf work for about 40 years. Worked up to 18 Gig. I love the antenna work. I love the challange of trying to get the rf to cover difficult hotels.
I'm going to try a new type antenna. It's "multi-polarized"...as opposed to vertical, horizontal, circular, or smart. Supposed to outdo all the others. So I'm interested. Helps a lot in difficult situations it says.
Well I have to get to church for now. Have a nice weekend.
type in -l 1500 after the -t and you can change the size of the continuous ping to 1500
Goes up to 65500 but the times are slower
its not great but its better than a stick in the eye.
You can also use the -n (number) to ping a specific amount of times as well. IE: ping 188.8.131.52 -n 500
Really neat info.
Thank you all.
I've been "network challanged" for too long...lol.
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We're about to really find out the true secret to life on this planet. When we start talking about the way cells work, the whole drive behind what is the central dogma, you and I both have to think about something. What would make something the "brain" of the cell? What would you give the genetic material, what qualities? Well if I was thinking about it, gee, this is a pretty big responsibility. What am I going to give to the material that is going to run my cell? Well number one, it has to be informational. In other words, it has to carry some form of information. Now what that information is, we'll see. Number two- if it's the gene, if it is the stuff that runs my cell, it has to be capable of replication. In other words, it has to be able to pass that information on, because we know that cells replicate. And therefore, the information carrying machinery has to replicate also. Number three- it has to be capable of "talking." It has to be able to communicate within the cell, and run the machinery of the cell, whatever that machinery is. And number four, through the course of evolution, we know that things have changed. It has to have some kind of capacity for change.
So as you and I start to think about what is this genetic material, and how does it work, these are the four things I want you to keep in mind. It has to be informational, capable of replication. It has to be able to talk to the cell. And it has to have a capacity for change. And you know what, that was the debate that was entered over 100 years ago. And that's what I want to talk to you about now.
Sometimes you can't really understand where you are unless you've seen where you've been. And we're going to take, together, a journey in the past to see how the story of the genetic material was unraveled. And the whole idea of heredity was discovered long before DNA was. As soon as people realized that there was something called a gene, a factor... A guy by the name of Gregor Mendel discovered this. Mendel didn't know it, but he started the journey into what and how genes work. That being said, you have to understand something. Nobody knew what they were. Nobody knew what the genetic material was. In fact, let's think about those whole four priorities, informational, replication, it's got to be able to talk to the cell, capacity for change. We're talking about a very, very complicated material here, complicated sounding.
So if you were one of these guys, in fact, from what you know about biology, think about it. One of the biggest molecules known is a molecule called protein. Think of what you know about protein. Proteins are big. Proteins have all of these different shapes. Proteins do all of these different jobs. You know if I were a guy back in the early 1900s, I'd be saying protein is the genetic material. And you want to know something? A lot of people felt that way. There was a huge debate as to what is the genetic material. And everybody, initially, was going after protein.
Now let's talk about the history. And by the way, I think you know that the answer is not protein. You know we're talking about DNA here, deoxyribonucleic acid. So if you could go back in time, you could probably win some bribes. Tell people, "You're wasting your time. Go after DNA." But let me tell you what these guys did. Let's talk about what DNA is and how it was discovered, and some of the events that happened to get us to this whole idea of DNA is the genetic material.
In 1869, Miescher discovered the stuff in the nucleus of pus. Pus is white blood cells. You may know that. What he did was, he was chemically digesting white blood cells. And what he found was this kind of strange material in the cell, this acidic material in the cells nucleus. It contained phosphorous, and thus was born this new material, this nucleic acid. People went on to investigate it chemically. Realized what it was made out of, what its sub-units were. It turned out to be this kind of simple stuff. It turned out that DNA was this stuff that had four units. And the units were nucleotides A, G, C and T, adenine, guanine, cytosine, thiamin. You know, kind of cool stuff. It was in the nucleus, so that was intriguing. Probably held the true nuclear material together, the true genetic material together, the proteins. But it was nice to know about this stuff. So 1869, little did Miescher know that he was the first step.
1914, some interesting things started happening. A guy by the name of Feulgen developed this staining technique. And what he did was he developed this staining technique for DNA, this deoxyribonucleic acid. And here was the interesting thing about this. Boy now some people started to listen just a little bit. Here's what he saw. What Feulgen did was he came up with a staining technique for DNA. And the more DNA, the darker, so it was a quantitative, grossly quantitative, but a quantitative way to measure DNA. And Feulgen basically found out, using this technique, that all cells of the body, all cells in all organisms, all the cells in any given organism have the same amount of DNA, except gametes, except sex cells.
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Much of the "cosmology" that Ueshiba claimed knowledge of, was directly taken from his Omoto Kyo religion ... along with native Shinto creation mythologies
In fact Ueshiba's thoughts also have deep roots in Daoist views of the world and also in Mikkyo. Also I learned that Ômoto kyo has roots in Daoism and not only in Shintô.
I found it very interesting how Ueshiba can be "translated" to some degree just by reading e.g. the Dao de jing or texts about related practices like nei gong.
He doesn't seem inan at all, but on the contrary seems to have been very, very literate. His words and texts proof an immense knowledge.
Anyway, I think it is a fundamental misinterpretation to survey religious cosmologies with the critera of physical science. It is not their intention to answer scientific questions. Just as phsycial science does not intend to answer religous or philosophical questions.
Also I think it to be very unlikely for a inane person to be involved in influential busines and political circles of a country, like Ueshiba was. Asked by Ueshiba about his himpressions while being in space, John Glenn answered that spiritual teachings and modern science don't contradict each other.
When Ueshiba talkes about the relationship of physical science and spiritiuality, he understands spirituality as counterbalance of physical science. Stating that one without the other will not lead to harmonious life.
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Paralles between Texts of Ueshiba and Christian thoughts are mostly due to the translation and interpretation of John Stevens. It is my deep impression that it was his intention to show similarities, so he made Ueshiba's words sound familiar in Christian ears. So you have to be aware that you his understanding instead of Ueshiba's in those Texts.
Nevertheless I find it intriguing how near daoist thoughts are to the Judaeo-Christian cosmology. It is striking how much parallels there are to be found.
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Buddhism and Ethnicity in Britain: The 2001 Census Data
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There have been several recent attempts to answer the deceptively simple question: How many Buddhists are there in Britain? Paul Weller (2001: 33) gives the lowest estimate as 30, 000, though he adds that the ethnic Chinese community may boost the overall figure to as may as 130, 000. Damien Keown (2003: 42) suggests that there are something of the order of 200, 000 Buddhists in Britain, most of whom are said to be Caucasian converts rather than Asian immigrants. Helen Waterhouse (1997: 14-19) gives the numbers of various Buddhist groups, but warns that overall figures may include either regular or casual followers, and so can be misleading.
The UK 2001 Census seems to offer a definitive answer here by including a question on religion, and the responses gave two important headline figures for Buddhists in Britain. There were said to be 144, 453 Buddhists in England and Wales (0.27757 percent of the population of 52, 041, 916), and 152,000 Buddhists in the UK as a whole (0.25855 percent of the population of 58,789,000).
These figures should be treated with caution. Over four million people (7.7 percent) chose not to answer the religion question, and their responses may have been different from those who did. The UK total figure given above reflects this, and is only accurate to the nearest thousand. The question was worded differently for those in Scotland and Northern Ireland, which may have had some effect. There will have been Buddhists who did not declare themselves as such, and non-Buddhists who claimed to be Buddhists. (Following a somewhat eccentric internet campaign, 390,000 people claimed their religion was Jedi Knight.) Waterhouse (2001: 122) also points out that even those who call themselves Buddhists will include both those with a full-time commitment, such as monastics and lay community members, and those who occasionally attend Buddhist groups or who only read about Buddhism.
Bearing all these warnings in mind, we can turn to the more recent "Religion by Ethnic Group" spreadsheet of 2001 Census data, which cross-tabulates the main religions with the main ethnic groups. This is based on the England and Wales figures given above, and is given in percentages, which I have translated into raw numbers in Table 1.
Table 1: Ethnicity of Buddhists in England and Wales
Figures for the UK as a whole may be derived by combining the percentages given above with the overall estimated figure; these are translated into numbers in Table 2, and rounded to the nearest hundred.
Table 2: Ethnicity of Buddhists in the UK
These figures may still give a misleading impression of accuracy. Perhaps expressing the data in narrative rather than tabular form, to reflect the possible margin of error, may be helpful to present an overall picture.
So we may conclude that the UK 2001 Census data indicates that in 2001 there were slightly more than 150,000 Buddhists in Britain, of whom almost 60,000 were white, about 35,000 were of Chinese origin, nearly 15,000 were Asian, about 5,000 were of mixed ethnicity, and fewer than 2,000 were black.
A further 35,000 said that they were from "Other Ethnic Groups." This may reflect differing perceptions of the term "Asian," where sub-categories were given for Indian, Pakistani, and Bangladeshi, but not for other specific countries, which were lumped together as "Other Asian." Although nearly 12,000 Buddhists (8.09 percent) described themselves as "Other Asian," this seems a rather low figure for all the Thai, Sri Lankan and Burmese Buddhists in Britain not to mention smaller numbers of Korean, Nepali, Vietnamese and ethnic Tibetans. Perhaps many of these did not find their own ethnicity listed, and ticked "Other Ethnic Groups" rather than "Other Asian."
Much of the research on Buddhism in Britain has focussed on those who have been called "white Buddhists," though we can now see that there are also Buddhists who are neither Asian nor white. Perhaps a better term might be "convert Buddhists," though even this may become less appropriate as the children of "white Buddhists" grow up in families where Buddhism is the norm.
Whichever term is used, we can at least say with some confidence that there are about 60,000 ethnically European people in Britain who have converted to Buddhism, rather than coming originally from an Asian Buddhist background. This "top-down" figure from the Census data is very helpful when it is combined with the available "bottom-up" data from individual Buddhist groups and movements.
The three largest Buddhist groups in Britain the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order (FWBO), Soka Gakkai (SGI) and the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) have all been criticised for departing from Buddhist tradition in various ways, and it has been suggested that such neo-Buddhist movements are in some way taking over British Buddhism. The substance of such arguments is far beyond the scope of a brief article, but the numbers of followers are revealing. Again estimates vary, but each of these organizations is said to have between 3,000 and 5,000 members or followers. Even if we use the higher figure here, the total of 15,000 is only a quarter of the Buddhists in Britain.
There are no comparable figures for the other Buddhist organizations in Britain, though they are certainly smaller than the FWBO, SGI and NKT. My own research indicates that there are now approximately 1,000 Buddhist groups in Britain, including substantial numbers of FWBO, SGI and NKT groups, and smaller numbers of Theravada, Zen, Tibetan, and other groups. However, many of these are small local groups with only a handful of members; the suggestion that each group has sixty members on average (bringing the total neatly up to 60,000) is wholly unrealistic, particularly as it ignores the Asian Buddhist community.
The conclusion here is that many Buddhists in Britain perhaps even the majority of them have no formal contact with a Buddhist group, and are either practising on their own or with friends, or perhaps visiting one or more Buddhist groups on an ad hoc basis. We may know how many "white Buddhists" there are in Britain; but we still do not know how many of them are practising in the Theravada, Tibetan, or Zen traditions, or as what might clumsily be termed "unaffiliated white Buddhists." Until the Census offers more detailed questions or Buddhists keep membership records such figures will remain elusively beyond the researcher's grasp.
Keown, Damien. 2003. A Dictionary of Buddhism. Oxford University Press.
Waterhouse, Helen. 1997. Buddhism in Bath: Adaptation and Authority. University of Leeds, Community Religions Project.
-----. 2001. "Representing Western Buddhism: A United Kingdom Focus," in Beckerlegge, Gwilym, eds. From Sacred Text to Internet, Religion Today: Tradition, Modernity and Change. Milton Keynes: Open University Press.
Weller, Paul, ed. 2001. Religions in the UK, 2001-03. University of Derby, Multi Faith Centre.
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For a casual reader of the news, it can be pretty depressing: riots, recession,and multiple monetary crisis at home and abroad, its enough to make you run around like chicken little: "The sky is falling!"
What we can do is toughen up, at least according to a study referenced in this article at Fortune. I'm attempting to get the actual study for more information but the brief reference in the article provides some insights:
"A team of researchers from several universities tracked a group of students from Minnesota through the ups and downs of their careers starting in 1988, when the study's participants were in the 9th grade. For this paper, the research team — from the University of Minnesota, Purdue University, and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively — zeroed in on data collected in 2007, before the recession, then in 2009, after it hit. The team found that participants who maintained clear goals and felt like they controlled their employment situation throughout their careers fared better during the downturn.[bold & italics added ] They were better able to keep the bad economy in perspective — they were tough." – Link
When a crisis hits at work we all know the people that run around trying to get the latest gossip and spend hours speculating on the future of the company. There is nothing gained with speculation and gossip, in fact those employee's become a black hole where all hope of productivity is lost.
Some of the best advice I received while working at a company rife with speculation about acquisition/merger (they were in fact acquired after I left the company) was simple: "Keep doing a great job."
No, this advice will not be on Mount Rushmore, but it's brilliance is in its simplicity.
In this economy the best advice is to toughen up, tough it out and keep doing the great job you are doing:
- Re-think your latest ideas and projects – how will these be affected by the latest economic news and changing consumer behavior?
- Take a look at other companies in your industry and outside of your industry – who is successful, who isn't? what are they doing right, what are they doing wrong?
- Take a look at your department/team- can you save money by changing a process? What causes delay's in your teams work? find these and relate it to the bottom line, then work to get it fixed!
- Evaluate your job and your career- where are you at? where are you going? Update your resume and build your network
It's not easy being green and it's not easy working in the toughest economy in decades. Think about how you can add value then work to do that!


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Conservatory of Jaroslav Ježek in Prague donated itself and its students a very nice Christmas present, three beautiful pianos from the PETROF factory. The representatives of the School came to PETROF personally to choose and play the selected instruments. Because of the conditions of the space where the pianos are situated inside the Conservatory, it was necessary to build humidifiers inside the pianos that will ensure the optimal humidity. After this intervention, the two P 194 Storm and one PETROF P III were ready to travel to Prague.
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Dallas Cowboys' owner Jerry Jones, and the fans, expect greatness from this team and, apparently so do former players and coaches. Even they have been critical of this 1-6 team that has stunk up the field all season long.
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Garching, Germany and Albany, N.Y. October 7, 2013 – SUSS MicroTec, a leading supplier of equipment and process solutions for the semiconductor and related markets, and SEMATECH, a global consortium of semiconductor manufacturers, announced today that SUSS MicroTec's photomask equipment division has partnered with SEMATECH to investigate and develop extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) substrate and blank cleaning technologies that will accelerate process availability for extreme ultraviolet pilot line manufacturing.
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At the end of this month, at a press conference in New Jersey, Arturo Gatti's friends will announce that they now have proof — courtesy of a private investigator named Paul Ciolino — that the world champion boxer did not take his own life. But despite the best efforts of his still-loyal corner, the story of Gatti's death will probably always be incomplete. He was a great boxer because his fights were definitive; there was never much mystery about him in the ring. But his end wasn't nearly as plain. There are so many possibilities, but each of them leads only to impossibility. Answer after answer, and yet none feels true.
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[NORTH CAROLINA-MARYLAND WOMEN] Maryland made history when it beat North Carolina for the first time in 33 games with a 2-1 win over the Tar Heels thanks to a pair of goals by junior Sade Ayinde.
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The first two songs of the Jimi Hendrix library have been announced for Guitar Hero World Tour. These two tracks will ship with the game:
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Not only that, but Hendrix will be a playable character in the game! Additional Jimi tracks will follow as downloadable content too, in case that's not enough Hendrix for your face.
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World of Warcraft is a game where players usually have to kill a variety of monsters for loot, money, and prestige, but a Night Elf Druid 'Everbloom' from the role playing server Feathermoon has shown that there are other, more peaceful, ways to play WoW. Everbloom (also the name of a common herb in World of Warcraft) leveled all the way to the max level of 85 through gathering professions.
Meaning, Everbloom picked a whole bunch of herbs and mined a hell of a lot of ore, which, as of September 13, 2010 allowed players to get experience points as if they'd finished a quest or killed a monster. With the release of World of Warcraft: Cataclysm a new secondary profession, Archaeology, added a new way for Everbloom to get experience through digging up ancient runes all over Azeroth.
In an interview with PC Gamer, Everbloom said, "I spent hours swimming around reefs and flying to the farthest reaches of the maps...and I saw so MANY new things with Everbloom that it really made it worthwhile for me to continue on with this character, and each level was a major achievement!"
This isn't the first time that a character has gone the passive route in World of Warcraft. Noor, a Gnome Rogue from Tortheldrin seemed to start the movement back in 2007 when she leveled all the way to 70 without intentionally killing anything.
It's fun to think about all the ways people play World of Warcraft. Some play for the epics, some play to be competitive, and some people like Everbloom and Noor, play for a different sort of experience.
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Not a question really... just want to share!
We started my LO on solids the past few days. Couple of (baby-size) spoonfuls of banana. It has been hilarious so far! She's been ready in my opinion, for the past few weeks, but we were on vacation with an ocean between us and our pediatrcian so I waited til we got home to start. She's sooo interested. Grabs the spoon and helps me bring it to her mouth. But the faces she makes! She runs her tongue around the spoon... making faces as though I'm feeding her lemon... eyebrows and face scrunched... some bites she swallows really well others she kind of leave the banana on her tongue and just lets her tongue hang out... It's so funny to watch her grab for it and react as though it tastes awful at the same time.
Probably not a big deal to those of you with older babies or more than one child... but this is my first experience with this. Very entertaining!


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If you write an outrageously implausible story and get it published, congratulations -- you've just added yet another novel to the pile of thousands that come out every year. But if you write the exact same outrageous crap and put it in the biography section, then you've got yourself a best-seller and become a media sensation.
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Go Ask Alice is the diary of a 15-year-old girl whose drink is spiked with LSD during a party. Two years and several doobies, heroin shots, and blow jobs for money later, she's dead from an overdose. There's a good chance that your school either made you read this book or banned you from even looking at it. It's very popular with teachers, partly because of its "painfully honest" anti-drug message and partly because you can easily tell a student didn't actually read it when they call the unnamed protagonist "Alice" (that's the name of another character).
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In a plot twist, the narrator's true name is Tyler Durden.
In the four decades since its publication, the book has sold millions of copies around the world, and yet no one has been able to find out the identity of the stoner Anne Frank who wrote it. It's weird that none of the people who knew her have stepped up by now, huh? They're probably all dead from pot overdoses.
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Wait, no, we do know who wrote the diary. Here's that young, troubled adolescent:
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Cheri Oteri was a heroin addict?
That's Beatrice Sparks, a Mormon youth counselor of dubious qualifications and master of the bullshit teen diary genre. Originally, Go Ask Alice was credited only to "Anonymous," but after it became a hit, Sparks came forward as its "editor," claiming in interviews that she transcribed a real teenager's diary, but she can't show it to you right now because, um, she left it in her other pants or something. Suspiciously, she was also the book's sole copyright holder. Oh, and there's the small fact that later editions had a disclaimer that flat-out said, "This is a work of fiction."
None of this fazed Sparks, who continued cranking out "real diaries" about teenagers having a shitty time, all written in the same mom-like style and lacking any of the inane stuff teens write about.
Harper Teen/Harper Collins/Harper Teen
Realistically, 90 percent of these should be terrible song lyrics.
But did any adults fall for this crap? The parents of 16-year-old suicide victim Alden Barrett apparently did, since they approached Sparks to publish their son's journal. Which she did ... after replacing most of it with a story about Satanism that she pulled out of her ass, of course.
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Back in the '70s, multiple personalities were all the rage; teenage girls thought they were burly construction workers, bored housewives turned into Victorian empresses, Klan members became Native American tribespeople, etc. And it all started with the book Sybil, which documents the psychiatric treatment of a young woman of that name who has 15 other personalities living inside her head. Her psychiatrist, Cornelia Wilbur, discovers the traumas behind each "alter" and finally merges all of them into one Megazord of mental health.
The book has been adapted twice, most recently in the 2007 Jessica Lange feature of the same name:
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Seen here applying the classic Freudian therapy technique of gawking stoically.
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Here's the thing: Psychiatrists aren't entirely sure that multiple personality disorder (now called dissociative identity disorder) actually exists -- in fact, some of them are positive it doesn't. Before Sybil came out in 1973, there were fewer than a hundred reported cases in Western medicine; now we're at over 40,000 (and most of them are in different people). Whether you believe DID is a thing or not, there's no doubt that Sybil's case influenced both patients and doctors to be on the lookout for her condition ... when there's a good chance she didn't even have it herself.
The real "Sybil," Shirley Ardell Mason, was being treated (read: given lots of drugs) by her friend Dr. Wilbur, and one day she started talking like a little girl and said her name was Peggy. We're sure the drugs had nothing to do with that.
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"Oh good, now we can get movie tickets at half price."
Wilbur smelled a book deal and brought in schlocky writer Flora Schreiber to turn Mason's strange case into a literary hit. Letters between the women suggest they intentionally exaggerated the story to make it juicier, including faking grisly details about Mason's family. They were giving her a pseudonym anyway, so it's not like anyone could check.
Meanwhile, Mason just went along with it and brought out more and more alternate personalities, until she got tired of it and sent Wilbur a letter confessing she'd been lying the whole time. Wilbur went, "No you weren't," and continued with the treatment. Eventually, Mason was cured (we're sure discontinuing the drugs had nothing to do with that) ... until the book came out and the resulting attention ruined her life again. Whoops.


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Wednesday night was the first of three debates between President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney. This week's poll question is: In your opinion, who won Wednesday's presidential debate?
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If you really believe Obama won the debate, you probably also believe the Titanic didn't really sink and is out there still cruising.
Clearly Romney won the debate hands down. He came to the event confident, prepared and articulate, with gameplan in hand.
Obama came unprepared, thinking this would be another photo-op cake walk where he wouldn't have to answer, or do, anything of substance. Just show up. Without a teleprompter, his Hollywood friends, or a swooning audience, he was lost. For the first time in 4 years, he ran into someone who talked to him in a way he is not accustomed to.... Strong, factual, and not star struck....
No eye-candy here, Mr. President ....and yes, Mitt Romney spanked Barrack Obama on live National T.V.
Again, Mitt Romney won it hands down. Clearly..... but, let's see how the next 2 debates go... i don't think we will see another spanking, but I do think we will see more of a Mitt Romney of substance, and a Barrack Obama who should be worried about his job future.....
For me Mitt Romney came across as a corporate bully at a board meeting. His face was flushed as he trampled the moderator and took over the show. However, BO allowed it to happen and got beat.
The telling sign, again, for me, was the answers about education. The real responsibility of education is in the lap of parents, not teachers. Neither candidate mentioned parents.
I'm not voting for a candidate who gives no solutions other than "Vote for me instead of the other guy." I'm not voting for homecoming king. I'm voting for the U. S. president.
I've had enough of war, WMD, invading countries, "Mission Accomplished," and cowboy government. I'm waiting foir Mitt Romney to don a western hat and getting a snapshot taken with farm animals.
The DJIA was 8020 the day Cheney was wheeled from the White House. Today it's....? Compare today's farm land, grain and livestock prices + the general economy in the Midwest, 2008 vs 2012.. Hanging an "Are you better off now than ..." sign in Sioux County, IA., while speaking to a house of millionaires, makes Romney look like a fool.
If you want to do it yourself, vote Romney
If you want someone to give it to you at others expense, vote BHO
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I don't care how Romney spends his money, but I do care how Obama spends mine?
Vote for the mormon, not the moron
It was very obvious in this debate that BHO is only a puppet who can't think well enough to voice his thoughts. Without a teleprompter he was reduced to the level of a flaming IDIOT and we all witnessed it very plainly!
Romney did beat him up and won by decision. I did not even get a clue as to what he might do, he did a good job of beating down the existing policies, but I can do that and do every day So were's the beef ?
Wish everyone was not "anonymous" on here. It gives opportunity for what appears to be three postings from the same gutless, assinine person.
I'm Bob Neese, I'm from Missouri, and without a teleprompter to lean on, it was very clear as to who was articulate, presented enough specifics, was cordial but firm, and showed himself to be the adult in the room, the one with a vision, championing freedom and the Constitution, and actually presented as a leader, who has led before as a real "servant-leader", and who is ready to lead again.
Barack Obama hasn't the first clue about true leadership. A clinical, sociopathic narcissicist is incapable of serving or providing leadership.
At this point, I am not entirely confident this republic will survive. But I am sure it will not with Barack Obama or anyone like him in the driver's seat.
Romney was right when he said to Obama, "You don't just pick winners and losers...you pick the losers."
America picked a loser in 2008. I pray we won't do it again in 2012.
It was a debate people for the most important job in the world.
This election will have an impact on the USA for the next 50 years..... I don't care who hurt whos feelings, or he interupted or cut me off. This country needs someone who is FIRM and Willing to make some tough choices instead of continous handouts for people who dont want to put on their big kid pants and join the REAL WORLD>>
If your undecide after wednesday night gosee obama 2012 the movie.
Apparently some of the commenters did't watch the same debate that I saw. Romney was rude, condensending, smug, and very untruthful. Romney's numbers do not add up. He is not forthcoming on how he will add jobs, reduce the deficit, add spending to defence and not cut medicare, social security and medicaid and cut taxes for the rich. This is simply not possible. If he is as smart as he claims, he should know this. The truth is, he will do and say anything to be elected.
You must be another brain washed liberal.. There're so easy to pick out.
You're resorting to name calling which this writer did not do. The word liberal has becoming a meaningless perjorative epithet from thoughtless rude individuals who have neither the wisdom, insight or knowledge to see two sides of an issue or engage in a tete to tete of ideas and facts except to broadcast power words like so much puffed up profanity that portray nothing and are meaningless drivel.
For almost a year, I have had Obama as a shoo in for reelection, and I have been investing on that basis! Mitt Romney was himself in the debate, and he is a nice guy. He was likeable, and he has not seemed so in the media selected images from the campaign, and of course not in the paid negative ads. He now has a shot. I had been comparing Obama to FDR in 1936 and Romney to Goldwater in 1964. Am beginning to think of Harry Truman in 1948!
Romney wasn't rude, and at least he could look at the president when he was talking Obama just looked down or away
Romney won and deserves a fair chance. We need a leaderwho is a real biuseness man and realizes what will happen if we do'nt change our ways. The federal govt. can not provide everything to and for justeverybody.We've got to stop spending like a drunken sailor. This, I feel is our last chance to gget us back on track. EDB
The real BHO was shown that night. He has no clue as to what is going on & doesn't care since he wants us cut down to be even with the 3rd world countries. Anti-colonialism. Have you seen the newest flag with his picture? It has the stripes of our American flag but his picture is where the stars should be. He ought to be impeached for denigrating our flag!!
It is quite apparent everyone knows Romney won. That's why the breaking news of the day is "unemployment falls below 7.8%".
Obama even said himself when he was running for president that if he couldn't cut the deficit in half he would not deserve a second term.
It all boils down to who has a plan and facts. Rommey has no real plan or facts. He is just a high power Communist salesman. Let me tell you what is good for you, no choose which is the American way. Rommey is UN American.
You need to look up these big words you are using. You will find after some research that Romney is not a communist but instead supports free market and individualism (the opposite of communist). The debate brought out that of the two Romney has a better understanding of the role of government as defined by the constitution. That is the the opposite of un-American.
Romney was polite the opposite of rude. After all he was debating a statist.
In the final analysis, it won't make a hill of beans difference.
Those people who thought Obama won are going to vote for him anyway as the country heads down towards socialism like a flaming Japanese Zero.
I see a correlation between those who either want something for nothing or want the government to fix their past bad decisions or to bail them out of something, to those who vote for Obama. Obama is the "let the government take care of you, after all you did not build your ranch, your farm or your business on your own or from your parents hard work, the government did it.
Without a Tellaprompter and questions and answers given in advance the president is unable to communicate
Romney looked like he was having fun and Obama looked like he had his tail between his leds.


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