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Crozet Annals of Medicine: The Trouble with Disease Mongering
By Dr. Robert C. Reiser
It is good to be back from vacation, back to the world of diseases. Medicine moves fast and you can't be away for too long without missing something.
I was gone for nearly a month and I have already missed several new diseases and developments.
Apparently Ebola is not only ravaging West Africa but may now be massing at our southern border, at least according to Congressman Phil Gingery, MD. Dr. Gingery, a Republican from Georgia, sent a letter to the CDC demanding action to prevent the wave of unaccompanied immigrant children crossing the U.S. border from transmitting diseases such as swine flu, dengue, ebola, TB and even Smallpox to U.S. citizens. Wow. Then he held a press conference to announce his alarm.
I am not sure which is weakest, Dr. Gingrey's grasp of geography (we don't share a border with Africa, the only place where Ebola exists), history (smallpox has been eradicated from the world since 1977) or medicine (dengue is not transmitted person to person). I guess what is weakest is the good doctor's social conscience, demonizing immigrant children as vectors of contagion.
Rep. Gingrey is engaging in a type of fear mongering called disease mongering and there is a lot of it going around.
Disease mongering consists of convincing a group of people that a new danger to their health has been discovered. It is usually done by drug companies to sell new pharmaceuticals.
As my career has unfolded, I have watched in wonderment as diseases I had never encountered in standard medical texts have risen to afflict the population. One of the first patients I saw upon my return from vacation was a nervous lady looking for a refill for her Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) prescription medicine. The diagnosis of restless legs syndrome requires the presence of the following four criteria:
- An urge to move the legs due to an unpleasant feeling in the legs.
- Onset or worsening of symptoms when at rest or not moving around frequently.
- Partial or complete relief by movement for as long as the movement continues.
- Symptoms that occur primarily at night and that can interfere with sleep or rest.
My patient had none of these; she had insomnia and anxiety.
While RLS had been described in sporadic medical reports for hundreds of years, it was only when GlaxoSmithKline began marketing a drug for it in 2003 that the shockingly high prevalence of the disease (10 percent of adults) was posited. Apparently almost 40 million Americans have this disease. That is a lot of prescriptions. I am not sure how we ignored this extraordinarily common disease for so long. Even today in my practice I only encounter a tiny percentage of patients reporting it, complaining about it or on medication for it. So where did that 40 million number come from? If you guessed a single-question survey study funded by GlaxoSmithKline you would be correct. Hrumph, madam! Perhaps I am not back in the world of diseases at all.
While I essentially never see any patients on medicine for RLS, I am amazed at how many of my male patients are on Viagra for an only recently discovered epidemic of erectile dysfunction. Once again what I was taught in medical school is in conflict with a drug company's promotional materials. According to drug manufacturer Pfizer's web site, over 50 percent of men over the age of 40 have difficulty getting or maintaining an erection. This unreferenced statement is patently untrue according to every study done on the topic. Nevertheless, Pfizer has managed to convince patients and their doctors that erectile dysfunction (ED) is a serious source of psychological stress and a disease state when, again, the studies do not support that conclusion at all. This disease mongering is worth $2 billion a year for Pfizer and another $2 billion a year for Lilly, the makers of Cialis, another ED drug.
I will never forget one of the first patients I saw on Viagra. He was brought in by ambulance after fainting during intimate relations. He had taken both Viagra and then nitroglycerin when he developed chest pain. Remember what the ad says, check with your doctor to make sure you are healthy enough for sex! He was not.
Viagra and nitroglycerin should never be mixed; the combination can lead to dangerously low blood pressure and subsequent fainting as had happened to my patient. What happened next was worse though. The medics informed us that his wife was on her way directly behind them. When she arrived five minutes later she was understandably agitated and demanded to know what had happened. As I explained some of the physiology behind her husband fainting during his exertions she seemed at first confused and then furious. It seems her husband was not with her when he had his unfortunate swoon. She had been called by the medics to come to the hospital when they had arrived on the scene.
Sometimes the cure is worse than the disease.
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Hi Reiser
The reason that these conditions have sky-rocketed in numbers is not due to some conspiracy by the drug companies to convince people that they need help. The reason is because the prevalence of chronic inflammation in our society is sky-rocketing.
As a former RLS sufferer, I can assure you that it was real. In fact, I didn't even know that my wonky legs had a name until my wife pointed it out. I had been suffering for about 10 years at that point.
I don't agree with the drugs that are given out for RLS. They don't address the cause, but the condition is real.
The condition is real. The prevalance is not.
As someone who's a third generation WED/RLS sufferer, I can assure you we existed long before the drug companies marketed drugs for it. It sounds to me as if the author is stating that very few of existed before and that the only reason so many people now say they have it is that they have been brainwashed to think they do.
I won't argue that some people may think they have it and they do not. I also won't argue the some people have it mildly and do not need medication. I would argue that those who have it moderately to severely are the majority of those seeking medication from it.
So, where were all those people before? Suffering silently. Being turned away by our doctors. Being told we were crazy. Being afraid to bring it up because it sounds crazy. Trying to describe something that isn't describable, so that no one understands you, unless they have it, too. Thinking that while it's annoying, there are real diseases such as cancer so I should be quiet and not say anything. All of that, and more.
My grandmother was institutionalized in the 60's because she said she had these terrible feelings in her legs and they wouldn't stop. I guarantee you she didn't bring it up again for many, many years. I grew up watching her pace back and forth, much of the night, getting up after just 2-3 hours sleep each morning to cook breakfast as a good wife should, and being ignored by the medical community.
Most doctors never heard of this disease. If a person showed up with symptoms, the doctor couldn't have diagnosed it – he or she didn't know it existed! The first time it happened to me with medical staff, I was getting my wisdom teeth removed to get braces. With the Benadryl they gave me along with the drug to put me under, I was out, but my legs were jerking. The doctor thought I had epilepsy. He woke me to ask me if I was OK and if I had epilepsy. No, I told him, that was just my jumpy legs. I couldn't name it – it didn't have a name as far as I knew. The next time was when I had an emergency appendectomy. When the opioids were removed (which had kept the symptoms at bay), I spent each night in the hospital wandering around, unable to sleep. No medical staff had ever heard of RLS, but some said they'd seen other people with my symptoms.
The vast majority of people with WED/RLS have it mildly. My husband, my sister-in-law, my sister, and my mother all have it. But it rarely bothers them to keep them awake. My brother and my uncle, however, are sleepless quite often. I have it all night and part of the day, rarely free from symptoms. And my brother and I both have it in our arms, something you might think isn't possible. But it is, as many specialists in the field will tell you. Yes, 10 percent have it, but it's up to the doctors to read the research and know that only 1-2% (and that is per vaild and reliable research, i.e. the REST study) need medication. Does Glaxo wish all 10% of them were medicated? I imagine they do. They are the ones that marketed it as if everyone needed it. The patients are not the ones at fault here. The drug companies and their advertising started it and then doctors who don't know what they are doing perpetuated it.
What medication for RLS/WED did was to allow all of us who have it moderately to severely to finally name our tormentor. it allowed us to legitimatize our symptoms and finally seek treatment. It allowed us to sleep for the first time in years. It also allowed people who have other issues to think maybe this was their solution. It isn't, but that doesn't minimize that they, too, are aching for a medical professional to take them seriously and help them solve their problem, something that all too often doesn't happen.
Given that recent studies have shown that people with WED/RLS are more likely to have heart disease, depression, high blood pressure, and other "important" issues, maybe doctors who've thought we're disease mongering will finally listen to us and pay attention. I'm glad my doctor does.
Well put.
I was not perfectly clear that patients aren't the ones disease mongering. Disease mongering is mostly the purview of the medical-industrial complex, to mangle a phrase from Eisenhower.
I had hoped by publishing the diagnostic criteria for RLS that the reality of the existance of the disease was validated. It is the prevalance of RLS requiring treatment that is inflated, just as you state in your reply.
It sounds like you have a good doctor.
I have been a sufferer of WED/RLS for over 30 years. My symptoms were 24/7 and in both my legs and arms before I ever even heard of a medication for this condition.
Agonies were suffered as I sat at my desk trying to work, trying to get sleep at night to be able to go to work the following day. Looking after a baby at the same time.
Trust me, noone needed to 'create' a disease.
I knew what I had, even my GP knew what I had – but GP didn't know how to treat it.
My home life, my work life, my social life were all in tatters, no going to a movie, no sitting in church. Going out for dinner meant getting a table next to a wall so that I could stand up when necessary.
Medication has helped, it is not perfect, but my life without it is beyond description.
To be considered a manufactured disease ?? I reckon someone doesn't know what they are talking about.
Sorry if I wasn't clear. The disease is real. It is the inflated prevalance of the disease that is manufactured, exactly coincident with the release of requip.
As a person with WED/RLS, I just wanted to say that while I understand what you were trying to say, you did not say it well and the article therefore ends up reenforcing the negative stereotypes associated with WED/RLS. There are a lot of other examples of disease mongering that you could have used. Sleeping disorders as a whole struggle to receive wide-spread recognition as the debilitating disorders/diseases that they are. It seems people at least understand sleep apnea because it can be directly deadly. WED/RLS can ruin your life, and even when under control, means making a lot of lifestyle sacrifices to keep it under control, but those silly commercials now mean the average person thinks we're a bunch of hypochondriacs and that they can relate because they sometimes have a rough time falling asleep.
I also come from at least three generations of people with WED/RLS, who suffered from depression and other medical conditions due to chronic lack of sleep. They DID seek help for WED/RLS, they just didn't have a name for it. There was nothing available, no treatment to give them. So they were sent home with anti-depressants which made the problem worse. After awhile, they stopped going to the doctor and accepted that, in that day, medicine had nothing to offer them. Finally, WED/RLS "became" a disease, and the internet helped them find a doctor who knew what it was and could treat them.
Sleeping disorders, I think, are trivialized in part because the concept of having trouble sleeping, doing what everyone loves to do, seems funny. It's like saying you have a disease that makes it hard to eat candy and cake, except worse because at least with those digestive disorders the evidence is physically present. This isn't true for sleeping disorders. Who ISN'T tired all the time? The problem is you can't physically show a person the difference between normal sleep-deprived tired and untreated-sleeping-disorder sleep-deprived tired. You can't take a picture of it. You can't make a pretty infographic about it. So, when I say "I can't work the closing shift and the opening shift, I need to get more sleep than that," people think I'm just a bit lazy, or selfish, or weird, when in reality, I'm sick, and now I end up being forced to work those shifts or lose my job, and guess what, I worked those shifts, fell asleep on the job, and ended up having to quit before I was fired. Not the end of my world, I needed to leave that job anyway, but just a glimpse at what we deal with.
Thank you Sarah.
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Brigitte Kahl is an innovative New Testament scholar whose work has been groundbreaking in Pauline studies. She brings a new perspective to Biblical scholarship by analyzing the dynamic relationship between the New Testament and the Roman Empire. In her pioneering book, Galatians Re-Imagined: Reading with the Eyes of the Vanquished (2010), Dr. Kahl re-defines the traditional paradigm of Pauline interpretation and radically recasts justification by faith as a theology of resistance and transformation.
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Great research Domel! But I would still be surprised if something shown in the first promo was for an episode beyond the first two. Can't remember them doing that.
The only reason why the source of that clip could be a later episode is that we can't see any Racers in the episode. And the fact that we're having problems pinning down a location in either Taiwan or Indonesia that fits the clips, as well as a source for the vehicles, leaves this wide open.And the fact that they haven't done that in the previously doesn't preclude it now, especially when the clip tells us nothing about the teams or the location or even what type of task might be involved.
^ Europe is easier to transport the cars and most of the car tasks all these years have been located in Europe. On the other hand drifting is most popular in Asia. So if we don't see the cars in the first two episodes my next bet would be Thailand.Imagine though, if after all this speculation the cars turn out to have no real connection to the race. That would be hilarious.
The article I read did not mention episode 2, but "an upcoming leg," and the prize at the pit stop wasn't tied to any particular leg in the article.
Another map quiz on the final leg?
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Sadly we could not reach the housekeeper directly / did not know where to ring. Also the appartment was a little bit dirty (e.g. long black hair in the shower, dirty dishes...).
Nice living-room.
Una experiencia pésima. Nos engañaron desde el primer momento. Nosotros reservamos una "habitación privada" para nosotros 3 y al llegar teniamos una habitación compartida con un desconocido. En pocas horasnos robaron dentro de nuestra habitación el dinero. La anitriona no se preocupó de nada. Todas las sopechas del robo se centran en el compñaero de piso, la anfotriono o las personas que estaban en la habitación de al lado (las dos habitacionbes teníanb el balcón común y se podía pasar de una habitación a otra). La anfitriona no tenía los datos de los clientes. Vamos a reclamar el dinero robado a el hotel y, o se nos devuelve o iniciaremos acciones legales contra el hotel y contra las personas o entidades que tengan algún tipo de responsabilidad.
muy bien el sitio,zona muy tranquila puedes desplazarte muy bien a los sitios .
lo unico malo yo estuve en invierno la casa muy fria sin calefaccion ni un simple radiador incluso me resfrie de el frio que hacia, luego la cocina estaba siempre llena de platos sucios la fregadera asi no te dan ganas ni de cocinar o prepararte algo bueno en fin
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1. Re: Query from Excel 2010 to Oracle DBPaul Horth Mar 19, 2012 3:39 PM (in response to 830762)Well, what are in $A$2 and $B$2 - give us an example of the dates in there.
2. Re: Query from Excel 2010 to Oracle DB830762 Mar 19, 2012 3:44 PM (in response to Paul Horth)Sorry about that...... same as the format below
BeginDate = '2/1/2012'
EndDate = '2/28/2012'
It works when I hard code it like below
(WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE> to_date('2/1/2012','mm/dd/yyyy')
And WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE< to_date('2/28/2012','mm/dd/yyyy'))
But I can't get it to work otherwise.
3. Re: Query from Excel 2010 to Oracle DBSven W. Mar 19, 2012 6:02 PM (in response to 830762)Not excactly sure what happens, but I suspect some errors with the way how execl uses dates compared to how excel shows you the date.
Often excel stores a day value in some epoch format.
What I do want is for the Query to reference CELLS A2 and B2 and use the parameter values supplied rather than the hard coded values above. BeginDate = $A$2 and EndDate = $B$2.Test with
(WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE>=To_Date(?,'mm/dd/yyyy') And WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE<=To_Date(?,'mm/dd/yyyy'))
[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-01843: Not a valid month
If Excel correctly knows how to handle datatypes in this case, then this will work.
WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE>= ? And WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE<=?
It would also explain the error message, since the date from excel would be implicitly converted into a string, which in turn might have a different format mask than what you apply.
UsingIn this case try it as a string
(WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE>=To_Date([BeginDate],'mm/dd/yyyy') And WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE<=To_Date([EndDate],'mm/dd/yyyy'))
[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-00936: missing expression
But I doubt that this will work. I do not see how excel will replace the value in parenthesis [] with the parameter. Not sure thou, since I do not know the excact environment where you use that sniplett.
WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE>=To_Date('[BeginDate]','mm/dd/yyyy') And WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE<=To_Date('[EndDate]','mm/dd/yyyy'))
Edited by: Sven W. on Mar 19, 2012 7:01 PM
4. Re: Query from Excel 2010 to Oracle DB830762 Mar 19, 2012 6:22 PM (in response to Sven W.)Thanks for the response but unfortunatly I'm still getting errors.
(WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE>To_Date('[BeginDate]','mm/dd/yyyy') And WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE<To_Date('[EndDate]','mm/dd/yyyy'))
[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-01858: a non-numeric character was found where a numeric was expected
(WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE>? And WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE<?)
is what I have always used before. And it still works in Excel 2003; just not in 2010. The above code produces
[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-01847: day of month must be between 1 and last day of month
Still plugging away.... Man this shouldn't be as complicated as it is turning out to be.
5. Re: Query from Excel 2010 to Oracle DB968715 Oct 16, 2012 4:57 PM (in response to 830762)Hi Steve
Finally, What are you doing?
6. Re: Query from Excel 2010 to Oracle DB976141 Nov 26, 2012 8:18 AM (in response to 830762)Hi
I had the same problem, but I solved it. I got the same error as you got. If you format BeginDate and EndDate in Excel as Text then it should work just fine.
Select from.......
And WORK_ORDER_MASTER.WOM_CMPL_DTE<To_Date('[EndDate]','mm/dd/yyyy'))
In the excelfile* I have two cells with dates. They are formatted as Text and Align text to the right.


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Home › Forums › Gear Forums › Gear (General) › setting up Golite poncho tarp
Sep 26, 2007 at 4:36 pm #1225216
please look over these pics and critiqueSep 26, 2007 at 5:00 pm #1403759
Thomas KnightonMember
@tomcat1066Locale: Southwest GA
I'm no expert, but it looks pretty tight. How well does it cover you?
TomSep 26, 2007 at 5:16 pm #1403761
Hi Tom
This is new for me. I think like I will have adequate coverage. I'm going to use a bivy with it, too.
Was playing in my backyard tonight.Sep 26, 2007 at 5:23 pm #1403762
Thomas KnightonMember
@tomcat1066Locale: Southwest GA
For what it's worth, it looks good to me. Of course, I've never done the poncho/tarp thing myself exactly (got a Gatewood Cape instead), so take my opinion with a grain of salt ;)
TomSep 26, 2007 at 7:06 pm #1403777
That doesn't look bad, but I find that a poncho tarp is better set up in this fashion. This puts less tension on the hood area, which is the weak spot of the tarp. It's really easy to tension as well. Lots of ways to pitch a tarp though!
This is a BMW tarp, by the way.
djSep 26, 2007 at 7:33 pm #1403783
Hi Doug
That makes sense about the hood's weakness.
I will try the 'lean to' approach tomorrow.Sep 26, 2007 at 8:13 pm #1403796
I also highly recommend sealing the seams around the neck. This adds a lot of strength.
The lean-to is a good deal- especially if you can put the down side into the wind.
Have fun- poncho tarps are cool stuff!Sep 26, 2007 at 10:05 pm #1403812
Dave .BPL Member
Man, I have to ditch my tent and get a tarp. I've never tried one, but they do look like a lot of fun.Sep 26, 2007 at 10:55 pm #1403816
It IS fun David! So simple and minimal.
I especially love the ponchotarp/UL bivy combination in dodgy weather. Living in Washington, I HATE a tarp in heavy bug season, but other than that, they are sweet.
Yeah, yeah- I know there are bug options for tarps, but I just love a Tarptent during bug season.
Tarps are COOL.Sep 27, 2007 at 6:07 am #1403830
Good point about bugs and wet conditions. Offset more bugs and wet with more protection…
[ more weight ]
Tarptent (Contrail) – more bugs – wetter
Poncho tarp with bivy – somewhere between
Poncho tarp – less bugs – dryer
[ less weight ]Sep 27, 2007 at 8:32 am #1403847
P. P.Member
@toesnorthLocale: PNW
I have the GoLite and I love it in wet weather. I don't, however, use it in place of a tent. I use it for a lunch stop shelter for two and for a cooking shelter in camp.Sep 27, 2007 at 4:23 pm #1403891
The lean-to was easier to set up than the A frame.
Also tried using the center and one end for the poles, and this made the front open part more taunt.
I think my next step is go into the "wild" with it.Sep 27, 2007 at 4:31 pm #1403893
Nat LimMember
@lithiummetalmanLocale: Cesspool Central!
Nice setup, I like to stake out the side middles as well, but I really like to use the modified lean-to set-up as well. I personally find the bivy a personal choice, 1/2 the time i go with it and the other 1/2 without, really depends on the situation. Anyways have fun!Sep 27, 2007 at 8:26 pm #1403915
John S.BPL Member
Do you bring the map that shows all of those numerous guylines…lolSep 28, 2007 at 5:18 am #1403932
Hi John,
Unfortunately, a map will not do.
Only thing that works is praying!
: )Oct 3, 2007 at 11:48 am #1404421
Michael SkwarczekMember
@uberkatzenLocale: Sudamerica
What are you using for your drop cloth in that pic?Oct 5, 2007 at 5:57 pm #1404675
Ken BennettMember
@ken_bennettLocale: southeastern usa
I set mine up in the half-pyramid shape, using a couple of trekking poles. I get easier access and better coverage on three sides. (But you need to make sure that the weather is coming from the covered side.)
Now that I look more closely, this is not my Golite poncho tarp, but rather a 6×10 homemade version. But the poncho tarp sets up well the same way.Sep 1, 2009 at 7:00 pm #1524393
ok so im confused on this set up thing….would a piece of tyvek work well enough under you if it started to rain pretty hard. i just don't understand how this is going to protect me like my rei quarterdome t1 tent. i want to lose the weight but i love the protection. HELP ME!Sep 1, 2009 at 7:16 pm #1524401
Pete ClarkeMember
@calapidderLocale: Pacific NW
Here's the thing about poncho-tarps. You are providing very little protection for yourself, so you need to take advantage of all that mother nature provides. As far as locations to set it up, you need to be in relatively soft ground (which absorbs water) and be at a higher level than the surrounding terrain. That way, any rain water will drain AWAY from you. Don't ever take the nice little gully as your site, because that's right where the rainwater will flow. I've used ponchos for two years now, and won't go back to a tent. There's a feeling of achievement in taking a little scrap of silnylon and blocking the wind and rain so you can sleep tight all night. I gotta say, I always find a new way to set it up, and I'm always so proud of myself that it stays put throughout the night! Have fun!Sep 1, 2009 at 7:18 pm #1524403
todd harperBPL Member
@funnymoLocale: Sunshine State
Hi Brett; and Welcome!
Tyvek will work very well, provded two things don't happen:
1) you aren't camped in a site where water will pool (down bags don't float:) )
2) the open edges of the tarp aren't exposed to driving rain
There are lots of posts, and a great article or two on this site, some of which require you becoming a member – WELL worth the modest fee, by the way. Also, I highly recommend Ryan Jordan's book (available here, as well) and specifically the chapter on advanced tarp techniques.
Have fun, and report back with what you decide to do!
ToddSep 1, 2009 at 7:28 pm #1524410
Hi Brett,
A tarp alone cannot give you the protection of a full tent. That is why many of us use a combination of tarp and bivy. With a bivy that is waterproof on the bottom but water resistant and breathable on the top with a tarp, you get full weather protection, good bag breathability, and really, really light weights.
You give something up (much nicer to lounge in a tent), and you gain something (much lighter, simple). A poncho tarp simplifies the system further by leaving the raingear at home.
I love tarps and I think they're really fun- but there are lots of ways to get out there and backpack!
Best, DougSep 2, 2009 at 9:19 am #1524541
thanks guys, i will check out the book!Sep 2, 2009 at 9:21 am #1524542
Is there a BEST way to set up a tarp? and for 1 person, what is the best size for the best protection against mother nature?Sep 4, 2009 at 8:53 am #1525046
Ken BennettMember
@ken_bennettLocale: southeastern usa
For a beginning tarper, I would highly recommend an 8×10-foot silnylon tarp, set up in a A-frame configuration. The Equinox tarp available from Campmor is not too expensive and makes a great starter tarp. With guy lines and stakes, the whole package comes in just over a pound. It provides plenty of shelter for 1-2 hikers and all their gear. The 8×10 has a huge "sweet spot" which allows for minor mistakes in setup or orientation.
For the A-frame, you'll need two trekking poles or two trees, two long guy lines (8-10 feet), four short guy lines (2-3 feet), and six good, solid stakes (MSR Groundhog or similar.) I prefer to use trekking poles because I can set up in more places, without worrying about finding two perfect trees. If you look at the photos at the very top of this thread, that's what an A-frame set up looks like. (Your tarp won't have the hood opening in the middle, so ignore that.)
The most important part of tarp camping is SITE SELECTION. You can't just plop down in any old spot — especially not one of those hard-packed, heavily used tent sites. A good tarp site is on loose duff or grass, in a flat area that is slightly higher than the surroundings. Take a good, hard look at your site — is there any chance that a hard thunderstorm will cause water to run through it? (Look for evidence that this has happened in the past.) If so, don't camp there. With a careful eye and some experience, it's easy to find a good tarp spot.Sep 4, 2009 at 9:18 am #1525053
Troy AmmonsBPL Member
A gatewood cape is going to be about as good as it gets, but if you are set on a tarp and want more room build as below.
It works. Just one full width continuous piece of sil, spinnaker or cuben 5'x11' and an extra 6' long full width piece to make the beak. Seam the edges. Tuck 2' of it up to become a poncho, maybe more for you but I am tall. Add a 2'6" beak the entire width on one side. That can velcro under for poncho use. Can be glued with mcnett aquaseal or sewn and sealed.
That gives you more coverage over the door and becomes a half pyramid with a semi protected entry similar to a forrester. Held up with one trekking pole. The beak can be varied in pitch. Pitched low, perfect for nasty weather.
You end up with 3 sides closed and about 5' x 8'9 area. Big and roomy. Around a 4' peak depending on how its pitched.
A SMD 7 oz bug tent will fit right in. I would suggest building one with tyvek doors for a tarp like this.
Build a bivy with a cuben floor and a 1.25 oz tyvek top big enough to put you mat in, add 1 oz polycro ground sheet for about 7 oz and you are good to go.
Built out of 1.1 sil – 13-14 oz
Built out of cuben about 6-7 oz
Cuben version with a SMD bug tent or clone and bivy with ground sheet – 21 oz. Sil version +7 or 28oz
Seam the edges, tieouts, add the beak, add a hole for the hood if you want to use it as a poncho.
Here is a sketchup of it.
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pp: 80-82
Li-C. Wang , University of California, Santa Barbara
Magdy S. Abadir , Motorola
To compete in the marketplace, all semiconductor products have tight time-to-market requirements. With design complexity exploding, functional verification is now on the critical path to RTL signoff and relies mainly on extensive vector simulation. A typical microprocessor requires billions of simulation cycles to tape out. But microprocessor manufacturers aren't the only ones concerned about the increasingly long simulation time. More and more, SoC and ASIC manufacturers face the same challenge. This special issue focuses on the important problem of functional verification and testbench generation for verifying complex digital ICs—a synergistic area that has significant impact on both the test and verification communities. The articles in this issue cover many different aspects of functional verification, including verification methodology, test program generation, case studies, design specification, and model checking.
The first article, by Allon Adir et al. (IBM Research Lab, Haifa), presents Genesys-Pro, a second-generation model-based testbench generator for functional verification of uniprocessors and multicore processors. Genesys-Pro, an improved version of its predecessor, Genesys, is currently the main functional verification tool for all IBM processors. In the 1980s, IBM was among the first to develop an automatic test program generator using a biased, random, and dynamic generation scheme, coupled with a traditional expert-system paradigm. This early test program generator was architecture dependent; thus, the need for a generic solution inspired the development of a model-based test generation scheme. A model-based test generator consists of two major components:
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Next, Carl Scafidi of Intel, and Doug Gibson and Rohit Bhatia of Hewlett-Packard, describe a unit-level approach for verifying the Intel Itanium 2 processor's exception control unit, XPN. In full-chip functional verification, it's common for certain units, buried deep inside a chip, to receive less coverage than other units. To alleviate this problem, unit-level verification adopts a divide-and-conquer approach consisting of three components:
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The fifth article, by Prabhat Mishra and Nikil Dutt (University of California, Irvine), and Narayanan Krishnamurthy and Magdy S. Abadir (Motorola), summarizes the effort to develop a top-down functional verification methodology. One key challenge that today's designers face is the lack of a formal specification for verifying the RTL model. Design intention is usually specified in workbooks written in a natural language such as English.
The authors propose using an architecture description language (ADL) to describe design intention at a higher level. An ADL model encapsulates all design properties that a corresponding RTL model must satisfy. During verification, designers can generate an assertion model from an ADL model and use it with a symbolic verifier to check the RTL design. Moreover, designers can produce a complete reference model to use in equivalence checking against the RTL model. The authors demonstrate the feasibility of this approach by verifying a memory management unit design in Motorola's high-performance microprocessor and in a 32-bit DLX microprocessor.
The final article, by Ganapathy Parthasarathy et al. (University of California, Santa Barbara), discusses the potential in applying sequential satisfiability (SSAT) to improve the capacity of bounded model checking. Model checking provides an ultimate guarantee in functional verification by exploring all relevant state spaces to prove or disprove a design property. It is commonly viewed as a supplementary methodology to testbench simulation for improving verification quality. Traditional bounded model checking relies on binary-decision-diagram- and combinational-SAT-based techniques to efficiently search the relevant state space. The authors suggest that SSAT is an alternative that provides a unique strength in its ability to support model checking. Introducing an SSAT solver can potentially improve a hybrid solver's capabilities for test generation as well as for model checking. The authors provide a detailed analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of using SSAT as opposed to using BDD and combinational SAT solvers.
These six articles provide an excellent overview of state-of-the-art approaches to functional verification and testbench generation. We hope you enjoy this special issue.
Magdy S. Abadir manages the High Performance Tools and Methodology Group at Motorola's PowerPC Design Center in Austin, Texas. He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin. His research interests include microprocessor test and verification, test economics, EDA tools, and DFT. Abadir has a BS in computer science from the University of Alexandria, Egypt; an MS in computer science from the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada; and a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California. He has cofounded and chaired a series of international workshops on the economics of design, test, and manufacturing; and on microprocessor test and verification. A coeditor of several books on those subjects, Abadir has published more than 120 conference and technical papers on test economics, DFT, computer-aided design, high-level test generation, and design verification and economics. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
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Enjoy a bite to eat at Carnegies Public House, the hotel's onsite restaurant. Satisfy your hunger from the comfort of your room with room service. Cooked-to-order breakfast is offered for a fee each morning from 6:30 AM to 11 AM.
All of The Peery Hotel an Ascend Hotel Collection Member's 73 rooms are air-conditioned and have an array of amenities, including minibars, free local calls, and ironing boards. TVs come with cable channels, and free WiFi keeps guests connected. Bathrooms offer hair dryers and designer toiletries, and Tempur-Pedic beds with premium bedding and down comforters ensure a restful night. Rooms also include desks.
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Guests of The Peery Hotel an Ascend Hotel Collection Member enjoy a 24-hour fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and 4 meeting rooms. Self parking is available for USD 12.00 per night. The front desk is staffed 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, concierge services, and luggage storage. Additional amenities include conference space, a 24-hour business center, and coffee/tea in a common area.
- Walking distance to Tabernacle and Clark Planetarium
- Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
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High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. Business amenities at this 3.5-star property consist of a 24-hour business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 3500 square feet (325 square meters) include conference space. This business-friendly hotel also offers a fitness center, gift shops/newsstands, and ski storage. Concierge services are available, and onsite parking is available for a surcharge. Guests can enjoy breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinks at the onsite restuarant and bar.
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The Peery Hotel an Ascend Hotel Collection Member offers 73 air-conditioned accommodations with minibars and designer toiletries. Tempur-Pedic beds feature down comforters and premium bedding. Premium cable television is provided. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
This Salt Lake City hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Business-friendly amenities include desks and phones; free local calls are provided (restrictions may apply). Additionally, rooms include irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Microwaves, refrigerators, and hypo-allergenic bedding can be requested. Housekeeping is provided daily.
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Canada stopped making pennies in 2012, because they cost about 1.6 cents each to produce, but a rare 1936 Canadian "Dot Cent" struck 77 years ago is expected to sell for more than $250,000 as part of Heritage Auction's April 18-23 CICF World & Ancient Coins Signature® Auction.
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A few months back, The New Yorker published a long piece about online encyclopedia Wikipedia. This week, the magazine ran an editors' note detailing a problem with one of the sources in the article.
The Web encyclopedia's management team recommended a Wikipedia administrator, known to the Wikipedia community and to the article's author only as "Essjay," as a source for the story. According to the article, the source, who described himself online as "a tenured professor of religion at a private university" with "a Ph.D. in theology and a degree in canon law," remained anonymous on Wikipedia and to the magazine because he was concerned about retribution from people he ruled against.
It turns out, however, that Essjay is a 24-year-old named Ryan Jordan, who is not a teacher and holds no advanced degrees. Jordan was recently hired by Wikia, a commercial company co-founded by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales. Wales told The New Yorker that he didn't "really have a problem with" Essjay's online profile, and regarded it as a "pseudonym."
The incident had bloggers buzzing trying to decide where the bigger problem lay: Was Wikipedia to blame for allowing administrators to lie about who they are? Or should the reporter have been more thorough in checking her sources?
Blog community response:
"This is hardly a felony, but it does make you wonder about what else happens at Wikipedia that Jimmy Wales doesn't have a problem with. For me, a more interesting question is the degree of Schiffs error: should she, e.g., have insisted on some verification of Essjay's credentials, or at least omitted his academic claims. This illustrates, if nothing else, how journalists get lied to, pretty regularly."
"One of the points I try to make about Wikipedia, and am usually ignored because one type of pundit wants to sneer at Wikipedia's large amount of pop-culture, while another type of pundit wants to hype it as the self-emergent ubermind, is that it fundamentally runs by an extremely deceptive sort of social promise. It functions by selling the heavy contributors on the dream, the illusion, that it'll give them the prestige of an academic ('writing an encyclopedia'). It won't deliver. All that'll happen is those citizen-lunchmeats will work for free, while the Wikia investors will reap the rewards. But it's a powerful dream."
"If credentials don't matter, why bother faking them? Ah, well, Schiff put it best in the final line of her article: 'Your truth or mine?'"
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Who's Number 1?
The annual fall dust-up over the rankings published by U.S News & World Report, The Princeton Review, and others has finally died down.
Of course, Harvard University and Williams College (Mass.) both have every right to crow about their top spots in the U.S. News "National University" and "Liberal Arts College" categories if it helps them attract attention.
And the University of Albany must be relieved to have been knocked out of the first spot in The Princeton Review's "Top Party School" list this year. That dubious distinction goes to University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose administration is understandably rankled by how the portrayal undermines their efforts to curb alcohol abuse on campus.
But, as educators have argued for years, the rankings have little value in the real world. Beyond telling readers that, for example, Stanford University (Calif.) has the "happiest students," the rankings don't speak to the quality of the academic experience.
As Reed College (Ore.) President Colin Dyer explained in a November Atlantic Monthly editorial, the "one-size-fits-all ranking schemes undermine the institutional diversity that characterizes American higher education."
Reed stopped playing the rankings game 10 years ago, which some predicted would be detrimental to its recruitment efforts. But Reed has thrived. Indeed, Dyer says the number and quality of applicants has increased steadily over the years.
The popular lists shed little light on what actually goes on once a young person gets shipped off to that top-ranked school. That's where the National Survey of Student Engagement comes in. Since 2000, NSSE (http://nsse.iub.edu) has tried to gauge quality in undergraduate education, by noting and measuring the behaviors and institutional factors that are critical to academic success. The data comes from a survey of 237,000 first-year and senior students who are asked to rate five key areas: level of academic challenge, active and collaborative learning, student-faculty interaction, enriching educational experiences, and supportive campus environment.
The NSSE results raise some interesting questions. For example, nearly half of first-year students in this year's survey said they never used career planning, financial advising, or academic tutoring services. Why? That's a question for individual institutions to address--whether it means adding resources or simply making students aware that these services are available--but it's certainly a big part of college success.
The survey also revealed that 45 percent of college seniors took at least one course elsewhere before enrolling in their current institution. This result, say the report authors, is a concern because transfer students participate less in activities that enrich learning.
The results are shared with the individual institutions, but most, wisely, don't make them public. The goal isn't to run another "beauty contest" (which the commercial surveys have become), but to create a tool. By using the results for serious self-assessment, they can make the changes that will truly make them top-ranked institutions.
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Inventory of the William Young Empey Papers, 1847-1890, bulk 1853-1854
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Title: William Young Empey Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1847-1890, bulk 1853-1854
Creator: Empey, William Young
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Purchased from Mrs. Ida Terry Empey, 1945
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In order to quote from, publish, or reproduce any of the manuscripts or visual materials, researchers must obtain formal permission from the office of the Library Director. In most instances, permission is given by the Huntington as owner of the physical property rights only, and researchers must also obtain permission from the holder of the literary rights. In some instances, the Huntington owns the literary rights, as well as the physical property rights. Researchers may contact the appropriate curator for further information.
[Identification of item], William Young Empey Papers, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
When the Utah territorial legislature incorporated the Perpetual Emigrating Company, more commonly known as the Perpetual Emigration Fund, in 1850, the Mormon "gathering of Zion" entered a new phase. Although Mormon converts had often been encouraged to migrate from their present locations to join the main body of believers, little institutional support had been provided for them. With the establishment of the PEF, however, the Church committed itself to financing in part or in full the emigration of impoverished Saints converted by its increasingly successful overseas missions. Drawing in large measure upon the contributions of the members of the Church already settled in Utah, the PEF assisted nearly 10,000 Saints in emigrating to Zion just between 1852 and 1855. PEF agents, in cooperation with representatives of the Church's British Mission, organized companies of emigrants early each year, funneling them through the English port of Liverpool and across the Atlantic on chartered steamers to New Orleans. From there, river steamers carried the emigrants and their supplies up the Mississippi to St. Louis and then up the Missouri to frontier communities such as Westport, the precursor of modern Kansas City, Missouri which served as the jumping-off points for overland wagon trains destined for the Great Salt Lake Valley. Other PEF agents in New Orleans, St. Louis and the Missouri frontier towns received these human cargos, ministered to their needs and forwarded them on to their next stop. These agents dealt with steamship lines, freighters and merchants throughout the Mississippi and Missouri river valleys, hiring transportation to carry their charges to the edge of the settlements and purchasing the enormous quantities of provisions and equipment necessary to outfit each overland party.
From 1852 through 1854, William Young Empey played an important role in the operations of the PEF. Born July 4, 1808 in modern-day Ontario Province, Canada, William Adam Empey returned to the United States, the birthplace of his parents and grandparents, sometime before the year 1844. Although the date and place of his conversion to Mormonism is not known, he became involved in the Mormon Church before the exodus from Nauvoo and was "sealed" to Brigham Young as an "adopted son". From this point on, he abandoned his first middle name and used "Young" quite frequently. In 1847, he participated in Brigham Young's pioneer expedition to the Great Salt Lake Valley. He never reached the Valley, however, for Young selected Empey and eight other members of the party to operate the first Mormon ferry at Upper Crossing on the North Platte River. After arriving in the Valley with a later emigrant party, he served on the Iron County Mission which settled Parowan in southern Utah. Then, in 1852, he was called to a mission in England. During his two-year stint, while still preaching the Church's gospel abroad, he was ordered home to America and appointed to oversee all preparations of the overland parties in Missouri during the 1853-54 travel season. The bulk of Empey's papers document the many tasks that duty entailed. Among these papers, which concentrate primarily upon the years 1853 and 1854, are lists of PEF passengers on emigrant vessels from Liverpool, bills of lading and receipts for the purchase and shipment of a great many goods to equip the emigrant parties, and receipts and promissory notes from the emigrants themselves for wagons and teams or supplies purchased by the PEF's agent for them. These various documents illuminate many phases of the emigration process and the Church's careful, businesslike organization of all its details.
Mormon missionary work in Great Britain and the operation of the Perpetual Emigration Fund
Interesting or Important Items
William Empey's incomplete diary account of the pioneer expedition to the Salt Lake Valley and the operation of the North Platte ferry (HM 52586), Empey's account book including accounts kept for the PEF (HM 52587), an 1853 list of Danish Mormons who had provided money for the purchase of cattle, wagons and other material (HM 52599), lists of P. E. Fund passengers on board various ships sailing for the United States in 1854 (HM 52603, 52605-07 and 52610-11), and two letters from Samuel W. Richards to Empey discussing Mormon missionary work in Great Britain and emigration of the Saints to the United States (HM 52593 and 52597).
All items are filed chronologically and the collection occupies two boxes.
Empey's 1847 diary has been edited by Dale Morgan and published in Annals of Wyoming, Vol. 21, nos. 2-3 (July-Oct. 1949). The operation of the P. E. Fund and the process of Mormon emigration is described in Frederick Piercey, Route from Liverpool to Great Salt Lake Valley (Liverpool and London, 1855), edited by James Linforth.
The Huntington also possesses a photostatic copy of Empey's diary covering the period of his English mission (1852-1854), catalogued as
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I am planning on painting a door on a pickup this weekend, and I am wondering what would be the best way to blend it with the box and front fender? The rest of the paint is quite shiny but would it be best to paint a small area on the box and fender,,,, then buff to match and blend in ,,,,,,OR,,,,,, just paint the door and hope it matches? Any help would be appreciated. THANKS.....and GOOD LUCK.
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My name is Heather Rae Young. I am a working model based out of Los Angeles. I love shooting creative fashion projects but I regularly work as a Swimsuit, Lingerie and Glamour model. I am a Playmate Miss Feb. 2010 but that does not limit my range, look or capability a model or professional. Ive done my nude work with Playboy and am not looking todo anymore unless you are a Fashion Photo God!!! I really love shooting and commit 110% to my work. I have worked with some great professional photographers, makeup artists, stylists and industry people. I am very open minded and am always up for something new. My schedule is flexible. I only travel when expenses are paid and for paid shoots. Please email me detailed information about the particular shoot or project you are interested in working with me on. If you need more information please feel free to drop me a message (sometimes I dont see my comments).
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Playboy: Shot my Centerfold 2009, comes out December 18, 2009
Fresh Faces, Women of Playboy
September Issue of Playboy"Lounge Acts"
Calao Swimwear
Carrie Amber lingerie
Affliction Clothing
Fast Dates 2011 Calender
Import Tuner 2010 Calender
Teasum Swimwear
DSO Eyewear
Capt. Morgan Spokesmodel
Smirnoff Spokesmodel
Baileys Spokesmodel
Jose Cuervo Spokesmodel
SuperStar Swimwear
Super Street Bike
Modified Mustangs
Hot Rod Deluxe
Low Rider Gurls
Sport Truck
Hustler Lingerie
Fore Play Catalog
7 Till Midnight Lingerie
Super Street Bike
Iron and Lace Calendar
Flirt Lingerie/swimwear
Wheel Pros
Season Finale: Til Death, Fox channel. Tina
Kia Commercial South Korea
Entourage: Office worker
Trashy Lingerie
Josh Ryan
Arny Freytag
Michael Williams
Jean-Paul Mann
Sylvain Von K
Steve Shaw
Kim Mizuno
Jarmo Pojameimi
George Georgio
Ric Moore
Phil Faraone
Calin Head
Todd Plinke
Mark Moser
J O S H R Y A N Photographer
Sarah E Stage Model
Jarmo Pohjaniemi Photographer
S V K Photographer
Phillip Faraone Photographer
Ray Gutierrez Photographer
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