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Until my husband, Rich, became president of World Vision, we were, in many ways, blissfully unaware of much of what was going on in the world around us. We were raising five children from the ages of 6 to 19, and our world was limited by our own personal experiences. I suspect that's probably true of most families—I remember many days when my world seemed only as big as the space between our home, the local supermarket, our children's school, and the soccer field.
But beginning in August 1998, that all changed. As Rich took on the leadership of World Vision's U. S. office, I had the opportunity to travel to some of the most amazing places on the planet, and met children whose lives are very different from those of my own sons' and daughters'. After every trip, I couldn't wait to share what I learned from the children I met abroad with my own family.
I've met Thomas, a young boy who had the misfortune of growing up in Northern Uganda during a brutal civil war. At an age when most children are playing soccer or hanging out with friends, he was taken from his home and forced to become a child soldier.
Twelve-year-old Nagavini was sold into slavery so that the rest of her family could survive. She spent most of her young life in Vellore, India as a bonded laborer in a matchbox factory.
And in drought-stricken Niger, little Rakia stands knee-deep in a fetid pond as she draws water for her family to drink.
These are only three examples of children currently suffering in poverty around the world. Almost eight million children under the age of five die because of issues related to their poverty—19,000 children every single day. Over 1 billion people—1 out of every 6 living on planet earth—survive on less than a dollar a day, and one in eight has no access to clean water. Knowing all of this, I want my children to understand that the life they live in affluent, suburban America isn't the norm. I want them to be aware of the larger world around them, not only so that they better appreciat what they have ("Eat your vegetables. Don't you know there are children starving in Africa?"), but also so they would develop caring, compassionate hearts for others.
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The Return of the Nefarious Up-Charge for Whiskey, Neatby
Some of you may remember that I wrote in February about how I had been charged $2 extra for a Woodford Reserve with no ice at BLT Burger in New York. I was horrified. So were a lot of readers who e-mailed in sympathy, saying they also preferred their bourbon neat and didn't like the idea of being penalized for it.
Well, I have a fresh up-charge story for you. This one, however, has a happier ending than my experience at BLT Burger. Last week, I was on assignment in Washington. After a long day, I ended up at the Sou'Western Restaurant at the Mandarin Oriental hotel in need of a glass of bourbon. I ordered a Woodford. "I'll be right back with that, monsieur," my waiter promised.
He was true to his word. My Woodford was another matter. The Sou'Western wanted $12 for my drink. But the pour wasn't exactly generous for the price. I considered downing it and ordering another. But I had an important meeting in the morning. One Woodford would have to do. So I sipped it slowly and had a nice glass of Pinot Gris with my meal.
When the bill came and I saw I had been charged an extra $3 for no ice. The same thing had happened at BLT Burger, but BLT Burger wanted $2 to hold the ice. Not only was this odious practice spreading; the up-charge for bourbon was rising.
When I protested at BLT Burger, I ended up talking to a manager who offered me a free drink but wouldn't waive the questionable fee. I wasn't expecting satisfaction at Sou'Western when I summoned my waiter to the table and lodged a complaint: "Really, are you charging me $3 extra for a Woodford up?" Much to my surprise, the waiter at Sou'Western looked as offended as I was. "Look, I know this isn't your fault," I told him.
"I will have this taken off, monsieur," he said, snatching my check.
He returned with a new one. The up-charge had vanished. I showed my appreciation by raising his tip from $10 to $15. That's right, I ended up paying more than I would have if I had kept my mouth shut and paid the up-charge. It was well worth it.
I left Sou'Western feeling as if I had won a small victory for bourbon lovers like myself. Hopefully, the rest of you will do the same in such a situation. If you are not willing to stand up for your principles as a drinker, you might as well stick with vodka.


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KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's cabinet gave preliminary approval to a long-delayed package of laws to govern mining, which officials hope will become a key driver of the troubled country's economy, the government said on Saturday.
The news will be greeted with relief by Western donors, who committed to provide $4bn in aid from 2012 to 2015 based partly on projections of future mining earnings, only to see cabinet reject the legislation in July due to concern the laws failed to protect national interests from foreign exploitation.
The draft legislation is now almost ready to be put to parliament, a statement from the office of Administrative Affairs and Council of Ministers Secretariat said.
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The voices in my head are telling me to go home and clean my guns. They have no patients for egg head libs with to much education and no common sense.
I guess I enjoy living life unburdened by all those smarts.
This is a discussion on Did you know we are all suicidal? within the The Second Amendment & Gun Legislation Discussion forums, part of the Related Topics category; Apparently, we gun owners are all high risk for offing ourselves.....just because we own guns, so says a flaming liberal Haahhvaad professor. The author of ...
Apparently, we gun owners are all high risk for offing ourselves.....just because we own guns, so says a flaming liberal Haahhvaad professor. The author of this article though gets kudos for really torching that concept in the light of logic.
Washington Times - CHAPMAN: Suicidal to buy a gun?COMMENTARY:
Americans often buy guns for self-defense, a purpose that now has Supreme Court validation. But according to advocates of gun control, those purchasers overlook the people who pose the greatest threat: themselves. Anyone who acquires a firearm, we are told, is inviting a bloody death by suicide.
So says Matthew Miller, a professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. "If you bought a gun today, I could tell you the risk of suicide to you and your family members is going to be two- to tenfold higher over the next 20 years," he told The Washington Post.
Since the chance of a gun being used for suicide is so much higher than the chance of it being used to prevent a murder, we would all be better off with fewer firearms around.
It's a rich irony - as though smoke alarms were increasing fire fatalities. But the argument raises two questions: Is it true? And, when it comes to gun control policy, does it matter?
As it turns out, the claims about guns and suicide don't stand up well to scrutiny. A 2004 report by the National Academy of Sciences was doubtful, noting that the alleged association is small and may be illusory.
Florida State University criminologist Gary Kleck says there are at least 13 published studies finding no meaningful connection between the rate of firearms and the rate of suicides. The consensus of experts, he says, is that an increase in gun ownership doesn't raise the number of people who kill themselves - only the number who do it with a gun.
That makes obvious sense. Someone who really wants to commit suicide doesn't need a .38, because alternative methods abound. Gun opponents, however, respond that guns inevitably raise the rate because they're uniquely lethal. Take away the gun, and you greatly increase the chance of survival.
But in his 1997 book, "Targeting Guns: Firearms and Their Control," Mr. Kleck points out that "suicide attempts with guns are only slightly more likely to end in death than those involving hanging, carbon monoxide poisoning, or drowning." It's not hard to think of some other pretty foolproof means of self-destruction - such as jumping off a tall (or even not so tall) building, stepping in front of a train or driving at 80 miles per hour into a telephone pole.
People who use guns are generally hell-bent on ending their lives. So deprived of a sidearm, they will no doubt find another reliable method - rather than swallow a dozen aspirin and wake up in the emergency room. Banning guns is no more likely to reduce suicides than banning ice cream is to curb obesity.
A few decades ago, various European countries changed the type of natural gas used for home heating and cooking - replacing a toxic form with a harmless variety. That step eliminated one time-tested way of killing oneself. Alas, while the number of gas suicides declined, in most of these countries, the death toll didn't.
The same pattern holds for guns. The National Academy of Sciences report noted that any link between firearms and suicides "is not found in comparisons across countries." The number of guns in a nation tells you nothing about its suicide rate.
But let's suppose science could establish that people who obtain firearms do indeed increase their death rate (or the death rate of their family members) from suicide. So what?
Buying a car may shorten your lifespan, since traffic accidents are a major killer. Building a backyard swimming pool creates a potential fatal hazard to you and your loved ones. But nobody says the government should interfere with such decisions.
Personal safety is a far more central matter of individual autonomy than those choices. A mentally stable person living in a crime-ridden neighborhood should be free to judge whether she is more at risk from street criminals than from a spell of intense depression.
Presumptuous paternalists argue that Americans should be deprived of guns because gun owners are their own worst enemies. A lot of Americans would reply: We can't trust ourselves, but we can trust you?
Steve Chapman is a nationally syndicated columnist.
I need to write a note to remind myself to throw away the spare tire for my truck, I might be prone to get a flat tire. And get rid of the matches, I might suddleny get the urge to burn my house down. I hope all americans see this the way it should be understood. At least one guy at Harvard doesn't...and where there's one there are more....kind of like roaches....
The voices in my head are telling me to go home and clean my guns. They have no patients for egg head libs with to much education and no common sense.
I guess I enjoy living life unburdened by all those smarts.
"fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." [Warren v. District of Columbia,(D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)]
If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand
Unfortunately, the way things are going, that Guy from Harvard could end up as a Supreme Court Justice one day.........
Sorry, I just don't view suicide as always a terrible, tragic thing. Often it is premature, the easy way out, or just plain selfish, but sometimes life really is more terrible than death.
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"fundamental principle of American law that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection, to any individual citizen." [Warren v. District of Columbia,(D.C. Ct. of Ap., 1981)]
If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand
I wonder what he thinks about 'rope' owners? Or 'sleeping pill' owners?
Proverbs 27:12 says: The prudent see danger and take refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it.
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As Glenn Beck would say, I need to warp duct tape around my head to keep it from exploding.
HOLY CRAP, these are the stupidest smart people I have ever seen in my life!
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I can't believe (well, maybe I can) anyone let this clown submit his dissertation without any form of statistical evidence to support his claims.
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Hi everyone, I just picked up a '01 325i two weeks ago and have experienced a whole run of typical problem with a 11-12 year old car but got a couple of questions left. Mileage is ~187k
@ ~5k RPM the engine makes a noise that sounds similar to a blow-off value. It's a semi-high pitch noise, I figure it is a pulley bearing but wondering if anyone has experienced this or knows which ones go first and if they can be re-greased or requires replacement.
The other problem I'm having seems to be the ICV (I did some research on the forum first). The engine is rough at idle only when cold and will stale occasionally if the clutch is depressed (first light or so). Also, it requires a bit more revs to move otherwise it stalls (only 1st/2nd from cold start). From what I've been reading, it seems the ICV or cracks in the system before that, but is there anyway to check that before disassembling a lot of pieces?
So far I've replaced the spark plugs, air filter, rear brakes and sensor, and calibrated the emergency brake after checking the pads all by DIY from links form here or YouTube. This car is amazing to drive but is an annoying PITA at times, hopefully with some help I can get it running (and stopping) perfectly again for another decade!
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What all is involved in putting a 3 inch lift on a truck like mine? I was told i would have to weld new perchs on my axles to get the right angle on my drive shafts. I was wondering if you had to do that since it is only a 3 inch lift? Thank you for any help you can give me.
What kind of truck..??? lots of lift kits out there to get a 3" lift with..
I have tried most all of it and now do what is known to work..
its is stock height and it looks stupid with 32 inch tires and it sits so low on them in the front so i want to rasie it 3 inches or maybe even 6
I may be a Toyota guy when it comes to offroad, but I can hold my own with Chevys. You would not need to make new perches on the axles. The pinion angle is not that big of a deal as long as you don't put a large lift on, say 6+ inches. A 3 inch lift would not affect the pinion angles. It is pretty straight forward when it comes to a leaf spring lift. Chevy springs are 63 inches long, at least the newer ones, and the kit you get will provide the same length springs, just with more arc. On paper, it is about a 4 hour job, provided you have the right tools. A torch is most handy when disposing of old ubolts and springs. Hope this helps.
If you don't go offroad the cheapest would be a 3" body lift that you could finish in a few hours. Next you could go suspension lift with springs in the front and blocks in the rear. The blocks are ground on a angle per your application so your pinion angle will be close. If not you can buy shims in various degree increments which I would'nt do. I've seen too many crack.
If you do go with blocks in the back and you have alot of torque your springs will wrap and you will need some bars tied into the axle and frame!
The most expensive but by far the best would be springs all the way around.
On a 77' chevy if you do go 6", get the proper steering arm to keep your steering geometry and to void excess bumpsteer.
What t-case do you have? NP203,205 or 208?
With a 6" lift you will have to drop the t-case crossmember about 1"
Look in my gallery for some of the ones I have done if you got any questions!
As an added comment:
Body lifts are cheap, easy to put on, and do not require a bunch of modifications.
if you plan on going susp lift, be sure to check if the kit you buy has all the needed parts. there are a lot of different types of kits available and some of them provide you the basic parts, plus you need to make some custom welding work yourself etc. Some kits are bolt-on, but usualy more expensive.
one thing to check if you go for a suspension lift, is Driveshaft Spacers. Some kits don't have em, and you end up with a driveshaft that comes out or even bends and breaks when flexing out.
Bumpsteer correction parts is also recommended like twisted said.
And Yes, the bigger the blocks your putting if you're going for blocks at the back, the higher the torque into your springs which will produce Spring wrap. This is why most provinces here in canada Ban those type of lifts, or if not, they are allowed only a few inches depending on provinces. You might want to check with your local laws if you're going to make everything yourself and go with blocks.
Another easy cheap lift, is added lenght leaf shackles, but don't go to high with those, or it'll affect handling greatly. I have seen 2 inches on a samourai on these with good driveability. they're easy to make, or still cheap to order and provide a little lift for cheap. So you could go for 2 inches shackles and 3 inch body for example, providing a nice 5 inche lift, and leaving room for a good suspension lift later on if you wanna put big rubber under...
I'm not familiar with Chevy's so I have a question, are they Spring over from the start? If not, thats an easy way to go for a good lift which would probably be around 5 inches basic.
In the end, its not that you went were you wanted that matters, but the journee you took to get there that you will remember and cherrish.
Based on Homer's Philosophical writings.
I planned on using the skyjacker 3 inch kit for my truck from summit racing. I was told you had to make some mods to the steering and shifter when you use a body lift. I want to put 35s under it with out them rubbing when i turn sharp. What do you have to do when you put a body lift on? Thanks for all the help.
Here, take a look at this site, its a fitment guide for vehicules, its not perfect but a pretty close educated guess.
Body lifts at 3" and + usualy requires steering extentions, Rad relocation brackets, bumper relocation brackets and shifter clearance cutting of floor.
Extentions are or are not included in kits, you have to check which kits you order and call them to make sure. If its not included and/or not available you'll have to make some yourself custom. Sometimes steering shafts can be extended by loosening them and moving them out a bit, but this is mostly for low lifts cases.
Bumper relocation brackets can be done without, but they put the bumpers back to height with the body, eliminating the GAP you sometimes see when people lift the body and not the rest.
Rad relocation is used if you need to keep the rad inline with a mecanical fan on the engine for example, electric fan guys don't have this problem since the fan moves with the rad and the body.
In order to fit bigger tires without rubbing, keep in mind that not only the lift is important, but also wheel size. If you go wider tires, you might have to go with offset wheels to prevent your tires from rubbing on the spring leafs and also, keeping the wheel offset to the right amount might prevent tires from rubbing on the fenders, this you will have to calculate and measure yourself for a perfect fit.
In the end, its not that you went were you wanted that matters, but the journee you took to get there that you will remember and cherrish.
Based on Homer's Philosophical writings.
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Another thing to consider when going to bigger tires, is gear ratios.........you will find that with the stock gears and bigger tires that you will have a lot less power. You will need to go to a higher numericlly gear to get the same torque....................
1) find out what gears you have. 4.10's work well for 35's and 3.73's work well for 33's. If you have 3.08's don't put on the bigger tires till you get new gears.
2) I'm not a big fan of body lifts. Bigger tires are for better traction and clearance offroad...so I will assume you will be offroading your truck. Stock suspensions on those trucks don't do that well. They have almost no travel up front.
3) Do you mind cutting the fenders to keep it from rubbing? If you won't cut it you will need more lift (which is a bad thing). 33's will clear with no cutting and 4" of lift. 35's will clear with 6" of lift and no cutting. Personally I would go with something like 2-4" lift, cutting, and 35" tires.
4) There aren't too many good and cheap ways to do a lift in the front. For the back end you can cut a hole in the bottom of the shackle hanger and swing the shackle down through the hole to the spring. This is often called a "shackle flip" and will net you 4" of lift from where you are at right now.
5) For the front you could get a set of 4" lift springs used for not too much money. Again if you want to be cheap you could move brake lines down instead of buying extended lines. You will however need some type of steering correction. If you will be driving on the street a lot get a 2.5" drop steering arm. If you will be offroad more get a 4" raised steering arm. Both of these things are something you should look for used.
So $100 for used front springs, $30 for a raised steering arm, $100 for some new shocks from autozone together with some misc. stuff and you could have a lift for about $300 that will gain you much better performance than a $100 body lift.
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A 54-year-old in Pennsylvania was arrested last week when cops found out he'd stole $357,000 worth of HUMAN SKIN.
The guy was a medical sales rep and sold human skin to a hospital ... but he'd been charging them for extra skin, then HOARDING it ... but no one's quite sure why.


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Wanganui's young guns were put down by superior firepower at New Plymouth's Pukekura Park yesterday with a five-wicket loss in the Young XI challenge.
The Young Wanganui side, made up of the under-20 players from the Hawke Cup team plus other teenaged prospects, recovered from a middle-order collapse against Young Taranaki to pull through to 212 in the 50-over game.
Wanganui High School's Kane Watkin stepped up with a patient, undefeated 57 from 76 balls, assisted by the rearguard action from his team's No10 and 11.
Coach Dilan Raj said the plan for Taranaki's turn at bat was to unleash the quicks, Collegiate's Charlie Robson and Nick Blundell, on their top order before slowing them right down as the wicket wore down.
It nearly worked as Robson provided the early breakthrough but Taranaki settled into their work on Pukekura's short boundaries.
Raj said it had proved a big learning curve for several of the young bowlers, who must work more diligently on their game.
In club cricket, two bad deliveries in an over can be circumvented by the four good ones but not at this level.
Raj singled out Blundell, who constantly works on his bowling, as a good example conceeding only 24 from his 10 overs.
Rupert Young and Ricky Riccetteli recovered from Taranaki's early loss with 36 and 26 respectively, before talented James Mcdougall stepped to the mark.
He took the game away with a well-complied 71 from 101 balls, including three sixes.
John Dickson had a great supporting hand with a quickfire 42 and although Trent Hemi had him caught by Blundell, the writing was on the wall at 201-5 with plenty of overs left.
Earlier, Wanganui made a promising start as Marist's John McIlraith went nearly a run a ball before he was caught for 42 in the 15th over.
Disaster struck by the 20th over as Collegiate's Andre Halbert was run out, then captain Dom Lock was late playing a Henry Boon delivery to be bowled first ball.
Brett Cameron fell to a catch in the next over, leaving Wanganui staring down the barrel at 78-5.
However, Watkin showed resolve, while Robson came out blasting - hoisting three sixes in a quickfire 31 from 28 balls to set the locals back.
Raj said the young slogger needed to be selective by looking to hit square rather than long, which proved his undoing as he went straight and missed, giving Boon his second hit of the stumps.
There was a strong wag in the tail, however, as Marist's Sam O'Leary and Wanganui High's Jack Stewart doggedly secured 30 priceless runs between them.
Neither had pretences at being batsmen, but O'Leary showed what was possible by constantly dabbing the ball around during his innings of 20 well-taken runs.
Running out of partners, Watkin had paced himself well by scoring a fair clip to bring up his half century before his side folded in the 49th over.


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Early did we rise and at breakfast we did wait,
For Nic to wake up as he stayed in bed late,
In cold fury Abi maintained,
For which Nic she blamed,
As she wished for more time
In the Guggenheim!
Within those walls she stayed an hour,
Whence she came out her mood was still sour
We took the Metro and went the wrong way,
Found Battery CITY Park we had gone astray!
Fast was our walk back to the right park,
Yet late we were and well off the mark.
For a ball we had found but that was not quite right
As a BULL was what Nic chose for our meeting site
We searched Hi and Low
But to us Nic was a no Show
At the last moment a boat we did Catch
with no Nic it was Ben's turn to Bitch (couldn't think of anything that would ryhme - Ben)
To the crown they went to see what was there
Not much say I its really quite bare!
Moping was Ben and not much fun
As they passed from her head down past her bum!
With haste got back on the boat and turned about
Skipping Ellis Island so Abi missed out
For Ben wanted to get back and find
where Nic had gone for peace of mind.
Back in Manhattan Nic was looming
at the dock we arrived and he was fuming
The bull! he exclaimed
The Ball! we proclaimed
Words were said and some they did shout
before abi perked up that Nic had not missed out
For the ticket was still fine
So of he went to get in line
so Abi and I looked at the time
Me carrying Nic's bag and mine.
Later that day we met in the station
All was right but far from elation.
back on the train they did lay
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Flu shots are based on the evolution of the flu virus. The reason you have to have one every year is because the virus evolves and changes. So please, don't take one of those false science flu shots, or any other immunizations. Don't go to a doctor for a cold, cancer, tuberculosis or any other disease that evolves.<quoted text>
Atheists do not rule the realm of science. Lets let you lot have all the evolutionary facts you can hold. Seeing as there are none you leave the real world empty handed.
Why is your God so ignorant that he couldn't make a world that evolves? Why was he so ignorant that he couldn't make a whole universe that evolves rather than stagnating and dying off? That's what happens when things don't evolve. Is he currently busy creating all the new strains of viruses and other diseases on earth? Is he currently making the changes in DNA that occur over generations? If so, he did it the hard way.


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|I think I understand, does the timer work the same for both directions or is it different? Which contacts are used in the agitation direction?
Ok, makes more sense that the timer would be bad. The start winding is working, it runs in spin. The winding is used for both directions so it is good.
I did try the machine in the other 2 wash cycles and it did the same thing. Plus tried all 5 speeds. Always the same thing.
I will have to make another cord to try your suggestion. I am going to check the contacts on the timer too.


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Von Chounlamany has always wanted to excel in the world of custom mini-trucks. Von, 26, started constructing show-winning minis some 10 years ago. He and his younger brother Jason, 24, are known around their club, Negative Camber, and the show circuit as the Laodies with the LOASIANS-licensed '84 Toyota. This sibling duo is also known for grinding, cutting, sectioning, body dropping, shearing, welding, hammering, sanding, and spraying. The brothers are continuously forming and shaping incredible rolling sculptures out of their small Laodies Kustoms shop in Doud, Iowa.
This '84 Toyota Xtracab has been an on-going project since it began 10 years ago. To obtain its grounded stance, the frame was back-halved and step-notched using 2x4-inch box tubing. The rear suspension is built around its stock rearend housing and a four-linked cantilever design. Parker 1/2-inch valves and lines link the air compressor and holding tanks to the Firestone 2600 pneumatic 'bags that provide the suspension's agility and athleticism, while a pair of rear Gabriel air shocks damp the suspension action. Yota rolls on a set of aluminum KMC Suicide 19x7-inch spools wrapped with Nitto P225/35R19 rubber. The front suspension consists of a pair of Belltech 2-inch drop spindles. Eric at Kustom Werks fabricated upper tubular control arms to get more flexibility out of the 2500 Firestone airbags.
The original '84 2.4L four-cylinder has been rebuilt with a Crane camshaft, brand-new internal components, and an added pair of dual side-draft Weber carburetors. The pair also added an LC Engineering electronic distributor, Fireball coil, and a ceramic-coated Pacesetter 4-1 header that flows into a custom exhaust system. To clean up the engine compartment, Von installed Cool flex-hose, a stainless steel overflow tank, and a chromed the stock valve cover. The twin Optima batteries were relocated under the bed.
Von and Jason preformed a 3-inch body drop to get the front air dam, fenders, rockers, bed, and roll pan to scrape, spark, and grind. To achieve ample room in the rear fenderwells, Von grafted four four-wheel-drive flared fenders to the bed side panels, creating the proper clearance and flared shape. Von fabbed a pair of rear wheeltubs that come up flush with the bedrails, allowing the rear 19x7-inch KMCs and P225/35R19 Nitto rubber to tuck up inside. The tailgate has been welded and smoothed with a pair of LED frenched taillights slotted in the upper corners. The front '88 four-wheel-drive chrome grille is flanked with a pair of '84 stock headlights. A '97 four-wheel-drive chrome bumper and valance add to Yota's leading edge. The cab's roof was opened to accept a 30x40-inch sliding ragtop, and the doors have been shaved. After all the body mods were performed, endless layers of PPG DP50 primer were added and block-sanded over and over again to eliminate any ripples or imperfections. The beauty comes from PPG Bright Iris Pearl Blue that was color-sanded then buried in multiple coats of clear. Jason broke out the buffing and polishing compounds and began endless hours of work until he created a deep, mirror finish.
A Lazar head unit with a Boss flip-up DVD monitor screen is grafted into the waterfall-style center console. For more entertainment, PS2 video games are within a palm's reach. The power is boosted by a couple of Power Acoustic amps flanked by two 12-inch subwoofers located in a custom-built cabinet placed in the rear of the Xtracab. A pair of Lazar, 6-1/2-inch speakers are located in custom kick panel units.
The interior dash was shaved smooth and, along with the waterfall center console, is painted PPG Iris Pearl Blue. The brothers used their talents to upholster the entire interior, covering the bucket seats, door panels, and headliner in a light-tan tweed. A Billet Specialties three-spoke leather-covered steering wheel caps the factory steering column.
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Works great, when supplying 5VDC... 04/27/2010
This review is from: IOGEAR GUCE51 USB Ethernet Extender
We performed a detailed test of this product using a 60-ft Cat5e (200 MHz) cable:
* Computer -> USB Extender -> USB Mouse/Keyboard/Stick = Did not work.
* Computer -> USB Extender -> USB Hub (monitor) -> USB Mouse/Keyboard/Stick = Sporadic behavior for the mouse/keyboard; USB hard drive did not work at all.
* Computer -> USB Hub (monitor) -> USB Extender -> USB Mouse/Keyboard/Stick = Mouse and keyboard worked flawlessly, USB hard drive did not work.
Then we connected a 5VDC power source to the receiver, and every configuration worked without problems. We even connected a powered hub on the receiving side: no problems for mouse/keyboard/stick all plugged into the hub and running at the same time.
Does not work well over long distances with no power supplied to receiving end.
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IOGEAR should include an AC adapter with this product, even if it raises the price a little.
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Podcast: What Should the FDA Do When Drug Tests Are Tainted?
In an investigation published yesterday, Rob Garver and Charles Seife shared the story of how the Food and Drug Administration found a lab in Houston, Texas, that had provided the agency with drug tests tainted by "egregious" research misconduct. While the FDA's counterpart in Europe took seven of the improperly tested drugs off the market, the FDA did not follow suit.
Garver and Seife joined the podcast to discuss how the FDA typically handles situations like this, how the agency found out the tests were not conducted improperly, why the European Medicines Agency pulled the drugs, which drugs were involved, and why the FDA has not been forthcoming with more information.
"We certainly believe that the FDA ought to be more transparent, but it's not just us," said Garver. "Dr. David Kessler, the former head of the FDA, is on the record in the story concerned that the FDA hasn't been sufficiently transparent about this. He says that you can't just ask the public to trust you."
Seife added, "I think they (consumers) have to be worried about the process rather than any individual drug. The FDA is the watchdog — it is the agency that is supposed to keep us safe. And when it says that it can't tell us why these drugs are put on the market, despite the fact that we know that their experimental basis for the safety and efficacy of these drugs is undermined, [that] makes us question whether the FDA is hiding something."
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Proposed remedies: 1. Remove the analytical company from all FDA rosters of reliable sources. 2. Publicly identify management and research scientists (carefully!!!) who either directly performed the research or had some management responsibility for approval of the data. 3. At the FDA, terminate anyone who approved acceptance of bad data, without mercy!
Can we claw back FDA salaries since they have so egregiously failed? What is different in Europe? Well it could be they are more (but not entirely) socialized, government backed healthcare, and damage done to citizens is on the governments dime. They do a better job over there, where their costs are lower, and their satisfaction is higher, and their outcomes better. Our system is broken…polluted by money. If we're going to get this type of result, we might as well save where we can….on FDA salaries.
Re: " how the agency found out the tests were not conducted "
I think you mean were conducted improperly.
This seems to be one more instance of the incestuous government/corporate revolving door policy. Which is to say, when you work in a government regulatory agency there is no incentive to crack down on the corporate interests you're supposed to be monitoring, because when you leave public service (for greener pastures) you'll be looking to go to work for one of those corporations.
That you are even posing the question is absolutely stunning and should shake the foundation of the FDA!!
Although there is always the Congress and their watchdog mentality of see nothing, mitigate, ignore, sequester, vacate, vascilate and move on!!
We need to rethink just what the FDA is doing if they are not protecting the American people, which is its job. If they are accepting anything less than full disclosure on tainted drugs and does not rescind the right of any company that covers up bad test results to continue testing, then it is not protecting the public.
The FDA is corrupt beyond any repair. Shut down this agency.
I think Claude's on the money. If someone at a pharmaceutical company leaked unflattering data, what would happen to that whistleblower, absent any legal protection?
Why should a company falsifying data and endangering Americans be treated any less severely?
The FDA needs a complete over haul with real consumer interested parties running it and enforcing the laws which are now little to none. It seems like Elizabeth Warren should be appointed to head that commission to hire all new staff with policies that actually work. Many of these folks in these so called protection agencies are leftover appointees under the last administration and some from the Reagan days like the NLRB who are in the pockets of corporations. Any public official who was directly involved and complicit with the allowance of any tainted products should be charged appropriately for the crime that was caused. This is at least aiding and abetting in the allowance of people getting sick and or leading to their death.
I'll relate another experience.
Some time ago, I was working on a project involving an investigational compound at a big name pharmaceutical company. In the course of this work I had opportunity to discuss various aspects of the drug and its effects with co-workers. One source related to me that management was in a flutter about some toxicity study results.
It seems that in dogs at high doses the drug caused the hearts of the test animals to 'liquefy'. I was very surprised to hear this and it started me thinking. On the basis of my prior work I proposed doing a series of experiments to investigate the cause of the liquified hearts. At first management was receptive and gave me the go-ahead. A short time later I was called into the office of one of my direct managers and told not to do the experiments. I asked why and was told that the company did not want any 'bad data' written down anywhere about the drug.
The company at that time had two of its' big earners coming off-patent and they were counting on this drug to keep the lights on. I escalated to the VP of research and the message was the same.
After overcoming the shock of this incident I resolved to finish the non-controversial part of my project and resigned.
It turns out that the drug was taken forward into human studies and that the drug caused excess mortality in certain demographics. The company was acquired twice in quick succession and the drug was eventually dropped.
Regarding Rob's comment: What you describe is common, especially in the USA but also abroad.
Pharma corps are able to easily NOT report adverse results by simply "disappearing" the studies. Regulators, medical professionals, and the public get only the rosiest of results.
There is a petition online gathering signatures to make all trials public, and medical professionals giving convincing presentations on the topic to groups here and abroad.
Here's the URL: http://www.alltrials.net/
"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."
Dumb Q, when you consider the FDA is a totally corrupted org.
Well, of course, you have to reject the application for approval but, even a correctly run testing procedure has been shown to be useless and The FDA should not exist
Merck, Vioxx and admit no wrong doing. I'd tell my story but nobody cares. Admit no wrong doing has infiltrated everything.
Recently a patient came to see me after being treated with Botox®. She could only open one eye and could barely smile. She looked more like she had a stroke than an aesthetic treatment. I called the physician who treated this woman, and found that he had used a unusually large volume of diluted Botox®. When I told him his dilution was far too large he says he had read dilution of Botox® did not matter. I told him this article was incorrect and the large volume of fluid he used caused the toxin to reach unintended muscles.
This type of incorrect information has turned present day medical literature into something akin to a mystery novel. Every time I pick up a medical journal I wonder if what I read is accurate or just a sales pitch from pharmaceutical companies, aka Big Pharma.
I often wonder why there are not legions of Physicians at my side, standing up to Big Pharma. This is same feeling I had when the American Foundation for Aids Research was founded at my home in 1984. Why can't the others see the sky is really falling?
I guess maybe it is because my work is a lot more than a job to me. It's my life; my passion; my everything and it has been that way since I first got interested in medicine.
There are many responsible forces in my life that led me to pioneer the field of minimally invasive aesthetics. I realized the value of skin's beauty at a very early age, as I was severely burned as a child. The damage caused me to avoid wearing short sleeve shirts until I was 21 years old. The burn also opened my eyes to visual aesthetics, as I began to envision and appreciate various forms of beauty. In the 1960s, I developed a love of the visual arts under the influence of such individuals as Andy Warhol and Louie Kahn. Interestingly enough, Louie Kahn had a severe facial burn.
When I came to California for my internship in 1971, I began to meet an amazing group of artists that deeply influenced me and the way I saw things, including the human face. My California mentors include John Baldessari, Frank Gehry, Robert Graham, Ed Ruscha Ed Moses, and many more, who are legends of our time.
One of these artists suggested I read Neuropolitics by Timothy Leary, which discussed the western migration of creative people. I definitely experienced the magnetic pull of creativity and light of the west. Although, I spent one year in dermatology residency back at Pennsylvania under the great Dr. Albert Kligman, I convinced him I needed to return to the land of light—-California. Thus began the marriage of art and science, of east and west, as I completed my dermatology residency at the University of California at Los Angeles.
De. Norman Orientrich, influenced my scientific perspective on injectables. He was a great champion of injectable silicone. However, to my eyes, the appearance of his nurses who had been treated with injectable silicone did not look natural.
I liked the idea of enhancing a face with injectables, but I wanted the result not to appear artificial. In 1979, my world forever changed when I developed the injection technique for bovine collagen. I wanted to share my experience with others, but the American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) holds meetings whose speakers are chosen by political position rather than by merit. I had received a call from a prominent San Francisco Dermatologist asking if I would get the word "skin" in the new arm of the National Institute of Health (NIH). NIH is the United State's government agency for medical research. This required working with Congressman Henry Waxman, as unfortunately, the AAD had been unable to do so. I contacted many people, but only after speaking to the late great Lou Wasserman was I able to meet with Congressman Waxman…and within a few days. Due to Congressman Waxman and my collaboration, "Skin" was in the title of the new NIH center. It was then that I requested and received a course at the AAD to speak on injectables. My course attendance size became larger and larger, and I was very excited to witness the evolution of my world of minimally invasive aesthetics.
I remember developing lip enhancement in 1984, and how it shook my small universe when I created Goldie Hawn's extreme lips for the movie "The First Wives' Club." Granted, these were medically controlled distortions of injectable aesthetics, but made a great impact. Then something unusual occurred. Along came an immensely novel product called Botox®. I was the physician who developed the dilution and injection sites used for Botox's® FDA approval for cosmetic purposes, and I became a major proponent of the drug's usage. However, I had no idea that lurking behind this drug was a pharmaceutical company, who used cooperative physicians to willingly supported whatever the company told them. This corruption turned my dream into a bureaucratic nightmare.This situation is understandable, as minimally invasive aesthetics is one of the few remaining areas in the medical field where money can be made. As the rules go, once money is involved, it gives birth to greed. After greed comes dishonesty. What these forces created in medicine is a tale worse than anything that Steven King might have dreamt up.
It is a story of the FDA, medical societies, physicians, and most importantly, pharmaceutical companies that created a beast. This cast of characters is so intertwined; it is most difficult to see where one begins and the other ends. The beast includes forged medical literature, unlicensed foreign physicians selling products to the American public, misleading education of the medical community, and the approval of potentially disfiguring agents that are no longer available anywhere but the United States. The damage inflicted from this monster may appear at first possible, but is quite real, including severe scarring and even death. How on earth in our world of American medicine did this happen?
\While fillers restore volume and Botox® erases lines caused by muscle motion, the field of minimally invasive aesthetics has exploded into the mass market where the scalpel was once king. For medically trained individuals to properly utilize injectable agents such as Botox® and Restylane®, they must understand both where to inject the drugs, as well as understand the behavior of the drugs once injected.
Why is there such an interest in injectables? The use of Botox® for cosmetic indications made it increasing acceptable for individuals to undergo cosmetic procedures. The FDA has been unable to control the nation's obsession with cosmetic drugs while Big Pharma fuels the frenzy through spokespeople and media advertisements. Information to the public does not indicate the true risks associated with minimally invasive aesthetics.
Soon after the approval, the physician spokespersons endorsing the various usage of Botox® were foreign physicians, who were not licensed in the United States. These physician spokespersons frequently took credit for publications they did not author, and publicly injected Botox® throughout the U.S. without licenses. No one questioned their lack of licensure.
Next, aesthetic centers began to appear on every street corner. The aesthetic centers assured the public that these injectables involve simple "in and out" procedures which were easily performed by anyone. To the contrary, injecting minimally invasive aesthetics is not a simple treatment, but requires significant scientific understanding and skill in administering. These prescription injectable pharmaceuticals should not be performed at the mall or in the back room of a beauty parlor by untrained individuals ... including physicians. Training in this field is not a weekend course given by the manufacturer, but occurs over time as one becomes more familiar with the behavior of these agents. The pharmaceutical companies further compound the problem by marketing to physicians in every field to increase sales.
The real beasts in this arena are centrally located in Washington DC, where politics and money are truly changing the face of America. When pharmaceutical companies began to pay physicians, including me, large sums of money to teach, study and increase the sales of their products, a monstrous form of greed began to grow. It resulted in a large group of aesthetic physicians who willingly promote almost any agent ... provided they are compensated. In 2013, these politically savvy physicians run medical societies, edit trade publications, appear on the internet and television, are quoted in beauty magazines, and speak before the FDA. Try to tell the truth in Elle, Vogue Allure, W or any other woman's magazine and you will find your quotes in the circular file. The Editors seem to be more interested in their advertising budget than their reader's welfare.
As stated, in 1997, I developed the injection pattern and dilution of Botox®, which was subsequently used for clinical trials which resulted in the FDA cosmetic approval of Botox® used for the frown. I specifically chose a small dilution for the FDA indication because large dilutions may result in the unintended spread of the toxin to muscles you do not want to relax. For example,a little water on the floor of your powder room will be limited to that site while a large flood or volume of liquid on the floor of the powder room could create a flood and ruin the carpet in your living room. It has long been known that large dilutions of botulinum toxin (Botox®) could result in the toxin migrating and reaching unintended muscles. Past U.S. Food & Drug Administration studies have found that problems with dilution or volume injected were the greatest cause of adverse reaction with Botox®.
In 2007, an article published by a Canadian dermatologist as lead author concluded that dilution of Botox® was unimportant. A few years prior, an attempt was made by this same Canadian physician, the Aesthetic Czar of Allergan, to publish this same article. However, a review of the submitted paper uncovered serious problems and contradictory data, suggesting worse wrinkles after the Botox® wore-off then prior to treatment . Furthermore, small sample sizes and adverse events in the larger dilution groups were noted. In light of these concerns, the article was rejected for publication. The authors then resubmitted the article to the same journal but removed the data which had shown that wrinkles worsened after the toxin wore off. I spoke to the editor of the journal, and he promised to address the problem with the authors. I was both shocked and appalled to see the article appear with the altered data in the January 2007 issue of the medical journal.
As Allergan, the manufacturer of Botox®, continues to teach anyone who can hold a needle how to inject this potentially toxic substance, the number of adverse reactions are expected to increase as injectors no longer had to worry about proper dilution. Indeed, profit has replaced patient safety as the major theme of Continuing Medical Education (CME) courses, thus setting the stage for potential medical disasters. Often inaccurate or altered medical data is used to reach dangerous conclusions.
Dr. Scott S. Reuben's faked data for 21 studies involving Vioxx®, Celebrex®, and other drugs and it caused a ruckus in the medical world. Forged data being released by a physician or physicians with strong ties to the Pharmaceutical Industry (as noted above) is commonplace. In another article in the same January 2007 issue of the Journal the very same foreign physician who submitted the Botox® dilution conclusions attempted to include my name and another physician's on an article regarding the supposed safety of the injectable type B toxin, Myobloc®. We both demanded our names be removed. We were then offered $10,000.00 by the company who manufactures Myobloc® to include our names on this paper. We both voiced concerns that this article was incomplete, and did not reflect the true toxicity of this agent as had been shown in other studies, especially studies from Japan . In clinical usage, this toxin had been known to cause distant side effects such as inability to swallow when used in normal doses. Our names were removed from the article, but the manufacturer refused to include this important safety data. The article concluded that this toxin was both safe and effective. In the U.S. Myobloc® is approved for the treatment of adults with cervical dystonia, but is used off-label for a myriad of other indications. Physicians such as Dr. Reuben (and the Canadian dermatologist noted above) are supported by America's biggest pharmaceutical companies. Pharmaceutical Companies are the people who control medicine
The field of aesthetics has been badly damaged by these deliberate acts. I have voiced my serious concerns and raised questions about the alteration of data published in peer-reviewed journals. As a result, I have been terminated from two manufacturer's advisory boards and from the editorial boards of the three major peer-reviewed dermatology journal publications. Somehow and in some way, we must warn the public of the potential danger that exists at the end of the needle. Don't these people know to lie is a liability? Once again the sky is falling but it is much more serious now. And to My Dear President Obama; only through repair of a badly damaged FDA can you begin to repair medical care in the USA.
Arnold W. Klein, MD
ProfessorMedicine/ Dermatology
Klein Chair UCLA
Retired Prof.Dermatology Stanford
Visiting Prof Dermatology Harvard
Consultant-Surgical Device Panel of the FDA
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The exoneration of a Nepalese man who served 15 years in a Japanese jail for a murder he did not commit raises questions about the judicial system in a country that refuses to scrap the death penalty.
The Tokyo High Court on Wednesday finally acquitted 46-year-old Govinda Prasad Mainali of the murder of a Japanese woman in 1997.
Prosecutors had already admitted at a brief retrial in late October that new DNA evidence proved Mainali could not be guilty of the crime. He returned to Nepal in June after the DNA test.
Prosecutors offered an apology to Mainali on Wednesday but insisted that they had acted appropriately in their handling of the case.
Speaking to the local media in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu after hearing the court's decision, Mainali was clearly not ready to accept the judicial authorities' expressions of regret.
He had been originally acquitted by a lower court only for a more senior judge to overturn that decision, and he was then denied repeated requests for a retrial during his 15 years in prison. Moreover, it was recently discovered that the authorities failed to provide his defense with evidence that could have cleared his name at the outset of the case.
"Japan's police, administration and all those responsible for my imprisonment that resulted from the concealment of crucial and decisive evidence and the absence of a fair trial should admit their mistake and apologize to me, my family and my nation," Mainali said at a press conference.
"If DNA tests had not been conducted on important evidence from the site of the crime, I would still be rotting in prison and would probably die there," he said.
Innocent individuals behind bars
It is only the 8th time since the end of World War II that someone sentenced to death or a life prison term has been granted a retrial and subsequently acquitted in Japan.
There are concerns that other cases have not come to light and that innocent individuals languish behind the bars of Japan's notoriously strict prisons.
In early 2010, Toshikazu Sugaya was released from prison after serving more than 17 years in prison on the strength of inaccurate DNA evidence and a coerced confession to the sexual assault and murder of a girl aged four in the city of Ashikaga in 1991.
In 2010, Haruhiko Kataoka completed a 16-month prison term after being involved in a collision with a police motorbike in which the motorcyclist was killed. Despite all the evidence and witnesses' testimony to the contrary, Kataoka was blamed for causing the accident and charged with professional negligence resulting in death.
He continues the fight to clear his name and is supported by Toshiro Senba, a former police officer who acts on behalf of others wrongly accused of crimes and describes the Japanese police as "a criminal organization."
Senba retired from the Ehime Prefectural Police in March 2010, after 36 years on the force. After refusing to falsify expenses forms, he was never promoted again, was regularly transferred between unappealing assignments and had his pistol taken away on the grounds that he might pose a danger to others.
"The Japanese police are a criminal organization and the senior officers of the force are all criminals," Senba said. "Of all the companies and organizations in Japan, only the 'yakuza' and the police commit crimes on a daily basis. That includes building up slush funds."
Solitary confinement for former boxer
In another notorious case, 76-year-old Iwao Hakamada has been in solitary confinement for over 4 decades after being sentenced to death in June 1966 for killing four people. Numerous appeals and requests for a retrial have been turned down.
The former professional boxer's lawyers say his mental condition has deteriorated to the point that he no longer even understands he is in prison.
"Sometimes he has better days, sometimes his mental condition is very bad," Hideyo Ogawa, his defense attorney, said at a press conference announcing another appeal in 2009. "There are days when he refuses to meet me or the members of his family. He refuses to come out of his cell and says he is too busy."
The case regularly attracts attention in Japan because Hakamada was questioned for 22 days without a lawyer. Sometimes he was interrogated for 16 hours a day. He finally confessed to breaking into a house in the town of Shimizu and killing a family of 4.
Clothing linked to the case did not fit Hakamada and the alleged murder weapon did not match the wounds on the bodies. Prosecutors did, however, have a signed confession.
In court, Hakamada withdrew his confession and claimed the officers had slapped him, pulled his hair and threatened to summon his mother for questioning.
2 senior judges sentenced Hakamada to death; the third judge felt so strongly that a miscarriage of justice had occurred that he resigned and became a defense lawyer.
There were 129 prisoners on death row in Japan as of the end of 2011. Many have developed mental health problems, the rights group Amnesty International claims, often stemming from the fact that prisoners only learn they are to be executed on the morning of their death. Relatives then receive a bill for the disposal of the body.
In a 72-page report, Amnesty has called on the Japanese government to impose a moratorium on hangings. The European Union and the United Nations have also brought pressure to bear on Japan to end its use of the death penalty.
The Japanese public remains broadly in favor of the death penalty - a recent survey put the support rate at 81 % - and petitions have been started by relatives of victims of particularly gruesome crimes that quickly attract tens of thousands of signatures.
Source: Deutsche Welle, November 7, 2012


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Thomas Sylvester Regan, 81, a former Rockaway resident, died July 14.
Regan, a former resident of Belle Harbor, graduated from Far Rockaway High School in 1947. He fulfilled his Yearbook promise to "Tour the Orient" four years later with combat service in Korea with the U.S. Army.
Regan was preceded in death by his sisters, Carol and Jean.
Regan is survived by his brother, Donald and his nieces and nephews.
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Moreover, the patents on many of the medicines the industry launched in the glory days of the 1990s will expire over the next few years, leaving Big Pharma very exposed. US research firm Sanford C. Bernstein estimates that generic erosion will knock between 2% and 40% off the revenues of the top 10 companies between now and 2015. Worse still, the report calculates that only four of the 10 have pipelines containing products sufficiently valuable to offset these losses.
This "innovation deficit" has enormous strategic implications for the industry as a whole. Many pharmaceutical companies need to decide what they want to concentrate on doing, and identify the core competencies the activity will require, a process which may involve exiting from some parts of research and development (R&D). Those that regard R&D as a core element of their business will have to make fundamental alterations in the way they work.
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I first started coding in 1986 (I was about 14), on an Amstrad CPC464, messing around with BASIC and later a bit of z80 machine code using a hand-rolled assembler. I wrote simple games and even a crude 3D modelling program (inspired by a TV show about this new fangled CGI that people were doing). Then I discovered girls and lost interest in computers, which in hindsight was a terrible mistake since all I really did was mope around being a moody teenager wondering why nobody understood me.
Five years later (after dropping out of a design school) I found myself unemployed and somewhat directionless, and so took the opportunity to rediscover computers and starting working with QuickBasic and x86 assembler, then C, then C++… which is where I stayed. I ended up helping develop a 3D software engine for a company called Brilliant Digital Entertainment. It was in the heady days before the dot-com crash, and we busily poured money down the toilet with the intention of developing low-quality interactive 3D movies, for which there was literally no demand. Google Cyberswine if you want to know more about that.
I walked away from that job with some rather modest savings, a handful of utterly worthless company options and a burned out feeling, and for a while decided maybe I didn't want to be a programmer. For a time I tried to get into screenwriting, but before too long realized I didn't have the chops for it, and so I started piddling about with programming again.
After a few years of occasional contract work and blogging about nothing the Australian Taxation Office dropped me a line to let me know that I owed them a rather large hunk of money and could I please go ahead and pay them so things didn't have to get unpleasant. Suitably inspired I picked up and moved to New Zealand to try my hand at a proper job for a while, again working in C++, rendering and 3D, eventually paying off my debt and vowed never to be so irresponsible again [ha].
In 2010 I returned to Sydney, to pursue my fortunes as an independent developer once again, and this time I really meant it. My plan was that if I did't have a clear path to riches and fulfillment by early 2011 then it's back to salaryman for me, and catching up with all the 30 somethings who have already paid off their mortgages and such. Of course 2011 rolled around and not much changed, except that I had burned through a lot of savings. In mid 2011 I started working with a friend on the Next Big Thing … and then in mid 2012 we mothballed it for lack of seed funding.
I've had a bunch of solo (pet) projects going since 2001, all in various states of abandonment and neglect, with the most obvious project I like to ignore being Drivey, a non-photo-realistic driving simulator that I created a few years back, and plan to one day expand into a functional game (I've been saying that for ages now). It's the thing people ask about most.
But it's not all about the coding…
I'm an occasional loudmouth atheist and advocate of skeptical/rational thinking. I grudgingly acknowledge there may be benefit in the belongingness of many religions, but note that with belongingness often exclusiveness and bigotry are not far behind. I feel outright contempt for Scientology, new Age-ism and any religion invented within the last 100 years, because these don't even come with any cultural heritage– they're just bullshit adding nothing of value to the world.
I won't try to enumerate all the stuff I'm into here, since that's the point of keeping a blog. I started it in August 2002, and am quite glad that I did–it's great to have a record of what I've been thinking about, and blogging has prompted me to explore ideas more thoroughly as well (although it hasn't improved my writing ability as much as I originally hoped).


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PLACE VALUE TABLETOP POCKET CHART w/Activity Guide and Cards
Practice place value from ones to hundred millions with this tabletop pocket chart. Use with individual students or the entire class to demonstrate values in both numeric and written forms. Color-coded cards coordinate with our other place-value products. Durable vinyl chart features 3 clear pockets on the front and storage pockets on the bottom, and includes numeral, number word, addition sign, decimal sign, and blank write-on/wipe-off cards for customization (110 cards total). Activity Guide included. Chart measures 24"L x 9"W x 7"H.
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