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Paul Burmeister may be better known as the NFL Network's host for such shows as
College Football Now, Path to the Draft, and anchoring the network's coverage of
the Under Armour Senior Bowl. But as quarterback and captain of the 1993 Iowa
Hawkeyes, Burmeister also welcomes Senior Bowl participant Ricky Stanzi to the
club that is made up of former Iowa quarterbacks. A close knit group that stays
in touch often.
"I think it means more to the guys as they get further and further away from it," answered Burmeister when asked what the group has meant to him. "So right now for Ricky, he's probably not thinking about that a whole lot. But as you get older you come to really value the time that you were able to spend there. It's a very small fraternity of guys who were fortunate enough to play quarterback at Iowa. So when you get into your later 20's and 30's and almost 40 like me, it's fun to spend time around guys who had the exact experience as you from the age 19 to 22."
While it's a small fraternity of guys, Burmeister is eager to help welcome a new member in Stanzi.
|Iowa QBs of Note
|'59-'61Wilburn Hollis
|'62 Matt Szykowny
|'63-65 Gary Snook
|'66-68 Ed Podolak
|'82-'85 Chuck Long
|'86 Mark Vlasic
|'87 Dan McGwire
|'88 Chuck Hartlieb
|'89-'91 Matt Rodgers
|'92 Jim Hartlieb
|'93 Paul Burmeister
|'95-97 Matt Sherman
|'02 Brad Banks
|'03 Nathan Chandler
|'04-'06 Drew Tate
|'08-'10 Ricky Stanzi
As a former Iowa quarterback, Burmeister has kept a close eye on Stanzi as a three year starter up through every snap at the Senior Bowl. He's been impressed with what he's seen from Stanzi as he's progressed through his career.
"I think he's grown in a number of really important ways. First of all, I'll draw kind of a parallel between he and Matt Rodgers. Matt Rodgers was a quarterback my true freshman year in 1989, who wasn't really expected to play a lot then and ended up being our starter the entire season and didn't really have a great year. Once he got that experience under his belt, he was terrific his final two years. Ricky Stanzi, his first couple years was OK. He had a lot of good games, but really as a whole he was more decent than he was really good."
Rodgers saw his completion percentage rise from 57.1% to 65.3% from his sophomore to senior seasons, and Burmeister credits that same experience for Stanzi's growth as a passer.
"So he comes into his senior year with 22 starts and he excels. He takes that experience, and he just squeezed that final opportunity for all it was worth. That's what people really want to see. You made a lot of mistakes. You had a lot of good games, but your senior year you're going to do a lot more good than bad. And I think he really did that similarly the way Matt Rodgers did. The mistakes [are] in the rearview mirror, have a great final run at it, and he did."
Burmeister points to two statistical breakthroughs when discussing Stanzi's maturity.
"He jumped his completion percentage from about 56 to 64 which is a very significant jump. To be seen as a really efficient college quarterback, you need to be in the 60's. He took care of that. He took that touchdown to interception ratio from 17/15 to 25/6. Physically, he looks like an NFL quarterback, then you look at what he did production-wise from sophomore/junior to senior [year]. He made that huge jump. He's a guy I could see 3rd/4th round getting a really good opportunity."
Every morning as the players come down to the lobby of the hotel to get ready for practice, there's a chance for players to be interviewed by NFL personnel. Stanzi was a popular interview with the scouts, and each of them seemed to mention his hair cut.
Burmeister laughed when told of the scouts interest in Stanzi's lack of locks.
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"He's a smart kid. He realizes everything, whether it should be scrutinized or not, is going to be scrutinized."
Staying in NFL personnel mode, Burmeister gave a brief projection for Stanzi and the NFL Draft.
"I think he's a guy that's not going to wow you enough to sneak into the first or probably the second round, but like I said, the senior year production was fantastic. And he's one of these guys where more research the scouts do on him, the more they like him. He was a great leader; he's a hard worker. He's a likable kid with a great presence. I don't know if I could see him going higher than the third round, but I think he's worked himself into a solid third round pick."
Burmeister spent a lot of time watching Stanzi at Iowa, but what have his impressions been of him after seeing him in person at Senior Bowl practices?
"First of all, he's a bigger kid than I thought. Right away I made it a priority to go introduce myself to him and talk to him, and I found myself looking up to him a little bit (Stanzi measured 6'4.1/221). He's a pretty big, thick kid, so he certainly looks the part. You don't have to talk yourself into liking who he is physically. He throws the ball really well. throws it a little better than I thought. Again he doesn't wow you enough, doesn't throw it like a first rounder would throw it. But this is a kid, again I keep coming back to it, who's really worked himself from being 'OK he's decent; he'll get a shot. 7th rounder, free agent' to a third or fourth round kind of guy. Physically he's a little more impressive than I thought he was going to be."
The NFL can be a rude awakening to players who are used to being warmly embraced by their fans and college communities. Even the best of players get chewed up by the NFL evaluation meat grinder. Stanzi will be no exception and Burmeister knows some of the critiques Stanzi is likely to face as scouts break down his game.
"I think probably most importantly, Iowa didn't finish well. When a team doesn't finish well, the coaches are going to get questioned and the quarterback is going to get questioned. When the quarterback now has 30+ starts and the team tailspins a little bit. November was a terrible month for Iowa, and there were close games where the offense, they were tough opportunities, but had the opportunity to come back and win, and the offense didn't do so. Was that all Ricky's fault? Of course not. But everything is scrutinized, and I think the number one knock on Ricky is, why didn't he lead his team to victories in November? And I think that's where the negative stuff will start with him."
When thinking of teams who consistently outperform the recruiting rankings, Iowa is a team that springs to mind immediately. Burmeister knows that success is no accident. He goes into more detail when asked what advice he would have for a future member of the ex-Hawkeye quarterback club.
"I would say first of all enjoy the fact that Kirk Ferentz is the head coach. That is one of the best [head coaches] in the country. To be involved with that program and have the chance to lead that program under that kind of guy, that's pretty special.
With the kind of experiences at the University of Iowa, it's the No. 1 game in town. You're talking about sellout stadiums, a Big Ten kind of atmosphere. Kirk values recruiting a kind of kid, and I mean this in a complimentary way, you're not going to be joining a program with prima donna 5-Star athletes. You're walking into a program where it's a self made program and from the quarterback to the defensive linemen to the kicker, these are self made players. These are guys that overachieve. They take what they've got; they work their ass off, and they get better. That's not for everybody, that's not sexy enough for a lot of people, but that's what the Iowa program is. And I think for a lot of kids, it's a pretty attractive way to spend five years."
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About the year 1821, I undertook to superintend, for the Government, the construction of an engine for calculating and printing mathematical and astronomical tables. Early in the year 1833, a small portion of the machine was put together, and was found to perform its work with all the precision which had been anticipated. At that period circumstances, which I could not control, caused what I then considered a temporary suspension of its progress; and the Government, on whose decision the continuance or discontinuance of the work depended, have not yet communicated to me their wishes on the question.
All palaetiological sciences, all speculations which attempt to ascend from the present to the remote past, by the chain of causation, do also, by an inevitable consequence, urge us to look for the beginning of the state of things which we thus contemplate; but in none of these cases have men been able, by the aid of science, to arrive at a beginning which is homogeneous with the known course of events. The first origin of language, of civilization, of law and government, cannot be clearly made out by reasoning and research; and just as little, we may expect, will a knowledge of the origin of the existing and extinct species of plants and animals, be the result of physiological and geological investigation.
Any country that wants to make full use of all its potential scientists and technologists must not expect to get the women quite so simply as it gets the men. It seems to me that marriage and motherhood are at least as socially important as military service. Government regulations are framed to ensure (in the United Kingdom) that a man returning to work from military service is not penalized by his absence. Is it utopian, then, to suggest that any country that really wants a woman to return to a scientific career when her children no longer need her physical presence should make special arrangements to encourage her to do so?
Basic research at universities comes in two varieties: research that requires big bucks and research that requires small bucks. Big bucks research is much like government research and in fact usually is government research but done for the government under contract. Like other government research, big bucks academic research is done to understand the nature and structure of the universe or to understand life, which really means that it is either for blowing up the world or extending life, whichever comes first. Again, that's the government's motivation. The universities' motivation for conducting big bucks research is to bring money in to support professors and graduate students and to wax the floors of ivy-covered buildings. While we think they are busy teaching and learning, these folks are mainly doing big bucks basic research for a living, all the while priding themselves on their terrific summer vacations and lack of a dress code.
Smalls bucks research is the sort of thing that requires paper and pencil, and maybe a blackboard, and is aimed primarily at increasing knowledge in areas of study that don't usually attract big bucks - that is, areas that don't extend life or end it, or both. History, political science, and romance languages are typically small bucks areas of basic research. The real purpose of small bucks research to the universities is to provide a means of deciding, by the quality of their small bucks research, which professors in these areas should get tenure.
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By a recent estimate, nearly half the bills before the U.S. Congress have a substantial science-technology component and some two-thirds of the District of Columbia Circuit Courts case load now involves review of action by federal administrative agencies; and more and more of such cases relate to matters on the frontiers of technology.
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom?
Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands ofone hopesa benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.
If the layman cannot participate in decision making, he will have to turn himself over, essentially blind, to a hermetic elite. [The fundamental question becomes] are we still capable of self-government and therefore freedom?
Margaret Mead wrote in a 1959 issue of Daedalus about scientists elevated to the status of priests. Now there is a name for this elevation, when you are in the hands ofone hopesa benevolent elite, when you have no control over your political decisions. From the point of view of John Locke, the name for this is slavery.
By virtue of the way it has organized its technological base, contemporary industrial society tends to be totalitarian. For 'totalitarian' is not only a terroristic political coordination of society, but also a non-terroristic economic-technical coordination which operates through the manipulation of needs by vested interests. It thus precludes the emergence of an effective opposition against the whole. Not only a specific form of government or party rule makes for totalitarianism, but also a specific system of production and distribution which may well be compatible with a 'pluralism' of parties, newspapers, 'countervailing powers,' etc.
Daylight Saving Time: Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket.
Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
Every utterance from government - from justifying 90-day detention to invading other countries [and] to curtailing civil liberties - is about the dangers of religious division and fundamentalism. Yet New Labour is approving new faith schools hand over fist. We have had the grotesque spectacle of a British prime minister, on the floor of the House of Commons, defending - like some medieval crusader - the teaching of creationism in the science curriculum at a sponsor-run school whose running costs are wholly met from the public purse.
Faced with the admitted difficulty of managing the creative process, we are doubling our efforts to do so. Is this because science has failed to deliver, having given us nothing more than nuclear power, penicillin, space travel, genetic engineering, transistors, and superconductors? Or is it because governments everywhere regard as a reproach activities they cannot advantageously control? They felt that way about the marketplace for goods, but trillions of wasted dollars later, they have come to recognize the efficiency of this self-regulating system. Not so, however, with the marketplace for ideas.
Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. Do not think that you can build it, as though it were a public construction project. You cannot. It is an act of nature and it grows itself through our collective actions.
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.
How much has happened in these fifty years—a period more remarkable than any, I will venture to say, in the annals of mankind. I am not thinking of the rise and fall of Empires, the change of dynasties, the establishment of Governments. I am thinking of those revolutions of science which have had much more effect than any political causes, which have changed the position and prospects of mankind more than all the conquests and all the codes and all the legislators that ever lived.
I am particularly concerned to determine the probability of causes and results, as exhibited in events that occur in large numbers, and to investigate the laws according to which that probability approaches a limit in proportion to the repetition of events. That investigation deserves the attention of mathematicians because of the analysis required. It is primarily there that the approximation of formulas that are functions of large numbers has its most important applications. The investigation will benefit observers in identifying the mean to be chosen among the results of their observations and the probability of the errors still to be apprehended. Lastly, the investigation is one that deserves the attention of philosophers in showing how in the final analysis there is a regularity underlying the very things that seem to us to pertain entirely to chance, and in unveiling the hidden but constant causes on which that regularity depends. It is on the regularity of the main outcomes of events taken in large numbers that various institutions depend, such as annuities, tontines, and insurance policies. Questions about those subjects, as well as about inoculation with vaccine and decisions of electoral assemblies, present no further difficulty in the light of my theory. I limit myself here to resolving the most general of them, but the importance of these concerns in civil life, the moral considerations that complicate them, and the voluminous data that they presuppose require a separate work.
I distinguish two kinds of "applied" research: problem-solving research government or commercially initiated, centrally managed and institutionally coupled to a plan for application of the results, useful scienceinvestigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated. Then we have basic scienceuseful also, also investigator-initiated, competitively evaluated and widely communicated.
I felt exactly how you would feel if you were getting ready to launch and knew you were sitting on top of two million partsall built by the lowest bidder on a government contract.
I must confess, I am dreading todays elections, because no matter what the outcome, our government will still be a giant bonfire of partisanship. It is ironic since whenever I have met with our elected officials they are invariably thoughtful, well-meaning people. And yet collectively 90% of their effort seems to be focused on how to stick it to the other party.
If the NSF had never existed, if the government had never funded American mathematics, we would have half as many mathematicians as we now have, and I don't see anything wrong with that.
If to be the Author of new things, be a crime; how will the first Civilizers of Men, and makers of Laws, and Founders of Governments escape? Whatever now delights us in the Works of Nature, that excells the rudeness of the first Creation, is New. Whatever we see in Cities, or Houses, above the first wildness of Fields, and meaness of Cottages, and nakedness of Men, had its time, when this imputation of Novelty, might as well have bin laid to its charge. It is not therefore an offence, to profess the introduction of New things, unless that which is introduc'd prove pernicious in itself; or cannot be brought in, without the extirpation of others, that are better.
In my opinion there is no other salvation for civilization and even for the human race than the creation of a world government with security on the basis of law. As long as there are sovereign states with their separate armaments and armament secrets, new world wars cannot be avoided.
In studying the fate of our forest king, we have thus far considered the action of purely natural causes only; but, unfortunately, man is in the woods, and waste and pure destruction are making rapid headway. If the importance of the forests were even vaguely understood, even from an economic standpoint, their preservation would call forth the most watchful attention of government
In years gone by, we would just take, take, take from the oceans but today we realize this is not an option, that the oceans keep us alive, and that we need to tread more carefully. This is now both a governance issue and a choice issue.
It is for such inquiries the modern naturalist collects his materials; it is for this that he still wants to add to the apparently boundless treasures of our national museums, and will never rest satisfied as long as the native country, the geographical distribution, and the amount of variation of any living thing remains imperfectly known. He looks upon every species of animal and plant now living as the individual letters which go to make up one of the volumes of our earths history; and, as a few lost letters may make a sentence unintelligible, so the extinction of the numerous forms of life which the progress of cultivation invariably entails will necessarily render obscure this invaluable record of the past. It is, therefore, an important object, which governments and scientific institutions should immediately take steps to secure, that in all tropical countries colonised by Europeans the most perfect collections possible in every branch of natural history should be made and deposited in national museums, where they may be available for study and interpretation. If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations. They will charge us with having culpably allowed the destruction of some of those records of Creation which we had it in our power to preserve; and while professing to regard every living thing as the direct handiwork and best evidence of a Creator, yet, with a strange inconsistency, seeing many of them perish irrecoverably from the face of the earth, uncared for and unknown.
Jefferson refused to pin his hopes on the occasional success of honest and unambitious men; on the contrary, the great danger was that philosophers would be lulled into complacence by the accidental rise of a Franklin or a Washington. Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature?
Nations have recently been led to borrow billions for war; no nation has ever borrowed largely for education... no nation is rich enough to pay for both war and civilization. We must make our choice; we cannot have both.
Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.
Now, we propose in the first place to show, that this law of organic progress is the law of all progress. Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development in Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through a process of continuous differentiation, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous is that in which Progress essentially consists.
Nowadays everyone knows that the US is the worlds biggest polluter, and that with only one 20th of the worlds population it produces a quarter of its greenhouse gas emissions. But the US government, in an abdication of leadership of epic proportions, is refusing to take the problem seriously. Emissions from the US are up 14% on those in 1990 and are projected to rise by a further 12% over the next decade.
Nuclear energy and foreign policy cannot coexist on the planet. The more deep the secret, the greater the determination of every nation to discover and exploit it. Nuclear energy insists on global government, on law, on order, and on the willingness of the community to take the responsibility for the acts of the individual. And to what end? Why, for liberty, first of blessings. Soldier, we await you, and if the
Our ignorance is God; what we know is science. When we abandon the doctrine that some infinite being created matter and force, and enacted a code of laws for their government ... the real priest will then be, not the mouth-piece of some pretended deity, but the interpreter of nature.
Perhaps scientists have been the most international of all professions in their outlook... Every time you scientists make a major invention, we politicians have to invent a new institution to cope with itand almost invariably, these days, it must be an international institution.
Personally, I feel sorry for those who seem to measure their patriotism by how often and how viciously they can criticise our government.
Science and technology have freed humanity from many burdens and given us this new perspective and great power. This power can be used for the good of all. If wisdom governs our actions; but if the world is mad or foolish, it can destroy itself just when great advances and triumphs are almost without its grasp.
Scientific knowledge scarcely exists amongst the higher classes of society. The discussion in the Houses of Lords or of Commons, which arise on the occurrence of any subjects connected with science, sufficiently prove this fact
Scientists have reaped rich rewards, they have sat high in government councils and have been blinded by the attractiveness of public life—all this because they happen to have been good killers.
Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.
The Arts & Sciences are the Destruction of Tyrannies or Bad Governments. ... The Foundation of Empire is Art & Science Remove them or Degrade them & the Empire is No MoreEmpire follows Art & Not Vice Versa as Englishmen suppose.
The Congress shall have power to ... promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries.
Founding U.S. Patents.
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The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the most special. Roughly, we say that there is a gradual 'adding on' of the more and more special, a continual adding on of new organisations. But this 'adding on' is at the same time a 'keeping down'. The higher nervous arrangements evolved out of the lower keep down those lower, just as a government evolved out of a nation controls as well as directs that nation.
The future science of government should be called la cybernétique (1843)
Coining the French word to mean the art of governing, from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.
Coining the French word to mean the art of governing, from the Greek (Kybernetes = navigator or steersman), subsequently adopted as cybernetics by Norbert Weiner for the field of control and communication theory.
The gentleman [Mr. Taber] from New York says [agricultural research] is all foolish. Yes; it was foolish when Burbank was experimenting with wild cactus. It was foolish when the Wright boys went down to Kitty Hawk and had a contraption there that they were going to fly like birds. It was foolish when Robert Fulton tried to put a boiler into a sail boat and steam it up the Hudson. It was foolish when one of my ancestors thought the world was round and discovered this country so that the gentleman from New York could become a Congressman. (Laughter.) ... Do not seek to stop progress; do not seek to put the hand of politics on these scientific men who are doing a great work. As the gentleman from Texas points out, it is not the discharge of these particular employees that is at stake, it is all the work of investigation, of research, of experimentation that has been going on for years that will be stopped and lost.
The great testimony of history shows how often in fact the development of science has emerged in response to technological and even economic needs, and how in the economy of social effort, science, even of the most abstract and recondite kind, pays for itself again and again in providing the basis for radically new technological developments. In fact, most people—when they think of science as a good thing, when they think of it as worthy of encouragement, when they are willing to see their governments spend substance upon it, when they greatly do honor to men who in science have attained some eminence-have in mind that the conditions of their life have been altered just by such technology, of which they may be reluctant to be deprived.
The House is composed of very good men, not shining, but honest and reasonably well-informed, and in time will be found to improve, and not much inferior in eloquence, science, and dignity, to the British Commons. They are patriotic enough, and I believe there are more stupid (as well as more shining) people in the latter, in proportion.
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government.
A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
A plaque with this quotation, with the first phrase omitted, is in the stairwell of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.
The new naval treaty permits the United States to spend a billion dollars on warships—a sum greater than has been accumulated by all our endowed institutions of learning in their entire history. Unintelligence could go no further! ... [In Great Britain, the situation is similar.] ... Until the figures are reversed, ... nations deceive themselves as to what they care about most.
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
The politician is sometimes tempted to encroach on the normal territory of the scientific estate. Sometimes he interferes directly with the scientists pursuit of basic science; but he is more likely to interfere when the scientist proposes to publish findings that upset the established political or economic order, or when he joins with the engineering or medical profession in proposing to translate the findings of science into new policies. Who decides when the apparent consensus of scientific opinion on the relation of cigarettes to lung cancer is great enough to justify governmental regulatory action, and of what kind? In such issues the problem is less often whether politics will presume to dictate to science than it is how much politics is to be influenced by the new findings of science.
The science of government is my duty. ... I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.
The worst thing that will probably happen—in fact is already well underway—is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments. As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired in a few generations. The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
There is a story which shows his ready wit, dating from the meeting of the British Association in Canada before the war. Tizard and a colleague inadvertently crossed over into the United States, near Niagara. When challenged by a policeman, and not having their passports with them, they produced their British Association membership cards. When the policeman told them that The American Government doesn't recognise British Science, the lightning reply came from Tizard, Oh, that's all right, neither does the British Government.
There is no doubt that many expensive national projects may add to our prestige or serve science. But none of them must take precedence over human needs. As long as Congress does not revise its priorities, our crisis is not just material, it is a crisis of the spirit.
Considering the city of New York's financial shortfall.
Considering the city of New York's financial shortfall.
This Universe never did make sense; I suspect that it was built on government contract.
Today's water institutions—the policies and laws, government agencies and planning and engineering practices that shape patterns of water use—are steeped in a supply-side management philosophy no longer appropriate to solving today's water problems.
Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit from his ingenuity, whilst he who unravels the laws of light and vision, on which multitudes of phenomena depend, shall descend unrewarded to the tomb.
Very old and wide-spread is the opinion that forests have an important impact on rainfall. ... If forests enhance the amount and frequency of precipitation simply by being there, deforestation as part of agricultural expansion everywhere, must necessarily result in less rainfall and more frequent droughts. This view is most poignantly expressed by the saying: Man walks the earth and desert follows his steps! ... It is not surprising that under such circumstances the issue of a link between forests and climate has ... been addressed by governments. Lately, the Italian government has been paying special attention to reforestation in Italy and its expected improvement of the climate. ... It must be prevented that periods of heavy rainfall alternate with droughts. ...In the Unites States deforestation plays an important role as well and is seen as the cause for a reduction in rainfall. ... committee chairman of the American Association for Advancement of Science demands decisive steps to extend woodland in order to counteract the increasing drought. ... some serious concerns. In 1873, in Vienna, the congress for agriculture and forestry discussed the problem in detail; and when the Prussian house of representatives ordered a special commission to examine a proposed law pertaining to the preservation and implementation of forests for safeguarding, it pointed out that the steady decrease in the water levels of Prussian rivers was one of the most serious consequences of deforestation only to be rectified by reforestation programs. It is worth mentioning that ... the same concerns were raised in Russia as well and governmental circles reconsidered the issue of deforestation.
Water is the most precious, limited natural resource we have in this country But because water belongs to no oneexcept the peoplespecial interests, including government polluters, use it as their private sewers.
We are in the presence of a recruiting drive systematically and deliberately undertaken by American business, by American universities, and to a lesser extent, American government, often initiated by talent scouts specially sent over here to buy British brains and preempt them for service of the U.S.A. I look forward earnestly to the day when some reform of the American system of school education enables them to produce their own scientists so that, in an amiable free trade of talent, there may be adequate interchange between our country and theirs, and not a one-way traffic.
We claim to be more moral than other nations, and to conquer and govern and tax and plunder weaker peoples for their good! While robbing them we actually claim to be benefactors! And then we wonder, or profess to wonder, why other Governments hate us! Are they not fully justified in hating us? Is it surprising that they seek every means to annoy us, that they struggle to get navies to compete with us, and look forward to a time when some two or three of them may combine together and thoroughly humble and cripple us? And who can deny that any just Being, looking at all the nations of the earth with impartiality and thorough knowledge, would decide that we deserve to be humbled, and that it might do us good?
We had the full backing of our government, combined with the nearly infinite potential of American science, engineering and industry, and an almost unlimited supply of people endowed with ingenuity and determination.
We tried to transform Tarmac playgrounds into places with pools, and earth where children could grow things. Now the Government is saying we need more classroom space so the schools are building them on the very nature habitats weve been working to provide.
WEATHER, n. The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle.
When a machine begins to run without human aid, it is time to scrap it - whether it be a factory or a government.
[Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse.
[Smoking is] a dirty habit that should be banned from America by the Government, instead of moderate alcoholic drinking.
[The surplus of basic knowledge of the atomic nucleus was] largely used up [during the war with the atomic bomb as the dividend.] We must, without further delay restore this surplus in preparation for the important peacetime job for the nucleus - power production. ... Many of the proposed applications of atomic power - even for interplanetary rockets - seem to be within the realm of possibility provided the economic factor is ruled out completely, and the doubtful physical and chemical factors are weighted heavily on the optimistic side. ... The development of economic atomic power is not a simple extrapolation of knowledge gained during the bomb work. It is a new and difficult project to reach a satisfactory answer. Needless to say, it is vital that the atomic policy legislation now being considered by the congress recognizes the essential nature of this peacetime job, and that it not only permits but encourages the cooperative research-engineering effort of industrial, government and university laboratories for the task. ... We must learn how to generate the still higher energy particles of the cosmic rays - up to 1,000,000,000 volts, for they will unlock new domains in the nucleus.
Heaven helps those who help themselves is a well-tried maxim, embodying in a small compass the results of vast human experience. The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it constitutes the true source of national vigour and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates. Whatever is done for men or classes, to a certain extent takes away the stimulus and necessity of doing for themselves; and where men are subjected to over-guidance and over-government, the inevitable tendency is to render them comparatively helpless.


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Cisco Kick-off?
By Paul Cherney
Cisco delivered the headline that the markets needed to prompt some action. Friday's price action was good. It was a short-covering rally, but that is often what fuels the initial lift in a potential market reversal.
Short-covering rallies usually last one to four trade days. It is the character of the retracement which occurs after the short-covering rally has run its course which might offer insight into whether some sort of a more meaningful bottom might have been established.
Immediate (intraday) support for the NASDAQ is 1904-1895. More substantial support is 1883-1842. The NASDAQ has immediate resistance 1911-1931. The next resistance is 1951-1999, within this area is a focus of resistance 1963-1985 which looks formidable and would probably turn back prices unless there was a headline of undeniably bullish importance.
The S&P 500 has immediate support is 1170-1153. Immediate resistance is considerable in the 1185-1216 area, there is a focus of resistance 1205-1212.
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Request Denied: Breitbart Asks For Correction, Accuses Media Matters Of Fudging "Truth On Planned Parenthood Services"
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On March 30, 2011, Media Matters posted research debunking another video hoax by discredited right-wing activist Lila Rose. According to Rose, the new round of videos contradict statements Planned Parenthood officials made about the organization's work providing women with access to cancer screenings, including mammograms. At the time, we noted that the comments Rose highlighted were in no way at odds with the undisputed fact that Planned Parenthood provides women with access to these services.
Now, Andrew Breitbart's Retracto, the Correction Alpaca, is requesting a correction from Media Matters, accusing us of "fudg[ing] truth on Planned Parenthood services."
No such correction will be issued, as our initial piece was in fact accurate.
Retracto primarily takes issue with our statement that a Planned Parenthood clinic in Waco, TX "provides life-saving mammogram screening and ... diagnostic testing."
Retracto responds:
Live Action called two clinics in Waco, in addition to the one in Tucson, Arizona (heard on tape in the video below) and were told that no, the clinics do not provide mammogram screenings. In fact, Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas are not licensed to have mammogram machines:
Of the 14 Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in Texas, not a single one has either license or equipment.
Now, note the full context of what Cecile Richards said. Appearing on The Joy Behar Show to discuss efforts to defund Planned Parenthood, Richards noted:
If this bill ever becomes law, millions of women in this country are going to lose their health care access, not to abortion services, to basic family planning. You know, mammograms, cancer screenings, cervical cancer. [CNN, The Joy Behar Show, 2/21/11, via Nexis]
In a statement to Media Matters, Felicia Chase Goodman, CEO of Planned Parenthood of Central Texas, said that through a grant provided by the Suan G. Komen Foundation, Planned Parenthood "provides referrals and pays for mammograms and diagnostic follow up treatment for our patients at area radiology and surgical clinics." Goodman said that last year alone, Planned Parenthood patients received 609 screening mammograms and 125 diagnostic mammograms.
In total, Planned Parenthood in Waco estimated that is has provided more than 2,000 mammograms since 2001, in collaboration with its partners.
It's not just Media Matters and Planned Parenthood who say that the Waco clinic provides cancer screenings; the Texas Department of Health says so. According to the department's Breast and Cervical Cancer Services (BCCS) Clinic Locator, numerous Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas provide Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening, including one in Waco.
What's more, a spring/summer 2008 newsletter from Planned Parenthood in Waco indicated that the clinic was approved "as one of the 200 Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening (BCSS) providers in Texas," listing mammogram screenings as one of the services it provides:
Oh what a year this has been so far! With a 21% increase in patient visits and significant growth in staff to meet this increased need, Planned Parenthood in Waco is busy. It is an exciting time to be a part of this remarkable organization and involved in work that carries with it such tremendous rewards.
JANUARY - We were approved as one of the 200 Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening (BCCS) providers in Texas. BCCS brings to low income/uninsured women over 50, services for breast screening, mammography and diagnostic follow-up. It also provides prevention services for low income/uninsured women 18 - 64 who have never been screened for cervical cancer (Pap smear) or who have not been screened in over 5 years. These older populations include women who we have not been funded to see previously since our family planning funds exclude women who are "not fertile." We have increased our clinical staff and contracted with local surgeons for follow-up in order to meet the goals of BCCS. BCCS is a wonderful complement to our collaboration with the Central Texas Affiliate of the Susan G. Komen Foundation through which we provide mammography for women under 50. We expanded our contracts with Waco Radiology, Hillcrest Center for Breast Screening and the Celia Mitchell Breast Center to meet the increased need that will come with the new BCCS initiative.
Retracto is relying on anti-abortion, right-wing blogs to make the case that no Texas Planned Parenthood offices offer mammograms. If you follow the link Retracto provides for the claim that "Planned Parenthood clinics in Texas are not licensed to have mammogram machines," you are taken to a post by "Williamson County Conservative," Holly Hansen, a self-proclaimed "Christian, Conservative, Republican Grassroots Activist."
If you follow the link for Retracto's claim that "[o]f the 14 Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in Texas, not a single one has either license or equipment," you are taken to the Texas Alliance for Life home page, which claims that "Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms because they have no mammogram machines." The alliance provides no sources to back up the claim.
Incidentally, Hansen's evidence that Planned Parenthood does not provide mammograms is also the Texas Alliance for Life's home page.
It should be pretty clear why Media Matters won't be issuing a correction.
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2. While Sean Trende has an excellent analysis of the general election battle in Mississippi.
3. Stephen Saideman has a solid summary of the Bowe Bergdahl flap.
4. Seth Masket on messing with the other party's nominations.
5. More on who doctors are giving to, from Sarah Kliff.
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I have done some target shooting when I was much younger and enjoyed it. Although I never shot in a formal competition, I was pretty good at it. Now I have recently purchased a pistol for self-defense, a Glock 23, but am also interested in which guns you recommend if I wanted to pursue competitive target shooting.
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Breitbart Shills For Romney, Tries To Spin Away His Mandate-Loving Past
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Breitbart.com loves to complain that the "mainstream media" is working as part of President Obama's re-election campaign. That's why it's a little strange to see Breitbart so eager to portray itself as an integral part of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign.
On June 29, Breitbart.com published an interview with Romney campaign officials describing how Breitbart and other right-wing websites "influence the way their campaign receives and delivers the news." Lenny Alcivar, the campaign's digital director, is quoted as saying:
Never before -- in a way that has taken Democrats off stride -- have we seen the confluence of an aggressive online community, led by Breitbart, and an aggressive campaign team not willing to cede an inch of ground to Democrats. This combination has created a new political reality. We no longer allow the mainstream media to define the political realities in America. The rise of Breitbart, Drudge and others, combined with an aggressive Romney campaign is a powerful tool in the arsenal of the conservative movement.
If I talk to Breitbart about an issue, thousands more will hear our message than if we give a quote to one of the hill rags.
Breitbart followed that up by demonstrating just how much the Romney campaign can count on it to get the message out. In a July 2 Breitbart article, Warner Todd Huston rushes to spin Romney's stance on an individual mandate in health insurance, mostly by sounding like he's quoting talking points from the Romney campaign:
Romney has said far more than just that it was "meant for Massachusetts only." He has in fact based his position on the 10th Amendment, a truly American principle.
He stands firm on the point that he employed the truly American idea of 10th Amendment experimentation. He stands on the concept that the states are the laboratory of freedom, that the states should have as much leeway as possible to come up with their own solutions and plans for their own problems. He gave it a try to solve the healthcare problem in Massachusetts. But those solutions he tried, he says, he does not want the federal government to try. That is his position.
Further he has committed 100 percent to repealing Obamacare.
Of course, Romney has a long history of claiming that the reforms he passed in Massachusetts should serve as a model for the nation.
The Breitbart crew's willingness to shill for Romney -- and to be so proud of it -- undercuts its attacks on the "mainstream media" for purportedly doing the same thing.
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Wednesday, November 7, 2012 at 05:49AM
you could always try the super-soaker method...that helped me when I was at wit's end
it was the only thing that worked for me. It might work for you - or another method listed in the Methods section will help
the most important part of the method, I think, is to use a Denman brush. It puts the hair back where it belongs. So, once you have washed and detangled while conditioning, and rinsed that out, put in your leave in and then brush your hair again with the Denman while it is still sopping wet. This creates clumps and will put the "wild" hair strands back into the curl clumps, thus preventing frizz. Then, gently lift handfuls of water into your curl clumps, in a scrunch type motion (but don't squeeze the hair) then plop for a bit in a cotton t-shirt, or let it drip off onto a cotton t-shirt around your shoulders. Then put your styling product in, then scrunch excess moisture out with another cotton t-shirt. Then, either replop for a few minutes more, or just place your hair where you want it and do not touch until it is dry. Hth!
You can watch the super-soaker method video on the Methods stickies in either the Newbies column (top of the column) or in the General hair discussion column
Good luck!
Finer, mixed with coarser strands, low-porosity, wavy curly whirly hair...3A, 2C hair. Medium thickness, medium elasticity.
S-shaped hair with corkscrew ends. My hair is even more confused than me ;p
My hair officially hates protein
Once a month is enough!
Currently a fan of TiGi products, (rock on, TiGi Curlesque styling creme!) but that will soon change - I am a self-avowed product junkie! Yay!
BIG fan of supersoaker method - thanks Rudeechick!


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In the first half of this month I passed two huge milestones: I turned 21, and I graduated from university. I expected both of these things to leave me with a sense of pride, of having achieved something, and to provide me with a chance to reflect back on all the experiences I have had thus far. Of course, the pride has come, but it has been mixed in with a lot of very strange emotions that nobody warns you about.
Happy birthday to me
My sister, dad, me and mum at my birthday party
My birthday was significant in that, as with any birthday but especially with the 'big ones', it gave me a chance to reflect. It has obviously come at a point in my life where everything is changing, having finished formal education for good, so some of the reflections have been even more poignant. The main thing my birthday provided was a chance to think about my friendships. At my party were the friends I currently hold close, and whom I feel sum up the past 21 years. There's Alice, the friend who's constantly been there since we were 6 months old – we had our own language and everything. There's then school friends: Laura, Emily, Helena and Alex are my 'group' from school who I talk to and see all the time, plus Naomi, Harry and Rosie who I've stayed properly in touch with. Moving on, I joined a youth theatre group, which is where the next lot appeared: Jen, Alex (or 'Sandbach') and of course Andy, my boyfriend of more than 4 and a half years. Chuck in Andy's best friend Matt, Londoner Sarah, and Hope, who I met only months ago, and I've got a pretty fab group around me.
Andy and me at my party
Laura, Helena, Emily, me and Alex
Completing university, and then graduation itself only days after my birthday, was an enormously proud moment. I have left the University of York with a 2:1 in English Literature, and I know I have worked so, so hard to get here. University is hard, and brilliant, and tough, and emotional, and it really does (cliché alert) teach you an awful lot about you as a person. I did a mini-series reflecting on university after I handed in my dissertation, so you can take a look at that HERE.
However, in with the pride, there's a whole other mixture of emotions. All the way through our lives in education, there is a clear path, and if you work hard you will succeed and achieve highly. Work for good GCSEs, then good A Levels, to get you to a good university, where you work to complete your degree. All those years of hard work have led up to this moment… but what IS this moment? Suddenly, there's no path. There's no multiple choice question with just a few possible directions. It's now completely up to you. And that's a really scary thought. You've gone from having everything mapped out to having nothing at all, yet years and years of adulthood looming ahead. Where are you going to get money? Where will you live? Will you ever get that 'dream job'? Will anyone even offer you the 'job from hell' to get you on that path?
On the days I get really fed up, I feel almost cheated. Teachers have always repeated that mantra of work hard and you'll get what you deserve, but those results are no longer immediately obvious. When you're job-hunting, or receiving rejections, or having letters ignored, it's easy to feel completely demoralised. There are some days you just want to shout from the rooftops: Look at my degree and exam results! Look at my work experience! Look how much I want a job! But your voice can feel lost in with the thousands of others chanting exactly the same thing.
Alice, Jagoda, me, Cat and Rebecca
On more rational days, though, you realise that this time is scary, but it can also offer opportunities. You can get out there and show who you are. You can travel. You can sit in reality and consider what it is that will really drive you forward, and what it is you want to work towards. Although it doesn't seem like it right this second, I will find a job that's shaped for me. I'll find a role where I can use the skills I've learned, and there will be employers out there who value my track record and my work ethic. We still have a lot of years to work hard and plough our own new tracks. And this is the thing we need to keep reminding ourselves. We can do it, and we will do it. Sometimes we just have to be a little more patient.
Me and my amazing parents


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I've recently started using MyFitnessPal for calorie and exercise tracking. It's one of the better websites/apps for that, but like a lot of applications data goes in to MyFitnessPal but doesn't necessarily come out in a very usable format.
Another of MyFitnessPal has web page where you can put in the username of any publicly available MyFitnessPal profile and it will pull down dietary information and save that in CSV. But it doesn't pull down weight or exercise information.
Why do developers and companies insist on not giving users effective ways to control and have access to their own data?


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Like new 1 owner 4MO CC with 3k (three thousand miles). So when my dad turned 80 two years ago he said to me, I think I will treat myself to a new car for my 80th birthday. So I'm thinking Cadillac, Lincoln, or something along those lines. He calls me a week later and wants to swing by to show me his new car. I almost sh-t my pants when I saw him drive up in this 09 CC 4MO with the sports package. Anyway now he wants to sell it because it hardly gets driven and wants more room in the garage. Its the medium blue and has all options EXCEPT nav. Paddles shifters
(DGS ?). Dad purchased the VW platinum warranty that is good till around 2/15/17. The price is
$29,900 with the warranty, which I think would give you more time and mileage than if you bought a new one tomorrow! Please email me for faster response at firstname.lastname@example.com as I only get to vortex a couple of times a week. See link below for photos.


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JonInNY - Every time I see that pic of the Catskills I start daydreaming about hunting. LOL
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Tesla Motors is using Drupal for their website: http://www.teslamotors.com. Really beautiful design.
Tesla went public last year; it is the first American automaker to go public since Ford Motor's IPO more than 50 years ago.
Last month, Acquia employees (including myself) got to ride a Tesla Roadster Sport. It is a 100% electric sports car that boasts 288 horse power. The car goes from 0 to 60 mph (100 km/h) in 3.7 seconds. Not bad for a battery-powered car.
Impressive car, impressive company and impressive website. :)
Tesla Firsties!!
Drupal is super easy it use. I just installed it on two sites myself. Zero Coding (So far...)
The site looks slick...
PS: wouldn't that be "km/h"? ;)
It is a beautiful website, grats!
Great collaboration - between definitively the most exciting car company ever and the best CMS system. We are looking to more good products from the both sides!
PS: I think you should get a 'Drupal' blue version of roadster. And please don't park on disable spot again. ;)
You're parked quite anti social in two handicap spots...
Very nice site btw.
I'm impressed by the Views integration with the Roadster Technology page - I'm curious to see the backend and what level of control Tesla have over the x/y locations and text content for each hover tip...
CSS and Javascript aggregation would make this site run a little quicker.
Great to see them using such a great CMS!
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Written on: 09/06/2013
Quite excited about joining this. Sent out 30 ish messages, carefully written and reasonably funny (I think). Got one reply which is more than most got. Can't see who has looked at your profile or who is active and paying so sending out messages blindly and hoping for the best. I'd save your £29 and spend it on a bottle of wine at a decent pub. More chance of meeting someone there than on this site.
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Hi there, it's Danielle from the MSF team here. Sorry to hear that you didn't enjoy your experience on mysinglefriend. We are working on our new site currently which will include new features such as who has viewed you, so this feedback is really helpful!
On average we have 2 weddings a week from couples who have met on the site, but appreciate that our site does need some improvement in places! If you have any other comments to make please get in touch with us.
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I just joined and think that it would be a good idea to give newcomers a month to experience before you have to pay. I'm not sure I want to pay given the feedback from other users are all so disappointing... But if I could try for myself for some weeks I might make a different opinion.
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US stock markets dived two percent Wednesday after President Barack Obama's re-election victory set up a tough battle with Republicans over the looming "fiscal cliff".
After opening sharply lower, losses on the stock indices accelerated in a tsunami of red ink.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 291.49 points (2.20 percent) at 12,954.19 at 1600 GMT.
The broad-based S&P 500 fell 31.64 (2.22 percent) to 1,396.75, while the Nasdaq Composite shed 68.17 (2.26 percent) at 2,943.76.
Obama won a resounding victory over Republican challenger Mitt Romney for another four-year term in a closely fought race late Tuesday.
But voters left Congress divided, with Democrats maintaining the Senate and Republicans holding the House of Representatives.
"Focus now shifts to the upcoming fiscal cliff of tax increases and spending cuts that go into effect in 2013 unless a budget compromise is met by Congress," said Wells Fargo Advisors analysts.
"By returning a divided government to Washington, the electorate has given neither party a clear mandate to address the lackluster recovery, the fiscal cliff, and the looming debt crisis," said Brian Kessler at Moody's Analytics.
The broad market sell-off was led by telecommunications and financial stocks. On the blue-chip Dow, Bank of America dived 5.4 percent, JPMorgan Chase shed 4.7 percent and AT&T lost 3.4 percent.
The government announced late Tuesday that AT&T agreed to pay a $700,000 fine and refund customers overcharged in a smartphone payment plan.
Alcoa dropped 2.4 percent, Caterpillar fell 2.6 percent and United Technologies was down 2.9 percent.
On the Nasdaq, heavyweight Apple dropped 3.2 percent.
Market sentiment was also pressured after European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi warned that the eurozone's woes were beginning to hurt Germany, Charles Schwab & Co. analysts said.
The market downturn snapped two days of gains, with stocks putting in a strong election day rally Tuesday. The Dow added 1.02 percent, the S&P 500 rose 0.79 percent and the Nasdaq climbed 0.41 percent,
Bond prices jumped as investors fled equities. The 10-year US Treasury yield fell to 1.63 percent from 1.74 percent late Tuesday, and the 30-year tumbled to 2.83 percent from 2.92 percent. Prices and yields move inversely.


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bolo, I moved your post (and made it it's own thread) so that you could get some more specific help and not take away from the other poster's issues and so that all of the post are (or should be) relevant to your specific problem.
Now, since you specifically asked for my input I'll go ahead and chime in to the best of my ability.
First and foremost, your wife is an individual who thinks for herself. You can't make someone more aware of their environment or crime or to take things more seriously. People have to learn those things on their own. You can keep trying but ultimately it is up to them how seriously they are going to take their own safety.
My advice would not be to get her into another gun class but rather into a class like Refuse To Be A Victim (RTBAV). Gun classes are typically for people who already understand the gravity of crime, etc, and it is more centered around shooting and legalities. A class like RTBAV is much more centered around awareness and avoidance and understanding criminal mindset, etc and (in my opinion) is much more important than just whether or not someone carries a gun.
A person can take the knowledge and skills and advice in a RTBAV course everywhere ... including places you can't take a gun.
Next, I don't blame her for not wanting to shoot her bodyguard often. It's a light-weight gun with a lot of felt recoil and it hurts to shoot it. I would hate to shoot it all the time as well.
My recommendation on that area would be to let her practice with your 60 which has the same manual of arms as her bodyguard and then have her only put a cylinder or two through her bodyguard just to stay fresh with it. Let's face it, those little tiny, lightweight j-frames were not meant to be range guns. They were meant to be there when you needed them but they will hurt and do damage if you try to force yourself (or your wife) to put a large round count through them. Let her practice on the heavier, easier-to-shoot revolver and she'll probably be willing to practice more.
Lastly, as far as safety is concerned. She needs to realize how irresponsible it is for her to leave her gun in the car or in any insecure location. The bodyguard is a very light little pistol and she might be okay with carrying in a shoulder holster or something on body where she won't have to think about it. It's worth asking.
MANY guns are stolen out of cars and it sickens me to think of the criminals who get their hands on those guns because of an owners irresponsibility. If they want your guns they should have to break into a locked house and be expert safe hackers and have to WORK for those firearms it should never be as easy as breaking a pane of glass and opening a glove box.
If a woman carries in a purse she should be willing to secure that purse to her body in a manner in which it cannot be easily snatched (cross body). If she puts her purse in her desk at work it should be a secure desk with a key that she can lock or perhaps she should add a small safe to that desk where she can secure and lock her pistol if she's not going to have 100% control of it at all times.
If she MUST leave it in the car it should be in a car safe like a COM safe that is secured to the frame of the vehicle.
Securing a firearm is part of the responsibility of owning that firearm and it's usually through irresponsibility that accidents happen or firearms are stolen.
If she's not willing to take that responsibility seriously then maybe she shouldn't be carrying a gun (dare I say)?
There are plenty of other personal protection devices out there that have far less risk if found by children or criminals. Pepper spray, tasers, personal alarms, etc... Are they perfect? No. But neither is a gun.
A gun is not going to do anyone any good if the individual carrying it does not have the awareness or mindset to use it.
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink and sometimes even if you take a hose and put it in the horses mouth they might involuntarily swallow a little bit of water their ultimately going to do nothing but choke on it. My point is that you can try to force your wife to go into this and be more aware but I caution you not to force the issue so much that she ends up carrying the firearm for YOU and it ends up getting stolen or (worse-yet) taken away from her and used on her.
My suggestion would be to start with an awareness class like RTBAV, get her some pepper spray and keep taking her to the range to practice with the 60 and let her come to her own conclusions about the kind of level of personal security she is comfortable with.


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a place for zinesters - writers and readers
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Sweet Candy Distro does zine grab bags...I think that's the closest I've ever seen to a "used" section, although it's a bit more random than what you're talking about I think.
A used section like you describe it would be cool I think. Maybe even people could trade their old zines for some of the newer ones the distro stocks? (Although I have no head for business, so I don't even know if that would be practical for a distro to do...)
I have to agree with Laura-Marie.
I know that Ciara Xyerra found one of her zines marked up to $9 at a used bookstore in Portland. That is just absurd.
With the Richmond Zine Fest we sell donated zines in grab-bags as a fund raiser. We also have some loose zines that we sell at a "name your own price" sort of deal, since they are all for donation.
The other issue with this is that the person whose zine is being sold may not really want that zine to be distroed or sold anymore. Such as a back issue of a really personal zine that they have put out of print for a reason. I can remember an issue with the zine "M is for Monster" (a zine about rape and assault) being sold on eBay when the writer had put it out of print purposefully.