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The last days of tour felt like the last days of summer camp.
Busdriver's last show was Winston-Salem. After we'd all sadly exchanged goodbyes, Brent and Satomi from Deerhoof suggested a group picture. Satomi urged us to build a human pyramid for the occasion.
The Winston-Salem venue, the Warehouse—a commune/coffee shop/rock venue/art gallery extraordinaire—let us sleep in their basement. Bleary-eyed and already wistful, we gathered our sore limbs from the dusty rugs, and forced ourselves to try a drink called "Electric Yoohoo." It worked. We were ready to go.
When you tour a place that you've never visited, you're compelled to collect peculiar experiences. It becomes a compulsion. Hence our eating Fried Green Tomatoes, Shark, hominy, and all sorts of stuff that we would never order at a diner in Brooklyn, even if they had it.
Our last show with Deerhoof was at the Ottobar in Baltimore. Everyone on the tour except for John from Deerhoof and Lexy from the Shakes was sick. Lexy fiendishly consumed oranges we'd purchased in bulk in Florida (oranges are best van deodorizer ever!). Greg and Greg's brother David, from the Unity Reggae Band, joined us for a few songs on drums and tenor sax respectively.
After our shows we confessed the nicest things we'd been thinking about each other's bands for the whole tour but would feel funny saying, and then proceeded with normal interaction. We said we'd miss the members of Deerhoof as musicians and people, and we already do.
We stayed in our friends' hotel room that night in Baltimore and briefly attempted to act like rock stars before we went to a 7/11, purchased children's cereal, ate it, and went to sleep.
No one told us how funny it would feel to come home from tour. Back in New York, Kendrick, Caural (Zach from Busdriver), and Lexy met up and attended a stellar Volney Litmus show even though we'd been hanging out for days on end.
You've led such a strange lifestyle and all of a sudden you're re-inserted into your more mundane routine, alongside your friends who haven't gone anywhere. We were only gone two weeks but the intensity of the experience and the friendships that we developed made it feel like two months. We miss the simplicity and singularity of purpose that you experience on the road, where you have a very particular job that you do increasingly well each night (ideally) and your only responsibility is to do it as best you can.
After all, you can't pay taxes from a moving van. Isn't that a Willie Nelson lyric?
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Since this month is officially 90's month, I instantly thought of the single most awesome show of the 90's, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Since I was growing up in the 90's this is one of the shows I watched as a kid despite the initial objections of my mother and regardless of the fact that my mother's parents thought that the show was the devil reincarnate. Not only was the theme and opening super awesome, but it had Putties, the single most absurd enemy I think I have ever seen.
The way enemies were brought to life was that the evil space witch Rita would have figuringes made of clay, put them into some super magical oven, and they would come to life on Earth. Apparently they mass-produced these Putties because seriously, there were about 50 in every episode. The premise was that these five teenagers had been given the task of protecting Earth from these alien forces, and a giant floating head in a tube named Zordon was in charge of the Power Rangers. He also had a robot buddy that would run around in the command center named Alpha 5. He was a helpless, possibly mentally retarded robot who would simply moan and groan about how doomed everyone was. I'm not really sure why Zordon kept him around, I probably would've swapped him out for a Putty. At least then if he talked back or whined, all you'd hear would be that weird gargling sound of a mouthful of marbles.
It's kind of sad when you look back on the Power Rangers and realize that they made the Yellow Ranger an asian chick and the Black Ranger was a black guy, but hey, it's the 90's and nobody gave a shit about this. All the actors cared about was the paycheque and all the kids cared about was seeing a bunch of monsters get their asses kicked by teenagers who knew some kind of martial arts. Every Power Ranger had their own kind of weapon, and their own individual belt buckle which is what they used to morph into those ninjas. Of course, no morphing scene would be complete without some incredibly cheesy slogan and guess what... IT'S MORPHIN' TIME!
They had all of those dinosaur robots as well that they would call upon to save their ass once the main enemy got turned into a giant behemoth of an opponent and began to tear up the city. I don't know if I ever saw the Zords fight individually, they would always just come together and form a giant Megazord with a sword and open a giant can of whoop ass. It was always the same formula in every episode. Rita sends down Putties, they all get killed. She sends down some kind of boss character, he fights the Power Rangers, he gets beaten but Rita turns him big, the Power Rangers call upon their Zords, get into the Megazord, kick its ass, and life goes back to normal, all in a nice little 30 minute show. Regardless of the monotonous formulaic episodes, every kid was hooked on this show and they released at least one movie to go along with it.
Shown above is Pudgy Pig, a boss creature that Rita sent down to fuck up the Power Rangers, but spent most of his time eating random stuff. Seriously, he picks up a garbage can and empties it into his mouth at one point. Everyone who grew up in the 90's remembers the Power Rangers fondly and everyone had a favourite Power Ranger. Red, Black, Blue, Pink, Yellow, or even Green/White, they were all loved by at least several thousand kids each. The important things to take away from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are that regardless of who you hit, or where you hit them, sparks will fly like mad, most enemies will have weak spots prominently displayed in an easily accessible area, and any guy dressed in a green or white leotard can play the flute and summon Godzilla even though they're nowhere near Japan.


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Utah gymnast Annie DiLuzio no longer dreads the landings on her vaults before she heads down the vault runway. Now, instead of thinking of the pain in her ankles she might feel when she lands, she thinks about sticking her landing.
The different outlook is the result of a different vault.
The junior has switched her vault from a full to a one-and-a-half, which means with the latter she gets to land facing forward.
That kind of landing puts less pressure on her ankles, which in turn causes less pain.
"My body is so much happier," she said.
Her happiness is reflected in the scores. DiLuzio, who started making the switch to the one-and-a-half about midway through the season, has scored 9.95s twice in the last three meets.
She should be one of the favorites to win the West regional vault title Saturday when the Utes compete in the NCAA meet.
DiLuzio is ranked 12th nationally on the vault with a regional qualifying score of 9.9. Her toughest competition in the event likely will come from her own teammates, since senior Kristina Baskett is ranked second (9.94) and senior Nina Kim is ninth (9.91).
DiLuzio is no stranger to success on the vault. As a freshman in 2007, she earned All-American honors and finished second on the event.
However, the power she had often made her landings inconsistent and the landings aggravated her left ankle.
Switching vaults to one that is normally more difficult has had an opposite effect with DiLuzio, who has been more consistent lately.
"She is being rewarded for her efforts now," Utah coach Greg Marsden said. "She is capable of so much power, but now she is using it instead of always taking a step."
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Kim has upgraded her floor routine's third pass to a rudy punch front layout that will give her a three-tenths bonus. Plans are for her to use it at regionals and nationals, Marsden said.
"We're going to use the same lineup, but we're still working on things and might up to nationals," he said.
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The Utes left for Seattle on Thursday and will go through a light workout today to prepare for Saturday's meet. Marsden said the team will go through workouts on the uneven bars and balance beam similar to that of a pre-meet warm-up and will go lighter on the floor.
"We just want to make sure they are comfortable on the surface," he said.
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Oooh this song make me move!! did you want to be a winner? !! ***
it reached #23 in the download charts :)
Me and Natalie know this in FRENCH & ENGLISH.
Great song....! ...And...TOM, I LOVE YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Raissa. Brazil - São Paulo.
It's a really great song... specially that "Ohhhhh!!!" at the beggining... It's Great!!
i love you keane!
I can't find that album!!!!!
I haven't heard it complete yet, but coming from such an amazing band it's very easy to think that this is a very great album
Porfa Incluyannos en la Lista...O Me Paso Al Reggaeton
this album is so different and yet so similar, once again surprised me with this wonderful music, there is no doubt that this is my music has become so epidemic that is almost as if I will live through the boys!!! i love you VANIA
Best track award !!!! Great news. Well done ! Tom, Tim and Richard. You have made my day.
this song is so peachy!!!! i love it!! and th 'ooh' does NOT sound weird, for any of you out there who think otherwise. it adds interest to the song. great release!!!! peace out! =D
L.O.V.E I'm only 13 years old and come from Denmark! Can't wait for you guys to come to Denmark! I LOVE YOU AND I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE ALL YOUR MUSIC!
I love this song =)
bravo!! standing ovation!! radical change, we hope to see you in latin america soon!!
loos amo :)
que bueno fue para mi escuchar esa cancion ... me sono extraordinariaaaa!!! y bue muy buena la entrevista espero poder verlos en octubre .... jejeje bye
I love Spiralling!!!!!!!!
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Hello my friends: Tom, Richard and Tim, I and my girlfriend Gaby We love their music, are the best!!! and look forward "PERFECT SYMMETRY" ! kisses! !thank you for your songs so beautiful!!!
A rEcOmMeNdAtIoN : LiStEn To ThE cOmPoSiTioN oF eArLy WiNtEr KeAnE !!!!!!! iS bEaUtIfUL !!!!************* :b AttE: NaTaLiA * Q.m.
YeAh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LoVe KeAnE. KeAn ThAnKs FoR yOuR WoNdErFUl MuSiC !!!!! kEaNe YoU aRe WeLcOmE tO mErIdA, YuCaTaN, mExIcO. I nEeD tO sEe A LiVe cOnCeRt KeAnE !!!!!!!!!!! * I LoVe ToM cHaPlIn XD !!!!!!! AttE: NaTaLiA * Q.m.
the best song!!
hola keane please ,please?? , come to PERÚ¡¡ me gusta su song spiralling y "the iron sea". cuidado carolina
Son lo más genial que jamas he escuchado
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i love it... niza from magallanes, chile.
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Great !!!!!! This music is soooo cool ! I love Keane !
I´m dying to have it (the record) and loved the song I think it´s very beautiful. Spiralling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I love "Spiralling" and I love Keane!!! It sounds really different and really close to you, I can't explain it. But... I can't stop listening to this song! I'm waiting for your CD... And I wanna see you in Spain!!! Please come!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This song is TOTALLY different from any of your previous recordings and yet we can still find some lingering elements which remind us its Keane........while you continue "pushing your limits", we REMAIN anchored....
Spiralling is wonderful!
Love it!!! You guys are the BEST!!!
Can't wait for the album guys :] Counting down the minutes.
This song is one of my favourites :D I can't wait to hear the next single!!!
Congrats guys! i'm waiting Keane here in Rio de Janeiro-Brazil BIG KISS' Rachel
Mad. Crazy. Brilliant. KEANE.
oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh! Do you wanna be an icon?
Thanks so much Keane for a brilliant gift! Absolutely loving this song, magnificant vocals by Tom, just cannot wait to see Tom sing this live and to see the band enjoying performing together again. Here's hoping I can get a ticket for the Q gig on 29th Sept!
please keane, come to peru!!!!!!
Mates, you really are special! Loved the song! Congratulations! I'm already waiting for your gigs announcement for Brazil Tour!!! Cheers!
wow, i'm waiting for the new record spiralling, by far, is one of my favourite keane's songs!
I love that "oouuhh!" xP kisses guys!
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WeatherTech Racing to Start Rolex 24 At Daytona in GTD Eighth Row
Cooper MacNeil, Leh Keen, Louis-Philippe Dumoulin, Shane van Gisbergen and Shane Lewis will start the No. 22 WeatherTech Racing GTD Class Porsche 911 GT America from the eighth row for the TUDOR United SportsCar Championship 52nd running of the Rolex 24 Hour At Daytona Jan. 25-26.
Keen (Charleston, S.C.) had the wheel of the white and black WeatherTech Porsche for the 15-minute qualifying session. The onslaught of new machinery and the new rules for the inaugural TUDOR Championship race has a very competitive field of very different cars. Keen put down a lap of 1:47.647 (119.056 mph) that will have the WeatherTech Racing team starting from the eighth row in GTD.
"We had a slow start to the day," Keen said. "We had some electrical gremlins in the first practice. The second session of the day, Shane Lewis did some laps and went fast right off of the bat. A great job by the new addition to the team. I got two laps in today before qualifying. The car felt good like it did at the Roar test. Any other day a 47.6 is pretty good lap time here at Daytona. In the Porsche world, it looks like we are doing pretty good. Some of these GTD cars are just rockets. With qualifying over we can focus on the race. That is where this team really shines. We will be going for two wins in a row at Daytona for the WeatherTech brand."
MacNeil will run some quality laps in the night session starting at 6 p.m.
"I will get my laps in tonight," MacNeil said. "This morning we had a few electrical issues which stopped the motor at 6500 rpms. That slowed us down, so we had to come in and fix it. We were second quick in the afternoon session. I am looking forward to running some good laps tonight."
Newcomer Lewis (Jupiter, Fla.) is pleased with his first run in the car.
"It was great to finally get behind the wheel," Lewis said. "You study the video and the data and it is great to get in the car and do some laps. Until you actually drive the car, you really don't know what you have. I have a lot to learn about the car, but I got in the 49s right away which I am happy with today.
Alex Job, team owner, had his team diagnosing the No. 22 WeatherTech Porsche early in the day.
"After a really good test, we went out in the first session and had an electrical issue," Job said. "The team did a great job to find the problem and fix it. We returned in the second session and were second quick. Qualifying was another story. Leh put in a good lap, but there are some very fast cars in the GTD field. With top drivers and all new cars, the Porsches have some work to do. We are now focused on setting-up a good race car and planning our strategy for 24 hours of racing."
The team of Cooper MacNeil (Hinsdale, Ill), Shane Lewis (Jupiter, Fla.), Leh Keen (Charleston, SC), Louis-Phillpe (LP) Dumoulin (Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada) and Australian V8 Supercars driver Van Gisbergen (Auckland, New Zealand) are ready for a very competitive Rolex 24 At Daytona.
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Jury finds Smyrnes guilty of first-degree murder
A Westmoreland County jury must decide whether Ricky Smyrnes should be put to death for masterminding the torture murder of a mentally challenged woman three years ago.
After less than two hours of deliberations Thursday afternoon, the jury found Smyrnes guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, conspiracy and kidnapping in the Feb. 11, 2010, slaying of Jennifer Daugherty, 30, of Mt. Pleasant.
The jury of eight men and four women reached a verdict shortly before 4 p.m.
The trial will enter the penalty phase on Tuesday, when District Attorney John Peck will present evidence of Smyrnes' violent criminal history as prosecutors seek to convince jurors that he should be put to death by lethal injection.
Smyrnes, 26, formerly of Irwin and McKeesport, showed no emotion when the jury foreman read the verdict.
"I don't think he has any concept of what is happening right now. He's on medication, and when he is not on the medication, he is totally nuts," said defense attorney Mike DeRiso.
Although he asked jurors for an acquittal, DeRiso said he expected a verdict of second-degree murder because Daugherty was killed after being kidnapped.
During the penalty phase, DeRiso said, he will present evidence of Smyrnes' mental deficiency, history of childhood sexual abuse and low intelligence.
Peck declined to comment about the verdict.
"We're very happy," said Daugherty's mother, Denise Murphy.
Peck told jurors before Judge Rita Hathaway that Smyrnes is "a conniving, scheming, designing, plotting and conspiracy-minded individual" who incited his five roommates in a Greensburg apartment to hold Daugherty captive for more than two days.
Smyrnes ordered his roommates to beat and humiliate Daugherty and then ordered Melvin Knight to plunge a steak knife into her heart, Peck said.
He said Smyrnes wanted to prove his love for Angela Marinucci, 20, by killing Daugherty, a rival for Smyrnes' affection. Amber Meidinger, 23, who has yet to stand trial, testified that the roommates hit Daugherty, bound her, and poured spices, oatmeal and nail polish on her head. They cut off her hair, taunted her, stole gift cards and money from her purse, and forced her to drink concoctions of cleaning fluids and bodily excretions.
Daugherty's body, bound with Christmas garland and a strand of lights, was dumped into a garbage can that Smyrnes and Knight dragged through snow to dump in the parking lot of Greensburg Salem Middle School.
Knight, 22, formerly of Swissvale, has been sentenced to death for Daugherty's murder. Marinucci, who was ineligible for the death penalty due to her age, has been imprisoned for life.
Peggy Miller, 30, and Robert Masters, 39, are seeking plea bargains to lesser charges.
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System of a Down, Linkin Park headlining Download FestivalTuesday, January 25th, 2011
It's the festival in the UK that isn't Glastonbury and one where you may have to kick a few asses to have an exceptional time.
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Clearer images of the rumoured Sony Xperia Tablet have leaked ahead of its expected launch at IFA. The new shots clearly show the Xperia branding on the back of the tablet, and the folded-page design it's inherited from the Sony Tablet S.
It's packed into a smaller frame, though – the Xperia Tablet is 11.9mm at its thickest point versus the 20.6mm girth of the Tablet S.
The Xperia Tablet is expected to arrive packing a 1280x800, 9.4in screen, a Tegra 3 processor and 16GB, 32GB and 64GB storage options. A keyboard case and splash-proofing round out the rumoured features list – we'll keep you posted when we see it in the flesh at IFA.
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This story starts with the 1999 purchase of five acres amid an oak hammock in central Florida that were plagued by thick, humid growth; huge spiders; snakes; and occasional flooding. My wife, Sherry, and I had embarked on an experiment: to design and build a 2,800-square-foot custom home on a budget of $50 per square foot (or $300,000, including land costs). Although it seemed idealistic, we considered the task possible if we did some of the work ourselves and kept the systems and structure simple.
We wanted to address current affordability concerns by developing a contemporary model that falls within the means of most middle-class home-buyers. Ikea, Target, and Apple have done great jobs of exposing the mass market to high-end, low-cost design. I feel that we, as residential architects, owe that same level of opportunity to the public. Everything we design does not have to be out of reach of the mainstream buyer.
The design process began with many hours of walking, sitting, and experiencing the site—an opportunity I wish were available on more projects. I spent hours there with a 300-foot tape measure, bug spray, a machete, the occasional six-pack of beer, a camera, and a stool. I really believe that before you start to design, you must learn the site, how it rests, and how a house asks to sit within its boundaries.
alternative means Sherry and I were on the same page with regard to design. Our goal was to employ off-the-shelf items in unconventional ways. We used sanded and sealed MDF for countertops and bookshelves, 16-inch strips of bamboo plywood sheets applied with exposed stainless steel screws for wood flooring, and waxed concrete floors with impressions of naturally fallen leaves and critter footprints. Concrete block walls, galvanized ductwork, and floor and roof trusses were left exposed. We added industrial stairs and a floor grate as a bridge on the second floor, and we incorporated interior windows to allow visual and verbal connection and to assist with air circulation.
Because this house was more experimental than a typical job, the contractor needed to share our vision. After interviewing several, we selected one who understood and embraced our objectives and would make sure our expectations were met. Sherry worked as the job superintendent, coordinating with the contractor and taking care of the finances and scheduling. We wanted this endeavor to be a very personal and hands-on adventure.
We also felt it was important to team with a creative craftsman—a guy who can do everything others may not want to deal with and do it with passion. This is the person who spent hours with me designing and collaborating on systems and details that were foreign to us both. How can we transform raw MDF board into a smooth and glossy countertop that will withstand wear and tear? How can we then mix cables and connectors with that same product to make contemporary bookshelves? How do we create stair rails out of electrical conduit and metal straps? We would walk through The Home Depot or Lowe's when we didn't need to go, find items we weren't really looking for, and develop techniques to use them in unintended ways. My suggestion for architects who are interested in doing something similar is to go through these big-box stores looking for nothing in particular and keep an open mind.
end result The most rewarding part of the process was seeing construction actually start. In general, it went smoothly, despite several early delays with grading and earthwork due to bad weather. Some of the most exciting and gratifying moments came during the framing stage, when opportunities not apparent on paper would present themselves. For example, we raised the roof of the main living space to take advantage of a view to the upper branches of a 150-year-old live oak tree that we had never seen from the second-floor vantage point.
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In the end we exceeded our budget by about 50 percent. (The house cost between $75 and $85 per square foot.) This happened partially because we didn't allow for a learning curve for the labor force in performing the desired quality of work. They're used to covering up many of the things this house leaves exposed, like the concrete floors and the ductwork. We had to get through to them that this was the finished product. But the contractor was great, and everybody finally caught on. It became a challenge and an opportunity for all involved.
This home has helped create a model I intend to introduce to mainstream housing. My firm, Blood-good Sharp Buster Architects & Planners, has developed a trademarked housing prototype called "off the shelf" that will give the buyer a chance to be more involved in the process, to have some DIY opportunities, and to make choices on finishes that allow the chance for self-expression. It offers them exposure to a variety of unique design solutions. We see plenty of contemporary models that are similar, but few of these homes reach the masses who appreciate that level of design at a reasonable cost.
We are currently developing a program for implementation with a select group of builders. The challenge for mass-housing builders is to rethink the way they normally do business—especially in a boom market, when they do not need to change protocol. It is very possible that the process will take longer than normal construction projects would due to the added involvement of the homeowner, so it does require a very entrepreneurial and broad-thinking builder; we are fortunate to be associated with several who share our vision. In an effort to assist the homeowner further, we are also talking with banks and mortgage companies willing to create financing opportunities that offer incentives for alternative housing, green construction, and sweat equity. We may just open up a whole new range of possibilities for mainstream housing that is more creative, personalized, and affordable.
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June 25, 1981
- In a communication of September 10, 1980, the following
denunciation was made to the Inter-American Commission of Human
On August 24, government security forces (detectives and army personnel), under the direction of Alfonso Ortiz, the Deputy Chief of the National Police Detectives Division, took 17 union leaders into custody.
The leaders were meeting at the "Emaús Medio Monte" farm, Palin District, Escuintla Department, owned by the Diocese of Escuintla. The license numbers of two of the vehicles used in the operation are P-78165 and P-78077. The numbers of the other license plates were not recorded because of the surprise elements of the operation.
As in the detention of the 27 union leaders of the National Workers Confederation (CNT), at that same headquarters, the Government denies having knowledge of the action and denies that the workers are being held, against all concrete evidence to the contrary.
- In a note of September 17, 1980, the Commission transmitted the
pertinent portion of this denunciation to the Government of
Guatemala, asking for information on the case.
- In a note of October 21, 1980, the Commission transmitted to the
Guatemalan Government the following additional information received
from the claimants:
Among the persons detained at the "Emaús Medio Monte" farm were the following: Gustavo Adolfo Bejareno, Juan Guerra, Guillermo Turcios, Augusto Yach Ciriaco, Edgar de la Cruz, Iliana de la Cruz, and the farm manager.
After their arrest by security forces, under orders of Alfonso Ortiz, the second in command of the National Police Investigations, these persons were taken to the garages of the National Police Investigations Division in area 6 of the city, where they were tortured under the direction of the new Chief of Investigations, Pedro Arredondo.
- In a note of December 8, 1980, the Commission furnished the
Government, as additional information, a more complete list received
from the claimants, with the names, professions or occupations, of
the persons abducted from the Emaús Medio Monte farm on
August 24, 1980, as follows:
José Luis Pena (Manager of the Emaús farm ) Gustavo Adolfo Bejarano (Worker in the Cidasa factory) Rafael Enrique Girón Mérida '' Jordan Gilberto Salazar Uriza '' Augusto Yach Ciriaco '' Gerónimo Alberto Moreno Palencia '' Alfonso Obdulio Molina Mérida '' Ilian de la Cruz (Union Orientation School of the University of San Carlos) Edgar de la Cruz '' Julio César Pérez Gálvez '' Víctor Herrera '' Rosarion Leal '' Nery Robledo Espinoza '' Adalberto Juarez (Kern's Food Processing plant) José Ruíz '' Juan Guerra Castro INCASA Guillermo Turcio García ''
- In a note of April 20, 1981, the Commission again requested
information from the Guatemalan Government.
- To date, the Guatemalan Government has not replies to the Commission's requests for information.
Article 39
- The facts reported in the petition whose pertinent parts have been transmitted to the government of the state in reference shall he presumed to be true if, during the maximum period set by the Commission under the provisions of Article 31 paragraph 5, the government has not provided the pertinent information, as long as other evidence does not lead to a different conclusion.
- Based on Article 39 of its Regulations, to presume to he
true the events denounced in the communication of September 10,
1980, concerning the arbitrary arrest and later torture of a
group of union leaders, meeting in the "Emaús
Medio Monte" farm owned by the Diocese of Escuintla, on
August 24, 1980.
- To declare that the Government of Guatemala violated
Articles 5 (right to personal security), 7 (right to personal
liberty), 8 (right to a fair trial), 15 (right of assembly), and
25 (right to judicial protection) of the American Convention on
Human Rights.
- To recommend that the Guatemalan Government investigate the
events denounced and, if appropriate, punish those responsible,
and to communicate its decision to the Commission within 60
- To transmit this resolution to the Government of Guatemala
and to the claimants.
- To include this resolution in the Commission's Annual Report to the General Assembly of the Organization of American States pursuant to Article 18 (f), of the Statute and Article 59 (g) of the Regulations of the Commission.
Dr. Francisco Bertrand Galindo declined to hear and decide on this case because he was living in Guatemala when the reported events occurred.


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Mon Dec 31, 2012, 09:53 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
On guns, and the way the discussions are conducted.
I don't want to go into the pros and cons of gun control. I just have some points to make about the proper way of using statistics. I am frustrated with the way math is being abused and misinterpreted. Please consider respecting the following rules (which should be no-brainers but apparently are not) when quoting statistics:
1. Never quote absolute numbers. Always divide by population.
Worst offender: Michael Moore.
The fact that over ten thousand people die from guns each year contains zero usable information. Please give me per capita figures. In a hypothetical country consisting of one hundred billion people, 10k gun deaths are almost none. In a country consisting of 10k people it means everybody.
2. When discussing correlations, consider the base line.
This one is more tricky. I have seen figures thrown around that claim to show positive correlations between "gun possession" and "murders via gun". Also positive correlations between "suicide via gun" and "gun possession". These figures are misleading, because they ignore the baseline.
What one should do instead is investigate correlations between "murder rate" and "gun possession" or "suicide rate" and "gun possession". The fact that the availability of a tool to achieve a certain goal lead to this tool being used more often to achieve this goal is again a statement that is of little relevance to the debate. If one cannot show that the mere presence of the tool leads to a higher rate of the incident one wants to prevent, then one doesn't have an argument. Americans choose guns for suicide. Due to the availability of trains in Germany, Germans choose trains for suicide. One could find a positive correlation between "availability of trains" and "suicide by train", but it would be a fallacy to derive from this observation that there is a "train problem". What one would have to do instead in order to make such a point would be to show that "availability of trains" leads to "more suicides".
3. Please don't quote sums in a misleading way.
"30.000 shooting each year in America". This tells me nothing. How many of these were police operations? How many were suicides? How many were self-defense? How many were murders? How many were criminals killing each other over issues that were connected with other crimes they were committing? I want to know. Please consider being more specific.
That would be a start I guess. I'm sure someone can come up with more rules.
A few personal notes: I am not a gun owner. Nor am I afraid of guns or their owners per se. I am more afraid of traffic than of guns, and I think I have every reason to. Also my personal gut feeling is that ending the drug war would do more to reduce "gun deaths" than any gun control measure, but that is just my un-informed intuition which I cannot currently back up with data.
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Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:06 AM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
1. Thanks for the inane advice
but 30,000 gun deaths a year makes the USA number one (by a large margin) among developed countries regardless of how the numbers are presented. Automobile deaths are mainly accidental (as opposed to intentional), gun deaths are mostly intentional.
Gun deaths are on pace to exceed automobile deaths. Easy access to guns, and a woeful lack of accountability and responsibility are the driving forces of too many gun deaths in the USA -- not the way the numbers are presented.
"Statistics" and their use is an NRA staple, and they twist them in many different ways in order to "prove" that guns are safe, and that no gun owner would ever, ever misuse a gun, or allow it to fall into the "wrong" hands.
Until we have regulations which will ensure the hollow promises made by the NRA crowd, we will continue to have an unacceptable number of gun deaths in this country. Until we start replacing politicians at all levels of government, and from both sides of the aisle, who have been "endorsed" (read: bought) by the NRA, we will never have meaningful gun control in this country.
Response to billh58 (Reply #1)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:22 AM
pipoman (16,038 posts)
2. The statistics twisting isn't isolated
to the pro-2nd amendment side..the pro gun control side is notorious for half truths and statistical gymnastics. A good example is on this recent thread..
Yep, the Brady's are the royalty of creative statistical twisting.
Response to pipoman (Reply #2)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 10:04 AM
Scuba (53,475 posts)
46. Still trying to ascribe that chart to Brady, huh?
Response to Scuba (Reply #46)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 05:04 PM
pipoman (16,038 posts)
61. I can ascribe it to anyone I wish.
The point being that gun control groups, through their selective use of their own manufactured stats, truth stretching, and complete lies, do more harm for their cause than the NRA. Once their falsities are shown to prospective believers, they become disenfranchised...seen it happen many, many times right here on DU.
Response to billh58 (Reply #1)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:13 PM
Lizzie Poppet (10,164 posts)
28. Yes, proper use of statistical data is "inane."
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:34 AM
Robb (39,665 posts)
3. Your post is a long-winded exercise in willful ignorance.
Pretending things which have been investigated and proven to be so, are not so, because of some misapprehension about the way studies are conducted, is the height of feigned ignorance, worthy of the tobacco lobby.
Response to Robb (Reply #3)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:42 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
4. Have you comprehended my post?
I'm not saying that studies were conducted in a wrong way. I am commenting on some of the data that I have been seeing thrown around since the latest school shooting.
Please show me a "murder rate" vs "gun possession" correlation plot. I'm interested to see it and open for what ever it shows.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #4)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:33 PM
farminator3000 (2,117 posts)
57. plot this?
Please show me a "murder rate" vs "gun possession" correlation plot. I'm interested to see it and open for what ever it shows.
the article is about the complexities of data. but just look at the top 5 and bottom 5.
there's obviously something there...
20 Deadliest Gun States
Jan 10, 2011 8:13 PM EST
You're five times more likely to die from a gun in Arizona than Hawaii. In the wake of the Giffords massacre, The Daily Beast ranks which states have the worst record of gun fatalities.
"...But advocates for gun laws argue that restrictions prevent suicides, gun trafficking and domestic violence. A study commissioned by Mayors Against Illegal Guns last year concluded that the states with the most lenient gun laws are responsible for the guns used in crimes across state lines at much higher rate than states with strict laws, concluding that "certain gun laws are an important component in reducing criminal access to firearms."..."
"Given the complexities involved in gun regulation and violence, The Daily Beast sought to determine which states are the most dangerous when it comes to firearms. Our methodology was simple: Rather than measure the number of guns, we measured the measure of gun deaths per capita in each state, using the most recent data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That counted for 75 percent of the ranking. The other 25 percent was derived from the Legal Community Against Violence's state-by-state comparison of firearm laws, which ranks all 50 states by their relatively severity, incorporating everything from policies on mental-health background checks to whether loaded guns are allowed in bars."
#1, Mississippi
Gun deaths per 100,000: 18.3
Permissive gun laws: 4th out of 50
#2, Arizona
Gun deaths per 100,000: 15
Permissive gun laws: 1st out of 50
#3, Alaska
Gun deaths per 100,000: 17.6
Permissive gun laws: 11th out of 50
#4, Arkansas
Gun deaths per 100,000: 15.1
Permissive gun laws: 7th out of 50
#5, Louisiana
Gun deaths per 100,000: 19.9
Permissive gun laws: 23rd out of 50
#46, New Jersey
Gun deaths per 100,000: 5.2
Permissive gun laws: 49th out of 50
#47, Connecticut
Gun deaths per 100,000: 4.3
Permissive gun laws: 46th out of 50
#48, Rhode Island
Gun deaths per 100,000: 3.5
Permissive gun laws: 42nd out of 50
#49, Massachusetts
Gun deaths per 100,000: 3.6
Permissive gun laws: 48th out of 50
#50, Hawaii
Gun deaths per 100,000: 2.8
Permissive gun laws: 47th out of 50
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:44 AM
Iggo (34,904 posts)
5. Actually, 10,000 gun deaths is 10,000 more than nothing.
Response to Iggo (Reply #5)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:04 AM
Hoyt (30,321 posts)
11. Good point, one that the gun culture misses.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:48 AM
Fumesucker (45,851 posts)
6. Sometimes absolute numbers are interesting and revealing in and of themselves
How would you divide out this number for instance?
East Cleveland Cops Fire 137 Shots In 20 Seconds Over Shot Heard Fired At or Near Officer
Police in East Cleveland say they found no gun and no shell casings in the car from which one unidentified officer said he heard a shot fired at or near him. Two people were killed, Timothy Ray Russell, the driver, and a passenger, Malissa Williams.
At the press conference, Cleveland Police Chief Mike McGrath said that the pursuit lasted 25 minutes, that 13 Cleveland police officers were involved in the situation, and 137 rounds were fired by police.
Response to Fumesucker (Reply #6)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:57 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
8. When something scales up with system size, you need to divide by system size.
Your example doesn't meet this criterium.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #8)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:10 AM
Fumesucker (45,851 posts)
12. You said the numbers always had to divide by population
Now you are changing your tune.
You advise precision for others but state your case imprecisely.
Perhaps you could find some equation to correlate the story I posted before with this one.
German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011
According to Germany's Der Spiegel, German police shot only 85 bullets in all of 2011, a stark reminder that not every country is as gun-crazy as the U.S. of A. As Boing Boing translates, most of those shots weren't even aimed anyone: "49 warning shots, 36 shots on suspects. 15 persons were injured, 6 were killed."
Evidently German police are horribly trained, they fired more warning shots than killing ones.
Response to Fumesucker (Reply #12)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:19 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
16. "Argumentum ad Logicam" i.e. "Fallacist's Fallacy"
I thought the point I was making was sufficiently explained i.e. that taking averages should be done when applicable. You are now attacking the idea that I didn't explain the point in a 100% unambiguous way rather than attacking the point itsself.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #16)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:33 AM
Fumesucker (45,851 posts)
17. So you assumed that a group of mostly laymen would have your grasp of statistics immediately
And you attack me for pointing our a flaw in your presentation.
Is there any sort of relationship you can make at all between the two stories I posted?
Response to Fumesucker (Reply #17)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:46 AM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
20. Exactly like the NRA assumes
that they can spread their bullshit through the use of twisted statistics because they believe that no one will understand that they use false equivalency arguments and apples-to-oranges comparisons in the first place.
Statistics, and the way they are presented are only meaningful to liars and statisticians. Plain numbers and facts are much harder to manipulate than numbers which have been "massaged."
Response to Fumesucker (Reply #17)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:48 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
21. There may be a relationship, and I am not in fact claiming that America doesn't have a gun problem.
My OP does not make any hard statement regarding a gun problem. I have merely stated a personal intuition regarding the danger to my life from guns. There may be a gun problem. I'd like to be convinced of it using the correct metrics, that is all.
As for the flaw in my presentation, I'm glad we have clarified it.
So I should have added: "Divide by system size for any extensive quantity, i.e. quantity that scales up with system size."
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 10:51 AM
LP2K12 (877 posts)
7. No...
Numbers are numbers and the proof is in the pudding.
Words can be spun and numbers can be falsified, but the truth is generally visible over time. That's why you can hide out nation's firearm dilemma.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:01 AM
99Forever (14,524 posts)
9. Gun huggers hate absolute numbers.
It shows what a bunch of paranoid, lying, cowards they are.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:03 AM
jmg257 (9,426 posts)
10. Here's an easy enough rule...IF there were no guns, there could be no gun violence.
Now let's use math to create a correlation, or is that a causality?:
IF Number of Guns = X, and the Level of Gun Violence = Y
and as X goes to 0, Y goes to 0, then it seems logical to think that...
IF the number of guns the people possessed was severly reduced in this country, so would the levels of gun violence.
While many will feel X can never = 0, it can be substantially lowered.
Response to jmg257 (Reply #10)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:11 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
13. The graph you are looking for is this one:
You are absolutely correct that apparently there is a linear correlation. And yes, this is precisely a case of what I have discussed in rule #2.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #13)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:12 AM
jmg257 (9,426 posts)
14. Thanks! nt
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #13)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:43 AM
Recursion (50,978 posts)
19. I do love that chart
The US is an outlier on both tails of that regression, you'll notice (re-do it without the US there and the best-fit line is actually well below Switzerland's data point -- it's important to remember with regressions that the line is created by the data points, not the other way around).
Interesting questions that come out of that are:
1. Why do we have more guns per 100 people than any other country, by far?
2. Why do we have so much more violence than our level of gun ownership suggests we should (eyeballing it, we and Canada are well over one sigma; only Argentina has a bigger variance)?
3. What policies can lower our rate of gun ownership? (before you suggest a prohibition regime, note that we have a higher rate of marijuana use than the Netherlands)
4. What policies can bring our gun violence rate down closer to the line suggested by the linear regression with other countries?
Response to Recursion (Reply #19)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:12 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
55. Very interesting.
So basically a counter-intuitive conclusion from this graph can be that there is in fact a "societal" contribution to the gun problem of the USA that is unrelated to gun possession itself.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #13)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:16 PM
AldoLeopold (600 posts)
29. Linear Corr is too subjective
I prefer ANOVA. Whats the SD/SE on that?
ANOVA and MANOVA are much more reliable analysis these days.
Response to AldoLeopold (Reply #29)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:38 PM
Recursion (50,978 posts)
58. It can be revealing despite its limitations
e.g. we can clearly see that the US is more than a sigma out on both tails.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:12 AM
ileus (15,131 posts)
15. Excellent post....
It will be lost on the "guns kill people" folks.
Response to ileus (Reply #15)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 04:18 PM
Robyn66 (1,675 posts)
43. What else do guns do to people? nt
Response to Robyn66 (Reply #43)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 07:50 PM
ileus (15,131 posts)
44. Guns don't do anything to people?
Response to ileus (Reply #44)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 01:09 PM
Robyn66 (1,675 posts)
47. So the gun has nothing to do with people being shot?
What a relief, I bet there are a whole bunch of parents in Ct who would love to know that.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:42 AM
DanTex (17,194 posts)
As to your first point, the number of gun deaths per year in the US is about 30,000. That breaks down to about 10K homicides and 20K suicides, plus about 1K accidents, and about 500 self-defense shootings. Just as a point of comparison, the total number of Americans who have died in Iraq, Afghanistan, and 9-11 combined is about 10,000. The number of US soldiers who died in the single worst year of Vietnam was about 16,000. So guns claim about twice as many American lives per year than Vietnam at its worst.
I wasn't alive during Vietnam, but here's a question for those who were. When people pointed out that we were sending young Americans to die by the tens of thousands, was it a popular argument to say that, really as a fraction of the whole population, ten thousand deaths is not that much, so stop making such a big fuss?
Anyway, if you want the rate, what you do is divide 30K by the population of 300M, or about one per 10,000. That's something like 10X higher than the average of other industrialized countries.
In fact, 1/10K actually understates the amount of damage guns do for a number of reasons. First, it doesn't take into account injuries and other side effects of gun violence -- social scientists have estimated the dollar cost of gun violence at $100B per year. Second, gun deaths usually strike younger people than other causes of death, which means that the amount of life expectancy loss is greater per death. The average American loses about 100 days of life to guns, whereas lung cancer, which claims a lot more lives, only accounts for a life expectancy loss of about 200 days.
As to your idea that the availability of a tool doesn't affect the amount of murder, this is completely false. Most murders don't start out with intent to kill. They start out either as arguments or as other crimes that end up escalating. Since guns are far more deadly than other weapons, such situations result in murder far more frequently if guns are available. This is one of the reasons why the US has by far the highest homicide rate among wealthy nations, even though our rates of violent crimes overall are not unusually high.
The situation is similar with suicides. A lot of suicidal impulses are temporary, and the availability of easy and lethal means (i.e. a gun) often means the difference between a completed suicide attempt and survival. This is why many studies have found that individual gun ownership significantly increases suicide risk.
Here are some links to research. Gun ownership correlates positively with both homicide and suicide rates. Not surprisingly, all of the correlation is due to increased gun homicides and gun suicides.
Response to DanTex (Reply #18)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:51 AM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
22. +1000
And thank you very much for taking the time to do the real research.
Response to DanTex (Reply #18)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 11:52 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
23. Thanks.
Let's promote these data then, rather than what Michael Moore does in his movies
Response to DanTex (Reply #18)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:03 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
24. I think the comparison to Vietnam is not entirely valid.
There was an obvious one-to-one causality between the war and the losses. Ending the war directly reduced the number to zero. How much exactly the murder rate would go down if a strong gun control policy was enacted is harder to figure out. In any case, thanks, really, for doing the research
on edit: also, opposition to the Vietnam war should have come not only through concern for Americans but from concern for the harm done to Vietnamese.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #24)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:16 PM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
30. I was there, and you're wrong.
"Ending the war directly reduced the number to zero," is total bullshit. Many of my brothers and sisters are still dying today, and thousands have died over the years, from the effects of that fucking war. Some of them died by guns that they should not have had access to.
Where does that fit into your neat easily manipulated statistics about causality?
Response to billh58 (Reply #30)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:18 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
38. I think you read my post the wrong way.
Ending the war directly reduced the number of additional people being directly affected by it to zero. Long-term consequences or delayed indirect consequences are another matter, but the cause obviously lied before the end of the war. Ending the war eliminated the cause but of course not the effects.
I actually thought it was clear what I meant
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #24)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:31 PM
DanTex (17,194 posts)
32. Some fair points, but...
It's true that it is hard to tell how much the murder or suicide rate would drop with a strong gun control policy, but Vietnam/Iraq still serves as a fair point of comparison for getting a sense of the magnitude of the problem.
And, technically, in order to estimate the actual number of deaths attributable to the war, you'd have to first estimate the fraction of the soldiers that would have been killed anyway by other means had they stayed in the US. You are right that harm done to Vietnamese should be included in the cost of Vietnam. On the other hand, we also have to consider people killed in Mexico and Canada using guns purchased from US gun stores.
Response to DanTex (Reply #18)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:59 PM
Chorophyll (5,179 posts)
34. Great post. Thank you. nt
Response to DanTex (Reply #18)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 01:21 PM
farminator3000 (2,117 posts)
50. that's more than OK!
As to your idea that the availability of a tool doesn't affect the amount of murder, this is completely false. Most murders don't start out with intent to kill. They start out either as arguments or as other crimes that end up escalating. Since guns are far more deadly than other weapons, such situations result in murder far more frequently if guns are available. This is one of the reasons why the US has by far the highest homicide rate among wealthy nations, even though our rates of violent crimes overall are not unusually high.
The situation is similar with suicides. A lot of suicidal impulses are temporary, and the availability of easy and lethal means (i.e. a gun) often means the difference between a completed suicide attempt and survival. This is why many studies have found that individual gun ownership significantly increases suicide risk.
it just really comes down to boys playing with toys, doesn't it?
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:05 PM
Robyn66 (1,675 posts)
25. I have a problem with this whole discussion
These aren't just statistics. You aren't counting how many people bought Soft Serve Ice-cream last summer. You are talking about how many people were killed
One person is too many.
One child, one battered wife or girl friend, one teen suicide using daddy or mommy's gun, one mass shooting because everyone's life matters.
The first responders who go to gun shot calls don't see a statistic bleeding on the ground, they don't try and keep a statistic alive that "doesn't count" because its insignificant.
30 shootings in one million people is too many.
Sorry if you think this is flame baiting but discussing this issue with cold statistics and saying things like "counts for nothing" really sound horrifying for humanity to me.
And, my husband hunts and I have no huge problem with guns except no one needs an assault rifle in my opinion.
Response to Robyn66 (Reply #25)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:09 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
26. Statistics are cold, but they are what matters when thinking about policy.
The effect of laws and policies is to alter probabilities.
"One terrorist attack is one too many."
This is correct, but no policy in the world, not even a totalitarian government that installs cameras in every home could provide 100% certainty that one will not occur.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #26)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:52 PM
Robyn66 (1,675 posts)
33. Then why do you need to use statistics
Isnt it enough to know these things happen and use common sense to create policy? Maybe that sounds completely rediculous but we know it happens we know its bad, so maybe the focus should be more on what do we do to stop it. I dont think we need numbers to prove there is a problem.
I'm sorry I probably should not be participating in this conversation. I am far from unbiased. I was severely abused my my father who shot at me with blanks and I have had guns in my face more than I want to talk about so maybe that is why I have a hard time understanding why it is so important to nail the numbers down.
Response to Robyn66 (Reply #33)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:03 PM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
35. Because manipulated
"statistics" is the only argument the NRA and its sheep-like followers have to offer. They can't honestly answer questions like yours, or those from the many thousands of family members and friends of the 30,000 gun victims who die each year. This number does not include the many additional thousands of victims injured and maimed by guns in the USA each year, or their family members and friends -- after all they're just "statistics."
To the NRA and its rabid members, this "insignificant" number of deaths and injuries caused by guns in the USA each year is a small price to pay in order to protect their 2nd Amendment right to own any gun they choose, as many of them as they want (not need, but want), and to carry them anywhere they choose.
Response to billh58 (Reply #35)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:23 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
39. It is often in a person's best interest to be treated as a statistic.
Statistics is not a bad word. I like my policies to be based on empirical evidence, objective scientifically sound analysis and math. What is wrong with that?
Again, people here seem to be getting the impression that I am opposed to gun control, which I am not per se. My point was entirely academic, aimed at improving the quality of the arguments that are being made.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #39)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:49 PM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
42. But you ARE arguing in opposition to
completely valid gun control positions by insisting on using manipulated NRA false equivalency statistics. When I say USA gun deaths are 30,000 annually, I don't believe that I need to tell people on DU that there are approximately 300 million US citizens. I also don't believe that the cause or circumstances of these deaths (suicide, homicide, etc.) are meaningful in any way toward reducing the total number of deaths by gun in this country.
The remainder of your "helpful hints" follow almost to the letter the NRA talking points of meaningless statistics designed only to obscure the real result of too many guns in too many hands, for all the wrong reasons.
I'm sure that you mean well, in an anal-retentive kind of way, but your NRA bias is showing.
Response to billh58 (Reply #42)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:00 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
52. Can you argue a point without resorting to ad hominem attacks?
My personal biases are of no significance to the discussion. Yelling "NRA NRA" is not an argument.
What are "manipulated NRA false equivalency statistics" ?
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #52)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:26 PM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
56. Of course your
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personal biases are significant, and this is not a discussion -- it is a lecture by you which follows to the letter significant NRA talking points. Contrary to your denials, you are indeed an "unlimited rights" gun supporter, and just like the NRA you are attempting to skew your arguments with meaningless statistics which have absolutely nothing to do with the FACTS: too many guns, in too many hands, resulting in too many deaths and injuries. Those are the "statistics" which matter.
You believe that by presenting yourself as someone who is only interested in the math, you are fooling anyone on DU? We have seen these "statistical" bullshit arguments ad nauseam, and your approach is no different from the NRA approach.
Yelling "NRA, NRA" IS an argument, because they have spent literally billions of dollars spouting the very same "statistics" that you espouse, and buying and bullying politicians to repeal sane gun laws in this country. Your discounting 10,000 gun deaths as being comparatively "insignificant" is an example of a common NRA false equivalency talking point. It's the "price we must pay for freedom" they say. Bullshit. Automobiles kill more people than guns -- another bullshit false equivalency comparison.
Now run along and peddle your statistical pro-gun bullshit elsewhere.
Response to Robyn66 (Reply #33)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:07 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
54. Because "common sense" can lead to wrong conclusions.
"Common sense" tells us that "Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without regard to anything external".
Empirical evidence and objective analysis shows us that this is false.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #54)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 04:57 PM
Robyn66 (1,675 posts)
60. That's great when you arent talking about lives being lost. (nt)
Response to Robyn66 (Reply #60)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 06:58 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
64. You are kidding, right?
When lives are on the line, it is all the more a reason to use sound methodology to find out what can be done. A surgeon does not save lives by being a compassionate, caring, human being. A surgeon saves lives by being competent and making the correct decisions based on facts.
If there is one thing that America doesn't need, it is calls for more irrationality and "common sense" approaches to complex problems. We have enough of that coming from all sides of every debate, to the point where the entire political discourse is completely dominated by it.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #64)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 12:33 PM
Robyn66 (1,675 posts)
68. Ok I give up
I am not going to convince you that just the fact lives are lost is enough evidence that there is a problem and that I cant understand how any number of dead people can be considered "insignificant" I would love for you to go tell the parents of Sandy Hook children that their kids are an "insignificant" part of a percentage point.
You feel somehow there is some statistical way to qualify whether or not there is a gun problem in this country.
I disagree with you and cant even understand your reasoning when you are dealing with human lives. You seem to feel the same way about my point of view so there is no point in continuing.
Response to Robyn66 (Reply #68)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 02:52 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
69. I consider any life lost a tragedy.
Don't mistake my insistance on rigidity for discompassion.
Every murder is a tragedy. The big question is however what can be done about it. And to answer this question one needs to take a step back and examine the situation in an objective way. Otherwise one might end up designing measures that "feel good" but achieve little, or are in fact counter productive. That is really all I am saying.
You keep mentioning the Sandy Hook victims. They are not the only victims. There are plenty of shooting deaths daily. They aren't less relevant than the Sandy Hook victims. I think it is extremely hard, if not impossible, to prevent something like Sandy Hook with a 100% certainty. Norway has all the regulations, and still Breivik was able to do what he did.
What one can do however is bring the annual per capita rate of homicides down, through proper policies, only part of which are gun related policies per se. And the way to do this is through examining statistics objectively.
"Statistics" is just another way of saying that instead of focusing on one individual event, we should focus on all events in an equal way, which is in fact the most fair and compassionate thing one can do.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:12 PM
DirkGently (12,151 posts)
27. Why is per capita so critical, when the U.S. is 10th highest in the world?
10 deaths per 100,000 per year. Right behind Mexico. It's not terribly confusing either way, when the answer is "The U.S. has a horrible, ludicrous, insane number / rate / proportion of gun deaths."
It's not like "Michael Moore" is deliberately fooling anyone.
Response to DirkGently (Reply #27)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 12:23 PM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
31. There you go.
When the USA is ranked statistically against ALL countries in the world, we're "only" number 10 (or 14, depending on the stats you consult). This is because the countries that outrank us are either Third-World, under-developed, or in the throes of civil war.
When we are ranked against our economic and industrial equals, we are so far out in front that we will never be beaten. The OP's obvious dislike of Michael Moore shows a definite right-wing bent, hence the gobbledegook about how we should all follow his instructions and believe the NRA's statistical bullshit.
Response to billh58 (Reply #31)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:09 PM
Chorophyll (5,179 posts)
36. Among "developed" nations, we are the bottom of the barrel in more ways than one.
Highest rate of gun deaths, highest infant mortality rate. There is a correlation, and it comes down to our elected representatives being owned by wealthy donors, one of which is the NRA.
It saddens me that anyone on DU would continue to champion a way of life that other developed nations wouldn't tolerate.
Response to Chorophyll (Reply #36)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:24 PM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
40. Unfortunately, too true.
The same SCOTUS right-wing, neoconservative 5-4 majority that gave us Citizens United which weakened the First Amendment, also gave us Heller which weakened (and misinterpreted) the Second Amendment.
I'm afraid that until we can get at least one more impartial Justice on the SCOTUS, we will see more of these travesties of judicial activism and partisan rulings.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:16 PM
dsc (45,631 posts)
37. I don't think the per capita helps you here
We have way more gun deaths than nearly any other country and whole continents. Our 3.7 per 100,000 gun homicide rate is over ten times higher than any European Union country except Greece. We are fifteen times higher than France. Sixty times higher than Germany. Fourty times higher than Australia. We are five times higher than Canada.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Mon Dec 31, 2012, 01:24 PM
L0oniX (31,493 posts)
41. I fear the other driver more than any terrorist or gun, plane crash, robber, home invaders, police,
CIA,FBI, DEA, tornado's, hurricanes, lightning, Monsanto, Dow Chemical, GE, floods, psychos, homeless people, starvation, knife throwers, Slayer, rabid dogs, ninja squirrels, ect.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 10:02 AM
Scuba (53,475 posts)
45. "The fact that over ten thousand people die from guns each year contains zero usable information."
If that's true for you, then you're brain dead.
Response to Scuba (Reply #45)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 01:13 PM
Robyn66 (1,675 posts)
49. There is a disturbing trend on this site
The gun talk and the guns before people way of thinking is troubling, and has nothing to do with hunting.
Response to Robyn66 (Reply #49)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 05:09 PM
pipoman (16,038 posts)
62. Actually, the 2nd Amendment "has nothing to do with hunting"..n/t
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 01:10 PM
spanone (95,604 posts)
48. Worst offender: Michael Moore. BULLSHIT
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 01:26 PM
Buzz Clik (38,437 posts)
51. Only those supporting control of firearms are under this kind of scrutiny?
The endless parade of tales of someone preventing violence by brandishing a gun or killing someone is outside this request?
Response to Buzz Clik (Reply #51)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:03 PM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
53. No. The arguments in favor of gun posession should face the same scrutiny.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #53)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 02:45 PM
Buzz Clik (38,437 posts)
59. Good! I would love to see....
... someone present statistics of crimes being prevented by weapons or potential weapons other than firearms. I would like to know how many people using a gun to confront criminals fail in their attempt at intervention.
Response to Buzz Clik (Reply #59)
Tue Jan 1, 2013, 07:20 PM
billh58 (5,582 posts)
63. Or the number of
intentional automobile, drowning, hospital, etc., deaths compared to the number of intentional gun deaths.
Response to redgreenandblue (Original post)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 08:02 AM
ehrenfeucht games (139 posts)
65. 0.0000000008.25 % of US population killed in Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre.
> 1. Never quote absolute numbers. Always divide by population.
Do you feel any better now?
Response to ehrenfeucht games (Reply #65)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 08:54 AM
redgreenandblue (1,831 posts)
66. No, because this is again an incorrect way to argue with statistics.
Sandy Hook is one incident, which is a quite untypical one and not examplary for the gun problem and/or violence problem in the US. If Sandy Hook where the only incident surrounding guns that happened in all of 2012, it would be quite correct to state that a drastic measure which affects the entire country is probably misdirected.
The USA had a homicide rate of 4.8 per 100.000 in 2010 according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States , which is low compared to Russia but high compared to Germany or the Netherlands.
If there is a single drastic measure that can be taken to lower our rate to that of Germany or the Netherlands, it should be considered. That does not mean another Sandy Hook cannot happen. Nothing can ensure that.
on edit:
Something that might bring our homicide rate down is a combination of better education, better mental health programs, closing the social gap, ending the drug war and, yes, tighter gun laws.
But to suggest that unrealistic things such as making all gun posession illegal is going to be a cure-all, and smearing law abiding citizens by publishing "lists" online, is not helpful.
Norway is doing everything right, but that didn't stop Breivik.
Response to redgreenandblue (Reply #66)
Wed Jan 2, 2013, 09:38 AM
ehrenfeucht games (139 posts)
67. We could talk in absolute numbers. 20 children. 6 women.
But numbers, whether absolute numbers or statistics obtained by dividing by the US population, are quite sterile, and really miss the mark when it comes to conveying the reality of what we allowed to happen.
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Serious Bling: 500 Carat Diamond Discovered
Miners in Lesotho, a kingdom in southern Africa, found one of the world's largest diamonds, a near-perfect gem weighing nearly 500 carats, said mining group Gem Diamonds on Sunday. The diamond, which has not been named yet, was discovered on September 8 and was then analyzed by experts in Antwerp, who found it to weigh 478 carats, with very few inclusions and of outstanding color and clarity."It has the potential to yield one of the largest flawless D color round polished diamonds in history," the company said in a statement. The Letseng Mine, where this stone was extracted from the earth, has also yielded four of the world's 20 largest rough diamonds, including three that have been found in this century. The value of this diamond is hard to estimate because it hasn't been cut into smaller gems. But a similar weight stone with lesser-quality color and clarity had recently sold for $12 million, said a Gem Diamonds spokesperson. I wonder how much of those millions will actually benefit the economy and people of Lesotho.
As stated above, this diamond, weighing in at nearly 500 carats, is not the most impressive diamond to be mined. After the jump check out ten of the world's most famous diamonds. [AOL News]
- Cullinan Diamond: Found in 1905 at the Premier Mine in Transvaal, South Africa, the Cullinan Diamond is the world's largest diamond, weighing 3,106 carats in the rough. The Transvaal government purchased the colorless stone and presented it to Britain's reigning monarch at the time, King Edward VII, in 1907. It was then cut into nine large stones and about 100 smaller ones by I.J. Asscher and Company of Amsterdam. All the flawless stones cut from the Cullinan are now part of the British regalia.
- Cullinan I or the Great Star of Africa: At just more than 530 carats, the Cullinan I is the largest gem cut from the Cullinan diamond. This pear-shaped gem is set in the English scepter.
- Cullinan II: This the second largest gem cut from the Cullinan. At 317 carats, it is the most valuable stone in the British imperial state crown. Sometimes it is called the Second Star of Africa.
- Tiffany Yellow Diamond: When it was discovered in 1878 in the Kimberley mine in South Africa, this diamond weighed 287.42 carats in the rough form. After New York jeweler Charles Tiffany purchased the stone, it was reduced from 287 carats to its current size of 128.54 carats. It is the largest yellow diamond ever discovered. Only two women, one being Audrey Hepburn, are known to have worn this yellow diamond.
- Golden Jubilee Diamond: When it was discovered in 1985, the large brown diamond weighed 755 carats, but was later cut down to 545.67 carats. The stone was also found in the Premier Mine in South Africa. Initially, it was considered an ugly duckling and was supposed to be used to test special tools and cutting methods developed for use on the flawless, colorless Centenary diamond. Surprisingly, once the Golden Jubilee was cut, it outweighed the Cullinan I by 15.37 carats.
- Centenary: This stone was discovered by the Premier Mine in 1986 and originally weighed 599 carats in the rough. It was cut down to 273.85 carats and is the third largest diamond ever extracted from the Premier Mine. It was named the Centenary Diamond when it was presented in the rough for the Centennial Celebration of De Beers Consolidated Mines in 1988.
- The Lesotho Promise: This diamond weighed 603 carats when it was discovered at the Letseng Mine in Lesotho in August 2006. A couple of months later it was sold at auction in Antwerp for $12.4 million to the South African Diamond Corporation, which expects to sell the diamond for more than $20 million after cutting. The largest gem cut from the original stone is a 75 carat pear-shaped diamond. This gem and 25 others were cut from The Lesotho Promise, totaling 224 carats.
- Letseng Legacy: This stone was also unearthed at the Letseng Mine in 2007, and was named to reflect the legacy of that mine, which has produced a few significant diamonds in its history. The stone weighed 493 carats and is the 18th largest diamond ever found.
- Hope Diamond: The Hope Diamond was cut from the Tavierner Blue, which was mined from the Kollur mine in Golconda, India. The gem is a large 45.52 carat blue diamond and is housed at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. Legend has it that anyone who wears this stone will be cursed.
- Koh-i-Noor: This "Mountain of Light" diamond weighs 105 carats and was once the largest known diamond. Like the Hope Diamond, it was discovered in Golconda, India, and Mughal and Persian rulers fought over it at various points in history, but it was eventually seized as a spoil of war by the British. It became part of the British Crown Jewels when British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli proclaimed Queen Victoria Empress of India in 1877. It is said to bring misfortune and death to any male wearer or owner. Conversely, it will bring luck to all female owners.


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The Pawnee Bill Ranch was once the showplace of the world renowned Wild West Show entertainer, Gordon W. "Pawnee Bill"...Learn More
The Pawnee County Historical Society Museum & Dick Tracy Headquarters gives an exciting and educational peek into...Learn More
This beautiful, historic 1939 WPA sandstone rock bathhouse in Pawnee overlooks a two acre fresh water pool and features...Learn More
Pawnee paid tribute to native cartoon artist Chester Gould with a mural inspired by his popular Dick Tracy comic. Tulsa...Learn More
Pawnee Lake, constructed in 1932, offers boating, fishing, and great camping. The surrounding area is beautifully...Learn More
Silver Tine Farm, located near Pawnee in northeast Oklahoma, is a gorgeous, seasonal u-pick farm, complete with pumpkin...Learn More
Located around beautiful Pawnee Lake, Pawnee Lakeside Arena features a picnic area, playground, stalls, riding...Learn More


text: Brandeis University has settled a lawsuit challenging its ability to replace a science building. The Wall Street Journal [1] reported that Brandeis has agreed to name a lab after the donor of the building slated for demolition. That donor was the great uncle of a man who sued, arguing that in accepting the donor's funds, Brandeis had agreed to maintain a building named in the donor's honor.