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Michael Moore:Our Military Has Not Won a War Since World War II
Davison's own (Michael Moore) apparently forgot about Panama & Grenada
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Posted by MinM | Mon Nov 9, 2015, 02:25 PM (0 replies)
Melissa Gilbert v Gerry Mandering in Michigan
Nov. 4 2015 03:35 PM
8th District campaign
Bishop vs. Gilbert race rated an eyecatcher in Michigan
By Kyle Melinn
The way Mark Grebner of Practical Political Consultants sees it, Democrats have the same lethal attraction to Michigan's 8th Congressional District as moths do to candles.
The closer they get, the more likely they are to get burned.
Ingham County's congressional district isn't like the one Democrat Debbie Stabenow won in 1997. [font color=darkred]Republican-led legislatures have redrawn the 8th Congressional District into a 30-yard head start for their nominee[/font], meaning only an appealing candidate running under appealing circumstances have a shot.
Actress Melissa Gilbert may be that right person in the right place. Michigan Democrats have the 8th Congressional District among the top 3 they're watching in Michigan, and it could move up considering how well Gilbert catches in her first bid for public office.
Known for playing Laura Ingalls Wilder on NBC's Little House on the Prairie from 1973-1983, the 51-year-old Los Angeles native moved to Livingston County in 2013 with her new husband, East Lansing native and actor Timothy Busfield.
Last year, she was visible in Mark Schauer's gubernatorial campaign, giving the Democrat $1,000, filming a "public service segment" for him and showing up at a Flint campaign stop.
The political activity comes after the Los Angeles-born Gilbert served as president of the 100,000-member Screen Actors Guild from 2001 to 2005, earning her a spot on the national AFL-CIO Executive Council. Her visibility isn't unusual either.
Gilbert and Busfield quickly embraced their roles as Howell's resident celebrities serving as grand marshals to the 2014 "Fantasy of Lights Parade" and promoting local small business through her book, "My Prairie Cookbook." ...
Posted by MinM | Sun Nov 8, 2015, 01:09 AM (3 replies)
The Falklands War and the Grenada Invasion
I've been thinking recently about the impetus and timing of those wars.
Preconditioning .. palate cleansers? Probably a little bit of both.
Reagan - Thatcher - Pinochet
Posted by MinM | Sat Nov 7, 2015, 10:36 PM (1 replies)
Governor Snyder: how to get away with murder
Here's a thread from DUer russ1943 ..
US Austerity Politics: One State's Attempt to Destroy Democracy and the Environment.
Something is rotten in the state of Michigan.
Minnesota seems to be taking a different and more successful direction.
That piece was written before the deadly level of lead in the Flint water supply was confirmed and finally acknowledged by Snyder ..
Lessons From A Fight To Fix Flint's Water Supply
Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha talks to NPR's Michel Martin about her fight to get politicians to fix the water supply in Flint, Mich., after kids started testing positive for higher levels of lead exposure.
MARTIN: How did you find out that the people of Flint were having problems with their water? What set you off on looking at this?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Well, it all started at a dinner party. So I was having a glass of wine with a high school friend who happens to be a water expert. And this is was at the end of August, and she's like, Mona, I'm hearing all these reports about corrosion in the Flint water and the possibility of lead in the water. And when people pediatricians hear about the possibility of lead exposure, we freak out because lead is a neurotoxin. It has a bazillion consequences. So that's kind of what started me on a crusade to look at the blood lead levels of children.
MARTIN: And what did you find?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Well, we compared the blood lead levels of children before the City of Flint switched their water source to the Flint River to after the switch. And we noticed a significant increase in the percentage of children with elevated blood lead levels.
MARTIN: Now, I understand that it's not always easy to make the link, as a just heard about from Pennsylvania, between elevated lead levels of children and specific environmental factors. And I have to note that state officials initially dismissed your findings.
HANNA-ATTISHA: Yeah, yeah.
MARTIN: Although they later came around. Is it really that hard to link lead levels in the blood to a specific factor like the water?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Yeah, it is difficult. So our research study proved correlation, so we noticed an increase in lead levels. We can't say it's from the water, but nothing else happened in this community. There is no large soil excavation project. Every kid in Flint didn't start becoming a stained glass lead enthusiast. So there was not another source of lead exposure. And nationally, because of great public health efforts, lead levels in children have been going down for the last 30 years because getting the lead out of gasoline, getting the lead out of paint. So when you see an increase - or even if it stays the same - that has to alert you to something going on in the environment.
MARTIN: Yeah, I know that you focused on Flint, but lead levels, as we are finding out, are higher than is optimal in a lot of cities around the U.S., despite these laws that you just told us about - laws that mandate disclosures about potential lead problems in homes. Do you have any sense of why this is still a problem in the United States?
HANNA-ATTISHA: Well, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program, which is run by the CDC, has lost quite a bit of funding. Through efforts of the American Academy of Pediatrics and others, it went back up to 15 million, but it's still half of what it used to be. So there's not as much money going into the tracking of these children. I think it's shocking that in 2015 - and also, very ironically, in the middle the Great Lakes - that we have lead contamination in our drinking water supply. So I think a lot of regulations need to be strengthened. Other prevention efforts need to be supported that have been cut significantly.
MARTIN: So this past week, Michigan committed to spending more than $9 million to fix this problem. What it was that money going to do, and will this prevent long-term health problems for the kids who've already been exposed?
HANNA-ATTISHA: [font color=darkred]The damage is done[/font]. Lead is a irreversible neurotoxin, so once you are exposed, you're exposed. It crosses the blood-brain barrier. It impacts cognition and behavior and mental health and lifetime, you know, potential, so the damage is done. So the other thing - our research entirely underestimates the risk because lead in water disproportionally affects infants on formula. So imagine that mom - that single mom in the middle of the night. Baby wakes up. Baby wants warm formula, so she opens the warm tap water, mixes it with the powder formula and gives it to the baby. And that is what the baby for the six months of life.
And we don't even screen for lead at that age. That baby's lead level could have peaked at three month or six months, at nine months, so this research completely underestimates the risk because it's an entirely different vulnerable population than what we're used to screening. So we're looking - Corboyle (ph) now says we're looking at markers for brain injury. We're going to repeat the study in a year. We're going to be tracking the milestones and the development of these children. It's all - this - it's a lot of long-term follow-up that needs to happen...
More here and here.
Posted by MinM | Fri Oct 23, 2015, 10:52 AM (0 replies)
Lt. Bob Woodward presided over the Chief of Naval Operations' code-room ..
Woodward presided over the CNO's code-room, reading every communication that went in and out, while acting, also, as a briefer and a courier. This, he tells us, is how he met Deep Throat, while cooling his heels outside the Situation Room in the White House. It was 1970 and, according to Woodward, Mark Felt was sitting in the next chair.
The Moorer-Radford affair is not usually considered a part of the Watergate story, though it deserves to be. The Nixon Administration learned of the Pentagon spy-ring in late 1971, but the affair did not become public until almost three years later. By then, the Watergate story was almost played out.
While president, Nixon was determined to keep the affair secret, telling Kissinger aide David Young, "If you love your country, you'll never mention it." But the Pentagon's chief investigator, W. Donald Stewart, was more forthcoming. Asked how seriously the affair should have been taken, Stewart replied with a rhetorical question: "Did you see that film, Seven Days in May? That's what we were dealing with..."
read more: http://www.counterpunch.org/2005/06/08/strange-bedfellows/
The truth is Woodward has always been a tool. A rather spooky one at that.
Posted by MinM | Thu Oct 22, 2015, 07:41 AM (0 replies)
Bush asks Daschle to limit Sept. 11 probes
With 9/11 front and center in the GOP debates and the bogus benghazi hearings dragging on .. Here's a blast from the past that compares and contrasts the handling of each ..
January 29, 2002 Posted: 9:26 PM EST (0226 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush personally asked Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle Tuesday to limit the congressional investigation into the events of September 11, congressional and White House sources told CNN.
The request was made at a private meeting with congressional leaders Tuesday morning. Sources said Bush initiated the conversation.
He asked that only the House and Senate intelligence committees look into the potential breakdowns among federal agencies that could have allowed the terrorist attacks to occur, rather than a broader inquiry that some lawmakers have proposed, the sources said
Tuesday's discussion followed a rare call to Daschle from Vice President Dick Cheney last Friday to make the same request.
"The vice president expressed the concern that a review of what happened on September 11 would take resources and personnel away from the effort in the war on terrorism," Daschle told reporters...
Of course we now know the delaying tactic worked. Later that same year Paul Wellstone died, Democrats lost control of the Senate, and Bush-Cheney never faced any serious investigation into their handling of 9/11.
Posted by MinM | Sun Oct 18, 2015, 10:52 PM (9 replies)
salon: Horatio Sanz warned us about #SNL's "conservative bullsh*t"
@Salon: Long before Lorne Michaels invited Trump to host, Horatio Sanz warned us about #SNL's "conservative bullsh*t" http://slnm.us/pLmnIW3
Horatio Sanzs brutal SNL takedown: The show has too much conservative bullsh*t and might have helped George W. Bush win the presidency
The "SNL" comedian speaks candidly about how the show has lost its way politically
After parting ways with SNL in 2006, comedian Horatio Sanz is ready to speak candidly about some of the shows deep political flaws. (This time, without the risk of showrunner Lorne Michaels sending him to time-out.)
In SNLs unaffiliated tell-all book Live From New York from 2014, Sanz did just that. And again, in a recent interview with ESPNs Bill Simmons, he opened up about how the show has lost its way in its quest to be popular. The comedian told Simmons that, the message of the show has become less about these leftist politics and more about being popular. ...
Sanz also singled out one particular SNL sketch Kristen Wiigs cold opening as Nancy Pelosi which he felt epitomized the shows weak political commentary. Referring to veteran writer Jim Downeys (the Karl Rove of SNL) choice to include two men in S&M outfits (because you know! San Fran), Sanz said: Thats what you get out of that story? That everyone in San Francisco is so weird that theyre wearing fucking leather and whipping each other. ...
Posted by MinM | Fri Oct 16, 2015, 06:57 AM (1 replies)
JFK v Allen W Dulles part ii
DUer Jim DiEugenio further destroys the argument that JFK's differences with hardliners were mostly tactical...
Oh really Mr. Brinkley.
You mean like in the Congo, where Ike and Dulles decided to kill Lumumba. Whereas JFK was going to completely reverse American policy there and back him?
Or do you mean like in Indonesia? Where Dulles and Ike attempted to overthrow Sukarno. When JFK asked his intrepid CIA director for the report on this, Dulles gave him a redacted copy. But Kennedy still understood what happened and again he reversed policy and invited Sukarno to Washington for a state visit.
Doug, maybe you mean with Egypt? Where the Dulles brothers decided to freeze out Nasser because he would not join the Baghdad Pact, and then reneged on Aswan. Which made Nasser go to the USSR for the funds for the Aswan Dam. So Kennedy decided to rebuild that relationship by backing Nasser's importation of troops into Yemen in order to defeat the Saudi influence there. And the Saudis were the ones Dulles now backed in the Middle East after Nasser was abandoned.
This is tactical? What BS, these are reversals, plain and simple...
BTW, Brinkley is also the official biographer of Dean Acheson, who again, JFK had clashes within the White House over foreign policy.
And, in fact, Acheson criticized young Kennedy over his great Algeria speech back in 1957. It was so bad that when Jackie saw him waiting for a train at Penn station, she started yelling at him in public.
Nice source eh?
Posted by MinM | Thu Oct 15, 2015, 10:46 AM (0 replies)
Consistent with Talbots claims JFKs policies did pose a dire threat to deep power interests
The arguments in James Warren's piece bear little resemblance to reality. John Newman, author of JFK and Vietnam, can debunk a couple of Warren's assertions ..
1) JFKs differences with the hardliners were mostly tactical not strategic. Newman's JFK and Vietnam thoroughly debunks that line of thinking.
...that President Johnson appointed former DCI Allen Dulles to the Warren Commission at the recommendation of then Attorney General Robert Kennedy. I will hold back here on commenting about this fabrication because David Talbots new book, The Devils Chessboard, (to be released next week) so thoroughly (pp. 572-574) demolishes it ...
That said NPR probably had the best piece debunking the revisionist history that frequently gets projected onto JFK's policies...
On The Media: Missile Crisis Memories (August 27, 2010)
Journalism has been called the first draft of history, but what if that first draft is never corrected or if the mistakes persist, despite many subsequent drafts? President Bush harkened back to the peril we faced during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962 and how we were saved by the uncompromising resolve of an earlier leader, in order to justify our need to take preemptive action in Iraq. He was drawing on the first draft of history, the one that said John F. Kennedy went eyeball to eyeball with Nikita Khrushchev over Russian missiles in Cuba and that Khrushchev blinked and withdrew.
[CLIP]: JOHN F. KENNEDY: We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the course of worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth. But neither will we shrink from that risk at any time it must be faced. [END CLIP]
BOB GARFIELD: Major players in the Cuban Missile Crisis, including then presidential speech writer Ted Sorensen and former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, have tried in recent years to correct the record of those events, but the national myth seems pretty much unshakable. Fred Kaplan, Slate columnist and, incidentally, Brookes husband, has examined all the declassified material related to that crisis as its emerged over the years. We asked him to take us through the various drafts of the Cuba showdown.
FRED KAPLAN: The basic scenario came from an article published shortly after the crisis by Stewart Alsop who was a very establishment columnist of the day who got the information from aides to Kennedy in the White House who were authorized by Kennedy to give him this account. Eyeball to eyeball with the Russians, crazy generals, on one hand, wanting us to bomb the missiles right away, lunatic doves like Stevenson, on the other, wanting to negotiate their way out of it from the beginning and, you know, smart guys like Kennedy and McNamara and Bundy navigating a, a cool and calm course through the thickets and ending us up safe to shore.
BOB GARFIELD: That's a heroic and reassuring recounting of the events, and it's certainly not the first nor the last time that a journalist has run with leaked information, but do you think Alsop had any way to know that the story he was writing did not, in fact, reflect the events as we now know them?
FRED KAPLAN: No, I don't think he had any way of knowing that. This is what people told him and he certainly wasn't privy to any of the inside stuff going on. And, in fact, this was confirmed in the second draft of history, the memoirs written by two of what could be called the palace historians, Arthur Schlesinger and Ted Sorensen, Sorensen being Kennedy's speechwriter at the time who was present at all of the what they called the ex-con meetings, the meetings of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council which got together for the 13 Days and deliberated what to do. And this basically told the same story, though with more detail.
BOB GARFIELD: These memoirs by the "palace guard," when did they appear?
FRED KAPLAN: That was in the mid-60s. This was Sorensen's book called Kennedy and Schlesinger's A Thousand Days.
BOB GARFIELD: Okay, so what's the third rough draft? When did that happen, what form did it take?
FRED KAPLAN: The third draft was mainly by revisionists, by people like Gary Wills who in 1971 wrote a book called Kennedy Agonistes. Now, it had been revealed early on that Khrushchev had made an offer toward the end of the crisis basically saying look, I'll take my missiles out of Cuba if you take your missiles out of Turkey. At the time the United States had 15 nuclear missiles in Turkey, which were similar in range and power to the missiles that the Soviets put in Cuba. Ted Sorensen in his book dismissed that Khrushchev offer as total propaganda and that Khrushchev dropped in the end. Well, Gary Wills and the revisionists picked up on this and they said look, this guy Kennedy was a maniac. He was soaking in machismo. He'd led the United States and the world on the brink of World War III because he wouldn't take this sensible offer to do the missile trade.
BOB GARFIELD: Machismo was certainly part of the popular image of JFK back then. Here's a clip from a 1970s TV docudrama Missiles of October, starring a very young William Devane.
[CLIP]: WILLIAM DEVANE/JOHN F. KENNEDY: Now we must convey an uncompromising message. This government is prepared to negotiate, but not until those missiles are removed from Cuba. We will not be deterred. We will not be shaken. We'll bomb, if we must. We'll invade if we must. [END CLIP]
FRED KAPLAN: Yeah, that, that clip is just hilarious, diametrically opposed to the way John Kennedy was acting at any of those sessions. In fact, this does lead us to the fourth draft of history, tapes that Kennedy had secretly been making. Long before Nixon and before Johnson, Kennedy was taping a lot of things that happened in the Oval Office and in the Cabinet Room, where the ex-con meetings took place. And we hear very clearly in those meetings that Kennedy took Khrushchev's offer of the missile trade very, very seriously. In fact, on the third day of the crisis, Kennedy is already musing that well, you know, Khrushchev, he's made a miscalculation. He's obviously done this for bargaining leverage, and we're going to have to help him find a way to save face. Maybe if we trade those missiles in Turkey for the missiles in Cuba, that might be the answer. Nobody even takes him up on it. So on the last day of the crisis, when Khrushchev does bring it up, he's very eager to take it. And, in fact, he is the only one in the room who's willing to take it. You know, there's been this, this model from the first draft of history on, that the room was divided into hawks and doves and centrists. But, in fact, on the last couple of days of the crisis, the room was divided between John Kennedy and everybody else. Everybody else in that room wanted to bomb the missiles in Cuba, and only John Kennedy wanted to take the trade.
BOB GARFIELD: Now, unaccustomed as we are to having presidential tapes reveal the president in a positive light [LAUGHS]
FRED KAPLAN: Yeah.
BOB GARFIELD: Nixon certainly was ensnared by his own voice on tape it must have had an astonishing effect. When were the tapes released, and how long did it take before this real version of history informed our public understanding of the crisis? ...
FRED KAPLAN: [font color=blue]I have to say, both among journalists and historians, this chapter of the Cuban missile crisis has not yet been fully incorporated into the dominant narrative[/font], as academics might call it today, and to the degree that people do know there was a trade, [font color=darkred]it is as yet not generally well accepted how alone Kennedy was[/font]...
Posted by MinM | Wed Oct 14, 2015, 10:42 AM (1 replies)
Hatfield-Rather: Dirty Tricks with different spins on the same theme ..
There are definite parallels between the Dan Rather-Dubya National Guard story and the reason that Karl Rove gave JH Hatfield the Dubya cocaine scoop. Rove in both cases was able to defuse potentially explosive revelations ..
Dan Rather -- legitimate documents were doctored in order to discredit the whole Dubya National Guard story.
JH Hatfield -- the evidence of Dubya's cocaine use was 'leaked' to a convicted felon for use in his book with the purpose of short-circuiting yet one more Bush bombshell. Which it effectively did.
Posted by MinM | Wed Oct 14, 2015, 08:52 AM (0 replies)


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News Release
For Immediate Release
June 15, 2013
Geoffrey Ward, Attorney
(603) 545-1737
New Hampshire Attorney General Joseph A. Foster, State Police Colonel Robert L. Quinn and Somersworth Police Chief Dean Crombie announce that an autopsy was completed Saturday on the body of two-year-old Noah York. Chief Medical Examiner Doctor Thomas A. Andrew determined that the cause of the child's death was smothering. The manner of his death was homicide.
Noah was found in distress was emergency personnel and the Somersworth police responded to a 911 call that was placed from apartment #2, 231 High Street in Somersworth. That child was transported to the Wentworth Douglas Hospital and later pronounced dead.
Jared Pope (age 30) of Somersworth, New Hampshire has been arrested and charged with Manslaughter for causing the child's death. Mr. Pope is expected to be arraigned on the Manslaughter charge on Monday, June 17, 2013, in the 7th Circuit Court - District Division, in Dover, New Hampshire.
The circumstances surrounding the homicide remain under investigation.
New Hampshire Department of Justice | 33 Capitol Street | Concord, NH | 03301
Telephone: 603-271-3658

subset: commoncrawl


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If you have never met a crossdresser husband, then it's probably because you haven't seen them dressed up in their women's clothing. You see, most of these guys are simply walking around telling everyone they meet that they are crossdressers. Now, there are some that wear their clothing out in public with their wives but, even then, most people probably wouldn't realize that it was a guy wearing that dress. Most of them look so sexy that even when they are dressed like a man they don't really look the part. It's definitely a lifestyle that surprises a lot of people once they realize what is going on.
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I know a Crossdresser husband that enjoys letting people know about his lifestyle. He doesn't tell complete strangers why he dresses in this manner, but if you ask him why he chooses to wear a dress; he will tell you. I asked him once if it was only the dress that he wore or if he went all the way and basically became a female. He told me that it would be pointless to wear a dress if you weren't wearing all the other articles of clothing that a typical woman would wear along with it.
I have thought about being a crossdresser husband a few times, but I really don't have the kind of body that someone would need in order to look sexy in this manner. Although I could see myself wearing some sexy underclothes once in a while. I guess if people didn't have to see me in my womens clothing, then it wouldn't be all that bad. I am sure my wife would enjoy seeing me walking around the bedroom in some of her panties or something and that just might end up being my introduction into becoming a crossdresser myself. Maybe that is exactly what I need to do to get started.


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This is really easy to throw together and tastes so fresh and creamy! Everyone in my family loved this when I took it over to my parent's house for Sunday dinner. And the best part is- you don't even need to turn on your oven! I used an Angel Food cake that I picked up at the grocery store and it worked perfectly!
Serves: 10-12
This bright and fresh dessert is always a crowd-favorite! I love it because it doesn't require any cooking, which is perfect for those hot summer months.
25 minPrep Time
25 minTotal Time
- 1/4 cup plus 2/3 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 premade angel food cake, cut into 1-inch slices
- 2 (8 oz) packages cream cheese, at room temperature
- 2 cups heavy cream, at room temperature
- 2 pints blueberries
- 2 pints strawberries, sliced
- Heat 1/4 cup sugar, lemon juice and water in a saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring, until the sugar dissolves. Remove from the heat and stir in the almond extract.
- Brush both sides of each slice of cake with the syrup. Cut the slices into 1-inch cubes.
- Beat the remaining 2/3 cup sugar and the cream cheese with a mixer on medium speed until smooth and light. Add the cream and beat on medium-high speed until smooth and the consistency of whipped cream.
- Arrange half of the cake cubes in the bottom of a trifle dish. Sprinkle evenly with a layer of blueberries. Dollop half of the cream mixture over the blueberries and gently spread. Top with a layer of strawberries. Layer the remaining cake cubes on top of the strawberries, then sprinkle with more blueberries and top with the remaining cream mixture. Finish with the remaining strawberries and blueberries until the top is covered. Cover and refrigerate 1 hour, then serve.
- You could make about 10-12 individual servings (as pictured in mini trifle bowls) or one large trifle.
Equipment needed:
Here are some more of our favorite desserts:
Texas Sheet Cake Brownies
Take 5 Cake Mix Bars
Whoppers Blondie Bars
4th of July Firework Cookies
Fudgy Brownies


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Shane Bishop, NBC Producer A producer for "Dateline NBC" is apparently collaborating with a convicted killer in order to get a sensational story about another one. The Austin-American Statesman reports:
"Dateline NBC" producer Shane Bishop has a deal for Gov. Rick Perry: Promise to waive the death penalty for an imprisoned Arkansas murderer, and I'll help you solve two murders in the Fort Worth area in 1982 and 1983.
The unusual offer came in a Nov. 29 letter from the California-based Bishop to Perry and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, offering to help solve three cold murder cases in the two states if the chief executives would "guarantee not to pursue the death penalty" against an Arkansas convict serving life without parole for murder.
A copy of the letter was made public under the Texas Public Information Act. [...]
"Why am I writing you to beg you take up this effort? Because it's the right thing to do," Bishop wrote. "But I am certain Dateline NBC would give substantial coverage to the solving of these three cold case murders tied to a serial killer, and the essential roles played by the Governors of Texas and Florida."


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Riga (Nov. 15)
(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Alarming reports from the district of Pskov are reported in despatches received by the Estonian press.
According to these despatches, the distressful economic condition of the peasants in that district led to a rebellion of the peasants, which developed into massacres. Soviet institutions were burned down, the officials killed and their corpses thrown into the river. Many Jews are reported to have been killed during the massacres. The peasants fought with the Red army in a battle which lasted six hours.
The Russian-Estonian frontier is closed to prevent the escape of the peasants, it was stated.


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by Katy Stein, St. Mary's University Law School
Originally published in The ALL-SIS Newsletter, Volume 30, Issue 1, Fall 2010
As a new law librarian, I was so excited to attend the annual meeting in Washington, D.C. in 2009—and for good reason. I attended great programs, lunches, made new friends and reconnected with others, ate and imbibed many vendor-provided refreshments, and even saw some great sights. But, when I returned to my library, I wasn't sure if I had taken advantage of all my opportunities during the meeting, and wondered if there were experiences I wasn't aware of and missed out on. One facet of the meeting, though, I knew I didn't understand: the exhibit hall.
During my first meeting I found myself only spending a few minutes a day in the exhibit hall, mostly waiting to run into someone I knew, or to take a chance to win a Kindle. I watched as people went to booths and cheerfully interacted, but never managed to more than awkwardly stumble through a LexisNexis presentation or two. That couldn't be, as Peggy Lee lamented, all there is? This year I asked for advice. I sought the counsel of our library's Associate Director, Charlie Finger, who since his arrival has boggled my mind with his knowledge of vendors, publishers, and all else acquisitions and collection development concerned. With minimal arm-twisting, I conscripted Charlie into giving up some all too precious meeting time to show me the ways of the exhibit hall. One morning, four hours, and bags and bags of tchotchkes/swag/promotional ephemera later, here are the mysteries of the exhibit hall, now unlocked:
1. No Fear. It may be stereotypically "librarianish" of me to admit that I'm generally uncomfortable approaching people I don't know, but it's true. I had the initial, and incorrect, assumption that unless I knew my library needed a product, or was prepared to purchase it, I'd simply be wasting the exhibitors' time. This couldn't be further from the truth. One of the greatest benefits of my exhibit hall experience this year was learning about companies I wasn't aware of, that may not seem to relate to an academic law library's needs. Instead, I re-framed the exhibit hall as a place to learn about different vendors to which I may need to look to in the future to fill a need unique to an academic library, or even just to become more conversant in the tools and services law firm and other libraries use. Specifically of interest to me were the many document delivery services, which I'll keep in mind for my more exigent faculty services circumstances. Above all, the vendors spend a great deal of money to have just this sort of face time with law librarians, to hear about their needs and what their companies can do to better serve us. Working with vendors is definitely a two-way street, and an important part of nurturing this relationship is simply meeting vendors, seeing what they have to offer, and keeping them in mind for the future.
2. Three Simple Words. After standing around awkwardly at booths last year, I found I needed an "in," some introduction to start off conversations with vendors. And it had to be at little less transparent than, "Got any free stuff?" This year I found the perfect, all-purpose opener: "Hi, what's new?" Regardless of whether your library has been using the vendor's service for decades or you can't even tell what the service is, all the vendors I encountered had new texts, new products, or enhanced services. And that's exactly what they'd like to tell you about. This approach gives them an easy avenue to talk about their products, allowing you to determine whether you have more questions, jog your memory as to any problems you may have encountered with the service, or if you really just want to get that stressball and to move on. In my experience vendors were excited to talk about their new features, so this creates an easy way to start a great interaction.
3. Bring a Friend. The unexpected benefits of working the exhibit hall with one of my coworkers were two-fold. First, it's more fun if you have someone else to bring into the conversation with you, and less intimidating for shy types like me. Second, and more important, given your different experiences in the library, you have more information to bring into the conversation. Where one may use a product infrequently, if at all, another may use it often and be able to ask questions about problems they've been having. If you can talk to the vendor from both the acquisitions/billing perspective and the user experience, more problems can be solved, and you benefit from learning about the library's overall experience with a vendor. All of this information can be critical when making tough decisions about whether to purchase, continue purchasing, or abandon a product or service.
4. Do your Homework. When going through the exhibit hall with Charlie, I was amazed at his recall of what we purchased from which vendors, where we had had billing issues, and when customer service and communication were lacking. As he explained many of the vendor's top sales and service staff and management personnel are often at the meeting, making this is the best time to let them know when something is not working right. Many of those who Charlie had questions for followed up with him directly after the meeting, eager to solve problems. To this end, I'm starting a file this year where I can jot down service questions and problems, and bring them up with vendors at the next meeting, if they are not resolved by then.
5. Collect your Goodies. Of course, these tips would be incomplete without mention of the bounty of promotional swag you can collect in your exhibit hall adventures. As a practical matter, the first thing you'll need is a bag to carry your bounty, an item easily found at many vendor tables. Once you have your bag, you're free to collect without being too overburdened. Aside from a bag, even in this age of badge-scanning, bring business cards both for entering drawings and giving to vendors whom you'd like to hear from directly. Also remember that many of the vendors, particularly the publishers, are not excited about dragging their products back home, so it doesn't hurt to ask for a copy of that book/looseleaf/DVD set—especially on Tuesday, in the exhibit hall's final hours.
6. Sharing the Wealth. At the end of my exhibit hall adventure, I was tired, thirsty, and a little dazed. I felt as though I had gotten drunk on free pens and USB drives as the remnants of my exhibit hall spree bulged through my suitcase. But, after I arrived home, much of my bounty found new homes as well. Though it may seem a small gesture, offering up your goodies to co-workers who couldn't attend the meeting is always appreciated. From there, USB drives can be saved to use at the circulation desk for students needing to borrow one, a cheap option as our drives seem to wander off easily. Others can be saved for prizes to give out in legal research classes or at library presentations. Even my dog shared in the benefit, and remained vendor-neutral, reportedly enjoying his WestlawNext football and LexisNexis stadium blanket equally.
Thanks to all I learned from Charlie and my exhibit hall adventure this year, I can't wait for next year's meeting to sharpen my skills, make more of my time, and practice my three-word opener for all the information and networking benefits, and of course, all manner of goodies. I am still holding out for my free iPad, after all.


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Lifter on a mission
KEW weightlifter Simon Heffernan will this afternoon channel eight years of frustration on to the bar in the men's 94-kilogram division at Melbourne Exhibition Centre.
Heffernan, 30, last competed on the Games stage in 1998 at Kuala Lumpur. He missed Manchester 2002 because of a hernia operation, qualified but wasn't picked for the Athens Olympics and thought he was going to miss these Games.
A last-minute change of criteria from authorities threatened his spot on the team after Heffernan thought he had done all required of him at the Games trials in December.
It wasn't until February and after the threat of legal action that the Emmaus College English teacher's spot was confirmed.
"They told me to forget about it, but there's still a part of that with me", Heffernan said yesterday.
He also carried the scars of eight years away from the Games. "It has been horrible," Heffernan said. "I have hated being no part of it getting no reward for years of toil."
Heffernan comes into the event as the No. 3 ranked lifter in the Commonwealth behind fellow Australian Alexsan Karapetyn, who won gold in Manchester, and New Zealand's Grant Cavit.
Later tonight, Deborah Lovely will try to go one better than her silver- medal-winning performance at Manchester in the women's 75-kilogram event.
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It started a few years ago when a good friend from college, Olivia Salter, a teacher in eastern North Carolina, started a blog to chronicle the adventures of her family of seven. Like most of us who start blogs, she had great intentions of beautiful photos, funny posts about the cute things her five children did, and personal reflections on family life. And also like most of us, exactly what she intended to write about took most of her time and the blog suffered.
Still, that fact didn't get Olivia down. She did something innovative.
She decided to share her family's experiences on social media, just as she had been, but included a family hashtag. So now most of the pictures she posts of her adorable brood include the hashtag, as do other posts about their accomplishments, special moments, and more.
The possibilities are endless on the story she can piece together with the use of one hashtag. "We started using the hashtag so people could keep up with us. I even put it on our Christmas cards, so our friends and family can pull up our pictures." Going one step further, I've seen others post pictures of her little ones, using their hashtag. How cool would it be if you could get your entire set of loved ones in on it? Mom, Dad, Grandma, uncles, aunts, and cousins could contribute to a beautiful collection of memories, giving this method of family documentation a rich enhancement not usually achieved on a traditional blog.
Why has it worked? Because Olivia chose something both meaningful and unique. When I searched her hashtag for other posts, it turned up nada. So the key is picking something no one else is using. The purpose would be completely defeated if the hashtag you go with produces a list of random web content.
I'm too wordy to make it work, but in a world of increased brevity, this trend is really catching on!
Would using a hashtag help you keep loved ones up-to-date on your family's happenings?
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pageokJanuary 2003
Issues to Consider When Merging Two S Corporations or Other Closely-Held Entities
pageokTom and Mary want to combine their subchapter S corporations, Acme Corporation and Beta Corporation, respectively, and work together as owners of a new entity. Beta Corporation is owned 90% by Tom and 10% by Sally. Tom suggests a merger, but Mary, who owns the larger company, wants to remain in charge of business operations after the transaction. Following are some of the issues that Tom and Mary should consider.
Merge The Companies:
Since Tom and Mary each have a corporation, they can merge (become one) on a tax-free basis. With a merger, either Acme or Beta corporation will become the surviving entity while the other corporation will "disappear" into it. An advantage of the merger is that it is relatively straightforward, one entity remains and the other disappears. A disadvantage is the disappearing corporation no longer operates as an independent entity and its goodwill (name recognition, business operations, telephone numbers, advertisements) will disappear into the surviving entity. Issues dealing with employees and outstanding liabilities and potential creditor claims also become the responsibility of the surviving entity. Also, Sally, as a 10% shareholder in Beta corporation could have dissenter's rights under state law if she objects to the merger, although in this case, Sally will not object.
Create a Parent Corporation with Acme and Beta Corporations as subsidiaries:
pageokTom and Mary could transfer their stock in both Acme and Beta Corporations to a newly formed corporation (called "Parent"), in exchange for stock in Parent. In general, this can be accomplished on a tax-free basis under IRC Sec. 351. Parent Corporation can be an S corporation which owns Acme and Beta corporations. Acme and Beta corporations must meet the requirements of a qualified sub-chapter S subsidiary 1, which should not be an issue in this case. Tom can transfer his stock in Acme corporation to Parent in exchange for Parent stock and Mary does the same with her Beta corporation stock. Since Beta is the larger corporation, Tom and Mary agree that Mary should own 60% of Parent and Tom and Sally would then receive the 40% balance of the issued and outstanding stock. Under this scenario, Acme and Beta retain their independent entity status, which means that each continues in business with its individual employees and liabilities remaining within each independent entity. Also, if Tom and Mary decide that their business venture is not working, each can receive their former company as part of a dissolution or buyout.
Create a Limited Liability Company (LLC) which owns both Acme Corporation and Beta Corporation:
pageokTom and Mary could create an LLC that owns the corporations, generally on a tax-free basis, however, the corporations would no longer qualify as S corporations; an adverse tax consequence that, in many instances, would preclude using an LLC as a parent.
Stock Options for Employees:
pageokTom and Mary will provide an employee stock option plan for their employees. IRS has ruled that such a plan will not violate the S corporation's one class of stock rule. Because shareholders, including employee/shareholders, take into income their pro-rata share of corporae earnings, Tom and Mary want the stock options to "vest" over a 4-year period. If Tom and Mary issue Incentive Stock Options (IRC Sec. 422), there could be hidden tax traps caused by the Alternative Minimum Tax ("AMT") when the employee exercises the options, especially when the stock price rises greatly in value during the vesting period.2
Forming a Separate LLC to Hold and License Mary's Intellectual Property:
pageokMary wants to separate out the intellectual property (her tradename and copyrighted materials, trade secrets and know-how) created by her prior to the formation of Parent. She wants to continue to own her IP. Mary should consider forming an LLC to hold her IP and then licensing it to Parent in return for royalties. There are several reasons for Mary to form a separate entity to hold her IP.
(1). The LLC may be owned by a combination of the following members: Mary; a trust for Mary's parents and children; and, possibly, her IRA. This allows income to be received directly by persons whom Mary would otherwise support with after-tax dollars. If her IRA owns a significant portion of the LLC, the income received by the IRA is not currently taxed.3
If the IP is subsequently sold for a large capital gain, the proceeds will be divided among the members and Mary's share will be limited to her interest in the LLC. This reduces Mary's estate for estate-tax purposes. Also, Mary's interest in the LLC will be entitled to valuation discounts should she die owning the LLC interest.4
(2). The royalty income is not subject to employment taxes. Unlike earnings from an S corporation, which, if characterized as income from personal services is subject to employment taxes, the royalty income is not personal service income and, therefore, not subject to employment taxes.
(3). If Parent is successfully sued by a creditor or goes out of business, Mary's IP is not an asset of Parent. Parent merely has a licensing agreement which, if properly drafted, could be terminated by the LLC. The LLC could then enter into a new licensing agreement with another entity. 5
Form an LLC with Tom to Purchase a Building:
pageokMary wants to take advantage of the depressed real estate market where Parent will operate and would like to purchase a building and lease it to Parent. Mary and Tom decide to become equal members of an LLC which will purchase a building and lease it to Parent. Reasons to acquire a building and place it into an LLC include:
(1). Rents paid by Parent are not self-employment income to Tom or Mary. Future appreciation in the building will benefit Tom and Mary directly. Each can engage in estate planning by transferring membership interest to family members or trusts. Minority discount rules for valuing each member's interest in the LLC for gift and estate-tax purposes will produce a lower valuation.
(2). The building is not an asset of Parent, thus, if Parent is successfully sued, the building will not be subject to the claims of Parent's creditors.
1 A "Q-sub" is a domestic corporation that qualifies as an S corporation and is 100% owned by an S corporation parent. A Q-Sub is a disregarded entity: all of its income, losses and assets flow through to the parent. A corporation must elect Q-Sub status.
2 See my article on ISOs Meet the AMT: Employees Ambushed by the Tax Code regarding the problems of an ISO issued by an S corporation which is later acquired by a public company. Also, see my Tax Prophet section on Stock Options in general.
3 If Mary has a Roth IRA as a member of the LLC, the income conceivably will never be taxed to her, provided she receives it after age 59 ˝.
4 See generally my Tax Prophet section on Estate Planning.
5 See generally, my Tax Prophet section on Asset Protection.
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In a series aimed at helping shop owners, we're going to be sharing some tips from the community about marketing your products.
Today's tip is from Joaquin, the creator of the Seed of Yggdrasil
"Seeing the lack of a broad selection of decorative, full color objects in Shapeways, I decided to try out a design of my own and see what it would look like in color. I modeled and 3d-painted The Seed of Yggdrasil using Maya, in about two days of work. It turned out fantastic, the colors were really vibrant, making it stand out. It was also quite cheap since color printing is much cheaper than a lot of other materials. Once I had printed and photographed it, it was time to share it with the world."
The first step is to tell your friends, using your own social networks like G+, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and your own blog if you have one. Beyond your own social networks, telling blogs and magazines is the way to spread the word to a wider audience. Check this top 100 list of blogs as a starting point:
Think about which blogs would be interested in your product, and send them a short email tailored to their audience. Save them some time by writing it in the way they would write an article, make it short and to the point and include clear images. Try to make your text interesting, tell a story with it and explain what you created and why its cool. I'd recommend linking to a single object instead of to your whole Shapeways store. The point here is to find someone with a bigger reach than just you.
Joaquin's master tip for advanced users: Use a cat as the background for your pictures. 😉
Last month we featured another great product that went viral using a totally different route, the Twin Rail Mobius. Making a video of your product, particularly if it has moving parts or components, helps to bring it to life. Posting it on youtube exposes it to a whole new community of viewers, you can link your youtube video back to your shop, and embed it directly into your product page.
Bloggers are hungry for content, and we know our Shapeways community is responsible for making a LOT of cool stuff, so feed the bloggers! Send them punchy submissions and see what happens…your design might be the next nyan cat!


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of our Junior Girls and Adults. Voting may also take place
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However, before we can vote we
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position on either the Executive Board or as a Junior Board
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for each of the positions sought. Candidates must fill out
a nomination form and submit it to the AZ Region office no
later than April 25th at 12 noon. Forms may be faxed (602-454-1427),
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Suite 108, Tempe, AZ 85282). The candidate's information
will be posted here and available at each site of the Region
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From: "WalkerRH" <>
Subject: Re: [ONT] GEDCOM and SHARING FILES
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 22:01:26 -0400
References: <001801c41fdb$790beca0$e99afea9@Donald>
As has been posted already, this happens and there is not alot you can do
about it after the fact. However, there are a few things you can do to
minimize the damage and loss of privacy.
First and the most obvious, don't list any information about living people,
if another family member shares their information with you to add to yours,
be sure to credit them and provide a way to contact them directly so they
can decide if they wish to share further information with others.
Second, don't use standard genealogy formats. Make up your own unique
method of how you record and publish your information and be careful listing
your sources, this allows you to share the information by other means, i.e.
email, snail mail and not in one copy/paste lump sum. By doing this it
requires that people who snag your information have to actually do some work
to transfer the information over to standardized forms so it can be
published or burned on CDs to sell for profit. Never put your information
on any company's websites without investigating the companies policy about
how your information is used. This also applies to anyone seeking to use
your information to publish a book, they also have to put in the time to
sort through it.
Third and last, understand the need to continue to share information with
others. List only enough information that will let others see a link to
your information. If they find a hit then you and that person can go to
private emails and share other information about that one connection.
W.R. Walker
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Subject: [ONT] GEDCOM and SHARING FILES
> I learned the lesson the hard way. I sent a cousin my gedcom file for his
own use and later found it on ancestry.com and the LDS Family Search.
> He would not remove it and when I contacted both sources I was told the
only person that could remove it was the person who submitted it.
> He changed his server so the contact shown was no longer valid.
> Do not send anything, repeat anything, unless you remove all notes and
then send only the information on that persons family and limit the number
of generations.
> Since then I have had several relatives very upset and some will not even
talk to me as I gathered the information with the understanding it would not
be put on the public domain unless they approved.
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By Amanda Kim Stairrett
Fort Hood Herald
Coalition forces will not determine democracy in Iraq's Diyala province, its people will, Col. David Sutherland said Sept. 18 from Iraq.
Sutherland commands the 1st Cavalry Division's 3rd Brigade Combat Team. Most of the division's units are located in Baghdad, but the 3rd Brigade's area of operations spans Diyala province, which is northeast of Baghdad, and parts of southern Salah ad Din. The territory the brigade controls is about the size of Vermont and New Hampshire combined, according to information from the unit. Diyala's capital city is Baqubah.
Missions by a joint force of American and Iraqi troops have been successful in reducing violence by 40 percent since July 1, and Sutherland said that has resulted in the citizens' support. That support is the key to success, he said.
In the past three months, forces have conducted three major missions at the brigade level. The most recent being Operation Lightning Hammer 2. Since the brigade deployed to the area in November, troops have conducted more than 230 battalion- to brigade-level offense operations, Sutherland said.
"You would be in absolute awe if you saw the American military in action over here," Sutherland said.
Among the brigade's successes, 44 suspected or actual al-Qaida members have been detained or killed, 15 weapons caches have been destroyed, three vehicle-born bombs meant for markets were found and 38 roadside bombs were pointed out by the province's citizens.
Most of the violence the soldiers encounter now is systemic response to their operations, Sutherland said. The troop surge benefited the area and allowed forces to dominate and secure the population.
While the mission evolves constantly, leaders are still focused on helping the local governments establish services and security to its people. Tasks change, but not the mission, Sutherland said.
Iraqi people want the same thing as Americans, he added.
"They have the same hopes, dreams and desires as we do," he said. They want to prosper, but without peace and stability, they can't do that, he added.
The brigade is composed of more than 5,000 soldiers, which include its six battalions and troops from the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment; 1st Battalion, 38th Infantry Regiment; Army Reserves and National Guard. It also operates jointly with members of the U.S. Navy and Air Force, and is a combined force with soldiers from Uganda who provide force protection, according to information from the brigade.
The soldiers are spread out over forward operating bases to austere patrol bases. Soldier from the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment live on patrol bases in Baqubah and some of them have not spent more than 30 days on a forward operating base in their 10 months there, Sutherland said.
Though some of these places can be remote or austere, the colonel said the soldiers are fearless and "take it to the enemy every day."
Leaders are doing what they can to make sure morale stays high among the brigade's soldiers. The troops have access to a coffee bar and a Pizza Hut recently opened in the area. Sutherland said soldiers' morale is extremely high and the tangible results of that can be measured in the brigade's re-enlistment numbers, whose goals have continued to be met.
"These are typical Cav soldiers," Sutherland said. "If you ain't Cav, you ain't …"
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Vol 9 (2003)
Table of Contents
|Neither HOT nor COLD An Alternative Account of Consciousness Summary Full Text
|Robert W. Lurz
|I identify three dominant positions in the philosophy of mind on the nature and distribution of consciousness: the exclusive HOT position, the inclusive HOT position, and the COLD position. I argue that each of these positions has its own rather counterintuitive consequence and, as a result, is not entirely satisfying. To avoid these consequences, I argue, a common assumption of the dominant positions ought to be rejected -- namely, that to be conscious of one's mental states is to be conscious that one has them. I go on to show that once this assumption is rejected, an alternative account of consciousness -- the SO account -- emerges. I develop the SO account in the latter half of the paper, showing how it offers a plausible explanation of the difference between conscious and unconscious mental states.
|Attention and Blind-Spot Phenomenology Summary Full Text
|Liang Lou, Jing Chen
|The reliability of visual filling-in at the blind spot and how it is influenced by the distribution of spatial attention in and around the blind spot were studied. Our data suggest that visual filling-in at the blind spot is 1) less reliable than it has been assumed, and 2) easier under diffused attention around the blind spot than under focal attention restricted in the blind spot. These findings put important constraints on understanding the filling-in in terms of its neural substantiation. Recent neurophysiological studies suggest that V1 neurons corresponding to the blind spot in retinotopic map extend their receptive fields far beyond the blind spot and are not silent during the filling-in (Komatsu, Kinoshita, and Murakami, 2000). For those neurons to subserve filling-in, it may be crucially important for top-down attention to match their receptive fields.
|Eliminativism, First-Person Knowledge and Phenomenal Intentionality A Reply to Levine Summary Full Text
|Charles Siewert
|Levine suggests the following criticisms of my book. First, the absence of a positive account of first-person knowledge in it makes it vulnerable to eliminativist refutation. Second, it is a relative strength of the higher order representation accounts of consciousness I reject that they offer (as my account does not) explanations of the subjectivity of conscious states and their special availability to first-person knowledge. Further, the close connection I draw between the phenomenal character of experience and intentionality is unwarranted in the case of both color perception and conceptual thought. In response to Levine's critique, I argue that the eliminativist can be rebutted and higher-order representation theories found wanting, even without offering a positive account of first-person knowledge. Also, I note that I actually have begun to offer an account of this based on my conception of phenomenal consciousness. Finally, it will be seen that Levine's concerns do not undermine my views on color experience, conscious thought, and intentionality, once their justification and character are made clear.
|Phenomenal Projection Summary Full Text
|Zoltán Jakab
|In this paper I shall defend a projectivist view of sensory experience. The case I shall focus on is that of color experience. Projectivism has recently been criticized by some authors who claim that it is unintelligible, or at least implausible, and that it makes a severe category mistake. I shall argue that despite some prima facie impressions of implausibility, projectivism can be made intelligible, and plausible, if its details are spelled out in a reasonable way. In addition, projectivism is ubiquitous in human psychology, and certain cases of projection are reasonably viewed as making a category mistake. Viewed from this perspective, sensory projection is just one instance of projectivism, brought about by low-level perceptual processing. Whether sensory projection is one that makes a category mistake is not obvious. However, even if it does, this is perfectly compatible with the evolutionary advantage of sensation and perception.
|The Introspectibility Thesis Summary Full Text
|Cody S. Gilmore
|According to what Barry Dainton calls the 'Strong Introspectibility thesis', it is a necessary truth that mental states S and S* are co-conscious (experienced together) if and only if they are 'jointly introspectible', i.e., if and only if it is possible for there to be some single state of introspective awareness that represents both S and S*. Dainton offers two arguments for the conclusion that joint introspectibility is unnecessary for co-consciousness. In these comments I attempt to show, first, that Dainton's arguments fail, and, second, that joint introspectibility is actually insufficient for co-consciousness. (As to whether it is also unnecessary, I take no stance.)
|First-Person Reflection and Hidden Physical Features: A Reply to Witmer Summary Full Text
|Charles Siewert
|My response to Witmer comes in three sections: In the first I address concerns about my book's blindsight thought-experiment, remarking specifically on the role imagination plays in it, and my grounds for thinking (in the face of Witmer's doubts) that a first-person approach is valuable here. In Section Two I consider the relation of the thought-experiment to theses regarding possibility and necessity, and Witmer's discussion of ways of arguing for the impossibility of "Belinda-style" blindsight, despite its apparent conceivability. Finally, in Section Three, I consider Witmer's suggestion that we build on my discussion of blindsight to support the thesis that consciousness is a hidden physical feature.
|The Inadequacy of Materialistic Explanation A Review of Joseph Levine's Purple Haze Summary Full Text
|Mark Bradley
|Purple Haze: The Puzzle of Consciousness, by Joseph Levine, is reviewed. The position that Levine takes in the current philosophical debate about consciousness is identified and the general approach of the essay outlined. I focus on two of the more important issues in the book - the conceivability argument against materialism, and the explanatory gap argument against dualism - and argue that Levine's argument against the former is unconvincing and his diagnosis of the source of the latter leads him into problems. I suggest a more promising route.
|The Contents of Phenomenal Consciousness One Relation to Rule Them All and in the Unity Bind Them Summary Full Text
|Antti Revonsuo
|Stream of Consciousness is a detailed and insightful analysis of the nature of phenomenal consciousness, especially its unity at a time and continuity over stretches of time. I find Dainton's approach to phenomenal consciousness in many ways sound but I also point out one major source of disgreement between us. Dainton believes that to explain phenomenal unity and continuity, no reference to anything outside experience is required. Thus, he postulates a fundamental experiential relation called co-consciousness which is supposed to do all the explanatory work. On the contrary, I hold that to truly explain features of consciousness such as phenomenal unity and continuity, reference to mechanisms outside the phenomenal realm are necessary.
|A Scientist's Vision Of Art A Review of Margaret Livingstone's Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing Summary Full Text
|Amy Ione
|Vision and Art: The Biology of Seeing by Margaret Livingstone is reviewed. Livingstone's analysis balances genes and experiences in proposing explanations that illustrate commonalities between art and visual perception. The book contributes to the literature that applies visual perception research to artwork, although it fails to probe where artistic visual processing might differ from visual processing per se.
|Sync-Ing in the Stream of Experience Time-Consciousness in Broad, Husserl, and Dainton Summary Full Text
|Shaun Gallagher
|By examining Dainton's account of the temporality of consciousness in the context of long-running debates about the specious present and time consciousness in both the Jamesian and the phenomenological traditions, I raise critical objections to his overlap model. Dainton's interpretations of Broad and Husserl are both insightful and problematic. In addition, there are unresolved problems in Dainton's own analysis of conscious experience. These problems involve ongoing content, lingering content, and a lack of phenomenological clarity concerning the central concept of overlapping experiences.
|Looking and Seeing with the Mind's I, and its Brain A Review of Visual attention and cortical circuits by Braun, J., Koch, C. and Davis, J.L. (Eds.) Summary Full Text
|Tony Dickinson
|Contributions to this edited volume argue for the existence of top-down, context- and task-dependant modulating mechanisms of attention occurring in the mammalian brain. Such positions support the view that areas of the brain traditionally thought to be involved in relatively 'late' stages of visual processing activity (typically frontal cortex) can, and do affect the response properties of 'early' visual processing neurons, including primary visual cortex (V1). Neural circuitries concerned with the processing of visual information should now be viewed less as involving unidirectional mappings from sensory input to motor output for the purposes of planning visually-guided movements. Instead, the attentional processes required to support the co-ordination of sensorimotor transformation functions involve a variety of widely distributed parallel and reciprocally connected neural pathways, including the visual, parietal and frontal cortex.
|Phenomenal Space and the Unity of Conscious Experience Summary Full Text
|Douglas B. Meehan
|One's contemporaneous conscious mental states seem bound in a single, unified experience. Dainton argues, against what he calls the S-Thesis, that we cannot explain such co-consciousness in terms of states' being located in a single phenomenal space, a functional space posited to explain our ability to locate ourselves relative to perceived stimuli. But Dainton's argument rests on a conflation of egocentric and allocentric self-localizing, and thus fails to undermine the S-Thesis. Nevertheless, experiments on visual neglect (Bertelson et al., 2000) suggest one can have unconscious mental states that are located in the same phenomenal field, so the S-Thesis fails after all. I examine a modified version of the S-Thesis according to which mental states are co-conscious when one is aware of them via a higher-order sensation that represents them as located in the same phenomenal field. But among other problems, this view fails to explain the co-consciousness of intentional states, which aren't located in phenomenal fields. Finally, I argue that a higher-order-thought model of consciousness (e.g., Rosenthal, 1997, forthcoming) best explains the apparent unity of experience in terms of one's tacit assumption that all the first-person thoughts in virtue of which one is conscious of one's mental states refer to the same individual.
|Is Mental Life Possible Without the Will? A Review of Daniel M. Wegner's The Illusion of Conscious Will Summary Full Text
|Bruce Bridgeman
|Though we share an irresistible introspection that we possess a will governing our behavior and not controlled by outside forces or previous states, empirical research shows that such a will does not exist. Rather, actions are triggered unconsciously, and a memory-related part of the brain produces a narrative to explain the behavior after the fact.


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The Burton Custom Snowboard is one of the most legendary freestyle boards of all time, continuously pushing the boundaries of riding innovation since its inception in '96. Continuing its freestyle dominance, the Custom features Burton's best technologies wrapped into a traditional camber, directional twin board. A favorite of freestyle slayers including Burton team rider Mikkel Bang, the cambered Custom maximizes stability and snap for riders going big across the entire mountain.
Since it's a directional twin, the Custom offers ride-anything versatility with a slightly longer nose (when it's mounted at the references) for better straight-line stability. Camber underfoot provides powerful snap that's simply not available on rocker hybrids, making it a go-to choice for slopestyle and pipe riders maximizing their amplitude. It's also more stable when you're pointing it down unruly steeps and tracking into gargantuan kickers in the park.
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- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I used to have the burton custom about 9 years ago when I swapped out from a board I bought from a garage sale and freakin loved it!! This thing was my first true all mountain rip stick so when I was offered a chance to demo the newest version, I jumped on it! Going from a hybrid profile back to a traditional camber was different at first but a nice change! The channel system makes for a nice torsional flex throughout the whole board and Frostbite Edge helps on the crusty groomers a ton. The new technology in the core is something else too, I don't remember my old Custom being able to pop so well. Heck, I dont remember my old Custom being anything like this except for the camber and the shaping. This baby has been upgraded big time. If you think this is the same old traditional camber Burton Custom that Burton originally came out with, you're wrong. She's a whole-nother beast. Definitely adding this board to the quiver and you should too.
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If you've got any Burton, Custom, snowboard set up or any other gear questions, hit me up. Best way to contact me would be to email (please include the best phone number to call you at).
This is my pick for a deck for the rider that is interested in having one board to do it all. It'll lack in a few areas (when comparing against a pure pow board) but across the board it's pretty solid.
The traditional camber profile is one of the things about this board that I love a ton since it matches what I grew up riding. No funny made up awkward variable profiles. Just the camber you need to have a good time all over the mountain.
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There are tragic stories in the world of infomercials
What he stumbled on was a great way to make money, buying little classified ads in newspapers. Then he told everyone watching that for just a small amount of money, he'd share the system he used so that you could make money, too.
Donald Lapre sold tiny classified ads, and his infomercial that ran on cable and regular TV stations across the nation promised that you could learn three ways to make money. The price on his system was only $39.95.
On Monday, U.S. Marshals reported that Lapre was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide while in federal custody. Investigation continues.
In June, a grand jury indicted Lapre on 41 counts of conspiracy, mail fraud, wire fraud and promotional money laundering, according to The Hollywood Reporter. According to government reports, Lapre defrauded $52 million from 220,000 victims through a promotion of "The Greatest Vitamin in the World."
When insomnia hits, it is easy to get wrapped up in these late night infomercials. You hear the compelling pitch, the way they set up a story, and how their product or service can make your life better. There are some great, legitimate goods sold this way. However, if the deal sounds too good to be true, sometimes it is.
This is a tragic story, both for Lapre and the 220,000 who allegedly got bilked out of millions.


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Two Rego Park women have been charged with identity theft after they made nearly $70,000 in unauthorized purchases using fraudulent credit cards, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said.
Consuelo Hernandez, 44, and Rhina Landaverde, 45, who share an apartment on Saunders Street, were charged with grand larceny, forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument and identity theft. They were awaiting arraignment last week. If convicted, they face up to 15 years in prison.
"Unraveling the financial damage caused by the defendants' alleged fraud could take the victims months or even years to re-establish their good credit."
Hernandez and Landaverde allegedly opened 19 credit card accounts using the names of a married couple who lived in the apartment before them, the DA said.
After her arrest, Hernandez admitted to faking the signatures of the victims and applying for the cards, Brown said.
Katia and Yaniv Shpilberg moved out in August 2006, authorities said, filing a change of address form with the U.S. Postal Service so that the couple's mail would be forwarded to their new residence in central New Jersey.
But on May 4, 2007, the Postal Service received an online change of address form allegedly from the Shpilbergs, indicating that they wanted their mail forwarded from their New Jersey address back to their former Rego Park address, Brown said.
Katia Shpilberg soon noticed her address had been changed without her knowledge or permission and reversed the change of address, authorities said.
On June 10, 2008, the Postal Service once again received a request to have the couple's mail forwarded to their former Queens address.
Soon after, Port Authority Police Department and the Postal Service investigators discovered that between January 2007 and June 2008, various unauthorized credit card accounts — including MasterCard, American Express, Bank of America and Citibank — had been opened using the Shpilbergs' name and the Saunders Street address as the billing and mailing address, Brown said.
The outstanding balances ranged from $8,000 to more than $30,000 and included a number of airline tickets in the names of the defendants, Hernandez and Landaverde, Brown said. The balances also included the $1 fees for the change of address requests, the DA said.
When police searched the apartment last Thursday, they allegedly found the credit cards and forged New York state IDs with the defendants' photos and the purported signatures of the victims, Brown said.
Reach reporter Jeremy Walsh by e-mail at jwalsh@tim
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text: Your curls are so pretty! But i know how you feel. Too much damn work! lol...but here's the thing your results will depend on a few things. Although most of us are happy with our BKT results, I don't think any of us were prepared for what happened to our curls after. You NEVER know what will happen. Will you keep your curls? I'm pretty sure you will, but i have to tell you when I got a BKT done at a dominican salon with a product straight from brazil my curls were like 80% eliminated and i have kinky tight tigh tight 3c/4a curls! It depends on the brand of product being used, how much is used, and how much heat is applied to your hair during the process. The short answer to your question is yes, you will retain your curl, but how much you'll never know until you do it.


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Medicine is a field of statistics and obscurity is this much manifest than in malignant neoplasm care.
Here is a direction-finder to grasp every of the applied math footing you will run into once discussing metastatic tumor exposure.
Firstly, you obligation to cognise that no one can venture with absolute resolve any patient's distinct conclusion. Instead, malignant neoplastic disease impermanency tax are supported on the outcomes of overlarge book of numbers of relatives who have had the aforementioned virus. In some other words, the statistics that will be quoted to you are just probabilities.Post ads:
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A second entry to know is that not all cancers have the self outcomes. In other than voice communication - some cancers are deadlier than others.
And the third entity to recognize is that the chances of woman recovered depends immensely by a long way on the point of your malignant neoplasm.
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That's why it's so damning for you to cognize what period of time of the unwellness you have.
What is 5 period survival?
When doctors punctuation the chances of survival, they don't relate you that you're apparent to continue living 3 geezerhood and 3 months. Instead, they mention you a fig that's called the 5 period of time continuation. This amount represents the chances that someone beside your unwellness will be live at the end of 5 geezerhood.
For example, if the 5 period life is 25%, this medium that the probability of one viable after 5 eld are 25%. It's arch to face at the picky cohort of unhurried for whom the 5 period living is being quoted. For example, it could list all patients beside a positive category of malignant neoplastic disease or it could sole take in patients near a enduring chapter of that malignant neoplasm.
For example, 49 percent, or going on for half, of group diagnosed next to early-stage respiratory organ cancer dwell for at slightest cardinal years after diagnosis. So, the 5 time period animation for early-stage respiratory organ malignant neoplasm is 49%. Contrast this beside the 5 year aliveness rate for relatives diagnosed near respiratory organ cancer that has spread (metastasized) to otherwise areas of the body which is solitary 3 proportion.
So, as you can see, you impoverishment to breakthrough out what the continuation charge is for patients next to the self time period of disease.
What is remission?
Remission refers to a drop-off of a malignant neoplasm. Remissions can any be complete or uncomplete depending on whether or not any trace of cancer residue. Obviously, if no malignant neoplasm can be found after remedy afterwards the remission is total.
If the malignant neoplasm is small but hasn't disappeared utterly afterwards the patient of has skilled a partial respite.
A realised reprieve may stand for a medicament. But near is motionless a break that the metastatic tumor will flood back depending on the strain of malignant neoplasm. In ethnic group who get done just incomplete remissions, the malignant neoplasm most ever regrows.
Are there any some other applied mathematics vocabulary I should be sensible of?
The 5 year aliveness rate tells you how some race are alive at the end of 5 eld but it doesn't make clear to you how plentiful of these ethnic group are in sheer remittal at the end of 5 old age (in other libretto how abundant relatives have survived for 5 old age and have no demonstration of malignant neoplastic disease).
So present are two much specialized terms:
Disease-free 5 period of time life charge per unit. This is the proportion of relations who are not simply vital after 5 age but are in wide-ranging respite.
Progression-free 5 life charge per unit. This is the proportionality of citizens who are vital after 5 geezerhood but who yet have corroboration of cancer, although the metastatic tumor isn't rolling. This includes inhabitants who may have had every success next to conduct but not plenty to in every respect eradicate their metastatic tumor.
Two separate applied mathematics expressions that you should be aware of are comparative danger and out-and-out risk:
Absolute Risk Reduction Or Benefit. This is the undiluted division in results relating alternatives. So, for example, if coverage A magnified endurance by 22% and management B accumulated life by 20% consequently exposure A resulted in an true ability of (22%-20%) = 2%.
Relative Risk Reduction Or Benefit. This is the relative discrepancy in results between alternatives. So, in the preceding example, the comparative advantage is (22%-20%)/20% = 10%. This figure is deliberate by winning the disproportion in termination as a percentage.
You should beware that oft results are bestowed as relational stake diminution or advantage because the book stable much grandiose. For example, in the above example, a relative gain of 10% sounds more awful than an complete advantage of 2%.
Hopefully, now you'll be competent to be a small more than refined around malignant neoplasm statistics.


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MADISON, Wis. – While Russ Feingold has been reluctant to back a candidate for his party's presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton's impressive night Tuesday might just motivate liberal Feingold to forget the Bern and throw his support behind the former First Lady.
With Wisconsin's presidential primary a few weeks away, the race could be decided by the time Badger State voters have the chance to decide.
Perhaps Feingold, who is in a race of his own, vying for the U.S. Senate seat he lost in 2010 to Republican Ron Johnson, has been hedging his bets. Johnson, too, has yet to endorse a presidential candidate on the GOP side.
One thing's for certain: when it comes to criticizing Clinton for the email server mess that could cost her the White House, Feingold refuses to go there.
Feingold, a former State Department special envoy, has given the press the silent treatment when asked about former Secretary of State Clinton's use of a private server to send and receive apparently classified information.
His campaign, again, would not answer Wisconsin Watchdog's questions about where he stands on the Clinton email scandal.
When asked Tuesday whether he would support Clinton dropping out of the presidential race should she be indicted, Feingold wouldn't answer. (Watch the video here)
It's no "gotcha question."
Clinton, the would-be standard bearer for the Democratic Party, has some real trouble in those emails. Still, Feingold recently said Clinton has what it takes to beat the likes of Donald Trump.
Former Clinton aide Bryan Pagliano has agreed to cooperate with investigators, and he has been granted immunity, according to the Washington Post. Pagliano set up the private server at Clinton's house.
RELATED: What would Russ Feingold's 1992 self say to the 2016 version?
As the BBC pointed out Tuesday, Clinton's national security problems are arguably similar to that of former CIA director David Patraeus.
The general and architect of the successful military "surge" in Iraq, pleaded guilty last year on a misdemeanor count of mishandling classified information. He was accused of turning over notebooks of classified information to his biographer-turned mistress.
"He was fined and placed on probation – a resolution that some have called a slap on the wrist," the BBC noted.
"In other cases people who have revealed classified information were sent to prison. In 2009 Stephen Kim, a former government contractor, was sentenced to 13 months for giving classified material to a reporter," the publication added.
That may be the same old problem: It's not just who you know, but who you are.
Feingold knows Hillary Clinton, and he knows the former senator he voted with the vast majority of time during his long career in Washington has an achievable path to the presidency. He doesn't seem interested in saying or doing anything that could help obstruct that path.
"Where Senator Feingold would let his political allies in Washington get away with everything, Wisconsinites have Ron Johnson holding politicians accountable for their actions," said Pat Garrett, spokesman for the Republican Party of Wisconsin, in a statement. "We need someone like Ron Johnson who is fighting for Wisconsin, not someone like Senator Feingold who spent 18 years in Washington only fighting for himself."


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Thirty overused, irritating and just plain awful food words and phrases that make our mouth hurt
There are words, cliches and phrases that we, as food writers, use far too often, and while we're all probably guilty of making your nostrils flare when we use some of the very same vocabulary that we're now going to criticize, it's when other food writers use these annoying and overused words and phrases that we cringe. You all, no doubt, have plenty of jargon to add to the list of irritants.
But first, here's ours.
If you have even the slightest grasp of the English language, there is absolutely no reason that you should ever, under any circumstances, use the word "nom" -- unless you also meow for your dinner.
Yum, yummy, yum-O, yummers, yumbolicious, or any other variation of yum Yuck. Just yuck.
Veggie This is a personal pet peeve, which I think has something to do with the laziness of abbreviating perfectly fine words that simply don't require it. Aside from that, it sounds so babyish.
Artisanal It's just so...precious.
Anything grilled, roasted, braised, broiled, fried or done "to perfection." So trite, so overused, so meaningless.
Mouthwatering Reminds me of drool, which is what a lot of us do while we sleep but should never do while we eat.
Mouthfeel If you're going to describe the texture of food, then please, for the love of God, don't use the word "mouthfeel." It's creepy.
Orgasmic When was the last time that you put food in your mouth -- real food -- and climaxed? I'm okay with "mouthgasm," but leave "orgasmic" out of the act.
Homemade We all use it, including me, but here's the thing: Just because something is homemade, or housemade, or, for that matter, hand-crafted, doesn't mean that it's good, but whenever we write "homemade" or see the word on a menu, we assume that because it's made in-house, it can't be bad. Who are we kidding? And for the record, if the guy in the kitchen made it at home, I'm not altogether sure I want it.
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Though I like Harry, Ron, and Hermione plenty, seeing Disney characters in Hogwarts school uniforms makes me feel giddy. Disney has its own kind of magic and combining it with the world of Harry Potter means sparks! DeviantArt user Eira1893 came up with this crossover and created illustrations featuring over 20 characters in the school setting.
My favorite part, other than seeing the cute couples, is noting which house the artist sorted the characters into. Anna and Kristoff from Frozen are both in Hufflepuff while Ariel and Prince Eric are in Gryffindor. She goes into detail about her process for choosing the houses on some of the pieces at DeviantArt.
See more of this neat series after the break.
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