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An illustrative depiction of the giant squid in folklore. (Image Credit: PD-US)
The giant squid has long been considered a mythological monster of the deep ocean, backed up only be long-at-sea fishermen's accounts. Then in 2004, a photographer snapped the first stills of the enormous cephalopod, followed by the first video footage of one of the creatures at the ocean's surface in 2006. No one has captured footage of the elusive giant squid in its natural habitat deep beneath the surface—until now.
The delay is understandable when you consider that these near-30-foot-long invertebrates inhabit 3000-foot deep water. Giant squid (Architeuthis dux) are thought to live in colder regions of the Pacific and Atlantic, although their distribution is not totally known. Swimming in the frigid, black waters, their huge eyeballs—the biggest of any animal—allow them to detect light and spot their jellyfish prey.
To shoot the unprecedented footage, a group of scientists and researchers delved into the world of the giant squid—and tricked the animals into thinking their equipment was prey.
During their six-week voyage last summer off of Japan's Ogasawara archipelago, roughly 600 miles south of Tokyo, they spent some 285 hours diving to depths near 3,000 feet in their submersible, Triton, and deployed a specially crafted camera—a system named Medusa. They equipped their camera with imitational bioluminescence, mimicking the glowing aura jellyfish radiate when they're being attacked in the ocean abyss. The lure worked: Squid attacked repeatedly in search of a meal. To ensure the camera lights didn't scare off the deep-sea dwellers, the normally bright recording light was replaced with a dim red one, which has a long wave length that few animals can see in the deep ocean.
The set up was so successful that the crew reportedly viewed a whopping five giant squid.
The footage helped overturn some long-held assumptions about giant squid behabior. Disproving the notion that they're passive creatures that float along, one squid aggressively attacked the camera as it would attack a jellyfish. Through the attack, the team was able to get ample video footage of the giant squid's eight long tentacles and two arms, as it meandered in a "fan-dance"-remnant movement.
Additionally, their coloration surprised the scientists. Squid previously observed floating at the surface and those described in lore were known to have a bright red hue, but there squid were a distinct, vibrant metallic grey and silver.
This YouTube clip briefly shows one of the squid's color and aggressiveness:
The team included scientists and videographers from both the United States and Japan, and the Discovery Channel and Japan Broadcast Commission funded the expedition. Edith Widder, a U.S. oceanographer and founder of the Ocean Research and Conservation Association, developed the Medusa camera system that led to the team's success. Tsunemi Kubodera, a zoologist of Japan's National Museum and Science, accompanied Widder underwater in the team's submersible, and had been on the voyage that captured still photograph and surface video footage of giant squid a few years back. Billionaire Ray Dalio donated his 185-foot research vessel for the voyage.
Widder hopes that the video footage of the giant squid will open the door for future deep-sea research. "But we really have only explored 5% of the ocean, and I think we're exploring that in the wrong way," she told NPR. "I think we've scared a lot of animals away. So what about the stuff that doesn't float when it dies?"
For scientists who only study giant squid, being able to study the real creature and not dead specimens is an incredible breakthrough.
Want more? The video, "Monster Squid: The Giant is Real" will air on the Discovery Channel this coming Sunday at 8 PM ET as the finale of their "Curiosity" series.
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Stereotactic Radiosurgery Using CyberKnife in Treating Women With Advanced or Recurrent Gynecological Malignancies
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RATIONALE: Stereotactic radiosurgery can send x-rays directly to the tumor and cause less damage to normal tissue.
PURPOSE: This clinical trial studies stereotactic radiosurgery using CyberKnife works in treating women with advanced or recurrent gynecological malignancies.
|Fallopian Tube Cancer Ovarian Sarcoma Ovarian Stromal Cancer Recurrent Cervical Cancer Recurrent Endometrial Carcinoma Recurrent Ovarian Epithelial Cancer Recurrent Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor Recurrent Uterine Sarcoma Recurrent Vaginal Cancer Recurrent Vulvar Cancer Stage III Cervical Cancer Stage III Endometrial Carcinoma Stage III Ovarian Epithelial Cancer Stage III Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor Stage III Uterine Sarcoma Stage III Vaginal Cancer Stage III Vulvar Cancer Stage IV Endometrial Carcinoma Stage IV Ovarian Epithelial Cancer Stage IV Ovarian Germ Cell Tumor Stage IV Uterine Sarcoma Stage IV Vulvar Cancer Stage IVA Cervical Cancer Stage IVA Vaginal Cancer Stage IVB Cervical Cancer Stage IVB Vaginal Cancer
|Radiation: stereotactic radiosurgery Procedure: quality-of-life assessment
|Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Prospective Evaluation of a Palliative Radio-Surgical Approach for the Treatment of Gynecologic Malignancies
- Acute Toxicity Rate [ Time Frame: at 6 months after treatment ]The incidence of grade 3 or 4 possible SBRT-related non-hematological toxicities observed during a 6 month period.
- Disease-free Survival [ Time Frame: completion of study at 24 months ]Median disease free survival
- Median Overall Survival [ Time Frame: 24 months ]Length of time patients survived at study end.
- Quality of Life [ Time Frame: After completion of study treatment, patients are followed at 1, 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months. ]
- Clinical Response Rate [ Time Frame: at 6 months from study entry ]Percentage of patients with a clinical response following RECIST (Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors) Criteria: Confirmed complete response(CR), Stable disease (SD), partial response (PR), or without progressive disease (PD).
|Study Start Date:
|May 2009
|Study Completion Date:
|May 2012
|Primary Completion Date:
|May 2012 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm I: CyberKnife Radiosurgery
Patients undergo 3 fractions of CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery.
Radiation: stereotactic radiosurgery
Radiation will be delivered in 3 fractions. The dose level will range between 500 to 800cGy per fraction at the discretion of the treating radiation oncologistProcedure: quality-of-life assessment
Ancillary studies
Other Name: quality of life assessment
Detailed Description:
I. The primary goal of this study is to estimate the rate of grade 3 or higher acute toxicities observed during a 6 month period following CyberKnife radiosurgery for gynecologic cancers.
II. To evaluate clinical response to radio-surgery for gynecologic tumors.
III. To assess general and site specific quality of life (using SF-12, FACT-En, FACT-O, FACT-Cx or FACT-V) and to evaluate patient's level of pain.
I. As a secondary objective, toxicities during the 2 years following CyberKnife radiosurgery will also be described.
Patients undergo 3 fractions of CyberKnife stereotactic radiosurgery.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed at 1, 3, 6, 12, 18 and 24 months.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Pathologically proven gynecologic malignancy
- No prior cryosurgery or radiofrequency ablation, in target lesion
- Patient is able to give and sign study specific informed consent
- Measurable disease, according to RECIST criteria
- Laboratory parameters and appropriate clearance from anesthesia based on other medical co-morbidities for placement of fiducials; these would include CBC, basic metabolic panel, BUN, and creatinine
- >= 4 weeks from previous treatment (chemotherapy or radiation) of malignancy
- ECOG performance status of 0-3 as this procedure is minimally invasive and considered palliative in these patients
- Any patient with active connective tissue disease such as lupus or dermatomyositis is excluded
- Any patient with active Crohn's disease or active ulcerative colitis is excluded
- Major medical or psychiatric illness, which would prevent completion of treatment or interfere with follow-up is excluded
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01079832
|United States, Ohio
|Case Medical Center, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Cleveland, Ohio, United States, 44106
|Principal Investigator:
|Robert DeBernardo, MD
|Case Medical Center, University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|Responsible Party:
|Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01079832 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2010-00285 ( Other Identifier: NCI/CTRP )
CASE13808 ( Other Identifier: Case Comprehensive Cancer Center )
|Study First Received:
|March 2, 2010
|Results First Received:
|July 19, 2013
|Last Updated:
|September 27, 2013
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Uterine Cervical Neoplasms
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Ovarian Neoplasms
Fallopian Tube Neoplasms
Endometrial Neoplasms
Vulvar Neoplasms
Vaginal Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Connective and Soft Tissue
Uterine Neoplasms
Genital Neoplasms, Female
Urogenital Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Uterine Cervical Diseases
Uterine Diseases
Genital Diseases, Female
Endocrine Gland Neoplasms
Ovarian Diseases
Adnexal Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Gonadal Disorders
Fallopian Tube Diseases
Vulvar Diseases
Vaginal Diseases
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3:08pm Friday 14th February 2014
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Macclesfield Town have arranged a pitch inspection at 8am on Saturday morning ahead of the match against Ady Pennock's Forest Green.
Macclesfield groundsman Liam Cash said: "The pitch is currently playable after a dry 36 hours or so which allowed us to do a lot of repair work.
"Anyone at the game on Tuesday will have seen that the surface took a fair bit of damage. That said, it was a fantastic achievement to get the game to go ahead given the situation only a few hours beforehand, and I'd like to thank all the volunteers who came down to help out.
"But the weather forecast is very poor right up until the game, so we need a bit of luck with the weather, and if it's a close thing again we will be putting out the call for volunteers again."
If the game goes ahead, Rovers are set to hand former Bradford City defender Luke Oliver his debut.
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Melanoma Risk-Reduction Among Patients and Family Members
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- To conduct semi-structured interviews with melanoma patients and family members to collect descriptive information on their UVR exposure, UVR exposure-reduction practices, melanoma early detection practices, knowledge, psychosocial variables related to melanoma risk-reduction (e.g., self-efficacy, norms, and expectations), and experiences surrounding the diagnosis of melanoma in the family. Melanoma patients and family members with children will be asked about the UVR exposure and UVR exposure-reduction practices of their children, and parental practices to reduce UVR exposure among children.
- To develop behavioral and attitudinal questionnaires based on data collected during semi-structured interviews, and evaluate the appropriateness of these questionnaires using cognitive interviewing techniques.
- To develop tailored messages aimed at promoting strategies to reduce UVR exposure (e.g., wearing protective clothing, minimizing midday UVR exposure, minimizing duration of UVR exposure, using shade and sunscreen, avoiding sun lamps, and avoiding intentional tanning) and improving adherence to surveillance and screening guidelines. Messages will be developed to correspond to responses to questionnaire items.
- To assess tailored messages for their relevance, appropriateness, attractiveness and appeal, credibility, and perceived behavioral impact among melanoma patients and their family members.
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Time Perspective: Prospective
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|Melanoma Risk-Reduction Practices Among Melanoma Patients and Their Family Members
- Information on ultraviolet radiation (UVR-E) reduction + early detection practices of melanoma patients and family members [ Time Frame: 8 Years ]
- Development of questionnaires + tailored intervention messages on melanoma risk-reduction in a high-risk population [ Time Frame: 8 years ]
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|Study Start Date:
|November 2002
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|November 2018
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|November 2018 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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Melanoma Risk-Reduction
Patients with melanoma, their spouses/partners, and first-degree relatives (FDRs).
Behavioral: Questionnaire
Questionnaire regarding melanoma risk-reduction.
Other Name: SurveyBehavioral: Interview
Interview via telephone about topics related to melanoma risk-reduction.
Detailed Description:
Participants in Part 1 of the study will be asked to be interviewed about topics related to melanoma risk-reduction, including opinions, attitudes, beliefs, and practices related to ultraviolet radiation exposure, melanoma prevention, and melanoma detection.
Participants in Part 2 of the study will be asked to complete a written questionnaire on melanoma risk-reduction and then be interviewed to obtain feedback on how the questionnaire may be refined.
Participants in Part 3 of the study will be asked to be interviewed by telephone. Participants then will receive educational material in the form of a newsletter tailored to their interview responses. Participants then will be asked to be interviewed to obtain feedback for refining the educational material. In each part of the study, the patient/family member will receive a letter describing the study and the Consent Statement for Questionnaire and Interview Studies.
Prior to the start of the interview, the Consent Statement will be read to the patient/family member. Patients/family members may or may not choose to have the interview tape-recorded. Participants may stop the interview or questionnaire at any time and may refuse to answer any questions. At any time, the patient/family member may refuse to have the interview tape-recorded. There is no treatment associated with this study.
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|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- (FDRs will include siblings and adult children.) Melanoma patients are eligible if they were diagnosed with in situ, localized, or regional melanoma after January 1, 1997.
- Melanoma patients, their spouses/partners, and their first-degree relatives (FDRs) 18 years of age or older are eligible.
- Melanoma patients, their spouses/partners, and FDRs are eligible if they can speak, read, and write English.
- Melanoma patients, their spouses/partners, and FDRs are eligible if they provide informed consent.
- Spouses/partners and FDRs of melanoma patients are eligible if the patient gives permission for them to be contacted for recruitment.
- A melanoma patient's FDR is eligible if he/she is a sibling or child of the melanoma patient.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Melanoma patients, spouses/partners of patients, and FDRs of patients are not eligible if they cannot provide informed consent.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00510302
|United States, Texas
|University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
|Houston, Texas, United States, 77030
|Principal Investigator:
|Susan Peterson, PhD
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00510302 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|July 31, 2007
|Last Updated:
|July 13, 2017
Keywords provided by M.D. Anderson Cancer Center:
Ultraviolet Radiation
First Degree Relative
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Neuroendocrine Tumors
Neuroectodermal Tumors
Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Neoplasms, Nerve Tissue
Nevi and Melanomas
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How much did the present DL have to do with the pre-Chinese feudal system? None whatsoever, and he certainly had no real opportunity to do anything about it given his age when the Chinese invaded Tibet.LonesomeYogurt wrote:P&T: BS is a great show, but like all episodes, this one obviously deals in exaggerations and caricatures rather than concrete facts. That being said, there is a lot to criticize about feudal Tibet before Chinese rule; how much the Dalai Lama had to do with that, however, is up for debate.
The last people to listen to concerning Tibet is the Chinese government and the second to last people to listen to are the unwitting stooges who repeat the Chinese government's crappola.It's a contentious issue with multiple sides, so feel free to laugh at their sacred cow-slaying but don't take it too seriously.
Probably.Mr Man wrote: is Chinese propaganda more nefarious than say US propaganda?
Are they?Mr Man wrote:Okay, but are they just repeating chinese government propaganda?
tiltbillings wrote:Are they?Mr Man wrote:Okay, but are they just repeating chinese government propaganda?
I am watching it now, and P&T are spouting garbage. Some of it comes from the Commies and some it is just distortion of the what happened. If you want to defend these two bozos ball-peen hammer approach, go ahead, but it is not worth my time.Mr Man wrote:tiltbillings wrote:Are they?Mr Man wrote:Okay, but are they just repeating chinese government propaganda?
I don't know. I didn't say it.
That also explains the defense of Wal-Mart and the arguing against gun control. They arewithout a doubt Bozos.BuddhaSoup wrote:. . . That's the sound of Jillette planting a big one on David Koch's butt.
mere statistical analysis is not necessarily scienceBuddhaSoup wrote:...the science of climate change....
BuddhaSoup wrote:Michael Parenti, featured in the video, is in part an apologist for communism, suggesting that he and Jillette may share an affinity for Communist regimes like the PRC.
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The War Against Hinduism
News From India (July, 2001)
By Stephen Knapp
Over the years we have all heard about the many attempts that have been made in India to convert various sections of society from Hinduism to either Christianity or Islam. But only after my last trip to India (June, 2001) did I really get a much clearer understanding of what has been going on. Furthermore, most devotees in Iskcon, as well as many Indians, are not fully aware of how the war against Hinduism is happening, nor how serious it is. It is taking place on many levels, and because of this, in some areas, the practice of Hinduism is declining rapidly.
When I was traveling, I had gone on a lecture tour, speaking every night at places like Mumbai, Nagpur, Warangal, Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Hyderbad, Bangalore, Trivadrum, and Chennai. So I had the chance to meet with many of the intellectuals and some of the spiritual leaders in these areas, and learned how conversion was a very hot issue.
Now I don't have anything in particular against Christianity itself. I was born and raised a Christian, so I know what it is, but also how they work. My main contention is when the teachings that are said to come from Jesus are twisted and misinterpreted into something that does not spread the genuine love of God and humanity that we are all supposed to develop, but becomes the dog-like barking and criticism against every other religion that is not Christian. This does not only go on toward every religion outside of Christianity, but also within it between Catholics and Protestants and other denominations. It seems that this faith has become not something that promotes our similarities for cooperation, but our differences in that everyone who is of any unrelated Christian denomination are all going to hell.
In regard to India, there is a great number of missionaries of various denominations who are working there right now, all competing for the most number of converts. The Southern Baptists alone are a group that has nearly 100,000 career missionaries in North India, all working to spread the "good word." We also find that in order to make converts from Hinduism some of the numerous Catholic priests in Southern India dress like sannyasis, and call their organizations ashramas. This is to make Christianity more similar to the Vedic traditions. Bharat Natyam dance is also taught in the Christian schools, but with Christian symbols and meanings replacing the Vedic. This is all in the attempt to actively sway Hindus over to Christianity.
Some of the tactics that the Christian missionaries have used to help make converts is to offer cheap polyester pants to the tribals of the Northeast if they become Christian, or even offer motor bicycles if they help convert their brothers, which also means their wives and family. In Madhya Pradesh, as noted in the Neogy Report, the missionaries give small loans on interest to the tribals, who cannot pay back such loans easily. However, if they become Christian, then such loans and the interest are dismissed. This is what goes on in the democracy of India, and under the tolerance of the Hindus, while if one such incidence would ever occur in a Muslim country, the result would be an immediate expulsion of the missionary from that nation.
Another trick that has been done is that missionaries, while treating the sick, will give medicine of no value and ask the tribal to take it while offering prayers to his local deity. Naturally, no cure of disease is likely to occur with the useless medicine. Then the missionary gives the tribal real medicine and asks the tribal to take it while offering prayers to Jesus. Then when there is a recovery, it is attributed to the power of Christ and not to the medicine. Such conversion activities take place these days more often in the tribal areas under the guise of social service. However, true social service should be done without expecting anything in return, including conversion.
Another thing that takes place is mass healings at meetings similar to revivals. What they do is pay people to attend the healings portraying themselves as being sick, or invalids on crutches, etc., who then get called up and are miraculously cured of their disease. This is attributed to the power of Christ, which then convinces many tribals that they too can benefit in various ways if they become Christian. This has not had much of an effect amongst the Brahmin classes, but the lower classes who attend are more vulnerable and are impressed by such things, and are then swayed toward Christianity. This is why Christian conversion tactics have been focused more toward the tribal areas than other regions of India. So these conversions are not taking place due to pure preaching of the Bible or the message of Jesus, but are accomplished by trickery and the emphasis on material facility. This is, of course, what is being objected to by the general Hindu population. However, when or if people convert for purely spiritual reasons, then there is no objection. Another way conversions are accomplished is with the promise to the Dalits or the lower caste Hindus that they will not have any more caste recognition by becoming Christians. However, after conversion many find out that this is not true. Even amongst the converted Christians there is found to be a caste mentality, with the lower castes forced to use separate doorways, separate seating, or have marriages performed only among equal caste Christians. When this becomes obvious to those who are newly converted, some of them want to come back to being Hindus again, which has been facilitated by such organizations as the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP).
An interesting point is that in spite of these duplicitous ways of converting that the Christians have used, the Christian churches have threatened violence against the process of reconversion back to Hinduism that had been launched by the VHP. It was Rev. V. K. Nuh, secretary of the Nagaland Baptist Convention who said, "If someone tries to impose their faith, Christians in this region will not surrender. There will be a battle and we shall have no option. There will be a physical and religious war if attempts are made to propagate Hinduism by forceful means in the Northeast." In this same line of thinking, Rev. M.D. Oaugma, head of the Garo Baptist Convention of Mehgalaya said, "It could be a threat to Christianity if we remain silent to the VHP's game plan of mass conversion. We shall have to fight, we shall have to resist." (Maharashtra Herald, July 11, 1998)
Of course, it is easy for Hindus to be nonchalant toward other religions because they feel that each spiritual path takes you toward God. So in this light, it is alright to be tolerant of them or let them thrive. But the problem is that not all religions feel the same way toward Hinduism. Some feel that Hinduism is a culture that should be removed or destroyed. An example of this is that in Northeast India, in countries like Assam, Nagaland, and Manipur, they have witnessed a surge of nearly 200% in their Christian population in the past 25 years due to the wily tactics of foreign missionaries. Their grasp is so strong now that practicing Hinduism is forbidden in some areas. Hindus can no longer do worship or arati in the open because of the fanaticism in parts of the land. Durga puja has become almost obsolete as deities are destroyed or stolen in broad daylight. This confrontational climate has led to numerous militant outfits sponsored by the Church who are fighting for secession from India. So now the Eastern portion of India wants to secede from it, and another part of India will be lost if this should happen.
If the Catholic Church in particular is supposed to espouse the message that God is love, and that it is by love of God and neighbor that mankind is saved, it certainly hasn't shown much of that kind of love toward any other religion. With the Pope's recent call for conversions in Asia, it certainly shows that it is not a friend of other religions, but still holds the goal that other spiritual paths should be brought down to be replaced by Christianity. This should be clearly understood. This is also the case with the Baptists and other denominations.
While I was in New Delhi, I also met with Mrs. Shanti Reddy, a member of a government agency called the National Committee for Women. She revealed that another thing that missionaries have done was to kidnap young Indian children. What one Christian missionary couple in Chennai was doing before they were arrested was to bribe tribals into giving their young baby girls to them. They would pay the tribals as little as 2000 to 5000 rupees for baby girls, and then turn around and sell the girls to foreigners for as much as $30,000 to $40,000. According to the records that had been confiscated from the missionaries' home, this had been a thriving business, and nearly 25 of such transactions had already taken place. The Indian authorities said they probably saved 300 baby girls from such a fate from the indications on the records they found. So this has been another one of the forms of activities that such missionaries do for their own benefit and profit against the real interests of India. However, whenever Hindus react with force against such people, they are labeled as fundamentalists, antagonists, or worse.
Another way that India is slowly losing its beloved Vedic culture is through the process of secular or English and Christian education. Of course, in public schools all Vedic books have been removed from the curriculum. So there are no possibilities to study the ancient Indian literature or art. So Vedic values are no longer part of what the children are taught. Furthermore, the Christian schools, often staffed by Christian missionaries, can teach Christian values in their classes, and include a short study of the Bible everyday, or the Koran if it's an Islamic school. The so-called secular government has even helped them with free land and facilities. Since these schools offer English in their education, along with good discipline, many of the middle classes of Indians are favoring sending their children to these schools. Today, in the Indian cities, many of the parents of children are the graduates of Christian schools, who also send there own children to such schools. As this trend continues, there will be a decreasing number of Hindus in the educated sector. Thus, children in India, with the help of the secular government, are learning Christian values and perceiving their own history and culture as something less than honorable. They are taught that such important books as the Bhagavad-gita, Ramayana, Bhagavat Purana and other Vedic texts are nothing more than mythology, and not a result of one of the most profound civilizations in the world. They are also taught that their own God is but a demon and the only real way to God is through Jesus.
An example of this is that a few devotees from the New Delhi Iskcon (Hare Krishna) temple go out and give presentations to the children's classes in schools. Some of the questions that are asked by the children are, "Who is your God?" and "What can your God do for me?" and so on. Obviously, these questions are nothing but a direct result of the Christian and English oriented education that these children are receiving. Now I ask anyone, isn't this practically a covert form of conversion? This form of education indoctrinates the children to doubt their own culture, and disrespect their own history and traditions. As a result of this form of education, the Hindu population is slowly forgetting the unique history and lofty culture of their homeland.
As I traveled around, it was not unusual to see elementary schools around India with the name something like "Saint Xavier's School." People should know that this Francis Xavier, who is now one of the greatest so-called "saints," feverishly declared, "When I have finished baptizing the people, I order them to destroy the huts in which they keep their idols; and I have them break the statues of their idols into tiny pieces, since they are now Christians. I could never come to an end describing to you the great consolation which fills my soul when I see idols being destroyed by the hands of those who had been idolaters." (From "The Letters and Instructions of Francis Xavier," 1993, pp 117-8) This was his goal, to destroy Indian culture and make India a Christian nation. So it is ironic that now India embraces the schools that honor him in this way. How could they not know his true intention?
What is often not recognized is that, up until recently, for the last 50 years the politicians who have been directing the destiny of India are the ones who have an anti-Hindu attitude. They have set the economic direction and the educational policies that the country has been forced to follow. They have also promised the protection of the religious minorities with the hopes of acquiring votes. This has been one of the reasons why the secularists in the Congress party have treated everything that is Hindu with disdain.
Another aspect of the loss of Vedic culture in India is that the younger Indian people, especially ages from 15 to 25, are readily giving up Vedic customs to follow the more decadent so-called freedoms of the West. They see the western movies, they read what the celebrities say in the papers, and they admire them and want to adopt their forms of dress and lifestyles. Thus, in the big cities like Mumbai you have Indian couples living together without marriage, which is something you never would have seen before a few years back. Now the Vedic principles are looked upon as something obsolete, something that restricts the style that those who look to the West want to adopt. Thus, they are leaving Indian traditions behind and losing respect for anything Vedic. In this way, they adopt foreign standards, or lose so much respect for Indian and Vedic values that they become embarrassed to admit their Hindu background and heritage. Furthermore, Sanskrit scholars at the temples are also slowly dying out, and the modern Indians view the Ramayana and Mahabharata as merely myths or gaudy television shows.
Although India has been invaded by outsiders so many times and has always survived, what we are talking about is more than mere property or geography. What is actually being threatened is the basis of Indian culture itself. As younger generations give up their Vedic heritage, even if they return to it later when they are older and looking for more philosophical support, with whatever percentage of loss occurs with each generation, time has shown that it is never fully recovered. A portion of it is lost forever.
Another way of looking at this is that India presently enjoys an 85% Hindu majority in its population. This may sound quite significant, but in actuality this includes 15% Buddhists, Sikhs, and Jains. So it is really only a 70% majority. How many more generations will go by before we see a big drop in this percentage due to the process of secular (meaning Christian or English, or even Islamic) education, or with the present rate of conversions by tactless Christians? This percentage could easily drop well below 50% in only several more generations at the present rate of change.
How many more generations will it take before the Hindu majority is no longer a majority, but a minority in its own country? As Hinduism declines, you will see that the demands on the government and those voted into politics will also change, and the laws will also alter more in favor of the increasing minority religions at the expense of declining Hinduism. Then as the years go by there will appear only small clusters of Hindu or Vedic communities, most likely centered around prominent holy places, until the more aggressive religions act in ways to diminish these as well, in the same way that they are presently doing in other countries.
The point of all this information is that it is time for all Hindus and followers of the Vedic culture, Sanatana-dharma, to realize what is actually happening and give up your timidness or nonchalance and speak out while such freedom still exists. We must become more pro-active for defending this culture. The point is that if you do not take it seriously, I can assure you that there are others who take this inaction and tolerance extremely seriously to promote their own goals and religions in India. It is because of this that India may not always remain the homeland of an active and thriving Vedic culture as it is now. We need to protect whatever is left of it and maintain the present liberties that Hindus still have in India. Then we all can continue to engage in Vedic traditions without hindrance, and with full freedom. For this, we need to unite ourselves in a concerted effort to make this happen. And it most certainly is possible.
Recently, as told to me by Professor Subash Kak, it was noted in a reputable publication that now 1% of the Russian population claim that they are Hindu. The article stated that this was primarily due to the preaching efforts of Iskcon. This shows a major social impact. This shows what is possible if we can work together in a concerted effort. This is why I am convinced that if we all work in a pro-active way under the banner of a united family of Vedic followers, we can keep and even expand the present freedoms that we now have to practice Vedic traditions, and keep India as the homeland of Vedic culture, the most ancient roots of humanity.
India must be protected and kept as the homeland of the Vedic heritage, Sanatana-dharma, Hinduism. Without it, what is its value, in spite of whatever else it accomplishes? The value of Hinduism and India are clearly expressed in the words of the famous English theosophist Dr. Annie Besant. She put great emphasis on the value of India, its history, the Vedic culture, and its importance to the world. As written in the cover notes from the book, Hindus, Life-Line of India, by G. M. Jagtiani, she says: "After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophic, and none so spiritual as the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand it, the more deeply you will value it. Make no mistake; without Hinduism, India has no future. Hinduism is the soil into which India's roots are struck, and torn of that she will inevitably wither, as a tree torn out from its place. Many are the religions and many are the races flourishing in India, but none of them stretches back into the far dawn of her past, nor are they necessary for her endurance as a nation. Everyone might pass away as they came and India would still remain. But let Hinduism vanish and what is she? A geographical _expression of the past, a dim memory of a perished glory, her literature, her art, her monuments, all have Hindudom written across them. And if Hindus do not maintain Hinduism, who shall save it? If India's own children do not cling to her faith, who shall guard it? India alone can save India, and India and Hinduism are one."
In this light, it is absolutely necessary that as followers of Sanatana-dharma, Vedic culture, we realize that we need to repair whatever differences we have between us regarding whatever issues there may be. This is necessary in order to work with some cooperation with whomever we can if we expect to be a substantial force in defending the Vedic cause. Otherwise, all the issues that invariably come up, although these should not be ignored, should not take so much of our attention that our preaching stops. Otherwise, we will only serve as contributors to the continuing deterioration of all spiritual standards as the age of Kali progresses. This preaching, of course, means that we must all stay in touch with and practice the Vedic standards.
We cannot allow ourselves to be led into the danger of endless debate that leads to inaction. We all must be pro-active in some way to help defend and spread Vedic culture. Then we can work together to keep the freedom we presently have to practice the Vedic traditions and keep India as the homeland of a thriving, dynamic, and still living tradition. Such freedom does not come without its challenges, and we must be prepared as a society to meet those challenges. To take such freedoms for granted means that it's only a matter of time before they are lost. And that is exactly what some people want to happen. So we must be willing to work all the harder to prevent such a decline of our Vedic heritage.
What is it that by knowing which the unheard becomes heard, the unknown becomes known and the understood, understood? Have you studied that, which when known makes everything else also known?
Re: The War Against Hinduism
Re: Padmai
Registered: 05/25/05
Posts: 59
What is that we should do about this?
Don't you think we need a Hindu Church to deal with Christian Church?
How can you fight Church with political organizations? It has to be a religious organization founded for spreading religion only.
I personally think we need to reorganize our religion. We cannot go back to ritualistic Vedic religion. This is impractical and infeasible. Moreover Bhagvan (Krishna) him self has not stressed on rituals. If you read Bhagvad Gita you'll observe this. But he did not repudiate it either.
So can't we take the core of Vedic teaching and reform our religion which is more in tune with the recent times? This not inflict with earlier teachings but natural progression and evolution that we have to go through.
Your comments are welcome.
Re: The War Against Hinduism
Re: ckp
Registered: 03/27/02
Posts: 827
Loc: usa
The problem with hinduism is that it is like a small kingdoms and has never been organized. To organize it you would need to fight off a lot of little warlords and their toadies. And in the end something more modern might emerge but it might also be totally different that what is out there today.
I can never understand why people always look back at old texts. It seems that brahman just gave up on holy books, seeing as how most only started wars, and didn't develope religion any further.
Re: The War Against Hinduism
Re: Padmai
Registered: 08/03/05
Posts: 31
Loc: India
Catch them young, and teach them right.
I think this would be the right approach. Hinduism
followers are not as organized as Christianity,
but that is not a drawback.
The first step for us would be to read about our
Hindu Dharma. In real depth, and with understanding.
And then teach our children, at home, daily, and
establishment the Hindu principles in their daily
life. Even if our children are studying in convent
schools, we can make them see and adopt our values,
only if we are serious.
We can start e-zines for children, post interesting
stories, articles and truths about our scriptures,
and make the children read them. Teach them a shloka
a day, make them recite it. Send them to yoga classes,
instead of to pub and discoth�que.
Some of us who have the time and wealth can bring out
magazines for children in print, conduct quiz and other
competitions and reward the winners. If we create the
inquisitiveness and drive in our children, they will
eventually take care of our religion. Today's younger
generation is far smarter than our own.
Pepsi cola forsaw the potential of the youth and made
a product that would be the "choice of a future generation."
If we make our children learn and practice Hindu Dharma
then it will be the faith of the future generation.
Re: The War Against Hinduism
Re: saidevo
Registered: 03/27/02
Posts: 827
Loc: usa
The thing about the young is that they have not knowledge of the political and they catch on fast. Soon they would see through the talk and falsehoods and destroy it by walking away from the usless parts. In the end the whole of hinduism would change forever. And who can say that this change is not long overdo? Nothiing stays static in the real world and it is time for this change and some new realozations to take place. To sweep away the debris of the past and build for the future.
Re: The War Against Hinduism
Re: Padmai
Registered: 04/28/06
Posts: 7
The newset trend is to convert people to christianity in the model of network marketting, people bring people (move materials) and gets paid for!
I also come across various "western" mostly "white" kids who tries to get you hooked onto their reading materials. Unless Hindus have proper backup funding, we are not able to fight back the big money flowing from the christian church, and basically christian church is intrested in accumulating wealth (mostly) the prime real estates in any area.
Re: The War Against Hinduism
Re: Padmai
Registered: 01/29/06
Posts: 3
Hinduism,has had to fight many wars,against it,over the many centuries of its existence.This has resulted and is resulting in,the Hindu percentage of population decreasing in our naton,with increasing rate of conversion,thanks,to the western nations,in their quest for capturing political power by proxy,in the name of RELIGIOUS and INDIVIDUAL freedoms and DEMOCRACY.
Many christians in other websites are boasting,that India will become a christian majority nation,after say 25 years!
The main war against Hinduism,is at present is waged by the western powers thro' their espionage agencies like the CIA and their so called NGOs,the Vatican,whose diplomatic immunity is being misused for the same.The christian missionaries in India,are becoming more and more daring,and are creating social tensons,and later use these to discredit the peace-loving majority Hindu community as FUNDIES in both the local and international press.
Hindus and the Governement of India should wake up to this fact and counter the same,lest this ancient religion become extinct by conversion,by chrisian missionaries,both foreign and local.
Re: The War Against Hinduism
Re: Padmai
Registered: 08/28/06
Posts: 4
Loc: Chennai, TN, India
I was surprised to see the various techniques used to simply cheat, but with a claim of spreading God's love! I got in to this forum only by accident when I was particiapting in Yahoo answers - religion & spirituality section. Without knowing any of these and not with any aim to spread Hinduism, I was answering to questions in that forum.
1) Today, to my knowledge we do not have the unity or organisational capabilities to take on this war in an orderly manner. But at the same time we can not wait any longer. I sincerely suggest that all memebrs register with yahoo answers and and post our views as answers so that all read it. Please note that many christian missioneries regularly post their views. This can be an inexpensive, but effetive medium available to us immediately. We can post geneuine questions also and compell others (all) to express their views.
2) Same time let us try to organise lectures on various ancient topis by learnt gurus or persons on a continuous basis by forming groups in local areas. Keep inviting all your friends without nay bias of caste etc. The Vedas and Upanishads are for all and not for Hindus alone. This fact needs to be stressed.
Re: The War Against Hinduism
Re: S S MANI
Registered: 07/21/06
Posts: 25
This line of observation seems to be present in various discussion forums. I am attaching my post from Dharmic vs Adharmic from the General discussion thread
"While we seem to have a common understanding on the world religions, we do not seem to know what to do next.
As Shanthi point out, as a Hindu, the issue is Islam and Christianity deep down are anti-Hindu, in the sense they want only their 'true' religion to exist. Given that we have this "The truth is one, sages call it by many names" World is one family view, how do we deal this. Do we be tolerant to intolerance. Or do we be intolerant to intolerance. Currently you are sitting in a pretty place and are probably not threatened. But look at Kashmir or the northeast, or Paksitan and Bangladesh for that matter, wherever Hindus are in a minority, they have been wiped out.
Do we just wait for them to "succeed" and islamise or christanise India ?
I dont think anybody in this thread is giving this good thought. You are given your opinion about religions, but how do you deal with this from the context of a Hindu "
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Hello dhamma farers,
I find then when I try to do metta, I can't help but pair each recitation (such as "may all beings be happy) with an in-breath and out breath. Is this bad? Is there anything written about this in the commentaries or in general meditation books about whether or not this is okay or encourage? I try to focus my awareness near my heart while doing the recitations so the rising and falling of my chest can become distracting.
If I had a choice, I think I would prefer to be able to just be with the mental recitations and not pay any attention to the breath as this would allow my mind to be single pointed.
Thank you!


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The Conservative leadership has not ruled out increasing rates again next year, saying it has yet to make its mind up either way.
Councillor Simon Geraghty, the deputy leader, said: "It's good to see the efforts to keep it down are now being recognised on a national basis.
"What is genuinely surprising to me is to see how expensive some areas are compared to us - unless you're a resident who moves around a lot most people wouldn't be in a position to see the differences."


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Once again Sue Miller takes us deep into the private lives of women with this mesmerizing portrait of two marriages exposed in all their shame and imperfection, and in their obdurate, unyielding love.
Meri is newly married, pregnant, and standing on the cusp of her life as a wife and mother, recognizing with some terror the gap between reality and expectation.
Delia Naughton, wife of the two-term liberal senator Tom Naughton, is Meri's new neighbor in the adjacent New England town house. Delia's husband's chronic infidelity has been an open secret in Washington circles, but despite the complexity of their relationship, the bond between them remains strong.
What keeps people together, even in the midst of profound betrayal? How can a journey imperiled by, and sometimes indistinguishable from, compromise and disappointment culminate in healing and grace? Delia and Meri find themselves leading strangely parallel lives, both reckoning with the contours and mysteries of marriage, one refined and abraded by years of complicated intimacy, the other barely begun.
Here are all the things for which Sue Miller has always been beloved: the complexity of experience precisely rendered, the richness of character and emotion, and the superb economy of style, fused with an utterly engrossing story.
©2008 Sue Miller; (P)2008 Random House, Inc.
"Provocative.... Miller brings into stark yet uplifting relief the limitations of morality when confronted with love." (Kirkus Reviews)
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"I felt cheated"
I was completely engaged by this story until the very disturbing ending, which made me feel cheated. The relationship between the two neighbors in the novel -- one a newlywed in her late 30s, the other a woman of about 75 who has had an unorthodox marriage to a prominent politician -- is very rich and compelling. The often irritating younger character, Meri (does this woman ever think of the consequences of anything she does?), blossoms within the friendship, and the older character, Delia, is fascinating -- as fiercely loyal as she is independent.
But what Miller decides to do with these women and their husbands at the end of the book is disturbing and distasteful -- without revealing the ending, I can say that I felt as if the time and energy I invested in these characters was wasted. I'm giving it three stars because parts of it are wonderful, but I honestly felt betrayed as a reader/listener at the end.
"Daring and Inspiring"
If this were only a basic tale of the devolution and redemption of two marriages and two women it would be enough, written with Sue Miller's skillful rendering of detail and sensitive exploration of emotional nuance. But Miller punctuates the situations with a moment of daring that is truly original, that elevates this novel from the realm of a simple still life into a powerful and affirming narrative that inspires and empowers. Brava!
"Really Engaging"
I loved this book. It was similar in feel to "The Corrections" by Jonathan Fraizer.
The characters, ALL of the characters, while not always 'likable' are certainly human and behave in ways we have all witnessed people behave. Even the end, while I too was disappointed, it was, as the entire book was, true to life. I would have liked to have it end differently, but this book was telling its own story, and its characters had their own personalities and weaknesses. To have another kind of ending would not have been true to the characters or in keeping with the story. Life, as they say, is not fair.
"Sue Miller captivates again!"
I think I have read almost every book Sue Miller has written and she has done it again. Found a way to spin yet another story that is totally different from the others. Her knowledge of the feminine human heart is incredible and she portrays well the intricacies of relationships between men and women. I particularly liked the way she illustrated - diary style - a lifetime relationship between Tom, the senator, and his wife Delia seen through the eyes of Meri, their young neighbor and how Delia herself got to learn about a similar relationship to hers and Tom, that of Anne Apthorp through letters found after Anne's death. Couples' lives are much more than what you see from the surface. Great narration also on this book!
"provocatively boring"
Give me a break. I couldn't feel any real connection with the characters. Well, maybe I was pretty angry for the senator's wife. This is a novel about two husbands who are truly idiotic, unfeeling and self-centered and about the two women who accept these two imbeciles as their lot in life. The end was a drag.
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"The end justifies the first 8 hours"
It was difficult for me to finish listening to this book. I thought this was partially because I invariably find stories of marital betrayal painful to listen to, regardless of the cause or the effect, and partially because the narrator's sing-song rendering of the initial narrative of tedium (however richly textured) just got on my nerves. But I'm very happy I did finish the book at last. The Senator's wife reads like a 10 hour short story in fact; a long, detailed, but hardly fascinating set up to a conclusion that is so impossibly honest it will leave you gasping for air. The final two hours are impossible to forsee and equally impossible to forget. A more shockingly naked portrayal of human sexuality you're not likely to find.
"Subject: Marriage, complex and non uniform."
This story is going to linger with me for a while. The author's chapters on infidelity are heart wrenching. I never foresaw the twist well, not until it was very near.
I liked both female leads, sometime we're so quick to judge others' marriages. But marriages are complex, none are the same and yet people love to judge them through some uniform code. I liked the looking glass Miller provided into these two marriages. But it is NOT a feel good book. Read at your own risk to your heart.
"One of my favorite books!"
Love, love, love this book! I read it when it first came out and knew I had to listen to it as well. Blair Brown is a fantastic narrator. Loved the characters. I almost felt sorry for Deliah, but was annoyed that she let herself be a doormat for years to her Senator husband. Meri proved herself to be a spineless woman who snooped through Deliah's life. I would of thought that Meri's husband would have ditched her, but he stayed married to her...great book!
"I didn't get it."
About 9 hours and 26 minutes of character development and one hour of plot (if you can call it that). The author is talented in developing the characters and there are definitely some moments of truth but I was disappointed. I started this book with a libraby audio book and then downloaded it when I realized the sixth disc was all scratched up. Had I known I would never have wasted the credit.
"Compelling listening"
If you prefer to fall in love with the main characters of your novels, or at least really like them, than this won't be a great pick. There's a whole lot to dislike about the 2 women at the centre of this book and the questionable choices that bring them together, but it nevertheless makes for a great listen. The ending? Visceral. Wrenching. Perfect. You'll be thinking about this one long after its over.
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President & CEO, Warren B. Causey, Ltd.
Meeting demand
THE CONCEPT OF DEMAND RESPONSE (DR) HAS BEEN AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. IN the 1990s, it was called demand side management. In the mid-1990s, a number of what we now call smart homes and at least two fully automated subdivisions were built - one in Arkansas and another in Georgia. They were ahead of their time then. Their time may be about to arrive.
DR is a means of reducing consumption of electricity on an interconnected grid. Businesses, industries and individual residential consumers are asked to reduce consumption and are provided technological tools to make this happen. It has been happening fairly routinely at the commercial and industrial (C&I) level for some time now, especially in places like California and the Northeastern states where electrical supply sometimes doesn't meet demand, especially at peak usage times - usually on hot summer days when air conditioning is in widespread use.
Several companies such as Comverge, Cannon Technologies - a division of Cooper Power Systems - and EnerNOC have built substantial businesses as aggregators of companies and private individuals who are willing to reduce their consumption during peak periods. These aggregated reductions can then be treated as a resource on the electrical grid, in that they represent power a utility does not have to generate and deliver. The utility then pays the aggregator for power not needed, thereby saving the cost of building additional, expensive peaking generation units. The numbers of residential consumers participating in these programs has not been large to this point - generally 10,000, or fewer in large cities.
Participation in such aggregation programs is voluntarily and participants receive rewards for doing so, frequently in the form of credits toward their overall electric bills. This system has worked well where applied, and aggregators claim they can save utilities about 40 percent of the cost of building new peaking plants.
Utilities also have created demand response aggregation systems of their own, contacting C&I customers and offering similar incentives for them to "shift load" from peak to off-peak times. In these cases, the utilities just notify the firms that have agreed to participate when they need to curtail their electrical usage. Sometimes utilities do the notifications themselves and sometimes they use outside firms such as Varolii Corporation (previously Par3 Communications) or 21st Century Communications.
An example of how such utility-operated DR systems work occurred a couple of years ago at Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E), a major investor-owned utility headquartered in Oklahoma City. OG&E had not had a forced generation outage - and thus the need for curtailing normal usage - in more than 40 months. Normal peak load for OG&E in the winter months is about 3,200 MW and the company has 6,400 MW of total generating capacity, including its own power plants and other capacity under contract. Winter normally is a good time to do routine maintaniance, so operations took 1,500 MW off-line. That left 4,900 MW available - more than enough for normal winter demand. Then some unusual things started happening.
Phil Bartholomew, who is responsible for OG&E's load curtailment program, says he was on his way to work at 7:15 a.m. when his cell phone rang. It was operations calling and they had a major problem. That winter in Oklahoma was extremely dry, it hadn't rained in weeks. As a result, coal dust and other contaminents were being stirred up by winds near the generating plants. This dust was infiltrating major transmission facilities at the plants and causing them to trip off. The problem was multiplying across the state and the situation was getting critical. Operations wanted to know if Bartholomew could notify more than 500 people at nearly 100 large C&I customers involved in OG&E's voluntary load curtailment program and begin shedding load by 8 a.m. "We need it as soon as possible!" the caller added.
Bartholomew notified Varolii and by 9 a.m. the problem was solved. "Operations was feeling the curtailment effects," he said. "We dropped 154 MW of load. Just about everyone who was on the program complied and it was enough to get us through. We had no outages." By the time the crisis had ended, OG&E had lost another 1,500 MW of generating capacity to the very unusual dust storms. But the load curtailment, which began within 45 minutes of notification by operations, was sufficent in averting an even bigger problem.
The problem, and opportunity, for demand response is now much larger than the temporary problems such as those at OG&E. According to the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Electricity Advisory Committee, in a report issued in January, the committee "has assessed the current electric power delivery system infrastructure and concludes that it will be unable to ensure a reliable, cost-effective, secure, and environmentally sustainable supply of electricity for the next two decades."
There are a wide range of reasons why the DOE committee believes the electrical supply in the United States will be unable to provide all the electricity needed over the next 20 years. They include aging infrastructure, generation constraints - especially opposition to building new coal or nuclear plants and new transmission capacity - and the length of time it will require for renewable energy to be fully developed and deployed.
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has projected that electric supply shortages could begin in California and the Northwest within the next year or two, migrate to New England and the Northeast shortly thereafter and could become widespread across the United States within 10 to 12 years.
This means that DR is about the only option left. Americans are going to have to get used to having less electricity available. This includes not only C&I customers, who have been dealing with DR for years now, but residential customers as well. This is what the so-called smart grid and home automation is all about, installing technology to encourage and enable consumers to monitor their electrical usage and use less of it. Time-of-use rates, where consumers would pay as much as 10 times more, under some proposals, during peak-load times, are also being enabled in more parts of the country.
With the costs of building the required new transmission and generation to ensure an adequate supply of electricity across the United States over the next 20 years running into the trillions of dollars, consumers now seem to face two options - which are neither in their hands, nor in the hands of the utilities. The first option is to pay much higher electric rates to enable utilities to collect and spend the money required to expand the existing grid and generation system. The second option is to agree to get along with less electricity. And consumers aren't likely to make those choices. Legislators and regulators will make the choices for them.
"Everybody wants to be able to have a finger on a control, their usage, and understand what their costs are at a given point in time," said Christopher Barron, vice president and chief information officer, CPS Energy. "We don't need legislators to tell us to do that, our customers are already doing that. We've responded with different applications that come close to demand side management, but nothing will allow us to truly get there until we get the smart meters deployed."
Whether that "everyone" Barron mentions includes the majority of the general public, however, remains to be seen. Some surveys indicate average consumers don't understand the issues, but aren't happy about either paying a lot more or letting Big Brother control their usage. How that plays out over the next 10 to 20 years is what intelligent utility, smart grid, smart meters and DR are all about. It should be interesting.
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At its core, baseball is a children's game, and kids have played it everywhere, from smelly alleys to streets lined with cars to rocky patches of dirt to patches of brown grass. They've hit everything from rolled-up socks to balled-up pieces of tape to bottle caps.
Baseball happens wherever there is enough room to swing a twig or a stick or one of those long pieces of flimsy, twisted cardboard tubing that hold rolls of wrapping paper.
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So why do the men who are paid to play this kids' game take it so damn seriously? Things no one would think twice about in the kids' world are taken as major slights by the pros. If a 10-year old flips his broom handle after hitting a ball past the streetlight, the pitcher has to own the mistake. Stop giving up deep shots and it won't happen. But do it in a MLB game, and you might wear a 95 mph heater between your shoulder blades.
It's stupid. And even though children don't worry about the so-called unwritten rules, it is childish. Writers often debate these rules in press boxes, and they make for good barstool fodder—most observers, and even some players, seem to agree that they make little to no sense.
After being frustrated by seeing the benches clear for a violation of one of these rules in Wednesday's San Diego Padres-San Francisco Giants game, I put together a list (in no particular order) of some of the most ridiculous unwritten rules in baseball and graded them on a Stupid Scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the stupidest.
1. Don't show up the pitcher after hitting a home run. Imagine if I ran a red light while driving on the wrong side of the road and then you hit me with your car, then I screamed at you for doing something stupid. That is sort of what this unwritten rule is about.
The pitcher makes a mistake, maybe in a critical point in a game, and the hitter demolishes a pitch for a homer. While said home run is flying through the air, the hitter gazes at his work, maybe flips his bat and works into a methodical trot around the bags.
Now the other team gets mad? Why? Because that hitter made you pay for your mistake? C'mon, guys.
Want to know what kids do if that happens? They pitch to the next hitter and forget that someone stared at their home run and they try to not make the same mistake twice.
This is a game. A hitter has a right to celebrate a feat like that, which is why it's not a written rule. And if you don't like it, then stop giving up home runs. It should not be a free pass to throw at the guy two innings later.
"If you strike me out in a big situation and want to pump your fist, cool," Detroit Tigers slugger Prince Fielder once told me. "But don't get mad when I like my home run in the same situation. Walk me next time if you don't want it to happen, or just get me out, ya know?"
Stupid Scale: 9
2. Do not mention that a no-hitter is in progress. NOOOOOOOOOOO-HITTTTTTTTERRRRRR IN PROGRESSSSSSSS!!!!!
This unwritten rule is lame because it implies some supernatural force will hear your mention and immediately break up the historic performance. Or that the pitcher might feel the vibration of your words and become so rattled he leaves an 85-mph fastball down the middle and it's hit for an infield single.
Twitter has become a really cool sidecar in which to watch live games, but the level of venom some people receive for talking about a no-hitter is crazy. Hits happen a lot. Talking about a team not having one doesn't help it get one.
As for the players, it would seem that the pressure would be greater if a pitcher is left alone (as per baseball tradition) rather than being treated normally while he is in the midst of a no-hitter. It's as if everyone in the dugout believes that acting completely abnormal will make the pitcher believe he isn't throwing a no-hitter.
Stupid Scale: 10
3. Don't bunt to break up a no-hitter. Players have been plunked after bunting for a team's first hit late in a game, whether or not the game was close. But you know what? A bunt single, usually pulled off by a speedy hitter, takes more skill and talent than a broken-bat single over a second baseman's head. But we don't see anyone throwing a fit about that kind of lucky stuff.
It isn't bush league to not want to be a part of history and to try to avoid it in a legitimate manner. It's bush league to take offense to it, no matter the score.
Stupid Scale: 8
4. Don't show up the hitter after a strikeout. This one is sort of understandable. Strikeouts happen plenty and pitchers shouldn't celebrate after every one. It would get really old.
However, striking out a hitter in a high-leverage situation, especially if it's a good or great hitter, is deserving of a scream or first pump or chest thump. Go back to the earlier Fielder quote and just flip the roles. Same thing applies.
Stupid Scale: 6
5. Don't steal bases when you have a big lead. Well, first of all, what defines a big lead? Five runs? Eight runs? No lead is big enough until the game is over.
It shouldn't matter what the inning or score is. If a player has the ability to steal a base, he should be free to do it. If the other team doesn't want him to do it, well, there are measures to prevent it, such as not allowing him to reach base or not allowing him to steal the next one.
Stupid Scale: 9
6. Don't headhunt in retaliation. This post is all about stupid unwritten rules. This rule is intelligent. Nothing else needs to be said.
Stupid Scale: Minus-infinity
7. Don't run up the score. This one is intertwined with the stolen base rule. It's also just as dumb and not worth an explanation. If baseball thought it was so wrong, it would write a rule and it wouldn't be mentioned here.
In fact, running up the score might be more detrimental to the team trying to do it. It should save its guys and not let them go first to third on a single or take extra bases if it's going to be close. Pulling back would be done to avoid injury, though, not to avoid hurting the other team's feelings.
Stupid Scale: 10
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8. Position players, mainly hitters, can't step on the dirt of the pitcher's mound. Huh? Seriously? OK, Dallas Braden.
Most people didn't know this rule existed before Braden screamed at Alex Rodriguez about it (see here and here). That's how dumb it is.
Stupid Scale: 10
9. Don't steal third with two outs. Well … this one … I mean … if you can do it safely, fine. If you get thrown out, just be ready to wear it in the dugout and maybe be subpoenaed to appear in Kangaroo Court.
Stupid Scale: 4
10. Everyone must be involved in an on-field fight. In any other place in North America, and in most places beyond, a gang fight is frowned upon. In baseball, if a scuffle doesn't turn into a gang fight, it's frowned upon.
This is moronic for a lot of reasons, which I documented last week, but one of them is that 90 percent of the people are getting involved for the sake of "saving face in the clubhouse" and are really just grazing.
Stupid Scale: 10
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11. Don't distract fielders by yelling or gesturing. The gesturing part, I understand. It could lead to injury on rare occasions, so it's better to just avoid it altogether. But if a fielder can't make a play because he can block out 35,000 people but not the one player on the other team who's running by him and yelling (see: A-Rod in 2007), well, he doesn't deserve to record the out.
Stupid Scale: 5
12. Pitchers can't show up fielders. Sometimes, pitchers just act reflexively when they see their teammates make boneheaded plays on sure outs. While I'm all for the idea of playing with emotion and belong to the school of "If you don't like it, do something to avoid it," this one is different.
No fielder is trying to blow plays—not usually, but it's probably happened—and usually no one feels worse about a bad blunder than the fielder himself. The pitcher's negative reaction just adds insult and might lead to bad blood in the clubhouse.
Maybe pitchers should try to not react, but if they do, it's not the worst offense.
Stupid Scale: 4
13. No elaborate celebrations after wins. Walkoff wins nowadays are all marked by dogpiles, which is fine.
Other celebrations draw much more ire from opposing teams and critics/traditionalists. I admit I used to be in this bunch because I didn't think much of the Milwaukee Brewers' bomb/shockwave celebration in 2009, and neither did the Giants, who plunked Fielder, its creator, in spring training the next year.
I regret being so uptight about this now. It was definitely a cool thing. I guess I didn't like the whole "showing up" aspect of it. I was stupid. Baseball is supposed to be fun, and that was really fun.
The Brewers had something similar done to them last year when Cincinnati Reds closer Aroldis Chapman did two somersaults after he closed a win against them. The Brewers didn't like it but they didn't retaliate, either, knowing what it's like to defend a celebration—they also took heat in 2008 for untucking their jerseys after victories, a gesture started by Mike Cameron as a tribute to his father.
Stupid Scale: 8
14. Don't rub the spot where a pitch hits you. I just thought this was a saying and not necessarily a rule until I started looking up lists of unwritten rules. What the … ? Are you serious?
Look, sometimes a small ball traveling 98 mph hits you, and sometimes that hurts. Rub it. It's fine.
Stupid Scale: 10
15. If they hit one of yours, hit theirs. This is the retaliation rule, and in the heat of the moment it's really difficult to ignore. We saw this last week when Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Zack Greinke hit Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Miguel Montero in the back after Arizona's Ian Kennedy hit Los Angeles' Yasiel Puig with a pitch that grazed Puig's nose after deflecting off his shoulder.
This rule would be much more acceptable if MLB put some real written rules in place to prevent brawls from happening or if teams could be mature enough to let an eye for an eye stop at that.
The problem is that players don't stop there. It's a game of one-upmanship. When that happens, ugly incidents follow. So for now, retaliating gets a "SMH" text to friends.
Stupid Scale: 7
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This is a doll trunk that I bought on ebay. I'm hoping Trunkman is out there and can give me some idea on the age of it and any other info that he might have, please.
After getting outbid on a Jenny Lind doll trunk, I was able to get this one for a good price on Super Bowl Sunday. I guess everyone else was focused on the upcoming game. It needs some TLC, but I think it is still a good trunk. It is 14 inches long, 9 inches tall and 8-1/2 inches deep. It is covered in paper. It has an original lithograph inside the lid, which reminds me of George and Martha Washington. It had leather hinges on the back, which are now broken. It also had leather straps on the front that are broken, too. The corners are metal and fairly detailed. The handle end caps are metal and look like a button and are exactly like the strap holders on the front.


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By Jatin Thakkar and Soham Sarkhel
Sri Lanka 289/6; India 238 (Sri Lanka won by 51 runs)
The scorecard of the match is here.
Overall, Sri Lanka had a Team IMPACT of 2.28 as compared to India's 1.61 in this match. Sri Lanka with this win moved over India in the points table. However Irfan Pathan's all-round impact performance for India ensured that they didn't get the crucial bonus point.
All figures between 0 and 5 unless otherwise mentioned.
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*Figures in the brackets represent the players' Match IMPACT when it is not restricted between 0 and 5, as it is in a career context.
Even though Thisara Perera delivered the highest impact performance (Match IMPACT 5.61*) Nuwan Kulasekara got the man of the match award for his figures of 9-0-42-3 (Match IMPACT 4.92). Perhaps the jury though that taking the crucial wickets of Tendulkar and Gambhir upfront made him worthy for the award. But they did not factor in Perera's contribution in finishing the match off for Sri Lanka. Perera took the crucial wickets of Virat Kohli and Irfan Pathan and his two quick wickets of Parthiv Patel and Vinay Kumar towards the end also registered a Pressure Building IMPACT in the match. Besides being ahead on Bowling IMPACT itself, Perera also had a slight Impact with the bat.
Irfan Pathan was the only player in the entire match to have an all-round Impact performance (both Batting and Bowling IMPACT above 1). His quick-fire innings of 47 runs off 34 balls made sure that he was the only Indian batsman to have a Strike Rate Impact in the game. However it proved to be inconsequential in the end as he ran out of partners steadily throughout the chase. With the ball he never really set the stage on fire but he had a crucial Partnership Breaking Impact twice in the match with the wickets of Jayawardene and Chandimal.
Lahiru Thirimanne and Virat Kohli both had an identical Batting Impact in the match which was incidentally also the highest (3.01). The same characteristics followed for both of their innings' as both Sri Lanka and India had lost three wickets in quick succession before both of them stabilised their respective team's position during the middle overs which also meant that they had almost identical Partnership Building Impact in the match.
Angelo Mathews had a Match Impact of 3.27 out of which an IMPACT of 1.04 was achieved on the virtue of his whirlwind knock (Strike Rate Impact) and his tight bowling during the middle overs (Economy Impact). He incidentally had the highest impact on both these parameters for Sri Lanka.
All in all 5 Sri Lankan batsmen had a Partnership Building IMPACT and a Batting IMPACT above 1.5 in the match while only 2 players achieved the same feat for India. Both the aforementioned stats just goes on to show the dominance enjoyed by the Sri Lankans in this match.
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