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FleshEatingZipper writes: We hardcore gamers sure are an insatiable bunch. We sink hundreds or thousands of dollars into our habit, show up in lines dozens of hours before our favorite products even launch, and we ask for a little bit more than an avatar helmet when Xbox Live turns ten years old. Is it too much to ask?
I signed up 7 years ago and all I got was three defective Xbox 360 consoles.
But hey, at least they gave you something.
Did you try the 3 year warranty?
Wasn't an option when I bought my 360. It was a 90 day warranty at first, then $170 cdn repair bill, then the warranty was extended to 1 year and after that I ended up with another rrod and another $170 cdn repair bill. At this point I opted for another $75 for a 2 year warranty given we started to figure out that something was up and I didn't want another $170 repair bill. When the warranty was extended to 3 years, it only covered rrod and not other defects as I found out when my 3rd console came back and promptly started gouging my games, and MS refused to take it back even though they just shipped it. The extended warranty came in handy then.
MS was supposed to refund repair fees back when the warranty was extended but after god knows how many hours I spent on the phone I finally had a supervisor tell me they didn't track repairs previously, had no record of my repairs and so couldn't confirm if I gave them money or not. I finally ended up having to fax them copies of my Visa statement to prove that yes, they had taken my money and 3 years after incurring the costs, they eventually cut me a check and gave me a free month of XBL.
But hey, an avatar helmet is nice too. :)
Raw deal. I had an error 74, they gave me a new console 3 days later. Came to my door too, didn't have to ship out anything.
When did MS offered that?
Edit: stealth edit from leroy
and all i got was 10 years of live. Make that 11 as i just re-upped my sub.
They pulled a similar stunt with me. I had bought the extended warranty through MS and they said I never bought it and wanted me to pay full price for the repair. I almost did too until I was looking through my bank statements and found it on there. I had to fax it in as well. D%&$'s
Lol why has Leroy got so many disagrees?
Ah forget you immature fanboys and this s#[email protected] I'm in Valencia. Need to be enjoying the craziness.
By the way, sorry for the off topic but can anyone recommend some crazy clubs on here. Went to superclub which, well, wasn't so super. PM me. No one speaks English here!
@Leroy - E74 has the same root cause, which is why the replaced your console. Disc scratching wouldn't be supported the same way.
@ multiConsoleGamer
LOL I signed in jut to give u a like.nothing against xbox.I own only ps3 & Vita.I go through any article ps3 xbox wii etc just to pass some time having fun reading comments while I have pop corn.have a nice day.
Forgot to say something-plz dont disagree with me cause I wont sleep all night /s
I've owned my Xbox 360 for nearly four years now and never had a problem with it in terms of hardware issues. Guess i'm one of the few lucky ones (!)
in fact the whole notion of the rrod situation was blown way out of proportion by the internet.
I mean can we all agree that not all of us had the problem just like not everyone who bout a ps2 had that problem or those who bought a ps3 had the ylod.
For those that did, yeah it sucks but we should not over exaggerate things. Yes the problem existed. it has since been fixed. Just like there was a problem with the ps2 and had since been fixed. YLOD on the ps3 has since been fixed.
Stop dwelling on the negative and look at the positive like the amount of games that have been released over the course of that 10 years. Some good, some bad but overall there have been a bunch of games that appeal to different people.
Oh and to point out, yeah i have had my issue with the 360 but I dont dwell on it or let it stop me from playing games. Any gamer can tell you that if its worth playing, its worth paying. And by that it isnt monetary, it also refers to time spent. spent playing and spent waiting but ultimately no-one ever said this was a cheap hobby.
Hmm helmet??
*Has an image in his head* lol.
LoL Xbox users pay $30-$60 a year to access half their games, yet feel ripped off at getting a "Free" Avatar Helmet.
I joined about 4 years ago and all I got was a bunch of great gaming experiences.
yeah, me too - how freaking weird! hahaha
oh and I use bing all the time and get a bunch of free MS points to use on xbox live - pretty cool too me!
Not sure if you know but you could of had those same gaming experiences on other devices for, wait for it...
Absolutely FREE!
You got the best online service!
I personally think Steam is the best online service... That's just me though.
and from the way it has evolved it certainly looks to have taken many ideas of improvement from live.
I think it's the other way around buddy. If it wasn't Steam would be full of ads, with paid online, expensive games and pretty much just a platform for watching tv programs and stuff.
I'm mainly a PC gamer, but I also own all the consoles. So without any bias I can say, paying 30-60 dollars for a service inferior to steam just to play exclusives is BS. And no, cross game chat isn't worth it you can get it on PS3 just by making a skype group with your friends on your phone/PC.
It is more of a mutual involvement if you really look at it. I know many may not remember Steam in its infancy just like many do not remember live when it first came out.
Most would say their experience with both has been of recent times. So going back to steam, it was the part of half life 2 that you had to have in order to get updates to the game but it was nothing like it is now. Similar to how live has grown over the years.
Not sure who did the achievement thing first but I can honestly say that I never played much with steam except my time with counter strike and half life 2. I turned my attention more to consoles so you can see how my interpretation might be a bit off.
If anything it has been a mutual improvement of the services. Ideas from one to the other and so forth. Steam is now this community with an achievement system that didnt exist in my early days. Just like how the 360 and live was an achievement and community type of system and yet on the original xbox it was strictly the online and live arcade.
So no disrespect but both services have aged pretty well and look like they will continue to improve.
Darth is right, steam took a lot from Xbox live even achievements. Steam's official release was 2003, Xbox live released November 2002. Steam didnt even have matchmaking options until 2008. It copied xbox live. Does that make the service inadequete, not at all. It does what i twas made to do for PC gsming. Xbox live does what it needs to for console and home entertainment. Copying is a sign if flattery in electronics, or patent infringement. ;) Enough said.
A helmet huh? What else do you want? You already paid to have the privilege to play your games online.
man screw this site, its all sony fanboys, ima be on here less.
There are just as many Xbox fans on here... I really don't get why people ally themselves with a certain company/console though honestly. Sure I may prefer PS3 over other consoles, but I can still enjoy Xbox and Wii just as well.
People just need to grow up and simply enjoy being a gamer rather than fighting amongst themselves over something as pointless as allegiance to a company that you have no connection to other than buying something of theirs.
I agree with Snookies12...people could be so childish sometimes.
"There are just as many Xbox fans on here"
Good one! /s
But seriously, all these ridiculous fanboys and trolls have turned this site into little more than a joke.
well said snookies
"But seriously, all these ridiculous fanboys and trolls have turned this site into little more than a joke."
well said too
Firstly there is no point telling kids to grow up, let 'em be kids.
Secondly, yes there is way more PS3 fanboys than xbox, it comes with the branding of Sony. Sony has always been about image, just like apple. there is nothing wrong with that from a company POV, in fact, it is good marketing. a side effect for gamers is their image and rep are threatened so they defend it. this is why the term Sony Defence Force exists on this site. if your console of choice is no way image related, you are less likely too defend like a blind fanboy. of course there are still plenty (read:too many) annoying xbox fanboys as well.
Well said snookies. The biggest problem with most people today is they live in a world where there things are better than any one else's.
I got a the new Samsung windows 8 tablet on monday and i had people telling me there ipad 3 was better and half the price. They did nor get that i got a new 11.6" windows 8 pro tablet powered by an i5 4gb of ram and 64gb of storage with usb3 hdmi out sd card slot and dock keyboard base for £979. and they still tell me there ipad is better because it has thousands of apps yet mine is a fully working pc that will do everything a pc will do yet they still need a pc to carry out there day to day jobs as the ipad wont do it.
Half the problem is lack of knowledge and the other half is the mins the best frame of mind.
Ive been gaming since the 80s and owned alot lf consoles even still have my Amiga 32 and when ive had my 15 year old cod playing bro round and ive said lets have a go on the amiga he says its a crap console because the graphics are crap.
To me games and consoles are how they make you feel when you use them and how the game makes you feel as games are supposed to be fun not something you fight over.
As for this guy posting he only got a hat for being with xbox live for 10 years come on get over it haw many companies give you something for using there services for 10 years? I cant think of any i have used that have given me anything and why should they you pay them for a service and you get that service why should you expect more? If you get more its a bonus but nota minus if you dont.
Or, rather this video:
(Swear I'm done now)
Smell ya later, smell ya later forever.
Most important line in that entire article:
"It's the thought that counts."
Quit your winning FleshEatingZipper, if someone gives you something decent for free and you don't complain.
It's like giving a legless person a pair of shoes.
That is the dumbest analogy I've ever heard. This guy has an avatar and has an xbox he can wear the avatar item if he wants to. A legless person has no feet to wear shoes with, they physically cannot use the shoes and furthermore it could be seen as you mocking them over a potentially very serious past experience if you sent them shoes. Outside of that, what are they going to do with shoes? This guy can wear the avatar helmet, he just chooses not to. This guy is just upset because he's not getting free stuff, where did Microsoft ever say they would give you something if you were a paid member for 10 years? Doesn't matter, because he even says in the article that he dropped his Gold membership for a few months. Should Microsoft send everyone who bought an Xbox 10 years ago an Xbox 360 for no reason? They're a business and they should just give out their product like candy? You pay for Xbox Gold to get the features Xbox Gold comes with, Microsoft owes you nothing after your membership expires and the fact that he's complaining over a free gift, which is 100% nothing like giving a legless person a pair of shoes, shows just how entitled the author is. If anything, it's like giving someone who wears sandals all day a pair of shoes and watching him go on a rant on why the shoes you gave him aren't good enough.
this is not an opinion piece, it is a rant. NOBODY CARES
I'd say considering the commentary in here, you care quite a bit.
Microsoft are jerks to their subscriber base.
LOL he is mad because he did not get a free xbox? LOLOLOL children these days.
Beg your pardon? You also received years of epic online multiplayer. Xbox Live changed your life. How about that?
I signed up for playstation plus last year and all I got was thirty awesome games for free. Oh well........
Stop paying for it.
And he'll STILL get to play online with his friends and enjoy the full features of his game and his system.
Stop paying for Live=half your gaming, gone.
Good job.
I wish fanboys would stop saying this. You're embarrassing yourselves.
You got ten years of superior online gaming
Stop paying for it...
i got ps plus and got ten free games right off the bat, i don't know about you but that does seem pretty awsome. and just getting a avater helmet is kinda sucky its as if microsoft wanted to give you cookie but they give the cookie to you in crumbs. heres one crumb, then another, and another. on the other hand PS Plus is like here have a box of cookies go nuts unless you are allergic then here have some nut free cookies.
"I Signed Up For Xbox Live Ten Years Ago And All I Got Was A Lousy Avatar Helmet"
Boo hoo :(.. This is like a kid that crys at christmas because he didn't get the gifts he wanted.
well i didnt get anything i did save some money by staying away from it tho
I got that helmet and only had it for 7 years.
I signed up for PS+ 2 months ago and all I got was free games every month!
Its getting annoying seeing this all the time. First off, the games AREN'T free. You pay for them through the subscription. Stop paying that and see how free those games are. Oh wait...
Yep. I'm paying a subscription as are XBox Live Subscriptions. Difference is I get games with mine.
All he got was a helmet? How about 10 years of fantastic online service?
I signed up for PS+ a few months ago and I got Infamous 2, Resident Evil 5 Gold, Saints Row 2, Just Cause 2 and LittleBigPlanet 2... FOR FREE!
Cool Helmet avatar You are one lucky guy, I had xbox live for 10 years, and they gave me an xbox 360 special edition That is a beautiful xbox 360 TBH
Yea I got that helmet as well for being a member for 10 years never let my Gold Sub expire either. Ohh well I would have loved one of those nifty looking anniversary consoles. For me it does not change anything I own all 3 consoles but my Wii and PS3 hardly get played I am sticking with my 360.
I make 10 years tomorrow, and all i got so far was stats and a xbox helmet for my avatar,
i honestly would like something for the time&money i spent on xbox, but then again why hold my breath
: (
Well they also gave out free copies of Wreckateer, but sadly it is a Kinect game, so it is of no use to anyone who doesn't use Kinect. Part of me thinks, well it's better than them not doing anything, but it also makes me think that they really don't care about any gamer who hasn't jumped on their Kinect bandwagon. But it's free, so we shouldn't complain.
So I must say the avatar helmet is a bit underwhelming for 10yrs of XBLG. I appreciated the offer of Wreckateer but I already own the game and... for most out there its a game they can't play. MS should have just given out a voucher for a free game of choice and given 2 or 3 options with at least 1 being non-Kinect.
I got a good laugh out of my message from MS yesterday. Saw I had a message from MS in my inbox...got a little excited in anticipation after hearing about "free consoles" for members on LIVE for 10yrs as I will turn 10 on XBL tomorrow 11/17. I scrolled down and just started to laugh at the let down.
A Avatar prop does suck but MS should have a new model with XBL next gen. A rumor Platinum or Diamond service should offer you anything under the sun.
As of now, a avatar prop is pretty sad but great stable/ evolving service with many XBL games, upcoming F2P games, third and 1st party games to play and with so much to do with friends makes it worth it to me.
I joined 10 years ago, Microsoft couldn't recover my GT 6 years ago and I was forced to start over, my new one is 6 years old (obviously). I've went through 3 Xbox 360 consoles and 1 original Xbox, bought countless content through the XBLA, spent thousands on games and accessories for both systems. Never cancelled my Live, never lost my loyalty to my favourite system and the company that created it for that matter.
You know what I got? A free downloadable poster. Chances are MS will save those consoles for their "Xbox MVP's" and possibly some industry people with a decent Klout score and high number of followers to Tweet out how awesome they are.


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WASHINGTON – U.S. commanders have laid out a range of possible options for military involvement in Syria, but they have made it clear that any action would likely be either with NATO backing or with a coalition of nations similar to the NATO-led overthrow of Libyan dictator Col. Moammar Gadhafi in 2011.
The White House announced Thursday that intelligence officials have concluded that the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad has twice used sarin gas on its own people. But even though President Barack Obama has called that a "red line" for taking some kind of further action to assist the rebels, administration officials said Thursday the intelligence wasn't solid enough to warrant such a move.
On Thursday, U.S. officials said that there has been no new movement of U.S. military assets to the region.
The military options could include establishing a no-fly zone or a secured area within Syria, launching airstrikes by drones and fighter jets and sending in tens of thousands of ground forces to secure the regime's chemical weapons caches.
Setting up a no-fly zone over Syria would present a greater challenge than it did in Libya because Syria has a more sophisticated and robust air defense system. Crippling it would require jamming the radars and taking out the missile sites, or possibly even using some type of cyberattack to interfere with the system.
According to a report by the Institute for the Study of War, Syria's largely Soviet-era air defense system includes as many as 300 mobile surface to air missile systems and defense systems, and more than 600 static missile launchers and sites.
Some senators have also pressed for the U.S. to set up a narrow, so-called safe zone inside Syria, along its border with Turkey where citizens could go and be safe. To do so would also require neutralizing Syria's air defenses. The U.S. could use a variety of methods to target key military command locations or attack air defense systems, including bombers, fighter jets from both ships and military bases in the region, missile launches from warships in the Mediterranean Sea and hunter-killer drones, such as those based at Sigonella Naval Air Station in Sicily.
There are currently no U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean, but fighter jets launched off a carrier in the Red Sea could reach Syria using refueling aircraft if needed.
During a recent Senate Armed Services hearing, Adm. Jim Stavridis, the top U.S. commander in Europe and NATO's supreme allied commander, said there is a "great deal of discussion" among allies about the various options, including the no-fly zone and providing additional lethal support to the rebels.
The U.S. has taken only minimal military steps so far, including the deployment of about 200 troops to Jordan to assist that country's military. The U.S. also participated in NATO's placement of Patriot missile batteries in Turkey near the border to protect against an attack from Syria.
A new Army headquarters unit is being deployed to replace the 200 troops in Jordan, giving the U.S. a stronger command and control unit, if the decision is made to send any additional forces.
In testimony to Congress last week, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked whether he was confident that U.S. forces could secure the chemical weapons caches within Syria.
"Not as I sit here today, simply because they've been moving it and the number of sites is quite numerous," Dempsey said.


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Shirley Joan Aden McDonald, 73, formerly of Gothenburg, died Friday, Feb. 6, 2009, at Rancho Mirage, CA.
A memorial service, which will be announced in the spring of 2009, will be conducted at her hometown of Gothenburg.
McDonald was born Aug. 27, 1935, at Gothenburg to Edmund and Dorothy Aden.
She had attended Gothenburg schools and graduated from high school in 1955. She then moved to Los Angeles to become a stewardess for United Airlines. Among many assignments, she was chosen to fly for the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Following her marriages to Robert Harrison, Sr., and later to John K. McDonald, she became a top real estate agent. She enjoyed a prolific career, according to family members, starting in Pacific Palisades, CA, during the mid 1980's and spanning to Trophy Club, TX, through the 1990's.
?McDonald retired in 1997 as she had always dreamed, to Palm Desert, CA, said family members. No matter where she lived, she filled her life with amazing friends with whom she loved to spend her time.
?Her proudest achievement in life was raising her two loving sons, the family said.
She was preceded in death by her father, Edmund Aden.
Survivors include: her two sons—Robert (Brandi) of Los Angeles, CA, and daughter, Bradi, and Richard (Rachel) of Louisville, CO, and sons, Alex and Bodhi; her mother, Dorothy Aden; a sister, Sharon Bennett of Orlando, FL.
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Editor's Note: The following article chronicles The National Cotton Council's Cotton Leadership Program, which is commemorating its 20th anniversary this year. The CLP is funded by The Cotton Foundation via a grant from DuPont Agricultural Products.
The CLP is also a project that I'm familiar with, because my father, Emmett Robinson, former public relations and promotions director for the National Cotton Council, helped design the program and even acted as "den father" for the first two leadership classes. It was a project near and dear to his heart.
When Marks, Miss., cotton producer Bobby Carson applied for a slot on the National Cotton Council's inaugural Cotton Leadership Program, he didn't think he stood a chance of being selected.
But Carson was just the type of person the program was looking for, a young farmer who was already emerging as a local leader with the Delta Council and one who believed with all his heart that the future of the cotton industry had more to do with what happened beyond the farm gate than within it.
Carson was selected for that first Leadership class, and in 1983/84, he spent six weeks expanding his view of the cotton universe. Twenty years later, Carson is living proof that the program works.
After graduating from the leadership program, Carson went on to work on several National Cotton Council committees and on Cotton Incorporated's board at the national level. Recently, he served as president of The Cotton Foundation and is currently president of Cotton Council International.
Carson recalls that he didn't quite know what to expect coming into the leadership program, only that he would learn. It didn't disappoint.
"It gave me an immediate understanding of how important industry coordination is and how important it is to have those contacts and develop those friendships and work with the industry leaders in the different segments to accomplish our goals."
The program also honed Carson's communications skills. In one session, Memphis television personality Marge Thrasher tutored class members on how to work with the media.
Carson recalled, "One of the things she told me, and I still try to apply that today is 'Don't try to be important. Just be yourself.' That stuck with me and still does anytime I'm in front of a camera or a lectern."
But it's not just the training that helped Carson over the past 20 years. "It created friendships that Sally (Carson's wife) and I still have today. We look forward to seeing those friends and their wives at Council meetings and other places."
Seasoning and patience
All a graduate needs after CLP training is a few years of seasoning and a little patience. After graduating from the program 19 years ago, Courtland, Ala., ginner Bobby Greene worked his way through numerous leadership positions – including a stint as president of the National Cotton Ginners Association. Today, he is the first CLP graduate to assume the chairmanship of the NCC.
Greene's CLP experience, "gave me the perspective on how interrelated the industry is. It's not an industry just made up of cotton farmers and ginners – there are seven segments. When we come together as an industry we have a great deal of strength and zest for our position because we represent such diverse interests."
Greene, a member of the 1984/1985 class, recalls that myopic viewpoints were usually the first casualties of the day when class members got together, often squeezed into a van for a trek down a dusty turnrow or to a research facility.
"We were all from different industries and geographic areas and there's banter in that bus all the time," he said. "But I don't ever remember an instance where any members were at odds when we finished a session."
Greene found out from fellow member, Buckeye, Ariz., cotton producer Chuck Youngker "that it took five-acre feet of water to grow cotton in the Central Valley of Arizona. Talking with Chuck helped me understand how expensive it is to grow cotton in the Far West."
Greene describes the program as an intense short-course on leadership. "From a professional standpoint, it was probably the most important one year in my life. The program stretches an individual. It causes the person to do things he would rather not do, like public speaking," said Greene, who admitted to having such an apprehension prior to the program.
"But isn't that how we grow? If you're afraid to get behind a lectern and you never get behind one, you're always going to be afraid. You have to face your fears."
On the other hand, the program is so intense that most participants simply don't have time to worry, Greene noted. "You start early in the morning with a breakfast meeting to go over what's going to happen that day. It's not at all unusual to not get back to the hotel until 10 o'clock at night. It's hard work, but almost every bit of it is fun."
The right stuff
When nominations for the upcoming leadership class are in hand, one of the first things that Prattville, Ala., cotton producer Jimmy Sanford will look at is each nominee's level of participation in his or her local, state and regional organizations. Sanford is chairman of the CLP's Leadership Development Committee, which selects the class.
"I also look for their participation and volunteer work in other non-agricultural organizations. There's no substitute for someone willing to give his or her time.
"Another thing that I look for is the breadth of a candidate, especially how well-read he or she may be. We have questions on the application asking what daily newspapers and periodicals the person reads."
Most leaders will rise to the top with or without a leadership program, noted Sanford, who has been on the selection committee since the CLP's inception. The CLP is simply a fast-track for those with the right stuff.
"Over time, a leader will assimilate the information about the industry," he said. "But it takes years. With this program, you can get a capsule of the factors that impact the cotton industry in one year. The program's greatest benefit is to expedite a potential leader's knowledge of the industry."
In addition, recent industry consolidation has intensified the search for leaders because it's limited the universe of leaders, according to Sanford. "That puts a premium on a need to identify them.
The Cotton Leadership Program began under the direction of Arlie Bowling, former Cotton Foundation executive director and director of economic and market research for the NCC and Emmett Robinson, former public relations and promotions director for the NCC.
The 2002/03 Cotton Leadership Class marks the 20th anniversary of the leadership program, which receives support from The Cotton Foundation via a grant from DuPont Agricultural Products. The CLP is the longest running active Cotton Foundation program.
Bowling, who is now retired, recalls dinner meetings between those early leadership classes and the managers and researchers at DuPont in Wilmington, Del.
"Both sides provided advice to each other and I thought it was a wonderful exchange of information. It was of value to the total cotton industry because the exchanges could help DuPont in its service to the industry."
"The reason for the program's success is that it cuts across all sectors of the cotton industry," said George Montgomery, regional sales manager, seed crop protection, southern region, Integrated Pioneer/DuPont Co.
Montgomery, who was DuPont's marketing manager for cotton products in the 1980s, worked with Bowling and Robinson during the program's formative years. DuPont continued its significant commitment to the program, "even during times when its cotton ag business declined before Staple and some other products came along," he said.
Two things kept the sponsorship going, according to Montgomery. "We knew that putting people in industry, governmental and environmental leadership positions was a benefit.
"We also built up a network of people who had gone through the program. We could pick up the phone and call people to get ideas fairly quickly, because they felt good about the program and felt good about DuPont."


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It may come as a surprise, especially given its low repute in the popular mind since the 1980s, but electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is making a comeback, both as a recommended treatment for depression and in public awareness.
That is, at least, one of the theses of a new book titled Shock: The Healing Power of Electroconvulsive Therapy. Its authors are Kitty Dukakis, former first lady of Massachusetts and wife of one-time presidential candidate Michael Dukakis, and Larry Tye, a medical reporter who spent 15 years at the Boston Globe and now runs a fellowship program for medical journalists.
"Twenty-five years ago ECT seemed on its way to the same dustbin of discredited remedies as mustard plaster, bloodletting, and lobotomies," Tye wrote, adding the following quotation from a 1981 book by British psychiatrist Robert L. Palmer, MD: "It is my personal prediction that the widespread practice of ECT will not last for another forty years, not indeed to the end of the century. Perhaps even by the end of this decade, ECT for severe depressive states will probably have been replaced by more effective and selective drugs. ECT will pass into history and will be judged in that perspective."
From 1975 to 1980, Tye added, "ECT usage nationwide had tumbled a dramatic 46%. At state and county mental hospitals, once the epicenter of electroconvulsion, the decline was a whopping 74% and the number of patients treated in 1980 a trifling 1221."
ECT was widely used to treat a broad spectrum of psychiatric illnesses throughout the 1940s and 1950s. The technique fell into disfavor in part as a result of lurid portrayals in films such as The Snake Pit and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and in part because the pharmaceutical industry began producing an array of psychotropic drugs that were aimed at the same patient population.
"In the 1970s, convulsive therapy was rejected around the world," said Max Fink, MD, professor of psychiatry and neurology emeritus at Stony Brook University. "Following the release of Cuckoo's Nest, students stormed the schools and even forced professors to resign. In the 1980s, [ECT] disappeared in Western Europe." Fink began using ECT in 1952 and is credited by Tye as "the first and foremost among the revivalists" who have kept the procedure alive.
Today, however, "more than 100,000 Americans a year get ECT for ailments ranging from mania to catatonia, with ten to twenty times that many worldwide" Tye wrote. ECT "is now as ordinary as a hysterectomy and twice as common as knee replacement surgery. And it all is happening just enough out of sight that it has taken many medical professionals by surprise."
This history and the evolution of ECT compose one part of Shock. Tye carefully traces the use of ECT, examining the medical evidence in its favor—studies have shown it to be 20% more effective than tricyclic antidepressants, 45% more effective than monoamine oxidase inhibitors, and "clearly superior to" some SSRIs—as well as the causes of the decline and reemergence of ECT.
"Not all of electroshock's traumas came at the hands of writers and moviemakers," Tye writes. "Shock doctors undermined their own credibility and their therapy's by prescribing it for conditions where it does not work." In the days before evidence-based analysis gave providers the tools to evaluate the effectiveness of their treatments, ECT was used for almost any condition remotely con nected to mental functioning--head injuries, neuroses, schizophrenia, even stammering--as well as asthma and psoriasis.
Dukakis' experience
Alternating with Tye's chapters on the scientific and historical view of ECT are Dukakis' first-person accounts of her own struggles with amphetamines, alcohol, and depression. In 2001, after years of psychotherapy, hospitalizations, and support groups, Dukakis underwent her first ECT treatments at Massachusetts General Hospital.
"Next thing I know I am waking up," she wrote. "I vaguely recall the anesthesiologist having had me count to ten, but I never got beyond three or four. I remember Charlie Welch and his ECT team, but am not sure I got the treatment. One clue is a slight headache. . . . Another is the goo on my hair.. . . There is one more sign that I did in fact have my first session of seizure therapy: I feel good—I feel alive."
Dukakis recounts the benefits of her experiences with ECT with the zeal of a religious convert. "It is not an exaggeration to say that electroconvulsive therapy has opened a new reality for me," she wrote.
In an interview with Psychiatric Times, she added, "I would much rather have a pill than have to go to the hospital [for treatment].
That's not an outrageous statement. For those of us who have taken them and failed—the medical record shows that there are 18 different medications I have tried—ECT is a wonderful last resort."
It is likely that Dukakis' testimonial will have a significant effect on the popularity of ECT. Following the release of Shock, she and Tye have been interviewed widely on television and radio and the book has been the sub ject of major articles in newspapers and magazines.
But it also raises the issue of how ECT is prescribed. Often today ECT is, as Dukakis described it, the last resort. But given its proven effectiveness, does that make sense?
"Sometimes there is a difference between what is and what should be," said Sarah H. Lisanby, MD, who chairs the American Psychiatric Association's committee on ECT and related electromagnetic techniques. "We strive to find the least invasive treatment that will be effective for the patient. For some patients, that is ECT. But it is not uncommon to see patients who have been depressed for as long as 5 years in the current episode and who have gone through as many as 10 medication trials. You have to ask, why wasn't ECT recommended earlier? The more the profession is educated about the risks and benefits of ECT, [the more] people will appreciate that it may be useful earlier in the process than we currently use it."


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The first set of Wednesday night's gave fans much excitement as both the Limestone Saints and King Tornado combined for more than 60 points of offense. But like the first set, Limestone outlasted the Tornado in a three-set loss for King that dropped them to 6-8 (3-6 CC) on the season. In his first start at outside hitter, Jeremy Funk set a career high with 13 kills to lead King.
As the lead switched hands multiple times throughout the first set, junior Jeremy Funk filled the statistic sheet with seven kills in the opening frame. His effort plus six combined block assists from Mason Casner, Ashton Hippenstiel, Matthew Lychock, and Adrian Lopez helped continue a first set that need 64 points scored to declare a winner.
The match nearly ended at the regular 25-point mark when facing set point, Jeremy Funk's attack went into the antenna at the same time a Limestone frontline player crashed into the net. The error was waved off and instead of Limestone winning 25-23, play continued.
Immediate after the call reversal, King's Matthew Lychock and Ashton Hippenstiel combined for a block at the net to force set point, 25-24. Funk committed one of three service errors on the night that tied the set back up at 25 all. Both teams went back and forth beyond the 30-point barrier with King breaking four match points before a bad set and attack error gave Limestone the victory, 33-31.
Limestone made easy work of the second and third sets, riding the momentum of their extra-long opening frame victory. By the middle of each game, Limestone had broken away by as many as five points and rode toward victories in each set, 25-20 and 25-19.
The Saints' CJ Shearer and Andrew Miller combined for 30 kills on the night with Miller leading all attackers with 16. Miller's night was not just highlighted by quantity but also efficiency when he hit .750 for the evening (16-for-20, 1 error). Shearer also hit at a high mark, finishing with a .400 hit percentage.
Funk, a junior from Lancaster, Pa., led the Tornado with 13 kills, a career high. Funk made the move to outside hitter for his first start at the position on Wednesday evening.
Freshman Matthew Lychock (Las Vegas, Nev.) also hit well, finishing with a 50 percent attack success rate. Michael Koebel (Richmond, Va.) and Adrian Lopez (Houston, Texas) led the defense with seven digs each while Ashton Hippenstiel (Yupaica, Calif.) tallied a team-high five block assists.
King's next scheduled match is for Monday, Feb. 18, against Washington Adventist inside the Student Center Complex.


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I didn't ask about supernatural aspects within the canon, thanksJudai wrote:Hey Brother
(MAJJHIMA NIKAYA The noble search Sutta 26)
"I am one who has transended all,a knower of all,Unsullied among all things,renouncing all,By craving's ceasing freed.Having known this all for myself,to whom should I point as teacher? I have no teacher,and one like me Exists nowhere in all the world,With all its gods,Because I have No person for my counterpart.I am the Accomplished One in the world
I am the Teacher Supreme.I alone am the fully Enlightened One,Whose fires are quenched and extinguished.To set in motion the Wheel of the Dhamma In a world that has become blind.I go to beat the drum of the deathless."
Impermanance/dependent origination/suffering are all rooted in ignorance which is 1 of the 3 poisons,impermanace comes from ignorance the Buddha is permanant hence 4th nobles truth unless you think the Buddha slips back into impermanat samsara and can change and get the 3 poisons back?or has he done away with them permanently?
the above qoute covers all knowing/all seeing,all pure,and that no being is higher than a Buddha(supreme being Bhagavan)also states he is the teacher of deathless(imortality)and by the 4th noble truth Permanance,as far as creating the cosmos the cosmos is samsara which is of mara,and not the true reality correct?the true reality is Nirvana,which is the Buddha and of the Buddha.tiltbilt stated that for the Buddha to fit the mono idea of god he had to be the creator of the cosmos,well my reply was that the cosmos is of mara not the Buddha,and the Buddha is the author of the true reality =Nirvana
The fourth noble truth is the path leading to the destruction of Dukkha, not the end of Dukkha itself; that would be the third Noble Truth.
When a flame goes out where does it go to? you seem to be infering perminance to something which is not a "thing", it is irrevocable but that does not show it is a perminent thing, only that there is no sliding back therefrom. anicca would be better translated as inconsistent, not-sure, changable. and as for the deathless, it is also called the "un-born" and that which is not born can not die, so is deathless, just like nibbana is the going out (of a flame), there is no more arising.
Mara isn't a creator god, he is only one god of the sensual sphere (of which we abide and only one of the planes of existence), although you have not shown any evidence that the Buddha created Nibbana.


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The Seven
Text and Composition by: Will Power
Directed by: Jo Bonney
Through March 12
New York Theater Workshop
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Amber Afe, narrator of Will Powers The Seven, showing at the New York Theater Workshop through March 12.
Oedipus remixed: hip-hop meets Greek tragedy
By Steven Snyder
Some plays strike that elusive spark with an audience, sending a current of electricity pulsing through the theater. Will Powers The Seven is a lightning storm of energy and inventiveness, a wholly unique experiment of reinterpretation that leaves some audience members cheering, others befuddled, but all whipped silly by a theatrical experience flipped upside down.
Best known for Flow, which won acclaim at the 2003 New York City Hip-Hop Festival, Power is a wizard of both physical and verbal dexterity, eagerly and fearlessly integrating the movement, rhythm and vernacular of hip-hop into larger theatrical formulas. In The Seven, he moves beyond Flow to tackle two more rigorous challenges: musical theater and Greek tragedy.
The Seven is loosely based upon Aeschylus Seven Against Thebes, which is the tale of Thebes, a city under siege, and the sons of the disgraced Oedipus: Eteocles and Polynices. But The Seven is far from a strict revival and, as molded by writer and composer Power and director Jo Bonney, the musical borrows heavily from other famous tragedies and cultures, both old and modern. Unlike Thebes, Oedipus himself plays a prominent role, partly so that Power can depict hatred spreading down through the generations and partly to allow Edwin Lee Gibson a chance to strut his stuff in an unforgettable, show-stopping performance. Also included in the program is a hilarious Greek/hip-hop glossary that lists definitions of Troy and The Sphinx alongside words and phrases coined centuries later, including crunk, Mack Daddy and wanksta.
This is the stuff of Greek mythology all right, but mixed up and scratched out, and given a back beat that recasts these ancient curses and conflicts in a modern form. The narrator is also a DJ, and she mixes up the records much as a playwright mixes a story. Above her, on a raised portion of the set is Oedipus, the angry, sneering, cursed soul who dons a cane, a leather coat and a pair of shades as he screams from the rafters and passes his curse down to his sons.
Eteocles (Manuel Herrera) and Polynices (Jamyl Dobson), however, are determined to break their fathers curse, which says they will one day kill each other, and they form a plan to separate and take turns ruling their kingdom one year at a time. Eteocles starts his reign with the help of his Right Hand (Tom Nelis), a suit-wearing prototypical politician. Polynices, meanwhile, heads off to live a year in the woods alongside Tydeus (Flaco Navaja) who not-so-subtly falls in love with the would-be king.
But the more Oedipus pokes and prods his sons, the more they forget about the curse and their plan to thwart it. Polynices returns, demanding his turn as king, and Eteocles refuses, assembling his army.
This tale of destiny, however, plays second fiddle to the plays form, and Power always remains one step ahead of our expectations. Here, he gleefully jumps through every shade of hip-hop from tunes that are catchy to those that meditate and incite and then slyly shifts his focus away from the mechanics of an ancient melodrama to the sub plot most resonant today: The arrogance of two blessed, spoiled leaders who readily spill the blood of their followers to settle personal grudges.
In a flash, Thebes doesnt seem like such an ancient place.
Some will wonder why Power has drifted away from original stories to approach this material. But this impeccable production, from David Weiners evolving lighting design that embraces everything from disco balls to towering, overwhelming shadows, to Richard Hoovers layered set design that allows these characters room to breathe, dance, crawl and jump, shows how the old can be made new again, and how even classical theater can be recast as an immediate and vital experience.
Everywhere you look, the show is reaching out to draw you in. In the place of mournful soliloquies are a series of angry and creative hip-hop melodies, songs that sample everything from the improvisational style of Stomp to the roof-raising energy of James Brown. In the place of classical prose is a game of modern references and wordplay, littered with phrases such as hella guards, player haters Original O.D.B., Mulder and Scully, and Punkd.
Productions like The Seven and playwrights like Power prove that his brand of theater an experience that spins together hip-hop and Sophocles just as easily as it brings together a crowd of old white theater buffs and young black hip-hop fans, bouncing in their seats is one of the ways this often-sanitized art form will remain fresh, particularly for a new generation.
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Is it important to run security software on the K1 which is connected to our home network?If yes,what software would you recommend?
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Hi, bkfk.
Since tablets are designed to be mobile, that means that the tablet is likely to be connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi hotspots. This makes it important to ensure the security of both the tablet and your home network.
As it turns out, when Ubergurl was organizing the Lenovo online Malware and Security event last year, she asked me if I would write an article on tablet security tips. You can find it here: Tablet Security Tips.
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LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — An official says two road accidents that took place an hour apart have claimed 25 lives on a northern Nigerian road.
Zamfara state spokesman Nuhu Anka said Tuesday the first accident occurred Monday after a bus tire burst on Gusau-Sokoto road. The driver lost control of his vehicle, leading to death of six passengers who were headed to a wedding.
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Bang, We're Dead
How our universe will end, and another will be born.
The universe is a potentially endless series of Big Bangs, according to a new theory. Most scientists think the universe began 14 billion years ago with the Big Bang and will keep expanding and scattering into nothingness. The new theory says a gap between the current theory's predictions and emerging data can be explained if the universe is at least a trillion years old, probably driven by a cycle of bangs. In fact, the authors say, there's no reason to assume its age is finite. Old forecast: We and our descendants will dissolve into smithereens, along with everything we've built and done. New forecast: We and our ancestors will be blasted into smithereens, along with everything we've built and done.
Holding a gun may trigger testosterone and aggression. In a small study, young men were given either a handgun or a board game; testosterone spiked in those who handled the gun, but not in those who handled the game. Given the opportunity to add hot sauce to a drink for the next participant, the gun handlers added three times as much as the game handlers did. Skeptics' argument: Maybe the guys who received the gun added extra hot sauce because they figured that's what was expected of them. Rebuttal: That wouldn't explain the testosterone spike. (For Human Nature's take on male-female differences in eagerness to punish, click here.)
Britain will let fertility clinics weed out embryos that have genes for adult cancer. The old rule allowed screening only for genes that caused childhood diseases; the new rule allows screening for genes that 1) don't affect the child until later in life, 2) increase the probability of a disease but don't guarantee it, and 3) relate to diseases that are often treatable. Critics' argument: It's another step down the slippery slope. Wait till we find all the genes for IQ, obesity, and shortness. British regulators' arguments: 1) Medicine's job is to prevent suffering, which these genes cause. 2) The genes confer an 80 percent probability of cancer, which is close to a guarantee. 3) The diseases often strike by age 50, which is pretty young. 4) We're not saying it's always OK; we'll just consider each screening request on its merits. (For Human Nature's takes on embryo screening and genetic engineering, click here and here.)
A Catholic parochial school teacher was fired for undergoing IVF. She and her husband resorted to IVF after five years of trying to bear children. When she told her principal she was trying it, he said it might violate her employment contract. Four days after she announced her pregnancy, she was fired. IVF violates Catholic doctrine by separating procreation from sex (since the fertilization is in vitro) and by entailing, in some cases, the destruction or desertion of spare embryos. Teacher's arguments: 1) I was just trying to have kids; isn't that what marriage is for? 2) We respected Catholic concerns by destroying no embryos and avoiding donor eggs or sperm. 3) Firing me was pregnancy discrimination. 4) My bosses let other couples get away with IVF. Employer's arguments: 1) She's "a fine teacher, but for the fact that her public announcement of her intentions was in direct violation of the teachings." 2) Religious schools are allowed to discriminate on the basis of their teachings. 3) We don't invade teachers' privacy; we had to fire this one because she made her violation impossible to ignore. Statement of the employer's attorney on birth control: "If an employee were to publicly espouse that he is going to engage in contraception with his spouse that is in direct violation of church teaching ... that employee would be terminated." (For Human Nature's takes on the political battles over IVF, click here and here.)
Gene transfer cures cancer in mice. Scientists found a mouse that defeated cancer injections that killed ordinary mice. When they bred it with ordinary mice, offspring inherited the immunity. When they injected its white blood cells into ordinary mice with cancer, "In every case, the cancers were destroyed, even if the cells were injected at a point distant from the tumor. Healthy tissues were not affected. The mice that received the cells, furthermore, were protected from new tumors for the rest of their lives." Preliminary tests suggest some humans may have similar immunity. Warnings: 1) The results have yet to be replicated. 2) We haven't identified the gene. 3) We may not find it in humans. 4) We've seen cancer cured in mice before. (For Human Nature's take on genetic engineering, click here.)
In 10 years, self-reported oral sex has more than doubled among people aged 12 to 25, according to a comparison of 1994 and 2004 data in Baltimore clinics that manage sexually transmitted diseases. In a sample of more than 6,000 young people, the percentage of males reporting oral sex in the preceding 90 days rose from 16 to 32; the percentage of females reporting oral sex rose from 14 to 38. Meanwhile, the percentage of females reporting anal sex rose from 3 to 5.5. Interpretations: 1) More teens and young adults are having oral sex because they think it's safer than vaginal sex. 2) That's true of some infections but not others. 3) This is foiling urine tests, which are supposed to diagnose STDs but don't catch oral or rectal infections. 4) We'll have to warn kids more explicitly about the risks of various activities. (For Human Nature's take on the risks of oral vs. anal vs. vaginal sex, click here.)
Lesbian brains differ from straight women's brains. Last year, a study showed that gay men, like straight women and unlike straight men, processed a male pheromone in a sex-related part of the brain (the hypothalamus) but processed a female pheromone in a scent-related part of the brain. Now the authors of that study report differences among women: 1) Lesbians, like straight men, prefer the female pheromone and find it less irritating than the male pheromone. 2) Straight women find the female pheromone more irritating. 3) Straight men and women process same-sex pheromones in the scent area but process opposite-sex pheromones in the hypothalamus. 4) Lesbians process pheromones of both sexes in the scent area. Interpretations: 1) Sexual orientation is biologically based, not a choice. 2) Sexual orientation is more biologically based in men than in women. (For a summary of the study of gay men, click here. For Human Nature's take on gay marriage, click here.)
Being fat may improve your odds of surviving intensive care. In a study of nearly 1,500 lung-injured ICU patients, the thinnest "had the highest risk-adjusted odds of hospital mortality," while the fattest had the lowest risk. Researchers' theories: 1) Fat people are given medicine to prevent blood clots, which boosts their chances of survival. 2) Thin people die of the "underlying diseases" that made them thin. (For Human Nature's takes on the war on fat, click here and here. For updates on the benefits of coffee, click here and here. For the benefits of chocolate, click here and here. For the benefits of alcohol, click here and here.)
Teens who take virginity pledges can't be trusted, according to an analysis of follow-up surveys. Findings: 1) 52 percent of pledgers denied a year later that they'd pledged. 2) Among pledgers who later admitted to having sex the year after the pledge, 73 percent denied they'd pledged. 3) Among pledgers who conceded in the first survey that they'd had sex, nearly one in three claimed a year later that they'd never had sex. 4) Pledgers were four times as likely as non-pledgers to recant previous admissions that they'd had sex. Researchers' conclusions: 1) Teens lie. 2) Pledgers lie more. 3) Born-again pledgers (those who pledge after having sex) lie the most. 4) Pledges fail. 5) We have no idea what works or what the truth is, because all this revisionism makes the data worthless. Conservative objection: Stop dishonoring pledgers by questioning whether they honor their pledges. (For the risks of French kissing, click here. For the superiority of intercourse over masturbation, click here. For Human Nature's take on anal sex, click here. For sex with teachers, click here.)
A 63-year-old woman will give birth. Most fertility clinics don't assist women past age 45, but British authorities don't restrict IVF by age, and this British woman got help from Severino Antinori, a cloning advocate who has helped several women become mothers in their 60s. Critics' arguments: 1) These women are already too old to be fit parents. 2) They'll be dead or defunct before the kids can grow up. 3) They're treating kids like acquisitions. 4) This woman already has two adult kids; she's just doing this so she can have a kid with her second husband. Defenders' arguments: 1) She has made sure the kid will be provided for. 2) Health, not age, determines parental fitness, and this woman is healthy. 3) Leave her alone so her kid can grow up in peace. 4) Antinori promises to offer IVF only to "couples with at least 20 years' life expectancy." (For Human Nature's takes on IVF restrictions, click here and here; for an update on the health risks posed by older fathers, click here.)
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The players are indeed guaranteed 57% of the share of HRR. Not more and not less. (from the CBA itself: The dollar amount represented by the Players' Share in a League Year (i.e., Leaguewide Player Compensation) shall equal (i.e., shall never exceed nor be less than) the Applicable Percentage of HRR, as calculated pursuant to this Article 50). Escrow isn't about clawing money from the players it's the mechanism in which they are guaranteed their share.ESQ wrote: Under the "linkage" system, as more and more teams spend at the floor instead of the ceiling, the players aren't getting their 57%. By my math on capgeek they're barely over 50% of the reported league revenues of $3.3 billion. The players want to get closer to their linkage amount by encouraging spending by the weaker franchises, while capping the amount of the raises in the cap floor. I suspect this is going to be a very attractive prospect to the multitude of cap floor owners, because even under the League's proposal there is still potential for huge jumps in the cap floor if revenues continue to grow at 7-8%.
How does cap geek give you the different numbers? I think the following:
1) the players share is not calculated through the cap hit but rather the actual yearly salary that is paid out. For example, Luongo's contribution of salary to the calculation if not the $5.25 mil cap hit but the $6.7 mil he was actually paid.
2) that 57% share also includes other player related costs such as health insurance, per diems, required payments for relocation etc
3) injury call ups get paid and contribute to that 57% and may not be accurately captured just by looking at cap geek.
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Evacuation Order Continues for Part of North Lubbock as Hazmat Crews Continue to Work on Containing Chemical Leak
UPDATE 2:45p, May 9, 2013
The Hazmat team at the scene of the leak has begun transfer of the Hydrogen Chloride from the leaking cylinder to another cylinder. The Lubbock Fire Department will issue further status updates later today.
A Hazmat team from Dallas is continuing to work on containing and cleaning up a chemical leak in North Lubbock.
The hydrogen chloride, leaking from a tank being transported on a trailer, was discovered around 7:30p Wednesday night at the Bayer Crop Science facility in the 100 Block of Erskine Street.
An evacuation order was issued around Midnight for parts of North Lubbock, including a portion of the Guadalupe Neighborhood. About 20 residences and 100 people are currently affected by the order.
The evacuation area (pictured, left) is a triangle with the northern point being Erskine Street near North Ash Avenue. The eastern edge of the triangle goes south to the Marsha Sharp Freeway, encompassing Mackenzie Park. The southern boundary of the evacuation area goes along the Marsha Sharp Freeway moving west to Avenue L. The southern portion of the Guadalupe Neighborhood was evacuated, going north to Baylor Street.
The Flying J truck stop located on Interstate 27 was evacuated last night when the order was issued.
No one was injured in the incident and the Salvation Army opened up their main shelter at 16th Street and Avenue J for those affected by the evacuation order.
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Update – Police Release Identity Believed Connected to Skeletal Remains
The State police today revealed the identity of the Virginia man they believe died in the Maine Woods. Skeletal remains were found off the Puddledock Road in Manchester by hunters over the weekend. A Virginia driver's license was found with the remains.
Police have notified the family of Paul Tolbert, 33, of Radford, Virginia with their suspicions. Family members confirmed that Tolbert was attending a drug rehabilitation program in Winthrop. He hadn't spoken with his family since January of this year.
The family had not reported him missing. Police say foul play is not suspected in the death. Tolbert's family is sending DNA samples to the Maine State Medical Examiner's office to make a positive identification.


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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military-backed interim president said Thursday that the country's uprisings have put an end to the police state, even as the government came under new criticism over abuses by security forces amid a heavy-handed crackdown on Islamists and other dissenters.
Adly Mansour's comments were part of a campaign to rehabilitate the image of the security agencies whose abuses and grip on political life were a major factor fueling the 2011 uprising that ousted autocrat Hosni Mubarak, which marks its third anniversary Saturday. Though there has been little reform of the agencies since, the police have surged back into prominence, touted by authorities as heroes, after the military's ouster of Mubarak's elected successor, Islamist Mohammed Morsi.
Since Morsi's ouster on July 3, security forces have jailed thousands of members of his Muslim Brotherhood, which has also been declared a terrorist organization. Hundreds of Morsi supporters were killed in police crackdowns on their protests. Amid a wave of nationalist sentiment, the crackdown has extended to other critics: A number of journalists and many of the top secular activists who led the anti-Mubarak uprising and oppose the military's dominance now have been detained.
In the latest sign of the air of intimidation against dissent, a court sentenced a blogger, Ahmed Anwar, to three months in prison on Thursday for "insulting the police" and "misusing the Internet" over a video he posted on YouTube depicting policemen belly dancing — mocking police for recently giving an award to a well-known belly dancer
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Egypt's Foreign Ministry described the report as "tarnishing the facts" and said the government respects human rights while it is engaged in "combating terrorism."
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In the latest militant violence, masked gunmen riding on motorcycles sprayed a police checkpoint in the central province of Bani Sueif with bullets, killing five policemen and wounding two, the Interior Ministry said. Thousands of mourners chanted against the Muslim Brotherhood and Morsi at the funeral.
Mansour's comments came in a speech for Police Day, a holiday commemorating the security forces, which falls on Saturday, coinciding with the anniversary of the 18-day uprising against Mubarak, which began on Jan. 25, 2011.
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In 2011, activists launched their anti-Mubarak protests intentionally on Police Day to denounce the widespread abuses by security agencies under his nearly 30-year rule — including torture, arbitrary arrests and corruption. The protests swelled into an all-out revolt against him, fueled by hatred of police, as well as economic woes and frustration with years of autocracy. Police forces virtually collapsed after battles with protesters.
The ceremony in the Police Academy was the first official celebration of Police Day since the 2011 uprising. In his address, Mansour made a rare reference by officials to police abuses under Mubarak — though he presented them as individual transgressions and a thing of the past.
"The glorious revolution healed a chasm caused by wrong practices of commanders or individuals who were mistaken in understanding their role in protecting the nation and the people and misused power," Mansour said.
He added that Egypt is starting a "new era" where police "preserve the dignity of the Egyptian citizen," marking "a definitive end to the police state, never to return."
In the same celebration, Interior Minister Mohammed Ibrahim — who heads the police — referred to the Brotherhood group as "forces of evil" and vowed the police will take the lead in "dealing with terrorism."
Critics say the security forces have used the fight against terrorism as a pretext to silence any form of dissent.
In one recent case, Emad Shahin, a political science professor who taught the American University in Cairo, Harvard and other prestigious universities, was listed among some 130 defendants, including Morsi, on charges of conspiring with foreign militant groups to destabilize Egypt. Shahin, currently in the United States, denied the charges on his Facebook page as "far-fetched."
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Sorry dirty dirky diggler Nannes but you are incorrect.
The last ODI NZ played the order went Styris/Elliott/Oram at 5/6/7. Although with the dominance the NZers had over India in that one game they werent needed.
Amazing Styris has been left out also. Will be interesting to see what affect the new panel has now with Vettori/Moles. I guess we'll see after the performances of the CT/SL tours and how well these guys go
What is amazing is that the selectors have had such little faith or patience with him in the last year - that's why he's had bugger all cricket.
They may have been grumpy that he threw his toys out of the cot last year and quit test cricket, but soon after that he was playing ODIs against England here, and had an excellent series in England. Failed in October against Bangladesh three times and had injury problems, and now the selectors have forgotten he exists.
He's played a couple of 20/20s also but they're pretty much irrelevant IMO. As a good player for a long period I think he deserved a little more leeway.
Styris shot himself in the foot by quitting test cricket. For mine he's only got himself to blame. I'm happy to see they are sticking with Broom, far more long term in all forms than Styris.
The difference between Broom and Styris though is that Styris is infinitely better, is proven at International level and was consistent here in the UK and if you went to all the games that they played over here in the T20 he actualy looked good and in good touch (besides the SL game obviously)
Youre right for a guy who has performed very well for NZ for 10 years to be discarded so quickly is an injustice. Which is why it'll be interesting to see what influence Vettori/Moles have as its been reported that both havent been happy with the team theyve been at times which may be the exclusion of Styris?
I dont buy this whole threw his toys out of the cot as again it was reported that he had mentioned to Fleming when in SA that he was going to give up test cricket at the end of the summer. So all it did was bring it forward 3 months. With the attitude of discarding your payers for playing one form of the game does this mean now that Freddie over here is discarded for the same thing. Up to his injury against the WI on boxing day lets not forget he was NZs number 1 ranked batsman on the World Rankings. In Fact B Mac has only just passed because Styris hasnt played.
Just think we cant afford to lose his experience. Bring in the Brooms to learn from him otherwise he/Elliott/Williamson and co will flounder for longer than they should
The thing about that england series where he played so well in the ODIs is that by memory he looked scratchy in his first game and then looked a million dollars in the next games as he came into form.
I think it is hard to just jump into international cricket to just play ODIs because it must be a step up from first class. So the one concern about him playing the champions trophy is - has he had enough international cricket recently.
That being said I would still pick him. And have been advocating this. I think all this not rewarding players with loyalty sends a bad message to the rest of the team and leads to them being under too much pressure.
On a personal note when Styris was 14 years old and playing against me in a school 1st XI game I was wicket keeping and I caught him behind and he didn't walk...
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Anyway, what I meant was the last game that the three of Elliott, Broom and Oram were all in the team.
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Hmmm, they have the reserve keeper all wrong.
Hopkins=test reserve
McGlashan=ODI reserve
I think the selectors got very impatient with Styris's inconsistency match by match, added to the fact he wasn't in line for tests and he probably got forgotten.
I think he's currently better than Broom, though in domestics they'll both bash the crap out of domestic attacks.
Only problem I have with Broom is he's being forced into a hitting role which I'm not sure is his game. Also his List A record is quite scratchy, whilst the First Class one should have him as one of the first picked for tests if someone gets dropped from the test team. I think they've got him the wrong way around.
The selectors do seem to realise that Elliott will be a very good ODI allrounder but a poor test one though, which is good. Well, they did at least, then he got picked for SL.
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enough said, without him the NZ bowling attack..not to be rude..is kinda ...whats the word...crap
Yeah, that Kyle Mills who has been world class in ODIs for a couple of years is rubbish, along with that left arm spinner whatshisface?
Athai - As for the rankings i dont mean now. I said at the time of his injury which was boxing day 08 when he had his thumb broken. He was number 1, which is a performance thing so he must have shagged Turners daughter or something for him not to be there....ha
Polo - i dont htink we've seen the last of him. Again as i mentioned i just have this hunch that with Vettori/Moles now selecting he is one of those guys they want. But only time will tell on this because if the team loses and badly in SL and then bombs at the CT then we could see him back. All ifs and buts i know otherwise if they do do well i think youre right these new guys will be there to stay
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I have two sets of data A and B of the same length, that I'd like to plot one against the other - this is easy of course: ListPlot[Transpose[{A,B}] What I'd like to do next is to colour each point according to the value of B (or A in principle). The points are easily generated using: Point[#]&/@Transpose[{A,B}] And if I have a list of colours C I can do something like {Hue[#]&/@C,Point[#]&/@Transpose[{A,B}]}//Transpose//Graphics//Show The question is how to generate the list of colours C. Note that I don't want to sort A and B, since I want to leave them alone to plot {A,D}, {A,E} later on. I tried various combinations of Ordering[] and Position[] but didn't get anywhere. Anyone have any idea? Thanks, Hywel ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hywel Owen h.owen'at'dl.ac.uk Accelerator Science and Technology Centre Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, UK Tel: +44 1925 603797 Fax: +44 1925 603192 ------------------------------------------------------------------- This email is confidential. If you have received this email in error, you are in notice of its status. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and then delete this message from your system. Please do not copy or use it for any purposes, or disclose its contents to any other person: to do so could be a breach of confidence. Thank you for your co-operation. If this message contains information that you have requested from us please see our standard notice for details of how you may use that information. If the notice is not attached and you require a copy please contact the FoI Officer by emailing FOI-Officer at cclrc.ac.uk <mailto:FOI-Officer at cclrc.ac.uk> or visit our web site <http://www.foi.cclrc.ac.uk>, Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of CCLRC. -----------------------------------------------------------------


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