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Hermon Driver Facing Multiple Charges After Bangor Collision
A Hermon man is facing multiple charges, including Operating Under the Influence, after an accident on Broadway in Bangor on Tuesday. Police say the accident totaled both vehicles involved and sent both drivers to the hospital.
According to Bangor police, Lewis Pearson, 52, was driving his Ford Expedition outbound on Broadway at 4:44pm. Suddenly, his vehicle crossed the center line into oncoming traffic, and struck an inbound Subaru Forrester driven by Guillermo Olivos, 55, of Bangor.
As a result of the collision, the Subaru was tipped over, and Olivos was trapped in his vehicle for a short time until the Bangor Fire Department could free him. He and Pearson were both taken to the hospital by the Bangor Fire Department with complaints of pain.
Pearson is now charged with Operating Under the Influence, Failure to Maintain Control of a Motor Vehicle, and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia. His arraignment is set for Jan. 18.


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7) Windows no longer supports many main features, like WordDoc.
8 ) Computer has 2MB of free memory due to all the files of music, RPG stories, saved games, etc.
9) Burning Rom no longer works due to PC world not supplying the code which means I have to buy another one.
10) I'm a Ludite Freak (which means that nothing you say to me about PC's will make any sense and is therefore pointless) and I like it this way because the PC plays all my '95, '98 games which I have been playing for years.
11) Being without Flash saves me from Tzan's YouTube raids of weirdness.
12) The fucker still works, sorta, well good enough and Gates ain't telling me to buy stuff when it's just a con job. Fuck you Gates! You and your Windows!
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MVP Cabrera sits out 3rd straight game
Jul. 25, 2013
CHICAGO (AP) — Reigning American League MVP Miguel Cabrera is not in Detroit's lineup for the third straight game Thursday against the Chicago White Sox.
The Tigers third baseman who was baseball's first Triple Crown winner in 45 years last season left Monday's game in the bottom of the fifth inning with a left hip flexor injury. Detroit manager Jim Leyland gave no update Thursday on Cabrera's condition other than to say he's not playing.
Cabrera is hitting a major league-best .358 with 31 home runs and 96 RBIs.
Don Kelly is playing third for Detroit and batting seventh.
Without Cabrera in the lineup, Detroit has won two in a row over the White Sox and scored 12 runs.


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It Ain't Easy Being Green
Are green magazine covers really "death on newsstands"?
At first glance, there's nothing unusual about the January 2006 cover of Harper's Bazaar. It showcases a famous woman looking pretty, pledges to reveal the "Season's Must-Haves," and trumpets a big, meaningless number (635, the quantity of "New Looks" purportedly dished up within). To the untrained eye, the cover appears elegant but tame.
To the editors of women's magazines, however, it is a cold glass of water thrown in the face of convention. Why? Because it's green. And—as the New York Times noted last month when the issue won an American Society of Magazine Editors award for "Best Celebrity Cover" of the year—the color green "has traditionally been considered poison on the newsstand."
This belief may sound cockamamie, but it's pervasive and often firmly held, especially at women's magazines. Cindi Leive, now the editor in chief of Glamour, remembers getting into "an almost physical fight" at Self over a cover that pictured Stephanie Seymour in a dark green sweater. "I liked the cover," Leive recalled. "But my art director … not only was she screaming, she was screaming in a thick and impassioned Finnish accent and telling me that dark green was the color of death … in Scandinavian mythology, but also on the newsstand." The end result? Seymour appeared on the cover in a creamy white fisherman's sweater.
It's not just the Finns who are skeptical. When I mentioned the greenish Harper's Bazaar to a consultant who tests magazine covers for a number of publishers, he sniffed, "I would think it didn't sell that well." But that issue of Harper's did sell well—8.6 percent better than the January 2005 issue of the magazine, and 8.1 percent better than the December 2005 issue. Which is enough to make you wonder: Is the fear of green just an empty superstition?
Luckily, there are people who study these things. Obsessively. At magazines with brisk newsstand sales (Cosmopolitan, Us Weekly)—as opposed to those that rely on subscribers (Reader's Digest)—editors attack each new cover with a pile of research that a NASA scientist would envy: stats on which celebrities move copies, lists of words and topics that readers respond to, and other arcana. Since covers are studied so closely, I expected that it would be easy to find empirical evidence of green's newsstand toxicity. I was surprised, then, that when I asked the research arms of magazine publishing houses and independent consultants whether they had data showing that green suppresses newsstand sales, the answer was no. Even the consultant who scoffed at Bazaar's green cover confessed that he hadn't done much research on how the color performs, because editors don't send him many green covers to test. "They don't really use green when they're trying to sell style or fashion," he said. A quick trip to the newsstand confirmed this: The only green cover I found was the November issue of High Times.
If there's no evidence that green kills newsstand sales, how did this bogus theory take hold? Samir Husni—the chair of the journalism department at the University of Mississippi and a close follower of the magazine industry—offered one clue about the origins of what he called "this urban myth": He's heard some retailers speculate that the fluorescent bulbs in stores cast a yellow light that washes out newsstand greens and gives them a feeble, bluish cast. Lynn Staley, assistant managing editor of Newsweek, put forth a more plausible theory: "Like brown, [green] can be tricky to control on press and either one can migrate in the baby poop direction if the printer isn't careful. It's a technical consideration, but it may explain an industry-wide allergy to the color."
The Staley hypothesis has the ring of truth. As pigments go, green has always vexed mankind. The cave painters at Lascaux were situated near hefty deposits of the green minerals called terre-verte, which they could have used to give those beasts some grass to roam on—but they seem never to have discovered it. Medieval illuminators worked with tricky, unstable copper greens, which tended to bleed and taint neighboring colors—forcing frustrated monks to scrap entire pages. In 1814, chemists used arsenic to manufacture a brilliant new hue called emerald green—but it was one of the most toxic pigments ever made. In the modern era, the advent of four-color CMYK printing has made reproducing any color fairly easy. But modern greens still appear muddy from time to time. It's plausible that art directors resisted green over the years, and that resistance could have hardened into tradition.
One man who helped perpetuate the myth was Alexander Liberman, the domineering Ukraine-born painter and sculptor who served as Condé Nast's editorial director from 1962 to 1994. According to one designer who worked with him, Liberman was prone to repeating, "Green is death on the newsstand!"—and so the company's editors and art directors began to avoid the hue.
It's tempting to peg Liberman—who trained so many people over so many years—as the patient zero of the anti-green epidemic. But the answer may not be that simple. Sarah Bailey, the deputy editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar, told me that "green is traditionally regarded as newsstand death, absolutely. And every newsstand seminar I've attended has said exactly that." But Bailey was trained in the U.K.—she once edited British Elle—which suggests the green ban is so universal that it can't be traced to one man alone.
The biggest mystery surrounding greenophobia isn't its origins. It's the fact that, given how much research editors have at their disposal, such a canard can persist. There are plenty of bizarre newsstand myths. (Another one? The notion that odd numbers do better than even ones. Editors believe you're more likely to buy a magazine that promises "635 New Looks" than one that promises 630.)
I think the endurance of these superstitions has a lot to do with the pressure magazine editors face. Witness Joanna Coles, the new editor of Marie Claire. She recently OK'd a black-and-white cover featuring Sarah Michelle Gellar. It reportedly tanked, and she's come under increasing scrutiny since.
It must be nice for such editors, who must turn a blank page into a blockbuster month after month, to have certain touchstones to return to and certain options that are verboten. And it must also be nice—when you're feeling especially confident—to flout convention once in a while. Bazaar's Bailey says that, for the magazine's January cover, the editors photographed actress Julianne Moore in a blue dress, as well as the notorious green one. But, she says, even though the green dress broke "every rule in the book," the shot worked. "I think in January, that image on the beach with the watercolor blue sky, it just felt like inhaling fresh sea air when you saw it on the newsstand."
Got any idea why Liberman detested green? Was there an apple-hued Vogue that flopped in the '60s? An issue of Vu that performed like merde? Send theories to firstname.lastname@example.com. (E-mail may be quoted by name unless otherwise stipulated.)


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Gordon finally beats his former team
The end of Charlotte's 18-game losing streak will get most of the attention, but an even longer drought came to a close when the Bobcats beat the Bulls on Monday at the United Center.
Ben Gordon beat the Bulls for the first time in his NBA career.
Gordon left Chicago in 2009 as a free agent and went 0-11 against the Bulls as a member of the Detroit Pistons. He was traded to Charlotte this summer and finally turned the tables.
"I need to make a habit out of it, man," said Gordon, who scored 15 points Monday. "We've been losing every time I come here. It's good to finally get a 'W.' More importantly, just breaking that streak we had. Happy about that."
Gordon didn't necessarily want to leave the Bulls, but the Pistons gave him a much bigger contract than the Bulls offered. Since he left, Gordon's teams have complied a 90-171 record and haven't made the playoffs.
"I've had some tough years, but I think the best is yet to come," he said. "I think my best basketball is ahead of me. Just looking forward to trying to get better each year and hopefully we can turn this situation around here and make the best out of it.
"Initially, it was a little bit of a shock (to get traded), but not really. That's part of the business. It's my ninth year and I've never been traded before, so it was good to kind of get that out of my system."
Hacks join the attack:
While the Bulls tried in vain to catch up to Charlotte in the fourth quarter, coach Tom Thibodeau resorted to fouling intentionally.
It started with "Hack-a-Bismack." Bobcats center Bismack Biyombo, a 50-percent free-throw shooter on the season, went 2-for-6 at the line, then was removed from the game. So the Bulls tried hacking Jeff Adrien and Hakim Warrick.
Charlotte made 21 of 38 free throws overall, but the Bulls' strategy didn't help. They never got closer than 7 points in the final minutes.
"We were just searching for anything that can maybe get you going," Thibodeau said. "So we tried to foul. We tried the trapping. All the stuff you have to resort to when you're behind and trying to find a way back into the game."
Fortunes entwined:
One of the Bulls' assets for the future is tied to Charlotte's success, or lack of it. They are awaiting a first-round draft pick from the Bobcats, acquired in the 2010 Tyrus Thomas trade.
The pick is top-12 protected in 2013, which means Charlotte would have to either make the playoffs or own one of the two best records among non-playoff teams to give the pick to the Bulls this year.
Looking ahead, the draft pick is top-10 protected in 2014, top-8 protected in 2015 and unprotected in 2016. So, obviously, the Bulls are hoping the Bobcats stay bad and hit a low mark three seasons from now.
Brunson family values:
Former Bulls assistant coach Rick Brunson returned to town in the same role with Charlotte, after changing jobs this summer. He left behind a talented son, Jalen, a sophomore basketball player at Stevenson High School. Brunson said he's been able to get back and watch his son three times so far this season.


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One-day Tickets Available for Woodworking in America
With just 15 days to go until Woodworking in America 2011 commences, we still have room for more people. So, we've decided to offer one-day passes. Single-day passes are now available for either Friday or Saturday (there are no passes for the Sunday half-day) for $175 each.
A one-day conference pass gives you full access to that day's educational sessions and the Marketplace. On Friday, there are 32 sessions from which to choose; on Saturday, there are 28. Whichever you choose, your day will be jam-packed with woodworking information – but do save time for the Marketplace, where you can try out tools from many of the world's top makers. (Plus, Gorilla Glue, one of our sponsors, has a treat for you – bring an old bottle of glue and trade it in for a new 18-ounce bottle of Gorilla Wood Glue at the company's booth!).
Classes run between 9 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. on both Friday and Saturday (the Marketplace is open 9 a.m.-6 p.m.)
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Contact Information:
Major Areas of Research
- Process design and development
- Regulatory strategy
- Translational program management
Program Description
The goal of the Vaccine Production Program Laboratory (VPPL) is to efficiently translate candidate research vaccines into materials for proof-of-concept clinical trials and to enable advanced development and licensure by partners. The VPPL is responsible for process design and development, clinical good manufacturing practices (cGMP) manufacturing, pre-clinical safety testing, and regulatory activities for all VRC products. Since its inception in 2001, the VPPL has overseen the manufacture of over 68 bulk pharmaceutical compounds formulated into 40 different vaccine and therapeutic products. These products include candidate vaccines for HIV, influenza, filoviruses including Ebola and Marburg, and alphaviruses including chikungunya, SARS, and West Nile.
Process design and development takes place at the laboratory in Gaithersburg, Maryland. The laboratory includes development groups for stable cell line generation, cell culture (upstream), purification (downstream), formulation, and analytical testing (characterization and lot release). The focus is on developing state-of-the-art production methodology that will support both the cGMP manufacturing of material for VRC clinical trials and the effective transfer of successful candidates to partner organizations for eventual commercialization. Flexibility is essential as candidate formats include DNA plasmids, viral vectors, recombinant antibodies and other proteins, virus-like particles, and self-assembling nanoparticles.
Once a process is developed, it is transferred to the Vaccine Pilot Plant (VPP), located in Frederick, Maryland, for cGMP production. The VPP, completed in 2005, has four independent production trains in a facility of 126,900 square feet. Two trains operate at 100 liter scale, one train at 400 liter scale, and one train at 2,000 liter scale. There are also suites for inoculum preparation and for media/buffer preparation. The filling operations are qualified to perform small-scale lots up to 5,000 vials and large-scale lots up to 15,000 vials. The warehouse is sized to handle raw materials and supplies sufficient to maintain production operations with coordination and control through the adjacent dispensary. Quality control laboratories and a quality assurance department are responsible for oversight of cGMP manufacture including validation, compliance, lot release, and document control. The VPP is operated under contract by Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc. at the Frederick National Lab.
The Regulatory Science Group within the VPPL is responsible for setting regulatory strategy and for managing regulatory activities for all VRC products. The regulatory group has assembled more than twenty investigational new drugs (INDs) and master files since 2001. The group also leads the development and performance of good laboratory practices (GLP) safety studies for planned clinical products. The Translational Program Management Group of the VPPL is responsible for the cross-VRC coordination of VRC projects and programs. The VPPL establishes Collaborative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs) with industry partners to bring innovative vaccine technologies in for development or to continue development of VRC candidates beyond Phase I or II clinical development.
Dr. Schwartz joined the VRC as chief of the Vaccine Production Program Laboratory (VPPL) in May 2008. In this role he is responsible for the development of all VRC clinical trial candidates and clinical trial material production. Dr. Schwartz has almost 25 years' experience in pharma and biotech while working in diverse areas including pharmaceutical natural product production, hematopoietic stem cells, and vaccines. He was previously the senior director of process and manufacturing sciences at MedImmune Vaccines, where he was responsible for vaccine development and clinical manufacturing of new vaccine candidates as well as for providing manufacturing support to commercial vaccine manufacturing operations. Additionally, he was team leader for a $170+ million dollar development effort to convert FluMist from egg-based to a cell culture-based production process. Prior to MedImmune, Dr. Schwartz worked at SyStemix, Aastrom Biosciences, and Eli Lilly. Dr. Schwartz received his B.S, M.S., and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Michigan.
Selected Publications
Schwartz RM. Formulation and stability of a chikungunya virus-like particle (ChikV VLP)-based vaccine. Paper presented at: Vaccine Technology IV; 2012 May 20-25; Albufeira, Portugal.
Schwartz RM. Delivering a future of broad cell culture implementation. Session chaired at: World Vaccine Cell Culture Congress; 2012 Apr 11-12; Washington, DC.
Schwartz RM. Development of a high-yield chikungunya VLP-based vaccine using a transient transfection process with HEK-293 cells. Paper presented at: New Cells – New Vaccines VI; 2012 Mar 25-28; Wilmington, DE.
Schwartz RM. Transient transfection for vaccine development. Paper featured at: Cell Line Development and Engineering; 2012 Feb 13-17; Cologne, Germany.
Schwartz RM. Case study: Rapid production of a novel VLP vaccine. Paper presented at: Rapid Vaccine Development and Production; 2010 Sep 20-24; Providence, RI.
Schwartz RM. Case study: Development and clinical manufacturing of a platform process for plasmid DNA vaccines. Paper presented at: Vaccines Development Forum; 2009 May 6-8; Boston, MA.


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Hyponatremia is a potentially serious condition in which the level of sodium in the blood is too low. An imbalance is created when there is too little sodium for the amount of water in the body. As a result, water moves into the body's cells causing them to swell.
There are different types of hyponatremia, each resulting in low sodium in the body:
- Euvolemic hyponatremia—water level increases, but sodium level stays the same
- Hypervolemic hyponatremia—water and sodium levels increase, but the water gain is greater
- Hypovolemic hyponatremia—water and sodium levels decrease, but the sodium loss is greater
Hyponatremia may be caused by:
- Syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH)—Antidiuretic hormone signals the kidneys to absorb more water, reducing urine output. In SIADH, the mechanism that stops antidiuretic hormone from collecting water is impaired. This impairment results in excess water in the body.
- Sweating—In people with cystic fibrosis , excess sodium is excreted through sweat. It may also occur in people with severe burns when electrolytes and fluids are not replaced.
- Some diuretics—Increase sodium is lost in the urine.
Risk Factors
Factors that may increase your chance of hyponatremia include:
- Advanced age
Excess water intake without electrolytes—may occur when:
- People are participating in endurance exercise
- There is a lot of vomiting and/or diarrhea
- Certain medications, such as some diuretics or antipsychotics
Certain health conditions, such as:
- Kidney failure
- Heart failure
- Advanced liver disease— cirrhosis
- Underactive thyroid gland— hypothyroidism
- Inflammation of the pancreas— pancreatitis
- Inflammation of the abdominal lining— peritonitis
- Treatment for uncontrolled diabetes
- Certain types of cancer
- Meningitis
- Head injury
- Having prostate surgery
- Sweating in people without cystic fibrosis or severe burns
People with mild hyponatremia usually don't have symptoms. As hyponatremia progresses, symptoms will appear and worsen.
Moderate to severe hyponatremia may cause:
- Nausea
- Loss of appetite
- Irritability
- Headache
- Restlessness
- Sluggishness
- Confusion
- Hallucinations
- Muscle twitching
Severe and rapid onset hyponatremia may cause seizures , coma , or death.
Your doctor will ask about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Your doctor will ask you about your fluid intake and do some tests.
Tests may include:
- Blood tests—to check the sodium level in your blood, and the functioning of your organs
- Urine test—to check the sodium level in your urine
Other tests may be done to look for any underlying causes of your hyponatremia.
Treatment may depend on:
- What is causing the low sodium level
- How long the sodium level has been low
- How low the sodium level is
- Your level of hydration
In cases when the sodium has been low for more than 1-2 days, your doctor will want to correct the sodium level slowly. Serious complications may occur when sodium levels rise too rapidly. It can be corrected more quickly if it has been lw for a short time.
Treatment options may include:
- Restricting fluid intake
- Identifying the underlying cause and getting proper treatment
- Medications to help remove extra fluid from your body
- IV fluids to deliver sodium restore proper balance
To help reduce your chance of hyponatremia:
- If participating in sports, drink only as much water as you need to quench your thirst. Sport drinks that provide electrolytes, such as sodium, along with water may be helpful during endurance events.
- Work with your doctor to effectively manage any conditions that you may have.
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TORONTO (AP) — The mayor of Canada's largest city was ordered out of office Monday after a judge found he had flouted conflict of interest rules for refusing to repay funds he solicited for his high school football team using city letterhead when he was a councilman.
Mayor Rob Ford blamed "the left wing politics" for the ruling and said he would appeal. The development is the latest in a string of embarrassments for the colorful mayor who has repeatedly found himself in the news since he was elected in 2010.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland said Ford showed "willful blindness" to the law and said he cannot claim that it was an error in judgment made in good faith.
At issue was Ford's participation in a city council vote on repaying money he had solicited for his football program. Ford is a volunteer coach of a local high school team.
The judge said Ford showed a "stubborn sense of entitlement" and a "dismissive and confrontational attitude" toward the city's integrity commissioner.
The judge's ruling takes effect in two weeks, but Ford can seek an order that will allow him to stay in office while he appeals.
The judge said Ford had his staff sent out letters using the city of Toronto logo and his status as city councilman to solicit funds for his football foundation. Donors included lobbyists and a corporation that does business with the city of Toronto.
The city's integrity commissioner found Ford's actions broke a conduct code and recommended he pay back $3,150 to the donors from his own pocket.
The council adopted the commissioner's findings and sanction in a resolution Ford voted against — but he never made the repayments, despite several reminders from the commissioner.
Ford vowed to run again if he loses his appeal.
"I'm in no conflict here," Ford said in a packed media scrum outside his office. "This comes down to left wing politics. The left wing wants me out of here and they'll do anything in their power. I'm going to fight tooth and nail to hold onto my job. And if they do for some reason get me out I'll be running right back as soon as the next election."
Clayton Ruby, who represented a local Toronto resident in the conflict of interest lawsuit against Ford, said Ford did it to himself.
"If you break the rules there is a price to pay. It's important for the courts to assert that nobody is above the law, Rob Ford included," Ruby said. "Rob Ford has said all along that he did this for the kids. He deserves credit for working with those kids, but he should have remembered that he had an obligation to those kids to set a good example for them. He should not have taken lobby money for his football team."
Ford, a right-wing city councilor for years, promised to end wasteful spending at city hall when he became mayor, tapping into a well of voter anger with his "stop the gravy train" message. Ford also said Toronto would be better off if it didn't accept more immigrants. Half of Toronto's population was born outside Canada.
He has often been in the news since. Controversies involving Ford include accusations he made obscene gestures at residents from his car, published pictures of him reading while driving on the highway and high profile altercations with a Toronto Transit worker as well as a Toronto Star reporter.


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Lineage.ATW is a worm that spreads by copying itself, without infecting other files.
It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy:
passwords saved by certain Windows services; keystrokes, in order to obtain information for accessing online banking services, passwords and other confidential information.
It reduces the security level of the computer:
it notifies the attacker that the computer has been compromised and is ready to be used maliciously.
It uses stealth techniques to avoid being detected by the user:
Lineage.ATW uses the following propagation or distribution methods:


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Youth Culture Window
Media Consumption: Part IV
The Lure of Glowing Screens
Kids & Parents Have Different Take on Tech
An article from
David R. Smith
This is the final article in a 4-part series based on the
Kaiser Family Foundation's Generation M2:Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year-Olds
. The
first article
is an overview of the report.
The second article
talks about how much "entertainment media" kids consume each day through music.
The third article
focuses on print media consumption, and this final article turns our attention to the undisputed heavyweight: the screen.
Today's generation has a new pied piper: the screen. Whether it's a Hi Def, 60" behemoth hanging on the wall, or a 3" screen on a cell phone that fits in a pocket, kids are entranced by the glow from the tech in their lives.
But what kids can't take their eyes off of…parents seem to hardly notice.
The Dominance of the Screen
In our series of articles based on Kaiser Family Foundation's Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-18 Year Olds,
we've given a (staggering) overview
of kids' media consumption. We've also talked about how much "entertainment media"
kids consume each day through music
, and how much
they take in through print media
, as well.
But in our final article, it's time to turn our attention to the undisputed heavyweight:
the screen.
For many hours each day, kids between the ages of 8 and 18 are entranced by the LCD screens attached to video games, computers, movie theaters, televisions, and cell phones. (In fact, knowing how crucial screens are to most kids, Samsung has been hard a work creating a
virtually indestructible screen
that will fit kids' lives even better.)
Sure, those screens are very different in size and location, but the content they deliver to kids will ensure that kids keep their noses glued to them. In fact, photographer Evan Baden noticed such a deep dependence on screens by kids that he put together a
telling portfolio aptly entitled,
The Illuminati
The evolution of the screen over the past century has been
fantastically chronicled in this video
. The gist is that entertainment was once confined to the Silver Screen, but now, all things entertainment are available on a screen that fits in a pocket or purse.
As we discuss the individual screens that have captured a generation, note two things. First, see how dependent upon the various screens most kids are, and how long they look at them each and every day. But second, notice how passé many parents seem to be in regards to the screens in their kids' lives.
If there's a sacred cow of media, it's "television content." Kids watch 4 hours and 29 minutes of television programming each and every day, which is an increase of 40 minutes per day over the last 5 years! But don't think kids are glued to their couches for this amount of time. Nope, they can now watch television programming online, on their cell phones, on handheld video game systems, and even mp3 players.
Television has gone mobile.
But don't be too quick to discount ye ol classic television set, either. Part of the reason kids are watching more television these days is also due to the fact that 71% of them have a TV in their bedroom (and 49% of them have cable or satellite access there, too). KFF's study clearly showed that kids who have TVs in their bedrooms watched an hour more of programming each day than kids who did not have a TV in their rooms.
The effects of extended TV watching are well-documented: it plays a role in
kids starting sex earlier
. In fact,
multiple studies
have observed this disturbing trend.
But, according to KFF's report, less than half of kids' parents (46%) have rules about what sort of television content they can watch. And a mere 28% of kids' parents have rules about how much time can be spent watching TV.
So it looks like one of the most influential screens in kids' lives is largely unmonitored by parents.
Another big player in the screen world is, of course, computers. From desktops, to laptops, to netbooks, and soon, the fervently anticipated iPads, computer screens demand 1 hour and 29 minutes of kids' attention each day. The three most popular computer-based activities include visiting social networking sites, playing computer games (like the
wildly popular Farmville on Facebook
), and watching online videos on sites like YouTube.
Computers give kids access to the world through a connection to the Internet…and a third of all kids are accessing that world from the comfort of their bedrooms. Yep, 36% of kids have a computer in their bedroom, and 33% of them have Internet access to boot, according to KFF.
Allowing computers in bedrooms is definitely something parents should be leery of; in earlier articles, we've already pointed out that
some studies have found "parents are clueless"
about what their kids are actually doing online.
The content available to kids online is constantly growing and changing. Unfortunately, many of those changes are not good.
For instance, one of the biggest buzzes in youth culture this past week has been the explosion in popularity of a
website called ChatRoulette
. This is a site that allows users to employ their computer-mounted webcam to chat with any other person using the site at the same time. If you don't like who you're looking at, you just hit "next," and in true roulette fashion, another site user is randomly assigned to your computer screen.
During the writing of this article, I visited the site for about 7 minutes to see what the buzz was all about. In that time, I clicked through mainly guys –
no surprise there
– about 60 in total, 4 of whom were openly masturbating. In the same 7 minutes, I only saw 2 women…but one of them was doing a topless strip tease.
Are you still sure you want a computer in your child's bedroom?
Cell Phones
This screen may be the most important one because of the access it grants…and its portability. Not only can it connect kids to the rest of the world via text messaging, web browsing, and online social networks, but it also conveniently –
and privately
– slips into a purse or a pocket.
According to KFF, 66% of all 8-18 year olds own a cell phone, and spend over 2 hours each day using them (talking for 33 minutes and texting for 1 hour and 35 minutes). Kids spend an additional 49 minutes each day viewing television content, listening to music, and/or playing games on their cell phones.
That's almost 3 hours a day spent looking at a cell phone screen!
Many of today's cell phones are miniature computers, and the
increased popularity – and sale – of "smartphones" to teenagers
will likely mean that kids' attraction to cell phone screens will remain strong.
Very few students report much parental oversight when it comes to cell phones, in spite of the many reasons for parents to be heavily involved in what happens on the tiny screens. Only 27% of the kids report that they have rules about the amount of time they can spend talking on the phone and even less, 14%, say they have rules about the number of texts they are allowed to send.
We've talked before about how some teens are
using these mobile devices in dangerous ways
. There have been plenty of headlines about
, and others have warned that cell phones will be
the number one provider of Internet pornography
by 2011.
These alone are reason enough for parents and youth workers to be aware of what their kids are viewing on these miniature screens.
Video Games
The time spent playing video games has increased dramatically since KFF's last report in 2005. On average, kids spend 1 hour and 13 minutes playing video games each and every day. Part of the increase is due to the incredible graphics engines now powering the games. Part of it is due to the fact that game designers have finally fused two of kids' favorite media, video games and music, yielding culture-changing games like
Rock Band
Guitar Hero
. But the biggest reason for the increase in video games played may have to do with
how and where
they're played.
Just over half (51%) of all video games are now played on handheld devices such as cell phones or handheld players, like a Nintendo DS. Again, portability has ensured that kids can play video games on the go, and don't have to be "plugged in" somewhere.
But don't assume that kids have abandoned the old fashioned gaming console either. The Pew Research Center's
study on gaming consoles
found that 80% of kids own a gaming console; KFF discovered that 50% of all kids have a gaming console in their bedroom.
Given the number of video game consoles that are in homes, and the number of gaming systems that are in bedrooms – and hopefully, by now, the WHOLE POINT of this article – you might guess that not a lot of parental rules accompany video game play. Only 30% of kids say their parents have rules about how much time they can spend playing video games. And only 30% of kids say their parents have rules about which video games they can play.
Given some of
the deplorable video games
out there for sale, parents should definitely take a second look at this screen.
Screen Time vs. Face Time
The leading influence on kids' lives
has been debated for quite a while
; some think it's media, while others believe it's parents. In fact, the answer is "it depends."
In households where parents monitor media and make sure to spend quality time with their kids on a daily basis, "parents" are the leading influence on kids' lives. But in homes where parents delegate quality time with their kids to screens, "media" gladly steps into the void and becomes a surrogate parent.
But there's hope. Kids
will respond and react
to the influence offered by parents. For instance, KFF discovered that when parents did set limits on screen time, children spent less time with media…far less time, in fact. Kids in homes with any media rules consumed almost 3 hours (2:52) less media each day than kids in homes with no rules. That's huge!
So parents please don't throw in the towel. You can make a difference…a big difference!
Just make sure that you have uninterrupted time with your kids each day. And by uninterrupted, I mean, make sure there aren't any screens turned on or headphones plugged in. Just you and them. Even if you take advantage of just a fraction of those 3 hours you'll find by putting some rules in place, you'll notice an incredible difference in your child.
Given the media that is mass marketed to our children, we simply cannot be oblivious any longer. We must know what those screens are pumping into our kids' minds and hearts. And when we disapprove of the content – and from time to time we will – we simply need to unplug it.
David R. Smith
is a 15-year youth ministry veteran who helps youth workers and parents through his writing, training, and speaking. David specializes in sharing the gospel, and equipping others do the same. He co-authored his first book this year,
Ministry By Teenagers
. David provides free resources to anyone who works with teenagers on his website,
. David resides with his wife and son in Tampa, Florida.
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1. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!Mylenium Apr 11, 2012 5:48 PM (in response to kenackr)
how does one reset preferences to factory default?
By deleting the pertinent files in Users:Ken:Preferences:Adobe:After Effects:8.0. Also make sure you are launching the correct full version of AE, not the render-only version, which looks just the same, but has all items but the ones in teh File menu disabled.
2. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!kenackr Apr 14, 2012 7:54 PM (in response to Mylenium)
Thanks much for the reply. Sorry for the delay in response, I could not find the prefs along the path you described. Here is a screen grab showing the prefs finally found under library:
This is is the file to delete? When he file is deleted& I then restart the AE program WIll I have the ability to straighten out the display?
3. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!Rick Gerard Apr 14, 2012 9:27 PM (in response to kenackr)
Just hold down the option and ctrl keys then click on the app to open it. You'll get a popup that asks if you want to delete the prefs file.
4. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!kenackr Apr 15, 2012 12:12 PM (in response to Rick Gerard)
Thanks for the reply. I have done that but I never get to see the popup because the screen is all black.
5. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!kenackr Apr 15, 2012 9:28 PM (in response to kenackr)
I just don't know why I keep buying this Adobe crap. Apparently, they must outsource all the programming to China, because it sure isn't written in a way that I can understand as an American. Like most of the big software companies, they do not provide either a clear path to or a coherent explanation of how to use the arcane & obtuse programming that makes up their fare. Of course, you never really know what you are getting into, because they don't make it clear just how difficult it is to learn or use.
In their rush to make gobs of money, they seem to have forgotten that not everyone who purchases their crap has had enough prior experience to undestand the little known secrets of how to find out what to do when all goes wrong.
It is the same mistake that many programmers the world over make day in & day out, they can't concieve that those who have no familiarity with the way they see how to make their software work, find their software unfathomable. THE NEWS FLASH IS THAT NOT EVERY ONE KNOWS WHAT YOU KNOW ABOUT HOW TO MAKE SOFTWARE WORK. The attitude seems to be: "Anyone who doesn't know the secrets of the brotherhood shouldn't be using it!"
As one who once went through the rigors of obtaining a CS degree (and actually considered starting a software company), it became obvious (20 years ago) that the future was not how many tricks you could make the pony do, but rather how intuitive you could make the software to allow the intended user to operate it without having to know it's arcane secrets AND to make it fault tolerant and self healing as much as possible. The telephone is a reasonable analogy, very few people know how it works, but they sure can use it until the cows come home with very few operator errors. In short, the technology is virtually transparent to the user.
I realize that company cultures rarely change unless an outsider is brought in to clean house and start afresh and that the likelyhood of that happening at Adobe is about the same as winning the Powerball lotto Jackpot 3 times in your life. I guess that makes me a modern day Don Quixote, but so be it. I also know that EVERY organization that does not change it's approach to the marketplace will eventually be replaced by some upstart who figures out a way to do it better.
So, ladies & germs, I did what anyone who uses a telephone would do when you aren't making any progress, I hung up the phone (un-installed the program) and stopped trying to figure out the technology that keeps my screen black AND does not allow me to undo the prefs quickly, and with a new dialtone, I redialed the number (re-installed). A clever little monkey am I.
If it happens again (or something similar) I'll bring my disk and man's best friend to the park for a stress bustin game of frisbee!
Adobe, it really is the 21st century, and you have failed miserably at meeting the future of making software more transparent to the user !
P.S. - For the record, I've been in an altered state (call frustration) for 20 years worth of Adobe products, and the light at the end of their tunnel, IMO is an oncoming train.
6. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!Rick Gerard Apr 15, 2012 10:05 PM (in response to kenackr)
Sorry you're having so much trouble. I've been using After Effects since COSA. Never had a serious problem wasn't related to a driver, a corrupt file, or some third-party software.
Tens of thousands of Mac users Ron AE every day. I'd suggest hey double check of all your drivers and third-party software. I run a reinstall. It's not that the software is perfect, it's just that there's something really fouled up with your system configuration.
7. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!Rick Gerard Apr 15, 2012 10:06 PM (in response to Rick Gerard)
Sorry about the spelling errors. Posting to the form on iPhone is not easy.
8. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!kenackr Apr 16, 2012 1:54 PM (in response to Rick Gerard)
Thanks for hanging with me. It's certainly not your fault that I'm having problems. I ran a reinstall of AE and am now among the sighted again with the black screen bannished (hopefully never to return).
I don't doubt for a minute that something might be amiss with the system configuration, but what makes you conclude that? the fact that the popup didn't come up OR the fact that the screen grab above that shows where the prefs file is located? It took awhile to find it.
For the record, I'm running an: 8 core Mac Pro with Snow Leopard 10 .6. 8 with 14 gig of ram & 4 sata II drives with the 2 of those @ 1TB which includes the OSX mounted drive @ 7200 rpm where all the applications are also mounted.
The other day I tried to find if Snow Leopard has a repair function just in case there is something wrong. There was no conclusive statement to that effect in any of the writtem material that came with the Apple install discs. The setup screen didn't indicate anything of that either.
I did do a repair disk permissions that had some problems and then a defrag (with Drive Genius) followed by a re install of AE CS3.
I admit to not being anything close to up to speed on the ins & outs of OSX. LIke the average bear, now, I'd just as soon actually make something with the expensive software I've purchased than trying to be the "tech guru".
Silly me for thinking any of the software companies would spend an extra nickel to make it easier for the poor consumer they blindfold before the sale.
9. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!RocketMan Media Group May 22, 2012 8:38 PM (in response to kenackr)
Hi Guys,
I want to thank all of you. This blog helped me to not panic when my screen went black. When in the preferences panel, you and I both must have clicked on the "Digital Cinema Desktop" option under video preview without clicking on any of the other options below it which tell After Effects exactly what it is you want to view full screen, therefore, it shows just a black screen. The greyed out menus is still a mystery to me. But, by opening After Effects from a project file that was not open when I made this grave error, I was able to get the menus to reappear. I still had a black screen though. I opened the preferences panel and I changed the option back to "Computer Monitor Only" on the Output Device option. Voila! My screen came back. No harm done. Unfortunately for you, I'm a bit late. Just remember not to select that option without selecting the source options below it or catastrophe will happen again.
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10. Re: Black screen & all menu items grayed out -help!kenackr May 23, 2012 10:09 AM (in response to RocketMan Media Group)
As you can see in my post above, I got tired of trying to figure it out but suspected that it was the Cinema display option that put me in the dog house, and just reloaded AE to be able to move forward. Admittedly, that's not a very good fix from a technical savvy view point, but it got the job done.
Glad to be of help!


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text: Latest Red Pill News Leaked 49-page memo documents how George Soros is behind social media censorship Media Matters founder David Brock is pushing for the destruction of Donald Trump at Soros' behest. Published 4 weeks ago on August 24, 2018 By Alex Christoforou 29,879 Views Share Tweet A new leaked memo obtained by The Free Beacon documents how George Soros funded groups plotted with Google, Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms to eliminate conservative "right wing propaganda." The recent wave of censorship of conservative voices on the internet by tech giants Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Apple mirrors a plan concocted by a coalition of George Soros-funded, progressive groups to take back power in Washington from President Trump's administration. A confidential, 49-page memo for defeating Trump by working with the major social-media platforms to eliminate "right wing propaganda and fake news" was presented in January 2017 by Media Matters founder David Brock at a retreat in Florida with about 100 donors, the Washington Free Beacon reported at the time. The Gateway Pundit reported that in January 2017 after Hillary Clinton was shellacked in the November 2016 election top Democrat operatives at Media Matters, Share Blue, American Bridge, and CREW came together and released their two-year plan to take back power in Washington DC. The document obtained by The Free Beacon states that Media Matters and other Soros funded groups have "access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites" so they can "systemically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data." According to the document, the radical left groups have been working with Facebook and Twitter to eliminate conservative content. The Free Beacon obtained a copy of the memo, "Democracy Matters: Strategic Plan for Action," by attending a January 2017 retreat in Florida sponsored by Media Matters founder David Brock and 100 donors. WND reports that the memo spells out a four-year agenda that deployed Media Matters along with American Bridge, Shareblue and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) to attack Trump and Republicans. The strategies are impeachment, expanding Media Matters' mission to combat "government misinformation," ensuring Democratic control of the Senate in the 2018 midterm elections, filing lawsuits against the Trump administration, monetizing political advocacy, using a "digital attacker" to delegitimize Trump's presidency and damage Republicans, and partnering with Facebook to combat "fake news." WND reports… The document claims Media Matters and far-left groups have "access to raw data from Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites" so they can "systemically monitor and analyze this unfiltered data." "The earlier we can identify a fake news story, the more effectively we can quash it," the memo states. "With this new technology at our fingertips, researchers monitoring news in real time will be able to identify the origins of a lie with mathematical precision, creating an early warning system for fake news and disinformation." Media Matters met with Facebook, which boasts some 2 billion members worldwide, to discuss how to crack down on fake news, according to the memo. The social media giant was provided with "a detailed map of the constellation of right-wing Facebook pages that had been the biggest purveyors of fake news." Brock's memo also says Media Matters gave Google "the information necessary to identify 40 of the worst fake new sites" so they could be banned from Google's advertising network. The Gateway Pundit pointed out that in 2016, Google carried out that plan on the Gateway Pundit blog and other conservative sites, including Breitbart, the Drudge Report, Infowars, Zero Hedge and Conservative Treehouse. Facebook, meanwhile has changed its newsfeed algorithm, ostensibly to combat "fake news," causing a precipitous decline in traffic for many conservative sites. President Donald Trump himself was affected, with his engagement on Facebook dropping by 45 percent. A study in June by Gateway Pundit found Facebook had eliminated 93 percent of the traffic of top conservative news outlets. Western Journal, in its own study, found that while left-wing publishers saw a roughly 2 percent increase in web traffic from Facebook following the algorithm changes, conservative sites saw a loss of traffic averaging around 14 percent. 'Totalitarian impulse' of the left President Trump's 2020 campaign manager charged last week the giants of Silicon Valley are stifling free speech, particularly conservative speech, manifesting the "inherent totalitarian impulse" of the left. On Friday, Facebook appeared to be "shadow banning" the non-profit education site PragerU, founded by talk-host Dennis Prager, causing a drop in engagement of 99.9999 percent while removing two videos regarded as "hate speech." After Facebook rejected a highly inspirational ad for a Republican congressional candidate that included images depicting her parents' persecution under the Khmer Rouge communist regime in Cambodia, Twitter followed up with its own ban. WND reported earlier this month Facebook banned a pro-life video ad by a judicial candidate, giving the same explanation. On Aug. 6, WND reported, Facebook, YouTube and Apple banned commentator Alex Jones and his Infowars website within hours of each other. Last month, WND reported moderate Muslims and counter-terrorist activists were increasingly being restricted by Silicon Valley, while terrorist content remains on social-media platforms, according to researchers. Trump campaign chief Parscale said last week the banning of Jones "will inevitably lead to the silencing of those with far less controversial opinions." "What we are seeing in Big Tech is the inherent totalitarian impulse of the Left come into full focus," Parscale said. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:FacebookGeorge SorostwitterYoutubesocial mediaOpen Society FoundationMedia Matters Up Next Will SWIFT become America's latest financial weapon against Russia? (Video) Don't Miss Europe is making plans for a new world order Advertisement You may like Facebook Starts "Fact Checking" Photos And Videos Using AI Orban and Farage stand up to George Soros and his EU Parliament cronies (Video) Maria Zakharova SLAMS efforts to censor social media 14 Comments 14 Leave a Reply This comment form is under antispam protection 14 Comment threads 0 Thread replies 1 Followers Most reacted comment Hottest comment thread 13 Comment authors Recent comment authors This comment form is under antispam protection Subscribe newest oldest most voted Notify of new follow-up comments new replies to my comments GuestAM HantsHow do you get round it? How Can YOU Fight The 'Fake News' Filter? Working around Google's Recommend Engine… https://www.fort-russ.com/2018/08/how-can-you-fight-the-fake-news-filter/ example: Khan Shaykhun (site:theduran.com OR site:alternet.org OR site:globalresearch.ca OR site:consortiumnews.com OR site:mediamatters.org OR site:commondreams.org OR site:internationalviewpoint.org OR site:democracynow.org OR site:wikileaks.org OR site:truth-out.org OR site:counterpunch.org OR site:theintercept.com OR site:planetnews.eu) Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestNicole TempleHere is an interesting look at how both Facebook and Google are justifying their censorship of the internet: https://viableopposition.blogspot.com/2018/08/censorship-its-alive-and-well-and.html The biggest question is where do we draw the line between truth and propaganda, government-based or otherwise? Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestRaycomeauIf old Haggus Clinton runs again, Trump will win by a landslide! Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestGraz BugniHelping corporate Democrats. Khmer Rouge thanks Nixon and Kissinger. The fake left and republicans share the same goals. Now, oligarch predatory manipulative murderous capitalists want to pretend, through this bs narrative, that the "left" is targeting the "right", and it's all the fault of communists, socialists and RussiaIranChinaDPRK. WHILE they target every socialist or partly socialist or partly communist (but all partly capitalist) country on Earth that is strategically valuable. Mmmkay. I want someone to tell me precisely whether Saudi Wahhabia is left or right. Also, the Likud. Left or right? The Tories- Skripal, "anti-semitism", "Assad CW". Left or right?… Read more »Vote Up1Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestChazWho's surprised at Soros being involved up to his neck, in this kind of interference against American citizens. Vote Up1Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestcolumWhy haven't the Soros' been censored from existence. Vote Up4Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestRBThere's an awful lot of harmful spin attached to this article. George Soros et al are not leftwing. They are fake leftwing. Even worse, the author calls them 'radical leftwing'. That only serves to conflate the real, and real 'radical', Left with the fake, rightwing, resource-rich Left. Seriously folks?!! Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestJone TuominenWhy? Why Soros want Europe to come islamic territory? Vote Up1Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46Guestmor100In an age where everyone has their own "facts," who are the angels who are going to make sure we see only the "real" fact facts? Well, Facebook and Google, of course. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestCarlito234The only FAKE NEWS and PROPAGANDA is the poison they pump into their massive network and the soft brains of our children. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestLee GodwinCensorship has existed for centuries — book burnings, people being burned alive, people meeting in secret for fear of retribution, being imprisoned for defying the prevailing ideology. Newspapers and electronic news outlets practice censorship all the time. Schools do it, too. There is NO SUCH THING AS FAKE NEWS! There is the truth, and there is the lies. Fake news is a fairly juvenile psyop to get people to think that information, events, people, heck, even history, is all made up. Essentially, the current paradigm has transported us into an illusory world where not only can't we trust our senses,… Read more »Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46GuestJames JohnsonSoros is just another Imperial Pig trying to use his Billions To rule America Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:46Guestbob riversCan you place the memo anywhere BUT that shit site scribd, which fraudulently makes you pay for an account to d/l the memo? Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 5, 2018 13:45GuestMona FishmanEnjoy my rock song #SmellsLikeSoros https://soundcloud.com/mona-lidji-fishman/smells-like-soros-smellslikesoros-rock-song-about-george-soros Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 15, 2018 15:37 Latest Clinton-Yeltsin docs shine a light on why Deep State hates Putin (Video) The Duran – News in Review – Episode 114. Published 24 hours ago on September 21, 2018 By Alex Christoforou Bill Clinton and America ruled over Russia and Boris Yeltsin during the 1990s. Yeltsin showed little love for Russia and more interest in keeping power, and pleasing the oligarchs around him. Then came Vladimir Putin, and everything changed. Nearly 600 pages of memos and transcripts, documenting personal exchanges and telephone conversations between Bill Clinton and Boris Yeltsin, were made public by the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Dating from January 1993 to December 1999, the documents provide a historical account of a time when US relations with Russia were at their best, as Russia was at its weakest. On September 8, 1999, weeks after promoting the head of the Russia's top intelligence agency to the post of prime minister, Russian President Boris Yeltsin took a phone call from U.S. President Bill Clinton. The new prime minister was unknown, rising to the top of the Federal Security Service only a year earlier. Yeltsin wanted to reassure Clinton that Vladimir Putin was a "solid man." Yeltsin told Clinton…. "I would like to tell you about him so you will know what kind of man he is." "I found out he is a solid man who is kept well abreast of various subjects under his purview. At the same time, he is thorough and strong, very sociable. And he can easily have good relations and contact with people who are his partners. I am sure you will find him to be a highly qualified partner." The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss the nearly 600 pages of transcripts documenting the calls and personal conversations between then U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin, released last month. A strong Clinton and a very weak Yeltsin underscore a warm and friendly relationship between the U.S. and Russia. Then Vladimir Putin came along and decided to lift Russia out of the abyss, and things changed. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel Here are five must-read Clinton-Yeltsin exchanges from with the 600 pages released by the Clinton Library. Via RT… Clinton sends 'his people' to get Yeltsin elected Amid unceasing allegations of nefarious Russian influence in the 2016 presidential election, the Clinton-Yeltsin exchanges reveal how the US government threw its full weight behind Boris – in Russian parliamentary elections as well as for the 1996 reelection campaign, which he approached with 1-digit ratings. For example, a transcript from 1993 details how Clinton offered to help Yeltsin in upcoming parliamentary elections by selectively using US foreign aid to shore up support for the Russian leader's political allies. "What is the prevailing attitude among the regional leaders? Can we do something through our aid package to send support out to the regions?" a concerned Clinton asked. Yeltsin liked the idea, replying that "this kind of regional support would be very useful." Clinton then promised to have "his people" follow up on the plan. In another exchange, Yeltsin asks his US counterpart for a bit of financial help ahead of the 1996 presidential election: "Bill, for my election campaign, I urgently need for Russia a loan of $2.5 billion," he said. Yeltsin added that he needed the money in order to pay pensions and government wages – obligations which, if left unfulfilled, would have likely led to his political ruin. Yeltsin also asks Clinton if he could "use his influence" to increase the size of an IMF loan to assist him during his re-election campaign. To think that, while I was getting ready to graduate kindergarten, Yeltsin was asking Clinton for a 2.5 billion loan for his election. pic.twitter.com/djketYQVsN — Emily Tamkin (@emilyctamkin) August 30, 2018 Yeltsin questions NATO expansion The future of NATO was still an open question in the years following the collapse of the Soviet Union, and conversations between Clinton and Yeltsin provide an illuminating backdrop to the current state of the curiously offensive 'defensive alliance' (spoiler alert: it expanded right up to Russia's border). In 1995, Yeltsin told Clinton that NATO expansion would lead to "humiliation" for Russia, noting that many Russians were fearful of the possibility that the alliance could encircle their country. "It's a new form of encirclement if the one surviving Cold War bloc expands right up to the borders of Russia. Many Russians have a sense of fear. What do you want to achieve with this if Russia is your partner? They ask. I ask it too: Why do you want to do this?" Yeltsin asked Clinton. this is a noteworthy tidbit from the "Boris-and-Bill" memos that were released last month (getting attention today). In 1995, Yeltsin explicitly tells Clinton about Russian "humiliation" of NATO continues to expand eastward @andrewsweiss pic.twitter.com/Me0xtP4YIY — Mike Eckel (@Mike_Eckel) August 30, 2018 As the documents show, Yeltsin insisted that Russia had "no claims on other countries," adding that it was "unacceptable" that the US was conducting naval drills near Crimea. "It is as if we were training people in Cuba. How would you feel?" Yeltsin asked. The Russian leader then proposed a "gentleman's agreement" that no former Soviet republics would join NATO. Clinton refused the offer, saying: "I can't make the specific commitment you are asking for. It would violate the whole spirit of NATO. I've always tried to build you up and never undermine you." NATO bombing of Yugoslavia turns Russia against the West Although Clinton and Yeltsin enjoyed friendly relations, NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia tempered Moscow's enthusiastic partnership with the West. "Our people will certainly from now have a bad attitude with regard to America and with NATO," the Russian president told Clinton in March 1999. "I remember how difficult it was for me to try and turn the heads of our people, the heads of the politicians towards the West, towards the United States, but I succeeded in doing that, and now to lose all that." Yeltsin urged Clinton to renounce the strikes, for the sake of "our relationship" and "peace in Europe." The declassified White House Yeltsin files reveal the drama at the turning point in US-Russia relations, when Yeltsin pleaded, threatened and despaired trying to make Clinton call off the bombing of Yugoslavia. The road to where we are starts right there. Dug out by @vassgatov pic.twitter.com/lpFbu1mw5c — Leonid Ragozin (@leonidragozin) August 31, 2018 "It is not known who will come after us and it is not known what will be the road of future developments in strategic nuclear weapons," Yeltsin reminded his US counterpart. But Clinton wouldn't cede ground. Clinton to Yeltsin on Milosevic: "It will be your decision if you decide to let this bully destroy the relationship we worked hard for over six and a half years to build up… I'm sorry he is a Serb. I wish he were Irish or something else, but he is not."https://t.co/xMIP4BXJTA — Julian Borger (@julianborger) August 30, 2018 "Milosevic is still a communist dictator and he would like to destroy the alliance that Russia has built up with the US and Europe and essentially destroy the whole movement of your region toward democracy and go back to ethnic alliances. We cannot allow him to dictate our future," Clinton told Yeltsin. Yeltsin asks US to 'give Europe to Russia' One exchange that has been making the rounds on Twitter appears to show Yeltsin requesting that Europe be "given" to Russia during a meeting in Istanbul in 1999. However, it's not quite what it seems. "I ask you one thing," Yeltsin says, addressing Clinton. "Just give Europe to Russia. The US is not in Europe. Europe should be in the business of Europeans." Yeltsin to Clinton "I ask you one thing. Just give Europe to Russia." pic.twitter.com/dN3likFXMF — Oscar Jonsson (@OAJonsson) August 30, 2018 However, the request is slightly less sinister than it sounds when put into context: The two leaders were discussing missile defense, and Yeltsin was arguing that Russia – not the US – would be a more suitable guarantor of Europe's security. "We have the power in Russia to protect all of Europe, including those with missiles," Yeltsin told Clinton. Clinton on Putin: 'He's very smart' Perhaps one of the most interesting exchanges takes place when Yeltsin announces to Clinton his successor, Vladimir Putin. In a conversation with Clinton from September 1999, Yeltsin describes Putin as "a solid man," adding: "I am sure you will find him to be a highly qualified partner." Here's how Boris Yeltsin introduced Bill Clinton to Vladimir Putin, back in 1999: "(Putin) is thorough and strong, very sociable. And he can easily have good relations and contact with people who are his partners. I'm sure you will find him to be a highly qualified partner." https://t.co/dyjFU80QW9 — Bryan MacDonald (@27khv) August 30, 2018 A month later, Clinton asks Yeltsin who will win the Russian presidential election. "Putin, of course. He will be the successor to Boris Yeltsin. He's a democrat, and he knows the West." "He's very smart," Clinton remarks. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest New Satellite Images Reveal Aftermath Of Israeli Strikes On Syria; Putin Accepts Offer to Probe Downed Jet The images reveal the extent of destruction in the port city of Latakia, as well as the aftermath of a prior strike on Damascus International Airport. Published 1 day ago on September 21, 2018 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… An Israeli satellite imaging company has released satellite photographs that reveal the extent of Monday night's attack on multiple locations inside Syria. ImageSat International released them as part of an intelligence report on a series of Israeli air strikes which lasted for over an hour and resulted in Syrian missile defense accidentally downing a Russian surveillance plane that had 15 personnel on board. The images reveal the extent of destruction on one location struck early in attack in the port city of Latakia, as well as the aftermath of a prior strike on Damascus International Airport. On Tuesday Israel owned up to carrying out the attack in a rare admission. Syrian official SANA news agency reported ten people injured in the attacks carried out of military targets near three major cities in Syria's north. The Times of Israel, which first reported the release of the new satellite images, underscores the rarity of Israeli strikes happening that far north and along the coast, dangerously near Russian positions: The attack near Latakia was especially unusual because the port city is located near a Russian military base, the Khmeimim Air Force base. The base is home to Russian jet planes and an S-400 aerial defense system. According to Arab media reports, Israel has rarely struck that area since the Russians arrived there. The Russian S-400 system was reportedly active during the attack, but it's difficult to confirm or assess the extent to which Russian missiles responded during the strikes. Three of the released satellite images show what's described as an "ammunition warehouse" that appears to have been completely destroyed. The IDF has stated their airstrikes targeted a Syrian army facility "from which weapons-manufacturing systems were supposed to be transferred to Iran and Hezbollah." This statement came after the IDF expressed "sorrow" for the deaths of Russian airmen, but also said responsibility lies with the "Assad regime." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also phoned Russian President Vladimir Putin to express regret over the incident while offering to send his air force chief to Russia with a detailed report — something which Putin agreed to. According to Russia's RT News, "Major-General Amikam Norkin will arrive in Moscow on Thursday, and will present the situation report on the incident, including the findings of the IDF inquiry regarding the event and the pre-mission information the Israeli military was so reluctant to share in advance." Russia's Defense Ministry condemned the "provocative actions by Israel as hostile" and said Russia reserves "the right to an adequate response" while Putin has described the downing of the Il-20 recon plane as likely the result of a "chain of tragic accidental circumstances" and downplayed the idea of a deliberate provocation, in contradiction of the initial statement issued by his own defense ministry. Pro-government Syrians have reportedly expressed frustration this week that Russia hasn't done more to respond militarily to Israeli aggression; however, it appears Putin may be sidestepping yet another trap as it's looking increasingly likely that Israel's aims are precisely geared toward provoking a response in order to allow its western allies to join a broader attack on Damascus that could result in regime change. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest "Transphobic" Swedish Professor May Lose Job After Noting Biological Differences Between Sexes A university professor in Sweden is under investigation after he said that there are fundamental differences between men and women which are "biologically founded" Published 1 day ago on September 21, 2018 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… A university professor in Sweden is under investigation for "anti-feminism" and "transphobia" after he said that there are fundamental differences between men and women which are "biologically founded" and that genders cannot be regarded as "social constructs alone," reports Academic Rights Watch. For his transgression, Germund Hesslow – a professor of neuroscience at Lund University – who holds dual PhDs in philosophy and neurophysiology, may lose his job – telling RT that a "full investigation" has been ordered, and that there "have been discussions about trying to stop the lecture or get rid of me, or have someone else give the lecture or not give the lecture at all." "If you answer such a question you are under severe time pressure, you have to be extremely brief — and I used wording which I think was completely innocuous, and that apparently the student didn't," Hesslow said. Hesslow was ordered to attend a meeting by Christer Larsson, chairman of the program board for medical education, after a female student complained that Hesslow had a "personal anti-feminist agenda." He was asked to distance himself from two specific comments; that gay women have a "male sexual orientation" and that the sexual orientation of transsexuals is "a matter of definition." The student's complaint reads in part (translated): I have also heard from senior lecturers that Germund Hesslow at the last lecture expressed himself transfobically. In response to a question of transexuallism, he said something like "sex change is a fly". Secondly, it is outrageous because there may be students during the lecture who are themselves exposed to transfobin, but also because it may affect how later students in their professional lives meet transgender people. Transpersonals already have a high level of overrepresentation in suicide statistics and there are already major shortcomings in the treatment of transgender in care, should not it be countered? How does this kind of statement coincide with the university's equal treatment plan? What has this statement given for consequences? What has been done for this to not be repeated? –Academic Rights Watch After being admonished, Hesslow refused to distance himself from his comments, saying that he had "done enough" already and didn't have to explain and defend his choice of words. "At some point, one must ask for a sense of proportion among those involved. If it were to become acceptable for students to record lectures in order to find compromising formulations and then involve faculty staff with meetings and long letters, we should let go of the medical education altogether," Hesslow said in a written reply to Larsson. He also rejected the accusation that he had a political agenda – stating that his only agenda was to let scientific fact, not new social conventions, dictate how he teaches his courses. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. 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As requested by ImperialNinja, here is the Siren thread for arrivals and departures, following the announcement of the opening of the World Transfer Service.
If you're arriving, say hi here.
If you're leaving, burn your bridge... erm, you can say goodbye here, too! ^^
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