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I want to say a few words about this debate over the application of campaign finance regulations to the Internet and Web blogs in particular, but let me just start by admitting that I'm not an expert on campaign finance law. In fact, I am utterly mystified by this entire body of law, not only in terms of its sheer complexity, but also in terms of what it sometimes hopes to accomplish.
I understand that (at least in theory) the laws are suppose to eliminate "corruption" from our political process. But is it just me or is it not that case that campaign finance laws continue to get more complicated while the political process remains just about as "corrupt" as it has always been?
Well, maybe I'm just a cynic about the political process in general. So, let me instead just focus on all this from the perspective of a guy who cares about new media. The current batch of campaign finance regulations is really geared toward broadcasting and broadcast television in particular. But, as of late, the folks down at the Federal Election Commission (FEC) have discovered this thing called the Internet and this new craze called blogging just might have a little impact on the future of media in this country and, therefore, by extension, our political process.
It wasn't surprisingly, therefore, when the FEC initiated an investigation into the impact of the Net and blogging on campaign finance law and started asking how the law might need to be changed to accommodate our new media marketplace realities.
Needless to say, that sent a collective shudder down the spines of everyone in the blogosphere. And with good reason: Why in the world would we want to impose heavy-handed, broadcast-era speech controls on the most dynamic, democratic, egalitarian medium that had ever been devised? The whole theory behind much of campaign finance law is that tight controls on electioneering communications are needed because of the power of broadcasting in our republic. Specifically, they feared that absent regulation, a handful of interests could buy up all the advertising time on broadcast TV or radio, or unduly influence many programs on the air. So, we ended up with tight spending limits, myriad disclosure requirements, and a number of other regulations on political speech, all in the name of curbing "corruption."
But does any of this make any sense in the Internet era? Think about it, is there really any chance that any individual, political party, or special interest group could ever buy up all the ad time on the Net? Of course not. They couldn't even buy up one-tenth of 1 percent of it all.
But the more important question is this: Could any individual, political party, or special interest group unduly influence the election process by paying bloggers or other website operators to write favorable things about a specific candidate or issue, especially without the public's knowledge of that activity? I'm skeptical even that could happen. In our increasingly crowded blogosphere with its cacophony of voices, no one website or blog dominates the way a broadcaster might have dominated in a community in the past. After all, the "community" we're talking about for the Internet is the entire globe! It would be pretty tough to "unduly influence" everyone on the planet when they have millions of other choices at their disposal. Moreover, even if some particularly popular blogs were being paid to drum up support for a given candidate, it's very likely that others would eventually catch on and start asking them about their connections to a candidate, or even do some detective work and figure out who was really behind the effort. Just look at what the bloggers did to Dan Rather and CBS News and then ask yourself how long it will take a pack of them to get to the bottom of who controls various political websites that refuse to disclose their benefactor(s)!
Still, some will argue that at least some minimal disclosure requirements are needed to keep people honest and let everyone know who is funding a specific outlet. I suppose I can live with some minimal disclosure requirements, but that's it. And, importantly, let's place those requirements on the people who give the money instead of the websites who receive it. Those who write the big checks already have to file reports at the FEC, so they can disclose that info as part of their typical filing process. Let's not place onerous filing burdens on bloggers or other website operators simply because somebody might have tossed a few bucks in their tip jar.
Luckily, as Brian Faler reports in today's Washington Post, the FEC exercised a great deal of restraint in its initial decision on this front. Although I'm over-simplifying, the FEC basically said they are going to continue to exempt the Net and blogging from most of their campaign finance regs. Here's one vote for keeping things that way.


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SOCHI, Russia — Lolo Jones began to cry Monday while talking about how U.S. women's bobsledders immediately had embraced her after what she described as being thrown under the double-decker bus by her track and field teammates at the 2012 London Olympics.
The temptation is to think they were crocodile tears, just another example of Jones cleverly managing her image to raise a profile already so high many think it is the reason she made the 2014 U.S. Olympic team as a sled pusher.
To critics, this was a case of USA Bobsled simply wanting to piggyback on the attention that has followed Jones since she lost the high hurdles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics by stumbling over the penultimate barrier. That attention increased four years later when she used Twitter to disclose her virginity, then turned decidedly from fame to notoriety when the U.S. hurdlers who won silver and bronze medals in London complained Jones received got more acclaim for finishing fourth.
It is part of why two of the other Olympic sled pusher candidates, Emily Azevedo and two-time world medalist Katie Eberling of Palos Hills, felt the federation had thrown them under the bus in its selection procedures.
Eberling, here as an alternate, could not understand why she had no chance this season to race with No. 1 driver Elana Meyers. Azevedo told USA Today she should have spent more time getting Twitter followers, with just 2,143 to Jones' 377,150.
"I honestly wish Twitter followers would have given me the spot," Jones said. "That means I would have been guaranteed one for real."
Race results and start times showed Chicagoan Aja Evans the clear No. 1 among the sled pusher candidates. The numbers also made three-time Olympic sprinter Lauryn Williams relatively solid after just seven months in the sport. Jones was closest to the bubble.
"It was more like a funeral when the announcement was made," Williams said. "You wanted to be happy for yourself, but you knew how hard the others worked. To see them show their hurt in a way that also hurt someone else was a very tough pill to swallow. Hopefully everyone can move past that hurt."
Said Evans: "We all deserve our spots 110 percent."
Williams, an Olympic silver medalist and world champion in the 100 meters, credited Azevedo for having been "my best teacher." Meyers had been Eberling's roommate on the bobsled circuit the last two years, and they won world silver and bronze medals together.
"(Katie) has been my stalwart," Meyers said. "I cried when she didn't make the team."
Still, Meyers was first to mount a public defense of the push athlete choices, made by a selection committee that considered not only statistics but driver input. She said Eberling's numbers weren't as good as they had been in the past.
"It was an unfortunate time not to be at the top of your game," Meyers said.
To the question of why Eberling got no rides in her sled, Meyers answered, "We were trying to see what she could do in the other sleds."
Jones cannot understand why being popular, in terms of both name recognition and social media presence, should be held against her.
"You are taught when you do media stuff to be charming, to answer the questions, to be genuine," she said. "I don't know how that comes across as being negative so people will try to use it against you, like, 'Oh, she has too many Twitter followers, so now we hate her.' When I had 1,000, you wanted me to be outspoken and show you who I am.''
Jones said the controversy has created an even tighter bond among the bobsledders. The evidence of that, she said, includes having both Meyers and Evans speak out in support of the selection.
There undoubtedly will be more controversy if Jones winds up in USA I or even in driver Jamie Greubel's USA II sled when the driver-pusher pairings are announced Thursday. Such a move could be seen as manipulation to give Jones a better chance at a medal.
The push athlete's role essentially ends when she jumps into the sled about six seconds after the start. From then on, the pusher tries to avoid any body movement that would upset the driver's line.
"We are just speed and pushing the sled," Jones said. "There are some technical aspects to it, but we aren't driving."
That Jones and Williams were able to become Olympic pushers so quickly suggests any good athlete could do it.
"I think people forget me and Lauryn were top athletes in the world in our (previous) sport," Jones said. "It's not like they were just recruiting Joe Schmoe off the street.''
Meyers recruited Jones. Bobsled became a way for her to get out of a post-London funk.
"It gave me a fresh start, for sure," Jones said.
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Deshaun Thomas scored 22 points to lead No. 15 Ohio State to a 74-64 victory over Purdue on Tuesday night.
The angry Buckeyes (12-3, 2-1) rebounded from their first Big Ten loss by shooting 56.4 percent from the field. They took a 10-point halftime lead despite losing point guard Aaron Craft for all but 4:19 of the first half because of early foul trouble, and Buckeyes coach Thad Matta got his 100th Big Ten victory.
Ohio State has won four of the last five in this series and eight of their last 10 overall.
Purdue (7-8, 1-2) has lost two straight to Top 20 teams since upsetting No. 11 Illinois last week. The Boilermakers were led by the Johnson brothers, Terone, who had 18 points, and Ronnie, who had 11 points, six rebounds and seven assists. A.J. Hammons finished with 13 points and eight rebounds.
But the Boilermakers never seriously challenged Ohio State after the Buckeyes took control with 13-2 and 9-0 runs in the first half.
Instead, Ohio State relied on its usually good shooting.
Thomas had a big hand in it and not just on the offensive end. He had seven rebounds.
Yet it almost wasn't good enough.
The Boilermakers trailed 64-52 with 8:49 left in the game, and were still down 68-54 with about 6 minutes to go.
Purdue rallied with six straight points and got as close as 70-64 with when Terone Johnson made two free throws with 2:59 left. But the Buckeyes got a long jumper from Sam Thompson with 1:41 to go and the Buckeyes didn't give up another point.
Ohio State just had too many scorers for the Boilermakers to keep up with.
The difference, as usual, was Thomas. He helped Ohio State open the lead by going 10 of 15 from the field. After Craft went to the bench with 15:41 left in the first half and D.J. Byrd hit a 3-pointer to give Purdue a 9-7 lead, Thomas took over.
He spurred a 13-2 run that put Ohio State in control 20-11.
A few minutes later, it happened again. This time, Thomas started a 9-0 spurt by hitting a 12-foot jumper and a 3, and when it ended, the Buckeyes led 31-17. Purdue got as close as 35-27, but still trailed a 39-29 at halftime.


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Despite falling short on "The Ultimate Fighter 13," four eliminated cast members have been tapped for official UFC fights on the preliminary card of Saturday's live show finale.
The matchups include Justin Edwards (6-0 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Clay Harvison (8-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC) and Shamar Bailey (11-3 MMA, 0-0 UFC) vs. Ryan McGillivray (11-4-1 MMA, 0-0 UFC).
MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) confirmed the welterweight bookings with sources close to the event.
The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale takes place at at The Pearl at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. The night's main card, including a Clay Guida vs. Anthony Pettis lightweight bout, airs on Spike TV.
Edwards was a late addition to Team Dos Santos who joined the squad after Keon Caldwell opted to return home. However, the Ohio-based fighter suffered an opening-round loss to eventual show finalist Tony Ferguson. Prior to joining "TUF" and before that exhibition fight, Edwards posted a perfect 6-0 pro record with six first-round stoppages, including a first-round guillotine of John Troyer at Bellator 5.
Harvison, Team Lesnar's fourth-round pick, topped Mick Bowman in an opening-round matchup but suffered a submission loss to eventual finalist Ramsey Nijem in the quarterfinals. The Georgia-based fighter has fought professionally for more than four years while amassing an 8-3 record with eight stoppage victories.
Bailey, meanwhile, entered "TUF 13" as one of the favorites to win the show. However, the Team Dos Santos No. 1 pick defeated Nordin Asrih in the opening round before an upset loss to Chris Cope in the quarterfinals. Prior to "TUF," the Indianapolis-fighter opened his career with an 11-1 record, which included fights with Strikeforce, M-1 and KOTC. But he looks to rebound from recent losses to Justin Wilcox and Kurt Kinser.
McGillivray, Team Dos Santos' No. 2 pick, topped Len Bentley in an opening-round matchup before a loss to Ferguson in the quarterfinals. Prior to "TUF," the Canadian fighter and longtime MFC competitor went 3-0-1 in a four-fight span. Nine of his 11 career wins have come via submission.
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Reticent consumers are eager to open up their wallets, but they know that global economic conditions are still fragile. Backed by growing optimism, discretionary spending intentions around the world increased across all categories measured in the third quarter compared with those three months earlier, according to Nielsen's latest Global Survey of Consumer Confidence. Plans to buy new clothes (38%) and spend on holidays/vacations (38%), out-of-home entertainment (35%) and home improvements (25%) each increased 5 percentage points from the second quarter. Intentions to buy new technology products (29%) increased 4 percentage points in the three-month period.
Intent to spend was most evident in Asia-Pacific and North America, where discretionary spending intentions increased across all categories. Plans to spend on holidays, new clothes, out-of-home entertainment, new technology products and home improvements increased an average of 7 percentage points in the third quarter. But intent to spend was balanced by the fact that the economic downturn has conditioned many consumers to save. With more than half (58%) of global respondents believing they were still in a recession in the third quarter, saving strategies remained at the top of their priority lists, especially among respondents in the U.S., China and India.
"In line with confidence findings, it's not surprising to see that consumers are planning to increase their spending across all industries measured, which will be encouraging to many retailers as they get ready for the end-of-year holiday season," said Dr. Venkatesh Bala, chief economist at The Cambridge Group, a part of Nielsen. "However, it's going to be a slow climb for economic conditions in the global economy to recover, and there is no sign of rapid expansion around the corner. Additionally, it remains to be seen if consumer concerns potentially caused by the recent U.S. government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis will have a lasting effect on consumer confidence."
In Latin America and the Middle East/Africa regions, discretionary spending increased an average 2 percentage points from the second quarter across most spending categories.
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Abbas: 'Matters Will Be Bad' For Palestinian Authority After Statehood Move
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas sounded a defiant note, today, while still recognizing the consequences of asking the United Nations to grant Palestinians statehood.
Abbas said he planned on presenting a formal request to the U.N. during his speech on Friday. As Reuters reports, Abbas also said "all hell has broken out" against them because of the decision.
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Abbas, speaking en route to the U.N. General Assembly in New York, said he had been told by the United States and European governments that "matters will be bad" after a move which reflects his frustration with a moribund peace process.
"To what extent, we will know later on," said Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority which depends on international financial aid for its survival in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The United States and Israel wanted to keep the peace process restricted to "a bilateral dialogue" overseen from afar by Washington, he said. But all the while this dialogue had failed, prompting the U.N. membership move.
"We decided to take this step and all hell has broken out against us," he told reporters on his flight to New York.
This move is risky for the Palestinian Authority, because it relies heavily on Western aid for its survival. The AP reports that Abbas said that he was under "tremendous pressure" to drop the bid. But earlier today, he met with U.S. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and reiterated his plans.
The U.S. opposes the Palestinian Authority's move because, as Secretary State Hilary Clinton, said last week, "The only way of getting a lasting solution is through direct negotiations between the parties and the route to that lies in Jerusalem and Ramallah, not in New York."
So what happens next? Abbas delivers a speech and letter to the U.N. The Security Council votes on it. The United States, a permanent member of the Security Council, has vowed to veto the petition.
The Palestinian Authority can still ask the full General Assembly to upgrade them from an "entity" to a "non-member state."
Reuters reports that the Palestinian Authority may have sufficient votes to achieve that.
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On the O'Reilly OnLAMP.com site today, there's a new article with a few tips on making the tag clouds on your site successful from Jim Bumgardner, the author of Building Tag Clouds in Perl and PHP.
Tag clouds can be used effectively, and provide real value to a web site, or they can be tacked on as an afterthought, simply because they look cool, or to make the site appear similar to other, better web sites that offer them. Ultimately, you need to keep in mind their dual function, both as a graph of current activity, and as a navigation aid. Here are some design and implementation tips.
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In the past couple of years, we witnessed a trend of Formula 1 teams engaging supercomputers of impressive magnitude. Designing most efficient vehicles on the planet sprung a lot of investment in wind tunnel and CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) areas.
In a video released by AT&T WilliamsF1 Renault team, Jason Somerville (Head of Aerodynamics) explains the details behind their wind tunnel, which recently received an upgrade from 50% to 60% in size. Even though one might argue that the difference in size is negligible, the fact of the matter is that 60% models offer much greater detail than original 50% models, increasing the demand for computational power as well.
AT&T WilliamsF1 Renault team was one of first teams to deploy a supercomputer from Compaq Computer Corporation. It was based on Alpha processors, but in 2007, the company later adopted a powerful and more importantly, scalable supercomputer from Lenovo http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1007500/williams–f1-team-get-a-top-125-super-computer. It may sound quite funny, but the overall compute power of that supercomputer is less than you can theoretically put in your home computer (CrossfireX with two PowerColor HD 7990 Devil13 cards). The team is now on its third supercomputer (unknown specifications, not publicly benchmarked), and it looks like three is the magic number, as that computer helped them to win a Grand Prix this year, with Pastor Maldonado winning in Barcelona (Spanish Grand Prix).
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Is this a virus? Or could it be my anti-virus software doing it?
All my files go from my desktop to C:\users\user\documents
"Is this a virus?"
Lets check.
1: Run ESET & post the log please. This scan may take a very long while, so please be patient. Start it before going to work or bed.
You may have to download ESET from a good computer, put it on a thumb drive & run it from there.
Create a ESET SysRescue CD or USB drive
How do I use my ESET SysRescue CD or USB flash drive to scan and clean my system?
Configure ESET this way & disable your AV.
How to Temporarily Disable your Anti-virus
Why Would I Ever Need an Online Virus Scanner?
I already have an antivirus program installed, isn't that enough?
Once onto a machine, malware can disable antivirus programs, prevent antimalware programs from downloading updates, or prevent a user from running antivirus scans or installing new antivirus software or malware removal tools. At this point even though you are aware the computer is infected, removal is very difficult.
5: Why does the ESET Online Scanner run slowly on my computer?
If you have other antivirus, antispyware or anti-malware programs running on your computer, they may intercept the scan being performed by the ESET Online Scanner and hinder performance. You may wish to disable the real-time protection components of your other security software before running the ESET Online Scanner. Remember to turn them back on after you are finished.
17: How can I view the log file from ESET Online Scanner?
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This is the season when such orphans are mostly found. Here's what to do if you come across one.
1.) Do not rescue it until/unless you are certain it really is an orphan or it really is in a hazardous situation (exposed to dogs, for example).
Bring your cats inside for a few days; walk your dog on a leash for a few days.
Mother deer leave their young unattended while they go off to feed, and only return at dusk. So that adorable fawn is probably fine. Leave it alone until the next day unless you see clear signs of injury or sickness. By the next day it ought to be hiding in a different spot. If a fawn is starving, it is likely to follow you around, and then you know it needs help.
Mother cottontails also leave their young alone in the nest, returning only at dusk. Bunnies in the wild are only fed at dawn and dusk. Arrange some twigs or string in a pattern over the nest. If you find that pattern disturbed the next morning, you know the mother has been back.
A bunny as big as a baseball is already on its own, even though that's hard to believe.
2.) If you are sure an animal needs rescuing, pick it up, put it in a box with some old rags (not terrycloth towels, as tiny claws tend to become tangled in the loops of the fabric) and supply a little warmth. A strong lamp shining down on the creatures will do the trick, as will a heating pad set on LOW and put under only HALF the box (so the baby can crawl to the other side if overheated). Or you can halfway fill an old sock with uncooked rice, tie the end, and nuke it for 30-60 seconds in the microwave. Wrap the heat sock in several layers of rags and set it beside the orphan(s). You only want to supply about as much heat as the mother's warm tummy would.
3.) DO NOT FEED the babies anything or give them any water. Inexperienced people tend to choke babies this way. Especially do not give milk, as it gives most wild babies diarrhea, which is very dangerous for them. They need a special formula.
4.) Call your nearest wildlife rehabilitator. If you don't know the number, your vet almost certainly has it. The Internet is also a handy tool for locating rehabbers. It is in the best interest of the animal (s) - and your family - to let someone trained and licensed handle this job.
5.) In the Eastern U.S. and Canada, the following species are considered "rabies vector species", meaning the chance that they have or carry rabies is higher than in other species: fox, raccoon, groundhog, bat, skunk.
The rabies virus is carried in the saliva, so you do not have to be bitten to get it; you are at risk if you even get the saliva on your skin. Therefore, your first job, if you discover orphans of these species (or of any species, for that matter), is to protect yourself, your children, your neighbors, and your pets. Try to place a cardboard box or other secure, non-airtight container over the wild babies, weight it down with a brick or stone, and then call your county's animal control department to come get them. Animal control will take them to a rehabber who has been vaccinated against rabies.
Guard the babies while you are waiting, so no children, pets, or wild predators get to them.
If you absolutely have to handle a rabies vector species (for its own good, I mean, not to play with it or show it to people or anything like that) wear thick gloves, preferably with rubber kitchen gloves under them. WASH YOUR HANDS afterward, thoroughly. Of course you do this after handling any animal, right?
Squirrels do NOT carry rabies. Not a single case has ever been reported. It can be induced in squirrels in the lab, but has never been seen in the wild.
Animals old enough to threaten you are old enough to hurt you. (Exception: baby oppossums are all threat and display, but no bite.)
Babies with eyes still sealed shut will almost never try to attack you.
A squirrel whose tail is already fluffy (bigger around than your thumb) is already capable of inflicting serious damage.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
If You Should Find a Baby Wild Animal
This is the season when such orphans are mostly found. Here's what to do if you come across one.
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- Spinneretta said...
We once found an orphaned opossum- it was so sweet and cute :) we took it to a local vet because the wildlife reahabber I called seemed to think it was already too big for her! The vets thought it was tiny!
My daughter wanted to call her 'Lovie' :)
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For those of you that follow me on Twitter, you may have seen a note my son's second grade teacher sent home with him. He was asked to draw a pattern, so he drew bone-DNA-bone-DNA-bone-DNA. Little bones and tiny helixes to represent DNA. It is pretty cool, for a tiny little urchin. The teacher thought so, too.
Oh, I'm so glad she's in charge of teaching contractions to the little ones. I hope she gets her union negotiated pay raise completely unrelated to how she does her job.
The next day, LittleDude brought home a spelling test. He spelled egg EEG and still got perfect.
Why am I not homeschooling my kids again? Actually, Pinkie did not attend formal school until she was 9 years old. She was afraid of being away from me, and I didn't feel she was going to learn anything particularly useful in the first few years anyways, so I taught her to read and do what I thought was pretty basic math at home. She had a good handle on multiplying and dividing fractions and was fascinated by prime numbers.
Oh, oops. That's the curriculum for the eighth grade around here. Kids are capable of so much more than what they are mandated to learn in school. It's a bit of a joke. LittleDude, like his father, is an intensely social person. He loves the presence of other kids, especially other boys, and he is bored out of his mind at home with just his sister and adults for company.
So I send him to school. Where they give him perfect grades for doing it wrong.
Le sigh. Well, his teacher is very kind. I suppose that counts for something, no? She didn't like it when I sent her a note explaining that my son wouldn't be doing any homework, because it has absolutely no impact on learning outcomes in the primary grades and only teaches him to hate pointless "busywork". He's only seven! He's going to learn a whole more from this awesome book of maps than he will ever learn at school.
A moment of praise for authors who write books aimed at boys who enjoy being boys! Enough with the huggy-kissy crap. Bring on the adventure and survival challenges!
So begins this delightful illustrated novel and the thrilling adventures of Chuck Duganheroic, resourceful, a great swimmer, and master of disguise. In each cliffhanging chapter, Chuck must grapple with a new set of dangers, from sunken ships and buccaneers to survival on open water and a final race to the treasure ahead of the Admiral and his boys. Illuminated throughout with detailed maps of places, people, and things Chuck encounters along the way, and written with an electric sense of daring-do and whimsy, Eric Chase Anderson creates a totally original and captivating hero, and a swashbuckling adventure story for all ages.
I'm going to have cut short my post today for the second thing that really annoyed me. I attempted to submit my first assignment containing an outline of the more detailed literature review I will be conducting as I prepare to gather the data for my PhD, and it turns out I can't do that until I have completed the mandatory library tutorial.
Are you fucking kidding me? I have two degrees already, as does almost everybody enrolled in PhD programs, and you think I don't know how to use the fucking library? Is this kindergarten? A mandatory tutorial? It's going to take me three hours to complete it, and the biggest joke is that I just spent an afternoon teaching the actual reference librarian how to conduct searches where established models and terms are borrowed and applied in other disciplines.
Try searching for "big data", "cluster analysis" and "mining". I want to see how Porter's extension of agglomeration effects catalyzes the collection of big data with a mining cluster. Unless you know that "big data" in this context means "business intelligence analytics" and you want to eliminate the phrase "data mining", you are going to be awash in technical papers. Yes, it's total bullshit that in an effort to appear legitimate, business researchers borrow concepts like "agglomeration" and "cluster analysis" from more rigorous disciplines like computer science and biology and mathematics, but the point is, you can find what you're looking for if you know how to sub-search the databases correctly.
But please, waste three hours of my life explaining to me what a "keyword" is, and how to use "Boolean" operators.
Here's another thing that really annoyed me. I read the column while waiting for the washer to complete the spin cycle and then emailed it to myself and then read it again, and it STILL irritates the shit out of me.
Apparently, the NFL doesn't like people bringing small bags into the stadiums, ostensibly because they present a "security threat" and it slows down admissions when bags have to be randomly searched. The real reason is more likely that people like to avoid paying $12 for a pint of beer, so they use the bags to smuggle in their own beverages and food.
Men have been banned from bringing in knapsacks and courier bags for a long time. Now that more and more women are attending games, the NFL has banned women's large purses, which is obviously SEXIST because women NEED their purses.
Note that small bags are allowed, so you can bring your wallet and phone and some extra tampons should Aunt Flo be visiting. Cue the shrieking bitches who are entitled to bring their purses because all vaginas must carry purses and men don't need purses because patriarchy and the only way for the NFL to be fair and treat their male and females fans equally is to let women carry bags but men can't.
Excellent logic. The NFL should treat fans equally by having contradictory rules for men and women.
Two different stories about Patrick the Gorilla have also annoyed me. Both Jezebel and Salon brand Patrick as sexist because he doesn't have much love for the lady gorillas, completely ignoring the fact that Patrick is an asshole to the other male gorillas, too.
Patrick gets along well with humans but has problems with his bro gorillas — and flat-out conflicts with females.
Patrick is just a dick, but of course this has to be spun into some sort of PUNISH THE MALE FOR BEING MEAN TO THE FEMALE bullshit. What are we supposed to take away from the feminist media spin on Patrick? It doesn't matter that he behaves aggressively to other males. Screw them. Who gives a shit. He was mean to the lady gorillas so PUNISH HIM, rah rah rah.
Mary Elizabeth Williams flat out calls male humans apes and wonders why we can't punish them all in the same way. You know Mary, darling, some of those commenters might actually be black people. Black men! Did you just call black men "apes"?
Yeah, if Glenn Beck said that he would totally get a pass, right?
If only all sexist, aggressive apes could be similarly dealt with. Is there room at that zoo for YouTube commenters?
So let this be a lesson, dudes who are not nice to females. You can be replaced, and by someone who knows how to execute a super-fresh spin. And while Patrick's exile may just seem a fun bit of color from the wide world of animals, it's also, sadly, one of the few concrete recent examples of a news story in which the abuse of females has any consequences for the perpetrator. A little more of that, please.
Right. Tell all the men wearing GPS monitors after being arrested for domestic violence, less than HALF of whom will be convicted of any crime at all, that there are no consequences accompanying even the allegation of abuse of women.
And finally, even more rape hysteria idiocy. Some reality TV star wrote a book about her marriage to a macho Italian guy whom she appears to love to bits. I don't know the whole story, I don't watch commercial television at all. But the following passage makes me feel like I might like both of them:
[A] woman needs to keep herself in shape. She has to be seductive. She must be willing to try new things for her husband's pleasure and her own. And, most important, she has to be available for sex.
There's real passionate sex and maintenance sex. You need them both for a healthy marriage. Maintenance sex keeps the wheels greased, the lines of communication open, and the fights to a minimum.
Men, I know you think your woman isn't the type who wants to be taken. But trust me, she is. Every girl wants to get her hair pulled once in a while. If your wife says "no," turn her around, and rip her clothes off. She wants to be dominated.
Okay, perhaps not the most eloquent or poetic description of how their relationship likely works in the day to day lived reality, but all more or less true, in my experience.
Jezebel's response:
That is rape and it is insane that it got past the publisher.
Oh fuck off. Passionate sex within a marriage is not rape. Is there any kind of sex at all that DOESN'T qualify as rape for these ladies, or are we seeing the realization of Andrea Dworkin's "all heterosexual sex is rape" coming to pass?
Just a few posts later, a huge discussion erupted around Jezebel's policy of NOT posting trigger warnings. The post is titled Powerful Satirical PSA Explains Why Rape Is Always Your Fault and the sidebar stories, in bold and pretty much impossible to miss are India Has a Gang Rape Problem and Brutal Gang Rape in Mumbai Reignites Outrage in India. What further explanation do you require? What do you think you are going to read about in a post with the words RAPE screaming from every second word? Unicorns farting rainbows?
The problem, you see, is that the delicate flowers weren't expecting there to be any depictions of violence in the PSA. It was just supposed to be about rape. Not rape-rape.
Maybe put up a trigger warning? The women in this video get brutally grabbed and get more bruised and bloodied throughout the video Yesterday 9:35pm
Could it possibly be more clear that North American women have no fucking clue what rape actually IS? Rough sex between husbands and wives, sex while drunk, sex you regret, sex you went along with because you didn't feel like informing your partner you changed your mind, sex you had because he was just so insistent, sex you felt insulted by, sex that wasn't satisfying …. Rape, rape, rape.
Let's ask those ladies in India what rape actually looks like. It's VIOLENT, for one thing. It's a crime. The post needed a trigger warning for depiction of reality, which ought to have sent most of the Jezebel readers screaming in the other direction pretty quickly.
Don't forget your purses, ladies. And watch out for sexist apes men on your way back to Delusionville.
Three hour library tutorial.
This better not be a group exercise. I've had my fill of retards today.
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As events in Egypt dominated world capitals and world markets Friday, the US was sending the government of President Hosni Mubarak two clear and stark messages: Get moving on reforms now if you want to survive, and whatever you do, do not react to your people's protests with a massive crackdown.
In remarks from the White House Friday night, President Obama said: "This moment of volatility has to be turned into a moment of promise."
The comments followed those of White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who said at a press briefing earlier in the day: "We've reached a point where the grievances of the people have to be addressed. Have to. Must."
Beyond that, Mr. Gibbs said a review of more than $1 billion dollars in annual US aid to Egypt was under way, and he suggested that any government attempt to meet the turmoil with massive repression would have grave consequences. "We will be reviewing our assistance posture based on events that occur in the coming days," he said.
Still, the White House was categorical that – despite the cries in Egyptian streets for Mubarak's ouster – the US still believes the Mubarak government has an "opportunity" to hold on by proceeding swiftly to economic, political, and social reforms.
Late in the Egyptian night, President Mubarak, who before had been eerily absent, finally appeared on Egyptian national television, calling for "communication and talking" to solve the country's problems, but insisting that "fires and chaos" only threaten the country's security.
Mubarak announced he had demanded the resignation of his entire government, and pledged to name a new government Saturday.
Mubarak gave no suggestion that he considered his own three-decade reign to be under threat. That show of confidence had a certain echo in the White House, where officials were carefully rebuffing any suggestion that Mubarak should go the way of Tunisia's Zine El Abdine Ben Ali, who was forced out this month by massive protests after a 23-year reign.
Asked if Mubarak's time had already passed, Gibbs responded, "Absolutely not." What must be the focus now is dialogue and reform, he said, adding, "The time for that to happen has most certainly come."
Yet Mr. Obama offered support for the protesters, too. "The people of Egypt have rights that are universal, that includes the right to peaceful assembly," Obama said. "These are human rights, and the United States will stand up for them everywhere."
Obama said he spoke with Mubarak by phone Friday and vowed to hold Mubarak to pledges to reform Egyptian government.
The Obama administration was clearly caught off guard by the rapidity and ferocity of events in Egypt, with a White House day set to be dominated by health care and other domestic issues turned upside down by the massive protests in Cairo and other Egyptian cities. Contingency planning was under way across the administration, with Gibbs acknowledging that "a robust set of meetings has been going on" across the administration.
The stability of the Egyptian government affects geopolitical and international economic issues as far-flung as the US-underwritten Israeli-Egyptian peace accord to the smooth operation of the Suez Canal. The US-Egypt bilateral relationship has been the linchpin of US Mideast policy for several decades.
On the other hand, the US has also been encouraging Egypt for at least a decade to move toward democratization and broad social and economic reforms. If anything, President George W. Bush was more insistent on the need for democratic reforms across the Arab world than Obama has recently become.
What remains to be seen now is if Mubarak's new government will be gesture enough – either for Egyptians or for the US. It seems doubtful, unless the new government includes long-suppressed opposition forces as at least a start.
In his televised address, Mubarak focused his remarks on the country's economic situation, as if he were convinced some measures addressing high unemployment and food prices might calm the country.
But Mubarak's words are either wishful thinking, or reflect a deeply mistaken misreading of the protests. Egyptian political analysts and experts say the key issue is political transition, and they say that is where protesters are demanding movement.
The question the White House but also the world will be posing in the coming hours is, will even political reform be enough, or will Mubarak have to go?


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Due to the vagaries of the holiday schedules, I've yet to comment publicly on the Yankees' last major acquisition of the winter: the Javier Vazquez trade. So we'll file this in the category of "better late than never." On the one hand, I have to confess I'm not Vazquez' biggest fan. His career has largely been a disappointment, based on the context of the ability he flashed as a young Montreal Expo seven or eight years ago. He's had only two dominant seasons in his career—2003 and this past season—which isn't sufficient for the kind of stuff he's always had. He's had a good career, no question, just not the kind of career that matches the talent of his right arm.
With that criticism out of the way, I cannot legitimately complain about the trade that brought him back to the Bronx. The Yankees simply did not give up that much to acquire a capable right-hander who would be a legitimate No. 2 starter on many staffs. Melky Cabrera is a serviceable ballplayer who will never be a star, Mike Dunn is a minor league pitching prospect who cannot start, and Arodys Vizcaino is a 19-year-old right-hander who has never pitched above the pitching-minded NY-Penn League. (As a frequent visitor to Oneonta and Utica, I've seen too many kid pitchers dominate this league before flaming out in tougher hitting environments.) Of the three, the only player that caused the Yankees any pain in surrendering was Vizcaino, but there is still so much distance—and so much uncertainty—between where he is now and his anticipated arrival in the major leagues.
For me, the key to the trade was acquiring Vazquez without having to surrender Nick Swisher, whose contract was probably too rich for Atlanta's thinning bloodstream. Giving up Swisher in this deal would have been a mistake; his regular season power, his versatility, and his infusion of enthusiasm have been forgotten too quickly by too many media types who only want to dwell on the postseason or some ridiculous notion of staid and serious Yankee professionalism. Would the Yankees really have been comfortable opening the season with an outfield of Brett Gardner (left field), Curtis Granderson (center field), and Cabrera (right field)—and Rule 5 pickup Jamie Hoffmann in reserve? I wouldn't.


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JMU Francis
Padding softly across The Quad of James Madison University, the dog pauses and patiently greets students who approach with outstretched arms asking, "Can I pet the dog?" Although many dogs frequent campus, this dog is different. He wears a blue vest and carries himself with a calm, almost laid-back demeanor. He is Francis, the Counseling and Student Development Center's therapy dog and he is here to work.
"Students love Francis," said Rachel Tysinger, a first-year psychology graduate student studying clinical mental health counseling who has a graduate assistantship with CSDC. Tysinger walks Francis on Wednesdays, what she calls his "PR Day." "First you get the 'awwwws,' then as they are petting him I ask if they know about Francis and share that he sits in on counseling sessions at the CSDC."
Francis began working at the CSDC in February 2011 as an animal therapist. Animal Assisted Therapy involves intentional, goal directed use of an animal in a therapeutic setting. Colleen Tennyson, a psychiatrist at the CSDC and Francis' owner, said she adopted him from the Harrisonburg SPCA in 2009. "AAT is not just bringing a pet to work. Using the human-animal connection with intention to ease psychological suffering sets AAT apart from having a pet in the office," said Tennyson. She also points out that Francis is not a service animal. While both kinds of animals wear a vest to identify themselves, service animals focus on one individual and refrain from other interaction when working. The opposite is true for a therapy dog. "The expectation is that an animal therapist will get lots of attention while working," she Tennyson.
Rebecca Warden, a sophomore computer information systems major said, "My first session with Francis was a surprise. I walked into my normal meeting with Dr. Sylvia Hanna and there he was, being super-cute and adorable." Warden said Francis reminds her of her pets at home because he is calming, letting her pet him, hold him and hug him. "He is there even when I feel like I don't deserve love or attention," she said.
Tennyson said each appointment with Francis looks different – in some a student might invite him to sit on his/her lap and the human-animal bond will help students experience, understand and talk about difficult emotions. In other session he aids the therapist, allowing the clinician to role-model different behaviors such as being an assertive pack leader, setting boundaries and offering care and compassion to an animal. And sometimes he just naps. "Having an animal therapist in the room, even without direct interaction, helps create a safe therapeutic environment," said Tennyson. She does point out that animal therapy is not for every client and that individuals with allergies or phobias would not benefit from animal therapy. However, the benefits that Francis brings to students and the CSDC staff have far outweighed the risks.
Ethan Bannar signed up to walk Francis as part of his PSYC 402 peer mentoring class. A junior psychology major, Bannar said he did not grow up owning a dog, so wasn't quite sure what to expect. "He's a really chill, personable dog. Every 10 feet we had to stop because students wanted to pet him and were curious to know about Francis' therapy vest," he said. "Students' initial response was just like mine, they didn't know this was a 'thing' at JMU."
Tysinger has seen firsthand the effects Francis can have on a social campus like JMU. She has catapulted Francis' popularity on their walks together into "JMU Francis" a successful Facebook page that promotes positive mental health awareness. While a student might be hesitant to "like" the CSDC's Facebook page, Francis' fun and entertaining page alleviates negative stigma associated with mental health while still being relevant and informative. "We need to talk about mental health to make it less taboo," said Tysinger.
Warden said she has recommended CDSC and sessions with Francis to her friends at JMU. "I recommend regular sessions to anyone that is dealing with personal issues, and Francis to any of those people that also like animals," she said. "I have found being in therapy with Francis is extremely calming and can help in the way the company of only a dog can."
This spring Francis will be working mostly on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. He works in identified rooms to ensure students with allergies or fears can continue treatment without encountering Francis. Francis typically works with 10 students per week. Students who have worked with Francis in the past reported they felt comfortable with therapy, experienced a positive change in mood, felt supported and accepted and experienced a decrease in anxiety during AAT sessions.
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By Paula Polglase ('92, '96), University Communications
February 7, 2014


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The US Defense Advanced Researh Projects Agency-aka DARPA aka The Guys Who Run Area 51 and Have a Pact with the Aliens to Abduct the Entire Human Race in 2012-has turned its eyes to coal for airplane fuel. There's only one problem: coal-to-liquid fuel technologies are too expensive and produce too much pollution. Until now. DARPA is now aiming for a $1.5 billion plant that will make 100,000 barrels of fuel per day, while producing zero CO2 emissions and using only 0.5 kilograms of water per kilogram of coal converted-I'm clueless about this, but it seems like an awful lot of water to me, specially compared to the alternative of not flying the airplanes so much. The cost for each gallon of JP-8 jet fuel would be $3. Together with extensive tests on alternative synthetic fuel mixes, the US military wants to make its air machinery as green and cost-effective as possible, since petroleum-based fuels are becoming too expensive. Coal reserves in the US, however, can fix this. [Aviation Weekly]
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Great Idea! Let's all take a step backward! I say we power everything with coal. Then when the natural coal begins to run dry then we can take another step back and use wood burning stoves and steam again!
Great Plan!