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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Showing Gerety The Door
Alas, Sean's Sean. Can a leopard change his spots, an Etheopian his skin color, or a Gerety his gaucheness? So we'll move on, I'm interested in bigger things.
Gerety's latest post natters on about Van Til, irrationality, and paradox in Gerety's typically officious way. With minimal sublimity, Gerety bangs his symbol, playing to a meager crowd--most of who watch for the same reason one watches a train wreck, except that the sound eminating from Gerety's post is more dreadful than the tons of metal colliding at a hundred miles an hour.
However, my beef isn't with the civility of Gerety's tone. Nor is it with that slight problem always facing Gerety: He doesn't know that any of his critiques land since he has not deduced them from the Bible, nor are they so deducible. To the question: Is Van Tillianism irrational? Gerety must answer: I don't know. However much fun it is to point all of this out, that's not the goal here either. The goal is to simply interact with the YouTube post Gerety thinks is such a good critique of Van Til.
The man who Gerety lauds is apparently a pastor and his name his Mark Kielar. I happen to think his YouTube video is bad, and strikingly so. Here's a brief analysis:
0:01 Pastor Keilar sets up the motive for appeal to paradox as a "side stepping of biblical issues." Though this language will cause those who have their minds made up to unthinkingly cheer Kielar, as well as possibly dissuade those who are unfamiliar with this discussion by shaming them into agreeing with Kielar--for who wants to side step biblical issues?--the move is logically problematic. For example, if one has done any reading in this area, one will note that appeal to paradox arises precisely because one is not side stepping the biblical issues. For instance, no one who has read James Anderson's account of paradox can possibly claim that he appeals to paradox because he wants to side step biblical issues.
0:34 One wonders if Gerety even listened to his own reference since pastor Kielar claims that "if those who appeal to paradox really mean that the passages that appear to conflict are only a paradox, "then they would be correct." But Gerety cannot stomach such irrationality. Not only that, that the apparently conflicting passages are only paradoxical is precisely what all thoughtful, in Tuggy's terms, "mysterians," do say. Furthermore, to claim that there are paradoxes in Scripture is to say what "all" orthodox theologians and pastors have said. it is to stand in line with "Spurgeon and Edwards and Luther." However, they would not stand in line with Clark, Robbins, or Gerety. By endorsing this link, Gerety has indicted himself.
0:59 Pastor Kielar claims that the "new expositors" of Scripture who appeal to paradox do not go as far as the above. Their problem is that they claim that the paradoxes are "ultimately not reconcilable by even the regenerate human mind." He emphasizes "regenerate" so as to, again, shame or trick the benighted into accepting his view. Yet, though it is a possibility that some paradoxes could forever remain paradoxes, room is left for the possibility of later resolution.
1:50 The problem for those who appeal to paradox is definitional. Apparently, if you check "any" English dictionary, paradox is defined as "An apparent contradiction that is reconcilable." The problems here are numerous. Obviously, the paradox is reconcilable, at least by God. But why think we must be able to reconcile them? The dictionary says nothing about paradoxes needing to be resolved by us.
Secondly, not all dictionaries define 'paradox' the way pastor Kielar says that they do. For example:
paradox -
1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.
2. a self-contradictory and false proposition.
3. any person, thing, or situation exhibiting an apparently contradictory nature.
4. an opinion or statement contrary to commonly accepted opinion.
paradox -
1 [C] a person, thing or situation that has two opposite features and therefore seems strange: He was a paradox—a loner who loved to chat to strangers. It is a curious paradox that professional comedians often have unhappy personal lives.
2 [C, U] a statement containing two opposite ideas that make it seem impossible or unlikely, although it is probably true; the use of this in writing: 'More haste, less speed' is a well-known paradox. It's a work full of paradox and ambiguity.
Third, a defender of paradox would also be free to define his view into the winner's circle.
Fourth, the problem of appealing to dictionaries to resolve substantive philosophical debate are legion, I won't rehash them here.
2:20 Pastor Kielar claims that if a paradox is irresolvable by "the human mind" then it would be a "contradiction." However, this claim is not argued for.
2:50 He claims that some pastors and theologians--we don't know who--try to avoid talk of the problems with paradox by claiming that "in heaven" they are reconcilable. So what's the problem? Didn't he just tell us that "belief in paradox is the majority report of the church" and it is fine to believe paradox so long as "you claim it is reconcilable?" Indeed that is what he told us.
3:33 He picks on some confused claim by a pastor about God's sovereignty and mans freedom being paradoxes. In doing so he again engages in cherry picking, avoiding a cogent critique of paradox and avoiding the most sophisticated attempts to defend their being rationally believed. Also, anyone can pick on some claim by a back woods pastor and use it to critique almost anything Christians have believed. Should we get an atheist to pick on some back woods pastor's butchering of the theory of evolution and then claim that we have done justice to how all Christians handle this issue?
4:50 Pastor Kielar slips and claims that those who defend paradox are claiming that God wants us to believe actual contradictions.
5:02 He then says that these people who believe that there are actual contradictions in the Bible believe that these actual contradictions can be resolved. But of course an actual contradiction cannot be resolved. His butchering of his opponents gets progressively worse. (And, by the way, the pastor he cited never even so much as hinted that we have an "actual contradiction" in the Bible regarding its teaching on sovereignty and freedom.)
5:36 He again claims that it is fine to believe apparently contradictory claims that can be reconciled. Clark would be rolling over in his grave if he knew Gerety, a professed Clarkian, touted pastor Kielar's video as a good statement on the issue.
6:02 Pastor Kielar continues with his critique and it keeps getting more odd. He claims that the pastors he is picking on, those who endorse "a new hermeneutic," admit that paradoxes are reconcilable in heaven yet he says that they claim that they are irreconcilable on earth. He then claims that this claim is logically equivalent to this claim: Paradox df = An irreconcilable apparent contradiction that is reconcilable. He thinks he has them affirming a contradiction when right in front of his face is the old Scholastic adage about making a distinction when faced with a contradiction. Furthermore, the dictionary never mentions that paradoxes must be reconcilable on earth, heaven being too late. This "critique" just gets worse and worse. It indicts Gerety since he put his stamp of approval on it.
7:45 Citing Reymond, he agrees with the claim that just because no one has reconciled a paradox doesn't necessarily mean that no one ever will. First, this is admitted. In fact, Van Tillians would admit that "someone" is able to reconcile them. Surely they wouldn't want to affirm this premise: If God is able to do something, man must too be able to do it. It stretches ones mental faculties how bad and how off Gerety is on this if he thinks pastor Kielar's video even remotely touches Van Tillianism. Not only doesn't it, it drops the ball when critiquing those with what I would wager is a less sophisticated take on paradoxes.
8:20 Continuing with Reymond, he affirms that one would not be able to tell the difference between a real contradiction and an apparent contradiction. However, this just seems false. But the fact that we can debate the issue of merely apparent vs. apparent but real contradictions show that the distinction can be, in principle, made. James Anderson also addresses this issue in his book I linked above, pages 220-230, 285-287. However, Anderson's work is not interacted with.
Overall, I'm unsure what's worse--the criticism of paradox or Gerety's thinking it shows Van Til the door? Probably the latter since the I never heard the former brag about his neural capacity and he never claimed to be analyzing Van Til. In the end, it was quite ironic for Gerety to make that swipe about being "deaf-dumb-and-blind," as it turned out to be simply psychological projection.
(P.S. I will ask that any response given by Gerety include the relevant deductions from Scripture to show that he knows that his critiques are spot on.)
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Van Til would be proud, I'm sure, to read your cogent detailing of the errors in Keilar's video. I hope all doubters will check out James Anderson's carefully argued book, as he really sets the record straight concerning the validity and historicity of theological paradox. I'm not done reading it yet, but I've scanned through enough to know where he's going. It's brilliantly argued.
Of course, you could have wiped out Keilar's silly arguments with a few of the classic quotes from Spurgeon. This one, for example:
"That God predestines, and that man is responsible, are two things that few can see. They are believed to be inconsistent and contradictory; but they are not. It is just the fault of our weak judgment. Two truths cannot be contradictory to each other. If, then, I find taught in one place that everything is fore-ordained, that is true; and if I find in another place that man is responsible for all his actions, that is true; and it is my folly that leads me to imagine that two truths can ever contradict each other. These two truths, I do not believe, can ever be welded into one upon any human anvil, but one they shall be in eternity: they are two lines that are so nearly parallel, that the mind that shall pursue them farthest, will never discover that they converge; but they do converge, and they will meet somewhere in eternity, close to the throne of God, whence all truth doth spring." (New Park Street Pulpit, 4:337)
Case closed.
Following Spurgeon's logic, I like to define paradox as "two or more apparently contradictory truths." Truths being the key word.
Derek AshtonThe problems here are numerous. Obviously, the paradox is reconcilable, at least by God.How does Manata or any Vantilian know there is no paradox for God? By an appeal to Scripture? Impossible, since according to Van Til "all teaching of Scripture is apparently contradictory." Without any reason the Vantilians command us to believe that for God there is no contradiction. Magic "faith," divorced from logic and Scripture, becomes the means by which they assert "there is no paradox for God."
But why wouldn't it make more sense, even as a matter of simple intellectual honesty, to conclude that if Van Til and Manata are right and these so-called paradoxes of Scripture are logically irreconcilable, then perhaps God himself is contradictory? There is and can be no warrant in Scripture - since Scripture itself is contradictory - for asserting that God is non-contradictory.
I'm actually very encouraged by Manata's poorly written and wild rant, because it is just more evidence that Vantilans are losing ground and are desperate. They're entire epistemic enterprise has been exposed for the theological fraud it is. I guess just more reason to keep banging my "symbol." :-P


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Groan! Another "It's only the story that matters" post. If that were true we would all be making minimum wage instead of buying Epics. Everything matters. Cameras matter, lights matter, post matters.
I don't know if you've ever been on a real, professional set, but let me tell you when you have 100 extras and the owner of the location is telling you you have to leave and there is no time to get the light quite right a good camera saves you from getting a shot or not, the camera matters. So you really think that Hitchcock or Eisenstein said "The camera doesn't matter?"
Why don't you go on eBay, buy yourself a VHS camcorder, and shoot your "brilliant masterpiece". What are you doing on this forum?
It's funny I've been asking myself that question for a few months... I think I'm not familiar yet with how clean the Epic looks. After nearly 4 years of shooting with the R1, I was confident, working in a certain comfort zone, getting a certain filmic look... Now I see just how different the Epic looks. I think of this as the camera personality... The R1 had a strong personality, very filmic, like a unique signature. The Epic is more versatile, more anonymous, you can give it any look in post... It's very destabilizing at first, but you can't argue with the quality...
What I believe is this...
Very few will see a difference... TILL...
They shoot both cameras at their full resolution, and project the images on a very large movie screen in 4k...
We did, and EPIC far out wins the R1 MX... BY FAR!!
Don't ask me, same sensor, but higher resolution, better dynamic range, better compression ratios, and its about all that I can thing of of WHY, but I'm not that technical neither I care to be, only I care to have the camera that shoots the best images in the world, because I can afford it, and because I want to make sure my images are captured with the best I can afford... ;)
They both record raw data (j2k) from exactly the same sensor (with the raw pixels rearranged first to aid compression..).. so they obviously are very similar, other than datarate
If the extra data rate of the epic makes cleaner images, its likely because the "lossy" bit of the compression is working on data that still needs to be debayered afterwards, its not the same as a "lossy" compressor working on an RGB files.. so its possible any artifacts could get amplified through the debayering process (though in practice the red debayer seems to er on the side of soft but "edge artifact free")..
as far as im concerned they're both the same camera, and im miffed after making a conscious decision to not roll with the mx (i handed in an m sensor for upgrade), my "options" have meant I have an mx sensor since r1 upgrades ended at mx unless you bought the epic upgrade
also, Im sure Red Dragon will differentiate the two cameras, its just disappointing red dragon will be released months (my guess) before the "Real" monstro sensors start rolling out.. fingers crossed Epic-x gets more than one sensor upgrade in its life as my personal feeling is a full frame monstro sensor, at say, 5k, with larger photosites and the best fill factor possible might tick more of my boxes
But everything from the AD and out is different... :)
Actually I am sitting with a mixed project right now (all three). The M and MX are very hard to distinguish, when properly "fat" exposed". All the Epic images... I Pick them every time...
It is an evolution for me.
When I first figured out what it really meant to shoot raw on the R1 then I never wanted to shoot on anything else... until Epic.
However I'm still pretty emotionally attached to the R1 and it was tough to give up. I'm really excited about current and future Epic capabilities and would never look back. But you never forget your first. Anyone that thinks the capabilities of the Red 1 are a match for Epic are being nostalgic in the same way someone would exaggerate the capabilities of an older model sports car.
"Man the Epic is awesome, but I remember the Red One had this amazing, dreamy, blue noise that showed up in low light- it was like azure fire flies dancing on the faces of the actors".
That's actually not accurate. Fincher used R1 because the Epic wasn't available yet. As soon as they received it towards the end of filming, they started incorporating the Epic. This was covered in their American Cinematographer feature article on Dragon Tattoo.
From what I remember, Fincher does mention that he thought the camera's looked a little different, but I believe he also remarks that they were easy to match in post.
I know a DP who mixes Epic and R1 all the time on promo shoots for AETN, and no one can tell the difference when he delivers the graded One-lights.
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2 History of Ponam Island
1. Schwartz's classification of production specialization in Manus (1963, 77-79) is slightly more complex than the system we prefer to use. [BACK]
2. Shell money was one of the two forms of money used in precolonial Manus, the other being dog's teeth. Both were used inside and outside the market to purchase anything—vegetable food, seafood, raw materials, pigs, turtles, or manufactures—as well as to make ransom, adoption, or
marriage payments, and the like (Mead 1930, 121-122). As Ponams explained it, these were to Manus people what gold is to Europeans: intrinsically valuable and inherently beautiful. Because of this they were suitable as money itself and for making special objects of ceremonial value. [BACK]
3. Establishing plantations had less effect than these three main factors. According to the report to the League of Nations in 1921-1922 (Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia 1922), 2.4 percent of the region's approximately 1000 square miles of land was alienated, much of that on the coastal strip that had been a no-man's land in many parts of the region before colonization, and by no means all the alienated land had been planted. As far as we can tell, Schwartz (1962, 224) is broadly correct in concluding that in being colonized "the people of the Admiralties suffered little physical deprivation. Most villages lost little or no land," though obviously some villages did suffer. However, plantations provided a demand for local foodstuffs to feed laborers prior to the switch to the standard diet of rice and tinned beef and provided a demand for pearl shell and trochus. Satisfying these demands diverted labor from old productive activities to new ones. [BACK]
4. We are grateful to Paul Alexander for suggesting that we think of lapan this way. Such a view parallels, of course, the basic point that Ron Brunton (1975) has applied to inequality in the Trobriands, that those who are a crucial nexus in the flow of wealth are able to secure privilege thereby. [BACK]
5. The same opening up of migration and remittance that undercut intergenerational inequality also laid the basis for inequality along a new dimension within generations: between employed migrants and unemployed villagers. By the time of fieldwork this had not taken on the fairly open and exploitative nature of the earlier relationship between financier- lapan and their dependents. For reasons that we mention later, there was no particular evidence that such exploitation was likely any time soon. [BACK]
6. This connection between decreasing control over wealth by bigmen, and changes in the social hierarchy and the reproductive system, are not peculiar to Manus. Thus, for instance, Andrew Strathern (1982, 313-316) points out that as access to wealth—cash income in his example—broadened in Mt. Hagen, inequalities deteriorated, both among men (as the category of "workers," kintmant , disappears), and between the sexes (as women insist on greater control over the money they help to make and begin to participate directly in moka), though as he noted elsewhere (1979, 533-534), bigmen have tried to control and appropriate new sources of wealth, just as early Pere bigmen tried to appropriate the wealth brought back by returning migrant workers (Mead 1963 [1930], 234). [BACK]


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Video- Corey Crawford Leaves Tonight's Game With Lower-Body Injury
12/08/13 at 07:55 PM ET | Comments (1)
Looks like a groin strain to me...
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Signing Alex Steen Is Top Priority For The Blues
12/08/13 at 07:38 PM ET | Comments (0)
via Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal,
While this season looks like an out-of-body experience for Alex Steen (20 goals and 32 points and plus 13), St. Louis Blues head coach Ken Hitchcock says this is no one-off.
He's the real thing, and the Blues have to resign him for, say, five years at between $5.5 million and $6 million a season. He's UFA.
"Steen is the closest thing I've seen to Jere Lehtinen in the last 15 years," said Hitchcock, who had the gifted winger Lehtinen on his 1999 Cup team in Dallas.
"He's hard on every puck, he plays against the other team's best players, kills penalties when we're down two men with David Backes."
He's a prime Selke contender as best two-way forward.
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Worst Goaltending Team
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12/08/13 at 06:09 PM ET | Comments (1)
Last season the New York Islanders were a surprise playoff team. They took the eighth seed in the East Conference and some saw them as a team on the rise. That hasn't happened so far this year. The main reason for this is poor goaltending. Evgeni Nabokov was expected to be their number one goalie. At age 38, he no longer seems capable of playing at the NHL level. In 14 games played he has posted a 3.30 GAA and a .892 saves percentage.
There is no proven backup on Long Island. Kevin Poulin has done little to prove he is NHL worthy. He had played 21 games over three seasons but accomplished nothing too noteworthy. This year he is proving he isn't capable of a regular NHL job. He is posting a 3.15 GAA and a .888 saves percentage through fourteen games played.
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Lecavalier Out Up To One Month
12/08/13 at 05:34 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Frank Seravalli of Grequent Flyers,
Vinny Lecavalier underwent an x-ray in Dallas, and the Flyers didn't like what the images showed.
So, they shipped Lecavalier back to Philadelphia yesterday to undergo an MRI and have the results read by a team physician. They were equally discouraging.
Lecavalier will miss at least the next three to four weeks with a non-displaced fracture in his lower-back, according to Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren. The injury was suffered late in the third period against Nashville on Nov. 30.
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12/08/13 at 04:59 PM ET | Comments (0)
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This Stinks!
12/08/13 at 01:32 PM ET | Comments (26)
from Nicholas J. Cotsonika of Yahoo,
It should have been the best of the NHL – the Pittsburgh Penguins versus the Boston Bruins on Saturday night, a rematch of the Eastern Conference final, skill and speed and defense and toughness and all that good stuff.
Instead, it was the worst of the NHL – a seek-and-destroy hit, a concussion, a sneaky-dirty knee to the head, a vicious attack, another concussion and a stretcher, then finger-pointing and lies and apologies.
In the aftermath, it's like sorting garbage at the dump. This stinks. This stinks more. This stinks most. You have to draw distinctions, but the overwhelming overall stench leaves you holding your nose.
And it's going to get worse.
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Time For The NHL And NHLPA To Put Safety First
12/08/13 at 12:54 PM ET | Comments (5)
from Kerry Fraser of TSN,
There is plenty of blame to be shared as a result of the most recent NHL player (Pittsburgh's Brooks Orpik) to be evacuated from the ice on a stretcher following an ugly incident Saturday night in Boston.
It's high time for the NHL brass, their Officiating Department and the NHLPA to put their collective heads together to provide meaningful player safety measures that aren't being achieved through current attempts. Consistently applied player suspensions aren't the only tool to curb dangerous and unwanted hits to the head. We need to take a step back and have a serious discussion, recognizing that education will be the key to effectively changing this destructive culture at all levels of the game.
Players often seek out retribution for hits, even those deemed legal, that are delivered to one of their teammates. Following a "big" hit, the temperature of the game can immediately elevate to the near boiling point. At such times, the referee's primary job is to take whatever measures necessary to control the environment. To do that, he has to have a "feel" for the game and what is required. A better job could have been done by the refs in that regard after Orpik delivered a hard, legal open-ice check that knocked Loui Erisksson out of the game on the very first shift.
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Do You Consider Babcock To Be "Snarky"?
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12/08/13 at 11:53 AM ET | Comments (2)
First the definition of Snarky...
adjective: snarky; comparative adjective: snarkier; superlative adjective: snarkiest
(of a person, words, or a mood) sharply critical; cutting; snide.
"the kid who makes snarky remarks in class"
cranky; irritable.
"Bobby's always a bit snarky before his nap"
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...the Flyers aren't starring in the series (24/7) again, but their furious third period comeback in Detroit on Wednesday will be featured in the first episode.
The Red Wings face-off against Toronto on Jan. 1 in front of 100,000-plus people at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, Mich.
It would have been fascinating to see Flyers coach Craig Berube, who shoots from the lip, instead of a snarky Mike Babcock. The cameras began rolling last week for the Wings and Maple Leafs, something both teams are still getting used to....
It probably wasn't too fun for the Red Wings on Wednesday night. We'll be watching to see what Babcock said after that game.
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Adam Erne was not suspended for his from-behind hit Friday that caused Jonathan Drouin's head to hit the side glass and might have caused a concussion.
But the idea of one Lightning prospect injuring another in a junior Quebec league game raised an interesting question: Is there a responsibility for players in the same organization — likely future teammates, in fact — to play each other more carefully?
Lightning players, for the most part, said the only responsibility is to play the game clean.
"When the game starts, you have no friends," LW Pierre-Cedric Labrie said Saturday. "You have to finish your hits. But if it's an illegal hit, it doesn't matter who it is, you can't do that."
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Electro-optical MASINT has similarities to IMINT, but is distinct from it. IMINT's primary goal is to create a picture, composed of visual elements understandable to a trained user. Electro-optical MASINT helps validate that picture, so that, for example, the analyst can tell if an area of green is vegetation or camouflage paint. Electro-optical MASINT also generates information on phenomena that emit, absorb, or reflect electromagnetic energy in the infrared, visible light, or ultraviolet spectra, phenomena where a "picture" is less important than the amount or type of energy reported. For example, a class of satellites, originally intended to give early warning of rocket launches based on the heat of their exhaust, reports energy wavelengths and strength as a function of location(s). There would be no value, in this specific context, to seeing a photograph of the flames coming out of the rocket.
Subsequently, when the geometry between the rocket exhaust and the sensor permits a clear view of the exhaust, IMINT would give a visual or infrared picture of its shape, while electro-optical MASINT would give, either as a list of coordinates with characteristics, or a "false-color" image, the temperature distribution, and spectroscopic information on its composition.
In other words, MASINT may give warning before characteristics visible to IMINT are clear, or it may help validate or understand the pictures taken by IMINT.
MASINT techniques are not limited to the United States, but the U.S. distinguishes MASINT sensors from others more than do other nations. According to the United States Department of Defense, MASINT is technically derived intelligence (excluding traditional imagery IMINT and signals intelligence SIGINT) that – when collected, processed, and analyzed by dedicated MASINT systems – results in intelligence that detects, tracks, identifies, or describes the signatures (distinctive characteristics) of fixed or dynamic target sources. MASINT was recognized as a formal intelligence discipline in 1986. . Another way to describe MASINT is "a "non-literal" discipline. It feeds on a target's unintended emissive byproducts, the "trails" of thermal energy, chemical or radio frequency emission that an object leaves in its wake. These trails form distinct signatures, which can be exploited as reliable discriminators to characterize specific events or disclose hidden targets"
As with many branches of MASINT, specific techniques may overlap with the six major conceptual disciplines of MASINT defined by the Center for MASINT Studies and Research, which divides MASINT into Electro-optical, Nuclear, Geophysical, Radar, Materials, and Radiofrequency disciplines.
MASINT collection technologies in this area use radar, lasers, staring arrays in the infrared and visual, to point sensors at the information of interest. As opposed to IMINT, MASINT electro-optical sensors do not create pictures. Instead, they would indicate the coordinates, intensity, and spectral characteristics of a light source, such as a rocket engine, or a missile reentry vehicle. Electro-optical MASINT involves obtaining information from emitted or reflected energy, across the wavelengths of infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light. Electro-optical technques include measurement of the radiant intensities, dynamic motion, and the materials composition of a target. These measurements put the target in spectral and spatial contexts. Sensors used in electro-optical MASINT include radiometers, spectrometers, non-literal imaging systems, lasers, or laser radar (LIDAR).
Observation of foreign missile tests, for example, make extensive use of MASINT along with other disciplines. For example, electro-optical and radar tracking establish trajectory, speed, and other flight characteristics that can be used to validate the TELINT telemetry intelligence being received by SIGINT sensors. Electro-optical sensors, which guide radars, operate on aircraft, ground stations, and ships.
U.S. RC-135S COBRA BALL aircraft have MASINT sensors that are "...two linked electro-optical sensors -- the Real Time Optics System (RTOS) and the Large Aperture Tracker System (LATS). RTOS consists of an array of staring sensors encompassing a wide field of regard for target acquisition. LATS serves as an adjunct tracker. Due to its large aperture, it has significantly greater sensitivity and resolving power than the RTOS, but is otherwise similar .
There is a broader program to standardize the architecture of the various RC-135 aircraft, so that there will be greater commonality of parts, and some ability to switch missions: a COBRA BALL will be able to carry out some SIGINT missions of the RIVET JOINT RC-135.
COBRA BALL cues the COBRA DANE ground radar and the COBRA JUDY ship-based radar. See Radar MASINT
It is an excellent example of automatic cueing of one sensor by another. Depending on the application, the sensitive but less selective sensor is either acoustic or nonimaging electro-optical. The selective sensor is forward-looking infrared (FLIR).
RLS uses two TADIRCM sensors, an INU, and a smaller field-of-view single-color (FLIR) camera on each tower. The INU, which contains a GPS receiver, allows the electro-optical sensors to align to the azimuth and elevation of any detected threat signature.
The basic system mode is for rocket detection, since a rocket launch gives a bright flare. In basic operation, RLS has electro-optical systems on three towers, separated by 2 to 3 kilometers, to give omnidirectional coverage. The tower equipment connects to the control stations using a wireless network.
When a sensor measures a potential threat, the control station determines if it correlates with another measurement to give a threat signature. When a threat is recognized, RLS triangulates the optical signal and presents the Point of Origin (POO) on a map display. The nearest tower FLIR camera then is cued to the threat signature, giving the operator real-time video within 2 seconds of detection. When not in RLS mode, the FLIR cameras are available to the operator as surveillance cameras.
Mortar launches do not produce as strong an electro-optical signature as does a rocket, so RLS relies on acoustic signature cueing from an Unattended Transient Acoustic Measurement and Signal Intelligence System (UTAMS). There is an UTAMS array at the top of each of the three RLS towers. The tower heads can be rotated remotely.
Each array consists of four microphones and processing equipment. Analyzing the time delays between an acoustic wavefront's interaction with each microphone in the array UTAMS provides an azimuth of origin. The azimuth from each tower is reported to the UTAMS processor at the control station, and a POO is triangulated and displayed. The UTAMS subsystem can also detect and locate the point of impact (POI), but, due to the difference between the speeds of sound and light, it may take UTAMS as long as 30 seconds to determine the POO for a rocket launch 13 km away. This means UTAMS may detect a rocket POI prior to the POO, providing very little if any warning time. but the electro-optical component of RLS will detect the rocket POO earlier.
The Army's AN/GSQ-187 Improved Remote Battlefield Sensor System (I-REMBASS) contains a Passive Infrared Sensor, DT-565/GSQ, which "detects tracked or wheeled vehicles and personnel. It also provides information on which to base a count of objects passing through its detection zone and reports their direction of travel relative to its location. The monitor uses two different [magnetic and passive infrared] sensors and their identification codes to determine direction of travel.
Shallow-water operations require generalizing IR imaging to include a non-developmental Thermal Imaging Sensor System (TISS) to surface ships with a day/night, high-resolution, infrared (IR) and visual imaging, and laser range-finder capability to augment existing optical and radar sensors, especially against small boats and floating mines. Similar systems are now available in Army helicopters and armored fighting vehicles.
The bhangmeter technique was used earlier, in 1961, aboard a modified US KC-135B aircraft monitoring the preannounced Soviet test of Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated. The US test monitoring, which carried both broadband electromagnetic and optical sensors including a bhangmeter, was named SPEEDLIGHT.
As part of Operation BURNING LIGHT, one MASINT system photographed the nuclear clouds of French atmospheric nuclear tests to measure their density and opacity . This operation is borderline with Nuclear MASINT.
Bhangmeters on Advanced Vela satellites detected the what is variously called the Vela Incident or South Atlantic Incident, on 22 September 1979. Different reports have claimed that it was, or was not, a nuclear test, and, if it was, probably involved South Africa and possibly Israel. France and Taiwan have also been suggested. Only one bhangmeter detected the characteristic double-flash, although US Navy hydrophones suggest a low-yield blast. Other sensors were negative or equivocal, and no definitive explanation has yet been made public.
In addition to passive measurements of other lasers, the MASINT system can use active lasers (LIDAR) for distance measurements, but also for destructive remote sensing that provides energized material for spectroscopy. Close-in lasers could do chemical (i.e., materials MASINT) analysis of samples vaporized by lasers.
Laser systems are largely at a proof of concept level. One promising area is a synthetic imaging system that would be able to create images through forest canopy, but the current capability is much less than existing SAR or EO systems.
A more promising approach would image through obscurations such as dust, cloud, and haze, particularly in urban environments. The laser illuminator would send a pulse, and the receiver would capture only the first photons to return, minimizing scattering and blooming.
Use of LIDAR for precision elevation and mapping is much closer, and again chiefly in urban situations.
Spectroscopy can be applied either to targets that are already excited, such as an engine exhaust, or stimulated with a laser or other energy source. It is not an imaging technique, although it can be used to extract greater information from images.
Where an IMINT sensor would take a picture that fills a frame, the Spectroscopic MASINT sensor gives a list, by coordinate, of wavelengths and energy. Multispectral IMINT is likely to discriminate more wavelengths, especially if it extends into the IR or UV, than a human being, even with an excellent color sense, could discriminate.
The results plot energy versus frequency. A spectral plot represents radiant intensity versus wavelength at an instant in time. The number of spectral bands in a sensor system determines the amount of detail that can be obtained about the source of the object being viewed. Sensor systems range from
More bands provide more discrete information, or greater resolution. The characteristic emission and absorption spectra serve to fingerprint or define the makeup of the feature that was observed. A radiometric plot represents the radiant intensity versus time; there can be plots at multiple bands or wavelengths. For each point along a time-intensity radiometric plot, a spectral plot can be generated based on the number of spectral bands in the collector, such as the radiant intensity plot of a missile exhaust plume as the missile is in flight. The intensity or brightness of the object is a function of several conditions including its temperature, surface properties or material, and how fast it is moving. Remember that additional, non-electro-optical sensors, such as ionizing radiation detectors, can correlate with these bands.
Advancing optical spectroscopy was identified as a high priority by a National Science Foundation workshop in supporting counterterrorism and general intelligence community needs. These needs were seen as most critical in the WMD context. The highest priority was increasing the sensitivity of spectroscopic scanners, since, if an attack has not actually taken place, the threat needs to be analyzed remotely. In the real world of attempting early warning, expecting to get a signature of something, which is clearly a weapon, is unrealistic. Consider that the worst chemical poisoning in history was an industrial accident, the Bhopal disaster. The participants suggested that the "intelligence community must exploit signatures of feedstock materials, precursors, by-products of testing or production, and other inadvertent or unavoidable signatures." False positives are inevitable, and other techniques need to screen them out.
Second to detectability, as a priority was rejecting noise and background. It is especially difficult for biowarfare agents, which are the greatest WMD challenge to detect by remote sensing rather than laboratory analysis of a sample. Methods may need to depend on signal enhancement, by clandestine dispersion of reagents in the area of interest, which variously could emit or absorb particular spectra. Fluorescent reactions are well known in the laboratory; could they be done remotely and secretly? Other approaches could pump the sample with an appropriately tuned laser, perhaps at several wavelengths. The participants stressed that the need to miniaturize sensors, which might enter the area in question using unmanned sensors, including miniaturized aerial, surface, and even subsurface vehicles.
Electro-optical spectroscopy is one means of chemical detection, especially using nondispersive infrared spectroscopy is one MASINT technology that lends itself to early warning of deliberate or actual releases. In general, however, chemical sensors tend to use a combination of gas chromatography and mass spectrometry, which are more associated with materials MASINT. See Chemical Warfare and Improvised Chemical Devices.
Laser excitation with multispectral return analysis is a promising chemical and possibly biological analysis method.
SYERS 2, on the high-altitude U-2 reconnaissance aircraft, is the only operational airborne military multi-spectral sensor, providing 7 bands of visual and infrared imagery at high resolution.
Hyperspectral MASINT involves the synthesis of images as seen by visible and near infrared light. US MASINT in this area is coordinated by the Hyperspectral MASINT Support to Military Operations (HYMSMO) project. This MASINT technology differs from IMINT in that it attempts to understand the physical characteristics of what is seen, not just what it looks like. .
Hyperspectral imaging typically needs multiple imaging modalitiesd, such as whiskbroom, pushbroom, tomographic, intelligent filters, and time series.
Some of the major issues in visible and infrared hyperspectral processing include atmospheric correction, for the visible and short wave infrared. (0.4 - 2.5 micrometer) dictate sensor radiances need to be converted to surface reflectances. This dictates a need for measuring, and connecting for:
Hyperspectral, as opposed to multispectral, processing gives the potential of improved spectral signature measurement from airborne and spaceborne sensor platforms. Sensors on these platforms, however, must compensate for atmospheric effects. Such compensation is easiest with high contrast targets sensed through well-behaved atmosphere with even, reliable illumination, the real world will not always be so cooperative. For more complicated situations, one can not simply compensate for the atmospheric and illumination conditions by taking them out. The Invariant Algorithm for target detection was designed to find many possible combinations of these conditions for the image
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Desert Radiance I | October 1994 | White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico |
Desert Radiance II | June 1995 | Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona |
Forest Radiance I (also had urban and waterfront components) | August 1995 | Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Maryland |
Island Radiance I (also had lake, ocean and shallow water components) | October 1995 | Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada; Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii |
A representative test range, with and without buried metal, is the Steel Crater Test Area at the Yuma Proving Grounds. This was developedfor radar measurements, but is comparable to other signature development areas for other sensors and may be used for hyperspectral sensing of buried objects.
In applications of intelligence interest, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) has demonstrated that hyperspectral sensing allows discrimination of refined signatures, based on a large number of narrow frequency bands across a wide spectrum. These techniques can identify include military vehicle paints, characteristic of particular countries' signatures. They can differentiate camouflage from real vegetation. By detecting disturbances in earth, they can detect a wide variety of both excavation and buried materials. Roads and surfaces that have been lightly or heavily trafficked will produce different measurements than the reference signatures. It can detect specific types of foliage supporting drug-crop identification; disturbed soil supporting the identification of mass graves, minefields, caches, underground facilities or cut foliage; and variances in soil, foliage, and hydrologic features often supporting NBC contaminant detection. This was done previously with false-color infrared photographic film, but electronics are faster and more flexible.
JHU/APL target-detection algorithms have been applied to the Army Wide Area Airborne Minefield Detection (WAAMD) program's desert and forest. By using the COMPASS and AHI hyperspectral sensors, robust detection of both surface and buried minefields is achieved with very low false alarm rates.
Hyperspectral imaging can detect disturbed earth and foliage. In in concert with other methods such as coherent change detection radar, which can precisely measure changes in the height of the ground surface. Together, these can detect underground construction.
While still at a research level, Gravitimetric MASINT can, with these other MASINT sensors, give precise location information for deeply buried command centers, WMD facilities, and other critical target. It remains a truism that once a target can be located, it can be killed. "Bunker-buster" nuclear weapons are not needed when multiple precision guided bombs can successively deepen a hole until the no-longer-protected structure is reached.
Peace operations and war crimes investigation may require the detection of often-clandestine mass graves. Clandestinity makes it difficult to get witness testimony, or use technologies that require direct access to the suspected grave site (e.g., ground penetrating radar). Hyperspectral imaging from aircraft or satellites can provide remotely sensed reflectance spectra to help detect such graves. Imaging of an experimental mass grave and a real-world mass grave show that hyperspectral remote imaging is a powerful method for finding mass graves in real time, or, in some cases, retrospectively.
JHU/APL target detection algorithms have been applied to the HYMSMO desert and forest libraries, and can reveal camouflage, concealment and deception protecting ground miitary equipment. Other algorithms have been demonstrated, using HYDICE data, that they can identify lines of communication based on the disturbance of roads and other ground surfaces.
The US, in 1970, launched the first of a series of space-based staring array sensors that detected and located infrared heat signatures, typically from rocket motors but also from other intense heat sources. Such signatures, which are associated with measurement of energy and location, are not pictures in the IMINT sense. Currently called the Satellite Early Warning System (SEWS), the program is the descendant of several generations of Defense Support Program (DSP) spacecraft. The fUSSR/Russian Prognoz spacecraft has been described, by US sources, as having similar capabilities to DSP .
Originally intended to detect the intense heat of an ICBM launch, this system proved useful at a theater level in 1990-1991. It detected the launch of Iraqi Scud missiles in time to give early warning to potential targets.
Several new technologies will be needed for shallow-water naval operations. Since acoustic sensors (i.e., passive hydrophones and active sonar) perform less effectively in shallow waters than in the open seas, there is a strong pressure to develop additional sensors.
One family of techniques, which will require electro-optical sensors to detect, is bioluminescence: light generated by the movement of a vessel through plankton and other marine life. Another family, which may be solved with electro-optical methods, radar, or a combination, is detecting wakes of surface vessels, as well as effects on the water surface caused by underwater vessels and weapons.


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Sir Charlie Dark. Friend to many and a mentor to all. I have wanted to write this for a long time but the right moment has always eluded me. With it being your birthday today, on Monday the 29th of October, 2012. I think the right time has finally come.
I want to thank you for what you have done for me. When I run, race, blog, talk and enjoy experiences I will always have people to thank for giving me those opportunities but I know that you - no matter what - will remain a constant as one of those people. You changed my life for the better and for that I will be eternally grateful.
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Anti-Repeal Events from HCAN State Partners
Posted on February 21st, 2012 by ICR Bloggers in From Insurance Company RulesBelow are great reports from HCAN State Partners' anti-repeal events that took place January 18th and 19th leading up to the vote in congress. HCAN's state partners never fail to impress. These activities are generating a buzz and making headlines all over the place. Thanks to everyone for organizing these events on short notice and despite inconvenience and delay. Clips from events that took place in the following states are included below: Connecticut, Florida, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Washington, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia.
Below is a photo from our event in Connecticut organized by HCAN Partner Connecticut Citizen Action Group (CCAG)
Orlando–Report from HCAN Partner Organize Now
Orlando event targeting Webster had nearly 30 people in attendance from Organize Now, AFSCME, FLARA, FL Chain, JWJ, OFA and more. Fox 35 and Channel 13 both attended the event in front of the local Chamber of Commerce. Speakers included 2 folks who had benefited from health care reform and organizational speakers. At the end of the press conference everyone started calling Webster's office. His office was clearly concerned about the immediate calls and asked folks why they were all calling at once-was it on tv or an email or radio. Calls continued throughout the day.
Tampa-Report from HCAN Partner FCAN
Event coverage here: The Ledger: Residents Ask Ross to Support Health Care
Report from HCAN Partner Maine People's Alliance
We had a good turnout in the snow to rally in support of the Affordable Care Act. The "Rally to Save Healthcare" asked our new Governor and Attorney General to stop wasting our time and money by signing on to repeal our care, thanking Representatives Pingree and Michaud for their support of the ACA, and asking our state legislature to work towards implementation that will cover the most Maine people possible.
Watch video here: Rally to Save health Care
Media Coverage so far:
Maine Health Reform Supporters Rally Against Repeal
Non-profits rally in favor of health care law
AP: Maine rally held to support nat'l health care law
Report from Michigan Citizen Action
Around 40 people prayed outside of Congressman Upton's office. 10 personal letters delivered to Ed Sackely, District Director. Because of new security, letters and people met with Ed one-by-one. Kalamazoo Gazette article in the link below. Linda did WMUK interview from 7:33 - 7:40.
Watch video from the event here
Health-care reform supporters hold vigil outside U.S. Rep. Fred Upton's office on eve of House vote
Report from HCAN Partner Take Action Minnesota
Our MOC letter attached and we placed the following Op-Ed in the press today, by TakeAction board member. Thank you Liz Doyle
MinnPost- Republicans have it backwards on the jobs effect of health-care reform
Report from HCAN Partner PLAN
The Heckuva Deal Donut Hole bake sale went well. Several volunteers from PLAN, Americans United, and our coalition partners spoke to over 150 senior citizens at the Flamingo Senior Center in Joe Heck's district (pic attached). Not one senior wanted to buy back their donut hole for $250 but we did give away 6 dozen donut holes along with handouts on ACA repeal targeted to seniors. We also logged 42 calls to Heck's office made through the cell phones we brought to the event.
Additionally, we sent out action alerts statewide as did several of our coalition partners (Americans United, ProgressNow, and the SEIU) and will continue phone banking and mobilizations today.
The press was only radio phoned-in interview and mention on noon hour news (waiting for clips to become available), with a couple of outlets interested in doing a follow up story after the vote happens.
Report from HCAN Partner NDPeople.org
State Capitol news conference challenging new Rep. Rick Berg on the repeal of ACA yesterday. Speakers did great! Media were the two TV stations (NBC and CBS) and North Dakota Public Radio. The reporter, from Forum Communications which has four daily papers and a bunch of TV stations, asked for the news release.
Report from HCAN Partner Progress Ohio
Marianne Steger, from AFSCME Ohio Council 8 speaks to Steve Cheek, Staff Assistant, for Congressman Steve Stivers in the lobby of his district office.
Ohio Health Care Coalition Deliver Petitions To Ohio Congressional District Offices
ProgressOhio Community Blog:
By Denise Gastesi on January 19, 2011 9:49
Ohio Consumers Ask Congressmen Stivers To Side With Hard-Working Families, Not Big Insurance Companies
Tuesday, a delegation of leaders from various groups which are part of an Ohio Coalition of Health Care For America Now (HCAN), and constituents which led the national fight to pass the Affordable Care Act (ACA), delivered petitions to Congressman Stivers district office in Columbus to discuss his position on repealing the new law, which protects consumers from the worst insurance company abuses.
A Health Care Reform Repeal Bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would eliminate provisions of the new law that are already benefiting consumers in the 15th Congressional District, effectively taking away no-cost preventive care for 77,000 seniors in Medicare, and 65,500 young adults would lose their insurance coverage through their parents' health plans sometimes just after they finish school and as they are looking for a job.
With the Health Care Repeal bill expected to be voted on in Congress this week, simular events are being held in Ohio at other congressional district offices. Constituents delivered petitions to Speaker Boehner's office in West Chester Tuesday and groups are organizing constuents to meet at Fountain Square today to deliver petitions to Rep. Steve Chabot's Office in Cincinnati today.
Online petitions were also sent to Rep. Renacci's office in the 16th Congressional District as well as to Rep. Johnson in OH-8.
From Left to Right: Marianne Steger, from AFSCME Ohio Council 8, Betty Thomas, Retiree coordinator AFSCME Ohio Council 8, Norm Wernet, Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans, and Lonnie Blackwell the president of our retirees chapter 1184 (20,000 AFSCME members across Ohio).
OCHC Statehouse Press Conference 1-19-2011
Some of the stories in the press conference below, came from the ProgressOhio e-mail that was sent out asking for health care stories.
Report from HCAN Partner Oregon Action
We had a great action today in Medford, OR. We had 40 folks at the Medford Library for a press/ community education rally. Speaker included leaders from SEIU, Rev Bill McDonald from the faith community and Oregon Action and 3 stories from people effected by repeal. There were 3 tv stations ( KOBI, KTVL and KDRV). Additionally we had a story in the Mail Tribune announcing the event yesterday Jan 18. There we two pre stories on KOBI which included a wonderful 5 minute interview with Michelle Glass, young Oregon Action leader. Everyone signed a letter to Rep Greg Walden and we announced our next HCAN meeting for Feb 22.
We had a lot of spirit and willingness to continue to be an organized force for health care progress.
From HCAN partners PUP, Action United and Penn Action
Coverage from Tuesday's PA Events:
Post Gazette: Vote expected today on health care repeal
The Tribune-Democrat: Critz, Shuster split on health care
Public News Service: PA Mom Testifies about Healthcare Reform in D.C. Today
Lebanon Event
Here is the report from the event in Lebanon. We had about 20 people attend. We had Jake Long regional co director from the Harrisburg Labor Council Speak, Rev Dan Donomoyer and Bobbie Warshaw a Medicaid recipient talked about the benefits she received. There was also TV there and we are still looking for the link.
Lebanon Daily News - Ralliers: No to health care repeal
Scranton, PA Event
Lackawanna County Courthouse, Scranton PA
In addition to these events, Penn Action recruited Stacie Ritter, a woman with twins who have a pre-existing condition, to come to DC and be part of Speaker Pelosi's hearing to highlight people impacted by ACA repeal. Stacie got great coverage all over the country including the story below.
Public News Service-PA
January 18, 2011
PA Mom Testifies about Healthcare Reform in D.C. Today
LANCASTER, Penn. - A Pennsylvania woman whose family was driven to bankruptcy after her twin four-year-old daughters were diagnosed with leukemia, is testifying on Capitol Hill today (Tuesday). Staci Ritter says thw girls' medical treatment has been very costly, and the bills piled up when an insurance company refused to pay for some of it. As the U.S. House of Representatives gears up to vote on whether to repeal the Affordable Health Care Act, Ritter's message to lawmakers is that needs to remain intact – to protect families like hers, who are dealing with catastrophic illnesses. "I'm afraid that if they repeal the mandate, that will enable insurers to be able to deny children – like mine, who have pre-existing conditions – health care." Ritter says the family's situation became more serious after her husband's company signed on with a new insurance carrier, and problems emerged with their daughters' coverage. "My children are expensive. Anybody with a pre-existing condition is a liability, they'll openly admit it – so, what do we do to protect these people?" Ritter says she's fearful of a repeal of health care reform, not just because of the impact it could have on her daughters today. "Each time they pick away at it, they take away something that's protecting my children and their future; protecting them from discrimination, protecting them from being able to afford insurance to begin with." She will testify before the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee, part of the House Democratic Caucus. Her story turns out better than some, but Ritter says that's only because she went after the insurance company publicly and was able to come to a settlement. Recently, several lawmakers who favor repealing the Affordable Care Act, including new House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA), released a report entitled "ObamaCare: Budget Busting, Job-Killing Health Care Law."
Report Back from Tennessee Citizen Action
State Capitol Rally To Fight Repeal Of Health Care Reform (WTVF News channel 5)
Middle Tenn. voices heard on health care repeal (WKRN News 2)
Tennessee Report: TNCA Urges Abandonment of Federal Health Care Law Repeal & Resistance Efforts
Tennessee Report: Reform v. Repeal; Mary & Co v. Mae & Co
Report from WA MSA
Coverage of Main Street Alliance members in the Vancouver Columbian yesterday.
Health care debate regains center stage - Herrera Beutler supports GOP repeal push
By Howard Buck Columbian Staff Reporter
Originally published January 18, 2011 at 4:23 p.m., updated January 18, 2011 at 7:25 p.m.
Photo by Steven Lane
Local business owner Don Orange speaks about health care reform at a press conference staged by Organizing for America at Vancouver Marketplace on Tuesday.
Report from West Virginia Citizen Action Group
WVCAG and partners held a 2PM press conference at the state capitol ahead of the vote to repeal ACA. Press covering the event were: TV 13 (CBS); WV News Service (radio); Charleston Gazette & Daily Mail (print)
Speakers were:
Gary Zuckett, WV Citizen Action Group
Perry Bryant, WV for Affordable Health Care
WV Senator Dr. Ron Stollings, Chair HHR Committee
WV Senator Dr. Dan Foster, member HHR Committee
Renate Pore, WV Center On Budget & Policy
Report from HCAN Partner Citizen Action of Wisconsin
Press from "No Repeal" action at Rep. Paul Ryan's office, 1/18:
WDJT TV 58 (CBS) Milwaukee (January 18, 2011) Wisconsin Joins Health Care Reform Fight
WISN TV 12 (ABC) Milwaukee (January 18, 2011) Interview with Brian Rothgery on repeal action at Paul Ryan's office (no link available)
WTMJ TV 4 (NBC) Milwaukee (January 18, 2011) Health Care Rally Outside Rep. Ryan's Office
Wisconsin Radio Network (January 18, 2011) Rallying against repeal
WRJN Radio 1400 AM Racine (January 18, 2011) 4:05 PM news break (podcast)
Racine Journal-Times (January 18, 2011) Protest outside Paul Ryan's office
Photos from Racine Journal Times picked up by AP:
Atlanta Journal Constitution (January 18, 2011) Congress tones down the rhetoric after shootings
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (January 18, 2011) Congress tones down the rhetoric after shootings
The Republic (Columbus, IN) (January 18, 2011) Congress tones down the rhetoric after shootings
Arizona Daily Star (January 18, 2011) Bid to repeal health law goes on, but with civil tone
News Times (Danbury, CT) (January 18, 2011)
MySanAntonio.com (January 18, 2011) Congress tones down the rhetoric after shootings
Rally & Visibility Outside the Capitol yesterday.
Stacie Ritter's story was told in about 60 television markets across the country yesterday thanks mostly to NBC affiliates that picked up a Washington report on the event.
Stacie and her daughters are shown above testifying that repeal would mean her daughters would be at risk of losing their health coverage because of pre-existing conditions. Several stations ran the story more than once.


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Congressman Faleomavaega announced today that he has learned last week from reliable sources about the death of Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Sifoa Loa in Iraq. SSG Loa was killed in Ar Ramadi, Iraq on August 16, 2006 when an improvised explosive devise (IED) exploded.
Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Loa was 32 years of age and had served the United States Army for nine years. He is the son of Mr. Duke Loa and the late Vaisaa Ofoia. He was married to Mary.
My office has confirmed with the Pentagon about the death of Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Loa, Faleomavaega said. While I was enroute to American Samoa with Chairman Henry Hyde of the House International Relations Committee and other members of Congress on a Congressional Delegation, I was informed that Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Loa has been reported killed in Iraq. Out of respect to the soldiers family and the Pentagons notification of the next of kin which had not been established, I withheld releasing the soldiers name at the time.
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A Really Offal Salad
Don't forget tonight's make up nutrition lecture. I'm in the process of making a blogsite to help me post pictures and videos more easily. Itll be strongly linked with the Crossfit Inception Page and be a hopefully more user friendly resource.
I also am going to try to make the discussion page a page for actual discussion and community building.
I couldn't resist the terrible, terrible joke for the name of this post. The salad actually came out pretty good. I think chicken hearts are the perfect gateway food to eating offal. I ate half of this for dinner last night and am eating the other half today for lunch.
The dish is simply just grilled chicken hearts in a marinade of lemon juice and apple cider and than finished with mustard and some chili powder. Chicken hearts look and taste kind of like a sausage. So its easy to trick yourself into eating it. Sausage salad seems kind of like an oxymoron and may seem unappetizing, but I tried it and loved it.
Apple Cider Chicken Heart Salad
"Marinate the chicken heart in the lemon juice and apple cider vinegar over night. This will make the meat much juicer and less tough. Add the coconut oil to a ridged pan and cook on a very high heat. Cook for 10-15 minutes, draining the excess liquid as needed. The hearts are done when they are brown all the way through and should have a charred outside. In doneness and consistency, they should be like sausage.
Remove from heat, mix with the mustard and chili powder. Let sit a 2 minutes before eating. Once eating all of the meat, add some lettuce to the bowl and use the left over cider and mustard mixture as a warm salad dressing. It tastes like a sweet vinaigrette. "
At the end of the day, you'll walk away from this dish with:
503 calories, 16g of fat, 10g of carbs, and 58g of protein. Plus 100% of your RDA of omega 3, Vitamins A, B12, B6, K, Folate, Panotheneic Acid, Copper, Iron, Phosphorous, and Zinc


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see here for my thoughts on starting and not finishing projects…but i digress.
the girls and i (daddy too!) have been checking off lots of fun activities off our summer fun to do list and i thought it would be a good idea to start a simple digital scrapbook that captures this awesome summer.
i wanted to keep it simple, easy. so i would actually complete it lol!
i am using a bunch of crystal wilkerson's digital papers and cathy zielske's tiny templates and photo collages.
8×8 size and will probably put them in a Shutterfly album.
i still need to add journaling.
i will be taking limited Holiday Family Photo sessions on the weekends only in September, October and November. Book early to reserve your spot.
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