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"In war, there are no unwounded soldiers." ~ José Narosky
"Since Christ his new commandment gave to men, 'Love One Another', full two thousand years have passed away, yet Earth is red with blood…"
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On Thursday Nov 5, at the Fort Hood Army post in central Texas, a 39-year-old man killed 13 people and wounded 30 others. The killing spree took place inside a crowded medical processing center for soldiers returning from or about to be sent to Afghanistan or Iraq, and ended with the gunman being shot by law enforcement officials. He is still alive after being shot four times.
The shooter turned out to be Major Nidal Malik Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who had been in the service since 1995. Hasan was about to be deployed to Afghanistan to help soldiers with combat stress, a task he'd done stateside with returning soldiers. According to reports, Hasan had tried to leave the Army, even hiring an attorney to try to come to a settlement with the government, but his attempts failed. He apparently resisted his deployment up to the day before he was due to leave. That resistance culminated in the deaths of 13 people and the wounding of 30 more.
As Air America Editor-in-Chief Beau Friedlander wrote,
"I can identify with the abject terror Hasan must have felt when he was apprised of the fact that he would be deployed to the place that wrecked so many of his patients. I remember when Desert Storm was brewing and we all thought we'd get conscripted and sent to Iraq back in 1991… Imagine how much worse it would be if your job was to listen to people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder who had just returned from the place you were going?"
A fair amount of attention has been drawn to Hasan's anger about the wars in the Middle East. Some are pointing to this (amongst other things) as evidence that Hasan was planning a terrorist attack. However, in his opposition to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Hasan held a position that many Americans share. He's not alone at Fort Hood, either. Since the Iraq invasion, 'desertion rates have soared'.
According to Mark Ames, author of Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion:
"Fort Hood has had some high-profile objectors making the news this year, such as Spc. Victor Agosto, who was court-martialed in August after he refused to go to Afghanistan, and Sgt. Travis Bishop, who filed for conscientious objector status after serving in Iraq for 14 months… Today, if you read through some of the forums out of Fort Hood, the anti-war mood is clearly strong and clearly a problem for the authorities."
Fort Hood holds the record for the most soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan – 685 so far. Over the same period, there have been 75 suicides amongst Fort Hood soldiers, 10 of which occurred in 2009 – the highest of any base. In 2005, in two separate incidents, two soldiers, having just returned from Iraq, killed themselves in one weekend. Last year, a 21-year-old Specialist from the 1st Cavalry Division shot and killed his lieutenant, then killed himself when police arrived.
Perhaps all this violence and bloodshed at home ought to make us seriously reflect on what it is we are asking our young people to do. Out of all the heartbreak left in the wake of this tragedy, an opportunity arises. It's a chance to look more deeply at this horror of horrors; this vile practice that we call war, where men and women who can think and feel are asked to commit atrocities and risk not only their lives, but their chances of ever again finding peace within themselves.
The casualties of war are far greater than the statistics would lead us to believe. Surely, in 2009, it is time to acknowledge that we must find a more civilized way to deal with our disputes; one that does not involve killing one another. Until we do, our society will forever be plagued by the anguish that is the inevitable result of sending our brothers and sisters, our sons and daughters and our fathers and mothers into the killing fields.
This nation is mourning the loss of the 13 individuals who did not survive the massacre, and the despair and distress of those who did survive, but whose lives will never be the same. These men and women were taken from people who loved them, and they had lives ahead of them that will never be lived. This country owes something to these people – not a debt of gratitude; not awe nor respect nor wonder at their courage that led them to make 'the ultimate sacrifice'. No, this country owes those men and women the profoundest of apologies.
Above all, we owe to every person, who has ever died in any war, the willingness to finally be honest about this madness, and to acknowledge once and for all what it really is – the horrific remnants of a primitive time when we did not have the same understanding of right and wrong; when we did not know that violence and killing are immoral and unethical no matter what the reason.
War has no place in a civilized society. The time will come when we will look back on this practice as being nothing short of barbaric. We will look back on this time filled with shame for the things we used to do to one another and the things we asked one another to do, all in the name of Freedom, in the name of Democracy, in the name of Peace, and in the name of God.
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Sure, war can most certainly be justified. Unfortunately, it's now mostly about other things, like $ & ruthless control. When rich men can turn a profit off of lost lives, we have a problem.
And yes Barbara- America SHOULD reel in troops from a few places. Leave it to a country that can't govern itself to want to control the rest of the world!
Sandra- I agree. But I also believe that in some of these cases there were others helping the muslims- in other words, co-conspirators. I'm sure it'd be scary to find out whom. In the end, I think there are many shades of grey & that we got fed information that is often not complete or even correct in the least. But yes, there are wars that are most certainly justified. Lest we'd still be under English rule. Of course, then the colonists turned around & wiped out the original American inhabitants, but....
Sure we could bring home all of our troops from the two war fronts we're engaged in, but then what would happen to all of the innocent people who don't want to be ruled by religious fanatics...War is presently necessary, and it will be as long as there are those who want to dominate other people against their will. What would we be now if America would've refused to fight in WWII? War is evil and probably the most hideous thing that human beings can do to each other, but in our world it's woefully necessary. Peace will only come when the world comes to an end, or the Prince of Peace returns.
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Yes, we should bring our soldiers home, no more war until we are attacked viciously. America should stay out of other countries all together. Then, instead of hating America, they can go back to hating each other. Krauthammer writes with facts. This care2 writer writes with emotional and subjective tones. Why hasn't her president brought the soldiers home?
Where is this writer's objective morality come from? Where is her suggestion to end war? She beats on the same old drum, damning the USA while she freely lives here to say what she freely pleases. At the very least she could vote for a president that will bring the soldiers home---and campaign for a much better man or woman, one who tells the truth about his/her origins of morality and keeps campaign promises. I am beyond patience with these writers only complaining about problems, and not offering solutions.
Barbara - "With all respect to those who believe in a peaceful world, the harsh reality is there is no such. The best that can be hoped for is that those of different religions can somehow learn to tolerate the rights of others and yet stay within the confines of their own 'back yards.'
Please tell that to Bush, Cheney and now Obama. America needs to stay in the confines of its own back yard and tolerate the rights of all who are different to them. STOP WAGING WARS ON COUNTRIES WHO DO NOT AGREE WITH THEM. America must learn to AGREE TO DISAGREE then maybe we wil have sum peace in the world.
Jae M -"What is "Justified?" We are fighting a war and all sides are killing each other. I use to think that fighting the war was "us" the Americans fighting the enemies, but now I feel we too are the enemies. Innocent people are getting killed, man, woman and child. When does this stop? Who is this god that they claim this war is what he wants. Who is this god, that says we should be killed, who are these people that are so fanatical about their religion and beliefs that this is their duty to kill? God is known by many names, but he is not evil, this is NOT what he wants. He created all of us in his image. And look at what we are doing. We are destroying ourselves, and our world, that God gave us. This is his gift to us, and this is how we repay him? I just don't get it. SO Sad, so very sad."
Jae I couldnt have said it better.
"War is never justified!!!!!!!!!!" So just what is your proposal to end attacks on Americans and others by Islamic radicals? Start treating them nicely & expect them to have a complete change of mind and not shoot, blow up, behead, etc. others in this world who refuse to convert to their view of Islam? They are an intolerant lot. Remember this said by them? "We love death more than you love life!"
To blame the US as being at fault for their behavior ("The chickens have come home to roost" philosophy) is lunacy. I'll never argue that you don't care about the murdered & injured at Ft. Hood and the numerous other murders that have happened at radical Muslims hands, but please put the blame where it deserves to be put. On them, not us. Your sympathies are misplaced. Save it for the victims of these terrorists, not for Hasan and his ilk. They kill other Muslims, too. According to the Koran, they go to hell for that. They prefer to follow the destructive portions of the Koran and conveniently ignore the passages about kindness to others especially 'brothers of the book'
"As Einstein is quoted as saying:
'It is madness to think that one can solve a problem with the same thinking that created it.' " That's true and we do not think like Islamic terrorists and do not solve our problems with them by butchering them like lambs to a slaughter. There is no equivalency.
Thank you, Elisabeth :-)
I am amazed at your article. Thank you very much. War is never justified!!!!!!!!!!
I am amazed at your article. Thank you very much. War is never justified!!!!!!!!!!
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Reliance Media Works clarifies on ED summons
The Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Media Works Private Limited (RMW) on Friday issued a clarification with regard to the Enforcement Directorate (ED) notices sent to two of its officials, to appear before it this week in connection with a matter related to the conversion of Adlabs Limited into Reliance Media Works Limited.
Responding to an earlier story that said that notices were sent to senior RMW officials Ramesh Venkat and Amitabh Jhunjhunwala to appear before the Mumbai branch of the Enforcement Directorate on March 12 and 13 respectively, an RMW spokesman, clarifying the matter, said: "The matter relates to the period when RMW was under the management control of Mr. Man Mohan Shetty. The Company is in full compliance of all regulations vis-a-vis the FCCBs, and has provided necessary information to the authorities," he added.
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'Retire'? Is That Even a Word, Barbara Walters?
April 2, 2013 by Women's Voices For Change
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Last week, we asked readers "Do you remember the first time you saw Lily Tomlin?" Now we have an opportunity to ask the same question about another WVFC icon: Barbara Walters, who is 83 and is planning to retire next year. Do you remember her as a news anchor? A presidential debate moderator? A foreign correspondent, flying to a foreign capital to lure secrets out of some dictator (Fidel Castro, Muammar Ghaddafi) distracted by her smile? Or is it a newer memory, from the 20 years she's been ruling a room with The View?
It's been 50 years since a young news assistant named Barbara Walters first stepped in front of the camera. The list of "firsts" in any Walters discussion goes on and on. First woman to co-anchor The Today Show, to do the same in network news, to serve as sole producer for her own interview program for ABC News (while still serving as reporter and correspondent). And one of her "gotcha" interviews, with Monica Lewinsky in 1999, made a still-unmatched record for the highest ratings of any TV news interview.
Since she announced her retirement last week, journalists of every generation have cropped up to honor what an ABC News colleague called "literally one of the greatest people in the history of the business." "I'm tempted to say that I really can't imagine Barbara retiring," Dan Rather told The Daily Beast. "Her whole life has been a triumph of the will."
What Walters really means by retiring, of course, is retiring from The View: She'll still produce her own specials, and no doubt corner a few more world leaders. Women journalists have tried to emulate Walters's tireless work ethic, and have yearned for the personal gifts that made her such a longed-for interviewer. She's one of the main reasons why political figures skip The View at their peril; and those who do visit have yielded often-unexpected results.
In the coming year, we'll no doubt hear many more encomiums like that of fellow veteran Connie Chung in the MSNBC tribute below, and more stories about what makes Walters feel so irreplaceable. As the goodbyes and tribute shows roll out, we'll keep an ear open to how Walters plans to use the "retirement," once she's free of that punishing weekly schedule. Something almost entirely new is about to be created. And Walters will probably teach us what reinvention means.
Connie Chung lauds Barbara Walters' s storied career.
Fostering Healthy Relationships with Adult Children: An Expert Weighs In
February 23, 2012 by Judith A. Ross
Filed under Family & Friends, Humor
In my previous post, I wrote about my changing relationships with my adult children. As my son Ben, a 28-year old musician, observed in a recent email, "As we have come to understand that boundaries are different than they once were, we've tacitly accepted it but also had moments here and there where it has become clear that a specific boundary is different than it once was."
And it's in those "moments" that we parents often struggle. Should we remain silent? Should we speak up? And if we speak up, what do we say, and how do we say it?
Looking for answers, I called up Dr. Ruth Nemzoff, author of Don't Bite Your Tongue: How to Foster Rewarding Relationships with Your Adult Children. As you can imagine from her title, Nemzoff advocates speaking up—but with a few caveats. Here are her suggestions:
Lay the groundwork for adult conversations. One way to do that, says Nemzoff, is by sharing some of your daily dilemmas before your child leaves the nest. Annoyed at your boss, for example? Share the story.
"Often parents feel they have to be perfect in their children's eyes or they don't want to bother them, but children learn a great deal from our mistakes and our struggles," says Nemzoff. "So learning that you were miffed at your boss today is an interesting thing because you stayed at the job even though you were miffed. How did you handle it? Did you blow up? Or did you talk to him or her a few days later?"
She also suggests soliciting their advice when appropriate. "Say, for example, you have a noisy coworker. They know about that. They face it every day in the cafeteria at school."
Invite them into solutions. Chats about real-life problem-solving can set the stage for later conversations. For example, if your college freshman, home for a holiday break, bristled over rules set in high school, Nemzoff suggests making a pre-emptive phone call before he returns in the spring.
"Think about the rough spots and then talk about them on the phone," she says. "Perhaps a rough spot was when you asked, 'What time are you coming home?' You can acknowledge that at college no one's asking that, but explain that as his mother, you can't just turn it off. Perhaps instead you can ask, 'At what time should I start to worry?'"
"You have to be flexible, but so does he," Nemzoff adds. "He has to understand that things have changed for you, too, and that you may not be as available as you were when he lived at home full-time."
Choose your battles. As much as parents don't want to feel silenced, they can opt to not say anything. "Being silenced by someone else is very different from deciding to be silent," says Nemzoff. If your adult child's behavior isn't harming anyone, then perhaps you should remain silent and save your advice for another time, she suggests. Nemzoff also recommends couching the advice you do give as just one perspective, suggesting that your children seek other opinions as well.
Use the same communication skills you employ with others. As with anyone, timing, tone, and environment all matter when initiating an important conversation with your adult child. You wouldn't ask your boss for a raise after making a big mistake, any more than you would loudly demand a raise in a public place.
"We fantasize that we can say anything we want to our kids, but the truth is, we never could," Nemzoff says. "When I'm babysitting my grandson I don't tell him that we are going to the circus while I'm putting him in bed. He'd never get to sleep!"
Maintaining open communications with our children is endlessly challenging, but ultimately rewarding. And, as Ben notes, always evolving.
"Gradually coming to see your parents as equals, or at least equally human, is a big one. While the first 18 to 22 years of my life were spent as the focus of care and attention while I faced various transitions, I now find myself somewhat stable, while my parents are wrestling with major changes to the life that they've had over the last 30 years. Seeing this has led me to understand our relationship as being co-equal in certain ways. For example, as a freelancer in a creative field undergoing major changes due to the Internet, I can trade ideas and commiserate with my mom's journey as a writer."
In addition to Nemzoff's book, I also recommend this essay by writer Dominique Browning, which contains valuable tips for planning a vacation with adult children. In retrospect, if my husband and I had followed Browning's first rule, "Turn it over to a younger power," our Paris trip would have gone much more smoothly.
Video Pick: Have You Talked to Your Spouse About Retirement?
July 18, 2011 by Women's Voices For Change
Filed under Marriage & Life Partners, Personal Finance
Do you know when/if you'll retire? Where you'll live? What you'll need? Of couples in midlife, nearly half haven't even started having that conversation, according to a new study, Fortune.com talked to Kathleen Murphy, of Fidelity Investments, about that study and what that conversation could ultimately look like. (After you watch the video, you might want to check in with WVFC's own retirement-planning guru. Jacqueline Darien.)


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EMCC's Medical Assisting Technology Receives Initial Accreditation
Mar 29, 2011
Bangor, ME: Eastern Maine Community College is pleased to announce that the Medical Assistant program has received initial accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs (CAAHEP). The associate in applied science degree program, started in 2008, combines classroom lecture, hands-on skills labs, and a 160-hour externship, which prepares students to take the Certified Medical Assistant (CMA) national exam offered by the American Association of Medical Assistants (AAMA). Medical Assistants are multi-skilled allied health professionals specifically trained to work in ambulatory settings such as physicians' offices, clinics and group practices, performing administrative and clinical procedures. The program will see the next accreditation review in 2016. "The CAAHEP accreditation of the Medical Assistant program underscores the quality programming that is being offered at EMCC," said EMCC Academic Dean, Dr. Pamela Proulx-Curry, "and is another example of how the College is helping to meet critical workforce needs in the community."
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Listening is the act of hearing something and paying attention to what is heard.
- When people talk listen completely. Most people never listen.
- Ernest Hemingway, letter of advice to a young writer, reported in Malcolm Cowley, "Mister Papa", LIFE magazine (January 10, 1949), Volume 26, No. 2, p. 90. A longer version appears in Hemingway's Across the River and Into the Trees (1967): "When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe. You should be able to go into a room and when you come out know everything that you saw there and not only that. If that room gave you any feeling you should know exactly what it was that gave you that feeling".
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- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 461.
- But yet she listen'd—'tis enough—
Who listens once will listen twice;
Her heart, be sure, is not of ice,
And one refusal no rebuff.
- Lord Byron, Mazeppa, Stanza 6.
- He holds him with his glittering eye—
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And listens like a three years' child.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner, Part I, Stanza 4. Last line claimed by Wordsworth. See note to his We are Seven.
- Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That's merrier than the nightingale.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874), Part III. The Sicilian's Tale. Interlude Before the Monk of Casal-Maggiore.
- In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
- Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake, Canto I, Stanza 17.
- And this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening.
- William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (c. 1593-94), Act IV, scene 1, line 66.


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Remedy Entertainment, known for creating the Alan Wake franchise, announced their new game Quantum Break for the Xbox One yesterday. While the title is a new IP, fans of the developer were expecting a sequel to the 2010 psychological action thriller. Today, the lead writer of the Alan Wake games, Sam Lake, has addressed his fans with a video posted on this week's Humble Weekly Sale.
In the video, Sam Lake acknowledges that players were disappointed that the new game revealed for Xbox One is not the sequel to Alan Wake.
"After the first game, we worked hard to make the sequel happen. But you know, these games are huge undertakings and many things need to fall in place, the right partners and the funding. From the creative perspective, it would be awesome if we would just create cool stuff and not worry about minor details, like money. But we all know that is not the case. When Alan Wake came out, it was not a huge hit on day one. It has been doing really well since then. It has become a cult classic, which is really nice. The Alan Wake franchise has moved more than 3 million copies since, which is a nice figure. But when the game was released, that was not the case immediately. Even though we worked hard on it, the sequel was not happening. The time wasn't right for that. Sure we could have gone ahead and created something less ambitious but we felt that wouldn't have done justice to you guys, to us. We wanted to be really proud of everything that we create. It certainly wouldn't have done justice to Alan Wake."
You can catch the full video below:
As a sincere token of appreciation, Remedy is offering both Alan Wake and American Nightmare as a 'pay what you want' Humble sale for one week, as well as discounts for everything Alan Wake related on the Xbox Live Marketplace. Sam Lake closes the video by hoping that players will enjoy their next game, Quantum Break, which we should hear more of in the near future.
If you haven't had a chance to try out the Alan Wake series, now would be a great time while the games are on sale. You can check out our reviews for both games below.


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MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. – (JANUARY 24, 2011) – Hilton Myrtle Beach Resort at Kingston Shores has joined with Comedy Zone to offer a romantic and funny valentine excursion for 2011. Cupid's Comedy Valentine includes deluxe oceanfront accommodations at the Hilton along with a delicious food and entertainment package on Saturday, February 12.
Cupid's Comedy Valentine includes a dinner buffet, cash bar, live comedy show with Comedy Central's Rollin Jay Moore, Mad Max from the Mad Max Morning Show on 107.1 FM, and music and dancing with DJ Joe Durivage. Dinner selections include an assortment of salads, shrimp, mussels, oysters, fresh fish, made-to-order risotto, New York strip, chicken, vegetables and a decadent dessert medley.
Couples will be pampered in a deluxe room at the Hilton Myrtle Beach Resort and enjoy a breakfast buffet at the oceanfront restaurant, Café Amalfi. The packages are $199 per couple plus tax. For more fun, couples can play the "Not So Newlywed Game" for a chance to win a two-night return stay at the resort. Resort Photography by Jake will be available for an additional fee.
Kingston Shores and Kingston Plantation are owned by FelCor Lodging Trust, Inc. The resorts, which include Myrtle Beach oceanfront hotels, Myrtle Beach rental condominiums, townhomes and villas, are located along the famous Grand Strand in Myrtle Beach. Guests at both properties enjoy access to recreational facilities including a 50,000 square-foot Sport & Health Club, Splash!, an oceanfront waterpark and lazy river, Rees Jones- designed Arcadian Shores Golf Course, and a host of seasonal activities for adults and children. For more information, call 800-876-0010 or visit kingstonplantation.com or kingstonshores.com.
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Hilton Hotels & Resorts is the stylish, forward-thinking global leader of hospitality that welcomes guests in more countries than any other full-service hotel brand. The Hilton brand currently includes more than 530 hotels and resorts in 76 countries, and plans to serve travelers in 80 countries by the end of 2011. By offering innovative products, services and amenities, Hilton Hotels & Resorts enables travelers to be at their best 24/7, whether traveling for business or leisure. Start your journey at www.hilton.com. Hilton Hotels & Resorts is one of Hilton Worldwide's ten market-leading brands.
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Hilton Worldwide is the leading global hospitality company, spanning the lodging sector from luxurious full-service hotels and resorts to extended-stay suites and mid-priced hotels. For 92 years, Hilton Worldwide has been offering business and leisure travelers the finest in accommodations, service, amenities and value. The company is dedicated to continuing its tradition of providing exceptional guest experiences across its global brands. Its brands are comprised of more than 3,600 hotels and 600,000 rooms in 82 countries and include Waldorf Astoria Hotels & Resorts, Conrad Hotels & Resorts, Hilton Hotels & Resorts, Doubletree, Embassy Suites Hotels, Hilton Garden Inn, Hampton Hotels, Homewood Suites by Hilton, Home2 Suites by Hilton and Hilton Grand Vacations. The company also manages the world-class guest reward program Hilton HHonors®. For more information about the company, visit www.hiltonworldwide.com.


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Available in small, medium, large and extra large sizes, the Tourni-Cot has been commonly used by surgeons, podiatrists, and in emergency rooms around the world for over 20 years.
The Tourni-Cot is a non-pneumatic digit tourniquet used to temporarily control venous and arterial circulation to a digit.
All Tourni-Cots come individually packaged, sterilized and sealed in a Tyvek pouch. A warning label is attached to each ring. This warning label both identifies the device and provides a reference to the instructions for use.
Tourni-Cots are made from an elasticized silicone polymer, making them completely latex free, non-allergenic, and extremely durable. The Tourni-Cot is easily removed by severing the ring at its specially designed access notch.
Doctors prefer using the Tourni-Cot because it is easy to use and saves time. The Tourni-Cot is simpler and more effective than a penrose drain or surgical glove, as well as other improvised devices.
A hand surgeon specially designed the Tourni-Cot due to the burden and risk of other methods. For over 20 years doctors have agreed that the Tourni-Cot™ improves care by reliably creating a bloodless field, and helping procedures go smoothly.
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Graduate nominated for Academy Award
A graduate from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) has been nominated for an Oscar.
Chris Butler, who graduated from UCA Farnham's BA (Hons) Animation degree in 1995, has been shortlisted for Best Animated Feature at the 85th Academy Awards for his film ParaNorman which he wrote and directed.
Chris said: "I'm absolutely thrilled to be nominated for an Oscar. I watched the announcement in bed in a hotel room in LA and have been giddy with excitement ever since - it's such an honour.
"I'm really proud of the film and was so happy just to get the chance to write and direct it, so having a nod from the Academy really is the icing on the cake. It's just incredible."
Stop-motion zombie comedy ParaNorman, which has also been nominated for a BAFTA, is Chris' debut feature as a writer and director.
He has worked on some of the biggest animated projects of the last decade, including Coraline and Tim Burton's The Corpse Bride, and recently designed, storyboarded and animated the short film Timer Switch for UCA Academy Award-winner Daniel Greaves.
Chris said: "Studying at Farnham was a special time for me: it was my first time away from home, my first time meeting like-minded creatives, and my first time being a grown up.
"The course was a chance to pursue an idea of a vocation and it was great to finally move on from just drawing in notebooks in my bedroom."
An Academy Award for Chris next month would be the fifth Oscar to be won by UCA alumni.
UCA Farnham graduates Suzie Templeton (2008), Michael Dudok de Wit (2000) and Daniel Greaves (1992) all won Academy Awards for Best Animated Short Film. UCA Canterbury alumnus, Arnold Schwartzman OBE RDI, won Best Documentary Feature in 1982.
BA (Hons) Animation course leader, Lesley Adams, said: "Everyone on the Animation Course is very proud of Chris' Oscar nomination. The degree at UCA Farnham has produced three Oscar-winners so far and we would love him to join that special list."
This is the second successive year that a UCA graduate has been nominated for an Oscar.
In 2012, despite winning a BAFTA for A Morning Stroll, Grant Orchard missed out on the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
ParaNorman is not the only Oscar-nominated film that former UCA students have been involved with.
Three UCA graduates, including supervising animator Mark Waring, worked on Frankenweenie, while several BA (Hons) Film Production graduates were crewmembers on Skyfall and Anna Karenina.
The 85th Academy Awards take place on Sunday 24 February 2013 at the Dolby Theatre, Hollywood. They will be presented by actor and comedian Seth MacFarlane.
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Worst Holiday Party Disaster
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So, we've all had parties. Sure, some were successful and some were not so successful. There may have been a party or two when some food gets burned or dropped. There may have been another party where some one may have had too much to drink. But, what tops the list as the worst thing that could happen at a party? A broken toilet. Most people have had this happen. And, most say they worry about that happening. This year, make sure the flush is 100% before your holiday party!


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Phase Asynchronous Cognitive Interference Channels: Lossless Source-Channel Separation Theorems
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Sufficient and necessary conditions for reliable lossless communication of two correlated sources over classes of phase asynchronous cognitive interference channels are derived. Namely, the authors consider interference channels in which one of the encoders, i.e., the secondary or cognitive user, is causally or non-causally aware of the other's message. Moreover, as a practical constraint, they assume the transmitters are not aware of the phase shifts introduced by channels. They show that, for both classes of causal and non-causal cooperation, under strong interference conditions, separate source and channel coding is optimal for reliable communication of both users.


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John Titor, Time Traveler
An Internet legend claims that a man named John Titor is a visitor from the year 2036.
by Brian Dunning
Filed under Urban Legends
|Skeptoid #356
April 2, 2013
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By Brian Dunning, Skeptoid Podcast
Episode 356, April 02, 2013
Today we're going to delve into a modern Internet-borne legend: the story of time traveler John Titor, said to have come from the future, and briefly stopped by the year 2000 to make some Internet forum posts. That, my friends, is essentially the beginning and the end of the story. However, this is Skeptoid, and we can't stop there. There's something to learn from every urban legend. Even in cases where the legend itself has no connection to any actual events or history, the fact that it has nevertheless managed become a legend offers a lesson. Moreover, the thinner a story is, the stronger is the urge to dismiss it out of hand, which is never a responsible type of analysis. So let's take a look at our apocryphal friend from another time, John Titor.
His first well-known appearance is believed to have been in the year 1998, when many accounts say that he sent some faxes into the paranormal radio program Coast to Coast AM, identifying himself as a time traveler from the year 2036. He warned that the Y2K computer bug (an issue in which many old computer systems only allowed two characters for the year) was going to be disastrous when clocks rolled over at midnight on December 31, 1999, causing deaths by starvation and freezing, martial law, and all kinds of problems. Next, sometime in the year 2000, he appeared as a participant in the discussions on an Internet forum called the Time Travel Institute. His handle was TimeTravel_0. He (or someone else using the same name) also posted on the forums for Coast to Coast. He told how, beginning with the US Presidential election in 2004, civil war tore the nation into five regions, culminating in World War III which would not end until 2015. His many predictions included that the Large Hadron Collider, yet to be completed at the time of his posts, would produce tiny black holes. Without exception, all of his predictions failed to come true.
Titor was here on a military mission, he said. He'd been sent back from 2036 to 1975 to retrieve an IBM 5100 computer, one of the earliest suitcase-sized portable computers that boasted a monochrome 5-inch CRT display. He claimed there was a need to translate some legacy program code. While on his way through the decades, he decided to stop by 1998 and spend a few years hanging out. While here, he drove around in a 1967 Corvette Sting Ray convertible with the time machine built into it. It's noteworthy that the idea of a time machine installed in a car was not a new one, having entered pop culture many years earlier in the 1985 movie Back to the Future which featured a time traveling DeLorean. It's scarecely inconceivable that a prankster having people on with time traveling posts might well choose to insert this old device as an inside joke.
As John Titor remained active on the Internet even after his Y2K claim had been proven false, he explained it away by saying there were parallel universes, and what happens in one might not happen in another; thus events that were established history in his 2036 universe might not happen at all in the parallel times he would visit. We call this a special pleading. It is the logically invalid invocation of an untestable condition or force as support for a claim, thus making the claim immune to scrutiny.
So the skeptical mind might well slap a palm to the forehead and wonder why the John Titor story has become well known. Anyone can go onto virtually any Internet forum and say anything they like. There is no editorial review. You can say you're Mickey Mouse, you can say you're the reincarnation of Napoleon, you can say you're from the future. People also impersonate one another all the time; it's likely that more than one person who read John Titor posts decided to make their own. Any given random Internet post, that is not connected to an established body of posts from the secured account of a known individual, has no meaningful provenance. Similarly, there's no serious reason to suspect that anonymous faxes or phone calls into radio shows are not crank calls; it happens many times every day.
John Titor differed from purely unverifiable posts in that he made testable claims: future predictions. The predictions for whose time has come and gone have all been proven false, many of them absurdly so; and so his posts were indeed consistent with what we'd expect from random prank posts.
Why did the John Titor story grow legs? Why does it still exist?
One reason is that the prankster got in relatively early in the history of Internet claims, and made the wise move of promoting his story on a very popular national radio program. Coast to Coast has a reputation for promoting just about anything that's alternative or that contradicts established science. Today, now that the number of unsubstantiated claims on the Internet is somewhat larger than the factorial of the square of all the large numbers ever conceived separated by arrow notation, it would be a lot harder to achieve John Titor's celebrity.
But having said that, notice that there is some popular new meme on the Internet practically every day. The chances of any one new story becoming popular may be a lot less than they were in 1998, but every random drawing does have a winner. Every day, some story is going to be the one that wins that lottery. If we weren't talking about John Titor, we'd be talking about some other story instead. The John Titor story is popular simply because that happens to be one of the stories that became popular.
John Titor also had a number of really fashionable themes, which is an element that works in any urban legend's favor. For one, it suggested that time travel is possible. This is a superpower that everyone would love to have. I am certainly among those who would love for time travel to be possible. When someone suggests that it is, others repeat it. We all want John Titor to actually be from the future.
Another theme it embraced was government corruption: martial law, civil war, an empowered people fighting the establishment. For as long as there have been anti-government conspiracy theorists, there have been those who want to see these things happen. There seems to be a lot of crossover between conspiracy theorists and people who post a lot on Internet forums, and John Titor represents a lot of concepts popular with that culture.
On top of everything else, he had a time machine merged with a sports car. Who doesn't love that?
Well, in my mind, anyone who likes a good story shouldn't love it. The John Titor story is one that people have been emailing me about and asking me to do an episode on for a long time, and when I finally sat down to do some preliminary research to see if it was worth an episode, I was actually a little surprised at how thin the story is. Apparently a small number of people take it seriously, but the majority of Internet denizens who are familiar with the subject simply laugh it off. My job was to decide if it was worth an episode. I decided that it was, although not necessarily to explore the validity of the legend itself. Instead, the John Titor story suggested a broader and more important question: When do we know whether a paranormal claim is worthy of attention?
Strictly speaking, of course, nothing should be dismissed completely out of hand without any sort of scrutiny. However, at the same time, we all have to be functional human beings and get through our day, and it would be neither practical nor intellectually desirable to question absolutely everything. We have to draw the line somewhere. I argue that the John Titor story is past that line, and I also argue that we shouldn't spend time with subjects that are on the wrong side.
One of the great joys of researching and exploring is learning. When someone simply makes up a stupid prank Internet post — even a coordinated series of them over a stretch of several years — it simply adds no richness to the fabric of culture. There's no payoff to researching it. There is no pot of gold at the end of that rainbow, as there is with so many other mysteries that have grown from the real experiences of real people.
Some John Titor enthusiasts have taken a slightly different tack, and tried to solve the mystery of who it was that wrote the posts. In 2008, an Italian television show called Voyager hired an investigator to try and track him down; which, in my mind, was sort of a desperate spin to create a solvable mystery. The producers probably realized quite quickly that it was simply a prank and knew that searching for a real John Titor would lead to a very boring TV show, so they looked for a related mystery that might possibly be solvable.
I elected not to go that route, and I encourage everyone truly interested in learning the facts behind strange tales to avoid stories like this one, that strain all credibility and haven't the slightest evidence to indicate that they're anything but made up. There are too many real mysteries in the world, and underneath every real mystery there is a new piece of information to learn. A goofy hoax? Not so much. Don't waste your time.
© 2013 Skeptoid Media
References & Further Reading
Alex. "John Titor and the Election of 2004." Museum of Hoaxes. Museum of Hoaxes, 12 Nov. 2004. Web. 31 Mar. 2013. <http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1521/P20/>
Anonymous. "John Titor's Story." The Story of John Titor. Strategic Brains, 3 Aug. 2003. Web. 29 Mar. 2013. <http://johntitor.strategicbrains.com>
Anonymous. "Forum." Time Travel Institute. Time Travel Institute, 20 Jun. 2000. Web. 30 Mar. 2013. <http://www.timetravelinstitute.com>
Anonymous. "John's Posts about the 5100 Computer." John Titor Times. JohnTitor.com, 23 Jun. 2003. Web. 31 Mar. 2013. <http://www.johntitor.com/Pages/5100.html>
Astrada, J. The Nonsense Papers: 2012 and Beyond: UFO Anthology. Bloomington: iUniverse, 2012. 268-286.
Marrs, J. Above Top Secret: Uncover the Mysteries of the Digital Age. New York: Disinformation Co., 2008.
Reference this article:
Dunning, B. "John Titor, Time Traveler." Skeptoid Podcast. Skeptoid Media, 2 Apr 2013. Web. 9 Oct 2015. <http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4356>
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Somewhere out there some 15 year old kid laughed his ass off that his John Titor prank got so much attention.
im sure there is some kid out there joining the army named John Titor, in hopes one day he will be THE time travler.
Was it his grandmother or great-grandmother using the cell phone in that 1928 film clip that someone posted on youtube?
Here is my question: if you could actually travel in time say you went back 10 minutes. Would you still be in the same place? The earth is rotating and moving thru space so wouldn't you end up floating in space? And if you went forward ten minutes you'd be in the middle of the earth somewhere!
In my humble opinion time doesn't exist as a separate entity. It's not a tangible thing u can hold, feed,water, cuddle!! haha . Time is man made and has been used from eons by man as a measuring tool but its relative. It's this reason when we go 2 a place where humans aren't present we call it a 'timeless land'.
It's physical changes that create time ,time doesn't create the physical world, nature does. How is it feasible 2 move 'forward ' in time without a corresponding fast tracking of the Earths motion around the sun? or the opposite,reversing Earths orbit
if we are 2 go back in time?
I recently watched a classic science fiction movie from the 50s about time travel where the man was sitting in a time machine and was watching the sun move quickly across the sky therein lies the paradox.
Time cannot exist independently of the physical world so how can we speak of the possibility of time travel when this very fact would have 2 b a prerequisite in achieving anything remotely resembling time travel
Interesting analysis and comments on this wacky story, we (friends and I) enjoy the John Titor story only because he says he wanted to get an IBM 5100 computer! I programmed on an IBM 5100 and it could not do anything like the description of what was wanted. It had no data storage, other than external tapes, and could only interpret simple BASIC or APL code. That Mr Titor supposedly needed an IBM 5100 is just plain wacky, as are his "predictions" and explanations. Thanks for analysis and information.
Hey, John Titor, don't accidentally go too far forward and run afoul of the Morlocks when you go back to the future.
I hope you travel heavily armed with lots of ammo, and a powerful flashlight, just in case you do.
"could only interpret simple BASIC or APL code"
Yes, and whoever was writing the Titor story knew that. In "his" words:
I was "sent" to get an IBM computer system called the 5100. It was one the first portable computers made and **it has the ability to read the older IBM programming languages in addition to APL and BASIC.** We need the system to "debug" various legacy computer programs in 2036. UNIX has a problem in 2038.
Asterisk emphasis mine.
As someone who is fascinated with the John Titor story and know about the story quite well (My friends gave me the nickname "Titor" due to this) and I also am a long time fan of Skeptoid glad to see this covered on the podcast
I also would like to hear Skeptoid cover the "ET Cartridge" urban legend and compare it to the true story
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"Somewhere out there some 15 year old kid laughed his ass off that his John Titor prank got so much attention"
It's not likely that a 15 year old kid would have any idea that an IBM 5100 computer ever existed, especially before Wikipedia existed. More likely the profile of the person behind John Titor is that of a very geeky baby-boomer, who probably had some experience working with the IBM 5100 or at least knew about it first hand. The Titor prank may have been motivated by envy of having missed out on getting his piece of the pie financially from the internet revolution. He probably saw his peers getting rich from writing software or creating dot.coms to sell to investors. Or perhaps he did strike it rich with technology which is why he had enough free time to develop the John Titor hoax, and in this case the frustration motivating him to do it may have been social ineptness and inability to attract a mate despite his wealth.
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"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible." -- Jean Kerr
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