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System Check is a malicious program which pretends to be a computer defragmenter and system analysis software. It is from the same family of malware as System Fix, Data Recovery, Master Utilities, PC Repair, System Repair, Windows XP Repair, Windows XP Fix, etc. It is promoted and installed itself on your computer without your permission and knowledge through the use of trojans or other malicious software. Moreover, the scammers may also distribute System Check on Twitter, My Space, Facebook, and other social networks. Please be careful when opening attachments and downloading files or otherwise you can end up with a rogue program on your PC.
When System Check is installed, it will perform a fake scan of your computer then tells you it has found numerous critical errors. Next, it will prompt you to pay for the fake software before it "repairs" your machine of the problems. Of course, all of these errors are a fake. So, you can safety ignore the false scan results.
While System Check is running, it will block legitimate Windows applcations on your computer and won't let you download anything from the Internet. Moreover, it will display various fake critical errors alerts that the computer's hard drive is corrupt in order to frighten you into purchasing this useless application. Some of the fake errors are:
The system has detected a problem with one or more installed IDE / SATA hard disks.
It is recommended that you restart the system.
Critical Error
A critical error has occurred while indexing data stored on hard drive. System restart required.
Critical error
Windows can`t find disk space. Hard drive error.
System Restore
The system has been restored after a critical error. Data integrity and hard drive integrity verification required.
Windows – No Disk
Exception Processing Message 0×0000013.
Of course, all of these warnings are a fake. This is an attempt to make you think your computer in danger. Like false scan results you can safely ignore them.
As you can see, obviously, System Check is a scam, which created with only one purpose – to steal your money. Most important, don`t purchase the program! You need as quickly as possible to remove the malicious software. Follow the removal instructions below, which will remove System Check and any other infections you may have on your computer for free.
Use the following instructions to remove System Check infection
Click Start, Type in Search field %allusersprofile% and press Enter (if you use the Windows XP, then click Start, Run and type a command in Open field). It will open a contents of "ProgramData" folder ("All Users" folder for Windows XP).
System Check hides all files and folders, so you need to change some settings and thus be able to see your files and folders again. Click Organize, select "Folder and search options", open View tab (if you use Windows XP, then open Tools menu, Folder Options, View tab). Select "Show hidden files and folders" option, uncheck "Hide extensions for known file types", uncheck "Hide protected operating files" and click OK button.
Open "Application Data" folder. This step only for Windows XP, skip it if you use Windows Vista or Windows 7.
Now you will see System Check associated files as shown below.
Basically, there will be files named with a series of numbers or letter (e.g. 2636237623.exe or JtwSgJHkjkj.exe), right click to it and select Rename (don`t rename any folders). Type any new name (123.exe) and press Enter.
You can to rename only files with .exe extension. Its enough to stop this malware from autorunning.
Reboot your computer.
Now you can unhide all files and folders that has been hidden by System Check. Click Start, type in Search field cmd and press Enter. Command console "black window" opens. Type cd \ and press Enter. Type attrib -h /s /d and press Enter. Close Command console.
If your Desktop is empty, then click Start, type in Search field %UserProfile%\desktop and press Enter. It will open a contents of your desktop.
Download MalwareBytes Anti-malware (MBAM). Close all programs and Windows on your computer.
Double Click mbam-setup.exe to install the application. When the installation begins, keep following the prompts in order to continue with the installation process. Do not make any changes to default settings and when the program has finished installing, make sure a checkmark is placed next to Update Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware and Launch Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware, then click Finish.
If an update is found, it will download and install the latest version.
Once the program has loaded you will see window similar to the one below.
Malwarebytes Anti-Malware Window
Select Perform Quick Scan, then click Scan, it will start scanning your computer. This procedure can take some time, so please be patient.
When the scan is complete, click OK, then Show Results to view the results. You will see a list of infected items similar as shown below. Note: list of infected items may be different than what is shown in the image below.
Malwarebytes Anti-malware, list of infected items
Make sure that everything is checked, and click Remove Selected for start System Check removal process. When disinfection is completed, a log will open in Notepad. Reboot your computer.
System Check may be bundled with TDSS trojan-rootkit, so you should run TDSSKiller to detect and remove this infection.
Download TDSSKiller from here and unzip to your desktop. Open TDSSKiller folder. Right click to tdsskiller and select rename. Type a new name (123myapp, for example). Press Enter. Double click the TDSSKiller icon. You will see a screen similar to the one below.
Click Start Scan button to start scanning Windows registry for TDSS trojan. If it is found, then you will see window similar to the one below.
TDSSKiller – Scan results
Click Continue button to remove TDSS trojan.
If you can`t to download or run TDSSKiller, then you need to use Combofix. Download Combofix. Close any open browsers. Double click on combofix.exe and follow the prompts. If ComboFix will not run, please rename it to myapp.exe and try again!
Your system should now be free of the System Check virus. If you need help with the instructions, then post your questions in our Spyware Removal forum.
System Check removal notes
Note 1: if you can not download, install, run or update Malwarebytes Anti-malware, then follow the steps: Malwarebytes won`t install, run or update – How to fix it.
Note 2: your current antispyware and antivirus software let the infection through ? Then you may want to consider purchasing the FULL version of MalwareBytes Anti-malware to protect your computer in the future.
System Check creates the following files and folders
%UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\GDIPFONTCACHEV1.DAT
%UserProfile%\Desktop\System Check.lnk
Note: %CommonAppData% is C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data (for Windows XP/2000) or C:\ProgramData (for Windows 7/Vista)
System Check creates the following registry keys and values
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\INTERNET EXPLORER\MAIN\USE FORMSUGGEST = Yes
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet\CONTROL\SESSION MANAGER\PENDINGFILERENAMEOPERATIONS = \??\%CommonAppData%\[RANDOM].exe
System Check removal – Video instructions
System Check is basically clone of Windows XP Repair, so you can use the video guide below to remove this malware.


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Training and Technical Assistance
MassCOSH is one of the preeminent providers of worker safety and health training in Massachusetts. Each year, we train over 1,000 workers on a wide range of safety and health topics - from chemical hazards to workplace violence to indoor air quality. Our expert staff has extensive training experience, many are OSHA-authorized, and several have advanced degrees in public health.
MassCOSH trainings help to keep workers healthy and safe. The trainers consult with workers and employers to ensure that each training is tailored to the hazards, conditions, and concerns of participants. Participants learn how to develop strategies for addressing workplace hazards. Sessions are highly participatory and may include small group activities, role-playing, discussion, and hands-on training. Training is made available in various ways. Most programs are arranged through unions, community organizations, worker centers or other non-profit organizations.
Local unions that are members of MassCOSH are entitled to a yearly training of up to 2 hours on a topic of their choice. Other trainings and industrial hygiene services are available on a low-cost, fee-for-service basis.
The New England Consortium (TNEC)
MassCOSH partners with The New England Consortium (TNEC) to provide quality training to workers in some of the most hazardous jobs – hazardous waste workers and emergency responders. TNEC provides dynamic, hands-on health and safety training to thousands of workers. With simulated work tasks and mock incidents, students gain a better understanding of work site hazards and how to properly respond in an emergency situation. (Click here for more info on TNEC)
Workplace Violence Prevention
Clerks, attendants and cashiers who staff the counters at gas stations and corner grocery stores, often alone and late into the night, are among the most vulnerable to workplace violence. MassCOSH offers violence prevention training for retail employers and for youth, using curricula developed in collaboration with NYCOSH, PhilaPOSH, SoCalCOSH and UC Berkeley's Labor Occupational Health Program, and funded by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
The Retail Employer Violence Prevention Training, conducted through Main Streets programs and other employer associations, provides employers with information and concrete tools to identify risks and develop concrete solutions to prevent theft, robberies and other crimes that put employees and owners in harm's way (click here for a copy of the retail employer curriculum). The Young Worker Violence Prevention Training, conducted through youth employers and community organizations, is an innovative, interactive program that teaches skills and provides resources for identifying, reducing and eliminating violence at work (click here for a copy of the young worker curriculum).
OSHA 10 Class in Construction
Under Massachusetts law, for most construction projects funded with public money all workers must complete a 10-hour course authorized by OSHA. This course, available in English or Spanish and presented over 2 days, provides an introduction to several health and safety topics in construction, such as: introduction to OSHA, falls, electrical hazards, material handling, chemical hazards, trenches and power tools. (Click links for OSHA 10 Construction flyer in English or Spanish)
Introduction to Health and Safety
This 1-2 hour presentation, available in English, Spanish or Portuguese, introduces participants to the field of workplace health and safety.
Topics include:
Safety hazards
Sexual harassment
Chemical exposure
Indoor air quality
Health hazards
Workers' compensation
Child Labor Laws/Teen safety

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Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
Each of the functions in this section requires that its arguments all be numbers; to call one with a non-number is an error. Unless otherwise specified, each works on all types of numbers, automatically performing any required coercions when arguments are of different types.
+ &rest numbers
This returns the sum of the arguments. If there are no arguments, the result is 0, which is an identity for this operation.
- number &rest more-numbers
The function -, when given one argument, returns the negative of that argument.
The function -, when given more than one argument, successively subtracts from the first argument all the others, and returns the result. For example, (- 3 4 5) => -6.
* &rest numbers
This returns the product of the arguments. If there are no arguments, the result is 1, which is an identity for this operation.
/ number &rest more-numbers
The function /, when given more than one argument, successively divides the first argument by all the others and returns the result.
It is generally accepted that it is an error for any argument other than the
first to be zero.
With one argument, / reciprocates the argument.
It is generally accepted that it is an error in this case for the argument
to be zero.
/ will produce a ratio if the mathematical quotient of two integers is not an exact integer. For example:
(/ 12 4) => 3 (/ 13 4) => 13/4 (/ -8) => -1/8 (/ 3 4 5) => 3/20
To divide one integer by another producing an integer result, use one of the functions floor, ceiling, truncate, or round.
If any argument is a floating-point number, then the rules of floating-point contagion apply.
(quotient 1.0 2.0) => 0.5 but (quotient 1 2) => 0
In contrast, the Common Lisp function / produces these results:
(/ 1.0 2.0) => 0.5 and (/ 1 2) => 1/2
In practice quotient is used only when one is sure that both arguments are integers, or when one is sure that at least one argument is a floating-point number. / is tractable for its purpose and works for any numbers.
1+ number
1- number
(1+ x) is the same as (+ x 1).
(1- x) is the same as (- x 1). Note that the short name may be confusing: (1- x) does not mean 1-x; rather, it means x-1.
incf place [delta]
decf place [delta]
The number produced by the form delta is added to (incf) or subtracted from (decf) the number in the generalized variable named by place, and the sum is stored back into place and returned. The form place may be any form acceptable as a generalized variable to setf. If delta is not supplied, then the number in place is changed by 1. For example:
(setq n 0) (incf n) => 1 and now n => 1 (decf n 3) => -2 and now n => -2 (decf n -5) => 3 and now n => 3 (decf n) => 2 and now n => 2
The effect of (incf place delta) is roughly equivalent to
(setf place (+ place delta))
except that the latter would evaluate any subforms of place twice, whereas incf takes care to evaluate them only once. Moreover, for certain place forms incf may be significantly more efficient than the setf version.
X3J13 voted in March 1988 (PUSH-EVALUATION-ORDER)
to clarify order of evaluation (see section 7.2).
conjugate number
This returns the complex conjugate of number. The conjugate of a non-complex number is itself. For a complex number z,
(conjugate z) == (complex (realpart z) (- (imagpart z)))
For example:
(conjugate #C(3/5 4/5)) => #C(3/5 -4/5) (conjugate #C(0.0D0 -1.0D0)) => #C(0.0D0 1.0D0) (conjugate 3.7) => 3.7
gcd &rest integers
This returns the greatest common divisor of all the arguments, which must be integers. The result of gcd is always a non-negative integer. If one argument is given, its absolute value is returned. If no arguments are given, gcd returns 0, which is an identity for this operation. For three or more arguments,
(gcd a b c ... z) == (gcd (gcd a b) c ... z)
Here are some examples of the use of gcd:
(gcd 91 -49) => 7 (gcd 63 -42 35) => 7 (gcd 5) => 5 (gcd -4) => 4 (gcd) => 0
lcm integer &rest more-integers
This returns the least common multiple of its arguments, which must be integers. The result of lcm is always a non-negative integer. For two arguments that are not both zero,
(lcm a b) == (/ (abs (* a b)) (gcd a b))
If one or both arguments are zero,
(lcm a 0) == (lcm 0 a) == 0
For one argument, lcm returns the absolute value of that argument. For three or more arguments,
(lcm a b c ... z) == (lcm (lcm a b) c ... z)
Some examples:
(lcm 14 35) => 70 (lcm 0 5) => 0 (lcm 1 2 3 4 5 6) => 60
Mathematically, (lcm) should return infinity. Because Common Lisp does not have a representation for infinity, lcm, unlike gcd, always requires at least one argument.
X3J13 voted in January 1989
to specify that (lcm) => 1.
This is one of my biggest boners. The identity for lcm is of course 1,
not infinity, and so (lcm) ought to have been defined to return 1.
Sorry about that, though in point of fact very few users have complained
to me that this mistake in the first edition has cramped their programming style.


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Clara 720
Posted on Friday, July 29, 2016
The latest addition to the Clara range of luminaires, the Clara 720 is a circular LED pendant luminaire offering a highly efficient lighting solution for a wide range of commercial and retail applications. The dramatic profile incorporates direct and indirect lighting with the added option of red, green and blue uplighting. The Clara 720 is available with a satin sparkle or opal diffuser and can also be surface mounted directly onto the ceiling.


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John Barbour's World with John Barbour
John Barbour "the godfather of reality TV" created, co-hosted, co-produced, and wrote 'Real People' - the first reality show, which was number one on NBC for three years during the early 1980's.
Barbour moved to the United States in the early sixties. His comedy act, particularly his 1965 album, It's Tough to Be White, dealt in part with civil rights and black-white relations.
Barbour hosted the pilot for The Gong Show in the mid '70s, and was a regular panelist on the 1988 Canadian (US syndicated) version of Liar's Club.
Barbour portrayed game show host Harry Monte in a 1975 episode of Sanford and Son.
John Produced, Wrote, and Hosted 'Ernie Kovacs: TV's Original Genius,'for Showtime that aired later on PBS. At the time it was reviewed as 'the best documentary about a performer!'
He also directed and wrote the 1992 documentary The JFK Assassination: The Jim Garrison Tapes. This film covers the investigation of District Attorney Jim Garrison, who, after the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy, decided to further investigate the official report given by the Warren Commission. The documentary hypothesizes connections between the assassination and the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and other organizations and foreign affairs issues. The film won an award in 1993 at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain.
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Lucille Ball's favorite writer, aside from the wonderful writers of her show, was John Barbour. She said for the ten years that John was the film critic for Los Angeles Magazine, she couldn't wait for the beginning of the month just to read his reviews. And watch him on KNBC's six o'clock news!
And when Bob Wood was President of CBS TV he said, 'If Mark Twain had a microphone and camera, he'd be doing a lot of what John is doing!'
John changed the face of American TV as the Creator, Co-Host, Producer, and principal writer of 'Real People,' the country's first trend-setting reality show!
When John was crafting the number one show in TV for three years, his commitment was always to STORY and PURPOSE!
John's story... and what an amazing real story it is http://johnbarboursworld.com/about.html cannot be done justice in a few words, so go explore it, and know that after John's documentary about John Kennedy's assassination, 'The Garrison Tapes' won the '93 San Sebastian film festival Award, then John decided to retire.
It had taken him over twenty years to tell Jim's story, and even though it was and still is ignored by nearly all media in America, John felt that at least it was finally out there. It was the most important story he could ever tell; and so why try to tell any others.
So, he retired. To play golf. In Las Vegas. And now he shares his incredible story...


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Gastineau Peak
Mileage: 5.1
July mileage: 452.4
Temperature upon departure: 65
Inches of rain today: o"
Today I hiked to Gastineau Peak, elevation 3,666 feet. I was gunning for Mount Roberts, but I had no idea that the trek to Gastineau and back was a 9-mile endeavour in itself. The extra two miles to Roberts was a little too much to ask of my Wednesday-morning window.
I would like to make it to both peaks one of these days, but it may be a while before I attempt this trail again. It was a beautiful day with stunning views, but I was just not feeling the Mount Roberts trail love. The lower stretch of the Basin Road access trail was lined with sketchy homeless camps - syringes, used condoms, everything. I had to sidestep a sleeping body when I accidentally wandered off trail on one of the footpaths, and that is never fun.
After that unpleasant stretch, all was quiet until mid-mountain, which was mobbed with all manner of tourists fresh off the tram. Huge, denim-clad groups clogged up the trails with their numbered flora and fauna guides and posed group photos as their children trammeled the alpine tundra in their Crocs. I became less polite about shouldering my way through them until some began to stop me with all manner of requests and time-consuming questions (I guess with my sweat-streaked face and backpack, I looked like some sort of expert.)
One man asked me to describe a ptarmigan in detail. (Um ... sort of looks like a speckled brown chicken.)
Another asked if he could reach Mount Roberts in a half hour. (Um, as your guide says, it's three miles and more than 2,000 feet of climbing from here. Walk fast!)
Another pointed across the canyon and asked me the name of the mountain and how he could access it. I began to explain that it was Mount Juneau, that he could reach it by driving from the base of the tram to Basin Road and parking at the Perseverance trailhead. "Oh?" he said. "You mean you can't get there from this trail?"
"Um ... not anytime soon," I said. (But what I was thinking was, by what ridiculous stretch of logic can you imagine this trail crossing a ravine that's 3,000 feet deep and magically appearing on a completely different ridgeline?)
I understand that most cruise ship tourists are probably intelligent people. (I also understand there are some former cruise ship tourists who read this blog.) But still, I am starting to understand why longtime residents avoid them like the plague.
Still ... all bad hikes have their silver lining:
Baby steps across the precarious snowfield. Baby steps across the precarious snowfield.
Hiking in Juneau has been a nostalgic experience for me. Above treeline, nearly everything about the trails and mountains resembles the Wasatch peaks I summitted in my youth ... the scrubby groundcover, the wildflowers, the heart-dropping knife ridges. As I hoist myself over another boulder field, I almost feel like I should be gasping in the thin air - until I remember that I'm only at 3,500 feet. Alaska definitely makes you earn your elevation.
Another reminder that I am not in Utah anymore ... all of that intense green.
This hike really took a lot out of me. I forget that four hours on your feet is much more punishing than four hours on a bike. It makes me appreciate that much more what Geoff does to stay in shape - running up mountains like this on a regular basis. Makes my biking look pretty tame. But we all have our weaknesses. And there is no shame in wearing yourself out on a little walk.
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Great photos, but I question the accuracy of the statement, "most tourist ship passengers are probably intelligent people". This is the same group of people that routinely asks what sea-level they're at when they step off of the ships and then when you answer, tell you that you speak remarkably good English for an Alaskan.
ReplyDelete....took the inside passage cruise as a 16 year old YEARS ago. I remember feeling uneasy (not unwelcomed), but almost guilty of "invading" into the cities when the ship docked...absolutely, those are ridiculous questions....but on behalf all "capital T" Tourists out there.......thanks for taking the time to answer our questions, thanks certainly for your patience in dealing with the "mass of humanity" you run into along the way...(or vice versa)...and thanks for making our day.
...beautiful pics per usualNice views! On the tourist thing I'd say you did well to answer their questions and be polite. I think we should always remember they don't know the things you know and are curious. Yes, they often ask dumb questions but they are genuinely interested usually.
Your post reminded me of a short story I heard on Escape Pod. If you like Sci-Fi you should subscribe to it. Look for "EP101: The 43 Antarean Dynasties" and have a listen. It's a nice story about a tour guide and his exhausting tourists.- AnonymousJuly 19, 2007 at 8:36 AM
Makes your biking look tame? I get out of breath just reading about your biking efforts.....
great post, great pics as always...
Oh -- when I get to take my dream Alaska cruise in a couple of years, I promise to be a smart, silent little tourist... :)
http://cynwrites.blogspot.com That next to last picture really looks like a painting, and the first photo is breathtaking as well - lovely! I understand Goldbelt wanted to make money off of all the tourists, too, but it will always make me sad how Mt. Roberts has changed because of it. Probably what others would consider an elistist opinion, but I don't think the trammers have earned the view. The questions you related the tourists asking are really funny, as are the answers - you are such a good sport! Scary about the Basin access road... Great photos and writing as always, thank you Jill!
ReplyDelete- AnonymousJuly 19, 2007 at 3:00 PM
I'm starting to think I just read your blog for the trail reports! A big thanks from the Valley!
ReplyDelete Nice pics Jill! Cool hike too.
The two dumbest Tour-on (tourist + moron) questions I've heard was up at Denali park. I overheard one asking a ranger how long is the fence around the park, and another asking who feeds the animals in the winter.
Not all tourists are tourons, but we seem to remember the latter more than the former, I guess.I didn't mean to sound
anti-tourist. As a person who has only lived in Juneau for a year, I am practically a tourist myself. I love that I live in a place that so many people make such a huge effort to see. I also understand that their effort keeps my paychecks coming in. But I have to admit, some of the tourist encounters have been less than ideal if not downright absurd.
Still, there have been a handful of tourists who have actually contacted Geoff and I through friends of friends, or through our blogs, that we have met up with and showed them around. Every time, we had enjoyable outings with strangers.I think part of the tourist dumb question syndrome stems from
1 - feeling displaced (or boat/jetlagged), they are usually shuffled many places rather quickly, especially on those package tours (and maybe they've been partying all hours on the boat so they didn't get any sleep to refresh their minds)
2 - their need to feel that they are getting the most out of their experience so feel they must ask *something*
3 - feeling a little alien to the place to which they have arrived (eg if they've always lived and traveled in the desert and suddenly they arrive in a rainy and icy northern clime)
I don't think you sounded anti-tourist, Jill, you described the situation honestly. But like you said, it can be time-consuming to deal with (that's why people get paid to be tour guides and such).
Maybe there is an alternate route to bypass the majority of the trammers? There used to be time lags between tourists (it might be pretty much a steady flow up there now?), maybe the right timing could get you through that corridor faster.


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Online: CDC reports: http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr
ATLANTA (AP) — The warnings about skin cancer from too much sun don't seem to be getting through.
Half of U.S. adults under 30 say they have had a sunburn at least once in the previous year — about the same as a decade ago, according to a government survey released Thursday. In fact, the modest progress reported five years ago has been wiped out.
Not only that, but women in their 20s are going to tanning salons almost twice a month on average.
"I don't know that we're making any headway," said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the American Cancer Society's deputy chief medical officer.
Experts say that even one blistering burn can double the risk of developing melanoma, an often lethal form of skin cancer.
The study was conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and was based on a 2010 survey of about 5,000 U.S. adults ages 18 to 29.
The share of those who said they had a sunburn in the preceding year dropped from about 51 percent in 2000 to 45 percent in 2005, then went back up to 50 percent in 2010.
Researchers don't know for sure why the sunburn rate picked up again, said Dr. Marcus Plescia, director of the CDC's Division of Cancer Prevention and Control.
The CDC found that more than one-third of those surveyed said they use sunscreen when they are out in the sun — a modest increase from 2005. But some experts said the increasing rate of sunburns suggests many people are not putting on enough sunscreen or are not re-applying it adequately.
Also on Thursday, the CDC released a survey on the use of tanning beds, booths or sun lamps, and Lichtenfeld said of the findings: "I am astounded."
While about 6 percent of adults of all ages said they had done indoor tanning in the previous year, the rates were much, much higher among young white women: about 32 percent among those ages 18 to 21.
Also, women in their 20s said they tanned indoors more than 20 times in the previous year, on average.
A similar survey in 2005 found about 27 percent of young women said they had done indoor tanning.
Several experts said there is no longer significant scientific debate that indoor tanning causes cancer. In 2009, tanning devices were classified as carcinogenic by the World Health Organization, which analyzed 20 studies and found the risk of melanoma rose 75 percent in people who started indoor tanning before age 30.
"It's not a question of whether tanning beds cause cancer anymore. We've been able to prove that," said Dr. Jerry Brewer, a Mayo Clinic dermatologist and researcher.
But Joseph Levy, executive director of International Smart Tan Network, representing the tanning salon industry, said the WHO finding was based on old and flawed studies. He also noted the risk of melanoma is very small.
"Saying categorically that (ultraviolet light) exposure is harmful and should be avoided is like saying that water causes drowning, and therefore we should avoid water. It's a totally misleading oversimplification," Levy said in an email.
Indoor tanning took off about 30 years ago. There are nearly 22,000 salons across the U.S., serving an estimated 28 million customers, according to IBISWorld, an industry research firm.
Melanoma has also been increasing for at least three decades. Among whites, who have the highest incidence of the disease, the rate climbed from around 10 cases per 100,000 people in 1975 to more than 24 per 100,000 in 2009.
About 76,000 melanoma cases will be diagnosed in U.S. adults this year, and about 9,200 people are expected to die of the disease, according to the cancer society. The rates for other skin cancers have been rising as well.
The CDC's Plescia said tanning beds are driving "an epidemic in the making."
Others shared that concern.
"It's the sunburn you got when you were 18 that leads to the cancer you get when you're 40. That sunburn will come back to haunt you," warned Dr. Zoe Draelos, vice president of the American Academy of Dermatology.
Clearly, many people have recognized the risks of tanning.
Witness the public revulsion last month over the case of a deeply bronzed New Jersey woman arrested for allegedly taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth. Police said the kindergartner suffered a burn. (The mother denied taking her into the booth and said the girl got sunburned outdoors.)
To be safe, experts say to avoid direct sun between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. or cover your body. And sunscreen needs to be applied often.
But who listens?
Danielle Itgen, 22, said skin cancer runs in her family but she still likes to sunbathe in the summer — while wearing sunscreen. "I feel like when I'm really pale, I look sick," she said during a visit to Miami Beach, Fla.
Elizabeth Garrido, 40, used to sunbathe every day when she was younger and still goes to the beach twice a week to soak up the rays.
Does she worry about skin cancer?
"Not at all," the Miami Beach resident said. "What's going to happen is going to happen. Besides, I like the beach. It's therapeutical.


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New 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' International Trailer: How Many Ninjas is too Many?
A new international trailer and TV spot for the long-delayed/eagerly anticipated 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' have appeared online and you can watch them below...but first, let's address the question asked in the headline at the top of this article. The answer is that there is never too many ninjas. Ever. Especially when they're sword fighting while rappelling off the side of a mountain. And there seem to be a lot of ninjas in this movie.
Although both clips recycle footage we've seen in past trailers (that motorcycle missile is the kind of thing that never gets old), there's a significant amount of time spent with Storm Shadow, probably because Lee Byung-Hun is a massive star in Asia and these particular trailers are intended for overseas audiences. However, if you're not a fan of his (and you really should go see 'I Saw the Devil' and become one) there's plenty to keep you interested, including some new Bruce Willis action and a fun exchange between Dwayne Johnson and Channing Tatum.
A tip of the hat to Generals Joes for bringing these to our attention. 'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' finally opens on March 29th, when we'll finally learn if those delays were spent fixing the movie or simply delaying a disaster.


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Changing Gears
Caution! When driving, you should be able to change gears without looking down at the lever or your feet. Practise this sitting in the car with the engine switched off and the clutch pressed down.
If you are having difficulty mastering the gears, why not try driving an automatic car? 121 Driving School currently cater the needs for those wishing to drive in an automatic or easytronic vehicle.
The examiner on your driving test will expect you to:-
- Use the controls smoothly and correctly
- Balance the accelerator and clutch to move away smoothly
- Accelerate evenly
- Avoid stalling the car
- Choose the right gear and change in good time before a hazard
- Brake gently and in good time
- Know how and when to apply the hand brake
In most vehicles the first 4 gears form an 'H' appearance on the gear lever. Neutral is the middle position in the 'H' formation on the gear stick. To engage reverse gear you sometimes have to either push the gear lever down or lift it up towards you. Different vehicles have different setups. So always check were reverse is on a new vehicle. Reverse is often in one of the 3 positions marked in dotted red in the diagram below. There may also be a 5th gear.
- 1st Gear is used for moving off, manoeuvring and for creeping slowly in traffic and at junctions.
- 2nd Gear is used for moving off down very steep hills, building up speed after moving away and driving at low speeds.
- 3rd Gear is used to build up speed and when you need more power for climbing hills. It also increases your control when going down steep hills and dealing with some bends.
- 4th Gear is used for driving at speeds generally higher than 30 mph, where there are no hazards to confront.
- 5th Gear not all vehicles have a 5th gear. which gives better fuel economy. This is normally only used on open roads when travelling constantly at higher speeds.
To Practise – change UP through the gears on the road, first find a fairly straight, wide road where there is little or no other traffic.
Move off in first gear and change into 2nd gear as soon as you can. Accelerate to about 15-20 mph, then change into 3rd gear. Accelerate in 3rd to 25-30 mph and then change into 4th.
You will only need to practise using the 5th gear when you are competent using the first 4 gears.
To Practise – change DOWN through the gears When you have built up your speed to 30 mph and you are in 4th gear, Check the mirror to make sure it is safe. Brake gently to slow the car down to about 20 mph. Release the brake and change into 3rd gear. Check the mirror again and, if safe, reapply the brake gently and slow down to about 10 mph. Release the brake and change into 2nd gear.
Check the mirror, if safe, build up your speed, changing up the gears, until you reach 30 mph again. Keep practising until you feel confident.
About Block Gear Changes
Some drivers have a habit of always changing through the gears one-by-one (1,2,3,4,5 – 5,4,3,2,1). This habit has stuck with some older drivers from when they originally learned to drive many years ago.
Today, in a normal car and for everyday on-road driving, it is not generally good practice to use the gears in this way. We can change down the gears in blocks ( 5th to 2nd or 4th to 2nd. etc) Over the years, motor car design and engineering has improved. Compared with cars of even ten years ago, modern cars are lighter, more powerful and more aerodynamic. These changes mean that the driving method that was essential in older cars is no longer needed in modern driving.
It is not necessary to change gears in sequence. For example: If you are driving along at 50 mph in 5th gear, and you want to turn left into a side road, you may be able to do so without having to stop. As you approach the junction you need to reduce your speed ( using your brake) until you are going slowly enough to take the junction safely. When you have slowed down to a safe speed using the brakes, you have to select a gear that will drive the car comfortably at that speed. In most cars the best gear for the job will be 2nd. So, move the gear lever directly to the second gear position skipping the other gears.
The benefits of this style of driving include better fuel economy, less overall wear and tear, less driver fatigue on long journeys and more steering control in emergencies.


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Microsoft is expected to make a "major" announcement Monday. Speculation about the Los Angeles media event is that the company plans to unveil either a tablet computer or a system that uses an upcoming version of Windows to help people access TV shows and movies across a range of devices.
A Microsoft-branded tablet wouldn't come as a complete surprise. In April, Microsoft announced a $300 million, 17.6 percent stake in Barnes & Noble's Nook e-book business.
Microsoft Corp.'s next operating system, Windows 8, is designed to run desktop, laptop and tablet computers. PC makers are hoping it offers them a better chance to compete with Apple Inc.'s iPad. Windows 8 is expected to be released in September or October, in time for devices that ship for the holiday season.
"This will be a major Microsoft announcement — you will not want to miss it," the company said in an email invite to the media on Thursday. A company spokesman declined to comment further.
The event, set to start at 3:30 p.m. Pacific time, is being kept under such tight wraps that the company has declined to provide its location until Monday.


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Junk Food Laws in Schools May Mean Healthier Kids: Study
In states with toughest regulations, kids more likely to maintain healthy body weight
Monday, August 13, 2012
MONDAY, Aug. 13 (HealthDay News) -- States with strong laws about what foods can be sold at school outside breakfast and lunch programs appear to have more students who stay at healthier weights, new research suggests.
These laws, known as competitive food laws, regulate the foods that can be sold at schools outside the school meal programs in an attempt to reduce childhood obesity. The laws cover food from vending machines, for instance, and those sold a la carte in the cafeteria, or in fundraising projects for school teams or organizations.
Few studies have gauged how successful the laws are, so Dr. Daniel Taber, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, decided to evaluate their effects.
He found that they do work.
"Competitive food laws in schools reduce weight gain if they are strong and consistent," Taber said.
Students exposed to strong laws gained less than those not, and they were less likely to remain overweight or obese over time compared to students in states with no such laws.
The study is published online Aug. 13 and in the September print issue of Pediatrics.
Childhood obesity has tripled over the past three decades, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In 2008, 20 percent of children aged 6 to 11 were obese.
The study looked at data from 40 states. Of those, 11 had competitive food laws that were consistently strong or became stronger over the time period studied, from 2003 to 2006.
Taber and colleagues classified the laws as strong if they required schools to sell only foods that met specific nutrition standards. The laws were weak if they recommended but did not require sales of healthy foods, or if they used general language such as ''healthy foods'' without issuing guidelines for what qualified as healthy.
The investigators obtained health and weight data on 6,300 students in 40 states. They compared the body mass index (or BMI, a measure of weight relative to height) of students in fifth grade and then again in eighth grade.
Students who went to a school with strong laws in fifth grade gained, on average, 0.25 fewer BMI units over the three years than students in schools with no such laws.
It is difficult to translate that to pounds, Taber said. Roughly, it would be 1.25 fewer pounds for a 5-foot-tall child who started out at 100 pounds in 2003.
That was just an average, so many students gained less and some gained more, he noted.
Children who went to schools with strong laws throughout the study period gained an average of 0.44 fewer BMI units compared to those who did not. That would be about 2.25 fewer pounds for the same 5-foot-tall, 100-pound child.
The number of state laws regulating these foods has increased in recent years. A federal standard passed in 1979 prevents schools from selling candy and gum, for instance, in the cafeteria during lunch. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is in the process of updating this standard to coincide with the provisions of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, but has not issued it yet.
The study results show that "competitive food rules are incredibly important," said Dr. Marlene Schwartz, deputy director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at Yale University.
"We have found that kids eat less junk food when there is less junk food in schools," she said. However, "this is the first big national study that looked at the laws."
Taber's team does not claim cause-and-effect, Schwartz noted, but they do show the importance of state laws. The study took into account many factors linked with obesity, such as income and race, she added.
Some food industry groups have lobbied against such laws, she pointed out, saying competitive foods don't make a difference in the obesity epidemic. The study, Schwartz said, suggests otherwise.
Other groups, such as the American Beverage Association, have launched programs such as their voluntary effort to reduce calories in beverages shipped to schools.
Parents who live in states without strong laws have options, Schwartz said. School districts involved in the school food program must have a committee that writes school wellness policy. Parents can ask to be on that committee.
Talk to your school administrators about your concerns, Taber suggested. Parents involved in fundraising for school teams or other projects can also suggest healthier alternatives than candy, he said.
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Blogging While Female: 5 Conservative Women Bloggers Talk About Gender Issues And The Blogosphere
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Every so often in the blogosphere, on the Left and the Right, hostile debates over gender seem to rise up to the surface like a leviathan from the depths. Some male bloggers tend to think women get more links because they're women, some female bloggers think there's some sort of a "good ol' boys" club that keeps them from getting big, and more than a few people seem to get huffy about the whole debate.
However, the fact is that the issue is much more complex than it appears on the surface. The blogging experience ISN'T THE SAME for men and women. There are different advantages, disadvantages, and challenges that both men and women have to face.
That's something I've been aware of for a long time, but a particular conversation inspired me to put together an article that covers the unique trials and travails that female bloggers face.
At CPAC, I had an opportunity to speak to Liz Mair, a blogger who is now the Republican National Committee's eCampaign Communications Director. Liz and I had exchanged a few emails and had done radio together a handful of times. Although I didn't know her very well, one thing that had struck me about her was how formal she was — even in off the air conversations, before we went live on the radio. So, when I met her in person, I was surprised that she wasn't the least bit stuffy and that her whole manner of speaking was different. Later, I asked Liz about the difference between meeting her in person and talking with her on the radio. What she said was,
Partly, my tendency to sound more formal when on radio (or TV) is the result of my legal training — my brain is wired to "go formal" when I know I'm speaking to an audience. Partly, my tendency to do this is also to ensure I don't come off as "unserious" though — that is something that I think most commentators of any sort should be concerned about, and I suspect that I'm not the only one (or the only female one) who's attuned to it.
Personally, it has never even occurred to me to "go formal" when I do a radio show, nor have I ever worried about being considered "unserious." That started my brain spinning like Speedy Gonzalez in a hamster ball: did Liz and I look at the issue differently because we're different people or because I'm male and she's female? Are there lots of other little subtle differences between the ways men and women look at blogging that I hadn't caught onto before?
I decided to find out.
So, in order to do that, I reached out to a few of the more intriguing women on the right side of the blogosphere and interviewed them about their backgrounds and gender issues. The results, as you're about to see, are fascinating and in some cases, the abuse they have had to deal with is more than a little disturbing. Let's start out with…
Pamela Geller has managed to build up a large audience at her blog Atlas Shrugs with her exuberant writing style, her ferocious attacks on radical Islam, her vlogs, and her excellent "gets" of big name interview subjects. Few people in the blogosphere work harder than Pamela or put more effort into making their blogs successful.
Behind the scenes, Pamela tends to be as expressive as she is in public, but when you get to know her, her character, fierce determination, and simple decency shine through in a way that is difficult to capture on her blog.
Pamela was an associate publisher of the New York Observer and a director of strategic planning at the New York Daily News. Over time, Pamela started commenting on blogs and eventually, a poster at Little Green Footballs suggested that she start her own blog. She took that advice in 2005 and the rest is history.
Pamela on feminism.
I don't need equal rights….I'm already equal. I don't need somebody telling me something that's already a fact. All these women like Gloria Steinem, "Oh, we made it happen for you!" You didn't make it happen for me. That whole movement…is rooted in Marxist-Leninist propaganda….I'm not a feminist, I'm an anti-feminist. I think it has hurt women enormously.
You've gotten a lot of flack for a bikini vlog that you did. Do you want to talk about that?
Sure. It's interesting to me that would become such a point of conversation, derision, what have you, when it was really so innocent. You might say, "Oh, come on," but it really was. I was supposed to go to Israel and the war broke out and they cancelled all my interviews. There I am, standing with a ticket to Israel, and I was like, "Am I not going to go now?" So, I went to Israel and it was an unbelievable trip. …Then my mother had a major stroke and I flew right back, grabbed my kids, went to Florida, and we were spending the whole of our time by her bed, because she had not come out of a coma. The kids would say, "Come on, Mom, let's get out of here," and we'd run right to the beach.
I said to one of my girls, "I've gotta do a vlog. I've gotta do a rundown of what happened in Israel." So, she said, "Let's do it," and she turned on the camera and I was in the ocean and I started talking and that's the infamous bikini vlog that you are talking about. I guess because no one had done it, it really caught fire.
…The craziest stuff went on with that video. You have no idea how many (parody) videos were made from it and ALL not by friends of Pamela.
It got major hittage…but, the message of it was enormously important, so if that's what it took to get it out, hey, hey, hey, I am all for it…
Does it bother you that there are guys who are coming to your page because they like the way you look or do you look at it as, "Traffic's traffic?"
…I mean listen, if you're looking for babes…there are a million sites with babes and T&A. They're not coming to me for that. There are girls that are far prettier, that are far younger — so, yes, they may like my look, but they like what I have to say, they like the whole package…
Do you get any vulgar, nasty hate mail?
Oh sure. I do delete that stuff. Look, there are websites out there that are solely devoted to me, that photoshop me in sexual positions with senior Bush administration officials. You have a limited amount of energy each day and this is what these people do with their energy each day…it's frightening.
…When they Google Earth my house and my car, that I thought was kind of sick, you know? Because what am I doing? I'm just voicing my opinion. …What it's really about is a form of attrition, it's a form of harassment, where a normal person would say, "I don't need this sh*t. Who needs this? They Google Earth your house, the names that you're called, and the photoshopping." But you see, I want very much to leave the nation that I grew up in to my children. That's why I do what I do.
Rachel Lucas is an extraordinarily talented writer, the sort of person who could write a post about her grocery list and make it interesting. She's also sharp-witted, profane, and has a Coulteresque knack for coming at a story from a completely different direction than anyone else. All of that is mixed in with posts about her personal life, pictures of her dog dressed in funny clothes, and a wry, self-effacing sense of humor. It was that talent, years ago, that had turned her into one of the bigger bloggers on the Right before she mysteriously quit and came back in May of last year (She's already back over 3,000 readers a day). What happened to her? What does she think about women in the blogosphere and perhaps most importantly, does she curse like a drunken sailor on shore leave when she's on the phone? All those questions, and more, were answered in our interview.
Rachel comes across as surprisingly shy on the phone, so I took a few moments to show her I was friendly before we got started. After she seemed a little more comfortable, I noted that I was surprised she hadn't dropped any F-bombs in our conversation so far. She replied,
"Have you noticed that over the past week or two, I haven't even said that on my blog? …My mom told me I have to knock it off." (Laughs) Still, profanity count for the phone call: 3, with two F-bombs. Is that toned down from her blog? Maybe a little, but she doesn't know me that well.
Rachel is also a bit of an oddity, at least amongst the bloggers I interviewed, in that she doesn't have a writing background except, as she joked, her experience as the editor of the school paper when she was in 5th grade.
Originally, Rachel began her blog after her father had a heart attack as a way to communicate between his family and friends. From there, she started looking around at other blogs, wrote some rants to "amuse her brother," and then she asked for some links from two of the bigger blogs, got them, and started doing political blogging on a regular basis.
Rachel explains why she doesn't have a picture on her blog now (and why there isn't one with this piece)
It's maybe 5% because of the stalkers, but it's mostly because I have seen what they do to other people. I have seen what they do to Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin. They photoshop them. Do nasty stuff to them. Like pictures of Michelle Malkin hanging from a noose. That sort of thing.
What Rachel thinks about female bloggers who do put up their pics to try to draw traffic.
The ones who are clearly trying to use their looks to get ahead, I have a little less respect for because they shouldn't feel like they need to. I don't hold it against them, but if you're good, people will read your stuff even if you don't put a pic up.
Why did Rachel quit blogging at one point when she had more than 10,000 readers per day?
I really regret that I got out. Partly because I didn't like all the pressure. At that point in my life, I didn't feel like I knew enough to deserve that many people reading what I wrote…and the relationship I was in at the time, my ex, he didn't like it because I spent so much time on it. He thought it was "creepy." A lot of people don't understand why anyone would read blogs. They think it's voyeurism, they think it's creepy….My sister doesn't read it. She thinks it's "creepy." …Plus, I was getting a lot of hate mail and some of it was borderline bad stalker material.
What advice would Rachel give to people who want to create a successful blog?
I think a lot of blogs by people who complain that they don't get much traffic? Those blogs tend to be very boring. If you can read the exact same material on 10,000 different blogs and all they're doing is repeating the same thing and it's not very well written, I don't know what they expect. I think people need to have a little more humor, either really know what they're talking about… and have connections and do interviews, or they need to be a lot more interesting. I think a lot of blogs are really boring.
As anyone who knows her can tell you, Amanda Carpenter is an ambitious, driven, extremely talented reporter/columnist/vlogger for Townhall, who is also the author of The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy's Dossier on Hillary Clinton
Aside from Michelle Malkin, if I had to lay down a bet on the female blogger most likely to land her own show on Fox, CNN, or MSNBC one day, my money would be on Amanda.
Amanda started paying her own bills at 17, paid her own way through college at Ball State after a career ending injury cost her a softball scholarship, and she had, literally, 27 different jobs — at Levis, Bath And Body Works, cocktail waitressing, the Sunglass Hut, landscaping, etc. — before she got a full-time position after graduation.
In her senior year, ironically, Amanda wasn't allowed to join the school paper because she wasn't a journalism major, so she started rabblerousing online. She wrote about how the school's tuition money was being spent, she posted professors' salaries, and she started getting more and more attention — some of it negative — for her work. Those efforts eventually helped land her a post-college job with Human Events. From there, she moved on to a full-time gig with Townhall. She also blogs at Glamour.
Here's Amanda discussing how she was targeted at Ball State for promoting a conservative viewpoint.
There was a graduate assistant who had photoshopped 400 pages of pornography of me onto the university website that the administration would not do anything about…I had to print it off and take it to the police station because the…campus people said, well, you know it's free speech. …Do you know how demeaning it was to have to print that off and take it somewhere? It wasn't me, but it was lifelike.
Do you think women are subjects of more vitriol in the blogosphere than men?
…Whether you are a guy or a girl, you will be criticized, especially if you mess up. …But, yeah, with women it's almost certainly a lot more sexual and demeaning…
Do you ever feel like people say, eh, she's a woman, so I don't have to take her arguments seriously?
I have never encountered that. In fact, within the conservative movement, I think being a girl and trying to be taken seriously…you're actually welcomed a little bit more. There are some people who try to take the snarky, cute route — you know, dress in the cute clothes, put on the lip gloss — the people who have been around for a while don't really have a lot of tolerance for that…
You have any opinion of the feminist, liberal blogs out there?
Well, they're some of the ones that are the most hateful. If you look at the language that's used on those…it's just incredibly base. It's this whole feminist thing where it's empowering to use foul language, to do the lowcut shirts, and act sleazy — and I don't just mean that just sexually, I mean intellectually as well…
Do you get any repulsive hate mail, that sort of thing?
Oh, yeah, I have a file of it. I save the good ones…and in case anything were to happen, there are crazy people out there, I'd want a paper trail of some sort.
There aren't a lot of bloggers who can say that they have "spent a summer in Mozambique, Africa helping to build the World AIDS Children's Orphanage with Teen Missions International, Inc," but Ericka Anderson isn't your run-of-the-mill blogger. She is an impossibly bubbly, enthusiastic, good-natured news producer/reporter for Human Events, who also blogs at Redstate.
Ericka went to Indiana University, got a degree in journalism, and then got an internship on the editorial page of the The Washington Examiner. That was her springboard to a job with Human Events. Here's some of what Ericka had to say…
Do you feel like it's an advantage or disadvantage to be female in the blogosphere?
I think that in the blogosphere and in the media in general, there are more men. So, I think that a woman's presence is an advantage just because…our faces and names will get picked up more easily.
At the same time, I think that women…are more apt to be criticized harshly. People come up with dirty names and talk trash about women, not because it's more accepted, but because…it's a lot easier for people to toss around words that are derogatory towards women…Also, my picture is up next to my work, and you get a lot of (critical) comments about the pictures.
Do you think that if you were a man you'd have less critical comments or that they would be less vulgar and sexualized? In other words, the criticism level is the same, but it's nastier because you are a woman. Would that be accurate?
I think that the criticism towards women is different. You're right, I don't know that there is any more, but it's more harsh and like you said, vulgar and sexualized. I don't think men get that at all….
Ericka shared some of her hate mail with me. Here are a few examples to give you a feel for it.
* "Some stupid dame who writes a stupid column in a neanderthal publication has about as much credibility as a Mississippi high school journalism C student."
* "Soon, the conservative death march will come to an and. God willing. Stop writing, you amateur little prig. Stay in the kitchen where the Baptists think you belong. Please. Stop writing, because you suck."
* "I just saw you against John Soltz, How about you show your support for the war, and sign up… Hopefully you would get shot in the head. dumb slag."
Do you think women sometimes use their looks to get ahead in the blogosphere and does that bother you?
I definitely think women use their looks to get ahead, especially in the media. …Everyone is just more drawn to attractive people. People use that to their advantage and I think that obviously, people should be hired for their skills, but at the same time, you have to give people what they want. That's just the way the world works, so I don't have a problem with people using their looks to get ahead if they can do it.
If someone said to you, "Ericka, I have always wanted to work at a magazine like Human Events," what advice would you give on how to succeed and would it be different for men and women?
Especially if you're talking about DC, and you would be if you want to get into political journalism, I would say you would start out by attending lots of different social events and…networking. …It really comes down to who you know in this business. That's how I got my job and that's how I continue to make contacts, and I don't think it's any different for men and women.
Yes, you do have to have talent. You've got to be able to do your job. But, I think it comes down to who you know….
Michelle Malkin is not just one of my favorite bloggers; she's one of the people that I most respect and admire. She's ambitious, courageous, talented, a really decent person, and I am not sure if I have ever seen anyone who does a better job of managing her time. Since I'm such a big fan of her work and since Michelle is arguably the most successful blogger overall on the Right — she was one of the people I most wanted to talk to for this interview.
Michelle said she first started becoming politically active when she was writing at Oberlin College. From there she became an editorial writer and columnist for the Los Angeles Daily News. Then she moved on to the Seattle Times where she wrote columns and did investigative reporting. She has also had a column with Creator's syndicate since 1999 and here's a little something about Michelle's background that I certainly didn't know:
"I worked for Arianna Huffington many, many moons ago. She lured me away to work on the failed Michael Huffington for Senate campaign in 1994. I worked there for 3 months and it was my first and last job in politics, ever. That was the silver lining. It got rid of any ambition I had about working in politics."
From there, Michelle created a primitive website way back in 1999, but the blog that she has made famous today? It didn't really get going until June of 2004.
Here's Michelle on whether it's an "advantage or disadvantage to be female in the blogosphere."
(I) tired a long time ago of these debates about gender and the blogosphere and the white man keeping female bloggers down. Why can't we break into the boys' club? Wah, wah, wah! Well, maybe it's because you've become such a tired bore, beating your victim drum all the time.
Michelle had this to say about Kathy Sierra, who got an enormous amount of sympathetic attention from the mainstream media because of some death threats she received.
The Kathy Sierra thing, I thought was amusing. Not to belittle her security situation, which was very serious…
But, that's like what? A Tuesday for you?
Yes!!! A Tuesday morning….the shock and the horror with which the tech elite greeted that whole debacle, to me, shows how out of touch and unplugged one side of our business and our world is from the other. There are a lot of double standards, and in particular, that conservative women just aren't seen in some ways (laughs) as human beings. We're just supposed to expect the level of vitriol that they look at with such horror when it's aimed at one of their people.
Speaking of vitriol and horror, Michelle and her family once had to actually move for safety reasons. Long story short, a group of misfits at UC Santa Cruz managed to run some military recruiters off campus and, because they weren't very smart, they wrote a press release bragging about it, posted it on their website, and used their own home phone numbers as contact numbers. Michelle was one of the many people to link to the website and publish the press release and when, inevitably, these morons were deluged with abusive phone calls, they blamed Michelle for the whole thing and accused her of publishing their private home numbers, which, of course, they had posted on a press release.
In response to this, liberal bloggers and forums that were undoubtedly hoping to get Michelle and her family harassed and/or murdered, responded by posting her phone number and maps to her house online while maliciously and falsely accusing her of invading the privacy of the UC Santa Cruz students. After asking her about the experience, here's what she told me,
(We had) people posting photos of our past house…people urging their minions to come and stake out my house. ….I had tons of people email me and tell me they were going to come to my home. They posted my private phone number and I had dozens of people calling and leaving crude messages. …Yeah, it was one of those things where you think about your family, you think about your safety, and you do what you have to do. But, does it stop you? No.
Michelle had this to say about whether she feels like she isn't taken seriously because she's a woman.
In general, no, I think it has more to do with my ideology and I think…liberal racism is much more rampant than liberal sexism. As an example of that, here we are engaged in this whole debate of the use of Barack Obama's middle name.
Again, I find it amusing in terms of liberal double standards that none of these people who are so worried about middle name calling had anything to say when Keith Olbermann went on cable TV and started invoking my foreign sounding maiden name (Maglalang) as some sort of game winning argument. There he is going Mag-la-gong, Mag-la-gong, mispronouncing it…I think if I weren't a conservative, there would have been more of an uproar about it or at least some principled liberal would have said, 'That's a really dumb way to argue against somebody. Can we all just grow up?' But, no, no, that didn't happen.
I think that was less because I am woman than because I am a conservative minority. …I think that it always has made a lot of people uncomfortable and irate because I happen to be these three things: a conservative, a woman, and a minority. In a lot of people's lives, that's just such a toxic, unacceptable combination. If you look at people who have that combination in public life, they all have similar stories….
Is Michelle bothered that there are undoubtedly a lot of guys going to take a look at her vlogs because of her looks?
Well again, it's a double edged sword and I think a lot of women who are successful at blogging and vlogging realize that, so you use it to your advantage. There's nothing wrong with using what God gave you to spread your message, to get people to pay attention to your content. …On YouTube, the key to producing a viral video is to be very visual and that includes looking good….If people only knew what I look like half the time…
So humble, so humble.
(Laughs) I don't know…
Michelle on how to be a success at blogging.
There are a couple of factors. The first is not to try to be somebody else. If you want to be a success…don't be another Michelle Malkin or Glenn Reynolds or a Drudge wannabe. The marketplace of ideas rewards original ideas and original thinkers and I think having a niche is very important. …The blogosphere rewards fresh information and reporting, energy, initiative, and…I think a lot of the humor blogs do well, like Iowahawk, Ace of Spades HQ. There are so many people with something unique to add. Plus, it takes a work ethic. You're not going to be successful if you only post 2 or 3 times a day and if you don't have fun doing it, you shouldn't be in it.
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If you're on a multi pitch route and you decide to abandon the climb and retreat(say the weather has turned unexpectedly). What is the minimum amount of gear you should leave behind as a rope anchor to effect a successful and safe retreat (abseil)?
Could cord be used as a sling over a sturdy flake or would you need to leave behind proper slings (nylon or dyneema), nuts or worse yet expensive camming devices?


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BERLIN- The Coastal Lacrosse Club recently secured a $15,000 grant from a local foundation and now has plans to utilize the funding for a number of initiatives both on and off the playing field.
The non-profit Coastal Lacrosse Club, formed two years ago to provide additional opportunities for the growing youth lacrosse movement in the area, recently secured a $15,000 grant from the Humphreys Foundation, a local charitable foundation named for its benefactor, the late Dr. Mary Humphreys of Berlin, which dedicates funds to non-profit organizations making a difference in the community. Coastal Lacrosse has set in motion a plan to utilize the $15,000 grant including a scholarship program for young players who might not otherwise get the opportunity to participate in the sport.
According to Coastal Lacrosse director Gary Richins, the program is setting aside $3,000 for a youth scholarship program to provide club fees and membership fees to underprivileged kids in the area. In response to the continued tough economy, Coastal Lacrosse this year lowered its annual club fee from $110 to $85, but there are still many young athletes in the area that would like to participate in the program but simply can't afford it. The $3,000 youth scholarship will afford those potential players the opportunity to participate in the youth lacrosse program.
"Lacrosse has a reputation for being an inclusive sport because it generally costs a significant amount of money to participate," said Richins this week. "By utilizing this grant funding, we hope to open the sport up to a bunch of kids in the area that want to play, but don't have the resources to participate."
Along the same lines, Coastal Lacrosse is also dedicating $4,000 of the $15,000 Humphreys Foundation grant to purchase new equipment for the youth scholarship. With $3,000 dedicated for the scholarship fund, the club could pay for as many as 27 new players, but outfitting them with gear is another story. The average cost to outfit a male player with a stick, helmet, shoulder pads, arm pads and gloves comes in at over $200. Girls require less equipment, but there is still a considerable expense for outfitting a female player and a portion of the grant has been set aside to purchase new equipment for both boys and girls.
Coastal Lacrosse is using the largest portion of the grant to purchase cardiac defibrillator equipment for the Northern Worcester County Athletic Complex in Berlin where the club practices and plays its games. Last year, a Beach Lacrosse player suffered a heart attack while practicing, and while the player eventually recovered, the lack of a defibrillator at the athletic complex could have compromised the child's health.
Richins said the new cardiac defibrillator equipment at the county's athletic complex in Berlin would be available for all of the programs that use the facility including the Little League, Pop Warner Football, Beach Lacrosse and other sports and leagues. A portion of Coastal Lacrosse's grant will also be set aside to subsidize a training course for the very organizations that use the country recreational complex so that somebody on hand is trained in its use.
Finally, the last $3,000 of the grant money will be set aside to purchase additional equipment for the club. Richins said when Coastal Lacrosse was formed, the club wanted to keep the entry fees low in order to open the opportunity to more young players in the area. As a result, the club has made minimum purchases in player uniforms, gear and training equipment. The final $3,000 of the grant will allow Coastal Lacrosse to purchase some additional equipment and training gear to enhance the program's training and participation offerings to its young players.
"When we started Coastal Lacrosse, we began with a shoestring budget and have relied heavily on our fundraising efforts and the kindness and generosity of the community," said Richins. "With this grant money, we're able to do some things we might not otherwise be able to do. This is our way of giving back to the community that has been so generous to us. We hope it will make a difference."
Coastal Lacrosse is now registering players for the upcoming spring 2012 season. For more information about registration, visit www.coastallacrosseclub.com.


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Memorabilia of H.P.B. - by James Morgan Pryse
Reprinted from The Canadian Theosophist, March 15, 1935, pp. 1-5.
When the editor of the Canadian Theosophist asked me, several years ago, to write my memoirs of H. P. B., I declined to do so, explaining that an account of my personal experiences with H. P. B. would necessarily be a tale of two worlds. Since then other friends have kept urging me to write the memoirs, and finally I have reluctantly consented to write them.
As a personality "the Old Lady", as we affectionately called her, was like a mother to me; but if my reminiscences were to be confined to that personality, dealing only with happenings and doings in the physical world, they would be of little interest and would convey an utterly false impression of the real H. P. B. with whom I was acquainted. So I must tell this tale of two worlds, however strange and incredible it may seem to many, if not most, theoretical Theosophists. It is a true narrative, but those who are unable to accept it as such are at perfect liberty to regard it as a romance or a fairy-tale, and let it go at that. Whether they believe it or not is no concern of mine. But there are some Theosophists who have passed beyond the stage of theoretical study, and my story is especially for them.
In narrating my experiences with H. P. B. it is of course necessary to include myself in the narrative, when I would greatly prefer to say nothing whatever about myself. That is one of the reasons why I have hitherto refused to write my memoirs.
During the most impressionable years of childhood I lived in a Welsh community in Minnesota, among a people who believed in fairies, saw ghosts occasionally and had other psychic experiences, of which they spoke freely. Being of the same race myself, I had similar experiences. Few Theosophists realize how inseparably the psychic and physical worlds are conjoined. When a child it was sometimes difficult for me to distinguish the one from the other.
In those days, while yet but a small boy, I first came into mental contact, vaguely, with H. P. B. In my father's library there was an old "Dictionary of Biography", Goodrich's, if I remember correctly. It gave brief biographical sketches of ancient worthies and unworthies, and was illustrated with many small woodcut portraits. There was one of Paracelsus, the great Swiss Occultist, and it fascinated me so that I gazed at it long and often. The text characterized him as a charlatan or impostor; but as I read it I knew that it was false, and that he was one of the best men that ever lived. This was not merely a psychometric impression such as I received from some of the other portraits in the book: it was a haunting sense of familiarity, a conviction that I had known him when he was on earth and would meet him again, incarnated. Years afterward, while doing newspaper work in Nebraska, I read a brief despatch from New York, stating that Mdme Blavatsky and Col. Olcott had started a society for the study of Oriental literature. Again came that haunting sense of familiarity, and I wanted to write to that Mdme. Blavatsky (whose name I then read for the first time); but the despatch gave no address. Later, in Philadelphia, I met Mrs. Verplanck, ("Jasper Niemand"), who was closely associated with Mr. Judge in making the Path an intensely interesting and instructive magazine. She told me of the T. S. and set me to studying Isis, Esoteric Buddhism and other Theosophical literature then obtainable. For years I corresponded constantly with her, and occasionally with Mr. Judge, with whom I came to be well acquainted "in the astral," after I had settled in Los Angles, in 1886.
In those days many Theosophists were ambitious to become "chelas" or "lay chelas" by getting into communication with the Masters whom H. P. B. represented. Having no doubt that the Masters were being pestered by so many applicants, I refrained from any attempt to reach H. P. B. or her Master, or to attract their attention to my unimportant self. But my mind kept dwelling on Paracelsus, with a distinct impression that he was again incarnated; so I resolved to find him, if possible, and in my daily meditation concentrated my mind on him. One evening while I was thus meditating the face of H. P. B. flashed before me. I recognized it from her portrait in Isis, though it appeared much older. Thinking that the astral picture, as I took it to be, was due to some vagary of fancy, I tried to exclude it; but at that the face showed a look of impatience, and instantly I was drawn out of my body and immediately was standing "in the astral" beside H. P. B. in London. It was along toward morning there, but she was still seated at her writing desk. While she was speaking to me, very kindly, I could not help thinking how odd it was that an apparently fleshy old lady should be an Adept. I tried to put that impolite thought out of my mind, but she read it, and as if in answer to it her physical body became translucent, revealing a marvellous inner body that looked as if it were formed of molten gold. Then suddenly the Master M. appeared before us in his mayavi-rupa. To him I made profound obeisance, for he seemed to me more like a God than a man. Somehow I knew who he was, though this was the first time I had seen him. He spoke to me graciously and said, "I shall have work for you in six months." He walked to the further side of the room, waved his hand in farewell and departed. Then H. P. B. dismissed me with the parting words, "God bless you," and directly I saw the waves of the Atlantic beneath me; I floated down and dipped my feet in their crests. Then with a rush I crossed the continent till I saw the lights of Los Angles and returned to my body, seated in the chair where I had left it. Thus by looking for Paracelsus, while resolved not to intrude on H. P. B. and the Master M., I found them all. For H. P. B. simply was Paracelsus, and in my ignorance of that fact I had blundered, happily stumbling upon a triumphant outcome vastly beyond anything I had expected.
Six months afterward the Master's promise was made good. My brother John and I, returning from a trip to South America, landed in New York City. We found Mr. Judge perplexed by a difficult problem: H. P. B. had directed him to send her Instructions to all the American members of the E. S., but had sent him only one copy, and he had no facilities for making the many copies needed. We solved that problem for him by establishing the Aryan Press and printing the Instructions in book-form. Then, in response to a cable from H. P. B., I went to London to do the same work there, and started the H. P. B. Press. When I met H. P. B. we did not need to "become acquainted." It was as if we had known each other always. She invited Dr. Keightley and myself to eat Christmas dinner with her; and after dinner we played whist, H. P. B. taking the dummy. But these unimportant events in the outer world are not memorabilia.
At lunch one day Mrs. Besant became a bit angry because some stationery had been delivered at a side door instead of at the back door, for which she blamed Mr. Mead. I explained that I had ordered the stationery for Mr. Mead and therefore was to blame for its being delivered at the wrong door; I had not known that it made any difference. Mrs. Besant immediately became pleasant again, and all was serene. But that afternoon it passed through my mind that as a successor to H. P. B. Mrs. Besant was too immature to be entrusted with the guidance of the T. S. The thought was not tinged with the slightest ill-will, and I dismissed it quickly, without dwelling upon it. When I awoke next morning and sat up preparatory to jumping out of bed I saw a written page in the air in front of me. I recognized H. P. B.'s writing and guessed that she meant to reprove me for doubting Mrs. Besant's fitness to become her successor; so I refused to read the writing. At that she sent a powerful electric current up my spine to compel me to read the writing. Then, as I obstinately refused to read it, she spoke to me audibly, saying that I was wrong in my estimate of Mrs. Besant, who was her "personal pupil" and would do great things for the Society. I held to my original opinion, but said nothing. Immediately after dressing I went to Mr. Mead's office, and right afterward H. P. B. came in from an adjoining room. After greeting us she said to me, "Well, Pryse, have you seen any more visions lately?" My scalp was still sore from the current she had sent up my spine, but I ignored her covert reference to that morning's little tilt between us and said, "O yes, as usual." She then asked me why I had not been in the drawing-room for several evenings past, but when I started to explain that I had been doing night work on the instructions, she threw out her arms and gazed fixedly into space. Her face took on a look of horror and she uttered a half-suppressed scream and cried, "No! no!" She was seeing a vision, and standing beside her I saw it too, not visually, but as a series of vivid mental pictures. That vision foreshowed the fate of the T. S. after her death: the dismemberment of the Society, the deplorable doings of its misguided members, and the fakery, falsification and folly of the various factions. When the vision ended she let her arms fall and looked at me to see if I had shared it. My gaze met hers and she knew from the look on my face that I also had seen the harrowing vision. Without a word she turned and with bowed head tottered back to her room. I take it that until then she had not been permitted to foresee the future of the T. S.; but when she tried to impose on me an optimistic view of it the actual future was revealed to her, and incidentally to me. Who showed her the vision I do not know.
One evening at the dinner-table gloom was cast over the Headquarters' staff by the announcement the H. P. B. was so ill that the doctor did not expect her to live till morning. Pondering sadly on this when I had retired to my room, I decided to try a certain experiment. In years past I had made hundreds of mesmeric experiments, with different subjects, sometimes using my prana as a healing force. As H. P. B. was dying for lack of this vital force, while I, a young man, had plenty of it, I determined to transfer, by a mesmeric process, half my prana to H. P. B. It is analogous psychically to the transfusion of blood physically. As soon as I began concentrating to make the transfer H. P. B. called to me, psychically but audibly, "Don't do it; it's black magic." Undeterred, I called back to her, "Very well, Old Lady, black magic or not, I'm going to do it anyway" —and I did. Next morning I felt decidedly feeble; but that was a matter of no lasting consequence, as it took but a few days to renew my strength. At the breakfast table we had good news; H. P. B. was recovering, having made a sudden remarkable improvement which nonplussed the doctor. I relate this incident only because it led to a very significant one several years later.
H. P. B. passed away suddenly, seated in a chair. As I helped carry the body over to a lounge I had a distinct impression that she had not "died", but had deserted the body instantly for a set purpose. She had told Claude Wright that she did not want to come back as a baby, and so the chelas were looking for a body which she could appropriate at the moment it was vacated by the soul, though still organically in good condition. Several years afterward, however, Mrs. Besant and Mr. Judge gave out a statement that H. P. B. had reincarnated. One day Mrs. Besant said to me, "James, since H. P. B. has reincarnated, wouldn't it be a good plan for you to meditate and try to find her?" I said that I was willing to try. She suggested that I should meditate in H. P. B.'s room evenings; and as the room was kept locked she gave me the key. The first evening I meditated there, seated on the lounge, I saw nothing but irrelevant pictures in the astral light, and it was the same the second evening. When I meditated the third evening I had the unusual experience of seeing nothing whatever, though I concentrated on H. P. B. for about two hours. Convinced that she had not reincarnated, I got up and started to leave the room. The lounge on which I had been seated was on the side of the room opposite the door. It was midnight and the room was totally dark. But when I had walked about halfway to the door the room was suddenly lighted up, and I saw a young man standing about three feet from me. He was of medium height, strongly built, and his face was attractive and forceful. I took him to be a university student. Surprised at this sudden appearance, for apparently he was a man in the flesh, and wondering how he had entered the room noiselessly while the door was securely locked, I for the moment overlooked the phenomenal lighting up of the room. I was about to speak to him, but just then a brilliant aura flashed around him, and a series of pictures appeared in it revealing that he was H. P. B. He was in the mayavi-rupa, which faithfully reproduced his outer form. He said not a word, but suddenly vanished, and I stood alone in the darkness. I kept the matter secret, as he evidently expected me to do so.
At one time during the well-known "Judge row," which justified my secrecy, I was completely worn out with overwork and the strain of those dreadful days. I would crawl into bed late at night, sleep like a log, and awake in the morning unrefreshed and utterly weary. One night as I retiring I thought, "A week or two more of this will be the end of me." I awoke in the morning feeling half dead and uncertain whether I had strength to get up. It was broad daylight and the sun was shining through the windows. Then I saw the young man whom I had seen in H. P. B.'s room. Standing at the foot of my bed, he stretched out his arms above my feet. A powerful electric current, shock after shock, went all through my body for several minutes. Then he drew back his arms and vanished. I sprang out of bed with all my strength and energy renewed. Thus H. P. B. repaid my load of prana. With the assistance of Mrs. Lloyd, a good amateur artist and quite clairvoyant, I obtained an excellent oil portrait of the re-embodied H. P. B., but I gave his face the Rajput colouring, to match that of his Guru, the Master M. This is the portrait which Mr. Judge said was that of his "Higher Self" (his imaginary Hindu double). With my permission Mr. Judge had a copy of it made, which he and his followers exploited as that of "the Rajah". Of the real man, H. P. B. re-embodied, known to me in this life as the "Old Lady" and long ago as Paracelsus, whom I followed and still follow, I shall for the present say no more. My tale of two worlds is finished.


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King Back Lyrics
Artist: T.I.
Album: King
[Excerpt from "Sting of The Serpent"]
And the prophecy read that
One day like the pheonix rose from the ashes
That a boy will be born unto a family in the slums
This boy will go on and use the knowledge that he gains
While fighting for survival in the streets
To become a great leader
And in time that boy will grow to become King!!!!!!
[Verse 1]
Time to ride nigga (Just Blaze!!)
I welcome you and get acquainted with the youngest in charge
Respected from East to West like he was running the mob
Dictating, ain't taking orders from no one but God
I know you niggaz is broke 'cause I know what you charge
Them niggaz wishing for a Phantom it's one in my garage
It's black as legary right next to the black Ferrari
You niggaz ain't getting money off of rapping I'm sorry
Fuck the rep went and spent 60 large on a Harley
'Cause where he stay 10,012 feet not hardly
Now you see that we ain't able to compete, now arewe?
And pardon me I'm giving you the Westside story
Of the A, where I stay and niggaz stay down for me
You want to play, have you gay niggaz lay down for me
And get a order for killers to spray rounds for me
Competition, you ain't considered; you rapping, you bore me
You reppin the A horribly
Must I say more importantly
[Chorus: repeat 8X]
The king back!
Ay, man y'all niggaz got me way too fucked up, you understand that?
What you need to do is homeboy
You need to go back and grab I'm Serious you know
You need to get familiar with Dope Boys and see where
all these niggaz got they style
See where that trap shit came from
Then you need to graduate to mother fucking In Da Streets Vol.1-3
Then you need to go to Trap Muzik, I got locked up for a second
Then grab Urban Legend and now to bring you up to speed
[Verse 2]
Who knew you could fit on your wrist a whole pound of diamonds
I'm number one on the list while you clowns are climbing
Wishing to be in positions that you found that I'm in
Since you niggaz do what it say I'm world renowned than sign me
If Jay handled the clay and around the time
I delivered a bad day when 4 5's were spiraling
I care the least about police and the fireman siren
Ambulance ain't gon stand a chance in reviving
DOA amend the beef will cease upon my arriving
Paramedics yell clear and your flat line silent
You ain't ready for out here 'cause the lifestyle violent
You think you is, you must be living on Fantasy Island
Your mammies mad, get your ass wiped out like Thailand
Hit my phone and got what left and hit the three while you following
You say you want to release and go to war with the finest
Need you be reminded, want it with Your Highness?
Ay man I know y'all niggaz still in the trap everyday
Still man I know y'all don't see nothing but the projects nothing but grits
But listen
Make no mother fucking mistake man
I still wiil shoot up my mother fucking self, AK and
45 nigga on side nigga
And come see 'bout niggaz you understand
But I don't want to do that 'cause I respect that shit y'all doing
I started that shit
I made that shit cool
I made these niggaz want to be you nigga
Nigga respect this shit!!!!
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Condensed by Pat Baehr from an article originally published in the July 1873 issue of The Central Magazine.
Joseph Garneau was born in Quebec, Lower Canada. His mother was descended from the earliest French settlers in the days of the missions. His father Peter was a baker and Joseph followed in his footsteps. He emigrated in 1832 and established himself in the baking business. In a short time Mr. Garneau established an extensive trade with steamboats, supplying all the boats on the Mississippi with bread and crackers. The superiority of his bread and crackers soon gained a widespread reputation, and his trade extended to New Orleans and all principal cities of the South.
Ever attentive to his business, and possessing inventive talents, he invented a machine some years since, combining all the requirements and improvements necessary to its purpose, and which has finally placed its inventor at the head of his calling in the United States, perhaps in the world.
Garneau's New Steam Cracker Bakery situated on the northeast corner of Seventeenth and Morgan streets, is the largest in the United States, its dimensions being 160 feet deep by 50 feet wide. The building is brick, three stories in height, and is provided with upwards of 60 windows, which admit a good light to all parts of the building. In this mammoth establishment 104 employees are required to conduct daily business of the bakery, each department of which is under the supervision of a foreman, a foreman in chief attending to the whole establishment.
Some idea of the extent of the new establishment may be inferred from the fact that upwards of 400 barrels of flour are baked in twenty-four hours to meet the daily orders. The cracker oven used is one of McKenzies patent, it bakes the crackers in a very short time. This oven is constructed on the rotary system; the crackers are placed in receiving hopper, alight on the cylinder, revolve once round, and are thoroughly baked in sixteen minutes. When baked they are ejected though a large funnel into a basket, prepared to receive them, a new supply immediately taking their place. Four men are constantly employed in receiving the baked crackers and supplying the new batch.
The magnitude of the business transacted by Mr. Garneau may be inferred from the fact that he has been supplying the United States Government with army bread for thirty years. Perhaps the largest contracts for bread, filled in a short time, in any part of the universe; have been executed by Mr. Garneau in St. Louis, Two contracts for 3,00,000 pounds of bread each, for the use of the army during the late war [Civil War] were filled in fifty-six days after the reception of the order, and the bread shipped to its destination. It is doubtful that any bakery in the world has baked 6,000,000 pounds of bread and shipped it, in so short a time.
An incident, which won for Mr. Garneau the esteem of the laboring classes, was that of his furnishing the poor with a twenty ounce loaf of bread for five cents, when the wages paid laboring men, rendered it almost impossible for the father of a family to provide the actual necessities of life for his wife and children, upon the small salary he received.
The massive iron and marble palace that Joseph Garneau built after the war was nicknamed the "Cracker Castle" because he made his fortune selling hardtack to the Union Army. [It has since been lost to urban development.]