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At what point is it legitimate and even necessary to dismiss the will of the people in the interest of peace and justice? This is a vexing question when it comes to Israel.
The latest edition of the Peace Index, produced by the Israel Democracy Institute, reflects some disturbing findings about the extent to which any effort to change Israel's policies and actions in the Gaza Strip specifically, and in the Occupied Territories more broadly, is not merely a matter of changing the government's actions. It necessitates rejecting the will of the Israeli people. Given the vast dichotomy between the respective weights carried by the wills of the Palestinian and Israeli peoples, this is a real problem.
For much of the world, the Israel-Palestine conflict is not viewed as a struggle by an occupied and dispossessed people against their occupation. Rather, it is seen as a conflict between two peoples over a piece of land. The two formulations are important; one frames the conflict in terms of an imbalance of power, the other does not. Perhaps this is not so among the general global populace, but in the offices in Washington, Brussels and even the United Nations, it is. Continue reading


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UNC study: Blacks just as likely as whites to have hip osteoarthritis
A new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers found that blacks are just as likely as whites to suffer from hip osteoarthritis, challenging accepted medical belief that blacks were somehow protected from this condition.
April 27, 2009
For years many doctors believed that blacks were much less likely than whites to suffer the pain of osteoarthritis in the hip.
But a new study by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers shows that's probably not true.
"We were very surprised to find that African Americans had the same amount of X-ray evidence of osteoarthritis in the hip as the whites did," said Joanne Jordan, M.D., lead author of the study, which is published in the April issue of The Journal of Rheumatology.
"We were also surprised to see that not only was there X-ray evidence of this but there were also symptoms associated with it," said Jordan, who is director of the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center and chief of the division of rheumatology, allergy and immunology.
One person who took part in the study, Jessie Hyman, says she has suffered from hip pain for years, starting soon after the birth of her second child. Many others in her family, including her grandfather, also had hip pain. That's why, Hyman said, she decided to join UNC's ongoing Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project.
"I want to know why my granddaddy couldn't do any better than that, hopped and hurt all the time. There had to be a reason," Hyman said.
The belief that blacks were protected him hip osteoarthritis was based on results from previous studies of blacks in Africa and the Caribbean, Jordan said. Doctors believed these results would also hold true for blacks born and raised in the U.S., but there had been virtually no research done to test the question, Jordan said.
Jordan and colleagues set out to do just that. Using data collected from the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project, they calculated prevalence estimates by age, sex and race for four separate hip outcomes: self-reported hip pain, X-ray evidence of hip osteoarthritis, symptoms of hip osteoarthritis and X-ray evidence of severe hip osteoarthritis.
The results show that blacks were just as likely as whites to have these four outcomes.
Jordan says these results suggest there may be an unmet need in caring for black patients with hip osteoarthritis and suggest that racial disparities in the use of hip replacement surgery are not because African Americans have less disease or less severe disease. It also shows there may be a need for education of health care providers on this issue, she said.
"If this is a concept in their minds that African Americans just don't get hip osteoarthritis, they may not be thinking of hip osteoarthritis as a diagnosis for some of the symptoms that patients may come in with," Jordan said.
The study is available online at http://www.jrheum.org/content/36/4/809.full.
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Vocal Cord Disorders
What are vocal cord disorders?
The vocal cords (also called vocal folds) are 2 bands of smooth muscle tissue found in the larynx (voice box). The larynx is set in the neck at the top of the trachea (windpipe). The vocal cords vibrate and air passes through the cords from the lungs to produce the sound of your voice. The sound is then sent through the throat, nose, and mouth, giving the sound "resonance." The sound of each person's voice is determined by the size and shape of the vocal cords and the size and shape of the throat, nose, and mouth. Vocal cord disorders affect the vocal cords.
Some of the more common vocal cord disorders include the following.
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Laryngitis causes a raspy or hoarse voice due to inflammation of the vocal cords. Laryngitis can be caused by excessive use of the voice, infections, inhaled irritants, or gastroesophageal reflux (GERD, or heartburn).
Vocal nodules
Vocal nodules are noncancerous growths on the vocal cords caused by vocal abuse. Vocal nodules are often a problem for professional singers. The nodules are small and callous-like. They most often grow in pairs (one on each cord). The nodules most often form on parts of the vocal cords that get the most pressure when the cords come together and vibrate. Vocal nodules cause the voice to be hoarse, low, and breathy.
Vocal polyps
A vocal polyp is a soft, noncancerous growth, similar to a blister. Voice polyps cause the voice to be hoarse, low, and breathy.
Vocal cord paralysis
Paralysis of the vocal cords may happen when one or both vocal cords doesn't open or close properly. A common disorder, this condition can range from relatively mild to life-threatening. When one or both vocal cords are paralyzed, food or liquids can slip into the trachea and lungs. A person may have trouble swallowing and coughing. Vocal cord paralysis may be caused by the following:
Treatment may include surgery and voice therapy. Sometimes, no treatment is necessary and a person recovers on his or her own.
What causes vocal cord disorders?Vocal cord disorders are often caused by vocal abuse or misuse. This includes excessive use of the voice when singing, talking, coughing, or yelling. Smoking and inhaling irritants are also considered vocal abuse.
What are the symptoms of vocal cord disorders?Symptoms vary, based on the type of vocal cord disorder. They include changes in your normal voice such as: a raspy or hoarse voice; or, a hoarse, low, and breathy voice. Vocal cord paralysis may also cause trouble swallowing and coughing.
How are vocal cord disorders diagnosed?
Any hoarseness or change in voice that lasts longer than 2 weeks should be brought to the attention of your healthcare provider. (Sometimes the hoarseness may be from laryngeal cancer.)
In addition to a complete medical history and physical exam, the healthcare provider may examine the vocal cords internally with a small scope called a laryngoscope. In the case of paralysis, your healthcare provider may also do a laryngeal electromyography that measures the electrical current in the vocal cords.
How are vocal cord disorders treated?
Vocal cord disorders caused by abuse or misuse are easily preventable. In addition, most disorders of the vocal cords can be reversed. Your healthcare provider will figure out the best treatment based on:
- How old you are
- Your overall health and medical history
- How sick you are
- How well you can handle specific medicines, procedures, or therapies
- How long the condition is expected to last
- Your opinion or preference
Treatment may include any of the following:
- Resting the voice
- Stopping the behavior that caused the vocal cord disorder
- A referral to a speech-language pathologist who specializes in treating voice, speech, language, or swallowing disorders
- Medicine
- Surgery to remove growths
Key points about vocal cord disorders
- Vocal cord disorders can affect your voice or ability to talk.
- Some of the more common vocal cord disorders include laryngitis, vocal nodules, vocal polyps, and vocal cord paralysis.
- Vocal cord disorders are often caused by vocal abuse or misuse.
- Symptoms may include a raspy, hoarse, low, or breathy voice, or trouble swallowing or coughing.
- Any hoarseness or change in voice that lasts longer than 2 weeks should be brought to the attention of your healthcare provider.
- Vocal cord disorders caused by abuse or misuse are easily preventable.
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Google has taken its first public steps to comply with a troubling ruling by the European Court of Justice establishing a so-called "right to be forgotten" throughout the European Union. The ruling, on May 13, requires that search companies consider individuals' demands to remove Internet links that reference them, and to give those requests priority over the public's broader information needs. The links may be required to be erased even if the content is truthful, lawfully published, and causes no prejudice to the individual.
Google last week launched a webpage that lets Europeans request the deletion of links to personal information about them. But it is not apparent, given the breadth and vagueness of the ruling, how the company can comply without suppressing newsworthy expression and other facts that serve the public interest. For the time being, it appears that Google will have to weigh individual takedown demands from any number of the EU's 500 million citizens, across the 30 trillion webpages the company has indexed at any given time.
The ruling contains language exempting information published "solely for the purpose of journalism," but in practice large swaths of newsworthy information will not be protected; even a front-page newspaper story that remains online could be rendered nearly impossible to find. This thin protection also may allow governments to pick and choose what counts as news when enforcing requests to be "forgotten"--a dangerous proposition that is vulnerable to abuse.
The court ruling came despite a recommendation last year by EU Advocate General Niilo Jääskinen that the Court of Justice of the European Union reject the "right to be forgotten" approach to privacy outright. Attempting to balance such a right against those of Internet companies and users, Jääskinen advised, "would entail sacrificing pivotal rights such as freedom of expression and information." Individuals could seek to suppress "legitimate and legal information that has entered the public sphere," he argued, and any process requiring search companies to make these private-vs.-public calls would be unworkable.
After the ruling, Google co-founder and CEO Larry Page acknowledged the challenges inherent in drawing such lines. "Certainly," Page told The Financial Times, "I worry about the effect that might have on democracy over time if we don't do that perfectly." Separately, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said the company disagrees with the court's ruling.
While Google presents an especially tempting target for takedown demands given its roughly 85 percent market share in Europe, the ruling applies to all search engines there. The opinion has a broader reach as well, giving rise to questions about whether it will choke off future social and economic developments. While Page asserted that Google can "spend money ... and deal with" a rise in takedown requests, he warned, "as a whole, as we regulate the Internet, I think we're not going to see the kind of innovation we've seen."
Policies that place liability on Internet intermediaries for the conduct of their users are generally fraught with risk, but the imprecision of the new ruling enables unprecedented mischief by individuals seeking to control what the public may learn about their actions.
As formulated by the court, the "right to be forgotten" represents a break from foundational understandings of protections for individual reputation and privacy. Unlike the well-established prohibition on defamation, or newer doctrine that sanctions placing an individual in a false light, the ruling holds that information may be removed from search engines even if it is completely true. And in a marked departure from common understandings of privacy and due process, information may be scrubbed without a showing that its publication harms the complainant in any way.
Instead of placing the burden on those who wish to remove facts about themselves from the stream of history, search companies and the general public will now be required to demonstrate that information has not become "inadequate, irrelevant or no longer relevant, or excessive" to the purpose for which it was collected, "in the light of the time that has elapsed." According to the opinion, the "right to be forgotten" overrides, as a rule, the rights of search engine companies to operate and "the interest of the general public" in finding information about a person.
Given the potential for abuse posed by the court's ruling, it is small wonder that a number of commentators have called the ruling "Orwellian." But in contrast with the brutal intent of Orwell's nightmare government, the European court's ruling attempts--albeit unsuccessfully--to address a legitimate concern of the digital age: How do individuals who have not sought out publicity prevent themselves from becoming the subjects of some form of unwanted gaze, oftentimes without cause? And, more broadly, does the Internet's persistent archiving of facts overwhelm individuals' privacy interests, to the point where no aspect of one's life is immune from permanent examination?
This serious concern both affects and vexes journalists. As photojournalist James Rexroad, who covered the war in Bosnia and its aftermath, told CPJ, "Traditionally, news media is a temporary thing. It ... goes for the week or the month or the season, and it's out there, and some people hold on to it, but it moves along, so you don't have that permanence to it."
"Personally," he added, "I kind of like the idea of being able to just erase yourself from the Internet. It seems appealing, but it doesn't seem realistic."
The ruling comes out of a legal and cultural environment that often favors privacy rights over free expression--more so, for example, than in the United States, where the First Amendment strongly protects the dissemination of truthful information. According to legal experts interviewed by The New York Times, the ruling applies to both European citizens and data hosted in the EU, meaning the ruling could also limit the ability of non-Europeans to access information under some circumstances.
Regardless of the ruling's good intentions, its lack of limiting principles invites abuse by powerful or blameworthy individuals. As Media Legal Defence Initiative legal director Peter Noorlander told CPJ, politicians with a history of corruption could bury old scandals. "These people will be able to kind of cleanse their history so journalists are thrown back 15, 20 years," he said. "It is going to make research harder for journalists." In addition to weakening one of journalism's most powerful research tools, the ruling harms journalists by enabling the censorship of links to their work.
The opinion came against a backdrop of government efforts in recent years to put limits on publication. In Spain, where the case originated, government officials proposed in 2012 a ban on photographing Spanish police officers after images of alleged police brutality against demonstrators made international news. Although the legislation failed, the new ruling would allow violent officers a second chance at burying evidence of their actions. (CPJ's own documentation of violence against journalists by Spanish police officers might also be subject to de-linking under the ruling.)
Or take the example of Yan Morvan, whose photography book was banned by a French court over a single image of a young gang member, since reformed, brandishing a hammer and flare gun allegedly intended for use in street battles.
"A journalist doing diligent and legal work only can have the subject of the stories able to erase any mention of themselves in it--that's incredible," said Rexroad of the new ruling. "That's disheartening to know that people who dedicate their lives to journalism, can just have, selectively, those things wiped away."
In the underlying case, a Spanish man named Mario Costeja González brought his complaint against Google after he tried and failed to have references to years-old court proceedings removed from the website of a daily newspaper. While publication of Mr. González's information by the newspaper may have been protected expression, those protections did not extend to Google, nor did the court discuss them in any meaningful way.
The ruling provides no breathing room for linking to otherwise-protected information by various publishers of journalism. Instead, it serves to limit the scope of newsworthy expression to information published "solely" as journalism, and to hide facts that could otherwise be viewed and verified by future readers.
By robbing journalists and other researchers of context, and the public of its right to know, the European court's ruling portends an uncertain period for press freedom and rational thought. And while the use of "Orwellian" may be overwrought, given the court's laudable aims, the author's warning nonetheless still echoes: "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."


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SAN JOSE, Calif. – September 23, 2010 – Cisco today announced it has completed its acquisition of privately-held ExtendMedia, a leading provider of software-based Content Management Systems (CMS) that manage the entire lifecycle of video content through monetization for pay media and ad-supported business models. Based in Newton, Mass., with the majority of its employee base in Toronto, Canada, ExtendMedia enables Cisco to help service providers deliver multi-screen offerings as the market transitions to IP video.
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A: The ExtendMedia support team will continue to support ExtendMedia products until the support migration to Cisco is complete. Cisco expects to develop complementary service and support offerings to align with legacy ExtendMedia services.
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The EasyNote LM is a desktop replacement. Its large screen (17.3-inches, so not just a 17-incher, Packard Bell boasts) would dominate any desk, though it is not as heavy as you'd think at 3.3kg, certainly not so heavy that you'd need to anchor it to one place for ever.
Close the lid and the LM looks like a large sheet of shiny metal, set off by a Packard Bell logo at one side. Open it and you find that to move the lid most easily you need both hands, holding the base down with one as you lift the lid with the other. A minor thing, but the sort of detail Apple wouldn't let slip by, for instance.
Now then, how do you turn it on? The metal strip at the top of the white-out-of-black keyboard has a smaller strip at the right edge. Touch it and a blue light glows as Windows 7 Premium cranks into life. To the left of the blue glow, delicate lights show that the hard drive is doing its business and Wi-Fi is on.
The large screen looks impressive, with plenty of space for all the programs you'll want to launch. Around the keyboard, a black glossy frame is set off by a lower area that matches the lid, with an integrated trackpad. This has raised bars to show you the edges and usefully a smaller bar so you know just where to touch to scroll up and down - on most trackpads this is a trial-and-error affair. Beneath the trackpad, the mouse buttons appear as one long rocker strip, lacking the subtle pattern of the rest of the silvered area so it stands out. A little too much, you might say.
Because the screen is glossy, it suffers from the annoying problems faced by using a notebook on an office desk. Overhead office lighting, as you know, means you have to angle the screen to avoid reflections. All well and good, there'll be an angle that will work. But it may not be the one that works for using the webcam, say, whose chrome-ringed lens sits just above the display.
But the screen is certainly invitingly sharp and bright, and gets that HD tag at 1600 x 900 pixels, but not the whole Full HD hog, which some will complain about. You get the option of Nvidia or ATI dedicated graphics offering 512MB or 1GB of dedicated graphics power, so it is worth checking the specs before you part with your cash.
The keyboard is big, and even includes a number pad, which is great, but it's not especially comfortable, perhaps a little over-sprung. There's something a little weird at how off-centre the letter keys are because of the extra space the numbers demand on the right-hand side. The multi-touch trackpad is directly beneath the space bar and it's annoyingly easy to brush it as you type so the cursor jumps around crazily.
Oh yes, just under the power button there's an extra key on the keyboard! It's a smiley-faced fellow with two chums peeping out from behind and it signifies one of the series' USPs - a direct link to social networks. Press it and a window appears which will log you in to Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. It's not a big window but if you want something more discreet, one click and the cheery chaps icon appears again, with logos for the sites below. It's quite a neat gimmick, and other makers may copy it.
The LM comes with 3GB of RAM, and it skipped along nicely in our tests, thanks to its Intel Core i3-330M processor. Battery life was good, though not outstanding, managing 3.5 hours when not connected to the mains - not bad for such a big display. You'll find a 320GB hard drive in place as well as all the normal connectivity, including HDMI.
The Packard Bell EasyNote LM is big, capable and not as heavy as it looks. It looks, well, you'll decide if you like the styling, but you can't say Packard Bell hasn't tried to catch your eye. And that large screen makes it hard to miss, even from a distance. But the clunky keyboard is a disappointment and the rest of the machine's performance is adequate but not exceptional.


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The 87th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City is lifting balloons and spirits on Thursday. Though parade directors had worried that high winds would prevent them from inflating the 16 giant balloons for the parade, calmer-than-expected weather and tight grips allowed the show to go on in 26 mph winds. Crowds gathered in 30-degree weather to watch the floats go by.
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As an old person who has seen this happening and been dismayed -
I can only present to you the same conundrum that was presented to me:
If there are too many people on this planet - which ones are the too many? And how would YOU reduce the population.
Sorry, to a large degree, Malthusianism has been discredited.
Stating the truth (we are expanding to the limit of immediately available resources, and depleting past sustainability) does not correlate to having a solution that can be made a mandate.
There is only one option for reducing the population. Reverse population growth (Birth rate). Idiots see "Reduce population" and assume that means "kill people off". It will happen, one way or another. Most likely, there will be a crash, and the very old and very young will suffer. It would have been far better if folks were intelligent, far-sighted, and earnest. They could say "Oh, it makes great sense for each woman to only have one child, since our progenitors bred beyond sense as well as consumed beyond sense. That is what we shall do!" -Yeah, right. It would be nice. It only took us 70 years to go from 2 billion to 7 billion. Why could we not be back to 5 billion (and dropping ever faster) by the end of the century, and down to 2 billion in 2150? Using available known resources, we might not even have to turn old people out in the snow. (Yes, I am not young myself).
The population of Africa has increased by more than 55% since 1990. Many countries (well not that many) such as Russia actually have negative population growth, so it is not unfeasible.
Malthusianism as such is not based on what we would call "relevant algorithm", but only due to the capacity of the food system in the SHORT TERM, and only due to the availability of fossil fuels for feedstocks/nitrogen/fuel etc... The other limits that Malthus did NOT know about seem to play more to the basic agreement that there is indeed a limit. Crop yields go up, but will reverse when fuel gets scarce. Available arable land, water, and sustainability will eventually limit or even offset what seems like an ever expanding breadbasket...one that even now does not cover us.
Just like a Ponzi scheme, you need population growth to support the ideology of retirement, pension, and all that end of life stuff outside of a family group. The math just doesn't work when you have fewer people in the successive generations. Quoting "Malthusianism has been largely discredited" does not discredit statistics just because it seems that way in our current privileged resource spending spree. Thirty percent world pop growth in the last 20 years...get it? I really don't believe anyone thinks that is sustainable for another hundred years.
All this because of 2 reasons:
1. Monotheists don't want people jerking off.
2. Sex is the only entertainment poor folks can afford.
Anyone here ever watch the movie "Idiocracy"?
Idiocracy, yes! Great comedy. It captured much, but posited a benevolent computer system taking care of the population. They couldn't repair a roof but managed to keep a sophisticated computer system going. Yeah, right. *pfft* Starbucks, LOL a hand job with every coffee, that would work.
The laws inherent in ecology will eventually "solve" our population problem. The law in question is when a population, of any animal or plant exceeds the carrying capacity of their environment then the species will experience a massive die off. As intelligent and inventive critters our technology can extend that capacity – oft times dramatically. Sadly, our tech can only save us for a while and there is tragic evidence that we have stretched the carrying capacity as far as our technology can compensate.
If the people of the first world economies have a sudden surge of self sacrifice so that others can survive we might buy more time – not a likely scenario. I believe that before the turn of the century natural laws will "solve" the population problem with brutal efficiency.
Agree completely. The only purpose in even discussing this at our level of influence (or anyone's?) is to...well just understand the situation for our own edification. Same thing for death or the discontinuation of your favorite NPR program.
While I look on the history of predictions, saying "before the end of the century" might not be a safe place to bet today's lunch money, it does indeed seem that 80 years is a reasonable time frame to see some sort of ecological correction, despite our ability to cheat the dice. Predicting technology is not a good business to be in, but on issues related to math and thermodynamics, it seems likely that technology will not provide protection against mass misery, just against complete devastation of society.
The situation has pretty well added up to a "done deal" or humans would not be thinking about considering to talk about discussing weather the problem is real or not. :)
The only purpose in even discussing this at our level of influence (or anyone's?) is to...well just understand the situation for our own edification.
Our discussions might have a nonzero effect. The main problem to change isn't technology, or even corporate structure, it's psychology. People can't face the greatest challenge to humanity, in part, because they can't even imagine how it might be solved. We might be able to imagine the transition, how to cope. If together we can articulate a range of solution scenarios, some might become options eventually taken seriously. Remember that our discussion and image tags yield results in Google searches. Someday, people will desperately scour for constructive solutions.
Think of our conversation as part of global communication effort, groping for a way out, fragmented now but coming together into a rigorous debate in the future. We are outliers, early thinkers, so what we say could be taken up and have influence over time.
There's a vestigial group Think in the Future Tense, where we could brainstorm and toss around ideas on the entire range of issues, not just overpopulation. I'm a member, join us.
This could, in hindsight, turn out to be the most important conversation you've had. And as you say, we'll understand the situation for our own edification at the least.
BTW, I've been posting for a while here using the tag "Climate Destabilization". A Google search just now turned up two of my discussions on the first page, and an image search yielded 11 images from discussions here, one LOLcat I'd made with that tag, and one LOLcat Steph used here in a discussion, on the first image page. Of course there are lots more images on the first page than links on that first page. Images lead viewers to your discussions, so it's always helpful to add an image.
This not only gives you a greater voice, it can bring people to look at Atheist Nexus.
Trust me, I have a far wider range of knowledge of the planetary sciences than I need to for making basic conclusions. I have probably known more than you know now for 30 years. I really don't need more discussion (at this point) to coalesce my thoughts. I merely need to continue taking, sharing and gathering observations to provide arguments against previous conclusions. The paradigm hasn't shifted much in those 30 years.
Here is the issue: If you have an educational message you wish to share, avoid anything but hard data. I can find well intended overstatements, understatements, mistakes, misquotes, errors and mass oversimplifications in most of the materials I find quoted here. That is a problem. When you make a long speech, you make gaffs that folks can use to "support" contrary opinions. When you make sensationalist statements, or even emotive concise summaries, you invite idiots to participate and present their "feelings" on an equally low level.
The statement
I observe there are 36 AN/SM-3 missiles approaching our position from every 10 degree gradient vector surrounding us. Our radar indicates they will close our position in 98 seconds. Reports from my sources (see footnote#3 certified encrypted transmission from the USS Al Gore and plain language transmission from the JDF ship Guygin) concur with our data +/- 3%. It is my impression that due to the lack of motion of our ship, the visual data showing our throttle is in the Flank Speed position, and the heavy black smoke coming from the exhaust that we are not able to maneuver in any way to avoid a bad outcome. Therefore, I tentatively present to you the statement: "We are totally screwed".
Separate your feelings from the data, however intense the feelings are, if you wish to make hard facts speak for you.
Using the great gift of knowledge presented in the Awesome Documentary "Idiocracy", you may also use a much more effective approach for gaining support from a certain segment of the population:
Don't tell them that electrolytes are bad for the plants! Tell them that you can TALK to plants, and they are telling you that they want WATER! If they question you at all say "What?! Can't you hear them too? What are you? Dumb or something???"
This has the unfortunate side effect of getting you ostracized by the...oh...three percent of the population that can actually conceptualize a portion of the big picture. Use a pseudonym when you give your "No Brawndo" speeches.
The statement that I do not understand the extent of the problem is patently wrong. I would present that the opposite may very well be true. I am one of the folks that helped design and deploy ARGOS elements that bring you the data you get digested data from. I am also a very outside guy, and I see and feel the pulse of these changes directly. I would like to assure you that these things affect me heavily on a very personal level. I am sure you feel very strongly about this stuff, but really, how much time do you spend out in the weather? How much time do you spend far out on the ocean, out in the middle of the everglades, or watching the changes on your local rivers and estuaries from your rowboat year after year?
Yeah, I feel entitled to the title "Aware".
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The statement that I do not understand the extent of the problem is patently wrong. I would present that the opposite may very well be true.
It was not in this discussion about overpopulation where I said I thought you did not understand the extent of a problem. I don't question your knowledge of overpopulation. I said
Perhaps you, like most people, are unaware of the true dimensions of our Planetary Emergency.
specifically in reference to the synergistic multiplication of risk that climate change poses to nuclear power plant safety.
I certainly didn't paste the label "Unaware" on you, as a general put down. I admire your connection to nature and minimizing your carbon footprint.
I appreciate your attempt to give me feedback on my communication techniques. However, I find your advice somewhat unclear, or at least it confuses me. Perhaps if you gave particular examples where you see me contaminating hard data that I quote with my feelings, we could address those cases. I appreciate that at least you recognize I'm well intentioned. It would be helpful to address "overstatements, understatements, mistakes, misquotes, errors and mass oversimplifications" on a case by case basis.
When you make a long speech, you make gaffs that folks can use to "support" contrary opinions.
I probably do make gaffs. Feel free to call me on them.
When you make sensationalist statements, or even emotive concise summaries, you invite idiots to participate and present their "feelings" on an equally low level.
It's my take that you see statements such as "survival is at stake" as sensationalism because you don't take the threats to civilization and species survival as seriously as I. When I take the long view, I see climate destabilization triggering not only very serious climate change but also very many nuclear power plant accidents. The cumulative challenge to species survival involves an accumulating mutation rate burden to future generations. There's a threshold where the ability of evolution to remove deleterious mutations is exceeded by their generation, which leads to extinction. Herman Muller warned about this threat decades ago, but most people ignored him. You and I may have very different estimates of the chances that our species will survive the next few thousand years. But do not assume that difference arises from my allowing emotions to distort fact. I think we pay attention to different facts and put them together differently.
I think expressing our feelings about serious issues like these is helpful. Even people who are less informed and who disagree have a right to express emotion in non-blaming respectful language. They deserve a voice. If we do not include others in debate, how will we learn form one another?
As to your use of "idiots", I'm just now learning how ableist my own language has been. I'm making an effort to avoid ableist words.
Definitions: An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way.
---Correct language.
Liable: Both liable and apt when followed by an infinitive are used nearly interchangeably with likely
So yes, I make likely statements about people acting in self-defeating manner.
Human species...meaning THIS human species is not in danger of extinction, though it is progressing down the pathway normally associated with species transmogrification.
Example: Virus becomes so virulent and capable of reproduction that it spreads wildly along many vectors, attacking and killing every available host. Eventually as a species or variant, only the less virulent actually survive.
Sounds like a good thing in the long run doesn't it?
Thank goodness for nuclear power. Some of our species might get to last out in subterranean bastions huddled against a nuclear power plant in Tropical Antarctica eating algae and meat rabbits for a few thousand years until everything blows over. Maybe the society they create will breed fewer tailgaters and self centered Idiots. With a population collapse, we can then undergo a few beneficial changes in our much smaller more mutable genetic pool, as we did long ago when early hominids were almost wiped out.
No, I don't see survival as being at stake, and the planet doesn't need "saving". Our supposed bicameral legislature and the local shoe boutique need saving. The human species (and hominids) lived just fine in a hand-to-mouth disease-ridden condition for a couple of million years. I'm not all THAT wrapped up in the current mayfly population spike that I happen to be part of.
This may simply be because I am an engineer, and we are born without souls. I posit that no-one else is either, but....
An once again, there have not been "a lot of nuclear power plant accidents". The meningitis-laced steroids in the news currently have done a LOT more damage than Fukushima ever will in real terms, but we will hear about Fuku long after this epidemic is last week's news. You see, it's less sensational.
Paper mills have and continue to do hundreds of thousands of times the environmental damage that nuclear power plants have, but they are the cornerstone of our society, and are not sensational!
You could indeed drop a nuclear weapon on NYC every year and not equal the damage to the environment that having the city there currently causes. This is a fact. Powering it with nuclear power is a beneficial step.
Chernobyl is now a nature preserve....where before, it was a cesspit.
Art, you appear fully aware of the hazards and limitations of a wide range of industries. True paper mills are among the most polluting industries, right up there with cement production and coal plants. But hundreds of thousands of times more environmental damage in real terms than nuclear power plants? Show me that data please!
When I make claims similar in structure to "The meningitis-laced steroids in the news currently have done a LOT more damage than Fukushima ever will in real terms" you ask for a published comparative study. This isn't a straightforward comparison.
We might eventually know exactly how many patients were killed by tainted spinal medication, once the incubation for meningitis passes. Patient deaths are damage, of course. But a meningitis outbreak doesn't permanently render a parcel of land useless to future generations. It's more difficult to quantify the damage from Fukushima. We may never be able to quantify the radioactive contamination which bioconcentrates in Pacific Ocean food chains, and the disease burden to wildlife and human consumers which ensues, now and through all future generations. Long term damage such as to habitable land must be also be considered.
Our planet has limited habitable zones. Toxic chemical spills, erosion down to bedrock, and radiation hot zones remove useable land, irreversibly for practical purposes. For millions of years our hand-to-mouth disease-ridden ancestors lived here and left habitable land behind for us. In the past few hundred years we've wantonly destroyed, for the foreseeable future, habitable territory worldwide. With climate destabilization, soil depletion, pollution and nuclear proliferation, this destruction seems to be rising exponentially to me.
When the Japanese "clean up" Fukushima they move the radioactive waste somewhere else in Japan, with the logic that all provinces should "share the pain".
Two dreadful commercial nuclear power plant accidents, two noncommercial meltdowns, a close call at Three Mile Island, and numerous ongoing safety issues such as flooding at Calhoun count as "a lot" of accidents to me.
In sum, it's my impression that you focus more on present damage and I focus more on very long term damage. This may be part of why we diverge on risk assessment.
Did my thesis on the migration of radioactinides in groundwater...so Yes, I am familiar with the long view of handling waste made from weapons, ancient first generation plants, and all that crap. I have done term papers on Yukka mountain and studied welded egnimbrite geologic formations and all that...and I base my opinions on that, political experience, personal experience, anthopological studies, planetary science... and I have NOT ONCE asked you for any kind of "comparative study...nothing like that! I'm not trying to prove anything to you, except my stance that your methods are really good at driving away anyone that isn't exactly *perfectly* in your camp, undermining your ability to actually deal with the situation at all. I would think that is very important to you, as I am sure you must have a plan for implementing a real world amelioration scheme...otherwise you would not need so many converts to your way of thinking so that you can act immediately. Here is reality as I see it: If you were elected High-Muck-a-Muck Emperess Plenipotentiary at noon today, you would not have the resources or technology to implement a solar/wind economy within the next 50 years. You couldn't do it. Mind you, that is based on a mere regional study that I am familiar with (having taken part in the study as a lowly researcher). You need these: http://energy.sc.gov/publications/Roger%20Schonewald%20-%20GE%20Ene... You need 4000 of them to power NYC alone. We only have a few sets of heavy lift equipment, and no-were near enough expansion capacity in that regard. You need 22 years to complete the job for NYC. You can achieve 20% Wind power, if the population stopped growing immediately. Otherwise, we could not do even a war-time economy that could catch up to the cumulative requirements. The infrastructure requirements are simply too great in terms of distributing that power, and there really are not that many places that can use wind (see links). You cannot do this anytime near our lifetimes, which is obviously what is required. I strongly recommend you take a REAL look at nuclear power options and realities. The STRONGEST PROPONENTS of Nuclear power in this day and age are Rotor blade shot for you.....
You need 12,000 of these for NYC, with other plants to back them up and a completely new set of grid facilities...and a new grid installed in the city andddddd....
WWF made an interesting case for getting off fossil fuels without nuclear power by 2050....problem is, it requires 6,000 exajoules of energy from biomass....basically converting all our agricultural output into burnable biomass that causes tons of pollution (which might reach a state of equilibrium after about 250 years but leaves us with a 9000ppm CO2 debit...not good for the climate or hydrological cycle or anything else in the water. Not to mention that the algae-based biofuel production technology to date has created 1.4 grams of biodiesel. Feasibly, we COULD replace (as high mucky-muck) all the current plants with nuclear in 35 years...all 15,000. Carbon output could drop to an acceptable level and extra capacity could start producing electric railway transport, further reducing greenhouse emissions. ...of course, if you are totally against taking a deeper look at nuclear power in a scientific and unbiased light, then there is little I can do for you. You can't convert all the Baptists.
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The Associate Press reports Ukraine's parliament has voted to free jailed former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.
Tymoshenko, a vocal opposition leader and one of the faces of the 2004 Orange Revolution, was convicted in October 2011 of exceeding her powers as prime minister. She was sentenced to seven years in prison. Her incarceration has led to strained ties between the former Soviet nation and the West, with both the United States and the European Union condemning the jailing as a "politically motivated" act.
As BBC News' Moscow correspondent Daniel Sandford points out, the vote to free Tymoshenko will still need to be signed into law by embattled President Viktor Yanukovych, Tymoshenko's principal rival.
The vote comes just hours after Yanukovych agreed to a deal with opposition leaders to hold early elections in hopes to stem the months-long protest in Kiev that have left at least 77 dead and hundreds injured this week.
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Now Tymoshenko may be just days from a return. Hours after Yanukovych and protest leaders signed a wide-ranging agreement Friday to resolve the country's political crisis, the parliament that once was in Yanukovych's pocket approved a measure decriminalizing the charge used to convict Tymoshenko, paving the way for her release.
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Editor's note: The editorial boards of The Denver Post and The Seattle Times agreed to have some fun leading up to the Super Bowl in a contest of "Whose City Is Better?" Post editorial writer Jeremy Meyer took up the challenge, wielding his pen against Jonathan Martin of The Seattle Times. Check out Martin's piece here.
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Today, the editorial board of The Denver Post will go mano a mano with our colleagues at The Seattle Times over which city is better.
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"Champagne." Augustin Scalbert's tweet on Monday could not have better expressed the joy and relief at Rue89, a leading French news website. After four years of legal procedures, a Paris judge had just announced he was dropping all charges against the journalist "for lack of evidence" in a case that was seen as a litmus test for the independence of the French press in reporting on the presidency.
In June 2008 Scalbert, a renowned reporter and media critic, had posted and wrote about a video showing then-President Nicolas Sarkozy chatting with journalists a few minutes before an on-air interview on the public service channel France 3. The president appeared in a very bad mood, scolding a technician that had refused to salute him, talking condescendingly with one of the journalists, and even suggesting a question to the interviewer.
As the video went viral--it has been seen by more than 4 million people on Daily Motion--the Elysée Palace reacted immediately and with vigor. According to media reports at the time, the France 3 management, against the majority opinion of the channel's association of reporters and editors, was forced to file a complaint for "theft, receiving stolen goods, and forgery." In 2009, Scalbert and the director of Rue89, Pierre Haski, were summoned by police and interrogated. In 2010, the Rue89 journalist together with a France 3 technician was eventually indicted for uploading the video and refusing to reveal his source at France 3--a charge that could have carried a five-year prison sentence and a 375,000 euro (US$462,000) fine.
Most observers saw this legal action as an outrageous sign of the French state's political interference in the public media as well as an attempt to intimidate journalists covering the presidency. On Tuesday Haski, the co-founder of Rue89, did not miss this point in his reaction to the judge's decision. "It has not taken more than two months after Sarkozy's departure from the Elysée Palace," he wrote, "to end a long winding procedure that smacked of political revenge."
"This outcome is natural for the France 3 technician and myself because this affair was eminently political and constituted an attack against press freedom. I would have preferred that the judiciary prove its independence by issuing its ruling before the change of government," Scalbert told CPJ. "However as Nicolas Sarkozy had triggered the procedure by his pressures on France 3 the prosecutor waited for François Hollande's election to declare that there was no ground for prosecution, a decision naturally followed by the juge d'instruction (examining magistrate)."
The decision has been hailed as a victory for freedom of expression. "It is great news not only for the people involved, but also for the right to information on an issue of public interest: the head of state in the exercise of his functions," Haski wrote.
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This section describes how to install MySQL from the latest development source code, which is hosted on GitHub. To obtain the MySQL Server source code from this repository hosting service, you can set up a local MySQL Git repository.
On GitHub, MySQL Server and other MySQL projects are found on the MySQL page. The MySQL Server project is a single repository that contains branches for several MySQL series.
MySQL officially joined GitHub in September, 2014. For more information about MySQL's move to GitHub, refer to the announcement on the MySQL Release Engineering blog: MySQL on GitHub
To install MySQL from a development source tree, your system must satisfy the tool requirements listed at Section 2.9.2, "Source Installation Prerequisites".
To set up a MySQL Git repository on your machine, use this procedure:
Clone the MySQL Git repository to your machine. The following command clones the MySQL Git repository to a directory named
mysql-server. The initial download will take some time to complete, depending on the speed of your connection.
~$ git clone https://github.com/mysql/mysql-server.git Cloning into 'mysql-server'... remote: Counting objects: 1035465, done. remote: Total 1035465 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (1035465/1035465), 437.48 MiB | 5.10 MiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (855607/855607), done. Checking connectivity... done. Checking out files: 100% (21902/21902), done.
When the clone operation completes, the contents of your local MySQL Git repository appear similar to the following:
~$ cd mysql-server ~/mysql-server$ ls BUILD COPYING libmysqld regex unittest BUILD-CMAKE dbug libservices scripts VERSION client Docs man sql vio cmake extra mysql-test sql-common win CMakeLists.txt include mysys storage zlib cmd-line-utils INSTALL-SOURCE packaging strings config.h.cmake INSTALL-WIN-SOURCE plugin support-files configure.cmake libmysql README tests
Use the git branch -r command to view the remote tracking branches for the MySQL repository.
~/mysql-server$ git branch -r origin/5.5 origin/5.6 origin/5.7 origin/HEAD -> origin/5.7 origin/cluster-7.2 origin/cluster-7.3 origin/cluster-7.4
To view the branches that are checked out in your local repository, issue the git branch command. When you cloned the MySQL Git repository, the MySQL 5.7 branch was checked out automatically. The asterisk identifies the 5.7 branch as the active branch.
~/mysql-server$ git branch * 5.7
To check out a different MySQL branch, run the git checkout command, specifying the branch name. For example, to check out the MySQL 5.5 branch:
~/mysql-server$ git checkout 5.5 Branch 5.5 set up to track remote branch 5.5 from origin. Switched to a new branch '5.5'
git branchto verify that the MySQL 5.5 branch is present. MySQL 5.5, which is the last branch you checked out, is marked by an asterisk indicating that it is the active branch.
~/mysql-server$ git branch * 5.5 5.7
Use the git checkout command to switch between branches. For example:
~/mysql-server$ git checkout 5.7
To obtain changes made after your initial setup of the MySQL Git repository, switch to the branch you want to update and issue the
git pullcommand:
~/mysql-server$ git checkout 5.7 ~/mysql-server$ git pull
To examine the commit history, use the
git logoption:
~/mysql-server$ git log
You can also browse commit history and source code on the GitHub MySQL site.
If you see changes or code that you have a question about, ask on the MySQL Community Slack. For information about contributing a patch, see Contributing to MySQL Server.
After you have cloned the MySQL Git repository and have checked out the branch you want to build, you can build MySQL Server from the source code. Instructions are provided in Section 2.9.4, "Installing MySQL Using a Standard Source Distribution", except that you skip the part about obtaining and unpacking the distribution.
Be careful about installing a build from a distribution source tree on a production machine. The installation command may overwrite your live release installation. If you already have MySQL installed and do not want to overwrite it, run CMake with values for the
MYSQL_TCP_PORT, and
MYSQL_UNIX_ADDRoptions different from those used by your production server. For additional information about preventing multiple servers from interfering with each other, see Section 5.7, "Running Multiple MySQL Instances on One Machine".
Play hard with your new installation. For example, try to make new features crash. Start by running make test. See Section 28.1.2, "The MySQL Test Suite".


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If you weighed all the books and articles that 82-year-old philosopher and Roxborough resident Stanley Rosen has published, plus their translations into French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Serbian, Polish, Chinese and Hebrew, you'd tip the scale over. If you added all the philosophical essays along with poetry he started writing when he was in high school, you'd probably break the scale.
The subject matter of Rosen's work is also "heavy." Not only has he written numerous books on the great philosophers of the past — Plato, Aristotle, Hegel, etc. — and examined the differences between them and the moderns, but he has penetrated such topics as the science of wisdom and theory of knowledge, aesthetics, metaphysics, human nature and conduct; all universal concerns.
"Philosophy is everything; everything is philosophy," Rosen insists. "It can't be about something alone; it has to be about everything … It is the love of wisdom; it is a way of life with the ultimate goal of striving for completeness — the most a human can be."
Here is just a sampling of Rosen's remarkable quantity of publications: "Plato's Statesman: The Web of Politics" (Yale University Press, 1995); "The Question of Being: A Reversal of Heidegger" (Yale University Press, 1993); "The Ancients and the Moderns" (Yale University Press, 1989); "The Quarrel Between Philosophy and Poetry" (Routledge, 1988); "Plato's Symposium" (Yale University Press, 1987); "Hermeneutics as Politics" (Oxford University Press, 1987); "Plato's Sophist" (Yale University Press, 1983); "The Limits of Analysis" (Basic Books, 1980); "G. W. F. Hegel: An Introduction to the Science of Wisdom" (Yale University Press, 1974); and "Nihilism: a Philosophical Essay" (Yale University Press, 1969).
Along with this formidable body of work, Rosen has traveled throughout Europe and Canada lecturing at countless universities. Add to these his lectures throughout the U.S. and his 38 years of teaching at Penn State followed by 12 at Boston University, where he held the Evan Pugh Professor of Philosophy Chair, and you would conclude that this is the work of several lifetimes.
In recognition of this plethora of scholarly activity are the fellowships and honorary positions Rosen has held throughout the world, including the presidency of the Metaphysical Society of America, an honorary doctorate from the University of Lisbon, the Neu Family Award for Excellence in Teaching from the B.U. College of Arts and Sciences, and honorary membership in the Serbian National Academy.
So what were the influences in Rosen's background that led to his profound involvement in philosophy? Born in 1929 and raised in Warren, Ohio, he originally wanted to be a writer. His Russian father loved novels — and insisted that his six-year-old son read "War and Peace!" His highly intelligent mother read several languages. Though his parents' literary interests were not in line with son Stanley's philosophical bent, Rosen explained that he grew up during the Great Depression amid riots, poverty and rampant anti-Semitism. "I knew what life is actually like. I had a wider view of life."
Cleveland High School, where he rated his learning intake as D-minus, didn't do much, either, though Rosen's high IQ evidently helped. "I had no interest in an academic life, and was regarded by teachers as eccentric. I was also considered neurotic" by one administrator, he says.
His early years at the University of Chicago (where he was originally in the top 20 in his application for a scholarship) weren't much better. He cut classes and failed them in order to make time for his own philosophical pursuits.
However, despite this academic disinterest and anti-classroom behavior, he received his B.A. in one year in a special program, skipped a Master's degree and earned his Ph.D in 1955 after five years of study at the U of C. Eventually, he found a place there in the Philosophical Committee on Social Thought — "the first intelligent people I'd ever met" — and was on his way.
During his 12-year professorship at Boston U., Rosen lived in Wellesley, Mass., until he retired in 2009 with his wife, Françoise, to Cathedral Village in Upper Roxborough. There he recently finished his soon-to-be published "opuscula," a two-volume collection of his papers and book reviews, and is now rewriting his book, "G.W. F. Hegel, An Introduction to the Science of Wisdom." He is also thinking about writing his memoirs.
The Rosens have three children: Nicholas, a senior examiner in the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C.; Paul, Managing Director of a "good food store" in Missoula, Montana; and Valerie, who lives in Bryn Mawr and is about to receive her post-doctorate fellowship in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania.
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The magical wait for the Three Wise Men
The Three Kings Parade in Fuerteventura
Do you want to make your children happy? Spend the Christmas holidays with us and let them live a unique experience: the arrival of the Three Wise Men. In Spain it is Melchoir, Caspar and Balthazar, who bring Christmas presents to children who have been good throughout the year. Why not give your family the chance to enjoy this beautiful tradition, wrapped up in excitement and magic. Here Christmas lasts until 6 January for the little ones!
In Spain, the tradition of gift giving at Christmas is particularly special for children. They are the ones who await most eagerly the arrival of the Three Wise Men, who come in through the windows house by house, sharing out presents in just one night. They are not the only ones to have a good time, however. Grown-ups cannot help becoming infected by their happiness during the preparations for the big day: 6 January. Sharing the exciting wait with them is a gift of love and emotion. This Christmas tradition fills the little ones' days with unforgettable magic.
The Letter
First of all, children have to write their letter to the Three Wise Men, saying which presents they would like them to bring. After this comes one of the favourite moments: giving the letter in. They can either give the letter to the Wise Men personally when they arrive "officially" on 5 January, or to the emissaries and royal postmen to be found in the centre of all Spanish towns a few days before. They will be asked if they have been good at school and at home, because naughty children get left coal instead of presents. Although, in truth, it is a "sweet" punishment because the coal is made of sugar.
Spectacular parades
When the long-awaited day finally arrives, the whole family come out onto the street to receive the Wise Men. They arrive with a traditional parade, riding through the streets on their camels, loaded with presents and accompanied by royal pages who throw sweets and goodies to the children. One by one, the delightful floats pass by, decorated with bright colours and inspired in popular children's characters. The little ones will love them. All the while, a band brings joy to the celebration with Christmas songs and carols. The spectacle of joy, light and colour, combined with the smiles of the children, make for a feeling of complete happiness.
There are parades celebrated all over Spain on this day. Each has its own particular style, depending on where you are. In Barcelona, for example, the Three Wise Men arrive by sea, while in the village of Alarilla, in Guadalajara, they are daring enough to arrive by hang-glider and paraglider. Or why not see the parade in Alcoi, Alicante, the oldest in Spain?
Three Kings' Night
After the parade, children go to bed early but excited, to wait for Melchoir, Caspar and Balthazar to come in through the window and leave presents in their shoes. First they should put water and bread on the windowsill for the camels to eat and drink while the Wise Men do their work. Come and experience Christmas in Spain and discover this magical tradition that will fill your children with joy. Let them get carried away by all the moments of joy, surprise and tender happiness to be found in our country at this festive time. Now is your chance. Make the most of it.
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Food energy 339.0 Kcal/kg
wheat, meat digest meal, chicken meat meal, animal fat, meat meal, maize germ, chicken meat, reindeer meat (min. 4%), wheat bran, chicken broth, hemoglobin, minerals, linseed, beet fiber, brewer's yeast
protein 22.0 %
fat 11.0 %
fiber 2.5 %
ash 6.2 %
carbohydrates 48.0 %
calcium 1.2 %
phosphorus 1.0 %
magnesium 0.1 %
biotine (vitamin H) 108.0 mcg
iron 140.0 mg/kg
potassium 0.6 %
copper 12.5 mg/kg
manganese 37.0 mg/kg
sodium 0.4 %
niacin (vitamin- B3) 17.0 mg/kg
pantothenic acid 15.0 mg/kg
zinc 62.0 mg/kg
vitamin A 9400.0 IU/kg
vitamin B1 (thiamine) 2.5 mg/kg
vitamin B2 (riboflavin) 3.5 mg/kg
vitamin B6 (pyridoxine) 1.7 mg/kg
vitamin D 990.0 IU/kg
vitamin E (tocopherol) 60.0 mg/kg
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Low quality meat ingredients of unidentifiable origin, low quality grain, fat of unidentifiable origin, controversial filler
The primary ingredient in this food is wheat. Wheat, although a whole grain, is believed by many to be the leading cause of food allergies in dog food. Even if this had been a high quality grain, we would still note that it is a grain and not a natural foodstuff for a canine. Dog food products should be based on meat, not on grains.
The second ingredient is an unidentified meat product, in meal form. Like the fifth ingredient, this is of low quality. Unidentifiable even by species, it is the rendered product from mammal tissues, including bone, exclusive of blood, hair, hoof, horn, hide trimmings, manure, stomach and rumen contents, except in such amounts as may occur unavoidably in good processing practices. Between these is chicken meal, which is a decent quality named meat product.
There are two further meat ingredients further down the ingredient list. These are not a meat meals, but instead are inclusive of water content (about 80%). Once this is removed, as it must be to create a dehydrated product, the ingredient will weigh around 20% of its wet weight. As ingredients are listed in order of weight, it is thus unlikely that this ingredient is truely amongst the most prolific in the food and would be more accurately placed further down the ingredient list. At wet weight only the 7th and 8th ingredient in the the food, it is likely that the true amount of this ingredient is significantly lower.
Animal fat is an ingredient of unidentified origin for which it is impossible to determine species, source or quality. Unidentified ingredients are usually very low quality. AAFCO define this asobtained from the tissues of mammals and/or poultry in the commercial processes of rendering or extracting. It consists predominantly of glyceride esters of fatty acids and contains no additions of free fatty acids. If an antioxidant is used, the common name or names must be indicated, followed by the words "used as a preservative".
Beet pulp is a controversial filler. It is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
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What Is a Dividend?
Dividends represent a distribution of corporate earnings to company shareholders and usually take place in one of two forms -- cash or stock. Each organization's board of directors determines the actual dividend amount that the firm will pay out. Most cash dividends are paid on a quarterly basis. Meanwhile, stock dividends are generally paid at infrequent intervals.
How do Dividends work?
When researching a company, it is important to recognize when they pay dividends. However, it is easy to be confused by several different dates a company may specify when informing investors of their dividend structure. You should be aware of the following terms:
Dividend Declaration Date: This is the date on which a company's board of directors declares that a dividend will be paid. The board determines the amount of the dividend, as well as when it is to be paid to shareholders on record.
Dividend Record Date: This is the date on which a company reviews its books to determine its "shareholders of record." Shareholders who hold a particular stock on this date will receive the firm's dividend payment.
Ex-dividend Date: After the Record Date has been determined, the stock exchanges or the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) assign the ex-dividend date. The ex-dividend date for stocks is typically two business days prior to the record date. If an investor buys a stock before the ex dividend date, then they will receive the dividend payment. If they purchase the stock on or after the ex-dividend date, then they are not entitled to receive the dividend. On the ex-dividend date, a firm's share price usually declines to reflect the amount of the dividend paid. For example, if a stock is trading at $100 and pays a quarterly dividend of $3 per share, then, all other things being equal, the stock will open on the ex-dividend date at $97.
Why do Dividends matter?
Many investors rely on dividend payments as a source of income. Say you are retired and hold a significant proportion of your investment portfolio in stocks. Even if share prices of your stocks increase over time, you will be unable to realize these capital gains until you sell your shares. However, if these stocks pay dividends, you will receive a check in the mail (usually four times a year) for your share of the companies' profits.
Dividend payments are very important to the relationship between company and investor. In recent history we saw General Motors cut their long-running dividend in an effort to avoid bankruptcy during the financial crisis that started in 2008. This enraged many former GM employees who lived on dividend payments from the corporation. Additionally, there have been cases of a company's stock price falling amid talks of cutting dividends, showing that a stable dividend payout is integral to a company's financial well-being.


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CocoRosie is a musical group formed in 2003 by sisters Bianca "Coco" and Sierra "Rosie" Casady. The sisters were born and raised in the United States, but formed the band in Paris after meeting for the first time in years. Their music has been called "freak folk", and incorporates elements of pop, blues, opera, electronica, and hip hop.
CocoRosie was originally a duo, with Sierra singing, playing the guitar, piano and harp, and Bianca singing and manipulating various children's toys, electronic and percussion instruments, as well as other exotic noisemakers. They subsequently added various backing musicians at live shows, usually a bassist, synth player and beatboxer. They have been a very active touring group, playing across Europe, the United States, and elsewhere. They have released four full-length albums: La maison de mon rêve (2004), Noah's Ark (2005), The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (2007), and Grey Oceans (2010).