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Monday, October 29, 2007
John Romer - Ancient Lives; The Story of the Pharaohs' Tombmakers
Whenever you wander around an ancient place, be it Roman, Egyptian or Greek. Or visit some long ruined castle or cave, it is impossible not to gaze around and imagine what it must have been like for the people who lived there.
This is doubly problematic for those who have been lucky enough to visit the Pyramids. After all, no-one lived there. These were the tombs of the richest of Egyptian society. The people who made these places died, in the most, forgotten. The ordinary people of Egypt who created the wealth of the Egyptian Pharaohs leave few if any markers.
However for those who created the beautifully engraved and decorated tombs of the Valley of the Kings in southern Egypt. This is not true. For hundreds of years, men and women of the village that is now known as Deir El Medina lived and worked on the tombs and we are lucky enough to have a wealth of detailed accounts of their lives, as well as much more circumstantial evidence to back up the documents that have been discovered.
In the last hundred years or so, Archaeologists have discovered dozens of papyrus scrolls, which detail in minutiae the lives of these tomb builders. It seems that the foremen of the working gangs were meticulous in the day to day detail they recorded.
"Year one, on the twelfth day of the first month of summer, the boulder of flint was found on the right" wrote Scribe Kenhirkhopeshef, who was in charge of keeping the work journal of the tomb of the Great Ramses (who died in 1212BC). Each day he recorded the depth of digging, the number of wicks used by the quarrymen lamps and other details of the dig. Writing mostly on flakes of stone, the scribe recorded the 13 years work on the tomb of Rameses' successor. We know he sat and watched the workers from a niche cut into the rock above the tomb because he scratched "Sitting Place of the Scribe Kenhirkhopeshef" on the rock beside his seat.
While hard, the work was rewarding for the villagers. They held a priority place in Egyptian society - the important job of creating the resting place for the Pharaoh's corpse as the king travelled into the here-after. As such they got better food rations and more beer than most ordinary people. Though this didn't always mean the villagers lived in perfect harmony. Court records record the arguments and legal wrangling that must always occur in tight-knit communities where food might be short and possessions few. We hear about the rows and the fights, and the occasional murder.
Romer has brought together the most compelling stories of these people. To use a cliche, he brings them to life. For me though, the most lifelike the workers become is when they are forced, perhaps for the first time in history, to struggle together.
During the reign of King Ramesses III (around 1160BC to 1170BC) rations went short. Probably through robbery by bureaucrats in Thebes. The tombmakers did what their brothers and sisters of generations to come have done, they used the only weapon available to them - they downed tools.
"Tempers finally broke on 14 November 1152BC, in the 29th year of the King, when the two gangs stopped their work and marched together out of the Great Place. The senior men, the two foremen, their deputies and the Scribe Amennakht had no idea where they had gone."
They went and found the local elders to demand rations and the next day headed for the temple of Ramses II, where the Mayor promised food. However, this wasn't forthcoming (not the last time a bureaucrat's promises came to nothing) and the strike continued. The next day, we learn that the missing rations were given to the men, and they returned to work. This victory seems to have given them confidence as further strikes are recorded necessitating the Pharaohs' Vizier to visit the village later in the year to examine what was causing the problems.
I could go on in great detail about similar events. The rise and fall of the village, matching the rise and fall of the power of the Pharaohs is here in detail and the final chapter brings the story up to date - detailing the discovery of the village and it's records, as well as information on how the story was decoded.
This is a fascinating bit of history - my only minor quibble, is that there is little on how the works were decoded.... the scratch markings reproduced here, carrying so much information are impossible to understand... I'd love more information on how they related to hieroglyphics, and how we know what they say. This is a minor criticism though of a fascinating book - perfect for anyone who believes that history should not be about kings and queens, but those that created their wealth, and in the words of Brecht built "Thebes of the Seven Gates".
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
Chris Harman - Revolution in the 21st Century
Chris Harman has been writing about the revolutionary transformation of society for over 40 years. Whether writing about the broad sweep of human history, the "Lost" German Revolution of 1919-1923 or in more detailed work on Marxism and History, he has, in my opinion been one of the best Marxist writers for decades.
This little book is a fantastic re-assertion of the Marxist theory of revolution. In only 126 pages Harman puts across both the necessity for revolution and takes up all the counter arguments you ever hear when you raise the transformation of society at work, or in the bus queue. In doing so though, his writing never sounds tired or cliche ridden, and he continually surprises with new examples and ideas.
For instance in an early chapter called "the actuality of revolution" Harman takes up the idea that Revolution is unusual. He writes that "In fact, revolution is so characteristic a feature of the modern capitalist world that the 20th century can be described as a century of revolution.... Britain is virtually alone among European states in not having fairly recent memories of revolutionary change and most of the non-western governments represented at the United Nations would not have a seat without the revolutionary movements that ended colonial domination."
There, in one paragraph, Harman brings alive both the scale of revolutionary history, its internationalism and its importance.
Socialist's are perhaps used to hearing discussion about revolution in the context of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Harman of course goes into detail about this most important moment in history. But he doesn't limit himself to the "classic" European revolutions. The events of this century in South America are used to illustrate arguments such as the inevitability of working class resistance and the necessity of independent revolutionary organisation. But he also shows, particularly in the case of Bolivia, how the working class is constantly changing.
Common to those on the right in Europe who claim that the working class is no more, Harman points out that commentators in South America argued that Bolivia was undergoing "de-industrialisation" and its working class disappearing. The reality is different, the numbers engaged in manufacturing has reason tremendously, and it was these workers who formed the core of those on the streets of La Paz who drove Mesa from office.
The final chapter "Knocking on History's Door" reasserts the choice facing humanity - the creation of a society based on need, not profit or the ongoing destruction wrought by the nature of capitalism itself. Harman wouldn't be a revolutionary Marxist if he didn't conclude by urging the reader to become part of building revolutionary organisations. It is a argument I am happy to reiterate.
Related Reviews
Harman - Marxism and History
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Monday, October 15, 2007
Harry Harrison - The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell
When I was about ten, I was given a copy of a collection of Science Fiction stories, that I still have today. The book can be credited with a lifelong love of that particular genre. Amongst the many stories in it, was one that wasn't a complete story, but actually turned out to be the first chapter of Harry Harrison's novel, The Stainless Steel Rat.
From the moment I read it, I was hooked on the idea of the underground criminal, the last of his kind, living beneath the surface of the dull utopian future society. I loved his warped justification for his actions, his quirky sense of humour, the funny little sayings, and the amusing philosophy:
"At a certain stage the realisation striked through that one must either live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom... There is no longer room fro the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing."
So when I discovered that not only was the story I had just a first chapter, but part of a series of novels, my ten year old heart nearly popped in excitement. Since then, I have followed the Rat's adventures on both sides of the law. Read and re-read his fixing of elections and his travels in time. I've often smiled to myself at the gratuitous use of invention to save the day, and the fact that no matter how many bullets are sprayed around in an armed robbery, nobody ever seems to get hit.
This latest escapade is very much written with tongue firmly in cheek. When his beautiful wife disappears after visiting a strange religous temple on a utopian pleasure planet, the Rat travels through time, space and alternate universes to get her back. The evil (and multiple personalitied) rogue physicist Slakey will stop at nothing to prevent someone getting in the way of his evil plans, and the Rat has to use all his resources to save the universe again.
Well, it made me laugh a few times, though I did not like this Rat, as much as I liked the younger Rat who had to rely on his own resources and invention far more. Maybe it's the revolutionist in me, but I prefer the tales of the underground bank robber, hiding in society's cracks much more than those of the rich, experienced Rat working for the planetary police force. Or maybe it's just some nostalga for the days when reading The Boys Big Book of SF wouldn't look strange on the bus.
Friday, October 05, 2007
Hans Zinsser – Rats, Lice and History
Throughout history, on hundreds of occasions, various epidemics decimated the human populations. On many of these occasions the dead have remained uncounted, entire villages and towns have been emptied and very occasionally, the course of history has been changed.
We have become used to the type of history book that focuses on one particular commodity, material or scientific discovery and declaims how it has "changed the world". In contemporary times, perhaps the first to do this was "Longitude", Dava Sobel's work that examined how the ability to measure distance at sea fundamentally transformed man's ability to trade and wage war, and thus altered history. Since then, we have seen books claiming that their subject matter is singularly responsible for changing the world. Mark Kurlansky's books "Salt" and "Cod" spring to mind, but there are others, and sooner or later some enterprising author will no doubt write 200 pages on the historical importance of "Dust". But I digress.
However, many years ago, Hans Zinsser had a similar idea. In 1934, this scientist decided to write a long book which, amongst other things, touched on the shaping of history by Rats and Lice (in particular through their ability to carry and pass on diseases such as Typhus). Zinsser describes his work as a biography of Typhus. But Zinsser is far from a scientist who is limited by his scientific subject. The book starts with a gentle discussion of the ability of scientists to discuss subjects not related to science. It's an important discussion – should scientists touch the realms of history for instance. Zinsser concludes that they both should and must and energetically goes about doing so, quoting such literary greats as Joyce, Shelley and Eliot along the way.
Zinsser's style is a wonderful blend of poetic writing and simple science. But he is also very funny. At one point a footnote to the word "saprophyte" tells us that "if the reader does not understand this word, it is too bad" [1].
To understand the history of Typhus we need to learn a little about the spread of disease, how certain diseases love the dirty cramped conditions of human existence and how the medicines that fight them work. We learn also how humans can get disease from animals, and how animals (or insects) can carry these diseases, but not succumb. We also learn how terrible an epidemic really is. This book was written shortly after millions died in the First World War. Millions more died in the great influenza epidemics that followed that conflict.
More interestingly the non-biologist like myself learns that diseases like Typhus have a history of themselves and Zinsser, in those pre-DNA testing times shows us how scientists can show that the disease had evolved down different paths. The different variants having different effects, and different victims. Part of this discussion looks at epidemics in history and Zinsser examines the evidence for whether certain mass deaths described by Pliny or other ancient historians can be attributed to various "modern" diseases.
This is a fabulous work. Science as it should be written, by an author who clearly didn't think that one should never stray from one's area of special understanding. But one who also believed that knowledge was important to combat disease. I'll leave the last words to Zinsser himself;
"About the only genuine sporting proposition that remains unimpaired by the relentless domestication of a once free living human species is the war against those ferocious little fellow creatures, which lurk in the dark corners and stalk us in the bodies of rats, mice, and all kinds of domestic animals; which fly and crawl with the insects, and waylay us in our food and drink and even in our love".
[1] The Chambers Scientific and technological Dictionary actually defines it as "an organism living heterotrophically [2] and osmotrophically on dead organic matter"
[2] if the reader does not understand this word, it is too bad
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Davis - The Monster at Our Door - The Global Threat of Avian Flu
Monday, October 01, 2007
John Bellamy Foster – The Vulnerable Planet; A Short Economic History of the Environment
Most famous perhaps for his examination of Karl Marx's understanding of nature and capitalism, in his book "Marx's Ecology", this older book was John Bellamy Foster's first venture into the world of environmentalism. It is short – barely 150 pages in length, but contains a succinct analysis of both the history of the human race's relationship with the environment and the Marxist understanding of the relationship between nature and society.
Foster's basic thesis is that humans have always exploited their surrounding nature. In some cases, in the past, this has led to human societies undermining the very basis of their existence. This is important for Foster, because he argues that while there is a difference between the exploitation of nature under capitalism, it is important not to fall for the "mainstream conception….. which traces all environmental problems, other than those linked to demographic influences, to the technologhy of production that emerged with the Industrial Revolution, inventing a gloried past characterized by ecological harmony".
For Foster, drawing on the work of Marx and Engels, humans exploit the nature around them as the basis of their existence. Different historical socities have of course done this in many different ways. But this process becomes accelerated with the development of industrial capitalism.
The industrial revolution, the development of capitalism and the expansion of capitalism to every corner of the world, as well as the imperialistic wars that have been fought by various national powers have all associated environmental and ecological consequences. The destruction of the flora and fauna of the America's by the settlers that arrived there. The oil spills and fires associated with the First Gulf War, the terrible pollution associated with the creation and rapid expansion of industrial cities are all good examples. Foster spends some time looking at the terrible health problems in the world's first industrial city Manchester – he quotes Tocqueville
"From this foul drain the greatest stream of human industry flows out to fertilise the whole world. From this filthy sewer pure gold flows. Here humanity attains its most complete development and its most brutish, here civilisation works its miracles and civilised man is turned almost into savage."
This can of course be compared to the environmental destruction caused by the rapid expansion of modern Chinese cities, or as Foster points out, that caused by the industrialisation of East Europe and Soviet Russia during the cold war – he describes one city in the Urals, which was so polluted that the only cause of death was cancer.
For Foster, environmental destruction is part and parcel of capitalism. Capitalism's drive for profit, it's short termism and its externalisation of nature from its calculations of profit and lose are the basis of the environmental catastrophe we face. Attempts to change this are always subverted or undermined by those whose interests are linked to maximising profits. Foster points out how historically there have also been countervailing strategies – those that campaigned for national parks (or local ones) in the USA in the later decades of the 19th Century for instance. But the author concludes that these are only really short term victories. In his 1999 afterword he writes
"environmental history is not simply a product of technological or demographic change; rather it is inseparable from, even subordinate to, the way we organize out social relations. The environmental crisis is a crisis of society in the fullest sense. It signals the fact that a one-sided development of human productive powers without a commensurate change in the social relations by which we govern society spells social and ecological disaster."
His conclusion is very stark, without social revolution, capitalism will continue to rape and pillage the world's natural resources. This isn't a process that can continue indefinitely and there is a matter of urgency about the need to hasten the end of an economic system that threatens the very planet we live on.
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In a surprise move that sent shivers through its competitors, Verizon announced on Friday that it will pay $3.6bn to acquire a broad swath of Advanced Wireless Services (AWS) spectrum from SpectrumCo, a consortium composed of Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Bright House Networks.
"Spectrum is the raw material on which wireless networks are built," Verizon president and CEO Dan Mead said in a statement, "and buying the AWS spectrum now solidifies our network leadership into the future."
Indeed it might. The 122 acquired AWS licenses, the announcement says, cover "259 million POPs." That'd be 259 million points of presence – or, to look at it another way, 259 million customers.
To get access to these POPs – and moms, one must assume – Verizon will pay SpectrumCo's majority owner Comcast $2.3bn, Time Warner Cable $1.1bn, and minority partner Bright House Networks $189m.
Not that those three companies will miss their departing AWS licenses. As cable companies, they were essentially just sitting on them since they bought them in 2006, waiting until the right buyer came along. And one can only assume that they'll make a nice, tidy profit from the deal.
The mood can't be all that sprightly in the corner offices of AT&T's Dallas, Texas, headquarters, what with the collapse of its T-Mobile merger effort – complete with back and forth sniping with the FCC – and now this surprise move by Verizon.
Neither can things be that cheery at the Bonn headquarters of Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile's parent. In fact, we'd venture that T-Mobile is more threatened by Verizon's spectrum grab than is AT&T. Should the AT&T merger not go through – which seems likely – T-Mobile will have little room for expansion on its own, now that the biggest available chunk of AWS spectrum is no longer available.
There remains the chance that the FCC will find a way to free up more spectrum, as it has been trying to do, if only to ensure that there remains enough spectrum in the
SpectrumCo new Verizon markets to enable competitors to, well, compete. And it's possible that Friday's announcement will fire up AT&T lobbyists enough to break the "anything the Obama administration wants, we don't" logjam that's paralyzing Washington.
It will be interesting to read the digital tea leaves as we watch how the FCC responds to the Verizon move. After all, they still need to approve it before it can go through.
Historically, these kinds of FCC reviews can take up to a year, or even longer. Amid the white heat of the exploding wireless broadband revolution, however, we're expecting a quicker approval process this time around. ®

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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Political Digest for April 19, 2012
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- AnonymousApril 20, 2012 at 11:21 AM
Jesse Kelly Supported by Groups Tied to White Supremacists, Neo-NazisReplyDelete
McCain campaign criticized ALIPAC for being among "extreme groups that condone racism"
Apparently no longer satisfied to simply spew out-of-touch rhetoric about eliminating Social Security and imposing a 23 percent tax on southern Arizonans, now Jesse Kelly has doggedly pursued the support of a group with known white supremacist, anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi ties. Kelly accepted the endorsement of Americans for Legal Immigration or ALIPAC - the same group that Senator John McCain's spokesman condemned earlier this year as "backed by white supremacists, neo-Nazis and anti-Semites." McCain's office went further, characterizing ALIPAC as an "extreme groups that condone[s] racism."
The neo-Nazi backers of ALIPAC include Stormfront, Vinlanders Social Club, European Americans United and David Duke, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
ALIPAC has also come under heavy criticism for "bigotry" and "extreme rhetoric" and an agenda that "goes beyond the enforcement of immigration laws," all the way to "demoniz[ing] immigrants as drunk drivers, gang members, invaders, murderers, and disease-carriers."
Given ALIPAC's record with the White Supremacist movement, McCain's spokesman Brian Rogers demanded in February that JD Hayworth, "immediately disavow this group's support."
Yet Jesse Kelly shows no signs of discomfort with ALIPAC's "extremist rhetoric." In his questionnaire seeking ALIPAC's endorsement this year, Kelly signed a pledge that he would use "the full power of my office, including impeachment if necessary" to force the President to bow to the group's radical demands.
"Another NRCC Young Gun candidate, another Nazi tie -- it should come as no surprise. Apparently Jesse Kelly's support is so weak that he's begging for help from groups on the racist fringe -- even one that Senator McCain's office has called out," said Andy Stone, Western Regional Press Secretary for the Democratic Congressional Committee. "Jesse Kelly should be strong enough to stand up a group backed by anti-Semites and White Supremacists. But so far, he just hasn't shown the political courage."
According to the Phoenix New Times, the McCain campaign called on JD Hayworth to reject the ALIPAC endorsement due to the groups' anti-Semitic, white supremacist and neo-Nazi ties. [Phoenix New Times, 2/24/10]
The ADL has criticized ALIPAC's founder for comparing immigrants to Nazis and for falsely claiming that immigrants "have set up ethnic cleansing zones." [Anti-Defamation League website, accessed 10/16/10]
Jesse Kelly filled out the ALIPAC questionnaire, promising to use the full power of the office, including impeachment, to further the group's goals. [ALIPAC website, accessed 10/16/10]


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Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim. First Class rank requirements: 9.a. Tell what precautions should be taken for a safe trip afloat. 9.b. Before doing the following requirements, successfully complete the BSA swimmer test. Jump feetfirst into water over your head in depth, swim 75 yards in a strong manner using one or more of the following strokes: sidestroke, breaststroke, trudgen, or crawl; then swim 25 yards using an easy, resting backstroke. The 100 yards must be swum continuously and include at least one sharp turn. After completing the swim, rest by floating. 9.c. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and as rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water). 4. Demonstrate survival skills by jumping feetfirst into deep water wearing clothes (shoes, socks, swim trunks, long pants, belt, and long-sleeved shirt). Remove shoes and socks, inflate the shirt, and show that you can float using the shirt for support. Remove and inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using the inflated pants for support, then show how to reinflate the pants while still afloat. 5. Swim continuously for 150 yards using the following strokes in good form and in a strong manner: front crawl or trudgen for 25 yards, back crawl for 25 yards, sidestroke for 25 yards, breaststroke for 25 yards, and elementary backstroke for 50 yards. 6. Do the following: a. Float faceup in a resting position for at least one minute. b. Demonstrate survival floating for at least five minutes. c. While wearing a properly fitted personal floatation device (PFD), demonstrate the HELP and huddle positions. Explain their purposes. d. Explain why swimming or survival floating will hasten the onset of hypothermia in cold water. 7. In water over your head, but not to exceed 10 feet, do each of the following: a. Use the feetfirst method of surface diving and bring an object up from the bottom. b. Do a headfirst surface dive (pike or tuck), and bring the object up again. c. Do a headfirst surface dive to a depth of at least 5 feet and swim underwater for three strokes. Come to the surface, take a breath, and repeat the sequence twice. 8. Do ONE of the following: a. Demonstrate snorkeling and scuba diving knowledge: 1. Demonstrate selection and fit of mask, snorkel, and fins; discuss safety in both pool and open-water snorkeling. 2. Demonstrate proper use of mask, snorkel, and fins for underwater search and rescue. 3. Describe the sport of scuba diving or snorkeling, and demonstrate your knowledge of BSA policies and procedures relating to that sport. OR b. Demonstrate the following competitive swimming skills: 1. Racing dive from a pool edge or dock edge (no elevated dives from racing platforms or starting blocks) 2. Racing form for 25 yards on one competitive stroke (front crawl, back crawl, breaststroke, or butterfly) 3. Racing turns for the stroke that you chose in 8b(2), OR, if the camp facilities cannot accommodate the racing turn, repeat 8b(2) with and additional stroke. 4. Describe the sport of competitive swimming. 9. Following the guidelines set in the BSA Safe Swim Defense, in water at least 7 feet deep, show a standing headfirst dive from a dock or pool deck. Show a long shallow dive, also from the dock or pool deck. 10. Do the following: a. Explain the health benefits of regular aerobic exercise, and explain why many people today do not get enough of the beneficial kinds of exercise. b. Discuss why swimming is favored as both a fitness and a therapeutic exercise. c. 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It is becoming a truism that if there are two sides to a scientific debate, Michael Crichton can usually be found on the wrong one. Whether it be germ theory or climate change, the fact that he's written some books endows him with a misplaced sense of authority to pontificate on science. His latest oeuvre, an article in the New York Times, is no different.
The subject of DNA patents can be an emotional one. The idea that a bunch of eggheads can do some sequencing and be granted a patent on a DNA code that you and your ancestors have been walking around with for generations doesn't sit right with a lot of people. Why should a biotech be able to profit from something we all carry around with us?
As ever, the story isn't nearly so simple. Consider other biological products that have been patented. Erythropoietin might be naturally occuring, but it doesn't naturally occur in nice little glass vials containing 100 mg of purified EPO ready for injection. For working out how to get to that end product in a reproducible manner, Amgen were awarded a patent. The same holds true for DNA patents. Patents must be novel, but they also have to have utility; you can't simply pick genes at random out of the Human Genome Project and submit them to the USPTO.
It is true that the 1990s saw a boom in the filing and granting of gene patents in the US, but that trend has not been maintained, according to new research published in Nature Biotechnology. Michael Hopkins and colleagues from the University of Sussex have examined the numbers of gene patents filed with the USPTO and its European and Japanese counterparts, and the data tends to take the wind out of Crichton's sails. At first, DNA patents were harder to obtain in Europe and Japan, and the US is now catching up to this trend. Granted patents have been in steep decline since 2001, and applications are tailing off.
Hopkins suggests a number of reasons for the decreasing number of DNA patents, such as growing prior art, a perceived diminished commercial value and an increasing patentability bar. What used to fly with the USPTO in 1999 is no longer good enough in 2007. What's more, patents aren't the invincible barriers on research that critics make out. They can be challenged in court; Pfizer successfully challenged the University of Rochester's patent over the COX-2 gene to name but one example.
Although high profile examples like the BRCA2 breast cancer gene patent are often quoted by critics of gene patenting, the truth is that such examples are fewer and farther between than is commonly thought. At least 30 percent of gene patents granted in the 1990s are not being protected, and many more are cross-licensed with little hassle.
Sadly, such rational thinking on the subject doesn't make for good headlines, and won't help pseudoskeptic science fiction writers publicize their books.


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After Jermichael Finley's recent spinal cord injury, a sportswriting friend of mine shook his head and referred to football as "America's sickness." As severe as it was, though, Finley's injury wasn't nearly the worst a professional athlete suffered last weekend. On Saturday night, 26-year-old junior featherweight Francisco "Franky" Leal was knocked out by Raul Hirales in the eighth round of a fight in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and never regained consciousness. He was pronounced dead three days later. If football is America's sickness, what then do we call boxing?
Chronic neurologic impairment has long been recognized as a sequelae of boxing. (CTE—much in the news in recent years due to its association with football—was once known as punch drunkenness, or dementia pugilistica.) This is unsurprising when we learn that being hit by a professional boxer is like being struck by a 13-pound bowling ball swung at 20 mph. After a series of blows to the head, a fighter will often appear glassy-eyed, with observers saying, "The lights are on, but nobody's home." Generally, the fighter looks this way because he has just sustained a cerebral concussion, which is marked by a sudden impairment of consciousness, paralysis of certain reflexes, and loss of memory.
We haven't sorted out just what's happening yet, and some of the details remain controversial, but scientists have discovered that during a traumatic brain injury—the kind boxers routinely experience—cerebral blood flow is diminished and the concentrations of ions like potassium and calcium that live inside and outside of the neurons are disrupted. In addition, neurotransmitters like glutamate are released in excessive amounts. These things cause the brain's neurons to begin to fire excessively. That's a problem.
Researchers have examined the brain waves of recently concussed animals and determined that their brains resemble that of an animal suffering an epileptic seizure. This comes as a bit of a surprise, because the brain waves (measured by an electroencephalogram) show hyperactivity, which implies that when a fighter is glassy-eyed and unable to answer the referee's questions appropriately, his neurons might actually be overactive, not underactive.
But a hyperactive brain is not the only problem. When the head is hit at high speed, shearing movements within the skull can cause micro-hemorrhages of the blood vessels within the brain tissue. If the shearing force is large enough, or if the head is it hard enough, a large bleed can occur. This becomes a medical emergency because the skull is fixed, enclosed space. As blood accumulates, usually in the form of a subdural hematoma, it can squish the brain and potentially compromise critical neural functions like breathing; death becomes imminent.
Boxers dying isn't exactly rare—there have been a substantial number of fatalities in the sport at both amateur and professional levels due to brain injuries sustained in the ring. The number of such fatalities has decreased a bit in recent years owing to measures taken by authorities to decrease the physical hazards in the ring and to better monitoring of boxers by referees and ringside physicians. Many of these changes occurred after the death of a South Korean boxer you may never have heard of.
On November 13th, 1982, lightweight Duk Koo Kim challenged Ray Mancini, the reigning world lightweight champion, at Caesar Palace in Las Vegas. In the 14th round, Mancini was declared the winner by technical knockout. Moments later, Kim lost consciousness and was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was found to have severe brain swelling and a subdural hematoma. Kim was rushed to the operating room to remove the blood inside his skull, but died four days later.
Kim's death shook the boxing world. The World Boxing Council conferred with medical advisors, determined that most severe injuries came in rounds 13 through 15, and decided to reduce the number of rounds in championship fights down to 12. (The International Boxing Federation and the World Boxing Organization eventually followed their lead.) Clearly this change was a move in the right direction. Was it enough?
What Makes Boxing So Dangerous?
Generally, it's easy to see why football and boxing get lumped together as high-risk sports, but it's important to understand that boxing is much worse. The reason often has to do with the angle of impact rather than the force behind it.
Boxers endure a high prevalence of glancing blows to the head, which results in rotational acceleration. This is different from the biomechanics involved in football, where the impact is more commonly directed at the center of the body, causing something called translational acceleration. The glancing blows in boxing create a rapid rotation of the skull, which carries a higher risk of severe head injury than linear movements, theoretically by creating greater tension on the bridging vessels and brain tissue. It may be counterintuitive, but it probably explains why we've actually seen more boxing deaths in the lower weight classes. It's not the force of impact; it's the angle. (The man who landed the lethal blow on Saturday night weighed just 123 pounds.)
Knowing this, it's not hard to argue that boxing simply cannot be made safe. The Journal of the American Medical Association famously declared in an editorial that boxing should be banned in civilized countries. Some have called for sports physicians to make a public statement by ending their professional relationship with boxing.
Others among my colleagues, though, think this sort of high-mindedness is misguided, that boxing is here to stay and that it would be a mistake for doctors to cut ties with the sport. Rather, they argue, we should make the sport safer by insisting on a ringside neurologist, post-concussion assessments, and mandatory neurophysiological assessments for all professional fighters.
Either way, while the NFL is coming in for the closest scrutiny in the head trauma debate, boxing should certainly be under the microscope as well. Football players at least have a union; boxers have the likes of Bob Arum.
Some say the NFL will cease to exist as we know it once a player dies on the field, but boxers are dying in the ring. What are we actually going to do about it? The Wikipedia page of deaths due to injuries sustained in boxing is a sobering reminder of the dangers of the sport, and it doesn't begin to approach the actual number of boxing-related deaths. How many more need to be added to the list before we do away with this ridiculous sport? Football may be America's sickness; boxing is one of our tragedies.
Matt McCarthy is board-certified in internal medicine. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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sef wrote: Logan's by some measures is a bit more technical than some that follow it, but it's such an established route that it's hard to get in other forms of trouble. Your kilometreage may vary.
tybrisbane wrote:Thinking of doing Eagles next. Whets the quickest return route as I don't want the hassle of car swap/bicycle?
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Got my first taste of Barney recently and will be back for more.
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You can look on Brisbane Bushwalking Clubs website.
There is a pdf where they use their gradings across a whole range of walks / climbs.
Most of the Barney options are there.
South (Peasants) easiest then goes up from there.
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Jennifer Lawrence: 'I always knew I'd be famous'
Jennifer Lawrence says growing up in Kentucky she always knew she would be famous.
The Best Actress Oscar-winner for "Silver Linings Playbook" tells the September issue of Vogue magazine that she used to "lie in bed and wonder" about what would make her well-known.
She says, "It wasn't a vision. But as it's kind of happening, you have this buried understanding: Of course."
The 22-year-old also confesses her childhood was "unhappy" because she was "anxious." Her parents even sent her to a therapist.
It was when she got cast in 2007 in the TV series "The Bill Engvall Show" that her mother realized she no longer needed counseling because when she was acting it made her happy.
Vogue's September issue goes on sale Aug. 20.


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VICTORIA — The heads of B.C.'s six health authorities have lashed out against an effort by Premier Christy Clark's B.C. Liberal government to secure a 10-year deal with the province's nurses, saying talks have been taking place behind their backs and without their consent.
In a Feb. 20 letter obtained by The Vancouver Sun, the health authority presidents say they are concerned an extended agreement of up to 10 years could saddle the system with significant costs, and restrict the ability for health authorities to manage the system, all at a time when government is moving to rein in health care funding.
The presidents further insist that the organization that negotiates on behalf of the health authorities and other health sector employers — the Health Employers Association of B.C. (HEABC) — immediately cease negotiations.
"We insist that HEABC, without having engaged in the full consultation process contemplated by the Constitution and By Laws of the Association, not participate in any negotiations to achieve such an agreement," the presidents said in a letter to HEABC's board chair, as well as to the organization's president and CEO.
The health authority presidents, whose organizations would have to ratify any labour agreements, go on to say they believe HEABC "has no authority to participate in the resolution of such an agreement" without properly consulting.
The extraordinary letter comes less than a month after Clark's government released its proposal to reach a 10-year agreement with the province's teachers. Upon its release, the British Columbia Teachers' Federation immediately dismissed that plan as "ludicrous."
On Monday, Health Minister Margaret MacDiarmid said there have been "informal discussions" between government, the HEABC and nurses on a possible long-term deal, but said that nothing official has yet to take place.
"If there were to be formal negotiations, which we don't know at this point, there never could be an agreement without the support of the health employers," she said, adding government has not set a specific 10-year goal, but instead is looking to see if nurses would be interested in a longer-term agreement.
MacDiarmid added that government has spoken with health authority presidents since the letter was sent to assure them the talks are in the very early stages.
Vancouver Coastal Health president Dr. David Ostrow and Fraser Health Authority president Dr. Nigel Murray were both unavailable for comment Monday afternoon.
Nurses recently ratified a two-year collective agreement, which included a stipulation to add 2,125 full-time nurses to the health care system over the next four years. That agreement expires March 31, 2014.
B.C. Nurses' Union president Debra McPherson said her union is right now in negotiations "to clean up some of the stuff related to our last bargaining," but said that a 10-year agreement is not under discussion.
But, she said, the union would be amenable to discussions about a longer-term extension.
"During bargaining we had said, right from the outset, that we wanted a four-year agreement ideally, depending what was on the table," she said.
"It didn't materialize, so we would be open to looking at an extension should that discussion break out, assuming that it would be something that would be worthwhile for our members."
New Democratic Party labour critic Shane Simpson said he thinks the backroom negotiations are an attempt by government to score a win ahead of the coming election.
"It's not good labour relations practice to try to cut a 10-year deal when you've left the employers essentially out of the loop," he said.
"The problem here, of course, is we have no idea of what's actually in this agreement in terms of the money or the other conditions or who's covered by it," he added, wondering what goodies the government would be willing to surrender for a good-news story.
That concern was shared by health authority presidents, who asked in their letter exactly how wages and other issues would be set.
"We do not know whether any reopeners would be tied to compensation benchmarks, which are in conflict within the restrictions imposed on spending in health care, or which would not permit the recruitment and retention of nurses," they wrote.
"Nor do we know who would fund the increases," they added.
The presidents also expressed concern that the move might be part of a larger push by the B.C. Nurses' Union to have Licensed Practical Nurses — who, after a years-long battle, last year left the Hospital Employees' Union to join the BCNU — integrated into the nurses' bargaining unit, a fact that might lead to an automatic increase for LPNs.
On Monday, MacDiarmid said she believes a push by the BCNU for legislation to reclassify the LPNs was part of what precipitated the informal talks on a long-term deal.
"The BCNU approached us to talk to us about legislative amendments and it may be that when those conversation began to happen that this started to be discussed as well," she said.


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(Pocket-lint) - Dr Dre has shown that it's not just the Brits who are winning at this summer's London 2012 Olympic Games. According to John Lewis, sales for the hip-hop mogul's headphones have increased by 116 per cent.
Following an alleged guerrilla campaign that saw selected athletes including Michael Phelps and Tom Daley handed branded Beats by Dr Dre headsets, official partner to the Games Panasonic stepped in and banned any competing athletes from being seen wearing them.
But damage had already been done, with sales going through the roof at John Lewis stores.
"Music often plays a big part in sports – whether you're a first time runner needing some musical motivation, or, as we've seen over the past couple of weeks, an athlete who needs to get pumped up before they compete in front of the world," said Robert Hennessy, audio and imaging buyer at John Lewis.
"Sports fever has gripped the nation, and as a result there is a huge demand for headphones, in particular Beats and our sports ranges."
Indeed the number of sports headphones sold is said to have gone up by 42 per cent, with general headphone sales at a steady 19 per cent increase.
So cheer up Panasonic, we're sure you've done all right out of Olympic-fever too.
Has the Olympics persuaded you to fork out on some new headphones? Which ones? Tell us below...


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So like... Uhh... Yeah... Oh my... this is just the van ride up to the Himalayas. As in, this scariness is only the beginning of something even scarier (that would be climbing the damn thing). Mick Fowler shot this video of his van driving up the mountain and it's so close to the edge of the cliff—we're talking inches here—that it makes me want to cry just watching the video.
Actually, why lie? I'm crying. I cried. I cannot cry anymore because I have no more tears. You can see them make impossible turns, relax, make another impossible turn and go under waterfalls. That's just like a couple hundred feet.
You can watch the LiveLeak version of the video below or a clearer look at Mick Fowler's Facebook page.


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Retinoblastoma is a rare cancer of the retina (the innermost layer of the eye, located at the back of the eye, that receives light and images necessary for vision). About 300 children will be diagnosed with retinoblastoma this year. It accounts for 3 percent of childhood cancers. Nearly all children with retinoblastoma can be cured of the disease if it has been diagnosed early enough, and 90 percent will have normal vision in at least one eye after treatment.
Retinoblastoma occurs due to mutations in a tumor suppressor gene (called RB1) located on chromosome #13. Two mutations (or gene changes) are necessary to "knock-out" this gene, and cause uncontrolled cell growth. In inherited retinoblastoma (40 percent of the cases), the first mutation is inherited from a parent, while the second occurs during the development of the retina. In sporadic retinoblastoma (60 percent of the cases), both mutations occur during development of the retina. Sporadic means occurs by chance. Alterations in the RB1 gene have also been found in other tumors, including osteosarcoma and breast cancer.
Most children with inherited retinoblastoma have tumors involving both eyes. Consider the following statistics:
60 percent to 75 percent of retinoblastoma cases involve one eye (unilateral), and the majority of these are not inherited.
25 percent of retinoblastoma cases are bilateral (both eyes) and hereditary.
15 percent of retinoblastoma cases are unilateral (one eye) and hereditary.
Any individual with a positive family history of retinoblastoma may want to seek genetic counseling to identify the specific risks of passing the gene or disease to their children.
The following are the most common symptoms of retinoblastoma. However, each child may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
Leukocoria. A white light reflex that occurs at certain angles when a light is shined into the pupil.
Strabismus (also called wandering eye or lazy-eye). A misalignment of the eyes; when one or both eyes do not appear to be "looking" in the same direction.
Pain or redness around, and swelling of the eye(s)
Poor vision or change in child's vision
Often the symptoms may not appear if the disease is diagnosed early. The symptoms of retinoblastoma may resemble other conditions or medical problems. Always consult your child's doctor for a diagnosis.
In addition to a complete medical and physical examination, diagnostic procedures for retinoblastoma may include:
Complete eye examination and medical history
Funduscopic examination. With the child under anesthesia, the pupils are dilated so the entire retina can be viewed and examined.
Ultrasound exam of the eye. This is one of the most commonly used tests to confirm diagnosis, using sound waves to create images of tissues.
Computed tomography scan (also called a CT or CAT scan). A diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of x-rays and computer technology to produce horizontal, or axial, images (often called slices) of the body. A CT scan shows detailed images of any part of the body, including the bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than general X-rays.
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of large magnets, radiofrequencies, and a computer to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body without the use of X-rays.
Lumbar puncture (spinal tap)
Blood tests
Genetic and/or DNA testing
A diagnosis may be made before symptoms are present. If a family history is positive for retinoblastoma, frequent eye examinations may be necessary at many stages of the child's development to determine the presence of any tumor. When retinoblastoma is diagnosed, tests will be performed to determine the size of the tumor, and if the tumors have spread to the other parts of the body. This is called staging and is an important step toward planning a treatment program.
There are various staging systems that can be used for retinoblastoma. Always consult your child's physician for more information on staging.
The newest staging method is called The International Classification for Intraocular Retinoblastoma and it groups tumors into five categories--groups A through E--based on the likelihood of saving the eye.
The more traditional method of staging is the Reese-Ellsworth stages of retinoblastoma (this staging system is only for tumors that have not spread beyond the eye):
Group I. One or more tumors that are less than 4 disc diameters (DD) in size and are all located at or behind the equator*.
Group II. Either one or more tumors that are 4 to 10 DD in size located at or behind the equator.
Group III. Any lesion in front of the equator or one tumor larger than 10 DD behind the equator.
Group IV. Multiple tumors with some or all greater than 10 DD in size, or any lesions that extend forward to the ora serrata (front edge of the retina).
Group V. Very large tumors involving more than half of the retina or that have spread into the vitreous (the gelatinous material that fills the eye).
*The "equator" is an imaginary line that divides the eye into two equal parts: a front half and a back half.
Specific treatment for retinoblastoma will be determined by your child's doctor based on:
Your child's age, health, and medical history
Extent of the disease
Your child's tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
Expectations for the course of the disease
Your opinion or preference
The primary goal of treatment is to remove the tumor and prevent metastasis (spreading) of the cancer to other parts of the body.
Treatment may include one or more of the following:
Enucleation (surgical removal of the eye or eyes involved with the tumor)
Radiation therapy
Laser therapy or photocoagulation
Thermal therapy
Cryotherapy (uses a freezing process to destroy the tumor)
Prognosis greatly depends on the following:
The extent of the disease
The size and location of the tumor
Presence or absence of metastasis
The tumor's response to therapy
The age and overall health of your child
Your child's tolerance of specific medications, procedures, or therapies
New developments in treatment
As with any cancer, prognosis and long-term survival can vary greatly from child to child. Every child is unique and treatment and prognosis is structured around the child's needs. Prompt medical attention and aggressive therapy are important for the best prognosis.
Continuous follow-up care is essential for a child diagnosed with retinoblastoma. In hereditary retinoblastoma, new tumors may form in either eye until the child is 3 to 4 years old. Children will need very close follow-up by an ophthalmologist. Children with hereditary retinoblastoma and those treated with some chemotherapies, radiation therapies, and some other therapies, are at higher risk for new cancers later in life and should have regular medical and eye exams.


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Serious Eats Neighborhood Guides: Sam Sifton's Red Hook (and Southwest Brooklyn)
Locals' guides to New York neighborhoods.
After just two years at the helm of The New York Times' dining section, Sam Sifton moved over to the National desk, where he is currently the editor. Sifton was a different kind of critic, weaving in literary and rock 'n' roll references throughout reviews of restaurants he analyzed in poetic tones. He honored the art of food critique and angered an avid readership by giving greater focus to the more theatrical elements of dining in New York: the setting, the cast of characters, the dialogue—all parts of the restaurant puzzle less thoroughly dissected by other critics.
He also brought attention to under-the-radar ethnic restaurants and places whose praises might otherwise have gone unsung. The Sifty Fifty, a list of his 50 favorite restaurants in the city, served as a kind of new Zagat guide, and people turned to Sifton for guidance on where to find the best spaghetti carbonara in Manhattan and how to impress a girlfriend's finicky parents.
No need to continue speaking of Sifton's skills in the past tense, however—his new cookbook, which draws from his experience answering reader questions during Thanksgiving, will hit shelves October 30th. To whet our palates in anticipation of the book's release, Sam shared his favorite places to eat undercover in and around his Red Hook neighborhood.
Sam's Picks
Pizza, slice: The best neighborhood slice is at House of Pizza & Calzone. It is, however, very difficult just to have a slice there. The point of the restaurant is the deep-fried calzone. It is not crispy, precisely. It is never greasy. It is simply a pillow of ricotta built around a slice of ham, wrapped in a cloak of gold. It is the finest calzone in New York City. This is true even on Fridays, when there is no ham in it.
Pizza pie: Lucali is the clear winner here, even when the wait to get into the dining room runs to 75 minutes and the tension mounts in your head like steam. It's a great pizza. That much will be revealed in time.
Cheap burger: Sit at the bar at Rocky Sullivan's, watching the game, chatting with George, drinking a Bud. Here comes a cheap burger, and it's just fine above its nest of fries, better still with another Bud and a slash of mayonnaise across the bun. Salt that. On the best nights there isn't a soul for two blocks in any direction and the smell off Erie Basin is all saltwater and tidal funk. This is what we do.
Fancy burger: Consistency matters. The Good Fork has it—and a warm, grown-up neighborhood vibe to go along with the food. Here are parents and children and parents of parents, third-daters preening, everyone in between. Have a burger at the bar, along with a spouse, child, or downloaded novel, and see.
Sandwich: There are plenty good sandwich options at Defonte's, an old dockworkers' canteen near the mouth of the Battery Tunnel. But fried eggplant with fresh mozz and a scattering of hot peppers is the best, best consumed with a Manhattan Special coffee soda and two tabloid newspapers in 30 minutes or less, sitting in the front seat of an American-built vehicle.
Coffee: Stumptown roasts coffee in Red Hook, but no longer seems to sell it brewed in any sort of helpful way. You need to head all the way up to Iris Café, under the BQE, to find it made.
Bagel: There are no credible bagels available in South Brooklyn at this time. Head up the slope to Prospect Park instead, get a dozen at Terrace Bagels, and count yourself lucky.
Delivery food: There are no credible food deliveries available in South Brooklyn at this time. You hear that, Andy Ricker? Some Pok Pok wings to go, brought on a bike, real fast?
Breakfast: Stay away from brunch and good coffee. Eggs over-easy and dishwater joe at Court Street Coffee Shop should put you in the mind of the neighborhood that was, and which should always sort of be.
Dive bar: Sunny's is hardly a dive bar even if it looks like one. Does that make it the winner? That is something to discuss over a beer at Red Hook Bait & Tackle, anyway.
Nicer wine, beer, or cocktail bar: Buttermilk Channel—it's so nice we call it a restaurant. The burger's right up near neighborhood best, and the fried chicken walks away with that prize. Brunch brings throngs, and the fall brings a deep hunger for lots of duck meatloaf, as often as possible. But Doug Crowell's artful and excellent wine list is reason enough to bring people to crowd 'round the bar experiencing the length and breadth of American wine making—and perhaps staying late enough to drink deeply of its bourbon traditions as well.
Chinese takeout: What has happened to Chinese takeout food in South Brooklyn and Brooklyn Heights in the past 30 years is nothing less than a tragedy, and there is nothing in the region to compare to the greats of the past, notably the late lamented Chun Yuan and China Chili, both on Montague Street. But Lichee Nut will do in a pinch—at least so long as you add to whatever order you make at least one plate of dry-sautéed green beans or bok choy with garlic.
Late-night eats: One of the great things about South Brooklyn is that it folds like a tent around 11. You can haunt your way along Smith Street looking for late-night grub. But the dark side streets tell the story. This is sleepytown, USA. Hit the BQE and head up to Williamsburg, you want that late-night steak frites.
Date night: Dark table in a corner at Prime Meats. Share a wedge salad, some bluefish rillettes, a glass of rosé. Hold hands. That's nice.
Can't-miss neighborhood spot: Can't beat a lobster roll at Red Hook Lobster Pound. Really, you can't.
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Sigh. You know, I don't follow many columnists. Or any. Except for one or two.
One being Hollis Gillespie. She makes me laugh, I'm amused and intrigued by her adventures and anecdotes and frankly I just like her.
Don't get me wrong, now that I'm an ATL resident we don't hang out but STILL.........I'd check the yes box that I like her in a girl-crush-non-gay way.
I've been here in the ATL for just over a year and I've struggled to FIND a place to regularly pick up a copy of Creative Loafing to read her column. The last place I worked was so anemic and ridiculous that 90% of the employees had never HEARD of Creative Loafing much less READ anything like that. I contented myself with reading her books (sorry I read them from the library because I'm broke) to get my fix of insanity spun out by my favorite essayist.
The real problem has been, for the past year, not that there aren't enough places in ATLANTA to get the Creative Loafing, but that I was simply in some bizarro world version of a suburb that borders on hell - and apparently Creative Loafing was smart enough not to bother to drop off papers in that area. They'd probably just be used to sop up blood anyway.
Additionally, no longer being bar whores (all these kids just suck the bar whore right outta ya), we weren't in clubs that might have ye old Creative Loafing at the exit.
So here I am, new job, new life, new world and I stroll across the street to get something to eat a Chinese restaurant and the clouds parted and the sun shone rays of goodness down .....the restaurant carries Creative Loafing. HOOHOOHOO! I'm in! I've scored a new source for my addiction! I tucked it under my arm, smug in my happiness and excited to be able to catch up with all those zany kids from Creative Loafing. Truly, Jughead and Betty were never as captivating at Hollis and Andisheh.
I crack it open when I get home for the day (hey I'm a busy professional I've got no TIME to be reading Creative Loafing while I WORK! )
AND HOLLIS GILLESPIE IS LEAVING! She's going to write for someone else. NOW THAT I CAN GET CREATIVE LOAFING REGULARLY SHE WON'T BE IN IT.
Ugh. I clearly sinned in a past life and this is my payback.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
A Boot To The Head for Hollis Gillespie
Posted by Gidge Uriza at 12:56 PM
Labels: Info You Need, Intellectual Vacuum, Point A to Point B, Work
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I'm a big Hollis fan, too! I lived in Atlanta for a while in my early twenties, worked downtown, and always picked up a copy of Creative Loafing.
- Sun Oct 12, 10:31:00 AM
mellow mushroom! they always have one!
or i just check the creative loafing website while at work. :)
- Thu Oct 16, 12:03:00 AM


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It's known as the Coca Cola plane. In early November, drug traffickers landed a Boeing 727 in the Malian desert in Gao state and offloaded as much as 10 tons of cocaine. Then, rather than fly it back across the Atlantic to Latin America, they simply burnt it, treating it like a used Coke can.
The terrain of northern Mali is stark desert, and a haven for Islamist insurgents with close ties to Al Qaeda. Initially, investigators thought the plane had crashed in the desert on take off.
But now, based on the fact that the plane was largely intact, many experts suspect that the drug cartels – perhaps in coordination with their Al Qaeda partners – burnt the plane deliberately.
"That shows you the strength of the drug cartels, and how much money they have," says Rinaldo Depagne, a West Africa expert at the International Crisis Group in Dakar, Senegal. "It's like a plastic [Coca Cola] bottle to them. When you are done with it, you just throw it away."
According to UN reports, nearly 60 percent of the cocaine sold in Europe transits through weak West African states such as Mali, Niger, Mauritania, and Guinea Bissau – a flow of cash and contraband that undermines the credibility of each country's ability to govern itself.
As many of these same countries are now becoming a haven for a shadowy group calling itself Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), there are growing concerns that Islamist radicals and Latin American drug cartels may be working together, both to enrich themselves and to weaken the law enforcement capability of those West African states.
"At this point Al Qaeda in the Maghreb seems to be nothing more than just facilitators, but more and more we see evidence of them working together," says an official for the US military at the Africom command center in Stuttgart, speaking on background. But it is safe to assume, the official adds, that Al Qaeda "is profiting from the drug trafficking trade going through its areas" of the Sahara.
A 2008 Department of Homeland Security report, obtained by Reuters, warned of a growing fleet of rogue aircraft – at least 10 aircraft including executive jets, twin-engine turboprops, and aging Boeing 727s, crisscrossing the Atlantic. The DEA also told Reuters that all aircraft seized in West Africa had departed Venezuela.
When it comes to traffickers use of planes between West Africa and Latin America, US military experts say there is a clear potential threat to American security. "We know what those planes are carrying across the Atlantic to Africa. But what goes back [on those planes] to [Latin] American shores?" says one US military official. "You know what the condition of the [US] southern borders are. You see the beginning of a process of thought."
Al Qaeda funded by drug protection money?
If Al Qaeda is getting into the drug trade, it would not be the first terrorist organization to do so. Through much of the 1990s and 2000s, the Colombian leftist rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has largely funded its 40-year insurgency through kidnapping and cocaine production. The Taliban were also thought to have turned to the opium trade in order to finance its own buildup of arms in the southern part of Afghanistan.
The motives of Al Qaeda would seem to be very different from those of the drug traffickers. Al Qaeda is an insurgent group fighting for a political goal, perhaps to defend its land or to impose its ideology. Drug traffickers are merely in it for money.
But in the West African Sahara, there's growing evidence that the two have found common cause in using the vast unpatrolled desert areas for transporting drugs up north to Europe, and as bases for military operations and training.
"Terrorists are looking at an ideology, they are fighting for their land," says another US military official at Africom. "Traffickers don't have an allegiance to an area, they change their routes, they change their methods, far faster than the law enforcement in a country can keep up with."
Latin American cartels have been smuggling drugs to Europe via Africa since the 1990s. But For West African nations, keeping up with the traffickers and now the insurgents may seem an impossible task. In 2006, a UN report found that the annual value of smuggled cocaine through West Africa is more than twice the gross domestic product of Guinea Bissau.
US military trainers help out
Yet, confronting the traffickers and the insurgents is precisely what the US military hopes these nations will do in the very near future. In the past two years, American military trainers have increased their visits to West Africa, and conducted joint training exercises under Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans-Sahel Initiative.
On land, US Army trainers – many of them Special Forces commandos – train African soldiers in counterinsurgency methods, and the US government has begun to provide the army of Mali, Niger, and Mauritania with basic arms and equipment, something these nations can ill-afford to buy on their own.
In addition, US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agents have ramped up their efforts in West Africa, trying to help nations with weak law enforcement capabilities to rein in drug traffickers.
Last month, three suspects from Mali were extradited from Ghana to the United States to face charges of offering Al Qaeda protection to move cocaine from West Africa, through the Sahara, and up to Spain. The three suspects, Oumar Issa, Harouna Toure, and Idriss Abelrahman, told DEA informants that they were members of Al Qaeda's North African branch, and they could protect drug shipments at a fee of $4,200 per kilo.
Given the scale of what drug traffickers are willing to pay – and what Al Qaeda apparently earns for its part of the business – the challenge of stopping the drug trade through West Africa will be immense, say analysts.
It is one thing for the US military to train a man to fight an insurgent. It is quite another thing to put that man out in the field, earning little pay, where drug traffickers or radical Islamists can offer them bribes or other incentives to look the other way when it suits them.
"These traffickers are shipping huge amounts of cocaine so they have lots of money," says Depagne. "This is a huge threat for weak states of West Africa. When you compare the money of a drug cartel to the budget of Mauritania, or to the salary of a policeman in Niger – who receives less than $200 a month – it's easy to see what will happen."
As for Al Qaeda, "if they manage to get that kind of money, it will put them on another level," says Depagne. "I don't know if you can find any evidence proving a link between Al Qaeda and the drug traffickers, unless you are CIA. But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see why they would want to work together. To do terrorism, you need money, and what are you going to do in the deserts of Mali to make money. You take money where it is. You work with the drug traffickers."


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Here's how people watched the World Cup at workJune 26, 2014: 4:01 PM ET
At least 1.7 million people watched the U.S. soccer team play Germany in the World Cup this afternoon, according to ESPN.
Many of them were watching at work, according to Twitter.
On board Air Force One, President Obama took time out from running the country to cheer on the home team. He could hardly contain his enthusiasm.
President Obama watches the USA vs Germany World Cup game aboard Air Force One enroute to Minneapolis. #worldcup pic.twitter.com/wfuJvb6hoI
— Doug Mills (@dougmillsnyt) June 26, 2014
The commander-in- chief wasn't the only politician taking in the action. Here's New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
.@NYGovCuomo cheers on #TeamUsaSoccer in the World Cup pic.twitter.com/8PgQGBNd3N
— Melissa DeRosa (@melissadderosa) June 26, 2014
Cuomo even went so far as to give state employees a long lunch.
#USA, NYS stands strongly behind you. I'm approving an extra hour for lunch today: http://t.co/5G0ys3Zo2E #USAvGER pic.twitter.com/2TVnzqbY1A
— Andrew Cuomo (@NYGovCuomo) June 26, 2014
Stressed-out investment bankers even took a break.
Work stoppage @GoldmanSachs 200 West #FIFA2014 pic.twitter.com/Ne2cmc8ugO
— Goldman Sachs (@GoldmanSachs) June 26, 2014
Astronauts watched from outer space.
Friendly #WorldCup stakes for #USA & #GER astronauts on space station: http://t.co/cdlh6GwhX7 #ISS #USAvsGermany pic.twitter.com/bWdiI6S5kj
— NASA (@NASA) June 26, 2014
Soldiers watched from Afghanistan. At least one of them was armed.
Nothing says #Murcia like the troops watching the #USMNT with assault rifles in their lap pic.twitter.com/ATzaVyP3ZP
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) June 26, 2014
Thousands of miles away, it looked like business as usual at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco.
We don't need the excuse letter to get out of work, there are plenty of tvs, food and friends at the @twoffice #usa pic.twitter.com/NMD4cfIY14
— Ashley Ramirez (@SmashHawk) June 26, 2014
Media types went all out. At NPR, they had pie.
American pies and the @nprnews staff, gathered in our office cafe to watch #USAvsGermany pic.twitter.com/ojgJ4CcHHG
— Elise Hu (@elisewho) June 26, 2014
Here at CNNMoney, we had pizza.
#LetsDoThis #WorldCup2014 @CNNMoneyInvest pic.twitter.com/Qrnk3w4lg9
— Ben Rooney (@ben_rooney) June 26, 2014
They watched it at the German newspaper Handelsblatt.
Die Redaktion fiebert mit. #wm2014 #GERUSA #handelsblatt pic.twitter.com/5U6ECvfHwC
— Handelsblatt Online (@handelsblatt) June 26, 2014
Guess which team they support at the American Enterprise Institute?
The view from my office, during US-Germany World Cup match today @AEI. pic.twitter.com/VTqAZUxH8e
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The Department of Labor announced Tuesday a settlement with Ivy Asset Management, a unit of the Bank of New York Mellon, in which Ivy will pay $210 million to compensate employee benefit plans and other investors who suffered losses through investments in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
The settlement was reached with Ivy Asset Management LLC, J.P. Jeanneret Associates Inc., Beacon Associates Management Corp., Andover Associates Management Corp., and their current and former owners and officers.
DOL sued Ivy, Jeanneret, Beacon, Andover and their owners and officers on Oct. 21, 2010, for alleged violations of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The suit alleged that they "breached their fiduciary duties to a number of benefit plans by recommending, making and maintaining investments with Madoff, thus losing hundreds of millions of dollars in assets needed for the pension and health benefits of thousands of workers."
Under the settlement agreement, DOL says that Ivy and its principals have agreed to pay a total of $210 million. Jeanneret and its owners, John P. Jeanneret and Paul Perry, have agreed to pay $3 million. Beacon and Andover and their owners, Joel Danziger and Harris Markhoff, have agreed to pay $3.5 million and relinquish a claim of more than $3.3 million for management fees.
The settlement is pending approval by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and resolves department litigation, actions brought by New York's attorney general, and several private lawsuits and class actions brought on behalf of plans and other investors that invested with Madoff.
Douglas W. Squasoni, chief restructuring officer and chief investment officer of Ivy Asset Management, said in a statement that "Ivy is pleased to have reached an agreement that allows it to put these matters behind it."
Phyllis Borzi, assistant secretary for DOL's Employee Benefits Security Administration, said in the release announcing the settlement, "Nothing can make up for the years-long agony that plan administrators and participants, and individual investors were put through by these defendants and Madoff. But this settlement should go a long way toward making victims financially whole and, hopefully, closing a painful chapter for many workers and families."
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in the same statement that the settlement "brings accountability for one of the greatest financial frauds in American history and justice to defrauded investors." Ivy Asset Management, he said, "violated its fundamental responsibility as an investment adviser by putting its own pecuniary interests ahead of the interests of its clients. An investment adviser should apprise its clients of risks, but Ivy deliberately concealed negative facts it uncovered in its due diligence of Madoff in order to keep earning millions of dollars in fees. As a result, its clients suffered massive and avoidable losses."
According to DOL, Ivy served as the investment adviser for Jeanneret, Beacon and Andover, and introduced those parties to Madoff. The suit alleged that "Ivy misrepresented and concealed doubts and suspicions about Madoff, including the belief that no investment with Madoff was justified."
The suit further alleged that "Ivy concealed its suspicions because the investments made by Jeanneret, Beacon, and their plan clients and other investors generated enormous fees for Ivy and contributed significantly to the assets under Ivy's management." The department alleged that "Ivy made the decision not to sacrifice those financial benefits by disclosing the true nature of its doubts about Madoff, especially because management did not think the company could escape legal liability for those investments."
Jeanneret served as the investment manager for more than 70 plans that invested with Madoff through several methods, including its own fund of funds, starting in 1991, DOL says. The department's suit alleged that "the company and its principals made material misrepresentations and failed to disclose material facts to their ERISA-covered plan clients that invested with Madoff. These included failing to disclose that Ivy had informed Jeanneret that it was unable to perform due diligence on Madoff. Jeanneret also allegedly failed to disclose to its clients that it had entered into a new agreement with Ivy in 2007 that eliminated Madoff from Ivy's due diligence responsibilities, and failed to disclose that Ivy recommended Jeanneret reduce plan client and investor exposure to Madoff.
The suit went on to further allege that Jeanneret "largely ignored" Ivy's recommendations to reduce its clients' Madoff investments and "failed to take prudent steps to investigate irregularities about Madoff and his purported trading, while taking substantial amounts in fees as the investment manager for the plans."
According to DOL, Jeanneret and its owners and officers "allegedly violated ERISA based on their fee arrangement, which provided for higher fees for Madoff investments than for other types of investments. This arrangement gave them the ability to set their own compensation by exercising their discretion to recommend and make Madoff investments for plans."


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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took a 16-minute drive on Wednesday, its first since reaching the Red Planet to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life.
The $2.5-billion, two-year mission, NASA's first astrobiology initiative since the 1970s-era Viking probes, kicked off on Aug. 6, with a risky, but successful landing on at a site NASA has named "Bradbury Landing," a nod to the late science fiction author and space aficionado Ray Bradbury.
Aside from a quick steering test earlier in the week, the one-ton rover had stood firmly on its six wheels since touching down inside an ancient impact basin called Gale Crater, located in the planet's southern hemisphere near the equator.
At 10:17 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, Curiosity became a rover, trudging out a total of 15 feet (4.5 meters), turning 120 degrees and then backing up 8 feet (2.5 meters) to position itself beside its first science target -- a scour mark left behind by the rover's descent engine.
Most of Curiosity's drive time was spent taking pictures, including the first images of the rover's tread marks in the Martian soil.
"It couldn't be more important. We built a rover, so unless the rover roves, we really haven't accomplished anything," project manager Pete Theisinger, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., told reporters during a press conference.
Engineers saw no problems during Curiosity's test drive, clearing the way for a first round of analysis of rock blasted clean by the rover's landing system engine.
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VICTORIA — Fraser Health has spent almost $520,000 conducting "super cleans" at five of its hospitals to deal with the issue of C. difficile.
On Friday, spokesman Roy Thorpe-Dorward said deep cleans have now been done at Burnaby Hospital, Royal Columbian Hospital, Langley Memorial Hospital, Peace Arch Hospital and Surrey Memorial Hospital.
The deep cleans — which were done twice a day in two steps using a sporacidal bleach — were conducted over a period of between two to three weeks at each hospital, Thorpe-Dorward said, adding the total price tag was $519,943.
The intensive cleaning regiments were ordered after public attention was focused on the issue of C. difficile at Burnaby Hospital earlier this year.
In February, a letter from eight senior doctors surfaced revealing serious concerns over the fact that 84 patients with C. difficile had died at the hospital between 2009 and mid-2011. Rates of the infection at the hospital had been ranging between two to three times the national average, the doctors said.
On Friday, Hospital Employees' Union spokeswoman Margi Blamey said the need for a deep clean at the five hospitals shows the normal regime is not sufficient.
"The additional cost of the super clean is substantial but it pales in comparison to the costs of treatment of patients who've contracted hospital acquired infections," she said in an email.
"Obviously, Fraser Health isn't investing enough in keeping its hospitals clean on a daily basis."
On Friday, Thorpe-Dorward said Fraser Health does have a regular cleaning regime, and that conducting deep cleans on a regular basis is not considered to be a proper approach to infection control.
"There would be a risk doing this kind of cleaning all the time, contributing to the risk of resistant bacteria that can't be killed," he said.
Thorpe-Dorward added it will take some time before determining how successful the deep cleans have been in addressing the C. difficile issue.
"It will still take a couple of months before we can look at the month-over-month incidents and see if it's made any difference," he said.
Thorpe-Dorward added that Fraser Health has implemented, or is now working to implement, all 13 recommendations from a review by international expert, Dr. Michael Gardam, of C difficile at Burnaby and Royal Columbian hospitals.


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It's taken us this long & it's not quite done yet. There are a few things left to be done. But since when is a house ever "done"? We're very happy with our progress thus far & I'm happy to be able to share it with you all.
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