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Did Religious Conflict Play A Role? The News Tribune in Alaska reports on the retrial of Rachelle Waterman, accused of plotting the 2004 death of her mother with two older men when she was 16. The first trial resulted in a hung jury, and now the Ketchikan District Attorney is trying again with a second indictment. At issue in Waterman's defense is whether she truly meant for the two men to kill her mother, and what her mental state was at the time she allegedly discussed having her mother killed. In recent testimony from the woman's father, Carl "Doc" Waterman, he claims that there was religious conflict in the home.
"He said Lauri was stricter on Rachelle than he was on some things but he never saw any evidence she hit their daughter and Rachelle never told him about anything like that. Neither of them used physical punishment, Waterman said under questioning by prosecutor Jean Seaton of Sitka. Other witnesses have testified that Rachelle told them her mother tried to push her down the stairs, became angry if her grades slipped, and withheld food, telling her she was fat. Prosecutors say she told even more to Jason Arrant and Brian Radel, the men who carried out the killing. Lauri Waterman was a strict Catholic and was upset when Waterman began experimenting with Wicca, a pagan religion and form of witchcraft, Doc Waterman said."
This case got a lot of Internet buzz when it first made the news in 2004, due to the fact that Waterman had (and still has) a LiveJournal account. Many noted that Waterman claimed to have been grounded over her interest in Wicca (among other things). Now it's for the jury to decide if grown two men in their 20s (one of whom was dating Waterman) took the irrational rantings of a disgruntled teenager as mandate for murder, or if Waterman, as the prosecution attests, was the mastermind for the killing. I'll keep you posted as this case develops.
Dan Halloran and the New York Snow Removal Controversy: The New York Times looks at the ongoing story regarding allegations that New York City sanitation workers staged a slowdown after the Dec. 26 blizzard. At the center of this story is New York City councilman (and out Heathen) Dan Halloran, who claims that sanitation workers came to his office and informed him of the planned slowdown (allegedly to embarrass Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg). But evidence has been hard to pin down, and Halloran currently risks professional embarrassment. Recently, Halloran has been softening his story as he nears giving testimony to a federal grand jury.
In an article that appeared in The New York Post on Dec. 30, he said the workers had been told "to take off routes" and "not do the plowing of some of the major arteries in a timely manner." "They were told to make the mayor pay," Mr. Halloran said in the article, "for the layoffs, the reductions in rank of the supervisors, shrinking the rolls of the rank and file." More recently, the councilman has said the workers were not explicitly told to take part in a slowdown, but were subtly informed there was no need to rush while clearing the snow.
The NYT piece runs down Halloran's career so far, including his election as an out Theodsman, run-ins with parking enforcement, and recent bankruptcy and divorce proceedings. Halloran now says that his goal "was never to make headlines or anger people," but that damage may already be done, and he could be forced to give up the names of those who came to him when he testifies. For more on Dan Halloran, check out this recent Pagan+Politics interview.
BBC and a Witch Queen: The Romanian witch tax story keeps on chugging along, this time the BBC interviews "Queen Witch" Mama Bratara, who has threatened to curse the lawmakers.
"Life for witches, astrologers and spiritual mediums in Romania has always been tough. Under the Communist regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, the supernatural industry was banned, and now witches say they are being hit again – this time by new tax laws. Once Ceausescu was ousted from power the witches re-emerged to carry on their craft. Their work has a considerable following, particularly in rural areas. Now the government has angered the witches again by making them register as self-employed and requiring them to pay tax, social security, and pension contributions."
I recommend checking out the video embedded in the story, which gives an interesting look at the formidable Mama Bratara.
That's all I have for now, have a great day!

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- Several states are considering allowing teachers to carry guns.
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- School resource officers have proven their effectiveness in the past.
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- Despite calls from conservatives to arm teachers, a voice of reason and dissent has emerged from this reddest of states. Alabama Sen. Bill Holtzclaw, a conservative Republican, says it is "doubtful" that teachers here should be armed.
Holtzclaw, a retired Marine, has something many of us don't: experience about what it means to use a gun in combat situations. He was a primary marksmanship instructor who trained other Marines. "We must recognize the difference between a teacher carrying a concealed weapon and the training required to engage an active shooter," Holtzclaw wrote in his Dec. 28 blog post.
Hollywood myth-making and NRA-pronouncements aside, having a teacher pull a gun is not a simple solution when split-second decisions are the difference between life and death. Nevertheless, Alabama joins a list of states that are considering legislation that would allow teachers to carry guns in schools. Other states include Minnesota, Missouri, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia.
Although Holtzclaw is a pro-gun rights conservative, state legislatures should consider critical questions he raised on his blog before voting to arm teachers.
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"Does the teacher draw to show, or draw to shoot?" Holtzclaw asked. "Shoot to kill, or disable? Are teachers granted immunity with regards to collateral damage, friendly fire ... you know, shooting a child? ... Is the shooter active or threatening, on the move or holed up with hostages?"
Holtzclaw also said that if teachers are to be trained, the "fog of war" — "loud noises, confusion, gun flashes, confined spaces, people being shot, people running into the line of fire" — must be taken into account.
One solution that both President Obama and the National Rifle Association have agreed on is hiring school resource officers — active-duty police. Unlike teachers, they are trained to deal with using their weapons in a life-threatening crisis.
In fact, the argument for trained, armed professionals got stronger last month after a school shooting at Price Middle School in Atlanta. A student opened fire, shooting another child in the neck before he was disarmed by a school resource officer. Multiple shots were fired, but only the one child was hit before the officer — who was armed — took the gun away without further injury.
A growing trend
According to the National Association of School Resource Officers, nearly one-third of public schools in the U.S. have school resource officers, making it the fastest-growing area of law enforcement.
A couple of years ago, I walked the hallways of Butler High School in Huntsville with Officer Carl McDuffie, a school resource officer who specializes in gang intervention. McDuffie walked the hallways like the old beat cops once strolled the streets. He knew many students by name and chatted them up, sometimes with laughter, sometimes with words of warning, but always, it seemed, with a true concern for their well-being.
There is no single solution to preventing school massacres. But some strategies pose more dangers than others. Slightly more than 60% of Americans oppose arming teachers, according to one poll. That, as well as the caution voiced by Holtzclaw, should give pause to the politicians clamoring to turn our schools into the OK Corral.
David Person hosts WEUPTalk on WEUP 94.5 FM/1700 AM in Huntsville, Ala., and is a member of USA TODAY's Board of Contributors.
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University of Missouri undergraduates who are state residents will pay 1.7 percent more in tuition next year as the four-campus system holds its annual hike to the rate of inflation.
The Board of Curators for the four-campus system unanimously approved the tuition increase Thursday at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Room and board will also increase. The increase for the 2013-14 academic year is slightly less than earlier estimates of a 2 percent boost.
State law limits annual tuition increases to the federal Consumer Price Index, and larger increases require schools to seek a waiver from Missouri's higher education department. But that poses political risks.
That was the case two years ago, when the University of Missouri system received such approval to set higher tuition rates but then watched Gov. Jay Nixon impose additional spending restrictions on higher education beyond those approved by legislators once he signed his final budget.
In Columbia, annual in-state tuition at the flagship campus will rise to $9,343, an increase of $158. Out-of-state undergraduates will see similar increases in Columbia and Kansas City but pay 4.4 percent more at the Missouri University of Science & Technology in Rolla and 6.8 percent at the University of Missouri- St. Louis. Increases in housing fees and meal plan costs range from $120 at UMSL to $255 in Columbia.
The new fees take effect this summer.
University President Tim Wolfe noted that the Missouri system has raised tuition over the past five years by a yearly average of 2.3 percent. That compares to 6 percent annual hikes by comparable institutions in surrounding states, he told curators. The comparatively modest increases come as system enrollment has increased by 34 percent over the past 12 years, largely driven by sizable jumps at the Columbia campus.


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Chicken meat, both white and dark meat if preferred, cooked
3 qt chicken stock
2 onions, peeled and diced
3 c white beans, cooked
1/2 c sour cream
1 qt light cream
2 green peppers, halved, seeded and diced
4 stalks celery, trimmed and diced
3/4 c flour
Kosher salt, to taste
Coarse freshly ground black pepper, to taste
3 Tbsp garlic, peeled and minced
2 Tbsp chili pepper sauce
1 Tbsp ground cumin
2 tsp dried oregano
3 Tbsp olive oil
2 Tbsp white vinegar
Cilantro, trimmed and roughly chopped
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4. Simmer for an additional 15 minutes. Remove from heat and fold in sour cream and cilantro. Taste and adjust seasoning if needed.
Yield: 8 Servings
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The following is a guest post by Carl Bergman from EHR Selector.
To paraphrase Mark Twain, everyone talks about EHR usability, but no one does anything about it, at least until now. Led by Dr. Jiajie Zhang, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston's National Center for Cognitive Informatics and Decision Making (NCCD) has developed several tools for measuring usability.
Now, Zhang's team at NCCD has put several EHR usability tools into a Windows based app, TURF, an acronym for Task, User, Representation, Function. Funding for the project comes from ONC's Strategic Health IT Advanced Research initiative.
TURF's Tools. TURF has two major tools, Heuristic Evaluation and User Testing:
- Tool One. Heuristic Evaluation: Expert Screen Capture and Markup. This tool takes EHR screen snapshots and let you compare them to usability standards. You can markup the screen and document the problem.
For example, you can note if the error is minor, moderate, major or catastrophic. The system has a review function, so others can look at your markup and comment. The system also compiles your edits and can generate various statistics.
- Administration. To work with groups, the system has several preset admin template forms and a template editor. The furnished templates cover these areas:
- Demographics
- Expert Review
- Performance Evaluation, and
- System Usability. This form asks 10 questions about the EHR, such as:
- I think I would like to use the system frequently,
- I thought there was too much inconsistency in this system,
- Standards. The system uses the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) EHR usability protocol, NISTIR 7804. You may also add your own rules to the system. (Also, see EMRandEHR.com, June 14, 2012.)
- EHR Sections. Using the NIST protocol, the system's review areas are:
- Clinical Decision
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- Administration. To work with groups, the system has several preset admin template forms and a template editor. The furnished templates cover these areas:
- Tool Two. Live Session Testing. TURF's user test tool sits on top of an EHR and recording each movement. TURF's designers have created a system that not only tracks use, but also adds these major functions:
- User Sessions. TURF captures live screens, keystrokes, mouse clicks and can record a user's verbal comments in an audio file.
- Administration. The tool is designed for testing by groups of users as well as individuals. It captures user demographics, consent forms, non disclosures, etc. All of these can be tailored.
- Testing for Specifics. TURF allows managers to test for specific problems. For example, you can see how users eprescribe, or create continuity of care documents.
- Comparing Steps. Managers can set up an optimum selection path or define the steps for a task and then compare these with user actions.
- Reporting. TURF builds in several counting and statistical analysis tools such as one way ANOVA.
- Running TURF. TURF isn't your basic run and gun app. I downloaded it and then tried to duff my way through, as I would do with most new programs. It was a no go. Before you can use it, you need to spend some time setting it up. This applies to both its tools.
Fortunately, TURF has about 30 YouTube tutorials. Each covers a single topic such as Setup for Electronic Data Capture and runs a minute or so. Here's what they cover:
Hands On. Installing TURF was straightforward with one exception. If you don't have Microsoft's .Net Framework 4.5 installed, put it up before you install TURF. Otherwise, the install stops for your to do it. TURF will also want the Codex that it uses for recordings installed, but the install deals with that.
TURF is a Windows program, so I ran it in a virtual Win 7 session on my iMac. Given the environment, I kept the test simple. I ran TURF on top of a web based EHR and had it track my adding an antibiotic to a patient's meds. TURF stayed out of the way, recording in the background.
Here's how TURF captured my session:
The left side screen played back my actions click for click. It let me run the screen at various speeds or stop it to add notes. The right screen lists each move's attributes. You can mark any notable actions and document them for review by others. You can save your sessions for comparisons.
I found TURF to be a versatile, robust tool for EHR usability analysis. Its seeming complexity masks an ability to work in various settings and tackle hosts of problems.
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China's relationship with Burma may spur a change.
Infrastructure is a basic part of China's economic-led foreign policy—around the world, it builds roads and buildings as part of deals to mine, drill and build energy pipelines. But in neighboring Myanmar, it is taking on the unaccustomed role of attempting to end a war—the country's 17-year conflict with Kachin rebels on the Chinese border.
The reason is economic—China wants peace along the route of strategic new(paywall) oil and natural gas pipelines that will connect the Bay of Bengal with southwest China. A new 495-mile-long natural gas pipeline is to be finished on May 30. Next year, it hopes to finish a twin, 440,000-barrel-a-day oil pipeline. The lines will shorten China's oil and gas supply routes by some 750 miles, and erode the centrality of the Strait of Malacca, allowing Beijing to reduce its hated reliance on US military help in keeping its oil supply flowing. The US Navy–the world's largest ocean-going force–protects global sea lanes, including the Malacca Strait, through which some 80% of China's oil supply flows.


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See if you can match the following personal description to the names below:
- a. Albert Einstein
- b. Walt Disney
- c. Nelson Rockefeller
- d. F.W. Woolworth h. Tom Cruise
- e. Winston Churchill
- f. Hans Christian Anderson
- g. George Patton
- As a child he was labeled as slow. He clerked in a village grocery store. He suggested putting slow- moving merchandise on a counter and selling it for five cents. This venture was so successful that it was continued with new goods. He became the principal founder of a chain of five and ten cent stores.
- When he was 12 years- old, he could not read, and he remained deficient in reading all his life. However, he could memorize entire lectures which was how he got through school. He became a famous general during WW II.
- He was slow in school work and did not have a successful school experience, but later became a well- known movie producer and cartoonist.
- This noted Englishman had much difficulty in school. He later became a national leader and an English Prime Minister.
- This young boy had difficulty reading but was able to write some of the world's best loved stories.
- This boy could not talk until the age of four. He did not learn to read until he was nine. His teachers considered him to be mentally slow, unsociable and a dreamer. He failed the entrance examination for college. Ultimately, he developed the theory of relativity.
- He is a famous movie star. He learns his lines by listening to a tape. He suffers from dyslexia.
- This young man had much difficulty reading and throughout his life was unable to read well. However, he was the governor of the state of New York for four terms and later won congressional approval to be appointed vice president of the United States.
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1. d, 2. g, 3. b, 4. e, 5. f, 6. a, 7. h, 8. c.
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George Vithoulkas A therapeutic system founded by the German doctor Samuel Christian F. Hahnemann1, Meissen, Germany 1755 Paris, 1843. The word homeopathy is made up of the Greek words omoios, meaning similar, and pathos, meaning disease. The law of similars: similia similibus curentur. This system is based mainly on the principle that the cure for a particular disease is achieved through the use of pharmaceutical substances that, when administered to a healthy person, produce the similar symptoms as those of the disease in question. For example, it is well known that Belladonna causes mydriasis , that is to say dilation of the pupil of the eye. In a case of mydriasis the homeopathic doctor will probably give Belladonna, in a highly diluted potency, in order to restore the pupil to its normal state. Another example is digitalis2 which, whereas it is used in conventional medicine to suppress episodes of paroxysmic ventricular tachycardia is, however, and precisely because of this action, made use of in homeopathy for the cure of bradycardia, with a weak pulse and a tendency to faint, irregular breathing, general exhaustion, anorexia, tendency to vomit, and vomiting that does not relieve sick feeling, sensitivity in the epigastrium., cold skin etc this can be a symptomatology that fits not only with heart disease but with a chronic disturbance of the liver or an infectious hepatitis or an asthmatic crisis etc. This principle was formulated by Hahnemann with the Latin motto simila similibus curentur. Similars are cured with similars. Hahnemann believed this to be one of the fundamental laws of cure. The idea had first been mentioned by Hippocrates3, then by Paracelsus, and later by others. And while conventional medicine believes that it must fight the disease bearing factor which it sees as the main cause for disease, homeopathy believes that it must strengthen the organisms defence mechanism in order to be able to fight the imbalance.4 Proving the remedies In order to ascertain the therapeutic qualities of pharmaceutical substances, Hahnemann carried out provings of the remedies on healthy persons of both sexes in increased dosages, though not beyond the toxic levels.5 The reactions to the pharmaceutical substances gained in this manner were recorded in minute detail. This list of remedy symptoms, incurred on relatively healthy organisms, having been repeatedly ascertained, together with the toxological symptoms of various substances, known from existing medical writings, were combined to form a valuable part of the homeopathic pharmacology, otherwise known as the Materia Medica. Hahnemanns main theories On the basis of the law of similars and pharmacological provings on healthy individuals, Hahnemann proceeded to develop an entire medical system. He published a complete account of his theories for the first time in his book Organon of the Art of Healing in 1810. The book contains 294 aphorisms within which he develops the laws of his medical system. Later he published the book Materia Medica Pura in which all the pharmacological substances that he and his students had proved on themselves and to others were included. He also published the book Chronic diseases in which he maintained that all chronic diseases are a result of the suppression either of skin diseases of the skin or syphilis or gonorrhea. That is to say that if these three categories of diseases are treated wrongly, they remain within the organism in a suppressed state, in a changed form and finally they reappear as various kinds of chronic diseases. Hahnemann named these three initial forms of disease the miasms of Psora, Syphilis and Sycosis (meaning gonorrhea). Hahnemann was heavily criticised for his theories, even by some of his supporters, who while declaring these ideas useless nevertheless continued to practise homeopathy. Some of the essential points of homeopathy, which complete the law of similars are: 1. That there are no diseases, but only patients. 2. That the appropriate remedy must match every one of the patients symptoms, and not only the disease. 3. That the quantity of remedy required for a cure to be successful is infinitely small, on the condition that the true remedy has been found. 4. That the symptoms of a disease, during the course of treatment, disappear in the reverse order of their appearance. Individualising each case An important idea introduced by Hahnemann and which causes homeopathy to differ from conventional medicine is individualising. He maintained that there are no diseases, but only patients, and therefore a treatment must aim at treating the individual rather than the disease. According to this idea, ten patients suffering from the same disease, for example epilepsy, will probably each require a separate pharmaceutical substance, unless the symptoms of two or three of them are identical down to the last detail, a rare but not impossible situation. Dr. Samuel Hahnemann 1755-1843 The defence system The complex mechanism of the organisms defence system was named vital force by Hahnemann. This phrase expresses the idea that there is a form of energy behind the defence mechanism, a power with mind which directs and coordinates the organisms reactions. The logic behind this idea, according to homeopaths, lies in the understanding that symptoms are nothing more than the expressions of the human organisms defence mechanism. For example, the bodys temperature increases fever in order to suppress the disease factor, bacteria, viruses, fungi etc therefore the organism needs support in its therapeutic efforts, rather than a suppression of the fever. Homeopaths believe that, by giving a remedy, which is capable of causing symptoms in a healthy individual that are identical to those present in the patient, they are in reality stimulating and providing support for the defence mechanism in its attempt to rid itself of the disease. Homeopaths maintain that the true reason for disease is not infection by a disease element but rather the innate weakness of the defence mechanism and its inability to face up to the invasion and to neutralise it. By strengthening the defence mechanism, without killing the microbes, homeopaths believe that they can to a greater extent influence the return to health of the diseased organism. Opponents of homeopathy maintain that homeopaths do not look for the true cause of an illness, and that they only treat the symptoms. Homeopaths consider that by strengthening the defence mechanism, they essentially enter more deeply into the true cause of the organisms imbalance, which is the weakness of the constitution and its inability to fight the disease unaided. Moreover they maintain that in most cases of chronic disease the cause of the illness is unknown and therefore hard to locate and eradicate with conventional medicines. The smallest possible dose: preparation-dosage There are several methods for the preparation of homeopathic remedies, which were used at various times by Hahnemann. The chief method used by homeopaths today is the centesimal and is produced thus: One part of the mother tincture of the active ingredient which is to be prepared is taken and diluted in 99 parts of inert substance. This can be milk-sugar, sterilised water or pure alcohol. If the substance is diluted in water, the mixture is subjected to at least ten strong succussions and this dilution is called the 1st potentization. A part of this potentization is taken and diluted with a further 99 parts of inert substance and the new mixture is then again subjected to ten strong succussions. This is the 2nd potentization of the remedy, and in the same manner further potentizations are achieved by diluting and potentizing the remedy until very great dilutions are achieved, having continued the above procedure ten, twenty, thirty or more times. For metals which cannot be diluted in water the method of pulverisation is used, in the same proportions: one part of powdered metal is mixed with 99 parts milk-sugar. The mixture is subjected to powerful pounding in a mortar for an hour and this is continued up to the 6th potency, after which the mixture thus obtained is considered a mixture diluted with water and the diluting procedure is used thereafter. The conflict between homeopathic and conventional doctors The greatest conflict concerning homeopathy lies in the quantities of the doses used, which according to conventional doctors is infinitely small and is not justified in having any action at all. High dilutions, which greatly exceed Avogadros number, according to which there should not be even one molecule of active ingredient within such a diluted substance, cause these doctors to look upon homeopathy with a great deal of scepticism. Homeopaths on the other hand maintain that their experience shows that high potencies (multiple dilutions) have even better therapeutic results and that the action of the pharmaceutical substance is probably due to the appearance of a new refined form of energy6 that appears during the potentization procedure. Therefore we are not dealing with a remedy that acts at a chemical level, but rather at an energetic level7. Many dissenting voices maintain that the results that are achieved by homeopaths are a form of self-suggestion, known to medicine as the placebo effect, particularly in cases when the patient believes that he is taking a magic medicine. Homeopaths reply that they obtain the best results with babies, small children and animals, where the possibility of self-suggestion is discounted. Opponents maintain that the system is antiquated and that it has no place in modern medical practice. Homeopaths maintain that the steady therapeutic results obtained over the course of more than two centuries form proof of homeopathys timelessness rather than its decline. Opponents maintain that, even accepting that homeopathy does have certain results, there are not enough double blind experiments indicating the type and extent of the results. Homeopathys supporters say that such research does exist, although not in great quantities, as homeopathy presents certain difficulties in these experiments, since it requires that each patient be given a separate remedy, which is incompatible with double blind experiments, where all patients take the same medicine for the duration of the experiment. Over the last few years the conflict has grown, including between scientists from other branches that are beginning to show an interest in the area of homeopathy.8 Some people believe that the therapeutic force is transmitted with the potentizing procedure and the powerful succussion of the remedies to the water molecules which thus contain the memory of a new energetic state. Others attempt to explain the action of homeopathic medicines by the small clusters theory. Yet others maintain that their action is due to the change in structure of the water molecules under the influence of the substance with which it comes into substance, as well as to the powerful succussions to which the dilution is subjected, and therefore that the dilution of the water becomes organically active. These theories are naturally far from being generally accepted. Conflicts between homeopaths Conflicts are even to be found among the supporters of Hahnemanns theories, and particularly among those who faithfully follow his principles and only administer one remedy to each stage of an illness, known as classical homeopaths, and others, the eclectics or followers of polypharmacy, who administer many remedies each time. The first group believes that there is only one remedy that can cure the patient and that it cannot be replaced by any other similar one. Therefore he must look for the correct remedy in each case via a complex and undeniably lengthy procedure. The second group deems this to be utopian, and that it is difficult to discover the remedy that is truly indicated and that it is easier and quicker to administer 3, 4 or even more remedies at a time, in the hope that they will include the correct one. Are both medical approaches necessary? (Conventional medicine and homeopathy) They certainly are. There is no doubt that there has been a misunderstanding in relation to the therapeutic limits of each method. This has occurred for many reasons, mainly however due to attempts made by homeopaths to make the new approach known. For this reason the results of cures have been exaggerated by homeopaths in order to impress. There is however another far more serious reason. Since the area around this new approach is somewhat turgid, many have abused it to their own advantage, promising that they can cure everything, such as cancer, schizophrenia, AIDS, obesity or smoking. All these announcements take place either in public or in private medicine, in order to attract a greater number of patients. For this reason homeopathy has been presented as unreliable, with the result that an undeclared war broke out among the two approaches, and both sides ended up by having recourse to extreme arguments. On the one hand that it can cure anything, on the other that homeopathy does not cure anything. Truth naturally lies somewhere in between. Even though chemical medicines have serious side effects, and although their over-consumption can weaken the organism, they are useful and often necessary in the final stages of chronic diseases, such as serious epilepsy, serious psychoses, serious heart diseases, serious asthmatic states and generally in the final stages of chronic diseases where a brief but necessary relief from pain or suffering is needed, if there is no longer any possibility of cure. What, in reality, are homeopathys prospects? The question is: is there a way of avoiding these final stages? Is there any medicine which can bring the organism back to its state of balance, when it is still time, in order to prevent, for a long time at least, its weakening? The answer lies with classical homeopathy. The true application of homeopathy can bring about these results. The great misunderstanding at large today is due to the fact that the two sides have not entered into any real and fundamental communication. If they had they would have discovered that each method does not impinge upon the others field of action, and that therefore these two approaches are in reality complementary and not conflictual. Homeopathy intervenes where conventional medicine can hardly do anything, at the outset of chronic disease, where the disturbance has mainly still a functional character. When it intervenes with the true homeopathic remedy it stops any further development of the disease. Conventional medicine with the chemical medicines at its disposal can suppress pains or suffering at the last stages without however being able to stop the debilitating progress of the disease. Which diseases can homeopathy best be applied to? At this point we must state that this area is unclear and that even homeopathic doctors themselves are not clear on this point. Therefore they often overestimate their ability to cure, and at other times have recourse to chemical medicines where in fact they could have found a solution with homeopathy, if they had had sufficient homeopathic knowledge. The problem is that doctors have not had the possibility of obtaining full and precise homeopathic knowledge. This kind of education would make long-term demands on a doctors time, almost equal in length and quality to the initial six year course of basic medical training. And if a doctor should undertake to begin his homeopathic training after the ten years necessary for his specialisation, he would find himself in a state of exhaustion which would not be conducive for the absorption of new facts and new knowledge. The main diseases that can be treated with homeopathy are as follows: Chronic headaches, migraines, vertigo, petit Mal, sinusitis and frontal colpitis, allergic rhinitis, bronchial and allergic asthma, gastritis, gastroenteritis, hepatitis, liver damage, hepatic fatty degeneration,inflammation of the gall bladder, duodenal ulcer, colonic irritation, spastic and ulceric colitis, chronic conjunctivitis, otitis, juvenile acne, atopic dermatitis, neurodermatitis, triple neuralgia, intercostals neuralgia, herpes zoster, cervical syndrome, lumbago, lumber sciatica, myalgia, muscle fibre and tendon damage due to accidents, gynaecological conditions, mastitis, endometriosis, sterility, pre-menstrual syndrome, cystitis, urine incontinence, prostatitis, sperm abnormalities, phobias and anxiety neuroses, anaemia (not Mediterranean), ADD, etc The list is very long and cannot be referred to for details since any one of the conditions named above may represent only one expression of a deeper pathology. The types of conditions referred to below have a chance of reversal only if treatment is started during the very first stages. Multiple sclerosis, grand Mal, acute psychotic episodes, psoriasis, collagen diseases, diabetes, endocarditis, Parkinsons, benign myalgic encephalitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome. For the above categories of diseases to reverse to an order of 60%, demands an extremely experienced and well trained homeopathic doctor. What are homeopathys chances with reference to conditions in extremely advanced pathological states? It is true that in a very few cases of advanced pathology, such as cancer, heart disease, neuromuscular diseases, paraplegia, spastic and autistic children, congenital or long term serious epileptic conditions, schizophrenia etc homeopathy has shown a certain amount of positive action, without however ever bringing about a complete cure. These cases, very few in number, caused certain overenthusiastic but incompletely trained homeopathic doctors to believe or maintain that homeopathy can intervene in and cure such cases. This limited number of cases that reacted well with long-term homeopathic treatment belongs in a category for which the experienced homeopathic doctor is aware of certain defining parameters. It is very important for patients to have recourse to a homeopathic doctor right from the outset of their condition, at a time when homeopathy can show its best results, though it is even more important for the patient to have chosen a well-trained homeopathic doctor. This is where the intervention of the state and of legislation are paramount. Homeopathy unfortunately is not a guide for the blind, each new case is truly a challenge for the doctor. This is because each organism presents its own singularity and it needs its own constitutional remedy, even though he suffers from the same clinical picture. This fact, that is to say the necessity for the doctor to study each case separately, makes homeopathy difficult to teach and to apply, and this is why there are homeopaths who have studied extensively and who are good doctors, as well as those who are mediocre and those who have trained very little or not at all. 1.Samuel HAHNEMANN, Organon of the Art of Healing 2.Harrison, Internal Medicine (Poisoning from digitalis), Parisianos Greg., 1982, vol. 2, p. 1460. 3.Hippocrates, Peri topon ton kat anthropon, 42. The law of similars is referred to thus: [dia ta omoia nousos gignetai, kai dia ta omoia prosferomena ek noseunton ygeienontai, dia tou emeein emetos payetai]. 4.George VITHOULKAS, Science of Homeopathy, Grove Press, 1980 5.George VITHOULKAS, Homeopathy, Medicine for the New Millennium, International Academy of Classical Homeopathy, 2000. 6.Taking into consideration the fact that all substances (from the simplest organism to the planet itself) have an electromagnetic field, we may say that whatever substance is administered to a human being has the possibility of affecting the organism in two ways: on the one hand it can act chemically, as is the case with foods, vitamins, medicines, tobacco, coffee etc..., on the other hand the electromagnetic field of the particular substance can react with the electromagnetic field of the organism, particularly when the frequencies of the two fields is close enough for them to harmonize. For the production of the remedy and its correct potentization both dilution and succussion are necessary. The more a substance is diluted and succussed, the more its therapeutic action is increased, even beyond the point when no molecule at all of the original substance is left. Modern science has as yet found no explanation for this phenomenon. It would seem that some new form of energy is freed and transported to the molecules of the solvent. 7.The human body is an energy complex which produces all known types of energies electric, magnetic, thermic, kinetic and electromagnetic which can easily be traced using simple equipment. However, it also produces other types of refined energies, which have not yet been researched and which are fundamentally related to the intellectual, the emotional and the instinctual levels of the human being. The intellectual power appears to be a specific energy with a particular frequency modulation, that is centred upon a mental centre, a mental generator and it may be transmitted by energetic particles. Under certain conditions this kind of transmission can become the object of reception by other similar mental equipment, without the need for words. Many of us live in a continuous flow of thoughts, Most of our time awake centers around such a continuous production of mental patterns the fact that this type of energy has not yet been measured or defined with academic models does not mean that it does not exist...In other words, the organism has the ability to create complex energy planes fields according to the information which has been recorded on its inner codes (DNA, RNA, genes, chromosomes etc) via its genetic predisposition and its personal experiences. The organism reacts with each illness in an entirely personal way and for this reason mass therapies usually disappoint both their supporters and patients, since the results obtained are superficial, short term and often harmful, particularly in the case of sensitive organisms which do not have a robust defence mechanism. 8.Davenas E, Poitevin B, Benveniste J, Effect of mouse peritoneal macrophages of orally administered very high dilutions of silica, Eur J Pharmacol., 1987, 135(3): 313-9. Poitevin B, Davenas E, Benveniste J, In vitro immunological degranulation of human basophils is modulated by lung histamine and Apis Mellifica, Br J Clin. Pharmacol., 1988, 25(4): 439-44. Davenas E, Beauvais F, Amara J, Oberbaum M, Robinzon B, Miadonna A, Tedeschi A, Pomeranz B, Fortner P, Belon P, et al, Human basophil degranulation triggered by very dilute antiserum against IgE, Nature, 1988, 333 (6176): 816-8. Benveniste J, Davenas E, Ducot B, Cornillet B, Poitevin B, Spira A, Lagitation de solutions hautement diluees ninduit pas dactivite biologique specifique, C R ACAD SCI Paris, 1991, 312, serie II: 461-66. Reilly DT, Taylor MA, McSharry C, Aitchison T, Is homeopathy a placebo response ? Controlled trial of homeopathic potency with pollen in hayfever as model, Lancet, 1986, 2(8512): 881-6.


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Opinion: The GOP's Kamikaze Wing
Political Diary editor Jason Riley on how House Republicans are handling the coming budget showdown.
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Yahoo's official blog has taken up residency at Tumblr, courtesy of this latest acquisition.
On its Yahoo Yodel page, the company spilled the news about the move not long after it confirmed the $1.1 billion deal to buy Tumblr.
Yodeled Yahoo: "Yay! We're moving! As of today, the Yahoo! official blog is moving to yahoo.tumblr.com. Come on over and check out the new digs!"
Yahoo's first blog on its new Tumblr page fittingly discusses the Tumblr acquisition, with a vow by CEO Marissa Mayer: "We promise not to screw it up."
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Yahoo has also promised to keep Tumblr independent with its current CEO, David Karp, continuing to run the show.
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I'm delighted to announce that we've reached an agreement to acquire Tumblr!
We promise not to screw it up. Tumblr is incredibly special and has a great thing going. We will operate Tumblr independently. David Karp will remain CEO. The product roadmap, their team, their wit and irreverence will all remain the same as will their mission to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve. Yahoo! will help Tumblr get even better, faster.
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Has anyone else read the Motorcycle Consumer News comparison? I'm not in the market for either one but it was enlightening to read a more reality based comparo for a touring bike then those that seem to pass through ad copy.
Has anyone else read the Motorcycle Consumer News comparison? I'm not in the market for either one but it was enlightening to read a more reality based comparo for a touring bike then those that seem to pass through ad copy.
The GTL is clearly not an LT, and is just as clearly not trying to be a Goldwing. Just a quick look at the bike will tell you that. A more interesting matchup would be with the Concours 14 and the FJR 13. Everyone who has ridden one understands that it is a replacement for the K13GT.
Still, I was amazed that MCN chose the GW engine over the K16. I had a brief ride on a friend's GTL (in Germany) a couple weeks ago and it just simply flies. I didn't notice any of the driveline snatch that MCN was going on about.
--Darryl Richman, forum liaison
agreed. I'll have to say that I thought that BMW was going to use the GTL to compete for the long distance two up riders. Based on the MCN comparison, it appears that it does if you're off the interstate. But surprisingly the GW won in more catagories than I would have expected.
For those that were interested in comparing the two it makes for an interesting read.
I too was surprised by some of the findings. I think that the comparison suffers a little by the choice of competitors. That said, maybe my impression of the GoldWing suffers by knowing several of their 'bowling jacket/matching helmet/looks trumps all else' riders. I feel like they're comparing a Lipizzaner Stallion with a Park Avenue carriage horse.
The Motorcycle Consumer News comparison is the only one that I have seen where the GW won. The K1600 seems to have won the rest of them.
'You can say what you want about the South, but I almost never hear of anyone wanting to retire to the North.
Well somebody had to be different. If you have been on both the GW does have some advantages over the 1600. Who wins depends on what you are looking for to begin with in the comparison. In the end I don't know I truly trust any of these publications. Advertising dollars and subscriptions have a lot to do with these comparisons. This is not unbiased hard core journalism as if there was such thing an unbiased hard core journalism anymore.
MCN does not have any advertising so they are theoretically free to make any comments on bikes and products they want without fear of reprisal.
Be that as it may, I'm not sure that comparing these bikes is valid. These two bikes are quite different and probably can't really be compared. The only thing they have in common is six cylinders and two wheels.
My two cents worth.
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
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Apples and oranges - wrong bikes to compare.
Interesting enough but worthless
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I own a gtl, so some would think im biased, nope, I just own the one that is right for me. I rode a honda, didnt like it, too heavy, too lame in corners, not fast enough, no leg room, too cluttered, no adjustable windshield, and the bags dont come off.
The two are uncomparable, If you want big, fat, heavy, and cumbersome, and like to get off and manually adjust the windshield, as well as drive around with cb controls for the cb you arent going to buy, then by all means buy a honda. either way, it will never be, try as it might, a bmw.
I am coming off of a harley davidson fl, and have owned 2 lt's as well.
How anyone would pick that lame flat six over a strait six... oh well.
As for mcn being unbiased? I dont think so, its all in the tester, weather or not they are into jap crap, european cycles, or american iron. No test will ever be unbiased, thier are people involved.
I know the GTL is the best for me and my riding preferance, My wife likes it the best so far as well, she hated riding on the lead wing we rented, and she likes it better than either of the lt's i owned.
unfortuneatly BMW will never produce enough gt/gtl's to flood the market, so its a mute point. If they did, they could cut the price even further and womp all over the honda.
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[QUOTE=walterK75;706622]MCN does not have any advertising so they are theoretically free to make any comments on bikes and products they want without fear of reprisal.
MCN has been doing this for years. They made a dumb comparison with a K100 and a bike I can't remember except it wasn't in the same catagory. K100 looked like a real loser. I met the editor at Long Beach international bike show that year and complained. His reply was "to sell mags you need controversary". I unsubscribed.
A group of us were told by BMW engineers at a pre design meeting that they were not looking to design a BMW "Goldwing". They said that the Goldwing was a fine motorcycle but they had no interest in that style of motorcycle design. The meeting was held about 3 years ago @ Max BMW on a Sunday.
Yes. GTL in not an LT.
Yes. Driveline snatch is there.
Maybe you can fly GTL in Germany, but in US guys are getting speeding tickets for going 5 miles above the speed limit.
At least 2 GTL bikes, I know of, went back to the dealer.
One was replaced by a brand new R1200RT.
The second one... "STILL THINKING"
A+ for MCN. They did a good job.
$26800 for a bike and the lid of the top case can't hold a kermit chair?
I really was waiting for that GTL in anticipation of a real "TOURING" bike.
When Concourse 14 will become a little more "TOURING", I will be the first in line.
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Bye Bye 2006 K1200LT
Someone willing to drop 25-35K on a touring machine is entitled to learn the pros and cons of each manufacturersÔÇÖ offerings in a particular market segment. In my opinion, comparison to the Gold Wing, or HD, or any other tourer, is legitimate.
Cycle world just did the comparison too, and concluded the GTL was only 90% as capable as a slab, coast to coast cruiser that the wing was, BUT it was TWICE the sport tourer the Wing was. They ended stating BMW in their first attempt, (unless you consider the LT) packed a K.O. punch to the long time defending champion.


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Sensor-based networks and associated technologies hold the promise to help address important challenges such as protecting the environment including saving energy and rationalizing the consumption of natural resources, delivering health and elderly care, improving transportation safety and efficiency, or organizing response to natural disasters, increasing quality control and productivity through better monitoring of industrial and services production and distribution processes.
Sensors are fixed or mobile processing devices that measure or detect a real-world condition, such as motion, heat, light or location and convert the condition into an analogue or digital representation. "Sensor-based networks" are groups of sensors with a communications infrastructure intended to cooperatively monitor and record conditions at diverse locations.
Real-life applications using sensor-based networks are not yet widespread. Many are already implemented or being implemented. Many others are in the laboratory. Therefore we are at an ideal moment to consider the technical, economic, and social issues that applications using this technology may raise and how to foster innovation in this area.
This conference follows-up on the 2008 OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Future of the Internet Economy where Ministers invited the OECD to "analyse the economic, social and cultural impacts of emerging Internet technologies, applications and services, including sensor-based networks" (Seoul Declaration). It builds on previous OECD work on RFID and on the High Level OECD Conference on "ICTs, the environment and Climate change" (Helsingør, Denmark, 27-28 May 2009).
The discussion aimed to explore recent developments and trends in research on sensor-based networks technologies and applications with a potential for adoption in the short, medium and long-term, as well as the drivers and challenges for their deployment. It also aimed to provide a better understanding of what innovation processes and transformations occur during the development and the market introduction of sensor-based networks in a given sector.
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When Boko Haram fanatics attacked a girls' boarding school in north-eastern Nigeria, kidnapping several-hundred girls whose only offence was to dream of becoming doctors, teachers or lawyers, the Nigerian authorities' initial response was to lie.
The military promptly claimed that it had freed 107 of the girls. In fact, it had done nothing and, the girls' parents say, it has continued to do little for the three weeks since.
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The American government, the United Nations and other players did not seem interested either.
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More than 50 of the kidnapped girls managed to escape the gunmen. Dads armed with nothing more than bows and arrows pursued the kidnappers into the terrifying Sambisa forest, where militants have hideouts.
Women's rights advocates in Nigeria noisily demanded action, and social media mavens around the world spread word on Twitter, Facebook and online petitions - and a movement grew.
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It's entirely possible that some families that lost a daughter to Boko Haram will now lose a son to the army, but outspoken US monitoring can help limit atrocities.
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We inevitably feel helpless when terrible things happen, but these are practical steps to fight a blow against extremism while honouring some of those brave Nigerian girls who are missing - like Deborah, Naomi, Hauwa, Pindar, Mary, Monica, Grace, Esther, Aisha, Ruth, Saraya, Blessing, Gloria, Christy, Tabitha, Helen, Amina, Hasana and Rhoda.
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But as someone who lives on the furthest edge of technological innovation, Mann has also suffered attacks on his personal rights - leading him to begin new research into surveillance, privacy and "cyborg-law." Here's our quick-read biography of Steve Mann.
Building the first wearable computer
Mann studied engineering at the McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and it's safe to say he's well educated. Mann graduated from McMaster with a BSc degree in 1987, a B.Eng in 1989 and an M.Eng in 1992. He also received a PhD in Media Arts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1997.
Steve Mann founds wearable computing research group
MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte described Mann's ideas as "very much on the lunatic fringe… it's one of the best examples of where somebody brought with them an extraordinarily interesting seed and now… people are working on wearable computers all over the place."
HDR and Steve Mann's other inventions
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- Chirplet transform , a method of signal processing.
- Video orbits , a method of stitching together multiple photos to produce one panoramic image.
- Natural user interfaces, a type of computer interface that removes the need for text commands or peripherals like the mouse. Well-known examples in use today include multi-touch screens in smartphones and Microsoft's Kinect.
'Sousveillance' inverts surveillance
Sousveillance can include visual and audio monitoring of activities, often from a first-person perspective using wearable devices. It can therefore put power back into the hands of individuals under surveillance. For example, police brutality has often been uncovered by citizens recording their encounters using digital devices.
Mann sees potential in sousveillance for "a transition from our one-sided surveillance society back to a situation akin to olden times, when the sheriff could see what everyone was doing AND everyone could see what the sheriff was doing. " In our current climate of mass government surveillance, it would be a welcome transition.
Fighting back against 'McVeillance'
While eating with his family in a McDonald's in France, three employees took exception to Mann's EyeTap device and tried to forcibly remove it from his head. Mann was then ejected from the restaurant. Mann has also been stopped by New York City police, the Secret Service, and by numerous airport security guards. They obviously don't like being under sousveillance.
Mann has coined the term 'McVeillance' to describe "one-sided sight," or how authorities are "watching everyone while forbidding them from watching back."
In response to this, Mann has teamed up with the IEEE and ACLU to propose the Mann-Wassell law against the prevention of sousveillance.
Mann is a true visionary
It also reveals a lot about our surveillance society. Mann has said he is "often told only criminals were afraid of cameras (by store employees), but then I was told that I couldn't record in those stores." The hypocrisy is plain to see. The state and corporations believe they have the right to record others, while being protected from being recorded themselves.
Yet rather than sue his attackers, Mann is continuing to shape the world around him through his inventions and research - just as he always has.
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