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Published in 1969 by Alfred A. Knopf
Published in 1992 by Ballantine Books
In His Own Words
I thought The Andromeda Strain was a great title, but for many years I had no book to go with it. I worked on draft after draft, never completing one, obsessing about the project. And all because I was so fond of the title I couldn't abandon it.
The story itself was originally suggested by a footnote in George Gaylord Simpson's scholarly work The Major Features of Evolution. Simpson inserted an uncharacteristically lighthearted footnote saying that organisms in the upper atmosphere had never been used by science-fiction writers to make a story.
I set out to do that.
Eventually I finished a whole draft and sent it to my new editor, Bob Gottleib, at Knopf. Bob said he would not even consider publishing it unless I was willing to completely rewrite it from beginning to end. I was twenty-five at the time, and Bob was only in his early thirties, but he had a very large reputation as an editor because he had edited Catch 22. So I gulped, and said I would rewrite it according to his directions.
Bob said that the novel should read like a New Yorker profile, that it should be absolutely convincing. I wasn't really sure what that meant; I had read New Yorker profiles and found they varied widely. But he started me thinking about what The Andromeda Strain would look like, if the story were true. Where would I have gotten the information? How much would I know? And in what style would I write it, if it were true? I began to look at science non-fiction writing by people like Walter Sullivan, who wrote for the New York Times. And I began to imitate that factual, non-fiction writing style. It yielded a very cold, detached book that was also weirdly convincing.
After I sent Bob Gottlieb the rewritten manuscript, he called up and said I had done very good work, and therefore I only had to write half of it all over again. I gulped, and said I would. And after that, he would just call me every few days: rewrite the beginning of this chapter. Redo this description. This character isn't right; fix it. Add a chapter here. And on, and on. I began to feel persecuted by these demands, which seemed interminable, and increasingly nit-picking. (I did not yet know how rare good editing is.)
When the book was published, lots of people thought it was true. It was pretty interesting. When Bob Wise set out to make the movie, his researchers assumed that everything was true, too, so they went out and found all the things the book talked about — the underground laboratory, the computer programs, the biometrics security. After a while I stopped telling people that I had made it all up, because it turned out that it was based on true things. But I didn't know that when I was writing the book.
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From the Official Archives
Written while Michael Crichton was still in medical school, The Andromeda Strain caused an immediate sensation: partly because the author was still in his twenties; partly because it focused on a biological crisis when most people were thinking about nuclear crises; and partly because of the cool, non-fiction tone it adopted to tell its story. Many people wrote to ask if the book was true. The author became a celebrity.
Lunar Landing
The novel was published just weeks before the first lunar landing and for weeks there had been concern about whether the astronauts would bring back germs from the moon. NASA's decontamination procedures seemed oddly to mirror those in the novel, and the young author appeared on television with Walter Cronkite the night of the lunar landing. The "germs from outer space" theme was treated lightly in some quarters.
Readers in the 1960s were fascinated by the technologies discussed in the book: remote surveillance; voice activated systems; computer imaging and diagnosis; handprint identification; hazmat suits, and biosafety procedures. This was very new to readers forty years ago.
Politics and BioWar
Politics, not science, was the reason the novel was viewed as a radical left-wing, anti-American, anti-militarist work. In the US, many critics drew the opposite conclusion: its Harvard-trained author was located firmly in the establishment, and many questioned whether Michael Crichton was acting unethically, by giving the military new ideas for biological weapons. (He wasn't.)
Thus the pattern of political controversy that would follow much of Michael Crichton's work was established very early.
But as Michael Crichton repeatedly explained, his purpose in writing had nothing to do with politics. His point concerned science. He intended to give a fictional example of a particular kind of scientific crisis-one that, once begun, can't be satisfactorily ended. He argued that we need to understand there is a category of technological error-an oil spill is a good example-that is best dealt with by never letting it happen in the first place. Once it starts, it will run its course and little can be done to alter or modify it. These crises, he said, occur irrespective of the particular people involved, and their particular personalities. We tend to think that crises can be resolved by good leaders, but technological crises often cannot be influenced at all. A skilled leader-one that is more technically trained, or smarter, or quicker-acting-is unlikely to be able to deal with an oil spill better than anyone else. Major technological crises proceed with complete indifference to personalities. The book tried to make that point, too.
"Father of the Techno-Thriller"
In the 1980s, Tom Clancy began to refer to Michael Crichton as the father of the techno-thriller, and the term has stuck. Michael Crichton points to a strong tradition of technical thrillers that preceded his own writing: Peter George's Red Alert (1958), Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate (1959); Burdick and Wheeler's Fail-Safe (1962), and Knebel and Bailey's Seven Days in May (1962), all of which became movies.
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In His Own Words
In the early 1990s, interviewers began calling me "the father of the techno-thriller." Nobody had ever had before. Finally I began asking the interviewers, "Why do you call me that?" They said, "Because Tom Clancy says you are the father of the techno-thriller." So I called Tom up and said, "Listen, thank you, but I'm not the father of the techno-thriller." He said, "Yes you are." I said, "No, I'm not, before me there were thrillers like Failsafe and Seven Days In May and The Manchurian Candidate that were techno-thrillers." He said, "No, those are all political. You're the father of the techno-thriller." And there it ended.
Subsequent History
In the years after the novel's release, any newly-discovered biological agent tended to be referred to as an Andromeda Strain. The term became synonymous with any potential pandemic: marburg, ebola, bird flu, and so on. In the early years of AIDS the virus was often referred to as an Andromeda Strain, and the novel was erroneously cited as predicting such new strains.
Michael Crichton eventually wrote about it in an essay about AIDS:
Someone wants me to speak at a medical convention on AIDS: the modern day Andromeda Strain. I get invitations like this every few weeks.
"No," I say to the caller. "I won't do that."
"You'd be performing a public service…"
"No I wouldn't. Because AIDS is not the Andromeda Strain. And people don't need to be made more fearful right now."
For the last year, the rumors have been flying. The AIDS virus was manufactured by the CIA. (It unquestionably wasn't.) Mosquitoes can infect you with the AIDS virus. (Unproven, and unlikely.) Doctors who care for AIDS patients are getting the disease (none has, except those in a known risk group.) One hundred percent of the population of Zaire now has AIDS. (Wrong.)
So I am not going to add to the rumors in any way. I refused to speak.
However, the novel stands as the first popular work to alert the public to the growing power of biological science, and to hint that biology would eventually replace physics and nuclear technology as a source of public concern and interest. Thus, the hazmat-suited figures that were so exotic in the movie forty years ago are now all-too-common.
The Making of The Andromeda Strain movie
In this excerpt, from "The Strain of Michael Crichton" which appeared in the May 7, 1971 issue of Southwest Scene, the article's author Jerry LeBlanc relates the story of how Michael Crichton came to have a cameo in the movie adaptation of his best-selling novel:
"A non-star is born. It happened recently in Pasadena when director Robert Wise was looking for medical student types as extras to fill a scene in the film adaptation of the best-selling biology-mystery-space thriller, "The Andromeda Strain." From the crowd that always gathers around a film set a 6-foot-9 Li'l Abner type stepped forward and volunteered," I could play a medical student, Mr. Wise. As a matter of fact, I've been training for the role for four years," With that, Wise wisely put on the payroll, at a paltry $40 a day, the wealthy young author of The Andromeda Strain.
In His Own Words
[On whether The Andromeda Strain could ever happen] I doubt it very much. I wrote it because I thought it was an interesting story, and also because it illustrated a technological problem—once something goes wrong, you have trouble ever getting it right again. In other words, if there's an oil slick on the ocean, adding detergents produces more problems, and compensating for the detergents produces another generation of problems… it was this idea that I was after. The best way to prevent problems is to prevent, not try to correct them.
Photos from the set of The Andromeda Strain
The Andromeda Strain Photo credits: Universal Pictures
Robert Wise and Michael Crichton.
Michael Crichton in The Andromeda Strain
Michael Crichton in The Andromeda Strain.
The Andromeda Strain
Release Date: March 12, 1971
Running Time: 2 hrs. 10 min.
MPAA Rating: PG 13
Director: Robert Wise
Screenwriter: Nelson Gidding
Based on the novel by: Michael Crichton
Studio: Universal Pictures
Starring: Arthur Hill, James Olson, Kate Reid, David Wayne, Paula Kelly, George Mitchell
In His Own Words
Bob Wise was really very nice about letting people watch and learn from what he was doing. I was just the writer of the book, hanging around the set – which was a totally non-existent function. But he had, as I recall, an AFI intern and a Director's Guild trainee on the project, mostly just watching. I had never seen any kind of a film made before, except during brief visits to stages for a few minutes. Bob was the first director I'd ever had a chance to observe at work and, in an awful lot of ways, he's the model I've retained. Bob dealt with all of the problems very smoothly. His particular style of directing is very relaxed, very easygoing, very personal and very well-organized, without a lot of histrionics and temper flares. That impressed me a lot and I've tried very hard to be that way, too.
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We have walked by Kartabar many times on our trips to the Avon, looking through the large plate-glass windows at a lively mix of diners at the bar and dining room. Checking the menu online, I discovered that lamb shank was one of their featured entrees, and that was enough for me.
We dined on a Friday evening, where the well-stocked bar area was filled with young, well-dressed moderns and the two dining rooms were nearly filled with a wide variety of ages and ethnicities.
While Kartabar features a variety of Mediterranean cuisine, the menu also features pizza, half-pound burgers, pasta and Panini.
I knew what I wanted before I sat down. I had my first lamb shank many years ago at the India Restaurant at Epcot and have not been able to recapture the taste since. Chef Nat Hughes made for an unforgettable dining experience with his all-natural braised lamb shank, slowly cooked with asparagus, rosemary inborala wine sauce, and served over mashed potatoes with an incredible gravy ($18.95). The juicy, tender lamb pulled easily off the bone and melted in my mouth.
Joyce chose Mediterranean Kabob ($18.95), tender filet mignon tips on a skewer with onions and red bell peppers, finished with extra virgin oil and served with a side of that delicious tzatziki sauce.
The generous portion was accompanied by rice pilaf and fresh carrots and string beans with a delicious indescribable flavoring. Joyce likes her meat rare, and that's the way it came.
We started our dining adventure with Hummus Bi Tahini ($7.95), a large plate that easily serves two. The presentation convinced us that we were in for an elegant evening. The chickpea and garlic dip was as good as it gets, drizzled with extra virgin oil and served with foot-long pita chips.
Hughes suggested the Rustic Mediterranean Salad ($8.95), also more than enough for two. The ingredients, finely chopped, included baby greens, roasted peppers, olives, capers, cucumbers, onions, artichokes, tomatoes, pita chips, grilled Portobello mushrooms and a dressing that made it sensational. You can add chicken, shrimp or whatever to the salad, but we liked it just the way it was.
Chef Hughes is a Johnson & Wales graduate who worked at Sapphire, Parkside and other quality restaurants and has been at Kartabar for the past two years. Owner Phillipe Maatuck has operated the popular restaurant for the past 10 years, and the spot has become a word-of-mouth success. The name is a variation of the small town in Lebanon where he grew up.
General Manager Eric kept a close eye on the guests, stopping to chat and tell us about Tuesday night, when he is chef, preparing a special menu and entertainment. We learned about his hometown in Turkey.
We usually pass on dessert, but couldn't resist the chocolate-banana bread pudding, topping off a perfect evening.
There are other menu items that make it a must to return, including Salmon Concase-grilled marinated salmon over sautéed spinach topped off with tomato concase, and Tuscany scallops-pan seared jumbo sea scallops with roasted garlic and red peppers in a white wine Dijon mustard sauce, served over a bed of spinach. Then again, that lamb shank looks too inviting.
Kartabar is located at 284 Thayer St., just down the street from the Avon. Open Sunday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 a.m., and Friday and Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. For reservations call 331-8111.

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AfterMariah Careysaid that her time onAmerican Idolwas like"going to work every day in hell with Satan,"most people assumed the diva was referring specifically to her fellow judgeNicki Minaj. But according to Carey's husbandNick Cannon, that's not the case.
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After Mariah Carey said that her time on American Idol was like "going to work every day in hell with Satan," most people assumed the diva was referring specifically to her fellow judge Nicki Minaj. But according to Carey's husband Nick Cannon, that's not the case.
Surprising celebrity family ties
"I don't think she was speaking directly about [Minaj]," Cannon told Access Hollywood. "I think she was talking about the situation in general. In her mind, it's bigger than that. If my wife wanted to [call Minaj Satan], she would've said that. She has no problem [saying] how she feels!"
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"She was talking about the situation in general," he added.
Though, according to Cannon, it was the addition of Minaj as a fourth judge that started Carey and Idol off on a bad foot, since she was supposed to be the only female judge. "[Mariah] was like, 'You said it was going be this, and then it turned out to be this.' From that point on, it was just bad," Cannon said.
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Bam_Bam needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 94 designs submitted by 23 freelance designers.
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We are a small IT company situated on the Gold Coast Australia. We are split into two divisions, one being web based application development and the other business to business I.T. servicing.
Australian small to medium businesses.
We are seeking a long needed re-vamp of our logo and website. Website competition will be run after the logo is completed.
The logo should be web 2.0 style. We are looking to convey a modern clean look. The logo should be fairly conservative but at the same time modern and vibrant.
The logo should incorporate the theme of a compass in some way, but can be very abstract.
Our current tagline is: "the right direction"
Current logo and website can be found here. http://www.compassit.biz/
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By William H.R. Rivers (1920)
Posted March 2000
The concept of "the unconscious" in psychology is one which has aroused the liveliest differences of opinion and has been met by bitter opposition. Even those who are ready to accept the vast influence of unconscious factors in psychology may well be appalled by the difficulties of treating the unconscious in a scientific manner and fitting so necessarily hypothetical a factor into the explanation of behaviour. One line of opposition has come from advocates of the older introspective school of psychologists who have found it difficult to fit an unconscious region of the mind into their schemes of description and explanation. The aim of the older psychology was to furnish a rational explanation of human behaviour and endeavour. As the material for such explanation they used almost exclusively the happenings in their own minds, which could be directly, though really only retrospectively, observed, and made this material the basis of constructions whereby they fitted into coherent schemes the infinitely varied experience of the human mind. When their introspective method failed them, and they were driven to assume the existence of factors lying outside those accessible to introspection, they were accustomed to assume subconscious processes, or to speak of psychological dispositions and tendencies, or they would even throw psychology wholly aside, bringing into their schemes of explanation factors belonging to the wholly different order of the material world, and used physiological processes as links in the chain whereby they connected one psychological happening with another.
Those who adopted subconscious processes as elements of their constructions, viz., processes which only differed from other [p. 8] mental processes in the lesser degree of distinctness and clearness with which they could be observed, paid in this way lip-service to the supposed essential character of consciousness in psychology, but failed to recognise that they were only evading a difficulty by clinging to a simulacrum of the conscious, the existence of which was just as hypothetical as any of the constructions of the thoroughgoing advocates of the unconscious.
Those who spoke of psychological dispositions, or going still further, adopted physiological dispositions in their place, were also positing purely hypothetical factors where those open to direct observation failed them. These measures were only means by which these psychologists and psycho-physiologists escaped from the necessity of facing the difficulties presented by many aspects of animal and human behaviour, and especially those presented in Man by the phenomena of disease.
It is noteworthy that the due recognition of the importance of the unconscious and the first comprehensive attempt to formulate a scheme of its organisation and of the mechanisms by which it is brought into relation with the conscious should have come from those whose business it is to deal with the morbid aspect of the human mind. The necessity for the use of unconscious factors continually arises when dealing with the experience of health, but the opportunities afforded by such experience are usually so fleeting, and the experience itself often so apparently trivial, that they failed to force the psychologist of the normal to face the situation. It was only when unconscious experience had contributed to wreck a life or produce a state with which the physician had to struggle, and then often ineffectually, for months or years that it became impossible to push such experience aside or take any other line than that involved in the full recognition of its existence. It is only the urgent and inevitable needs of the sick that have driven the physician into the full recognition of the unconscious, while it has needed the vast scale on which nervous and mental disorders have been produced in the war to force this recognition upon more than the few specialists to whom it had been previously confined. [p. 9]
In entering upon an attempt to make clear the sense in which the term "unconscious" will be used in this book, I will begin by pointing out one sense in which it will not be used. At any given moment we are only clearly conscious of the experience which is in the focus of attention. This forms only an infinitesimal proportion of the experience which is capable, by being brought into the focus of attention, of becoming conscious with an equal degree of clearness. Again, at any one moment a much larger amount of experience is within the region of the conscious though less clearly, but even the largest amount which can thus I be brought within the outermost fringe of consciousness at any instant or even within any brief space of time, forms but a very small proportion of that which, with other directions of the attention, could come into the field of consciousness. At any given instant there is a vast body of experience which is not in consciousness because at that instant it is neither the object of attention nor so connected therewith as to occupy consciousness with more or less clearness at the same time. Experience of this kind will not be included within "the unconscious" as the term is used in this book. In so far as the term "the unconscious" applies to experience, it will be limited to such as is not capable of being brought into the field of consciousness by any of the ordinary processes of memory or association, but can only be recalled under certain special conditions, such as sleep, hypnotism, the method of free association, and certain pathological states.
The kind of experience which will form the main subject-matter of this book may best be illustrated by some examples.
A good instance of the unconscious is afforded by the conditions underlying the claustrophobia of a sufferer from war-neurosis, whose case is described in full in Appendix II. as long as he could remember, this patient had been subject to a dread of confined spaces so severe, and producing states so painful and unendurable, that he was debarred from taking part in many of the ordinary occupations of life, or could do so only at the risk of suffering and discomfort. When his profession as a doctor took him at the age of thirty to the front his specific [p. 10] dread was brought into pronounced activity by the necessity of working in dug-outs, and the strain so produced formed a most important factor in producing a state of anxiety-neurosis. During a course of treatment to discover the origin of his claustrophobia, there came to the patient's consciousness an experience at the age of four in which he had been confined in a narrow passage with no means of escape from a dog by which he was terrified. In spite of attempts, continued over several years, to discover some experience of childhood which could explain his symptoms, this memory of the dog in a passage had wholly failed to appear in consciousness, and was only brought to memory by a special procedure. We have no direct evidence that the incident had been wholly unconscious during childhood, but owing to his prolonged search for such experience at a later period of life, and its total failure to appear in consciousness, we have the most decisive evidence that an arresting experience, one accompanied by an emotional state of the most poignant kind, can lie dormant and evade the most searching attempts to bring it into the field of consciousness. When it was at last recalled, this did not happen through any association of waking life but came in the semi-waking state following a dream. Its coming to consciousness occurred in definite connection with an experience of sleep which we know to furnish conditions especially favourable to emergence from the unconscious.
This patient not only affords conclusive evidence for the existence of experience shut off from consciousness under ordinary conditions, but his case shows that this experience, though inaccessible to consciousness directly, may yet be capable of affecting it indirectly. His dread of confined spaces had so definite a relation to the early experience that the two were undoubtedly connected, while the complete disappearance of his claustrophobia, after bringing the long dormant experience to the surface, affords further, though standing alone, not necessarily conclusive, evidence in the same direction.
Psychological literature contains many similar histories. I take this case of claustrophobia as an example, partly because, having come under my own notice, I am able to estimate its [p. 11] trustworthiness. Still more important is the fact that it was possible to obtain conclusive evidence that the infantile experience had really occurred, and was neither the fancy of the patient nor the result of suggestion on the part of the physician, the latter possibility being especially present when a supposed experience of childhood is discovered by means of hypnotism.
The records of others can never, however, carry the conviction which comes from one's own experience, even though such experience can rarely have the dramatic and conclusive character of my case of claustrophobia. One who wishes to satisfy himself whether or no unconscious experience exists should subject his own life-history to the severest scrutiny, either aided by another in a course of psycho-analysis or, though less satisfactory and less likely to convince, by a process of self-analysis. It will perhaps be instructive if I give a result of my own self-analysis, which though at present incomplete, has done much to convince me of the reality of the unconscious.
I am one of those persons whose normal waking life is almost wholly free from sensory imagery, either visual, auditory, tactile or of any other kind. Through the experience of dreams, of the half-waking, half-sleeping state, and of slight delirium in fever, I am quite familiar with imagery, especially of a visual kind, which, so far as I can tell, corresponds with that of the normal experience of others. I am able to recognise also that in the fully waking state I have imagery of the same order, but in general it is so faint and fragmentary that the closest scrutiny is required for its detection. It is clear to me that if it were not for my special knowledge and interest I should be wholly ignorant of its existence. On looking back in my life I am aware that my mental imagery was more definite in youth, and I can remember the presence at that period of fairly vivid visual imagery in connection with certain kinds of experience, especially of an emotional kind.
Some years ago, as part of an examination into my memories of childhood, I discovered that I had a more definite knowledge of the topography of the house I left at the age of five than of [p. 12] any of the many houses I have lived in since. I can make a plan of that house far more detailed, based on memories clearer to myself, than I can make of houses in which I have lived far longer and at times of life when one might expect more permanent and vivid memories. Moreover, I can even now obtain visual images of the early house more clear and definite than any I usually experience, while other memories of my first five years bring with them imagery more definite than accompany the memories of later life. I have concluded, and I think I am justified in doing so, that before the age of five my visual imagery was far more definite than it became later and was perhaps as good as that of the average child.
For some time I explained the loss of imagery of which I am the subject as part of a process by which I had become especially interested in the abstract. I supposed that my imagery had faded for lack of the attention and interest which would have kept it active, even if they had not promoted its development into the instrument which imagery has become in the mental life of the majority of human beings. It is only during the last year or two that I have discovered an aspect of my early experience which has led me to revise this earlier opinion. This discovery is that my knowledge of the house I left when five years old is strictly limited to certain parts of it, and that the rest of the building is even more inaccessible to memory than any of the houses in which I have lived since. So far as I remember the house had three floors. I can remember, and even now image fairly vividly, every room, passage and doorway of the ground-floor. I can in imagination go downstairs into a kitchen in a basement and I can go upstairs towards the upper door, but when I reach the top of the stairs I come to the absolutely unknown, an unknown far more complete than is the case with any house occupied more recently, where I have some idea of the topography, though this is inexact and vague. For more than two years I have been attempting, by means which have succeeded in evoking other early experience, to penetrate into the mysterious unknown of the upper storey. Though I have recalled many incidents of my early life which took place on the [p. 13] ground-floor, in the basement, in the regions before and behind the house, no event of any kind which happened in the upper storey has ever come to my consciousness. Now and then, when in the half-waking, half-sleeping state, peculiarly favourable in my experience to the recovery of long-forgotten events, I have had the sense that something is there, lying very near emergence into consciousness. But I have not yet succeeded in penetrating the veil which separates me from all knowledge of my life in that upper storey.
The evidence for the existence of unconscious experience which is provided by these memories of my infancy is, of course, incomplete, in that I have not yet discovered the nature of the unconscious experience and have even no certain guarantee that it exists. The feature of the experience which impresses me -- I cannot expect it to have an equal influence on others -- is the completeness of the blank in my mind in connection with that upper storey. I fail to explain that blank by any mechanism provided by differences in the effect of interest on memory. A psychologist of the old school would probably say that we tend especially to remember the striking and unusual, and that it is therefore natural that my memories of the upper storey, where I probably passed most of my life at that time, should be less vivid than those of the lower parts of the house, which I visited less often. This might well explain a different degree of distinctness of memory, but it cannot explain the completeness of the blank left by the memories of the upper storey. Another line which might be taken is that, at any rate during the year before I left the house, I lived on the ground-floor during the day and only visited the upper floor at night when tired. But even if such a reason were valid, it cannot explain the completeness of the blank. Moreover, such explanations seem to be put out of court by the fact that when I recall memories of houses lived in later, I find no such difference between upper and lower storeys. Though my memories of later houses are more vague than the early memory, they are quite as definite for the upper as for the lower parts of the buildings.
The two cases I have given are examples of the experience of [p. 14] early life which has become inaccessible to consciousness. This period of life is especially apt to afford occasions for experiences to become unconscious, but the passing of experience into the unconscious may happen at any age, and its occurrence has been brought to notice very widely by the experience of war. One of the most frequent features of the nervous disturbances of war has been the complete blotting out of the memories of certain events, the obliteration usually extending considerably beyond the event which furnished its special occasion. In some cases, where the loss of memory for a period of the soldier's life has been produced by physical shock accompanied by complete unconsciousness, as in cerebral concussion, the obliteration has been complete, and the case does not come within the scope of this book, for there is no evidence that any experience exists capable of being again brought to consciousness. In many cases, however, in which the obliteration is due to mental shock or other physical factors, the experience which is inaccessible to the consciousness of the subject under the usual conditions of memory has been recovered in the hypnotic state or by the method of free association or has expressed itself, usually in a distorted form, in dreams. In such cases soldiers have lost the entire memory of their lives from some moment preceding a shock or severe strain until they have found themselves in hospital, perhaps weeks later, although during at least part of the intervening time they may have been to all appearance fully conscious and may even have distinguished themselves by actions on the field of which they have no recollection. Although these memories may remain for months or years quite inaccessible to memory when approached by the ordinary channels, they may be brought to the surface by means of hypnotism or by the method of free association.
In a case of a somewhat different kind under my care a soldier had lost all memory of his life from a day in July when he was training in England until the following January when he found himself in hospital in Egypt, having no recollection whatever of his service in various parts of England, of the voyage to Egypt, or of his life in Egypt before going to hospital. The memory [p. 15] of this period was not recovered until more than a year later following the disclosure of a painful experience in his life which had a definite connection with his amnesia.
In cases such as these the loss of memory forms part of the complex group of changes which make up the state we call psycho-neurosis. There is reason to believe that many of the manifestations or symptoms of this state are due to the activity of the experience which has become unconscious, just as the dread of my claustrophobic patient has been ascribed to the unconscious experience of which he was the subject at the age of four. The effects which can be thus ascribed, at any rate in part, to the unconscious experience of war, fall into two main groups. There are, on the one hand, general changes in personality, and changes in tastes, in likes and dislikes, in preferences and prejudices, while on the other hand, there are specific dreads or other morbid experiences of waking or sleeping life, such as nightmares, hallucinations or morbid impulses, which can be more or less directly ascribed to the activity of the unconscious experience. In such cases we have definite evidence, not merely for the existence of unconscious experience, but for its activity, or capacity for activity, in this unconscious state.
I will conclude this chapter by considering a way in which the term "unconscious" is often used which I shall endeavour to avoid. If an idea springs spontaneously into the mind without obvious antecedents in consciousness we are accustomed to speak of this mode of appearance as unconscious. Again, when a person behaves in a manner which corresponds to something taking place in the mind of another person, but is not wholly, or perhaps not at all, determined by anything in the mind of the behaver, we regard the behaviour as due to the suggestion of the second person and we are accustomed to speak of this process of suggestion as unconscious. In these instances the antecedent of the thought or behaviour may, and probably does, come from the unconscious, in the sense already proposed, either of the person who experiences the thought or of the person by whom the behaviour is suggested, but it is a question whether it is convenient to use the term "unconscious " for the [p. 16] process by which the thought or the behaviour is promoted. It is only necessary to point out that in such a case we are speaking of a change being set up in consciousness unconsciously to see how unsatisfactory is this usage and how little relation there is between the use of the word "unconscious" in this sense and that in which I propose that it shall be used. I shall not, therefore, call such processes as I have mentioned unconscious, but shall make use of a special term to denote them and shall speak of them as "unwitting." When a thought or feeling comes into the mind without antecedents in consciousness so that we suppose it to have come from the unconscious, I shall not speak of the thought as having arisen unconsciously but unwittingly. Similarly, I shall speak of the process of suggestion as taking place unwittingly and not unconsciously, leaving open how far the source of the suggested thought or behaviour is in the "unconscious" as the term will be used in this book.


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Hunt Lodge, a Holiday Inn hotel, is on Highway 55 in McCall, Idaho, USA. The Hunt Lodge is just 3/4 of a mile from Payette Lake and just minutes from Brundage Mountain and Tamarack Ski Resorts. Image taken February 21, 2011.
Idaho is a state located in the northwestern region of the United States of America. Idaho is the 14th largest state by area, ranks 39th by population and 53rd by population density of the 50 United States. Idaho was the 43rd state to be admitted into the Union, on July 3, 1890. Idaho is landlocked, being bordered by Canada on the north and the states of Washington and Oregon on the west, Nevada and Utah on the south and Montana and Wyoming on the east. Idaho is nicknamed "The Gem State" because nearly every known gemstone is found within the state. Idaho is also famous for producing about one third of all potatoes grown in the USA. Idaho also hosts the largest barrel cheese factory in the world, producing 120K metric tons of cheese per year. There is some ambiguity as to where the name "Idaho" came from, but it is generally believed to have simply been made up by George M. Willing. There is a possibility it was derived from a Native American phrase. Idaho is very mountainous and is a popular outing destination of the outdoorsman. The state population was about 1.58M in July 2011 with 84% being Caucasian, 11.2% Hispanic and 1.1% Native American. The state capital and largest city is Boise.Source: wikipedia


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Innovation Classrooms at CSG's National Conference
The Council of State Governments' National Leadership Center's latest initiative, Sharing Capitol Ideas 2.0—SCI 2.0—is training state leaders in how to use technology to communicate with constituents and how that same technology is changing their constituents' lives.
The SCI 2.0 content is designed to give state leaders useful insights they can use immediately. In recent years, the programming has focused on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Alerts, inbox management, online identity protection, better understanding of privacy settings and other online best practices.
Bridgepoint Education is one of two CSG private sector partners that will educate state policymakers on how technology is impacting the states during CSG's National Conference in Austin, Texas.
"Technology has revolutionized the way we do business, the way we socialize, and the way we learn by redefining how we access and process information," said Melissa Garrett, associate vice president for government affairs for Bridgepoint Education. "We are excited to showcase our mobile education technologies and to share valuable lessons we learned in the process with legislative leaders and policymakers."
Bridgepoint will present "Innovations in Education: How Technology Changes Everything" at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, and Sunday, Dec. 2. Bridgepoint Education has launched a suite of dynamic, electronic textbooks to improve accessibility, reduce costs and greatly improve the student's experience with digital content. Electronic textbooks can provide students with an engaging textbook accessible from any device with content tailored to specific learning outcomes.
Esri Inc. will present "Putting Maps into your Social Media" at 10 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, and Sunday, Dec. 2. The session will walk attendees through the processes of finding and exploring a map in ArcGIS Online, configuring a map to suit your needs, and incorporating your maps into presentations and Web applications.
Similar to CSG's social media boot camps, the sessions will be held in a classroom setting in the Exhibit Hall.


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When a smart guy like Dan Arvizu, director of the National Renewal Energy Laboratory, says fossil fuels should be phased out by 2040, as was reported in this newspaper Monday, it leaves you scratching your head. In less than 30 years? How on Earth?
Surely it can't happen without technological breakthroughs, since the current inventory of non-carbon-emitting technologies, with the exception of nuclear, are not up to replacing base-load electricity power plants. And who's going to allow nuclear in their backyard these days?
For that matter, what about the cost of energy under Arvizu's phase-out scenario, both to individual consumers and to the economy? Doesn't that have to be part of the discussion?
Granted, NREL's director was speaking at the opening session of the World Renewal Energy Forum in Denver, and it's always a temptation to pander to an audience by telling them what they want to hear. But with all due respect for Arvizu's crystal ball, I wouldn't advise liquidating any oil and gas investments just yet.


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Orlando Ware (1779-1860) was a storekeeper ("trader") in Deerfield, Massachusetts, from 1802 to 1831. His account books survive in the PVMA library for the years 1803 to 1830. Many of his customers, as was the pattern in the 18th and 19th centuries, did not pay their bills regularly. At times, legal action had to be taken to clear the debts. Daniel Burnham of Montague owed Mr. Ware $6.30. The legal fees for the court action amounted to $2.83 making a total of $9.13 demanded of Mr. Burnham on the seventh day of August 1819. The form used was issued by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts with the particulars of this case filled in by Dr. Williams.
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Walking through the Sparr Heights Community Center in Glendale on Thursday, Jay Fragoso was interrupted mid-stride.
"Jumping Jay," a guest called out, beckoning him over for a handshake.
It is an appropriate moniker for a man who, at 72, is as comfortable interacting with his peers at the senior center as he is hurtling through the air at 120 mph.
On Jan. 18, Fragoso was part of a 15-person free-fall formation that set a world record for the largest skydiving formation of jumpers over the age of 70.
"What I enjoy is the free-fall," the veteran skydiver and Highland Park resident said. "The parachute is just a means to get back down to the ground."
Fragoso joined the Army in 1957 with aspirations of jumping with the Airborne Division. He was disqualified due to flat feet, and didn't get his chance until decades later. But after making his first jump in 1980, skydiving quickly became a lifestyle.
He has made 2,504 jumps, all logged in neatly kept journals. They include jumps from a hot air balloon and a DC-9 plane, which was traveling at 160 miles an hour and required the skydivers to sprint out the back hatch.
"It's 40 at a time," Fragoso said. "When that door drops down and you start running, you hope you don't fall down because you are going to get trampled."
He and teammates from the Golden Stars Skydiving Team jumped into a middle school assembly, a rodeo arena and the Rose Bowl. They've been the featured entertainment at Memorial Day and Fourth of July events, and shaken hands with their share of powerful politicians upon landing.
There have been a few near disasters. In December 1990, Fragoso and 19 other skydivers survived a plane crash that occurred shortly after takeoff. During a jump the following year, his main parachute failed to activate, forcing him to cut it away and use his reserve. The secondary chute failed to fully deploy, so Fragoso had to manually manipulate the risers.
"When I landed, I got really bruised up," Fragoso said. "But I went back a week later because I knew if I did not jump then, I wouldn't jump again, I would quit."
The recent world record jump proved to be a highlight after more than three decades of skydiving. Fragoso joined 19 others, all members of a group called Jumpers Over Seventy, in Eloy, Ariz., where they made 16 jumps during five days. The first six jumps were used to finesse their skills, the remaining 10 to attempt the record.
Between each jump, the participants reviewed video footage, strategized and reconfigured their formation. On the 16th jump, 15 of the 20 skydivers held a free fall formation for eight seconds, beating a 14-person formation record set last year.
The new record was certified by their parent organization, the Parachutists Over Phorty Society.
Fragoso's skydiving intertwined with a 27-year career as a faculties and maintenance worker at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. He began working part time at the Sparr Heights Community Center five years ago in order to finance his hobby in his retirement.
"He is amazing," Maggie Kavarian, community services supervisor, said. "He exemplifies what we love to see in seniors — that passion, that excitement."
Fragoso planned to travel to the Dominican Republic this weekend to participate in the 64th anniversary celebration of that country's air force. He and a fellow jumper have helped train the nation's special sky diving team for the last five years.
"It is a passion," Fragoso said. "It keeps me going."


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The NEC defines a dwelling unit as a single unit that provides complete and independent living facilities for one or more persons that must include permanent provisions for living, sleeping, cooking, and sanitation (Fig. 1 on page xx). A dwelling becomes "multifamily" when it contains three or more dwelling units [Art. 100 Definitions] (Fig. 2 on page xx).
When you size the service for a single-family dwelling, you calculate the load and apply the appropriate demand factors. For a multifamily dwelling, you do the same thing, except you apply the appropriate demand factors to the sum of the individual dwelling units of that multifamily dwelling. You are allowed to use the standard method from Part III of Art. 220 or the optional method from Part IV of Art. 220.
Standard method. The same method used for single dwellings can be applied to multifamily dwellings. The NEC allows some additional demand factors for multifamily dwellings, on the presumption that there will be diversity of usage between the various units. For example, it's very unlikely that four families will run their clothes dryers, ranges, and small appliances at exactly the same time.
The following steps can be used to determine feeder and service sizes for a multifamily dwelling using the standard method contained in Art. 220, Part III:
Step 1: General Lighting, Small Appliance, and Laundry Demand [Table 220.42]
- 3VA per sq ft for general lighting and general-use receptacles [Table 220.12].
- 1,500VA for each small-appliance circuit (minimum of 2 circuits) [220.52(A)].
- 1,500VA for each laundry circuit [220.52(B)].
Step 2: Air-Conditioning versus Heat [220.51]
The larger of the air-conditioning load or the space-heating load.
Step 3: Appliance Calculated Load [220.53]
Nameplate ratings of all appliances (except heating, air-conditioning, cooking equipment, and dryers) are taken times a 75% multiplier if there are four or more on the feeder.
Step 4: Household Dryer Calculated Load [220.54]
Dryers are allowed the demand factors of Table 220.54, but this table does not allow less than 100% demand until there are five units or more. The 5kW minimum per dryer applies to all dwelling units [220.54]. A laundry circuit isn't required for an individual dwelling unit if the multifamily unit has common laundry facilities.
Step 5: Household Cooking Equipment Calculated Load [220.55]
Perhaps one of the most confusing tables in the NEC is Table 220.55 for household ranges. This table is confusing because the first two columns are percentage multipliers, while the third column is a final kVA value. The notes to this table further complicate matters. Be sure you study this table carefully and pay close attention to how to properly apply each column.
Step 6: Service Conductor Size [Table 310.16]
When sizing the service or feeder conductors for a single-family dwelling, you can use Table 310.15(B)(6), but that is not the case when sizing conductors for the service or feeder to a two-family or multifamily dwelling. For sizing those conductors, use Table 310.16 instead. Use Table 310.15(B)(6) for the feeders to an individual dwelling unit within the building.
Optional method. When should you use the optional method instead of the standard one? If you have the necessary information, you'll probably want to use the optional method, because it's faster and easier to calculate.
The optional method for multifamily dwellings is different from the one for single-family dwellings. That's because with multifamily dwellings, you apply demand factors in recognition of the diversity of usage of all the loads in all the separate units.
Let's make sure this is clear. In a single family unit, you have diversity among the various types of loads. Although you have that in multifamily units as well, you have diversity among the units that make up the multifamily dwelling — all of the families in a multifamily dwelling aren't using identical loads at identical times.
You can use the optional method [220.84] for multifamily dwelling unit feeder and service calculations only if each dwelling unit is equipped with electric cooking equipment and electric heating and/or air-conditioning, and is supplied by no more than one feeder. Follow these rules:
- Use the demand factors of Table 220.84, based on the number of dwelling units.
- Determine the feeder/service neutral calculated load per 220.61.
- Calculate house loads for common areas per Art. 220, Part III and then add them to the Table 220.84 calculated load.
House loads are those not directly associated with the individual dwelling units of a multifamily dwelling. Some examples include landscape and parking lot lighting, hall and stairway lighting, common recreation areas, and common laundry facilities.
Follow these steps:
- Determine total connected load.
- Calculate the load.
- Size feeder and service conductors.
Let's look at these three steps in a bit more detail by walking through an example. In practice, you may see NEC-compliant variations of executing these steps.
Step 1: Determine total connected load [220.84(C)].
Add the following loads (from all the dwelling units) together, then apply the Table 220.84 demand factor:
- 3VA per sq ft for general lighting and general-use receptacles.
- 1,500VA for each small-appliance circuit (minimum of two circuits).
- 1,500VA for each laundry circuit.
- The nameplate rating of all appliances.
- The nameplate rating of all motors.
- The larger of the air-conditioning load or the space-heating load.
A laundry circuit isn't required for an individual dwelling unit if the multifamily unit has common laundry facilities.
Step 2: Calculate the load.
Apply the demand factor from Table 220.84 to the total connected load (Step 1). You can convert the calculated load (kVA) to amperes by:
Single-Phase Formula: I = VA ÷ E
Three-Phase Formula: I = VA ÷ (1.732 x E)
Step 3: Size feeder and service conductors.
Size the ungrounded conductors per Table 310.16, based on the calculated load.
Example Problem
A 120/240V, single-phase system supplies a 12-unit multifamily building (Fig. 3 on page xx). Each 1,500 sq ft unit contains:
Dishwasher — 1.5kVA
Water Heater — 4.0kVA
Washing Machine — 1.2kVA
Dryer — 4.5kVA
Range — 14.4kVA
A/C (230V x 17A) — 3.91kVA
Electric Space Heating — 5.0kVA
Question: What size conductor is required if the service is rated 120/240V, single-phase and the conductors are installed in parallel in two separate raceways?
Step 1: Total Connected Load
Step 1a: Determine the General Lighting Load:
General Lighting
(1,500 sq ft x 3VA = 4,500VA)
Small-Appliance Circuits
(2 circuits x 1,500VA = 3,000VA)
Laundry Circuit (1,500VA)
4,500 + 3,000 + 1,500 = 9,000
9,000VA x 12 units = 108,000VA
Step 1b: Determine the Appliance Calculated Load:
Dishwasher (1,500VA)
Water Heater (4,000VA)
Dryer [nameplate] (4,500VA)
Range [nameplate] (14,400VA)
1,500 + 4,000 +4,500 + 14,400 = 24,400
24,400VA x 12 units = 292,800VA
Step 1c: Compare the Air-Conditioning versus Heat Load:
A/C = 3,910VA (omit)
Heat = 5,000VA x 12 units = 60,000VA
Step 2: Total Connected Loads
General Lighting, Receptacles (108,000VA)
Appliances Connected Load (292,800VA)
Heat (60,000VA)
108,000 + 292,800 + 60,000 = 460,800
Total Connected Load = 460,800VA
Total Calculated Load = Total Connected Load x Demand Factor [Table 220.84]
Total Calculated Load = 460,800VA x 0.41 [Table 220.84]
Total Calculated Load = 188,928VA
Step 3: Service Conductor Size (Fig. 4 on page xx)
Conductor size if paralleled in two raceways [240.4(B)]:
787A ÷ 2 raceways = 393A per conductor
Feeder/Service Conductors:
Parallel 600kcmil conductors rated 420A at 75ºC [Table 310.16] would meet these load requirements.
Grounding electrode conductor sizing. What size grounding electrode conductor is required if the service ungrounded conductors are 600kcmil with two conductors in parallel in two separate raceways?
600kcmil x 2 = 1,200kcmil (equivalent area of the ungrounded conductors) [Table 250.66, Note 1].
Over 1,100kcmil for ungrounded conductors requires a grounding electrode conductor of 3/0 AWG [Table 250.66].
Feeder installation. When installing feeders, include an equipment grounding conductor in each raceway. Section 250.118 lists allowable equipment grounding conductors.
To size this conductor using a wire-type equipment grounding conductor, go to Table 250.122 and select the equipment grounding conductor based on the overcurrent device protecting the conductors in the raceway [250.122(F)]. For instance, the equipment grounding conductor in each raceway of an 800A feeder, which is paralleled using two 600kcmil conductors per phase, will require a 1/0 AWG equipment grounding conductor in each raceway.
Two more samples. Working these two additional sample problems will reinforce what we've learned thus far.
Size the grounding electrode conductor.
Question: What size grounding electrode conductor is required if the service ungrounded conductors are 300kcmil with three conductors in parallel in three separate raceways?
300kcmil x 3 = 900kcmil equivalent area of the ungrounded conductors [Table 250.66, note 1]
900kcmil for ungrounded conductors requires a grounding electrode conductor of 2/0 AWG [Table 250.66]
Size the parallel service conductor.
Question: What size conductor is required if the service with a calculated load of 787A is rated 120/240V, single-phase and the conductors are installed in parallel in four separate raceways?
787A ÷ 4 raceways = 196.75A
3/0 AWG copper is rated 200A at 75ºC [Table 310.16], so four 3/0 AWG conductors can be paralleled for this service.
A word about two-family dwellings. The feeder for a two-family dwelling unit is calculated using the standard method in Part III of Art. 220. When that calculated load exceeds the calculation for three identical units using the optional method of 220.84, the lesser of the two calculations is permitted to be used [220.85].
Avoiding confusion. The sizing of branch circuits, feeders, and service conductors for multifamily dwellings is similar to the sizing for single-family dwellings. You size the feeders to individual dwelling units in the same manner, whether that dwelling unit is a single-family dwelling or an individual unit of an apartment building.
The NEC allows the use of Table 310.15(B)(6) for sizing the feeders or service conductors to an individual dwelling unit. However, to size the conductors that provide the service to a two-family or multifamily dwelling you must use Table 310.16.
Whether calculating the service for a single-family or a multifamily dwelling, be sure to follow the Code rules for the specific calculation you are working on and do not intermix the standard method with the optional method. Follow the steps outlined in this article and apply the demand factors allowed for each method carefully, and you will be successful.


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Halloween Contest: Scribblenauts Remix!
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Do you love Scribblenauts: Remix as much as we do? Then show your love with a Scribblenauts-inspired Halloween costume and enter to win either a vinyl Maxwell doll (like the one pictured here) or a pair of Scribblenauts headphones.
What do you have to do? It's simple. Just post a picture of yourself (or a family member - pets included) in Scribblenauts gear to our Facebook page, and we'll take it from there. Winners will be announced Tuesday, while you're recovering from your Halloween sugar binge. Get to it, wannabe Scribblenauts!


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Kelsey Grammer pulls out of TV interview over ex-wife photo
KELSEY GRAMMER pulled out of a TV interview with PIERS MORGAN at the last minute on Wednesday (19Sep12) after spotting a photo of his ex-wife in the opening titles, according to the show host.
The former Frasier star was billed as a guest on Piers Morgan Tonight, but he allegedly bolted after producers included a photo of his third wife, Camille Grammer, in the CNN series' opening sequence.
Morgan was baffled by the no-show and took to Twitter.com to explain his guest's absence, telling followers, "Kelsey Grammer was supposed to be on my show now but ran out of the building. Strange."
Moments later, he updated fans by writing, "So, Kelsey Grammer saw a photo of his ex-wife Camille in the open to our show and legged it (left). Extraordinary. Never had this happen before... I had a very friendly chat with Kelsey backstage (earlier), he said he was really looking forward to the interview. Weird...
"I like Kelsey Grammer personally, but this was a shockingly unprofessional thing to do. I wasn't even going to mention his ex-wife!"
A representative for Grammer says in a statement, "Piers needs to take responsibility for what he did to Kelsey. It's called accountability."
Last month (Aug12), Grammer refused to utter Camille's name during a chat with TV host Oprah Winfrey, simply referring to the reality TV star as "that person".
The couple endured a bitter divorce and custody battle after splitting in 2010, and the actor went on to marry Kayte Walsh in February (11).


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In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a "looper" – a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) – is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good…until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels.
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We raised funds for the Missouri NEA to help rebuild the library of Joplin High School after it was destroyed by deadly tornadoes.
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For the second year, we raised funds for Junior Achievement at our Festivus charity event.
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In addition to being arrested for assault, add mounting financial problems to Lindsay Lohan's list of issues over the past week.
Lohan's debts are apparently so outstanding that the IRS has seized the troubled actress' bank accounts to pay her massive tax debt.
According to TMZ, the IRS had previously filed tax liens against Lohan for the years 2009 and 2010, claiming she owes $233,904 in unpaid federal taxes.
Lohan's "Scary Movie 5" co-star Charlie Sheen just wrote the actress a $100,000 check to help pay her tax debt, but it barely scratched the surface, reports TMZ, because the "Liz & Dick" star also owes money for 2011.
Lohan is set to earn a reported $2 million by year's end, but apparently it still isn't enough for the 26-year-old to cover her taxes, and the IRS is now tired of waiting — hence seizing all of her bank accounts in order to settle her debt.
According to TMZ, Lohan is now "in full-on panic mode about her financial situation, and is desperately trying to make some cash to get out of the red."


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From Native American tribes to Mexican rancheros, the U.S. Army to HI USA, many over the last few centuries have called the stunning cliffs and fertile valley of the Marin Headlands home.
The Coast Miwok
When Spanish military, missionary, and civilian settlers began arriving in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1776, they discovered Coast Miwok tribes living in the area north of the Golden Gate. The Coast Miwok's main encampments were near present-day Fort Baker and Muir Beach, though they moved throughout the Headlands area between temporary and permanent villages, in an annual rotation of hunting, fishing, and gathering.
Many Coast Miwoks migrated to Franciscan missions in San Francisco starting in the 1780s, and by 1810, disease, forced labor, and religious and societal indoctrination had led to the demise of their way of life.
Today, the Coast Miwok people form a single, federally recognized tribe called the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. A recreated Miwok village is maintained in Point Reyes National Seashore, near the HI Point Reyes, 25 miles north of the Marin Headlands.
An Agricultural Tradition
As native tribes diminished, the Headlands became farmland for Spanish and Mexican rancheros, later giving way to Portuguese dairy farmers. These Portuguese immigrants, who came en masse from the Azores to the Sausalito area, formed a large community around the local Roman Catholic Church. Many came during the Gold Rush on whaling ships -- those who did not make their fortune in gold brought their dairy expertise to ranches across present-day Marin County.
The Military Moves In
As early as 1890, the Marin Headlands began to see U.S. Army settlements, placed here to protect San Francisco Bay from hostile ships and surprise attack.
By 1907, the army owned all of the Marin Headlands, building barracks and bunkers along the coast, as well as a post office, gymnasium, and even a bakery. Among the new buildings at Fort Barry were a number of officer's mansions and a large infirmary. Today, HI Marin Headlands calls the converted hospital and one of the mansions home.
As World War II approached, operations in the area were considerably increased and harbor defenses enhanced. Many more men were enlisted in the Headlands, and the area was on red alert for enemy attack -- particularly in the moments following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, when the West Coast was assumed to be the next target. Despite their preparedness, no attack ever came to the Bay Area.
Many of the WWII-era military fortifications are still intact today for guests to explore, including Battery Townsley in Fort Cronkhite, located above Rodeo Beach, a little more than a mile from the hostel.
Following WWII, the Marin Headlands became a top-secret location for Cold War initiatives, including two NIKE missile sites and rumored CIA operatives. The Headlands was off-limits to any civilian, and a feeling of intrigue and secret discovery is still prevalent here. Today, the Headlands boasts the country's only restored NIKE missile site.
The Open Space Movement
In the 1960s, the U.S. government sold more than 2,000 acres of land in the Marin Headlands to a private developer who planned to build a city in these rolling hills just north of San Francisco. The city -- dubbed Marincello -- would have included scores of apartment towers, condominiums, and single-family homes, as well as shopping, entertainment, and a resort hotel. The plan would have transformed this peaceful place into a convenient suburb just minutes from the Golden Gate Bridge.
A small group of local citizens, incensed by the prospect of development and the process the developers had undertaken, pursued every vein they could to put a stop to Marincello -- and were ultimately successful.
Today, there are a few remaining artifacts of the once-planned suburb, including the "road to nowhere" Rodeo Avenue exit off southbound Highway 101. Signed as "Not a Through Road," the exit ramp ends abruptly at a gate, where the road becomes a hiking trail up into the hills.
Establishing the Marin Headlands Hostel
The local effort to preserve this wide open space led to similar efforts to prevent development around the Bay Area. The movement culminated in 1972 with the creation of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, an effort supported by the Golden Gate Council of American Youth Hostels (now the Golden Gate Council of Hostelling International USA).
In 1978, the National Park Service leased the old Fort Barry infirmary building to the fast-growing youth hostel organization, making it the second of six Golden Gate Council hostels on National or State Park land. The Golden Gate Hostel (now known as HI Marin Headlands) operated for 18 years before taking over a second building, the officer's mansion we now call the Annex.
Today our hostel hosts more than 17,000 guests each year, drawing people from all over the Bay Area, California, and the world. We're one of many nonprofit park partners in the GGNRA, joining the Marine Mammal Center, YMCA Point Bonita, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Headlands Center for the Arts, Headlands Institute, and others in working to preserve this unique, coastal park for visitors now and in the future.


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The USGS Water Science School
So, you say the water from your faucet smells like rotten eggs? Maybe you wonder how water gets to your house way up on that hilltop or would like to know why your pond is full of slimy green algae. Hopefully, this Questions and Answers page can supply you with some answers. And, if you have a water question you'd like answered, email it to Drippy here at Water Science and we'll try to find an answer.


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Combine the popcorn and cocoa nibs in a very large mixing bowl. Make sure to remove any unpopped kernels.
Combine the corn syrup, sugar, molasses, water, salt, and vanilla in a 3 1/2-quart saucepan and put it over medium heat. Cover and bring to boil, about 2 to 3 minutes. Remove the lid and clip on a candy thermometer. Continue to cook until the mixture reaches 250 degrees F. Take the pan off the heat, remove the candy thermometer and immediately pour the mixture over the popcorn. Stir to coat the popcorn evenly. Cool until the mixture can be handled safely, about 2 to 3 minutes.
Using a large ice cream disher, scoop the popcorn mixture into 3-inch rounds onto a parchment lined half sheet pan, smoothing with buttered hands as needed. Cool completely. Wrap individually in plastic wrap or put them in an airtight container. Store for up to 2 days.
Put the oil, popcorn and salt in a large, 6-quart, metal mixing bowl. Cover with heavy-duty aluminum foil and poke 10 slits in the top with a knife. Put the bowl over medium heat and shake constantly using tongs to hold the bowl. Continue shaking until the popcorn finishes popping, approximately 3 minutes. Remove the bowl from the heat and carefully remove the foil. Stir in any salt that is on the side of the bowl. Melt the butter in the microwave. Slowly drizzle over the popcorn, while spinning the bowl. Serve immediately.


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