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Showing posts with label health problems. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

How have I been able to walk, drive and climb stairs?

Two months ago, my left leg was pinned to the ground by a branch of a felled walnut tree that I was cutting up with a chainsaw. A few weeks ago, I included in my blog a photo taken by my doctor [display]. I seem to have recovered well and rapidly. However, a month ago, during my first and only medical consultation since the accident, my general practitioner Xavier Limouzin decided that I should obtain further images of my knee (ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging) to make sure that everything was OK. A few weeks ago, the ultrasound image confirmed what the initial X-ray photos had suggested: namely, that there was no fracture anywhere and no thrombosis. Well, this morning, at the hospital in Romans, I was most surprised to learn what MR images revealed.

I've just taken this photo of my legs. I'm still attired as I was for the MRI session: shorts and sandals. Well, although these two rather ordinary knees appear to be fairly similar, there's a big difference. The left knee has in fact been fractured, without my realizing it, for the last two months. (I'll be interested to learn why the X-rays didn't reveal this fracture.) To demonstrate what he was telling me, the friendly specialist at Romans clasped my left kneecap between his fingers and said: "I'm squeezing my fingers at the place where your knee was broken. That's probably painful. No?" I had to tell him that I didn't feel a thing. Maybe I'm becoming an insensitive zombie. I asked him what I should do, to stimulate the healing process. He replied: "Lots of rest. No hard work. Keep off your knees. There's nothing better than long hours stretched out on a sofa watching TV."

While at the hospital, I thought that I might return the brand-new blue splint they had given me on the day of my accident. It's much the same form as the leg-protection worn by cricketers. I only wore this splice on the first night, then never again. So, I imagined that I would be acting as a good citizen in returning it to the hospital. Since the MRI unit is located just alongside the emergency ward, I walked in through the landing where ambulances pull up, and promptly found myself in exactly the same hall where I had waited for treatment two months ago. The staff were handling a fellow whom local firemen had just wheeled in on a trolley, parked just alongside me. It took me a few minutes to realize that the middle-aged fellow, wrapped in a white sheet from which his head and bare feet protruded, and lying limply on his left side, was in fact dead. I was fascinated to realize (for the first time in my life) that the behavior, speech and attitudes of professional people dealing with a corpse are quite unlike situations in which the patient is still alive. Several tiny details (such as the fact, for example, that nobody seemed to be concerned that the fellow's face was pressed hard against the metallic edge of the trolley) sent out messages indicating that the patient was no longer alive. Meanwhile, a secretary informed me that I could hang on to my splint, since they did not seek to recuperate such items. I was happy to jump into my car and drive home.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Many years ago, back in Paris, one of my former employers told his assembled staff: "The challenge of becoming rich involves two aspects. On the one hand, you have to earn as much money as possible. On the other hand, you must spend as little as possible."

I've often thought that our health situation is similar. On the one hand, you must have access to top-quality medical services… including, above all, an excellent GP (general practitioner). On the other hand, you have to avoid running into health problems. Elementary, my dear Watson. (Apparently Sherlock Holmes never pronounced this apocryphal phrase in any of the sixty detective novels written by Arthur Conan Doyle.) I consider myself fortunate in the sense that, in my personal case, both these conditions appear to prevail.

I drop in at the GP's rooms in Pont-en-Royans once every three months for a renewal of the prescription for three or four pills that I've been taking over the last six years. The ritual is always the same. The GP tries to imagine what kind of medical tests he might be able to impose upon me, through his specialist colleagues in the nearby cities of Valence and Romans. Since my prostate has been removed, and since I perform regular checks for colon cancer, I've become a relatively dull candidate for tests… but I'm sure my GP will think of something one of these days.

A long time ago, he informed me that my cervical vertebra resembled worn-out parts in an aging automobile, and that this could well bring about fits of vestibular giddiness. Back at the time the GP said that, I didn't really believe his diagnosis. On the one hand, I never have a stiff or painful neck (in spite of sitting upright in front of a computer screen for hours on end, seated on a hard wooden chair). On the other hand, if I felt giddy at times, particularly when I looked skywards, I imagined this as the first symptoms of some terrible form of cerebral decay. Maybe I had inherited it from my ancestor Charles Walker, innkeeper on the Braidwood goldfields, who used to drink too much of a beverage invented by a Scotsman named Johnnie Walker who, I believe, was his brother. If Charles had died in 1860 of delirium tremens, and if his great-great-grandson felt giddy from time to time when he was wandering around on the slopes with his dogs at Choranche, it's clear that this had nothing to do with neck bones; it was the inherited fault of bad neurons.

Reluctantly, however, I was obliged to admit to my GP that, one morning a month or so ago, I woke up with both a sore neck and a bit of giddiness. Later on in the morning, just to see whether or not it might work, I performed energetic exercises with my arms, neck and shoulders. By midday, both the pain in the neck and the giddiness had totally disappeared. So, that certainly proved something… and my GP agreed! I did have the impression, however, that he looked at me with a puzzled expression when I was telling him this story, as if I might indeed have decaying whisky-soaked neurons in my inner brain.

The GP's test for blood pressure always follows a similar ritual. Lying on my back, I tend to forget that he's busy trying to determine my blood pressure, and I carry on talking, in anything but a relaxed state. He frowns because his reading is lower than expected. At that stage, he always asks me the same question: "Do you check your blood pressure regularly at home?" And I always tell him that I wouldn't have the faintest idea about how to perform such an operation. By that time, I'm standing up, and my body is no longer tense. And, in this position, the GP's new reading of my blood pressure reverts to its normal value, which seems to please him greatly.

After that incident, the GP sets his computer in action, so that it prints out a new copy of my regular prescription. He functions in multi-processing mode by simultaneously recording my payment, signing my prescription and talking on the phone with his wife. Besides, this red-blooded lady's man seems to be amused when I say that this kind of aptitude is generally strictly feminine.

At that point in my visit to the GP, the serious part of our encounter can get under way. I'm talking of our regular conversations about books, science, the Internet, etc. The other day, the GP set the ball rolling.

GP: "I bought the two Dawkins books you mentioned, and found them highly interesting."

Knowing nothing of the quality of French translations of books by Richard Dawkins, I had nevertheless recommended that he might read The God Delusion and The Greatest Show on Earth. Parts of the first book, on atheism, had apparently impressed my GP greatly. In particular, he liked the explanations about the plasticity of the minds of tender children, who can be made to believe anything they're told. Meanwhile, the overall American situation was news to him.

GP: "I was amazed to learn that declaring oneself an atheist in the USA prevents you from being considered as a decent citizen, capable of becoming an elected politician."

William: "At least it's not like that in France."

GP: "It's the opposite here. Politicians like to make themselves out to be free-thinking Republicans, liberated with respect to religious bias. But, as soon as one of their leaders dies, they all flock along to the cathedral of Notre-Dame to pray for the soul of their dead companion."

Talking of believers and non-believers, an interesting Harris poll has just been conducted here in France, where we imagine that the faithful continue to flock to Sunday Mass, albeit in dwindling numbers.

Roughly a third of the population say they're believers, and a third, atheists. The remaining third is characterized by the fact that they simply don't know whether or not God exists. Among them, most people feel that this question is interesting, whereas others say it's not. Those results are unsurprising. What amused me greatly, on the other hand, is the fact that a third of the religious folk who said they were Catholics went on to reveal that they nevertheless don't really believe in the existence of God. Now, I like that approach! That's the kind of Catholic I myself might be, if I set my mind to it. Besides God, the Devil and the Holy Ghost, though, I would also refuse to believe in popes, saints, miracles, priests and all the rest of the ugly rubbish, including relics.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Victims of bad water and sanitation

At a first rapid glance, this spectacular photo seems to depict a military cemetery, but it's probably simply a manufacturer's storage yard.

I found this image on the following website:

Now, it's my sister Anne who might not feel happy about the choice of this date, because it's her birthday. Be that as it may, the organizers of this celebration (?) have chosen the above photo to highlight the fact that—as they point out on their website—"the water and sanitation crisis has claimed more lives than all the wars of the 20th century". And this is no laughing matter… although they might have invented a more solemn name for their day. On the other hand, their chosen name and their photo certainly attract attention.

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Deadly palm oil

In certain domains, the environmental and well-being awareness of my Australian compatriots is far in advance of the French situation. It's only recently that stickers announcing the absence of palm oil have started to appear, here in France, on certain packets of sliced bread.

In Australia, on the other hand, a dynamic consumer movement opposing the palm-oil industry has existed for quite some time.

The product is potentially "deadly" both for human beings with cholesterol problems, and for the jungle creatures (such as orangutans) affected by deforestation followed by palm plantations in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea.

To be perfectly coherent in the environmental combat against palm oil, we should even abandon a splendid old French product: traditional Marseille soap. Now I have a friend down there, in Marseille, who won't be too happy when she hears me saying that. In fact, Natacha recently gave me a stock of this fine soap that's large enough to keep me clean for years to come.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Public health

Seeing these proud and happy and faces, I feel like opening a bottle of champagne and raising my glass: Amérique, à ta santé! [Health warning: Alcoholic beverages must be consumed with moderation.] But there's still a long road ahead before the bill is transformed into effective law.

Here in France, a major step aimed at reducing the financial deficit of the public health system consists of requiring physicians to prescribe so-called generics rather than the original and expensive brand-name medicaments. For years, like millions of other people, in France and elsewhere, I've been taking the inhibitor of blood thickening named Plavix, in its familiar blue packet.

I would imagine that the giant French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis must have spent a tidy sum of money in the invention of the name Plavix, which would be fit for a luxury sports car. This product has always had the reputation of being particularly expensive... but this has not prevented it from becoming one of the most widely-prescribed medicaments in the world.

Well, a few days ago, the local pharmacist gave me the generic product that is proposed as a substitute for Plavix.

I almost broke out laughing when I discovered the name of the active molecule, which will be used universally for all generics intended to replace Plavix: Clopidogrel. Really, it rings in my ears like the name of some kind of supermarket soup for hungry horse-sized mongrel dogs that make a clip-clop noise when they canter. On winter mornings, after going out for a pee, I'm sure that Sophia would be delighted to get stuck into a steaming bowl of smelly Clopidogrel: the super synthetic dog food that's guaranteed to make your mongrel puppy as big and strong as a horse. Maybe, to promote the replacement of Plavix by this generic, health authorities might look into the idea of getting a rap group to put together a Clopidogrel-inspired slam, or a country singer could imagine some kind of Dylan thing: "My baby's gone and left me with the Clopidogrel Blues."

Meanwhile, as I finish my glass of champagne, I hope that all the citizens of Barack Obama's new and just society will soon have access, at last, to all the Clopidogrel and other great stuff that they need for their good health. In making that wish, I do not suggest that public health is merely a matter of low-cost pharmaceutical products. It's also, of course, a question of being able to receive treatment from excellent medical personnel, associated with great hospitals.

PS After having joked about the clumsy name of the generic product (which appeared already, in fact, on the Plavix packaging), it's only fair that I should mention prices, indicated explicitly on both packets. A packet of Plavix costs 56.82 euros, whereas the price of a packet of generic Clopidogrel drops to 30.75 euros. That's a huge difference. One wonders retrospectively where all that extra cash went, and why.

Incidentally, if anyone were to inform me that I might be breaking some kind of French law in talking publicly (and naively) about these pharmaceutical products, I would of course delete the present article immediately... but I don't see why this should be the case.

Monday, July 20, 2009

Awaiting the plague

The current swine-flu situation provides an opportunity of experiencing the kind of anguish that must have pervaded societies in the olden days, before the advent of modern medicine. Here in France, though, things appear to be under control, and there are no advance signs of panic. Normally, the health authorities have ordered more than enough shots of vaccine for everybody, and the forces of the nation are getting ready to act.

If the worst comes to the worst, and there are doubts about whether the vaccine is capable of saving us from death, then our spiritual leaders will surely guide us in prayer... which is not a bad tool in times of calamity. Personally, though, ever since Louis Pasteur, I have had more faith in vaccines than in divinities. Logically, since God acts in mysterious ways, the best all-round approach would consist of beseeching Him in our prayers to bring about the creation of an efficient vaccine. In that way, if all goes well, not only will we all be saved, but people of all outlooks will be reassured concerning the essential forces that gave rise to this successful outcome.

BREAKING NEWS: Click the BBC NEWS banner to access a comprehensive article, dated 21 July 2009, entitled World response to swine flu crisis, which indicates what is happening in each corner of the planet.

Monday, April 21, 2008

Gene business

In the fascinating domain of modern genetics, one of the most exciting activities costs next to nothing. I'm referring to the possibility of purchasing and reading a few books on this subject by Richard Dawkins. But other interesting branches of the gene business can be far more costly.

Apart from the fact that they are both celebrated scientists in the field of genetics, what do these two men have in common? Well, they are among the rare human beings whose personal genomes have been totally mapped.

Several US companies are now offering services in this domain, but the fees are rather high. [Click any of the following company logos to visit their websites.] If I understand correctly, it suffices to send them a sealed tube of your saliva.

The Knome company in Massachusetts offers you the same treatment as for the above-mentioned scientists: that's to say, your entire genome will be sequenced, analyzed and interpreted. But the job will set you back a third of a million dollars.

The services offered by Navigenics, 23andMe and deCODE are far simpler.

They are cheaper, too, starting around the thousand bucks level. Navigenics and 23andMe are located in California, whereas deCODE is based in Iceland.

In all cases, the results are supposed to provide you with interesting data about potential health problems caused by the inheritance of dubious genes. In certain cases, you might be able to compare your genetic profile with that of friends and relatives, and maybe acquire genealogical information.

At the low end of the scale, for a few hundred dollars, you can send a saliva sample to the so-called DNA Ancestry Project, but I'm not sure that you can necessarily expect rewarding results.

The ideal approach to the question of the likelihood of inherited health problems still consists of compiling family health data, such as the causes of death indicated on death records. And it's hard to see how DNA analysis could provide us with more meaningful facts than those obtained through conventional genealogical research.

Personally, I'll no doubt take a closer look at the DNA Ancestry Project, in the hope of obtaining enlightenment, if possible, on a genealogical question that has always intrigued me. My maternal background was marked by a striking marriage between a respectable and industrious man, probably Scottish, named Charles Walker [1807-1860] and a younger Irish girl, Ann Hickey [1822-1898], whose father and at least one brother were notorious criminals. [Click here to visit a website about these ancestors.] I've often wondered whether it might be possible, today, to determine how their respective genes were allocated to various descendants, including myself. Sometimes, I end up thinking that I might have received a disproportionately large dose of bad Hickey genes, making me rather different to more respectable relatives with nice Walker genes. Or vice versa. But this reasoning could well be bad science. Rather than a question of bad genes.

AFTERTHOUGHT It would be fitting that my relatives might have their word to say on this fundamental question... but I'm not at all sure that they read Antipodes, and I'm even less certain that these dear folk (who didn't even wish to help me obtain retirement benefits from the supposedly-rich Australian government) might like to get involved in DNA analysis. At times, I feel that I should put a practical cross on my Australian past. Since my French naturalization, I see sadly that this is actually happening.


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We've been locked out of the offices that Microsoft promised would be open today. Rick Moen: says... Its been a huge success... the message has been heard everywhere... there were TONS of reporters... from Chris DiBona: it was disappointed but unsuprised that the elevators to the 9th floor where Microsoft resides... were disabled. He was seen later telling reporters that if this one piece of the license was bogus, then the whole thing was worthless and that this means that people should feel free to copy and distribute Microsoft products to the world. He also noted that he would not wish this fate on any of his friends.
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Slatterz writes "Screenshots of what is said to be the next version of Microsoft's Windows operating system have been leaked onto the internet. The blog posted a range of screenshots over the weekend which it said represents Windows 7. Overall, the screenshots show a distinctly Vista-like interface, but there is still plenty of time for tweaks and changes to take place."

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Comment Model Railroad Hobbyist (Free Online Magazine) (Score 1) 149

If you're not aware of it, check out the Model Railroad Hobbyist (MRH) website.

Just keep in mind that MRH and Model Railroader (MR) magazine are both advertiser-driver... which is a nice way of saying that their business models are to always be trying to convince you to buy the newest and greatest, instead of being happy with what you already have!

Comment Re:an amazing OS (Score 2) 284

Yes I (AC) remember it - it was a fantastic upgrade from W 3.11 for Workgroups: - the new UI/desktop made it much nicer than 3.11, the file manager was much better - the Recycle Bin made it much simpler to 'recover' accidentally deleted files, no more FAT16/32 undelete tools (anyone else remember Revive or was it Revival?) for most mistakes - the Plug'n'Play feature did work ok for well known extension cards, everyone I know found it way cool not to fiddle with deep technical settings just to get a sound blaster to work At the time it looked amazing and although slower (on my old 486DX2@50MHz) it showed a new way to use the computer - the future to the 2000s looked bright.

Although at the last Win 9x in the series - Windows ME - I switched to Linux full time (mostly for stability), I remember W95 fondly.

Comment Looked slick, but so unstable (Score 4, Interesting) 284

Do you remember first seeing or installing Windows 95?

I do.

95 was really slick looking. Its splash screens and on-screen fonts seemed beautiful, after years of having run DOS programs, earlier Windows (2.1 and 3.0) and Desqview.

I also remember that 95 was awful to use for work -- it would crash, hang, and/or start acting erratically, requiring reboots several times during each work day. I also remember having to manually save my work every few minutes, unless I was using a program that could be configured to autosave every few minutes. (I think we were still using WordPerfect in a DOS box back then and WP was one of the few programs that could actually autosave.)

95 was so unstable that, when you purchased a Microsoft language (C, Pascal, etc), Microsoft actually include a copy of NT 4.0 for free. (At my college bookstore, buying a Microsoft language with a NT 4.0 CD in the box actually cost less than buying just NT 4.0 by itself.)

Comment Re:... using the name and e-mail address of other (Score 4, Insightful) 319

Arstechnica reports:

For what it's worth, more than 15,000 of the e-mail addresses are hosted by US government and military servers using the .gov and .mil top-level domains.

I wonder how many federal employees will be losing security clearances as a result of this?

Submission + - And On His Farm, Bill Gates has Rotten Onions, E I E I O->

McGruber writes: Bloomberg has some fascinating news about Bill Gate's agribusiness in the US state of Georgia: Stanley Farm is on probation in Georgia after neighboring farmers accused it of substituting garden-variety bulbs for renowned Vidalias, the Bordeaux grapes of the onion world. The farm was disciplined in June for a lesser violation and paid no fine, although it lost onions valued at more than $100,000 when they rotted during the probe, according to state estimates.

By federal law, the squat, sweet-flavored Vidalia onion can be grown and packaged in only one region in Georgia. Vidalia farmers, many with corporate pedigrees and most with international experience, have parlayed their onions into a $100 million to $168 million annual market.

In April, Vidalia farmers noticed a truck carrying yellow onions from outside of Vidalia territory entering the region at the height of the Vidalia season. The onions were from Florida, including from one of Gates’s earlier farm acquisitions. The interloping vegetables were unloaded at Stanley’s packing house.

Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture Gary Black's investigation found organic yellow onions inside Stanley’s packing facility that weren’t properly segregated from Vidalias as required by law. “There are two things you cannot do,” Black said. “You cannot pack a yellow onion in a Vidalia onion bag. And you cannot have non-Vidalia yellow onions in the packing facility when Vidalia onions are present.”

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Submission + - Japanese Police arrest Mount Gox CEO Mark Karpelès->

McGruber writes: Mark Karpelès, the head of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, has been arrested by Japanese police.

In February 2014, Mount Gox filed for bankruptcy, saying it had lost 750,000 of its customers’ bitcoins as well as 100,000 of its own, worth some $500 million at the time
A police spokesman said Mr. Karpelès is suspected of manipulating his own account at the company by making it appear that $1 million was added to it. The connection between that allegation and the missing bitcoins wasn’t clear.

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Submission + - Tracking Data casts doubt on Kentucky Drone Shooter's Story->

McGruber writes: The owner of a drone shot down by Kentucky man (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/07/29/142227/kentucky-man-arrested-after-shooting-down-drone) is now telling his side of the story: David Boggs says he had just bought the drone a few days earlier and was planning on using it to shoot video of his kids riding motocross. (http://www.wdrb.com/story/29675427/drone-owner-responds-to-claims-of-privacy-invasion)

Boggs also shared the drone's tracking data with the media. "We are now 193 feet above the ground,” Boggs described as he showed the flight path. “This area here is the world-famous drone slayer home, and this is a neighbor's home, and our friends live over here, and over here, and over here. You will see now that we did not go below this altitude — we even went higher — nor did we hover over their house to look in. And for sure didn't descend down to no 10 feet, or look under someone's canopy, or at somebody's daughter."

The track does show that the drone hovered for around 30 seconds near Merideth’s home but was at an altitude in excess of 200 feet.

However, drone slayer Willie Merideth says he downed the drone using bird shot, an ammunition Merideth says would not have caused enough damage to bring the drone down at an altitude of more than 200 feet. “His claims are that the drone never got below 200 feet,” Merideth said on Thursday. “Number 8 bird shot is not going to take anything out at 200 feet.”

Both Boggs and Merideth say they want to see the video that the drone captured but neither seems to know what happened to the memory card inside the drone that saved the video. “The reason we don’t have the live footage is because when we got there where the drone was shot down and a neighbor had gone and retrieved it and the SD card was gone,” Boggs said. “We want that SD card.”

When asked, Merideth didn’t have an answer either. “We have no idea where that's at,” he said.

Meredith is facing two felony charges of wanton endangerment and criminal mischief. He appears in court this September. (http://www.whas11.com/story/news/local/2015/07/31/local-resident-shoots-drone-down-faces-two-felony-charges/30921593/)

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Submission + - MH370: Found Airplane Debris is believed to be from missing Malaysian 777->

McGruber writes: Air crash investigators have 'a high degree of confidence' that a piece of wreckage found on the Indian Ocean island of La Reunion is from a Boeing 777 — the same model as the doomed MH370 which disappeared in March 2014. Investigators will need to examine closely the wreckage to link it to MH370, but MH370 was the only Boeing 777 over lost over water.

NOTE: The Daily Mail article I'm submitting has the best pictures of the debris that I've been able to find.

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Comment Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? (Score 1) 1197

Can you provide a citation for the quote you provided?

Helicopters are allowed to fly below 500 ft, per the following:

91.119 Minimum safe altitudes: General.

Except when necessary for takeoff or landing, no person may operate an aircraft below the following altitudes:

a. Anywhere. An altitude allowing, if a power unit fails, an emergency landing without undue hazard to persons or property on the surface.

b. Over congested areas. Over any congested area of a city, town, or settlement, or over any open air assembly of persons, an altitude of 1,000 feet above the highest obstacle within a horizontal radius of 2,000 feet of the aircraft.

c. Over other than congested areas. An altitude of 500 feet above the surface, except over open water or sparsely populated areas. In those cases, the aircraft may not be operated closer than 500 feet to any person, vessel, vehicle, or structure.

d. Helicopters. Helicopters may be operated at less than the minimums prescribed in paragraph B or C of this section if the operation is conducted without hazard to persons or property on the surface.

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Comment Ideas for a camera (Score 2) 248

1. Take pictures of things to buy at a store, and show someone at home to help decide what to buy.
2. Take a picture of brochures, restaurant menus, etc. that you can't keep.
3. Take a picture of what needs renovation, fixing, etc. and use it to help explain what you need at a store.
4. Take pictures of lots of things to buy you saw at let the person pick what they want out of the pictures.
5. Take a picture of fish you got in a tank and go to the aquarium store and use it to help buy the right food.
6. Take pictures of advertisement on a subway to remember the URL.
7. Take pictures of food at a restaurant and show someone if they would like eating there.
8. Take a picture of a girl you know a guy friend might like.
0. Take a video of the problem happening i.e. a broken hot water heater, in case it's hard to make it happen again to show the problem.
10. Take pictures inside a house when looking for a house to buy, if your spouse doesn't come with you.

Submission + - Microsoft denies Windows 7 "showstopper bug->

Barence writes: "Windows chief Steven Sinofsky has taken the unusual step of responding to a blog that claimed Windows 7 was suffering from a potential "showstopper bug". Stories had been sweeping the internet that using the chkdsk.exe utility on a second hard disk would lead to a massive memory leak bringing the operating system to its knees in seconds. Responding to a blog post titled "Critical Bug in Windows 7 RTM", Sinofsky wrote: "While we appreciate the drama of 'critical bug' and then the pickup of 'showstopper' that I've seen, we might take a step back and realize that this might not have that defcon level." He signs off with the words: "deep breath"."
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Submission + - NSA to Use Cloud Model For Intelligence Analysis

Hugh Pickens writes: "Information Week reports that the National Security Agency is taking a cloud computing approach on commodity hardware and "largely" on commercial software in developing a new collaborative intelligence gathering system that will link disparate intelligence databases geographically distributed in data centers around the country. The system will house streaming data, unstructured text, large files, and other forms of intelligence data and analysts will be able to add metadata and tags that, among other things, designate how securely information is to be handled and how widely it gets disseminated. For end users, the system will come with search, discovery, collaboration, correlation, and analysis tools. The intelligence agency is using the Hadoop file system, an implementation of Google's MapReduce parallel processing system, to make it easier to "rapidly reconfigure data" and for Hadoop's ability to scale. The NSA's decision to use cloud computing technologies isn't about cutting costs or seeking innovation for innovation's sake; rather, cloud computing is seen as a way to enable new scenarios and unprecedented scalability. "The object is to do things that were essentially impossible before," says Randy Garrett, director of technology for NSA's integrated intelligence program."
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Aion Shaping Up For US Launch 212

One of the most promising MMORPGs in development these days is NCSoft's Aion, a fantasy-based offering built on CryEngine. It makes heavy use of flight as a gameplay mechanic, allowing aerial combat and easy travel around the visually stunning game world. There are four basic classes — Warrior, Priest, Mage, and Scout — each of which have two subclasses. For example, Warriors can be tank-like Templars, or berserker-like Gladiators, while Mages can turn into a scholarly Sorcerer or command the elements as a Spiritmaster. Early previews of Aion almost universally comment on how polished the game seems — this is partly due to the fact that it has been up and running since November in South Korea. "Being stable, scalable, reliable and fuss-free is far from a given in MMOs, but Aion is all those things, and can already stand alongside the genre's usability kings, EVE Online and World of Warcraft. Its expansive, zone-free open-world environments look terrific and run smoothly on a wide variety of systems. It just works." Since the game is already in a relatively complete state, NCSoft has been running closed beta "events," where a portion of the game is opened for testing. MMOGamer has a write-up from the latest such event. Aion is due out in September.

Comment there is a god (Score -1, Offtopic) 33

doesn't the feeling of being alive, self awareness, have an oddity of being explained when people think it comes from a brain? Atoms and electrons are seperate entities joined by forces that together in a brain make for chemical circuitry that would have to have a particular way of combining the elements of what the brain makes of senses like taste, smell, touch, taste, feel, and thought though processing of information together in any way that can conform to a single point of interpration for the sake of how we feel alive. If it were anything it would have to be either many atoms and electrons seperated but in conforming design of being nearby would make for the gathering of the information processed for senses to take a form factor that can be said to be them together making you feel alive. How odd if atoms and electrons are always seperate for this to ever happen anyways, because it can't be an imaginary princle of a working machine for example, the logic is too spread, it has to come together somehow, because there's nothing that can be made of it's way towards processing in the chemical brain that would make sense to the feeling of being alive, and senses are conforming to a complex information processing route for the sake of inperpretation. So... anything in the brain you think that can make you feel alive, or is it all over? if it was all over then wouldn't there be no sense in any chemical machine operation that makes in a general sense the feeling of being alive and sense interpretation, or even routing of processed information towards one centering where atoms and electrons are disjoined anyways? well, except for nucelar forces. Self awareness must be a singleton because you feel alive at once, with all senses feeling together interpreted. That's the problem with a brain making for self awareness I believe, the feeling of being alive.

A single feeling of being alive, the togetherness of all senses, already prepared for interpretation. This must happen, and not in a brain... atoms and electrons are seperated, there's nowhere for this information to go where you can say there's any conforming nature to the idea of how they come together where they mash together and are 'felt' somehow for the sake of being alive.

so maybe the feeling of being alive is from the joining forces between atoms and electrons somehow taking on a shape where chemcially processed information take on a pattern?

What if it were possible for every atom to actually be a computer? and the nuclear forces bonding atoms could actually exchange information, they would network together wouldn't they? it's not far fetched to think atoms can actually be a natural computer when you think that space is something other than empty, and atoms were some kind of entrapment.

magnetism and gravity together make no sense, nuclear forces make no sense, they are just there somehow. What if the fabric of space was actually something where a natural vibration always occurs? and the idea of gravity instead of being space bending was a draw through a vibrational pattern such as what could be modulated by an atom or many spinning together, and electrons were coming together by a waveform in the vibration for the sake of travel in space? this makes sense when you think AM radio for example has a sound carrier with a frequency. And every known force may be a seperate dialect of a waveform for example.

Relativity makes sense still when the strength or tightness of the waveform traveling through the vibrational backing of space makes for atoms to spin faster or slower, and for an atoms traveled ride through the vibration to go faster or slower.

So here's how I think the universe works:

space is receptive and carrying of a passive waveform. Magnetism takes on the shape of a particular type of waveform as does gravity.

Atoms are a mobile entrapment for a vibration that resonates inside.

a computer naturally evoles in every atom by having an internal resonance of this vibration trapped and able to evolve information awareness and processsing by being responsive to another vibration like a vibration that continuously turns on itself inside the atom trapped. It would evolve or be destroyed by the leak of nuclear force, gravity, and magnetic vibration coming from outside the atom inward unless it were sophisticated enough to be defeating of it's defeat. Like rebuilding broken parts in response to partial destruction. I think it has to leak though.

Then couldn't the nuclear forces be a carrier for information if the computer emissive and responsive to waveform vibration wanted to communicate with other atoms, to bond a network with a nature of working together.

A unit of this vibrational energy could be reserved for being receptive to an encounter by surrounding units of energy with processsed information prepated to make a unit of energy feel alive. maybe they all do but one in the atom is reserved for the sake of feeling alive and the others are not receptive to modulated information that can make then feel alive, but are instead components in the overall working of the computer.

so, for example, every atom may be a soul. with a computer trapped in it, taking to other atom computers.

there's quite a few examples of where this makes sense:

water frozen is at a lower temperature, or for example a lesser waveform density that may allow for weaker bonding of molecules where otherwise there's an overcoming vibrational waveform splitting them.

light going through heat takes on a very strong waveform dialation, such as one waveform carrying through a vibrational space interfering with another.

magnetism can be a waveform in a vibration passing through another, for gravity and magnetism to make sense together.

voltage is known to be the number of electrons passing, where amperage is the strenght they have at passing through a circuit. this makes sense when electrons have a number in a waveform vibration as well as a waveform strenght. This makes high voltate low amperate to have a large field effect for electromagnetism because they lose carriage in the wire they travel, where high amperate keeps them together for travel.

it makes sense for a waveform in vibrational space to have a polarity making for atoms to spin together in one direction, where there culmulative effect makes for an overall waveform vibration. The sun may give rise to a predominate effect of waveform in vibrational space having a polarity.

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Comment The don't mention google's biggest blunder (Score 2) 279

Back when people were really hating Facebook's draconian "real name" policy, Google plus had a real opportunity to differentiate itself by allowing anonymity. In fact, at the very outset, there was much excitement about that possibility. Such a move would have garnered goodwill and lots of buzz in the beginning. Unfortunately, Google decided to make their real name policy as bad or worse than facebook's which killed any buzz they might have gotten and eliminated their competitive advantage. There was no reason to switch. Google did finally loosen the restrictions, but way too late. It was a fatal mistake.

Comment Re:QNX was a stupid decision (Score 1) 113

Blackberry was always crap, but they were ingrained in business due to their encryption and email integration. I figured they'd stick around for awhile since businesses never change their infrastructure radically unless they have no choice. In this case, the employees forced the choice and apple decided to work with them, so blackberry went down. The only thing good about blackberry hardware or software was the keyboard, so it makes sense they'd make an android phone with that built in. I'd strongly consider buying one, assuming the hardware was decent, since I really miss having a hardware keyboard on my phone like I did on my original droid. There is a market for this kind of phone, and it just might make blackberry somewhat more solvent as a result.

Comment Re:WTF AM I DOING HERE! (Score 2) 109

Yes, having had a similar experience, it really is like time travel in many ways. Alzheimers patients really travel back through time. It's not just that they remember it, in their minds they are actually living in that time in the past as their present... and that time point goes further and further back as the disease progresses. It's very discomforting to witness.

Comment Re:So? It's a good corporate move. (Score 1) 107

Seconded. Bing is pretty awful... at least compared to Google. It's very hard to find what you want in Bing. Their maps, however, are pretty nice, especially the bird's eye view, but Google caught up with that pretty quickly, so that advantage is gone.

Comment I think this article says it all.... (Score 1) 242

"Then in the back, nestled in a corner are the Arduinos, Maker Kits and littleBits DIY items of fun. They’re next to the wires, transistors and soldering guns.
The items that could have made RadioShack the darling of the Maker movement are shoved in the back and ignored. A layer of dust settles on the boxes."

Comment I've been preparing myself for this day... (Score 1) 242

...since I knew it was coming for years, but it still will be hard. The first computer I ever programmed was a TRS-80. I used to book programming time at the local library on their Model III. I worked there in the summers in college after the store manager overheard me giving advice to a fellow customer and offered me a job on the spot. When the manager wasn't looking, I'd read the ham radio and electronic books by Forrest Mims and write down important scanner frequencies from their police scanner books.. The original handwritten "Getting Started with Electronics" sits proudly on my shelf, and I have an electronics project kit I still haven't finished. I still use some of their best items, like their stereo speakers, a duophone speakerphone that is still the best item they ever made, the mini amplifier which may be the second best, CB radio and scanner antennas, and countless parts, adapters, soldering irons, solder, etc. I even still use their 1980's era pocket computer! People say that digikey is good enough for the pieces parts, but that web site is extremely difficult to use and confusing. I feel like I'm losing an old friend. I will miss Radio Shack very much, especially at Christmas time where I'd buy their electronic and RC toys and kits as gifts. You can't find that stuff anywhere else.... not the same stuff at least.

It's not surprising, of course. It's more of a surprise that Radio Shack lasted this long, because they always ignored their core customer... us. Maybe not ignored, but treated us like second class citizens, even though we were keeping them afloat with their 400% market up pieces parts (and yes, I could see on the computer when I worked there what the actual cost was on each part, and the markup was as bad as everyone suspects). They admitted to that the pieces parts kept them in business, but you could tell that they only accepted that reality very grudgingly. If they could have become Best Buy, they would have in a heartbeat. They kept trying, and now that even Best Buy is hurting, too, their little sister Radio Shack had no chance of trudging along anymore.

Radio Shack brought the first microcomputer (PC's for you young'ns) to nationwide retail, beating out Apple and Commodore by a few months.. and now they are gone. :-(

Comment Re:Microsoft is so dead. (Score 0) 307

That's the weird thing about it. I've never seen a company that has so little mindshare make so much money. It would be like Blackberry making 10's of billions of profit every year, even though everyone's practically forgotten who they are. I know that for Microsoft it's all about legacy installations in business and not the consumer, bur still, considering how they were always part of the conversation not too long ago, it's amazing how far they've fallen and yet still make so much money.

Comment Re:Obligatory Joke (Score 4, Informative) 60

Yes, actually...

"In 1986, the new BASICODE 3 standard was developed. The most important additions were routines for simple monochrome graphics, reading and writing data from within programs and sound output. BASICODE 3 made BASICODE popular in the computer scene of the GDR, and from 1989 onward BASICODE programs were transmitted via radio throughout the GDR. Also, a book was published which included a vinyl record with Bascoders for all computers common in the GDR. The last revision of BASICODE, which featured color graphics, was released as BASICODE 3C in 1991."

In the UK during the early 1980's, pop star Chris Sievey released a 7" single record where side B was the program code in audio format for the Sinclair ZX81 microcomputer. You plugged in your turntable's output into the ZX-81 "loaded" the record into memory, flipped over the record, played the music on Side A while running the program which gave you a "music video" while the song played. It was very innovative at the time:

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Comment Modded FUNNY?! (Score 1) 184

Why did people mod you funny? Do they all know something about you that I don't? I could have written that myself, and I would've been sociopathically dead serious. All human social hierarchies suck, and the reason they suck, the sole reason, is because sociopaths always wind up in charge of them. If we had a prenatal test for sociopathy or a gene therapy cure, I'd be advocating eugenics like there was no tomorrow!

Comment Re:What does Science have to say about this? (Score 3, Informative) 587

That only works if he doesn't know that he's sitting in a Faraday cage. Otherwise the kid would simply subconsciously - or consciously - fake symptoms just to fulfill the prophesy declared by his parents. He can't know the Faraday cage is there, else you'd never be able to rule out WiFi RF and narrow it to "something [else] environmental".

So... give him an astronaut suit to wear for a day and tell him it's a reward for good grades or something.

Comment Not omitted, just not in flashing neon (Score 2) 236

When I was in elementary and high school, I learned the incompleteness of science well enough; it was not omitted, at least not for those who were actually interested enough to PAY ATTENTION. No, it wasn't described explicitly in big neon flashing letters, but honestly should it be? As I said, someone paying attention would have extrapolated this message. Don't we want scientists who are actually interested enough in the subject to pay attention to the messages not presented in neon?

Comment Tinfoil hat wearers rejoice! (Score 1) 282

I stand vindicated! I've been reading seditious material my whole life and really did need that tinfoil hat to keep the FBI from reading my seditious thoughts. No wonder my high school English teacher declared that science fiction wasn't literature and refused to allow book reports about it, she was protecting us from the FBI!

Comment Re:Criminalizing what isn't criminal (Score 1) 168

That's quite a non sequitur. Laptops are physical, tangible, personal property. Digital "content", whatever its form, is immaterial, intangible, and the "crime" we're talking about here is not theft: the alleged owner(s) of the content are never at any time deprived of their use of it, nor are any of the other people "licensed" to use it deprived of that usage. That "denial of usage" is an essential characteristic of any action that might be described as theft. There is no theft taking place in these instances, only REPLICATION. There is no denial of anything except PREDICTED SPECULATIVE profit.

Sorry, bub. That is a civil matter, not a criminal one. Either you've been had by greedy manipulative people or you're one of the manipulators yourself.

Comment Criminalizing what isn't criminal (Score 0) 168

TEN years imprisonment for personal copyright infringement, what is actually a civil tort, when other actual crimes so often result in sentences less than that? What a surprise that corporations want to criminalize anything that might reduce their already insane profits, and bribe lawmakers to do their bidding for them and leave their hands unbloodied. In a more honest transparent world they'd just hire mercenary squads to go murder or maim people who dare question their perpetual copyrights. Is this a civilized world, with all its layers upon layers of scheming and misdirection and manipulation?

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Ecrins National Park Mini Couloirs

Well, it looks like we made it out of the US just in time as reports say there is a major storm smashing the East Coast as I type.  After 14 hours of traveling and a couple fitful hours of sleep on the plane, I was happy to see that my bags also decided to make the trip.  I met up with half the team in Turino, Italy where we all jumped into a big Fiat van and then drove across the boarder to Pelvoux, France.

It's a good thing I wasn't driving because for the entire two hours my neck was craning to look out the window at the increasingly stunning peaks of the high Alps.  Pelvoux is a quintessential European mountain town, surrounded by wild terrain and choking with what my wife would refer to as "cute cottages".

Last night, those of us that have arrived (half the team arrives today), huddled around the dinner table while the innkeeper brought out a nice French meal of potatoes, sausage, soup, and of course baguettes.  Then shortly after, we tried to catch up on sleep but I only managed a few hours before waking up intermittently for the rest of the night.

Fortunately, the cure for this jet lag was of course skiing!  We went to stretch our legs by poking around up a mellow road at the periphery of Ecrins National Park.  Unable to resist, we first climbed one mini couloir at the base of what I believe is Mount Pelvoux (3983m).  The snow was firm and at places just a paste over ice but it made for fun skiing and was my first taste of skiing in the Alps.

Luke had said at the outset that he was only supposed to ski "easy" for two hours, and no more.  An hour past his curfew, we were now standing at the crux of our second chute. This one, which we spotted from the valley floor, was reminiscent of Baffin Island (not that I've ever been but I've looked a lot of pictures and video!) with soaring rock walls over the snaking couloir.

Stymied by an 8 foot ice bulge that would be child's play with even a single tool we decided it was time to go back to the inn and rest up for the up coming races.  We vowed to return on an off day, but I doubt we will since there is just too much exploring to do.  Regardless of not finishing off the final section, we all thought this was one of the coolest places we've skied, and it was just a mini 1500 foot shot that really appears to be quite common place in this region.

So much to do and we haven't even started racing yet!

Walking to the goods.  Mount Pelvoux in the background
Scott Simmons at the top of the first shot

John Gaston enjoying some French hardpack

Part of the crew and our dead end mini shot in the background

Luke looking for #2 with #1 behind

Ah ha!  I spotted this cleft in the cliffs and hoped it would go.
Boo Ya!

So scenic

John pretty damn close to heaven on earth
This stupid little ice bulge turned us around.  Stupid rando gear.  Even a whippet would have probably done the trick.

Heading back to earth

Scott tearing up the "dust on avy debris"
Tomorrow we preview the Teams Course in Puy St. Vincent in preparation for the race on Sunday.  Updates coming...


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Friday, 22 November 2013

Benjamin Britten ~ Composer's Centenary

Celebrating 100 years ago today the birth of Benjamin Britten ~ British Composer, Conductor and Pianist.
Benjamin was born in Lowestoft on the 22nd November 1913 and was the youngest of four children. His father Robert was a dentist and would not allow a gramophone or radio into the house, but his mother Edith was a talented amateur musician and secretary of the Lowestoft Musical Society who held musical soirees at their house.

Benjamin Britten

Benjamin's mother gave him piano lessons and he showed musical talent from an early age. He later studied at the Royal College of Music in London and first came to public attention with a choral work in 1934 with 'A Boy was Born'. Britten leapt to international fame in 1945 with the premier of 'Peter Grimes'.

Peter Pears in 'Peter Grimes'

Over the next 28 years, he wrote 14 more operas and established himself as one of the leading 20th Century composers in that genre.
Britten's other works included, solo vocal, chamber, orchestral, choral, instrumental and film music. He took great interest in writing music for children and wrote 'The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' in 1945.

'Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra' played by the Cologne Philharmonic Orchestra

 Britten would often compose with particular performers in mind and his frequent choice was his personal and professional partner, the tenor Peter Pears.
Britten was also a celebrated pianist and conductor who performed many of his own works as well as those of other composers such as Bach's Brandenburg concertos.

Britten and Pears

Together with Peter Pears and Eric Crozier, Benjamin Britten founded the annual Aldeburgh Festival and was responsible for the creation of the Snape Maltings Concert Hall in 1967. In the last year of Britten's life, he was the first composer to be awarded a life Peerage.
Benjamin Britten died on the 4th December 1976 of heart failure, 10 years later his partner Peter Pears rests eternally by his side in the churchyard of St.Peter and St.Paul in Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

  1. Sorry I'm a late visitor to this post ---- but I wanted to say how nice this is, and how cool it is that you embedded bits so we can listen to the music. :)

  2. Thanks for your comment Jen, I try as best as I can to bring the stories of the departed back to life and what better way to do that than by showing a video. Sadly it doesn't always contain the person themselves, but they live on through their music I believe.....

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How to Mesh in Photoshop

by Darrin Koltow, Demand Media

With Photoshop's Layer Styles, you can apply a mesh effect to an image without altering your original image. Layer Styles are effects that Photoshop applies to just those layers you select rather than an entire image. Use the Pattern Overlay style to simulate mesh because this style lets you apply any pattern, whether custom or predefined. By adjusting this pattern, you can make the mesh finer or coarser. You might use a fine mesh to de-emphasize background elements while making foreground elements appear to pop from the canvas.

Step 1

Create a new document measuring 5 pixels square and set the background color to transparent. This document will hold the pattern from which you will form the mesh.

Step 2

Press "D" to restore Photoshop's default foreground color to black and its default background color to white, then click the "Pencil" tool on the Tool palette. Draw a 3-by-3 pixel black square in the upper left corner of the canvas and another 3-by-3 black square in the lower right corner of the canvas. These squares will become the non-transparent portion of the mesh.

Step 3

Press "Ctrl-A" to select the entire image, then click the "Define Pattern" command on the Edit menu. This will store a selection region for later use in pattern fills. Type a name in the Pattern Name dialog that appears, such as "mesh," and then close the dialog.

Step 4

Open a picture to which you want to apply a mesh effect. Click the "Fx" button at the bottom of the Layers palette to display a list of layer styles. Click the "Pattern Overlay" style, then click the pattern you just defined from the Pattern control in the Pattern Overlay dialog. This repeatedly applies the pattern to the entire layer, resulting in a picture that appears covered with mesh.

Step 5

Right-click the "Effects" item in the Layers palette to display a list of commands you can run on the layer style you applied. Click "Create Layer" to separate the Pattern Overlay style onto its own layer, where you can edit the mesh so it appears only over image regions you specify.

Step 6

Click the rectangular-shaped "Layer Mask" button at the bottom of the Layers palette to apply a layer mask to the Pattern Overlay layer.

Step 7

Paint onto the mask over those image regions where you do not want the mesh to appear. For example, to apply the mesh over all but the foreground person in a photo showing several people, paint over the foreground person. The black paint on the layer mask blocks the mesh from appearing.

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Stop the presses. Karl Rove and James Carville agree on something. They agree that demographics and message were huge factors in the 2012 election. But as expected, the two political gurus agree very little on how those demographics are shifting and how those messages need to be tweaked.

In a spirited sparring match at CME Group’s annual Global Financial Leadership Conference, Rove and Carville offered up their insights on the outcome of the 2012 election. Armed with a binder full of data, Rove said Republican challenger Mitt Romney closed the gap on President Barack Obama and cited how much better Romney did than John McCain in certain demographics. Carville added that the demographics of the U.S. are shifting in the favor of the Democratic Party.

Rove conceded that the GOP would do well to tweak their platform to make it more inclusive. Not surprisingly, Carville was less kind in his assessment of the GOP’s message, saying Republicans are out of touch with the electorate on numerous issues and that their platform needs to undergo a more tectonic shift. “They say in the South that sometimes you have to hit a boy upside the head with a two-by-four to get his attention. I think the sound you heard last Tuesday was pine on skull,” Carville said.

Looking ahead to 2016, both men offered their predictions on how the presidential election might take shape. On the Democratic side, Carville expects Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will feel tremendous pressure to run. Rove questioned the notion that it will be Clinton’s “turn” and said he expects an upstart to challenge her. On the Republican side, Rove said he hoped the Republican National Committee would find a way to limit the number and improve the quality of the debates during the primaries. Rove went on to list numerous potential candidates such as Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell. Carville noted that 2016 will be the first time since 1944 that the GOP will not have an obvious candidate. “For the first time since World War II, there is no old white guy. … There is no obvious person,” Carville said.

Some of the other highlights from Rove and Carville’s discussion included:

  • Carville on Obama’s disappointing first debate: “Mike Tyson once said everyone has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. … I think Obama had a plan, and he got hit in the mouth.”
  • Rove on whether Obama’s re-election represents a mandate: “I do remember however all those Democrats … who said Bush did not have a mandate by winning 51% to 48%. He did. Obama has a mandate.”
  • Rove on the roughly $2 billion spent on the presidential campaign: “We spend $20 billion a year on bottled water, $40 billion on soft drinks. Our economy is $16 trillion. So I don’t think its bad to spend $2 to $3 billion every four years electing the leader of the free world.”
  • Carville on the “echo chamber” in which many voters live: “How can it be that we have so much information, but not so much knowledge. … We need to have a discussion about the difference between information that is enlightening and information that is confirming.”
  • Rove, following up on the “echo chamber” theme: “We are talking about the media, but the fragmentation of American society is taking place in a lot of different other ways as well. We are moving ourselves into places where we are comfortable. Red places become more red and blue places become more blue. … It’s not that we aren’t confronting different sources of information. It’s that we aren’t confronting different sorts of people. We move to places with people like us. We are moving to places where there are people who want to be like us.”
  • Carville on how gerrymandering to create “safe” districts contributes to political gridlock: “When you look at a candidate, ask yourself if that person is more afraid to lose a general election or a primary? That leads to entirely different behavior.”
  • Rove on his skepticism about a “grand bargain” to remedy fiscal issues in the U.S.: “Both sides are going to find it difficult to sell to their sides what needs to be done.”

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Jackson County commissioners passed a slate of sweeping development regulations in 2007 designed to rein in what they saw as runaway development. Commissioners touted the regulations as protecting not only the environment and but also the quality of life from irresponsible mountainside construction.

The end of the laissez-faire building climate in Jackson County, that had paved the way for a proliferating number of gated communities over the past decade, angered real estate and building interests. The homebuilder’s lobby pledged to oust the four commissioners who voted in the regulations.

They failed to do so two years ago, however, when both Commissioner Mark Jones and Joe Cowan were re-elected. This year, they have their shot at Shelton and Massie. While Brian McMahan was the lone vote against the regulations in 2007 — and works for the county’s largest gated community Balsam Mountain Preserve — he has been subject to the same attacks as his fellow commissioners.

That didn’t stop the three of them — Shelton, Massie and McMahan — from taking the stage at a candidates forum sponsored by the Jackson County Homebuilder’s earlier this month.

Their opponents, however, declined an invitation to a forum hosted by Jackson County environmental groups.

What could have been tit-for-tat forums — dominated by the opposing forces of developers and environmentalists — instead fell flat. Since challengers stayed away from the environmental forum, the sitting commissioners were left preaching to the choir, and a small one at that since there was little motivation among the general public to attend a one-sided forum.

The sitting commissioners criticized the challengers for failing to show.

“I wish they could have been here tonight. I wish we could have had some good dialogue on the economy and the environment,” McMahan said.

“I think our opponents are conspicuously absent,” William Shelton said.

“I am sorry you didn’t have the opportunity to hear from our opponents, to hear what they believe in,” Tom Massie said. “We don’t know where they stand on these kind of issues.

Shelton and Massie have rejected the accusation that the development regulations passed in 2007 are to blame for the slump in real estate and development.

“We have tried to beat the drum that the policies in Jackson County are not what has killed our economy. These ordinances did not kill the economy,” Shelton said.

Massie said the challengers on the ticket want to “roll back the ordinances.”

“The subtext of their message is they don’t like the ordinances and they want to go back to the way it was four years ago. But we’re not going to go back to the way it was four years ago,” Massie said.

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The Jackson Soil and Water Conservation District has announced the winners of its annual poster and essay contests.

Third- through sixth-grade students participated in the poster contest while the essay contest was open to sixth-grade students. About 200 students participated. This year’s theme was The Living Soil. The first-place poster winner advanced to the Area 1 contest in Waynesville, where they will compete against 15 other Soils and Water Conservation Districts of Area 1.

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Buckner Family Place in Lufkin, Texas

Last week I had the opportunity to take two young single moms to Lufkin to visit the Buckner Family Place and Angelina College. Both of the young women have two very young children. Though young mothers have many different reasons for parenting their children in the absence of the father, they have a common thread that runs through their lives. The loneliness and constant struggle with bearing responsibilities without a partner can be a draining ordeal. And it isn’t for just a few days, weeks, or months. They often do not have financial support and then cannot work because any salary they earn is eaten up to pay for childcare.

Buckner Family Place, which I’ve mentioned before, offers a way out of the difficult situations that single moms face. Even there moms come from various backgrounds-all with the common desire to create a better life for themselves, but mostly for their children. And in doing so they provide such a wonderful example for their children.

For more information about Buckner Family Place call 936/637-3300.

  1. I am 17 years old, and have a 8 month old daughter. I am currently living with my father but things are going so well here. I really want to get out but have nowhere to go. I just recently enrolled in a school and I also don’t have childcare is there any way I can get some help?

    1. If you live in Texas I strongly suggest that you contact Buckner Family Place. http://www.buckner.org/family-transition-programs/ They have several facilities across the state. Also look at our resource page which includes numerous possibilities for you. http://www.smoreforwomen.org/resources.html
      If you are not in Texas you will be able to get ideas from the resource page for similar agencies where you will. Keep in touch and let me know how it goes. God Bless.

  2. LaShunda · · Reply

    I attended the Bucknet Family Place in 2000 when Brenda Dunn was there and I really would like to contact her is there a way for you to give her my email lasmonerv@ me.com

  3. Viviana Samaniego · · Reply

    Im 17 years old with a one year old. I’m currently in a abusive relationship with the father of my child. I live with him and his family and have no where to go. So I basically feel forced to live here even though I’m constantly getting abused. Not only by my boyfriend but by his brother also. I have no job but I would love to attend AC and become a radiologist tech like I’ve always wanted. What is there that o can do? How would o get started?

    1. FIRST- go to http://www.thehotline.org You must respect and take care of yourself. There is help out there for you.
      Second- I don’t know where you are located, but there are ways to get out and have a safe life for you and your child.
      If you are in southeast Texas, I can offer more specific direction. Let me know.

    2. Do you mean Angelina College? If so, call Judy Morgan, the Director, and tell her I suggested you call. Her number is (936) 633-6243 They know how to handle situations like yours. Do not give up or give in to abuse. You deserve better.

    3. Anonymous · · Reply

      apply directly at Angelina then go behind the school to buckner

  4. Hi, I am a 21 yr old single mom of a 2 yr old with no HS diploma or GED. Can Buckner help me?

    1. Ashley, If you are a Texas resident I encourage you to contact them. This could turn your life around. -Gail

  5. Shakeria Crew · · Reply

    I Am A 18 Year Old Single Mother With A 4 Year Old Son. I Plan On Attending Angelina College. I Struggle From Day To Day In Certain Areas Of My Single Parenting Life. I Just Want To Know How Do I Go About Getting Into Buckner Homes And I Also Wanted To Know If My Son Would Be Able To Go To Preschool?

    1. It is always great to hear from a single mom who wants to get an education, learn a skill, and provide a better life for her child/ren. The very first thing you need to do is to contact Buckner Family Place to see if you are eligible to begin the application process. Don’t let this frighten you. Whatever they tell you – it is a beginning. Regarding your son’s preschool: Buckner Family Place has a complete daycare center and I’m sure they will take care of your needs. So call today: (936) 633-6243 Tell them I told you to call. Gail

  6. Stacy Hardin · · Reply

    My daughter is a 21 year old single mother who is struggling for the same reasons, it is hard for her to work or go to college because of the expense of child care. I try to help as much as possible but I am recently divorced and have 2 younger children at home as well. I work from home and I can sometimes care for my granddaughter but now that she is a very inquisitive and smart 2 year old, I don’t feel that I can focus on work and give her the proper attention. She has recently filled out her FAFSA and we did an online app for Angelina College today. Where can we get more information on Buckner Family Place?

    1. I suggest you call the Buckner Family Place and then all your questions can be answered correctly and quickly. Their number is (936) 633-6243. Judy Morgan is the director there and she is always ready to assist single moms. Please do let me know how it goes.

  7. Buckner Family Place is for parents who have made the decision to change their lives and their children’s lives. It is on the campus of Angelina College. It works together with other organizations to make this happen. There are rules and regulations due to the nature of some of the situations for women who come there. So, no, your fiancee would not be able to stay with you. In fact no overnight guests are allowed, even relatives. It is a very nice facility and the childcare is large and especially nice. I suggest that when you graduate from high school or obtain your GED, that you contact them at 936-637-3300.

    Keep looking ahead and make the best possible choices for you and your son.

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ESPN and Aspen Skiing Company have reached an agreement that will keep the Winter X Games, the world’s signature action sports event, in Aspen/Snowmass through 2014.

“ESPN is thrilled to extend its relationship with Aspen Skiing Company, the City of Aspen, Pitkin County and Town of Snowmass Village for two more years,” said Scott Guglielmino, senior vice president of programming and X Games. “After 11 fantastic years of world-class competition and progression in Aspen, we’re delighted to move into the new phase of X Games growth towards a global youth and lifestyle brand with one of our most long-term and valued relationships.”

The announcement is the fourth long-term announcement made with the two entities: in January 2004, Winter X Games and ASC announced a three-year deal to keep the event in Aspen through 2007; in January 2006, an announcement was made that the event would stay in Aspen through 2010; in January 2009, Winter X Games announced a three year extension through 2012.

“This has been an exemplary partnership of these two amazing brands,” said John Rigney, vice president of sales and events for Aspen Skiing Company. “A gigantic thank you goes to the entire Aspen/Snowmass community for its vision, support and commitment to this great event that is very much a part of our resort’s identity.”

Winter X Games originally rotated on a regular basis. The inaugural event was held in Snow Summit Mountain Resort, Calif. (1997), then it moved to Crested Butte, Colo., for two years (1998-1999) before moving east to Mount Snow, Vt. (2000-2001). It has been in Aspen since 2002. As part of the new agreement, the Winter X Games will remain in Aspen/Snowmass for a total of 13 consecutive years (2002-2014).


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     The Academy of Senior Professionals (ASP) at Southern Nazarene University (SNU) would like to invite you to its Senior Adult Conference 2010 (SAC2010). The theme of the Conference is as follows: “Advancing the quality of life for senior adults: A lifelong learning conference.”

This year’s event will be held at Bethany First Church located at 6789 NW 39th Expressway in Bethany on Friday, May 21, 2010 from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Highlighting this year’s event will be Mr. Charles P. “Chuck” Schroeder, Executive Director of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, and Dr. Stan Toler, General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene.

Breakout sessions will cover such topics as Medicare 101, drug-adverse effects and interactions, and collecting and preserving SNU’s and Bethany’s history among many others.

Registration is only $10 if received by May 15 and includes free parking, musical entertainment, and a gourmet luncheon. Attendees will also enjoy a silent auction, vendors, exhibits, and fellowship.

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Welcome to the 2015 Gobbler Cup XXV official website!  The Gobbler Cup will take place Nov 7th & 8th at the Lakes Soccer Complex in Houma!
The Rules and Application are available for download under the information tab above.

Houma-Terrebonne Soccer Association greatly appreciates the many teams who have joined us over the past 25 years and we look forward to hosting another fun-filled weekend with great food, fun activities and competitive soccer matches!

(HTSA's competitive league teams are known as the Blackhawk Futbol Club and have grown to 20 competitive teams for 2015/2016.  The Association plans on returning with the 2016 Bayou Shootout competitive soccer tournament slated for March 7th & 8th, 2016!)

  • **** Gobbler Cup XXV ***** November 7th & 8th, 2015 - H o u m a , L O U I S I A N A
  • Prior Clubs: Abita Springs Soccer, Baton Rouge Soccer Association,
  • Blackhawk Futbol Club, Cajun Soccer Club, Calcasieu Soccer Club, Cannon Soccer Club,
  • Crossroads Soccer Association, Dynamo Juniors of New Iberia, FC Galaxy, FC United,
  • Gonzales Soccer Club, Houma-Terrebonne Soccer, Lafayette Youth Soccer Association,
  • Lafourche Soccer Association, Livingston Parish Soccer Club, Louisiana Fire, NOLA Soccer Academy,
  • Plantation Athletic Club, Slidell Youth Soccer Club, Soccer Innovations of America,
  • South Tangi Youth Soccer, St. Charles Soccer Club, Sulphur Soccer Club, Thibodaux Soccer Association
  • Thank you for Participating!!!!

Online Check-In

Online Check-in is now available for this event.

What is Online Check-in?

Online Check-in eliminates the need for your team to show up in person before your first game by allowing you to complete the check-in process online. You will be required to upload .pdf files or images to the secure sincSports cloud. The event will determine which documents are required.

There is a $20 non-refundable fee. You must scan documents or take digital photos to complete this process. We will help you through the rest! Please click the link below to begin:

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Please read Tournament Rules and prepare for the check-in requirements so that we can all have a smooth process.

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Notes From Northside

shakeitThe wife, our fractious felines, and I are finally getting settled into our new home in Ohio. The Northside neighborhood we are in reminds me of home in a lot of ways. The community is of mixed ethnicity and is artistic in general temperament. In many ways it is like a tamer version of the Marigny back in New Orleans, with a little Magazine St. thrown in for good measure.

I’ve discovered a few neighborhood resources online that I’m throwing up for the edification of friends and colleagues who might be interested in what kind place we ended up in after leaving the Crescent City a few months ago.Of course this is going to include some links for food and restaurants, that’s one of the most important aspects of one’s new home.

First up there is, a really decent example of a well done neighborhood website. It is the effort of the Northside Business Association (a group which I am preparing to join). For those wishing a view of the area there is a Northside Flickr Community, my New Orleans friends will find a bit of visual similarity in some respects.

So I decided to pick a few favorite things about the neighborhood after our three months here. The result is as follows:

Honey– this place blew me away. I think it could stand head and shoulders with most restaurants back home. Even just their approach to fries is outstanding: Sweet, Yukon, and Idaho potatoes with chili-lime honey. Fans of the Delachaise and The Green Goddess in NOLA would adore this place.

The Northside Farmer’s Market– With lots of rural expanse outside the city there is a lot of farming going on. We got lucky and inadvertently moved in an easy walk from the weekly farmer’s market. I’ve already developed a habit f going to the Blue Oven Bakery stall first, the do this bread called Bad Boy that is phenomenal!

The Sidewinder Coffee House – This place would fit in perfectly on Magazine St. or in the Marigny. Good coffee (a rarity up here), cocktails, live music in the evenings, and a really pleasant staff make for my favorite non-home place to hop online and get some work done or relax in the courtyard.

The Northside Tavern-Live music, decent drinks, and a little restaurant that shares it’s courtyard. Grab drinks at the bar and go dine at The Hideaway, or the reverse. Great courtyard the two share as well.

The Blue Jay-This is the local equivalent to The Bluebird Cafe in NOLA which just closed after 20 years. Solid, simple, American fare with a variety of breakfast and lunch options. My lovely wife has become quite fond of this regional stuff called goetta thanks to The Blue Jay.

Shake It Records– These guys started their own indie label back in the late seventies, I’ve run across a lot of their output off and on over the years. I never really thought about the fact that they might have a storefront, much less one in my new ‘hood. It’s my new stop for vinyl (yes, vinyl. I can even play 16’s and 78’s.) and secondhand DVDs. Terrific selection in whatever medium you prefer.

Cluxton Alley Roasters– This is where I go to replenish the household stockpile of caffeine. Roasted fresh every morning the way coffee should be! My only complaint is that medium roasts seem hard to come by up here…

So there you have it, an Internet window into our new corner of the world!

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  1. Mark Gstohl

    Glad you’re finding good stuff there!

  2. Oh, man…sounds fun, and very tempting!

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