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Blind bike racer beats obstacles in path
Disabilities Also a competitive skier, he's endured transplants, broken bones
Bobby McMullen pedaled his road bike over a wooden bridge, swooped along a curving trail next to Richardson Bay, and then, as he approached a gate, readied himself for what, under the circumstances, was a risky maneuver.
Risky because the 50-year-old Mill Valley bike racer is blind. McMullen, who can see some shapes and bright colors, competes in downhill and cross-country mountain bike races by following a guide who calls out turns and obstacles.
"Stay on me, Bobby," instructed McMullen's friend, Brad Waldron, who served as his guide during a recent 20-mile training ride through Mill Valley and Tiburon. "Poles on both sides, then a hard right."
"On you," confirmed McMullen as he lifted slightly off his saddle before the two riders zipped between the gate poles and deftly made the sharp turn, keeping a smooth cadence as they glided confidently toward a hill.
Incredibly, McMullen's inability to see the road is the least of his recent troubles.
A champion skier, McMullen has, over the course of an astounding athletic career, overcome two separate kidney and pancreas transplants, numerous broken bones and an injured toe that had to be amputated. Then, last year, he underwent heart surgery to unclog his arteries, had a pacemaker inserted in his chest, was diagnosed with cancer that metastasized to his lymph nodes, and underwent radiation treatments while dealing with the death of his father.
Custom-built road bicycle
If that wasn't enough complication for one year, he also got married.
The remarkable thing about McMullen is that he has remained upbeat, even cheerful. "S- happens," he shrugs.
McMullen usually rides on dirt, but he has recently been training on a road bicycle custom-built for him by the owner of Wolfhound Cycles.
Waldron, who began guiding for the first time last year, keeps up a steady conversation with McMullen when they ride, interjecting precise instructions on when to slow down and where to move to avoid puddles, potholes, hikers, pedestrians and cars.
Born in 1962, McMullen had no problem with his eyes when he was growing up in Redding. He described himself as a rambunctious kid who "always enjoyed throwing my carcass off of stuff."
When he was 12, he was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes, a condition that would require him to take insulin the rest of his life. He played baseball and basketball, ran track and was the starting quarterback on the football team at Central Valley High School, where he graduated in 1981.
McMullen attended Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, for a time, skiing 150 days a year and competing on the ski team.
Major injuries, blindness
During the winter of 1986-87, he crashed and broke his left femur and shattered his hip after catching a tip while hauling racing gates down the hill after ski practice. It was nine months before he could walk again, but he rehabbed every day and eventually got back on the slopes. Then, in 1989, he broke the tibia and fibula on the same leg, "doing something really clever" on skis.
He decided, during rehab, to become a lawyer and was enrolled at Cal Northern School of Law in Chico in 1992 when his life changed forever. Spots suddenly appeared in his eyes and blurred his vision so much that he couldn't see the chalkboard in class. He was referred to an ophthalmologist, who diagnosed him with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, or ocular bleeding. The doctor told him he would be blind within a month.
McMullen tried everything to save his eyesight, but "I slowly watched my eyes fill up with blood until I couldn't see out of them." He is now completely blind in his right eye and has 20/1200 sight in the left. Eyesight registering 20/200 is considered legally blind in the United States.
Becoming a champion
That's when he began training with blind Paralympics ski champion Brian Santos. He competed in the U.S. Nationals and became the national blind ski champion in slalom, giant slalom, super giant slalom and the downhill.
In 1996, he won the overall disabled ski championship in the super giant slalom and downhill, competing against sighted skiers with other disabilities. Shortly after that, his kidney failed, but he didn't let that deter him. He was back on the slopes one month after undergoing kidney and pancreas transplant surgery.
"He's an incredible guy, just an inspiration," said Dr. Steven Katznelson, a transplant nephrologist at California Pacific Medical Center who became friends with McMullen after managing his care during his first transplant.
Katznelson said he rarely makes friends with patients, "but he's just different." He has a picture on his office wall of McMullen racing 60 mph on a downhill ski run and shows it to down-on-their-luck patients as encouragement.
"Nothing gets that guy down," he said. "No matter what happens, he heals up and he heals up faster than anybody would have guessed."
In 1997, McMullen qualified again for the U.S. National Disabled Ski Team and finished second twice and third twice in the World Cup. He took third overall in the World Disabled Dual Slalom Championship in 1998 and competed in the Paralympics, in Nagano, Japan, with a badly broken toe. He endured the pain, finished fifth, and had to have the toe amputated after the competition.
McMullen competed again in the 2000 world championships, but he was weak and his kidney soon failed again, he said. He went on dialysis and, in 2003, had his second kidney and pancreas transplant.
Skiing to mountain biking
After surgery, he took what he learned skiing and began using it as a mountain bike rider. He has, by all accounts, become more than just another racer. He rides for Santa Cruz Bicycles against able-bodied riders and usually comes in last or near the back of the pack. He has, nevertheless, become one of the most popular riders on the circuit, an inspiration as much for his attitude as his exploits powering down steep, curving trails on the edge of cliffs.
"We're all capable of remarkable things," said McMullen, who is known affectionately as "blind Bobby." "I think it is important to have a passion for something, to believe in yourself. I don't think people believe in themselves as much as they should."
More broken bones
Bicycling hasn't been any easier on him than skiing. He has broken his nose, arms, ribs, several fingers and, in 2010, his right femur after being thrown over the handlebars. When he returned to racing in 2011, he was elected to the Athletes With Disabilities Hall of Fame. In 2012, he was sicker than he had ever been. Still, he won't give up. Bicycling, he said, is his life support system.
"I wouldn't trade my life for anybody's," he said after the training ride, his face flushed, his eyes bright, a smile creasing his face as he wiped sweat from his brow. "When I can put a leg over a bike and roll a few feet, it means I'm getting back to living my life. That little bit of adrenaline, that fear, makes you know you are alive."
Documentary on cyclist
A film about Bobby McMullen, "The Way Bobby Sees It," can be seen online on YouTube at http://bit.ly/oKYicR.
Peter Fimrite is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Twitter: @pfimrite


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By Krystof
For the Pennsic Independent
After dodging a potentially stormy night here at Pennsic, the ever-popular annual battle of La Rochelle was set to begin yesterday to the tune of a swift breeze and a largely clear sky. With legions of fencers turning out early to get checked out and inspected, the numbers soon swelled to nearly eighty on each side for a total approaching one hundred and sixty. As the hour drew close, the informally fashioned petards arrived on the field—leftover mini kegs to replace the much more authentic decommissioned powder kegs from previous years that had apparently been absconded with. It was fairly clear that this change would make little difference in the effectiveness of the devices themselves, though much was said about their state of emptiness. Amid remarks to this effect, fencers were split and decorated with orange ribbons to indicate their allegiances. With a short break for water and preparation, the call of "Lay on!" was sounded and the battle was under way.
Amidst the initial attackers came the petard carriers, swarmed by their own allies. Despite this, hawk-eyed gunners on defense made easy targets of those hauling the burden and on two occasions new carriers had to be recruited. As promised by the oft-used saying, the third time was the charm as the petards were placed at the foot of the door and the attackers scattered out of range of the impending explosion. With a thunderous boom generously provided by the Marshal-in-Charge, the gates came down and the attackers rushed headlong into combat. The attacking side found only a crescent of death on the far side of the doors as a double row of defenders created the well-known kill pocket and held it tightly. The overwhelming power of firearms was apparent as skilled shooting from above on the sides of the bridge downed large numbers of attackers. The defenders made their single resurrections count, though it would not be enough as the rapidly dwindling forces were forced to retreat in the face of a concerted offensive push. The sally port broke only moments after and attackers swiftly swarmed the field mopping up the remaining defenders. With a final time of 11 minutes and 6 seconds, it was a formidable time to live up to as the sides changed.
Again, the call "Lay on!" was sounded and the attackers charged hard toward the gate, effectively protecting their petard carriers leading to a very quick placement and subsequent explosion. With the marshal responsible for the explosion clear, the doors were opened and the attack began with ferocity. Employing a different strategy than the initial attackers, the second wave opted to concentrate their forces at the main gate and merely harass the sally port, which would hold until the end. With a strong offensive pulse led by those with firearms, the attackers pressed into the ranks of the rapidly deteriorating kill pocket and shattered their defenses. While the breakthrough was swift, the cleanup of the defenders was prolonged as many chose to retreat to the safety of the keep and towers. One lone defender remained hidden until the very last, whereupon all attackers descended on his position. Quickly taken down, he made his way sullenly to the resurrection point amidst a cloud of attackers. Despite a chant for single combat, this final valiant effort would be in vain, as the ruthless attackers finally cleared the last bastion of safety and defeated the defenders after 8 minutes and 8 seconds of battle.
While it was rumored that attendance at the event had diminished from the previous year, it was certain that firearms in the form of rubber band guns were scarce at best. This was attributed to the absence of Ironwolf, renowned for their extensive collection of firearms often lent out to those on their side. The added element of cameramen positioned on the bridge between the fort's two towers provided ample target opportunities for stray shots, much to their chagrin. With no holds called save for those necessary for the scenario itself, La Rochelle came off as a clean, well-fought battle enjoyed by all.
In the interlude, a bout of Prima Spada was held between champion fencers Christian Fournier and Colin MacNish, both of the Midrealm. In a very entertaining match, three double kills led to the inevitable tie between combatants who found the verdict less than agreeable, though were resigned that it would have to do and the tie would continue to stand.
Immediately following the duel came the Champions' battle, where rapier award winners and kingdom champions were collected to defend the fort against any and all comers. No firearms were allowed, and there were no resurrections, so errors in unit movement against a much more skillful defense became quickly telling. Choosing to hole up in the nooks surrounding the towers and the towers themselves, the defenders fought against a veritable horde of attackers, holding out and then pushing from their position in the keep for a victory against their assailants at 10 minutes and 53 seconds of combat.


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My grandparents, they were "old school" Vegas tourists. My step-grandfather was quite a gambler and played in a weekly poker game with his friends until his Parkinson's kept him from doing so. We used to stay in the Sands Hotel, made famous because the original Ocean's Eleven was filmed there.
The place was cool. At least, so I gathered. By the time I was staying there with my grandparents in the 90s it was old and somewhat dreary. But I was a kid and I loved plugging quarters into the claw crane games. One night I played on the same machine for so long that a waitress brought over a trash bag for me to put all my "winnings" (i.e., tiny stuffed animals) into. When I ran out of money, people were giving me a few bucks to let me keep going.
I cleaned out the entire machine. No shit. Probably the pinnacle of my life for about 25 years there.
Sadly, the Sands was famously demolished in June 1996 to make way for the Venetian:
So the Sands got old, but Vegas is still cool. Or, at least, it draws a hell of a lot of tourists... Clark County gaming and hotels did $19.5 billion in revenue in 2011.
How does this happen? Everyone knows that the odds are in the House's favor.
Well first, casinos rely on basic statistics to earn them piles and piles of cash. Even if the house has just a 1-2% advantage, the law of large numbers always prevails. The casinos don't need to do anything other than keep an eye out for cheats and they can just sit back and watch the money pour in.
But why stop there? We humans are easily manipulated, we are distractible, and we are limited by our brains.
Sure, the House has a statistical edge, but they also have a psychological edge. We're playing on their turf, in their stadium. They've got a major home-field advantage and you can bet your ass (haha) they take advantage of it.
Of course there's one obvious weapon in the arsenal used to break your will: alcohol. But even if you're a teetotaler your decision-making skills are certainly being manipulated. It's these more subtle manipulations that I'm going to talk about.
This post is conjecture by its nature: I've never worked for or with a casino so I don't know what they're actually doing. However, as a neuroscientist who studies the physiology of human attention and memory, I'm going to write about what I'd do if I were running a casino. (Caveat lector, read Kevin T. Keith's comment below: this is how I would do things, but does not necessarily reflect the reality in every casino.)
And remember, as a hypothetical casino-maker I don't care if you specifically aren't susceptible to any one of these given effects. Hell, I don't even care if the manipulation has the opposite effect on you than is intended. All I care about is the law of large numbers and the knowledge that, for a whole mass of people, there will be a shift in behavior on average that is in my favor.
First, you ever notice how round everything is on the casino floor? The tables are round, the chairs are round, the chips are round, the lighting designs are round, the patterns on the floor are round, and so on.
The goal here is to soften you up to actually get you to sit down and play. The House has an advantage, but it can't make use of it unless you actually throw down some money in the first place.
We've shown how casinos soften people up using visual cues such as shape. But of course, shape isn't the only thing we see. Look at the colors in the aforementioned Venetian:
(Edit: greenlight pointed out in the comments that the original image in the post was from the Venetian in Macau. The updated image is actually from the Vegas Venetian, but they have a similar color scheme. And this new image is way more amazing looking.)
Green card tables with white and gold everything else.
Let me introduce you to Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions:
Again, this doesn't have to be true, just good enough on average.
If I were running a hotel, I'd try an experiment: give every guest $20 in chips that can only be used on one specific game. Make sure the game is really simple to play, and give the House only the barest minimum of an advantage--say 0.1%. But make the game boring so no one really wants to play it. Make it so the game gives lots of little pay-outs.
We want to take advantage of the hot-hand fallacy to get people thinking they're on a roll, but we don't want the game to be any fun--we don't want people who don't have the free chips to actually play it.
We just want people to start playing.
So we've got our players hooked and wanting to play. Using visual cues we've got them optimistically excited, receptive, and in a generally good mood. Now what?
We need to befuddle them. Remember, the House advantages that you see for games like craps (~1%), roulette (2-5%), or blackjack (0.5%) are for optimal play. Our goal as the House is to induce sub-optimal thinking and behavior. Optimal play costs us money.
The trick? Distraction.
There's a well-known study by Shiv and Fedorikhin showing that if you tax people's working memory by making them remember a 7-digit string of numbers, people are more likely to make a less-optimal decision (they chose to eat chocolate cake versus the more healthy fruit salad option).
What most people don't report is that this effect only held true if the participants had to make a quick, snap-decision. If they had time to think about it then they were more likely to choose the healthy option despite the memory load. We need to keep people distracted.
The Shiv experiment is an example of cross-domain cognitive resource interaction. To unpack that: cognition is usually broken up into different domains, including emotion, decision-making, attention, working memory, cognitive control, and so on.
Now mind you, these are just poorly-defined semantic categories--placeholders for some underlying neural phenomena.
But the idea is that we have a limited amount of "cognitive resources" and that if I tax one--such as my working memory by having me remember 7 arbitrary digits--then my cognitive control and decision-making faculties will be impaired because my overall "pool" of resources is lowered due to the memory task.
According to brainSCANr, distraction is closely related to memory, attention, emotional regulation, and cognitive control. So in theory, we can manipulate any of those things to aid in distraction.
In my new post-doc lab, we study (among other things) the effects of distraction on cognition. One of my colleagues, Peter Wais, has shown that using a natural auditory distractor--ambient cafe noise as opposed to white noise--disrupted visual memory. In another study out of my lab, Wes Clapp (co-founder of NeuroScouting) found that the effects of distractors or interference on working memory occurs very quickly, within 100ms.
What this all means is that, in order to make the House more money, people need to make worse bets. To get them to make worse bets, we need them to make worse decisions and exert less cognitive control.
While we can manipulate decision-making and cognitive control directly through alcohol we can also use other tricks. The most reliable, simple way would be to tax memory or attention.
Why do you think there are so many bright lights and loud noises in casinos?
Why do you think slot machines make so much sound when they pay out? These noises are relevant distractors. They capture your attention, they charge up your emotions, and they get you to think that you too can win big! They get you to play more fast and loose.
Well, not me, of course.
I most certainly have never drunkly blown $40 on three-card Monte during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. I'm far too smart for that.
Pavlova M, Sokolov A, & Sokolov A (2005). Perceived dynamics of static images enables emotional attribution. Perception, 34 (9), 1107-16 PMID: 16247880
Shiv, B., & Fedorikhin, A. (2002). Spontaneous versus Controlled Influences of Stimulus-Based Affect on Choice Behavior Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 87 (2), 342-370 DOI: 10.1006/obhd.2001.2977
Wais PE, & Gazzaley A (2011). The impact of auditory distraction on retrieval of visual memories. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 18 (6), 1090-7 PMID: 21938641
Clapp WC, Rubens MT, & Gazzaley A (2010). Mechanisms of working memory disruption by external interference. Cerebral Cortex, 20 (4), 859-72 PMID: 19648173


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One of our favorite historical sites in Upstate South Carolina is the Old Stone Church and cemetery in Pendleton, SC, located near Clemson University. The following two markers, those of Richard and Sarah Lewis, are located in the older section of this large cemetery.
to the memory of
Richard Lewis
who died on the 23rd Oct 1831
in the 67th year of his age.
He was a native of Albemarle
county Va but removed in early
life to Rutherford N.C. where he
resided a number of years, and
for thirteen years preceding his
death was a resident in this
community. He held a respectable
station in life, and his character
was that of an honest
and upright man.
to the memory of
Sarah Lewis,
consort of Rich. Lewis,
who died on the 8th. Oct. 1841,
in the 73rd year of her age.
She was the daughter of James
& Agnes Miller of Rutherford N.C. and
for the last twenty three years of her
life resided in this community. For
thirty years a zealous member of
the Methodist Church
Unfortunately, I cannot read the last part of Sarah's stone. It appears to refer to her zeal as a Christian.
Normally, I make notes on the inscriptions of markers we photograph, but for some reason, I have not made any for this particular cemetery.
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The Instance Lock Extension feature was added in Patch 3.2.0 to request an exception to the raid timer. In order to allow for parties and raids to progress through instances at their own pace, players are now able to extend a dungeon or raid ID on an individual basis.
How it works
Existing or recently expired IDs can be extended via the Social tab under Raid by clicking on Raid Info. The ID of any instance to which a player is saved can be extended. Doing so will extend the lockout period by the same amount of time as the original lockout (i.e. extending an Ulduar raid ID will add 7 days, a Heroic: Halls of Lightning dungeon ID will add 24 hours, and a Zul'Gurub raid ID will add 3 days to the lockout time). An ID can be extended more than once. An extension can be reversed on an individual basis provided the player does not do anything in the instance during the extended lockout period that would save that player to the instance.
Here are some common questions about this new feature, paraphrased from an official Blizzard post. [1]
- If the Raid leader locks himself into the Raid for an additional week, does it set the flag for everyone on the team?
- If the raid leader extends his ID, it won't automatically extend the instance ID for everyone who was in the raid. Each player will have to extend his or her own ID.
- However, if the raid leader extends his ID inside an instance, when others subsequently enter the instance to join that raid they will get prompted that they will be saved to the extended ID, which they can accept or decline, exactly as when saving to an instance that has already started.
- Do you have to extend the instance before it expires?
- No. You can extend it before it expires, or you can extend a recently expired ID.
- Can you "undo" an extension?
- Yes and no. If you have not gone into the instance since it would have normally reset (since it was extended), you can still reset it and get a new ID. However, if you have already gotten saved to the extended instance again, you'll have to wait out the rest of the lockout period for a new ID.
- Will you know if you're getting saved to an extended ID?
- Yes. It's just like normally getting saved to an instance. When you zone in, you'll get a message confirming you want to get saved, or to leave the instance if you do not.
- If you extend an ID, but don't manage to kill any bosses, are you still eligible to reset the instance and get a new ID for the week?
- This functionality is being considered, but it is unlikely it will be put in place for Patch 3.2.0. So to answer the question directly, no, you can't do this. Once you enter the instance and click "accept", you're saved for the duration of the lockout period whether you kill any bosses or not.
- As of Patch 3.3.3 the above answer is incomplete. Provided you were previously saved to this Raid ID from the previous week, and don't attempt or complete a Weekly Raid Quest in this instance, you are eligible to reset the instance. If you're new to this Raid ID (ie was not present for the first week, but present for the 2nd week), and receive the "Save" popup, you will be saved, and will not be eligible to reset the instance.
Patch changes
- Patch 3.2.0 (04-Aug-2009): Added.
- ^ Eyonix and Zarhym 2009-07-08. Instance Lock Extensions. Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved on 2009-07-20.


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One of the huge benefits of starting this blog is becoming acquainted with my mother's first cousins, the children of my grandfather's siblings. They've shared genealogy info and family photographs and have been welcoming and interesting people.
I'm very excited because I recently learned about the Midwest Genealogy Center's Ancestry Day, a family-history conference that will be held in conjunction with Ancestry.com on March 16 in Blue Springs, Mo. That's a 3+ hour drive for me from St. Louis, but I like a road trip, so I eagerly signed up.
What makes it more enticing is that my grandparents Crawford Brown and Susie Jeffries Brown, grew up in western Missouri and I've arranged to spend the afternoon with my cousin, Penny, and visit the cemeteries where my great grandparents (her grandparents), Arthur John Brown and Rhoda Wheeler Brown, are buried, in Milo, Missouri. I hope to visit her mother, my grandfather's sister, who just celebrated her 99th birthday. In addition, I think we'll go to Appleton City, where my grandfather grew up. Penny says that his picture (or perhaps it's his brother's picture) still hangs in Appleton City High School.
I have family on my grandmother's side who are buried in Appleton City. I need to do a little digging to see if I can find exactly where, but according to my records (I've been really successful in finding death certificates for this little branch of the family), my great grandfather, Earl Jeffries and both his parents (John D. Jeffries and Susan Price Jeffries) AND his grandfather, Richard Anderson Jeffries (my great great great grandfather!) are buried in Appleton City . I'm very excited at the prospect of seeing all these gravestones. Perhaps I'll find other family members graves there as well!
I'm very excited for a triple whammy that weekend: meeting cousins, visiting cemeteries, and going to a family-history conference. Life is good.
If you're planning to attend Ancestry Day at the Midwest Genealogy Center, please post a note in the comments. I'd love to meet you!


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PHOENIX, Ariz. – The Knights football team returns to Orlando on Thursday, hours after they defeated No. 6 Baylor in the Fiesta Bowl for their first BCS bowl game win.
Blake Bortles threw for 301 yards and accounted for four touchdowns, Storm Johnson ran for three more scores, and No. 15 Central Florida pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the bowl season by outlasting No. 6 Baylor 52-42 on Wednesday night.
"This is very exciting, this is such a crazy season we came here, we conquered, you know everybody was doubting us in the beginning but we pulled it off in the end," said running back William Stanback.
With Baylor's high powered offense and the Knights being 17-point underdogs, the team showed off in their national debut.
"It's just so surreal right now I'm just so happy for this team and the seniors where we're at right now," said wide receiver J.J. Worton.
Fans greeted and congratulated the Knights as they returned to the campus at around 5:30 p.m.
Head coach George O'Leary said the win in front of the 61,000 spectators was fantastic not only for the team, but for the fans.
"I tell you what, fantastic for everybody associated with UCF players and the fan base. The people came out here and got their money's worth," he said.
Some of the UCF bowl game gear has already sold out. One of the hottest items, a Nike shirt that reads "Good Knight," is listed as out of stock on Nike.com.
Watch Local 6 for more on this story.


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Many Medicare beneficiaries are not aware that the open enrollment period for the Medicare Part D Drug plans is happening right now. You have until December 7th to determine if it is to your benefit to change plans, which could save you money.
Have you signed up for Medicare Part D yet? Time is ticking, but don't move before thinking through the options. Just because something worked this year doesn't mean that it will be good for you next year, and big changes are afoot in many popular plans. So don't get trapped in an inefficient plan.
Here is a sobering statistic pulled by a posting over at the New Old Age blog on the New York Times: "only 5.2 percent of Medicare Part D beneficiaries manage to choose the most economical plan" (see "Part D, Part 2"). And why would that be? The market shifts greatly from year to year and providers frequently hide the gritty details with broad promises, but it's those very details that
determine your day-to-day life and much of your finances.
For a short list of things to watch for and a broader view on comparing plans it may be helpful to review another article, "Avoid A Costly Medicare Part D Mistake Right Now" through Forbes.
The big things to watch?
- Increased monthly premium.
- Increased deductible amount.
- Changes in what drugs to plans cover and how well they cover them.
- Changes in the medications you take.
- Your plan may no longer be offered. In this case if you do nothing you will be enrolled in another plan that may not be the best suited for you.
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References: Forbes (November 8, 2012) "Avoid A Costly Medicare Part D Mistake Right Now"


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Flights resume at JFK after jet slid off runway
NEW YORK (AP) — Flights have resumed at New York City's Kennedy airport two hours after a plane from Toronto slid into snow as it turned onto a taxiway.
No injuries were reported after Delta Connection 4100 landed shortly after 8 a.m. Sunday. The plane was towed to a gate with the 35 passengers still aboard.
Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen says the CRJ2 aircraft was turning off the runway onto a taxiway when it slid into the snow.
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey says flights resumed after 10 a.m. on two of the airport's four runways. Residual delays for passengers were expected.


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Inside The Whole Black Sparkly Universe., implications of the black hole universe theory.
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What is a black hole?
a black hole is a region of space from which nothing, including light, can escape.
The mass is greater than the volume of space can hold. It therefore, collapses in on itself, shrinking but maintaining its' original mass.
There is a new theory by Nassim Haramein, that everything has a black hole within its center, from atoms to galaxies, and the entire universe is within a giant black hole.
The big question, is if there is a huge amount of mass, in every atom, how can we even move matter?
The answer, i think, is in incredible smallness,
we know, by definition that a black hole must shrink in diameter.
We also know that massive things,
very far away, have little gravitational effect on us,
Perhaps, massive weights, if they are infinitesimally small,
have the same tiny effect as the gravitational force effecting us from gargantuan distant galaxies.
One can begin to see the entire universe down to the atom as just
a change in a logarithmic scale.
And indeed, it has been graphically shown to be such a scale, in
frequency vs diameter.
Atoms have a high frequency;
galaxies have a low frequency,
but the ratio remains the same, at all scales!
This confirms the theory of everything, having a black hole, of scale,
in the center of all things.
Even if one ignores frequency,
and just looks at mass vs diameter
a clear line can be shown for most "things" in our universe.
The thing about all of this,
is that we should look at black holes as mass, shrinking over time.
So there is no such thing, really, as a big or small black hole,
as they all are the same weight, in different stages of collapse, at any particular time.
So, if this avenue of thought,
has anything to it,
atoms would be older than stars,
because the diameter of the black hole inside (in the atom), has collapsed to the point where it no longer has a significant gravitational influence in our universe.
...much, much, more to come.
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Dec 30 2009, 07:38 PM
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Nassim Haramein isn't the only one
with a black hole universe theory.
There is another too,
its called, the comedy recycling theory*.
(no, it's not a joke, it's a very real theory)
(edit) *it's actually called
The Completely-Recycling Theory (of the Entire Known Universe)
Sorry, i got confused by the author.
Back in late 1978-early 1979, I was wondering how gravity still emanated from a black hole. In my quest to uncover a reasonable answer, I stumbled over an idea from Einstein, which had been "hidden in plain sight" for many years. He said that matter bent or curved spacetime, and warped spacetime told matter how to move.
There are some very entertaining explanations,
of this theory,
in pdf format:
Much on the inner workings of black holes.
very interesting reading!
Perhaps Einstein was right,
and the aether does not exist.
(the "fudge factor", was just an excuse,
for not considering torsion factors
in his equations)
...enough for now
next, laser light
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What is light?
Light is an electromagnetic wave (should be vortex),
that is visible only to the human eye through about 1 octave of
the huge electromagnetic spectrum. There are spectrum's of light, that we can't see, like infra-red and ultra-violet.
Incoherent light is natural light. Its' wave length (vortex length?) are of different spectrum's, radiating out at different intensities.
Coherent light is a minimal, usually specific, frequency of light,
made from a laser.
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if photons of light were fish,
incoherent light is like, lots of different sizes and types of fish, swimming everywhere.
Coherent light is like, a school of same size fish swimming together,
in the same direction.
next, the atom .
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speaking of light -- what interests me is the fact that no light enters the brain. we do not 'see' light of any frequency (to be precise). what we 'see' is the neurophenomonological consequences of receptors being stimulated by light frequencies to which they are sensitive, this stimulation translated into electromagnetic signals PERCEIVED as 'light' in the brain. this is true of all our senses of course.
but what is REALLY interesting is the question WHAT 'sees' (or 'senses')?
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speaking of light -- what interests me is the fact that no light enters the brain. we do not 'see' light of any frequency (to be precise). what we 'see' is the neurophenomonological consequences of receptors being stimulated by light frequencies to which they are sensitive, this stimulation translated into electromagnetic signals PERCEIVED as 'light' in the brain. this is true of all our senses of course.
but what is REALLY interesting is the question WHAT 'sees' (or 'senses')?
I've been thinking about that a lot lately,
When we see, we are absorbing information.(photons)
these are changed into electricity,
which is basically absorbed by the brain,
which functions on electricity.
If we just had electrical receptors for eyes,
we wouldn't be able to see very far
(except at very high voltages).
So we have photon receptors that biologically
change certain frequencies of focused photons,
into electricity for the brain,
because photons travel further and straighter than electrons,
photons are more suitable for "seeing."
Now, the part of our brain that tries to make some sort of sense,
about what it "sees" is a completely different thing.
Jan 1 2010, 01:31 AM
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i wonder if it is a 'part'
suspect not
Jan 1 2010, 01:45 AM
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The atom.
Atoms are very tiny and
99.9999+ of an atom is empty space.
All we know an atom by is its' electron shell,
which obscures the tiny inner proton of an atom in normal light,
without magnification.
So is the electron a particle going around a proton in a vortex?
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I have found two, new, recent independent, theories,
that suggest that we live in a black hole universe,
everything has a black hole in its' center.
All well and good,
but how does a black hole, with so much mass,
weigh so little in an atom, or, so much in a star?
Sort of hard, when we can't even see them,
hidden in an electron cloud, around the proton or
the luminous plasma, above the surface of a star.
Keeping in mind, that the escape velocity of light,
is less than the gravity near a black hole,
means that, light in the vicinity of a black hole,
(no matter what size) will be pulled toward it.
...and the greater the concentrated of photons, the brighter.
if a laser, in the visable light spectrum,
was shone on a piece of solid matter,
most of the coherent photons, would go right past the electron,
as the electron can only be in one place, at one time.
And, once they were past the electron, those photons, would be drawn to the intense gravity of the black hole within, concentrating towards it.
When a low intensity laser,
like a laser pointer, shines on a surface,
that light goes right past the surface electrons,
as photons that are not effected much by electro-magnetism.
But, those lasered photons, are attracted towards
the gravity of the black hole in the centers of the atoms,
concentrating, as they travel off into the huge
elongated distance caused by the intense gravity,
from the black holes, under the electron shell.
Since more photons are being "pulled" toward the black hole inside,
than are bouncing off the surface electron fields,
the atom is essentially "back lit" by the photons
traveling toward the brighter nucleolus
than the foreground material surface!
As well,
the intense gravity from the infinitesimally small black hole within,
stretches the space, between the electron fields, and the black hole.
So the laser photons have a very long way to go,
once they pass by the electron.
In this sense, the smaller something is,
the greater the area of space toward it.
The result of which, is gravitational lensing.
So, not only do we see the photons
going towards the black holes,
but they are intensely magnified at the surface of matter!
If one sets a fixed laser light on a surface,
all that light is bent toward the singularities,
like looking through the surface of water.
As you move your head the points of light, in that laser light,
traveling towards the black holes appear to move.
like moving your point of view above a magnifying glass.
This, confirms to me,
that within every atom,
is, at least, one, black hole!
And this confirms, also,
that we live in a black hole universe.
So Painter, in answer to your question,
what is it in us that sees?
Each one of us is the event horizon of our own personal black hole
drawing in all the information of this universe, that all exists,
within a black hole.
This also means that there is as much, within us,
as outside of us,
and each one of us, is just as important
as this universe,
is to each of us!
Happy New Year!
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Just to screw up all the black hole theories - now we've got the 'cold spot'.
Is the "Great Void" One-Billion Light Years Across the Imprint of Another Universe or a Statistical Error?
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Just to screw up all the black hole theories - now we've got the 'cold spot'.
Is the "Great Void" One-Billion Light Years Across the Imprint of Another Universe or a Statistical Error?
Interesting article.
There are only two things happening in the universe,
infinite energy radiating spherically out,
into infinite absorbing tetrahedron space.
completely recycling.
In order for there to be more things,
there needs to be more space.
If the entire universe is on the inside of a giant black hole,
then the entire universe would have the properties of the inside of a black hole. Which means that it is self contained.
little can get out, little can get in.
Since, things going through space, experience time,
and the faster they go the more time slows for them,
could this mean that the speed of light has a variability, in our universe?
Then blue shifted things would be seeing a truer speed of light, there, than fast moving red shifted things, would "see" in their part of the universe,
and the universe is really more static in size,
and we have been misinterpreting the data.
Think about this,
if time slows down, distances would appear further.
like riding a bicycle, down a long hill into town,
and getting a flat,
and having to walk the rest of the way.
The time it should take has been stretched,
but the distance has stayed the same.
Another thought is that if we are in a black hole universe,
and black holes are spinning,
then there should be a north and south pole to the universe,
where, get this, outside our universe,
at its' poles are vortex(s),
where energy is being radiated, away.
(this may show up as a "cold" spot in the universal background microwave radiation.)
Another thought, due to the positive feedback loop
of a self replicating fractal geometry of the universe,
there would be areas of space, where there would be huge starless voids.
Just as there are parts of a "Spirograph" design where there will be no ink,
in that design.
(edit) added pictures of the very big and small.
and very small.
Clusters of galaxies are shaped like theorized shapes of the subatomic particles, that they are made from.
Looking inside the atom is
like looking into our universe.
an infinite pattern in divisibility, of finite space.
...and it's all black holes, up and down.
We exist in the center of the scale,
between the infinitely big
and infinitesimally small.
Time is the experience of travel
within the geometry of our scale.
so, there is a little infinity in all of us,
and that is what we each, are.
...taking it all in.
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Fascinating subject!
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Now that we have determined that we live in a black hole universe, say
is every black hole different within?
I think the answer to that must be yes, as this would give us
an infinite number of universes, all different, like snowflakes.
This would mean that another universe exists,
exactly the same as this one, but, with 1 atom out of place,
as, in the same way as, no 2 snowflakes are exactly alike.
This means that everyone of us,
is the center of our own universe,
somewhere, i guess,
...hmmm, that might be here,
in this one.
It's interesting, looking back how a small decision,
in the past, has changed the present, completely.
If that decision was different,
everything in the whole world
could be totally different today!
But if there are an infinite number of other different universes,
the other possibility, happened as well, somewhere else!
So, in a way, nothing actually happens,
and there is no such thing as time.
All possible occurrences must follow the structure of the geometric shape of the universe, so all possibilities must be occurring simultaneously,
in another universe, within another, finite but infinity dividable geometric fractal structure.
Where does that leave us?
That sort of gives us all, our freewill.
allowing everybody to follow any path they wish, through life,
but remember that at every decision, your universe,
will be changed in the future,
so it would be wise to have some sort of,
for lack of a better term, "moral" compass.
...or to just do the right thing.
Jan 2 2010, 07:09 AM
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These ideas of this thread,
Inside The Whole Black Sparkly Universe,
is my spin on the combination, of the ideas,
and of the works of:
Neal Adams
Nissam Haramein
Jerry Reynard
(*it is called the Comedy Recycling Theory!)
...just curving, lunk
(BTW. laser light shows the black holes in solid matter)
Jan 3 2010, 07:20 PM
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Life inside a black-hole c-r
"your inside is out, and your outside is in,
your outside is in, and your inside is out"
Everybody's got something to hide,
except for me and my monkey.
Jan 5 2010, 07:54 PM
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I've been thinking more on the idea of multi-universes,
an infinite number of slightly different universes, occurring simultaneously.
Consider this;
what if every possible scenario exists,
in the fractal nature of multiple universes,
so that every decisions that you made,
brought you into a different part of the fractal.
Where we all travel through the rigid, solid, geometric, structure
but the new universe that you constantly move into, changes, constantly, depending entirely on your decisions, through life.
So the choices you make, bring you through the fractal,
into a future universe, that will be different from all others,
but must follow sequentially, the geometric shapes that define space and matter.
In other word, there is only one of us, following all possible paths, going through multiple universes, simultaneously.
...am i making any sense?
I feel,sometimes, that there is only me,
and the universe.
Perhaps, you, are just me,
going through an infinite number of universes,
in my (your) own way, every way i (you) can.
...Now, i know, i'm not making sense.
Sunspot activity is down, below predicted estimates:
Earthquakes are inexplicably suddenly dropping in number:
Weird weather is hitting the planet:
I have to thank George Ure from urban survival, for keeping an eye out for these things.
I think that these, are some of the things Patrick Geryl predicted
would happen prior to his pole shift.
Jan 9 2010, 12:31 AM
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(BTW. laser light shows the black holes in solid matter)
I have been looking more into the sparkles seen in laser light:
This has been a problem, found with most if not all visible laser light.
I think it is a property that distinguishes laser light from incoherent light,
but, some see it as a problem, with laser light:
Laser Speckle from Laser Pointer and Candle?
Many common and inexpensive laser pointers now use laser diodes with excellent coherence properties so that laser speckle and other interference effects can be quite dramatic.
"I noticed an interesting animation effect when a laser pointer was pressed against the bottom of a red candle. While viewing through good reading glasses, the side surface of the candle was literally swimming with sharp grainy dots like a bad motion picture show. I've since observed these micro animations when illuminating other translucent objects, i.e., a white candle and white glass."
This seems like the current explanation:
This is most likely (theory) a form of laser speckle due to interference from the coherent light source. In the case of a translucent object (all solid objects) like a candle, the wax as well as unavoidable motion of the pointer, candle, glasses, and observer, (these motions can be avoided) results in varying path lengths and refractive effects which produce constructive and destructive interference at the retina of the eye - thus the constantly changing pattern of bright and dark spots(what dark spots?). A camera would also record the effect though the specific pattern and size of the dots would not be the same due to the different optics involved. (and there is more than one lensing devise, in a telescope)
Bolding and bracketed commentary, mine
The thing is, that nobody has thought that this effect could be explained better, as black holes, under the electron shell, pulling the coherent light,
through intensifying space curvature, causing the photons, relative light speed, to be lost, and the distance to the black hole(s) in the center of the surface atoms, under their electron shell, the light is shining toward, to become an incredible distance. (because the speed of light must slow down, the denser the space curvature becomes)
The effect of greater space time curvature,
is what we call, gravity.
At a certain point the space time curvature, becomes so great, that the speed of light becomes 0, for anything there.
This means time there, stops.
The distance, to anything, at this point,
becomes infinite,
because to travel any distance,
takes time.
So, greater gravity, means slower relative time, to areas of weightlessness.
(i wonder if this is another inverse square law)
The maximum speed of light would be at the center of the universe, the speed of light would be slower closer to the inside edge. This means that the red and blue shifted Doppler effect, seen in galaxies, may really be caused by the speed of light going slower or faster in different regions of the universe.
(i now wonder if the doppler effect,
has more to do, with sound, than light)
Anyhow, i think, that the more intense space curvature, near a black hole, has the effect of gravitational lensing, making everything under the surface, the laser is shining upon, act like a super powerful, fish eye lens.
Like a pinhole camera, everything in the picture has the same focal length.
(which appears further away, within,
the surface the laser is shining on)
As you move your perspective, the points of light shift a lot, like looking through a very powerful lens.
i really like the comedy-recycling theory.
it really explains much of what we see and experience, very well.
...just a speckle in the light
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Matter always wants to fall toward an area of space, where time moves slower.
It takes energy to move matter, into an area, where time moves faster.
Time will continue to move slower to the point where it stops. At this point, there will be no radiation or movement possible,
because these things take time.
The depth under the surface of the Earth, where space curves, to the point where time stops, is calculated (by Jerry Reynard) to be at about 2886 kilometers, straight down.
Below this depth, the space time curve becomes inverted, and it takes energy
to continue down towards the center. (which would now seem like up)
...if there is someone in the Andromeda galaxy was watching us, we would appear to be moving very slowly, and slightly shifted into the red spectrum.
Andromeda is blue shifted, because it is closer to the center of the universe than our Milky-way is, and light would travel faster in that galaxy, making it appear bluer, to us.
So, we don't have to worry about Andromeda crashing into our galaxy.
You see,
it's not the bright flash of light, that makes the tungsten glow, that sends electricity along the wire, which flips on the wall switch,
we got it all, on the hasp backwards.
LOL, i see why Jerry calls it the Comedy-Recycling theory.
It makes contemporary theories look absolutely hilarious.
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Notice how the curve of each layer increases towards the center,
of this cutaway view of the Earth.
Down, is going toward the greater curvatures,
towards the maximum curvature.
As the curvature increases, time slows down.
It is experienced the same, at every level,
but time moves faster at less curvature,
and slower at greater curvature.
Even the speed of light, would be slower or faster,
depending on this amount of curvature.
Light coming from an area of space
where there is greater curvature,
should appear shifted into the red,
because it isn't moving as quickly,
as in our part of the universe.
Light shifted into the blue,
would mean that there is less curvature of space there,
and light travels faster there, than it does here!
Since most of the most distant galaxies are shifted into the red,
but there is an area of the sky that is shifted into the blue,
the Great Attractor, this would mean that our universe
has a light-speed gradient within it,
that slows, with the increased curvature of space.
Probably, to the point where it stops, and nothing can happen,
because there is no time left, at that amount of curvature.
Things there, have become, empty of time,
and nothing can ever happen there,
unless the curve of space changes.
It requires energy to move up, to a lesser curvature of space,
If it takes takes energy to move into lesser curvature,
where light moves faster, then that means,
that energy is being put into making the speed of light move faster.
...guess it takes energy to accelerate anything,
even the speed of light...
Doesn't this seem to make more sense
than galaxies moving away from us at near light speed?
(They are just in an area of space in our universe,
where the gravity curvature is greater and light travels slower.)
A long way away, mind you.
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but what is REALLY interesting is the question WHAT 'sees' (or 'senses')?
Good question.
I here include two images of the same scene taken a few evenings ago at 23:52 local (UK) time.
The orange one, upper, is the as shot JPEG of snow with much sodium light on it, the orange is there in spite of the extreme white balance correction applied. Images under Sodium lighting can not be fully corrected in the camera because of the limited light wavelength available, i.e. most of the visible spectrum is missing.
The 'normal' looking one, lower, is the same picture (the camera was set to record RAW + JPEG) but applying colour correction in Adobe Lightroom on the RAW image so as to make it approximate to the scene as seen, and remembered. The corrected RAW image was then exported as a TIFF and converted to JPEG for web use. It is not a monochrome image as the small areas of tungsten lighting visible in the background shows.
For an excellent description of how we see I point you to 'Unweaving the Rainbow' by Richard Dawkins.
This will also help you to understand how other creatures can construct such a similar virtual model of the world around them using sound or heat.
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Mark Your Calendars: August 15 Is Public Display of Breastfeeding Day!
ByShannon Guyton
Contributing Writer
Jul 2012
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Join the boob-olution!
On August 15th, moms everywhere will breastfeed in public to celebrate Public Display of Breastfeeding (PDB) Day. Why make a big deal out of breastfeeding in public? To empower moms and show the world that if a mom chooses to breastfeed, it's her right to feed her baby whenever and wherever she needs to. The more people who see moms nursing in public, the less of a big deal it'll be – and that's the goal.
You can show your support of breastfeeding by doing your own PDB on August 15. Visit www.thebump.com/pdb to take the pledge and tweet us @thebump #PDB to tell us where you are feeding baby!
Not a mom yet? You can still join the boob-olution by pledging to breastfeed when baby arrives.


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At the center of Mountains Beyond Mountains stands Paul Farmer. Doctor, Harvard professor, renowned infectious-disease specialist, anthropologist, the recipient of a MacArthur "genius" grant, world-class Robin Hood, Farmer was brought up in a bus and on a boat, and in medical school found his lifes calling: to diagnose and cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. This magnificent book shows how radical change can be fostered in situations that seem insurmountable, and it also shows how a meaningful life can be created, as Farmer—brilliant, charismatic, charming, both a leader in international health and a doctor who finds time to make house calls in Boston and the mountains of Haiti—blasts through convention to get results.
Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes minds and practices through his dedication to the philosophy that "the only real nation is humanity" - a philosophy that is embodied in the small public charity he founded, Partners In Health. He enlists the help of the Gates Foundation, George Soros, the U.N.s World Health Organization, and others in his quest to cure the world. At the heart of this book is the example of a life based on hope, and on an understanding of the truth of the Haitian proverb "Beyond mountains there are mountains": as you solve one problem, another problem presents itself, and so you go on and try to solve that one too.
"Mountains Beyond Mountains unfolds with the force of a gathering revelation," says Annie Dillard, and Jonathan Harr says, "[Farmer] wants to change the world. Certainly this luminous and powerful book will change the way you see it."
Q: How did you meet Paul Farmer, and what made you want to write about him?
A: I met him in Haiti in 1994. I was doing a story on American soldiers sent there to reinstate the country's democratically elected government. Farmer showed up one night at the barracks and got into an argument with the commander. I wasn't very interested in him then, but a few weeks later I ran into him on the plane to Miami and I began to learn some of the outlines of his life, which I found very interesting. Farmer was the second of six children, and spent most of his childhood in Florida, the whole family living on a bus and a houseboat that was moored in a bayou on the Gulf Coast. He went to Duke on a full scholarship, and then, while he was earning his M.D. and Ph.D at Harvard, he conceived and helped to build an amazing health care system in one of the poorest corners of Haiti. Around the time when I met him, he and his small band of colleagues were about to go to war against the dominant ideologies in international health — eventually they'd actually win some significant battles.
And I was drawn to the man himself. He worked extraordinary hours. In fact, I don't think he sleeps more than an hour or two most nights. Here was a person who seemed to be practicing more than he preached, who seemed to be living, as nearly as any human being can, without hypocrisy. A challenging person, the kind of person whose example can irritate you by making you feel you've never done anything as important, and yet, in his presence, those kinds of feelings tended to vanish. In the past, when I'd imagined a person with credentials like his, I'd imagined someone dour and self-righteous, but he was very friendly and irreverent, and quite funny. He seemed like someone I'd like to know, and I thought that if I did my job well, a reader would feel that way, too.
My favorite teacher once used to talk about how writers often have their best stories bestowed upon them, seemingly by accident. I felt as though, in meeting Farmer, I'd been offered a rare opportunity.
Q: What was Farmer's initial response to your wanting to write a book about him and his work?
A: I think the idea made him uncomfortable. At any rate, it took him some months to make the decision. I can't speak for him, but I think he agreed mainly because he was persuaded by some of his closest friends that a book about his life and work might bring attention both to the issues that he cares most about and also to the little organization that he helped to create — Partners In Health.
Q: What was involved in doing the research for this book?
A: A lot of time in airplanes. I traveled with Farmer to Haiti more times than I can now remember. I also went with him twice to Moscow, and to Siberia, to Peru, to Cuba, to Paris, to Chiapas in Mexico, to Montreal and New York City and, many times, to Boston. And I went to Geneva, Switzerland, with one of his closest colleagues.
I also visited his mother and some of his siblings, and the places of his childhood. I interviewed dozens of people. And I read a great deal, about medicine and public health, about the places where Farmer works, especially about Haiti.
Q: What does the title, MOUNTAINS BEYOND MOUNTAINS, mean?
A: The title comes from a Haitian proverb, which is usually translated as: "Beyond the mountains, more mountains." According to Farmer, a better translation is: "Beyond mountains there are mountains." I first heard the proverb from Farmer, and I remember that he told me, "The Haitians, of course, use it in a zillion different ways." Sometimes it's used to express the idea that opportunities are inexhaustible, and sometimes as a way of saying that when you surmount one great obstacle you merely gain a clear view of the next one. Of course, those two meanings aren't inconsistent, and I meant to imply both in the title. To me, the phrase expresses something fundamental about the spirit and the scale and the difficulty of Farmer's work. The Haitian proverb, by the way, is also a pretty accurate description of the topography of a lot of Haiti, certainly as I experienced it in my hikes with Farmer through the mountains of the central plateau.
Q: Farmer didn't have a conventional upbringing. Tell us more about that. Do you think Farmer's childhood was influential in the path he's chosen?
A: Farmer's father was a great big man, a ferociously competitive athelete nicknamed Elbows by people who played basketball with him, a sometime salesman and school teacher, with a lot of unconventional ideas and an absolutely pig-headed determination to have his family live by them. He took his family to a town north of Tampa, Florida, where for about five years they all lived in a bus in a campground. Then he took them to a bayou on the Gulf Coast where all eight of them lived in a leaky old 50 foot-long boat. As a boy, Farmer thrived in these unusual circumstances. He was a tall, skinny kid and he disappointed his father by not being much of an athelete, but he excelled in every intellectual department. He seems to have been precocious spiritually as well. At 11 he was given a copy of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, which he read and then immediately re-read in the space of a few days. Then he took it to the public library and said to the woman at the desk, "I want more books like this." She gave him adventure and fantasy novels and he kept coming back and saying, "This isn't it." Finally, she gave him Tolstoy's War and Peace, which he devoured, at the age of 11. It wasn't adventure or fantasy that interested him; it was the epic struggle between good and evil. He didn't have the words to say that then. Returning the library's copy of War and Peace, he simply told the librarian, "This is it! This is just like Lord of the Rings."
It was a childhood full of family adventures and misadventures and completely unconventional. Farmer himself didn't like to make too much of the connections between his background and the life he chose. At the very least, though, that childhood was good preparation for a life of travel and doctoring in difficult places like Haiti. He emerged from living on a boat in a bayou with what he called a "very compliant GI system," and from dinners of hot dog bean soup without much fussiness about food, and from years of cramped quarters with the ability to concentrate anywhere. He could sleep in a dentist's chair, as he did at night for most of one summer in a clinic in Haiti, and consider it an improvement over other places he had slept, and I imagine that his fondness for a fine hotel and a good bottle of wine had the same origins.
There were other advantages, Farmer insisted. The kind of father who thought it reasonable to house his family in a bus, then a boat, was also the kind who saw no reason his son shouldn't keep a large acquarium inside. Farmer insisted that he never really felt deprived throughout his childhood, though he did admit, "It was pretty strange." After living through some of his father's very public misadventures, it was hard to feel embarrassed or shy in front of anyone. He allowed that growing up as he did also probably relieved him of a homing instinct. "I never had a sense of a home town. It was, 'This is my campground.' Then I got to the bottom of the barrel, and it was 'Oh, this is my hometown.'" He meant the central plateau of Haiti.
Q: In your travels with Farmer, what most surprised and interested you? Did you learn something from the experience?
A: The thing about travel with Farmer is that you don't visit the brochure sights. His itinerary is pretty much restricted to visiting hospitals, slums, and prisons. The dreadful places of the world. I hadn't imagined that there were so many of those, and I hadn't known just how dreadful they were. But the trips weren't dreary and depressing, because Farmer and his colleagues were doing something tangible, something meaningful, something that was actually improving those places. This was especially true in Haiti and Peru. I'd say that I learned two things above all. That medicine and public health are a powerful lens for looking at the world. And that a small group of determined people can actually alter some of the pictures seen through that lens. I think that as a very young man Farmer chose to work in one of the most impoverished parts of Haiti because he was moved by the suffering he saw there. But if he'd wanted to prove a point about what is possible in public health, he couldn't have chosen a better site. If you can do a good thing in central Haiti, it stands to reason that you can do it anywhere. And what he and his friends have done and are doing in Haiti — and elsewhere - is nothing short of remarkable.
Q: Has your life or outlook about life changed as a result of spenind time with Farmer and writing this book?
A: One of my favorite characters in this book is a woman named Ophelia Dahl. She met Paul Farmer when she was 18 and he was 23. She told me that she remembered, from many years ago, deciding that Farmer was an important person to believe in. Not as a figure to watch from a distance, thinking, Oh, look, there is good in the world. Not as a comforting example, but the opposite. As proof that it was possible to put up a fight. As a goad to make others realize that if people could be kept from dying unnecessarily — from what Haitians call "stupid deaths" — then one had to act. I don't plan to give away all my worldly goods and go to work with Farmer in Haiti. For one thing, I'd just get in the way. But I can't tell myself anymore that the great problems of the world, such as the AIDS and TB epidemics, are beyond all hope of amelioration, or of repair. In other words, I don't think I can feel comfortable anymore in this world, by resigning myself to despair on behalf of billions of other people. There's always something one can do.
It's not my place to make a fund-raising pitch for Farmer and his organization, Partners In Health. Well, actually, I don't know why it isn't my place. I happened onto something remarkable and I sat down to try to describe it to others. I hope what I've written is artful. I believe it is at least accurate and truthful. And one true fact is that Farmer's organization, Partners In Health, represents a real antidote to despair. A person with a little money to give away can send it to Partners In Health and be certain that it will be used well. 95 percent of the money that's donated to Partners In Health goes to pay for direct services to people who are both desitute and sick — in Boston, in Russia, in Chiapas, in Peru, and especially in Haiti, where the poorest and the sickest people in our hemisphere reside. A donation to Partners In Health of, say, $200 will save an impoverished Haitian from dying a horrible death from tuberculosis.
Q: How does this book differ from your other projects?
A: Well, for one thing this book has a pretty large geographical spread, whereas all my previous books are set in New England. And all the others are about what might be called "ordinary people." Of course, no one is ordinary. But Farmer is less ordinary than anyone I've ever met. This is the main reason I wrote this book in the first person, something I'd done in only one other book. After I'd spent a lot of time with Farmer, I began to feel that altruism was plausible after all, indeed maybe even normal. But the sacrifices he's made aren't usual, and I knew that readers of my book would need an everyman, someone a lot less virtuous than Farmer, to interpret him and to make him believable. Someone to testify, in effect, that this guy is for real, and someone who could register the occasional discomfort that anyone would feel in such a person's company. Finally, although I like to think that the subjects I've written about in my other books are important, I don't think there's much question but that the subject of this book is more important. After all, what it's about at bottom is the attempt of one small group of people to heal a sick world.
Q: Farmer doesn't work alone. He is surrounded by some extraordinary people. Can you tell us a little about some of them?
A: There are more than a thousand people working for Partners In Health these days. They range from Haitian peasants who have been trained as community health workers to extremely bright young American epidemiologists, medical students, and doctors, who have enlisted to work in places such as central Haiti and Siberia and the slums of Lima, Peru - some of them work for nothing, some earn much less than they could elsewhere and some raise their own salaries through grants. Ophelia Dahl has been involved in Farmer's work from the start, and she's a crucial member of Partners In Health, the manager, the peacekeeper. She's a warm and charming person, and she knows how to manage Farmer and Farmer's colleague, Jim Yong Kim. Kim is, like Farmer, a Brigham doctor. He joined up only a few months after Partners In Health was founded. He's brilliant, an inspiring speaker, a fountain of ideas, and indefatigable.
Finally, and maybe most important, there's a man named Tom White. He built a small family business into one of the largest heavy construction firms in Boston. He and Farmer met when Farmer was still a doctor in training. He founded Partners In Health along with Farmer and until recently provided most of the money for its projects, millions and millions of dollars over the past 20 years. White is in his eighties now, and has given away almost all of his large fortune. He told me once, "Sometimes I think how much money I used to have before I met Paul and Jim. But that's all right. If I go to a restaurant and they give me a steak, I can only eat half of it anymore." He plans, he told me, to leave this life without a nickel. I think it's accurate to say that White has lifted death sentences from thousands of people, and the organization, the movement, that he helped to start may in the end save millions.


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Here is the recording of my recent "explorinar" on Evernote.
Explorinar: Evernote – Easy Note Taking from Thomas MacEntee on Vimeo.
What's Evernote?
Are you in need of a better way to take notes during genealogy research and capture those finds on the Internet? Evernote might be your answer! Evernote is a dynamic, easy to use web-based application with a "free" component which allows you to "remember everything!"
What's an Explorinar?
A casual exploration of a website, an application or some other program that could be useful to genealogists and family historians. Explorinars are free and limited to 100 participants. There are no handouts so please take notes.
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Man charged with rape after girl, 15, found unresponsive on porch
Victim on ventilator, unable to speak at Children's Hospital
A 21-year-old man is facing numerous charges after a 15-year-old girl was found unresponsive and wrapped in a blanket outside her family's home on Tuesday morning.
The girl's paternal grandparents told WTAE investigator Jim Parsons that she's on a ventilator, going in and out of consciousness, and her blood pressure is unstable. They're angry with the suspect, Michael Vallor, who they say preyed on a younger girl and used alcohol and drugs to have his way with her, but police say Vallor claims the sex was consensual.
"She was looking for love, is what she was looking for," her grandfather told Parsons.
"She was looking for somebody who cares," her grandmother continued.
Vallor was tracked down at a vacant home and taken to police by the girl's father, who talked to some neighborhood kids and learned where to find him, the grandparents said.
"I don't care if it was my daughter, your daughter, I would have done the same thing, because kids are innocent and they don't deserve people to prey on them like this," the girl's father told Parsons. "He knew the age of my daughter. He never should have taken that road."
The furious father restrained himself from beating Vallor because he wanted Vallor to be able to provide police with information.
"People like that are just animals, and they don't care. They go around getting these kids, feed them the drugs, abuse them and then they lose them," said the girl's grandfather. "I'd like to destroy him. I mean, whether its my granddaughter or not, it shouldn't be."
According to the criminal complaint, Vallor said he and a friend were unable to wake the girl after a night that included smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol when they left her on the porch of her Bentleyville home.
Vallor told investigators he met the girl about 8 p.m. Monday and they smoked marijuana and synthetic marijuana, also known as K2, police said. They met up with Vallor's friend, identified as Daren Jolly, and bought a case of beer to celebrate Jolly's 21st birthday, the complaint said.
Vallor said he drank beer while Jolly drove them around the Bentleyville and Brownsville areas before stopping at a tanning salon in West Brownsville, where Jolly went inside to tan and Vallor said he had consensual sex with the girl in the car, according to the complaint.
Vallor said he then went inside to tan for 10 minutes and it's possible the girl may have had some beer then, but he did not provide it to her, the complaint said.
After leaving the tanning salon, the girl fell asleep and Vallor and Jolly decided to take her home because it was getting close to when she would have to leave for school in the morning, according to the complaint.
When they were unable to wake her, Jolly picked her up over his shoulder and carried her to the porch, where they covered her with a blanket before leaving, the complaint said.
Vallor said they were afraid to knock on the door and let her family know she was outside, the complaint said.
The girl's mother found her wrapped in a blanket on the porch of their home shortly after 5 a.m. Tuesday and called 911, police said.
The mother's boyfriend, who also lives at the home, told investigators he reviewed surveillance video from a camera positioned on the porch and saw two men place the victim there and cover her with a blanket, police said.
"That irked me the most because, if it wasn't for my ex-wife's boyfriend, 15 minutes later my daughter would've been brain dead. That's the part that eats you up as a parent -- that somebody else could hurt your kid and leave them out for whatever to happen," he father said.
The girl was taken to Mon Valley Hospital and then flown to Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC to be treated for an overdose, police said.
Her father said she tested positive for alcohol, opiates and had water on her lungs, police said. She was also on a ventilator and unable to speak, he said.
The girl's grandparents said they had warned child welfare officials to take the girl away from her mother.
"CYS was called in and nothing was done. Mom just kept saying that we were out to get her, so nothing was done with that either, so now look. She's in the hospital fighting for her life," said her grandmother.
They said their granddaughter and her brother were allowed to live alone in the house for days at a time, and that they wanted her to come live with them.
"We love her like she's ours. We always have. She depended on us for five years,then after she moved back home, she still came and stayed with us," said her grandma.
Vallor was arrested on Tuesday and faces several charges, including rape, statutory sexual assault and corruption of minors. He is being held in the Washington County Correctional Facility on $15,000 straight bond.


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Editor�s note: This is the sixth article in a nine-part series following Infantry Training Battalion during a full course of training at the School of Infantry, Camp Lejeune.
Editor�s note: This is the sixth article in a nine-part series following Infantry Training Battalion during a full course of training at the School of Infantry, Camp Lejeune.
The future is coming into clearer focus for the students of Bravo Company.
This is when they head off into their individual specialties, like rifleman, machine gunner, mortarman or tow gunner during week six at the School of Infantry. The separate groups will spend time in the classroom followed by hands-on training and, later, live fire ranges. Machine gunners, who learn the M249 squad automatic weapon, the M240B machine gun, MK19 automatic grenade launcher and the M2 50 caliber machine gun, were the first to test their newly learned skills.
The aroma of gunpowder and synchronized bursts of machine gun fire marked their new training.
�The responsibility machine gunners have is very weighted,� said Pfc. Peter Kelson, 23, of Fredericksburg, Va. �It�s a huge responsibility and an honor. I�m really grateful I�ve been given the opportunity.
�Learning what they do and what they bring to the fight has been amazing and I�m proud to be learning these skills.�
The training, according to Kelson, has been amazing because he never realized how much went into being a machine gunner. Besides a new-found respect for the craft, he has learned how important the techniques are to firing a weapon of that caliber, as well as how complex the internal mechanisms of the weapon systems are.
He is also beginning to feel how mentally demanding becoming a machine gunner is, he said.
�Switching from a completely physical aspect to a more mentally demanding side has been an interesting transition,� Kelson said. �It�s way more mental than physical. I feel like my brain hurts at the end of the day. It�s a good hurt though. You learn how to reboot your brain and keep going. It�s definitely a different kind of tired.�
The students don�t just learn about weapon systems and firing techniques. They have also learned about influential and inspiring machine gunners of yesteryear. Kelson said that following John Basilone, a Marine who receiving the Medal of Honor during World War II, is part of what keeps him motivated.
�He did so many courageous acts � awe-inspiring acts,� Kelson said. �It�s just amazing that there are people who have done such incredibly hard things and the fact that incredibly hard things can be accomplished truly keeps me going.
�Thinking of him is going to keep me from quitting.�
Machine gun instructors like Sgt. Kirk Depoyster of Bravo Company tell not only personal stories but stories of men like Basilone because it is important for Marines to remember their history and their predecessors, said Depoyster.
�The good thing is it�s not difficult for me to keep them motivated at all,� Depoyster said. �It takes a different breed to become a Marine and it takes a different breed of Marine to want to be an infantry Marine. We create competition internally to see who is the best. We try to keep them self-motivated.�
Staying motivated may not be a problem but comprehending and retaining the information presented is � a challenge that most meet, said Depoyster. Some have problems because they only have two or three days to learn everything about a specific machine gun, he said.
�We have a more relaxing environment in the classroom,� he said. �It�s easier on their bodies and their minds so they can focus more on retention of information. It lets them focus on the knowledge without too many distractions.�
The hardest part for students, according to Depoyster, is troubleshooting the weapon systems when they have malfunctions. Getting them to understand the mechanics of the weapon and how to fix the problems is very challenging, he said.
It isn�t until the specialty split where the future machine gunners realize exactly what they bring to the battlefield, according to Depoyster. It�s through mentoring and teaching that he ensures the students walk away with everything he knows � making them semi-masters of their trade, he said.
�When you see that something clicks with a student you feel really good because you�re getting that information across to that student,� Depoyster said. �It means they are learning what I know and that knowledge will hopefully keep them and their fellow Marines alive when it matters.�
Contact Daily News Military Reporter Thomas Brennan at 910-219-8453 or email@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @ thomasjbrennan.


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A new weight-loss drug developed in the Bay Area was recently approved by the US Food and Drug Administration.
Qsymia is the first weight-loss drug approved by the FDA in 13 years. Its main active ingredient has been used to treat migraines for decades.
Full details in Terry McSweeney's report in the video above.