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Something tells me that when Beyonce put a photo of herself and daughter Blue Ivy up on Tumblr, she wasn't expecting to be drawn into the bottle vs. breast debate. And yet, that's the world we're living in. A mother is seen with her baby in one hand, bottle in the other, and the debate begins.
OMG, why isn't she breastfeeding? Doesn't she know how good it is for the baby? How long did she breastfeed? The "nice" response comes in the type of backhanded compliments Beyonce's been getting this week. They run along the lines of, "oh, well, you know, you really should breastfeed for at least a year but I guess it's nice that she did it at all."
Ahem, ladies. Were we looking at the same photo?
I saw Beyonce feeding Blue Ivy from a bottle. I did not see a sign on the bottle that said, "This is full of formula!" For all we know, Beyonce could have pumped her breast milk and Blue Ivy could have been sucking it down. Or maybe it was formula, which could still mean she was breastfeeding but happens to be supplementing these days. Or maybe she's had trouble breastfeeding and she has given up. Or maybe she's using a breast milk bank. Or. Or. Or.
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You see where I'm going with this? There are at least a half dozen scenarios I can think of right now from that one photo, and none is any less likely than the others.
As much as the constant nagging over whether a mom should or shouldn't be breastfeeding hurts women, the wild assumptions and accusations that follow may hurt even more.
It isn't just the bottles. We ran an adorable video of a little boy being fed vegetables from a spoon a few weeks back, and there were more than a few comments attacking the mom for feeding her baby jarred baby food. And yet, I never saw a jar. There was no reason to assume she hadn't prepared her own peas fresh from her garden. In fact, I know moms who do just that and, for ease of use, actually put their homemade food into old glass baby food jars that they buy at yard sales. But if you judged them solely on the look of the jar, well ...
If we took all the energy we expend on jumping to conclusions and ripping our fellow moms to shreds, just imagine what we could accomplish!
What did you think when you saw Beyonce's latest pictures with Blue Ivy? Were you focusing on the bottle in her hand?
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First Past the Post electoral system
The first-past-the-post electoral system is a voting system for single-member districts, variously called first-past-the-post (FPTP or FPP), winner-take-all, plurality voting, or relative majority. In political science, it is known as Single-Member District Plurality or SMDP. This system is in use at all levels of politics; it is very common in former British colonies. A thorough list is given below.
Wales, Scotland, both North and South Ireland, and New Zealand have fairly recently implemented different election systems. The possible solution for UK was handled by the Jenkins Committee in the late 1980s but no final solution has been reached yet.
In 2005, the Candian province of British Columbia held a referendum on changing their FPTP to STV; it was narrowly defeated.
Recent examples of nations which have not adopted the FPTP system includes South Africa, almost all of the former east block nations, Russia and Afghanistan as well as Iraq.
The term "first past the post" refers to a now seldom-used analogy with horse racing, where the winner is the first to pass a particular point (in this case a plurality of votes), upon which all other runners automatically and completely lose ("winner take all").
- 1 Procedures
- 2 Examples
- 3 Disadvantages
- 4 Advantages
- 5 No system can guarantee a clear result
- 6 Where First Past the Post systems are used
- 7 Ballot types
- 8 External links
Each voter in a given electoral district selects one candidate. All votes are counted and the candidate with more votes than any of the other candidates is the winner. The winner represents the entire electoral district.
Simple example
The election of a Member of Parliament in the UK is a well known example of First-Past-The-Post. But the system is also used on a smaller scale.
This example is an election for the president of a school class. Each class has a president who sits on a school council.
The election for class president
There are three candidates, Amy, Brian and Chloe. Each class member gets a ballot paper, with these three names on it. The class member must put an "X" against one of the names.
After the election finishes, the papers are sorted into three piles. One pile contains all the papers where there is an "X" against Amy (that is, votes for Amy). The other two piles contain votes for Brian and for Chloe.
The largest pile decides the winner. For instance, if Amy's pile has 11 votes, Brian's pile has 16 votes, and Chloe's pile has 13 votes, then the winner is Brian.
Notice that there were a total of 11 + 16 + 13 = 40 votes, and the winner had only 16 of them - only 40%. But that is only the result for this one class.
We have created an imaginary school where the girl and boy students disagree with each other on most issues, and that girls vote for girls, while boys vote for boys.
The election to the school council
Note that the class members (the "electors") only vote once, and their votes help to choose both a class president and a member of the school council (the same person).
Now, let's suppose that across all the classes, 8 of the class presidents that were elected were girls, and 9 were boys. That makes the boys the overall winner. The only influence that the pupils in this class had was to vote for Amy, Brian or Chloe. Some might argue that a boy won for this class because there were two girls, who "split the vote". Perhaps if Amy had not been a candidate, then Chloe would have won this class, and the girls would be the winners of the whole council.
Arguments exactly like this, but on a larger scale, are common wherever there are first-past-the-post elections.
More complex example
Imagine that Tennessee is having an election on the location of its capital. The population of Tennessee is concentrated around its four major cities, which are spread throughout the state. For this example, suppose that the entire electorate lives in these four cities, and that everyone wants to live as near the capital as possible.
The candidates for the capital are:
- Memphis, the state's largest city, with 42% of the voters, but located far from the other cities
- Nashville, with 26% of the voters, near the center of Tennessee
- Knoxville, with 17% of the voters
- Chattanooga, with 15% of the voters
The preferences of the voters would be divided like this:
|42% of voters
(close to Memphis)
|26% of voters
(close to Nashville)
|15% of voters
(close to Chattanooga)
|17% of voters
(close to Knoxville)
If voting follows sincere preferences, Memphis is selected with the most votes. Note that this system does not require that the winner have a majority, but only a plurality. That is, Memphis wins because it has the most votes, even though more than half of the voters preferred another option.
The most commonly expressed disadvantage – perhaps because it is easiest to express and explain – of first-past-the-post is that it is "unfair", i.e. that substantial bodies of opinion are not represented at all in the final result, and that a party may obtain a clear majority without popular support at that level.
Tactical voting
First-past-the-post encourages the tactical voting technique known as "compromising": voters are encouraged to vote for one of the two options most likely to win, even if it is not their most preferred option. In the above example, voters from Chattanooga and Knoxville may "compromise" by voting for Nashville, which they prefer to Memphis.
If enough voters vote using this tactic, the first-past-the-post system becomes a form of runoff voting where the first round is held in the court of public opinion. This can give substantial power to the media as voters will tend to believe their viewpoint on who the leading contenders are likely to be in the election and use that viewpoint to decide where a "tactical" vote would be (in the voter's opinion) best used. This can also become a system promoting votes against more so than votes for.
One consequence of the system is that many FPTP elections can be considered won before all votes are tallied, once there are no longer enough uncounted votes to override an established plurality count. Though not necessarily a disadvantage, this can produce a feeling of disenfranchisement among voters when running tallies are reported through the media.
Some political forums use the term black hat syndrome, rather than tactical voting syndrome, since this allows for more convenient definitions. It is more convenient to simply refer to strongly desired candidates as white hats, merely acceptable candidates as gray hats, and strongly undesired candidates as black hats. Of course, these terms are significant only in relation to individual voters, since one voter's white hat will undoubtedly be another voter's black hat, etc. When a voter, faced with with gray hat and black hat candidates that are perceived strong contenders, and also with white hat candidates that are perceived weak contenders feels compelled to vote in some manner that favors perceived strong gray hat contenders, that would be an instance of the black hat syndrome. With approval voting, there is the possibility that the presence of a perceived strong black hat contender could cause a voter to grant one approval vote to a gray hat, as well as to a white hat, but such a vote would not actually favor the gray hat with respect to the white hat, so this could be deemed merely a gray hat syndrome.
Anomalous results
An interesting anomaly in the results of this system arose in the Canadian federal election of 1926 for the province of Manitoba. The province was entitled to 17 seats in that election. The result was very different from how people voted.
|Political party
|Percentage of votes
|Number of seats
|Labour Progressives
The Conservatives clearly had the largest number of votes across the province, but received no seats at all. The other parties were able to have success by having concentrated support in particular constituencies, and by not running candidates in others.
This presents a problem because the parties tend to narrowly focus on the needs and well-beings of specific electoral districts where they can be sure to win seats, rather than be sensitive to the sentiments of voters everywhere. In order to secure election results, some also choose to use redistricting to distort election results by enclosing party voters together in one electoral district (i.e., gerrymandering.)
Duverger's law
Because of these anomalies and the tactical-voting tendencies, Duverger's law predicts that constituencies that use first-past-the-post systems will become two-party systems.
Strong government
Because first-past-the-post is held to produce strong government (see below), it follows that those who prefer weak government (government unable to effectively introduce social change or legislative progress) might see strong government as a disadvantage of that system. Preference for weak government is likely to be found in people who favour the status quo, who favour curtailing the power of government, or do not favour the direction any majority party is likely to take.
Wipe out and clean sweep results
Since FPTP combined with single member constituencies generate a winner's bonus, if not winner takes all, the loyal opposition can be left with few if any seats.
An opposition that is weak or absent, because of an electoral wipeout, is not good for good governance. Provincal elections in several Canadian provinces provide suitable examples.
This is the missing corollary of strong-government argument for FPTP.
Strong government
It is argued that, because first-past-the-post is more likely to produce a simple majority for one party, this produces a stronger government. When difficult decisions or strong leadership are required for the good of the voters, a government is not distracted by the constant need to negotiate within the legislature. In addition, the need to govern leads to coalitions, which may give disproportionate power to a party with limited popular support, simply because the largest party sees them as "enemies of their enemies". In the UK, arguments for first-past-the-post often look to Italy where the frequent government changeovers are presented as undesirable.
First-past-the-post may well be the simplest of all voting systems. This implies specific advantages. It is likely to be quicker, and easier to adminster; this may also imply that an election costs less to run. It may also have an effect on voters, because it is easy to explain and understand. Alternative voting systems may alienate some voters who find the systems hard to understand, and who therefore feel detached from the direct effect of their own vote.
Each representative must be a winner
Sometimes, the voters are in favour of a political party, but do not like specific candidates. An example was the premier of Alberta, Donald Getty. His government was re-elected in 1989, but because of voter dissatisfaction with the way the government was led, Getty, the leader of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party, was not re-elected by voters from his electoral district.
Similarly, in the 1999 Ontario provincial election, Mike Harris and his Progressive-Conservative party was re-elected to a majority government, but symbolic of the growing discontent among voters about cuts to education, his education minister and strong ally was resoundingly defeated by the opposition candidate.
It is often claimed that because each electoral district votes for its own representative, the elected candidate is held accountable to his own voters, thereby helping to prevent incompetent, fraudulent or corrupt behaviour by elected candidates. The voters in the electoral district can easily replace him since they have full power over who they want to represent them. In the absence of effective recall legislation, however, the electors must wait until the end of the representative's term.
No system can guarantee a clear result
- A close election is one where the winner's majority is very small, or where third parties or independents hold the balance of power.
Where First Past the Post systems are used
Countries that use this system to elect the lower or only house of their legislature include:
- Bahamas
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belize
- Botswana
- Canada
- Dominica
- The Gambia
- Grenada
- India
- Jamaica
- Malaysia
- Federated States of Micronesia
- Nepal
- Papua New Guinea
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United Kingdom (Parliamentary and local government elections only)
- United States
- Zambia
The first past the post election system is used in the Republic of China on Taiwan for executive offices such as county magistrates, mayors, and the president, but not for legislative seats which used the single non-transferable vote system. This has produced an interesting party structure in which there are two broad coalitions of parties which cooperate in executive elections but which compete internally in legislative elections. Source: Making Votes Count, Gary Cox (1997)
India is using a proportional representation system for its upper house.
Ballot types
Ballots can be of two forms. The simplest form is a blank ballot where the name of a candidate is written in by hand. A more structured ballot will list all the candidates and allow a mark to be made by a single candidate. (A ballot with a candidate list can include space for a write-in candidate as well)
External links
- ACE Project: First Past The Post - Detailed explanation of first-past-the-post voting
- The Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform says the new proportional electoral system it proposes for B.C. will improve the practice of democracy in the province.
- ASSEMBLY AUDIO AND VIDEO Below, you'll find audio and video recordings of six Learning Phase weekends, a meeting held in Prince George and the six Deliberation Phase weekends. The Learning Phase and Deliberation Phase recordings were broadcast on Hansard TV during 2004. - week 5 gives a detailed description by David Farrell, of the University of Manchester (England), Elizabeth McLeay of Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.
- Voting methods resource page Includes a critique of FPTP and a very wide range of possible alternatives.
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Snapshots from South Korea: Electronic Menu Console Helps Tourists Order Food
Last month I visited Seoul, South Korea, Here's a look at something I ate from my trip. For more, check out the rest of my Snapshots from South Korea.
For a city where most people don't speak English, Seoul does a good job (and seems to be constantly trying to improve) accommodating English-speaking tourists and expats. Metro announcements are made in Korean and English, streets signs have English translations, and every taxi has a sticker with a phone number you can call if you need a translator. But what if you're clueless about Korean food? Tourists without a Korean speaker by their side may end up ordering something they don't like, or forgo a meal altogether since they can't read the menu.
An electronic menu console in the form of a touchscreen PDA was developed by the the Seoul Tourism Organization (STO) to help non-Korean speakers order food at a restaurant. The console provides photos along with ingredient and preparation information about the restaurant's dishes in English, Japanese, and Chinese, and allows customers to place their order through the console. Maureen O'Crowley, Senior Director of International Marketing & Conventions for the STO, says that the idea came from her boss, Samuel Koo, who thinks the console's photos and information will be a great help to those who aren't knowledgeable about Korea food.
The console is currently being used at four Korean restaurants—Doore, Goongyeon, Daerimjung, and Hanwoori—and one Chinese restaurant—Dongchao—all picked by the STO. So far the response from customers has been positive, but while the participating restaurants also think it's a good device, they're concerned about the price—2.5 million (about $1,940) per console, which includes the costs of making the contents. Considering that the menu consoles were just released in January, the price should go down from here.
While I'm lucky that my personal "menu console" during my trip was the group of Seoul residents who brought me around the city and acted as my translators, not everyone else can be so lucky. The first time I ate bibimbap in New York City I didn't even know I was supposed to mix it until the waitress looked at me funnily, grabbed my chopsticks, and did it for me. On retrospect, it seems like it was obvious, but I'm surely not the only person who's ever made that mistake. Right? [tumbleweed rolls by]
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man extradited from an Idaho resort town has pleaded not guilty to charges he helped dupe a Los Angeles physician out of more than $28 million in an offshore investment.
Neil D. Campbell was arrested this month in Sun Valley and appeared briefly in court Friday. His preliminary hearing was set for July 8 and he was held on $10 million bail.
Cambell and another man, Philip Powers, face 140 counts of grand theft in an alleged eight-year scheme.
Prosecutors say the men defrauded an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Gary Michelson, by getting him to invest in a teak farm in Costa Rica, then inflating the price of the property and skimming the difference.
Campbell and Powers could face up to 105 years in prison if convicted.
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Some months ago I posted some other Vauxhall ads. At first glance I had thought they were the work of Robert Fawcett - and many people commented that they had thought so as well. But thanks to Harold Henriksen, we learned the they were by an illustrator named Allan Kass.
Today, thanks once again to Harold, we have three more gorgeous Vauxhall ads to enjoy.
Kass was certainly a remarkable draughtsman. But despite spending more than a decade in Detroit during the 50's and early 60's doing automotive art, these elaborate scenes don't represent how Kass spent the bulk of his career. Like many artists who saw that times were a-changin', Kass went into paperback book cover illustration and eventually painted about 1,000 covers before retiring in 1998.
Rhonda Whiting, a huge fan of Allan Kass' work, contacted me after an earlier post with biographical info on the artist - and to share a gallery of Allan Kass book covers she had posted on Facebook.
To all of the above comes another tidbit, courtesy of Harry Borgman, who sent the scan below. Harry writes, "I never worked with Allan, but saw him around [Detroit] often at exhibits, restaurants, etc. I knew he was thinking about getting into the paperback field, and he sure did!"
"I found one of his ad illustrations in an old art director's annual, they just listed his name,so he apparently painted the car as well."
My thanks to Harry, Harold and Rhonda for generously sharing their Allan Kass art and information.
To best appreciate Kass' Vauxhall ads, go to my Allan Kass Flickr set and click the "All Sizes" tab above each image.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
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[Archive] 2012 interview with Mike Danton
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This interview with Mike Danton posted on The Score's Backhand Shelf blog on October 4th, 2012. Danton had just been denied a visa to enter the UK to play, but fortunately was able to catch on in Sweden a short time later, before moving on to Slovakia in the same season. While a return to North American pro hockey doesn't seem likely, European leagues are glad to retain the former NHLer — Danton has also suited up for teams in Kazakhstan, Hungary, and Poland since this interview.
The audio of this interview can be heard here:
Interview with Mike Danton: "Vick, Tyson, and Heatley all got breaks, where's my break?"
Posted by Dave Cunning under Interviews on Oct 04, 2012
(UPDATE: Mike Danton signed with Kramfors-Alliansen of the Swedish elite league earlier in the week. For more, here's Danton's personal website.)
It wouldn't be a stretch to say that no one in the game of hockey has a stigma around them the way that Mike Danton does. Now trying to resume his professional hockey career in Europe, the ex-NHLer and ex-con deals with all sorts of prejudice and ignorance directed towards him on a daily basis – not to mention all the life roadblocks that a convicted felon could expect on the outside, because of his nearly decade-old crime – despite serving his sentence.
In our interview, Mike talked very candidly and at length about everything from hockey, his time in jail, how he's turned his life around for the better, his thoughts on other ex-con pro athletes, his feelings on being denied entry to the UK to play, his family, and what the future holds for him. Without a doubt, the responses that he gives will at least make you reconsider the opinion you've come to form about him. Enjoy.
So you've now been denied a visa to play hockey in the UK twice, and consequently, you won't be playing for the Coventry Blaze in the EIHL this year. What's going through your mind right now?
"I was pretty bummed out about being turned down a second time. When they denied me the first time, the reason for they gave was that I wasn't rehabilitated from my crime. They have an immigration law that states if you've done over twelve months in prison, you're excluded from rehabilitation, and in order for you to enter their country, your sentence has to be spent or expired as an ex-convict. Because I spent longer than twelve months in jail, I'm excluded from rehabilitation, and because of that, my sentence can't be spent or expired. So that's why they denied me.
The second time we applied, I got fifteen reference letters from RCMP officers, local Halifax police officers, detectives, an assistant coach in the NHL, the president of the university I attended that coincidentally was born in London, England who has double-majors and doctorate degrees. My parole officer even wrote a reference letter on my behalf, and also submitted her criminal findings regarding my case – which said I was in the lowest percentile likely to re-offend, that I was in the lowest percentile to be a danger to society; spoke about my community involvement, and how greatly I've turned my life around.
Because they rejected me on the basis of believing I wasn't rehabilitated, the second time around we attempted to illustrate to them that I am rehabilitated from my crimes, and that I wasn't just coming over there to play hockey. There were a lot more plans than just hockey for me coming toCoventry.Coventry is renowned for their community based programs, and I was going to be a big part of that while there. I work closely with Joe Drexler of "Be The Game" and his "Ignite Change" program, and I was going to be an ambassador in theUK for that – that was a huge thing we had worked out.
For the second application, we brought all these reference letters, and the plans that were other than hockey – sure, I was going there to play hockey and make a living for my family – but I was also going to spread my knowledge, the words that I have to share about the mistakes I've made and what it takes to get past them and be productive in life, and about making the best of second chances. We put all that on paper, the lawyers and members from the team looked at the package, as well as people in Canada, and they all said it'd be a disgrace if I got denied again, because there was no way someone could look at that package and think I wasn't rehabilitated. I put together a three-page letter myself, detailing my life, admitting to my crimes and accepting responsibility for them, but saying those things happened nine years ago, and I was 23 years old at the time. I've got a family of my own now, I'm an honor student, working towards a double major degree and at the top of the grade in all my classes, and I've changed my life around. I missed six years of hockey, but I still want to play professionally.
When I got my second denial, it was for the same reasons. They said they looked over all my information and reference letters, noted that I have a family of my own now, but however, I did spend more than twelve months in jail, and they don't think I'm rehabilitated from my crime. To read something like that is not only heartbreaking and gut-wrenching, at the same time it says that not only am I excluded from rehabilitation, but that all these police officers, my parole officer, the National Parole Board of Canada, my school's president, an assistant coach in the NHL, and everyone else that wrote reference letters have no idea what they're talking about. They basically said that the Parole Board let you out, and agreed that you're in the lowest percentile to reoffend or to be a menace to society, but they have no idea what they're talking about, and we think we know better because we looked at your file. It's really tough to swallow.
This is a team I've been talking about for the last four months, and I've been getting updates through the summer on signings, practices, team emails, and it's been gut-wrenching. I've been talking to the guys on the team since the beginning of the season, and they've been texting me when they go out, and it gave me a really good feeling about how close knit that team is. It was hard to tell them I won't be coming. They all ask what they can do to help. We're trying to figure out if there's anything we can do legally, or if we can appeal, but if not, I've got to figure out something else to do."
You've already played abroad in Sweden and Austria without any of these immigration hassles – why not just go play in a country that doesn't put up these roadblocks in front of you?
"I was in nine countries last year – Slovenia, Norway, Switzerland, Hungary, Croatia, Austria, Czech Republic, Sweden, and Austria – the reason why I chose the UK, and Coventry in particular, was when our baby came into our lives, a lot of things changed. We really liked Sweden when we were over there last year and a lot of people speak English there – the Czech Republic was the complete opposite though. We'd go grocery shopping and it'd take two or three hours because we had to translate everything. It was really difficult to get a normal life going in that environment. The fans and the organization were great, but it was difficult for us to live there. Having a newborn and going to a country like that – if something were to happen to the baby and we had to go to the doctor, you have to hope they spoke English. We made a decision in the summer that wherever we end up going, we'd like it to be an English speaking country that has similar customs, culture, and food that we're used to, just because it's the first year that either of us have had a kid. We just wanted it to go as smoothly as possible. I chose Coventry because of the relationship and rapport I'd built with the members of the team. They sold me on what they wanted from their team. They play a hard-nosed style, don't give up, work hard, and that description has me written all over it. They said I am the exact type of player they wanted on their team. I said ok. I gave up on a lot of other opportunities to make significantly more money than in the UK. The UK really isn't known for paying outrageous salaries, but rather offering university packages and well as their familiar customs and culture. A lot of North American guys head over there because of the familiarity to their own food, customs and culture. The other factor involved was the community programs that I'd be able to be a part of, and to help out the youth, minor hockey, and that sort of stuff, like I did in Sweden. That's always been a big part of my career after I came out of prison and wanted to play pro hockey again."
So what's the next step for you? Is there time to find a different European team to sign with? Can you play another year of University hockey?
"I'm not eligible for University hockey anymore. For every year of pro you play, you lose a year of eligibility, and you only get five total. By me playing pro last year, I lost my last year of eligibility. I could play senior hockey in Canada in either Newfoundland or Quebec. My agent and I have been contacted by some countries that are willing to bring me in to play though. I've been in talks with teams in three different countries.Coventry's had to sign another guy to fill my spot since I got denied again. I'm going to be playing somewhere, it's just a question of where. The countries I'm considering right now are Sweden,Germany, and Poland."
Who's your agent these days?
"Mike Bernier. He used to be part of "The Hockey Group", and now he's branched off on his own. He's a hard worker. He's never lied to me. He's always been straight-up and honest. He told me last year that if I came with him, he'd find me a team, and he did. At that time, I hadn't played pro in a while, so the things I was looking for were difficult to get. Statistically speaking, I played really well last year – it's late in teams' recruiting process now, but he's still come up with a handful of teams that are looking for players like me."
Coventry named you an assistant captain without you even being there. With your NHL background, OHL championship, CIS championship, and everything else to your name, you've built up a rather high billing for yourself. Is the pressure from teams and yourself to perform up to expectations difficult to live up to, or is it something that you thrive on?
"I've been asked that question a lot. How I answer it is – and I'm going to try an answer as humbly as possible, I'm the furthest thing from being cocky; I could use a boost in confidence once in a while actually – I think players like me are extremely hard to come by. Obviously I'm not the most skilled player in the world. In my last year of junior hockey, I had over 80 points and more than 200 penalty minutes. I led the playoffs in scoring, and still had over 100 PIM's. I'm a guy that brings everything to the table. I'm not a guy that's going to come down on a 2 on 1, or 1 on 1 and toe-drag, flip it through someone's stick and skates and then roof it top shelf, but I'm going to find a way to get around that guy and put the puck in the net. I may have to flick it up in the air and run the goalie through the net, but it's going to count regardless. It's happened before, where the puck's gone in, the goalie got run, it counts, and I got a penalty. Coaches have always told to me to put the puck in my [expletive] teeth, run through the net; and i'll find a way to score. That's just the way I've always been.
I have an extremely large amount of heart and determination. I don't agree with what Dany Heatley and Michael Vick did, but you have to look at what they did afterwards. The fact that those guys come back, and get back into professional sports again says something about their character. For me to miss six years of hockey and still manage to come back and win a national championship, and then return to professional hockey a year later – that's something I'm proud of. With a lot of inexperienced, local guys as well as guys who have played pro hockey at some level but don't have the NHL experience that I have, Coventry knew I that I was a guy that all the guys on their team were going to look up to. I'm not afraid to break sticks in the room, call guys out, tell them they're [expletive] [expletive], and to get their head out of their [expletive]. You need guys like that on a team. Those are the types of guys that other players look up to and say, 'hey, this guy can lead our team.'"
You got denied entry into the UK again seemingly based only on objective reasoning. You're constantly dealing with people with prejudice against you – whether it be in legal situations, on Twitter, or elsewhere – yet, you're extremely active in defending yourself on all those platforms against those who only see you as a criminal and don't know anything else about you or about anything you've done since your release three years ago. It seems to be never-ending and it's got to be exhausting – how do you handle it, and why do you bother?
"It's humorous. It's entertaining to me. Some people go to hockey games to be entertained; I go on Twitter and read the ignorant things people say. I sit there and I laugh. I'll retweet things that are funny, but when they say things like, 'He went to prison, bend over…' and other stuff like that, I block those people. There's a difference between humor and being disgusting. I don't need my kid to be reading that in a few years. People like that are useless. They're scum. A lot of the negative comments are from people in Cardiff, Coventry's biggest rival. If I had signed with Cardiff, the majority of the chirping would probably come from people in Coventry. People are entitled to their opinion, but you hit the nail on the head, they don't know the situation. It's just like my first day at university; I had people triple-looking me – forget double-looking, triple-looking me – whispering, 'that's the guy that tried to kill somebody…', and three weeks later, that same person would be sitting with me in the library sharing laughs, pulling pranks, and then saying, 'Aw man, you're great! I thought you were going to be this big mean monster guy…' People have no idea what I'm like. They look at my mugshot that looks like I've got a big chew in the side of my mouth, and they see the word murderer, and they say 'this guy can't come in. He's a criminal…' and that's their opinion and they're free to voice it. I really don't care. The difference in me now is that nine years ago, I would have had to listen to all these chirps and tweets, and I would have wanted to punch them all in the face, cause problems, and be completely irrational and immature about the situation. Now I laugh at it. Usually when someone says something, I'll get in there and chirp them back about their grammar and say, 'well if you're going to say that, at least spell it properly', or tell them to at least make it seem like their comment could be pronounced properly. All in all, it's just fun. It's entertaining to have a guys think that they get under my skin by chirping me about prison, even though I've heard that stuff for ten years now. There's not one prison joke out there that I haven't heard. The easiest way to shut them up is to talk about the NHL, and they can't say anything. They've never done that, I have. One guy that chirps me is an EIHL player who has played five or six games and has the same amount of goals as me [that's 0, Mike hasn't played a game for Coventry]. I'm not going to waste my time with guys that I have absolutely no respect for, because of the way they conduct themselves on Twitter. You don't go back and forth with fans and tell them they're fat and ugly – those are the people that pay your salary. You have to have some respect for the game. When I went to jail, there was no Facebook or Twitter. When I got out of jail and was in university, it took me a few months before I got into social media. Now I find Twitter so entertaining. I love going on my page and watching everything people say to me. I don't know what else to say about it, it's just entertaining."
What internet related amenities were available to you in prison? Can people tweet from prison?
No, there's child molesters and sex criminals in there, and they don't want them getting on the internet for obvious reasons. From what I understand, in theUSfederal system you can email people now, but that's the only thing you can do, and the emails are monitored. They get an email account through the prison that costs them money to send emails. In the US system, I had access to cable TV and movies, but nothing that was R rated, contained nudity, or had anything in it that would get our, um, "adrenaline" up, I guess you could say. They try to maintain proper protocol for prison fights and things like that. InCanada, it was a little more lax – we could have video game systems in there, but without online access. The States' system was a lot worse thanCanada's."
And you managed to study towards your university degree while you were in there too, right? And how close are you towards your degree now? What are you going to do when you finish it?
Yeah, it was kind of difficult though – I only got through two courses. They moved me around quite often, and they really screw with your mail in jail, so it's tough to get things sent to you. But I did manage to transfer those credits towards my degree. Last year I took a full course load online, and I'm doing the same this year. At the end of this year, I should only have four or five courses left. If I went really hard, I could get done by the end of the summer, but I'll probably do it over a year. I'll have a double major in psychology and criminology. I do really well in school. The only reason I added criminology in was that psychology was coming to me fairly easily and I wanted a challenge, so I added another major.
I don't know what I'm going to be – I'd like to play hockey as long as I can, and I don't want to call it quits yet, but I've been thinking about becoming a university professor. I like the social aspect and I like teaching people. Something like sports psychology, maybe. Coaching has crossed my mind. You see a lot of athletes go to university and they end up teaching English, or become PE teachers or something like that. A lot of athletes are very vocal and very social. They're used to being in the spotlight, being around 20 or 30 guys every day that chirp each other and still get along, having a frat-like relationship with them. Whether you teach youngsters, teenagers, or university kids, there's that element of social activity that can remain with you through all your years and levels of sports. I'm pretty sure I'm going to go down that road in the future."
When you look at Mike Tyson – who went to jail before you did, and resumed his career after being released – and you think about your perception of him at that point in time not having gone to jail yet yourself; and then you look at Michael Vick – who went to jail and was released right around the same time you also did and were – what is your perception of those guys as they resumed their athletic careers, has it changed since going through the same experience they did yourself, and do you have a level of empathy for them?
"Gosh, you're crossing up my morals and pulling my heartstrings here. Because of my personal experiences, and my personal life and childhood, I have a very big problem with people that commit sexual crimes against children and women. It's really hard for me to look past those things and say they deserve a second chance. However, because of my situation, I have to say that I'm a believer in second chances. I think the way Tyson handled his situation illustrated that he wasn't capable of being rehabilitated. I don't know him personally, but the role he portrays and the way he handles himself is a characterization of a nut-job. He didn't seem like he had a lot of remorse, even when he stated that he did. You could read the bull[expletive] all over his face.
In regards to Michael Vick, I don't think anyone will ever know for sure what degree his involvement was in the dog fighting ring, but still, he was involved and he went to jail. Both crimes are different – I'm sure I'll have PETA calling me after this – but at the same time, I've got nothing but respect for how Vick has handled himself. He's come out and accepted responsibility, made donations and done charity work to try and right his wrongs. The way he's conducted himself – I follow him on Twitter, and if you follow his tweets, well… he's no Jose Canseco, let's say. Everything's about his religion, family, football, and he's very respectful about it. I think that he's somebody that made a wrong decision in his life, has turned around for the better, and is prospering. He's playing the game that he loves, making a boatload of money, and I have no problems with that.
The problem that I have though, it that he's been able to continue playing the game he loves at its highest level and I haven't been. I can't go to Asia, theUK, theUS… I couldn't even go watch my favorite baseball team play in the World Series last year because I committed a crime nine years ago. If my son plays in a hockey tournament inDetroitsomeday, I can't go there and watch him because I made a mistake, and at that time my crime will have been 14 or 15 years prior. Don't get me wrong – I broke the law, and what I did was illegal; however, I've paid my dues. I've been punished. I've lost a lot of money. I've lost the opportunity to make a lot of money. I lost six years of my life, away from my family and friends, and a lot of things I enjoyed on a daily basis. Those are things I'm never going to be able to get back. I think my punishment is enough. I'm not going around to bars and getting in fights, or putting bounties on people's heads, or getting drunk and raping girls, or selling and doing drugs. I have a family, I've gone to university, I'm working towards a double major degree and trying to play professional hockey.
What I say is, where's my break? Vick, Tyson, and Heatley all got breaks, where's my break? Is it that I'm still allowed to play hockey in Sweden's third league or an elite league in Austria? It's not in the AHL, or the NHL. I'm going to have to make a decision in a couple of years as to whether I want my son growing up in Europe following me around from country to country, and if I don't want that, I'm going to have to quit hockey, and do something else. I don't want to quit hockey. I've got lots of playing time left.
I've got a lot of respect for those guys that have made mistakes in their life and have come back to their sport, like Vick. I'm not so respectful of Tyson because of the way he handled himself. But if people can look past Mike Tyson and his issues, how can they not look past mine? Legitimately, I didn't kill anybody. If that had been carried out, yes, I understand the ramifications; however, that's a hypothetical situation. You can't imprison or punish somebody for situations that didn't happen. Vick did what he did, Tyson did what he did, Heatley did what he did, I did what I did. I didn't kill anybody, and I didn't rape anybody. I'm sure you can catch my point."
You've mentioned your family a few times. It's tough to find any information on them – tell me a little bit about them; how old is your son?
"He's six weeks old. My family's kept private for a reason. I've had some issues in my past with my own family, so I like to keep my personal life somewhat personal so certain information doesn't get out."
Details of your criminal situation have always been hazy. What is your current status as far as being an ex-convict? Are you still on parole, or are you totally free and clear now?
"I was arrested on April 16, 2004. I received my full parole from the National Parole Board of Canada on September 11, 2009. They took a couple weeks, and then I was released from prison inCanadaon September 28, 2009, after 65 months in prison. 22 of those months were in solitary confinement. After that, I was on parole until January 21, 2011. While on parole for a little more than a year, and had to abstain from alcohol and drugs, and do urine tests – I don't do drugs anyway, but that was just a standard stipulation. When we won the CIS championship at St. Mary's, all the boys were drinking champagne out of the Cup, and I had to drink a sparkling water. It was kind of a bummer. I wasn't allowed to travel anywhere without a travel permit. If I wanted to go to my girlfriend's cottage for the weekend, I'd have to have a representative from the Canadian Parole Board visit the cottage first, interview her parents, and then supervise me while there. January 21 came along, and I've been a free man ever since. I have nobody to report to, just like before I ever went to prison. I'm absolutely not on parole one bit."
While you were on parole, you weren't allowed any contact with your father or David Frost, two guys at the center of speculation within your crime – now that you're not bound by parole terms, have you had any contact with them?
"Legally I can't even talk about that because there are a few things that are still out there. But they will be addressed in the future, for sure."
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So here are the map-team mode-weapon combinations that should be fine:
Generally radar should be turned off.
Vietnam (TDM/CTB)
- Vietnam is quite fun on team deathmatch
- capture the bag is challenging because you have to keep an eye on the top and bottom parts between the bases
- one of the best capture the bag maps in the game
- this map also aids tactical thinking because it provides many pickups and paths
- when the servers were online the boats sometimes ruined the match because people used the hidden locations to their advantage
- team deathmatch and capture the bag are really fast-paced on this maps and it's definitely one of the fastest ctb maps
- because there is only one way into the red base this map isn't really made for ctb
- with a good weapon set this map is quite entertaining on tdm
- team deathmatch and capture the bag are average on this map
- it's more suited for non-team based modes like bagtag or dm
- this is the best map for team deathmatch and capture the bag
- with a good weapon set this map beats all other maps hands down
- team deathmatch and capture the bag require a weapon set that consists of close and medium to long range weapons
- Mars Prison on capture the bag / Assault sucks
- team deathmatch and non-team based modes should be played on this map
- Sniper Rifles are very common on this map but people won't be able to really leave their base in a sniping match
- with normal weapons the match still seems boring because of the distance between the bases
- Bunker is fun on ctb because there are numerous ways to the enemy's bag
- the map layout makes for interesting team deathmatches and is worth a shot
- capture the bag is not really enjoyable on this map because of the long corridors
- team deathmatch is fun, but one has to keep in mind that the spawn weapon should deal some damage (e.g. Kruger x2) because the bases don't provide many weapons
- spaceport capture the bag is an absolute letdown and shouldn't be played because of the linear path that connects both bases
- team deathmatch and non-team based maps suit this map
- perfect for team deathmatch and capture the bag
- this is also one of the few frantic maps (like Subway/Venice)
- this map is good for team deathmatch and capture the bag
- the red base has an advantage so when there are 7 people in the match blue should have 4 players
- this map is absolutely not made for ctb because both bases only have one way in/out
Weapon set:
- Kruger x2
- Tactical 12-Gauge/Shotgun
- Soviet Rifle
- Mg x2
- SBP500/Minigun
- Grenades/Plasma Grenades
Time limit for ctb should be 10 minutes + 5 points capture limit.
Time limit for tdm should be 10/15min with a score limit of 100.
Lazy asked me to write down which maps could be used for which team modes + settings. So there you go


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OAK BROOK, Ill (PRWEB) February 04, 2013
The underlying medical conditions facing young adults who undergo computed tomography (CT) exams represent a significantly greater health risk than that of radiation-induced cancer from CT, according to a new study published online in the journal Radiology.
CT utilization has grown approximately 10 percent annually over the last 15 years in the U.S., raising fears of an increase in radiation-induced cancers. However, discussions of radiation-induced cancer risk often fail to take into account the condition of the patients being imaged, according to Susanna Lee, M.D., Ph.D., chief of women's imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital and assistant professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
"The impetus for our study was the concern that the lay press often focuses on potential harm caused to patients by CT imaging," Dr. Lee said. "Lacking in this discussion is a sense of how sick these patients already are."
To better understand the risks and benefits of CT in young adults, the research team led by Dr. Lee and researcher Robert L. Zondervan, M.S., analyzed imaging records of patients 18 to 35 years old who underwent chest or abdominopelvic CT exams between 2003 and 2007 at one of three university-affiliated hospitals in Boston. Children and young adults are more susceptible to ionizing radiation and more likely to live for the approximately 10 to 20 years considered necessary to develop a radiation-induced malignancy.
The researchers had access to records from 22,000 patients, including 16,851 chest and 24,112 abdominopelvic CT scans. During the average 5.5-year follow-up period, 7.1 percent of young adults who underwent chest CT and 3.9 percent of those who had abdominopelvic CT died: figures that were much greater than the 0.1 percent long-term risk of death from radiation-induced cancer predicted by statistical models in both groups.
"It was a bit surprising to see how high the five-year mortality rate was in this group," Dr. Lee said. "To put it in context, the average young adult has only a 1 percent chance of dying in the next five years."
The most common reasons for exam were trauma and cancer for chest CT and abdominal pain and trauma and cancer for abdominopelvic CT. While many of the patients who underwent CT were cancer patients with a bleak prognosis, Dr. Lee pointed out that the major differences in risk were evident in the other groups who had CT, such as those suffering from trauma, abdominal pain and difficulty breathing.
"When we subtracted out cancer patients from the data set, the risk of death in the study group ranged from 2.5 to 5 percent—still well above the risk in the general population," she said.
Dr. Lee and colleagues also found that the patients who were scanned only one or two times represented the overwhelming proportion of exams.
"This finding shows that radiation reduction efforts should also focus on patients who are very rarely scanned, and not just those who are scanned repeatedly," Dr. Lee said.
Dr. Lee noted that the study group was imaged between 2003 and 2007, before radiation dose awareness and reduction programs like Image Wisely and Image Gently took effect. She said that the risk of radiation-induced cancer from CT likely would be lower today, making the difference in mortality even more pronounced.
"We're not saying be complacent about the radiation risk from CT," Dr. Lee added. "But these people being imaged might have been in a motor vehicle accident, or have a perforated appendix or life-threatening cancer, and we're trying to gain information from scans that can help them. That's the part that gets lost in the debate."
"Body CT Scanning in Young Adults: Examination Indications, Patient Outcomes, and Risk of Radiation-induced Cancer." Collaborating with Dr. Lee and Robert L. Zondervan were Peter F. Hahn, M.D., Ph.D., Cheryl A. Sadow, M.D., and Bob Liu, Ph.D.
Radiology is edited by Herbert Y. Kressel, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., and owned and published by the Radiological Society of North America, Inc. (http://radiology.rsna.org/)
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For patient-friendly information on CT, visit RadiologyInfo.org.
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Hello world, this my PSA
I know I said a lot of things that I ain't need to say
But today is a new day
And you know I rep my city, I'm in green and gray
Flyer than the sky, I'm a solar system
Call Diamond Supply when I need a lay
I wonder why they lie when they know we listening
If he was alive, what would Jesus say?
Some Jewish, some Muslim, and some Christian
One nation under God, we gon' make a way
They trying to build a masjid next to Ground Zero
Y'all need to stop being weirdos, let them people pray
Hey, stupid is as stupid does
How can a educator burn books?
Now we trying to make it to the straight way
You could call me Straight Way
Shout out to the homie Stray A
And the other homie Spook doing a lot of days
Held without bail, that's a lot of strain
Used to be in Harlem with l's, that's a lot of haze
Same old thing on a different day
That good that'll take you high
Oh, I'm back to do it again
Here I'll stay, and I'm still here, baby
Let me take you, take you high
One of the best people that ever did it
Though I made some rash decisions that was quite foolish
Fab say he the best that ever Twitted
Well, I'm the hottest spitter that ever Googled
Keep it plain and simple so I don't lose you
Gotta follow rules if you gon' play
Gotta do the job right if you want pay
In other words, get it there if you gon' move it
When He remove your breath, what you gon' do then?
When it's time to meet Him, what you gon' say?
Freezer work hard like every day
Even the Grim Reaper's on they job doing
I can't wait to start my own movement
Freezer got that good music like Kanye
Only difference is, I really used to grind yay
I was out hurting my people, that was so stupid
Exclusive, Slay Flex Clue shit
Freezer on a mission for redemption with the music
Child of the ghetto, look how talented our youth is
Jay-Z babies, we just following the blueprint
You could be speaking through your music, you so clueless
You could be giving them the news on YouTube
You can give it to 'em raw on World Star
Ain't no people from the ghetto on the real news
We move around the world while the world moving
You trying to fill my sneakers, that's some large shoes
Want to kill your own people, that's a harsh move
Icebox where it used to be, his heart ruined
Crazy thing about it is we all human
All eat, all defecate, and all bleed
You better moved at Godspeed
First save yourself, then save your children
That's what you need to do, that's what I'm doing
Hope you get the message, flow precious like the ruins
I'm Bilbo with the flow because I'm known to get to it
Fishing rod flow cause the flow bait you in
These other rappers stink, they material is fake
And the mister eating Frosted Flakes, they became truants
Jewelry fake, story fake, what are they doing
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Conservation and Environment in Mexico: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update November 2009
At the beginning of November we received a very successful visit from one of our Overseas Recruitment staff, Laurens Vos, who runs our Projects Abroad office in Holland. His visit, though short, was very demonstrative of his crucial role in the recruitment of future volunteers. It was encouraging to be able to show another member of Projects Abroad how our camp works, the type of projects we offer and discuss our purpose for being here.
I was pleased to have the opportunity to take him out on night patrol on the south side of our beach, approximately 14 km. His visit coincided with a lunar effect which worked to our advantage as we were able to spot a number of adult turtles and also collect several nests.
I was able to show Laurens how to take shell measurements of the adults and through his involvement with the patrol he experienced our methods of collecting data. It was very encouraging for him to be able to experience the whole process of collecting the nests and reburying the eggs in our incubation areas.
During the next morning we were able to show Laurens our beautiful Chupadero Lagoon where we have our Lagoon Diversity Project. With the added wildlife expertise of Roberto, they were able to identify an impressive selection of bird species and various other types of wildlife.
We also managed to briefly visit our other project which takes place on the Crocodile Farm. Again it was useful to show him the different ways in which this project works and contributes to the overall sense of diversity within our Coastal Ecology Project at Tecoman.
Our camp activities are continuing to change due to the end of the year coming closer. Our patrols are still as constant as ever and we continue to achieve notable numbers of new hatchlings.
The regular monitoring and releasing of the new hatchlings is crucial as it allows us to maintain our important status as conservationists. We are now starting to look forward to the next new year which new goals to achieve and will continue to remind us of how important our role and presence is in contributing and maintaining such an important Conservation project.
Oliver Garcia
Conservation Director
November 2009
Projects Abroad


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Re: Decline in the Quality of Detective Conan?
Posted: January 17th, 2018, 11:48 pm
So the Bourbon arc was, for you, when DC started to go downhill? And are we talking a major decline in quality?Adel34 wrote:Yes. There are a few reasons for this, but the worst one for me is that Aoyama introduces more and more detective-like characters to the series. It was great with just Conan. Then Heiji appeared, that was okay too. But now we have: Conan, Heiji, the WHOLE Akai family (Shuichi, Masumi, Shukichi, Mary), Bourbon and the recently introduced Muga. Conan is not special anymore, even if he is still the main focus of the series. It feels like he has to join forces with someone in order to solve a case. He was perfectly fine by himself back in the day. In fact, I kind of appreciate today's AOs for the sole reason of not including all those characters.


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Real Estate Foreclosures: Florida Leads Nation
Florida leads the nation in home foreclosures, according to a new report.
April 11, 2013 -- According to real estate data-supplier RealtyTrac, U.S. foreclosure starts increased 2 percent from February to March, the second straight monthly increase following three consecutive monthly decreases.
Florida, Nevada and Illinois posted the highest foreclosure rates for the first quarter, according to RealtyTrac's March and first quarter U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. Florida had the most foreclosures of any state—one in every 104 housing units, or nearly three times the national average.
Florida cities accounted for 7 of the 10 highest metro foreclosure rates, with Miami leading every other metro area in the country for the first quarter. Other cities in the top 10 included Las Vegas at number four, with one in every 99 housing units filing.
The U.S. overall reported 152,500 foreclosures in March, a decrease of 1 percent from February and a decrease of 23 percent from a year before. The March decrease helped lower the total for first quarter U.S. foreclosures—including default notices, scheduled auctions and bank repossessions—to their lowest level since the second quarter of 2007.
Although the overall national trend continues to head downward, RealtyTrac vice president Daren Blomquist says "late-blooming foreclosures are bolting higher" in some local markets where aggressive foreclosure-prevention efforts in previous years are wearing off.
Meanwhile, says Blomquist, in other states, more recent foreclosure-prevention efforts have drastically increased the average time to foreclosure. Sometime down the road, he thinks, that could result in a second outbreak of delayed foreclosures.
Properties foreclosed in the first quarter took an average of 477 days to complete, up from 370 days in the first quarter of 2012. That's the highest average time since the first quarter of 2007.
Why so dramatic an increase?
"It is being driven at the national level," Blomquist tells ABC News, "mostly by increases in states where new legislation is changing the foreclosure process and making it more difficult for lenders to foreclose."
Prime examples, he says, are the Homeowner Bill of Rights in California that took effect in January, and the Foreclosure Fairness Act in Massachusetts that took effect in November.
Oregon, Nevada and Washington, he says, have passed similar legislation in the past year and a half.


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October 06, 2005
I got your megapixels, right here
Wow. Leaf has announced new digital camera backs, the larger of which generates images of 6726 by 5040 pixels (that's 33,899,040 total pixels for those playing at home). Each frame from this beast tips the scales at around 200MB.
Having come from the world of Web design, I was amazed at the size of files that get tossed around in Photoshop. Web designers are still debating whether requiring a 1024×768 monitor is okay, and in the mobile space that resolution must sound incredibly luxurious. Meanwhile, Photoshop CS raised max document dimensions to 300,000 x 300,000 pixels and the max document size to somewhere between 4 and 8 exabytes (!).
It's a pleasure and a challenge to develop an application that can work smoothly across a huge range of image sizes. This diversity makes it hard to choose defaults that address all uses, so you may want to tune Photoshop (Mac/Win) to your needs.


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So in what has to be one of the most surreal moments of my godlessness I was asked by a close friend of mine to speak to her Sunday school class about atheism. The kids are between 15-17 and "non-denominational." My friend has sworn that this isn't some sort of malicious attempt to convert me, and I trust her on that.
I said I would give the lecture.
So people of ThinkAtheist here's my question for you:
If you could tell young Christians (in the south no less) about your atheism what would you tell them?
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Heck, I'm trying to figure out how I'd talk to my kiddo about it when he gets around to asking. He'll be 2 in April, so I have time. LOL For some reason I feel it'll be like having "the talk" with him. LOL
I'd start out with what you agree upon: that the other thousands of gods out there are not real. Tell them, briefly, of some of the gods that have once been believed in and some that are still believed in, and that you all agree that it's hogwash. Better yet, ask them to name the gods. Ask them how likely they are to become followers of Zeus, Odin, Hinduism, Kokopelli, or the FSM. Then ask why not. What are their reasons for not believing? Then you can throw out the usual arguments from Christians, (but don't say that this is what Christians say as that might be seen as an attack): There are sacred texts saying that these gods are the true gods, can they prove these gods don't exist, what if they are wrong about their disbelief, followers of these religions claim to have had personal experiences with these gods, and on and on.
I think you will get nowhere if you approach this as why you don't believe in Jesus. They are probably expecting an attacking atheist, and if you go in there showing that you mostly agree, you'll get farther with them.
Let us know how it goes. What a great opportunity!
I like this approach in general. The common ground is always a good starting point. Take some time to think about what you share and focus on this. You don't believe in god, but you all live in the same world with the same pressures.
As long as you don't go in dressed as a monster ready to eat children, I think you're good :).
I agree. Great approach.
Have to go with masses and say I like this one as well <3 FSM!
Please point out to them that being an Atheist is not the same as religion. Atheism is just a lack of a belief in god, not a belief that there is no god. Being an atheist doesn't mean you are 100% sure there is no god. This seems to be a point that confuses a lot of believers.
Also tell them that morality doesn't have to come from religion, I think just the opposite is true. Religion gets morality from people, not the other way around. And morality can evolve as well, it did with woman's rights and minority rights. We think differently now than the people who wrote the holy books ~2000 years ago.
I disagree with you, Nick. Being an atheist does mean that you are 100% sure there is no god. It's agnostics who aren't sure. Obviously it isn't just believers who are confused.
Atheism deals with belief and agnosticism deals with knowledge.
- A gnostic theist claims to know for certain that a god exists. Gnostic theists are the most common sort of theists.
- An agnostic theist believes in god but does not claim to know for certain that god exists.
- A gnostic atheist claims to know for certain that a god does not exist.
- An agnostic atheist does not believe in go but does not claim to know for certain that a god does not exist (this is actually the most common type of atheist.)
Then we have all sorts of other words and isms regarding this subject:
- An ignostic essentially thinks that the question of whether or not a god exists is meaningless.
- Apatheism - one acts with apathy toward belief in a deity.
- Antitheism - one who is opposed to theism.
I suggest that you at least explore the Wikipedia articles on irreligion before claiming that atheism always means that one is 100% sure that there is no god. I am not 100% sure that there is no god, I am a 6.9 like Dawkins is on his spectrum of theistic probability.
If you are not 100% sure that there is no god, then you cannot call yourself an atheist. You are either an atheist or an agnostic--there is no middle ground. "Agnostic atheist" is an oxymoron.
Could you at least take a look at what Becca is saying before plain disagreeing?, it makes you look like a theist.
I have been an atheist for 40 years. I do not believe in gods (any of them), and I know for certain that none of them exist.
What Becca calls "agnostic atheist" is actually "agnostic." The terms are not interchangeable.
Once it is understood that atheism is merely the absence of belief in any gods, it becomes evident that agnosticism is not, as many assume, a "third way" between atheism and theism. The presence of a belief in a god and the absence of a belief in a god exhaust all of the possibilities. Agnosticism is not about belief in god but about knowledge — it was coined originally to describe the position of a person who could not claim to know for sure if any gods exist or not.
Thus, it is clear that agnosticism is compatible with both theism and atheism. A person can believe in a god (theism) without claiming to know for sure if that god exists; the result is agnostic theism. On the other hand, a person can disbelieve in gods (atheism) without claiming to know for sure that no gods can or do exist; the result is agnostic atheism.
It is also worth noting that there is a vicious double standard involved when theists claim that agnosticism is "better" than atheism because it is less dogmatic. If atheists are closed-minded because they are not agnostic, then so are theists. On the other hand, if theism can be open-minded then so can atheism.
In the end, the fact of the matter is a person isn't faced with the necessity of only being either an atheist or an agnostic. Quite the contrary, not only can a person be both, but it is in fact common for people to be both agnostics and atheists. An agnostic atheist won't claim to know for sure that nothing warranting the label "god" exists or that such cannot exist, but they also don't actively believe that such an entity does indeed exist."
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[UPDATED] C.N. Blue and F.T. Island to Hold Joint Concert in Los Angeles
[Feb 13] You can buy tickets now at Powerhouse (323-692-0303) and Ticketmaster. Tickets start from $50.
C.N. Blue and F.T. Island will hold a joint concert in Los Angeles!
Through CJ E&M's K-Pop concert brand, "M-Live," C.N. Blue and F.T. Island will hold their joint concert at the Nokia Theater on March 9 at 8pm.
This is the first time that C.N. Blue and F.T. Island will hold a joint concert together, therefore, the expectations are very high.
The Nokia Theater, where famous artists like Lady Gaga, Kelly Clarkson, the Eagles, and Duran Duran, have performed, holds more than 7,000 seats, which will be filled with thousands of C.N. Blue and F.T. Island fans.
As two of the most well-known K-Pop artists out there, this concert can be looked forward to.
In 2007, F.T. Island was one of the first rock bands to debut in the music industry and was soon able to claim the #1 position on various music charts, nicknamed as the "Rookie Monster." After landing first place on the Japanese Oricon Chart and ranking #1 on music charts in several countries in Asia, F.T. Island became known as one of the top Asian artists in the world.
Even before their official debut in Korea, C.N. Blue held more than 100 concerts in Japan. Within five days after the release of their first album, they were able to claim the #1 spot on both music charts and album sales. Furthermore, C.N. Blue was able to make their name as one of the best-known artists through their Asia Tour. After selling more than 10,000 copies of their Japanese debut album, C.N. Blue was able to be recognized at the Golden Disk Awards, as well.
Not only are the two groups skilled in music, they've shown their various talents through dramas and movies, and their roles as MCs on music programs.
C.N. Blue and F.T. Island's label FNC Music revealed, "Starting off with this concert in L.A, we plan to look more closely at their overseas expansions into Europe. We hope to show a good concert for the K-Pop fans."
"Depending on how this concert turns out, we will start to actively support their expansions overseas," promised CJ E&M.
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Thomas lifts Kings past Bucks 116-102
Knight scores 25 for Bucks in loss
Isaiah Thomas scored 25 points and had six assists to lead the Sacramento Kings to a 116-102 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night.
Rudy Gay added 22 points, eight rebounds and five assists, and DeMarcus Cousins had 21 points, 10 rebounds and five assists for the Kings, who won their ninth road game after finishing with an 8-33 record away from home last season.
Sacramento opened its season-high seven-game, 12-day road trip by shooting 52 percent (43-for-82) from the field.
Brandon Knight finished with a team-high 25 points and six assists for Milwaukee, and Jeff Adrien added 15 points off the bench. The Bucks (12-48), who have the worst record in the NBA, were coming off their biggest win of the season, 114-88 over visiting Utah on Monday.
Milwaukee was hoping to win consecutive games for the first time since last March 17 and 19, but the Bucks never led in the second half.
Sacramento, 3-1 in its last four away games after a seven-game road losing streak, got 10 straight points from Cousins to extend its lead to 74-55 midway through the third quarter.
Gay's basket to beat the third-quarter buzzer gave his team a 95-74 lead.
Thomas, who finished with at least 20 points for the eighth time in his last nine games, received a double technical and was ejected with 4:19 left in the fourth.
Sacramento held a 61-48 advantage at halftime. The score was tied at 33 when the Kings used a 15-2 run to lead the rest of the way.
The stretch was capped with a four-point play as Thomas drilled a 3-pointer and Cousins added a free throw because of a loose ball foul on Zaza Pachulia, giving the Kings a 48-35 lead with 5:16 left in the second.
NOTES: Sacramento moved one game ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers for the battle of the worst record in the Western Conference. ... The Kings are 3-8 on the road against the Eastern Conference. ... Milwaukee's 7-25 home record is worst in the league. The team is also 2-21 against the Western Conference. ... The Bucks used 10 players in the first quarter and everyone but Adrien scored. ... Sacramento's Carl Landry, a Milwaukee native, missed his fourth straight game with a sore right knee. ... Milwaukee signed Tony Mitchell to a 10-day contract on Tuesday and he entered the game with 3:26 remaining.


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General impressions mostly. How's the gameplay? How's the story? Does it drag? What don't you like about it? Etc.
Has anyone picked this up yet? I'm really curious to hear impressions. I want to grab a 3DS when I get home later this month and this is high on my list of "maybes".
so many references to bad voice acting in old games, we got the jill sandwich and then zero says "what am I fighting for?" in one of the battlesfor people who never played the megaman x series, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OVv-J-LXQU