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A University of Illinois residence hall reportedly brought in a former porn star to educate student residents in a week-long sex education seminar.
The program, which began Feb. 3, featured former porn star Annie Sprinkle and ended Thursday with an "orgasm workshop," according to a blog post by campusreform.org.
The program, hosted by resident community Unit One, included speeches by Sprinkle about life as a porn star, a presentation on "Eco-sexology," a free sidewalk sex Clinic, and a screening of "Annie Sprinkle's Amazing World of Orgasm."
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Sprinkle, an internationally known artist, visits colleges around the country to teach sex education and her work is frequently used in educational programs and equal rights campaigns.
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Re: What is code readability?by BrowserUk (Pope)
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For me, the single most important element of style affecting readability is "consistency".
When I first encountered the long lamented Abigail-II's code on PM, it looked strange to my eyes. And despite that there are quite a few of his guidelines that I do not follow, and disagree with his reasoning, I always find his code eminently readable. Even when that code is performing the often complex manipulations for which he is famous, the consistency of his code layout makes spending time exploring his code a joy.
And of all the stylistic elements of his code that make that so, his liberal--too liberal in a few places for my tastes--and consistent use of horizontal whitespace ranks very high on the list of things that make it so readable. In large part, this is the inspiration behind my liberal use of horizontal whitespace. I attempted to code with consistency of layout long before I encountered Perl, but I've modified my coding style since using Perl to incorporate more horizontal whitespace and this has reflected back into my coding in other languages.
As is demonstrated by this quote
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from Txet Maglning Glof, Ayobndy?, we don't parse writing, including code, letter by letter, but rather, token by token. So ensuring that the tokens in our code are clearly delineated is (IMO), the greatest single contribution to readability.
The second area where consistency also applies is in indentation. Whilst I hate the significant whitespace aspect of languages that use it--because it means that the entire function of a piece of code can silently change through the accidental omission or deletion of an invisible character. I hate inconsistent indentation even more. Why anyone would code this
like this,
is so far beyond my understanding that it's not even worth my trying. I tried to think of an appropriate analogy here, but everything I came up with would have offended somebody.
Historical justifications
This is also why I eshew many of the common coding practices and style guidelines. Unlike Abigail's, most of them do not come with justifications other than historic precedence. If history was such a great recommendation, we'd still write English in the style of Chaucer!
Best practice changes over time. And sticking with ancient practices, "because that's how it's always been done", doesn't make sense. When I first started programming, squared coding sheets, manually assigned, widely spaced line numbers were derigour.
When I first wrote code commercially, 64x20(or 23?) green-on-black vdus were just starting to become available. So pouring (or is that pawing) over huge stacks of green&white fanfold listings with a handful of coloured highlighters was a necessary part of my daily life.
With the advent of bigger, color screens, and syntax highlighting editors, I find that I have rarely printed a piece of code out for the last 10 or more years.
Things moved on and so did I.
Where they do come with justifications, these are often (IMO) wrongly argued. For example, the justifiction for preferring underscore_separated_variable_names to camelCaseVariableNames is that the former makes it easier to parse the individual words--which it probably does to some degree. But this is a wrongly argued justification. The problem is that it makes visually separate tokens of those individual words, which you don't want. As demonstrated above, the human brain/eyes recognises patterns/tokens not characters and words, so breaking singular tokens into multiple, visually separate elements is a bad thing, not a good one.
By way of simplistic demonstration, how many parameters are there in the following?
some_function (some_variable,some_other_variable,and_yet_another_variable,and_one_more_for,luck)
someFunction( someVariable, someOtherVariable, andYetAnotherVariable, andOneMoreFor, luck )
Did you catch it the first time?
Huffman encoding
Another justifiction is that for Huffman encoding of keywords. Huffman encoding does make sense, but I've variously seen this justified on the basis of being quicker to type, or quicker to read, but these miss the point.
Coders do not type at 60 wpm. And if they do, they produce bad code. I remember a metric from a very long time ago that the average programmer codes around 10-12 lines of code per day. Of course, this isn't just the time it takes to type the lines, it reflects design, debugging, maintenance etc. over the life of the code. But even if you sit down to type in a piece of code, the function of which is clear in your mind and the algorithm for which is well known and a part of your mental lexicon, you still will rarely achieve anything approaching secretarial typing speeds. You will pause for some amount of time to decide what to name each variable. You'll pause to decide whether map or grep or for or redo is appropriate for this particular piece of iteration. Should you use print and interpolated variables or printf and a template?
Likewise, once you become familiar with keywords and function names, even those in code you just picked up, it will make negligible difference to your parsing speed whether the it is for or foreach, or map or applyThisBlockOfCodeToEachElementOfThisList. Once you know what the function/variable/keyword does, you will not parse the spelling of the token. You'll simply recognise it--the token, short or long--as doing whatever it does.
So that leaves us with the question, what is the real value of Huffman encoding? (IMO), it is twofold:
Long variable names
Another common (IMO mis-)perception is that long, descriptive variable names make for clearer code. This is only ever true for the first few minutes before you know what the variable is used for. After that, once you have internalised the purpose of a variable, they are just tokens. And, provided that their scope is suitably confined, the ability to recognise the token quickly and easily when scanning the code is inversely proportional to it's length.
Of course, single character variable names are pretty useless if the life of the variable extends much beyond a few lines. But then most variables shouldn't have scopes that extend much beyond a few lines anyway--but that's a different discussion.
Whilst it is easy to argue that longer variable names allow the maintenance programmer (you, in a month or three's time), to quickly become familiar with the purpose of a variable when they first dive into a piece of code, (IMO) that is false economy. It (along with overly commented code), encourages a practice that I term 'hit & run' or 'guerrilla' maintenance. This is where the programmer receives a description of the problem, makes an assumption about the likely cause, dives into the middle of the code in question, reads a few comments or variable names and makes changes consistent with his earlier assumptions.
The problem is, descriptive variable names, like descriptive comments, describe what the original programmer thought they were coding. But the reason the maintenance programmer is in there, is because the code doesn't do what the original programmer thought it was doing. Of course, there are other reasons for maintenance than bugs, but I still feel that whenever you sit down to change a piece of code, you should understand what it does, and how it does it, not just what someone thought it should do, before you start making changes.
One of the ways I get to know a piece of code is to sit down and go through it changing the source-code layout to bring it to my preferred layout. I do this manually. I find that the process of inserting/adjusting whitespace, adjusting the indentation, and sometimes, even changing the variable names to fit my understanding of the code allows me to get a much clearer picture of the code at both the macro and micro levels.
Of course, this can offend some programmers and doesn't fit well with some source control and maintenance techniques, which means that once I have made my changes, I have to go back to the original sources and re-make them in the style of the original code if I intend to supply a patch for example. That could be seen as a problem, but it also serves as a secondary validation of the changes.
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev prison restrictions should be eased, attorneys argue
Attorneys for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the alleged Boston Marathon bomber, asked a federal judge to ease special restrictions that have been placed on him at the prison in Fort Devens, saying they have unduly left him in harsh isolation while preventing proper communication with his family and his legal team.
The attorneys argued that US Attorney General Eric H. Holder J. had no basis to order the Special Administrative Measures for Tsarnaev in late August, more than four months after his arrest, with no evidence that Tsarnaev was a further threat of violence or to security.
"The government has not alleged that Mr. Tsarnaev has done or said anything since his arrest to commit violence, incite violence, or engage in communications that pose a security threat,'' the lawyers argued in a courting filing Wednesday, calling the measures "unlawful and unwarranted.''
Federal prosecutors have not yet responded to the court filing.
Tsarnaev, now 20, faces 30 charges related to the April 15 bombing that killed three people and injured more than 260, including several terrorism charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty. Authorities said he also allegedly killed MIT police officer Sean Collier. His brother and alleged accomplice, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was killed in a shootout with police in Watertown and after he was run over by a car Dzokhar Tsarnaev was driving.
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The measures also restrict Tsarnaev's communications with the outside world to only immediate family members, and those communications are limited as well. Tsarnaev also has no access to any media, and cannot communicate with other inmates, including in prayer groups.
Holder, in ordering the Bureau of Prisons to enact the measures in August, at the request of US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz of Massachusetts, said that they are "reasonably necessary to prevent the inmate from committing, soliciting, or conspiring to commit additional criminal activity,'' according to records made public Wednesday.
Prosecutors argued, according to the court records, that Tsarnaev was inspired to commit the bombings by terrorist groups, he told investigators after the bombings that he hoped he inspired others, and "there is no indication that Tsarnaev's intentions have changed since.''
They also noted that Tsarnaev's mother taped a May 24 telephone conversation with him and played it for the press in Russia in an apparent effort to "engender sympathy'' for him. Tsarnaev has "also gained widespread notoriety while incarcerated,'' the prosecutors added, saying he has received nearly 1,000 pieces of unsolicited mail.
But Tsarnaev's lawyers argue that, "While the government may not want anyone to feel sympathy for Mr. Tsarnaev, that is not a proper basis to impose (the measures).''
They argued that there is no evidence he attempted to incite others, and that the harsh prison conditions are based more on his alleged crimes than anything he has done since his arrest.
The defense team's request drew immediate support from the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, which said in a statement that the restrictions on Tsarnaev "threaten our Constitution's guarantees of due process and effective assistance of counsel in this and all cases.''
"Because these extreme measures are unwarranted and severely threaten the fair administration of justice, they should be vacated,'' said Jess Rossman, a staff attorney with the ACLU of Massachusetts "Particularly in such a high-profile case that will be watched closely across the world, there should be no doubt about the integrity of the process or its outcome.''
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Rod Gilbert, shown in 2006, is still with the Rangers, leading several projects.
In the 1960s and '70s, Rod Gilbert played wing on the Rangers' Goal-a-Game, or GAG, line, with Jean Ratelle and Vic Hadfield, compiling 406 goals and 1,021 points over 16 seasons, with 34 playoff goals. Gilbert, who wore No. 7 and was the first Ranger to have his number retired, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1982.
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Q. Do you think the N.H.L. has done enough to prevent head injuries?
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I've started to get this regularly in the past week. Sometimes the track buffers and recovers, sometimes the server just goes on to the next track.
We have a very low use network. Often there is only my hardwired PC (music server) and my Marantz C-MR510 box (also hardwired), and my wife's tablet (wifi) connected. No high throughput network use.
How can I diagnose what is causing this, and how can I stop it happening - it's getting to the point where it occurs more often than not when a track plays, rendering the system more or less useless.
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A follower of the Jewish Renewal movement leader shares memories of the rebbe who spent two decades in Philadelphia.
I first met Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, spiritual founder of the Jewish Renewal movement, in 1976 at a Shabbaton at McGill University Hillel. Preparing to light the candles, he said: "We light the outer lights to remind us to light the inner light on Shabbat." Never had I heard a Jewish teacher connect ritual practice with inner spirituality. That Shabbaton introduced me to a spiritualized Judaism I had never encountered.
I am not alone. Thousands of people tell a similar story of how meeting Reb Zalman gave them a unique, inspired way to live Jewishly.
The former Philadelphia resident and professor emeritus of Jewish mysticism at Temple University died in his sleep in Boulder, Colo., on July 3. He was 89 years old.
He will be remembered as one of the great pioneering teachers of contemporary American Jewish life. Standing at over 6 feet tall, he literally was a spiritual giant — a visionary who dedicated his life to bringing Judaism alive.
Born in Poland in 1924 and raised in Vienna, his family fled the Nazis and eventually landed in Brooklyn in 1941. He was ordained as a rabbi in 1947 by the sixth Lubavitcher rebbe, Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson. He later got a master's degree from Boston University in the psychology of religion, and a doctorate from Hebrew Union College, which is affiliated with the Reform movement.
His last teaching post was at Naropa University, a Buddhist-inspired Colorado institution.
Influenced by 1960s countercultural trends, the Lubavitch-trained rabbi crossed traditional boundaries to help found the Havurah Movement; inspired use of creative prayer in synagogue; brought to life Kabbalistic and Chasidic teachings that he integrated with New Age thought; spawned Jewish communities with women as equal participants and leaders; and engaged in interfaith dialogue with many spiritual leaders, including Thomas Merton, Desmond Tutu and the Dalai Lama. He also trained a generation of more than 200 Renewal rabbis and built an international network of Jewish Renewal communities; envisioned the rainbow tallit that people all over the country now wear; and authored more than 20 books and 100 articles on Jewish prayer and mysticism.
For me, he was a teacher and mentor who ordained me as a rabbinic pastor, a unique category of ordination within the Jewish Renewal movement that focuses on pastoral care. He was the academic adviser on my doctoral dissertation, officiating rabbi at my wedding, sandak at my son's bris, and my employer when I worked as the first executive director of B'nai Or Religious Fellowship. B'nai Or, which turned his vision into a reality, was founded in Philadelphia, later renamed P'nai Or Religious Fellowship and still later merged with Rabbi Arthur Waskow's Shalom Center to become Aleph: Alliance for Jewish Renewal. There remains a strong Renewal community in West Mount Airy under the leadership of Rabbi Marcia Prager, who also serves as the dean of the Aleph rabbinic ordination program.
Even more, Reb Zalman was my friend. He was a friend to all, in fact, caring for people deeply and sharing his own foibles and vulnerabilities.
He also had an uncanny ability to call people into their fullness as human beings. It was as if he could see a person's destiny and draw it out, in an instant. When we met again in 1979 at the Aquarian Minyan of Berkeley, a dynamic and ecstatic Jewish community he had created in the heyday of the San Francisco hippie culture, he inquired about my graduate studies and asked: "What will you do for your doctoral dissertation?" He was, after all, an academic who held positions at three different universities over the course of 50 years.
I told him I had completed work on death and the afterlife in world religions.
"Good!" he replied. "Here is what you will do. Read these books," he said, writing down the names of two traditional Jewish texts on afterlife. "You will write your dissertation on death and afterlife in Judaism. I will be on your committee."
Just like that, he set the course for the course of my life's work.
I completed my dissertation under his tutelage and later published Jewish Views of the Afterlife, for which Reb Zalman wrote the forward. I have spent decades teaching others about Jewish teachings on the afterlife, and counseling the dying and bereaved.
From 1980-1982, I worked closely with Reb Zalman helping develop the national organization supporting Jewish spiritual renewal. At that time, he was a professor in the religion department of Temple University as well as an adjunct professor at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
The office of B'nai Or Religious Fellowship was originally in his Emlen Street home in Mount Airy, where he lived for two decades. Reb Zalman had an open-door policy welcoming spiritual seekers, teaching Kabbalah and leading creative davening. Many people remember sharing Shabbat or yontif at "Beit B'nai Or." He left his mark on Mount Airy, which today remains a dynamic Jewish community.
He also had a unique ability to make serendipitous moments into teaching opportunities. One time, Reb Zalman was teaching prayer at the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College when a student's tefillin box cracked open. As the parchment inside became visible, Reb Zalman stopped what he was doing to spend the remaining class time teaching about the texts inside tefillin boxes.
Reb Zalman would say, "I don't teach subjects, I teach students." Over the decades, he sent a generation of rabbis into the world, bringing a new spirit of Judaism into the wider community.
He had a grand vision of what Judaism could be and never stopped working toward that. In 1981, for example, Reb Zalman and I were exploring how he would celebrate Birkat HaHamah, or the Blessing of the Sun, a rare Jewish ritual occurring every 28 years. Last celebrated in 2009, it is said to denote the time when the sun returns to its position in the sky on the fourth day of Creation.
Instantaneously, he got an idea — "Let's do it at the Empire State Building!"
With sponsorship of the American Jewish Congress, Reb Zalman led a prayer service on the Empire State Building observation deck. That morning, he also released 70 balloons into the air, symbolic of the Jerusalem Temple sacrifice for the 70 nations of the world.
Another instance of Reb Zalman's sense for the theatrical occurred at my wedding when he blew the shofar under the chupah after reading our ketubah. Our wedding guests in Knoxville, Tenn., had never seen a Jewish ceremony like the one Reb Zalman performed. He was a trailblazer — playful, creative and inspired.
In 1995, Reb Zalman moved to Boulder, holding the Chair of World Wisdom at Naropa University. He spent time developing ideas on spiritual eldering, training Renewal rabbis and witnessing the creation of a national network of Renewal rabbis called Ohalah.
This past spring, I got to visit Reb Zalman in Boulder one last time. He was frail, yet his mind was as sharp as ever, sharing details of what would be his last book, as yet unpublished. I asked him if dreams he had dreamed years ago had come to fruition. The question gave him a chance to reflect on what he had been able to accomplish, recognizing that some things did not turn out as he imagined. I was aware of sitting in the presence of someone of whom we can now say, of whom God would say, "Zalman, you did your job, and you did it well!"
I am sad that my teacher and friend has died. Yet I am grateful to have known him, to have shared in the beautiful vision of Judaism he shared. May his evolving soul be welcomed back to the Source of Life. Tehei Nishmato Tzrurah B'Tzror HaHayyim.
Reb Simcha Raphael, Ph.D., is founder of the Da'at Institute for Death Awareness, Advocacy and Training and teaches Jewish mysticism in the religion department of Temple University.


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Vestel Id Team, the thinktank behind the awarded work Remote Control by Vestel Id Team spells out, RC Stiletto is a remote control that works with the help of gyro sensors. The design companions with the elegant details of new high-end TVs. Stiletto's slim form resembles a magic stick. Its details as the bottom cover is being soft-touch coated and the curved form is furnishing a comfortable hold for the user. Cosmetic part on top center of the remote gathers the buttons and creates a focus point for the user, It also creates a customization field. Their cover gives feedback for the rotation. .
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A new video of torture in Libya has surfaced on the Internet.
The victim is a supporter of Free Libya, Green Libya.
The accent of the men in the video matches that of Misrata. The men are dressed in military garb and accompanied by two teenage boys, who take turns beating the prisoner.
The victim can be seen lying on the ground with his hands tied behind his back with wire (at 2'19 minutes, a guard can be seen tightening the binds.) His feet are bare, and tied to the branch of a tree. The men beat the soles of the prisoners' feet repeatedly with a branch and a rubber stick while shouting obscenities at him.
This is not the first time that this kind of video, which appears to show violent acts perpetrated by former rebels, has surfaced on the Internet. But in many of these videos, the victims were either black African or Berber nomads, who were targeted because they were believed to be Gaddafi's mercenaries.
"Today, those who took part in the uprising are above the law"
Unfortunately, the NTC government is doing nothing to prevent this type of abuse. On the contrary, perpetrators benefit from complete impunity, thanks to a new law that stipulates that former rebels cannot be brought to court or punished for "acts committed with the goal of ensuring the revolution's success." In other words, today, those who took part in the uprising are above the law.
Anyone who criticizes them is immediately branded a Gaddafi sympathizer.
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A standalone version of the SQL Server 2012 SP1 was released this week. It is not the final release, just a community technology preview (CTP4), but a release that we can test out none the less. The exciting part of this release to me are the enhancements that have been added to Power View. Here you will see the steps I went through to upgrade my evaluation virtual machine I have setup that is based on the Appendix B that comes with our book – Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power View.
First you will need to download the SQL Server 2012 SP1 CTP and you can do that from here – SQL Server 2012 SP1 CTP (there is even a full SQL 2012 slipstream version you can download as well that includes the service pack). You also might want to download some of the additional features that are provided with the feature pack and you can get that from here – Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 SP1 Community Technology Preview Feature Pack.
Once you have the service pack downloaded you can run this on your machine and follow through the screenshots below.
I had one item that I needed to shutdown so that I could avoid a restart after I installed the service pack and that was related to IIS services (these are running because of SharePoint 2010).
So I had to stop the IIS Admin Service and the World Wide Wed Publishing Service.
I did a refresh check and I was good to go.
Running RTM Evaluation Edition – 11.0.2100.60
Updating the default instance of SQL 2012
Updating 2nd instance of SQL 2012 (POWERPIVOT)
Instance MSSQLSERVER overall summary:
Final result: Passed
Exit code (Decimal): 0
Start time: 2012-09-22 08:15:42
End time: 2012-09-22 08:33:33
Requested action: Patch
Instance POWERPIVOT overall summary:
Final result: Passed
Exit code (Decimal): 0
Start time: 2012-09-22 08:33:57
End time: 2012-09-22 08:35:24
Requested action: Patch
Patch Level: 11.1.2845.0
Verify I can connect to my instances of the database engine and Analysis Services along with reviewing the build numbers.
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 – 11.0.2845.0 (X64)
Sep 1 2012 02:36:04
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation
Enterprise Evaluation Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1)
Now to go start into SharePoint and check out Power View!
New Ribbon layouts, icons, and features (images, hyperlinks, field list control)
More style, text, and background options
New visualizations – Pie and Map charts along with font sizes
Pie Charts, but no data labels or sorting options.
Bing geo-encoded maps
Pre-defined drill up/down capabilities
Support to restore Excel 2013 PowerPivot files in Tabular SSAS
SQL Saturday #149 is coming up next:)
SharePoint 2010 will not support the Power View that is in Excel 2013 files.
I noticed that my PowerPivot was not working yet, so need to run the PowerPivot Configuration Tool.
New version detected, time to upgrade.
Run the upgrade process.
After this is done we go back in and test out PowerPivot again
Now it works just fine. The one thing I noticed is that it doesn't appear to be working with the Excel 2013 PowerPivot files though.
Maybe these will not work in SharePoint 2010, not quite sure yet, will need to look into this more.
For more information on the new features available in the updated version of Power View check out some of these references:
- Power View meet Microsoft Excel 2013
- Power View meet Microsoft Excel 2013 Part 2
- Learn More about Power View in Excel 2013 Preview
- Sean Boon's Blog (great series on Olympic data)
Here are some more links for information on the SP1 updates:
This service pack also includes performance improvements with slicers and filters with PowerPivot and Tabular SSAS as well as I demoed here in this post and video – Excel PowerPivot SQL 2012 vs. Excel 2013 Performance Demo.
Now we just need to wait for the final release and hopefully that will be coming out in a couple of months now, should be very soon. Enjoy!


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For two years the Obama administration has been secretly developing a "disposition matrix" that draws on all known information about suspected terrorists and provides advice on how to pursue them, reports Greg Miller of the Washington Post.
The "single, continually evolving database," is being developed and run by the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC).
But that's not the only thing they track. According to the ACLU, the NCTC runs a "massive, secretive data collection and mining of trillions of points of data about most people in the United States."
So the same people running the new kill list are also in the domestic spying business, and they can also pull data from other government agencies in name of national security.
The NCTC matrix serves to harmonize the separate CIA and Pentagon kills lists while also providing strategies to kill or capture individuals who appear on those lists based on how each fits into the matrix.
"We can't possibly kill everyone who wants to harm us," a senior administration official told the Post.
The nation's other domestic spying apparatus, exposed by National Security Agency whistleblower William Binney, tracks all kinds of electronic activities—phone calls, emails, banking and travel records, social media—and map them to collect "all the attributes that any individual has" to build a profile based on that data.
The NCTC goes further to collect "records from law enforcement investigations, health information, employment history, travel and student records" because "literally anything the government collects would be fair game," the ACLU notes.
ACLU's legislative counsel Chris Calabrese calls it a "reboot of the Total Information Awareness Program that Americans rejected so vigorously right after 9/11."
What this means, Glenn Greenwald explains, is that "the NCTC — now vested with the power to determine the proper "disposition" of terrorist suspects — is the same agency that is at the center of the ubiquitous, unaccountable surveillance state aimed at American citizens."
In other words, welcome to the matrix.
SEE ALSO: Why Losing Indefinite Detention Powers Would Be A Disaster For Obama >


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You can browse the Internet, download, or stream content on a Sprint data connection anywhere you can access a Sprint data signal.
Sprint 4G LTE and Sprint 3G networks are the two technologies that power Sprint data connections.
With a Sprint 4G connection your Motorola Photon Q 4G LTE has faster access to services such as streaming video, sharing photos, and accessing social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Sprint 4G LTE is the newer and faster of the two platforms.
It is available now in select markets with a planned full roll out to millions of Sprint customers.
The Sprint 3G network offers a speedy Internet connection and uses less battery power than 4G.Troubleshoot data connectivity issues.
Wi-Fi is one of the most underused and useful features on a smartphone, tablet, or a computer.
It's a short-range static wireless connection. Anyone can set up a Wi-Fi network with an Internet connection and a router or a Wi-Fi hotspot.
Some benefits of using Wi-Fi:
Preserves battery life: Up to 50% less power when connected to Wi-Fi instead of using a data connection on the Sprint networks.
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Ace Frehley Unleashes New Single 'Gimme a Feelin"
'Space Invader,' the latest solo album from former KISS guitarist Ace Frehley, will be released July 8, and the record's first single, 'Gimme a Feelin',' has debuted via Rolling Stone (listen above).
Frehley spoke with the magazine about the album, saying, "I'm really excited about this record, because everybody that's heard the tracks just says they think some of the tracks are even better than Anomaly (his 2009 album), and even showing another side of me."
KISS were finally inducted into the Rock and Hall of Fame in April, and the induction ceremony will be televised Saturday (May 31) on HBO. The band did not play, and in an interview with Guitar World, Frehley talked about some of the turmoil leading up to the event.
"I was told that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame absolutely wants the four original members to reunite, and I said, 'Great, I'll do it,'" Frehley says. "And there was silence from Gene and Paul. And finally it was shot down. The next thing I heard is that Paul and Gene wanted to perform with the current Kiss lineup [with Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer]. And I said, Well, that's kind of a slap in the face. I mean, they're not even being inducted. I have to sit through a Kiss cover band when I'm receiving an award? I don't think so."
KISS' latest compilation 'Kiss 40' was released on Tuesday (May 27). The 40 songs mark the band's 40th anniversary. There's at least one track from every major album, including live albums, along with some previously unreleased material. Frehley's 'New York Groove' from his 1978 solo album is included. It topped out at No. 13 on the singles chart, the only song that charted out of the four KISS solo albums that were simultaneously released.
KISS Legend Ace Frehley Plays 'Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?' – Part 1


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Patrick Sarran-Ami Bridge Armchair
At Design Interviews
Interview with Patrick Sarran : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Patrick Sarran : Watching a rugby match here in Toulouse, the rugby capital of France, I got the idea of using as a main motif the distinctive oval shape of a rugby ball. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Patrick Sarran : In 2010, my brother asked me to create 60 new armchairs for his restaurant. He needed something new, colored, comfortable, strong and stain-resistant. I decided to make a wraparound chair, with the constraint of a low scale production in my workshop. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Patrick Sarran : Every designer must designed a chair. I hope this one will continue to be successful. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Patrick Sarran : Six months. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Patrick Sarran : I designed this armchair for my brother, and edit it by QUISO. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Patrick Sarran : AMI is used by QUISO, my own company; Maybe in the future I will need a partner. .Frank Scott: What made you design this particular type of work?. Patrick Sarran : I wanted something very exclusive for my brother. .Frank Scott: Where there any other designs and/or designers that helped the influence the design of your work?. Patrick Sarran : Always Jean Prouvé. This designer was a manufacturer too. He followed simpler ways from the function to the form as from his craft. As him I designed this chair with the goal to produce it in my workshop, not in a specialized factory. There are common points in the approach, and also in the shapes of our both designs. Massive legs of AMI chair have evident similarities with those of Jean Prouvé pieces. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Patrick Sarran : Restaurants, hotels. .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Patrick Sarran : The design combines oval and square shapes. The elliptic holes in the arms are lined by moulded pieces of wood that people enjoy stroking. .Frank Scott: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?. Patrick Sarran : AMI in french means Friend and remind me of Michel my brother. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Patrick Sarran : I simultaneously use the software Vectorworks and my cabinet maker workshop. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Patrick Sarran : The profile with oval shapes in bright colors contrasting with its massive legs .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Patrick Sarran : I made two simplified prototypes that I presented to my brother, Chef Michel Sarran in his 2-star restaurant. He and the more corpulent members of his staff tested comfort and criticized various aspects such as handling ability, weight and aesthetics. In this interactive process I had to optimize the size of the armchair, both for better comfort and also for better adaptation to the capacity of the restaurant. .Frank Scott: What is the role of technology in this particular design?. Patrick Sarran : Several pieces inside are cut using water jet and laser machines. .Frank Scott: Is your design influenced by data or analytical research in any way? What kind of research did you conduct for making this design?. Patrick Sarran : There was no data used during the early stages but a lot research went into the type of materials, components and shape of design. .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Patrick Sarran : Making an affordable quality chair in short series is difficult for a craftsman. I had to take in account this constraint in my design. Fortunately I had two good subcontractors nearby, an upholsterer and a sheet metal factory equipped with laser and water jet machines that could also be used for wood panels. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Patrick Sarran : One day, I found the proposal to participate to A'Design Award in my mail box. I did not know this competition. After I read the rules and the methodology of the contest, I told myself, why not? .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Patrick Sarran : I develop methods allowing me to produce chairs in short series. .Frank Scott: Any other things you would like to cover that have not been covered in these questions?. Patrick Sarran : no. .
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Chicago deep dish pizza, now at Soho Mixed Media Bar
[8/2/12 Correction: A previous version of this article stated V-Lounge consulted on Soho's pizza. They did not.]
There's not a lot of Chicago-style deep dish pizza in this town. Every first Wednesday, Hank's Haute Dogs does a personal-size one, with a form factor more akin to a cupcake than pizza, but other than that, it's slim pizza pickings.
So when Soho (the bar and club in Chinatown) announced its Chi-town Deep Dish Pizza, served out of the former Downtown Doner Shack window, we went to check it out.
The definition of deep dish pizza, according to Soho: "too much sauce, too much cheese, too much crust, but not too much pizza!" It's not as deep as I thought it would be—like jumping into a kiddie pool when you're expecting an Olympic one—but there's generous cheese and a chunky, bright, slightly sweet tomato sauce (for Chicago-style, the sauce goes on top). Its crisp, slightly dry and crumbly crust holds up admirably to the toppings. Still, deep dish it's not.
$3 a slice, $19 for a whole pie. Whole pies take 45 minutes to make, so make sure to call ahead. Available from lunch until late-night, 80 S. Pauahi St., inside Soho Mixed Media Bar, 545-4714, facebook.com/chitowndeepdishpizzaco


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Eastern grey kangarooeastern grey kangaroo, eastern grey kangaroo habitat
The eastern grey kangaroo Macropus giganteus is a marsupial found in southern and eastern Australia, with a population of several million It is also known as the great grey kangaroo and the forester kangaroo Although a big eastern grey male typically masses around 66 kg weight 145 lb and stands almost 2 m 66 ft tall, the scientific name, Macropus giganteus gigantic large-foot, is misleading: the red kangaroo of the semi-arid inland is larger, weighing up to 90 kg
- 1 Taxonomy
- 2 Description
- 3 Ecology
- 4 Behavior
- 41 Reproduction
- 5 Status
- 6 Gallery
- 7 References
The eastern grey kangaroo was described by George Shaw in 1790 as Macropus giganteus
There are two subspecies:[1]
- Macropus giganteus giganteus - found in eastern and central Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales and southeastern South Australia
- Macropus giganteus tasmaniensis - commonly known as the Tasmanian eastern gray kangaroo, which is endemic to Tasmania
DescriptionFemale grazing
The eastern grey kangaroo is the second largest and heaviest living marsupial and native land mammal in Australia An adult male will commonly weigh around 50 to 66 kg 110 to 146 lb whereas females commonly weigh around 17 to 40 kg 37 to 88 lb Large males of this species are more heavily built and muscled than the lankier red kangaroo and can occasionally exceed normal dimensions One of these, shot in eastern Tasmania weighed 82 kg 181 lb, with a 264 m 87 ft total length from nose to tail possibly along the curves The largest known specimen, examined by Lydekker, had a weight of 91 kg 201 lb and measured 292 m 96 ft along the curves When the skin of this specimen was measured it had a "flat" length of 249 m 82 ft[3] The eastern grey is easy to recognise: its soft grey coat is distinctive, and it is usually found in moister, more fertile areas than the red Red kangaroos, though sometimes grey-blue in colour, have a totally different face than grey kangaroos Red kangaroos have distinctive markings in black and white beside their muzzles and along the sides of their face Grey kangaroos do not have these markings, and their eyes seem large and wide open Where their ranges overlap, it is much more difficult to distinguish between eastern grey and western grey kangaroos, which are closely related They have a very similar body and facial structure, and their noses/muzzles are fully covered with fine hair though that is not obvious at a distance, their noses do look noticeably different from the noses of reds and wallaroos The eastern grey's colouration is a light-coloured grey or brownish-grey, with a lighter silver or cream, sometimes nearly white, belly The western grey is a dark dusty brown colour, with more contrast especially around the head[4] Indigenous Australian names include iyirrbir Uw Oykangand and Uw Olkola and kucha Pakanh[citation needed] The highest ever recorded speed of any kangaroo was 64 kilometres per hour 40 mph set by a large female eastern grey kangaroo[5]
EcologyEastern greys in native habitat
Although the red is better known, the eastern grey is the kangaroo most often encountered in Australia, due to its adaptability Few Australians visit the arid interior of the continent, while many live in and around the major cities of the south and east coast, from where it is usually only a short drive to the remaining pockets of near-city bushland where kangaroos can be found without much difficulty[citation needed] The eastern grey prefers open grassland with areas of bush for daytime shelter and mainly inhabits the wetter parts of Australia[6] It also inhabits coastal areas, woodlands, sub-tropical forests, mountain forests, and inland scrubs[6]
Like all kangaroos, it is mainly nocturnal and crepuscular,[4] and is mostly seen early in the morning, or as the light starts to fade in the evening In the middle of the day, kangaroos rest in the cover of the woodlands and eat there but then come out in the open to feed on the grasslands in large numbers[4] The eastern grey kangaroo is predominantly a grazer, eating a wide variety of grasses, whereas some other species eg the red kangaroo include significant amounts of shrubs in the diet
Eastern grey kangaroos are gregarious and form open-membership groups[7] The groups are made up of 2-3 females and their offspring with the same number of males of which one is dominant They exist in a dominance hierarchy and the dominant individuals gain access to better sources of food and areas of shade[4] However, kangaroos are not territorial and usually fight only when females are in estrous
Eastern grey kangaroos adjust their behavior in relation to the risk of predation with reproductive females, individuals on the periphery of the group and individuals in groups far from cover being the most vigilant[7] Vigilance in individual kangaroos does not seem to significantly decrease when the size of the group increases However, there is a tendency for the proportion of individuals on the periphery of the group to decline as group size increases[7] The open membership of the group allows more kangaroos to join and thus provide more buffers against predators[7]A mother feeds her joey Female left and male right eastern grey kangaroos
Females may form strong kinship bonds with their female relatives Females with living female relatives have a greater chance of reproducing[8] Most kangaroo births occur during the summer[9] Eastern grey kangaroos are obligate breeders in that they can only reproduce in one kind of habitat[10]
The female kangaroo is usually permanently pregnant, except on the day she gives birth; however, she has the ability to freeze the development of an embryo until the previous joey is able to leave the pouch This is known as diapause, and will occur in times of drought and in areas with poor food sources The composition of the milk produced by the mother varies according to the needs of the joey In addition, the mother is able to produce two different kinds of milk simultaneously for the newborn and the older joey still in the pouch Unusually, during a dry period, males will not produce sperm, and females will only conceive if there has been enough rain to produce a large quantity of green vegetation[11] Females take care of the young without any assistance from the males The joeys are heavily reliant on their mothers for about 550 days which is when it is weaned Females sexually mature between 17 and 28 months while males mature at around 25 months[6]
It is often said, but not confirmed by evidence, [12][13] that kangaroo populations have increased significantly since the European colonisation of Australia because of the increased areas of grassland as distinct from forest, the reduction in dingo numbers and the availability of artificial watering holes The estimated population of the species Australia-wide in 2010 was 114 million[14] In some places the eastern grey is so numerous it causes overgrazing and some individual populations have been culled in some parts of Australia see, for example, the Eden Park Kangaroo Cull[15] Despite the commercial harvest and some culls, the eastern grey remains common and widespread It still covers the entire range it occupied when Europeans arrived in Australia in 1788 [16] and it often comes into conflict with agriculture as it uses the more fertile districts that now carry crops or exotic pasture grasses, which kangaroos readily eat[17]
Male on Maria Island Eastern grey kangaroos were introduced there during the late 1960s and early 1970s
Female and two joeys, Nowra, NSW
Eastern grey kangaroo
Kangaroo crossing sign in Eastern Australia
Grazing on a golf course in Griffith, NSW
- ^ a b Groves, C P 2005 "Order Diprotodontia" In Wilson, DE; Reeder, D M Mammal Species of the World: A Taxonomic and Geographic Reference 3rd ed Johns Hopkins University Press p 64 ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0 OCLC 62265494
- ^ Munny, P; Menkhorst, P & Winter, J 2008 "Macropus giganteus" IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Version 2008 International Union for Conservation of Nature Retrieved 28 December 2008
- ^ Wood, Gerald 1983 The Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats ISBN 978-0-85112-235-9
- ^ a b c d Dawson, Terence J 1998 Kangaroos: Biology of the Largest Marsupials Sydney, Australia: University of New South Wales Press pp 12–18 ISBN 0-86840-317-2
- ^ The Guinness Book of World Records 2004 p 53
- ^ a b c Frith, H J and Calaby, J H 1969 Kangaroos Melbourne, Australia: Cheshire Publishing
- ^ a b c d Colagross, A M L and Cockburn, A 1993 "Vigilance and grouping in the eastern grey kangaroo, Macropus giganteus" Australian Journal of Zoology 41: 325-334
- ^ Jarman, PJ 1993 "Individual behavior and social organisation of kangaroos" Physiology and Ecology 29:70-85
- ^ Kirkpatrick, T H 1965 "Studies of Macropodidae in Queensland 1 Food preferences of the grey kangaroo Macropus major Shaw" Queensland Journal of Agricultural and Animal Science 22:89-93
- ^ Lee, A K, and Cockburn, A 1985 Evolutionary Ecology of Marsupials Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
- ^ Burnie, David; Don E Wilson 2001 Animal New York, New York: DK Publishing, Inc pp 99–101 ISBN 0-7894-7764-5
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- ^ "Kangaroo cull targets millions" BBC News 21 February 2002
- ^ http://wwwenvironmentgovau/biodiversity/wildlife-trade/wild-harvest/kangaroo/populationhtml#2010
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- ^ Poole, 1983 Eastern Grey Kangaroo, pp 244-247 In: Strahan R Ed The Australian Museum Complete Book of Australian Mammals, Cornstalk Publishing: Sydney
- ^ Edwards,G 1989 The interaction between macropodids and sheep: a review pp795-804 In: Grigg, G, Jarman P and Hume, I Eds Kangaroos, wallabies and rat-kangaroos Volume 2 Surrey Beatty and Sons: Syndey
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Keithin ja Karenin tarina:
Keith: Mennessäni töihin kaulani oli turvoksissa ja kipeä ja rintakehässäni oli auringonpolttamaa muistuttava ihomuutos. Seuraavana päivänä niskani ja hartiani olivat niin kipeät etten kyennyt liikuttamaan päätäni. Kiropraktikko ehdotti lihasjännitystä. Keithin kivut yltyivät öisin lähes sietämättömiksi. Tämän jälkeen Keith sai kasvohermohalvauksen eikä kyennyt liikuttamaan suutaan, poskeaan, oikeaa silmäänsä. Puhuminen ja syöminen tuotti vaikeuksia.
Keithin naapurilla Karenilla, oli samoihin aikoihin outoa puutumista ja pistelyä käsissä ja jaloissa. Karenin oireet olivat Keithin oireita lievempiä. Hän kertoi Keithille että tällä oli todennäköisesti borrelioosi. Koska Keith ei ollut koskaan nähnyt itsessään punkkeja eikä ihomuutosta, lääkäri kieltäytyi kirjoittamasta antibiootteja. Hän sai niitä vasta kun vasta-ainetestit tulivat takaisin.! Keithin vasta-ainetesti oli heti alussa positiivinen ja hän sai kuukauden antibioottihoidon. Tänä aikana kaikki oireet katosivat, mutta alkoivat pian hoidon loputtua uudelleen. Hän sai rytmihäiriöitä, sormien pistelyä ja kipuja kynärpäihin. Lääkäri ei suostunut kirjoittamaan lisää antibiootteja joten Keith otti yhteyttä Karenin lääkäriin.
Myös Karenilla oli vaikeuksia lääkäreidensä kanssa. Hänellä oli rytmihäiriöitä, jalkakipuja, vasemman puolen puutumista ja pistelyä, heikkoutta kädessä, päänsärkyä. Karen kävi viikon aikana kolmella lääkärillä. Yksi sanoi että oireet olivat mielikuvitusta, toinen kirjoitti rauhoittavia ja kolmas käski menemään kotiin ja ottamaan oluet!
Karenin kaksi ensimmäistä vasta-ainetestiä olivat negatiiviset ja kolmannella kerralla testi näytti lievää positiivista mutta ei ylittänyt viitearvoja. Tästä johtuen lääkäri päätteli ettei Karenilla voi olla borrelioosia! Karen ei antanut periksi vaan etsi itselleen Internetin kautta borrelioosiin perehtyneen lääkärin. Tämä teki DIAGNOOSIN KARENIN OIREIDEN PERUSTEELLA ja aloitti antibioottihoidot jotka jatkuvat kuukauden vielä senkin jälkeen kun Karen on ollut täysin oireeton. Karenin vasta-ainetestit tulivat positiivisiksi vasta antibioottihoitojen aikana neljännellä testauskerralla.
Borrelioosiin sairastuu tuhansia ihmisiä ja kuitenkin taudista saatava tieto on ristiriitaista eikä terveydenhuollossa olla valmiita hoitamaan sairautta. Karenin mukaan jokaisen sairastuneen täytyy oppia olemaan oma asianajajansa.
Lyme disease: The great masquerader
By Keith Ruenbeck/ Special to the Post
Friday, December 9, 2005
This year, my Labor Day weekend was dedicated to replacing a retaining wall. The original 90-foot structure, built with railroad ties, had eroded over the years, forming a massive jungle of rotting ties, thorny vines, and long grass. Several family members came to help, and I rented a Bobcat. We hauled old ties out of the tangled weeds on Saturday, and were covered with welts, dirt, and bug bites by the end of the day.
Starting the new wall on Sunday, I felt dizzy and weak. My helpers graciously offered to do the manual lifting, while I drove the Bobcat, but I barely had enough energy for that. I finally climbed out of the cab, and collapsed on my front yard. Thus began my descent into the puzzling and painful world of Lyme disease, where I learned firsthand how hard it is to be diagnosed and treated for this dreadful disease.
As I lay dazed in the midday sun, my neighbor, Brad, came over. He talked to the rest of my family, and helped move some ties. Had I been more coherent, I might have heard him say that his wife, Karen, was starting to feel numbness and tingling in her hands and feet. Feeling useless, I eventually just went to bed. It was Monday afternoon, 24 hours later, when I finally got up.
When I went to work on Tuesday, my neck was swollen and sore. I also had a large red patch across my back and chest that looked like sunburn. By Wednesday, my neck hurt so bad I couldn't move my head, and my shoulder ached. My chiropractor said that muscle strain could cause the pain, but he had no explanation for the red patch. A bull's eye rash would have been more recognizable, but Lyme disease doesn't always leave such obvious clues.
During the day, the pain was tolerable, but at night it was horrible. My various aches intensified around bedtime, and got worse when I lay down. I couldn't find a position for my arm that didn't hurt, and I rarely got more than three hours of sleep.
Then, for no apparent reason, my face started drooping on one side. For three days, I progressively lost motion in my mouth, cheek, and right eye. By Monday, two weeks after Labor Day, half my face was completely paralyzed. Talking, eating, and drinking were difficult, and I looked like the Hunchback of Notre Dame. Two contractors were helping me finish the wall, and one said to the other, "I don't like that guy; he doesn't show any emotion." I guess he was half right.
I had Bell's palsy, a paralysis of the face. My neighbor, Karen, who developed a milder version of the same thing, suspected Lyme disease, and convinced me I had it, too. Lyme disease comes from deer ticks, and I probably encountered one in the weeds by my wall. I took a blood test, and requested antibiotics to get a head start on the disease while waiting for the results. Since I never saw the tick that bit me, and didn't develop a bull's eye rash (known as clinical evidence), my doctor refused to prescribe anything until the tests came back.
Karen had more trouble with her doctors. On the Wednesday after Labor Day, she had heart palpitations, a migrating pain in her leg, back, and arm, and felt constant numbness and tingling throughout the left side of her body. By the end of the week, she had headaches, and her arm was weak and wobbly. Afraid she was having a heart attack or stroke, Karen saw three different doctors that week. One said it was all in her head, another prescribed a tranquilizer, and the last said she should go home and have a beer.
Karen had two Lyme tests, both with negative results, so she requested something more reliable. This time, the test results showed Lyme activity, but not enough to be above the standard guidelines. Her doctor said she didn't have the disease, so Karen found a specialist on the Internet.
This 'Lyme Literate' doctor determined that Karen had the disease based on her symptoms (a clinical diagnosis). The activity seen on her previous test confirmed the diagnosis, so he prescribed an antibiotic. She needs to take the medication until one month after her symptoms go away. No one knows how long it takes to eradicate Lyme, because the bacteria hide from antibiotics and vaccines.
My Lyme test came back positive. I was given four weeks of an antibiotic, and all my symptoms were gone by the end of it. A few days later, though, I started having heart palpitations, tingling in my fingers, and pain in my elbows. Initial Lyme symptoms can diminish, even without treatment, while bacteria penetrate deeper into your system. This is known as Chronic Lyme, which may exhibit completely different symptoms. The clever masquerader can change its disguise to avoid detection.
My doctor wouldn't refill the antibiotic without more testing, so I called Karen's Lyme Literate doctor. He no longer deals with insurance, and charges $425 for the first visit (not counting lab fees). I called three other Lyme specialists, and they don't bother with insurance either. If my problems continue, I may have to raid my kid's piggybank. Just before Thanksgiving, Karen took her fourth Lyme test, and finally tested positive. Now she knows her medication should help, and that she's been right all along.
The number of Lyme cases in this region is astounding. Debbie directs a children's choir at Karen's church, and suffers from Lyme and Bell's palsy. She says that 11 people were stricken in Harvard this year, and learned that 15 doctors at a local facility are treating 10 cases of Lyme each. I met Darcy because she was describing her Bell's palsy at a party. She knows a third grader with the disease, a man on Stow Road who had it three times, and another boy who got it when a tick bit him in the eye. Many of these people, including Debbie and Darcy, had trouble getting diagnosed and treated correctly.
Considering the number of people with Lyme, and the amount of information available, it's puzzling why the medical community seems so unprepared to handle the disease. Maybe the reason is that Lyme isn't fatal or contagious. Or, perhaps, it's because treating the disease isn't lucrative for insurance and pharmaceutical companies. Or, maybe it's the elusive nature of Lyme bacteria. One thing is clear: Until doctors sort this out, people will continue to be ignored or misdiagnosed.
Whenever symptoms don't make sense, or won't improve with treatment, it might be Lyme masquerading as something else. Ignorance is not bliss when it comes to this disease, and help is available through numerous educational and support organizations on-line. As Karen says, "You need to be your own best advocate."
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MoveOn.org, CREDO, Presente.org. Sierra Club, Democracy for America Pull Facebook Ads
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WASHINGTON - A broad coalition of grassroots organizations announced Tuesday that they would either pull their existing paid Facebook ads or hold purchases of new ads for a minimum of two weeks in response to the cynical advertising strategy employed by FWD.us, the political organization founded by Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg.
The coalition, led by environmental groups like the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters, immigration-rights organizations like Presente.org, and member-driven progressive organizations like MoveOn.org and Democracy for America, is calling on FWD.us to stop running ads that support regressive policies like building the Keystone XL pipeline and drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Ostensibly an organization dedicated to comprehensive immigration reform, ads run by FWD.us's subsidiaries have also attacked health care reform, the 2009 stimulus, and "Chicago-style politics."
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"Leaders in the technology community have every right to talk about how immigration reform will benefit their businesses," said former Senator Russ Feingold, founder of Progressives United. "But instead, FWD.us has chosen a strategy that's condescending to voters and counterproductive to the cause of reform."
"Facebook took the extraordinary step of rejecting our ad featuring Mark Zuckerberg's photo along with a headline asking him to stop pushing pro-Keystone XL propaganda," said Becky Bond, Political Director of CREDO. "But the ads that truly need to be pulled are the cynical and ineffective anti-environmental political commercials that Zuckerberg and FWD.us are airing in South Carolina and Alaska."
"Just last month, the Sierra Club announced our support of a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Today, we are proud to be a part of this strong coalition of diverse voices standing united to say that we need immigration reform now - but the way to achieve it isn't a cynical strategy of selling out a healthy future for all of our families for a few political points," said Michael Brune, Sierra Club's Executive Director.
"There's a whole lot to dislike about Mark Zuckerberg's decision to run these dirty energy ads. Since FWD.us is continuing to bankroll ads supporting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and drilling in the Arctic, we've stopped running our ads on Facebook," said Vanessa Kritzer, LCV Online Campaigns Manager.
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Conservation and Environment in South Africa: Monthly Updates
Botswana Conservation - Monthly Update: July - August 2016
Water is a valuable asset in Africa and for the rest of the world too. Water is everything in Africa and without it our wildlife will not survive the dry season between May and September. In our area we have several permanent and temporary sources of water.
Water sources in the reserve
Our natural water source is the Limpopo River, and it is the only river with water through the year. The water mostly pools at the end of the dry season, but this river still remains a habitat for the crocodiles and hippos through the year.
Springs are also natural sources of water which can be found in specific places. The water comes through the ground in various areas and the wildlife is naturally aware of where they can find them. Temporary water sources are waterholes and dams. Waterholes fill up with rain water during the rainy season and dry out during the dry season. Other kinds of waterholes are man-made such as dams. The dams are usually fitted with a pump which is powered naturally through the use of a windmill, solar systems or a petrol pump. This kind of waterhole will give water throughout the year. However, the amount of water it produces can be limited depending on its source underground.
At these various water sources, we enjoy observing the amazing wildlife! All of the animals in the bush come to drink, cool down and relax. Elephants, zebras, kudus, steenboks and birds all congregate to partake at these water sources. Recently, there were two leopards spotted, and hyenas and elands too!
Poaching at the water sources
Sadly though, the water sources don't just attract wildlife; they also attract poachers. We have found many animals dead in snares which have been secretly and illegally set up by poachers. We have found three zebras and one eland during our anti-poaching patrol. In light of this, we have removed and collected a total of sixty-eight snares with the help of our volunteers and staff in the past two months. It is heart breaking for people to see the devastation that poaching can do.
Even through the negativity of poaching, the bush is a treasure and an everyday adventure! Every day is different; we just can't get enough!
Dam construction
During the summer months the volunteers have been focused on creating new water sources. We started preparing the dam in June and it took us four months to complete. The basic structure of the dam was already present as it was a surviving structure from the previous farmers in the area. It was placed on a draining line and is meant to catch the water during the rainy days to allow wildlife to drink from it. The dam needed a lot of repairs and needed to be stronger. Volunteers had to remove all the sand that had accumulated and once we were satisfied with the depth, they started building the walls with rock. We made the wall thick enough to ensure it is strong enough to hold the water. We are now waiting for the rain to fill up the dam, and hopefully we will see the wildlife coming to drink.
Installation of a new pump
Over the last couple of years we have installed several solar pumps around the reserves so that the wildlife can drink throughout the year. At the end of August we installed a new pump at a waterhole called 'triple pan'. The borehole is in good shape so the pump could be installed easily. Our goal was to install the solar pump and protect it from the elephants. If the installation is not protected with stones and branches, the elephants can destroy the pump. The 'triple pan' waterhole also needed a little cement job to ensure it was waterproof. A few days after the job was finished, volunteers and staff could already see the elephants drinking. They also spotted hyenas drinking and bathing, and other wildlife enjoying the new waterhole.
For more information about the installation of a pump, please take a look at our monthly report for November - December 2015.
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Obama's Attorney General nominee had role in keeping lid on Trentadue death, link to Oklahoma City Bombing
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
Leaked DOJ memos shed new light on the role of Barack Obama's Attorney General nominee Eric Holder in the cover-up of the death of Kenneth Michael Trentadue, who was tortured to death by FBI agents after they confused him with one of Timothy McVeigh's accomplices in the Oklahoma City bombing.
Kenneth Michael Trentadue's brother, Jesse Trentadue, has embarked on a fearless campaign to uncover the truth behind his brother's death, and the evidence that he has gathered in the process clearly indicates that the FBI have been killing witnesses who have direct knowledge of the fact that the Oklahoma City bombing could not have gone ahead without the aid of FBI informants and that the government had prior knowledge of the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah building at least four months in advance.
During Trentadue's previous appearances on the Alex Jones Show, he outlined the history of the case and the progress of his attempts to get answers in court.
"I didn't start out to solve the Oklahoma City bombing, I started out to find out who killed my brother and why," Jesse Trentadue told the Alex Jones Show in February 2007.
In January 1996, Trentadue received an anonymous phone call telling him that his brother Kenneth had been murdered by the FBI in a case of mistaken identity because his brother had fit the profile of a member of a group called the Midwest Bank Robbery Gang that had been robbing banks to fund an attack on the federal government.
"Of course I dismissed it, I thought it was far fetched, unbelievable," said Trentadue, who said he ignored it until months later when he read a story in the L.A. Times about a man named Richard Lee Guthrie, also a member of the robbery gang, who was found hanging in his cell while in federal custody a day before he was due to give a confessional interview about the Oklahoma City bombing.
"Shortly before he was executed I received a message from Timothy McVeigh who told me that when he saw my brother's photograph and heard what happened to him, he knew the FBI had killed my brother because they mistook him from Richard Lee Guthrie."
Trentadue said he believes Guthrie was John Doe 2, McVeigh's accomplice in carrying out the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah building and an individual seen by multiple eyewitnesses yet omitted from the official story by the authorities. Guthrie and Kenneth Trentadue's physical description and movements were exactly the same, right down to the dragon tattoo on each's left forearm.
Jesse Trentadue stands in front of a portrait of his brother Kenneth who Trentadue claims was murdered by the FBI because he was mistaken with OKC bombing conspirator Richard Lee Guthrie.
Kenneth Trentadue's autopsy photos clearly betray signs of a violent beating and torture as the cause of his death. The official explanation of suicide is completely inconsistent with the physical evidence.
"I didn't start out to solve the bombing, I started out to find the men who killed my brother," said Trentadue, "but every trail has taken me back to the bombing."
This is what led Trentadue to file a lawsuit in Utah ordering the FBI to release all documents relating to a failed sting operation they were running at a white supremacist paramilitary training camp in Elohim City, eastern Oklahoma, and its connection to the bombing on April 19 1995.
In being given unprecedented access to speak to McVeigh's accused co-conspirator Terry Nichols, Trentadue was able to discover that, according to Nichols, Attorney General's Ashcroft's office gagged Nichols from speaking to the media after it became apparent that McVeigh's accomplices and government ties to the bombing were in danger of leaking.
"Apparently before he had contacted me several years ago he had written to Attorney General Ashcroft, volunteering to tell everything about the bombing and the others involved," said Trentadue.
"Not only did no one from Attorney General Ashcroft's office follow up with Nichols, they actually apparently issued an order barring him from all contact with the media – it was thereafter that he reached out to me and I was able to get in to see him to spend a day and half with him."
During the process of his lawsuit, Trentadue was able to receive documents with names blacked out that show the FBI's OKC bombing informants were conducting armed robberies with Timothy McVeigh in order to fund the construction of the fertilizer bomb used in the attack on the federal building.
"One of the foreign informants was actually the explosives instructor who taught him how to make the bomb," said Trentadue, confirming that Nichols told him the criminal activities were part of a process of creating a ledger or a storyboard to which the government's version of events could later be pinned to.
The documents also show that McVeigh called Elohim City two days before the bombing asking for help. Four months before the bombing, an FBI informant told his superiors of the attack plan and said that the Alfred P. Murrah building had been scouted.
Trentadue said that Nichols is desperate to tell his story, but cannot yet go into full detail because of the court order that sealed the affidavit. He stated that he is surprised Nichols is still alive considering the amount of suspicious deaths that have occurred as a result of the cover-up. Trentadue's own insurance policy was that he immediately went public with any information he uncovered.
Trentadue questions why the government is so keen on preventing Nichols from being deposed if all he wants to do is tell the truth. Nichols himself would have nothing to gain from doing so apart from to put his own conscience at ease, which is precisely what Nichols told Trentadue he would like to do.
Terry Nichols
Trentadue said that the only way Nichols' story will ever get out is if a videotaped deposition is allowed.
"You cannot tell that whole story in a declaration," said Trentadue, adding that the more important information was contained in documents attached to the affidavit, most of which were from the FBI and Tim McVeigh's defense team.
"The accusations that I have made against the FBI are that they set up this operation, that they had informants who robbed banks with McVeigh to fund the attacks, that they had an informant who was the explosives instructor who taught them how to make the bomb and it got away from them – they have not once denied those accusations, they have just begged this federal judge not to order the release of the documents," the attorney concluded.
The new twist to the story revolves around Trentadue obtaining leaked DOJ memos that indicate a flurry of activity around how to handle the cover-up of the death of his brother. A key player in the cover-up was Eric Holder, who earlier this week was named by President elect Barack Obama as the nominee to become Attorney General in January subject to confirmation.
"They're Department of Justice memos, they're actually e mails, and they're talking about Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder and what he has to do to keep the lid on this story," said Trentadue, adding that the memos make it clear than an attempt to deflect press attention is the goal, along with claiming that the investigation is ongoing in order to keep everything secret.
"This was a coordinated cover-up run at the highest levels of justice and out of the White House," said Trentadue, noting that the memos refer to the cover-up as "The Trentadue Mission" and use terms like "The Invasion of Normandy" to illustrate the scale of the operation.
"You have to ask yourself, why would the death of one little person, which they claim was a suicide by hanging, generate this kind of activity at the highest levels of the Clinton/Reno Justice Department, the answer is….they knew this murder, if investigated, would lead to the Oklahoma City Bombing and lead to the fact that the Department of Justice, through the FBI and ATF informants, was involved and this occurred just before the re-election of Bill Clinton in 1996," said Trentadue.
"Mr. Holder's job was to cover-up my brother's murder, basically to stop all inquiry," said Trentadue, saying the e mails were "inflammatory," referring as they do to "Trentadue's and Trentadon'ts".
"Holder's job was to stop the Democrats and Republicans from looking into this….you have to ask yourself why the Deputy Attorney General of the United States in involved in covering up the death of an inmate and the answer's simple, they knew that death if investigated would lead back to the bombing, it would lead back to the government's knowledge and involvement," said Trentadue, adding that the release of the information would have been a disaster for the re-election hopes of Bill Clinton in 1996.
Trentadue also revealed that a witness to his brother's torture and murder was set to give evidence in court but was also found hanged in another alleged "suicide".
Trentadue said that the media has refused to adequately cover the story and that he has faced recriminations on behalf of government operatives who falsely accused him of bribing witnesses and went to great lengths to try and get any dirt on and harass his family.
"They've just made our lives hell for thirteen years," concluded Trentadue.
Trentadue is now offering a $250,000 reward for information leading to the apprehension of the FBI agents who tortured his brother to death. Further information, along with more details about the murder of Kenneth Michael Trentadue, can be found at http://www.kmtreward.com.
This article was posted: Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 11:32 am