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Mon November 21, 2005
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Feeding guideline:
A 50lb dog should be fed 2-1/8 to 2-3/4 cups.
Energy & Digestibility
Carbohydrates 62.5%
Gross Energy 3.54 kcal/g
Metabolizable Energy ME) 3148 kcal/g 335 kcal/cup
Oz/cup 3.75
Dry Matter Digestibility 88.9%
Calorie Content
One cup contains 335 calories
Chicken, Brown Rice, Rice, Chicken Meal, Whole Barley, Beet Pulp, Rice Bran, Potatoes, Chicken Fat (naturally preserved with mixed tocopherols, citric acid, and rosemary), Natural Flavor, Sweet Potatoes, Carrots, Apples, Alfalfa, Brewers Dried Yeast, Whole Ground Flaxseed, Kelp, Egg Product, Potassium Chloride, Dicalcium Phosphate, Salt, Herring Oil, Vitamin E Supplement, Garlic, Sodium Ascorbate (source of Vitamin C), Dehydrated Lactobacillus acidophilus Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Bacillus subtilis Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Bifidobacterium thermophilum Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Bifidobacterium longum Fermentation Product, Dehydrated Enterococcus faecium Fermentation Product, Glucosamine, Chondroitin Sulfate, Choline Chloride, Zinc Proteinate (source of chelated Zinc), Iron Proteinate (source of chelated Iron), Zinc Sulfate, Iron Sulfate, Beta Carotene, Manganese Proteinate (source of chelated Manganese), Vitamin B12 Supplement, Manganese Sulfate, Niacin, Vitamin A Supplement, Cobalt Proteinate (source of chelated Cobalt), Calcium Pantothenate, Riboflavin Supplement, Copper Proteinate (source of chelated Copper), Vitamin D3 Supplement, Copper Sulfate, Thiamine Mononitrate, Ethylene Diamine Dihydriodide (source of Iodine), Pyridoxine Hydrochloride, Biotin, Folic Acid, Menadione Dimethylpyrimidinol Bisulfite (source of Vitamin K activity), Sodium Selenite.
Nutrient analysis:
Protein % 20.0
Fat % 8.9
Calcium % 0.8
Phosphorus % 0.6
Sodium % 0.33
Iron mg/kg 146
Copper mg/kg 8.1
Manganese mg/kg 21.2
Zinc mg/kg 158.8
Iodine mg/kg 6.65
Selenium mg/kg 0.53
Magnesium % 0.09
Potassium % 1.03
Vitamin A IU/kg 38,889
Vitamin D IU/kg 3,611
Vitamin E IU/kg 388.9
Linoleic acid % 2.44
Thiamine (Vitamin B1) mg/kg 15.9
Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) mg/kg 8.7
Pantothenic acid (Vitamin B5) mg/kg 40.7
Niacin (Vitamin B3) mg/kg 62.0
Choline mg/kg 1,394
B6 (pyridoxine) mg/kg 4.67
B12 (cyanocobalamin) mg/kg 0.14
Folic acid mg/kg 0.63
Methionine-cystine % 0.58
Lysine % 0.71
Arginine % 1.06
Phenylalanine-tyrosine % 0.84
Threonine % 0.61
Tryptophan % 0.21
Leucine % 1.20
Isoleucine % 0.84
Histidine % 0.33
Valine % 0.82
* All ingredients are on a dry matter basis
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First ingredient is a named meat product.
Insufficient meat products, use of controversial filler.
The first ingredient is a named meat product. Note that it is chicken inclusive of its water content (about 80%) and once that is removed it is likely that this ingredient would be more accurately placed somewhat further down the ingredient list (ingredients are listed in order of weight). Since the fourth ingredient is chicken meal, however, things look a little better.
The food is predominantly rice though. Rice is the second and third ingredient, which if not split (see main page for explanation of splitting) would likely be the first ingredient in the food. Since the first ingredient has an 80% water content, we can be quite certain that rice is the true first ingredient in the food, and likely the predominant ingredient overall. Whole barley is also a good grain, but this begins to look like a grain-heavy food.
Beet pulp is a controversial ingredient it is a by-product, being dried residue from sugar beets which has been cleaned and extracted in the process of manufacturing sugar. It is a controversial ingredient in dog food, claimed by some manufacturers to be a good source of fibre, and derided by others as an ingredient added to slow down the transition of rancid animal fats and causing stress to kidney and liver in the process. We note that beet pulp is an ingredient that commonly causes problems for dogs, including allergies and ear infections, and prefer not to see it used in dog food especially so high on the ingredient list. There are less controversial products around if additional fibre is required.
We appreciate the use of vegetables and fruit in the food. We would prefer to see the use of whole eggs rather than egg product. The food includes probiotics.
Note that this food uses citric acid as a preservative and thus should not be premoistened prior to feeding (bloat risk factor for large breed dogs).
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Ropinirole is used alone or with other medicines to treat Parkinson's disease.
Ropinirole tablets are also used to treat a condition called Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS). RLS is a neurologic disorder that affects sensation and movement in the legs and causes the legs to feel uncomfortable. This results in an overwhelming feeling of wanting to move your legs to make them comfortable.
This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.
This product is available in the following dosage forms:
In deciding to use a medicine, the risks of taking the medicine must be weighed against the good it will do. This is a decision you and your doctor will make. For this medicine, the following should be considered:
Tell your doctor if you have ever had any unusual or allergic reaction to this medicine or any other medicines. Also tell your health care professional if you have any other types of allergies, such as to foods, dyes, preservatives, or animals. For non-prescription products, read the label or package ingredients carefully.
Appropriate studies have not been performed on the relationship of age to the effects of ropinirole in the pediatric population. Safety and efficacy have not been established.
Appropriate studies performed to date have not demonstrated geriatric-specific problems that would limit the usefulness of ropinirole in the elderly. However, elderly patients are more likely to have age-related liver problems or to develop hallucinations (seeing, hearing, or feeling things that are not there), which may require caution in patients receiving ropinirole.
There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding. Weigh the potential benefits against the potential risks before taking this medication while breastfeeding.
Although certain medicines should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur. In these cases, your doctor may want to change the dose, or other precautions may be necessary. When you are taking this medicine, it is especially important that your healthcare professional know if you are taking any of the medicines listed below. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is not recommended. Your doctor may decide not to treat you with this medication or change some of the other medicines you take.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines is usually not recommended, but may be required in some cases. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines.
Certain medicines should not be used at or around the time of eating food or eating certain types of food since interactions may occur. Using alcohol or tobacco with certain medicines may also cause interactions to occur. The following interactions have been selected on the basis of their potential significance and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
Using this medicine with any of the following may cause an increased risk of certain side effects but may be unavoidable in some cases. If used together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use this medicine, or give you special instructions about the use of food, alcohol, or tobacco.
The presence of other medical problems may affect the use of this medicine. Make sure you tell your doctor if you have any other medical problems, especially:
Take this medicine every day exactly as ordered by your doctor in order to improve your condition as much as possible. Do not take more of it or less of it, and do not take it more or less often than your doctor ordered.
This medicine comes with a patient information leaflet. Read and follow the instructions carefully. Ask your doctor if you have any questions.
This medicine may be taken with or without food, or on an empty or full stomach. Taking this medicine with food may reduce nausea.
The extended-release tablets work differently from the regular tablets, even at the same dose. Do not switch from one form to the other unless your doctor tells you to.
Swallow the extended-release tablet whole. Do not split, crush, or chew it.
The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine. If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so.
The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. However, if it is almost time for your next dose, skip the missed dose and go back to your regular dosing schedule. Do not double doses.
Store the medicine in a closed container at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and direct light. Keep from freezing.
Keep out of the reach of children.
Do not keep outdated medicine or medicine no longer needed.
Ask your healthcare professional how you should dispose of any medicine you do not use.
It is important that your doctor check your progress at regular visits to allow changes in your dose and to check for any unwanted effects.
Do not stop taking this medicine without first checking with your doctor. Your doctor may want you to reduce gradually the amount you are taking before stopping completely.
People taking ropinirole have reported falling asleep without warning during activities of daily living, including driving, which sometimes resulted in accidents. This may happen as late as 1 year after taking the medicine. Make sure you know how you react to this medicine before you drive, use machines, or do anything else that could be dangerous if you are not alert, well-coordinated, or able to think or see well.
This medicine will add to the effects of alcohol and other CNS depressants (medicines that slow down the nervous system, possibly causing drowsiness). Some examples of CNS depressants are antihistamines or medicine for hay fever, other allergies, or colds, sedatives, tranquilizers, or sleeping medicine, prescription pain medicine or narcotics, medicine for seizures or barbiturates, muscle relaxants, or anesthetics, including some dental anesthetics. Check with your doctor before taking any of the above while you are using this medicine.
Check with your doctor right away if you have any of the following symptoms while receiving this medicine: confusion, trouble breathing, a fast heartbeat, a high fever, high or low blood pressure, increased sweating, or severe muscle stiffness. These could be symptoms of a serious condition called neuroleptic malignant syndrome (NMS).
Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting may occur, especially when you get up from a lying or sitting position. These symptoms are more likely to occur when you begin taking this medicine, or when the dose is increased. Getting up slowly may help. If you should have this problem, check with your doctor.
Hallucinations may occur in some patients. This is more common with elderly patients. If you have hallucinations, check with your doctor.
Smoking may decrease the treatment effects of this medicine. It is best to avoid smoking while you are using it. If you have any questions about this, check with your doctor.
It is important that your doctor check your skin for melanoma regularly if you have Parkinson's disease.
Some people who have used this medicine had unusual changes in their behavior. Talk with your doctor if you start having problems with gambling or increased sex drive while using this medicine.
Do not take other medicines unless they have been discussed with your doctor. This includes prescription or nonprescription (over-the-counter [OTC]) medicines and herbal or vitamin supplements.
Along with its needed effects, a medicine may cause some unwanted effects. Although not all of these side effects may occur, if they do occur they may need medical attention.
Check with your doctor immediately if any of the following side effects occur:
Get emergency help immediately if any of the following symptoms of overdose occur:
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Other side effects not listed may also occur in some patients. If you notice any other effects, check with your healthcare professional.
Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. You may report side effects to the FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088.
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Saturday 20th December is Welwyn Garden City Craft Market.
Saturday 20th December 10am - 4pm will be the last chance for you to catch us in Welwyn Garden City before Christmas.
We will be found outside the Howard Centre in the bright coloured gazeboes. Leave the building at Marks and Spencer end as if you were walking across to John Lewis and you wont miss us!
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This Train Is All Stops To The Edge Of Reason
Public Transport | Right | November 21, 2013
(I'm going through the gate to the subway when I hear a woman talking to an attendant.)
Woman #1: "I only have $2 of the regular $3 fare."
Attendant: *very amicably* "Don't worry about it! Just go through."
(Later on the platform, I overhear this loud exchange between the same woman, Woman #1, and her friend, Woman #2.)
Woman #1: "That's what's wrong with this city nowadays!"
Woman #2: "What are you talking about?"
Woman #1: "That idiot just let me pay $2 for a subway fare! TTC (our transit system) is always talking about how they don't have any money, but he let me pay $2!"
Woman #2: "The transit system is going to h***!"
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With imposing floor-standing speakers and a super-slim main unit, the TH-S9 looks considerably more up-market than its price suggests. It's the first one-box system we've seen with a memory card slot, for playing music and photos stored on CD and MMC memory cards.
DVD-audio playback is also on board, along with Dolby Digital, DTS and Dolby Pro-Logic II processing, and top-quality pictures can be sent via component outs. Both pictures and sound are hugely enjoyable, with the amount of bass produced by the compact sub particularly worthy of note.


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After storytime, enjoy playtime with blocks, riding toys, puppets and more. Play activities help kids put thoughts into words and talk about what they are doing. While the children play and pretend, moms and caregivers can chat and share ideas.


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The quantum crypto business is hardly crowded, but ID Quantique is hoping to set itself apart with a 100 Gbps-capable unit.
This is hardly consumer kit, however: the target market for the QKD-plus-crypto-engine kit is outfits running multiple high capacity links, either at 1 Gbps or 10 Gbps. Think of inter-data-centre connections and you have the right idea.
CEO Gregoire Ribordy told The Register the new system, developed in partnership with venerable Australian crypto outfit Senetas, was put together with two aims in mind: addressing the heightened interest in data centre security in the wake of Edward Snowden's NSA revelations, while at the same time avoiding the complexity that arises from deploying quantum crypto on a link-by-link basis.
The new unit from ID Quantique handles key generation, key management, and encryption for up to ten links at 10 Gbps.
At the heart of it is the company's quantum random number generator, which provides random numbers for all encrypted channels, and as Ribordy pointed out, that's designed to address the post-NSA concerns about crypto.
"You need to start with very high quality keys to get good encryption keys overall," he said. "Part of the scandal of the last six months was that random number generators didn't offer the full entropy that was expected of them."
Keys can be exchanged either using quantum key distribution (QKD) or more familiar techniques like RSA, Ribordy said.
The unit's aggregate capacity of ten links and 100 Gbps means that even a Google, which might run as many as 30 inter-data-centre links, would only need a few units rather than one encryptor per link. That Ribordy said, makes a big difference not just to affordability, but to manageability. ®


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the days when men could adopt as a profession the "research of endowment." Before taking leave of Kepler, who was by no means a man of one idea, it ought to be here recorded that he was the first to suggest that a telescope made with both lenses convex (not a Galilean telescope) can have cross wires in the focus, for use as a pointer to fix accurately the positions of stars. An Englishman, Gascoigne, was the first to use this in practice. From the all too brief epitome here given of Kepler's greatest book, it must be obvious that he had at that time some inkling of the meaning of his laws — universal gravitation. From that moment the idea of universal gravitation was in the air, and hints and guesses were thrown out by many; and in time the law of gravitation would doubtless have been discovered, though probably not by the work of one man, even if Newton had not lived. But, if Kepler had not lived, who else could have discovered his laws?
6. GALILEO AND THE TELEscoPE – NoTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HoRRocKs, Etc.
It is now necessary to leave the subject of dynamical astronomy for a short time in order to give some account of work in a different direction originated by a contemporary of Kepler's, his senior in fact by seven years. Galileo Galilei was born at Pisa in 1564. The most scientific part of his work dealt with terrestrial dynamics; but one of those fortunate chances which happen only to really great men put him in the way of originating a new branch of astronomy. The laws of motion had not been correctly defined. The only man of Galileo's time who seems to have worked successfully in the same direction as himself was that Admirable Crichton of the Italians, Leonardo da Vinci. Galileo cleared the ground. It had always been noticed that things tend to come to rest: a ball rolled on the ground, a boat moved on the water, a shot fired in the air. Galileo realised that in all of these cases a resisting force acts to stop the motion, and he was the first to arrive at the not very obvious law that the motion of a body will never stop, nor vary its speed, nor change its direction, except by the action of some force. It is not very obvious that a light body and a heavy one fall at the same speed (except for the resistance of the air). Galileo proved this on paper, but to convince the world he had to experiment from the leaning tower of Pisa. At an early age he discovered the principle of isochronism of the pendulum, which, in the hands of Huyghens in the middle of the seventeenth century, led to the invention of the pendulum clock, perhaps the most valuable astronomical instrument ever produced.
These and other discoveries in dynamics may seem very obvious now; but it is often the most every-day matters which have been found to elude the inquiries of ordinary minds, and it required a high order of intellect to unravel the truth and discard the stupid maxims scattered through the works of Aristotle and accepted on his authority. A blind worship of scientific authorities has often delayed the progress of human knowledge, just as too much "instruction " of a youth often ruins his "education." Grant, in his history of Physical Astronomy, has well said that "the sagacity and skill which Galileo displayed in resolving the phenomena of motion into their constituent elements, and hence deriving the original principles involved in them, will ever assure to him a distinguished place among those who have extended the domains of science."
But it was work of a different kind that established Galileo's popular reputation. In 1609 Galileo heard that a Dutch spectacle-maker had combined a pair of lenses so as to magnify distant objects. Working on this hint, he solved the same problem, first on paper and then in practice. So he came to make one of the first telescopes ever used in astronomy. No sooner had he turned it on the heavenly bodies than he was rewarded by such a shower of startling discoveries as forthwith made his name
the best known in Europe. He found curious irregular black spots on the sun, revolving round it in twenty-seven days; hills and valleys on the moon; the planets showing discs of sensible size, not points like the fixed stars; Venus showing phases according to her position in relation to the sun; Jupiter accompanied by four moons; Saturn with appendages that he could not explain, but unlike the other planets; the Milky Way composed of a multitude of separate stars. His fame flew over Europe like magic, and his discoveries were much discussed — and there were many who refused to believe. Cosmo de Medici induced him to migrate to Florence to carry on his observations. He was received by Paul V., the Pope, at Rome, to whom he explained his discoveries. He thought that these discoveries proved the truth of the Copernican theory of the Earth's motion; and he urged this view on friends and foes alike. Although in frequent correspondence with Kepler, he never alluded to the New Astronomy, and wrote to him extolling the virtue of epicycles. He loved to argue, never shirked an encounter with any number of disputants, and laughed as he broke down their arguments. Through some strange course of events, not easy to follow, the Copernican theory, whose birth was welcomed by the Church, had now been taken up by certain anti-clerical agitators, and was opposed by the cardinals as well as by the dignitaries of the Reformed Church. Galileo — a good Catholic — got mixed up in these discussions, although on excellent terms with the Pope and his entourage. At last it came about that Galileo was summoned to appear at Rome, where he was charged with holding and teaching heretical opinions about the movement of the earth; and he then solemnly abjured these opinions. There has been much exaggeration and misstatement about his trial and punishment, and for a long time there was a great deal of bitterness shown on both sides. But the general verdict of the present day seems to be that, although Galileo himself was treated with consideration, the hostility of the Church to the views of Copernicus placed it in opposition also to the true Keplerian system, and this led to unprofitable controversies. From the time of Galileo onwards, for some time, opponents of religion included the theory of the Earth's motion in their disputations, not so much for the love, or knowledge, of astronomy, as for the pleasure of putting the Church in the wrong. This created a great deal of bitterness and intolerance on both sides. Among the sufferers was Giordano Bruno, a learned speculative philosopher, who was condemned to be burnt at the stake.


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Not everyone who leans toward natural birth practices started there -- many have had bad experiences in hospitals or have been close to women who have. Sometimes it's women who read incredible amounts of literature on pregnancy long before peeing on the stick. It's not just patchouli-wearing, long-haired, barefoot hippies. It's law students, businesswomen, head of your PTA -- anyone. Especially with homebirth on the rise, it's safe to assume it's no longer just a fringe group of "weirdos."
Yet, many people still get accused of being conspiracy theorists, of thinking they "know better than doctors" and blown off like crazy freaks. Well guess what? It seems that many OBGYNs are letting their personal leanings interfere with their practice.
According to a new study, we aren't crazy when we point out that many common practices and recommendations aren't evidence-based -- less than a third of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommendations are based on "gold-standard" scientific experiments.
According to Professor of Medicine, Dr. Andrew D. Auerbach, "more than two thirds" of recommendations are based on anecdotal evidence or even just expert opinions, which are wrought with personal biases. While opinion can be helpful where we don't know things, it doesn't always translate into what's best for the patients.
In the new study, Dr. Jason D. Wright of Columbia University in New York and colleagues went through 717 practice recommendations from ACOG, the nation's leading group of ob-gyns.
They found 30 percent of those were based on top-notch evidence, so-called randomized controlled trials. About 38 percent came from observational studies, whose value is limited, and 32 percent were purely expert opinion.
That's kind of scary to me, honestly. But it helps explain where quotes like these come from: "Twins are ready sooner because they grow faster than a singleton" and "In my experience, all Hispanic babies need formula."
I hate to say "I told you so," but seriously, when someone tells you that what your OB told you isn't sound, don't blow it off. When someone says, "Doctors don't know everything" or "I'd get a new doctor," most people aren't just trying to be self-righteous, arrogant assholes. Doctors CAN BE WRONG, and according to this study, they aren't using nearly as good of science as even I -- as a decently skeptical person -- believed they were. YOU are your best advocate. Do real research, ask around, ask people who disagree with you for sources of their claims, and find out yourself.
The study also noted that it's very important to go through literature and remove financial conflicts of interest from the office, and to make sure that panels for guideline review represent all stakeholders -- doctors and the patients alike. So yes, when we talk about offices having fingers in pies that hurt you as a patient, we're telling the truth.
When we have the Surgeon General, past and current, the Institute of Medicine, the World Health Organization, and the March of Dimes, to name a few, all saying that our hospitals and doctors are a huge part of the problem causing abysmal breastfeeding rates and premature birth and infant mortality, and then a study like this shows the good majority of our information isn't even based on good science ... well ... those home-birthers may not be sounding quite so crazy after all?
Are you surprised to find how little of the practices were using sound science?
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Peace Corps volunteer spoke out about assaults in '20/20' investigation.
April 6, 2011 -- A Peace Corps volunteer who spoke out on "20/20" about being gang raped while serving in Bangladesh was honored by Congress Wednesday for her work on behalf of victims.
Jess Smochek of Pennsylvania, 29, received the 2011 Suzanne McDaniel Public Awareness Award from the bipartisan Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus at a Capitol Hill ceremony attended by members of Congress and victims advocates. After she was attacked, Smochek helped raise awareness of sexual assaults on Peace Corps volunteers and what she and other advocates consider the Corps' lack of support for victims.
"Thanks to the courage and determination of Jessica Smochek," said Rep. Ted Poe, R.-Texas, co-chair of the Caucus, "the mistreatment of victims of violence and the inadequate response from the Peace Corps has captured the attention of the nation" Rep. Poe, who hosted Wednesday's event along with Caucus co-chair Rep. Jim Costa, D.-California, called Smochek's advocacy on behalf of victims "inspiring" and said that because of her Congress will have hearings next month "to hold the Peace Corps accountable" for the safety of volunteers.
Smochek told ABC News it was "incredibly humbling" to be recognized by the Victims' Rights Caucus. "They are my heroes, both for the work they've done for so many vulnerable populations and for the work I believe some of them are doing even now to help make sure my story won't have to be retold by future Peace Corps Volunteers."
Smochek was attacked while serving as a volunteer in Bangladesh in 2004. She says that a group of men began to stalk her from the very first day she arrived in the city where she was assigned. The men tried to kiss her and touch her, and ultimately gang raped her.
"They all took turns raping me," she told ABC News. "They raped me with their bodies. They raped me with foreign objects."
Smochek told ABC News about the attack in a joint interview with five other former volunteers who also were rape or sexual assault victims.
CLICK HERE to watch Brian Ross interview the sexual assault victims.
The gang rape occurred, she says, after Peace Corps officials in Bangladesh ignored her pleas to be relocated.
"Every day we felt unsafe. And we reported everything, we just kept reporting," she said.
She says the gang rape took place just hours after a Peace Corps safety official filed a report with the local police but again ignored her pleas for re-assignment. She says the young men knew she had complained to the police.
"They slammed me against the wall and just started threatening me, they're calling me a filthy American whore," she said. "'We told you to stop going to the police. And now we have to kill you.'" Smochek was left unconscious in a back alley.
Jess Smochek Alleges Cover-Up By Peace Corps
Smochek says that after the attack, the Peace Corps immediately began to cover up what had happened -- fearful, she says, of offending officials in Bangladesh. She was sent back to the U.S.
"When the decision was made that I was to go to Washington, D.C., I was told to tell volunteers that I was having my wisdom teeth out," Smochek says.
At the time of the original "20/20" report, Peace Corps deputy director Carrie Hessler-Radelet denied the Peace Corps had attempted to cover up or keep quiet rapes and sexual assaults.
"This is the first I've heard of any report of that nature," she said.
The country director for the Peace Corps in Bangladesh at the time of Smochek's service, Silas Kenala, told ABC News that because he no longer is a Peace Corp employee he cannot speak about the case. "All I can tell you is that I did what was required to be done according to Peace Corps procedures," Kenala said.
Between 2000 and 2009, Peace Corps figures show there were 221 rapes or attempted rapes, 147 major sexual attacks and 719 other sexual assaults -- defined as unwanted or forced kissing, fondling or groping.
Peace Corps officials say the number of rapes has gradually declined over the decade.
In 2010, Smochek joined forces with a group called First Response Action Coalition to advocate for a better response from the Peace Corps to incidents of physical and sexual violence. First Response Action has met with Rep. Poe and other members of Congress to press for improved safety for volunteers.
Reps. Poe and Rohrabacher Call For Hearings
In the wake of the "20/20" investigation, Rep. Poe called for a Congressional hearing, telling ABC News he was "furious and sad" after watching the "20/20" report. The House Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight, of which Poe is a member, will hold hearings next month on the Peace Corps' handling of more than a thousand cases of female volunteers who were raped or sexually assaulted over the last decade.
"This is very upsetting. If these numbers are accurate this is something that Congress definitely should investigate," Rep. Rohrabacher, R-California, chairman of the subcommittee, told ABC News.
In his letter asking for the hearing, Poe called the Peace Corps' alleged treatment of assault victims "gross negligence in caring for its volunteers abroad."
"The Peace Corps did not adequately protect its volunteers, bring U.S. resources to bear on any criminal investigation, nor provide proper care for the victims in the aftermath," Poe wrote.
"I have three daughters about Jess's age. They want to save the world too," said Rep. Poe. "People like Jess are the salt of the earth and it's just horrible our government doesn't stand beside them."
In a statement to ABC News, Peace Corps Director Williams said the agency had "made significant improvements over the past two years in providing support to sexual assault victims."
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"We look forward to working with Congress to further strengthen the Peace Corps and advance our mission of world peace and friendship," said Williams.
The Congressional Victims' Rights Caucus sponsors awards each year in conjunction with National Crime Victims' Rights Week to honor crime victims and victims' advocates. The Suzanne McDaniel Award, one of five awards to be given out by the Caucus Wednesday night, is named after a famed Texas victims' advocate.


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Marvel stuck one hell of a landing when Joss Whedon's The Avengers hit theaters this past May and brought the studio's "Phase One" of films to a close. The tag at the end of the superhero juggernaut—a glimpse of supervillain Thanos—made for quite the tease regarding Phase Two, and over the past few months fans have been speculating as to how the purple guy will factor into the studio's upcoming slate of films. The most recent rumors have Thanos coming into play towards the end of Phase Two in Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2, which will likely bring Phase Two to a close and usher in a new slate of films for Phase Three.
Though Marvel Studios President Kevin Feige is remiss to make any confirmations, he's always happy to geek out about the Marvel universe and what's coming up. He recently spoke a bit about the studio's plans for Thanos and how that factors in to not only Phase Two, but also Phase Three, and he addressed the possibility of recasting the role. Hit the jump for more.
Speaking with MTV, Feige admitted that they were aware most of the Avengers moviegoers would be puzzled by the Thanos tease, but they loved the idea of sending audiences out of the theater talking about what they just saw:
"There's a great track record now about lobbing something in at the last moment to get the audience buzzing. Particularly when it came to Thanos, [we knew] that most people in that audience had no idea who that purple guy was — but they could clearly tell he was important, and knew if they asked the two or three people sitting next to them, somebody would know who he was."
Though the tease made for one hell of a conversation starter, that tag wasn't thrown into the film for nothing:
"Clearly, there's a purpose to us putting him in the end of that movie. We do have plans for him. I wouldn't say we ever feel the need to rush anything one way or the other. We succeeded in Phase One because we stuck to our guns and stuck to the plan. That plan took place over many, many years and it ultimately paid off. I see Phase Two unfolding in the same way of us taking our time, us doing what's right for each individual movie, while folding in elements that will not only build up to the culmination of Phase Two, but even Phase Three."
In other words, don't hold your breath for a Thanos sighting in Iron Man 3 or Thor: The Dark World. Though Whedon and Marvel cast actor/stuntman Damion Poitier to portray the baddie at the end of The Avengers, Feige admits that they'll probably recast the role when he reappears:
"I think we feel pretty free to recast. That was cast for literally that one shot. Depending on what the role requires from future movies, we'll go from there."
As I mentioned in our earlier post regarding Thanos appearing in Guardians of the Galaxy and The Avengers 2, it will likely be quite some time before we hear any solid word regarding the character. That said, it's clear from Feige's comments that Marvel has some big plans for the villain in Phase Two. As a refresher, here's what the Phase Two lineup looks like as of right now:
- Iron Man 3 – May 3rd, 2013
- Thor: The Dark World – November 8th, 2013
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier – April 4th, 2014
- Guardians of the Galaxy – August 1st, 2014
- The Avengers 2 – May 1st, 2015
Check out what Feige had to say about possible Hulk movies following The Avengers 2.


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The size of the AGU convention is really daunting. Up to Thursday, there were 11,903 attendees. But that doesn't really portray the size of the presentation effort. Most of those attendees are also presenters. I didn't see a total of the number of oral and poster presentations, although it would be readily available from AGU. But there were probably over 10,000 oral and poster presentations during the week.
At any given time, there are 22 large presentation rooms at the Moscone Center and 8 at the Marriott, thus up to 30 in action at any one time. Most presentation rooms host 1 presentation every 15 minutes from 8 am to 10 am, from 1020 to 1220 and then from 1340 to 1540, then from 1600 to 1800 — up to 32 presentations per room per day, and seemingly most venues were in use. With a little allowance for less than 100% usage, there were probably over 700 oral presentations per day — i.e. over 3,000 for the week.
Added to this were poster sessions, which were nominally different each morning and afternoon. The poster slots are numbered sequentially and the numbers went up to about 1600. It looked like most posters were up the whole day, so that this would yield about 8,000 posters for the week. Added to the oral presentations, this would yield about 11,000 presentations — about the same number as attendees.
The program for the conference was 541 pages long. The listings for Tuesday covered 76 pages. A sample page had 30 presentation listings i.e. about 2,250 presentations for the day. This would also yield an estimate of about 11,000 presentations for the week. So within a couple of thousand, 10,000 is probably not too bad an estimate.
There were about 10 named lectures in large forums by famous scientists. For example, the cautiously named lecture "Anticipating the Big Impacts of Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide Increases" by Jonathan Overpeck drew an overflow and lionizing audience of over 1000 people.
It was not easy to decide what to attend and people spent a lot of time trying to figure out where to go. The problem was not the program, which was well-designed, but the smorgasbord of choices. For example, Crowley and Kerry Emanuel spoke at the same time. I decided to go see Emanuel. It's easy to miss things of interest — James Hansen gave a presentation, which I would have been interested in, but didn't notice.
I'll report on some of the presentations that interested me. I was exhausted at the end of each day. Actually, later in the week, I got tired earlier and earlier in the day and by Friday, could barely get past the title of any given presentation. Maybe people that are younger than me do better, but most people seemed to tire and almost overload under the bombardment of information.
I spent time with each of Eduardo Zorita, Hugo Beltrami, Fidel Gonzalez-Raucen, Peter Huybers, Roger Pielke, Richard Muller, Bob Carter and Caspar Ammann, which I won't report on, but which was nearly always cordial – in one case, some of the time would probably be characterized as civil rather than cordial, but was constructive.
As for my presentation, I was very small beer in the scheme of things. There were about 50-60 people for my presentation on Friday morning. There were a number of concurrent climate presentations which didn't help, but probably didn't make too much difference. However, many key interested people were at the session: Zorita and Ammann both presented as well; Henry Pollack presented a joint paper with Crowley and Hegerl. Somewhat surprisingly, this was my first oral presentation to an academic audience. My timing was accurate. I think that it went decently. Since no one knew me personally, I think that there was some curiosity as to whether I was either the ogre or the complete fool portrayed at realclimate and, since I'm neither, it was not too hard to exceed those expectations.


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A few years ago magazines and billboards used to portray images of skinny people in their advertising campaigns and people used to believe that being skinny is beautiful. Nowadays the emphasy is on leading a health life. Everywhere you look, whether it being surfing the internet, using your preferred social media platforms like Facebook, or simply going to your favourite book store there are images of people exercising and eating healthily. With all the awareness being provided by the health authorities and the attention given by the media, whether you are a youngster or a middle aged person, you are surely influenced in one way or another.
Health experts and doctors recommend that we stay active throughout our life. Doesn't it feel great to wake up in the morning full of energy and ready to hit the road and face a new day with its pleasure and challenges.
Ok, enough with the excuses. It's true that some gyms are packed with women exercising on treadmills and men lifting weights, however if you find a small gym in your locality or near your workplace, or simply build a small gym at home you can get started and reap some great benefits. However you definitely don't need to be a fitness freak to enjoy a work out at the gym. With a short 30 minute workout a few times a week you can be on the right track to a better life. You will feel better, look better and be more energetic to enjoy life.
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A U.S. appeals court in Philadelphia has ruled that police can't routinely put GPS devices on vehicles without search warrants.
The ruling last month comes a year after the U.S. Supreme Court said GPS tracking constitutes a police search — but didn't say if police need warrants to use them.
Police put a GPS device under their bumper of three brothers suspected in a series of pharmacy robberies, and soon tracked them to another burglary. They found pills and other property from the pharmacy in the van.
But a federal judge threw out that evidence, and the appeals court agreed.
The American Civil Liberties Union says it would be easy for police to abuse the practice, because the devices are so cheap. The Justice Department is considering an appeal.
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That's right.. Doc L, MooN ShynE and K-Maculate, rippin mics like old times! Watch out for the album, "The Game Plan"… coming later this year. =]
More coming your way, very soon!
That's right.. Doc L, MooN ShynE and K-Maculate, rippin mics like old times! Watch out for the album, "The Game Plan"… coming later this year. =]
More coming your way, very soon!
This here is a personal post, so there really isn't much you might get out of this, aside from some advice I guess if you have a group and are suffering from that "creative differences" bug that groups tend to get that cause them to split. Read on if you're on that boat, or if you just want to know more about me. =]
Back in 2000, right before I finished high school, I figured out how to make beats. I always wanted to rhyme, and two of my best friends, Doc and K, wanted in. And so, the group D.i.c.K. (lol at that name, horrible choice, and that was mostly my fault) was born. The name was an acronym built on our rap pseudonyms, Doc L, iLL cHrome (MooN ShynE), and K-Dogg (K-Maculate).
After two years of that, we disbanded over creative differences, or more specifically, I was just too dicator-like. After a few years, I understood that, and it was only then I started to really value what a true collaboration was like. I did collaborate with them a few times, but on separate projects and never together like before.
Years later, after some time apart (though we never truly lost touch, just weren't seeing each other nearly as often), we all ended up hanging out again and staying connected. Eventually, K and I started Black and Blue Ink. with two albums recorded so far, and now Doc is back.
To say that I'm happy he's back is an understatement. I feel now that my musical life is complete again because I have my two original brothers with me. The only thing to truly seal the deal is for us to record a track again. Three solid verses from three solid emcees on a beat. If we record an album, I'd be ecstatic, and this time we'd all enjoy it, and we'd all get as creative as possible. It'd be amazing, I'm sure. The BBI albums were great projects, and I'm sure these next projects with Doc will be just as awesome.
The one thing I appreciate about being a solo artist is that you have no boundaries. Since I have the freedom to be both in a group and a solo artist at the same time, I can just divide up my ideas between my solo self or group self, whichever is more appropriate. When I'm in group mode, we make the best of the sum of our parts. Any ideas that I don't use with the group I can use on my own, and I wouldn't have any reservations about that.
My goal now is to see how creative my boys can get. I want to see Doc rhyme the breaks off a beat like I know he can do, K hit the track off with some off the wall stuff, and I want to get a couple of moments where we all listen to a mix and go crazy because the illness we are listening to was a product of all of our ideas. High-fives, pounds, and cheering all around. That kind of experience. I've been there with everyone I've worked with, except the two of them at the same time, at least recently.
Here's hoping to that! =] And here's the first track we've done in 10 years, called "Our Times." Hopefully, it'll be the first of many. =]
More to come from us. 2012 is shaping up to be a great year for MsP, after a fairly quiet 2011. =]


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New Movies: 'Riddick'
The fall movie season generally sees a huge rush of films aiming for Oscar gold. Well, looks like that'll have to wait at least one week. They're probably just scared of Vin Diesel. (To be clear, there are a bunch of smaller movies coming out, but in very limited release.)
The third entry in the franchise that started with 'Pitch Black' and was followed by 'The Chronicles of Riddick' finds the dangerous but charming title character having to fight his way through aliens and mercenaries in order to escape from a distant planet.
Directed by David S. Twohy
Starring Vin Diesel, Bokeem Woodbine, Katee Sackhoff, Karl Urban


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Valentine's Day with the GOP
What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than by sending your special someone a pink e-card, covered in hearts, with a message from the president: "Hope you like this Valentine's card, your grandchildren are paying for it."
In the GOP version of My Funny Valentine and a way to raise some sweet cash, the Republican National Committee is poking some fun at the White House and its Democratic cohorts with GOPvalentine.com, and more than 30,000 of the snarky messages had been sent as of Friday morning.
The site boasts 18 card options, including "This card entitles you to one free hug full-body pat-down" with a photo of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, and "Don't censure this Valentine" with a photo of Rep. Charles Rangel, who was censured by the House of Representatives for ethics violations.
The media isn't safe either. A card featuring Keith Olbermann, whose contract with MSNBC was terminated following a suspension for donating to Democratic candidates, reads "MSNBC just wants to be friends this Valentine's Day."
The one for incoming White House spokesman Jay Carney, a former Washington bureau chief for Time who left to become Vice President Joe Biden's communications director, takes an even more pointed swing:
Remember Jimmy McMillan, 2010 New York gubernatorial candidate from the Rent is Too Damn High Party?
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The party of "NO" has unfunny valentine cards?!? they could have got more laughs if they would have done a card with the craigslist picture of Chris Lee and a title of "Craigslist -it's not just for democrats anymore" but my idea has two thing going against it 1)it's funny 2) it would have been republican's poking fun at themselves "Not goin' to Do it"
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Gee, why can't they be more creative in describing the debt they ran up? Oh, yeah, this is the debt they ran up.


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In Search of a Knife
This is the capsule description of the late Moshe Dovid Reisner who settled in Bnei Brak after World War Two.
Many stories have been told of his heroic behavior in a Nazi concentration camp. No sooner was he released than he began performing circumcisions as the only mohel in the Bohemian region of Czechoslovakia.
Once upon arriving in one of the area cities to perform a brit, he discovered that he had left his knife at home. Hours passed of a fruitless search for a knife since life had not yet returned to that liberated community and all the shops were closed. Reisner then came up with a bold idea. He went to the local police station and asked the non-Jewish officers to break open one of the shops where a suitable knife might be found. To everyone's surprise the police agreed to do so, a proper knife was indeed located and the brit performed.
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this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Hey guys, Thanks for the warm welcome. Hopefully I won't be incurring the wrath of too many folks on this forum. I'll stick to asking some questions and let you vets display your knowledge. Unless, of course, someone asks an ...
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Hey guys,
Thanks for the warm welcome. Hopefully I won't be incurring the wrath of too many folks on this forum. I'll stick to asking some questions and let you vets display your knowledge. Unless, of course, someone asks an opinion about a particular player.......Then all bets are off. ;)
So, with the aquisition of T-Buck and Ambrose, what type of defensive coverage do ya'll think the Saint's will be best? Zone....Man....? And why?
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in the past venturi has favored man coverage which i think has hurt us somewhat
this year supposedly we are going to a more zone oriented defense to allow our younger players to react to the ball more naturally and cover the age and slowing makeup speed of our aging corners
personally i would like to see us go to a type of cover-2 in which the corners don\'t play man like most cover-2\'s but fall back into zones, if our d-line is as good as they are hoping then we should be able to get enough pressure on QB\'s (possibly with the help of a single LB) to make the zone effective, ie hurrying the QB enough for him to \'lose\' defenders downfield, with this scheme we wouldn\'t have to worry about our aging corners and our safeties getting burned (one of T-buck\'s supposed weaknesses), this also opens up our LB\'s to pick up short passes and scrambling QB\'s better
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I don\'t think we will man up very much. Watching dale carter play last year was scary for me. He got beat often and bad. I know someone is going to say he didn\'t know the defense. Yeah right!!!!!! His job was to cover the receiver not read his jersey number on the way to the end zone. I think dale carter is ......what\'s the word i\'m looking for. Oh yeah...........WASHED UP!!!!!!!!!!!
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I hear we will play zone this year. I think the majority of the thought behind this is to assist both Jones and Mitchell as first year Saints starters to better integrate into the pass defense and allow the action to develop in front of them. The blatant draw back to zone coverage is that if there is a lack of a pass rush, all it does is allow a QB to pick you apart in the short to medium range pass plays. Hopefully our new younger D-Line will improve this area. Sullivan and Smith should be keys to this if they can get a center push and draw the plays outside and let Grant and Howard do what they do best. The more errant throws those four can force, the more opportunistic our young athletic defense will become.
Carter and Ambrose are both very capable veterans, and Fred Thomas, although undersized, is a warrior. I think zone will allow both veteran CB\'s to not highlight any lack of step they may incur and let their experience be more of an asset. Both would work well in man but we face some fast and big WR in our division that can outsize and outmuscle. With some younger QB\'s being groomed in the NFC South, zone is less readable and more likely to exploit inexperience in a QB.
By the way....welcome.
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ENERGY SIMULATION IN EXISTING BUILDINGS: CALIBRATING THE MODEL FOR RETROFIT STUDIES by Guang Yang A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE August 2012 Copyright 2012 Guang Yang
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|Buildings in United States are responsible for close to half of the total energy consumed in the country, with existing building stock as the main responsible factor. While just a small proportion of that energy is consumed during the extraction of raw materials and construction phases, the majority of that energy is used for ongoing building operations after construction is complete (EIA, 2011). New technologies and management methods of building energy conservation have greatly decreased energy consumption in new buildings. ❧ Compared with new constructions, energy performance of a large amount of existing buildings is poor. There are many methods of upgrading these buildings to achieve lower energy consumption, including upgrading building mechanical systems, using high quality windows and doors, adding extra insulate layers, etc., could be done in order to avoid energy wasting and decrease operation price. However, not all these methods may be very effective if one does not know how the building is currently performing at a more detailed level than just looking at energy bills. It is very useful perform energy simulations as part of a well-managed process of improving performance of an existing building. As a result, calibration of an energy model to the existing building's actual performance is considered as one of the best important steps in whole retrofit process. ❧ In order to get an accurate simulation result, proper building information collection and simplification are needed for simulation. However, different software, even when used by a careful, knowledgeable person, may have different results even with similar input. Compared to the real world situation, simplifications of energy models are unavoidable. Therefore, there are always differences between simulation results and real energy consumption. Yet, the first step in predicting future savings is to create a calibrated model that can then be used for energy simulation before the retrofit happens. ❧ KAP on the USC campus was used as a case study for developing the process of creating a calibrated energy models that could be used for future upgrades to the building General steps for calibration and energy simulation were also developed and discussed in this thesis. A set of guidelines has been developed as a result of the calibration study.
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|ENERGY SIMULATION IN EXISTING BUILDINGS: CALIBRATING THE MODEL FOR RETROFIT STUDIES by Guang Yang A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF BUILDING SCIENCE August 2012 Copyright 2012 Guang Yang


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Some of my favorite movie directors—guys like Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, and the pre-Titanic James Cameron—are the world creators. In fact, I've heard both Scott and Cameron use the term "creating worlds" when talking about the kinds of movies they like making. I'm not talking about setting movies on other planets, necessarily, but setting them in any type of stylized, self-contained reality.
In this sort of movie, everything is aimed toward realizing a coherent vision. All the elements are meant to work together to accomplish that vision, from the clothing to the architecture to the shapes of clouds. Even light and color tones are controlled with the use of camera filters. Watch a film by any of the three directors I mentioned above, and you'll note that their goal is not to transfer life to the screen, but to transfer the images in their minds (or the minds of the production designers) to the screen. It's a sort of tweaked reality, filtered through a particular vision or aesthetic.
This is particularly common in historical films, especially the sweeping epics like Dances With Wolves, The Patriot, and Gods and Generals, because here you must are constructing an entire reality from the ground up by necessity. The world on the screen is inescapably going to be different from our own, so the filmmakers freely indulge their ability to control the look of the movie—not simply in the material culture depicted, but even supposedly natural things like the tint of the sunset. Movies like this tend to be "pretty" films, in which the screen is a canvas and the world is picture-perfect.
Even battle scenes in these movies have a kind of artificial, aesthetic beauty to them. In Ridley Scott's historic films, like Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven, bloodshed is explicit and graphic, but it has a sort of strange appeal of its own—a sword flashes and there is a bold splash of rich crimson. During the brief Valley Forge scene in The Patriot, you can tell that there is suffering and misery, but the setting itself is lovely, almost like a Thomas Kincaid painting. These worlds are "pretty" even when they're ugly.
Historical epics therefore tend to suggest an idyllic past, even if they depict the unpleasant aspects of the time and place in question. Does this have any subconscious impact on us when we try to visualize the past for ourselves? I think it does, especially for those of us who have grown up watching them. When I'm reading about some historical event or period that would make a suitable subject for an epic film, I often visualize it in the aesthetic "style" of a film of this kind, even though I don't do so consciously. It's just the main frame of reference I have for seeing these types of events play out. It acts as an artificial filter between historical reality and my brain.
Film isn't the only such filter that shapes visualizations of the past. Sometimes the means of communication employed during the period in question can influence the way we conceptualize it. When I worked at a Civil War museum, we had in our vault a set of six massive scrapbooks, bound in red leather, compiled by an inhabitant of Philadelphia during the war. They contained hundrds and hundreds of clippings, engravings, lithographs, currency notes, cartoons, envelopes, and other ephemera. Most of these items were in immaculate condition. The first time I delved into them, I was working on a temporary exhibit about women in the Civil War.
This material absolutely floored me. What really surprised me were the color items—the cartoons and prints from firms like Kurz and Allison. The colors were still as vibrant and rich as anything you'd see in a modern publication, bright blues and reds and pinks and yellows that you'd find in comics. I had seen many of these images reprinted before, but these originals were much, much more bold and vivid.
It took me a long time to figure out why they had such an impact on me, but finally it occurred to me that I wasn't used to seeing the Civil War in color. I was accustomed to black and white photographs, or the subdued, earthy tones of period paintings. Of course, I knew that nineteenth-century Americans inhabited a world of color, but I had never really understood it viscerally. I always saw them in blacks, whites, grays, and browns.
Of course, many Civil War Americans back on the home front probably visualized the battles using these garish lithographs and staged photographs, so it's entirely possible that their concept of these events through which they lived was as skewed as mine is now. But at least they didn't have the disadvantage of so much time acting as an additional filter on their perceptions.
The past is one thing, and our conception of it is another. What happened has happened only once. We can approach it, and we can approximate it, but we can no more recover it completely than we can bring the dead back to life again.


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uly and August are looking impossible for me schedule-wise. Pecadillo is getting married in Seattle July 18 (I don't think he's coming back to the blogosphere for awhile; we're going to need a new mascot); I have two or three deadlines coming due within 2 weeks after that; and then I'm going to Cape Cod to speak at a conference there in mid-August. So I'm way overbooked and have no extra time to think about writing new blogposts.
Here's what I'm gonna do: For the next month or so, all my posts are going to be reposts of classic material from the original PyroManiac blog. (Warning: some of it is highly flammable.)
Salvaging some of the posts from my original blog and getting them into the permanent record here is something I have wanted to do since we moved to a gangblog. (To make that material searchable on one site with the rest of my bloggage.) Dan Phillips's repost of his "Sister, Have Mercy" post last week settled it in my mind. I've never before posted the same exact blogpost twice (at least not purposely), but Dan has given me the boldness to do it.
Yeah, I know all that stuff is already online (no fair rummaging through it now in quest of previews), but I'm going to pull as much of it as possible over here in the next couple of months. I know we have a lot of readers nowadays who don't remember the glory days of the original PyroManiac blog, so this will be fun and interesting. Back then I was still feeling my way around in the blogosphere, and believe it or not, I used to tick off a lot more people than I do now. So fasten your seat belts.
To take us back to the very start, here's my first-ever substantive blogpost, which for two years or so held the record for being my most commented-on post of all. I had announced my intentions to start blogging about 2 months before I posted this, so a lot of people prolly thought I had been tooling up for this opening salvo for all that time. Truth is, I was burdened with a similar time-crunch then, under a big deadline for a book manuscript coming due June 1 that year. I delivered the manuscript (on time) the day before this entry posted, and then I wrote this post in about 45 minutes' time before going to bed that evening.
Everything else is history.
Quick-and-Dirty Calvinism
Bashing Calvinism is the latest fad in blogdom. My turn.
(First posted 1 June 2005)
hree years ago Rob Schläpfer had the best Reformed website and book business bar none. It was the place to go if you were looking for material responding to Dave Hunt. Schläpfer's online magazine, Antithesis, was the best-looking and most consistently interesting website I knewand it was thoroughly Calvinistic.
Michael Spencer, aka the Internet Monk, runs one of the most successful group blogs around. It's a lively theological discussion cast as a virtual tavern. The iMonk gained fame earlier this year by "outing" Joel Osteen's frivolous non-gospel. One of the iMonk's famous early blog entries was titled "Why Calvin Is Cool." Judging from the network of links, the iMonk's group blog, The Boar's Head Tavern (BHT), has attracted a lot of Calvinist readers.
But last year with little warning, Schläpfer renounced all things Reformed and started giving rave reviews to almost every postmodern oddity and "emergent church" manual that the evangelical publishing houses could crank out. With a bit of fanfare, Schläpfer's mail-order company dropped some of the best Reformed books from their line. Meanwhile, Schläpfer was posting some fiery blasts both publicly and privately against Calvinists and Calvinism. (Some of themincluding one sent to me personallywere pretty much in the spirit of Mark 14:71.)
Recently, the iMonk followed suit with a controversial essay, "I'm Not Like You . . . (Calvinists especially)." He closed it with a paragraph that began, "I am not like you. Every day I wander further from the safety of Calvinism into the wideness of God's mercy." Although the text is still in the process of deconstruction at the BHT, it seems like the iMonk and his drinking buddies have decided postmodernism is a lot cooler than Calvinism.
Schläpfer and the iMonk are by no means alone. More serious Calvinist leaders, including John Armstrong and Andrew Sandlin are saying similar things, albeit usually with just a smidge more subtlety.
Jumping off the Calvinist bandwagon and lobbing rotten eggs at the attitudes and culture of "Reformed" folk is clearly le dernier cri in the blogosphere and beyond.
Before we vivisect these gentlemen and their views (something I may eventually want to devote some bloggage to), I think it would be helpful to ponder why Calvinism, which seemed to be the flavor of the month not so long ago, has suddenly become so odious to so many of its one-time friends.
I have to say with all candor that I can somewhat understand the feelings expressed by some of Calvinism's recent critics. Sniff around some of the Calvinist forums on the Internet and it won't be long before you begin to think something is rotten in Geneva.
But I hasten to add that I don't think the problem really lies in Geneva, or in historic Calvinism, or in any of the classic Reformed creeds. I especially don't think the stench arises from any problem with Calvinism per se. In my judgment, the problem is a fairly recent down n' dirty version of callow Calvinism that has flourished chiefly on the Internet and has been made possible only by the new media.
Internet Calvinism and historic Calvinism sometimes have little in common. Consider:
- Fanaticism. The strains of hyper-Calvinism that are flourishing today are more harsh and more hyper than any of the historic hyper-Calvinists ever thought about being.
If you doubt this, check Marc Carpenter's infamous website and read his ridiculous "Heterodoxy Hall of Shame." Carpenter is so hyper-Calvinistic that he has even labeled Calvin a hell-bound heretic for not being Calvinistic enough! He damns Spurgeon, Iain Murray, and even Gordon Clark (whom no one during his lifetime ever accused of not being Calvinistic enough).
There are some well-trafficked discussion forums out there that look like they're having a contest to see who can be most extreme in their condemnations of Arminianism or most overblown in their affirmation of über-high Calvinism.
There is a radical extremism among hypers on the Internet that is utterly unheard of even in the darkest corners of hyper-Calvinist history. At least the early hypers like Huntington and Gill had some profitable things to say when they exegeted Scripture.
- Non-evangelism. Among more mainstream Calvinists, there are certainly some outstanding men who are earnestly evangelistic (Piper, MacArthur, and even Sproul). But it would be stretching things more than a little bit to insist that modern Calvinism as a movement is known by its passion for evangelism. Where are the Calvinist evangelists? I can think of only one outstanding example: John Blanchard. (There are surely more, but at the moment I can't think of any other famous Calvinists now living who have devoted their ministries primarily to evangelism).
Of course, I fully realize that the Arminian caricature of historic Calvinism as anti-evangelistic is a total lie. But one could hardly argue that evangelism is a key feature of modern Calvinism. Neither the writings we produce nor the conferences we hold focus much on evangelism.
- Polemicism. Today's rank-and-file Calvinists are more in the mold of Pink, Boettner, and J.I. Packer than they are like Spurgeon or Whitefield. In other words, modern Calvinism is producing mostly students and polemicists, not evangelists and preachers. That's because Internet Calvinism is simply too academic and theoretical and not concerned enough with doing, as opposed to hearing, the Word (James 1:22). To a large degree, I think that's what the medium itself encourages.
- Anti-intellectualism. This may sound like a contradiction of my previous point, but both tendencies contribute to the superficiality of Internet Calvinism. Want a sample? I recently received an e-mail inquiry that is all too typical of what I have observed for years among Internet Calvinists. Someone whom I do not know and whose name I will not divulge wrote me to ask:
Can you explain in one paragraph or less how to make sense of the distinction you make between the "decretive" and "preceptive" aspects of God's will? Please don't give me a reading list of books and articles. One paragraph. One sentence if you can do it. Because the whole idea seems loony to me. So far, no one has been able to describe it in a way that makes any sense. I don't have time to read 10 volumes of dead guys' reflections in Puritan prose. And don't refer me to Piper's article on the subject. It's too long and convoluted. I just want a short answer.
Right. The quick and dirty approach to untangling the mysteries of the universe. And every forum on the Internet, it seems, has at least one or two freshly-enlightened, beardless Calvinists who are convinced that their understanding of everything suddenly became perfect when they embraced the sovereignty of God. Some of them imagine that whatever difficulties they still can't explain can be easily solved by simply moving to a more extreme position.
The upsurge of Calvinism on the Internet in the 1990s seems to have spawned a large and unprecedented movement of jejune Calvinists who wear arrogance as if it were the team uniform. That kind of hotshot, shoot-from-the-hip Calvinism is ugly. I don't blame anyone for being appalled by it. I'm worried about those who think it's a good thing.
Obviously those criticisms are mostly generalizations, and they don't necessarily apply to every Calvinist on the Internet. But (and here's the hard part) I'm willing to admit that there have been times when every one of those criticisms could be legitimately applied to something I wrote or posted to a public forum somewhere. I'll especially confess to my shame that I'm too much of a polemicist and not enough of an evangelist.
Historic Calvinism is not supposed to be that way. Yes, Calvinism is virile; it's relentless when it comes to truth; and it's not always easy to swallow. But it is full of truths that should humble us and fill us with compassion rather than swagger and conceit. The best Calvinism has always been fervently evangelistic, large-hearted, benevolent, merciful, and forgiving. After all, that's what the doctrines of grace are supposed to be all about.
Until we get back there, some of the lumps the Reformed movement is currently taking are well-deserved.
And meanwhile, my advice to young Calvinists is to learn your theology from the historic mainstream Calvinist authors, not from blogs and discussion forums on the Internet. Some of the forums may be helpful in pointing you to more important resources. But if you think of them as a surrogate for seminary, you're probably going to become an ugly Calvinistand if you get hit in the face with a rotten egg, you probably deserve it.


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Guard: I'll have to confiscate some, you know, for testing purposes. [Takes a bite.] Hmm, inspection of the butter mochi reveals chewy edges with a creamy, custardy center. I detect a large, satisfying crunch in the macadamia nut bar. And the caramel brownie has that perfectly chewy, brown sugar crust pat-down, I mean, down pat. All right, these bars meet TSA (Totally Sweet and Authentic) regulations. Carry on.
Girl: Thanks! Just a heads up, you'll have to conduct another search soon. Georgedes is looking to debut more mochi flavors this summer, as well as malasadas when the store's fresh doughnut station opens later this year.
Guard: Don't worry. I promise, your next visit will be a piece of cake.
Christine's Kahala Confections are available exclusively at Whole Foods Market in Kahala Mall for approximately $2 per bar (priced per pound).


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The creative mind behind the awarded design Award Winning Portable Living Suitcase, Lunchbox, Drawer & Container demonstrates, My artistic goal is to explore the way people inhabit and understand spaces. To express that idea, I made lunchboxes, suitcases, drawers and storage containers which contain living spaces inside. My work illustrates portable and instant lifestyles which are prevalent in our society. I chose legos because they are associated with architectural forms, which have industrial and mechanical functions. I create lighting effects without using electricity. I use fluorescent plexiglas to make my work glow like neon lighting. I also made home-like structures encased in forms resembling consumer products, like storage containers. To me, a house is a giant container that holds everything we own, including ourselves. This new work is constructed from semi-translucent white and fluorescent plexiglas, and legos – with the addition of mirrored surfaces and more complex interior patterns and designs, creating a wide array of optical variation in the interiors as well as on the exterior surfaces. My integration of house into container, or vice-versa, plays on the idea that the functional similarities between the two are interchangeable, and that either one could potentially store the other. .
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