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She said woof.
OK, it's decided: Next week will be one of Ancient Archives, selections from the work of a newspaper columnist who toiled in relative obscurity in the northeast corner of Indiana. You might like 'em, you might not, but at least you'll have fresh entries to comment on, and under, every day.
I have three lined up so far. If I can find two more that don't turn my stomach — and so, so many of them do; I see only the flaws — we'll have a week's worth.
A difficult day, spent mostly staring at the mockery of a cursor, which had this to say: Blink. So let's get to some bloggage, because it's good today:
Only in Detroit! Teenagers walking to school look down an alley, and see the astonishing sight of a man having sex with a pit bull, so they do what any kid would do: Take out their phones and shoot some video. After showing it to a school security guard, police came to the scene and found the man sitting on the ground naked, but he took off. From here the story becomes a little murky, but it appears the man was taken to the psych ward, the dog to a shelter, and the final verdict, from the man's brother, is that he had "mental issues, and also drug issues." But of course. And because this is local TV news, there had to be a shot of the reporter getting tough with the brother. I hate local TV news. (That link explains why, admirably. It's not enough to bug people who don't want to be interviewed on a nothing story. You have to bug and bug and bug, and make sure the camera catches it all.)
Meanwhile, if great news photos had been taken with an iPhone.
It's the new dance craze that's sweepin' the nation: Artisanal distillery. A natural for Cooz, I think.
Why conservatives hate the Citibike program in New York, in one Venn diagram. This is actually hilarious to watch unfold. We'll see how it goes.
It appears all the good has been bred out of the Kennedy line. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is an anti-vaccine advocate. Lots of links to follow in that one, so I won't quote any of it.
Back to packing, and that damn cursor.
Posted at 12:30 am in Current events, Detroit life |
82 responses to "She said woof."
Dexter said on June 6, 2013 at 1:42 am
I feel as though I have been observant of the news over my lifetime. I knew what every one of the cropped thumbnails were before they were blown up to working size.
Parker Posey has a right to fear for some CitiBike renters. NYC taxi drivers crack into each other and hit pedestrians all the time. Tourists who rent CitiBikes and don't have that special feel for that fast moving taxi fleet will surely be hit or killed. NYC has many miles of bike lanes, true, but many end abruptly, forcing cyclists to join the taxis and limos out in the traffic pattern. You know, if your daily drive includes dodging a six foot pot hole, chances are you will navigate around it with no wheel damage.
Still, I am all for the bike rentals. It's very reasonable , $95 pre-paid for a month, higher rate for dailies of course.
You know what makes this blog special? Go talk to some of your neighbors for a sample , and ask what they think of New York City. Most will say they hate it , even if they have never been there. Most nn.comers love their trips to The Big Apple. I did say most, not all.
JWfromNJ said on June 6, 2013 at 6:42 am
Mrs. Derringer,
Have you ever considered that you inspired two or three subsequent generations? I always loved reading print news. I worked for chain of newspapers that was originally owned by Gannett in NJ, then moved to FWA because a friend going to Indiana Tech before it was a gorgeous campus had bought a house on Chestnut Street for 12K. STouder, Chestnut Street? WE came home one day to find a gigantic black teenager with our gigantic tube tv walking out the back door. His reaction, "ohhh is this yours,my reaction, a doberman pup that was born under a 1972 van around the corner with a dead mom. I named her Hoser (sctv) wife mil named her baby.
But I loved the NS for your work. When K and I got our first house on LaJolla CT. I went to the honor box at the supermarket next to the old Lutheran hosp every day. You were spit out my coffee funny.I met you at O's one night but I was shitfaced. perhaps 1988?.
My other mentor was Mike "the hat" Celizac, who toiled for the then Bergen Record as sports writer and columnist for two decades. I hate sports but he was a great writer and more snarky then you. he knew about you, thought your nall on newspapers column for ro whatever was brillant but on his deathbed told me your take on MJ's death was not near what you were capable of. He was my editor at a small chain of newspapers in nw nj and se ny, and he also was the editor for the today show's web content, which consisted of him sitting in his rural upstate NY home and watching the show then writing that Matt Lauer asked Pink about her pregnancy and new album
He was the bravest man I knew because when he got a very aggressive cancer he demanded MSNBC give him a blog.
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/38832689/ns/sports/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Celizic
I guess the point of this long comment is you need to know for every idiot hack like me you and people like Mike inspired an army.
damm the lack of the edit button-here is a great blog post about Mike:
http://susanshan.com/2010/09/22/mike-celizic-man-met/
David C. said on June 6, 2013 at 7:08 am
Another thing that bugs cons about bicycles is their notion that cyclists don't pay for the roads and have no business riding on them. Somehow the idea popped into their little heads that the roads are only paid for with gasoline taxes. I should keep a copy of my property tax bill to show them the line item for road tax. It wouldn't make a difference though.
Suzanne said on June 6, 2013 at 7:55 am
It seems to be the norm here in NE Indiana to swear you hate a place you've never visited. I love visiting New York and Chicago but mostly here the word is "Why would anyone want to go there? All that traffic, crime, noise. I couldn't stand it!" Of course all that traffic, noise, etc. means there is something going on there unlike a lot of other places, like, say, NE Indiana.
beb said on June 6, 2013 at 8:21 am
The venn diagram why people hate citi-bike was fascinating and nicely captures all the reasons to hate bikes. Dexter has a point that as a service aimed at NYC visitors it will be an invitation to accidents, but I still think it's a great idea. The hostility towards it reminds me of a survey that came out recently, which found that people (right AND left) were less likely to buy a light bulb if it had "environmentally friendly" listed on the carton.
Basset said on June 6, 2013 at 8:21 am
As I have said here several times before… never been to NY, no desire and no reason to go there. I deal with enough rude, aggressive people already, want no part of a place where the locals pride themselves on it.
coozledad said on June 6, 2013 at 8:32 am
I used to make beer, and that's about where my understanding of chemistry and my willingness to clean equipment tops out. My wife has a good background in chemistry, and she learned the ethanol distillation process as far back as high school.
For every ten gallons of really good beer I made, I'd get another thirty of meh. I did find out that champagne yeasts make a reliably delicious dry beer that also reliably causes disorientation and memory loss.
I know a few beer makers who are interested in the making (and drinking) of Scotch. The outlay for old port wine barrels is a big obstacle.
I'm confident I'd poison myself trying to brew liquor before I managed to kill too many others.
alex said on June 6, 2013 at 8:34 am
When I relocated to Chicago in the 1980s, folks back home were always asking what it must be like to dodge bullets and live in constant fear for your life. On the near north lakefront. I was amazed at their bizarre preconceptions, although these days such notions might arguably be justified as Chicago has gained a rep for being one of the worst in the nation when it comes to gun crimes.
I'm my own worst critic when I look at some of my past writings, so I understand where she's coming from, but can vouch that the Proprietress always had a special touch and never fell into the sort of complacency and laziness that overtakes so many columnists. One of my faves of hers involved an Amish family that found a battered black woman at their door in the wee hours of the morning. What was most amazing about it was that I'd known a black drag queen who had an experience that exactly mirrored that which was described in the story. Miss Vickie, as she called herself, serviced straight guys on the street, two of whom abducted her one night in a pickup truck, drove her out to the country and pummeled the hell out of her before throwing her out on the road and trying to run her over. She managed to run away to a nearby farmhouse. In her tattered dress and one high-heeled shoe, she explained to the occupants that she and her boyfriend just had a fight and that he'd thrown her out of his car. She got a ride back into town the next day with a vanload of Amish construction workers.
Mark P said on June 6, 2013 at 8:55 am
I've been to NYC twice, including once when a friend and I drove my big, old Dodge pickup (registered in Alabama at the time) all the way down Broadway from way out of town right through the city. Traffic was heavy but not all that bad, and I learned that there are rules that even the cabbies follow: if your fender is ahead of the fender of the vehicle in the adjacent lane, you have the right of way to change into that lane.
But the iphone pictures are actually wrong. An iphone has a medium-wide-angle lens, so its photos will not be cropped relative to most of the news photos shown. However, as an editorial comment about newspapers' firing their staff photographers and relying on reporters do take pictures with iphones (They've got nothing else important to do, right? Or at least soon they won't.) then, sure.
nancy said on June 6, 2013 at 9:02 am
And that, friends, is how Alex and I met.
Yeah, the iPhone news photo thing is something of a one-trick pony, but I take his point: You only get great photos one of two ways — through incredible, rare luck, or by having someone there whose job it is to think visually and capture images with this device he or she carries at all times.
But too many editors saw this and had a dim, flickering light bulb go off over their dim, flickering heads.
velvet goldmine said on June 6, 2013 at 9:20 am
Nancy has scolded me for this, but I usually have a big tent policy on autism research and general theory-making. In that spirit, outliers are useful, I suppose. But anyone like Kennedy, who tries to skip the middleman and go straight to urging the public to do something which can cause massive damage, is dangerous. No question.
But is Plait himself is somewhat in that reckless cowboy mode? Not necessarily on this topic — although he certainly drops a lot of hyperbolic anvils rather than simply building his case with facts.
But if I'm reading him right, he paints anti-GMO activists with the same brush as anti-vax folks. And the term "alternative medicine" is a little broad to dismiss as "anti-science." That phrase could mean anything from reckless doctors who urge vulnerable patients away from chemotherapy to a more level-headed practice of trying lavender tea for minor headaches instead of putting your liver at risk with excess Tylenol. Or trying to sweat out a flu with chicken soup rather than go on antibiotics, given all we hear about how more serious illnesses become resistant to antibiotics because of this overuse.
Deborah said on June 6, 2013 at 9:21 am
Basset, I have been to NYC maybe a dozen or more times and I have NEVER run in to a rude or aggressive person. That is a perception that is unfortunate. I, on the other hand, hate Las Vegas. I find it sleazy and over-hyped, but at least I've been there a few times (on business) to know that's true (for me). Of course many people love Vegas.
brian stouder said on June 6, 2013 at 9:26 am
The Telling Tales-Saturday edition was always fun; more free-form, and with comments from whichever chuckleheads spouted off (via US mail) that week.
Well, and – she had some worthwhile commenters, too…surely(?)
What's going on with the anti-vaxers is almost precisely what goes on with the creationists.
Creationist: What about this thing I read about? This third theory of thermodynamics (that I can't explain because I didn't take any science beyond high school bio, but it sounds cool)?
Scientist: (Lengthy explanation follows.)
Creationist: But what about it? Where does it show we evolved from monkeys?
Scientist: (Starts to get testy.)
Creationist: See, you're just arrogant. I'm sticking with my Bible.
The reason doctors and public-health officials grow tired of defending vaccines is, vaccines shouldn't need defenders. Their benefits are evident in the fact so many children grow to adulthood and don't die of whooping cough or measles-related encephalitis. The "science" against them has been disproven, over and over and over again. Take this stunningly simple observation about thimerosol, which hasn't been used in vaccines since 2001:
If thimerosal were the cause of autism, we should see a drop in autism rates once the use of the preservative was stopped. Those rates did not drop; in fact, they've increased over time (likely due to better diagnoses rather than an actual increase in prevalence).
And yet, over and over and over, anti-vaxxers bring up thimerosol. Bill Maher did it just a few months ago in an interview; he said something to the effect that getting a single flu shot gives you some ridiculous chance of getting Alzheimer's. How many times do you have to say something isn't true before people start believing it?
So, long way around to saying I cut the public-health community a lot of slack on testiness and not feeling obligated to make the same argument repeatedly.
As for lumping anti-GMO in with anti-vax, I abstain on the basis of ignorance. But based on the sorts of things I see posted on social media and in my email, and awful lot of people are flying blind, too. There's probably a good case to be made against certain sorts of botanical tampering. But as Bitter Scribe pointed out a few days back, so-called golden rice — i.e., rice fortified through genetic modification with vitamin A — has probably saved millions from blindness. Can any argument about this start from the simple recognition that no scientific advance is 100 percent evil, and take it from there? I doubt it.
Nancy, I didn't see Alex's comment until after I read your comment (right after my previous) and when I reread yours, I almost flipped my chair backwards trying not to laugh out loud right here at work.
Joe K said on June 6, 2013 at 9:56 am
How about reprinting the one about how much you love fruit cake.
Never new you were a Amish van driver, Nancy.
Pilot Joe
velvet goldmine said on June 6, 2013 at 10:11 am
Hmmm….I'm not sure GMO concern does start from the perception of all science as being 100 percent evil. If it were, than the movement would demand a ban on all plant breeding and all pesticides. That's simply not the case.
But even the much-derided term "organic gardening" is a science. Go on almost any major university's extension service site and you'll see trials going on about the relative merits of interplanting garlic with bug-ridden crops, whether baking soda is as effective as chemical fungicides for orchard growers, whether removing certain marginal weeds known to host damaging pests increased yields, etc.
I'm not talking about doctors having to defend vaccines to the public. To be clear, I think any out-there research into autism causes should be done quietly, in a lab, as well as by crunching data (family history, lifestyle habits of both parents, geography, newborn illnesses that seemed minor at the time — all that tedious statistical stuff).
I thought I had said this clearly enough the first time around, but of course I agree it's dangerous and wrong to go to the public and urge them to stop doing something which keeps the general population much safer than it otherwise would have been.
JWfromNJ said on June 6, 2013 at 10:25 am
Basset, You have subscribed to stereotypes when in fact people in NYC ans NJ are kind and wonderful, but they approach situations with an few grams of caution.
nyc is without a doubt the greatest city in the world. The way it feels is like thousands of tiny villages. Even "the village" could be logically divided into 6-7 communities. The subways used to frighten me but now I crave them – Bloomberg and Juliani did that, The metro in dc is better but it closes ad midnight. Harlem is now like a disney strip mall, and Washington Heights isn't new jack city anymore.
I would suggest you and Mrs. B grab a cheap fare on virgin or jet blue to lga or jfk. Reserve a room from priceline or the very agressive booking.com Hit it on a weekend, go to the plaza to see the today show summer concert, go to washington square park to see the gymnasts, amazing. Lunch at one of the restaurants the Scotto family owns. Go to the Cloisters that afternoon. then back to midtown or lower Manhattan. Dinner in Korea Town near madison square garden, or chinatown, but in either place the trick is ask locals and be one of the only white folks there. Take in central park and the AMNH. grab tickets for mets or yanks, or if your cup of tea is art's the museums of the tkts booth near broadway.
You won't meet a single rude person and you will come away wishing you lived there, I guarantee. Plus I outlined perhaps the best 3-day itinerary for nyc you'll find. And if you go and something bad happens my sister Liz could be there in 45 min. to rescue you. Then you would meet a rude person.
mark said on June 6, 2013 at 10:27 am
There is quite a difference between nancy's proposition "no scientific advance is 100 percent evil," and velvet's rebuttal of the proposition "all science is 100 percent evil."
alex said on June 6, 2013 at 10:40 am
How many times do you have to say something isn't true before people start believing it?
Depends how much money you have, I guess. The opponents of Obamacare outspent supporters of same by five to one in getting their message out. Managing to fool only half of the population may not sound like a great return on the investment, but it's quite an accomplishment nevertheless. The atmosphere has been poisoned with negative talking points to such an extent that a lot of low-information voters who don't pay close attention simply assume everything negative they hear must be true because there's so much of it in circulation. If you have good insurance and you're satisfied with the health care you receive, you might very easily be sold on the myth that America has the best health care system in the world and very likely you'd even take great comfort in the notion. You would also be susceptible to assertions that the government is going to take this great thing away from you and redistribute it among undeserving, lazy good-for-nothings.
I've given up trying to discuss the subject with those who've been bamboozled. Their heads are so far up their own asses they can't fathom why anyone would ever need a colonoscopy.
Julie Robinson said on June 6, 2013 at 10:40 am
I always enjoyed the "ideas in search of a column" segments, myself.
With today the anniversary of RFK's assassination, it's distressing to learn that his son is off on such a wacko tangent. It's yet another way history might be so different save for Sirhan Sirhan.
When confronted by creationists, I like to ask them which creation story they are referring to, the one in Genesis 1 or the one in Genesis 2. Most of them don't even realize that there are two distinctly different accounts, which gives them no credibility in my eyes. The ones who do know it don't have a satisfactory answer, and if you dare speak of different sources being combined, the result is likely to be what Nancy describes, an accusation of arrogance or mistrust in God's word.
Well, crap, I decided to move that last line and only accomplished making myself look foolish. Ah well, it won't be the first time.
Heather said on June 6, 2013 at 10:45 am
I too have always found New Yorkers to be kind and helpful. It's like Paris–you just have to know the correct way to ask. Also, keep in mind that in a city that big, people move fast out of necessity, and get testy if you don't.
Having said that, I have not been there in probably more than 10 years myself, because I live in a big city (Chicago) and when I go out of town I want to relax. NYC is many things, but relaxing is not one of them.
Connie said on June 6, 2013 at 10:48 am
I've been to New York twice for conferences and had no problems, including riding the subway. Check out the Edison Hotel near Times Square, cheapish for New York, filled with foreign families and the coffee shop has been featured on Jane and Michael Stern's radio show and is supposedly where Jackie Mason hangs out. Or hung out for all I know. JW you left out Central Park.
Basset said on June 6, 2013 at 10:56 am
JW, thanks for the advice but except for the food none of that is anything I would want to do. And I will be the first to admit that I am buying into the stereotypes big time, the same one that makes some people think "idiot" when they hear a Southern accent makes me think "a**hole" when I hear that New York honk.
Never wanted to go there on my own time, never was important enough at work to get sent there for business… as one of our camera guys put it after working vacation relief at WCBS and turning down a full-time job, "I ain't lost nothin' up there."
Jolene said on June 6, 2013 at 11:00 am
It's amazing how little people know about how the Bible was actually created–that is, the canonical texts were assembled several hundred years after the death of Jesus by ordinary, fallible humans.
I don't know as much as I should myself, but I know it didn't appear all at once, dropped from heaven on the sands of Palestine.
Jeff(tmmo), can you recommend a good book on the history of the Bible?
Charlotte said on June 6, 2013 at 11:03 am
I lived in NYC in my 20s for a couple of years in the late 1980s — first out in Astoria, then near Stuyvesant Town. Now, at 21 I looked maybe 14, and not in a Lolita way, but in a still-unbaked kind of way, and I was never fashiony. People were so nice to me (an experience I've also had in Paris over the years, all you have to do is learn a few basic phrases of polite French). I spent a lot of time taking mechanicals up to the Conde Nast building to be signed off on — the Elevator of Fashion Death was probably the scariest place I ever was in NYC. In those days Andre Leon Talley was still fairly slim, but 10 feet tall and wearing the MOST beautiful bespoke suits a person has ever seen. I come up to his elbow. But the editorial assistants! Brutal! I didn't even warrant a one up/one down glance. I left after a couple of years — the life of an impoverished editorial assistant wasn't the one for me, but I'm really really glad I did it. It was exciting and scary and lonely and fabulous all at the same time (also, glad I didn't marry the guy who worked at Cantor Fitzgerald, and glad he got fired before the whole building came down).
Judybusy said on June 6, 2013 at 11:07 am
After my father lost the farm in the 1st semester of my sophomore year of college, I moved to the upper west side to nanny for a family. I loved NYC–I was there 10 months before I moved closer to home, in Minneapolis. Now, I was a farm kid who was lucky enough to have been to Brazil and Germany, and was educated by my Brazilian family on how to do big city (Rio, anyone?) In New York, I loved how quick everyone was, all the culture, the diversity. It was a life-changer for me.
When I moved back to Minneapolis, it was so painful, even for little stuff. For instance, I was used to going to the bagel store, rattling off, "Hey, gimme 2 sesame, 2 plain, 2 poppy." Minneapolis, after adapting for a few years: ME: "Hi! How are ya? Nice weather! Ok, I'll have 2 sesame…..(pause) 2 plain (pause) and 2 poppy (pause.)" THEM: "Ok, 2 sesame, 2 what now?" I've gotten used to it, but it drove me nuts for years.
I did mention Central Park but I prefer Washington Square Park for the performers and the proximity to the village. But theres also South side seaport, the stoic and sharp national 9-11 museum and memorial, brooklyn, which on it's own would be the 4th largest city in the usa, and ellis island. the statue isn't really worth the trip anymore.
Don't buy anything at any pizza place with Ray in the name,they are gaming for tourists. Go to coney island. there are so many places to see. After I complete this comment I'll forward an invoice to the nyccvb.
brian stouder said on June 6, 2013 at 11:14 am
The last time I was in New York City was 39 years ago, when I was 13; we went for the wedding of my mom's niece (named Nancy), and did the Empire State Building and rode the subways and visited Nathan's, and Times Square, and so on. Two things at Times Square that made big impressions upon my 13 year old mind were: all the real-live breasts you could see displayed there (this was before the big clean-up) and some guy puking and wretching on the sidewalk, in the middle of a sunny day. My Aunt Fanny said "you'll have that" (or something like that) as we continued at a brisk pace down the sidewalk. Cousin Frankie showed me how to lower my chin and glare, if someone stared at you on the subway.
I also recall that the WTC was brand new, and there was a lot of fairly harsh local commentary, about the bad effect it would have on rental values of other properties
All in all – gimme Chicago
coozledad said on June 6, 2013 at 11:16 am
I've found New Yorkers to be generally kind, helpful people- the kind Jane Jacobs refers to in The Life And death of Great Cites. Even the batshit insane seem to have a kind of other-awareness and grace that you don't see anywhere else.
The big cultural sinks now are places like Cary, NC and North Raleigh, exurbs with very few reasons to exist apart from a bunch of jerks who need a shack big enough to house a couple of large automobiles. They're people who haven't mastered the skills set of living in proximity to other people, but they're still packed up on one another on quarter acre lots, so close they can watch each other wipe their asses.
And their kids are heavily medicated, dangerous little fucks.
Cooz – that last line immediately put Eddie Vedder onto my brain!
Thanks for speaking in class today
Judybusy, your characterization of buying bagels in Minneapolis cracked me up. As I've mentioned before, I grew up in small-town North Dakota, where speech styles are like Minneapolis, except more so, and there are no bagels.
I've always been a pretty fast talker–may be one of the reasons I've spent my grown-up life in cities.
LAMary said on June 6, 2013 at 11:46 am
JW, the reason your sister Liz is rude is she is from NJ. Not NY. NJ is the bad attitude capitol of the the world.
I've been back to NY as a tourist with my kids and I have to say people were amazingly accomodating and kind. The best New Yorkish thing that happened was when my then 10 year old son, my six year old son and I were boarding a bus in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was a hot day and I bought two popsicles from a vendor while we were waiting, and of course, the bus showed up as soon as the kids took the wrappers off the popsicles. I asked the driver if it was ok if the kids brought their food on the bus. The bus driver said, "Are you kiddin'? I can't believe you even asked." Here in LA you can get a ticket for popping a cough drop in your mouth on the light rail, but in NY drippy popsicles are ok on the city buses.
adrianne said on June 6, 2013 at 11:50 am
My mom, born in the Bronx, educated in Brooklyn, and lived 20some years in Queens, experienced severe culture shock when she and my Dad moved to Houston in the early 1960s. Her biggest frustration was the amount of time it took her to get through a grocery line, just like the bagel shop anecdote.
Once when she was dating my Dad (a slowpoke from Philly), they were waiting for a subway in Manhattan. When it arrived, my mother expertly navigated her way through a crowd and jumped on board, only to see the doors shut on my startled father's face. She's slowed down slightly, but still takes life at a brisk pace.
Prospero said on June 6, 2013 at 12:11 pm
Common sense proposal for Social Security.
Amazing play in the NHL playoffs last night. Bruins 4th line center Gregory Campbell blocked a very hard slapshot by Evgeni Malkin with his leg while the Penguins were on a power play. Campbell stayed on the ice to prevent the five on four from devolving into five on three. He limped off the ice at the end of the penalty and never returned to the game. The blocked shot had broken his leg. Crazy or valiant? I don't know. Hockey players have a higher threshold of pain than other athletes, particularly in playoff games. It's pretty easy to imagine what kind of galvanizing effect something like that has on teammates. And the Bs have the hot goaltender now. Tuukka Rask stopped 53 of 54 Pittsburgh shots. That was the best the Pens can play. Say goodnight, Mario.
Great story about ordering bagels, Judybusy.
Last time I went to NYC was to see my brother play football for Princeton vs. Columbia in 1970. I was with my then gf, now my ex. We took the subway, but rode past our stop. A transit cop took us in hand and rode back with us to the correct station. By the time the cop turned us around, we were at the Harlem Line in the South Bronx. That cop was protecting and serving.
I'm not participating in the vaccination discussion, except to say that the companies that make vaccines for years sold it in 40-50 dose blocks, with the sole intent of boosting profits. Doing so required using the preservative thimerosal, a major component of which is mercury. Mercury is a very well-documented neuro-toxin. I think that is pretty much RFK jr's argument. Under some preessure, the drug companies have gone off the multi-dosage packaging for the most part. Attacks on vaccinations in general without the mercury-laden preservatives in the discussion is stupid, like burning Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur at the stake post mortem and in absentia.
LAMary@35: Well there is a virtual cornucopia of fluids already on any NYC bus.
coozledad said on June 6, 2013 at 12:17 pm
LA Mary: That reminds me of a story a friend of mine told me. She was an attorney, and she'd just left an office party carrying a bottle of beer with her on the subway. At one stop, every one left the car but her, and a cop walked on and sat directly in front of her. She was trying to hide her beer, drunkenly and ineffectively.
The cop told her "Drink yer fuckin' beer."
velvet goldmine said on June 6, 2013 at 12:29 pm
Mark, Thanks for pointing that. You are absolutely correct; I misread that line.
Where did that friggin' edit button go?
beb said on June 6, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Jolene – I've read only one book on the history of the bible, but I liked it. It's called "Misquoting Jesus." Here's a what Wikipedia has to say:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misquoting_Jesus
I distrust genetically modified foods because usually the company testing the safety of the product is that same company that wants to market it.
Scout said on June 6, 2013 at 12:34 pm
I love to visit big cities like NY and Chicago, especially when visiting someone local who knows where to go and what to do and how best to get there. One of my favorite memories of NY is spending a whole afternoon in the Mona Lisa Cafe in the Village with my son and a bunch of his fellow NYU students. My partner is from Chicago so going there is always fun.
I also love San Francisco, and even LA, where my son now lives. I'm with Deborah regarding Vegas. Yuck. Now that my daughter doesn't live there any more I have no reason to ever return.
I live in the 5th (6th) largest city in the US but it doesn't have a big city feel. We're just now getting around to addressing the public transportation situation, and with that the downtown scene is finally livening up a bit. Used to be, if it was Mon-Fri 9-5 you didn't see a soul.
JWfromNJ said on June 6, 2013 at 1:13 pm
LA Mary, as a former neighbor, Liz would jump in her car and race to help out someone I asked her to help, but she would lay down that "wtf didn't you check the gas gauge," etc. on said friend.
I once had the misfortune of overheating on the West Side Highway in my beat up old VW rabbit. Within 3 mins a nyc cop car with a push bar pulled up, hit the pa system, and said steer the car to the right. They shoved me off the road on 49th street near the United Nations, and when I sked what to do next their answer was, that's your problem now.
Liz to the rescue.
Scout said on June 6, 2013 at 1:30 pm
I asked Uncle Google and Phoenix is the 6th, not 5th largest city. And my last sentence should have said UNLESS it was Mon-Fri 9-5 you didn't see a soul.
Sherri said on June 6, 2013 at 1:33 pm
Testing for GMO happens just like for any other food. GMO is no safer or more dangerous than conventional breeding in terms of testing and approval by the USDA and the FDA.
Conventional breeding techniques can and have produced dangerous food products; consider this story of the Lenape potato, conventionally bred in an attempt to produce better potatoes for potato chips: http://boingboing.net/2013/03/25/the-case-of-the-poison-potato.html
Deborah said on June 6, 2013 at 2:22 pm
I mentioned this before after my last trip to NYC, the memorial at the twin towers site is a must see, overwhelmingly compelling, one of those experiences that is hard to put into words, although I'm sure there are quite a few here who could describe it beautifully. Worth a trip all by itself.
brian stouder said on June 6, 2013 at 2:29 pm
Deborah – just for the record – I think you're a wonderful writer and communicator.
We should never let these professional wordsmiths intimidate us…and we should steal as much from their writing styles as we can!
Deborah at 46 –
My wife and I went there on a bitter cold and windy Sunday morning in February.I lost three friends that day, one of them being Jeremy Glick on Flight 93. I also had my cousin's wife survive, but she ran out when the building fell behind her by 2-3 feet. She called my cousin and said she was going to die. My aunt and I were planning her funeral and 8 hours later she got through to us, in tears, telling us she was alive and in Chinatown and lost her shoes.
When we went the north fountain was on but the south one where my other friends died was iced over.The security theater was ridiculous and as usual I ended up with a pocket knife in my pants.The museum hasn't opened and at $40 admission it's bound to fail, but the memorial contrasted with the new tower was breathtaking.
LAMary said on June 6, 2013 at 2:40 pm
JW, the United Nations is on the east side. That's a long push from the West Side Highway. You sure you weren't on FDR drive?
Correct Mary – although that exit is now a restricted access point. I was going to a seminar at CBS Black Rock.
Dorothy said on June 6, 2013 at 2:50 pm
Judybusy's bagel story cracked me up, too!
I have only been to NYC twice. Had a blast both times. My son was 3 and we were visiting a quilting pen pal of mine in Brooklyn. They took us to a nice Italian place, not too fancy but no dive either. My son LOVED rice (still does) and all he wanted was rice and gravy. When we asked for some, in a strong Italian accent, the waiter said "No rice, sorry." Josh's little forehead hit the table, he was so sad. The waiter was only momentarily nonplussed, excused himself, dashed into the kitchen, and came back out with a smile on his face. He looked directly at Josh and said "We have rice!" Everyone was happy!
My favorite New York story hands down.
Judybusy said on June 6, 2013 at 2:56 pm
Dorothy, couldn't they give the poor kid some risotto?!
nancy said on June 6, 2013 at 2:59 pm
My first NYC trip, I walked into a pizzeria and ordered three slices. Three? the guy said. Really? Of course three. I was thinking of the pies in Columbus, where three is about a quarter pizza, i.e, a meal.
Five minutes later, I was totally embarrassed. A New York slice is another kettle of fish. Ate one and slunk out the door with the other two, which I believe I trashed. I hope some homeless person plucked them out before they got cold. Because it was great pizza.
All I want to eat in NYC is pizza, it's so great. But I've been "dragged" to some really great restaurants, despite myself. I will say, having grown up on the East Coast, I have no appreciation for Chicago style pizza.
I'm going to be going to NY in late Aug early Sept but only spending a short time in the city. I'm going to take a class in far western NY state for ten days, in Sullivan County at a place called Beaver Brook. A friend of Nancy's, Zach Klein is associated with it, it's being taught by two other guys. Ten of us have been accepted to participate in the building of a bath house for the community there. We had to submit a video about ourselves and why we want to take the class and from that they decided who could participate. The deadline for submitting was June 1, and I found out a couple of days ago that I was accepted. I'm psyched. Here's a link to my video in case you're interested, a friend of mine helped with the technical production of it: https://vimeo.com/67449071 since I'm a graphic designer I used the alphabet to tell my story. And here's a link about the class: http://beaverbrook.com/school
Mark P said on June 6, 2013 at 3:28 pm
Thimerosol is a dead horse, or a red herring, depending on your point of view. As Nancy points out, it's basically no longer used and the rate of autism diagnosis has not declined as it would have if it caused autism. So that was plainly and simply wrong from beginning to end. So why do anti-vaxers oppose vaccinations now? Other than wanting their kids and the kids of others to die young?
For a good summary of the history and current recommendations on thimerosol, go here:
http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/SafetyAvailability/VaccineSafety/UCM096228
It's a long and fairly dense read, but worth it for background.
OMG, Deborah — you're going to Beaver Brook? Zach got married there; the photos are astonishing. What a cool opportunity, and what a small damn world.
Zach's photo blog of the place looks like an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog — at least, when his friends are in the pictures. I'm sure you, with your knifelike slenderness and silver hair, will fit right in. You'll be the cool mom.
Also, how fitting that you chose Vimeo to host your video. That was Zach's startup.
Suzanne said on June 6, 2013 at 3:38 pm
Yes, the 9/11 memorial in NYC is worth visiting. Even more touching is a small, very old chapel that we happened upon near the site that became a rest area for firefighters, police, and other rescue workers during the attack. It still has the "box seat" that George Washington used, but most of the church is now a memorial to those who helped after the twin towers went down. It gives you some faith in humanity, anyway, seeing how people went out of their way to feed and provide what they could for rescuers.
I've never found people in New York (or Chicago)rude. I've asked cops, store keeps, and random people on the street for directions and never have had anyone be nasty. The cops in New York, fyi, are on the whole helpful and darn good looking. The first time I was ever in New York, I started chatting with the woman next to me on the subway. We had a nice conversation! If I had the money (que the hysterical laughter), I'd consider retiring there.
Also, don't miss Fort Tryon Park way up at the top of Manhattan. Gorgeous view of the Hudson! And the Cloisters is worth every penny.
Julie Robinson said on June 6, 2013 at 3:41 pm
Esther Williams has died, at 91. I'm ashamed to say I didn't realize she was still on the earth.
Someday I will get to NYC, and after the sights and museums I will see a bunch of shows on Broadway, and off-Broadway, and off-off-Broadway. Til then it'll be Chicago, my second home town.
Jeff (the mild-mannered one) said on June 6, 2013 at 3:42 pm
Jolene, for the NT, I like Dom Crossan. His theology isn't entirely my cuppa, but his scholarship on how the early Christian community developed and created the NT writings is both well grounded and very readable (I think Bart Ehrman is waaaay to focused on grinding certain axes down to a nubbin).
So I can commend "Excavating Jesus" & a semi-sequel, but what you should read if you only read one of these, "In Search of Paul," both by Crossan and his archaeologist co-author Jonathan Reed.
OT is harder to summarize, but if you're really more interested in the area of "canon formation," a good short (readable, natch) summary can be found in "Secrets of Mount Sinai," which ostensibly is about Codex Sinaiticus, Tischendorf, and the Monastery of St. Catherine at the foot of Mount Sinai, but also incorporates a flying overview of how the OT/NT canon came to rest on the 66 books most Christians have, in the order we read them, with enough asides on variants to keep you oriented.
And the Robinson edited "Nag Hammadi Library" will give you a pretty nice overview of all the semi-quasi-Gnosti-canonical books that didn't make the final cut. It's worth getting ahold of just to read "Thunder, Perfect Mind."
Re: that last comment, for all you aspiring Gnostics 'round here —
http://gnosis.org/naghamm/thunder.html
It really is quite cool.
Prospero said on June 6, 2013 at 3:54 pm
If Monsanto were a reliable corporate citizen, I might buy what they claim about testing and safety. Of course the Monsanto Protection Act being steered through Congress by Monsanto's pet legislators like Roy Blunt will allow planting of GMO seeds untested. Cereal grains are domesticated weeds that will propagate themselves anywhere the seeds blow. My opinions on this subject have nothing to do with distrusting scientists, I distrust international conglomerate corporations with bought and sold lawmakers to give a shit about the public good, or anything aside from profits, no matter who might get hurt by irresponsible behavior.
Other than wanting their kids and the kids of others to die young?
That's a ridiculously harsh thing to say. None of those people are out to cause the deaths of children. I never said there was a valid thimerosal/autism onset connection. In fact, autism onset and mercury poisoning share no symptoms. And I also said that companies have stopped using thimerosal. I would say that the use of a mercury compound in vaccines as a preservative into this century after the neuropathic properties of mercury were well-known and proven beyond doubt, to package vaccines more profitably, was a fairly astounding case of corporate irresponsibility.
Deborah, that looks so very cool. And your cabin—just fantastic. No wonder you come across so balanced and at ease with yourself!
Yeah Nancy it is a small world, I found out about Zach a few years back through his site Cabin Porn. One time I decided to check out his tweets and he mentioned YOU! And I saw the photos of his wedding on his blog too. Beaver Brook looks like a gorgeous place.
Zach and I went our for drinks about a decade ago, after we determined we were the only two people in Fort Wayne with a blogs. He was still in college and used a fake ID. A great guy. You'll have the bestest time. Take lots of photos and good notes!
I should add that I was afraid they were going to nix me for the class because I'm an old lady, so I put in the part about my walking routine so they would think I might be fit enough to do the hard work. My friend who helped with the video technical parts got really busy at work and couldn't spend as much time finessing it so the quality isn't as good as I would have liked, a lot of it is too rushed and some of the text is grainy and hard to read. Oh well, it did the job, since I got accepted anyway.
velvet goldmine said on June 6, 2013 at 4:24 pm
It's an interesting snarl of ethics, since genome mapping is in its infancy. Let's say JUST for the sake of discussion that someday the autism susceptibility genes are located and it turns out that in fact something associated with the vaccine — one of the live viruses in the MMR, perhaps — might act as a kind of trigger in a tiny percentage of the population.
Even if those babies with the predisposition are identified through testing, should the parents be "allowed"to let the children go un-vaccinated? In other words, how great of a threat would this pose to the general population?
coozledad said on June 6, 2013 at 4:29 pm
Nancy's pizza story reminds me of visiting town with my friend Diane, a Hungarian and self described Amazon cook from hell. After we hit a few of the Hungarian food stores(Paprikash?), we stopped at a deli for lunch. I was interested to find out if schmaltz herring tasted better than the salt fish my grandmother would eat(she also chewed clay and ate charcoal).
The guy at the counter said " Schmaltz herring? We keep some of that around, but not much. There's not that many ninety year old Jews left".
They served it as a salad, with a vinaigrette. I liked it, anyway.
MichaelG said on June 6, 2013 at 4:30 pm
That's a wonderful video, Deborah, and very professional looking. Not that I'm the least bit surprised. It looks like a singular honor to be selected. You've got to tell us all about the class. I'd say it's a fantastic value at only $1500.
adrianne said on June 6, 2013 at 4:39 pm
Deborah, congratulations on being selected for the Beaver Brook building project! You'll be in my neck of the woods – Sullivan County is part of our coverage area for the Times Herald-Record. It's a beautiful spot.
Very cool video, Deborah. From what I know of you, it seems very much a representation of who you are.
Prospero, I know I spoke hyperbolicaly about anti-vaxers.
But I think that the use of thimerosol almost certainly saved more lives than it destroyed. Its use was approved as a way to prevent the growth of pathogens in vaccines. Contaminated vaccines are documented to have killed people, and at a time prior to the overwhelming influence of big pharma. Yes, it metabolizes into a mercury compound, ethylmercury, but the compound most people are familiar with and which has been the subject of most studies is methylmercury. Not to defend its use, but research has indicated that ethylmercury is excreted fairly efficiently by young children.
In any event, thimerosol is essentially not used any more and there is no legitimate reason to complain about it in the context of current vaccination programs. So the anti-vaxers have to come up with another bogeyman, and I haven't heard what that one is.
My quick take, as uninformed as anyone's, is that even if I take seriously every last claim I've heard about vaccines, the net benefit outweighs the potential problems as far as I can tell. Even the risk I'm told by some that I'm putting my child to sounds like a chance worth taking.
I do think there's a secondary factor going on alongside of increased diagnosis, but I think you could make as strong a case for "blue light" from screens or cellphone signals being the trigger for the possible predisposition than you could vaccines, and sense that the main reason people focus on vaccines has as much to do with the needle, pain, and screaming (oh, the screaming!) that kids go through to get the vaccines, and the association is set — bad thing done to my kid, bad thing happened at roughly the same time and/or just after, so there you go.
More problematically: if one were to *prove* that tablet/smart phone/laptop screen illumination "triggered the susceptibility" for autism, would that cause a major decline in usage? I bet not, and you'd see some pushing for an outright ban, a larger number pushing for "blue light free" zones in public places, and so on. But we wouldn't stop using it. What does that say about us? Yet we almost banned eggs not long ago, and now they're seemingly considered the near-perfect protein. I wonder what that secondary factor in triggering autism will turn out to be . . . and if you've never read Robert Heinlein's novella "Waldo" I recommend it.
The original "science" linking autism and vaccines was extremely weak, but it played into parents' legitimate fears about poking their child with needles. Coupled with the fact that the diseases that those vaccines were preventing were beyond the memories of most of the parents making the decisions, thanks to the very success of the vaccines, it's not surprising that even a hint of risk led people to freak out.
I've had friends who aren't very scientifically inclined ask me how they can evaluate these kinds of stories. One thing I tell them is, if the same handful of people keep turning up as the purveyors of a story, then be very suspicious. This is certainly true of the anti-vaxxers, where Andrew Wakefield, Jenny McCarthy, and Robert Kennedy, Jr. have been prominent in keeping the vaccine-autism link alive for many years now.
I'm not saying trust scientists. Scientists can have agendas just like anyone else. Science, on the other hand, is a process, and you don't have to be a scientist to see when that process has been followed. You don't have to be a scientist to understand that after many years of study, if most scientists have failed to find any link between autism and vaccines, but Andrew Wakefield still claims one, then probably Andrew Wakefield is wrong. It's always possible that Wakefield is the lone voice of truth, but that's not the way I would bet. It's not the way I did bet, because I did vaccinate my daughter.
Humans are notoriously bad at assessing risk. Autism can be a very difficult condition. Measles can kill. That I know many more autistic children than children who have been stricken by measles doesn't change that equation.
It seems to me more and more likely that Thimerosal is a chemical version of recovered abuse memories. Another dishonest means of going after the contents of "deep pockets".
Dexter said on June 6, 2013 at 6:30 pm
If you are going to New York, I have been told that reasonable hotel rates can be found in the new hotels springing up in Long Island City. In an area formerly dominated by old warehouses, the hoteliers have been aggressively alleviating the hotel room shortage. There is nothing for tourists in Long Island City, but the train stop is handy for a quick trip to Manhattan.
David C. said on June 6, 2013 at 6:37 pm
I visited my uncle in NYC in '84. For a rube from Grand Rapids, it was the best thing ever. Don lived in a brownstone on 81st and Lexington Ave. So it was just a couple of blocks from the Metropolitan Museum and Central Park. I spent hours in both, mostly just watching people. We walked all over the city – Times Square (really seedy at that time), Greenwich Village, MoMA, and where all else I don't remember. We ate just about every night at Jackson Hole (Don was a big hamburger aficionado – probably why he died at only 68). Anyway, I had a great time. Even watching the Sikhs all pissed off about Indira Gandhi sacking the Golden Temple at Amritsar was an adventure. Anytime I get to missing him, I always remember the couple of weeks we had together in NYC and have a bit of a smile or a bit of a cry.
Tim said on June 6, 2013 at 8:30 pm
The Chicago Sun-Times has given vaccine denier Jenny McCarthy a daily blog to air her vacuous views. Which, along with the Sun-Times' firing of all its photographers this week, says all you need to know about the once-great newspaper's decline.
Go listen for the high rpm hum.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pv&GRid=13283881&PIpi=2606908
Jolene said on June 6, 2013 at 10:17 pm
Geez, Tim, giving Jenny McCarthy a column is just about the worst idea I've ever heard. What were they thinking?
Thanks to both Jeff and beb for the book recommendations. Sherri, I like your ideas for separating the cranks and quacks from the serious people in areas where you're not an expert.
Jenine said on June 7, 2013 at 10:35 am
Jefftmmo, thanks for that gnostic link. Reading it lifted the hair on the back of my neck. Lots of feminine pronouns for the ineffable, I like it.
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myME: Mobile Education Project Update and Benefit!
Please join us for an evening to celebrate and benefit myME: Myanmar Mobile Education Project.
HGU Hotel Lounge in New York, NY.
Drinks; finger food; 2 short documentary films featuring myME; a talk with our director, Tim Aye-Hardy; and an auction.
About myME: Launched in January of 2014, the myME project is a unique, non-formal education and outreach program that provides school and assistance to children who have been compelled into servitude, by bringing the classroom to them--directly where they work (and live).
While we are not the first to use non-formal education, we are the first to bring it to child laborers. In Myanmar (Burma), according to 2014 census data, there are 5.09 million children between ages 5-18 who are out of school. Approximately 10,000 working and out-of-school children have benefited from myME, with an average of 87% attendance rate, since the project's inception.
Steep Education is an award-winning documentary directed by Sebastian Buffa and Luke Namer.
Moe Di, a 14-year-old tea shop worker in Yangon, Myanmar, gets permission to leave his job working in the city to visit home for the day. He's joined by Tim Aye-Hardy, an exiled Burmese activist who recently returned home to create the Myanmar Mobile Education (MyME) project, which provides non-formal education to young children working and living in tea shops for less than $1 a day.
In addition to the screening of Steep Education, we will also screen a 10-minute video, which gives an inside look at myME today (filmed just this month), including interviews with current students and teachers, followed by a talk and Q&A with our founder and director, Tim Aye-Hardy.
Please continue to scroll down to read event highlights from myME since our last benefit party--we couldn't have implemented all our new programming without your generosity.
Everyone at team myME hopes you can join us in NYC on April 17, 2019 at the HGU Hotel Lounge.
After graduating level 1, myME students progress through to successful completion of Level 3. Following Level 3, the student continues with other vocational training, provided by myME and training partners, and the final stage of the program for these students is either to re-enter formal education or to gain better employment with one of our myME partners in hospitality or other vocational environments in settings that are healthy, safe and just for our young myME student workers.
On December 7, 2018, thirty-seven myME students graduated their respective levels: 20 students receiving their beginner level certificates and 17 students receiving their Level 1 Certificates.
Though a very joyful event, some of the students did not eat the food, saving it for their families. A reminder to all present, that these young workers always have people back home in their villages, depending on them for their basic survival.
We had another graduation ceremony in Mandalay. myME Graduation Ceremony held at the Zoological Garden on November 11, 2018.
138 students of myME from Mandalay are graduated in their respective Levels.
Union Minister of Education Dr. Myo Thein Gyi visited myME Classes at Min Thiha Teashop in Nay Pyi Taw in October 2018. He was very much supportive of myME and encouraged by all the work we do for Out-of-School and Working Child & Youth (OOSWCYs). He spent quality time with our students interacting and sharing engaging and inspiring words. We're grateful to Ko Aung Aung, Ma Thin Pyae Oo and all the MOE volunteers for keeping this class up and running. A true success for all.
These children in the photos have had the unique chance to learn computer skills over the last 3 years with myME. They've devoted their very limited free time to attend classes after work when the myME teachers arrive every other day at their teashop. They study on the other days. And now their hard work--after work--is paying off. The students have advanced to level three and are gaining the skills they need to improve their life in the future.
We're thrilled to now be able to offer free nutritional lunches to Out-of-School and Working Children (ages 6-8) at our myME foundation class in Shwe Pyi Thar and Myinchan, which are some of the most underprivileged communities that we serve. Thanks to Max Power Tharkata Company, which has pledged to offer this program since 2018 till now. Now we can support our students with the food they need to stay focused both on the job and in their myME classes after working all day to support their struggling families. These students receive snacks and meals twice a week and it is further encouragement and motivation to help them continue to attend their myME classes.
myME's passionate training team is instructing young volunteer teachers to be able to teach in more under privileged communities. In addition to the regular training, this time our team also shared our Life Skills curriculum as well as digital skills, and English lesson plans with a team that will soon be serving the Kyaik Htoe Township in Mon State.
During the 2nd week in February, myME welcomed students from Japan and Denmark. These international students came to observe and learn from the myME team up close about our innovative, non-traditional education program. The myME team shared with them our mission, vision, and operating techniques. They received information about our Communication and Technology program (ICT) for Out-Of-School Working Children and Youths (OOSWCYs), and they learned stories and witnessed firsthand how myME is making a difference for under privileged child workers who are struggling to meet the basic needs of their families while also attending myME classes.
Another cool myME mobile classroom, this one donated by Samsung Myanmar.
Our director, Tim Aye-Hardy, sometimes gets to take a day or two to travel to more remote villages and share the myME program to help get kids inspired about their future, even for those in the midst of very challenging childhoods.
myME believes that even working kids deserve some time not only away from their jobs, but also away from the stresses of the city. We organize one day and half day trips for our myME students when the teashops are closed so they can get outside to play; plus, a little time for myME homework and study, over course!


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Regionalized Ground-Motion Models for Subduction Earthquakes Based on the NGA-SUB Database
Abrahamson, Norman
Gülerce, Zeynep
A set of global and region-specific ground-motion models (GMMs) for subduction zone earthquakes is developed based on the database compiled by the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER) Next Generation Attenuation - Subduction (NGA-SUB) project. The subset of the NGA-SUB database used to develop the GMMs includes 3914 recordings from 113 subduction interface earthquakes with magnitudes varying between 5 and 9.2 and 4850 recordings from 89 intraslab events with magnitudes varying between 5 and 7.8. Recordings in the back-arc region are excluded, except for the Cascadia region. The functional form of the model accommodates the differences in the magnitude, distance, and depth scaling for interface and intraslab earthquakes. The magnitude scaling and geometrical spreading terms of the global model are used for all regions, with the exception of the Taiwan region which has a region-specific geometrical spreading scaling. Region-specific terms are included for the large distance (linear R) scaling, VS30 scaling, Z2.5 scaling, and the constant term. The nonlinear site amplification factors used in Abrahamson et al. (2016) subduction GMM are adopted. The between-event standard deviation piece of the aleatory variability model is region and distance independent; whereas, the within-event standard deviations are both region and distance dependent. Region-specific GMMs are developed for seven regions: Alaska, Cascadia, Central America, Japan, New Zealand, South America, and Taiwan. These region-specific GMMs are judged to be applicable to sites in the fore-arc region at distances up to 500 km, magnitudes of 5.0 to 9.5, and periods from 0 to 10 sec. For the Cascadia region, the region-specific model is applicable to distances of 800 km including the back-arc region. For the sites that are not in one of the seven regions, the global GMM combined with the epistemic uncertainty computed from the range of the regional GMMs should be used.
https://peer.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/202025.pdf
Department of Civil Engineering, Article
Hydrodynamic Modeling of Dam-Reservoir Response during Earthquakes
Aydın, İsmail (American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2011-08-03)
A computational model is developed to analyze the hydrodynamic behavior of dam reservoirs during earthquakes. The mathematical model is based on the solution of two-dimensional (2D) Navier-Stokes equations in a vertical, semi-infinite domain truncated by a far-end boundary condition. A depth integrated continuity equation is used to track the deforming free-surface and ensure global mass conservation. A combination of Sommerfeld nonreflecting boundary and dissipation zone methods is implemented at the far e...
Seismic hazard of Eastern Mediterranean region
Ertuğrul, Zehra (2010-12-01)
In the present study, probabilistic seismic hazard assessment was conducted for the Eastern Mediterranean region based on several new results: (1) a new comprehensive earthquake catalog, (2) seismic source models developed based on new geological, seismicity and geodetic data; and (3) new ground motion prediction equations (GMPEs). As the number of available regional ground motion records is not adequate to develop successful local GMPEs, the data in hand was employed for determining the most representative...
Preliminary ground motion model for subduction earthquakes based on NGA-Sub Japan database
Gülerce, Zeynep (2018-06-28)
This manuscript presents the preliminary ground motion model (GMM) for the subduction zone earthquakes based on the database collected from Japanese earthquakes within the frame of PEER Next Generation Attenuation: Subduction (NGA-Sub) project. The dataset used in the regression includes 5730 recordings from 56 subduction interface earthquakes with 5.16≤Mw≤9.13 and 4503 recordings from 27 intra-slab events with 5.2≤Mw≤8.32. Functional form of the model accommodates the differences in the depth and distance ...
Seismic hazard assessment for Cyprus
Cagnan, Zehra; TANIRCAN, GÜLÜM (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2010-04-01)
In the present study, probabilistic seismic hazard assessment was conducted for Cyprus based on several new results: a new comprehensive earthquake catalog, seismic source models based on new research, and new attenuation relationships. Peak ground acceleration distributions obtained for a return period of 475 years for rock conditions indicate high hazard along the southern coastline of Cyprus, where the expected ground motion is between 0.3 and 0.4 g. The rest of the island is characterized by values repr...
Ground Motion Prediction Equations for the Vertical Ground Motion Component Based on the NGA-W2 Database
Gülerce, Zeynep; Abrahamson, Norman A.; Silva, Walter J. (SAGE Publications, 2017-05-01)
Empirical ground motion models for the vertical component from shallow crustal earthquakes in active tectonic regions are derived using the PEER NGA-West2 database. The model is applicable to magnitudes 3.0-8.0, distances of 0-300 km, and spectral periods of 0-10 s. The model input parameters are the same as used by Abrahamson et al. (2014) except that the nonlinear site response and depth to bedrock effects are evaluated but found to be insignificant. Regional differences in large distance attenuation and ...
N. Abrahamson and Z. Gülerce, "Regionalized Ground-Motion Models for Subduction Earthquakes Based on the NGA-SUB Database," 2020, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://peer.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/202025.pdf.

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"This one story 3 bed 2 bath home has 9' ceilings throughout and 42 cabinets in the kitchen. The master bedroom is spacious and the master bath offers a garden tub/shower combo with two sinks. Covered patio. Scheduled to be completed in March 2019.Take IH-35 N for 1.3 miles then take I-10 E/US-90E to I-10 Frontage Road. Drive 12.8 miles and take exit 587 toward Anderson Loop/Randolph A.F.B/TX-1604 Loop. Continue on frontage road for about 2 miles and Millican Grove will be immediately to the rig"


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Rihards Zaļupe concert "Through the Apocalypse to Home" with special guests Latvian Voices
On 28th and 29th of January at 19:00 in Zuzeum the long-awaited Rihards Zaļupe concert "Through the Apocalypse to Home" will bring together award-winning Latvian musicians to create an unprecedented adventure in which sound, light and smell will interact. Tickets here.
This will not be a routine concert — rather an inspirational story through time and emotion. Guests will be invited on an exciting and meditative journey in the building of a former cork factory that has stood through times, events and countless stories.
The concert will bring together melodies, mantras and Latvian songs and songs from around the world along with the compositions of Rihards Zaļupe. Guests will be invited to choose the most comfortable seats to enjoy the audiovisual journey — there will be armchairs, swings and soft furniture with the possibility of lying down.
Performing acts: Rihards Zaļupe — marimba/percussions/piano/vocals, Raimonds Petrauskis — synthesizer/piano, Jānis Bērziņš — guitar, Dace Zālīte-Zilberte — cello, Kaspars Kurdeko — drums/percussion. Special guests: Latvian Voices. R. Zaļupe, the author of the concert series, says:
We are all travelers. We all have our paths, trails, adventures and stories, but the moments we meet constantly remind us how united we are. This time, the unifying element is music, which leads you to yourself, to your essence, or simply away from the everyday. It is a realisation of an important insight, a meeting with oneself, one's roots, leaving everything behind and surrendering to one's true existence or essence.
Rihards Zaļupe (1983) — an award-winning Latvian composer, producer, percussive instrumentalist and lecturer. He has won 5 music records Player of the Year Awards Zelta Mikrofons, as well as Lielais Kristaps, AKKA/LAA, etc. Has composed for internationally acclaimed films such as "O2", "Tizlenes", "Don't be afraid of anything", "Nameja Gredzens", "1906", etc.
In 2021, Rihards composed music for the series "Nebaidies ne no kā" nominated for the prestigious Hollywood music in Media Awards for the series under the category "Main Title Theme — TV Show (Foreign Language)", being on the same list of nominees as musicians like Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, Beyonce, Jay-Z, Billie Eilish and others.
Rihards list of musical works consists of a wide range of musical forms – symphonies, liturgic music, solo pieces for orchestras, electronic and contemporary music for individual projects and instruments.
As a percussionist, Rihards Zaļupe has partaken in various genres of performances, ranging from academic to jazz, rock, electronic and others.
Rihards performing acts also includes the Xylem Trio and he has collaborated with performers such as Raimonds Pauls, Intars Busulis, Linda Leen, Ieva Kerēvica, Kaspars Zemītis, Latvian Voices, DaGamba, Otra Puse, Peruqois & Praful, Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonietta Riga, State Choir Latvija, Choir Kamēr, Orchestra "Riga", Liepāja Symphony Orchestra and others.
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Fallen Angels Signs With Sliptrick Records
Italian glam metal/hard rock act Fallen Angels signed with Sliptrick Records for the upcoming debut full length album "Even Priest Knows," which is set to drop on April 30th.
Fallen Angels was formed in 2011 from the creative minds of Matthew Ice and Ste Wizard. They started life as a cover band playing a style of rock music that was big in the eighties, glam rock. The band is chiefly influenced by such luminaries as Motley Crue, Poison, Ratt, Europe, Aerosmith and many others.
In addition to the style of music, the group has gone to great lengths to revive the true atmosphere of concerts from that period with related costumes and scenography that, over the years, have made this rock genre exciting and captivating. With the entry in 2014 of the new frontman Matty Mannant and the drummer Luke Gyzz, the band delved deeper into their own 80's sound and began devoting all the time to writing and performing original music.
Fallen Angels spent 2017 perfecting "Even Priest Knows." The record pays homage to the 80's, giving a rebirth to the glam style of music while adding an original and versatile touch with different musical nuances. All this without ever abandoning the rock vein that distinguishes it.
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USM beats Charlotte on Braley's walk-off homer
BILOXI — Taylor Braley hit his 16th home run of the season Saturday.
And, boy, was it a big one.
Braley, a Southern Miss junior, blasted a two-run walk-off shot in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Golden Eagles a 6-5 victory over Charlotte at the Conference USA tournament. The win means the same teams will meet at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, with the winner of that game advancing to Sunday's tournament championship contest.
More:Eagles stomp Roadrunners, advance at C-USA tourney
"I think he threw me a change-up, but I don't know," said Braley, who earned the win on the pitcher's mound Friday with eight shutout innings against UTSA. "It all started when (hitting coach Chad) Caillet came to me when I was on deck. I was sitting there talking to (volunteer assistant coach B.A. Vollmuth). And he said, 'B.A. would've walked up to me in 2009 and said, 'I'm fixin' to win this game.'
"I said, 'I'm going to do it."
Which he did. Staring at elimination and a full count, Braley deposited a Josh Maciejewski (5-5) pitch deep over the left field wall at MGM Park to send his Golden Eagle teammates as well as the Black and Gold faithful into hysterics.
Hayden Roberts, who pitched 5 2/3 innings and gave up two runs on three hits, said he and Braley are roommates when Southern Miss is on the road.
"I spend a lot of time with that guy," he said. "He's got the clutch gene. He's just good."
The Golden Eagles improve to 47-13, tying the school record for most wins in a single season.
Southern Miss fell behind early, trailing 3-0 after two innings and 4-0 heading into the bottom of the fifth. That's when the Golden Eagles began chipping away. Matt Wallner drove home a run with a double to cut into the deficit.
After Charlotte extended its lead to 5-1 in the eighth, Scott Berry's club made it a one-run game in the bottom half. Hunter Slater's two-run triple — his seventh of the season, tying a school record — made it 5-3, and Tracy Hadley's RBI single pulled Southern Miss closer.
After Nick Sandlin set the Niners down in the ninth, Mason Irby led off the bottom of the inning with a two-strike single. Braley followed with the game-winner.
"I was in that third base box, I ain't lyin', and I said, 'He's going to hit one out right here. I can just feel it,'" Berry said. "Never count this team out. That's what they've shown all year."


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• The use of digital revenue cycle management tools in healthcare is currently in demand and is seen as a way to cut time as well as labor costs while capturing payments. According to a recent Crowe report, having good performance data can help organizations decide which RCM approach is best for them.
• The Oak Brook, Illinois-based technology and consulting firm analyzed 931 U.S. hospitals that have implemented RCM systems and compared those that fully outsource their revenue cycles with those that run them in-house.
• Hospitals with insourced revenue cycles have a lower rate of point-of-service collections from patients than outsourcing hospitals (116.45% versus 19.68%). However, hospitals that outsourced revenue cycles wait on average 33 days longer to collect balance payments from patients.
The data from the Crowe report showed that patients are more likely to pay balances that are not covered by insurance when revenues are outsourced (38.72%) compared with insourced systems (36.73%).
The report also revealed that insourced revenue cycles appear to have a better track record on resource denials. Just over 9% of patient accounts are initially denied when a revenue cycle is handled in-house, compared with 10% when it is outsourced. For a 400-bed hospital, this translates to upwards of about $23 million in additional revenue that needs be reeled in.
Final denial rates were also lower with insourced revenue cycles, at 1.65% versus 2.56% for outsourced systems,which boils down to pros and cons on both sides of the equation.
The Crowe researchers recommend that hospitals that choose to outsource their RCM should check both the effect on financial performance, access to advanced RCM technology and centralized talent pools, as well as the ability to scale operations.
Revenue cycle management is in demand as higher deductible health plans force more consumers to fork out more of their own money to cover medical bills and providers struggle with delayed payments and unpaid balances.
All of the major EHR players are investing in RCM solutions. eClinical Works in February launched a cloud-based platform for acute care EHR with computerized physician order entry and revenue cycle management for the emergency department, pharmacy and infection control for patients and scheduling, laboratory and referrals management.
Epic also offers an integrated EHR and RCM system. And last year, Allscripts bought McKesson's hospital and health system IT business, which includes HealthQuest revenue cycle technology.


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At the home of M. J. Doyle near Neola, IA.
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[S2832] 1885 Iowa Census, Pottawattamie Co., Wright Twp. - James Flynn Family , Iowa, Pottawattamie, (Digital images. Ancestry. ancestry.com : 2007), 2394., Wright Twp., dwelling 8, family 8, line 1-13, James Flynn Family; (ancestry.com).
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Residence Neola Twp., Pottawattamie Co., IA.
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Q: Creating Date Time Time Series Objects and Plotting I have a lot of temperature data collected continuously on 15-minute intervals in dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss. I am novice at R, and I am struggling plotting the data.   That code I wrote is:
install.packages("xts")
library("xts")

temp<-read.csv("C:\\Users\\data\\Temp Data.csv",header=TRUE)
str(temp)

temp$DateTime<-as.POSIXct(strptime(temp$DateTime,"%m/%d/%Y %H:%M"))

temp.xts<-xts(temp,order.by=temp$DateTime)
summary(temp.xts)

par(mfrow=c(1,1))

Temp.lab=seq(5,30,by=5)
Temp.ticks=seq(5,30,by=5)
plot(temp.xts$Temp.C["2015-05-01/2015-11-5"],axes=F,auto.grid=FALSE,col="gray48",ylim=c(5,30),main="",cex.main=1.0,lwd=1)
axis(2,at=Temp.ticks,labels=format(Temp.lab,scientific=FALSE),ylab="Temperature (C)",las=1,cex.axis=1)
mtext("Water Temperatuer",side=3,line=-1.25,cex=1,font=2,las=1,adj=0.025)
mtext("",side=2,line=3,las=3,cex=1)
mtext("",side=1,line=3,cex=1)

When I run these I get the error: Error in plot.xts(temp.xts$Temp.C["2015-05-01/2015-11-15"], axes = F,  :
  'x' must be a time-series object.
The structure of my data looks like;

head(temp)
    Station.ID            DateTime Temp.C
  1 Station.01 2015-05-08 14:00:00 14.002
  2 Station.01 2015-05-08 14:15:00 13.906
  3 Station.01 2015-05-08 14:30:00 13.978
  4 Station.01 2015-05-08 14:45:00 14.026
  5 Station.01 2015-05-08 15:00:00 14.074
  6 Station.01 2015-05-08 15:15:00 14.098
str(temp)
  'data.frame':   18283 obs. of  3 variables:
   $ Station.ID: Factor w/ 1 level "Station.01": 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ...
   $ DateTime  : Factor w/ 18279 levels "10/1/2015 00:00",..: 6522 6523 6524 6525 6526 6527 6528 6529 6530 6531 ...
   $ Temp.C    : num  14 13.9 14 14 14.1 ...

Here is a snippet of my dataset:
head(temp,20)
        Station.ID       DateTime Temp.C
     1  Station.01 5/8/2015 14:00 14.002
     2  Station.01 5/8/2015 14:15 13.906
     3  Station.01 5/8/2015 14:30 13.978
     4  Station.01 5/8/2015 14:45 14.026
     5  Station.01 5/8/2015 15:00 14.074
     6  Station.01 5/8/2015 15:15 14.098
     7  Station.01 5/8/2015 15:30 14.122
     8  Station.01 5/8/2015 15:45 14.146
     9  Station.01 5/8/2015 16:00 14.146
     10 Station.01 5/8/2015 16:15 14.146
     11 Station.01 5/8/2015 16:30 14.146
     12 Station.01 5/8/2015 16:45 14.146
     13 Station.01 5/8/2015 17:00 14.122
     14 Station.01 5/8/2015 17:15 14.122
     15 Station.01 5/8/2015 17:30 14.122
     16 Station.01 5/8/2015 17:45 14.098
     17 Station.01 5/8/2015 18:00 14.122
     18 Station.01 5/8/2015 18:15 14.098
     19 Station.01 5/8/2015 18:30 14.098
     20 Station.01 5/8/2015 18:45 14.098
 Any suggestions? Help is greatly appreciated.

A: I had the same error "'x' must be a time-series object." for one of my (looking similar) scripts in a debian system (at the same time in a suse box it was fine) and
"solved" it by explicitly casting to numeric using as.numeric. In your case something like plot(as.numeric(temp.xts$Temp.C["2015-05-01/2015-11-5"]),.....

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Stocks around the globe experienced a significant decline during Fourth Quarter 2018, a trend that began in October and accelerated rapidly in December. The downturn was widely attributed to the prospect of continued higher interest rates, ongoing tensions in the trade war between the U.S. and China, and earnings pressure on technology giants such as Facebook and Apple.
The December sell-off was steep and significant, with the Dow dropping more than 12% and the Russell 2000 small stock index dropping almost 14% in just nine trading sessions from December 12 – 24. Other than the one-day "Flash Crash" of 2010, it was the most significant bout of volatility for stocks since the 2008-09 financial crisis. The decline brought the Dow Jones Industrial Average within a fraction of a percent of a bear market (defined as a 20% decline from peak to trough).
While the percentage declines were significant, as of this writing they have been nowhere near the declines seen in 2008-09. The breadth of the declines across so many asset classes, however, was historically significant. According to a Deutsche Bank / Bloomberg Finance report, some 93% of all global asset classes experienced a negative total return in 2018. That was the highest percentage of asset classes to experience a decline going all the way back to 1901.
When a downturn hits the stock market that is both deep and wide, the news media, predictably, goes into full crisis mode. Stories appear almost continually on our TVs and financial news web sites, chronicling the downturn in real time and warning about the possibility that the decline may yet get worse. In such times of turmoil, it becomes challenging for long-term investors to avoid the temptation to make short-term moves with their investments.
It is precisely at these inflection points in the market that long-term investors must avoid that temptation. History has shown us, repeatedly, that making rash decisions with our investments during periods of extreme volatility is almost always the wrong thing to do, because it creates two critical decisions that must be correctly made: when to get out of the market, and when to get back in. Making a wrong move on either or both of these decisions can result in a tremendous loss of investment capital.
1. We were due for a bear market: Actually, by historical standards, we were overdue. On average, the stock market experiences a correction (a decline of 10%) about once a year, and a full-fledged bear market about every 3.5 years. Prior to the current downturn, the last 20% decline in the S&P 500 occurred in 2008-09. From that perspective, a bear market shouldn't come as a surprise.
The thing about past bear markets, of course, is that we know how they turned out. We don't fear the 1973-74 bear market, when the Dow dropped 45% and bottomed out at 577, because it's ancient history; a once-scary story that we now know has a happy ending. Even the 2008-09 bear market doesn't generate the same anxiety today, with the Dow about 20,000, as it did in real time, when the Dow bottomed out at 6,443.
In real time, though, we don't know where the market bottom is, and that's where the anxiety lies. Fear of the unknown often causes investors to make panicky, emotion-driven decisions in an effort to "protect" their assets by reducing or even eliminating their stock exposure usually after the market has already made a substantial move downward.
The thing about moving to the perceived safety of less volatile investments like bonds and cash during a downturn is that, once the dust clears and the market turns up again, it usually turns up in a big way. Much of the recovery happens before most investors realize it, and big gains that were there for the taking by those who are fully invested are missed by those sitting on the sidelines.
The recovery from the bottom of the 2008-09 bear market is a vivid example. Once the bottom was reached on March 9, 2009, stocks took off rapidly and unexpectedly. By June 30, 2009, the Dow had gained 29.47% from the bear-market low; by year-end 2009, it had gained a whopping 61.98%.
Even the events of the past few weeks have illustrated this tendency of stocks to bounce hard off their lows. After hitting a recent low of 21,792 following a 653-point plunge on Christmas Eve, the Dow, as of this writing, has recovered almost 2,100 points and nearly 10%. Whether stocks revisit their lows again in the short term, go lower still or start rising and never look back – no one knows. What we do know is that, once the volatility settles down and the market is in calmer seas, stocks typically spring back in dramatic fashion.
2. In turbulent markets, focus on the process, not predictions: No one can control the direction of the stock market, so it makes sense to focus on the things we can control in down markets. For taxable investors, a stock downturn can offer an opportunity for portfolio rebalancing and tax-loss harvesting to help offset taxable income. Focusing on maximizing the efficiency of the wealth management process during turbulent times helps to reduce the anxiety of wondering when the market volatility will end.
3. Take a break from the news: A half-century ago, investors didn't have the ability to follow the stock market moment-by-moment. They might hear a mid-day report on the radio, and then get a brief market recap on the nightly news at day's end. Other than that – out of sight, out of mind.
What a contrast to the world we live in today. Our phones push market information to us constantly, with stock ticker apps, email alerts, and updates on our internet browsers every time we open Explorer or Safari. Even if we wanted to, it would require a genuine effort to be unaware of the constant fluctuations of the market – especially when the market is in a downturn. Eyeballs equal money for content providers, and the more dramatic they make the content, the more likely we are to watch or click on it. These TV shows and web sites are populated with a legion of so-called experts pontificating on where the market is heading and what stocks to buy or sell to minimize the "damage" to your portfolio.
All of it is bunk. If these experts truly knew where to be ahead of time, they wouldn't need to work for a living. Given that 80% of mutual-fund managers – among the best and brightest minds in the investment industry – routinely underperform the market over 10-year periods, why would we believe that the analyst-du-jour on CNBC has any better grasp of how to beat the market?
The herd mentality becomes strong during periods of extremes in the stock market, both on the upside and the downside. Just as it seemed the smart money was in dot-com stocks in 1999 and Florida real estate in 2006, the opposite mentality sets in during down markets. We hear water-cooler conversations among friends and family about how this downturn just "feels different" than others, or why someone has moved their entire 401(k) allocation to cash until things calm down.
During periods of market turbulence, it's important to remember that individual investors, as a group, are notoriously out of synch with market reality. The guesses and opinions our friends and neighbors are offering about the market aren't any different than those offered by the talking heads on TV. It's all based on hunches and suppositions, and that's no way to manage your investments. To the contrary, process, discipline and a healthy dose of emotional detachment are the best ways to ride out a downturn in the market.


The characters and incidents on pages 4-6 and in the epilogue are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2011 by Jonathan B. Spira. All rights reserved.


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Q: Why is a display resolution missing from Ubuntu on Xorg environment, but not from Ubuntu environment? I run Ubuntu 22.10 on Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 2020. Its graphic card is Mesa Intel® Xe (TGL GT2). I noticed the following:

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*When I log in to the Ubuntu desktop environment (which is default), I can choose the 1440x900 resolution (16x10 aspect ratio).

*When I log in to Ubuntu on Xorg desktop environment, the 1440x900 resolution is not offered as an option.

I see the same behaviour through both the GUI (Settings > Display), and command line (xrandr). Also, the above resolution was available on Xorg in Ubuntu 22.04.
Why is this happenning? How can I re-enable 1440x900 resolution for the Xorg environment again?


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