Exceedingly...

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In Sign of the Times, Global Village gathers to watch sign

noreply@blogger.com ([+] -=jOshuA aNdrEws=-) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:12:00 +0000

Preston Fosback and his mother, Kristine, were shocked when their Obama sign was stolen one night in April from the front yard of their Portland, Ore., home.

When they put up another one nine days ago, that, too, was swiped within hours. Undeterred, they made their own sign and put it up the next day.

Preston Fosback

But this time, 16-year-old Preston had a plan: He set up a video camera inside the house and trained it on the sign from behind a window. He figured he would catch the thief on film, should he return. He hooked up the camera to a Web site that provides live streaming. He wrote a few words on the site explaining its purpose.

And then, the handmade sign with red, uneven letters went global.

A few people started watching the video, which shows the sign next to another sign endorsing a local candidate, beside a flowerbed. The only reliable action consists of the occasional car passing in the background.

Still, by that first evening, more than 100 people were watching. The next day, when Preston checked the site during lunch at school, more than 450 were there, not only from around the U.S. but as far away as Australia, Sri Lanka and Japan.

"We had no intention of making this so public," says Preston, who goes by "signkid" on the online chat that runs next to the video. "It just kind of took over by itself."

Keeping an Eye on the Sign

Obama Sign CCTV 1

Watch the Obama lawn sign on the Internet.

Dozens of viewers now take shifts, based on their time zones, so as not to leave the sign unwatched at any time. Viewers in Europe take over for those turning in on the West Coast, who are in turn relieved by a dedicated crew of Australians. It's attracted more than 40,000 viewers and ranks among the top 10 most-watched videos on Ustream.tv, the Web site that hosts the video, among videos of the two presidential candidates and comedian Dane Cook.

"It's not that boring really," says Elena Johansson, a 26-year-old law student in Turku, Finland. "There are squirrels moving around."

Ms. Johansson admits to staying up until 4 a.m. one night, participating in the around-the-clock vigil. She's drawn to the sense of purpose, as well as the community developing in the online chat, which focuses primarily on the U.S. presidential race, the participants' personal lives and, of course, the sign.

Given that little happens on screen, mundane occurrences can generate fevered excitement.

When a car passes, someone often types, "CAR!" Each night when Preston turns on the two lamps aimed at the sign, held on the roof by pillow cases filled with dirt, viewers type, "LIGHTS!" A few nights ago, Ms. Fosback, a public-school teacher, provided some entertainment by feeding pizza to their golden retriever, Mandy, in front of the camera.

The community -- which now calls itself CHAOS, or Citizens Hanging Around the Obama Sign -- has become protective not only of the sign but of the Fosbacks.

When Preston joined the online chat during a school day, several asked why he wasn't in school. He explained he was in computer class. Some have offered to start a college fund for him. Others, now aware of his mother's teaching schedule, have suggested Preston not respond to any strangers on the site until his mother gets home.

At first, the Fosbacks were cautious about telling anyone about the video, keeping their identity anonymous. Ms. Fosback, who goes by "teachkids" on the forum, disclosed their secret to a neighbor, so she could keep an eye on things when the Fosbacks are out. Preston recently began telling a few friends at school.

One of them, named Ben, called Preston one night and asked him to prove it was really him behind the video. Preston then wrote, "Hi Ben," on a piece of paper and walked in front of the camera with it, prompting a chorus of questions on the site asking who Ben was.

When Preston informed them that his friend was a McCain supporter, a wave of derision followed until Preston warned viewers he would ban anyone from the site who wrote anything negative about Ben. Some then started writing, "I love Ben," or "Ben is my best friend."

"That's when I realized how influential I was in this chat," says Preston.

Lorraine Armstrong, a 40-year-old human-resources manager for a construction company in Orlando, Fla., says she's had the video on her computer screen, both at home and work, since she discovered it a week ago. She has a clock on her computer set to the time in Portland.

Campaign signs in the Orlando area for both candidates have been vandalized, she says, keeping her from displaying any of her own. While she sees the video as mostly humorous, she says it involves more serious matters, too, such as freedom of speech.

"There's a sense of being able to help someone do this," says Ms. Armstrong. She adds she's helped name things in the video. Some rocks near the signs, for example, are now called "Ba-rocks."

For a while, things stayed quiet around the sign. Then, at 11:13 Portland time Tuesday night, something actually happened.

Through the darkness, viewers could see two teenage girls emerge and move toward a small gnome Preston had set up by the sign. Earlier in the day, some viewers had asked Preston to put something outside to provide some variety. He and his mother came up with the gnome, left in their garage from a ceramics class.

The "chat people," as Preston calls them, loved it, naming the gnome "O'Merkley," a mixture of Obama and the name of the local candidate, Jeff Merkley, whose name is on the other sign in the yard.

The two girls approached the signs. One of them grabbed O'Merkley, the ceramic gnome, and stuffed him in a garbage bag, breaking the brittle figure in the process. They then ran off. The online forum, meanwhile, had gone berserk, with comments ranging from "PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" to "Stop stop stop" to "Call 911."

But since no one knew the identity of the Fosbacks, who were sleeping at the time, or had their phone number, the viewers couldn't alert them. "It was a helpless feeling," says Candice Smith, a 44-year-old in San Francisco who sells antiquarian books on the Internet and has been monitoring the video.

The next morning, after finding the destroyed gnome by the sign, Ms. Fosback dressed in black and pretended to weep in front of the camera. That night, the forum stopped chatting for a moment of silence in the gnome's honor. One viewer made a T-shirt with the inscription, O'Merkley: Rest in Peace.

"The Internet," says Preston, "has a way of taking simple things and making them extraordinary."

Write to Christopher Rhoads at christopher.rhoads@wsj.com

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Muppets - Beaker sings Rick Roll

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Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley

Muppets - Star Stripes Forever

noreply@blogger.com ([+] -=jOshuA aNdrEws=-) — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:44:00 +0000

LoL!! This was the best video I've seen for a long time!
You just gotta love the muppets!

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Christianity is Hate

noreply@blogger.com ([+] -=jOshuA aNdrEws=-) — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:28:00 +0000

I watched a documentary tonight.. much like "Jesus Camp" but more inclusive to give the big picture of Christianity in America today.

After watching it, this is what I wrote to a friend who has to hide her atheistic believes in fear of her immediate environment (She seem to hint its Christianity but she's hiding a lot of information about herself in fear)

"In America tonight, there was a program called "God's warrior" on CNN - its a documentary on Christians here.

Irene (not true name), this documentary has shocked me into disbelief and pain.

I see nothing but pure distilled hate festering in the multitudes of fanatic Christians - their face, contorted like the devil's, their eyes, sunken deep in an almost satanic lust for condemnation and contempt of men.

This is the very impenetrable wall against all reasoning. I don't see them as intelligent debaters more so than blood lusting animalistic passion to destroy all who disagree.
It's painful and its shocking.

The interview of the Islamic fundamentalist by Dawkins gave me goosebumps, but the very cousins of my faith in my backyard who are far more intent on destruction of mankind froze my spine and mind into an anaphylactic shock.

Everything that Jesus came to do, the peace and tolerance he preached has been cast aside like a useless rag doll, and they have morphed Him into a spiteful megolithitic Hell monster determined to go so far as to kill people to prove his morality.

I think its time people get together to do something - a war for the minds of rationality and peace. Moderate Islamists, Moderate Christians, Atheists, Buddhists, etc need to stop this soon.
If Obama does not win, America will be one step closer to theocracy - I hope it will never end up there.
Two sets of theocracies - United States and Israel verses Islamic States - that could be the end of the world. Infact, Pro-Israeli war Christians want to hasten the end of the world to fulfill their prophesy.
This is sick, this is pure evil, this is the new Satan's Christianity."

It is really sad, it started off with my journey into biology. I hated evolutionists and wanted to disprove their theories. Unfortunately, when I was presented with the multitudes of evidence, I felt as stupid as the Christians who claimed Galileo was a heretic for showing scientific evidence for a heliocentric model. There is plenty, and if anyone wants some evidence, I can forward you to the scientific papers - on any part of evolution.
Anyway, that's just a science, so what if Christians don't believe?
I'm ok with that, but somehow, through non-scriptural acrobatics of reasoning, almost all fundamentalists see Evolution as a reason for immorality in the world. - That if somehow, evolution makes people not feel accountable to God, and therefore makes them immoral.
The fallacy is that Hindu, Atheists, Buddhists, even before the advent of evolution, or astronomy, did not believe in God, but were they immoral?

I think there is a strong case that it is quite the opposite, Christians in devilish fervour have prosecuted and oppressed tons of people to satisfy their lust for hate - Spanish inquisition, witch hunts, women rights, slavery, jews, arabs, scientists, atheists, etc etc. Even Hitler talked about his Christian faith as justification for the holocaust. However, if we think such purified hate is a thing of the past, we are experiencing it right here in America. Christian groups spit, curse and growl at homosexuals and tolerant Christians. They even bombed and killed doctors in their political agenda against abortion. Is this an eye for and eye theology? Superceding Jesus's words? I don't care about correct theology at this point, any part of the bible can support the most hateful speech and opinion. And hence, the moral majority that Rev Falwell have created, has become Satan's New Christianity - preaching the gospel of hate against non-christians so they will see that Christianity is an extreme religion of violence and hate, and never want to accept Christ.

It is truly sad, its is the ultimate perversion of Jesus's ministry - He was against the very men, the pharisees who insist on using the laws of the bible to rule people's life. And now, the loudest voice of Christ, is the phariseetical scream of hate against people based on strict interpretation of the law - propounding and spreading Satan's Christianity.

2 Peter 2 : 1-3
1 But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. 2 And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned; 3 and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

1 John 4:1
Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Galations 5:22-23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Galations 5:19-20
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these .... HATRED... WRATH

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Firebombings at Homes of 2 California Researchers

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The disgusting and unethical violence of PETA.

August 4, 2008
Firebombings at Homes of 2 California Researchers
By JESSE McKINLEY

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — The police and federal authorities are investigating firebombings at the homes of two researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The attacks, which the university described as “antiscience violence,” occurred nearly simultaneously before dawn on Saturday, just days after the police in Santa Cruz discovered pamphlets in a coffee shop warning of attacks against “animal abusers everywhere.” The pamphlets included the names, addresses and other personal information of several researchers at the university, according to a news release put out on Friday by the university.

About 5:30 a.m. Saturday, two small bombs ignited outside the researchers’ homes. In one of the attacks, a vehicle was destroyed in a faculty member’s driveway. At the second residence, a two-story home near the university’s front gates, the fire forced the researcher, his wife and two children to flee the home from an upstairs window. The fires were quickly extinguished.

One minor injury was reported, according to The Santa Cruz Sentinel, which also said the police were viewing the attacks as acts of attempted homicide and domestic terrorism. The Santa Cruz Police Department would not comment on their investigation on Sunday.

But the researcher whose house caught fire was identified by The Associated Press as David Feldheim, a molecular biologist, who was listed in the pamphlet. The other researcher was not identified.

The fires provoked an angry response from the university’s chancellor, who said the attacks were being investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as by the campus police and the state fire marshal’s office.

“These unconscionable acts put the researchers, their families — including their children — and their neighbors in grave danger,” the chancellor, George R. Blumenthal, said in a news release.

The university described the attacks as the latest in a series of threats and provocations from those opposed to “biomedical research using animals,” including a February incident in which several masked intruders entered a researcher’s home. After a confrontation, the intruders fled. That incident followed harassing phone calls and vandalism of researchers’ homes, the university said.

In December, the 10 chancellors at the University of California campuses affirmed in a statement their support of animal research and the university system’s commitment to “the highest standards of animal care, safety and health.”

At one of the bombed properties, the porch was badly scorched and a plastic watering can lay melted next to the charred front door. Two small windows in the door had also melted.

The attacks surprised some in Santa Cruz, a genial beachfront town where laid-back college students and equally relaxed day-trippers make up much of the landscape.

Chris Conway, who lives across the street from one of the homes that was attacked, said investigators had combed the site all day Saturday.

“I don’t know what they did to deserve that,” said Mr. Conway, a 19-year-old student. “I think that’s kind of messed up to do that to someone’s home.”

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Animal rights?? Bullshit...

noreply@blogger.com ([+] -=jOshuA aNdrEws=-) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:32:00 +0000

Check out Penn and Teller's mockumentary on PETA - an extremist organization with a cute face.

Doctor and Patient, Now at Odds

noreply@blogger.com ([+] -=jOshuA aNdrEws=-) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 13:18:00 +0000

Doctor and Patient, Now at Odds
By TARA PARKER-POPE

A growing chorus of discontent suggests that the once-revered doctor-patient relationship is on the rocks.

The relationship is the cornerstone of the medical system — nobody can be helped if doctors and patients aren’t getting along. But increasingly, research and anecdotal reports suggest that many patients don’t trust doctors.

About one in four patients feel that their physicians sometimes expose them to unnecessary risk, according to data from a Johns Hopkins study published this year in the journal Medicine. And two recent studies show that whether patients trust a doctor strongly influences whether they take their medication.

The distrust and animosity between doctors and patients has shown up in a variety of places. In bookstores, there is now a genre of “what your doctor won’t tell you” books promising previously withheld information on everything from weight loss to heart disease.

The Internet is bristling with frustrated comments from patients. On The New York Times’s Well blog recently, a reader named Tom echoed the concerns of many about doctors. “I, as patient, say stop acting like you know everything,” he wrote. “Admit it, and we patients may stop distrusting your quick off-the-line, glib diagnosis.”

Doctors say they are not surprised. “It’s been striking to me since I went into practice how unhappy patients are and, frankly, how mistreated patients are,” said Dr. Sandeep Jauhar, director of the heart failure program at Long Island Jewish Medical Center and an occasional contributor to Science Times.

He recounted a conversation he had last week with a patient who had been transferred to his hospital. “I said, ‘So why are you here?’ He said: ‘I have no idea. They just transferred me.’

“Nobody is talking to the patients,” Dr. Jauhar went on. “Everyone is so rushed. I don’t think the doctors are bad people — they are just working in a broken system.”

The reasons for all this frustration are complex. Doctors, facing declining reimbursements and higher costs, have only minutes to spend with each patient. News reports about medical errors and drug industry influence have increased patients’ distrust. And the rise of direct-to-consumer drug advertising and medical Web sites have taught patients to research their own medical issues and made them more skeptical and inquisitive.

“Doctors used to be the only source for information on medical problems and what to do, but now our knowledge is demystified,” said Dr. Robert Lamberts, an internal medicine physician and medical blogger in Augusta, Ga. “When patients come in with preconceived ideas about what we should do, they do get perturbed at us for not listening. I do my best to explain why I do what I do, but some people are not satisfied until we do what they want.”

Others say the problem also stems from a grueling training system that removes doctors from the world patients live in.

“By the time you’re done with your training, you feel, in many ways, that you are as far as you could possibly be from the very people you’ve set out to help,” said Dr. Pauline Chen, most recently a liver transplant surgeon at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the author of “Final Exam: A Surgeon’s Reflections on Mortality” (Knopf, 2007). “We don’t even talk the same language anymore.”

Dr. David H. Newman, an emergency room physician at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center in Manhattan, says there is a disconnect between the way doctors and patients view medicine. Doctors are trained to diagnose disease and treat it, he said, while “patients are interested in being tended to and being listened to and being well.”

Dr. Newman, author of the new book “Hippocrates’ Shadow: Secrets from the House of Medicine” (Scribner), says studies of the placebo effect suggest that Hippocrates was right when he claimed that faith in physicians can help healing. “It adds misery and suffering to any condition to not have a source of care that you trust,” Dr. Newman said.

But these doctors say the situation is not hopeless. Patients who don’t trust their doctor should look for a new one, but they may be able to improve existing relationships by being more open and communicative.

Go to a doctor’s visit with written questions so you don’t forget to ask what’s important to you. If a doctor starts to rush out of the room, stop him or her by saying, “Doctor, I still have some questions.” Patients who are open with their doctors about their feelings and fears will often get the same level of openness in return.

“All of us, the patients and the doctors, ultimately want the same thing,” Dr. Chen said. “But we see ourselves on opposite sides of a divide. There is this sense that we’re facing off with each other and we’re not working together. It’s a tragedy.”

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Griping Online? Comcast Hears and Talks Back

Finally! A company that gorges me penniless with outrages fees, it's nice that they are finally doing something about customer service...
I like this - I don't agree that its "Big Brother" - if you don't want Comcast to read it, just don't post it on a public space.

By BRIAN STELTER

PHILADELPHIA — Brandon Dilbeck, 20, a student at the University of Washington, was complaining recently on his blog, Brandon Notices, about Comcast's practice of posting ads in its on-screen programming guide.

He assumed he was writing for his own benefit. "It feels like nobody ever really reads my blog," he said. "Nobody has left a comment in months."

Shortly afterward, he received an e-mail message from Comcast, thanking him for the feedback and adding that it was working on a new interactive guide that might "illuminate the issues that you are currently experiencing."

Mr. Dilbeck found it all a bit creepy. "The rest of his e-mail may as well have read, 'Big Brother is watching you,' " he said.

But Frank Eliason, digital care manager at Comcast, says he was just trying to help.

From a sparse desk dominated by two computer screens in the new Comcast Center here, Mr. Eliason uses readily available online tools to monitor public comments on blogs, message boards and social networks for any mention of Comcast, the nation's largest cable company. When he sees a complaint like Mr. Dilbeck's, he contacts the source to try to defuse the problem.

"When you're having a two-way conversation, you really get to clear the air," Mr. Eliason said.

Comcast is not the only company trying to reach out to customers online. Using the social messaging service Twitter, Southwest Airlines answers customer questions about ticket prices and flight delays, Whole Foods Market posts details about discounts, and the chief executive of the online shoe store Zappos shares details of his life with 7,200 "followers." Many other companies also monitor online discussion groups.

But Comcast is going an extra step by talking back, contacting customers who are discussing the company online.

Odds are they are complaining about Comcast. The company was ranked at the very bottom of the most recent American Customer Satisfaction Index, which tracks consumer opinions of more than 200 companies. Hundreds of customers have filed grievances on a site called ComcastMustDie.com.

Comcast says the online outreach is part of a larger effort to revamp its customer service. In just about five months, Mr. Eliason, whose job redefines customer service, has reached out to well over 1,000 customers online.

Lyza Gardner, a vice president at a Web development company in Portland, Ore., used Twitter to vent about a $183 cable bill last month. (The bill was prorated for almost two months of service.) Her comment — "very angry at Comcast" — set off Mr. Eliason's search tool, prompting him to type out his typical reply: "Can I help?" The response caught Ms. Gardner off guard.

"It's one thing to spit vitriol about a company when they can't hear you," she said in an interview. It's another, she said, when the company replies. "I immediately backed down and softened my tone when I knew I was talking to a real person."

As blogs, forums and social networking sites have become pervasive parts of people's lives, companies have grappled with whether — and how — to deal with them. The sites expose hundreds and potentially thousands of other people to the experiences of individual customers.

Brian D. Solis, who runs a public relations firm, FutureWorks, that specializes in social media, said companies like Comcast are "taking what used to be an inbound call center and turning it into an outbound form of customer relations" that can also help spot problems before they get out of hand.

Still, others agree with Mr. Dilbeck, the University of Washington student, that the online outreach is annoying. "Comcast Is Watching Us," declared a blog called Contempt for the World in February, when Mr. Eliason started wading into the comment sections of blogs.

On the whole, though, all the talking back appears to be good for the company's public image. Mr. Eliason said he remembered only seven cases in which customers had called him creepy, and he believed the benefits far outweighed the occasional awkwardness.

When a commenter makes claims of being mistreated by Comcast, Mr. Eliason contacts the person directly and steers the case toward a resolution. "Wish me luck @comcastcares," William Pomerantz, an employee at the X Prize Foundation in Washington, wrote last month as he headed to his new apartment to await his third appointment for a Comcast installation.

Three hours later, Mr. Pomerantz badly needed some luck. The technician had not arrived, a telephone representative had disconnected his call, and Mr. Eliason's online account was "strangely silent," as he complained online.

Mr. Eliason, checking his messages as he rode home on a commuter train, noticed Mr. Pomerantz's comments and responded: "I will get someone there!"

Half an hour later, a technician arrived. "Before he was done, I had two more technicians call and say they were ready to come immediately if I still needed assistance," Mr. Pomerantz recalled. "The reaction was a thousand times better than what I was getting by phone."

Of course, most customers still call when they have problems. If they all started blogging and commenting instead, Mr. Eliason would be quickly overwhelmed. "This is a channel, but it is not the first step" for customer concerns, he said.

Already the number of online comments are more than Mr. Eliason can handle himself, so his staff has gradually grown to seven people; soon it will have 10.

By acting quickly when customers complain — even at the oddest hours — the team has proved that its service is not aimed solely at users with the loudest virtual voices. Noting the thunder and wind late on the night of June 11, richrecruiter, a Twitter user, wrote that he was "counting down to Comcast outage interrupting tonight's Phillies game." Mr. Eliason quickly replied with a brief "LOL," short for "laugh out loud."

"See, I knew you were listening to me!" the customer answered. By then, it was past 11 p.m.

"Absolutely," Mr. Eliason replied from his BlackBerry, his wife sound asleep in the bedroom. "A little tired tonight, but I am still on it."