Tuesday, February 24, 2015
"Of all children reported missing... 99.8% were returned home or located; the remaining number were virtually all runaways."
"Stranger Danger" to children vastly overstated - Boing Boing: "As a parent of two young children, it's my job to keep them healthy, safe, and happy. But I'm not at all worried they're going to be snatched off the street. Why? Because oft-spread claims that that 800,000 children are reported missing each year—with 300,000 children estimated to be sexually trafficked—are outdated or simply wrong...
"In fact, the true risk from people children don't know or who are "slight acquaintances" is extremely slim. As with most crime and violence, children are exposed to the greatest risk either because of family members or their own choices...
About the half of missing children — reported or otherwise — are runaways (their choice) or throwaways (kicked out without a place to go). These kids are at high risk of violence and various forms of exploitation, although the latter risk is overstated... Most of the rest of the reports and estimates fall into "benign explanation" (43% of reported), in which the child isn't missing, but a caretaker thought they were. Another good-sized chunk, 8% of reported, are kids who were lost or injured — not intentionally missing and no other party was responsible. The number of custodial violations, in which a family member takes a child away without permission (involving force if aged 15 to 17), is nearly 120,000 (9%) from the survey estimates and 57,000 of the reported cases (7%).
...Of nonfamily abductions, just 115 children (90 reported) in 1999 were estimated to fit a stereotypical kidnapping by a stranger or slight acquaintance. Forty of those were killed. That's 1 child out of every 750,000 kidnapped, and 1 out of about every 2 million killed. Of all children reported missing (whether the estimate or based on reports), 99.8% were returned home or located; the remaining number were virtually all runaways."
“There are many, many whistleblowers and sources out there.”
Laura Poitras's Citizenfour OPSEC - Boing Boing: "Poitras points to a new generation of government insiders who she says feel betrayed by the permanent institutionalization under Obama of policies that they saw as emergency measures under Bush. “The growth of the surveillance state, the increased drone wars, Guantanamo, these are activities that the U.S. government is engaging in that people think the public has a right to know about, and that they’ll take risks to reveal,” she says. “There are many, many whistleblowers and sources out there.”"
Feynman Wins.
“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don’t know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we’re here. I don’t have to know an answer. I don’t feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
― Richard P. Feynman
Pay child support for children that aren't yours, or go to jail.
I blame the patriarchy. Judge ‘Outraged’ at Innocent Man, Orders Him to Pay $30,000 in Support for Child That Isn’t His - Hit & Run : Reason.com: "Carnell Alexander is not the father of the now-adult child for whom several courts, including the Wayne County Circuit Court this week, have ordered him to pay $30,000 in back child support for. How do we know he's not the father? Because he took a DNA test proving the contrary, and even the mother (an ex-girlfriend) now says he's not.
How is it possible in the Land of the Free that men can face huge fines, revocation of professional licenses, forfeiture of the right to international travel, and sometimes (as in Alexander's case until this week) even jail time, from owing child support to kids that aren't theirs?"
Chicago PD, you're doing it wrong.
Chicago Police Department maintains "black site" for illegal detention and torture - Boing Boing: "Homan Square is the Chicago Police Department's "secure site" where people as young as 15 are detained without charge and without access to counsel, subject to beatings that result in head wounds, and, in one case, death.
People detained in Homan Square are not listed in any database and can't be located by lawyers or family members. At least one notorious Gitmo torturer, Richard Zuley, formerly worked at Homan Square for the Chicago PD. The guards who stand at the doors to Homan Square refuse to identify themselves. Although most of those detained and abused at Homan Square are poor people, mostly of color, it has also been used for political detention of protesters."
"I'm crazy about... well, hey, I'm just crazy!"
Great image. Via - Bleeding Cool
Harley Quinn Actress Margot Robbie Confirms Multi-Picture Deal - Comic Book Resources: ""You don't need to have commitment issues to be frightened by the fact that you might have just signed 10 years of your life away," Robbie told AZCentral. "But with her, it's a character I don't think would ever get boring. Ever. So if they did 'Suicide Squad One,' 'Two' and 'Three,' I would be over the moon about it." Opening Aug. 5, 2016, Warner Bros.’ “Suicide Squad” also stars Will Smith as Deadshot, Jared Leto as the Joker, Cara Delevingne as Enchantress and Jai Courtney as Boomerang, with Joel Kinnaman reportedly in negotiations to play Rick Flag. Viola Davis is also expected to appear as Amanda Waller."
Training - "If you have any doubts, stop having doubts."
2/25 - deadlift, back xt, short bridge/elevated table, situps, alt db curl, grip/COCT - stretch
Logue *is* Harvey Bullock.
"Bullock, immediately after shooting a man to death on the street: "I need a Danish." Best of all, he says it angrily to Gordon, as if killing the bank robber is forcing him to buy a Danish he doesn't actually want." - Fish Mooney And A Spoon Just Turned Gotham Into Must-Watch Television
Monday, February 23, 2015
"Seen a lot of injuries then? Violent deaths?"
Where they really defined Freeman's Watson. Nailed it, indeed.
So Say We All - "Hugh Jackman Wants To Play Wolverine Until He Dies."
Hugh Jackman Wants To Play Wolverine Until He Dies - Comic Book Resources: "In a new interview with Cigar Aficionado, Jackman walked back his previous reticence in a major way, saying, "I said to my wife, ‘The moral is that I should never stop playing Wolverine. I’ve got to find a way to keep playing him until I die.’ I know that someday they’ll recast the role with another actor…I’d be happy if the role was eventually recast. It would mean that it had become iconic."
Later in the interview, the actor went on to describe how he'll be upping his game in future outings as the wild X-Man. "I always want to be in better shape than I was for the last one. I don’t believe in stagnation. People say they try to maintain the status quo. But I believe the natural cycle means you’re either advancing and getting closer to something or you’re receding…Every time I play Wolverine I want to go further, physically and emotionally."
Wolverine returns in "X-Men: Apocalypse" on May 27, 2016, with a third, still untitled Wolverine solo film following on March 3, 2017."
Ultimate Wasp.
Evangeline Lilly is going to have to bring her 'A' game, because this is awesome. superheroesincolor: Ultimate Wasp cosplay - APE IN A CAPE: "...by Anime Indian
Cosplayer: Sara Moni"
"Alzheimer's Disease Is Type 3 Diabetes."
One in three seniors in America dies with... - Burn Fat Not Sugar: "One in three seniors in America dies with Alzheimer's dementia. It is officially an epidemic. Alzheimer's dementia is literally a consequence of fueling your brain your whole life with glucose... THIS IS A REALLY BIG DEAL."
Alzheimer's Disease Is Type 3 Diabetes–Evidence Reviewed: "Altogether, the results from these studies provide strong evidence in support of the hypothesis that AD represents a form of diabetes mellitus that selectively afflicts the brain...
Referring to AD as T3DM is justified, because the fundamental molecular and biochemical abnormalities overlap with T1DM and T2DM rather than mimic the effects of either one. Some of the most relevant data supporting this concept have emerged from clinical studies demonstrating cognitive improvement and/or stabilization of cognitive impairment in subjects with early AD following treatment with intranasal insulin or a PPAR agonist."
Science often isn't - "...cutting fat and cholesterol, as Americans have conscientiously done, may have even worsened our health."
The Government’s Bad Diet Advice - NYTimes.com: "FOR two generations, Americans ate fewer eggs and other animal products because policy makers told them that fat and cholesterol were bad for their health. Now both dogmas have been debunked in quick succession.
First, last fall, experts on the committee that develops the country’s dietary guidelines acknowledged that they had ditched the low-fat diet. On Thursday, that committee’s report was released, with an even bigger change: It lifted the longstanding caps on dietary cholesterol, saying there was “no appreciable relationship” between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol. Americans, it seems, had needlessly been avoiding egg yolks, liver and shellfish for decades. The new guidelines, the first to be issued in five years, will influence everything from school lunches to doctors’ dieting advice...
How did experts get it so wrong? Certainly, the food industry has muddied the waters through its lobbying. But the primary problem is that nutrition policy has long relied on a very weak kind of science: epidemiological, or “observational,” studies in which researchers follow large groups of people over many years. But even the most rigorous epidemiological studies suffer from a fundamental limitation. At best they can show only association, not causation. Epidemiological data can be used to suggest hypotheses but not to prove them. Instead of accepting that this evidence was inadequate to give sound advice, strong-willed scientists overstated the significance of their studies...
Much of the epidemiological data underpinning the government’s dietary advice comes from studies run by Harvard’s school of public health. In 2011, directors of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences analyzed many of Harvard’s most important findings and found that they could not be reproduced in clinical trials. It’s no surprise that longstanding nutritional guidelines are now being challenged. In 2013, government advice to reduce salt intake (which remains in the current report) was contradicted by an authoritative Institute of Medicine study. And several recent meta-analyses have cast serious doubt on whether saturated fats are linked to heart disease, as the dietary guidelines continue to assert. Uncertain science should no longer guide our nutrition policy. Indeed, cutting fat and cholesterol, as Americans have conscientiously done, may have even worsened our health. In clearing our plates of meat, eggs and cheese (fat and protein), we ate more grains, pasta and starchy vegetables (carbohydrates). Over the past 50 years, we cut fat intake by 25 percent and increased carbohydrates by more than 30 percent, according to a new analysis of government data. Yet recent science has increasingly shown that a high-carb diet rich in sugar and refined grains increases the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease — much more so than a diet high in fat and cholesterol."
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