Been Awhile but
been getting older in the meantime
I think much that is
wrong with our country is that people simply get miffed too often at those that
are just trying to get the job done and move on to the next piece of work they
have to do.
That instead of
simply doing the job when it is the fastest and easiest to get it done it is far
easier to wait then try and cram it in at the last moment.
The older you get it
seems the farther that you get away from just doing it getting it done and
moving on to the next job.
Just is not done in
this world.
If Only
Its seems the problems that
President Obama is now having with the press might have been avoided if the
press had did their jobs before the election instead of now.
It was well known in Chicago
what was going on with the press there and yet not a soul said a single thing
until the pressure was put on them.
When the press starts to take
sides to the point they bury news to make certain that a candidate is elected
then they have forsaken all they they stand for.
To be a fair press you have
to report the good and the bad not just what you feel is important.
To many reporters today
decide that only the right and the left or if any importance and completely
ignore those in the middle that make up the bulk of those in this nation.
One can only hope that one
day the press both national and local will remember that they have obligation to
report the news and not be a part of it till then we are stuck with what may or
may not be the actual story of what is going on.
Racism in the
2008 Election
The problem with
Mr. Obama is not that he is black but the fact that he feels he must remind
people that he is. You can not unite when you tell people the reason that they
are Republicans is that they are bible toting, gun loving, working class that
have lost hope.
That because he
is black that the Republicans will use this to scare people, that because he is
black with a white mother it will bring out all the Republican racists.
That because he
is a black man with a Moslem name it will be held against him by Republicans,
that because he is black his wife should not be talked about in the election,
that because he is black that he must be held to less of a standard then that of
John McCain.
He attended a
church where hate against whites was preached and saw nothing wrong.
He made a speech
where he declared while there were problems with black Americans that white
Americans needed to set down and atone for that was wrong with black America.
If Obama wishes
race to not be an issue then he should run the race as if he was the great actor
Sidney Portier, know it is there and be better then it. Then he might just be a
uniter and not a divider.
Few provisions of the Bill of Rights to the U.
S. Constitution stir deeper emotions today than that guaranteeing freedom of the
press.
The resolution enumerated the rights of
colonists, as perceived by the Continental Congress, and included this
statement:
"The last right we shall mention regards the
freedom of the press. The importance of this consists, besides the advancement
of truth, science, morality and arts in general, in its diffusion of liberal
sentiments on the administration of government, its ready communication of
thoughts between subjects, and its consequential promotion of union among them
whereby oppressive officers are shamed or intimidated into more honorable and
just modes of conducting affairs."
Freedom of speech of the press is at issue. If
you do a news piece can your business be ordered to be shut down because the
person interviewed in the news piece does not like what they said or how they
looked on camera or the pen name of the one doing the piece.
Can you order the internet to remove all
references to not only that news piece but all references to it and the pen name
of the one that did the piece.
Do news pieces done on the internet have the same protections as those in
print and over the air?
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution is a part of the United
States Bill of Rights. On its face, it prohibits the United States Congress from
making laws "respecting an establishment of religion" (the Establishment Clause)
or that prohibit free exercise of religion (the Free Exercise Clause), laws that
infringe the freedom of speech, infringe the freedom of the press, limit the
right to peaceably assemble, or limit the right to petition the government for a
redress of grievances.
Although the First Amendment explicitly prohibits only the named rights from
being abridged by laws made by the Congress, the courts have interpreted it as
applying more broadly. As the first sentence in the body of the Constitution
reserves all law-making (legislative) authority to the Congress, the courts have
held that the First Amendment's terms also extend to the executive and judicial
branches. Additionally, in the 20th century the Supreme Court has held that the
Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment "incorporates" the limitations of
the First Amendment. That means that the restrictions of the First Amendment
also apply to the states, including the local governments within each of those
states.
As a favor to the individual the article was
removed from the internet but you can't remove references to it till they fade
away.
Freedom of the press, like freedom of speech, is
subject to restrictions on bases such as defamation law. Restrictions, however,
have been struck down if they are aimed at the political message or content of
newspapers.
You may sue for libel only if the publisher published the statements in
question with "actual malice."
The constitutions of most of the several states also provide free speech
protections analogous to that of the U.S. Constitution. Some states, such as
California, have treated their local constitutional protections as being more
expansive than that of the U.S. Constitution.
The courts have rarely treated content-based
regulation of the press with any sympathy. In
Miami Herald Publishing Co. v.
Tornillo
(1974), the Court unanimously struck down a state law requiring newspapers
criticizing political candidates to publish their responses. The state claimed
that the law had been passed to ensure press responsibility. Finding that only
freedom, and not press responsibility, is mandated by the First Amendment, the
Supreme Court ruled that the government may not force newspapers to publish that
which they do not desire to publish.
Still the issue at hand here is can you be
ordered to give the interview to that person, let them re-edit, relight and do
whatever they wish to the interview so they can be seen in the light that they
wish themselves to be seen in and then reposted in this new form?
(Can you imagine the material that would be if
it could be in an election year!)
If you can shut an internet business down because you don't like what a
person has published that you said or you don't like a persons pen name what
else can you do.
It seems very
strange that banks whom hold the mortgages on millions of homes that people
can't afford and should never have been allowed to purchase to begin with are
fighting tooth and nail to keep from having interest rates reset to a value that
could afford by those on the verge of their homes. One massive run on sentence
but it states the situation properly.
It is sort of
obvious that lenders have learned a lesson from the saving of Chrysler and the
bailing out of Savings and Loans that you can have your cake and eat it to. The
democrats in congress are going to bail out the home owners, refund money to the
lenders and the banks will be rolling in money.
It would seem to
me that the best method and one that would not cost tax papers any money would
to simply put the interest rates on homes back to what it was when the homes
were purchased. It has been said that this actually would be bad for the
economy. How I do not understand.
Instead the
banks will be given billions, home owners will be given billions and in the end
those that bought homes they could not afford will be allowed to stay in their
homes and the banks will retain titles to them to put the screws on the home
owners again with anew round of interest rates that will drive people from their
homes.
Taxes on
everyone will be raised to pay for all above causing a hardship on those that
bought their homes the old fashioned way. This will drive them to borrow money
they can't afford, to demand higher wages to pay their bills and cause prices to
go up and interest rates to go up.
Thus taking what
is about 5 percent of homes in foreclosure right now grow to a much larger
amount down the road.
You have
to help those that bought thee homes but giving them money and charging others
to do it is not the way to go about it.
The problems is
now and will be is with the banks and that is where it should be dealt with not
by taking from some poor working guy to pay for someone else's home. Stop the
banks from foreclosing turn interest rates back and do some serious
investigations into the banks that caused this mess.
You more often
know what your doing right by the negative comments made about you.
Today Oldecam got
its first negative comment after three months of doing first one minute now two
minute comments on the headlines of today.
We of course we
love positive comments, a ego massage, but you learn more by being told what you
do wrong in life then by being told what you do right.
We were told is
this some sort of Mickey Mouse Newscast. First that is exactly what it is, a
newscast.
To finally be
called a newscast by means of a negative comment is a high point for us. It
shows that what we are doing is right.
Hopefully more
people will leave comments for us so we can improve on what we are doing.
A conundrum is a
question or problem having only a conjectural answer that answer being for those
not online that you must be afraid of what you do not understand. And what you
are afraid of you must try and stop from growing and spreading its message.
Today we were
told we did not meet the qualifications to be press at CES
Below is but
three examples of coverage from last years CES. This doe not include the videos
that are not online anymore and the pictures that were eventually removed. .
We cover
consumer electronics as can be seen on our lead page. It takes over 1200 seconds
to load our recent material on CES but we do no qualify as press.
The online
community seems to be held at a higher standard then does any other form of
media. We are told we have to submit things that no business should be required
to submit to cover events.
We do understand
that there are more people that want to cover a event then there is space to
cover it. What makes us upset is to say we are not press.
We have worked
hard to build this site and with every day we become better and cover more news.
If when people tell you that you are not press nor as good as others you have to
stand up and fight to prove you do belong.
It is a process
that we wish we did not have to go thru but as long as it is felt that there is
old media and there is new media and old media rules it has to be gone thru.
We are press
rather or not those at CES recognize that we are.
Blu-ray versus Hd
or far more complicated then it seems?
In reality there is
simply more then two camps in this battles. There are the manufacturers of
Blu-ray and HD. There are those companies that are making the product to show in
each format. You have the retailers that have to sell the products. Finally you
have the consumers that have to purchase the products.
It is well known
that DVD's overwhelmed the market place with sales and now there is a slow down
in DVD sales as a result.
As is the case with
the I-Pod the market has been saturated with DVD's. The best way to make sales
increase is to introduce something new. With Apple it is the I-phone. With DVD's
it is Blu-ray and HD.
Hi-definition is
here as a result of the federal governments desire to utilize the analogy
spectrum that over the air television has used for years. In one sense it is a
great idea. Better emergency services response, better reception on your
television sets more bandwidth for cell phones services for personal use.
The problem is that
few if any of the customers actually want the hi-def sets because they have five
to six televisions in each home that will be made useless. As in the beginning
of the television industry the hi-def sets are very expensive and to be able to
see television you will have to have a hi-def set or converters. This all costs
money which many simply do not have.
Blu-ray and HD
require a great expense to homes that are already strained financially. Most
homes already have a great investment in DVD's.
The retailers have
to explain why the consumers should repurchase the very same product they have
already but in a new form. This is a hard sell and many retailers we have talked
to are not thrilled about the new formats to begin with because of the cost to
restock. Then there is lack of inventory as product is slowly being brought out
into the market.
Consumers and
retailers are having to spend money they do not have which is why the roll out
has been slower then should have been. There have been delays in manufacture of
Blu-ray players. PS3 has not rolled out as fast as should have been rolled out.
The explanation as to why you should purchase the product has been slow and not
impressive.
When you have a
consumer base that has little disposable income, has to purchase a Hi-def
television, purchase hi-def services, purchase players and product to show on
the players you end up with a consumer that thinks they are getting the shaft.
The consumer
remembers 8-track, beta, laser disks, CD and on. The customer not being stupid
understands that even while Blu-ray and HD are being rolled out the replacements
for these systems is on the drawing board. You can only go to the well so often
before the well runs dry. The well at least for the moment has ran dry.
Hard to be a
internet news service. It is a new frontier.
We have been
criticized for being to general focused and for being to narrow focused. Today
we were told we have too much news.
We do all that a
newspaper does but without the newsprint.
All over this
nation newspapers are folding because of the high cost to print and the lack of
revenue to cover the rising costs.
The costs hit us
to. It is expensive to cover events, to pay for new equipment, bandwidth and on
and on. It has to be done though to stay in business.
What we now have is
too many people working yet not enough working to do the work that is required.
Constantly we change and evolve to make things better.
This costs time and
money.
If it is considered
we are too narrow focused in what we are doing or to general or we just give too
much news then we must be doing things right to get so many diverse opinions of
our work.
Once again today we
found out how much distain there is in old media for new media.
They don't know how
to deal with it so they just try to ignore that it even exists.
It has been said
that once you start moving forward you can never turn back. Unfortunately there
are far to many that would turn the clock back to a time that they felt
comfortable in and control.
The internet genie
is out of the bottle and is not about to go back in no matter how much old media
wants it to.
It seems that on
a regular basis we find out that despite the fact that the Leslie Moonves of CBS
CBS at CES told everyone that there is not old media and new media just media
that there is only traditional media in the minds of many others.
Despite the fact
that the reach of online publications is far greater then all the traditional
media combined new media combined we are held to a different standard. We are
often told we have to give people certified records of our business license, our
tax statements, page views, unique page views, list content on the site and how
many go to each area on the site and on and on to get credentials to cover
events that paparazzi is welcome to cover.
It gets
frustrating at times but the internet is like the wild west was. It is new, raw
and untamed. Those that are willing to go boldly forth will help to shape the
future of communication.
Those on the net
as I have said before are not the enemies of traditional media but just
another tool to help get the message out.
Originally we were
a site to help people with lost pets during hurricane Katrina. We started out as
a blog on MSN then went to .com as we expanded our pet coverage to coverage of
events surrounding the destroyed southern areas.
As we covered the
events we were invited to more and more events not related to the hurricane and
expanded again to .net. We have done well and have grown to a full fledged news
service with over 23,000 unique page views a day and some 4,300 plus individual
published entry points with tens of thousands of pages of published material
amounting to well over 2 gigabytes of material.
We have our video
material on Veoh, Youtube, Grouper, Myspace, Google, Yahoo and Newsvideoweb and
expanding further each day. Since January there has been well over 400,000 views of
our news videos. Our video work is available for download in many forms
including i-pod. With in the next month we will be doing live coverage or
as close as they call live coverage in this modern world.
We have found
though that many people look for us on .com and not .net so today the decision
was made to add .com with the .net site and make the original site
www.montebubbles.org.
Many people today
still type in .com regardless of the fact that their are many domains ending in
domains other then .com. For these people we have made the move.
We have also made
the site easier to navigate and will continue to work to make things as
enlightening as possible to go with simplicity of site navigation.
Today once
again we found out the difference between internet net news and mainstream news.
What is the difference
between internet news and news from a ten watt station in the Mojave Desert?
The ten watt stations news coverage is preferred to that of internet news
coverage.
We were simply told that they did
not wish to waste our valuable time.
As I have said before the internet
is not the enemy of the mainstream media but just another means to get a message
out.
The basic problem is that few
really understand the internet. You can't make money off it like in the
mainstream media. Money can be made but it is in the money you save by
promoting what you have to market not in selling banner ads, click thru or
pre-roll, all of which everyone hates.
The internet is a great means to
get the message out if only people realized it. The question is how do you get
the message out to those that will not listen that we whom work on the internet
are just a tool to help and not the enemy to be scared of.
Today I saw
those at the Capital Memorial Day Salute that have made policy to insult and
degrade those that have fallen in battle in Iraq.
Very proudly they
stood and made certain to let all that were within earshot how much they support
the troops yet have did little to give them what they need to finish their
mission.
Instead they wish
to turn and show tail to the enemy in the field. We are in the position we are
in because when you do not finish a fight and instead walk away from it it only
makes those that you were fighting stronger.
Walking away from
Iraq before a end has been reached will just lead to more war in the future.
Wars are worth no
more then the blood that soldiers have given to it. Soldiers die in battle for
two reasons, first so that others will not have to die in the future and second
so that when one sees how horrible war is that there will always be a second
thought given before a war is started.
War is hell and the
good are always the first to die in war and war makes no exception between young
and old. If leaders had to fight wars then there would be no war.
When you have a war
though finish it then leave as fast as you can.
While it is going
on though support those that you have sent .
I know I ended
the thread on the new James Bond sometime ago but once again it has been
reopened because of this new information
Olsen Twins as
Bond girls.
Mary-Kate and
Ashley Olsen are set to be the first Bond girl twins.
The two sisters are in talks to appear in the next 007 adventure, tentatively
titled 'Bond 22', starring Daniel Craig as the suave British spy.
In a bid to secure the 20-year-old sibling stars, producers are offering
Mary-Kate and Ashley a clause in their contracts stating they will not have to
strip off or shoot any sex scenes, according to online gossip columnist Janet
Charlton.
If the twosome
accept the offer they will reportedly play characters who help Bond with his
mission.
Other beauties rumoured to be starring in the hotly anticipated film include
Dutch actress Carice van Houten and Australian star Abbie Cornish, who recently
appeared with Russell Crowe in 'A Good Year'.
'ER' actor Goran Visnjic is mooted to be playing a villain, while Dame Judi
Dench and Giancarlo Giannini will reprise their roles as M and Rene Mathis
respectively.
Shooting on the movie is due to start in 2008.
Is our food
safe?
Probably not.
Look no further
then what is being given to our pets.
There is little
different from what they are being feed and what humans are given to eat, grains
meat products and by-products, chemical additives.
If anyone pays any
attention recalls are being made by companies that also sell these products for
human consumption in different forms.
No matter what many
stores have said much food that should have been removed from shelves is still
there.
What is even worst
is I am afraid that food that has been removed has simply been just repackaged
and put back on shelves again. Just look at all the shiny new packaging you are
seeing on store shelves.
It is all about
money and not consumer safety. Companies that are as careless as they have been
in product safety for our pets can simply not be trusted to guard product safety
for humans.
There is a old
world saying that if you know you are about to die you can chose to die as a ram
or a lamb. Since the days of the Korean war more and more people in our nation
have chosen to die as lambs rather then rams.
They have
surrendered on the field of battle rather then to risk death. They have stayed
locked away in prison camps rather then try to escape, they have let themselves
be butchered rather then fight back.
There was a time
inn our nation when more then one would have stepped forward no matter what the
odds and tried to jam a killers gun down his throat rather then let all those
around him or her die.
Today they simply
let themselves be shot one by one rather then to stand up and fight.
A better world, I
don't think so.
This past week
in many in this world and our country celebrated the life of a man that died on
the cross for others sins.
It is reported
that his last world were, "Forgive then father for they know not what they have
done."
In our country
ministers such as Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton have called very publicly for
the head of Mr. Imus to be delivered on a platter and that he be fired for what
he had done.
He has now been
fired and there is no feeling of sorrow for his lost only enjoyment.
Was not it also
this great man that died that said all one had to do was to ask forgiveness and
it would be granted? No where has it ever been said that there was a sin
so great you could not be forgiven for it.
You can not say you
believe in what this great man had to say and say you are a man of faith and not
be able to forgive those that have sinned.
It is your job to
council those that have sinned and show them the way, not to ask that is the
case of John the Baptist that the head of one be delivered to you on a platter.
Al Gore and others have chosen to take Chicken
Little's the Sky Is Falling, The Sky Is Falling approach to bring their message
to the public.
Those that of the other opinion have taken that
these men and women are loonies and not to be take seriously.
In reality there is a change in the temperature
since temperature reading have started to be taken. Problem is that what were
the temperatures before the readings were started and is it a natural occurrence
in the history of the planet Earth?
If anyone had been reading the information
available of our planets history or even watching the History Channel or the
Discovery Channel they might have seen that global weather changes has happened
without man mans input.
What was the reason for this warming, flooding
freezing over the thousands of years .
Below is how science comes to conclusions and
how science is often tinted.
Maybe if both sides in the global warming issue
where to step back and let others use the method as it is meant to be done we
might come to a better conclusion as to what is going on.
Introduction to the Scientific Method
The scientific method is the process by which scientists, collectively and
over time, endeavor to construct an accurate (that is, reliable, consistent and
non-arbitrary) representation of the world.
Recognizing that personal and cultural beliefs influence both our perceptions
and our interpretations of natural phenomena, we aim through the use of standard
procedures and criteria to minimize those influences when developing a theory.
As a famous scientist once said, "Smart people (like smart lawyers) can come up
with very good explanations for mistaken points of view." In summary, the
scientific method attempts to minimize the influence of bias or prejudice in the
experimenter when testing an hypothesis or a theory.
I. The scientific method has four steps
1. Observation and description of a phenomenon or group of phenomena.
2. Formulation of an hypothesis to explain the phenomena. In physics, the
hypothesis often takes the form of a causal mechanism or a mathematical
relation.
3. Use of the hypothesis to predict the existence of other phenomena, or to
predict quantitatively the results of new observations.
4. Performance of experimental tests of the predictions by several
independent experimenters and properly performed experiments.
If the experiments bear out the hypothesis it may come to be regarded as a
theory or law of nature (more on the concepts of hypothesis, model, theory and
law below). If the experiments do not bear out the hypothesis, it must be
rejected or modified. What is key in the description of the scientific method
just given is the predictive power (the ability to get more out of the theory
than you put in; see Barrow, 1991) of the hypothesis or theory, as tested by
experiment. It is often said in science that theories can never be proved, only
disproved. There is always the possibility that a new observation or a new
experiment will conflict with a long-standing theory.
II. Testing hypotheses
As just stated, experimental tests may lead either to the confirmation of the
hypothesis, or to the ruling out of the hypothesis. The scientific method
requires that an hypothesis be ruled out or modified if its predictions are
clearly and repeatedly incompatible with experimental tests. Further, no matter
how elegant a theory is, its predictions must agree with experimental results if
we are to believe that it is a valid description of nature. In physics, as in
every experimental science, "experiment is supreme" and experimental
verification of hypothetical predictions is absolutely necessary. Experiments
may test the theory directly (for example, the observation of a new particle) or
may test for consequences derived from the theory using mathematics and logic
(the rate of a radioactive decay process requiring the existence of the new
particle). Note that the necessity of experiment also implies that a theory must
be testable. Theories which cannot be tested, because, for instance, they have
no observable ramifications (such as, a particle whose characteristics make it
unobservable), do not qualify as scientific theories.
If the predictions of a long-standing theory are found to be in disagreement
with new experimental results, the theory may be discarded as a description of
reality, but it may continue to be applicable within a limited range of
measurable parameters. For example, the laws of classical mechanics (Newton's
Laws) are valid only when the velocities of interest are much smaller than the
speed of light (that is, in algebraic form, when v/c << 1). Since this is the
domain of a large portion of human experience, the laws of classical mechanics
are widely, usefully and correctly applied in a large range of technological and
scientific problems. Yet in nature we observe a domain in which v/c is not
small. The motions of objects in this domain, as well as motion in the
"classical" domain, are accurately described through the equations of Einstein's
theory of relativity. We believe, due to experimental tests, that relativistic
theory provides a more general, and therefore more accurate, description of the
principles governing our universe, than the earlier "classical" theory. Further,
we find that the relativistic equations reduce to the classical equations in the
limit v/c << 1. Similarly, classical physics is valid only at distances much
larger than atomic scales (x >> 10-8 m). A description which is valid
at all length scales is given by the equations of quantum mechanics.
We are all familiar with theories which had to be discarded in the face of
experimental evidence. In the field of astronomy, the earth-centered description
of the planetary orbits was overthrown by the Copernican system, in which the
sun was placed at the center of a series of concentric, circular planetary
orbits. Later, this theory was modified, as measurements of the planets motions
were found to be compatible with elliptical, not circular, orbits, and still
later planetary motion was found to be derivable from Newton's laws.
Error in experiments have several sources. First, there is error intrinsic to
instruments of measurement. Because this type of error has equal probability of
producing a measurement higher or lower numerically than the "true" value, it is
called random error. Second, there is non-random or systematic error, due to
factors which bias the result in one direction. No measurement, and therefore no
experiment, can be perfectly precise. At the same time, in science we have
standard ways of estimating and in some cases reducing errors. Thus it is
important to determine the accuracy of a particular measurement and, when
stating quantitative results, to quote the measurement error. A measurement
without a quoted error is meaningless. The comparison between experiment and
theory is made within the context of experimental errors. Scientists ask, how
many standard deviations are the results from the theoretical prediction? Have
all sources of systematic and random errors been properly estimated? This is
discussed in more detail in the appendix on Error Analysis and in
Statistics Lab 1.
III. Common Mistakes in Applying the Scientific Method
As stated earlier, the scientific method attempts to minimize the influence
of the scientist's bias on the outcome of an experiment. That is, when testing
an hypothesis or a theory, the scientist may have a preference for one outcome
or another, and it is important that this preference not bias the results or
their interpretation. The most fundamental error is to mistake the hypothesis
for an explanation of a phenomenon, without performing experimental tests.
Sometimes "common sense" and "logic" tempt us into believing that no test is
needed. There are numerous examples of this, dating from the Greek philosophers
to the present day.
Another common mistake is to ignore or rule out data which do not support the
hypothesis. Ideally, the experimenter is open to the possibility that the
hypothesis is correct or incorrect. Sometimes, however, a scientist may have a
strong belief that the hypothesis is true (or false), or feels internal or
external pressure to get a specific result. In that case, there may be a
psychological tendency to find "something wrong", such as systematic effects,
with data which do not support the scientist's expectations, while data which do
agree with those expectations may not be checked as carefully. The lesson is
that all data must be handled in the same way.
Another common mistake arises from the failure to estimate
quantitatively systematic errors (and all errors). There are many examples
of discoveries which were missed by experimenters whose data contained a new
phenomenon, but who explained it away as a systematic background. Conversely,
there are many examples of alleged "new discoveries" which later proved to be
due to systematic errors not accounted for by the "discoverers."
In a field where there is active experimentation and open
communication among members of the scientific community, the biases of
individuals or groups may cancel out, because experimental tests are repeated by
different scientists who may have different biases. In addition, different types
of experimental setups have different sources of systematic errors. Over a
period spanning a variety of experimental tests (usually at least several
years), a consensus develops in the community as to which experimental results
have stood the test of time.
IV. Hypotheses, Models, Theories and Laws
In physics and other science disciplines, the words "hypothesis," "model,"
"theory" and "law" have different connotations in relation to the stage of
acceptance or knowledge about a group of phenomena.
An hypothesis is a limited statement regarding cause and effect in
specific situations; it also refers to our state of knowledge before
experimental work has been performed and perhaps even before new phenomena have
been predicted. To take an example from daily life, suppose you discover that
your car will not start. You may say, "My car does not start because the battery
is low." This is your first hypothesis. You may then check whether the lights
were left on, or if the engine makes a particular sound when you turn the
ignition key. You might actually check the voltage across the terminals of the
battery. If you discover that the battery is not low, you might attempt another
hypothesis ("The starter is broken"; "This is really not my car.")
The word model is reserved for situations when it is known that the
hypothesis has at least limited validity. A often-cited example of this is the
Bohr model of the atom, in which, in an analogy to the solar system, the
electrons are described has moving in circular orbits around the nucleus. This
is not an accurate depiction of what an atom "looks like," but the model
succeeds in mathematically representing the energies (but not the correct
angular momenta) of the quantum states of the electron in the simplest case, the
hydrogen atom. Another example is Hook's Law (which should be called Hook's
principle, or Hook's model), which states that the force exerted by a mass
attached to a spring is proportional to the amount the spring is stretched. We
know that this principle is only valid for small amounts of stretching. The
"law" fails when the spring is stretched beyond its elastic limit (it can
break). This principle, however, leads to the prediction of simple harmonic
motion, and, as a model of the behavior of a spring, has been versatile
in an extremely broad range of applications.
A scientific theory or law represents an hypothesis, or a group of
related hypotheses, which has been confirmed through repeated experimental
tests. Theories in physics are often formulated in terms of a few concepts and
equations, which are identified with "laws of nature," suggesting their
universal applicability. Accepted scientific theories and laws become part of
our understanding of the universe and the basis for exploring less
well-understood areas of knowledge. Theories are not easily discarded; new
discoveries are first assumed to fit into the existing theoretical framework. It
is only when, after repeated experimental tests, the new phenomenon cannot be
accommodated that scientists seriously question the theory and attempt to modify
it. The validity that we attach to scientific theories as representing realities
of the physical world is to be contrasted with the facile invalidation implied
by the expression, "It's only a theory." For example, it is unlikely that a
person will step off a tall building on the assumption that they will not fall,
because "Gravity is only a theory."
Changes in scientific thought and theories occur, of course, sometimes
revolutionizing our view of the world (Kuhn, 1962). Again, the key force for
change is the scientific method, and its emphasis on experiment.
V. Are there circumstances in which the Scientific Method is not applicable?
While the scientific method is necessary in developing scientific knowledge,
it is also useful in everyday problem-solving. What do you do when your
telephone doesn't work? Is the problem in the hand set, the cabling inside your
house, the hookup outside, or in the workings of the phone company? The process
you might go through to solve this problem could involve scientific thinking,
and the results might contradict your initial expectations.
Like any good scientist, you may question the range of situations (outside of
science) in which the scientific method may be applied. From what has been
stated above, we determine that the scientific method works best in situations
where one can isolate the phenomenon of interest, by eliminating or accounting
for extraneous factors, and where one can repeatedly test the system under study
after making limited, controlled changes in it.
There are, of course, circumstances when one cannot isolate the phenomena or
when one cannot repeat the measurement over and over again. In such cases the
results may depend in part on the history of a situation. This often occurs in
social interactions between people. For example, when a lawyer makes arguments
in front of a jury in court, she or he cannot try other approaches by repeating
the trial over and over again in front of the same jury. In a new trial, the
jury composition will be different. Even the same jury hearing a new set of
arguments cannot be expected to forget what they heard before.
VI. Conclusion
The scientific method is intricately associated with science, the process of
human inquiry that pervades the modern era on many levels. While the method
appears simple and logical in description, there is perhaps no more complex
question than that of knowing how we come to know things. In this introduction,
we have emphasized that the scientific method distinguishes science from other
forms of explanation because of its requirement of systematic experimentation.
We have also tried to point out some of the criteria and practices developed by
scientists to reduce the influence of individual or social bias on scientific
findings. Further investigations of the scientific method and other aspects of
scientific practice may be found in the references listed below.
Fashion:
Today I was out
with my daughter looking for a swimsuit at a large department store. It was hot
outside and there were months of heat ahead of us.
Unfortunately the
selection of suits was limited and on the clearance racks. The fall clothes for
school though were everywhere and winter jackets being unpacked to be placed on
sale.
We have been to
Magic many times over the years and have had to opportunity to talk to those
that both create and market the clothing you find in stores.
When you think
about it holding the sales market in Las Vegas is quite appreciate in that the
fashion business is one major crap shoot.
Will what you have
to sell be popular. Will the economy be growing to help grow your bottom
line? Will the weather cooperate?
Your gambling all
every time you put a lines of clothes out there for the consumer. I talked to
one gentleman showing at Magic last winter and asked how things were going. Very
politely he told me to come back to him in December and he would tell me how
good a year he had.
When you a business
that depends on the flip of a coin as to what people will want to wear, rather
the economy is growing or stagnant, will the seasons cooperate and be of normal
length or will they be shorter or longer then usual.
It is a crap shoot.
They are giving everyone the best they have with their fingers crossed that all
will go right.
And my daughter and
her swimsuit! We went to a specialty shop to get one for her.
?What is written
below is for those that read little and have never read the Constitution of the
United States including many supposedly very literate members of our nations
House and Senate.
Today calls for
President Bush's impeachment have been ringing out because of a recess
appointment he made in appointing Sam Fox ambassador to Belgium.
Recess
appointments are authorized by Article II, Section 2 of the
U.S. Constitution: "The
President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the
Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of
their next Session."
Turns out that
Democrats have denounced Fox for his donation to the Swift Boat Veterans for
Truth during the 2004 presidential campaign. The group's TV ads, which claimed
that Sen. John Kerry exaggerated his military record in Vietnam, were viewed as
a factor in the Massachusetts Democrat's election loss.
During a recess the
president could place the family pet in a political office rather those in the
house or senate liked it or not. When the next session ends so does the
appointment and there is nothing illegal about it.
It seems now that
hatred for the president has gone so far that these men and women that have
sworn to obey and support the Constitution of the United States would rather
ignore this oath to get this man out of office.
The president may
not be on any future lists to be named a Saint but he has broken no laws and to
continue to accuse with no evidence that he has done such is a disservice to all
that live under the laws of our nation.
If you have
evidence he has done something wrong then come forth and present it for all to
see or stop saying I know he has done illegal acts based simply on a personal
dislike for the man.
The Trend
continues that whenever the democrats gain control of congress we run from the
field of battle.
Why is it that men
that distinguished themselves in military service the instant they become
elected to office feel the need to surrender to the enemy at every chance they
get.
Right now we have a
war in Iraq that has went on too long but the unfortunate thing about war is
that the good often die and wars go on for too long.
What is good about
war is that they used to end in peace.
I say used to
because for years since Korea wars have not really ended with long lasting peace
they have just been stopped before a conclusion could be reached.
When your in a
battle that is being fought with those that know all they have to do to get you
to leave is wait you out that is what they do. Knowing they can wait you out
makes them that more dangerous.
You never ever
start a fight you have no intentions of finishing because leaving the battle
before it is over is just that.
Today we are
fighting a enemy that thinks that all others then their religion should either
be converted or killed and will kill as many as need be to accomplish their
goal. Knowing our army is preparing to leave they will do what they have to do
to help us leave.
That is only one
strategy that all should be united in today. Win the war then leave as fast as
possible.
There are those in
this world that only believe in the best in everyone and everything and those
that only believe in the worst. The majority is somewhere in the middle
believing that things happen because that is the way they are meant to happen.
Unfortunately it
seems those that believe in the worst and look only for the worst get the most
attention. Probably this happens because looking for the worst that can happen
is far better news then looking for the best.
Making doom and
gloom feature films and television shows is also easier to produce then those
with a glimmer of hope on them. Failure is always easy to write about but hope
is harder to put into words.
Hope may be the
hardest thing to put into words because to write about it you have to have hope
that things will be better. The future is just that, the future. No one knows
what it will be like but you do know that the future is what you make it out to
be.
If you believe in a
future of hope then that is what your future will represent, that things will be
better. If you believe in doom and gloom then this is the future you will help
to make. If you believe that things are meant to happen as they happen then this
is what you will help to bring about.
Belief does not
exist without disbelief and neither exist without the belief that things will
happen as they are meant to be.
Therefore remember
when you are critical of those that believe in doom and gloom or looking at the
world thru rose colored glasses or you just don't give a tinkers dam, without
each other none of you would even exist.
It takes all of you
to make a future come true.
Tonight on
television I was watching a television show where they spent the entire
hour explaining how the future was not going to be as bright and shinny as
television and feature films try to make it out to be.
That is part of the
problem in this country. You have one group of people that believe that
everything is impossible and that the future is going too be a dark and horrible
place to live. Then there is the other group that wants to go back to a time
that never existed.
The future is what
you make it out to be. The impossible is now and always will be a matter of
opinion never a fact.
If you stop
believing that the future is going to be better then the future will become as
you make it to be.
If you believe that
you can do anything and that you will be better off no matter how things turn
out you will be better off.
The future is what
you make it to be not what someone else tells you it will be.
It seems to be
the favorite occupation of many in this nation to complain about how our
government runs things yet do nothing to correct the problem.
Right now we
have politicians from the left and the from the right doing nothing more then
following the hard line of those on the far right and far left of their parties.
At no time do any of these individuals even remotely have anything to say to the
majority of people that set in the middle.
We are a nation
made up of many races, religions and political view points. The left is always
heard and the right is always heard but those in the middle are never heard.
What they have
to say is totally unimportant. Your more likely to hear what a terrorist has to
say in our country then someone that has the best interests of those in the
middle of our country.
Change will
never come about unless those in in the middle finally realize that they have
all the power and the majority of the money in this nation.
If they simply
stand up and say no to those on the left and those on the right running for
office they could take back this nation. Is this likely to happen? It is more
likely that you will see hell freeze over before the middle will speak up
in our nation.
William Hoehne
Sr. Editor
In the fairy
tale Aladdin can put the genie back in the bottle once it has been
released. Today a large media company thinking that it was in a fairy tale tried
to force the genie back into the bottle with its lawyers.
The internet is
here and it is here to stay no matter how much companies that don't understand
it want it go away.
Edgar Rice
Burroughs once said that once you have started forward you can never go back.
Unfortunately many media giants have never read Burroughs and think that if you
threaten enough people with litigation they can roll back time to where the
internet did not exist.
There are not
enough lawyers nor money in the world to stop the internet. The genie is out of
the bottle and is not going back in.
Some people will
abuse the internet, people have abused things since the dawn of time and will
continue to do it till time comes to an end. The vast majority of people will
never abuse it though and only wish to use it for information and enjoyment.
If companies spent
more time trying to learn how to make the net work for them instead of spending
all their time trying to shut things down they would be far better off.
It took years for
the movie companies to learn that TV was a asset and years for the TV and Movie
people to learn that cable was a asset. Unfortunately for those that are
on the net it will take years for the movie, cable and TV people to learn that
cable is not going away and is an asset for them also.
William Hoehne Sr.
Editor
The founding
fathers of our nation would be proud that they have created a system in which
protest is a part of our system
If you do not agree
with anything that is going on in society then you should stand up and be
heard. Change seldom comes about on its own but with nudges one direction or
another.
Protest though does
not allow you the right to shout down anyone that you do not agree with and
prevent them from being heard. The right of protest works both ways and those in
support of something you are against have the very same constitutional
guarantees to be heard that you do.
This week-in tens
of thousands protested the war across our nation and a smattering of a few
supported it. Those masses in what could only be described as what must have
been a fear they were going to lose the battle for the minds of all attending
the rally shouted down and threatened those small pitiful amount of
anti-protestors.
In a ideal world
there would be equal rights for all but someone on one side or the other always
seems to take it for granted that only they have rights.
No matter you
count, two wrongs never make a right. If you think a wrong has been committed
you committing a wrong to make a point does not make it any better.
Protest is good, it
moves society along but you need to allow all sides to be heard.
Tonight on
Public broadcasting for the third time I set thru a concert that Public
Broadcasting created for a pledge drive featuring Daniel O Donnell.
The gentleman is
a Irish singer that is so lead footed in his every movement on the stage that
while standing still be makes that look bad.
His vocal range
for an Irish singer is so limited I have yet to hear him sing one song where he
could hit all the notes as they were originally written.
Tonight he was
making a not so valiant attempt to sing 50's and 60's rock and roll. Great range
not required on most of the songs but he butchered each and every song while a
audience in Ireland worshiped every note that he put fort upon them.
Having a Irish
grandmother I know that an Irish audience does know good vocal talents from bad
so I was amazed to see the worship of this man on the stage.
Maybe they were
being polite because he is Irish and he does have a voice that you might hear on a
Sunday morning in church and because he does have a ministers demeanor about him
when he talks to the audience. That he is a caring man with wholesome values and
maybe this is what people really like about him. For this he is and should be applauded
I know you will
say just another person that can't do criticizing one that is doing. Sang back
up in the 60's in surf movies, have a multi octave range from Irish standards to
rock and roll to grand Opera and still singing and getting ready to record
again. So I can do and do it well enough to know good vocal talents from slight
vocal talents.
Once again we
have been turned down as press for a major event that we had before been
welcomed to cover.
FDR in his first
inauguration speech said one thing that we have to fear is fear itself. There is
a great fear of those on the net because of the lack of understanding of how to
use it.
I have set thru the
line in the sand speech where powerful men in total terror of what they don't
understand have told those in the audience that the net has to be rained in that
it must be made to conform to their standards.
It is true that
there are those that will abuse the power of the net but the vast majority don't
as they did not abuse the tape recorder nor the video tape recorder. If the
music industry had not been in fear of Napster they could have created a
symbolic relationship that would have led to great riches for them. Instead they
let the genie out of the bottle and have lost greatly as a result.
The lack of
understanding of what you can do with the net has led to placing rules on net
press that printed nor over the air nor cable press has to go thru.
No matter what you
supply that is asked for it is becoming harder and harder to cover major events
onsite which leads to showing what the net can do. Instant coverage with no
exclusion that is required by agreement of covered events live, meaning same
second coverage of the event instead of delayed.
Thus causing to
happen what they are most afraid of happening, losing control of coverage.
The net and those
that work on it are not the enemies of the media but just a means of getting a
message out there faster at a lower cost.
William Hoehne Sr.
Editor
President’s State of
the Union Address
The President’s State of
the Union Address is typically anti-climatic, predictable and one in which you
can typically argue the points without even hearing the President speak, and
we’re not talking just about President George Bush.
Prior to the beginning
of President George Bush’s State of the Union address, there was a press
briefing with press secretary Tony Sony on the State of the Union address, Fox
discussed excerpts from the speech and the Democratic response to the State of
the Union speech had already been issued and included as breaking news on MBN.
While each of the
Congressional members know the State of the Union is televised, it is
interesting to watch their body language and what they stand up for or don’t.
Forget the plastic expressions painted on like the little drummer boy smile,
the botox expressionless faces, and were Vice President Dick Cheney and
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi sucking on mints while the cameras showed
President Bush speaking?
Walking the line,
talking points of direction were brought up typically of either Democratic or
Republican parties but included in the President’s domestic laundry list.
Undeniables favorite buzzwords – balanced budget without raising taxes,
medical coverage for everyone, cut bill earmarks (tag ons to bills that often
sneak by in late moments) by the end of the session
“As for
Iraq
, success is measured by what didn’t happen.” Touché, Mr. President.
Joyce Chow
Celebrity of Fashion
During the Envelope Season
The Golden Globes kicks
off the red envelope season and the season of celebrity fashion critiquing.
Fashion, and the celebrities that wear who and what, can kick off the
launching of a brand name as much as an award can be money in the bank by
kicking off the success of a film.
One needs only hear
names such as Versace or Armani to understand the value of gracing the red
carpet in stunning fashion. ABS by Allen Schwartz created their versions of
red carpet fashions within hours of seeing them grace the Golden Globes red
carpet. Ed Hardy has built itself a fashion empire primarily through
celebrity endorsement.
The best dressed. The
worst dressed. Who looked great. Who didn’t. The ladies of fashion. The
award season would not be the award season without fashion. After all, who
would really want to watch awards with democratized fashion where everyone
wore equal fashion?
Joyce Chow
What makes one
piece of equipment worth more then another?
This week I have
been at NAMM, the largest music trade show in the world ,over 1700 exhibitors.
I have seen
every type of instrument that is available on the market. All the new sound
equipment that you could ever want to see in one place at one time. There are
computers and software to make the life of a musician easier instruments of all
size shapes manners and types.
Almost
everything is made in the same place China. There was a time when equipment was
manufactured in the countries of those marketing it, today it is rare to see
such done due to higher production costs and China is now the manufacturing capital of the world for
all things sound.
When so many
items are turned out in the same place, the factories being similar, the workers
similar, the materials similar, those designing the produce similar then
what makes the real difference in the vast majority of sound producing equipment
turned out?
First the brand
name is important, then whom uses it in the business then price but as one
vendor told me the difference between his $10,000 unit and is $29 unit was
$9,970. It was exactly the same equipment but had a better paint job a better
brand name on it and it was signed.
He said the low
end items were now, had been, and always would be the biggest sellers but they
had to have the name high end out there to get the PR needed to keep people
coming thru the doors.
Quality being
not as important to many as the brand name, the signature on it and whom used
it.
I hear
constantly how people hate the way that people are elected
At no time do any
of these people step forward to change the system. We live in a nation where
anyone can run for elected office yet only a minority that either have the
ability to raise lots of amount of money or have large amounts of money actually
run.
In a world that is
connected by media why does one need tens of millions or even billions to run
for office. There is the net that provides free media to all or television where
your message can be heard on the news even if they don't agree with you. You can
almost be guaranteed that some major show will invite you on the show to
cut you up giving you a free chance to be heard.
Voices in our
nation are never silenced on the national level just on the local level of
politics. If you have a message it will be heard.
The massive amount
of money is needed to buy organizations to go out and twist the arms of those
people that constantly say they want to change the system but won't.
You ask if I
believe this why don't I run for public office? I respond to this in that
I would if I were much younger then what I am, actually just slightly younger
and in better health I would try. Our country is owed someone serving it that
can serve it not one that can only serve it by writing about the ills of the
system.
It is time for
people to step forward and represent the people of this nation not just the
right or the left or some special interest group.
“New media, old media,
traditional media. The bottom line is this: There is no such thing anymore
as old or new media; we’re just media” shared Leslie Moonves, President and
CEO, CBS Corporation at his keynote address during the Consumer Electronics
Show in
Las Vegas.
While Moonves is busy
partnering with Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, and YouTube, he at least seems to
get the picture that many seem to miss. The internet is here to stay and
they’re embracing it. Utilizing the various types of media, they’ve created
an audience experience which keeps returning, and if you wonder, what location
is the next CSI coming from?
Perhaps that’s why CBS’s
freshman year report card shows a 25% stock price rise and a 43% increase in
its dividend.
Leslie Moonves,
President and CEO of CBS, Robert Iger of Walt Disney Chairman and CEO and
Rupert Murdoch Chairman and Managing Director of News Corporation understand
the importance of the internet. As do the many millions of people who rely on
the internet for research and information. Why is it that the everyday people
and corporate executives get it, while gate keepers fear it? No matter the
method, media is a means of communication, perhaps that’s why so many want to
control it.
Joyce Chow, Editor
Have you ever
dealt with a state agency
I knew a family
that had a problem with the power bill and went to a agency in a mid-western
state to get senior citizen discount on the bill. This was the biggest mistake
they ever made.
Social workers came
to their house and decided that they would do what they felt was right
regardless what the family wished to happen. The eldest member was taken from
the home and placed in a nursing home the youngest member was placed in the care
of a member of the family that was on welfare and other members thrown out of a
home onto the street that they had lived in for years that was completely paid
for.
Member placed in a
nursing home others thrown out of their own home and a child taken away but it
was done for their own benefit. The family members tried to get legal help but
the social service agents kept killing help they would get by warning off the
lawyers.
The press would not
help because of the power of the agency, one off the record said he had
children, and even the federal government while conceding at the same time civil
rights had been broken would not help and even informed the family that if they
kept contacting them for assistance they would have them arrested.
Eventually the
family home was sold to pay the bills ran up during the time no income was
coming in and only money going out. The elder member of the family dumped off on
another state to die there, better welfare system and the rest of the family
shipped off to only god knows where because there has obviously been little
communications.
A family destroyed
by a government agency, the proceeds from a home sell placed in a busted county
treasury to help balance their budget.
This is not how
government is supposed to work but in reality this is how it works. People in
the press afraid of agencies, government officials afraid of agencies and
families destroyed because as the one official did so say they would do what
they felt was right rather anyone in the family wanted it done or not.
The internet
is not the enemy
Over the span of
years that I have been on this planet I have seen the motion picture studios
declare that television would be the destruction of the motion picture industry.
The largest supplier of product to television became those same studios that
were in fear of television.
Then came the line
in the sand drawn about cable television bringing the death to over the air
television unless it was stopped. Today every network owns cable outlets and
local stations are seen by more people then ever before because they are also
carried on cable.
Next the line was
drawn by over the air television & cable and motion picture companies about
satellite broadcasting. Once again motion picture companies, television and
cable have became the main suppliers to satellite.
Today the new
battle ground is cable of which we are a part of. The line has once again
been drawn in the sand and motion picture companies, record companies, over the
air television and cable are in what they consider a battle for their life's for
survival by the monster called the net.
Those that
understand the net know that the net is no more the enemy then television nor
cable or satellites were. The net is simply another means of revenue.
Currently while we
are welcome in some places to cover news we are batting a big fat ZERO with the
old guard that has for over fifty years drawn a line in the sand. Not welcome at
once single awards show produced by them.
The same people
that have drawn that line in the sand that moved into television, then into
cable then to satellite are moving very slowly into the net. Eventually the net
will join with everyone and draw a line in the sand over whatever new technology
that will come along. The more things change the more things remain the same.
Till then everyone
involved with the net has to prod slowly along trying to gain respect and
credibility.
William Hoehne Sr.
Editor.
Today the AP
published the names of soldiers in Iraq publicly criticizing their commander in
chief while on the field of battle.
This is
Tennyson's view of what happens when there is blind military obedience.
Tennyson's poem "The Charge of the Light Brigade":
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!
"Charge for the guns!" he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
"Forward, the Light Brigade!"
Was there a man dismay'd?
Not tho' the soldier knew
Someone had blunder'd:
Their's not to make reply,
Their's not to reason why,
Their's but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Flash'd all their sabres bare,
Flash'd as they turn'd in air,
Sabring the gunners there,
Charging an army, while
All the world wonder'd:
Plunged in the battery-smoke
Right thro' the line they broke;
Cossack and Russian
Reel'd from the sabre stroke
Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Then they rode back, but not
Not the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon behind them
Volley'd and thunder'd;
Storm'd at with shot and shell,
While horse and hero fell,
They that had fought so well
Came thro' the jaws of Death
Back from the mouth of Hell,
All that was left of them,
Left of six hundred.
When can their glory fade?
O the wild charge they made!
All the world wondered.
Honor the charge they made,
Honor the Light Brigade,
Noble six hundred.
We have a totally
volunteer army. When they join the military they know that there is the chance
that they might have to fight one day and they run the risk of being hurt in
battle.
While the soldiers
should always be able to speak their minds they should also understand that no
one makes them go into battle. You are not taken out and shot if you refuse to
go into battle.
It is your choice
to be there, it was your choice to join. The I did not realize it would be like
this has been used by every person that ever picked up a weapon and used it in
war.
War is dirty,
everyone loses, there are never any winners but wars have been fought since the
dawn of man. They are fought for all the wrong reasons but they are still fought
and the end result is peace for at least a while.
A soldier should
always speak what he feels but they are there of their own free will and others
depend upon them to do their jobs not to go on national tv and condemn their
leaders.
Morale is always a
major problem and when you know the one standing next to you feels that they are
here for all the wrong reasons you have a right to worry about what t may or may
not do when the crunch time comes
William Hoehne Sr. Editor
Have you ever
heard theses words, " YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND!"
They are used quite
too often today. You get bad service, a product that is advertised is not
available but one at a higher price is.
You need help from
a elected official.
You ask why your
salary has been cut.
You ask why you
have been uninvited from a party you had been invited to.
Your told you have
to understand.
First you don't
have to understand and your owed a explanation not just a statement that
is used to blow you off.
It is far easier
though to simply tell you that you have to understand then it is to tell you why
you have to.
I was listening to Bill
O'Reilly talking about how he has his staff checking everyday on the web for
news about him
So what is wrong about that,
nothing. Companies do it too see what their pr is each day, what they are doing
right or wrong.
Mr. O'Reilly like Don Rickles
feeds off negative comments on him, the Fox Network and the right in this
country. Like Mr. Rickles without hecklers he would be out of business.
Like Mr. Rickles this is what he
excels at, rapid and well composed responses.
For some reason though there is
the thought that to respond with a opposing view to issues is wrong in this
nation. People on the left feel Mr. O'Reilly is wrong to respond and Mr.
O'Reilly while publicly stating he supports the right to express different views
, then eats anyone alive that does different in views then his.
Remember though if there had
been no response with opposing views we would still be part of England.
Our constitution grants us the
right of freedom of speech, the right to appear in public to make ass out of
yourselves as many often do.
The freedom of press though is
different. As my journalism teacher told us those that own the presses control
that speech.
In this nation we have those on
the left and those on the right in a virtual lock on all the presses.
The net gives those in the
middle which are in the vast majority a place to express their thought thru Bogs
but only those that have net access have access to this form of speech.
We need people on the right to
express views and we need people on the left to express views but we also need
people in the middle to be heard.
As a young student I was taught
that the duty of a reporter was to report the news and not be part of it because
then you become more important then the story your reporting.
This is why we exist, we report
the right the left and the middle and only editorialize here and on no other
pages.
One day we hope to be the Fox
for the middle of this country but that day is long coming because may obstacles
have to be over came to be that voice.
First you have to be accepted by
those that make the news as a legitimate business, it took many years for those
on the right and the left to earn this right.
The net also has to be available
to more at a speed that news can be generated in as large a content as on over
the air and cable.
Right now we generate hundreds
of pages a day but much goes unread because of the time it takes to download. We
have went from only one reader a day to over 65,000 now and have readers that
stay and read for hours at a time.
We hope that day when we are
accepted like the right and the left comes sooner then later but till then we
will continue to go out and do our job and report the news raw as it is intended
to be covered without us becoming apart of the story.
Iraq and troops there seem to
be a major topic in the news every day.
The problem in reality has
never been the lack of troops in Iraq but in reality too many troops there. The
more troops there the more they become targets, the more they are depended upon
to do the job and the more lazy people that are supposed to be doing the job
become.
We can not protect those we
have now because there are to many troops to protect.
Has anyone ever heard of the
word Calvary? How about The Calvary to the rescue. Small units of men
stationed at outposts that were used when the need occurred.
We need to pull our troops
back to defendable positions and stay there unless they are needed to back up
the Iraq army. Then we send the men out in vehicles that are built to survive
improvised explosive devices. No copters because they can be shot down with a
sling shot and only planes high enough they can not be brought down with hand
held missiles.
Simple solution to a major
problem. Pull back, train, and The Calvary to the Rescue if needed.
I put this up not
because it is to scandalize anyone but because of what it says in the first
line.
The booking sheet reveals
Richie is 5'1" and 85 lbs. We're told her SUV was spotted by two motorists
going the wrong way on the 134 freeway in Burbank. The drivers called 911.
When the CHP responded, Richie was stopped in the carpool lane and was alone
in the vehicle. When cops approached the vehicle, Richie was on her cellphone.
Law enforcement officers tell TMZ Nicole Richie admitted she had taken Vicodin
and smoked pot. A preliminary alcohol screening device revealed that Nicole
was not under the influence of alcohol.
85 pounds are the important
words.
It is said that young women are
forced to be thin as rails and endanger their health because this is what is
viewed as what the media says young women should be looking like.
At no time have I ever seen
anyone in the business go on television or radio an in publications and tell
young women that this is what you should look like. I have though seen many in
the business say this is all wrong.
They may privately ask that
models and actresses shed some weight for the camera or to fit the clothes line
but this is for make-believe time and not for the real world.
The problem with young women
starving themselves can't be laid at the feet of the entertainment industry but
firmly at the feet of the families that allow this to happen. It is simply
easier today to blame everyone else for problems then to take responsibility for
them.
Today I continued my amazement
of those that think that our President George Bush isn't smart enough to read
"Jack & Jill" is more then capable of bringing down the Twin Towers on 9-11.
The latest to join this growing group is James Brolin
and David Lynch.
This is what Mr. Brolin had to say on "The View"
towards the end of the show the actor questioned 9/11 and urged the audience to
check out the website
911weknow.com, which is a
website that purports to expose how the twin towers and Building 7, which wasn't
hit by a plane, were brought down via controlled demolition.
He today joins film director and cult icon
David Lynch in going
public with his doubts about the official story behind 9/11. Lynch told Dutch
television he thought WTC Building 7 was brought down via controlled demolition
and that the Pentagon and Pennsylvania crash sites were suspicious due to the
absence of evidence that a plane crashed at either location.
Lynch and Brolin follow in the footsteps of other
notable cultural figures who have spoken out on 9/11, such as Richard Linklater,
Jesse Ventura, Matthew Bellemy, Ed Asner and Charlie Sheen.
We all know that Elvis lives and is a fry cook in
Culver City across the street from the Sony Studios, that there were no Jews
killed during WWII, that Roosevelt knew in advance of the Japanese attack on
December 7th , and that the government covered up the killing of President
Kennedy.
History is full of those that would never accept the
truth even if they witnessed it first hand.
This is what a democracy stands for though the right to
doubt and to publicly express this doubt. Only in a society that has freedom of
speech would this doubt ever be allowed to be made public.
I had said the James Bond editorial was
over but this has to be heard. DANIEL CRAIG WANTS BOND TO BE GAY!!!
Daniel
Craig is urging movie bosses to revolutionize the James Bond franchise by
including a gay scene involving the super spy in the follow-up to Casino Royal.
The heart-throb actor has also reportedly told studio chiefs he is prepared to
film a full frontal nude scene to please both his male and female admirers.
He says: "Why not? I think in this day and age, fans would have accepted it.
"I mean, look at Doctor Who - that has had gay scenes in it and no one blinks an
eye."
This is an example of political
correctness at work once again. Years ago as a young film student I was told by
Jack L. Warner that it was the job of the movie producer to make what the public
wanted to see not to tell them this is what your going to get rather you want it
or not.
It was assumed when they hired
Mr. Craig that this was the way that they were intending to take James Bond and
it seems they have done just what was expected.
To cast a blond Mr. Craig as
Bond and then buff him up for the part and to emphasize this fact has done a
great injustice to all those that are gay in this world by reinforcing a
stereo-type of the gay male that is all to often put into feature films and
television, the blond hunk.
Only at the box office can
producers of films be made to understand that first if it isn't broke don't fix
it and that to stereo-type anyone is now, has been and always will be wrong.
Dog shows are much like beauty
pageants in that the best looking more then not does not often win.
There is no real standard for
who should win even though there are bench marks that should be given the most
weight but are often ignored. It is simply a judgment call and each judge sees
things in a different light.
Politics seems to play a more
important part in whom wins then the participants in the event.
How much you campaign, whom you
know, how well known you are all are important parts in deciding whom wins
and whom does not.
In other words money does speak.
That while there is a code of
conduct this code only applies to those that have had been victims and not to
those in violation of the code.
It is up those that had had this
code violated to be either be good sports and gracefully accept this violation
or simply refuse to be a participant in future events.
Doesn't sound fair does it but
then no one ever said that beauty pageants and dog shows were fair. You simply
have to accept what is if you want to be a player. (REMEMBER THE RED SOX WON THE
WORLD SERIES.)
Often what is not said nor
understood is just more important then what is said or understood.
Today is Black Friday the day
the retailers’ hope to make up for all the bad sales day they have had in
this calendar year up to now.
While I was out purchasing a
new cell phone, A Sony Ericsson 800 a young sales person talked to me about
his mother whom had went out early in the morning to buy the families first
ever HD-TV.
It was a bargain or at least
she thought so till she took it home and had no idea as to how to hook it up
properly. Then she was told by her husband that they did not have a HD
service and that to sign up for one would run them about $49 extra a month.
All of a sudden this deal was no longer a deal.
Thus past year I have been
to CES and I hope they will allow me to come again this upcoming January,
and NAB ,the Home Entertainment Show, Digital Hollywood, EHX, the DVD
Forums, the debut of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD and found out that what is not being
said is just as important as what is said.
You can go into Best Buy,
Costco, Sims, Wal-Mart, Circuit City and other appliance stores and walk out
with a HD-TV and take it home in your car that there is more to it then
that.
To get the most out of what
you purchase you need the proper hook up of it. This is a service supplied
for a fee by most that sell the product but a education program to make
people understand this is really important is lacking greatly.
You need the proper cables,,
the proper antenna if your only going to watch local stations, the proper
speakers if you want great sound , a HD-Digital package from your able or
satellite provider to get the most out of you new TV. And as I have seen if
you simply put piecemeal equipment together because it is cheap and don’t
match the equipment up property it destroys the experience.
What your simply not told in
most case is that all of this is important. Is it done because of a fear
that the customer will think your trying to pressure them into items they
don’ t want or not done simply because once the TV is out of the store it is
not their concern anymore. This I don’t knee but I do know that there is
education needed ion the part of those selling the sets and those buying
them if your going to get the HD system out in the market the way that it
should be.
Joyce Chow Editor
Friday Shopping Roundup, Holiday 2006
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, kicks off
the beginning of the holiday shopping season. MBN’s roundup from predictions
and statistics to experience and observations.
Black Friday, alternates with Super Saturday, the
day before Christmas, as the heaviest traffic day, according to ShopperTrak,
the world’s premier provider of pedestrian traffic counting services and
related business intelligence.
Retailers are expecting 137 million shoppers this
Thanksgiving weekend according to the latest survey conducted by BIGreserach
for the National Retail Federation.
The 2006 holiday season is on track for a
relatively healthy and prosperous performance, according to research by the
International Council of Shopping Centers. The holiday quarter, the 4th
quarter is critical to retail with about one third (31.8%) of the retail
industry’s profit derived during this time.
Earlier this week with day after Thanksgiving ads
appearing on the internet, shoppers began formulating their strategies.
Retailers are opening earlier to get a jump start on holiday shopping,
opening Thanksgiving day for retailers CompUSA, Kmart, Sports Authority, and
Wal-Mart (Super Centers).
After discussing Black Friday’s shopping with
friends and family throughout California, Northern, Central and Southern,
here’s what was discovered –
If you weren’t planning on spending the night
outside waiting for a 5 or 6 am opening, you might as well forget about
getting an advertised special, especially if it’s a computer or
laptop. Many of the advertised items disappeared within minutes of the
opening of stores.
Many shoppers walked away disappointed with the
disappearance of advertised items. Employees repeatedly apologized wishing
they had more merchandise. Numerous stores remarked that all advertised
items had been sold.
Retail traffic while busy through nearly noon
had diminished greatly by the afternoon with big box stores showing signs
of much traffic while other retailers such as Wal Mart and Target had so
much inventory remaining on their shelves and observed lighter than
standard traffic other than the morning opening door rush.
Enclosed shopping malls were very busy in
Northern and Central California.
Toys ‘R’ Us, often dreaded during the holidays,
made it easier to shop with all of their ad items set up in one aisle.
Consumers often know the sales better than the
retailers.
Retailers visited during the Black Friday
experience include: Best Buy; Cingular: Circuit City; CompUSA; Costco; Home
Depot; Lowe’s; Macy’s; Mervyn’s; Office Depot; Orchard Supply; Staples;
Target; Toys R Us; Wal-Mart; and various other regional stores.
Whether measuring in terms of foot traffic,
seasonal forecasting, profitability or sales, the day after Thanksgiving, is
a big day for retailers.
The most telling of all, are some of the comments
overhead while shopping…
“I’ve waited for four hours (after the store
opened) for this laptop. It wasn't what was advertised. It’s the way my life
goes. It’s not very good, but it’s the best I can afford.” They also bought
an extended warranty nearly doubling the price of the bargain laptop.
“I came in to buy a laptop and spent so much time
waiting that I kept picking up things that I really didn't need.”
“My mother spent hours in line to buy a HD TV that
was on sale and never bothered to ask if it would cost more for HD service
to go with it.”
It makes one wonder, when is a deal a deal?
Joyce Chow Editor
As we put James Bond behind us because rather the
public wants Mr. Craig or not he is whom your going to have for at least another
film we take up the topic of sales in department stores grocery stores ect.
How often have you seen a advertisement in a
publication on television or heard it on radio then went to the store selling
the product and they don't have the product your looking for. They do always
have a similar more expensive product for sale.
They also have the same response when you ask about it,
they were sold out before you got there, (even if you were first in line when
the doors opened), they were not delivered but will be there before the sale is
over, (of which never happens or once again you will be told all were sold out
before you get there even if you camp outside the doors waiting for the product
to show up.)
According to the laws on the books this is not supposed
to be being done but there are two ways of doing thing enforcing consumer laws
or ignoring them. Ignoring them is by far the greater choice.
Seems that those that are actually purchasing products
in this country count for very little when you get down to the nitty gritty of
things.
5 or 6 am opening, you might as well forget about
getting an advertised special, especially if it’s a computer or
laptop. Many of the advertised items disappeared within minutes of the
opening of stores.
Many shoppers walked away disappointed with the
disappearance of advertised items. Employees repeatedly apologized wishing
they had more merchandise. Numerous stores remarked that all advertised
items had been sold.
Retail traffic while busy through nearly noon
had diminished greatly by the afternoon with big box stores showing signs
of much traffic while other retailers such as Wal Mart and Target had so
much inventory remaining on their shelves and observed lighter than
standard traffic other than the morning opening door rush.
Enclosed shopping malls were very busy in
Northern and Central California.
Toys ‘R’ Us, often dreaded during the holidays,
made it easier to shop with all of their ad items set up in one aisle.
Consumers often know the sales better than the
retailers.
Retailers visited during the Black Friday
experience include: Best Buy; Cingular: Circuit City; CompUSA; Costco; Home
Depot; Lowe’s; Macy’s; Mervyn’s; Office Depot; Orchard Supply; Staples;
Target; Toys R Us; Wal-Mart; and various other regional stores.
Whether measuring in terms of foot traffic,
seasonal forecasting, profitability or sales, the day after Thanksgiving, is
a big day for retailers.
The most telling of all, are some of the comments
overhead while shopping…
“I’ve waited for four hours (after the store
opened) for this laptop. It wasn't what was advertised. It’s the way my life
goes. It’s not very good, but it’s the best I can afford.” They also bought
an extended warranty nearly doubling the price of the bargain laptop.
“I came in to buy a laptop and spent so much time
waiting that I kept picking up things that I really didn't need.”
“My mother spent hours in line to buy a HD TV that
was on sale and never bothered to ask if it would cost more for HD service
to go with it.”
It makes one wonder, when is a deal a deal?
Joyce Chow Editor
As we put James Bond behind us because rather the
public wants Mr. Craig or not he is whom your going to have for at least another
film we take up the topic of sales in department stores grocery stores ect.
How often have you seen a advertisement in a
publication on television or heard it on radio then went to the store selling
the product and they don't have the product your looking for. They do always
have a similar more expensive product for sale.
They also have the same response when you ask about it,
they were sold out before you got there, (even if you were first in line when
the doors opened), they were not delivered but will be there before the sale is
over, (of which never happens or once again you will be told all were sold out
before you get there even if you camp outside the doors waiting for the product
to show up.)
According to the laws on the books this is not supposed
to be being done but there are two ways of doing thing enforcing consumer laws
or ignoring them. Ignoring them is by far the greater choice.
Seems that those that are actually purchasing products
in this country count for very little when you get down to the nitty gritty of
things.
A final statement on the Bond picture. I have noticed
that the great reviews of the movie are at the top of the list of reviews by the
public and the lest flattering reviews are back inside the pages.
No integrity even in reviews today.
Even though the public has spoken and Bond has been
beaten by a Penguin it is not likely you will seeing another Bond other then Mr.
Craig anytime soon in the role.
Sony pictures which distributes Bond sold more then 100
million dollars in product placement for the film thus insuring that the film
would turn a tidy profit even if no one likes Mr. Craig as James Bond other then
the critics.
'Happy Feet' Dances to Top of
Box Office
James Bond has met his match not
a fellow spy but a tap-dancing penguin.
A James Bond Question has been
asked: If a darker
humorless, less well kempt Daniel Craig is what everyone really wants in
James Bond, then why spend so much money remastering the older Bonds on DVD and
putting them on sale two weeks before the new Bond movie comes out? Does
United Artist really want to remind everyone what they are no longer going to
see in the new Bond? Reviewers across the board say director Martin
Campbell has delivered on his promise to produce a darker Bond film, focusing
more on character than gadgets. They have said Bond needs to court a new
generation of fans perhaps those looking for a more human, fallible character
that they can relate to. Critics love the new Bond, problem is that they
get in free to see the film and don't count at the box office. In these immortal
words, "If it isn't broke don't fix it." November the 17th the world will know
whom wins, the critics or those that like Bond the way he was. Currently they
seem to be telling those that have went to the box office and purchased the
Videos and DVDs of the other 20 Bond features to get lost. We don't need you and
we don't want you!
William Hoehne
comments
Posted by ntplano | Fri, November 17,
2006, 12:14 pm PST
I couldn't wait to see the new bond girl! DISAPPOINTED!!! They showed
bond's body rather than the girl! Director of this movie must have been into
Bond's body! I wonder if the director is a she or he?
The movie action is great! But I feel like I just watched a POKER MOVIE! They
spent more time on the poker table than any scenes. It would have been nice if
Bond was poking a girl and not the table. The writer must have run-out of
ideas.
My rate for actions is 7, gadget and car= 4, bond girl= 3, story / plot= 2.
Over all rating is: Wait for the DVD!
Posted by enchanted_one_27 | Fri, November
17, 2006, 12:14 pm PST
I can't get used to a blonde Bond at all! I think its ridiculous, and it
totally ruins the whole 'bond experience'. Im 20, and I've grown up watching
Bond movies b/c my dad likes 'em and i have to say Sean was the BEST, Brosnan
was a close runner up...they should have found a dark-haired brit....not a
blonde guy! I agree, I am a woman, and this guy defintely doesn't do for me
what all the other Bonds have.
Posted by jgemeigh | Fri, November 17,
2006, 12:14 pm PST
Damn the torpedoes, I still think George Lazenby was the best Bond. If
nothing else he looked darn good in a kilt. It's a shame he only did one bond
film. The hardest thing to swallow about this whole thing is that "On Her
Majesty's Secret Service" was an excellent Bond film - one of the best, in
fact.
Posted by kayozz13 | Fri, November 17,
2006, 12:14 pm PST
It's very much like Doctor Who.*
Like the whole Tom Baker / John Pertwee arguement.
But Patrick Troughton wins hands down.
* also not too many differences in the gadgets.
- a special watch/ sonic screwdriver
-special car / special car (John pertwee's yellow one)
-explosive pen / sonic screwdriver
-explosive hat / sonic screwdriver (or maybe tin foil to put under the Daleks)
Posted by dnhorning | Fri, November 17,
2006, 12:14 pm PST
Sean Connery -- Sean Connery --- Sean Connery --- Sean Connery Need I say
more
Posted by ntplano | Fri, November 17,
2006, 12:14 pm PST
I couldn't wait to see the new bond girl! DISAPPOINTED!!! They showed
bond's body rather than the girl! Director of this movie must have been into
Bond's body! I wonder if the director is a she or he?
The movie action is great! But I feel like I just watched a POKER MOVIE! They
spent more time on the poker table than any scenes. It would have been nice if
Bond was poking a girl and not the table. The writer must have run-out of
ideas.
My rate for actions is 7, gadget and car= 4, bond girl= 3, story / plot= 2.
Over all rating is: Wait for the DVD!
Posted by colombianboy999 | Fri, November
17, 2006, 12:14 pm PST
i saw it today i think he did a great job it was a great movie eveybody
should watch it
Posted by bearsgirl022002 | Fri, November
17, 2006, 12:14 pm PST
how could anyone think daniel whats his name is the best
sean connery is the best. period.
Posted by bayjayes | Fri, November 17,
2006, 12:14 pm PST
i cant believe you [profane]ing idiots think this daniel craig guy is
better than sean connery. you havent even seen the movie yet
Posted by cj_cable88 | Fri, November 17,
2006, 12:14 pm PST
