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I would first like to start off and say, I normally don't do this. Those of you that are regulars here will attest to that. But, I am going to let out a little frustration if you don't mind.

To Texasheart. Why would you make accusations of viruses and Trojans being placed on your computer by a blogger and when asked what kind and how they did it, YOU DELETE the question. Then when you see my question again, you delete and respond "Don't like what I post, then don't come to this blog". Well, all I can say is I have no time for small narrow minded people, so I wont be visiting your blog deep in the heart of Texas.
Before the suspense builds to climactic levels, these are the 2 comments that were deleted. They may not be word for word but very close.
Comment #1. "How did you get a virus/Trojan on your computer from this site? On a lighter note. I thought Trojans were supposed to protect from viruses". lol

You know me I had to add some type of humor.

Comment #2 after the first valid question was DELETED. "Why did you delete my first response? All I want to know is how someone here placed a virus/Trojan on your computer so it wont happen to me or others".

Now, for all the world to see. Was I wrong? Am I wrong? Yes I am breaking one of my rules of reposting a blog but this is bullsheet!!!
Just so you know. Pattiep was delete also and we all know how nice she is.

Texasheart. Here is an open invitation for you to come to a post and not be deleted to plead your case.

Comments? Lets here them.

Hello my fellow FOX bloggers. It seems that some at FOX don't have a sense of humor or are hardcore militant PETA supporters. That's all fine and good but if you post something, you should expect an opposing point of view or in my case a little levity showing my alternate point of view. If you don't expect this, THEN DON'T PUT A FINGER ON THE KEYBOARD.
Maybe the right thing to do was to tell me that my 2 examples of real birth names were to harsh and the innuendos contained there in might be a little much. NOWAY, I was "gagged"!!!

We have a couple of posters here that spew foul mouthed vulgarities at every opportunity they get and yet it keeps coming. Nice unbiased website you have here FOX. I will hopefully continue to blog here (if I'm allowed) but I just want all to know what happens behind the scenes. I know this has happened to others and it shouldn't.
If you don't want others opinions then don't post it, its that simple.

P.S. I can understand not wanting a comment on a particular blog but why erase all the comments I made 10 minutes prior. One of which I was sending my sympathies to someone who is having a tough time.

Happy Blogging

A friend of mine and her family, along with my boys and I went out to eat last night. Everything was going fine until the nightmare children from hell showed up. These children will be in prison by the time they are teens.
The kids, about 4 and 5 years old where running around the restaurant like it was a playground. They would stop at various tables begging like homeless people and the parents would apologize just to let them go at it again. No discipline, no reprimand, just a brief minute of "you guys stop messing with them and come here", "you guys want some soda". "mommy is very disappointed in the way you are acting". I was about to lose my cool when another patron beat me to it.
Long story short, the family left and a few of us clapped as they did so. The parents had no regard for the rest of us enjoying the evening, so I had no problem celebrating them leaving.
I see this type of thing all the time when out for dinner or shopping. People know their children are heathens and unruly but yet want to subject the world to their devilish behavior. Don't apologize for them acting like little devils, do something about it. If you cant, STAY HOME UNTIL YOU CAN. We the public don't want to see or hear it. We pay hard earned money to enjoy ourselves, not watch your children act out.

Use common courtesy and respect others while out in public.

Am I being unreasonable? What experiences like this have you had? Vent it here.

Today scientist experimenting with the worlds largest particle accelerator, USED IT!!!! There was and is wide spread speculation that it can bring about the end of the world. Using the particle accelerator is a test to find out about the "Big Bang Theory". Speculation from some was that it could create small black holes that would eat up the Earth taking roughly 4 years to complete. Ah Hah. 2012, we may be onto something with that and the Mayans predicting our demise.

For those of you who aren't familiar with this experiment, look up CERN. It will tell all and it will save me from giving you the boring scientific details (dismal responses to the last 2 blogs on the subject).

Any opinions on the subject? I post a lot of jokes and spoof news reports but this isn't one. So if you have an opinion, please share, we only have 4 years left.

At least this isnt another Caylee blog.

I pulled this off of Wikipedia. I know it isnt a trusted source for college research but it pretty reliable on this subject. Read through the article and leave a comment.  It is a little long but well worth the time. I added the word virtual for effect.

Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is a personality disorder defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM IV-R), the diagnostic classification system used in the United States, as "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy."[1]

The narcissist is described as turning inward for gratification rather than depending on others and as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power and prestige.[2] Narcissistic personality disorder can be caused by receiving excessive praise and criticism in childhood, particularly from parental figures.

Classification

DSM-IV divides personality disorders into three clusters based on symptom similarities.[1] This clustering categorizes the Narcissistic personality disorder as a cluster B personality disorder, those personality disorders having in common an excessive sense of self importance. Also in that cluster are the Borderline personality disorder, the Histrionic personality disorder and the Antisocial personality disorder.

The ICD-10 (International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders, published by the World Health Organisation in Geneva 1992) regards narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) as "a personality disorder that fits none of the specific rubrics". It relegates it to the category known as "Other specific personality disorders", which also includes the eccentric, "haltlose", immature, passive-aggressive, and psychoneurotic personality disorders.

A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:[1]

1. has a grandiose sense of self-importance
2. is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love
3. believes that he or she is "special" and unique
4. requires excessive admiration
5. has a sense of entitlement
6. is interpersonally exploitative
7. lacks empathy
8. is often envious of others or believes others are envious of him or her
9. shows arrogant, haughty behaviors or attitudes

Hypothetical causes

The etiology of this disorder is unknown according to Groopman and Cooper. However, they list the following factors identified by various researchers as possible factors.[3]

• An oversensitive temperament at birth
• Overindulgence and overvaluation by parents
• Valued by parents as a means to regulate their own self-esteem
• Excessive admiration that is never balanced with realistic feedback
• Unpredictable or unreliable caregiving from parents
• Severe emotional abuse in childhood
• Being praised for perceived exceptional looks or talents by adults
• "Excessive praise for good behaviors or excessive criticism for poor behaviors in childhood"

Some narcissistic traits are common and a normal developmental phase. When these traits are compounded by a failure of the interpersonal environment and continue into adulthood they may intensify to the point where NPD is diagnosed.[citation needed] It has been suggested[who?] that NPD may be exacerbated by the onset of aging and the physical, mental, and occupational restrictions it imposes as can most personality traits.

Various clinical views

Pathological narcissism occurs over a broad spectrum of severity. In its more extreme forms, it is narcissistic personality disorder. NPD is considered to result from a person's belief that he or she is flawed in a way that makes the person fundamentally unacceptable to others [5]. This belief is held below the person's conscious awareness; such a person would typically deny thinking such a thing, if questioned. In order to protect themselves against the intolerably painful rejection and isolation that (they imagine) would follow if others recognised their supposedly defective nature, such people make strong attempts to control others’ view of them and behaviour towards them.

Psychologists commonly believe that pathological narcissism results from an impairment in the quality of the person's relationship with their primary caregivers, usually their parents, in that the parents were unable to form a healthy, empathic attachment to them. This results in the child conceiving of themselves as unimportant and unconnected to others. The child typically comes to believe that he or she has some defect of personality which makes them unvalued and unwanted [6].

Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is isolating, disenfranchising, painful, and formidable for those diagnosed with it and often those who are in a relationship with them. Distinctions need to be made among those who have NPD because not each and every person with NPD is the same. Even with similar core issues, the way in which one's individual narcissism manifests itself in his or her relationships varies.

To the extent that people are pathologically narcissistic, they can be controlling, blaming, self-absorbed, intolerant of others’ views, unaware of others' needs and of the effects of their behavior on others, and insistent that others see them as they wish to be seen [4]. They may also demand certain behavior from their children because they see the children as extensions of themselves, and need the children to represent them in the world in ways that meet the parents’ emotional needs [7]. (For example, a narcissistic father who was a lawyer demanded that his son, who had always been treated as the "favorite" in the family, enter the legal profession as well. When the son chose another career, the father rejected and disparaged him.)

These traits will lead overly narcissistic parents to be very intrusive in some ways, and entirely neglectful in others. The children are punished if they do not respond adequately to the parents’ needs. This punishment may take a variety of forms, including physical abuse, angry outbursts, blame, attempts to instill guilt, emotional withdrawal, and criticism. Whatever form it takes, the purpose of the punishment is to enforce compliance with the parents' narcissistic needs[7].

People who are overly narcissistic commonly feel rejected, humiliated and threatened when criticised. To protect themselves from these dangers, they often react with disdain, rage, and/or defiance to any slight criticism, real or imagined [8]. To avoid such situations, some narcissistic people withdraw socially and may feign modesty or humility.

Though individuals with NPD are often ambitious and capable, the inability to tolerate setbacks, disagreements or criticism, along with lack of empathy, make it difficult for such individuals to work cooperatively with others or to maintain long-term professional achievements [9]. With narcissistic personality disorder, the person's perceived fantastic grandiosity, often coupled with a hypomanic mood, is typically not commensurate with his or her real accomplishments.

The exploitativeness, sense of entitlement, lack of empathy, disregard for others, and constant need for attention inherent in NPD adversely affect interpersonal relationships.

Treatment and prognosis

Most psychiatrists and psychologists regard NPD as a relatively stable condition when experienced as a primary disorder [7]. James F. Masterson outlines a prominent approach to healing NPD, while [6] discussing a continuum of severity and the kinds of therapy most effective in different cases. Typically, as narcissism is an ingrained personality trait, rather than a chemical imbalance, medication and therapy are not very effective in treating the disorder. Schema Therapy, a form of therapy developed by Jeffrey E. Young that integrates several therapeutic approaches (psychodynamic, cognitive, behavioral etc.), also offers an approach for the treatment of NPD. [13] It is unusual for people to seek therapy for NPD. Subconscious fears of exposure or inadequacy are often met with defensive disdain of therapeutic processes.[14][15] Pharmacotherapy is rarely used. In a review of the literature, one patient responded to Wellbutrin.

After reading this, if you are angry, then you may want to reread the treatment section of this post.

The countdown to the startup of the world's most powerful particle collider has begun with today's announcement that the first beam of protons will be sent all the way through the 17-mile-round Large Hadron Collider on Sept. 10.

A key phase of the final preparations for the $10 billion project begins this weekend, when Europe's CERN particle-physics center begins testing the last links in the high-powered chain of magnets that will eventually send beams shooting through the collider's ring with the energy of a bullet train. Those tests will continue all the way up to the "Red Button Day."

If the schedule holds, the collider on the French-Swiss border will make a splash at 9 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) Sept. 10, a week after a federal judge in Hawaii begins hearing a motion to dismiss a civil lawsuit claiming that the device could destroy the world. Over the past few months, scientists at CERN (and the federal government) have laid out their case that a globe-gobbling catastrophe could never happen. Nevertheless, the court proceedings could provide a sideshow for the main event. Or they could be finished up by that time.

Here's the relevant section from CERN's news release about the startup:

"CERN has today announced that the first attempt to circulate a beam in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be made on 10 September. This news comes as the cooldown phase of commissioning CERN's new particle accelerator reaches a successful conclusion. Television coverage of the start-up will be made available through Eurovision.

"The LHC is the world's most powerful particle accelerator, producing beams seven times more energetic than any previous machine, and around 30 times more intense when it reaches design performance, probably by 2010. Housed in a 27-kilometer tunnel, it relies on technologies that would not have been possible 30 years ago. The LHC is, in a sense, its own prototype.

"Starting up such a machine is not as simple as flipping a switch.

"Commissioning is a long process that starts with the cooling down of each of the machine's eight sectors. This is followed by the electrical testing of the 1,600 superconducting magnets and their individual powering to nominal operating current. These steps are followed by the powering together of all the circuits of each sector, and then of the eight independent sectors in unison in order to operate as a single machine.

"By the end of July, this work was approaching completion, with all eight sectors at their operating temperature of 1.9 degrees above absolute zero (-271 degrees C). The next phase in the process is synchronization of the LHC with the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) accelerator, which forms the last link in the LHC's injector chain. Timing between the two machines has to be accurate to within a fraction of a nanosecond. A first synchronization test is scheduled for the weekend of 9 August, for the clockwise-circulating LHC beam, with the second to follow over the coming weeks. Tests will continue into September to ensure that the entire machine is ready to accelerate and collide beams at an energy of 5 TeV [trillion electron volts] per beam, the target energy for 2008. Force majeure notwithstanding, the LHC will see its first circulating beam on 10 September at the injection energy of 450 GeV (0.45 TeV).

"Once stable circulating beams have been established, they will be brought into collision, and the final step will be to commission the LHC's acceleration system to boost the energy to 5 TeV, taking particle physics research to a new frontier.

"'We're finishing a marathon with a sprint,' said LHC project leader Lyn Evans. 'It's been a long haul, and we're all eager to get the LHC research program under way.' ..."

CERN then lays out the accreditation procedures for journalists wanting to cover the startup, and notes that the event will be Webcast as well.

Red Button Day will be the big media day for the collider: The BBC, for example, plans to broadcast all day from CERN. However, it will take weeks more to get the proton beams in working order and bring collisions up to the 5 TeV level. That's why CERN has scheduled the big party for dignitaries (like French President Nicolas Sarkozy, for example) well after Red Button Day, on Oct. 21.

The collider isn't expected to reach its full power of 14 TeV until 2009 or 2010. As I noted earlier this week, that could leave a window for Fermilab's Tevatron in Illinois to steal some of the LHC's thunder - perhaps by making the first detection of the Higgs boson, the last fundamental particle predicted by current theory that has not yet been found. The Higgs boson (a.k.a. "the God Particle") is thought to play a key role in determining the properties of particle mass.

Even if the Tevatron finds the Higgs, it will be up to the LHC to study the particle in depth - and plumb other mysteries of the universe, ranging from the nature of dark matter and black holes to the possibility of extra dimensions in space.

For further background on the LHC and other frontiers of physics, check out the following dispatches - and stay tuned for our upcoming big-picture look at the big-bang machine: