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Interesting Info on Scientology

2007-06-05T23:53:00.000-07:00

Some exciting things are happening in the Scientology world. There is something happenening next month which is really cool.

This is wild -- check it out at http://www.scientologyreligion.org/

Whistleblowers Honored for Exposing Psychiatric Crimes

2007-02-26T17:16:00.000-08:00

Courage was the quality that marked the human rights activists honored at an awards banquet marking the 38th anniversary of Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills this weekend.

President CCHR International, Jan Eastgate, at the awards banquet marking the 38th anniversary of Citizens Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza Hotel in Beverly Hills this weekend.

Actors Kirstie Alley, Kelly Preston, Priscilla Presley, Marisol Nichols (24) and Anne Archer (Patriot Games, Fatal Attraction) awarded mental health industry whistleblowers who have risked their professional careers to expose dangerous psychiatric practices and warn the public about the dangers and fraudulent marketing of psychiatric drugs.

Three outspoken authors were awarded, whose comprehensive research and books have helped thousands: Dr. Timothy Scott, professor of psychology and author of America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived; Dr. Fred Baughman, author of The ADHD Fraud: How Psychiatry Makes 'Patients' of Normal Children; and journalist Kelly O'Meara, author of Psyched out: How Psychiatry Sells Mental Illness and Pushes Drugs That Kill.

The next awardee, Gwen Olsen, a former pharmaceutical industry representative, told an expert panel in Washington D.C. last January how she influenced doctors with gifts and presented skillfully manipulated data to get them to prescribe drugs that harmed patients. Her moment of truth came when her 20-year-old niece committed suicide following a withdrawal reaction from the antidepressant Paxil. Ms. Olsen, who has authored the book Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher, is a passionate and outspoken critic, protecting the lives of children and young adults by exposing pharma and psychiatric collusion to defraud the public.

Testifying at the same hearing was the next award winner, Allen Jones, a former investigator for the Pennsylvania Office of the Inspector General. Although he was charged through his position in this office with the responsibility to "find fraud, waste, and abuse in the Commonwealth's programs, operations, and contracts," Mr. Jones was pressured and ultimately fired when he refused to stop an investigation that uncovered evidence of drug companies giving financial inducements to state officials to promote certain psychotropic drugs. Vindicated in the end, Mr. Jones has made it his life's work to inform the public of the dangers of these drugs and the corruption of a system, in league with the psychiatric industry that creates the diseases pharmaceutical companies can then "treat."

Dr. Colin Ross, the next awardee, exposed the role of psychiatry in secret CIA mind control experiments. His investigation amassed 15,000 pages of documents through the Freedom of Information Act and resulted in his acclaimed book, The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists which has sold more than 6,000 copies. He has delivered more than 340 workshops, and appeared as an expert in two documentaries - "Mind Control" on the History Channel, and "Conspiracy Files: CIA Mind Control," on the Discover Channel.

The recipient of the Thomas S. Szasz Award was Dr. John Friedberg. The award is named after human rights advocate and CCHR co-founder, Thomas S. Szasz, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at the State University of New York Health Science Center in Syracuse, New York; Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. and psychiatry's most ardent and outspoken critic.

Dr. Friedberg earned this award through more than 30 years of work to expose the brutal and deadly psychiatric "procedure" called Electro Convulsive Therapy (ECT). Dr. Friedberg's expert testimony, articles, books, and interviews, proves that ECT causes irreparable brain damage and death, and has resulted in landmark legislation to curb and prevent its use.

The Citizens Commission on Human Rights was established by the Church of Scientology in 1969 to investigate and expose psychiatric violations of human rights.

Integrating flex apps with flash

2007-02-25T17:26:00.000-08:00

I've been struggling on actually getting a flex interface to have flash elements in it and I've isolated the various ways to do it with pros and cons. My basic issue is that I want to be able to integrate something that can be maintained in the future as opposed to just doing flash which has not a lot of maintenance capabilities because of the assets and possible pieces of code in the fla.

So what I've worked out is you can do the following:

Do a full flex interface with the buttons in flash 9 preview which allows you to actually do stops, gotoandplay and respond to frames based on the flash 9 interface. Downfall of this is NO components from the flex framework, or any components from the flash 8 framework -- the only thing that really works is textfield. Anything else just doesnt work. So for simple buttons this can be cool because of custom glows, etc.
Implement the buttons in flash 8 and load in the SWF at runtime as a custom component and use flashinterface to communicate with it. The problems are that this now puts you into a language with flash 8 -- so now you have to communicate flash 9 and flash 8.

So, the basic idea I can see is that the best option is to do the bottom for full on interfaces that need customization -- the flash 8 can be done in such a way to automate the interfaces and make them kick ass and then the flex class can integrate this high level enough.

Congressional Intervention Needed on FDA Failings

2007-02-05T17:33:00.000-08:00

An interesting article on psychiatric influence in today's society. It's quite amazing how much they have engrossed and infiltrated modern society.

CCHR has been instrumental in exposing this kind of chicanery plaguing us.

Check it out

Vista?

2007-01-27T17:47:00.000-08:00

To vista or not to vista.

Article on finite state machines in actionscript

2007-01-17T17:23:00.000-08:00

Check out this article on finite state machines in actionscript:

http://www.bigroom.co.uk/blog/finite-state-machines-for-ai-in-actionscript/

Apollo, 3d

2006-12-20T23:10:00.000-08:00

Apollo is definitely looking very cool. Some interesting tidbits are a video I found are here: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mesh/archives/2006/12/mark_anders_on.html#more

Another cool looking 3d engine is going to be papervision which is definitely the coolest actionscript 3 3d engine I've ever seen: http://www.papervision3d.org/demos/seahorse

Another neat thing about engines is the fact that they take control of the speed of actionscript 3 which is about 10 times faster than as 2.

Inversion of Control with Actionscript

2006-12-19T17:09:00.000-08:00

One thing that is really cool is using inversion of control design pattern from the j2ee catalog. You can use this to create some extremely re-usable classes. One thing that is a bummer is that you cannot use a class unless that class is compiled into the class itself.

One thing I did as a workaround is the following:

1. Include the bean package from the www.as2lib.org
2. Compile the class by doing something like in the root of the timeline:

public var class:AClassName;

This then gets compiled into the swf.

3. Load in the swf at runtime and once it is loaded the full class name say it was something like
net.test.MyClass would now be available in the global class path.

4. Now use as2libs bean parser:

public function loadContextXML( contextXMLPath:String, aLibraryId:String ):Void {
Logger.log("DEBUG", this + "loadContextXML() " + contextXMLPath );
this.libraryId = aLibraryId;
beanDefinitionParser = new UiBeanDefinitionParser();
applicationContext = new LoadingApplicationContext(contextXMLPath, beanDefinitionParser );
applicationContext.addListener(this);
applicationContext.start();
Logger.log("DEBUG", this + "loading batch context ["+applicationContext+"] " );
}

5. Now this runs the xml with bean definitions similar to spring and instantiates all of the classes:

device 1
device 2

6. Because the definition of the .net.test.MyClass is instantiated after the SWF that gets loaded it is now accessible through the swf that loaded in the classes.

7. This then makes it very reusable because you can compile external libraries in SWFs and then load them in at runtime and then access them using as2lib's spring factory framework.

- Code warrior

Welcome to my new actionscript blog

2006-12-18T17:50:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the ultimate actionscript blog. This is going to be the premiere flex and actionscript tips and tricks to the ultimate tricks, graphics and cool posts.