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I've heard a lot of reasons why gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married. I have heard a lot of reasons why gays should not be allowed to have kids. I've heard that once you allow a man to marry a man, next up is man marries a goat. Some say promoting gay families will recruit children. (Even though I was "recruited" by a straight woman. A post on that at a later time.) Some think a loving gay family will turn others gay like it's a makeover of some sort. And then, of course, I've heard that it will somehow kill the straight marriage. I think the problem with all of these arguments is that they are NOT STRONG ENOUGH. If you… | eng | c430ed51-1574-47ff-a4d2-7282d13e836b | http://sweetmotherlover.wordpress.com/tag/loving-adults/ |
20 December, 2004
Hell I don't know. I've been in the library and at the computer but just haven't got off my arse and published anything. Well, I am the ADHD librarian after all, you don't expect me to be organised and document everything do you?
So, in the time since I last wrote I've been the acting 2IC and now the acting Manager. Yes folks the library is going to hell in a hand basket with me at the helm. I have a great team of people and they are helping me to cope with the fact that I am currently the top three people in the library. There is just too much hat swapping when I can be in a meeting with the directors at 10:30 but then be doing storytime for some psycho 3 year olds at 11. And on an ADHD note, I'm thinking it is time to dose myself to the eyeballs. I don't know how else I can manage to get anything done (let alone everything). As a children's librarian if you go a bit manic and roll on the floor growling, people assume you're doing it for the kiddies. As library manager people tend to have their suspicions as to my motives.
My old methods of just doing things until (by accident) something works and I get a reward, just doesn't cut it either. People expect the manager to be able to articulate a plan.
The library will do stuff. Isn't the mission statement the CEO wants. If I get the job permanently I'll need to 'get my shit together' as they* say. Still I've got Christmas to stuff my career up further by continuing to be me at work. I need some sort of method where I get a personality transplant as I walk through my office door.
*they in this case being wankers
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Is Universalism Heretical?
Is universalism outside the bounds of Christian orthodoxy? That is, can a Christian believe in universalism and still be considered a good and faithful Christian? To answer this question, we first need to be clear on what we mean by "universalism." The kind of universalism I am interested in defending in my book also goes by the names "Christian universalism," "universal salvation," or "ultimate reconciliation." According to this perspective, all people will ultimately be saved through Christ. This perspective still has a place for judgment and punishment in the age to come (potentially severe, yet temporary in duration and restorative in function) and holds that Christ is the only savior of humankind. This distinctly Christian universalism stands in sharp contrast to pluralistic universalism (or "pluralism"), which holds that there are many equal paths to God, disregards any uniqueness in Christ's role in our salvation, and denies or downplays any role for divine judgment. It seems correct to me to say that this kind of pluralism is in fact heretical, in so far as it denies the uniqueness of Christ's revelation of God and Christ's mediation of God's salvation to humanity. In saying that, I do not mean to imply that people who hold pluralism to be true are wicked or stupid, or anything of the sort. I just mean to make the judgment that this perspective does not seem to be within the bounds of orthodox Christian faith.
Another distinction that is important within Christian universalism is between what theologians usually refer to as "dogmatic" and "hopeful" universalism, or "necessary" and "contingent" universalism, as contemporary analytic philosophers of religion call it. Dogmatic/necessary universalism declares strongly that God will in fact save all people, while hopeful/contingent universalism simply claims it is possible that God will save all people. It is usually the dogmatic/necessary type of universalism that Christians tend to label heretical. It is ok to hope in universal salvation, but to believe in it and proclaim is taking it too far. From my theological perspective, I do believe it is inevitable that all will be ultimately saved by God through Christ. So, I am more than just hopeful, in the sense of just wanting it to be true but not thinking it is likely to happen. However, I do not claim to know with certainty that my theological perspective is true. So, my view is more than merely "hopeful," but it also falls short of being "dogmatic." In my system of theological belief, I do think it is necessarily true that all will be saved. Yet, I do not claim to know with certainty that my theological system is true. I hope it is, and I think I have good reasons for thinking it is, but I could be wrong. When Christians label a belief system as "heretical," they may mean to say that the church at an early ecumenical council made such an authoritative declaration and we are bound by it, or they may mean to say that as a theological judgment (regardless of what previous councils have said) it is false and dangerous for Christians to believe. I will respond to both senses of the charge of heresy. I have often hear Christians say that the church has condemned universalism. What they are referring to is the 553 Second Council of Constantinople (the fifth of the seven ecumenical councils). There is a great deal of historical debate about exactly what was stated at this council. There is no doubt that the council condemned Origen (an early Christian universalist) in its eleventh anathema, yet the precise reason is not stated. There is no reference to universal salvation in this anathema or in the other thirteen. However, there are fifteen additional anathemas stated against Origen that may have come from this council, or they might have been appended later, and, if so, do not have the authority of the council's decision. Even if we assume that the fifteen anathemas against Origen do have the authoritative backing of the council, it is clear that Origen's belief in universal salvation is inextricably bound up with his understanding of the pre-existence of human souls and their destiny to return to a purely spiritual state. So, the council doesn't claim to condemn belief in universal salvation as such; it only condemns the particularly Origenist view of what universal salvation entails, namely, a return of souls to a pre-existent state. Complicating factors is that in addition to the council's fourteen historically certain anathemas, and the additional fifteen anathemas against Origen that are historically uncertain, there are also nine anathemas against Origen by the Emperor Justinian in 543 that were made in a more local meeting of bishops. The ninth anathema clearly condemns belief in a universal reconciliation of "demons and of impious men." It is sometimes assumed that this declaration of Justinian carries the authority of the fifth ecumenical council, but this anathema is not repeated at the ecumenical council of 553. If Justinian intended to condemn belief in universal salvation as such, then the authoritative council a decade later did not carry this forward. One of the central pieces of evidence that the fifth ecumenical council did not intend to condemn belief in universal salvation as such, but only Origen's particular version of it, is that Gregory of Nyssa was never condemned for his belief in universal salvation. Gregory's universalism was not related to any notions of human beings pre-existing in a purely spiritual state in heaven, and so his type of universalism was never condemned. That he was never deemed heretical is high significant, given his authority and stature in the early church. Gregory of Nyssa was a key formulator of orthodox doctrine, and had a large role in the production of the Nicene Creed. He was so highly revered that at the seventh ecumenical council in 787, he was given the title "father of fathers" and is still revered as such today. Since we can reasonably suppose an ecumenical council would not give such high honors to someone who held a view that was deemed heretical by a previous ecumenical council, we can safely assume that the fifth ecumenical council did not intend, and was not later understood as intending, to condemn belief in universal salvation as such. All of this historical explanation, however, is not really necessary to respond to the charge of heresy from a Protestant perspective. Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christians consider the seven ecumenical councils as strongly authoritative, while Protestant denominations are divided on how many of the councils, if any, are considered authoritative. Even those Protestant denominations that do give them some level of authority clearly subordinate their authority to that of Scripture. For Protestants, Scripture is always primary in the formation of our theology. If Scripture is primary, then how can we use tradition (in this case, a decision from an ancient church council) as a theological trump card? For Protestants, the determination of what is orthodox and what isn't can never be decided solely by church tradition. Interestingly, the same council that many people (erroneously) assume declared that all forms of Christian universalism are heretical also declared, in itssecond anathema, for it to be heretical to deny the perpetual virginity of Mary. Protestants have tended to not take this as binding because it seems to go against some clear affirmations in Scripture that Mary and Joseph had marital relations after the birth of Jesus (e.g., Matt. 1:25). So, for Protestants, anything declared in an ancient ecumenical council is, in principle, open to revision in the light of better understandings of Scripture. Historically speaking, most Christians consider the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed to be the touchstones of orthodoxy. It would seem odd to me to apply the label "heretic" to someone (like myself, for example) who affirms both of these creeds. You can affirm these creeds and still be a universalist, as there are no affirmations of an everlasting hell to be found in these creeds. So, taken in the historical sense, the charge of heresy does not seem to be appropriate to all forms of universalism. Theologically, some might argue that universalism is still heretical because it denies what most Christians throughout the ages have believed, namely, that there is an everlasting hell and that some will be forever lost. Here I will offer the response of an 18th-century Baptist universalist preacher (yes, you read that right) named Elhanan Winchester. Winchester argued that universalism shouldn't be considered heretical because it simply draws a logical conclusion from two orthodox premises: 1) God desires to save all people. 2) God has the power to accomplish God's redemptive desires. How, Winchester argued, can you get an heretical conclusion by putting together two orthodox premises? Calvinists deny (1) and affirm (2). Arminians affirm (1) but deny (2). Universalists affirm both (1) and (2) and get the conclusion that God will ultimately save all people. Another way to put the point is to consider these statements:
1) God desires to save all people. 2) God has the power to accomplish God's redemptive desires. 3) Some people will spend an eternity in hell. Calvinists, Arminians, and universalists all affirm two of these statements and deny one of them. Since Calvinists strongly disagree with Arminians but do not label them heretics, and since Arminians strongly disgree with Calvinists but not label them heretics, then why should Calvinist and Arminian Christians think that universalist Christians are heretics? Why is it that some Christians are willing to allow for disagreement over (1) and (2), but not (3)? So, whether understood in a historical sense or in a more conceptual theological sense, I cannot see why Christian universalism should be given the label "heresy."
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Great read, Heath. Been following your stuff from afar. (Currently studying at Duke Div.) I look forward to returning to ARUMC; it'll be nice to talk about your book and other theological interests. Grace & Peace. - Dane Womack
I read the portions of your book available via Amazon's "Look Inside" feature. I admire how agilely you can weave about within the womb of orthodox Christianity -- as you must, of course, being a pastor -- and arrive at the only conclusion consistent with a Creator who IS LOVE. Your theological efforts remind me of the process Jesus must have used to bring forth the best and truest from the ancient Jewish faith of his time to inspire humanity to see a higher path, a higher Law, all without violating their sacred heritage.
So far in my studies I tend more toward the pluralist version of universalism, but not entirely. Although I don't feel constrained to uphold Christian orthodoxy, I have committed myself to follow Jesus.
Looking forward to ordering your book and reading the whole thing soon. Congratulations on birthing this important contribution to spiritual thought.
Thanks for writing Patricia. I love your image of squirming around in the womb of orthodoxy. That's exactly what I am doing, although she may feel like I am kicking too much! I also appreciate the analogy with Jesus' relationship with Judaism, in that he transformed a faith from within out of what he saw as the theological center. Not putting myself in the same ballpark as him, but that is that task I am engaged in as I see it. I hope to send out some more books to folks this week and I still plan on sending you one as a gift, so hold off on ordering. Take care | eng | fd88d438-1362-4bb6-b612-d8dfcb73cf2e | http://thesundaydrivehome.blogspot.com/2013/01/is-universalism-heretical.html |
Method acting
Method acting is a phrase that loosely refers to a family of techniques used by actors to create in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters, so as to develop lifelike performances. It can be contrasted with more classical forms of, in which actors simulate the thoughts and emotions of their characters through external means, such as vocal intonation or facial expression. Though not all Method actors use the same approach, the "method" in Method acting usually refers to the practice, pioneered by Constantin Stanislavski and advocated by by which actors draw upon their own emotions and memories in their portrayals, aided by a set of exercises and practices including sense memory and affective memory.
Method actors are often characterized as immersing themselves in their characters to the extent that they continue to portray them even offstage or off-camera for the duration of a project. However, this is a popular misconception. While some actors have employed this approach, it is generally not taught as part of the Method.
Theater of the United States is based in the Western tradition. Regional or resident theatres in the United States are professional theatre companies outside of New York City that produce their own seasons.- Early history:...
." While classical acting instruction "had focused on developing external talents," the Method was "the first systematized training that also developed internal abilities (sensory, psychological, emotional)."
Method acting continues to evolve, with many contemporary acting teachers, schools, and colleges teaching an integrated approach that draws from several different schools of thought about acting.
Origins
Method acting was first popularized in the United States by the Group Theatrefrom the 1940s until his death in 1982. It was derived from the system created by Constantin Stanislavski, who pioneered similar ideas in his quest for "theatrical truth." Stanislavski developed his system through his friendships with Russia
Russia
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's leading actors, whose work he observed and analyzed; his collaborations with playwright; and his own acting and teaching at the Moscow Art Theater. It was also influenced by then-current ideas about Realism.
Strasberg's students included many of America's most famous actors in the latter half of the 20th century, including Montgomery Clift
Montgomery Clift
Edward Montgomery Clift was an American film and stage actor. The New York Times' obituary noted his portrayal of "moody, sensitive young men"....
James Byron Dean was an American film actor. He is a cultural icon, best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause , in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark.
Technique
"Method acting" or "the Method" usually refers to the teachings but the term is sometimes also applied to the teachings of his Group Theatre colleagues, includingSanford Meisner , also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed a form of Method acting that is now known as the Meisner technique....
, and to other schools of acting derived from Stanislavski's system, each of which takes a slightly different approach. Even Stanislavski himself modified his system dramatically over the course of his career.
In general, however, Method acting combines the actor's careful consideration of the character's psychological motives and personal identification with the character, possibly including a reproduction of the character's emotional state by recalling emotions or sensations from the actor's own life. In this sense, according to Marlon Brando, the actor does not so much become someone else as he becomes himself. It is often contrasted with acting in which thoughts and emotions are indicated, or presented in a clichéd, unrealistic way. Among the concepts and techniques of Method acting are substitution
Substitution (theatre)
In theatre, substitution refers to the method of understanding elements in the life of one's character by comparing them to elements in one's own life. For example, if an actor is portraying a character who is being blackmailed, he or she could think back to some embarrassing or private fact about...
, "as if," sense memory, affective or emotional memory, animal work, and archetype work. Strasberg uses the question, "What would motivate me, the actor, to behave in the way the character does?" Strasberg asks the actor to replace the play's circumstances with his/her own, the substitution.
Sanford Meisner , also known as Sandy, was an American actor and acting teacher who developed a form of Method acting that is now known as the Meisner technique....
, another Group Theatre pioneer, championed a closely related version of the Method, which came to be Meisner broke from Strasberg on the subjects of sense memory and affective memory, basic techniques espoused by Strasberg through which actors access their own personal experiences in order to identify with and portray the emotional lives of their characters. Meisner believed that this approach caused actors to focus on themselves and not fully tell the story. He advocated fully immersing oneself "in the moment" and concentrating on one's partner. Meisner taught actors to achieve spontaneity by understanding the given circumstances of the scene (as did Strasberg) and through interpersonal exercises he designed to help actors invest emotionally in the scene, freeing them to react "honestly" as the character. Meisner described acting as "living truthfully under imaginary circumstances."
Robert Lewis also broke with Strasberg. In his books Method—or Madness? and the more autobiographical Slings and Arrows, Lewis disagreed with the idea that vocal training should be separated from pure emotional training. Lewis felt that more emphasis should be placed on formal voice and body training, such as teaching actors how to speak verse and enunciate clearly, rather than on pure raw emotion, which he felt was the focus of Method training acting teacher whose fame was cemented by the success of her studentsRobert De Niro, Jr. is an American actor, director and producer. His first major film roles were in Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, both in 1973...
, also broke with Strasberg after she studied with Stanislavski himself, the only Group Theatre teacher to do so, after he had modified many of his early ideas about acting. Her version of the Method is based on the idea that actors should conjure up emotion not by using their own personal memories, but by using the scene's given circumstances. Like Strasberg's, Adler's technique relies on carrying through tasks, wants, needs, and objectives. It also seeks to stimulate the actor's imagination through the use of "as ifs." Adler often taught that "drawing on personal experience alone was too limited." Therefore, she urged performers to draw on their imaginations and utilize "emotional memory" to the fullest.
Contemporary approaches
Contemporary Method acting teachers and schools often synthesize the work of their predecessors into an integrated approach. They reject the notion that any one of the major Method teachers of the 20th century was completely correct or incorrect, and they continue to develop new acting tools and techniques.
Some modern acting theorists and teachers have noted that Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Stella Adler, and others often misunderstood each other's work, and that their criticisms were based on this misunderstanding. For example, they all taught actors to use their imagination, to connect with each other in performance, to analyze the script for wants, needs, and objectives. Meisner often said that Strasberg actors were too focused on themselves, but Strasberg trained many of the most respected actors of the 20th century.
In addition to taking an integrated approach, contemporary actors sometimes seek help from psychologists or use imaginative tools such as dream work or archetype work to remove emotional blocks. Techniques have also been developed to prevent the world of the performance from spilling over into an actor's personal life in destructive ways.
Teachers
Stanislavski described his acting system in a trilogy of books set in a fictional acting school: An Actor Prepares,Building a Character, and Creating a Role. He also wrote an autobiography, My Life in Art. Acting teachers whose work was inspired by Stanislavski include:
Richard Boleslavsky, actor, film director, and founder of the American Laboratory Theatre in New York., an actor, director, and author whose technique, largely an outside-in approach and somewhat more metaphysical, diverged from and returned to Stanislavski's over the course of his career., an actress who taught at the American Laboratory Theatre. Her students included John Garfield
John Garfield a director, actor, and producer whose teachings are most closely associated with the term Method acting founder of the Stella Adler Conservatory in New York City.
Founded in 1945 by Herbert Berghof, the HB Studio is a school that offers professional training in the performing arts. Located in Greenwich Village in New York City, its curriculum includes classes in a variety of areas, including acting, directing, playwrighting, screenwriting, musical theatre,..., and author of Method—or Madness?
In fact, most post-1930 acting philosophies have been strongly influenced by Method acting, and it continues to be taught at schools around the world, including the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
__notoc__The Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute is an acting school located at 115 East 15th Street between Union Square East and Irving Place in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, as well as at 7936 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, California...
in New York and Los Angeles, the Actors Studio Drama School in New York, the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York and Los Angeles, the Edgemar Center for the Arts
Edgemar Center for the Arts
Edgemar Center for the Arts is a sculptural and cultural complex and art school in Santa Monica, California that offers professional training in theatre, dance, music, film, and visual arts. It also provides acting classes by professional coaches, including Michelle Danner, who is also the artistic...
Founded in 1945 by Herbert Berghof, the HB Studio is a school that offers professional training in the performing arts. Located in Greenwich Village in New York City, its curriculum includes classes in a variety of areas, including acting, directing, playwrighting, screenwriting, musical theatre,...in San Francisco.
Major books on Method actingRespect for Acting by actress and teacher Uta Hagen is a textbook used in many acting classes. Hagen's instructions and examples guide the aspiring actor through practical problems such as "How do I talk to the audience?" and "How do I stay fresh in a long run?" She advocates the actor's use of... | eng | 4b267f6b-4fc4-437b-b5d1-7b6efd7e8063 | http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Method_acting |
If it is a Dual 4 ohm subwoofer as stated in that description, EACH subwoofer can only go to either 2 or 8.. Both subwoofers combined however, can achieve a 4 ohm load.. What exactly do you need? What amp are you trying to use? | eng | b757522c-0da3-4cbc-a595-d0b19fefd850 | http://www.caraudio.com/forums/wiring-electrical-installation-help/557591-dual-12-inch-audiopipe-ts-google-page-rankings-lightning-audio-amp-need-help.html |
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Feb 26, 2008
Scientists will embark this week from Punta Arenas, Chile, on the tip of South America, to spend 42 days amid the high winds and waves of the Southern Ocean. Here they hope to make groundbreaking measurements to explain how huge fluxes of climate-affecting gases move between atmosphere and sea, and vice-versa.
The cruise, which departs Feb. 28, should provide important information on how the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide moves between the ocean and atmosphere, said the cruise's chief scientist, David Ho of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Comprising 30 percent of global seas, "the Southern Ocean is a source of great uncertainty," he said. "So it's potentially important to our understanding of the global system."
Humans put about 6 billion metric tons of CO2 into the air each year, mainly by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation. About a third is thought to be absorbed by oceans, and a third by plants or other components of land. The rest stays in the air—much of the reason why atmospheric CO2 is now building and climate is warming. However, there are huge uncertainties in the calculations—made so far mostly through indirect means--and fluxes seem highly variable from year to year, with some parts of the oceans habitually giving up CO2 while others absorb it. (The Southern Ocean usually absorbs it.) "Understanding how atmospheric carbon dioxide reacts with these cold surface waters is important for determining how the ocean uptake of carbon dioxide will respond to future climate change," said Christopher Sabine, an oceanographer at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA, NASA and the National Science Foundation are cosponsoring the cruise.
About 30 scientists from over a dozen institutions will traverse an area above Antarctica more than 1,000 miles east of Punta Arenas, aboard the 274-foot NOAA ship Ronald Brown. Here high, freezing winds unimpeded by landmasses roar much of the time, and waves can routinely top 30 feet. "The conditions are a little grim, but it's ideal for study," said Ho. He said that higher wind speeds correlate with faster exchange of gases, but there have been few studies aimed at directly measuring these exchanges under real-world conditions. The scientists say that wind speed itself probably does not drive gas exchange; the drivers are hard-to-observe phenomena driven by the wind, including turbulence and bubbles created by cresting waves. Another factor is the amount of phytoplankton taking CO2 from the water, which is usually measured by color. To figure out what is going on, the crew will dangle arrays of complicated instruments just above the water surface, and in the water column. "That will be a challenge, since the bow will be plunging off those big waves," noted Sabine.
"NASA's ongoing effort to understand the global carbon cycle will benefit from the data this cruise will produce," said Paula Bontempi, manager of NASA's ocean biology and biogeochemistry research program. "NASA's global satellite observations of ocean color will be improved, as we validate what our space-based sensors see with direct measurements taken at sea." Southern Ocean could absorb relatively less carbon dioxide in future if the global temperatures continue to rise as a result of human activities, as climate researchers from ETH Zurich demonstrate ...
(Phys.org) —Scientists have found unexpectedly high concentrations of opal, a mineral containing silicate, in marine sediments during the transition periods from ice ages to warm phases. The explanation ...
Not every scientific discovery originates in the lab, or from the field. Scientists increasingly are turning to powerful new computers to perform calculations they couldn't do with earlier generation machines, ...
Does ozone have an impact on the ocean's role as a "carbon sink"? Yes, according to researchers from France. Using original simulations, they have demonstrated that the hole in the ozone layer reduces atmospheric carbon uptake | eng | 0323ce42-7591-46db-9d03-6898afdb1c23 | http://phys.org/news123255870.html |
Guess who's coming to dinner now?
In Florida this week, a proposed bill is stirring up controversy. You may ask yourself, "What is this controversy? Does it have to do with the War in Iraq (or on Terror or The Long War or whatever it is being called)? Does this new bill have to do with outrageous gas prices? Does this bill deal with the rising cost of education expenses and the declining amount of financial aid?" The answer to all of your questions is no.
The proposed bill will allow individual cities in Florida to decide whether to allow dogs at outdoor restaurants, and it has created an outrage from cat owners who say that the bill is discriminatory against felines. Currently, the rule is that no dog is allowed anywhere in a restaurant except for seeing eye dogs. I wish that someone would send a national memo.
As a hostess at A1A Ale Works, there have been many customers who bring dogs to the restaurant. Some try to trick me into letting them stay. "It's not a dog…really." Others try to hide the dog. "No, that barking is not coming out of my over-sized tote bag with the mesh screen so my pet can breathe." In the end, the manager has to inform the customers about our policies and they usually leave miffed.
Now, let me say I have never witnessed a cuter sight than a puppy. With their wet noses, big eyes and unbridled affection, you'll be hard pressed to find someone who doesn't think puppies are cute. Regardless, puppies, kittens and other adorable pets are still animals.
There are several things wrong with this newly proposed bill. Firstly, I must have missed the part of the Constitution that granted pets the same protection against discrimination that is given to humans.
Secondly, I still don't understand why it is imperative that peoples' dogs join them at dinner. There is rarely a purpose to taking a dog to dinner. Sure, it's cute and maybe the dog can get lonely at home, but concerns like sanitation in restaurants and the protection of other diners should outweigh Spot's social life.
Lastly, where do we draw the line of what would constitute pet discrimination? Bird owners might want to take their birds to a restaurant and my beloved pet rat GiGi would love to join me for dinner at the Sunset Grill this weekend.
I will admit that during freshman year in the dorms I went through pet withdrawals. I frequently made friends with strangers just so I could pet their puppies. I even bought my roommate a hermit crab so we could have an animal to play with in the room. I'm still not quite sure if that was allowed, but the point is that I understand the human bond with animals.
So don't call PETA and get me on the "Animal-haters to douse with paint" list because I don't belong there. If PETA has a "Wants to eat a meal in a restaurant – not a zoo" list, then be sure to sign me up | eng | 86ef6193-ce03-4541-b9f1-2dea0b92d84c | http://gargoyle.flagler.edu/2006/04/guess-who%E2%80%99s-coming-to-dinner-now/comment-page-1/ |
Granted I'm not playing on PC but I've never had any of those issues either. Now, I've seen Watchmen find their sleeping compatriots and wake them up, but I've never seen any evidence of random respawning before, and my strategy most of the time is to clear whatever building I'm in, stack all the unconscious bodies in a closet somewhere, and then go about my business exploring/searching for loot. Never had anyone come back unless they were found and awakened by a buddy (and you can normally hear that if you're within earshot "What are you doing? Get up!" or something to that effect). | eng | 23519567-89f2-467a-bad0-af677478a131 | http://www.mcarterbrown.com/forums/2554333-post65.html |
Brady Rusk, 12, hugs Eli at a retirement and adoption ceremony at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas. The bomb-sniffing Labrador retriever was assigned to Brady's older brother, Marine Pfc. Colton Rusk, 20, who was killed in action in Afghanistan by Taliban sniper fire Dec. 5. The Department of Defense granted the Rusk's permission to adopt Eli and allow him to join their family.
If you could paint your picture, where would you be today? I can vision myself being in Italy, rolling hills, grass is green, row after row of grape vines. Air is just right, warmth of the sun shining down on me. People waving as they pass by. Getting closer to the city, I see tall ancient structures, absolutely beautiful, so i explore even further. In awe over the detailed stones, the massive height of the structures. Breath taking! | eng | 9cc82f91-696a-448d-9200-bd463ac8093d | http://mjhuffman530.wordpress.com/category/uncategorized/ |
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When I was close to the edge, Samael was with me saying that it was ok if that's what I chose. He gave me the freedom of choice. When I began hearing voices, Malphas was with me hearing the same things I was and telling me that I was ok, that I could recover. When my heart was broken, Lilith was there telling me I would love again. When I needed to vent my rage at the right people, Rofocale was there guiding my voice so I didn't hurt anyone innocent. When I was desperate for help, Lucifer was there to comfort me and tell me things will get better and they aren't as bad as I think. When I needed the truth, Adramalech was there to be blunt and help me find my own path.
They have held me up through everything. My family. My friends. I love them more than I can say.
During the fall Yahweh crushed Lucifer's wings. It was an act of borderline evil. The left wing was almost torn off. Though healed, scars remain and cause pain sometimes. I hope this clears stuff up for people.
The abrahamic god went insane eons ago. And as noone dares turn around and tell him something's not right he continues to abuse everyone around him. Loki is dealing with underlying mental illness that causes manic episodes and emotional outbursts. Lucifer deals with depression and complex post traumatic stress disorder that leaves him fearful when he needs to hold himself together most.
If you worship a god, for goodness sake try and understand them completely. Don't just stand there going "oooooh preeeetttyyyy" because most of the time you'll be ignored. Don't give trinkets, give time.
I'd talk about mother Lilith more but she's pretty private. I work closely with her in void work. I love her dearly and she loves me as her daughter but that's our thing. She doesn't want to share our stuff with the world. I'm saying this just so you know I love Lilith and Lucifer equally, even if I don't talk about mum much.
Jesus has nothing in common with the Catholic Church nor does he have anything in common with Islam. These two religions are of Satan. They do not know Jesus. They break all his commandments. They do not obey his words. They do not go by his love,…
I assume you're protestant… The type of christianity that came AFTER catholicism. And why would Lucifer create Islam. He has his own damn religion, it's called Luciferianism. Don't rant about things you clearly know next to nothing about. What's more you're not following Jesus' teachings. You're slandering other peoples beliefs.
Don't get me wrong, I like the show Supernatural but I wish people would just tag it. I have tumblr savior, I can deal, just do your part people. Look up moonstone. That is what angel hearts used to look like. Now they're full of rot and corruption. Why do I say this? Because of up their arse bible freaks think they know everything. Void is like blue goldstone. Cool, clear and uncorrupted.
Also, people are not Luciferian to "be cool" ok little emo kids? You can't turn off the lights then complain that it's dark. You shouldn't be so flippant about faith, especially left hand path faith. Tread carefully kids, it's so easy to slip and never stop falling. | eng | 57f258a5-f296-4ab2-80af-035e2e52a218 | http://myotishia.tumblr.com/tagged/lucifer |
New research has led scientists to believe that people do not see all the same colours when they look at similar objects.
Although there is a general consensus that red is the same shade as strawberries, blood and the planet Mars some people could perceive the colour red as another person's blue according to experts.
The revelations come after an experiment with monkeys which suggests that our colour perception is shaped by the outside world but follows no predetermined pattern.
One person's red could be another's blue say scientists who believe that colour perception is not pre-determined
In work published in the scientific journal 'Nature', colour vision scientist Jay Neitz from the University of Washington injected a virus into monkeys' eyes which enabled them to see red as well as green and yellow.
Remarkably the group of squirrel monkeys were able to make sense of the new information despite their brains not being genetically programmed to respond to red signals.
The result was that just four months later the monkeys could see in full colour for the first time.
As well as allowing colour-blind humans to tell red from green, the innovative technique could restore sight to the blind.
Sufferers of age-related macular degeneration - the most common cause of blindness in the elderly - are among the millions who could eventually benefit.
Breakthrough: Scientists were able to infect squirrel monkeys with a virus which allowed them to see the colour red
Importantly, the monkeys were injected with a human gene, suggesting the same technique would work on people.
The 2009 findings prompted researchers to investigate what the monkeys were actually seeing and they concluded that there were no predetermined perceptions ascribed to each wavelength.
The scientists now believe that although people's brains tend to behave in the similarly when they are born neurons are not configured to respond to colour in a default way.
Other research shows different perceptions of colours do not change our emotional response to the same shades.
They found that people's reactions to the colour 'blue' tends to have a calming effect due to the shorter wavelengths of light hitting the retina.
While longer wavelengths (yellow, orange and red) can make us more alert.
Neitz said: 'I would say recent experiments lead us down a road to the idea that we don't all see the same colours.'
While another color vision scientist, Joseph Carroll of the Medical College of Wisconsin, told the website Life's Little Mysteries: 'I think we can say for certain that people don't see the same colours.'
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"Anybody see days of the week and months of the year as colours? I do." - enough, Edinburgh, 30/6/2012 23:19.......Yes, I do too. It's called synesthesia. I see all the letters of the alphabet as different colours. For me, e is yellow (as it was for Wittgenstein too), f is leaf green, h is slate blue, o is white. I can read you out the words if you give me the sequence of colours. With whole words, one colour will predominate and take over the word, so my Monday is white, Tuesday is yellow, Wednesday is strawberry red, Thursday is brown, Friday is black. I've been researching this for years, helped by those of my students who have this ability. The one constant I've found is that everyone disagrees on the colours, so it's very personal! Some people also experience sounds as colours (check out Rimbaud's poem 'Les Voyelles') or tastes as colours - one of my informants said that carrots tasted pink. I think this is a different thing from say red/green colour blindness though.
I'm protanopic. (red-green colourblind). What's purple to a normal person is blue to me. Likewise, pink can be grey, grass green can be orange, and brown and dark green are one and the same, to me. The above strawberry is definitely primary blue, though I have no idea what colour the stalk is.
The receptor detects the wavelength and we label it accordingly. We all agree that strawberries are red. The question is NOT what the receptors detect, that is settled; but what does the brain see? If I could see through your brain (NOT your eyes) would I see what I have been used to seeing through mine? I'm not sure that these experiments give an answer.
While it's much too complicated to discuss here, I had personal evidence of this possibility some 21 years ago. Certainly, the pedants are right and the colour wavelenths sent out are the same, but it's the brains interpretation of these that is being questioned. We don't all think the same, so why should our brain see colours as the same. But if someone tells me, as a child say, that a strawberry is red, then no matter how my brain sees it I will call this colour red. Analogies are often inaccurate, but think of a set of buttons that light up different coloured lamps. If the wires get crossed, perhaps the red button will cause the blue lamp to light. A similar thing could be happening in the brain. | eng | fd69bb02-70ca-41d3-a6a5-24a00b33665f | http://gibiru.com/index.php/uncensored-news/15909-we-don-t-all-see-the-same-colours-say-scientists-as-they-claim-one-person-s-red-is-another-s-blue |
directors of the PBS documentary "The War," the final episode of "The Sopranos," the Hollywood miniseries "The Starter Wife" and two episodes of "Lost" are among the nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award. The guild released its TV,... | eng | 17c80eab-8dee-4482-896b-3d633dbcd364 | http://www.sun-sentinel.com/topic/entertainment/barbet-schroeder-PECLB003639.topic?page=1&sortby=contenttypecode |
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Ali touches on every heavy topic under the sun but it's the more personal anecdotes, like flying home from Europe to attend his Dad's funeral or coming off tour to find his son neglected and injured that hit hardest and make Mourning in America worth copping. | eng | 11cb1522-96d5-459a-8194-6595df670683 | http://www.metacritic.com/music/mourning-in-america-and-dreaming-in-color/brother-ali |
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Julion Conley was arrested and charged with battery, but the two other players whom police linked to the incident haven't been charged or taken into custody.
"I'm disappointed something hasn?t happened so far," Craig said.
Even though the two other football players have been identified in connection to the crime, police said they can't arrest them after the fact because they're only facing misdemeanor charges. Instead, they'll be summoned to court.
"The level of viciousness of this attack, I think, would warrant a felony charge," Craig | eng | 1397e655-48ce-481e-bcea-821d4e1a1ca3 | http://www.koat.com/Nightclub-Owner-Speaks-Out-On-Bar-Brawl/-/9154444/6133298/-/12c1t0t/-/index.html |
It is a little silly - splunkbase asks people to go to answers to ask questions about new apps, but then they cant actually do that until they pay their dues on answers for a while.
That aside, it sounds like you're interested in building out an app for monitoring data from huawei optical hardware ?
This was a long time ago, but if you still are, and if you send me sample data and the use case there's a good chance that I might build out a prototype version just for fun. Or if you have a budget to build it out we could do an actual project together. Check out my profile for more details. | eng | 8f827099-dff6-4fa2-adc5-332eee4d0274 | http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/2237/managing-huawei-optical-core-network-equipment |
Archive for November, 2006
It's summertime!
1. No one wants to be bothered.
2. It's too hot.
3. It's a beautiful day; everyone is out.
4. No one is thinking about work.
5. Prospects are getting ready to go on vacation.
6. Everyone is on vacation.
7. Prospects are just returning ... | eng | 83dd64d2-319a-42dc-a33d-c19a52066275 | http://wendyweiss.com/blog/2006/11/ |
Students often fear assessment and see it as a negative element of the course. However, if the assessment exercise is fair and relevant it can help sustain a sense of motivation and interest. Assessment involves the sampling of some aspect of a person's learning/knowledge at a particular moment. Depending upon the kind of sample taken, inferences can be drawn about that person's achievements, abilities, motivation and aptitude. These inferences can in turn be used in a number of ways to:
Diagnose a student's strengths and weaknesses - diagnostic assessment
Provide him/her with feedback about how he/she is doing - formative assessment
The results of assessments are statements of student competence at a particular time. However, assessment is about more than merely testing. Constant communication with students provides an opportunity for tutors to gauge opinions, track levels of comprehension and to identify areas of confusion. Likewise, interactive class work or class presentations ensure students can demonstrate their learning, exchange ideas and display their own brand of creativity. In order to develop and improve student learning, feedback is an integral part of the assessment process. Assessment exercises also indicate to tutors whether their teaching has been successful and can help to identify areas of course work that might need to be altered or delivered in a different format.
Setting Assessments
There should be a clear and obvious link between the assessment method used and the learning outcomes being assessed.
Learning Outcomes : Statements of what a learner is expected to know, understand and/or be able to demonstrate after completion of a process of learning.
Have you considered:
Is the assessment linked to the learning outcomes for your course?
Is there consistency between learning outcomes and assessment?
Have the learning outcomes been conceptualised and articulated in line with assessment strategies?
Expectations
Before setting an assignment establish what your expectations are:
What do you expect students to return/produce?
How do you expect the question/task to be addressed?
What is the exact nature of the tasks being requested in each assignment?
How much do you expect students to write? Have you set limits on the expected word count
Is the task achievable? Is it realistic to expect a comprehensive/complete answer in the allotted word count? If the question set is complex and a student is advised to submit an essay of only 1,000-1,500 words this will limit the facility to answer comprehensively.
Relevance
Is the task set a fair representation of the coursework?
Does the task link theory and practice?
Does the task set concentrate on a particular aspect of the course to the detriment of other topics covered?
If there are multiple forms of assessment, are they weighted fairly to represent the time spent on the topic over the duration of the course?
Experiential Learning
A learner bringing their own experience to bear on classroom discussions is a key quality of adult education. This experiential component should also be carried through to assessment exercises.
Does the task enable the students to incorporate their own experience in the response?
Does the task require a degree of critical reflection?
Does the assessment task allow for different learning styles/different intelligences in students? Does the exercise encourage creativity and originality?
Include the learner in the assessment. Don't just make the assessment about a body of knowledge and a student's understanding of that knowledge. Instead consider how they relate to that knowledge and if this new knowledge has altered their thinking. How does this new knowledge influence the way they work or how they relate to people in work, at home or in their community? What personal insights are evident?
Objectivity
In order to avoid any unfair bias, it is important to consider:
Is the language used clear, accessible and bias free?
Is it possible for all participants to approach the topic equally?
Does the question/task assume certain prior knowledge or cultural references which might disadvantage some students?
Could the task/question set cause offence to any group or individual?
Achievement/Distinction
Tasks set should be fair and allow excellence to stand out while also ensuring that weaker students have a reasonable chance of succeeding.
Can the task differentiate between low and high levels of achievement?
What kind of answer would you envisage receiving from an exceptional student?
Does the task set allow students to demonstrate exceptional expertise/skill or hard work?
Is the task sufficiently achievable to allow weaker students to produce work of a reasonable standard?
Reliability
A reliable assessment method is one that ensures consistent results for different assessors on each assessment occasion. It also ensures that the standard of marking does not change from one script to the next. In order to ensure reliability, it is vital that grading criteria are established and made available to students.
Grading Criteria
Ensure a clear and common understanding of the marking/grading criteria among students and assessors (i.e. where tutors are sharing a course or where there are multiple assessors over the course of a programme). Grades should be awarded according to the grading criteria not by comparing students with each other, i.e., make your assessment "criterion referenced" rather than "norm referenced". This is particularly crucial in adult education where students bring vastly different levels of experience and learning with them to class. Some students will excel and their standard may be an unrealistic benchmark for others.
For any given assignment, your criteria for success may vary in the details; whatever they are, make a list of them. Students should receive a copy of this list before they begin their assignments.
If there is transparency about how work is marked and what is required at each level, fewer students will be confused about their grades. If grades are questioned or challenged, tutors can demonstrate how they arrived at their grades thereby eliminating the charge that papers were graded in an arbitrary or purely subjective way.
Presenting Assignments
Many students on your course may not have been required to write an essay, or complete a project, for a number of years. Great anxieties build up and students are unsure about what is required, or about how work will be judged. Rather than seeing assessment as a negative experience, which has to be endured in order to acquire credits/certification, we should aim to promote assessment as an integral and positive part of the learning process.
DO
Explain the purpose of assessment and how your course will be assessed.
Promote assessment as a positive component of the course and elaborate on the learning benefits of completing assessment exercises
Provide students with support in terms of writing skills, referencing and editing
Distribute assessment assignment(s) early in the term/course
Where relevant, advise students of the deadline for submission of assignments early in the term/course. Give a firm deadline and stress the need to meet it.
Give clear indications of the marks attributed to each question when there are multiple questions to be addressed
Advise students about the weighting attached to each assignment if there are multiple assignments
Discuss with students what is required and follow this up with written explanations
Discuss plagiarism with students, make them aware of the issue and let them know it is unacceptable
DO NOT
Tell students that everyone will pass automatically as this can serve to demotivate students who then feel there is no point in putting in a lot of effort
Promise particular questions in an exam (where relevant). General tips for areas to study can be given but students can sometimes interpret such tips as guarantees that particular questions will be included on the paper. This then leads to anxiety and stress if the exact question they were expecting does not materialise. As an exercise in preparing students for further study, they need to gain experience of approaching an exam under 'real' exam conditions, i.e., unseen paper.
Imply that the deadline is provisional and easily postponed
Grant extensions generously, or in ad hoc manner, to all those who request additional time
Tutor Learning From Assessment
Tutors can learn from assessment exercises in order to adapt or modify teaching practices. Marking assignments can help tutors:
Identify areas students grasped well
Identify areas that are still causing confusion
Establish which topics are the most/least popular
Establish how much student support is needed in terms of assistance with essay writing. Poorly written essays may mean that students need additional support in this area. Likewise, poorly referenced essays may indicate that students have not understood why references are needed or how to integrate them into their writing
Recognise topics which might need to be taught in a different manner to facilitate better understanding
Rethink questions if answers are not what you had expected to be returned, or if students are interpreting questions differently to how you might have anticipated
Identify which areas of the course students are concentrating on in their assignments. Are some areas being focused on to the detriment of others?
Consider whether the questions offered students an opportunity to add personal insights and link course material to their own experience. Could the assignment questions be rephrased in future to allow for experiential learning?
Suggestions for Reflection
How do you assess your students?
What challenges arise with your current assessment procedures?
How might you assess your learners differently?
Feedback on Student Work
Student feedback is an essential part of the learning process as it highlights why aspects of an assignment were good, and also suggests how future work might be improved. Feedback, which includes recommendations as to how future assignments might be improved, is particularly helpful. Feedback shows that the tutor has taken time to write individualised comments about a student's work and has given thought to the work over and above awarding a purely numerical mark.
Feedback should be honest and objective without being overly or unnecessarily critical. Students continue to learn from an assignment if they understand what their work accomplished and what it didn't.
Purpose of Feedback
Motivates students by acknowledging good work and providing encouragement for approaching new assignments
Provides evidence of what was done well or poorly and enables students to adopt recommendations for future assessments
Students gain confidence as they learn from their errors
Lower achieving students identify ways that they can improve their work and this helps overcome feelings of inadequacy or failure
Giving Feedback to Students
Identify strengths and areas for improvement in relation to the learning outcomes or grading criteria
Ensure from early on that students understand the grading criteria so that the feedback is meaningful
Explain why a particular aspect of an assignment was good. A student might not be aware why this aspect stands out and the explanation clearly highlights what has been done well. Once a skill is endorsed a student will feel confident employing similar methodologies in future assignments
Likewise, explain why aspects of an assignment are weak or poor and give indications of how the work, and future assignments, could be improved.
Be encouraging. Feedback should leave a student with the sense that they can improve and that they can apply the feedback to future projects
Use clear and unambiguous language
Use positive, enthusiastic language
Don't write in a red pen or use 'school-type' language. Many students have negative associations with school reports. They need to see that the feedback assists their learning by being constructive and motivating rather than critical and discouraging
Finish completing the feedback by adding a global comment of praise or encouragement
For feedback to be of use, students need to see that they can act on the feedback
Peer Feedback
While feedback generally originates from a teacher, learners can also play an important role in giving feedback. Peer and self-assessment can be utilised to tap into the valuable feedback from peers, and judgements on one's own performance. Peer assessment works well with class presentations once feedback is given in a constructive fashion. | eng | b525b04b-5a44-49aa-b4c9-8fe3cd28224d | http://www.assetproject.info/learner_methodologies/during/assessment.htm |
Choirs
Treble Choir Treble Choir is open to all freshman females wishing to learn how to sing. Emphasis is on tone production, music reading, blending voices, and independence at part-singing. A wide variety of music styles are used to achieve these standards. This is the only choir course available to freshman females.
Men's Choir* This choir is open to all interested male singers. Choir emphasis is placed on part singing, tone production and reading music. A wide variety of music styles will be used to achieve these standards. This is one of two classes that may be offered for freshman males. The class offered depends on the number of men enrolled in the non-auditioned choirs.
Cecilian Singers The Cecilian Singers is opened to all female members of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes. Cecilian Singers focuses on blending, vocal tone, and performances of an infinite variety of music. Opportunities exist for experiences in Broadway musicals, concerts and various kinds of literature that will expand their musical knowledge and skills.
Mixed Chorus* The Mixed Chorus is opened to all male and female members of the sophomore, junior, and senior classes. Freshman males may also be placed in this class depending on the male enrollment. Mixed Chorus focuses on blending, vocal tone, and performances of an infinite variety of music. Opportunities exist for experiences in Broadway musicals, concerts and various kinds of literature that will expand their musical knowledge and skills.
Bel Canto Singers Bel Canto Singers is a chamber choir comprised of sophomore, junior and senior trebleChorale Chorale is a choir comprised of sophomore, junior and senior mixedElectives
Vocal Jazz Workshop/Lab Vocal jazz is for the student who wishes to pursue the jazz genre. Emphasis is placed on musical independence, sight-reading, improvisation (scat singing), and stylistic accuracy. The student must be concurrently enrolled in one of the department's core concert ensembles (see above). This is an auditioned ensemble and is only available to sophomore through senior mixed students who auditioned and were accepted. Auditions take place in February.
Extra Curricular
Madrigals The Madrigal Dinner is an extra-curricular activity that has become one of the highlights of the school year. It is an activity that takes place in December prior to the holidays. There are two singing ensembles, a recorder ensemble, a string, brass or woodwind ensemble that perform music from the Medieval and Renaissance historical periods. There are over sixty students who participate in this event with the assistance of the Friends of Music. There are costumes, a catered meal and entertainment for each of the three performances and families look forward to the celebration of Yule season. This is open to ALL students by audition only.
Musical The musical is an extra-curricular activity during the second semester. This involves acting, singing and dancing and provides students with an opportunity to perform major Broadway shows in an educational environment. It is always our goal to put on the best performance possible with the purpose of educating students in the craft of theatre. This years show is The Music Man and is an auditioned activity. It is open to all students.
Keep checking this blog for information concerning this. If you have any questions you may contact Dale Morgan by email at dale.morgan@d303.org
* It is the philosophy of the vocal program to develop the young male voice separate from the females during the first year at SCN. With the vocal change that occurs in all male voices at this age, we believe we can better serve your son's interests by focusing on helping him through this change in an all male ensemble. Our experience has shown that these young men show greater growth as musicians because of this approach. However, we can only offer this course if we have enough men enrolled. If there are not enough then they are enrolled in the mixed chorus with enough sophomore through senior females to create a balanced ensemble. | eng | 752fe421-2d7b-4b76-8af4-c1222abceca6 | http://www.scnmusic.com/content/choirs |
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This beginning-level course introduces students to the speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills necessary for basic communication in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the standard language of the Arab world. Designed for students with no previous course work in Arabic, this course focuses on learning the alphabet, building vocabulary and sentence patterns in communicative contexts, and pronunciation. Students will also be introduced to simple survival skills. Reading and writing will be introduced and acquired through different activities in conjunction with speaking and listening skills. Finally, awareness of the cultures, behaviors, and traditions of the Arabic-speaking world will also be emphasized. Global marker. | eng | a39e82e9-3fa5-4683-8ac1-d6b8d0aff681 | http://www.snhu.edu/3197_33313933.htm |
A fallen Quaker going to war perfectly characterized
the late President Nixon. Richard Nixon was a crafty man.
He honed his stagecraft in the political arena. When Television
personality David Frost (Michael Sheen)cornered Nixon on
national television in 1976 he had already failed a one-two
knock-out punch that he had hoped for. The fact that Frost
developed his skills as a TV interviewer not as a journalist
undermined his credibility with everyone in the eyes of
network television in the United States. So when the duo
of "Frost/ Nixon" appeared on TV the fact that it even aired
was a minor miracle; Nixon thought he could use the show
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despair because the show wasn't going quite as planned.
In many respects Frost and Nixon had more in common than
they thought—both were fighting for respect and their careers
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around them. ***
Ron Howard's "Frost/ Nixon" captures these two champions
throwing jabs at each other left and right with Frost finally
drawing blood. Howard's film not only focuses on a pivotal
time in our nation's history but also the final showdown
between Richard M. Nixon and the world as represented by
a British TV personality who suddenly remembered what drove
him. It's a pity that Frank Langella's Oscar nominated performance
didn't pull down the gold guy—he deserved it. Langella embodies
Nixon capturing the essence of the man something that has
evaded a variety of talented actors including Academy Award
winner Anthony Hopkins. For those of us who remember Nixon's
election, his obstruction of justice and his fall from grace
the TV shows that Frost taped with Nixon were important
because it was the opportunity for the American people to
hear Nixon admit guilt. Frost became the unlikely champion
for democracy. ---
Audio sounds terrific but this IS a dialog driven film
so the surround speakers although nicely use for ambiance
throughout the film aren't the real focus here. ---
Special
Features:
"The Real Interview" features clips from the real interview
session intercut with interviews from Frank Langella, director
Ron Howard and others from the production crew. ***
"The Making of Frost/Nixon" begins with playwright
Peter Morgan discussing what inspired him to write the play
the way he did—he saw it almost like a boxing match of words.
It features the usual talking heads but the nice thing about
it is that we actually hear about everything from what inspired
Morgan ("The Queen") to put together the original play,
how much he incorporated from the original interviews into
the play and his speculations on what truly motivated both
men to do the interviews. ***
Discovering Secrets: The People and Places Behind the
Story interviews both the Smiths the Republican family that
hosted the interviews along with Frost, Langella and others
about discovering the "character" for Richard Nixon. ***
The U-Control feature allows viewers to watch picture-in-picture
behind-the-scenes movie while watching the film. Rounding
things out are a series of deleted scenes. ***
We also get a featurette on how the Nixon Library cooperated
in the making of the film. Evidently those associated with
the library felt that the play and film were very fair balanced
at presenting Nixon the man. Nixon whatever his character
flaws (and there were plenty) did accomplish many things
while in office (both good and bad) that were overshadowed
by Watergate. ---
Final Words:
"Frost/Nixon" documents the
visual boxing match between a worn out political warrior who
had problems with the "shades" of the truth, the shadows of
his own past and who became intoxicated with the power of
the presidency and a TV entertainer craving legit acceptance
from the news world. It's a powerful look behind what motivated
these two complex individuals who had as much in common as
they were different. | eng | 772224a9-50be-4e0d-83c7-1ea505e87f1e | http://www.dvdivas.net/movies/reviews/f/frostnixon-WAYNE.html |
Welcome
The Academic Enrichment Center (AEC) at Hammond is located in the heart of our middle and upper schools. With easy access to classrooms and the library, students of all ages find it to be a wonderful resource for academic guidance and support. Whether they are seeking a place to study individually or in small groups, tutoring in a particular subject, a quiet place to make up a test, or guidance from one of our staff members, the AEC is eager to help. Parents and teachers often drop in or set up appointments to gather information and collaborate as well. The AEC is busy making a difference in the lives of our students.
Philosophy and Goals
Hammond is committed to providing an educational environment which challenges children of all ages to develop skills which will prepare them to be successful in the college setting and beyond. The Academic Enrichment Center is a resource for all Hammond students and teachers to support the learning process. Our primary goal in the AEC is to teach students how to become effective students and self-advocates.
Staff
Dr. Ashley Noojin, director of the Academic Enrichment Center, is a licensed clinical child psychologist who came to Hammond in 2007 after years of clinical practice in the medical and community setting. Ashley is Hammond parent and a graduate of the Westminster Schools and Davidson College. She completed her masters and doctorate at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Health Sciences Center and a post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric psychology at Kosair Children's Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. She manages all psychological services and programs in the middle and upper schools at Hammond. Contact her at anoojin@hammondschool.org.
Mrs. Lizzy Culler (nee Fowler, Hammond Class of 2003) graduated from Winthrop University Honors College in 2006, with a BA in English, Literature and Language. Following graduation, she attended the University of South Carolina for her Masters in Teaching Secondary English. After teaching for two years at Thomas Sumter Academy, she has returned home to Hammond to fulfill multiple roles in the AEC: academic enrichment advisor, Services for Students with Disabilities Coordinator for standardized testing, and International Student Coordinator. In addition to this, Lizzy also teaches classes in the Upper School. In her free time, Lizzy and her husband, Charlie (Class of 2004), are happily raising their first child, Chase. Contact her at eculler@hammondschool.org.
Mrs. Paula "Bunny" Peacock joined the Hammond faculty in 2011. She completed her Master of Arts in Teaching at the University of South Carolina after graduating from the Honors College at the University of Alabama. Bunny taught 5th/6th grade math and science at Heathwood Hall Episcopal School for 4 years, and she has been privately tutoring students for the past 10 years. Bunny is a 1991 Hammond graduate and feels fortunate to be a parent of 3 current Hammond students. In addition to her role as an academic enrichment advisor, Bunny coordinates our student and professional tutoring programs. Contact her at ppeacock@hammondschool.org. | eng | fe453e91-9a0a-42f9-951e-04374f1240ea | http://www.hammondschool.org/page.cfm?p=1111 |
1. Brother crashed his car and I had to rescue him at some ungodly time. All I knew is that it was before 6am, therefore "time allocated to the action of sleeping"
2. Went into uni, for all of 45 minutes. It takes 30 minutes on the bus each way. Why, oh why did I bother.
3. While I was waiting for my seminar at uni, one of the chemistry lecturers who I've never spoken to before stated a game of laser-pen tag. Just to prove that "Middle age doesn't stop people from being incredibly childish". My theory is that he's actually Peter Pan in khaki slacks. It did make my day a bit more happy. | eng | 7e43f65d-e008-4bd7-bdfd-a15cb5a10bb5 | http://iamamywaterhouse.tumblr.com/tagged/leeds-uni |
Rewrite the equation as . If a prime number divide then either or . This implies that there is no number that divide . <-> If is odd, Then which leads to which is impossible. <-> If y is even, then wich implies that which is again impossible. Thus the equation deosn't have any solution.
It is a well known fact, I wonder whether you know about the legender symbole, actually, if an odd prime number divide then is a quadratic residue modulo which implies by Gauss's Lemma, that . If you don't know about the legendre symbole, you can prove that fact using only Fermat's Theorem. In fact, if is an odd prime and then this implies after Fermat liltle theorem that or again
See x must be even then y is odd.x=2k,y=2l+1,we get ,Again l even l=2x we get ; lest hand side has no prime divisor of the form 4k+3 from quadratic residue but in RHS is of form 4k+3 so it must have a prime divisor of form 4k+3 which is a contradiction.So no solution. | eng | fff9b0c1-c81a-4c87-9dcb-11ebd5a1a15b | http://www.math10.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=47&p=2050 |
The problem is that you need a compelling interest to overcome strict scrutiny.
No such compelling interest exists.
Why should strict scrutiny be the standard instead of rational basis | eng | c28e1529-372e-4c7e-a579-2ec7c172381f | http://chiefsplanet.com/BB/showpost.php?p=9191307&postcount=46 |
A review is provided dealing with the definitions and classifications of biosensors, as well as their basic working principles. Then, their applications to the environmental monitoring, which include the monitor of biochemical oxygen demand (BOD), bacterial count and various organic and inorganic pollutants, e.g. nitrogen compounds, heavy metal ions, organophosphorus pesticides, phenolic compounds, toxic compounds, carcinogens, teratogens, benzenes, sulfur dioxide, aldehydes and ethanols are presented. In the end, some suggestions were given with respect to the current problems of biosensors and the future applications of biosensors were | eng | c815a957-7008-4fc5-a087-7fbb62cbfc11 | http://www.scientific.net/AMR.306-307.31 |
How do I get to Sakabula?
Sakabula Country Estate is located adjacent to Merrivale, a small
suburb of Howick just 10 minutes from Hilton and 15 minutes from Pietermaritzburg.
Durban is 1 hour away and Johannesburg 4½ hours along the N3.
The estate is less than a kilometre from Exit 99 off the N3, along
the Underberg Road.
Is it safe?
Yes. There is an electric fence around the entire 350 ha estate with
only one controlled entrance and exit that is manned day and night
by an armed guard.
What other activities are there available
in the area?
Sakabula Country Estates is located within the Midlands Meander, an
hour from the Drakensberg Mountains and an hour from Durban beaches.
Within 15-20 minutes from the gate residents will find shopping centers,
fine restaurants, movie houses, airports, commercial businesses and
sporting facilities. Midmar Dam, 5 minutes away, caters to those interested
in fishing, sailing and all water sports.
Can non-residents become members of
the golf club?
Yes. The golf club is an independent business entity and is run as such.
Visitors are always welcome. There are presently close to 350 members
enjoying the relaxed and friendly climate engendered at Sakabula.
Is competitive golf a
feature at Sakabula Golf Club?
Yes. Club competitions are held every Saturday afertnoon. In addition
Sunday competitions are arranged by Sakabula twice monthly at various
courses in the Pietermaritzburg/Durban/Coastal area.
What does the word 'Sakabula'
mean?
Sakabula is a Zulu name for the long-tailed Widow bird. The word in
Zulu denotes a 'flirt' or 'show-off'. These birds are prolific
in the Kwa-Zulu Natal Midlands and are often seen balancing on the end
of tall grasses. During mating season their exceptionally long tail
feathers make the males look as if they are struggling to fly as they
show off their plumage for the females. | eng | 44df843b-5190-4785-afc3-9c9971fc7fdd | http://sakabula.co.za/faq.htm |
Tamil
Dictionary Meaning and Definition on 'Tamil'
Tamil Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0 Tamil
adj : of or relating to a speaker of the Tamil language or the
language itself; "the Tamil Tigers are fighting the
Sinhalese in Sri Lanka"; "Tamil agglutinative phrases"
n
a member of the mixed Dravidian and Caucasoid people of
southern India and Sri Lanka
the Dravidian language spoken since prehistoric times by the
Tamil people in southern India and Sri Lanka
Tamil Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Tamil \Ta"mil\, a.
Of or pertaining to the Tamils, or to their language.
[Written also Tamul.]
Tamil literature: Tamil literature. (தமிழ் இலக்கியம் refers to the literature in the Tamil language . Tamil literature has a rich and long literary tradition ...
Tamil calendar: ...ar]] largely used for official purposes both within and outside India. The Tamil calendar is based on the classical [[Hindu calendar|Hindu solar calendar]]
...a Mesha Sankranti'' (Sun's transition into ''nirayana'' Aries). Hence, the Tamil calendar begins on the same date in April which is observed by most traditi
Tamil script: The Tamil script (தமிழ் அரிச்சுவடி ta | ISO | tamiḻ ariccuvaṭi "Tamil alphabet") is a script that is used to write the Tamil language as ...
Ment
Features : Ment | eng | 9d84207c-ea90-43ec-bc72-6c16cb30d108 | http://www.dictionary30.com/meaning/Tamil |
Science Info
With each chapter we will have vocabulary words that the children will need
to study and learn for the test. They will make these vacabulary cards in
school and keep them in their K.I.T. binder to study. Please DO NOT remove
these from the binder and keep at home. We will be using them in class.
They will complete Science packets (worksheets/study guides) in class that
will be used as study guides with each chapter.
The test will be matching vocab to definition, fill in the blank questions
using a word bank, essay questions, filling in diagrams. I may include a
BONUS question - it can only add to their grade not take away points for a
wrong answer. | eng | dc3d588a-d65c-4fa7-90f6-14ffef51b171 | http://teacherweb.com/NH/StPatrickSchool/MsOuellette/h3.aspx |
Vila Real is a city in Vila Real Municipality, Trás-os-Montes, northern Portugal. According to the 2001 census, the city had a total of 24,481 inhabitants. The region shows traces of being inhabited since the paleolithic. Later settlements, like Panóias, show roman presence. However with the barbaric and islamic invasions there's a decline of population. The city is the headquarters and main campus for the Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro (UTAD), a public university founded in 1986. | eng | 9a597955-bd9c-4802-aad6-ee5f0a1e8442 | http://www.touristlink.com/portugal/vila-real.html |
In an Indonesian artist's variation on Gulliver's adventure on the island of Lilliput, small people curb the monster of corruption by working together. As citizens of Lilliput in this cartoon, activists and civil society groups often view banding together as the best strategy in the fight against corruption.
CITIZENS OF LILLIPUT
In the past decade, governments have negotiated regional and international conventions against corruption and established official anti-corruption bodies.
But without the active involvement of civil society, rigorous enforcement of these pacts and related reforms are unlikely in many countries, said Huguette Labelle, chairwoman of Transparency International (TI), at a 2010 anti-corruption conference in Bangkok. And these reforms are more likely to come as a result of joint efforts of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), academics, businesses and other stakeholders rather than individual pursuits by lone activists or organizations. By joining forces, stakeholders gain extra leverage, particularly if they are pushing for a controversial reform in a politically challenging environment, according to Nathaniel Heller, executive director of Global Integrity, an international anti-corruption watchdog organization.
Civil society partnerships range from a few groups joining forces to achieve a local goal to international coalitions involving hundreds of organizations that seek a broader solution. Collaboration among partners can take the form of informal consultations on tactics, joint petitions and letters; formal agreements; seats on each other's governing bodies; or joint fundraising and budgets.
NGO coalitions are better positioned to protect their leaders and associated lone activists, who are sometimes threatened with reprisals from corrupt officials, businesspeople or criminals. Collaboration among activist groups is also needed to avoid duplication of effort, civil society leaders say.
"NGOs operate on a basis of 'collaborative advantage'" to succeed, said Casey Kelso, TI advocacy director.
An example of how this advantage is used is a coalition of seven NGOs formed in 2010 in Poland to keep tabs on whether political parties keep their anti-corruption campaign promises. Results of the NGOs' monitoring are published at the end of the parliament's term.
Grazyna Czubek of the Stefan Batory Foundation, a member of the coalition, said the partnership has achieved two goals.
"Politicians started including anti-corruption measures in their election programs, and their anti-corruption promises are more realistic and concrete now," she said.
WHERE NGO'S, GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS MEET
In some instances, though, coalitions of citizens may not be powerful enough to overcome resistance from vested interests. That is why many anti-corruption NGOs view government agencies and corporations as potential partners critical to the effectiveness of their efforts, Kelso said.
Cooperation matters not only to civil society, but also to its potential partners — anti-corruption agencies, ombudsman's offices, parliamentary oversight committees and multilateral institutions — as well as the business community, according to Kelso. For instance, in 2009, the harassment of the Indonesian anti-corruption commission by some powerful officials and businesspeople eased only when demonstrations in several cities and a public campaign on Facebook came to the commission's defense.
Heller said that by working closely with reformers inside government, NGOs can indeed achieve "powerful results." However, attempts to work with the private sector have brought mixed results, he added.
Many large companies are unwilling to take public positions on controversial issues and prefer to stick to "softer" issues — environmental protection, for example — that can contribute to their corporate stewardship reputation, according to Heller.
However, Kelso believes that businesses can be reliable partners. As an example he cited an innovative pact between a private water company and a coastal community in Kenya brokered by TI Kenya that produced a lower price for clean water by eliminating corruption.
Andrzej Zwaniecki is a staff writer with the State Department's Bureau of International Information Programs.
In Kenya, Transparency International helped to organize a coalition designed to address corruption in the water-supply sector. | eng | b8bb0f43-5575-4f0b-b8b6-06e79f7d28b2 | http://iipdigital.usembassy.gov/st/english/publication/2012/04/201204163915.html |
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Jewish Interest
In NOT THE ISRAEL MY PARENTS PROMISED ME, the final graphic memoir from the man who defined the genre, Pekar explores what it means to be Jewish and what Israel means to the Jews. Over the course of a single day in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, Pekar and the illustrator JT Waldman wrestle with the mythologies and realities surrounding the Jewish homeland | eng | 9e3636c8-664a-49ba-96b2-7c47726d8feb | http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/genres/jewish-interest |
"Google has just taken over a company called Makani Power. They specialize in green energy and airborne wind turbines... Doesn't seem to be Google's core business... But if you imagine the amount of energy all the Google data centers consume each day... Now imagine that that energy could come from wind energy instead of fossil fuels… " | eng | a8ea078a-fc8a-45a1-a95f-0f93b051550f | http://plus.topsy.com/s/site%3Atechcrunch.com?offset=10&om=a&page=2&window=d3 |
The Theology of Evangelization
If you were to ask the average Catholic to name the essential mission of the church they would probably say: the Eucharist, serve the poor, or Catholic education. The answer given by the US Conference of Catholic Bishops in their 2001 document, Go and Make Disciples (Paragraph 8) is "Evangelization is the essential mission of the Church." This is also a direct quote from the Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Paul VI, Evangelization in the Modern World (Evangelii Nuntiandi) (1975.) Not many Catholic parishes think that the primary mission of a parish is to spread the gospel but it is.
The title of the Bishop's document, Go and Make Disciples (GMD), is from the last verses of the Gospel of Mathew: (Matthew 28:19,20)
Evangelical protestant denominations know this verse as "The Great Commission" and that it is the primary mission of a Christian church. The Bishops' document says, "we have an essential role in sharing that faith through our daily lives as believers" and "evangelization is what we are all about!" (GMD paragraph 8)
Does this mean that we are to start going door-to-door and invite everyone we meet to go to church? Although this is the image that most Catholics consider to be evangelization, it is not at all what the Bishops' letter has in mind. There are five spiritual aspects to be considered when active evangelizing takes place. This understanding of the process of Catholic Evangelization is not formally named in GMD but I will call it the Spirituality or the Theology of Evangelization. There are six components. The first is already discussed and the others are:
Evangelization is the essential mission of the Church
Evangelization is a parish community event
We are called to prepare for the eternal and look past the material
Evangelization is an inward first and then outward event
Conversion is continuous but there are many ways to conversion
Let the Holy Spirit and Grace be the primary evangelizers
These six spiritualities of evangelization are all defined in the USCCB GMD letter prior to actually defining evangelization. The Theology of Evangelization puts a context around evangelization by placing it as a normal component of parish life. Evangelization should naturally occur as the Holy Spirit acts on the parish and in the lives of the faithful.
1. Evangelization is the essential mission of the Church
(As described above.)
2. Evangelization is a parish community event
This spiritual aspect is that evangelization is a community event not a personal event.
Some might think of evangelization solely in terms of Jesus and our relationship with him. Yet our relationship with Jesus is found in our relationship with the community of Jesus—the Church. The way to Christ is through the community in which he lives. (GMD paragraph 26)
We evangelize best through the parish community. The parish is designed to bring all men and women into the presence of God. The church has a purpose and it is to bring all to Jesus. It is not a solitary effort but the combined action of the parish.
3. We are called to prepare for the eternal and look past the material
As Christians we do not buy into what the powers of the world are selling. The gospel message provides an alternative non-material meaning for our lives.
"We do not
see a world of blind forces ruled by chance, but a universe created to share God's life
view life's purpose as the gathering of power or riches, but as the gracious invitation to live for God and others in love."
merely look for many years of contented life, but for an unending life of happiness with God" (GMD paragraph 21)
We are called to be in the world but apart from the world and to convert the world through our love for each other. Our most important activity is not mindlessly consuming as encouraged by a hyperactive media defined culture. Our primary action is paying attention to our spiritual needs and preparing for the life that is eternal.
4. Evangelization is an inward first and then outward event
The fourth spiritual aspect of evangelization is that there is an inward effect on our souls before the outward effect on the lives of others. "Inwardly it calls for our continued receiving of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, our ongoing conversion both individually and as a parish community. It nurtures us, makes us grow, and renews us in holiness as God's people." (GMD paragraph 23)
"Outwardly evangelization addresses those who have not heard the Gospel or who, having heard it, have stopped practicing their faith, and those who seek the fullness of faith." (GMD paragraph 23)
We are called to first allow Jesus to penetrate inward with the Holy Spirit and spiritual practices. Through our continued conversion we become able in time and through living our faith to attract others to find their faith.
5. Conversion is continuous but there are many ways to conversion
Every person or every soul may find a relationship with God in a different way. No way is the right way and no way is less effective than another. The ways we experience an inner spiritual conversion include:
A sudden, shattering insight that brings rapid transformation
A gradual growth over many years
Taking part in the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults
The ordinary but continuing relationships of family and friends
Formation received from Catholic schools and religious education programs
You may experience God and conversion in a way not mentioned here. As Catholics there are many ways to experience God and many different spiritual devotions. These normally flow from the parish and the response flows back through the parish. There is no predetermined course for conversion so it is best to let all ways be present to those seeking God and to let the Holy Spirit provide the direction.
6. Let the Holy Spirit and Grace be the primary evangelizers
The sixth spirituality is the Holy Spirit and grace cause the awakening of our realization of God in our interior lives and the expression of God in our exterior lives. The Bishops' document puts it this way: "This is crucial: we must be converted—and we must continue to be converted! We must let the Holy Spirit change our lives! We must respond to Jesus Christ. And we must be open to the transforming power of the Holy Spirit who will continue to convert us as we follow Christ. If our faith is alive, it will be aroused again and again as we mature as disciples." (GMD paragraph 14) It is the active presence of God in our lives that changes everything. | eng | c420c536-6ef2-4067-859a-18d99a352161 | http://parishvision.org/model/disciples/theology |
Star Wars Galaxies machinima worth a look
We're big fans of machinima and unconventional behavior in MMOs, so when we saw the winner of this year's
Star Wars Galaxies Fan Film Fest,
something just resonated with us. Anything that involves gamers deciding to pass on living their 'real' lives to spend
hours in a game not even playing is just something that we can't help but encourage. Go forth good gamer, watch it then
make more movies for us to enjoy… | eng | 10361d09-e42b-4675-8185-7a76332a0906 | http://www.joystiq.com/2004/11/01/star-wars-galaxies-machinima-worth-a-look/ |
With the right podiatric treatment in Colorado Springs, you get relief from painful, uncomfortable corns and calluses on your toes
A corn is a callus growth caused by constant stress and abrasion to the tops of toes (often from poorly-fitting shoes). They are usually yellowish in color. Corns develop because of abuse or stress. Corns can be painful and uncomfortable and may or may not heal on their own. Treatment for corns may include:
pads to protect the corn
trimming, shaving callus tissue
special, better-fitting shoes
surgery
If you have corns, you can contact a podiatrist for medical help. Podiatrists are specifically-trained to help people with foot or ankle conditions such as pain, disease, or disfigurement.
It's always a good idea to be an advocate for your own health care. Don't be afraid to ask your doctor detailed questions about procedures, safety, and after-care. | eng | ff090c14-bcb4-4794-a33f-d939067f0d76 | http://www.painfreefootcare.com/corns/ |
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So publishers do reject good books. The argument only makes sense if we know her submissions/queries remained static. <BR/><BR/>As authors, we tend to tweak and revise. Esp with each rejection. A book that sells on the 100th submission may look very different than it did on its first. <BR/><BR/>When I hear a book was picked up after so many rejections my first thoughts are jeez, why did the author take so long to revise?kelleynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-90169567506436019142008-04-09T11:10:00.000-05:002008-04-09T11:10:00.000-05:00<i>what do you think of HarperCollins trying for a...<I>what do you think of HarperCollins trying for a line with no advances?</I><BR/><BR/>I'd try it in a heartbeat. If I ran a publishing house, that's how I'd do it.JA Konrath post!Great post!Scatter trouble with this, is that even with a top sto...The trouble with this, is that even with a top story market giving 20 cents a word (and the pathetic thing is that I'd like to know who's paying even that right now), but the big trouble with it is that we should be getting <A HREF=" REL="nofollow">63 cents a word if we want to be paid the equivalent that mainstream writers did in the 1930s.</A> What they also got was a mass audience -- which is why the world remembers these guys, the Hemingways and Fitzgeralds of American writing. Without markets like that, what hope do we have to make it that big? Not much, I think.Lairdnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-4399136016447689082008-04-04T07:53:00.000-05:002008-04-04T07:53:00.000-05:00So, I must ask...since I just saw the news this mo...So, I must ask...since I just saw the news this morning...what do you think of HarperCollins trying for a line with no advances?<BR/><BR/>I'm hoping this means that new authors will get a chance to prove they can sell b/c the risk is so much lower with the type of model they are suggesting.<BR/><BR/>I'd love to hear thoughts on this...Kristin else I wanted to add.<br><br>Just as "Go...Something else I wanted to add.<BR/><BR/>Just as "Good" is subjective, so too is "expectations."<BR/><BR/>As expectations change, so can profit and loss projections.<BR/><BR/>In the old days, publishers used to grow authors. They still do, but they aren't as patient, and are often stingier with the money needed to grow authors (coop, marketing, advertising.)<BR/><BR/>I've heard that a marketing budget is largely tied to the book's print run.<BR/><BR/>Consider how limiting that is. If the P&L projects that the book will be profitable at 16,000 hardcovers sold, marketing money is allocated to meet this goal.<BR/><BR/>But what if a publisher forked over double, triple, ten times the money? Could they sell ten times the books?<BR/><BR/>A publisher can push an author onto the NYT list with hype, discoutning, coop, and sales to non-traditional accounts. They're taking a bigger risk, but they still do it all the time. They can do this with debut authors, or authors they've been growing over several books.<BR/><BR/>But they have to take that chance first. They have to spend the money to make the money. No one wants to be responsible for a big flop.<BR/><BR/>So they play the wait-and-see game with authors, watching to see if they can build an audience without that extra push.<BR/><BR/>Guess what? Without coop, discounting, and widespread distribution, most books will do exactly what the P&L predicted.<BR/><BR/>So they key for the autho is to get a bigger advance, which will necessitate a bigger print run, which means more marketing dollars to protect the investment.JA Konrath P&L statements will largely depend on t...<I>The P&L statements will largely depend on the number of books the publish intends to print, which in turn depends on the number of copies the publish thinks can be sold.</I><BR/><BR/>I'm a wee bit curious who you are, because you obviously know what you're talking about.<BR/><BR/>Here's the thing: much of publishing is a self-fulfilling prophecy.<BR/><BR/>Let's say a publisher is interested in buying a traditional mystery that they believe will fit into their midlist. They have data to fall back on, which shows how mystyeries of these types normally do. <BR/><BR/>They can guess how many B&N and Borders will order, and if they can't guess, they can actually ask the buyers.<BR/><BR/>During the meetings required for acquisitions, a P&L statement is drawn up. It can be either in support or against buying the book. And if they make an offer, that offer has a lot to do with determining the print run.<BR/><BR/>But here's the thing. The more a publisher pays for a book, the more money they'll spend on marketing, coop, advertising, publicity, so the more books they will print, and the more it will sell.<BR/><BR/>A print run can be inflated automatically if a book is bought for a lot of money. That kind of interest isn't lost on the booksellers--hell, the publisher lets them know how much they paid, and the type of promotion it is getting.<BR/><BR/>So a bigger advance means a bigger print run which means bigger discounting to the big boxes which means a bigger marketing campaign.<BR/><BR/>The booksellers order more, so there are more available to buy, so more sell.<BR/><BR/>Availability and market satuaration are key to book sales. A single title, spine out in section, won't find as wide an audience as that same title on the new Release table, stacked twenty high at 40% off.<BR/><BR/>And the cause of this?<BR/><BR/>It isn't the book. It's how much money the publisher paid for the book, and what they need to do then to recoop that money.<BR/><BR/>I'm not disputing the aquisitions process. I'm saying it can be, and often is, manipulated.<BR/><BR/>If a publisher wants a book, it can crunch the numbers to fit its needs.<BR/><BR/>Publishers often also crunch the numbers on books that they paid too much for---and they all have stories of books they paid too much for, just like they have stories of books they bought for a song that went on to become huge hits.JA Konrath mean you actually get paid for writing? Man......You mean you actually get paid for writing? Man...I've gotta have a talk with my agent. :D All kidding aside, another informative post.James Goodman-Horror Writer if they're excited about a book, or...k"But if they're excited about a book, or in a bidding war, the P&L projections can be adjusted."<BR/><BR/>The P&L statements will largely depend on the number of books the publish intends to print, which in turn depends on the number of copies the publish thinks can be sold. The publisher will have the first print run fairly well defined before an author ever gets an offer.<BR/><BR/>If the publisher thinks only 5K copies can be sold, and intends to print only that many, the author will get a corresponding offer. Demanding or wanting more won't get that author anywhere, except shown to the door. <BR/><BR/>So, it's not mush. It's business. That includes risk projections too, but that doesn't mean it's not business. Sometimes the projection isn't accurate. Sometimes the book sells better than expecte, and sometimes worse. But the bottom line is that the publisher has a pretty well-defined P&L projection to work from.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-31196467587134814412008-03-31T21:26:00.000-05:002008-03-31T21:26:00.000-05:00<i>There's a reason most of the time when agents a...<I>There's a reason most of the time when agents and publishers reject work: because it's not very good.</I><BR/><BR/>I would love to hear a few agents chime in on this, but I would bet the top three reasons for rejection of a novel by an agent are: 1) the agent is simply overwhelmed with too much work; 2) the novel doesn't fit with the editors an agent has contacts with; 3) the work is mediocre or worse.<BR/><BR/>However, there <I>are</I> a lot of writers who could be published and make money for a publisher -- writers who know a lot of people in the business, know where they would fit into the market, know how to hustle a book, and are generally very good writers.<BR/><BR/>I've met a number of them over the past few years at conferences.Stacey Cochran $ is actually a lot more analysis and proje...<I>The $ is actually a lot more analysis and projection than it is mush.</I><BR/><BR/>Analysis and projection isn't mush? P&L statements can't be made to fit any occassion? <BR/><BR/>I won't argue that publishers don't believe they have realistic approaches to buying books, and that they can back up these approaches with figures.<BR/><BR/>But if they're excited about a book, or in a bidding war, the P&L projections can be adjusted.<BR/><BR/>An author's track record, sales of similar books, and budgets have weight, but anything can be made to look profitable on paper, which can justify spending more $$$ on a book that a house really wants.<BR/><BR/>The author plays a bigger role in this than we've been lead to believe.JA Konrath a reason most of the time when agents a...<I>There's a reason most of the time when agents and publishers reject work: because it's not very good.</I>< <BR/><BR/>I agree that many books are rejected because they aren't good enough. <BR/><BR/>But saying "write a good book and you'll get published" isn't good logic, becasue "good" is subjective, and because "good" often gets rejected along with the "bad."JA Konrath big pulishers do a P&L analysis of each bo...The big pulishers do a P&L analysis of each book before deciding whether to buy and and how much to pay an author for it. A good agent will know the factors that the house uses and will be able to address those factors in the best light of the author. <BR/><BR/>The $ is actually a lot more analysis and projection than it is mush. So, get an agent who knows what they're doing. If he/she doesn't know how to value a title and an author, the author will definitely end up suffering because the house will always lowball what they pay, if the can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-68786073962939276522008-03-31T14:13:00.000-05:002008-03-31T14:13:00.000-05:00Great post - direct and to the point. <br><br>I r...Great post - direct and to the point. <BR/><BR/>I really agree with your thoughts on the advance earning out. While many authors in my line of publishing seem to just be writing for the advance, I really believe thats the wrong mentality going into a book project.<BR/><BR/>If you really want to be writing books, we publishers are more likely to pick up a project the 2nd time around if your advance earned out.<BR/><BR/>In fact, if you truly believe your book is going to sell, you should be willing to take a smaller advance in favor of a higher royalty rate.Chris Webb a reason most of the time when agents and ...There's a reason most of the time when agents and publishers reject work: because it's not very good.<BR/><BR/>Sure, you might be the victim of bad luck once. But time after time? Unlikely.<BR/><BR/>Write something that the market wants and it will sell. Keep writing shit and it won't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-85312796020759191022008-03-31T10:29:00.000-05:002008-03-31T10:29:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Mary to your blog and just wanted to say I l...Hi,<BR/>New to your blog and just wanted to say I like this piece as well as the recent one with all the quotes. <BR/><BR/>I'll be back.Cheryl Pickett fairly new to your blog, but I do h...JA,<BR/><BR/>I'm fairly new to your blog, but I do have a question. What's up with the "give exclusive submissions to a bunch of agents at once" line in your most recent entry? I understand what exclusive submissions are, but is that what you did, give them out to a bunch of agents at once? Just curious. I'd like to hear more about that, and I imagine you've written more about it in earlier posts, I just haven't had the chance to search out this info yet. By the way, I really enjoy your blog. Thank you for all the wonderful advice/information.L.R. Gilesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11291165.post-62519580982654507162008-03-31T03:34:00.000-05:002008-03-31T03:34:00.000-05:00Hey Trina!<br><br>Long time, no see... How have yo...Hey Trina!<BR/><BR/>Long time, no see... How have you been?<BR/><BR/>Hey everyone, <A HREF=" REL="nofollow">here's the interview I did with Trina and RAWW.</A><BR/><BR/>That's still one of my favorite ones. How's the RAWW gang doing?Stacey Cochran for this, JA. I just received an acceptanc...Thanks for this, JA. I just received an acceptance from a small press for a short story. I won't earn any money from it-- I'll get paid in copies. I think sometimes establishing friends in the small presses are worth the lack of payment--sometimes.<BR/><BR/>BTW, great TV show Stacey. I enjoyed working with you and am glad to find you here.<BR/><BR/>TrinaTrina Allen for this! Just this weekend, I attended a ...Thanks for this! Just this weekend, I attended a writing conference, and a few of the very successful presenters made similar recommendations. It's a great reinforcement that getting a book published isn't the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. In many ways, it's just the beginning. And a writing career is exactly that...a career. You take it seriously. You work your ass off. You never stop.Precie topic, JA. Like you before you were publishe...Great topic, JA. Like you before you were published, I've now written eleven novels. 1,500,000 words of fiction.<BR/><BR/>I've done somewhere around 75 bookstore and library discussions. I have my own TV show that reaches 90,000 viewers. I produced and moderated a panel discussion last night with 3 New York Times bestselling authors, and I'm driving this afternoon to lead a discussion in Wilmington with a publisher and author at a bookstore. On Friday, I taped our weekly in-studio TV interview.<BR/><BR/>However, I still receive nothing but rejection for my writing. I've sent out close to 2000 query letters in the past ten years as a fulltime writer. Over 200 just this calendar year.<BR/><BR/>I just don't understand how to ask for more money when nobody will publish me in the first place.<BR/><BR/>Not that I don't totally agree with everything you're saying. I think you're right. I need to get paid.<BR/><BR/>Stacey<BR/><A HREF=" REL="nofollow">staceycochran.com</A>Stacey Cochran | eng | 31beb7d6-5f33-4553-a8fb-f4304d60ef2d | http://jakonrath.blogspot.com/feeds/5663193874890250826/comments/default |
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If you're talking about an x2, x4, x8 or x16 PCI-e card then it will have more bandwidth than Firewire 800. Firewire 800 has more bandwidth than PCI, unless of course your firewire card is plugged into a PCI slot, then it's really limited to the speed of the PCI bus.
There's really two issues though when you're talking about "speed", one is bandwidth, how much info can be transferred at once and the other is latency, or how fast the info gets there.
So PCI-e has the most bandwidth, but I'm not sure about latency. I think that depends on the motherboard, the card, and the driver. I would guess that PCI-e has less latency than Firewire, but there are many variables. Latency is probably a bigger concern with audio than bandwidthI remember reading that a single FF800 connected via FW800 will still only function at 400 mbit/s. You need to have 2 units connected serially to get the benefit of 800. The info is on the RME web site in the tech support area for the FF800Marrone
If you're talking about using the motherboard's firewire ports vs. a PCI-e firewire card, then I don't think it makes any difference.
If you're talking about going with an all PCI-e option like an Aurora and an AES-32 card, then I'd say the all PCI-e would be more stable and probably less latency.
My PCI setup is definitely more stable than my old firewire setup. I used to get occasion glitches and lock ups. I just can't the latency much below 10ms with my PCI-based AES-32 card. But, there's so many variables that it's hard to be sure.
are people REALLY still worried about "latency" in 2007?!?!?! I guess I had just assumed that most people were using direct monitoring through dsp-based monitor mixing applications like the mixer that comes with RME interfaces...
there are SO MANY ways to work around monitoring latency these days that I'm just shocked that anyone is still monitoring THROUGH their DAW.
To address the original question... FW400 is fast enough to do everything that the Fireface 800 claims to do.
Could you tell us, please, the differences in quality of sound between Fireface 800 and Lynx Aurora? This is just the upgrade I have been contemplating, and your input could be most helpful. ThanksThanks for taking the time to elaborate. I appreciate the effort and input.
There's really two issues though when you're talking about "speed", one is bandwidth, how much info can be transferred at once and the other is latency, or how fast the info gets there. Latency is probably a bigger concern with audio than bandwidth.
Very well put... Latency as in the delay when playing VST instruments etc. is not primarily related to bandwidth, be it Firewire or PCI(e).
I guess when the number of tracks you're recording exceeds the bandwidth of the interface, you'll have problems. They'd probably manifest as dropouts.
I did some calculations a while back. A stereo 96/24 track requires about 4.39 Mbits/s of bandwidth to record. So, even with a PCI interface which has a theoretical max of 127 MBytes/sec and let's say a real bandwidth of half that, the interface should have enough bandwidth to record 100 simultaneous tracks or more. Even with other stuff on the bus, your disk drive or something else will probably crap out before your interface does.
So, that's why I say bandwidth of the interface is probably not the most important concern. But, I've been wrong before. | eng | 09e4dea5-ca39-4064-890b-3b470f18f2d2 | http://www.gearslutz.com/board/so-much-gear-so-little-time/123444-rme-fireface-800-connected-firewire-800-fast-pci-express.html |
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The water hyacinth was brought to Lake Victoria through a love story, or so it is thought. In 1989, a foreign engineer from South America fell in love and as an engagement present, gave his fiancé a water hyacinth. As their love grew, so did the plant. As it grew, pieces of the plant somehow escaped and found their way to Lake Victoria. The sad side of this love story, however, is that over the years, the water hyacinth transformed from a symbol of love to an invasive species in Lake Victoria.
A water hyacinth is a weed. By 1995, it covered 80% of Lake Victoria, which is the world's second largest lake located in central Africa (Wilson et al 2007). The plants clog shorelines making it disastrous to people. Fisherman struggle with reduced numbers of fish, which in return threatens famine for the region. Civilians struggle with dirty drinking water caused by the water hyacinth's rotting vegetation. Also, the weed creates breeding areas for mosquitoes and for parasites to lay eggs, thus further causing a bad situation for the lake's human and animal inhabitants.
To deal with this increasing problem in Lake Victoria, Neochetina weevils, native to Brazil, were introduced through bio-control in the mid-1990′s. This process involved introducing a foreign organism, as an enemy of an existing organism, in hopes of getting rid of that existing organism. Weevils are natural enemies of the water hyacinth. These small insects chew holes in the leaves of the water hyacinth allowing bacteria to enter and cause severe damage to the plant.
Further, in 1997/1998 El Nino, a severe weather pattern, accompanied the water hyacinth reduction. This weather pattern brought storms with heavy rains, wind, and cloudy skies in the region. The severe weather change occurred around the same time that the weevil population was growing and the water hyacinth population was obviously decreasing.
In 1996, as the numbers of water hyacinth plants in Lake Victoria continued to decrease, scientists began to question what was actually responsible for the water hyacinth reduction. Researchers debated whether it was the bio-control through the weevils or weather conditions through El Nino.
According to Wilson et al. (2007), who published his article in "Aquatic Botany", a scientific journal, the weevils were the primary cause of reduction, however, El Nino hastened the process. After taking satellite images of Lake Victoria, Wilson concluded that bio-control was the only method that was utilized throughout the whole of Lake Victoria. Also, Wilson believed that the high winds and large waves caused by El Nino added to the stress of the already weakened water hyacinth causing the plants to separate from their pods and sink more quickly. Moreover, Wilson believed that the resurgence of water hyacinth would not happen.
On the opposite end of the spectrum, Williams et al. (2007), believed that although there was reduction in water hyacinth when the weevils were first introduced, the main reduction happened during El Nino, as stated in his article published in the "Aquatic Botany". The greatest reduction happened during El Nino because the cloud coverage limited the amount of light the water hyacinth received reducing its levels of photosynthesis. Consequently, the plant suffered reduction in growth and reproduction rates. Thus, El Nino was the main cause of the water hyacinth destruction.
In conclusion, I believe that each scientist is correct in giving both the weevils and El Nino credit for the water hyacinth reduction. The weevils weakened the water hyacinth and El Nino provided the final "push" to destroy the water hyacinth. Without, El Nino I do not think that the weevils could have solely gotten rid of the water hyacinth and vice versa. Thus, I believe William's argument over Wilson's. I believe that the weevils did the hard part by weakening the water hyacinth and El Nino finalized the reduction. In regard to the resurgence, I believe that El Nino is a very rare occurrence and therefore, it makes sense to me that the water hyacinth could resurge. The weevils need the help of Mother Nature, as Mother Nature needed the help of the weevils.
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Your final opinion seems to be in more in line with Williams than Wilson. Williams believes that the weevils played a major part in destroying the hyacinth, but would not have succeeded without El Nino, whereas Wilson thinks they would have been successful anyways, and nature just 'confused the issue'.
The title is about people and the story is about helping each other. An interesting perspective on this debate would be to ask who is Wilson and who is Williams and why are they debating this issue? However, if the writer is alluding to this, it is not clearly developed in the story.
Ms. Keegan I appreciate your comment! This was one of the very first posts I wrote. Looking back at it, now that we are at the end of the semester, I feel as if my writing was not clear. I was alluding to the differences between Williams and Wilson, but obviously this was not clear as you mentioned above. I apologize for that, but I believe that through out this class my writing has become more clear and therefore I have become a stronger writer. Thus, the purpose of this class has worked within me! If I were to rewrite this post I would make it more clear and more direct. Although the love story is interesting, it may not be the write discipline to go with this scientific writing. I would also make it more clear that both Wilson and Williams were seeking an answer to why the water hyacinth levels had dropped off in Lake Victoria. They both obviously had different view points to what contributed. Hopefully my above article can give you the answers that both scientists came up with now that you have the basic question to go off of! | eng | 1cf2bfc9-3b78-44b2-aedf-d46dfadc01ea | http://sites.duke.edu/writing20_12_s2011/2011/02/01/a-love-story-water-hyacinth/ |
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The archbishop of Recife, Brazil, Dom Hélder Câmara, who embodied the conscience of progressive South American Catholics, said in the 1960s: "When I feed the poor, I'm called a saint; when I ask why they are poor, I'm called a communist." (...)
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Keep a record of your accomplishments. Occasionally tooting your own horn doesn't automatically turn you into an obnoxious braggart. Shoot your boss an email when a project you've worked on does exceptionally well; your boss will want to share in the excitement of your success. Keep your LinkedIn profile updated with your evolving skills and achievements, and don't be afraid to ask others to write you recommendations for the site as well. (Naturally, you should offer to return the favor.) Keep a journal where you jot down notes about workplace accomplishments big and small that you can reference as you fill out self-evaluations and prepare for performance reviews. It's easy to forget what you've done over the course of six months or a year, but those specific anecdotes and data can make a big impression on your boss and leadership team.
Understand the big picture. Being really good at your position is important, but it won't take you that far if you don't understand how your position contributes to your organization as a whole. Practice articulating why what you do matters to the big picture. And keep the organization's overall goals in mind as you work, always making adjustments to do what's in your organization's best interest rather than what's easiest for yourself.
Assert yourself in meetings. Don't be shy about sharing ideas and joining discussions. Having great ideas is worthless to your organization if you don't share them. They don't have to be completely fleshed out; you can work with others to turn your spark of an idea into a winning concept.
One of the biggest pitfalls in workplace communication is a lack of confidence. We've all encountered supervisors or co-workers who, instead of addressing their concerns or speaking up, insisted on beating around the bush. It's difficult to respect a superior or take a co-worker seriously when you sense that the person doesn't feel confident enough to say what's on his or her mind. Bottom line: Effective communicators are confident in both their words and their actions.
Ask yourself the following questions the next time you need to address an issue directly:
Are you prepared? If you have already thought through what information you want to share, and how it relates to the conversation, don't hold back. Come to the meeting prepared and you will be able to effectively communicate your major points.
What is your role? Regardless of your rank in the organization, you have a job to do. As a manager, you are expected to handle situations and conversations that you may not be comfortable addressing. As an employee, you may have responsibilities, problems or concerns that you feel hesitant to address. Learning to accept all that your role encompasses is the first step toward moving past that lack of confidence and fulfilling your job duties, however uncomfortable they may be.
What are your strengths? Focusing on your positive contributions in the workplace is a great starting place when preparing for difficult situations. Think of specific times you have flourished in your role, and use that positivity to drive out communication fears.
What tips do you have for overcoming communication fears in the workplace?
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Here at Nitpicker's Nook we tend to focus on grammar usage and spelling mistakes, but other communication errors can cause just as much confusion and harm to your organization's—and your own—reputation.
In honor of National Poetry Month, I'd like to share with you one of my favorite performance poets, Taylor Mali. He explores one of these other errors—improper inflection—in his poem "Totally Like Whatever."
Full disclosure: I spoke like this for years and still have to watch myself so I don't slip back into it. When I was younger, even if I was completely confident of an idea I was sharing, I never sounded confident. I'd qualify my thoughts with "This is probably obvious/dumb/wrong, but …". I'd end declarative sentences with the interrogative intonation Mali bemoans. Even my body language and facial expressions said "uncertain" loud and clear.
After years of this, I realized that my peers who spoke with conviction received more support even when their ideas were not as good as mine. I decided that I was tired of appearing meek and underconfident, and vowed to speak with certainty. It's like quitting any bad habit, though. I have to be fully conscious of my choices or I risk being pulled back under, or something, you know? (Kidding!)
This communication trap is especially deadly in business. Your boss, peers and customers will all have a hard time taking you and your ideas seriously, which could cost you everything from promotions to sales. If you suffer from the "Totally Like Whatever" disease, pledge today to cure yourself. It'll be well worth the hard work. I promise.
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After WWII and the scientific advances in plant physiology and life cycles that enabled the floriculture industry to grow seasonal crops year round, peonies gradually fell out of favor. The GIs coming back from the war moved off the farm, and their wives opted for newer plant varieties instead of the more traditional peonies.
But peonies are slowly regaining the popularity they had in years past. They are most commonly used for decorating graves on Memorial Day, though a few progressive florists and customers are using them for wedding work and other arrangements.
Besides being seasonal, peonies are also unique in that they are one of the few floriculture crops best grown outside in permanent plantings. I have yet to see a peony flower grown in a container that can compare with one produced by a five-year-old field plant. Field-grown flowers have bigger, more robust blooms. Some growers have experimented with erecting temporary hoop houses over plantings to hasten the bloom and take advantage of earlier markets, like Mother's Day. Most growers, though, rely on the natural course of the season.
Presently, peonies grown in the Northern Hemisphere are available from late April until June, and those grown in the Southern Hemisphere from mid-October through December. These seasons can, however, be extended by cold storage of the flowers. Many cultivars can be stored reliably for two weeks and others four weeks or longer.
One problem with cold storage is disease, especially Botrytis sp. Ohlander and Watson (1951) evaluated the effectiveness of several fungicidal chemicals on three peony cultivars placed in long-term cold storage. They found that one cultivar, 'Felix Crousse', performed better than the others and that the paradichlorobenzene treatment gave the best disease suppression. Unfortunately, most of the chemicals they evaluated are no longer in use, necessitating more research on new products.
Available Peony Fungicides
In the past three harvest seasons, I have conducted studies to determine the effectiveness of various disease control methods and chemicals on peony flowers placed in long-term cold storage. The methods I have evaluated include methyl jasmonate; calcium salts; a standard fungicide, Daconil; and an organic fungicide, Aspire.
Methyl jasmonate is currently being evaluated by many postharvest researchers on a variety of horticultural crops. Methyl jasmonate has been found to elicit numerous plant responses, among which are the postponement of senescence and resistance to disease (Parthier, 1991). Meir, et al. (1998) found methyl jasmonate suppressed Botrytis cinerea on infected fresh-cut roses. The method of application for methyl jasmonate is different from most fungicidal chemicals. Only a small amount is needed, as its vapor or gas creates the beneficial effect. Methyl jasmonate can be applied to an absorbent cotton pad and placed with the flowers in cold storage, an easy way to provide continuous disease control.
Calcium is involved in the maintenance of strong cell walls and integrity of cell membranes. Increased calcium levels in plants also slow the development of some diseases (Stall, 1963). Gerasopoulos and Chebli (1999) were able to improve the vase life of gerbera daisies by using calcium chloride in preharvest sprays or postharvest dips and injections. Volpin and Elad (1991) reported that cut roses pulsed with calcium sulfate and calcium nitrate solutions were less susceptible to botrytis infection.
Many peony growers live in areas where moisture is prevalent, and they have to spray to suppress disease incidence in the field and to help with disease resistance in stored peonies. There are a variety of chemicals growers can and do use in these instances. Daconil and Aspire are simply representative of what is available. Daconil is a very common fungicide readily available in most garden centers. Aspire is a new postharvest fungicide that is environmentally friendly.
Evaluating
Fungicide Classes
Table 1 is a summary of two years of data on the effectiveness of disease control treatments and the inherent susceptibility of some cultivars. Nine herbaceous, cut-flower -type peony cultivars have been evaluated. Four disease control treatments and an untreated control had their effectiveness evaluated on the following nine cultivars:
• Aspire: Prestorage spray of Aspire at the label-prescribed rate of 0.16 oz. per gallon; or
• Daconil: Prestorage spray of Daconil at the label-prescribed rate of 1.5 fl. oz. per gallon.
Ten stems of each cultivar were used for each treatment. Each stem was tracked during the study. After treatment application, stems were placed in 2-gallon, self-sealing polyethylene bags and placed in cold storage at 2-3° C. They were evaluated after 4, 8 and 12 weeks. Evaluations included determining disease incidence, deciding whether disease lesions were present and estimating the extent of the disease by determining what percent of area was covered by the disease. Leaves, sepals, guard petals and petals were evaluated.
Peony cultivars were variable in their response to disease prevention treatments and their susceptibility to disease. Table 1 at left summarizes the results of these studies on susceptibility and treatments. Untreated 'Mrs. FDR' and 'Snow Mountain' had lower disease incidence levels, whereas untreated 'Duchess de Nemours,' 'Dr. Alexander Fleming' and 'Felix Supreme' had high incidence levels. Growers interested in storing peonies for later markets should choose cultivars that are less susceptible to disease. Trying to remedy an inherent problem with protective treatments is not a very good strategy.
Methyl jasmonate treated flowers of 'Bridal Shower' had less disease incidence than the other disease control treatments and the untreated flowers; whereas, both flowers and leaves treated with calcium chloride had greater disease incidence than the other treatments. The fungicide, Daconil, reduced disease incidence for 'Felix Supreme' leaves, but not flowers, while other treatments were worse than no treatment. Although disease incidence for untreated 'Mrs. FDR' flowers was lower compared to the other cultivars, both fungicides were beneficial in reducing disease incidences even more. 'Snow Mountain' leaves treated with Aspire had less disease incidence. Disease incidence was the same or worse with the disease control treatments for 'Duchess de Nemours,' 'Dr. Alexander Fleming,' 'Sarah Bernhardt,' 'Shawnee Chief' and 'Walter Faxon.'
Selecting 'Duchess de Nemours' and 'Dr. Alexander Fleming' for long-term cold storage is not recommended, as these two cultivars appear to be more susceptible to disease and the control measures evaluated were not effective. 'Felix Supreme' also exhibited high susceptibility to disease but was responsive to treatments. Ideally, selecting cultivars that were both less susceptible to disease and responsive to disease control treatments would be the best recommendation.
Prestorage fungicidal sprays should be part of a total disease control program that includes:
• Field clean up and removal of dead leaves and stems in the fall, as they harbor disease spores;
• A series of pre-bloom fungicidal sprays. The number depends on climatic and weather conditions, the site and what the season is like. More sprays are needed when there is free water on the plants; and
• Harvesting only dry flowers. Try to avoid harvesting flowers if they are wet from rain, dew or fungicide sprays. Never pack, send or store flowers wet. | eng | 9be4cf82-5905-4874-ac5f-00fa408241d3 | http://www.gpnmag.com/print/4253 |
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The ready availability and widespread usage of surveillance technology is enough to drive most level-headed people paranoid. Drones, hidden and visible security cameras, sensors, communications tracing systems… they're all around us and… | eng | 5e3e9b66-168b-46fa-ab01-23c29f53dafe | http://technabob.com/blog/category/future-tech/page/7/ |
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I was planning to buy Sun Tsu's classic "The Art of War" but I unfortunately get confused due to dozens of different versions of the original text reaching from plain text translations to such that contain bloated psychological "self-help motivational" comments having barely anything to do with the original text.
After some research I found three versions, whereas two versions are from the same author but with different publishers.
I haven't read any of their translations. My copy is James Clavell's, although I've also read Lionel Giles' translation. They're both pretty decent, you don't really have to buy the huge copies with illustrations. The pocket-size ones will do. | eng | 1b1c8477-ef84-4faa-980f-c1bb1af81d3b | http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?64308-Which-edition-publisher-author&s= |
Brits are stupid, it's the same time everyone but we are all in different time zones..................get an education you toolbox!Now I am nervous, it appears the pussification virus has jumped the pond and spread to Europe. How a few hours of waiting changes anything I'll never know. Focus on another part of your life for a bit and time will fly, you do have another part of your life other than video games right?OMG, they have never released map packs at midnight GMT, ever. So you have obviously never bought a COD map pack before. The US make the maps, MS is a US company therefore everything gets done on a US timescale. Its not rocket science, the maps will be out in due time, (about lunchtime tomorrow), stop throwing your dummy out of the pram. To all you US and others, "We aren't all idiots and I apologise for the morons".
Jeez.
idiot.... just because your in a different timezone doesnt mean you'll get it later, everyone gets it at the same time. so if theirs someone with pacific time, my timezone and yourtimezone, it will be avalible to all of us at the same moment, but the times will be different, you should already notice this? | eng | 44c9adee-1716-46ee-9aad-8f2531a108b9 | http://www.callofduty.com/message/104560762 |
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These fourth grade worksheets help make learning engaging for your fourth grader! Covering a wide range of subjects, we have the fourth grade worksheets you're looking for to help supplement your child's education. You can also go straight to fourth grade math worksheets. | eng | 3500069d-4aba-4b41-873b-0be64dc4f320 | http://www.education.com/worksheets/fourth-grade/?page=59 |
The Kansas City Chiefs have brought back TE Jake O'Connell and released TE Anthony Becht.
This, after about 10 days ago when they cut O'Connel and signed Becht.
I'm sorry but WTF are the Chiefs doing ? Moves like this really have to make you question Scott Pioli's "genius."
What exactly was the point of cutting a guy who sucked so you could sign another guy who sucked and then cut the new sucky guy to bring back the other sucky guy? This is what Pioli is doing up in his secret tower at Arrowhead?
Hey Scott, I've got a news flash for you:
Both these guys suck and neither one of them are going to make the Chiefs any better, no matter how many times you sign and cut them.
Here is an idea. How about you look into getting some safeties that can tackle and cover? How about a running back who can average more than two yards per-carry.
Cause that'd be super | eng | 756f41a3-f05a-42a4-9fdd-ce4ca2da2ee9 | http://arrowheadaddict.com/2011/09/28/chiefs-bring-back-jake-oconnell-cut-becht-look-stupid/ |
A laser scans the wound to create a sort of map that the printer can follow to know where to place each cell type. Then the printer runs back and forth over a wound inserting new cells that will harden and mature into skin.
"Skin grafts, the traditional method used to treat burns, are impractical because burn victims often don't have enough unaffected skin to cover the burnt areas, according to Wake Forest's website. They also delay the time in which skin heals, which increases the risk of infection.
"But the printed skin cells expedite the healing process, according to the school. In clinical trials, mice with wounds similar to burn wounds healed in just three weeks, compared with five weeks for untreated animals."
Wake Forest Institute isn't the only facility that is researching how printers can be used in medicine. Researchers at Cornell University are using a 3D printer to build new cartilage. The 3D printer uses a donor's cells along with other materials including biofriendly gel to build the layers of a physical object.
Hod Lipson of Cornell University told COSMOS: "Just imagine — if you could take cells from a donor, culture them, put them into an ink and recreate an implant that is alive and made of the original cells from the donor — how useful that would be in terms of avoiding rejection | eng | 22d4c0e1-5eed-49e5-8e7a-4a09199b62be | http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/printed-skin-cells-to-treat-burns/28142 |
General News: - Some vaccines stored in offices that provide free immunizations were stored improperly or at inappropriate temperatures, U.S. health investigators said.
The Department of Health and Human Service Office of the Inspector General's report -- Vaccines for Children Program: Vulnerabilities in Vaccine Management -- said a study conducted in April and May of 2011 looked at 45 providers in five states and cities. The program provides millions of free vaccines at 44,000 participating provider sites in all states and territories.
Investigators logged temperatures in vaccine storage units for two weeks and found there were times when vaccine was exposed to inappropriate temperatures for at least 5 cumulative hours in 76 percent of provider offices, during the two-week study period, the report said.
Thirteen of the 45 providers had expired vaccine stored alongside unexpired vaccine, with the majority of expired vaccine doses being seasonal influenza vaccine.
It was unlikely such doses were administered, the report said.
"The Centers for Disease Control is not recommending that parents revaccinate their children. The main concern with improper storage temperatures is that they can make vaccines less effective rather than less safe," the report said. "The study did not assess vaccine potency or effectiveness. While it is possible that some children have received less potent vaccines due to exposure to improper temperatures, our data do not suggest that this is a common or widespread problem. Our national monitoring indicates vaccines are doing their job at providing protection against disease."
[Editors Note: We include this article as we believe it highlights yet another occurrence of how inept the USA has become. Now we even have to check if vaccines are being stored correctly!] | eng | ecd56c9b-3709-4864-94c2-41ea1ca13265 | http://www.hivhaven.com/2012-04-13-23-02-40/north-america-hiv-news/1519-u-s-some-vaccines-stored-improperly |
, my friends on here want to know why you are posting SPAM links in your fourth post of which none have had any value and why your engrish is so broked?
I reported a bunch of posts that seemed were spam and what I got was a message from a moderator telling me hat I was creating unnecessary or additional work, or something like that, for something that was not spam, however there was no explanation from the poster (spammer) or mods as to why there was a hunch of hidden code in the | eng | d239ccf5-d92d-4454-8669-fab0f83cd162 | http://www.mdxers.org/forums/79-acura-peoria/44612-coupon-codes-oemacuraparts.html |
. The maximum entropy method has recently been successfully introduced to a variety of natural language applications. In each of these applications, however, the power of the maximum entropy method is achieved at the cost of a considerable increase in computational requirements. In this paper we present a technique, closely related to the classical cluster expansion from statistical mechanics, for reducing the computational demands necessary to calculate conditional maximum entropy language models. 1. Introduction In this paper we present a computational technique that can enable faster calculation of maximum entropy models. The starting point for our method is an algorithm [1] for constructing maximum entropy distributions that is an extension of the generalized iterative scaling algorithm of Darroch and Ratcliff [2,3]. The extended algorithm relaxes the assumption of [2,3] that the constraint functions sum to a constant, and results in a set of decoupled polynomial equations, one fo... | eng | 2d1b1167-3127-480a-bdb9-60f3c0c50e5f | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/versions?doi=10.1.1.30.4635 |
Gleaves Whitney on leadership, history, geography, and the American presidency
Saturday, July 2, 2011
American Founding -- John Adams 1
America's greatest philosopher president
Once Forgotten Founding Father and Philosopher President Makes a Comeback.... Why?
Ten years ago, David McCullough told audiences something that still has the capacity to surprise us. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author said that he initially intended to write a joint biography of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. At first his concern was that Adams could not hold his own next to Jefferson. But the more research he did, the more his concern shifted. At some point he realized that Jefferson could not hold his own next to Adams, so he decided to devote the biography to our second rather than to our third president. As the distingished historian Pauline Maier notes, "McCullough's biography of Adams inevitably has a lot to say about Jefferson, but on virtually all points of comparison between the two men, Jefferson comes in second."
High recommendation, that, and arguably so. John Adams's public life makes for a compelling story. Consider the number of firsts that he is associated with during the early days of the republic. He was:
the lead author of the oldest constitution in the world still in use (that of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, dating from 1780);
the first vice president of the United States;
the first president who lived in the White House;
the first president who was challenged for re-election, indeed, the only president in U.S. history who was challenged by the sitting vice president (Thomas Jefferson);
the first one-term president (because he lost to Jefferson);
the first commander in chief who had to direct major military operations off U.S. territory (the Quasi War that was fought against the superpower of the day, France, in the Caribbean Sea);
adapting Plato's term, "philosopher king," let us also call Adams our first "philosopher president" -- the best we have ever had.
All of these points make Adams worthy of admiration, but the last point makes him worthy of the fame he coveted and that we posthumously confer on him. And yet, from my experience in the classroom, I am not certain that most Americans are aware of his intellectual achievements.
One of the greatest first ladies, Abigail Adams
I will come back to the intellectual achievements of our philosopher president later in these remarks, but first let's remind ourselves that, in the pre-David-McCullough world, John Adams was our "forgotten founding father." If you go to Washington, DC -- the city of great monuments to presidents -- there is not a single statue of John Adams. His absence in Statuary Hall is especially conspicuous in light of the statue of his cousin, Samuel Adams, and the marker where his son, John Quincy Adams, died at his desk. There is not a single statue of him in Philadelphia, even though he was the most ardent defender of independence at the Second Continental Congress. There is not a single statue of him at the U.S. Naval Academy, even though the first vessels of our permanent U.S. Navy were launched during his administration. The most prominent statue of him you'll find is in his hometown of Quincy (Braintree), Massachusetts; yet even this memorial was erected just a few years ago, after McCullough's biography.
"Dearest Friend" -- John to Abigail, September 14, 1774
Adams himself predicted that he would be the forgotten founding father. To Benjamin Rush, he wrote with mock humility, "Mausoleums, statues, monuments will never be erected to me. I wish them not. Panegyrical romances will never be written, nor flattering orations spoken, to transmit me to posterity in brilliant colors. No, nor in true colors. All but the last I loathe" [John Adams to Benjamin Rush, March 23, 1809].
Why the neglect relegating Adams to the founding fathers' back bench? One explanation is that his presidency was shoe-horned between two very dominant figures -- George Washington, the indispensable man who became a legend in his lifetime, and Thomas Jefferson, who was not keen on rehabilitating Adams publicly. Moreover, Jefferson and his party enjoyed longevity in contrast to the Federalists, who would soon die out as a political force. Jeffersonians set the nation's political agenda for more than two decades following the Adams administration. For many decades, the New Englander got lost in a Virginia crowd.
And even though John Adams's son, John Quincy Adams, won the White House in 1825, he also was a one-termer. The Adams name again went into decline because Andrew Jackson booted JQA out of the White House in 1829. The succeeding "Age of Jackson" was not friendly to the Adams brand. As a consequence, the reputations of our 2nd and 6th presidents suffered in the popular imagination.
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This essay is the first in a series on John Adams. The Adams series served as the basis for my talk accompanying the exhibition, John Adams Unbound, organized by the Boston Public Library and the American Library Association. The talk was given at the Loutit District Library, Grand Haven, Michigan, on June 30, 2011.
This Adams series is posted on July 2 because he thought that was the day our country's independence should be pondered and celebrated.
About Me
directs the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies. He refuses to be corralled into any ideology -- political or religious -- and he doesn't apologize for being unable to recognize anybody in PEOPLE magazine. He has the greatest friends a man could have, and loves his family, dogs, reading history, and TTC talks. He travels, hikes, and takes photographs in places of historic significance and natural beauty -- "scenes so lovely [they] were gazed upon by angels in their flight." A word-monger, he's written or edited 15 books. To learn more about his work, see: gleaveswhitney.blogspot.com/
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Course overviewThe taught elements of the programme, carrying 120 credits overall is continuously assessed by a variety of methods (project based reports, oral presentations, essays), involving largely individual submissions, but also elements of group work. | eng | cd103079-248b-4715-bc32-ff6eecdd268a | http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/courses/02389/index.asp?code=02389&pg=5 |
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What is the purpose of war? It is destructive. It causes great anguish and is responsible for countless deaths. Society condemns those people and nations that initiate war without provocation; yet, it still remains a constant element of society. Providing definitions of war, the function of an army and how organizations implement change, this work analyzes why war remains a fixture in human interactions and how a nation can prepare to win such a deadly encounter. This book provides an alternative method of thinking about why wars are fought through its analysis of the power struggle between nations. It forges a new way of thinking, giving readers a new understanding of war and its effects on society.
War is a destructive element of society. It causes great anguish, pain, and deaths. Society praises those who promote peace and harmony. Society condemns the people and nations that initiate war without provocation in order to impose their power and strength. So, why is war studied? What is its purpose? In this work, House analyzes the use of war and why it remains a fixture in human interactions. House describes a connection between wars, armies, and the people affected by them. War is a power struggle between nations who try to showcase their sheer brutality in an attempt for a gain in supremacy; armies, therefore, are the land component of a nation's military forces. The outcome of the war on the land is the most important aspect of the war, since people occupy these lands where wars are fought. Despite changes in technology, organizational and operational concepts, and external or internal threats, people are still a crucial element in wars. People govern whether military forces impose themselves on other nations and control the component systems within military services. Any study of war and warfare addresses the impact that people make on the conduct of war and the effects of war on people. Providing conceptual descriptions of war and explaining the purpose and requirements of a nation's army within the description, House establishes an alternative method of thinking about the nature of war and how it effects those in society.
ACKNOWLEGEMENTS FOREWORD CHAPTER 1: WHATS WAR ALL ABOUT? CHAPTER 2: TYPES OF WARS CHAPTER 3: THE PURPOSE OF AN ARMY CHAPTER 4: LEVELS OF WAR CHAPTER 5: THE PHYSICAL NATURE OF WAR CHAPTER 6: THE COGNITIVE NATURE OF WAR CHAPTER 7: THE MORAL NATURE OF WAR CHAPTER 8: THE NEED FOR CHANGE CHAPTER 9: TRANSFORMATION CHAPTER 10: ENSURING TRANSFORMATION CHAPTER 11: FUTURE WAR Continuing Competition CHAPTER 12: THE CONSTANTS BIBLIOGRAPHY
Endorsements "Upon graduating from the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies, John House has developed his views on war and conflict systematically and completely. His explanation of the subject will give students, government leaders, and general readers useful insights into the place of military forces in policy as a thoughtful Army officer sees it."—L.D. Holder, Lt. Gen., US Army, retired
"Colonel John House has written the definitive work on military theory for the twenty-first century. House's project represents a fundamental reframing of our present understanding of war and peace. In the process, he also offers a significant reinterpretation of the great Prussian military philosopher, Carl von Clausewitz and his book, On War. Colonel House's new book is the first of its kind to offer a penetrating framework for thinking about military affairs in the emerging post-Iraq world."—James J. Schneider, Professor Emeritus, School of Advanced Military Studies, US Army Command and General Staff College
"Colonel House has given us a very important piece of scholarship. This book is packed with ideas and important theories related to armed conflict and the use of national military power for other purposes. His book is a thought provoking primer for structured study of war. The bibliography alone provides the starting point for an in-depth study of the Army and its role in our society-peace and war."—Gordon R. Sullivan, General USA Retired
"The Army has carried most of the burden of fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet very little scholarship has been devoted recently to understanding the dynamics of history and the currents of contemporary events that are shaping how our Army will fight in the future. John House has written an eclectic book that at last connects the dots on the subject of the relationship between landpower and the future of the nation. At last we have a single document that offers us a deep and intellectually rich view of the past and a promising glimpse of where our Army is going in the future."—Robert Scales, Major General USA (retired), Former Commandant of the Army War College, Currently, President of COLGEN, LP. | eng | 7cac340d-7f26-43eb-be66-48396d8dc951 | http://www.abc-clio.com/product.aspx?id=55230 |
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I don't have any plans for this Saturday night and ive already asked out two guys who said no. Maybe it's because I'm an independent woman who knows what she wants. Maybe that scares guys away. No wait. I know it does. Anyway I need a date for Saturday night. I have tickets to
You need to come with me on Saturday night. You won't regret it. You seem like a spontaneous guy. We'll be out in public the whole time (you have to meet me there) so don't get any ideas.
You have to pay me back for the ticket but only half. The price should come out to
Let me know if you want to come with me. If no one claims the ticket then I'll have to scalp it there and if something bad happens to me then It will be your fault and I'll be pissed.
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Countryside along the trail
The South Downs Way is characterised by rolling chalk grassland, deep dry valleys, and extensive views over the Weald to the north and the sea to the south.
The western end of the South Downs Way is at the historic and well preserved city of Winchester, capital of King Alfred the Great. In Hampshire the landscape is a rolling countryside of mixed farming and small woodlands. The Meon Valley is particularly attractive, with the superb Iron Age hill fort of Old Winchester Hill and the Meon Valley villages both well worth a visit.
Further west the South Downs Way follows the scarp across West Sussex, often wooded closer to the Hampshire border but more and more open - classic Downland - as East Sussex nears. The Downs are cut by the major river valleys of the Ouse, Adur, and Arun and there are numerous attractive villages along the foot of the downland slope. This is a landscape full of history, and the Trail follows a route that has been used since the end of the Ice Age.
At the far eastern end of the route the footpath follows the spectacular chalk cliffs of Seven Sisters and Beachy Head, while the Bridleway takes a route above the ancient chalk figure of the Long Man of Willmington. The bridleway offers views out across the Weald and Pevensey Levels, but both routes rejoice in the vast open space of classic Sussex Downland.
The South Downs Way provides one of the best long distance trails in the country, but it can be a thirsty walk in summer and cold and wet when the winter gales blow in from the Channel. Come prepared for some of the best lowland walking in England.
Winchester to Queen Elizabeth Country Park
The route commences at the centre of Winchester and climbs on to the Downs above Chilcombe. As one progresses east along the Downs the escarpments become less prominent and the Downs roll and fold more. This Hampshire section is typified by beech hangers (hillside woods) and mixed farming.
The land is intensively farmed along this section of the route, however the patchwork of arable fields, beech woods and grazing land provide a wonderful backdrop to the trail.
This section of the route passes close to a number of attractive downland villages including those of the 'Meons'. These villages are on the banks of the river Meon which is crossed near Exton. This chalk stream is a haven for trout and watercress.
The Meon Valley is overlooked by two sites used from the New Stone Age, when farming was introduced, through the Bronze and Iron Ages. Old Winchester Hill and Beacon Hill are also National Nature Reserves, well worth a detour.
Please note that there are currently two temporary routes across the Meon Valley, one for walkers and one for cyclists/horse riders. Look out for notices and maps either side of the valley to guide you. We hope to complete the legal processes necessary to finalise the route as soon as possible.
From Old Winchester Hill the route follows tracks to Butser Hill before dropping into the valley where the A3 runs. Queen Elizabeth Country Park, by the A3, has a visitor centre with café and toilet facilities.
Queen Elizabeth Country Park to Upwaltham
The steep wooded scarp slopes along this section provides extensive views over the Weald. The villages of Buriton, Harting and Cocking at the scarp foot provide attractive detours to visit the village churches and pubs. To the south views of the Channel and the Isle of Wight characterise this part of the South Downs Way.
The National Trust own parts of the route with Harting Down being the most obvious. Here the Trust are using traditional management to encourage the growth of downland plants and animals. The Trust property of Uppark is just south of the Trail at this point. It was destroyed by fire in 1989, but has been faithfully restored to its original grandeur.
Look out for several Bronze Age monuments along this stretch including The Devil's Jumps and a collection of ceremonial mounds and ditches at Heyshott Down, as well as the Iron Age hill fort at Beacon Hill. Even older is the dry valley of Bramshott Bottom between Harting Down and the hill fort. This valley was cut by a river flowing over the frozen chalk during the Ice Age, but now that water can sink into the thawed ground the river has long since disappeared.
The route over Cocking, Graffham, and Heyshott Downs is largely through plantation woodland of beech and conifer. Views of the English Channel, the Isle of Wight, and north across the Weald to Surrey can be seen wherever there is a opening in the trees.
Upwaltham to Upper Beeding
The rolling chalk Downs, deep dry valleys, steep scarp slopes and extensive views over the Weald and the Channel characterise this section of the Way. The route follows the ridge of the open downland over Bignor Hill before dropping into the wide Arun valley. Just to the north on the valley floor are the internationally famous Amberley Wild Brooks. Large numbers of birds can be seen on the winter floods, while in summer the Brooks' network of mediaeval ditches are full of flowers and other water life.
Climbing out of the valley one gains the first glimpses of Chanctonbury and Cissbury Rings, two more Iron Age hill forts on even older sites, and the chalk escarpment runs off to the eastern horizon. The countryside is intensively farmed along this section and you will be travelling between arable fields and across pasture grazed by sheep and cattle. There are also areas of encroaching scrub and patches of grassland, full of downland flowers in spring and summer.
The route over the Downs past Chanctonbury Ring starts to bring to mind Kipling's poem on the Downs:
Upper Beeding to Rodmell
This section is where the open chalk landscape becomes really impressive. The route travels high above the underhill villages of Fulking and Poynings. If you are willing to drop down the hill these villages offer some excellent pubs that make the climb back up worthwhile.
The Trail passes the Devil's Dyke, a spectacular dry valley carved out by spring meltwaters in the Ice Age. There are views south towards Brighton as the path runs along the crest of the chalk ridge past cornfields and cattle grazed grassland before dropping down to the A23 at Pyecombe.
Just east of the A23 are the two windmills known as Jack and Jill. From here the path follows the scarp, passing Ditchling Beacon. This hillfort was still in military use as late as Elizabethan times, when a beacon was lit to warn of the approaching Spanish Armada. Today it is a popular beauty spot, with an Ice Cream van and a regular summer bus service to Brighton.
A little after Ditchling Beacon the path turns south, crossing the main A27 coast road before rejoining the chalk scarp. The route drops into the Ouse Valley at Rodmell, the home of Virginia Woolf.
Rodmell to Eastbourne
This section of the Trail at most times of the year can give the feelings of real remoteness, even in the south east of England. In winter the area can be lashed with southwesterly gales and in summer the temperature on the windless tops can reach into the high 20 degree Celsius.
Through East Sussex the route follows the escarpment top, with regular water points and waymarked routes to Wealden and downland villages.
The Trail climbs from Rodmell, with views south to Newhaven and the sea. With the steep chalk scarp to the north, and a mixture of sheep pasture and cornfields to the south, this section is perhaps the most classic Downland landscape along the entire route.
The Trail passes about 1km south of Charleston Farmhouse, home of the "Bloomsbury Set", then winds its way along the chalk ridge to the pretty village of Alfriston on the banks of the Cuckmere river. It is here that the footpath and bridleway routes diverge.
The footpath route heads south to the Seven Sisters Country Park, where there is a visitor centre, toilets, and a fine teashop. The path then heads to the sea, at the mouth of the Cuckmere, and then runs along the cliff edge towards Eastbourne.
En route the footpath passes the pub and steps down to the beach at Birling Gap, and the famous chalk cliffs of Beachy Head, before ending on Eastbourne seafront.
The bridleway route, for cyclists and horse riders, also makes an excellent walk. From Alfriston it runs east along the scarp above the chalk carving of the Long Man of Wilmington. There are spectacular views north to Ashdown Forest and east across Pevensey Levels to Bexhill, Hastings, and even Dungeness, before the path drops down into Eastbourne town near the seafront. | eng | 18a6555b-4c58-44ce-ab1a-f08dfb7a89cb | http://www.nationaltrail.co.uk/southdowns/text.asp?PageId=29 |
Freedom Through Acting, Not Guns towards screams of disappointment and hopelessness. High unemployment rates mean many young people will most likely be unable to find or hold a stable job. Two schools, one which is forced to run double shifts, are struggling to accommodate students, and thus have difficulty keeping track of attendance records. The city, which was subjected to intense violence during the Second Intifada, has been unable to fully recover from armored Israeli bulldozers plowing through infrastructure during the battle.
It is difficult to comprehend how the young people of Jenin live, and what it is that they feel, think, and believe about their circumstances. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jenin is a breeding ground for terrorism and violence, and the youth will inevitably become future terrorists. Shedding this stigma is a difficult task, especially when it is so very easy for young people to obtain and carry a gun. However, the young boys and girls of Jenin, as well as children from neighboring towns, have something better to hold in their hands—their art.
The Freedom Theatre, established by Juliano Mer-Khamis and Zakaria Zubeidi, is an institution that believes that the children of Jenin can bring about social change through music, plays, acting, and the arts in general. It is an artistic haven that is open to both boys and girls, and supports youth and female empowerment. The theatre serves as an outlet for the frustration, pain, and hardships young people in Jenin experience on a near daily basis. Instead of letting the youth become jaded and hardened, the community supports children by letting them imagine a different world, allowing them to step out of their shoes for a moment, and putting on productions that range from calling for non-violent Palestinian independence to exploring family dynamics within the refugee camp.
Nevertheless, violence has followed the theatre from its inception to its current state. Zubeidi, one of the two founders, is a former Palestinian militant who was once number one on Israel's most wanted list. In 2007, he relinquished his guns, and abandoned militancy in favor of expressing resistance through the theatre. Unfortunately for Mer-Khamis, a Jewish activist and actor who lived in Jenin, life was cut short when a masked gunman shot him five times outside his beloved theatre. It was a tragic and senseless death, brought on by the very weapons Mer-Khamis urged his students to put down.
It is interesting and inspiring to read about an artistic community that ties social and youth empowerment in a region like Palestine. Developed and stable countries like the United States have a plethora of programs to help keep kids from dabbling in drugs, gangs, and violent activities. Many times we are unaware of just how many youth programs we have in the US, and take for granted the mentors and activities available in every state. The Freedom Theatre, however, is one of the only places in the West Bank where young people can channel their energies in a positive, healthy, and hopeful manner. Despite the fact that one of the founders of the theatre has passed away, and the future of the institution is tenuous at best, it is still remarkable that a single institution is pushing for youth empowerment from within Jenin. The theatre has become a refuge for children who are born and raised within a refugee camp. | eng | fd72e557-e164-4559-9ca4-c0f440501c18 | http://notenoughgood.com/2013/03/freedom-theatre/ |
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There appear to be several glowing ones in the nuclear plant in Gecko, working in the reactor area, most notably Hank. If the Chosen One fixes the reactor's radiation leak, the ghouls in the plant (not just the glowing ones), will comment on how the plant feels "chilly". | eng | e49041c8-18f5-460b-96c2-34836114e263 | http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Glowing_one_(Fallout_2) |
Sarah Peroutka Studio
Sunday, June 2, 2013
I've been busy getting work ready for a show this summer. Here are three new paintings that will be in the show. They have at least five qualities or features in common. Can you guess what I'm thinking about?
Monday, May 27, 2013
Here I'm shown with my teachers of miniature painting in Jaipur, India, in 2009, holding my interpretation of the goddess Saraswati. There were only three students in the class and the others left after an hour or so but I stayed all day and my teachers said I was the best non-Indian student they'd ever had. (I'm not sure if they admired my ability or my persistence!) We made our paints by mixing powdered pigment (similar to that in the photos below) with water. One of the brushes was made from a camel's eyelash, another from squirrel hairs.
Paint pigments for sale at a market in India.
Paint pigment in Venice, Italy, March 2009.
When I paint in public with pastels folks often ask, "Is that
chalk?" Nope. Pastels are paints in
solid form. Paint is made of pigment (particles of
color) held together with a binder, and the nature of the binder determines
the kind of paint and how it can be applied. Oil paint pigments are held together
with linseed oil and runny or mushy when squeezed from the tube so are usually applied with a brush or knife. Pastels
are made by mixing pigment,
water and a binder such as gum arabic or gum tragacanth into a paste
which is then compressed and dried into sticks of color. Pastels have a higher concentration
of pigment than any other artist medium which explains why their colors
are so brilliant. Another unique quality of painting with pastels is
that they're applied to a surface by hand (much like drawing) with no
brush to get in the way. Pigments can be organic, inorganic, or synthetic and can come from animal, vegetable, mineral or synthetic sources. Ochres and iron oxides come from the earth and have been used since prehistoric times. Natural indigo blue comes from a plant. The color burnt sienna is produced by baking a certain soil from Italy in a furnace then grinding it into powdered pigment. Because blue and purple pigments were difficult and expensive to obtain,
those colors were associated with royalty in ancient times. To learn more about pigments, Wikipedia has a thorough and fascinating explanation.
Sindoorapplied to a stone carving in India.
Paint is used throughout the world for a variety of practical, aesthetic and religious purposes. In India, red sindoor (vermilion) is often applied to the part in a woman's hair to indicate that she is married, or as a "tilaka" or "bindi" on the forehead. Sindoor can be made from turmeric powder which becomes red when mixed with lime juice or
lime powder and moistened in water. In the photo to the left, paint is regularly applied to an ancient religious image.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
One day in Barcelona on my way to somewhere else, I passed a little shop where women were gathered around a table making lace. It was the Escola de Puntaires de
Barcelona, a school that teaches the centuries'-old art of lace-making with bobbins in a style specific to the region of Catalonia. (Here's the link to their Facebook page.) To the left is a painting by Mary Cassatt featuring a Spanish mantilla or veil, a traditional item of clothing that is often thrown over the top of a tall comb called a peineta.
The women making lace at Escola de Puntaires welcomed me into their shop. I, with my limited Spanish, and they, with their limited English, managed to communicate friendship and mutual joy in the creation of beautiful objects.
Monday, April 22, 2013
Ronda, Spain, is one of the pueblas blancas (white villages) with Moorish roots built along cliffs for strategic defense advantages. The scenery in Ronda is especially spectacular. One day while my husband hiked I stayed behind to paint. There were so many views to choose from! Most of the wide vistas felt overwhelming to me, so I chose the more intimate setting of the lovely Alameda del Tajo park established in the 19th c. A musician was playing her dulcimer as tourists and residents strolled, lingered on park benches, and chatted with friends. Chirping and fluttering birds along with the scent of wisteria, orange blossoms and jasmine were carried on a warm breeze. When working en plein air I generally work for about 3-4 hours and get two paintings
started, taking a few photos of my scene as I go along. This allows me
to catch the light on my subject and finish the painting in my studio if
it continues to interest me.
I don't necessarily want to replicate exactly what I see (I have the
photograph to show me "reality"), but I do want
to capture what interested me about what I saw or my feelings or
memories about the day or the place. On this particular day I was
thinking about light and shadow
and pink blossoms. And I was feeling very, very happy.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Jerez (pron. hair-eth) de la Frontera is located in Andalucia in Southern Spain, a jewel of a city with an alcazar (Moorish palace/fortress), archaeological museum, bodegas (wine cellars,
especially sherry--the word is an version of "Jerez"), equestrian farms,
clock museum, outrageous flamenco and tapas bars... I could go on and
on. But here are a few pictures to tell a story about sculpture,
painting, urban design, ceramics, topiary, food presentation,
music...all the sensual attributes of perception (texture/form/scent/line/compositions/color/taste/sound)
that make an artist swoon.
Friday, April 19, 2013
Ever tried to paint a hummingbird in flight? That's what it's like trying to paint a flamenco dancer in action. I took my pastels to our neighborhood flamenco bar and got a pretty good gesture drawing, but that was about it. So I sat back, drank another vino tinto, ate some more aceitunas, and enjoyed the scene.
Saturday, April 13, 2013
When traveling I like to strike a balance between sightseeing and painting. On this trip I haven't been able to do as much painting as I like due to cool/cold/rainy weather. Hopefully that will change once we get to Spain. The weather cooperated in Evora, Portutugal, though and I was so grateful to
bask in the sun on the plaza in front of our hostel. The hours flew by! Even when I can't paint, observing people and street scenes, visiting museums and monuments, and touring the countryside fuels my imagination and gives me information, ideas and photos to refer to for future paintings.
Clothes in backpack; art supplies in front pack
Here's a funny photo of me lugging my gear several blocks from where we parked our car and then up a couple flights of steep, narrow stairs to our room. The pack on my back contains clothes and miscellaneous items for six weeks of travel; the pack on the front holds my Guerrilla box and a limited selection of pastels and paper. Lugging heavy art supplies around is worth it for the pleasure I derive being able to paint en plein air "on the road." Portugal in April has gorgeous countryside sprinkled with wildflowers! I can't wait to get to work on these paintings when I get home! | eng | 0351ccaf-79f1-420a-994e-fdbe504a25a2 | http://www.sarahperoutkastudio.com/ |
Physical Education
BA(Hons)
Course summary and entry requirements
Course duration
Full-time: 3 years
UCAS code XC36
About the course
Physical education is much more than just secondary school teaching. Learning through physical activity affects everyone, from the pre-school child and the teenager out of school to adults and older people.
The importance of physical activity to the economy, the culture and health of people is an important subject of study and can lead to many employment opportunities. You can broaden your experience through our extracurricular programme and undertake additional qualifications in individual sports.
BTEC DDD.
International Baccalaureate: 34 points.
Access to HE Diploma pass with at least 45 credits at level 3.
GCSE (minimum grade C) or Access Equivalent at least three subjects including English language and mathematics or a science.
For non-native speakers of English: IELTS 6.0 overall, with 6.0 in writing and a minimum of 5.5 in the other three elements.
Course content
Course structure
Year 1 provides a broad introduction to physical education. This provides the foundation for years 2 and 3 where you can start to explore your own interests by selecting from a wide range of optional modules.
A variety of teaching methods are used including lectures, first-hand teaching experience, seminars, group tasks and practical performance. This variety of learning approaches will help you to develop both specific skills related to physical education and a set of transferable skills that can be used in a wide range of jobs. The course also offers you opportunities to undertake work-related placements in years 2 and 3. An opportunity to study abroad at one of our partner universities is also an option.
Areas of study
The course enables you to study practical activity areas within physical education, along with sport-science and social-scientific aspects of physical education and sport. In addition you are able to choose modules from a wide range of areas such as leisure and recreation, competitive sport, dance performance and choreography, special needs, and gender issues in physical education and sport Physical Education
[K1EA014As a graduate you will be able to apply for a postgraduate Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) course if you choose a career in the teaching profession. Other careers include sport and leisure development for young people, the armed forces, the police, management and coaching. Further opportunities are available for undertaking postgraduate research. | eng | a9e41f44-40ac-4036-97a5-384e82a3aeda | http://www.brighton.ac.uk/courses/study/physical-education-ba-hons |
You are now turning 18 (I hope it's 18 dear god correct me if I'm wrong)! Which basically means you're legal to many things where you live. No, this is not a suggestive thing at all. I hope you have a wonderful birthday filled with cake, balloons, presents, exo and are surrounded by people you love. It's been so wonderful getting to know you these past 2-3 months. You're hilarious, sincere, kind and I love how you put up with me bullying you all the time. But you bully me too so we're even. You are a wonderful bewb, talented and pretty SO WHY CAN'T I BE YOU?! but yes have a wonderful birthday with all your biases loving you besides Baek cause he's mine. Love you and I'm sorry this is ugly s0BS. | eng | 7c2f9a5e-7c49-4f2c-ac48-2b2cbc478e9c | http://baekhan.tumblr.com/tagged/g0N-MaKE-U-TaLK-LYK-diS-BEcuz-REasonZ |
Two years ago friends in Germany told us they only accept euros printed in Germany. Have not studied the euro fine print. Wondering what would happen as n when Greece exits euro and all Greece-printed euro cash and bank xfers are no longer as good. What a mess to sort out, presumably similar to a complicated divorce.
There us no distinction between Euros printed or minted with different countries' pictures. This is strictly cosmetic, done for national pride reasons. Individual countries do not print Euros. All Euros are printed by the ECB. And printed Euros are a small fraction of the digital Euros in existence around the world. Right now my wallet has Euro coins from Germany, Greece, France, etc.
The Greeks could,by design, allow only Greek citizens to exchange their Greeks Euro's for New Greek currency. Anyone not holding a valid Greek citizenship would forfeit,gg. That would stir things up a bit :))
"The BRICS helped save us in 2008-2009." But there won't be a permanent salvation. Salvation came at the cost of a big shakedown in the BRIC economies. This shake down took two year to build and it's taking another two years to pul back.
You could if it were allowed but I think the Greek government would taking an accounting of one's net worth before an exchange took place so to ease and offset the patriational underground economy,gg. The Greeks are not Stupid.
Lets face it. This is where Europe and very likely the US is headed; the effects of continued and intentional deficit spending.
the informal name for the economic measures taken in Argentina at the end of 2001 in order to stop a bank run, and which were fully in force for one year. The corralito almost completely froze bank accounts and forbade withdrawals from U.S. dollar-denominated accounts. The Spanish word corralito is the diminutive form of corral, which means "corral, animal pen, enclosure"; the diminutive is used in the sense of "small enclosure" and also "a child's playpen". This expressive name alludes to the restrictions imposed by the measure.
Background and initial measures
In 2001, Argentina was in the midst of a crisis: heavily indebted, with an economy in complete stagnation (an almost three-year-long recession), and the exchange rate was fixed at one U. S. dollar per Argentine peso by law, which made exports uncompetitive and effectively deprived the state of having an independent monetary policy. Many Argentines, but most especially companies, fearing an economic crash and possibly a devaluation, were transforming pesos to dollars and withdrawing them from the banks in large amounts, usually transferring them to foreign accounts ( capital flight). [1]
On 1 December 2001, in order to stop this draining from destroying the banking system, the government froze all bank accounts, initially for 90 days. Only a small amount of cash was allowed for withdrawal on a weekly basis (initially 250 Argentine pesos, then 300), and only from accounts denominated in pesos. No withdrawals were allowed from accounts denominated in U.S. dollars, unless the owner agreed to convert the funds into pesos. [2] Operations using credit cards, debit cards, cheques and other means of payment could be conducted normally, but the lack of cash availability caused numerous problems for the general public and for businesses.
A protest against the banks in 2002. The large sign reads "Thieving banks - give back our dollars". The green and light blue object in the middle of the crowd is a Payphone.
The corralito caused an immediate backfire on the government. Even more people started trying to withdraw their money from the banks, and many ended up in court fighting for their right to have their funds (and being granted that right on occasion).
The main reason for ending up in court was that, after the corralito, and after Economy Minister Cavallo resigned, the new government led by Eduardo Duhalde and his Economy MinisterRoberto Lavagna converted those funds nominated in US Dollars, into Argentine Pesos at a 1 Peso = 1 US Dollar exchange rate, while the exchange rate was liberalized (immediately going to 4 Pesos = 1 US Dollar).
The same was done with debtors, so many private enterprises and also the Province of Buenos Aires were favoured by this measure as they managed to decrease their debts. Nine years later, several people have not yet been able to recover their savings because of the pace of Justice in Argentina. However, debtors were able to purchase properties and other items by paying their debts at the 1 to 1 exchange rate.
At the time, the average Argentine did not employ the banking system for daily uses; many did not have a personal bank account, and dealt only with cash. Debit cards were not popular and many businesses did not have the equipment to accept them. Thus the cash restrictions only exacerbated the recession and angered the public. President Fernando de la Rúa was forced to resign on 20 December 2001 after violent riots, but the restrictions of the corralito were not lifted at the time. [3]
[ edit] Corralón Argentina's situation worsened for several months. The corralito was hardened during the interim rule of President Eduardo Duhalde, and turned into a corralón ("big corral"). The corralón differed from the corralito in that most deposits were forcibly exchanged for a series of bonds denominated in pesos. The dollar-denominated accounts were automatically exchanged for pesos and peso bonds at a predetermined rate. The real necessity of such decision was questioned by several observers at the time, and some suggested this move benefited some large companies which were insolvent (or nearly so) whose owners had sent their dollars abroad before the corralito; these owners were thus able to repay their companies' now devalued debts by converting much fewer dollars than it would have taken previously. [4]
The peso was first devalued (from 1.0 to 1.4 pesos/dollar) [5] and then floated, thereby quickly depreciating to a maximum rate of nearly 4 pesos per dollar. [6] Argentina's economy then gradually began a recovery from its abysmal state, spurred by exports that benefited from the heightened exchange rate, and by the declaration of default on most of its debt, which left the government with more money available to expand the economy. [7]
It is generally agreed that the banks had a share of the blame for the situation that led to the corralito. [8] In mid-2001, it was probably clear to bank owners and high-ranking officials that Argentina's banking system was going to crash, and some in fact may have spurred this outcome by letting their highest deposit holders know this news. These, mostly large companies, quickly moved their deposits abroad. Meanwhile, they continued to recommend their middle-class customers to enter deposits.
It is also believed that in the end the corralito ended up being good business for some international banks since they negotiated with the Argentine government to receive compensation bonds for the "missing" money, which in a large proportion had never really left their banks, only moved from one branch to another. [9]
Most banks stayed in the country during the crisis, withstanding a severe damage to their reputation as well as (in certain cases) physical attacks. Others fled as soon as problems arose (for example, Scotiabank's Argentine branch, Scotiabank Quilmes).
[ edit] The end of the corralito The corralito officially ended on 2 December 2002, when Minister of Economy Roberto Lavagna announced the liberation of deposits for about 23.7 billion pesos (though not of 17.3 billion pesos in formerly dollar-denominated long-term accounts). [10] The measure was coupled with exchange market controls, by which no person or business was allowed to buy more than 100,000 dollars; this was done to prevent the possible effects of the sudden availability of pesos.
What will be the role of the US in the 21st century? This is a question I rashly agreed to address last week at the Carnegie Council in New York. In analysing it, I considered a closely related issue that also exercises Americans: is the future role of the US in its own hands? The answer is: yes, but only up to a point. The US can control what it does. But it cannot control what others do.
The historic dominance of the US is the fruit of its exceptional assets. It is a continental power bounded by oceans to the east and west, and unthreatening neighbours to the north and south. It has huge, albeit dwindling, natural resources. It has had the world's largest economy and the highest output per head since the late 19th century. The market-driven US economy has also been the world's most innovative since at least the same era.
The US is home to the world's most influential financial markets, albeit ones that triggered the Great Depression and Great Recession of recent years. It has been the issuer of the world's main reserve currency since the first world war. It has offered one of the largest import markets, surpassed only by external imports of the EU.
The US possesses the world's most technologically advanced and potent military. Since the second world war, it has also had more of the world's leading universities and research institutions than any other country. It has the world's most potent popular culture. Its political values still grip the world's imagination, even if it has frequently fallen short in practice. Its democratic system has proved sufficiently legitimate and flexible to cope with the many challenges history has thrown up.
Possessed of all these assets, the US managed to form strong alliances and to win its 20th-century wars, both hot and cold, against Germany, Japan and Russia. It shaped the open world economy, which was born after the second world war then became global after the collapse of the Soviet empire. It has offered the world's most influential model of modernity. Whether we like it or not, we all live in the world it has made.
How much of this array of assets will the US retain in this century?
The obvious threat is to its position as the world's largest economy. At market exchange rates, its economy is still roughly twice the size of China's. Yet, according to the International Monetary Fund, it is only 30 per cent larger, at purchasing power parity. Since China's gross domestic product per head, at PPP, is still only 20 per cent of US levels, this leaves huge room for it to catch up. China's growth is likely to slow in coming decades but it should still converge further on US productivity levels. The likelihood is that China will have a bigger economy than the US by the early 2020s. Unlike, say, Japan, China has the numbers on its side. If its GDP per head were to reach half of US levels, its economy would be as big as those of the US and EU together.
China's gross exports of merchandise products already exceed those of the US. Its imports will soon do the same. Being a relatively resource-poor country, China is likely to remain a bigger trader, relative to GDP, than the US. A more controversial question is how soon the renminbi will rival the dollar as a reserve currency. The rise of China's trade suggests the answer is: soon. Against this, I would argue that China's party-state, not being subject to the rule of law and fearing loss of control, will be neither able nor willing to provide the open capital markets that outsiders want if they are to hold their safest assets in renminbi. At least, this shift is likely to take decades, not years.
In principle, the US could also maintain its frontier position in science and commercial innovation. But, as my colleague Edward Luce shows in his thought-provoking new book, the combination of xenophobia with hostility to science, self-inflicted fiscal constraints and weird spending priorities risks robbing the US of its access to the world's talent and its commitment to world-leading research and innovation.* Nothing captures the point better than this grim quote: "In 1990, [California] spent twice as much on its universities as its prisons. Now it spends almost twice as much on prisons." That the US has the highest rate of incarceration in the world is not only a social statistic; it is also an economic one. The same is true of the costliness and inefficiency of the US healthcare system, which is the principal reason why long-term fiscal prospects look so grim.
What is needed is serious reform. But this has become impossible, because of the exploding role of money in politics and the rising intransigence of the Republican party. In a system built on divided government, regarding compromise as weakness risks repeated chaos.
The US economy is also no longer bringing the widely shared benefits it once did. In the last full business cycle, between 2002 and 2007, the top 1 per cent captured almost two-thirds of the rise in incomes, while the top 0.1 per cent captured more than a third. Such a zero sum economy breeds disaffection and despair. The crisis has made the anger far worse.
All of this will also affect America's ability to play its historic role in the world. The looming fiscal squeeze will undermine military spending. More important, the financial crisis and other large mistakes have robbed the US political, economic and social models of the prestige they enjoyed. Europe is in no better shape. But that merely means the west as a whole is less credible and so far less able to serve as leader., influence, since its main rivals face even bigger challenges. Yet if the US is to be what it can be, it has to rediscover the pragmatism that long marked its policy making, notably in its responses to the many challenges of the 20th century. No democracy can thrive if its citizens view their own government as their greatest enemy. If Americans choose to make their government fail, the US is sure to do so, too.
*Time to Start Thinking, Atlantic Monthly Press 2012.
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A fertility potion affects Severus Snape and Rubeus Hagrid. Both become pregnant by the other, resulting in fraternal not-exactly-twins conceived on the same day, with different mothers but the same parents. For fear of Voldemort discovering he has children, Snape hides his part in the events leading to Hagrid's strange impregnation, and allows no one to find out about his own.
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It doesn't matter what the field of study is; as long as it's a bachelor's degree, you should be fine. | eng | 093bbe90-276e-46d8-84b3-8393f0906512 | http://www.jetprogramme.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=10374&p=104033 |
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"No, you're not. You're buying (limited) permission to use the particular copy of that music, etc, on that CD."
So close to what I said is stunning you bothered to argue. You agree with me when I say you are not paying $30 for the CD, you are paying $30 for the music.
"Theft implicitly implies denial of use by the owner."
Lets look at that.
If I do a set of plans for someone, and it takes me 30 hours, and they use them without paying me, they have in effect stole 30 hours of my work time. They denied me the use of that time through theft. By steeling the plans, they in fact stole my time.
I have a friend who recently recorded an album. Hundreds of unpaid hours by her friends and herself, plus half her life savings in studio rental etc.
All those people will only be able to be paid if the album sells.
If she only sold one copy, and then everyone pirated, these people wont eat or be able to pay there rent. In effect we would have stolen there work.
Just because it's not a physical thing, doesn't make it not real, or unstealable.
Taking a copy without paying is no different to stealing a physical thing, in the end you are steeling someone's work, steeling there time and effort.
Morally it is theft, pure and simple
As to copyright only being recent, how long ago was the printing press invented. Prior to that, there was no need for copyright, as it was so expensive to copy anything, it rarely happened on a large scale. And there was no recording of music at all until very recently, and when it came it was also hard to copy. A justification by saying there were no copyright laws at a time when there was no ability for mass coping is stupid. There were no speed limits until the late 19th centaury either, but I imagine that argument would receive a very short run in court.
You can technically call it a copyright infringement if you want, or some other name, either way it's a crime involving depriving someone of there rightful income, which in my book is just theft by a different name. | eng | 9b0a1fc1-a7ac-494d-ad2e-75a6e4ffe14b | http://www2b.abc.net.au/tmb/View/AlertModerator.aspx?b=94&m=1178148&tpa=&r=%2Ftmb%2FView%2FMessage.aspx%3Fb%3D94%26t%3D6103%26a%3D0%26ps%3D50%26tpa%3D%26uto%3D1%26dm%3D4%26ci%3D0%26pd%3D1%26so%3DDateTime%26soa%3DFalse%26p%3D1%26p2%3D0 |
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For analytics tracking purposes, we asked our developer for the URL of the confirmation page after a user completes a purchase. The URL he provided was index.php?main_page=checkout_confirmation. This is the same URL of Step 3 of the checkout process though - before the user confirms the purchase and may still drop out and not complete the purchase. So (assuming this is the correct and actual URL of the confirmation thank you page), is there a way to change this URL to make it totally unique? Our developer said it would take many hours of significant coding changes, and I am hoping he is mistaken | eng | 38a7972d-b5bd-4b1e-8a3a-d3d220e42624 | http://www.zen-cart.com/showthread.php?198891-URL-of-purchase-confirmation-thank-you-page&p=1142950 |
School Sport Australia, the governing body of School Sport in Australia, conducts Annual Championships in many sports.
In 1973, thanks to the foresight of Sandra Sheedy (a past National Secretary, and Secretary of the Victorian Secondary Schools Sports Association), the Schoolgirls National Netball Championship (which had been held since 1928) was combined with Schoolgirls Hockey to be called the U/16 Hockey/Netball Championships.
Mr, Theo Leonard who was then the Secretary of the Victorian Metropolitan Secondary School Sports Association (a position he held for 35 years) decided to show his support for this new combined girls championship by donating a trophy suitable called The Theo E. Leonard Trophy.
This Championship over the years developed into a unique culmination for school Netball and Hockey and portraits the finest qualities of both sports.
IN 1990 both sports went their separate ways and although it was disappointing to see the tradition of the combined championships disappear, it was also obvious that the time had come for both sports to stand alone and develop their particular uniqueness.
Women's Hockey Australia continued to strengthen its ties with ASSC and in particular with our Schoolgirls Association. The continued development of girls hockey is a common link between schools, their State Association and the National Body.
2001 saw the amalgamation of both the men's and women's associations at National level - with the new name of Hockey Australia. This move, will no doubt have some impact upon both the boys and girls Schools Championships, however, it seems certain that any changes will be minimal and we trust will benefit even more our Schools Events. | eng | 527f0ce8-c3c6-4ac6-a4c1-f720abd36e73 | http://www.schoolsport.edu.au/about/sportinfo/hockey.aspx |
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Dr. Anna Wessels Williams ( 1863 - 1954) worked as a bacteriologist at the first municipal diagnostic laboratory in the United States, helped develop the diphtheria antitoxin and was the first woman to be elected chair of the laboratory section of the American Public Health Association. ...more on Wikipedia about "Anna Wessels Williams"
Carl Richard Woese is an American microbiologist famous for defining the Archaea (a new domain or kingdom of life) in 1976 by phylogenetic taxonomy of 16S ribosomal RNA, a technique pioneered by Woese and which is now standard practice. He was also the originator of the RNA world hypothesis in 1967, although not by that name. He was born in Syracuse, New York, on July 15, 1928. Woese is currently a professor of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ...more on Wikipedia about "Carl Woese"
Cornelius Bernardus Van Niel ( November 4, 1897 – March 10, 1985) was an Dutch- American microbiologist. He introduced the study of general microbiology to the United States and made key discoveries explaining the chemistry of photosynthesis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cornelius Van Niel"
Dr. David Christopher Kelly CMG ( May 17, 1944 – July 17, 2003) was an employee of the United Kingdom (UK) Ministry of Defence (MoD), an expert in biological warfare, and a former United Nations weapons inspector in Iraq. His talk with a journalist about the British government's dossier on weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq inadvertently caused a major political scandal, and he was found dead days after appearing before a Parliamentary committee investigating it. The Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into his death, ruled that he had committed suicide. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Kelly"
Félix d'Herelle ( April 25, 1873 – February 22, 1949) was a French- Canadian microbiologist, one of the discoverers of bacteriophages (small viruses that only attack and kill bacteria), and inventor of phage therapy. ...more on Wikipedia about "Félix d'Herelle"
Dr Frank Fenner (born 21 December, 1914) is an Australian scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of myxoma virus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Frank Fenner"
Friedrich August Johannes Löffler ( June 24, 1852 – April 9, 1915) was a German bacteriologist at the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald. Among his discoveries was the organism causing diphtheria ( Corynebacterium diphtheriae), or the cause of foot and mouth disease. ...more on Wikipedia about "Friedrich Löffler"
Karl Otto Stetter (born July 16, 1941) is a German microbiologist and astrobiologist, an expert on microbial life at the upper temperature, and one of the most important scientists currently working in this field. ...more on Wikipedia about "Karl Stetter"
Louis Pasteur ( December 27 1822 – September 28 1895) was a French microbiologist and chemist. He is known most famously for his demonstrations supporting the germ theory of disease and his vaccinations, most notably the first vaccine against rabies. However, he also made many discoveries in the field of chemistry, most notably the asymmetry of crystals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Louis Pasteur"
Louis Pasteur ( December 27 1822 – September 28 1895 ...more on Wikipedia about "Magicmonster/Works in Progress/Louis Pasteur"
Canadian researcher Martin Henry Dawson was born in Truro, Nova Scotia, 6 August, 1896 and was educated at Dalhousie University and McGill University. Dawson made many important contributions in the fields of infectious diseases. Among these were studies on the transmutation of strains of pneumococci, and on the biological variants of the streptococcus and other microorganisms. His studies on the nature and treatment of arthritis made him a recognized authority in this disorder. He was a pioneer in penicillin therapy, and was the first in Canada to prepare it and use it in human disease. This included the successful treatment of bacterial endocarditis with penicillin, and the use of gold salts in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. ...more on Wikipedia about "Martin Henry Dawson"
Maurice Ralph Hilleman, ( August 30 1919 – April 11 2005), was an American microbiologist who specialized in vaccinology and developed more than three dozen vaccines, more than any other scientist. Of the fourteen vaccines routinely recommended, he developed eight: those for measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia and Haemophilus influenzae bacteria. He also played a role in the discovery of the cold-producing adenoviruses, the hepatitis viruses and the cancer-causing virus SV40. ...more on Wikipedia about "Maurice Hilleman"
Dr Nancy Fannie Millis (born April 10 1922) is an Australian microbiologist, she introduced fermentation technologies to Australia, and created the first applied microbiology course taught in an Australian university. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nancy Millis" | eng | 96ec7a57-60a3-4c4d-b001-2ff7b326be90 | http://www.shortopedia.com/M/I/Microbiologists |
Now follow the following steps: 1. Connect your Card to computer using a card reader or card slot on your computer. Then go to "My Computer" and find out the drive assigned to the card (for example E:). 2. In Asoftech Photo Recovery, select the memory card drive, and then click button "Start" to start analyzing disk to look for recoverable photos. 3. Wait for the analyzing process to complete. You can preview the recoverable photos' thumbnail. 4. Press "Recover" button to restore lost photos.
The software is quite good to recover lost, deleted and formatted digital photos on removable media. Works with every type of digital card reader appearing as a drive letter in your local PC | eng | ecab2b28-8749-4883-9bbc-9fbb8a56e845 | http://forums.cnet.com/7723-7817_102-209071/recover-deleted-images-from-cell-phone-samsung-u-420/ |
History of the Bantam and Willys Jeeps and the BRC (Bantam Reconnaissance Vehicle)
The origins of what would become the Bantam
The story really begins in Great Britain with Herbert Austin, born in 1866. He was a self-made engineer and tool maker who rose to become the manager of the Wolseley Tool and Motor Car Company, but felt he could build better motor vehicles on his own. Using his own initiative and money, he founded the Austin Motor Company in 1905 in Longbridge, which became part of Birmingham in 1911, and built conventional cars with a 5.0 litre 4 cylinder engine.
When World War I became inevitable, Great Britain gave Austin Motor Car profitable military contracts. Herbert Austin was knighted at the end of the war, and Sir Herbert resumed motor car production in 1918. The initial postwar offerings were based upon one model, powered by a 20 horsepower, 3.6 liter engine. With slow sales and rising costs, Sir Herbert moved the single model into a commercial version, and built good tractors with the same chassis, to no avail; in 1921, bankruptcy procedures began.
The company was viable, but the board of directors protested over the new car that Sir Herbert had proposed to turn the company around. Sir Herbert threatened to take his design to Wolseley Motor Cars; and the board came to an agreement which allowed Austin Motor Car to be restructured in the same year it declared bankruptcy. The new car was aimed at penetration of the mass market: smaller, lighter, well built, and economical. Introduced in 1922, the Austin 7 was a hit. The "7" represented the engine's horsepower rating, putting it into the current micro-car class, and avoiding a tax. It was much smaller than a Ford Model T; the wheelbase was 75 inches, and it was just 40 inches wide. The 4 cylinder was cut to 747 cc (¾ litre); the four speed transmission was an integral part of the drive train. Mastery of shifting required double clutching, and was a challenge to those that didn't match engine and transmission gear speeds. The front suspension was a transverse leaf spring, while the rear suspension was two semi elliptical leaves. Four wheel brakes were operated by cables on a hand lever, and the rear brakes were cable operated from a foot pedal. They would not be integrated until 1930.
Given success in the first year, Sir Herbert saw his design take off with more popularity. He made running changes on the car to improve it mechanically.
The design went under license to Germany as the "Dixi" (forming around a new company called BMW) and was then licensed into France in 1928 as the "Rosengart" and finally in the United States of America in 1929 as the "American Austin." Sir William Lyons used the Austin 7 chassis to build his own car, the "Swallow," which gave him the knowledge and profits to form Jaguar in 1935.
DAT Motor Cars began production in 1931 of its version of the Austin 7 in Japan, without any agreement or license; the car was called DATSON (or smaller version of the DAT, or son of DAT). In 1933, DAT Motor Cars was bought out by Nissan, the car having been a miserable failure. Austin probably never heard of DATSON.
Austin licensed a move of a part of its operations to the United States in 1929, setting up a factory to produce the Americanized Austin 7 in Butler, Pennsylvania. Even in the face of the Depression, initially the American Austin sold fairly well, but deepening of the Depression and resistance to tiny cars brought the American Austin into bankruptcy in 1934.
A top American Austin salesman, Roy Evans, bought the bankrupt American Austin, renaming it to American Bantam in 1935. Thanks to the election of Franklin Roosevelt and related confidence returning to banking, Evans was able to secure financial backing. After updating the body, he set about getting a new engine to avoid having to pay royalties back to Austin. The first version was a 46 cubic inch 4 cylinder flathead that may have developed 15 horsepower with about 40 ft lbs of torque. With all the accessories, the engine weighed 148 pounds. Compression was set at 5.0 to 1. Top speed may have been upwards of 50 miles an hour, but that would be punishing for the engine, which at the time had two main bearings on the crankshaft, which were ball bearings. This would allow for a free turning unit, but the nature of ball bearings encouraged crankshaft "whip" internally.
Improvements to the Bantam engine introduced by Evans included changing the main bearings to a babbitt type, increasing the compression to 7.0 to 1, and using a different type of carburetor. Full pressurized lubrication was employed, along with a pump circulated cooling system. Horsepower increased from 13 to 19, with an increase in torque.
Roy Evans made the Bantam look different from the older Austin, and made the Bantam appear bigger than it actually was. First year production was 1,200 units; 30% of production was for export to Canada, Australia, Mexico, and Great Britain, where it competed directly against its progenitor, the Austin. Still, the Bantam couldn't make a significant American market penetration, even though, by 1938, the Bantam was on a par with Chrysler, Buick, and Mercury as far as quality, reliability, and appointments were concerned.
Origins of the BRC
At around this time, the Army Quartermaster Corps was ready to consider a light reconnaissance vehicle. They had actually been toying with the idea since the end of World War I in 1918, but didn't have anything specific in mind. The United States Army had become largely a sort of country club in the years after World War I; soldiers endured agonizingly slow promotions, and long placements at trying assignments with disagreeable conditions. Requests from the field were often turned down by pampered Headquarters officers, lest it upset their cushy assignments. In addition, the President and the Congress were not disposed to spending money on the military, and it showed. Even if they had been fully funded, many officers were not inclined to welcome motorized vehicles; Major George S. Patton, for one, was making passionate noises NOT to adopt motorized equipment! The horrifying German "Blitzkrieg" against Poland in 1939 quickly changed a lot of American military minds, including Patton's.
[The American military did work with automakers on creating a 4x4 truck, and helped to make the Jeffery Quad a reality.]
American Bantam Motors, through Roy Evans, hired a lobbyist. At the time, there was none better, because he believed in his job, and he was honest to a fault: retired Navy aviator Commander Harry Payne. Payne worked tirelessly for Bantam to draw out what the QMC might want for forces in the field.
Origin of the BRC in the British Austin military vehicle
Payne was armed with the knowledge that in 1932, the British Army had purchased two Austin Sedans for evaluation as a General Purpose Scout Car, which were now used in place of motorcycles and side-cars. The Austin cars were well liked; they could carry more passengers and serve in more assignments than the motorcycles, especially considering that they could carry mobile machine gun mounts. The Austin cars were tough, but they needed four wheel drive to be fully effective.
After five years of getting beat around, a British infantry captain used the Austin chassis and parts to build a small, light vehicle with four wheel drive. It was about 70 inches long, 37 inches wide, and weighed around 1,000 pounds. Those "specials" were given tough jobs to fulfill, with machine gun and small artillery mountings. They were given exceptional ratings and rave reviews from the British infantry.
There is a lot of different information out there about the true origins of the BRC. A lot of it is not true, or deliberately fed as misinformation. Eventually the Army, Willys, and even Ford claimed credit for the introduction of it. However, evidence points to the fact that Evans and Payne were well aware of the constant titillation of the QMC. Hoping that the Army would see things Bantam's way, in 1938, Roy Evans arranged through Harry Payne to loan two small 4 x 2 Bantam trucks to the QMC for evaluation, knowing what the British had accomplished a year earlier with the Austin. Later on, a couple of roadsters were also sent over. The QMC expressed solid interest in the design, but the lack of 4 wheel drive, and the small thin cross-section tires led the vehicles to getting stuck a lot. These loaners did lead directly to the Army insistence that any light recon vehicle must have four wheel drive.
It was not by pure coincidence that somewhere around June 1940, the QMC settled upon a 75 inch wheelbase vehicle that weighed 1,200 pounds, right around the specifications for the Bantam Truck and Roadster models. Most of the impetus for this, is not given where credit should be.
Then, as a Senator from Missouri, Harry Truman had been lighting fires under the military for their "sweetheart" deals. The Truman Congressional Committee castigated the cost overruns, outrageous specifications, the prices that shot up for commonplace items, lack of buying on-the-shelf items built as well or better, as well as a decided deplorable lack of contractual oversight.
Harry Payne brought the 20-year long dithering about a light recon vehicle to Senator Truman's attention early in 1940. He also mentioned the "loan" (they never got the vehicles back) of the trucks and roadsters to the QMC two years earlier in 1938. Some inquiries were made from investigators from the Committee through letters. Spurred by the thoughts of what might emanate from a possible appearance before the Truman Committee, the QMC officers from the Field quickly arranged a trip to the Bantam plant, to see a small, light vehicle being assembled.
In another bit of salesmanship, Roy Evans arranged to "loan" out two more Roadsters. These were vehicles that the visiting Army Officers had seen assembled in the plant while on their tour. The 1940 Roadsters were then driven to the local Army National Guard unit, that was engaged in field maneuvers that very week. The two Roadsters, less some equipment removed by Bantam technicians, performed flawlessly. Evans had made it clear that no factory oversight or restrictions on any use of the vehicles would be imposed. Impressed, the Army contingent, not connected to the Headquarters group of naysayers, extended its stay at Butler. While no notes or minutes were recorded, clearly discussions were underway about what the light recon vehicle should look like. Absolutely, the Army did not know what it wanted!
Somewhere along the line, a pencil drawing was found on the desk of the Bantam President in June of 1940. An awful lot of speculation surrounds that crude child like drawing. However, it is clearly the BRC vehicle outline. While there is no definitive documentation, enough preponderance of discussions exists so that I would attribute that drawing to Harry Payne. He was a field man, despite his aviation background. He knew what would work for troops in the field given his keen eye on what the maintenance types would want. He was especially aware of what Bantam production facilities were capable of making, given the chance. Certainly, the drawing did not come from the Army.
The specifications for the light recon vehicle were finally released by the QMC on July 11, 1940, three weeks after the visit to the Bantam plant. They fell right in line with what Bantam had been touting all along, making the crude pencil drawing a portent of the future.
The blueprint drawings rendered by the Army for its recon vehicle specifications were largely based upon the submissions by Bantam. It was about 20% Army and 80% Bantam, almost directly taken from the Bantam Roadster blueprints that Bantam had submitted for comparison purposes only. At least, so they thought. Most of the items included in the Army specs were off the shelf stuff such as regular size black out capable headlights. The same for tail lights. There was a sort of allowance for an additional 4.5 inches in the wheelbase because the Army wanted 4 wheel drive. That necessitated a transfer case for a wheelbase of 80 inches. The engine had to deliver 85 foot pounds of torque. It had to carry a 660 pound payload, with total vehicle weight targeted to be 1,300 pounds.
1940 was the time that the troubles for Bantam began. The Headquarters contingent that rejected everything began circulating disinformation about the ability of Bantam to engineer and produce the recon vehicle. It was being widely cast about that Bantam was too small to produce the quantity of vehicles that the Army would require. It was also said they did not have the engineering staff or the production people to get the machines and tools to set up for a high capacity production line, particularly in the case of making transfer cases and axles, the latter being true for the Butler facility. Ford had more production capability to make these than it had a place to put them.
In reality, though, Bantam had two production facilities; the first was in Detroit, and it built bodies that were shipped to Butler for attachment to a chassis. Combined, the two factories were well able to have produced over 200,000 (keep this figure in mind!) complete vehicles a year. This was backed up by an independent auditing contract that analyzed the two plants. Bantam just never had the sales to use the full capability of their facilities.
The issue then became of the price that Bantam was paying to Ford to acquire the transfer cases and the axles for the 4 wheel drive system. Bantam was just about out of money, making acquisition of the tooling necessary to build its own transfer cases and axles out of its reach. They could get the tooling if they were awarded the contract. Yet, without the tooling, they stood not to get the contract, if their financial situation were to become public.
The rumors about engineering staffing should have died quickly. The Vice President of Bantam was none other than Harry Miller, of Indianapolis Racing fame. who built the Miller and Gulf Oil Specials. He won Indianapolis with front wheel drive and four wheel drive racing machines, largely with 4 cylinder engines of 122 cubic inches! By 1937, most of what we consider high technical stuff today, Miller had already built, raced, and perfected on his cars. Things like twin cams, hemispherical heads, tuned exhaust engines or high lift camshafts.
Miller rented a space at the Butler facility to assemble his Indy racers. He was visited by many in the profession, especially a guy named Offenhauser. The people around Harry Miller were the cream of the engineering profession. They had to be to survive in the atmosphere he created with his own abilities. One of them was Harold Christ, who had worked on the first Duesenberg. Then, he moved over to Stutz where he spent 18 years working on their race cars. He had come to Bantam as the General Factory Manager. Using off the shelf Bantam engine parts, he built a V-8 that was used in midget racing. Largely, he welded the two Bantam 4 cylinder blocks together, then fabricated the crankcase. He built the crankshaft by machining down a solid steel block. He was also credited with building a test transfer case by cutting apart two Chevrolet transmissions. He then changed the gears, realigned the shafts, drilled out the fittings, then welded the cases together after cutting the halves in half. It performed flawlessly. No doubt those two men, by themselves, could have figured out any potential engineering problems that might have arisen in manufacture of the light recon vehicle.
It did appear, however, that someone in the hierarchy of the QMC wanted the Ford Motor Company to get the bid. Of course, Ford was considerably larger than Bantam, but was not prepared to build a small wheelbase vehicle. Once Ford became aware of the potential size of the contract, Henry Ford used every bit of influence he could muster to try to rig the bid.
Then, on July 11, 1940, Army QMC specification for bid was released to 135 manufacturers! Bids had to be returned in 22 days. As well, it demanded that a pilot vehicle be available in 49 days. Further complicating things, it demanded that 70 prototype vehicles be available for evaluation in 75 days!
The European war had started in 1939, and threatened the entire world. Despite protestations against the US entering into a "foreign" war, President Roosevelt was a practical man. He well understood that sooner or later, America would have to come in. He had quietly ordered the military to take action in getting items they needed to go to war should it come. With the Truman Commission looking into everything that the military was doing, the rush was on. Looking over their shoulders at the mechanized might of the German "Blitzkrieg" powered by motorized equipment, the American military planners were scrambling around, beside themselves for their deplorable lack of planning.
The first BRC - Bantam Reconnaissance Vehicle
Only three companies submitted bids for the recon vehicle: American Bantam Car Company, Ford Motor Company, and Willys-Overland Motor Company. Of the three, only Bantam had made a commitment to provide a pilot vehicle within the 49 day time frame, along with providing 70 vehicles in 75 days. Willys was the low bidder, however, they could not provide a pilot vehicle. It was later decided that the $739 per unit cost bid by Willys was the better value, when compared to the $1166 bid submitted by Bantam. The Ford bid was over $1200 and that pretty much ended their further consideration, for a time. In fact, neither Ford or Willys had much of a clue on how to even proceed to begin to build the vehicle given the bid specifications. Thanks to some questionable moves from the QMC, that would change.
It should be noted at this point that Willys was not completely unrelated to Bantam. Even to this day, few people know that, in 1935, Evans had organized a syndicate to save Willys-Overland by purchasing 12,000 vehicles from Willys, which literally saved the company but gave controlling interest to Evans. Evans was one of the largest Willys dealers even as he ran Bantam. In 1938, former Chrysler salesman and executive (credited with naming Plymouth in 1928) Joseph Frazer became president of Willys, and ordered improvements to the twelve-year-old 4 cylinder Whippet engine. That would be important to Bantam's entry.
The Bantam company hand built the first pilot car. It was powered by a 20 horsepower built engine and a three-speed synchronized manual transmission, operated from the column. The vehicle, code named the "Blitz Buggy" by Bantam, was completed one day before the deadline. Nicknamed "Old Number One," it had to be delivered to Camp Holabird in Maryland (450 miles away) to meet the bid, but no one had thought about how it was to get there. Frantic calls to local trucking companies were not successful. Without much hesitation, showing full faith in the BRC (Bantam Reconnaissance Car), two volunteer technicians put together a picnic basket full of food and drinks, then set out for Fort Holabird. Driving straight through using gasoline-company provided maps in the days before reliable roads, with stops only for gasoline, they beat the delivery time by ½ an hour. Along the way, the car generated an extraordinary amount of interest, since nothing like it had ever been seen before.
On hand at Camp Holabird were Ford and Willys representatives. One of the first things that the Army did was to hand over all the technical drawings, representing the patented construction of the Bantam Reconnaissance Car, to Willys and Ford! When questioned about giving out the vehicle plans, the Army claimed that it was theirs to do with what they wanted. Bantam should have initiated law suits in all directions, but Roy Evans felt that, if he had rocked the boat, the QMC would kill the Bantam bid completely.
As a further insult, whenever the BRC was in the garage, Ford and Willys people were allowed to examine it and take photographs of it. As a result, by the end of November 1940, both Willys (The "QUAD") and Ford (The "PYGMY") had prototype vehicles at Camp Holabird for evaluation. Two of these were good vehicles. One was not.
Despite the rave reviews that you might hear now, that is history rewritten. The Willys Quad was literally junk. Evaluation sheets from the trial period of November 1940 to the end of December 1940 were very critical. The "Go-Devil" Willys engine was the highest rated at 60 horsepower, turning 105 ft lbs of torque, nearly doubled the Bantam and the tractor engined Ford. Unfortunately, the Willys went throughthree engines in less than 8,000 miles! Allegedly, someone over in Willys quality had not been paying attention. Almost all the other components went out like the transmission, the transfer case, the windshield braces, the radiator along with its mounts, wheel bearings, lug bolts, battery, generator, and others.
The Ford and the Willys were way overweight, as well. Only the Bantam was in the proper weight range.
The Army Calvary was enthusiastic and eager to get all that they could get. Colonel George S. Patton was bringing a lot of pressure to bear about getting as many of the light vehicles as he could get his hands on. He had excellent connections in Washington D. C. through his society wife. They put a lot of pressure on the QMC, and most of the country club set of officers were reassigned. However, the pace was still agonizingly slow with requisitions for funding crawling through Congress. Even with the Democrats in the majority, Congress was torpedoing President Roosevelt's ministrations. He had tried to push through major legislation in 1939 concerning "packing" the Supreme Court, adding 5 more justices without consultations with the party leaders, causing some hostility.
With evaluations all but completed by the end of December 1940, the lobbying efforts began in earnest in early January 1941 in Washington D. C. It well appeared that despite its low $739 bid, Willys Quad was to be written off due to quality concerns. In the meantime, the QMC bid requirement for weight had been increased at least twice, and maybe three times, to allow Ford to finally be able to build the LRV (Light Reconnaissance Vehicle). Henry Ford had powerful political connections, despite the fact that his Belgium Ford plant was building trucks for the German Nazi Regime, and he had made several utterances that provoked anti-Semitic accusations. [Editor's note: Adolph Hitler credited his philosophy to Henry Ford in Mein Kampf, and Ford was the only American to receive the highest Nazi honors.]
The original weight restriction had gone from 1,275 pounds to 1500 pounds, then increased to just over 2,000 pounds! The Calvary looked upon this as being "tubby" and voiced disapproval. Only Bantam, which had built another model, the BRC60, in December 1940, had maintained the weight requirement. The BRC60 had many improvements, all which had been recommended by the Army. It clung to the 1,500 pound specification that the QMC had allowed for the additional suggested equipment.
Still, Roy Evans must have felt fairly secure. He controlled two of the bidders, Bantam and Willys. Willys was in far better shape, not only financially, it also lead with tooling and production capability. Its Toledo plant was huge. Ford remained the unknown.
Willys expended a great effort, and rebuilt its Quad into the MA model. Although rumors were rampant, it was likely hushed up, to put a good face to the public, that the original Willys Quad had been a target of sabotage. It did seem very odd that the Go-Devil engine, which in the same form, had been around since 1926, would have suffered so greatly in an improved form!
One thing that had to be accomplished was to get the Willys MA down to the specification weight. The Quad had weighed in at around 2400 pounds! When the MA was presented, it had lost 240 pounds when compared to the Quad. The QMC could not disqualify it on weight, because they had accepted the Ford Pygmy and it weighed 2125 pounds. The finalized weight was set at 2,160 pounds. All three contractors qualified.
In March 1941, it was decided that all three competitors would be awarded contracts to build 1,500 vehicles each. This was about three weeks after Willys had held a press conference on the steps of the US Capital Building on February 20, 1941. One of the Willys vehicles was used to nimbly drive up the steps to the veranda in front of the building. It also drove down the steps. After riding some Senators, Congressmen, and reporters up and down, the conference ended. One of the reporters then asked the Willys representative what the vehicle was called, and he responded: "We call it a JEEP." The story appeared the next day in the Washington newspapers.
Jim Allen, in Four Wheeler, wrote about many pre-Jeep jeeps. He quoted a Major E.P. Hogan: "Jeep is an old Army greasemonkey term that dates back to the last war (WWI) and was used by shop mechanics in referring to any new motor vehicle received for a test." This would make sense, since the Willys was a test vehicle. Allen said that Jeep was also an apparently insulting nickname for new recruits. In 1936, Eugene the Jeep was written into the Popeye comics; a popular character, he turned the nickname into a compliment, so people might actually call some "a real Jeep." There were numerous vehicles - including planes - called Jeeps for a while afterwards.
At this point, I am not going to try to join in the controversy of where or how the Jeep name was attached to the Light Reconnaissance Vehicle. I am including this link because "Jeep" was a name that had been around for quite awhile.
After all three companies got their production lines up and running, things around the world had definitely taken turns for the worse with war raging all over Europe. The Army wanted to insure that it had a reliable source for Jeeps. It also wanted to standardize the parts, and assembly methods.
In July, the Army issued an RFP for 16,000 vehicles. Maintaining three different sets of parts along with three different assembly points was not practical. Willys won the bid, coming in at its already set price of $739 per unit. That amounted to nearly $12 million in new assembly alone, and did not account for the maintenance or replacement parts.
Over at Bantam, since they had lost the contract, the production line slowed down. The passage of the Lend-Lease Act in May 1941 gave some impetus to the Bantams, with most of what they produced sent to Great Britain and Russia.
Bantam hopes were raised again when the Army indicated in October 1941 that it needed a second source of assembly because Willys couldn't keep up with the huge demand. They need not have bothered. Ford easily won that bid in early November 1941 for 15,000 more Jeeps. Ford agreed to build them strictly to Willys factory specifications. They had lobbied heavily over the summer to be allowed to get a slice of the Jeep pie. They stated that they could build Jeeps to standards, making exact copies of the Willys. In a bit of one upmanship, Ford had to agree to use the Go-Devil engines that were built and supplied by Willys. Since Ford was supplying the transfer cases and axles to Bantam, it set the bid in the mind of the Army. Ford got $890 for their unit, a $14 million deal.
Ford also gets credit for the 7 slotted stamped steel grill that became the standard for the Jeep. Willys had been building a welded, flat iron, slat radiator grill. Credit Ford for being able to develop methods to build things cheaper. The stamped metal sheet steel grill was more effective, far less costly, solved the headlight mounting design, and gave the front a distinctive look. Willys quickly adopted it early in 1942.
Bantam production of the BRC60 (MA) Jeep wound slowly down. Roy Evans was disappointed. Over $30 million had been given since the first BRC had been submitted for bid, and Bantam got a very small part. Evans set Harry Payne on a military contract hunt, as he was convinced that President Roosevelt wasn't being forthcoming to the American public. War clouds in Europe would sooner or later mean war for the United States.
War did come. On December 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan attacked the Untied States in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. On December 8, President Roosevelt asked for a Congressional Declaration of War against Japan. The money for war issues began immediately to flow to various industries.
Bantam Motor Car Company got enough contracts to keep working during the duration of World War II. However, they built their last Jeep at the end of December 1941 after making 2,675 of them. They would never build another.
No one had really taken notice, but, the Bantam car production line had ground to a halt in the summer of 1941. There was no more money left nor sales to sustain car production. The Detroit production facility shut down with arrangements to sell or move the equipment out if it very quietly. Bantam made a nice profit from the facility when it was acquired by the War Requisitions Board in February 1942. By then, all civilian car manufacturers had been ordered to cease making cars, and turn their factories over to war material production. I don't think anyone even bothered to ask Bantam if they were making cars there or not. No one noticed.
Bantam was given the task of designing and building a trailer suitable for towing assignments for the Jeep. It was to be able to handle 500 pounds, and be as rugged and reliable as the Jeep. Bantam built 73,689 of them by the end of the war. They were also given contracts for carburetors for Australia, and a big engine that powered landing craft.
Roy Evans departed Bantam at war's end, and involved himself in Willys. Later in the 1950s he had become the largest Willys dealer, mainly, selling the civilian version of the Jeep, the CJ.
Bantam remained in business after wars end, building and selling trailers for the military and civilian markets. They were acquired by Armco Steel Company in 1956, and the name was changed, relegating Bantam to the annals of history.
Willys, looking to the end of the war hostilities, started advertising in popular magazines, mostly showing the accomplishments made by the enduring Jeep vehicle. As a result of the positive response Willys received from those ads, the company tried to make Jeep its own trademark. The FTC intervened because Willys had not invented the name; but by the war's end, could have hardly enforced such an order.
Jeep was a worldwide phenomenon, including even the Soviet Union. It had so ingrained itself into association with the Willys name that no one could have really won any such lawsuit after the end of the war. Willys began using Jeep as its own name and no one opposed it — and contrary to popular belief, they were not opposed by Bantam.
Willys had built 363,480 Jeeps by war's end; Ford had built 280,150 more. All were powered by the same 2.2 litre, 134 cubic inch in line 4 cylinder flat head engine that Willys-Overland had developed for the Whippet in 1926.
The engine was over square with a 3.125 inch bore, and a 4.375 inch stroke. It had a compression ratio of 6:48 to 1. The engine block and cylinder head were cast iron. It used full pressure lubrication, and a pump circulated cooling system. Through its single barrel carb it developed 60 horsepower at 4,000 rpm, and 105 ft. lbs. of torque at 2,000 rpm. The engine stayed in production until 1950, when it was replaced by the Hurricane Four, which could produce 70 hp and 114 lb-ft of torque.
Willys tried to get back into the car business in 1951. They were decently built cars, just not popular. In 1953, Kaiser Motors bought Willys Overland for 63.5 million, renaming it Willys Motors. Kaiser then moved its car production line to the Willys Toledo Ohio facility, vacating the former huge B-24 Bomber plant built for Ford Motor Company at Willow Run which been leased by Kaiser in 1946. The General Motors Hydra-Matic plant was destroyed by an accidental fire; the plant made all Hydra-Matic transmissions not only for GM, but also for Hudson and Nash, making it absolutely vital. Kaiser sold the huge Willow Run plant to General Motors, which gladly bought it, making Kaiser's move to Toledo very profitable, and making it possible for GM to resume production a stunning nine weeks after their transmission factory was destroyed.
By the end of 1954, it was obvious that the Willys automobiles and the Kaiser automobiles were not making anywhere near the profit that they needed to have. Kaiser decided that all auto production would end at the close of the 1955 model year. Kaiser continued on in 1956 with Jeep and Jeep utility vehicles (including trucks and vans), also establishing a lucrative export business, with worldwide licensing and sales. The company became profitable overall, despite relatively small production numbers. In 1963, the company voted to change its name to the Kaiser-Jeep Corporation, relegating the Willys name to history. (Details: 1959-61 | 1965)
Kaiser sold its auto business to American Motors Corporation in 1970; AMC made the Jeep brand an autonomous unit. The costs associated with compliance with the exhaust emissions regulations, bumper regulations, and other mandated design interventions sent AMC profits spiraling downwards. Like Chrysler, it had little money left to develop new models, or refresh the older ones.
By 1979, AMC was desperate. Renault was invited in, and bought a chunk AMC for $135 million with additional interests purchased in 1983. By 1985, however, Renault was experiencing issues of its own. The United States government did not appreciate their decision to open a full Jeep factory in Russia and to extend interests into China; the AM General Division of AMC, which was building military vehicles, started experiencing a lot of kickbacks on "quality" issues from the military. Profits nosedived.
In 1985, Chrysler Corporation, newly flush with cash, made overtures. Lee Iacocca had stated in an interview that he wanted Jeep, not really caring about the rest of AMC. That information became public, causing a uproar, but Iacocca deflected the issue, turning it into a "feel-good" thing about the role of the Jeep in World War II. Finally, in 1987, Chrysler Corporation bought AMC for $1.1 billion. Not long afterwards, Chrysler's car profits dried up due partly to lack of investment, and Chrysler survived almost entirely on Jeep and minivan profits (the Grand Cherokee was an immediate hit). AMC methods and engineers were integrated into Chrysler engineering, helping to automaker's 1992 comeback, and making 1993-1997 some of Chrysler's strongest years. | eng | 6acce08f-0fb1-44f4-85a3-e660a7ed108e | http://www.allpar.com/history/bantam-jeep.html |
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance.
Synonyms 1. gash, slash, slit, lance. 2. cleave, sunder, bisect. Cut, chop, hack, hew refer to giving a sharp blow or stroke. Cut is a general word for this: to cut the grass. To chop is to cut by giving repeated blows with something sharp, as an ax. To chop and to hew are practically interchangeable, but hew suggests keeping to a definite purpose: to chop or hew down a tree; to hew out a clearing. To hack is to cut or chop roughly and unevenly: to hack off a limb.7. abbreviate, curtail. | eng | 29a9ba9a-cddf-420a-a090-b37e2f5a0817 | http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/a+cut+above |
373To Enchant A King»
Lady Isabella is new at the Tudor court of King Edward V of England. She catches his roving eye, causing the king to pursue her. However she has no interest in just being a fling. Set in Tudor England. ON HIATUS will be finished eventually . | eng | 6ce426b9-0c86-44ee-865d-51ee327f2bd8 | http://m.fanfiction.net/u/2033565/ |
SERIOUSLY THOUGH! 😡😡😁😁😁👊💢🔥 same damn shit. It frikin disgusts me how a "grown man" can still act like a boy. Here's an advice in being a "gentleman": STOP lying, NEVER underestimate a woman's ability to find shit out, quit playing your high school games, grow some balls and quit creepin, and KNOW your woman's worth😡👊💢👑💎 it's about time I know mines. People want the truth but they can't even be honest. It AMAZES me at how far a person will go to keep their lies a secret.😏😁😡 #bullfucknshit #bitches&hoes #liar #middlefinger #ampin #shitonblast (Taken with instagram) | eng | feb6cd1f-b89e-409b-a314-10ce7900381b | http://antonyoo.tumblr.com/post/23101965755 |
So here you are, you brought some future with you
For quite some time you've known that you're free
When future becomes present, you know it will happen
Waiting. Is this what you planned it to be
Then time disappears and then you in it
Clouds dance in cartwheels you're not you any more
Time returns and then takes more time
You become quicker in it you are moved by much more
The moment is the action you take, but wait
Your eye looks at what you're doing, is afraid
Of the thing that you know, it was always there
The music stops, but still plays in the air
Is this what you wanted - you're afraid - at the start
But now everything's different, we're right at the heart
It's all about us nothing like before
And it makes us brothers with a day at the shore
You can feel the grass here and there something is moving
You enjoy it but no it isn't just that
After opening all the doors at the end there's the trick
That the end of the search is in finding right now
You breathe in
You breathe out
This body is your home and you know it well
You live - you're alive - your are conscious of that
Without thinking just from your own lust for life
The feeling you're feeling tells you it's time
And then space and time they change their condition
Your reason returns but you don't employ it
Every step one more country, will it always go on
You feel the energy of life through you
Life in harmony as never before, you enjoy
There's nothing to be improved on, nothing could be more
Than just you here and now and the day at the shore | eng | 7e4362f9-1313-45a1-be90-537c9e660dc1 | http://www.angolotesti.it/F/testi_canzoni_fantastischen_vier,_die_23939/testo_canzone_tag_am_meer_english_translation_561049.html |
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[2][3]Tonight, the waxing gibbous moon[4] shines in front of the constellation Aries the Ram. As seen from mid-northern latitudes at nightfall and early evening, you'll find the moon high in your southern sky, and the three stars outlining the head of the Ram shining to the right or upper right of the moon. These Aries' stars are Hamal, Sheratan and Mesarthim.
Hamal is the brightest of these three stars, though none is a particularly bright. No doubt, the moonlit glare will tarnish the luster of Aries' bust tonight. The dimmest star – Mesarthim – will be especially hard to see in the moonlight. However, you can always use binoculars to view the Ram's starlit bust. Very conveniently, all three head stars fit – or nearly fit – into a single binocular field of view.
Sometimes, people mistake Aries' two brightest stars, Hamal and Sheratan, for the constellation Gemini's two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux. However, Castor and Pollux are considerably brighter than the two brightest stars in Aries. Looking ahead, the moon will be close to Castor and Pollux on the nights of January 18 and January 19.
Tonight's moon approximates the sun's position in front of Aries for late April. Every year, the sun passes through this constellation from about April 19 to May 13. | eng | 975d1c60-ef60-40c4-b574-17198e19238a | http://www.berthoudrecorder.com/2011/01/12/sky-tonight%E2%80%94january-13-moon-in-front-of-aries-the-ram/print/ |
The Lure of Myth: British Drawings from The Huntington's Art Collections
Subjects drawn from Greek and Roman mythology have appealed to artists for many centuries. Often dealing with epic struggles, feats of courage, or amorous adventures, mythological stories were appreciated for their originality, heroic characters, and drama. This small exhibition features the work of British artists of the 18th and 19th centuries who experimented with these subjects, including James Thornhill, Thomas Gainsborough, Henry Fuseli, and Richard Dadd. It complements the exhibition "Beauty and Power: Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Peter Marino Collection," which includes many examples of mythological subjects in sculpture. | eng | f95a396e-c2d1-43d7-a3bd-3388b39f1f7a | http://huntington.org/huntingtonlibrary_02.aspx?id=8752 |
This is an item i wrote around a year ago and posted on an anime hosting site i'm no longer a part of because the community there was something akin to YouTube in that people who even knew grammar existed were a very distinct minority. I'm moving it here just for the hell of it. Feel free to comment or tell me where i should move this. Be warned, it is a bit of a wall of text and if you're not into anime or manga you may be confused.
During the 80s a massive trend hit Japanese manga with the same intensity that a baseball traveling at 150 miles per hour hit's a glass window, utterly changing the frame of manga for ever, and that was the advent of "Loli." ForShort Answer: No.
Long Answer: Though this is debated even in Japan, country of origin to this phenomenon, as far as many high voices in Japan are concerned, Lolita Complex is a slang term for pedophilia, and openly boasting about being a lolicon will to some be seen as openly boasting to be a pedophile.
Before we delve further, a history lesson will be necessary. Lolicon style anime flourished in the 80s when many adult and non-adult targeting mangas found success with loli characters. A lot of it was in similar context to other popular Japanese themes in their ecchi and hentai, and that is exploring forbidden relationships, and many issues involve what is considered to be sexual deviance. The influence of this ranges from yaoi having it's own extended library, bestiality, incest, lolicons in 18+ material, and nearly any other form of paraphilia or former paraphilia you care to name. Obviously yaoi takes a lot less heat, especially since homosexuality is no longer considered to be a mental disorder, but lolicon is still to many a slang term for pedophilic displays.
With that in mind, where did this confusion come from? As mentioned earlier, many feel the definition is much more relaxed and doesn't necessarily need to include sexually explicit manners and can include kawaii depictions or items that only allude to sexuality, one example being someone who used a clip from anime Seitokai Yakuindomo in which a 15 year old frequently mistaken for a 9 year old leaps up to kick someone and her shoe flies off, smacking her target in the face. Much of this is due to western influence; or at least influence not native to mainstream beliefs in Japan, coming up with the "Anything cute or sexy, not necessarily explicit and not necessarily underaged" definition, essentially making loli a subset of moe.
Moe is a separate kettle of fish. Literally meaning "To Sprout" moe does indeed fit a broader definition and can refer to sexy, cute, or thought provoking examples (Though rarely is the latter exercised) relating to girls who are under-aged. The definition is so broad that examples used in Lucky Star of Miyuki and Yutaka are both accurate depictions of moe even though the two are polar opposites. Moe indeed is loosely defined enough in Japan itself that you could make the square-rectangle argument, all loli is moe but not all moe is loli.
Now resuming the history lesson, the debate on lolis exact definition is one that still rages on. It generally is identical to the argument between the damaging effects of violence in games, the general belief of opponents is that loli will encourage people to act on the deviance depicted while proponents feel loli is clearly fiction and that the actual risk of an increase in sexual deviance is negligible at best. These debates do include the Western vs. Eastern definition matter, but they do take some dark turns.
Major fuel for the fire of "Is it as harmless as we think" comes in the form of tragedies. Not unlike the debate of how heavily the game "Doom" influenced the two students behind the Columbine Massacre, arguments over how heavily lolicon media was involved in the actions of criminals is brought up. This happened most strongly with a man referred to as "The Otaku Killer," who infamously kidnapped, murdered, and raped the corpses of four young girls during 1988 and 1989, culminating in cannibalism of one victim which many feel is the apex of human depravity. This sentiment resurged as lately as 2005 when a registered sex offender committed a murder not unlike an act of The Otaku Killer. Many have been fast to try and pin blame on lolicon material, even though evidence of it's involvement was lacking at best.
The question of how much influence the item has is one that should be examined carefully. Some believe graphic depictions encourage behavior, others believe they are outlets and prevent the behavior, a middle ground is that a majority is capable of telling it's fiction and entire outlet or genre should not be targeted because of the mentally ill who cannot make the distinction. All claims have been examined and while research in Japan suggests that frequent viewing of hentai or porn does not lead to an increase in sexually deviant behavior, nothing conclusive exists due to the extreme number of variables in human psychiatry. That being said, there are known cases of sexual repression turning into violent behavior which may lend credence to the "Outlet and prevention" argument.
Yet the argument is very complex, and evidence has been presented by both sides. Though true the more credible evidence tends to exist with the in favor group, namely one statistic showing that despite the existence of lolicon and the spread of lolicon, the crimes they were accused of causing have been decreasing in frequency during what should have been the timeline they were increasing; on the other hand, depending on which definition you adhere to, lolicon does indeed depict a fetish that can be extremely damaging if someone acts on it, so while it may not be instant-pedo material, a degree of regulation may be necessary. On the backside of the other hand, it should be noted that when tragedy does strike, ignoring all other factors and focusing on one item regardless of previous signs is a hazardous practice on it's own.
Though lolicon is a hotly debated topic, misinformation exists on all sides so taking one without careful analysis might be risky. Those trying to ban it are wrong, restricting creative freedoms, trying to restrict what is harmless entertainment to most and an outlet to others is not going to solve any problems. Those who publish it sometimes make too light a deal of just what kind of consequences would arise should sexual relationships exist. Those who try to argue the harmlessness of it all are sometimes not aware that it's literal definition is merely a slang term for pedophilia and that which definition is being used should always be brought into consideration.
As for my stance, I'm mixed. This isn't like a sexual fetish existing in a gray area, there is a reason relationships with young girls is a taboo, and I won't deny that such depictions sometimes makes me uncomfortable. On the other hand, it could be someone with a harmless attraction to a 2D image who views real life in a completely different light. Though I will more often than not oppose restriction of creative freedom, I'm not entirely comfortable with lolicon depictions, but generally feel that way about any fetish I don't share. It's an entertainment medium, a 2D drawing that people don't take seriously depicting subject matter that is a very serious matter. Perhaps it is with good reason that this subject is debated, and a level of regulation might also be a good idea. Bare in mind, by that I mean as in how games are regulated with warnings relating to content and an age rating, not complete bans. If vague depictions help vent desires that people who do possess a fetish they really can't help, I won't begrudge them their taste in adult material. If people think it's cute or amusing, I won't begrudge them for having different tastes. If people think mere depictions will cause utter disaster, I'll call them out on it and demand that they provide proof or adjust their stance loves me some Kojika, and I'm not afraid to admit itIThePyramid Head: Referring to an old novel "Lolita" about a middle aged man falling head over balls in love for a 12-year-old girl,...
This always annoys the hell out of me. Humbert does not "fall in love with" or even become infatuated with her Dolores, he deliberately stalks and sexually abuses her (a 13 year old), drives her mother to suicide and then keeps her as his sex slave. The only genuine emotions he exibits are jealousy and fear that she might escape him. And self pity. lots of self pity.
And anyone who thinks that lolicon has no sexual connotations is fooling themselvesYes. I've heard about that. I was actually amazed the first time I saw pubes in a hentai. That was back when I actually sought it out. Most of it is sucky non-con/rapey stuff. Good yuri is practically non-existent. I digress though.
Now maybe you could tell me who the fuck Kojika is?
Not who, what.
Kodomo no Jikan. Only the greatest manga ever.* Also has an as-yet incomplete animated adaptation, though it fails to provide the same depth. Definitely not to be confused with the hentai anime of the same name, although oddly enough some basic elements are the same... with genders reversed...
I usually have an avatar from Kojika. In fact, I think I'll go put one of them on.
I don't like sloppy language in general, I would like it if people would use language more literally. "Pedophile" and "child molester" have distinct literal definitions, but sloppiness leads many people to see them as synonyms. Even when they know enough to recognize the technical distinction, they will commonly assert worthless psycho-analysis to justify treating the words as synonymous. Typically this involves wildly unfounded generalizations, such as surveying some people and claiming the results apply to all people, or just pulling things out of their ass with an "clearly / it's obvious / everyone knows", etc. In light of this discussion, I would say a fan of loli art is a pedophile, but not necessarily a child molester, a criminal, or even a bad person.
IEdit: Also, "Pants" is proper English for underwear. It's a British thing.
^Not sure what else to say, I kinda know all this already. Goes to show it pays to have a Japanese friend XD-Haha, nope and I figure if it looks like jailbait stay away from it -It's one of those things where it depends on how you look at it and it CAN range from totally harmless to serious extremes... not sure if there is a yes or no answer to that -oh, I will ;PHuh. I misread his post as being ambiguous on the subject (and when you called it "ironic," I though you were implying he was saying the opposite of you).
In that case, my point is that he's wrong, tooI guess I must be really into anime culture (no, I don't guess, I know it :P) cause I didn't read anything new here but this is a good 101 course in the maters of lolita complex for the uninitiated I suppose.
As for my view, I can understand 2D-con in all it's forms and lolicon is one of them. I'd post that geshiken gif that explains it but i'm tired atm. Just as a woman with a cat tail and cat ears that really loves you cause of your dimples doesn't exist, so does the 12 year old with the craving for penis that can't be satiated. Lolicon is entirely fantasy and has no relationship with reality. (not any more than dragons do by being similar to lizards anyways)
So yeah, I don't mind people enjoying that mythical creature, the loli. I myself only care for depth or epicness though so it won't be a major boost (nor a negative) if a series contains them. One of my favorite manga series, kodomo no jikan, is pretty heavy on in and has some quite suggestive moments as well but where it shines is in character development and that was the reason I went through 6 volumes in one sitting. I suppose the mangaka being female has a lot to do with sexual situations being depicted in a way that does not cheapen the characters but merely transcribes their experiences in a way that feels real.
Now, if some people can't tell fantasy from reality or have some dark urges they let out through their entertainment, tough shit. Unless you ban all violence on tv first, you have no ground to stand on if you choose to go after themMarcus Kehoe: So wait I have a question, are all loli's under 18 or is anyone female with a underdeveloped body a loli?
For example a character that that is said to be over 18 but doesn't look it, is it loli?
What if the character is under 18 but is given watermelon knockers, is that loli?
It's the former. Typically even when someone is said to be thousands of years old, as long as the appearance is that of an underdeveloped girl, it counts as a loli. You can see this in the Disgaea series very easily.
Oh and for the lulz, that girl in the image I posted above, she's a vampire and she's actually hundreds of years old! :P
You are smart in pinpointing a big issue of debate by the way. The fundamentally wrong thing about pedophilia is that children are being taken advantage of and that they can't consent to sex. Not that under-developed bodies having sex is by itself evil. This in turn lends fantasy a realm where you can have a mature consciousness in the body of a child.
Is the adult still off limits because she looks underage? Are you a pedo for liking her as a character and not because she simply looks like a little girl, just because her body is that of one? Those are all much larger questions than the ones posed in the OP and you touched on all of them a bit with your query. :D
Furthermore, what about her?
Let's take the above vampire girl for example, she's doomed to live in the body of a child for eternity. Does she not deserve love? Are we going to say that sick perversion is the sole form of affection she is to ever be met with? Well, thankfully the manga answers our questions for us and with a kinder, albeit maybe a bit troubling no. In that story, it's more about who she is than what she looks like, even when she transforms into an adult. She actually does have the power to temporarily become a full-size woman, it's mainly used for fighting and she can't maintain it for long and she's still the same. The very first time she does it you notice how nothing about her is really different and that her body being that of a little girl or of an adult woman with D-size breasts is completely irrelavant to liking or disliking her.
This is how I really see Loli stuff to be honest, I either like the char or I don't, whether it's loli or not doesn't really matterI was just unsure where the `line` is in this kind of conversation.
There actually is a sect of Japanese people who completely write off anything real (they call it 3D) and only care for anime characters, to those I'd maybe consider it since they truly don't actually find any real people attractive and only like the anime/manga characters. Now, the chances of someone like that having sprouted in our neck of the woods, those are microscopic enough to be negligible.
As for dealing with them, I have met a few people a few notches above creepy in my time as a serious anime culture fan lol. I think as long as you trust that someone is a good person and love them and stuff, you kind of accept that they can't really control what they "like" and just stay there for them.
Anyone that's so easily influenced by something like that and actually acts upon those urges, apparently having such lack of self-control, are clearly insane and/or have had poor upbringings/lack of supervision from their parents, so it's the fault of the person themselves, not whatever they've been playing/watching.
Sometimes I watch BDSM videos staged to look as if the woman's getting raped. You can form your own opinions as to whether or not I'm some kind of sicko for that, but whatever, I don't care. Is that going to make me go out and rape some girl? No, because I understand the difference between fantasy and reality.
As for whether or not lolicon and paedophilia can be related...I'd have to say yes, but perhaps not in all cases. I guess it depends, really.
By the way, as aforementioned, there is a distinct difference between paedophilia and child molester, but also that paedophila denotes an -exclusive- sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Not to mention that a child molester isn't always necessarily a paedophile; like rape (including man-on-man rape by a heterosexual male), some just do it for the power and humiliationOT: It's hard to say, really. I guess you could make the old 'I know the difference between fantasy and reality' argument here, and as it's an animation, no-one's getting hurt in the making of it. However, that still doesn't detract from the somewhat dubious nature of what lolicon actually depicts. I certainly wouldn't identify as one, although I'm definitely not much of a manga or anime fan, so I guess that's a moot point.
I have a question to raise as well.......... what about Shotacon? Wouldn't that term fall under the same controversy as Lolicon?
OT: personally I have no issue with lolicon, either sexual Lolicon or regular "cute-girl" Lolicon. I feel that just because you can get off sexually to this doesn't make you disgusting or a monster.... if it leads you to go after "loli" girls in real life... thats a major issue and you should be put in prison as soon as possible, but keeping it within the realms of hentai? Do as you wish with your free time and fantasies.
EditI have a question to raise as well.......... what about Shotacon? Wouldn't that term fall under the same controversy as Lolicon?
If it were as widely-emphasised, maybe. I get the feeling a lot of the people who find lolicon disgusting would conversely find shotacon just silly.
kyuzo3567: EditI'm well aware, and it's not even that. The only basis the scientific community gave for the -ium ending was because it sounded "more classical." I'm surprised they didn't try to retroactively change molybdenum or platinum, or that any latin speakers listening didn't pointed cough and start talking loudly about "plumbum" and "aurum." Considering what the name was derived from (alumina), the change made as much sense as trying to change the name "triceratops" to "tricerasaurus" because other dinosaurs have that suffix in their names.
As for the silliness...eh, matter of opinion. Aluminium sounds sillier to me because of the extra syllable, and the fact that you have to emphasize the first syllable. Schwas have a respected and well-established place in the languageAm I the only one who prefers the calm, modestly-dressed, yet large-breasted ones? Sakura Matou and Aoi Sakuraba are goddesses... >_>
Am I the only one who prefers the calm, modestly-dressed, yet large-breasted ones? Sakura Matou and Aoi Sakuraba are goddesses... >_>
I don't care what size her breasts are honestly, I like some flat and some extra bouncy girls just the same. It just has to be a good character, that's all.
Take Nami from One Piece for example, I just love her, she's full of awesome traits, her bust is awesome too. On the other end of the spectrum, we have Shinobu from bake/nisemonogatari, she's about as devious, completely child-like and eats doughnuts like it's nobody's business, she's awesome too! :D
WhileDon Savik: WhileI think while sending some off-putting messages at times, it is worthwhile to ponder a few things.
Like, lets say your adult girlfriend who you love somehow transforms into a little girl. Are you suddenly a pedo for loving her now? If you were to be more attracted to her you would be, sure, but if nothing really changes between you two because you love her for who she is and not for the body she has then I don't think jumping the gun would be justified. A lot of these loli stories are about seeing people for who they are rather than for how they appear, it's the same with same-sex relationships too, you love that person even if the magical panda cursed him and turned him into a girl, that sorta thing. Obviously there are some who use this as an excuse to provide somewhat-pedophilic titillation but this I say here is not the whole picture. Not by a long shot.
Again, this is all fantasy and stuff, it allows us to explore the realm of the impossible, that's why I called the loli a mythical creature with some elements inspired by reality, like a dragon or a harpy. As long as you are able to tell fantasy from reality I don't see anything that stigmatizing about itWell, maybe if loli would be really a photorealistic depiction of little girls you would have a point there. In anime/manga drawing style however there mostly isn't much difference between a child, a teen or an adult besides body size. That and many people can differentiate between drawings and reality.
I personally can't say i'm particullary grossed out by loli and in real life so far i've been only sexually adracted to people close to my age.
In the end you are drawing the same generalizations as the crowd who depicts gamers as violent killers just because they play fps games. | eng | 826119e6-a9a6-496a-96ee-3a7231aa0190 | http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.355335-Pyramid-Head-Presents-an-Essay-on-Loli-Anime-and-Manga-Rant |
Why you should not use .htaccess (AllowOverride All) in production
Commonly known as .htaccess, AllowOverride is a neat little feature that allows you to tweak the server's behavior without modifying the configuration file or restarting the server. It allows you to quickly test various server configurations without needing to mess with restarting the server. It helps you be more (buzzword alert!) agile. But there is a downside to it. It can definitely have an effect on performance. | eng | 2ce9b08a-0ba3-4f90-8dc7-872d78a86cfa | http://www.linuxtoday.com/upload/why-you-should-not-use-.htaccess-allowoverride-all-in-production-130226075006.html |
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Almost didn't watch because of the title but friend assured me I would enjoy. Guy is hot in his white briefs and nice bulge! Not sure of the brand but do like the waist band. 607.458.5583 yahoo IM jockeyman79
It's silent library. They have to do all these stupid and or funny things and keep their noise to acceptable library levels. If they keep quiet they win money, if they're too loud they don't win any money.
Is there anything more ridiculous than the "man-boy" we breed nowadays. Totally allergic to even a whiff of maturity and giggling like a pack of naughty 10 year old schoolgirls?
The briefs were great, ….no idea why the jockstrap underneath though.
Like jockeyman above, the title almost put me off too. Not at all fond of blokes who can't "keep it clean". | eng | 4bbb940b-3b70-436a-a2b3-01db75eb477c | http://www.white-briefs.com/videos/making-skid-marks-in-tighty-whities/ |
most revolutions (French , Russian) are followed shortly by another revolution that leads to one person rule. but not always; The Philippines in 1986, Eastern Europe in the late 80s successfully transformed to democracy.
What happens when you get rid of the thing you are against? What would happen if the FED was eliminated tomorrow? People don't believe in liberty... people don't believe in sound currency... people don't believe in competition... people don't believe in free markets...
People do believe in central planning and a new central planner would come in and replace it. People who are only against something have no answers because if the thing they are against is eliminated they have no clue what to do next.
It is the people who are for something that have that answers and inspiration...most revolutions (French , Russian) are followed shortly by another revolution that leads to one person rule. but not always; The Philippines in 1986, Eastern Europe in the late 80s successfully transformed to democracy.
I wouldn't exactly call that 'success', but otherwise . . .
@live-free-or-die:
Good points.
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If something bad happens, we will be blamed. If something good happens, we will get no credit. If nothing happens, we will be forgotten.Freedom is a state of mind. Nobody can take that from you unless you let them.
I keep hearing the phrase, "Arab Spring". Is this the CIA code name for these sponsored "revolutions"?
No idea. A more pointed question in my mind is who, exactly, is funding these little parties that are unfolding oh-so-coincidentally, and what might the topography be of the control structures? Who is ultimately inciting these uprisings and how are the messages set into action? Anyone suggesting that these have been organic movements is either an idiot or is working for "them". Things simply do not work like this in the wild, so to speakAlmost universally "yes", because invariably the dominant group uses force to impose its scheme upon those not interested in it. The only possibly legitimate case for such imposition is where the minority group seeks a circumstance where someone's rights are by necessity violated. In such cases the only legitimate response is to disallow such institutional violation, but that is never the case. The usual scenario involves the dominant group imposing equally egregious restrictions upon the minority. As history shows us, nearly every revolution wherein a perceived tyrant is ousted results in supplanting the old regime with a new tyrant of a superficially different cloth. Our history is lousy with such examples. The bottom line is that empire is a ghastly curse upon the race of men and that there is no variation on the basic theme that is either just or morally legitimate because empire is by its very nature destructive of human freedom. Freedom and empire are utterly antithetical and violently antagonistic. Where the one exists, the other cannot. They are mutually exclusive and repulsive opposites. The best condition which can be achieved under empire is a state of pretty slavery. Sadly, the great majority of people are more than willing to accept this under the misapprehension that it is the same thing as freedomThis is the problem with Progressive and Neo-Conservative foreign policy. The very idea that some savage from the Middle East can be 'civilized' and conform to our absurd beliefs concerning democracy and secularism is preposterous. A realistic stance would be to displace Mubarak, whose fall was inevitable, and install yet another dictator that would work in favor of Western interests. An ideal situation would be to have Egypt as an outright colony of a Western power, and all dissent would be met with a sudden bullet to the skull. A superior option than creating some sort of banana republic where the Muzzie brotherhood could keep electing savage, lowly dessert-dwellers one after another.
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Earlier this year, nearly 200 nations convened for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) in Doha, Qatar, and the Internet's role in the rapid growth of illegal wildlife trade was a hot topic. The Independent reports that illegal wildlife trading is gaining popularity on the Internet due to the ease with which poachers are able to find customers willing to pay premium prices, and though wildlife law enforcement has made significant advances elsewhere, the Internet provides a challenging new scope due to its largely unregulated nature.
Though the Internet isn't specifically condemned for the decline in rare and exotic animal populations, it acts as a neutral tool to facilitate global trade and expedite the search for desired markets, as with any area of commerce.
Greenfudge.org reports that over 7,000 species were sold on auction sites, classified ads and chat rooms in 2008, according to International Fund for Animal Welfare surveys. The $3.8 million in online transactions consisted mostly of African ivory, exotic birds, pelts from protected species, and rare products like tiger bone wine.
Head of the CITES team at London Heathrow Airport, Charles Mackay, told the BBC, "The internet is a huge communication tool, it's very easy. In the past it was a lot more difficult, so it's made networks a lot bigger."
Here are just 7 of the many species threatened by illegal wildlife trading:I don't often find much to cheer about when I read the food and farming news, but a new report from the influential National Research Council on the future of U.S. farming had me reaching for my pom-poms.
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- Terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity: With a warming of 3°C, relative to 1990 levels, it is likely that global terrestrial vegetation would become a net source of carbon (Schneider et al.., 2007:792). With high confidence, Schneider et al.. (2007:788) concluded that a global mean temperature increase of around 4°C (above the 1990-2000 level) by 2100 would lead to major extinctions around the globe.
- Marine ecosystems and biodiversity: With very high confidence, Schneider et al.. (2007:792) concluded that a warming of 2°C above 1990 levels would result in mass mortality of coral reefs globally.
- Freshwater ecosystems: Above about a 4°C increase in global mean temperature by 2100 (relative to 1990-2000), Schneider et al.. (2007:789) concluded, with high confidence, that many freshwater species would become extinct.
Just to give you a clue. Our politicians are aiming 3 degrees. The EU-27 said they would aim 2 degrees, if other countries would do so, too. Nobody jumped on the wagon. The whole Copenhagen Conference was an embarrassingly childish game between the United States and China.
The US demanded more transparency from China and this is what bombed the deal! This ridiculous reason will lead to mass extinction, millions of climate refugees and trillions of dollars of spending on adaptation. We must ignore the Repubs and Teabaggers, now!
SilentSolidarity: - Terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity: With a warming of 3°C,
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Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality." ~The Dalai Lama~
Thisbeautifulplanet: Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for
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That Ocelot is adorable! (altho I doubt the little white mouse appreciates it very much...)
Seriously, will destruction be the only thing our species will be known for?
I take heart when I see wonderful people trying desperately to undo the damage we've caused...only to see corporations, poachers, ignorant, or greedy people, etc come in and destroy even more...very discouraging.
However, we must keep trying to stop the carnage....and undo the damage...
I think we will be know primarily for destruction, for many generations. I hope we manage to save all these species, and all the others that are endangered. I especially hope we manage to save the Snow Leopards.
Faved again, fanned long ago.
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We must never give up, kmeccat. It's heartbreaking, but we must never give up. I wonder too if we'll only be known only for destruction - but then I think - that there are angels on this Earth, more angels than devils, and we just have to keep doing what we can to raise the consciousness that we are meant to be caretakers and to protect, respect and love animals only, because they innocent and love, and only love. Every day I believe, new people are awaking to that fact. Animals are fellow Earthlings and deserve to live in freedom and happiness as much as we do ☮
Fanned long ago and faved yet again!! I'm not giving up. I annoy my legislators at every level with weekly and twice weekly emails plus filling out the comment forms on their websites while also signing all sorts of petitions and even emailing / commenting to other people's legislators. Whatever else happens, I'm not going to stop working to protect the environment and ecosystems and biodiversity- it's my responsibility to all I can and I'm going to keep on doing all I can.
You're right; we just have to refuse to give up! YOU Rock!!
I agree. This is just sad. Why do people have to hurt other creatures so? Every little animal is precious, not for biologically diversity, but for the ecosystem. Life would cease to exist without many different animals and it is just sad the amount of animals that are not only on the verge of becoming extinct, but the animals we have already killed and lost.
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Fanned and faved. We're just mammals ourselves and we'd better get a good hold on our own place in the global web of life before we cut off our heads to spite our faces. Your point about biodiversity and ecosystems staying healthy is spot on. We have to stop being complacent, lazy, and selfish because we've got a lot of work to do, from reducing pollution to going green and lean to cleaning up huge masses of floating plastic in our oceans.
Fanned before, faved again! We could start with a permanent ban on all hunting and trapping on public lands, plus a ban of all ranching on public lands too and that would stop the cruel wild horse round ups that are going on right now. We could branch out from there and really do some good!
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Yes, it is sad that these beautiful creatures are being driven to extinction. My question is, What Does The Internet Have To Do With It?
The headline said that these creatures are becoming extinct due to "Internet Trading," but only one description, the Newt, mentioned the internet. Are people really buying and selling poached elephant ivory on the internet? Tiger or Polar Bear pelts? Ocelots? If so, where? Which sites? Ebay? Craigslist?
HuffPo really blew this one. It should have had the headline - "Species that are becoming extiinct," but that's not a new story so nobody would have read it. I know, let's reference the Internet, then everyone will click.
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At this point it might, as earth IS our body, be better to save the many by sacrificing ourselves. What have the animals and foliage done to deserve nightmare extinctions at our hands? We are surely the devils property at this point in the game of life.
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If people were allowed to farm these creatures they wouldn't be going extinct. Increased supply would mean buyers could gain access to the animals they want to purchase and the price for these animals would plummet thus removing the incentive for people to capture them in the wild. Governments could also establish laws forcing farms to release a percentage of their animals into the wild. If we want to save endangered species we need to manage them responsibly.
inreasonsimage: If people were allowed to farm these creatures they wouldn't
There are already 'farms' in Asia. There are hundreds of Moon Bears that are being tortured twice a day for their bile, to be used in aphrodisiacs. There are hundreds of lions and tigers that are 'farmed' and are used for 'canned hunts' or to make more babies who get shipped off to wherever, to be used, abused and killed. No, these animals deserve to be left in the wild, to live their lives as they were meant to...
Mercedes: inreasonsimage: There are already 'farms' in Asia. There are hundreds
If it's a choice between farming the animals and keeping some alive and loosing species to poachers, I'll take the farming for the short term until an enforceable solution to protecting them in the wild is formulated. | eng | 07355058-260a-4dcd-aadc-9cf22a9b4419 | http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/13/illegal-wildlife-poaching_n_681410.html |
Dr. Said I Have "Spinal Stenosis"
While most spinal stenosis occurs in the lower back, it can also occur in the Neck (cervical spine).
Spinal stenosis is a degenerative spinal condition that causes a narrowing of the spinal column, resulting in pressure on the spinal cord and compression of the nerve endings at the exact point where they leave the spinal canal.
The condition generally affects people 50 years of age and older, with most people consulting a health care provider regarding this condition for the first time around the age of 60.
The symptoms of lumbar (lower spine) spinal stenosis include pain, a tingling or numbing sensation that starts low in the back and radiates into the buttocks and legs, especially when you are engaged in an activity, such as walking. Symptoms generally subside when you are sitting or at rest.
Although 75% of all spinal stenosis occurs in the lumbar spine, it can also occur in the cervical spine (neck). This type is potentially far more serious because it may involve compression of the spinal cord itself that could result in overall weakness and eventually paralysis.
What causes spinal stenosis? The most common cause is an aging process that affects adults who have some type of uncorrected spinal stress. Other causes include spinal tumors, ingestion of too much fluoride, and trauma to the spine that may occur as the result of an accident.
Chiropractic treatments may help improve spinal movement along with specialized stabilizing rehabilitation programs. This can help reduce the pressure on nearby nerves.
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> > Give it up. BitKeeper is simply superior to CVS/SVN, and will stay that > > way indefinitely since most people don't seem to even understand _why_ > > it is superior. > > You make it sound like no one is even interested ;-). But it's not true! A > lot of people currently working on alternative version control systems would > like very much to know what it would take to satisfy the needs of kernel > development. Maybe, being on the inside of the process and well aware of > your own needs, you don't realize how difficult it is to figure these things > out from the outside. I think only very few people (perhaps only one) really > understand this issue, and they aren't communicating with the horde of people > who really want to help, if only they knew how.
[Long rant, summary: it's harder than you think, read on for the details]
There are parts of BitKeeper which required multiple years of thought by people a lot smarter than me. You guys are under the mistaken impression that BitKeeper is my doing; it's not. There are a lot of people who work here and they have some amazing brains. To create something like BK is actually more difficult than creating a kernel.
To understand why, think of BK as a distributed, replicated, version controlled user level file system with no limits on any of the file system events which may happened in parallel. Now put the changes back together, correctly, no matter how much parallelism there has been. Pavel hasn't understood anything but a tiny fraction of the problem space yet, he just doesn't realize it. Even Linus doesn't know how BitKeeper works, we haven't told him and I can tell from his explanations that he gets part of it but not most of it. That's not a slam on Linus or Pavel or anyone else. I'm just trying to tell you guys that this stuff is a lot harder than you think. I've told people that before, like the SVN and OpenCM guys, and the leaders of both those efforts showed up later and said "yup, you're right, it is a hell of a lot harder than it looks". And they are nowhere near being able to do what BK does. Ask them if you have doubts about what I am saying.
Merging is just one of the complex areas. It gets all the attention because it is hard enough but easy enough that people like to work on it. It's actually fun to work on merging. Ditto for the graph structure, that's trivial. The other parts aren't fun and they are more difficult so they don't get talked about. But they are more important because the user has no idea how to deal with them and users do know how to deal with merge problems, lots of you understand patch rejects.
Rename handling in a distributed system is actually much harder than getting the merging done. It doesn't seem like it is, but we've rewritten how we do it 3 times and are working on a 4th all because we've been forced to learn about all the different ways that people move things around. CVS doesn't have any of the rename problems because it doesn't do them, and SVN doesn't have 1/1000th of the problems we do because it is centralized. Centralized means that there is never any confusion about where something should go, you can only create one file in one directory entry because there is only one directory entry available. In BK's case, there can be an infinite number of different files which all want to be src/foo.c.
Symbolic tags are really hard. What?!? What could be easier than adding a symbolic label on a revision? Well, in a centralized system it is trivial but in a distributed system you have to handle the fact that the same symbol can be put on multiple revs. It's the same problem as the file names, just a variation. Add to that the fact that time can march forward or backwards in a distributed system, even if all the events were marching forward, and the fun really starts. I personally have redone the tags support about 6 times and it still isn't right.
Security semantics are hard in a distributed system. Where do you put them, how do you integrate them into the system, what happens when people try and work around them? In CVS or SVN you can simply lock down the server and not worry about it, but in BK, the user has the revision history and they are root, they can do whatever they want.
Time semantics are the hardest of all. You simply can't depend on time being correct. It goes forwards, backwards, and sideways on you and if you think you can use time you don't have the slightest idea of the scope of the problem. Again, not a problem for CVS/SVN/whatever, all the deltas are made against the same clock. Not true in a distributed system.
That's a taste of what it is like. You have to get all of those right and the many other ones that I didn't tell you about or you might as well not bother. Why? Because the problems are very subtle and there isn't any hope of getting an end user to figure out a subtle problem, they don't have the time or the inclination. We've seen users throw away weeks of work just because they didn't understand the merge conflict so they start over on an updated tree. And those people will understand the rename corner cases? Not a chance.
The main point here is that if you think that BK happened quickly, by one guy, you are nuts. It started in May of 1997, that's almost 6 years ago, not the 2 years that Pavel thinks, and I had already written a complete version control system prior to that, so this was round two. Even with that knowledge, I wasn't near enough to get BK to where it is today, there is more than 40 man years of effort in BK so far. A bunch of people, working 60-90 hour weeks, for almost 6 years. Not average people, either, any one of these people would be a staff engineer or better at Sun (salaries for those people are in the $115K - $140K range).
The disbelievers think that I'm out here waving the "it's too hard" flag so you'll go away. And the arrogant people think that they are smarter than us and can do it quicker. I doubt it but by all means go for it and see what you can do. Just file away a copy of this and let me know what you think three or four years from now.
Oh, by the way, you'll need a business model, I found that out 2 or 3 years into it when my savings ran out. Oh, my, you might not be able to GPL it! Why it might even end up being just like BitKeeper with an evil corporate dude named Pavel running the show. Believe me, if that happens, I'll be here to rake him over the coals on a daily basis for being such an evil person who doesn't understand the point of free software. I can't wait | eng | 6c3a73c0-0cbf-49c6-b717-1d5539c9f1c7 | http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/3/8/131 |
Causes of URIs
It seems that we are seeing an influx of posts concerning upper respiratory infections in snakes that, even though cultured, do not respond to multiple rounds of antibiotics.
Upper respiratory infections in snakes can be caused by bacterial, viral, parasitic and fungal infections.
I have to admit that in many years of keeping snakes, I have not had a case of a bacterial or parasitic URI in a long term captive animal – only in imports. But I have also seen and treated parasitic and fungal causes to the infections.
Depending on the skill and experience of the vet treating your animal, a culture (usually via tracheal wash) can either be enlightening or confusing. Many cases of bacterial URI are caused by an overgrowth of naturally occurring bacteria due to a suppressed immune system as the result of another ailment. The URI is treated, responds and then re-occurs because the underlying causative agent has not been diagnosed.
The result of a bacterial culture will show, usually in decreasing order, the antibiotics that the suspected causative bacterium is most susceptible to.
Therefore, if multiple rounds of antibiotic treatment prove ineffective, and if the infection is spreading rapidly through your collection, it may be time to consider that something else may be causing the URI.
Viruses and URI
Viruses that may show URIs as primary or secondary symptoms are varied and harder to detect. Often, they are secondary symptoms to a less noticeable primary symptom. OPMV is an example of a viral infection that can initially present with respiratory symptoms. Our vet recently told me that she is seeing quite a bit of OPMV – in fact she sees more of it than IBD.
When I worked in Australia, several of my co-workers dealt with parvovirus outbreaks in their captive snake collections. While the main symptoms were gastrointestinal, these symptoms were acute and the first signs of distress ended up being respiratory in nature.
One of my foremen in Perth had a large aspidites and antaresia collection that was devastated by a picornavirus outbreak. Picornaviruses include rhinoviruses which are mainly respiratory in nature. I do not recall how the virus was isolated, but I do remember that it spread rapidly through his collection and that he spent a small fortune in antibiotic treatments that had no effect.
Parasites and URIs
Cryptosporidiosis (Crypto) is an example of a parasitic infection that, while mainly gastric in nature, can manifest itself in the early stages as pneumonia. As the disease progresses, regurges and anorexia are more common.
About 8 years ago, I received a WC yellow tail cribo from an importer than was infected with crypto. A fecal was performed which showed the normal imported South American bugs but nothing else. For three months the snake ate fine but had an incurable URI. Our vet would treat him, his symptoms would go away for a week or two and then return. At about 9 months, he began regurging and refusing to eat.
I kept him in quarantine, which most likely kept the parasite from spreading to the rest of my animals. At the first signs of gastric distress, the vet performed another fecal which showed crypto. A snake with crypto does not consistently shed the parasite upon defecation, therefore one clear fecal does not necessarily mean the animal does not have crypto. Unfortunately this animal needed to be euthanized.
I ended up throwing away the cage, water bowls and husbandry tools associated with this snake. The building I used for QT (large furnished shed) was vacated and sprayed with ammonia. I did not use it again for almost 8 months. My vet joked that I needed to burn it to the ground and then sow the site with salt. The rest of my collection was locked down and I did not breed any animals that season. I also began taking in fecal samples for random testing of all my snakes. It never reared its head again.
There are other parasites that live in the lung of a snake such as lung mites, pentastomids and lungworms. . These usually are diagnosed via bronchoscopy.
Fungal Causes
Keeping your snake in a poorly ventilated but humid environment can result in myco-fungi outbreaks which can damage the lung tissue.
Two years ago, the entire Skiploder family took a two week vacation to Montana and Idaho. Our pet sitter got a little carried away in spritzing the spilotes cages, resulting in a fungal lung infection of one of the females. When we came back there was mold growing in her cage which I noted and took a sample in to the vet. The causative fungus was aspergillis and it was treated with flucanozole.
Bacterial Infections as Secondary
Oftentimes, snakes can have an underlying primary health issue – be it viral, systemic, parasitic or even environmental that goes unnoticed or uncorrected. In these instances, this primary issue results in a secondary bacterial infection caused by the suppression of the immune system.
I always suspect that in many of the cases where a bacterial URI responds favorably to antibiotic treatment and then a month or two later recurs; that there is either a husbandry related issue or a systemic problem (renal, gastro-intestinal, parasitic, etc.) that is not throwing any symptoms but is weakening the animal.
I am not a vet and I do not intend for any advice that I give to substituted for the direction of a qualified herp vet. However, there are a lot of hack vets out there that do not perform cultures and throw antibiotics at every URI case they see. When repeated treatments do not help, it is time to consider the myriad of other possible health issues that may be affecting your animal. Please use this post only to assist you in asking your vet questions that make you feel comfortable with the course of treatment he/she is prescribing. | eng | 080b0920-c000-43d8-923a-08b40d4c1646 | http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?175409-Alternative-Causes-of-URIs&p=1864407 |
Does Massage Release Toxins?
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Massage does NOT release toxins. Though there are plenty of medicinal benefits associated with massage, there is no supporting clinical evidence that it helps to release toxins.
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Does Massage Release Toxins?
Massage does not release toxins.
More Info: Though there are plenty of medicinal benefits associated with massage, there is no supporting clinical evidence that it helps to release toxins. Among other things, massage can boost endorphin and serotonin levels, increase blood circulation, and relieve the buildup of lactic acid in the muscles.
What Are Endorphins?
Endorphins are opiod peptides that function as neurotransmitters in most vertebrate species. The name is a contraction of the term "endogenous morphine." Endorphins originate in the pituitary and hypothalamus glands and are secreted into the brain and spinal cord during heightened states of excitation or physical stress. Endorphins produce effects similar to those of exogenous opiates, including pain mitigation, relaxation and mild to profound euphoria. Endorphins, among other biochemicals, also effect cardiovascular regulation, as well as gastric and intestinal peristalsis.
What Is Serotonin?
Serotonin is a hormone found in the brain of humans. It has been dubbed as the "happy hormone" due to its ability to promote a feeling of well-being. Serotonin is responsible for regulating a person's moods, appetite, and metabolism. Mood stabilizing drugs are designed to increase the brain's production of serotonin in an effort to battle depression and mood swings. However, too much serotonin can be dangerous. The hormone is also classified | eng | 3234e634-4348-46d9-b782-308533ae92fb | http://www.sophisticatededge.com/does-massage-release-toxins.html |
Equally renowned as a painter and a poet, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was the leader of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of artists and writers who sought to emulate the purity and simplicity of the medieval period. Both his painting and writing are characterized by mysticism, filled with rich, sensuous imagery and vivid detail. Although the subjects of his verse are often considered narrow, Rossetti is an acknowledged master of the ballad and sonnet forms.
Works in Biographical and Historical Context
Gabriele Rossetti and his wife, Frances Polidori. An Italian expatriate, Rossetti's father came to England four years before Rossetti's birth. Gabriele Rossetti was a Dante scholar, who had been exiled from Naples for writing poetry in support of the Neapolitan Constitution of 1819. (Secret groups such as the Carbonari, who supported the constitution sought to bring self-government to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies—which included Naples—in place of the Austrian-backed monarch, Ferdinand, but failed.) He settled in London in 1824. Frances Polidori had trained as a governess and supervised her children's early education. Gabriele Ros-setti supported the family as a professor of Italian at King's College, London, until his eyesight and general health deteriorated in the 1840s. Frances then attempted to support the family as a teacher of French and Italian and an unsuccessful founder of two day schools.
Consequently, Rossetti was bilingual from early childhood and grew up in an atmosphere of e´migre´ political and literary discussion. From childhood, Rossetti intended to be a painter, and he addressed literary subjects in his earliest drawings. He was tutored at home in German and read the Bible, Shakespeare, Goethe's Faust, The Arabian Nights, Charles Dickens, and the poetry of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. At the age of eight, he entered Mr. Paul's day school in Portland Place and a year later began studies at King's College School, which he attended from 1837 to 1842.
From 1842 to 1846, Rossetti was a student at Cary's Academy ofArtto prepare for the Royal Academy, which he entered in July 1846. He then spent a year in the Academy Antique School. Bythis time, Great Britain was well into the reign of Queen Victoria, a time of economic prosperity, expansion of the middle class, and a cultural revival often called the second English Renaissance. The theater, literature, and arts were particularly emphasized, drawing on the Gothic and classical ideals as well as modern ideas.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood After leaving school, Rossetti apprenticed himself to the historical painter Ford Madox Brown, who later became his closest lifelong friend. Rossetti continued his extensive reading of poetry (Edgar Allan Poe, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Blake, John Keats, Robert Browning, and Alfred, Lord Tennyson) and romantic and satiric fiction (Charles Maturin, William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilhelm Meinhold, Friedrich de la Motte-Fouque´, Charles Wells). In 1845, Rossetti began translations from Italian (Dante's Vita Nuova and British Museum volumes of Dante's little-known predecessors) and German medieval poetry.
In 1848, Rossetti joined John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt in founding the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Their name honored Carlo Lasinio's engravings of paintings by Benozzo Gozzoli (an Italian Renaissance painter from Florence) and others who decorated Pisa's Campo Santo (originally used as a cemetery for Pisa's illustrious citizens). The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood sought to introduce new forms of thematic seriousness, high coloration, and attention to detail into contemporary British art. They were opposed to the stale conventions of contemporary academy art, which drew on classical poses and the compositions of the Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brothers provided each other with companionship, criticism, and encouragement early in their careers and defended each other against initial public hostility. Rossetti quickly became the leader of the group and shaped the group's literary tastes, but the life of the group was short-lived. Meetings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood became sporadic by 1851, and by 1853 the group had disbanded. It had served its purpose, however, which was to provide initial professional encouragement to its members.
Success as a Poet Rossetti first received recognition as a poet in 1850, when he published ''The Blessed Dam-ozel'' in the Pre-Raphaelite journal the Germ. Written when he was only eighteen, this poem is characteristic of much of Rossetti's later poetry, with its sensuous detail and theme of lovers, parted by death, who long for reunion. That same year, Rossetti met Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, who modeled for many of Rossetti's drawings and paintings and became his wife in 1860.
Rossetti painted steadily, saw publication of his The Early Italian Poets, and cofounded the firm of designers Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Co. His wife suffered from consumption (a popular name for tuberculosis, a contagious lung disease that was common in this period), and after two unhappy years of marriage, she died from an overdose of laudanum (an opium-based pain killer regularly prescribed by doctors in Victorian England), which she had been taking regularly for her illness. In a fit of remorse and guilt, Rossetti buried the only manuscript of his poems with his wife. At the urging of friends, he allowed the manuscript to be exhumed in 1869.
The following year, Rossetti published Poems, (1869) which established his reputation as a leading poet. Containing much of Rossetti's finest work, Poems includes ''Eden Bower,'' ''The Stream's Secret,'' and ''Sister Helen,'' which is regarded by many as one of the finest Victorian literary ballads.
Decline and Death By 1868, Rossetti was in ill health, suffering from physical and mental complaints that burdened him for the rest of his life. His unreliable eyesight, headaches, and insomnia led him to become dependent on whiskey and chloral (a depressant drug developed in the 1830s specifically for inducing sleep). This precipitated a gradual decline in health, though he continued to paint and write even after a personal change and mental breakdown caused by an attack on his poetry by Robert Buchanan in The Fleshly School of Poetry and Other Phenomena of the Day (1872). Rossetti's poetry collection, Ballads and Sonnets, appeared in 1881, and he died the following year at the age of fifty-four.
Works in Literary Context
Painting to Poetry The dual nature of Rossetti's artistic endeavors led to crossover between them. Just as his literary background influenced his choice of mythological, allegorical, and literary subjects for his paintings, his Pre-Raphaelite love of detail, color, and mysticism shaped much of his poetry. The influence of Rossetti's painting is particularly felt throughout Poems.
Evolution of Style and Theme It is difficult to date Rossetti's work or to divide it into periods, since he continually revised poems begun as a young man. Nonetheless, some divisions are possible. When Rossetti was young, his bright pictorialism, concrete detail, archaisms, and sublimated sexuality reflected rather conventional aspects of contemporary poetic sensibility. By the late 1860s, his sense of failure had evolved into an oppressive fear about identity. In Rossetti's middle and later poetry, sexual love became a near-desperate desire to transcend time. By comparison, the final sonnets of Rossetti's life are tranquil, even celebratory. His writings can perhaps best be viewed as an expression of Victorian social uncertainty and loss of faith. Rossetti's poetry on the absence of love is as bleakly despairing as any of the century, and no poet of his period conveyed more profoundly certain central Victorian anxieties: metaphysical uncertainty, sexual anxiety, and fear of time.
Influence on Other Writers and Artists It is also difficult to compare Rossetti's achievement with that of the other Victorian poets. For its modest size, Rossetti's poetic work is wide in manner and subject. He was a talented experimenter, and his heightened rhythms and refrains influenced other mid - and late nineteenth-century poetry. He was also an important popularizer of Italian poetry in England and a major practitioner of the sonnet. Certainly, he lacked the strong, confident range and subtle lyricism of Tennyson and Browning, but his erotic spirituality and gift for the dramatic were his own. Rossetti was perhaps as significant for his effect on others as for his own work, a judgment that he himself came to make with growing bitterness. His critical remarks on Romantic and contemporary literature were often convincing and influenced all around him.
Christina Rossetti is one of a handful of major English devotional poets, together with John Donne, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughn, and her contemporary, the Jesuit Gerard Manley Hopkins. One mighThexpect the beloved sister of Dante Gabriel Rossetti to manifest a marked difference from other poets of religious sensibility. Like the Pre-Raphaelites, her style
One of the English language's best-known female poets, British author Christina Rossetti is remembered for her literary inheritance as much as for her literary contributions. Rossetti, whose work gained renewed interest with the dawn of feminist criticism, was an important member of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, an artistic and literary group that aspired to recapture the
The first decades (1830s to 1860s) of Queen Victoria's reign produced a vigorous and varied body of literature that attempted to come to terms with the current transformations of English society, but writers in the latter decades (1870s to 1900) withdrew into AESTHETICISM, a preoccupation with sensation as an end in itself. Confronted by the
The year after Christina Rossetti's death Andrew Lang contrasted her poetic accomplishments with those of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, adding his views to what in late Victorian England was already something of a critical tradition. Ironically for feminist admirers of Rossetti today, Lang begins his eulogy with a statement that demonstrates his captivity to patriarchal domestic
Comparing a painting by Fra Filippo Lippi and Dante Gabriel Rossetti The two pictures are Rosetti's Ecce Ancilla Domini and Lippi's Annunciation. Both of the artists were influenced by their age. Lippi lived in Italy between 1406 and 1469 and Rosetti from 1828 to 1882. Lippi's background of Italian Renaissance determined his style to | eng | 88a02c1e-8018-44e8-99d0-13a67260d3c1 | http://www.mannmuseum.com/dante-gabriel-rossetti/ |
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Scientists Discover Weird Sensory Organ That Helps Whales Survive
By: Jennifer Welsh, LiveScience Staff Writer
Whales that feed by taking big gulps of the ocean have a special sensory organ in the middle of their jaws that helps them regulate their unique feeding methods, researchers find. The once-hidden organ prevents injury as the whales gulp whale-size mouthfuls of water.
"We think this sensory organ sends information to the brain in order to coordinate the complex mechanism of lunge-feeding, which involves rotating the jaws, inverting the tongue and expanding the throat pleats and blubber layer," study researcher Nick Pyenson, of the Smithsonian Institution, said in a statement.
The researchers studied rorqual whales, the largest group of baleen whales. They include nine species like the blue whale, which can weigh up to 165 tons (150 metric tonnes). The smallest rorqual whale is thenorthern minke whale, which weighs in at nearly 10 tons (9 metric tonnes).
The results are detailed in tomorrow's (May 24) issue of the journal Nature.
Big bites
To feed, a rorqual whale will lunge at a spot in the water,open its mouthhugely wide, stretching a large patch of soft tissue between its jaws, and engulfing a school of fish or tiny shrimp-like krill and water about the size of the whale itself in one bite. The process takes about six seconds.
The water then gets filtered back into the ocean through baleen at the front of the whale's mouth, which slowly returns to normal size while retaining the food caught.
To facilitate this type of feeding the whales have two large connected jawbones very loosely attached to the rest of their skull. The researchers studied the connection between these two bones in fin and minke whales, both young and old specimens, which werecaught commerciallyin Iceland.
Rorqual whales, which include blue, fin and minke whales, have a special sensory organ in their jaws which helps them regulate their unique baleen feeding methods.
Special sensor
The researchers discovered a special new organ in the cartilage joint between these twoelastic jawbones. The organ is about the size of a grapefruit, and is full of nerves and blood vessels, which seem to feed into structures in the mouth that detect changes in pressure, called mechanoreceptors.
These mechanoreceptors seem to respond to the rotation of the whale's jaws while the mouth is opening, something that putspressure on the jointbetween the jawbones; the receptors also sense the expansion of the soft tissue inside the mouth.
The changes the organ senses are sent back to the brain, to help coordinate feeding, the researchers suspect. The information could be used to regulate how fast the mouth opens and how much the throat pouch expands to maximize the volume of water captured, all without overdoing the amount of stress put on the jaw and mouth.
"In terms of evolution, the innovation of this sensory organ has a fundamental role in one of the most extreme feeding methods of aquatic creatures," study researcher Bob Shadwick, of the University of British Columbia, said in a statement.
Shadwick added that lunge-feeding adaptations appear to have evolved before today's whales ballooned in size. As such, he said, "it's likely that this sensory organ — and its role in coordinating successful lunging — is responsible for rorquals claiming the largest-animals-on-Earth status | eng | 0ba6c7e0-79c2-4dec-8ef2-b1a40b838d8d | http://animalconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/scientists-discover-weird-sensory-organ.html |
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