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At eight dollars 25 cents, Illinois' minimum wage is already a dollar higher than the federal limit, but Governor Pat Quinn says it should be higher. Quinn suggests raising the minimum wage, or at the very least making sure it keeps pace with cost of living increases:
Quinn's pronouncement comes as US census data revealed more people living in poverty in the US, and in Illinois. Though the increase is statistically slight, nearly 150 thousand more people dipped below the poverty line from 2010 to last year, it means about 14 percent of the state's residents are impoverished. However, businesses say that raising the state's minimum wage will hurt, not help, the cause. Business owners fought an effort by a Democratic legislator last spring to hike Illinois' minimum wage. They say to afford paying bigger paychecks, they'd have to lay off employees.
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The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Object in Focus Chinese Scholar's Study
All is quiet. A trickle of water flows in the garden outside the window. A breeze whispers through the window screen. An inky brush slaps softly against paper as you write at the desk. At home in 18th century China, you might easily forget that a bustling town lies beyond the walls of this room.
Clay tiles cover the walls and floor. They keep the place cool even in the sweaty heat of southern China. You see no bright colors or flashy gold here, only the shine of polished wood. Glimpses of the miniature garden outside take the imagination to a wild place far beyond the edge of town.
Of course, no one would mistake this room for a simple hut in the wilderness. Even the gnarled tree root in the far corner, now a stand for an antique pot, has the same high polish as the gleaming desk. But a room like this one was more than a quiet get-away spot for a city dweller. It was a place to connect with nature through poetry, painting and music, in search of spiritual peace.
China, Jiangsu Province
The Studio of Gratifying Discourse, 1797
The study was one of the most important rooms in the house of a well-educated government official.
Nature offered a way of understanding the world.
The arts helped literati scholars absorb the lessons of nature.
In the Company of Friends: Join two or three friends to put together a scrapbook of your favorite songs, books, movies, and artwork. Have each friend write a few sentences next to a selection about why he or she admires it. What would be the most comfortable place to do this project? What kind of music would you listen to? What else would you want around you? How might this activity be similar to a gathering of literati scholars?
The Mind's Eye: Objects can lead the imagination to faraway places. Scholars imagined themselves traveling through a landscape suggested by the shape of a rock, for example. Find an object in your surroundings and imagine the journey a miniature version of yourself might take climbing around it. Write a description of the journey. Can another reader identify the object you had in mind?
At the Museum: The Scholar's Study is permanently on view at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Bring along a pencil and paper and see if it inspires a poem in you.
The Tools of a Scholar: Tools for painting and calligraphy, such as brushes, ink stones, water droppers, and brush pots, were collector's items among literati scholars. Use the Art Collector function of ArtsConnectEd to choose your own favorites. What different types of tools do you see? What themes do you notice in the decoration? Click here to start. (Click here to learn more about Art Collector.)
Inspiration in the Past: Literati scholars of the 18th century felt a deep connection to China's past. Browse the Dynasty Guide (part of the Institute's "Art of Asia" Website) to explore the contributions of different periods in Chinese history. Sketch an example of the art of each period in your sketchbook. Which appeals to you most? Why? Choose one to inspire a written journal entry or work of art of your own.
October 2004
The most important room in the family compound was a hall like this one, used for formal gatherings of family and guests.
Thousands of government officials served the emperor of China. Badges on the front of their coats indicated their rank. The silver pheasant here means this coat belonged to a fifth rank official.
Every scholar's study contained a ch'in, or zither, an ancient Chinese musical instrument. It was a symbol of great learning since the days of Confucius in the 6th century BC.
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This room once stood between two small courtyard gardens in the family compound of a government official. Only the formal reception hall was more important within the family compound. There, the whole family gathered on special occasions to receive guests or pay respect to their ancestors. This room, on the other hand, was a place for the head of the household to enjoy books, nature, and the arts, alone or with a small group of friends.
Government officials in imperial China were well-rounded scholars. The difficult civil service exam required years of study. Scholars had to master the teachings of Confucius and his followers, the basis of Chinese government for thousands of years. But they also had to be skilled in poetry, calligraphy, and painting. These subjects developed their ability to think carefully and sensitively, important qualities in an able administrator.
The arts remained a passion for many officials. They often retired from government service while still fairly young to devote themselves to reading and writing poetry, playing chess, and practicing music. Such men, known as wen jen ("men of letters") or "literati" in English, were highly respected for their good taste and artistic accomplishments.
A shelf like this one would have held a scholar's collection of rare books, scroll paintings, and antiques.
October 2004
A scholar might see the rocks in his garden as miniature mountains and explore their peaks and valleys in his imagination.
Literati scholars collected rocks shaped over time by flowing water. Such rocks gave them a sense of the forces of nature.
Scholars took delight in accidents of nature. The patterns in the piece of marble framed in this screen suggest a mountainous landscape.
key idea
Nature offered a way of understanding the world.
The teachings of Confucius described an individual's duties to family and the state. Harmony among individuals would bring harmony in the world. But a real understanding of the world, most Chinese believed, came from the close study of nature.
Although nature seems wild and uncontrollable, it has its own order. Seemingly opposite forces--light and dark, life and death, creation and destruction--are in fact part of a single force, the tao, or "way," of nature. Taoist philosophers teach that an individual must above all understand his place in nature. All actions must follow nature's flow to be right and good.
Some literati scholars went to live alone in the wilderness to study the way of nature. Such hermits were greatly admired. But most literati stayed closer to home. They collected reminders of nature, like rocks, gnarled wood, and patterned stone, to think through the puzzles of nature in elegant comfort.
Caged crickets brought the sounds of nature inside. They were kept in decorated containers, like these ones fashioned from gourds.
October 2004
Scholars enjoyed practicing their arts in the company of friends. Here, a famous group of scholars listen to the zither in a rock garden.
Many literati paintings were based on famous pictures by earlier masters, but here Wang Ch'en has painted a scene from the region where he worked as a government official.
Painting and calligraphy used the same tools--a brush, inkstone, and paper. This poem begins, "The mountain's rocky girth has endured a thousand years. . ."
key idea
The arts helped literati scholars absorb the lessons of nature.
The "four arts" of the literati scholar were painting, calligraphy, playing the ch'in, or zither, and the game of chess. All these activities sharpened the mind through years of study and practice. When enjoyed in the company of friends with similar interests, they were a focus for meaningful conversation. That companionship gave this room its name, "The Studio of Gratifying Discourse," carved on a plaque on the wall.
Nature was the most common subject of both poetry and painting. If a scholar could not live the life of a hermit alone in the wilderness himself, he could recreate the experience through words and pictures. Looking at a famous painting would inspire a poem in response, which he might add to the picture in his own calligraphy.
The tools of Chinese painting and calligraphy—the brush, ink, water, and paper—are very difficult to control. The most skilled painters are able to harness accidental effects to express their own ideas, all within the format of age-old Chinese traditions. This balance of natural forces, self-control, and society perfectly echoes the scholar's sense of his own place in the world.
The shapes of scholars' painting tools often reflected their interest in nature, like this waterdropper in the shape of a lotus bud.
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FSK modulated wave file
pal.debabrata123 - 2007-06-27 09:07:00
Hey guys, Though my problem is do a FSK modulation os an ascii string and send it to telephone between "init ring" and "full ring" , I don't know how to test. Is there a software FSK demodulator free somewhere? Can I get some standard FSK modulated file to test the decoder? So that I am test my c...FSK modulated wave file
PSK instead FSK?
maluenda - 2006-02-18 12:46:00
Hi, I just started up some reading on Digital Communications. I need some information about PSK vs FSK for use in DSP. Can anyone explain in few words the advantages of using PSK instead FSK? Will appreciate any help in this regard. Thanks ...PSK instead FSK?
xr2211 & non coherent fsk demodulation
josedebrest - 2007-05-24 15:29:00
Hello, I am using the XR 2211 to demodulate a non coherent fsk signal. It works but I would like to know how to evaluate the theoritical BER performance of this demodulation. But all the non coherent fsk receivers that are mentionned on the web dont use a pll ... any idea ? thank you very m...xr2211 & non coherent fsk demodulation
Is there a software FSK encoder API for PC using no addtl hardware?
Tomer - 2003-08-27 15:33:00
Hi All, We need an API module to allow us to send data using the FSK (Frequency Shift Keying) modulation. This module is to run on a PC and may use no additional hardware except for the built in sound card. The module will allow us to convert ASCII characters to their FSK sound and play tha...Is there a software FSK encoder API for PC using no addtl hardware?
software for generating FSK modulated signals
Somia - 2005-05-23 07:11:00
hi I have to generate signals with data encoded in them using FSK, 1300Hz for mark and 2100Hz for space with a baud rate of 1200. i dont have an FSK modulator so is there any software that could do this over voice modem ? i dont have any backgound of DSP so i would really be thankful for for generating FSK modulated signals
Is frequency multipliers suitable for boradband FSK?
isgone - 2007-06-08 16:26:00
there are many applications use frequency multipliers to improve the deviation of narrowband FSK . i wonder is it suitable for boradband FSK? For example,the input signal should be 4FSK,and the frequencys is 67MHz/69MHz/71MHz/73MHz,the symbol rate is 10M . ...Is frequency multipliers suitable for boradband FSK?
Who made the comment about modems and FSK signals?
Brian Reinhold - 2004-01-15 10:01:00
I think some respondant named 'v' made a remark in response to a post I made last week regarding FSK decoding and filtering, but the post has been removed. The remark concerned the special processes that have to be done detecting FSK tones that are very short in the sense that the number of per...Who made the comment about modems and FSK signals?
Few taps Filters for FSK?
Brian Reinhold - 2004-01-09 13:34:00
Does anyone have any suggestions for an IIR or FIR band pass filter that will isolate the two tones of an FSK signal which an integrate and dump scheme can then be applied to? I need to minimize the delay since this FSK signal comes from scanned radio frequencies. I need to detect the signal f...Few taps Filters for FSK?
Detecting FSK on a power fft pk hold spectrum
d1sturbanc3 - 2008-07-17 14:54:00
Found this board, and hopefully someone can give me a helping hand. Background: I'm using labview with a DAQ. It's acquiring a signal and I take a power fft with peak hold averaging on. In this spectrum, there are atmospheric noise, some other signals with large BW about 250 hz, and signals that...Detecting FSK on a power fft pk hold spectrum
Fax/modem detection
Jadran - 2009-12-20 14:36:00
Hello, I m implementing fax/modem detection. So far it is based on CNG and CED tones. Goertzel's algorithm is used for tones detections and seems to work fine. However I would like to increase reliability, specialy for cases when such tones are not present or missed. Idea is to do it by detecting...Fax/modem detection
FSK bandwidth
Jach - 2004-04-09 02:45:00
What is the estimated bandwidth using Carson's rule when your separation is 19.8 kHz, the baud rate 19.2 kBaud/s modulation is FSK, NRZ line coding and the crystal tolerance is negligible? Thanks ...FSK bandwidth
FSK Demodulation (help urgently needed)
mudassir84 - 2006-06-30 10:35:00
Hi I am trying to Extract Caller ID from FSK v.23 Encoded CLI Packet which has been stored in audio format in pc. To demdulate FSK i am using two Bandpass Filters centered at Mark and Space Frequency. According to FSK V.23 1300 hz is frequency for mark(1) 2100 hz is frequency for spcae(0) 120...FSK Demodulation (help urgently needed)
FSK and timing recovery
ejstans - 2005-04-06 12:43:00
Hi, I'm trying to gain an understanding of how to do timing recovery or symbol synchronization in a digital radio receiver but I need something clarified. The methods I have found information on (Mueller & Mueller, Early-late, Gardner etc) seem to be intended for linear modulation schemes but wha...FSK and timing recovery
FSK Versus OOK Demodulation
Randy Yates - 2011-06-21 15:51:00
With the right filtering, an FSK signal can be viewed as two complementary OOK (on-off keyed) signals. Is the optimal FSK demodulator more optimal, less optimal, or equivalent to two optimal OOK demodulators with their outputs combined? -- Randy Yates % "Watching all the d...FSK Versus OOK Demodulation
Multicarrier modulation scheme vs FSK
koolguyuf - 2007-01-14 16:56:00
Hey, What is the difference between multicarrier modulation and FSK (Frequency Shift Keying)? Can OFDM considered to be a hybrid of the two? Thanks TD ...Multicarrier modulation scheme vs FSK
clock recovery
mahsad - 2009-10-20 03:15:00
hi, I have implemented a binary FSK modem(V.21). but i have a question: how can i implement clock recovery for fsk demodulator? does any reference exist for this subject? please help me. ...clock recovery
FSK demodulator code?
Scott Miller - 2004-12-22 13:11:00
I'm looking for code, either in ANSI C or assembly for the ARM7TDMI, that'll demodulate 1200 baud FSK, in particular 1200 baud Bell 202 keying like that found in caller ID systems. Any suggestions? Thanks, Scott ...FSK demodulator code?
GMDSS/DSC FSK Modulation: Continuous-Phase or Not?
Randy Yates - 2011-01-03 09:29:00
Hello, I'm looking at demodulating a GMDSS/DSC (Digital Selective-Calling) 100 baud FSK (1700 Hz center, +/- 85 Hz) signal (per ITU-R M.493-12). The spec says nothing about whether it's continuous-phase FSK or not. I've found on the net that DSC is similar to SITOR-B, and further that SITOR...GMDSS/DSC FSK Modulation: Continuous-Phase or Not?
general fsk question
frumious - 2009-01-22 11:20:00
I am trying to understand fsk demodulation in general. Is there an industry standard set of specific demod schemes or just classes of particular methods (i.e. matched filter, correlation, coherent vs non-coherent) that are invoked on a project by project basis? ...general fsk question
Definition of modulation index for shaped FSK
Steve Pope - 2010-06-30 17:41:00
I have a pretty elementary question. For an unshaped, 2-FSK signal, the modulation index h is defined as the ratio of the difference between the two tone frequencies to the symbol rate. For shaped 2-FSK, how is h usually defined? I can think of a few possibilities: (1) Base it on the pe...Definition of modulation index for shaped FSK
Re: FSK Correlation Demodulator
Stan Pawlukiewicz - 2005-12-12 08:28:00
Vale_a_pena wrote: > I can try to help you Opamp. > > Even without money :) > > When you mix two signals: y1*y2 with y1 FSK signal and y2 a > sinusoid > > You obtain a result varying in time (y1*y2)(t) > > > Correlation is the integral during a period of T o...Re: FSK Correlation Demodulator
PC FSK decoding - stuck beginner!
mcd - 2005-04-01 08:55:00
Hi, I'm urgently trying to get my head around methods for decoding an FSK encoded signal on my PC. I have a .wav file of the transmitted data, and I want to get the data out. I'm doing my work in Matlab/Simulink for now for simplicity. So far I've tried: - Goertzel algorithm as used for dtmf -...PC FSK decoding - stuck beginner!
Definition of BT in an FSK system
Steve Pope - 2010-07-15 14:30:00
BT denotes the product of the 3 dB bandwidth of the shaping pulse in an FSK system and the symbol time. My question has to do with the conventional definition of B. My first thought was to use the 3 dB bandwidth of a bandpass function obtained by translating the baseband pulse up to the FSK...Definition of BT in an FSK system
fsk demodulation
harsh17 - 2005-07-17 02:58:00
I am a novice in DSP.I am trying to demodulate a FSK signal wherein the mark and space frequencies are 16MHz and 24MHz respectively.I am thinking of using delay and multiply method.Can this be implemented using an ADSP-2181?More specifically will the DSP be able to handle the high throughput involve...fsk demodulation
FSK Demodulator
biff - 2008-07-01 20:40:00
Hi folks, I manage a hardware engineering group for a telcom company and I am beginning to look around for FPGA IP to implement both FSK modulation and demodulation. I am wondering if any of you have any experience with any of the IP around today. The demodulator is the most difficult part a...FSK Demodulator
FSK encoding: alternatives to Manchester and NRZ
howy - 2007-02-03 13:39:00
Hi all, I noticed a lot of FM related questions this month, so here is another one... I am transmitting FSK using a MICRF505 transceiver chip. The FSK modulator in this chip requires a bit encoding scheme to reduce the DC content of the bit stream to a manageable level. I am struggling with ...FSK encoding: alternatives to Manchester and NRZ
Coherent FSK
john - 2006-06-17 13:34:00
A colleague and I are trying to understand the performance limits that apply to coherent detection of continuous phase FSK in AWGN. As I understand it, the familiar textbook formula for coherent FSK BER is derived for the case of square one-bit pulses and tones that are orthogonal over one bit t...Coherent FSK
Re: FSK mod and demod
Jerry Avins - 2005-12-13 11:00:00
Gunstinger wrote: > Hello I'm stuck with a little problem here in MatLab. What I need to do is > input a string of text, convert it to binary, and then use FSK to mod it > together, then demod and and filter it out and convert it back to text > again. The first part is easy, the input of tex...Re: FSK mod and demod
Question about Continuous Phase FSK
brent - 2010-09-03 08:59:00
I am trying to understand what is meant by continuous phase FSK. Right now I am of the opinion that it means that a very quick change in frequency can take place as long as there is no discontinuity in the time waveform when the frequency change takes place. Is this a correct interpretation? ...Question about Continuous Phase FSK
What is the maximum bits-per-symbol possible using FSK on telephone devices?
Green Xenon - 2009-12-16 20:49:00
Hi: What is the maximum amount of bits-per-symbol of FSK possible using a telephone system [including the phone lines and any devices from start to finish of the phone's signal chain]? Thanks, Green Xenon ...What is the maximum bits-per-symbol possible using FSK on telephone devices?
Goertzel and FSK
Fender123 - 2012-02-14 18:42:00
Hi all. Adapting Goertzel algorithm for FSK in a system with a preset sampling rate, tones and baud rate does not always result in ideal parameters. Let me try to explain what I mean: For example, consider a case with Fs=9600, tones 1650 and 1850 Hz, and baud 300. That's N=32 samples per symbo...Goertzel and FSK
Anyone have a Good filter for FSK with short delay
Brian Reinhold - 2004-01-08 14:18:00
I need to find a bandpass filter with as few taps as possible to apply to an HF radio FSK signal. The reason is that the radio is scanned and the more taps, the longer it takes before the signal can be recognized which slows down the possible scan rate. Can anyone give me any references or id...Anyone have a Good filter for FSK with short delay
Re: Detectiong CW
Randall Gawtry - 2006-03-04 01:42:00
In article , "John E. Hadstate" wrote: > What's the slickest way of turning an I/Q data stream, tuned > to baseband, into audible Morse Code with user-selectable > pitch using strictly digital signal processing? > > > John, The CW pitch-shifting feature is in the Timewave DSP-5...Re: Detectiong CW
FSK - sample rate and bit depth
Scott Miller - 2005-04-06 20:38:00
I'm working on a couple of demodulators - one for 1200 baud AFSK (and possibly other bitrates) and one for 9600 baud baseband FSK - and I've got some questions. I'm using an ARM7TDMI chip, so I'm rather CPU constrained. An issue I'm having trouble with is that the CODEC I'm considering off...FSK - sample rate and bit depth
Decoding FSK
Jon Mcleod - 2008-09-20 18:18:00
A Bell 202T modem uses FSK modulation (1200HZ, 2200HZ) and send data at up to 1800 bits per second. I need to replace an "analog" version of this with a digital version, sampling the phone line with an A/D and "decoding" the 1's and 0's in firmware (ARM C). My question is how.. The modu...Decoding FSK
FSK demodulation
Tomeu - 2009-01-08 06:21:00
Hello all, I am involved in the development of an underwater modem. Right now I am dealing with the simulation stage with simulink. The modulation scheme I am using is a non-coherent FSK. The carrier frequencies are 20kHz and 22kHz. At the demodulator part, I have designed a matched filters...FSK demodulation
FSK modulation and clean FFT
Ted T - 2008-03-31 18:58:00
Hi, I'm looking at FSK modulation in matlab, using my own modulator as I don't have the matlab comms toolbox. In the time domain, the signal looks fine, but in the frequency domain, it just doesn't seem to work, I get lots of other garbage in the spectrum. I'm hoping someone can see an error ...FSK modulation and clean FFT
Receiving symbols using non-coherent M-FSK
2007-11-22 06:59:00
Hi There, How does the demodulator of a non-coherent M-FSK system correctly time the "reading" of the symbols? In the book on Digital Comms by Proakis, it is mentioned that a bank of 2M correlators can be used. In the book there is also a model for non-coherent M-FSK in an AWGN environment. ...Receiving symbols using non-coherent M-FSK
ping: Jim Thompson
Bo - 2006-04-24 11:20:00
Jim, I was perusing your website and happened upon your patent regarding demodulating of FSK. Is this the currently easiest/best way to decode FSK? Or would I be better off doing with SW and microcontroller? I was thinking that a comparator with hysteresis to minimize noise could be used Jim Thompson
Robust FSK demodulator ?
Robert Lacoste - 2012-02-23 02:31:00
Dear all, We are looking for a robust FSK demodulator and framer solution for an SDR application (decoding of simultaneous narrow channels at some kbps each from a wider baseband stream) : channel filtering, center frequency tracking, demodulation, bit-level timing recovery, synchronisation...Robust FSK demodulator ?
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Saturday, September 04, 2004
Where's censorship when you need it?
There's always much to-do about how violent or sexual programs on TV ought not to be viewed by children; and how musicians playing at sporting events must be required to keep their wardrobes from malfunctioning; and how offensive radio shows like Howard Stern's should be banned from the airwaves; and how pornographic magazines need to be kept out of the reach of minors; and whether you feel these restrictions are essential or essentially unconstitutional, it's certainly undeniable that there's a great deal of thought and debate and passion going into the examination of those issues. But there's a whole other level of potentially damaging media content sneaking through without anybody giving it a second glance, and I'm starting to think that it might be even worse for kids than the stuff everybody's always arguing over.
I've written here before about the difficulty of explaining those omnipresent ads for Viagra and Cialis and the like to curious kids who'll ask, "Mommy, what's erectile disfunction?" Lately I've also been noticing lots of really scary ads for horror films, both on TV and on the radio. If my kids are too young to see these films in theaters, do they really need to see clips that make their hearts skip? The radio ad for the new "Exorcist" film upset me when I was sitting at my desk in my office in the middle of the day; does my daughter really need to be hearing it at night when she's listening to the radio in bed? Guess that's not going to help her sleep. And even that old family friend, the local newspaper, isn't free of trauma. Like many people I was following the story of the school hostage situation in Russia with increasing dread, and certainly wanted to read about the tragic ending in this morning's news. But the large color photo that accompanied the story gave me pause -- it showed a Russian police officer carrying a young girl out of the building. The girl, maybe 8 or 9, had blood all over her face and was dressed only in underpants. The image was disturbing for any number of reasons, but what I found myself wondering most of all was, if my kids see this sitting on the coffee table, how on earth am I going to explain what happened to this girl, and why isn't she wearing any clothes? I tried to make sure that page was face down, with lots of glossy Saturday store ads on top.
The thing about all this is -- it's easy to keep our kids from watching specific shows, or listening to specific radio stations, or seeing specific magazines. But it's really hard to avoid commercials that can come on any time of the day or night, or news photos that turn a local paper -- which yesterday, for example, featured a picture of a particularly large zucchini grown by a local man -- into something terrifying. How's the FCC going to protect us from that?
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Film Freak Central,2003:weblog-99928295733106445 2013-05-17T10:29:20-05:00 TypePad The We and the I (2013),2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c01901c475bb7970b 2013-05-17T10:29:20-05:00 2013-05-17T10:35:03-05:00 **½/**** starring Michael Brodie, Teresa Lynn, Raymond Delgado, Jonathan Ortiz screenplay by Michel Gondry, Paul Proch, Jeff Grimshaw directed by Michel Gondry by Angelo Muredda The We and the I opens with a throwback, an image that wouldn't be out of place in Michel Gondry's distinctive music videos from the late-1990s, which were themselves full of backward glances to the more rough-hewn early days of MTV and old-school hip hop. Over the credits, a boombox modified into a miniature bus rolls along the streets of the Bronx pulsing out Young MC's "Bust A Move," until it's crushed by what's ostensibly the real thing, a city bus packed with urban teens who make up Gondry's boisterous, gossiping, and privately wounded nonprofessional cast. That's an interesting start, insofar as it suggests that Gondry's obsession with whimsical props tinged with nostalgia are about to be traded in for something more authentic, even as it implies a bit cheekily that the "real" bus, taking a bunch of high-schoolers home on the last day of school, is itself a roaming set on which to stage semi-scripted exchanges between proper teens doubling as actors and artistic partners. Both intimations turn out to be true, in a... Bill Chambers Dan in Real Life (2008) + Rachel Getting Married (2008) - Blu-ray Discs,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017d42d8c35a970c 2013-04-16T11:11:31-05:00 2013-04-16T11:11:31-05:00 DAN IN REAL LIFE */**** Image A Sound B Extras D starring Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche, Dane Cook, Dianne Wiest screenplay by Pierce Gardner and Peter Hedges directed by Peter Hedges RACHEL GETTING MARRIED **/**** Image A Sound A Extras C starring Anne Hathaway, Rosemarie DeWitt, Bill Irwin, Debra Winger screenplay by Jenny Lumet directed by Jonathan Demme by Walter Chaw The Darwin chart of this breed of American indie, otherwise known as unlikely shrines to The Celebration (or Festen, if you prefer), follows in the United States with something like Margot at the Wedding near the top as most-evolved down mid-way to Rachel Getting Married and its histrionic Demme-tasse reduction, down to ankle-deep--we're talking primordial muck--with Dan in Real Life. That last one, from Pieces of April perpetrator Peter Hedges, squanders an unusual amount of currency in Steve Carell (at his melancholic zenith), pairing him with Juliette Binoche in a bittersweet romantic imbroglio that absolutely does not deserve the happy horseshit ending slathered on it to apologize for its occasional poignancy. It's not that I enjoy being sad, it's that I enjoy getting a condescending handjob even less. I'm willing to forgive the bad slapstick of a group-aerobics session,... Bill Chambers True Blood: The Complete Second Season (2009) + True Blood: The Complete Third Season (2010) - Blu-ray Discs,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017c387a84bf970b 2013-04-10T20:28:40-05:00 2013-04-10T19:35:33-05:00 Image A Sound A+ Extras B- S2: "Nothing But the Blood," "Keep This Party Going," "Scratches," "Shake and Fingerpop," "Never Let Me Go," "Hard-Hearted Hannah," "Release Me," "Timebomb," "I Will Rise Up," "New World in My View," "Frenzy," "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" S3: "Bad Blood," "Beautifully Broken," "It Hurts Me Too," "9 Crimes," "Trouble," "I Got a Right to Sing the Blues," "Hitting the Ground," "Night on the Sun," "Everything Is Broken," "I Smell a Rat," "Fresh Blood," "Evil Is Going On" by Walter Chaw "True Blood" is pulp crap. Yet as Bryant and Bill have already so eloquently pointed out, it's highly-addictive pulp crap--the sort of shallow, handsomely-mounted titillation that fosters the craze that sprung up around prime-time soaps like "Dynasty" and "Falcon Crest". White-collar smut that traffics in the currency of the age: once upon a time it was the super-rich, now it's the supernatural. Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme. It's certainly soapier than showrunner/creator Alan Ball's previous pay-cable drama, "Six Feet Under", but to its credit what "True Blood" does in returning sexuality--and gore, and (southern) Gothic trappings--to the vampire mythos, it does well. The shame of it is that it seems to be ashamed... Bill Chambers Big Love: The Complete Second Season (2007) - DVD,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017eea1558f8970d 2013-04-08T10:27:42-05:00 2013-04-08T10:28:17-05:00 Image A Sound A Extras C+ "Damage Control," "The Writing on the Wall," "Reunion," "Rock and a Hard Place," "Vision Thing," "Dating Game," "Good Guys and Bad Guys," "Kingdom Come," "Circle the Wagons," "The Happiest Girl," "Take Me As I Am," "Oh, Pioneers" by Alex Jackson There's definitely something cheeky and slyly subversive at the core of HBO's "Big Love". The show is the brainchild of Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, an openly-gay couple who've been together since the early-'90s. That single fact opens up some interesting connections when it comes to polygamy. The standard argument religious groups have against homosexuality is that it's unnatural: Two men or two women cannot naturally procreate and therefore it's deviant, godless behaviour. By contrast, polygamy is possibly more natural than monogamy--you could argue that males are hardwired to spread their seed with as many females as possible and it is not cost efficient, evolutionarily speaking, to restrict yourself to one woman. And if the ability to procreate is what makes heterosexuality more moral than homosexuality, then we have to admit that polygamists are able to procreate "better" than monogamists and so polygamy should be embraced as the morally superior lifestyle. RUNNING TIME... Bill Chambers In Treatment [Season One] (2008) + Tell Me You Love Me: The Complete First Season (2007) - DVDs,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017c37ff5d97970b 2013-03-21T21:08:31-05:00 2013-03-21T21:08:31-05:00 Image B Sound B Extras B ("Tell Me You Love Me") by Walter Chaw It's a show about the traditional mode of psychoanalysis--a nine-week, five days-a-week series detailing shrink Paul (Gabriel Byrne) and four patients, culminating each "Friday" in Paul's own session with former mentor Gina (Dianne Wiest). It's based on a popular Israeli drama that was the brainchild of such filmmaking talents as Eran Kolarin and Nir Bergman. And though it begins stilted and ends badly, its thick mid-section is the enabler of our obsessive, maybe ugly, voyeuristic impulses, gratifying the viewer with the sensation that, for all the dense verbal webs spun in these little progressive one-acts, the real expert is the viewer. "In Treatment" clarifies the role of the observer in this media, how the active participant is always involved in an anthropological exercise deconstructing the characters' motives and actions--and how that critical facility, eternally underused, is occasionally gratified by material that's not quite smarter than you, but appears to be. RUNNING TIME 30 minutes/episode MPAA Not Rated ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.78:1 (16x9-enhanced) LANGUAGES English DD 5.1 Spanish DD 2.0 (Stereo) CC Yes SUBTITLES English French Spanish REGION 1 DISC TYPE 9 DVD-9s STUDIO HBO RUNNING TIME 45... Bill Chambers Carnivàle: The Complete First Season (2003) - DVD,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017d422e83b9970c 2013-03-21T20:58:59-05:00 2013-03-21T20:58:59-05:00 Image A Sound A Extras C "Milfay," "After the Ball Is Over," "Tipton," "Black Blizzard," "Babylon," "Pick a Number," "The River," "Lonnigan, Texas," "Insomnia," "Hot and Bothered," "The Day of the Dead," "The Day That Was the Day" by Walter Chaw It's the Depression in Dust Bowl United States, and Ben (Nick Stahl) really needs a bath: His mother's just died (but not before hissing at him to keep his distance, Mr. Antichrist) and he's in the act of burying her when a traveling carnival happens along to spirit him away before the local constabulary can. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy threatens briefly to break out as a bulldozer shows up to raze Ben's ramshackle homestead, but hey diddley hee, the roustie's life for me, says Ben. In a way, comparisons of HBO's handsomely-mounted "Carnivàle" to Douglas Adams's brilliant stuff is apt as Ben, like Adams's everyman Arthur, is orphaned from his home, set adrift in an absurd universe in the company of freaks, and burdened with the responsibility for the salvation of all mankind. A parallel story, joined to Ben's by a couple of early dream sequences, involves preacher-man Brother Crowe (Clancy Brown) navigating some tricky incestual straits... Bill Chambers Neighbouring Sounds (2013),2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017c37656176970b 2013-03-07T16:21:16-05:00 2013-03-07T16:27:49-05:00 O som ao redor ***½/**** starring Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, W.J. Solha, Irma Brown written and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho by Angelo Muredda In his 1975 survey of trends in Canadian literature, Northrop Frye famously diagnosed the national character as paranoiac, fraught with nightmares about being invaded by the outside world. That so-called garrison mentality, Frye offered, meant early white Canadian settlers bonded together against both the malevolent nature past their forts and the more generalized outside threats it represented--shutting their doors to anyone who seemed the slightest bit unneighbourly. Although Frye had a very specific community in mind, it's hard not to see it reflected in the gated neighbourhood of critic-turned-filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho's Neighbouring Sounds, a conclave of middle-class northern Brazilian condo-dwellers who define themselves by the riffraff they discard, whether car-stereo thieves or sleeping doormen. Part-Hanekian surveillance thriller and part-Altmanesque ensemble of overlapping voices, it's one of the most assured debut features to land in years, the sort of fully-formed high-concept work you expect after a couple of interesting misfires. The snappishness of Filho's ensemble--who tentatively share a street in the south of Recife, one of Brazil's highest-density metropolitan areas--is all the more alarming because there... Bill Chambers Holy Motors (2012) - Blu-ray Disc,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017d3df1810f970c 2013-02-24T16:17:16-05:00 2013-02-25T16:55:39-05:00 ****/**** Image B Sound B- Extras B starring Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendes, Kylie Minogue written and directed by Leos Carax click any image to enlarge by Angelo Muredda It's no great shock that Holy Motors is innovative, coming from the same headspace as The Lovers on the Bridge and Mauvais Sang--movies that seemed fashioned out of whole cloth despite their indebtedness to names like David Bowie and Herman Melville. What's most surprising is that beneath the formal variety and cheekiness, mainstays of Leos Carax's freewheeling cinema, is a moving and altogether serious exploration of what it means to be an actor, in both a professional and a metaphysical sense. Carax's films have been ranked among the boldest aesthetic manifestos since the 1980s for good reason, yet the ineffable quality that distinguishes them from the superficially similar grandstanding of nascent stylists like Xavier Dolan is their deep sincerity and unabashed adoration of the eccentric city-dwellers who cross paths on the loneliest roads in urban France. If Holy Motors is even wilder in presentation than its predecessors, then, it's also perfectly legible within a body of work that's always found a human streak in the avant-garde. RUNNING TIME 115 minutes... Bill Chambers Friday Night Lights (2004) [Widescreen] - DVD,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017c36e1156a970b 2013-02-15T00:01:00-05:00 2013-02-14T15:29:42-05:00 ***/**** Image A Sound B+ Extras B+ starring Billy Bob Thornton, Derek Luke, Jay Hernandez, Lucas Black screenplay by David Aaron Cohen and Peter Berg, based on the book Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream by H.G. Bissinger directed by Peter Berg by Walter Chaw Turning the microscope on the reptile hearts and minds of small-town sports culture, Peter Berg's Friday Night Lights is so alive with seething energy and meanness that it emerges as one of the better sports films on the short list of good sports films. It's what the Omaha Beach sequence in Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan is to Oliver Stone's Platoon: an evolution by way of devolution that erases the veneer, such as there is, prettifying violent confrontation, becoming in the process the unadorned engine to which Stone's ultimately featherweight Any Given Sunday aspired. It finds Lucas Black (as star quarterback Mike Winchell) reunited with Sling Blade co-star Billy Bob Thornton (playing his coach, Gary Gaines), with the mental disability roles reversed ("There's something wrong with my head," Winchell complains) but the peek under the Rockwell covers at insular, provincial psychosis transplanted intact. Friday Night Lights is a work of sociology, a... Bill Chambers Valentine's Day (2010) - Blu-ray Disc,2003:post-6a0168ea36d6b2970c017c36e12673970b 2013-02-14T15:47:09-05:00 2013-02-14T15:57:22-05:00 ZERO STARS/**** Image B Sound B Extras C starring Jessica Alba, Kathy Bates, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper screenplay by Katherine Fugate directed by Garry Marshall by Walter Chaw There are worse directors working today than Garry Marshall, but not many and then not much worse. I've vowed on a few occasions (like after Beaches, Pretty Woman, Exit to Eden, The Other Sister, Raising Helen, Georgia Rule) to never subject myself to another Marshall joint--certainly to never bother reviewing another one. What's the point, really, of taking the piss out of this guy and his movies? They're consistently, stridently tone deaf; unfailingly saccharine; morally suspect; visually uninteresting; casually racist/misogynist/classist/homophobic; and dangerously enervating to the point of meriting some kind of warning label. Marry Marshall's adorable dog/kid reaction shots and wholesale white-rape of Motown standards to a bloated ensemble cast (everyone from Jamie Foxx to Kathy Bates--yes, it's horrific) enacting a two-hour version of Marshall's career-launching TV series "Love, American Style" and what you get is every bit the horror movie the title Valentine's Day suggests. RUNNING TIME 125 minutes MPAA PG-13 ASPECT RATIO(S) 1.78:1 (1080p/MPEG-4) LANGUAGES English 5.1 DTS-HD MA French DD 5.1 Spanish DD 5.1 SUBTITLES English SDH French Spanish... Bill Chambers
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Thursday, July 06, 2006
for 7/7: outside King's Cross
I took this photo a year ago, shortly after the London bombings. The flag had been placed near a memorial garden that blossomed in front of the train station. Shortly afterwards I was in Leeds, arriving on the very day of the Beeston raids. An uneasiness from these events hung over the International Medieval Congress, but I can't say what effects the apprehension had on the work of scholars gathered there. [And by that I mean what historicists have staked their careers upon: the pasts we imagine cannot fail to be marked by the present, so much the more when we inhabit troubled times. Present calamity sends shock waves in every direction, a temporal backwash that can change profoundly the history we know. "The Flow of Blood in Medieval Norwich" was a 9/11 project, even though it never mentions the present world.]
Not coincidentally, I'll soon be posting a review of Peter Haidu's The Subject Medieval/Modern: Text and Governance in the Middle Ages, a book that examines violence in medieval texts and modern theory.
Anonymous said...
It is surely impossible to escape the present in the past. The question is what you do with it.
The idea that the 'past is a foreign country' can be immensely powerful in critically debating ideas of 'us and them' - and remoter periods of 'our' history (like the middle ages) can be especially valuable in that respect. Of course it can also be salient to discover how many assumptions of modern social norms are grounded in past historical circumstances that were anything but natural (not just in the fields of race, sexuality, gender and personal identity - but also in attitudes to labour, markets, the environment, war, the state and so much else). It is a crime to leave the past to politicians - and politicians will always exploit the past.
A recent BBC (?) poll here suggested that History is more popular than football. When it's that powerful we ignore it at our peril! (But maybe the US is different?)
emile blauche said...
It's interesting to me, this talk of the past and the present, amounting to rootedness in time and space, the temporal, the local, the seen in history, and in the physical world.
Maslow felt such talk yielded D-Cognition (Deficiency-Cognition), precisely what interferes with the creation of a fully human future. I wonder if he wasn't on to something.
Anonymous said...
I don't think that you can easily apply 'deficiency cognition' or 'being cognition' to large fields of knowledge and experience involving millions of diverse users of the past, since (so far as I can see) Maslow's approach is grounded in the 'ego' and personal perceptions.
How people use the past (and need the past) will surely be as various as how they need and use food or money.
I agree that it is an interesting idea to play with in relation to some users of the past, however.
On a lighter note 'being cognition' is surely also a matter of life-cycle. At least many cultures associate growing age with changing needs and perceptions of need.
I have merely go my Maslow up through the power of Google - please tell me I am all wrong!
emile blauche said...
Maslow himself never avoided characterizing groups, societies, or cultures as having either B- or D-cognition. Indeed, he was deeply invested in Benedict's notion of the synergistic society.
Furthermore, Maslow was rather fond of sketching the characteristics of (indeed, generalizing about) diverse professional groups: most famously, biologists, psychologists, and artists.
I don't know if D-Cognition applies here--it was something to think about. One might note the conspicuous absence of the future in most medievalism--chockfull of the past and, more recently, the present, but light on the future.
But one thing I am certain Maslow would have found consistent with D-Cognition is an approach to history that frames it in terms of "use." Usefulness is a D-Value, whereas seeing history not as something to be used (or needed) but rather as something intrinsically interesting for its own sake is consistent with B-Cognition. (See, e. g., ch. 20, "Further Notes on COgnition" in The Farther Reaches of Human Nature, as well as ch. 6 of Toward a Psychology of Being.)
Anonymous said...
Hmm - for the synergetic society to work in relation to the past I think that you would have to break your user groups down into quite small entities. So I am not sure how useful it would become in the end.
Yes - I did understand the difference between use/need and appreciation, I just expressed myself badly. I still think B-cognition may be associated with life cycle and experience (and I suppose that might be sometimes collective as well as individual).
As for thinking about the future, I don't think it is true that this is something that medievalists either do or don't do. It very much depends on what kind of medievalist you are. Marxists, of course, engage with the future (even if they don't always make it explicit, nevertheless the underlying paradigm is future-orientated). The movements away from that kind of belief in grand dialectical processes (and that kind of narration) are diverse and complex - but by no means are they particularly associated with medievalists alone.
emile blauche said...
I am trying to find a place where Maslow ties B-Cognition/Values explicitly to the life-cycle. Perhaps you can help me out? In some sense I suppose it is always implied since he's talking generally about the development of the human organism. Still I don't recall Maslow arguing that maturation was a key variable in the production of B-Cognition.
I do know that Maslow didn't buy Erikson's stages in the sense that he didn't see any reason for generativity and integrity to be reserved for the later stages. And so Maslow talks about children having B-Cognition. (See, e. g., his "Notes on Innocent Cognition," in L. Schenk-Danzinger, & H. Thomas (Eds.),
Gegenwartsprobleme der Entwicklungspsychologie: Festschrift fur Charlotte Buhler [Gottingen: Verlag fur Psychologie, 1963].)
Sure, it depends on what kind of medievalist one is, hence my statement that "most medievalism" is marked by an avoidance of the future. The Marxists afterall comprise a terrifically small constituency (at least as far as one might find evidence of Marxism in medieval scholarship).
Eileen Joy said...
I have to agree with Emile Blauche that medievalists, for the most part, do, indeed, ignore the future [regardless of whether or not we want to say that Marxist medievalists implicitly address it, although I wonder . . . .]. It is especially interesting to think about this viz. what goes on in history departments, since a "history of the present" is often regarded as the purview of the sociologist or political scientist [although, of course, there are people in history who study "present" events, only "just after," as it were]. But my larger point is that, among historians there is also precious little attention paid to the future, although there should be *more* attention paid, since ethics, if we care about that, always has to be future-oriented [I am assuming this is an obvious point--correct me if I am wrong--de Certeau once said that a "proper census of the population of the dead" was the proper concern of history, and I agree with this--it relates to what might be called an ethical "reckoning"--but in the end, ethics has to also be ultimately oriented to some kind of question of futurity, such as "how shall we live our lives?"--to poach from the title of a Peter Singer book]. Interestingly, "Social Text" has two special issues coming out soon devoted to the topic of "Afro Futurism," and I think these will be interesting to read. I have a colleague who will have an essay in one of those issues on Colson Whitehead's novel "The Intuitionist" [excellent book, by the way] and Condoleeza Rice. But again, as E.B. points out, we don't think about the future *enough* and we should.
J J Cohen said...
In general, it is true: medievalists consider themselves custodians of the past, not (at least as part of their profession) of the present or future. Is that news to anyone?
Yet anyone who turns to the past is also opening up alternate presents and possible futures. Such temporal interweaving is inescapable, part of our being in and of time.
Surely, you could argue that medieval studies isn't the most effective way to study the future, or to open up some futurity. And you would be right. But a vector that starts back in time doesn't -- can't -- stay rooted in the past alone.
Karl Steel said...
Absolutely, simply by showing the historicity of categories and the fact that things have never always been what they were.
Looking forward to the Haidu review. I dipped into the book quickly only to see if he'd updated his 1983 article on Yvain. He hadn't. So I'd like to get a sense of his overall argument.
E said...
Not, it's not news, but what if medieval studies considered its main purview to be "the past in the present," or something like that? I've never really believed I study the past so much as I study artifacts *from* the past that, somehow, have survived into my [and others'] present moment. When I study these artifacts ["Beowulf," for example], I think of them as being "striated," as it were, by all the temporal zones through which they have passed, and I do not believe it is actually possible to analyze or study them *as if* they are anything but--because they are with us *now*, in whatever form--modern. I will share here part of a book I am working on that I hope illuminates what I mean. This is from a chapter-in-progress that compares the production of the "Electronic Beowulf" with the 20-year-restoration of Leonardo's "Last Supper," and also discusses the paintings of Anselm Kiefer and the short stories and drawings of Bruno Schulz [what follows is part of the conclusion of that chapter]:
V. All Mouth and Teeth and Motion
Returning, once again, to the question of how the scholar works in time with things that have fallen out of time, I am reminded of a story I encountered recently written by Stephen King titled "The Langoliers." It is, in many respects, a rather silly story, but it constructs a theory of time which I think applies to the way in which we need to begin thinking through the process of how past things--such as the "Beowulf" manuscript, Leonardo's frescoes, and Schulz's murals--relate to the present. The title of King's story refers to a kind of "story-within-the-story" that one of the characters, about midway through the narrative, relates about his childhood. Apparently, this character's father had been a bullying and frightening tyrant, and whenever he thought his son was being lazy or procrastinating about something he would tell him about "the Langoliers," who were all mouth and teeth and motion and moved with terrifying speed, devouring anything that moved more slowly than they did. They existed in the past, but if you wasted time they would catch up to you and eat you alive. This story so terrified this character when he was a boy that, as a grown man, he is intensely neurotic about wasting time and therefore he becomes the most "unhinged" when he gets caught up in the plot of this story that is, ultimately, about getting stuck outside of time.
In the present action of King's story, ten sleeping passengers on a plane headed for Boston wake up to discover that, even though they are tens of thousands of feet up in the sky, all of the other passengers, including the pilots, have disappeared, leaving behind only their material effects--watches, jewelry, false teeth, eyeglasses, wallets, books and magazines, etc. Somehow, we discover later, they traveled through a "rip" in the fabric of time and wound up in what appears to be an abandoned universe. Luckily, one of the remaining passengers is a pilot and he manages to land the jet in Bangor, Maine, but when the ten survivors deplane they discover that no one is there in the airport or anywhere at all in the surrounding countryside. They soon deduce--never mind how--that they have traveled to the past and it's a very unsafe place to be. In fact, it is literally in the process of using itself up--matches don't work there, the beer in the airport cafe is flat, the sandwiches have no flavor that can be tasted, electricity cannot be generated, and in the distance beyond the hills, they can hear a terrifying sound--similar to gale force winds, or a tornado--which seems to be headed their way. In fact, this is the sound of time itself literally devouring the landscape and anything else in that landscape of material heft and weight.
Realizing that they cannot stay in the past which is, finally, a vacuum that devours everything in its wake, they re-board the plane and head back to Los Angeles, the assumption being that if they go back the exact same way they came (while asleep, of course), they can go back through the time rip and end up back in the present. Never mind how this all works--it's utterly ridiculous from a scientific point-of-view. Nor shall we worry about all the plot complications I haven't shared, such as the subplot about the passenger who told his childhood story about the Langoliers actually going murderously insane and then even being devoured by whirling black holes with multiple rows of gnashing metal teeth (time itself) while the plane lifts off from the Bangor airport. The important thing is, the remaining passengers make it to the Los Angeles airport (with the one exception of the pilot who, after teaching one passenger how to land the plane, stays awake in order to steer the plane through the time rip and therefore heroically sacrifices his life for the others), and guess what? No one is in Los Angeles either, no one at all. They are now in the future and they have to wait for the present to catch up with them, which it eventually does because, oddly enough, this is a horror story with a happy ending.
The moral of the story, finally, is that one cannot travel to the past nor to the future, because nothing is actually there, and the past is even violent and dangerous due to the peculiar physics of the place. In the end, the only place that is livable is the present. But the question is begged: don't the things of the past--those watches and pairs of eyeglasses, the beer bottles and sandwiches, and even the buildings--endure somehow and come into the present, and isn't the past, then, always--if even in fragments--in the present (in other words, not completely devoured by time's voracious maw)? The answer, I think, is both "yes" and also "no," for the obvious reasons--the basic principles of evolutionary biology suffice to demonstrate that the past comes into the present through a process of ferocious will and replication, random accident, and even sheer, dumb luck, and it is through this very same process that the past often stays behind as well. The more important question is: how are we to reckon the evolutionary process by which the past comes into the present, and most properly take account of both what is lost and what remains? How, in other words, do you give the dead what they might have wanted (if you think that's important), while also attending to those around you in the present who might be in need of some possible answers to the difficult question, "why does the past matter?"--and even, the more anxious question, "why does the past matter in this particular instant of time?"
Leonardo may not have cared enough about the future in his fresco preparation in the refectory at Santa Marie delle Grazie, but we know that he was anxious about how some things might get lost in time, and he tried to prepare for it. In 1508, when he was living in Florence and collecting notes for his Codex Arundel, a compendium of many subjects--including astronomy and optics, geology, hydraulics, architecture, war machines, and the flight of birds--he wrote the following note to himself regarding his work before departing for Milan: "Take care of all these matters tomorrow, copy them, and then mark the originals with a sign and leave them in Florence, so that if you lose what you take with you, the invention will not be lost" (qtd. in Alessandro Vezzosi, Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance, trans. Alexandra Bonfante-Warren [New York, 1997], 106).
Ultimately, then, the job of the contemporary scholar is to work to connect the excavated artwork--even when that artwork exists only as a fragment, or only exists in imperfect, perhaps incomplete copies--to what is essentially a re-creative and generative act in the present that will take us closer, not necessarily to how the text or painting might have looked if only it had escaped the ravages of history, but to the more mystical yet also intellectual energies of creative expression which always, in all times and places, has its limits.
emile blauche said...
It is far from axiomatic that a turn to the past opens up alternative presents and possible futures. Too many examples of becoming mired in the past vitiate such a claim. Or perhaps "opens up" is one of those impossibly vague verbs that evade contradiction or negation.
Perhaps what is meant is that turning to the past is a way of generating or calling into existence these alternate presents and possible futures. (#1)
Or perhaps what is meant is that turning to the past is a way of interpreting (as in opening up for analysis) alternate presents and possible futures. (#2)
The first does not make any sense within the terms of any conception of time with which I am familiar. But then I have always favored the Greeks with their chronos and kairos.
The second is problematic since I am not sure how we would ever know that the present we are analyzing is truly "alternative" since, by definition, it constitutes our present, or our experience of the present moment.
Here is something else to consider (something I deal with in a forthcoming essay): there is what I would call the absent past, that is, a past that, phenomenologically speaking, does not exist and never will. This is the past that is no longer an active influence on the present, and is a past only in the historical or narrative sense, when viewed from the outside.
Examples of this absent or nonexistent past that has imposed initial constraints and degrees of freedom on what might be possible experiences include neurophysiological alterations that were indelibly fixed in early development due to, e.g., trauma or conflict. The consequences, e.g., of early, massive socioaffective deprivation as seen in some orphanages (Gunnar, 2001) or the later developmental consequences of early attachment patterns (Sroufe, 1999) are examples.
Anonymous said...
If you are a guardian of the past - who/what are you guarding it for?
I don't think that it is possible to think very far with binaries (all medievalists are this, all sociologists are that). Such generalisations do not work and also ignore the interdisciplinary links between the two fields. Try some kind of grid theory instead?
Secondly what do we all mean by future here? You cannot judge medieval studies only by the books you read in dusty libraries. Many academics spend the majority of their time teaching and administering (both very future centred activities). In my fields (and perhaps also more in the old world than the new) many medievalists (among others) engage directly with the future through local and national planning, leisure, media and education industries. A popular name for this is 'heritage' which has all kinds of political and future-oriented agendas associated with it.
Finally - the socialist/marxist historians I have known personally - have generally been engaged with the future and you can read that in their work all the more when you know their lives. So I think JJC has a point about the unhappy disembodiedness that published work acquires.
Finally (and with smile) I have to say that it was me (not Maslow) who associated B-cog with the cultural sanguinity of getting older. Those two things have been quite a feature of my (and mine's) personal experience in the past 12 months.
Now I must dash - full day of teaching, admin and conservation work to come yet (and yes it is the vacation here too!)
J J Cohen said...
Karl: And -- I would want to stress this, as EJ does -- most medievalists don't see themselves as part of this future-generating process (by "future-generating" I mean simply unhitching the future, proximate or distant, from the imaginatively impoverished burden of being an extension of the present, or of being inevitable). With Eileen we might wonder what would happen if more scholars who study the past in all its distance could see implications for the future in at least some of what they do.
N50: the inevitability of encountering the present in the past is a historicist insight, and it ought to apply to the scholarship that historicists produce as well. Bynum is good on this ... but what could make the investigation richer (and more fraught) is to then ask: what next? what are the implications for thinking beyond the present, or thinking the present in more temporally complex terms? As for medievalists as guardians of the past ... well, I did say "custodians," and I meant that as labelling a self-perception of many medievalists. Should they perceive themselves as such is another question entirely. And as to for whom these medievalists might be guarding the past ... it seems that whenever scholars place the past under lock and key like that, they are preserving their fantasy of the past for themselves under the justification that they are willing something noble and pure to posterity. As if.
J J Cohen said...
E: I like your parable of temporal enfolding. Is there any topic you DON'T have as a forthcoming essay?
J J Cohen said...
Sorry to quote back at such length, but those queries have really stuck with me. I'm wondering where the space for a future is here. "The Langoliers" is a terrifying story, mainly for its inhuman and all-consuming notion of time as utter loss, but just as frightening is its conceptualziation of the future as the same as the present, just waiting for the present's occupants to catch up with and inhabit it. So you get two temporalities, not three: time as present swallowed into oblivion; time as present emptily extended into more of the same. I like how you focus on the material remains (watches, false teeth, uneaten food) not yet swallowed by the teeth and mouth of history -- oops, I mean of the Langoliers -- but I'm wondering how futurity might reside within or alongside such objects. If they are simply inert material then they may as well have been swallowed. Does the answer to the question "why does the past matter in this particular instant of time?" necessary link to the question of the open or closed future?
Anonymous said...
The following is a useful collection of links to resources for the study of public history and heritage:
I do not know whether there are literary equivalents.
Eileen Joy said...
Emile B.'s comments on the possibility of an absent past and what the implications of that "absent past" might be for the present [not an "alternative present" but an actual present--important distinction] brings me back again to the question of ethics--as in: how do we conceive of [or *want* to conceive of] our ethical obligations as historians of the past? What do we think is the *utility* of our work viz. the present? "What do the dead want from us?" Etc. Again, I have been trying to parse these questions in a variety of ways in the book I am working on, and have not settled on an answer, but in response to Emile's question about the "absent past," I offer an excerpt from the "opening" to the chapter from which I earlier shared part of the conclusion:
I. History's Dark Woods
In her provocative essay, "Memory, History, Revelation: Writing the Dead Other," Edith Wyschogrod writes that "The past does not give itself all at once as spectacle . . . but is disclosed by the 'not' that is imprinted . . . sous rature in what is actually imaged and told. . . . To remember is to grasp occurrences in the manner of holding-in-front-of-oneself not only that which was but that which could have been" (in Memory and History in Christianity and Judaism, ed. Michael A. Signer [Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2001], 24). Furthermore, Wyschogrod writes that,
"Some historical narratives contain breaks in structure that I shall call their discursive space of authorization. Such spaces are often signaled by specific forumlae such as the announcement in Exodus, 'I am that I am.' The formula is a warning that there is a blank in the narrative that points to the governance of the events it recounts by that which is altogether outside the narrative. These blank spaces are the placeholders of revelation, a kind of white light that, unlike the formulae that announce them, illuminate the events recounted without ever becoming the focus of visibility." (ibid., 21)
The person wishing to render an accurate picture or account of the past must recognize that "the discursive space of memory is always already an ethical space," and the historian stands, as it were, "under [the] judgment" not only of the absent dead, but also of an "unincorporable infinite" that can only manifest itself in the blank spaces of the "predicative and iterative historical narrative" (ibid., 25, 31-32). Yet, as Wyschogrod also reminds us, if we believe that "history is judged in accordance with the claims of the dead Others," we should also remind ourselves of Nietzsche's caution in "The Uses and Abuses of History": "Who compels you to judge? If it is your wish--you must first prove that you are capable of justice. As judges you must stand higher that that which is to be judged; as it is you have only come later" (ibid., 31). But this is just a caution. Following Wyschogrod's line of thinking, the work of art rescued from the flow of history--such as the "Beowulf" manuscript or Leonardo's "Last Supper"--is both the carrier of a distinct cultural act and memory situated in a particular place and time which states, "it could not have been otherwise"--it was thus, and not thus--and also the placeholder of everything that is exterior to and in excess of that memory, what the Polish writer and artist Bruno Schulz called "the immensity of the transcendental" ("Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass," trans. Celina Wieniewski [Boston, 1978], 14). In his book "Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass," Schulz's narrator argues that there are some events that are too immense to be "contained in mere facts," and which the "ground of reality" cannot carry, and therefore,
"they quickly withdraw, fearing to lose their integrity in the frailty of realization. . . . as a result, white spots appear in our biography--scented stigmata, the faded silvery imprints of the bare feet of angels, scattered footmarks on our nights and days--while the fullness of life waxes, incessantly supplements itself, and towers over us in wonder after wonder. . . . An event may be small and insignificant in its origin, and yet, when drawn close to one's eye, it may open in its center an infinite and radiant perspective because a higher order of being is trying to express itself in it and irradiates it violently." (ibid., 13-14)
The narrator of Schulz's book, in fact, is the young artist-genius and hero of his own mytho-autobiography who continually draws the world close to his own eyes and perceives in it the violent irradiations of this higher order of being; in something as simple as a spring dusk he perceives "labyrinths of depth, warehouses and silos of things, graves that are still warm, the litter, and the rot" (ibid., 47). But perhaps we should also remember here the words of the survivor of Auschwitz, Primo Levi, who worried constantly that it might not be enough for the artist to bear witness to that which others have not seen or experienced, and further, that there are certain realms into which the writer-witness, for all his good intentions, cannot travel:
"We survivors are not only an exiguous but also an anomalous minority: we are those who by their prevarications or abilities or good luck did not touch bottom. Those who did so, those who saw the Gorgon, have not returned to tell about it or have returned mute, but they are the "Muslims," the submerged, the complete witnesses, the ones whose deposition would have a general significance. They are the rule; we are the exception." ("The Drowned and the Saved," trans. Raymond Rosenthal [New York: Vintage Books, 1989], 83-84)
[more in a bit . . . .]
Eileen Joy said...
Still trying to think through the tricky and ethically-fraught relationship of historians to their subject mattter [the "subjects"--human and otherwise] of the past, another bit from a different chapter in the book, which looks at "Beowulf" alongside the paintings of Stanley Spencer and Morrison's novel "Beloved":
III. Marking (Loving) the Dead
One of the most provocative and insistent questions of history is, “what do the dead want from us?” Suffice to say, there is not enough time in the world to adequately answer this question, but I want to suggest that it is that very question that resonates throughout "Beowulf," and lends to it a very modern insistency. The poem is infinitely complex with regard to the question, but one of the possible answers it provides is that the dead want to be marked–they want to be "written," as it were, into the future. They want to matter in the present that follows after them. Beowulf himself represents what Benjamin called "the secret heliotropism" by which "the past strives to turn toward the sun which is rising in the sky of history," and he calls attention to the relationship between memory and "marking" (or, writing), when he conveys to Wiglaf, just before dying, his request that "the battle-warriors will command that a bright mound be built . . . high on the whale-cliffs" (ll. 2802-05). Beowulf desires this not only as a gemyndum ("reminder") for his people, but also as a marker to future seafarers "when their ships drive from afar over the darkness of the flood" (ll. 2806-08) to keep Beowulf in mind. Beowulf’s desire to be marked with a memorial built high on a hill where it will be seen by travelers passing by on their ships, which ships can only come to Beowulf’s grave from a future that is now forever out of his grasp, can be seen as a desire to be kept alive as the marker of a particular historical moment, or memory. Beowulf's command is also a gesture that calls to mind Levinas's erotic caress of the future, in which the hero, just prior to death, always glimpses a last chance. And this caress is erotic, not because, following Freud, it is a "grasping" or "possessing" that seeks power over the Other through fusion, but because, in the more radical way Levinas defines it, it is a reaching out toward what is always "about to come" ("a venir") and which the ethical hero recognizes he cannot actually touch, yet reaches for anyway. It is the heroic gesture par excellence--a reaching through death toward life--that signifies the desire to be with the Other in the future in a voluptuousness of Being.
But the memorial, if built, and seen from afar, is also blank, and accretes with time, not memory, but forgetfulness. The last epithet applied to Beowulf by the poet, that he was "eager for fame" (lofgeornost), has often led critics to assume that Beowulf’s greatest sin (in the eyes of the poet) was his pride, perhaps even, his too-great faith in himself at the expense of a faith in a Christian God or a hereafter, but I want to suggest that Beowulf was always focused on the "hereafter" of the always-present world, and his desire to be "marked" in that present world is also a kind of erotic longing for an embrace with that place–more specifically, with what is vital and alive in it.
I would also like to consider here a juxtaposition of images of embraces with the dead that detail that embrace’s erotic nature, and also raise some disturbing questions about how we in the present can most properly remember the past and mark the dead, especially with relation to traumatic history. Stanley Spencer, one of the three most important English figurative painters of the twentieth century, along with Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud, spent a good deal of his life working on massive visionary canvasses that fused the everyday life of the English village he lived in, Cookham, with the spiritual and the erotic, and he believed that "true modernity necessitated reclamation of the past." One of the recurring themes of his work was resurrection-the first of these, painted from 1924-27, was "The Resurrection: Cookham." Shortly after this, in 1932, he painted one of his most important works, "The Resurrection of the Soldiers," which was part of a monumental cycle of paintings commemorating World War I that was installed at Sandham Memorial Chapel in Burghclere.
The painting shows the soldiers climbing out of their graves bearing white crosses and reuniting with their dead comrades in all manner of embrace. The men are touching everything and also clasping each other–some men (in the background of the painting) are lying close to the mules, one man kneels at Christ’s side, his head in his lap, one man caresses a turtle, while another clasps a dove to his chest. Of the painting, Spencer, who was a soldier in the war, wrote, "During the war, I felt the only way to end the ghastly experience would be if everyone suddenly decided to indulge in every degree or form of sexual love, carnal love, bestiality, anything you like to call it. These are the joyful inheritances of mankind." On a more personal level, Spencer’s painting, "Welcoming Hilda," painted in 1953 after his first and estranged wife’s death from cancer, represented his reunion with her after death, as husband, father, and lover.
Spencer had betrayed Hilda on more than one occasion, and not long after divorcing her in order to marry the painter Patricia Preece–a union that proved to be disastrous–he regretted his decision and spent years urging Hilda for a reconciliation. Only when she was diagnosed with terminal breast cancer did she allow him back, in order to have him with her as she was dying. In the painting, everyone has been returned to a time before the initial break with Hilda–Spencer himself is a young man, and his two daughters, who were in their twenties when Hilda died, are children again. The tone is one of tentative, yet physical joyfulness in which all arms caress and embrace Hilda’s body, but tellingly, Hilda looks away as Spencer kisses her.
This image points to one of the more troubling aspects of what we might call the return of the departed, which is also the return of history, and of history’s Others in the present. In Toni Morrison’s novel "Beloved," the return to 124 Bluestone Road of the daughter, Beloved, who was murdered by her own mother, Sethe, in order to ensure that she would never grow up as a slave, is at first a somewhat joyous occasion for Sethe, who sees a chance to undo her earlier crime and reclaim her lost child, but Beloved’s entrance into the house as a physical presence (literally, from the stream behind the house) is at first preceded by a terrible haunting of that house, in which the ghosts of the past rattle the living out of their wits. One by one, from the time of the initial haunting through the arrival and then tenancy of "the fully dressed woman [who] walked out of the water," all the members of the household, including Sethe’s sons (Howard and Bulgar), her lover, Paul D., and other daughter, Denver, are forced out of the house until it is just Sethe and Beloved, who continually insists to all the other members of the household who try to help and love her, "She [Sethe] is the one. She is the one I need. . . . she is the one I have to have." And, as Morrison’s narrator puts it, Sethe was "licked, tasted, eaten by Beloved’s eyes."
Beloved’s "wanting" of Sethe leads to a type of harrowing possession–both physical and psychic–where Sethe, finally alone in the house with Beloved, and cut off from the rest of her social community, becomes locked in what Freud would have called the repetitive, compulsive "acting out" of the past, in which "the past is performatively regenerated or relived as if it were fully present rather than represented in memory" (LaCapra). Beloved, waxing into grotesque proportions in her somewhat obscene pregnancy–for how can the dead give birth? [but this, of course, is also a metaphor: the present, or future, cannot be "born" out of the traumatic past without horror]–grows increasingly angry, accusing Sethe of having left her behind where "the dead men lay on top of her," but when Sethe begs her forgiveness, Beloved won’t give it, and when Sethe herself becomes angry, Beloved turns violent, breaking plates and windowpanes, thereby keeping in motion the melancholic-manic cycle which, apparently, cannot be broken. But what does Beloved want? At one point in the novel, Beloved, wishing to be pregnant, seduces Paul D. by telling him she wants to be touched "on the inside part" and for someone to call out her name. Paul D. resists at first, but when he does finally give in, he loses himself in the calling of that name, just as Sethe eventually loses her mind. In the end, all that is left of Beloved–and the same could be said of Beowulf–is her name, which both marks and fills her absence.
[well, this is all still "in a muddle"--any comments will help me revise!]
Cheers, Eileen
J J Cohen said...
You've written powerfully about the desire of the dead for continuance, for futurity, but the examples you give are of the dead who desire to stop time. Beowulf wants through his architecural transformation of the landscape hronesnes to be henceforth known as Beowulfes burh, but no one ever calls it that; even the text refers to the place as hronesnes as the dead hero is memorialized there. Would Beowulf's mound, the repository of the dragon's treasure, be all that different from the dragon's mound, the dwelling of a doppelganger who likewise intended to rest there forever, and a structure built by a vanished race even older than the dragon? Isn't a similar demand being issued by Beloved, that the past-as-present be extended rather than transformed or opened up to some future? Isn't that the problem with the undead (aptrgangr) in Icelandic sagas, that the animated corpse will not release the present from the past's grip, that he demands a future as selfsame as those frozen temporality he inhabits in his own burial mound or dying place?
I understand very well that "what do the dead want from us?" is an ethical question, the answer to which can be "justice." Justice is as addressed to the future as it is to the past; justice is temporally catalytic. But it might also be that sometimes the demands of the dead if heeded will not admit of any future -- they foreclose it rather than allow anyone "to be written,' as it were, into the future" because "the present that follows after them" is like the empty airport of "The Langoliers," a suffocating projection of the eternal same.
Eileen Joy said...
JJC wrote that, even if we do "medieval studies" work that locates "the present in the past" [or, I might say, "the past in the present"], the more important work might be to ask, "what next? what are the implications for thinking beyond the present, or thinking the present in more temporally complex terms?" In order to begin contemplating possible answers to this question, we likely need to think of some concrete examples whereby we can locate the present in the past [as in the work of Bynum, say, the way in which we can see how certain questions of self/identity perdure over time, from medieval werewolf stories to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," or from medieval practices of religious fasting to contemporary anorexia, etc.] or the past in the present [i.e. Kathleen Biddick's "The Shock of Medievalism" or many of the chapters in Cohen et al.'s "The Postcolonial Middle Ages" or in Kruger and Burger's "Queering the Middle Ages/Historicizing Postmodernity"]. Likewise, if we want to further pursue JJC's questions as to "how futurity might reside within or alongside" artifacts of the past, and whether or not the answer to the question, "why does the past matter in this particular instant of time," *necessarily* "link[s] to the question of the open or closed future," we will also have to have some concrete examples [which E.B., I might often add, is often very good at providing for his own arguments]. In his Afterword to our book, recently re-titled for the umpteenth freaking time, "Cultural Studies of the Modern Middle Ages" [formerly known as "Medieval, Reality, Television"], Prof. Cohen wrote eloquently about a pig as a "temporal container" and connected that idea with both medieval religious practice and the current "crisis" in France over Muslim immigrant communities. Many of the readers of this blog may remember that JJC shared a good portion of that essay here, so I won't go over it again, except to say that it was a good example of using a concrete material object--the pig--as well as of connecting the medieval past to the present relative to a highly politically-charged question regarding the future [what is France going to do, or what *should* France do, regarding its so-called "crisis" with its Muslim immigrant communities?]. Does that make sense?
Also, before we try, again, to "think through" these questions JJC has posed, we also have to go back to what might be called the oldest question posed by historians--why does history matter at all?--and remind ourselves of all the reasons why the conventional answers have proven to be either untenable, untrue most of the time, or too difficult to prove [and note, too, that most of these answers have often been future-oriented]. Traditionally, the answers have been:
a. we study history so we won't make the same mistakes [but we *do* make the same mistakes, BUT, they're never really "the same," because no two times are ever exactly alike]
b. we study history because if we can see where we have been, we are better able to predict where we are going [I call this the evolutionary model, but time, as it turns out, does not just have one direction, no matter what some physicists or neo-Hegelians argue, although, in politics, it *can* be very useful to be able to survey the terrain already traveled--think of feminism in the U.S., for example].
c. we study history, and record it names & events, because we have an obligation to "remember," or to "honor the dead" [this is "sacred history," which is, at bottom, a religious enterprise, even, a religious imperative--but what if there is no divine authority figure--what then?--why should the dead matter so much?--is a non-foundational sacred history possible?--that question actually informs much of my own work with the medieval past]
d. we study history because, well, it's just plain interesting [the history "amusement park" model, a la Bede's World, PBS reality programs like "Manor House," etc.]
e. we study history because it helps us understand "who we are" [as if we could have only turned out "one way"--here, E.B.'s question about the "absent past" is helpful for problematizing this axiom]
And so on and so forth.
Eileen Joy said...
In response to JJC's recent post that, "it might also be that sometimes the demands of the dead if heeded will not admit of any future -- they foreclose it rather than allow anyone "to be written,' as it were, into the future" because "the present that follows after them" is like the empty airport of "The Langoliers," a suffocating projection of the eternal same,"--NO kidding. That was exactly the point I was trying to make, if somewhat awkwardly, through Spencer's painting "Welcoming Hilda" and Morrison's "Beloved," where the desires of those locked in the places where the "dead men" lie on top of them, can be suffocating and strangulating upon the present. There is a danger in wanting to, let's say, "resurrect the dead" [Morrison's novel seems to say, if you resurrect your dead child so you can "undo" your original crime against her, she will not thank you for it--instead, she will destroy you by eating you alive, because it isn't "honor" she wants, it's *life/living*]. So, yeah, I agree, too, that Beowulf wants a kind of historical stasis--a material place in the landscape, in this instance--that will always mark/bear the memory of him as a person, but also as a kind of mythic figure; but I would also argue that there is also the desire, however fragile and ultimately kind of hopeless, to want to be--somehow and some way--always among the living, in their midst, vibrant and alive and never dead.
Eileen Joy said...
Let me qualify a bit my last statement, with some repetition:
I would also argue that there is also the desire, [in Beowulf's wanting to be remembered] however fragile and ultimately kind of hopeless, to want to be--somehow and some way--always among the living, in their midst, vibrant and alive and never dead, *not* in order to arrest the flow of time or to keep it locked in place or foreclosed, but to always be in the *flow* of time as it moves, ceaselessly, through places and bodies [which are also places, and for us humans, the most important location of our fragile, tenuous selves], in order to always feel that voluptuousness of being-becoming [as opposed to nonbeing].
Eileen Joy said...
And one last thing [haha]--
but it goes without saying, doesn't it, that avoiding the eventual "nonbeing of everything" is not an option, right [in other words, not only my own life, but the life of the universe, too, has a terminus--unless science changes that, somehow]? How might this change our *need* of the past viz. the present & future?
J J Cohen said...
Eileen, I definitely get your point about "Welcoming Hilda" and Beloved -- good stuff, here, too about mourning, art, and the future. But I guess I'm wondering how beowulf is NOT like an aptrgangr or Beloved, if his desires are to be realized (he seems so out of time to me, and by that I mean a remnant of a past that doesn't know it is out of synch). Can you say some more about these eloquent lines: desire, [in Beowulf's wanting to be remembered] however fragile and ultimately kind of hopeless, to want to be--somehow and some way--always among the living, in their midst, vibrant and alive and never dead, *not* in order to arrest the flow of time or to keep it locked in place or foreclosed, but to always be in the *flow* of time as it moves, ceaselessly, through places and bodies?
Eileen Joy said...
To me, Beowulf is "out of time," as JJC says, not because he is a remnant of the past, but because, in his own world [i.e. 4th-5th-century "Migration Era" Europe or 10th-century Anglo-Saxon England], he is actually, I think, "from the future." Roberta Frank once described Beowulf as a "novus homo" in history; I referred to him in my dissertation as "a man in the middle" of history--he comes from the future [a place that is forward-looking--he's a kind of unusual-for-the-times diplomat as regards Danish-Geatish relations] but gets "stuck" in a present he can't escape [i.e., for all of his forward-looking leadership, he can't escape the dragon, who often "sleeps" but never "dies" and is the outsized embodiment of a certain human greed/rage]. As to saying more about my typification of Beowulf's "desire" to be remembered, and *how*, let me think about that a bit more. Where I am at present, the sun does not set until about 9:30, and it's time for a glass of white wine of the deck overlooking the Smoky mountains and my current copy of "Vogue" [thanks to Betsy M. who I know reads this blog!].
Eileen Joy said...
And I have to be careful, too, of how I typify what might be called Beowulf's desires, since I can only "psychologize" him as far as the text will allow. But I *do* believe that many of Beowulf's actions and speeches within the poem reveal a mind that is restless in its desire to, as I also put it in my diss., "always be *coming* rather than *going*." But then, I'd have to parse that out a bit more, wouldn't I?
Wouldn't it be great to have someone you could dictate your blog posts to as you continued to drink wine and gazed at the mountains?
J J Cohen said...
I'll look forward to hearing more about your Beowulf from the future in the future, Eileen, since he is so very different (I suppose) from the Beowulf who has lived with me for so long. But at your leisure: the blog has a future that I hope stretches to the crack o doom. And it would be a great guest post, so that it wouldn't have to dwell an exile in the comments.
Enjoy your wine. As to the Cohens, we have gorged on summer ice cream and now must prepare baths to immerse the filthy progeny.
Anonymous said...
History Matters: Pass it On!
Launched today in the UK by a variety of academics, NGOs and GOs.
Read about it in the press.
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The 35-lb collar slides along the smooth rod. If the collar is released from rest at A, determine its speed when it passes point B. The spring has an unstretched length of 3 ft.
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Thursday, 21 July 2011
How To Make A Long Distance Relationship Work
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Let me just start by saying: Long distance relationships suck. I don't suggest moving halfway across the world and falling in love when you know full well that your work visa is going to expire in six months. But like so many people, the man I love is not exactly the boy next door. I'm lucky enough to have him here with me now, but here's a few things I learned about how to survive a long distance relationship and making it work when you're miles apart.
One thing my boyfriend and I did that really helped us stay connected was we created a "relationship tumblr" and posted all sorts of things to it. I actually just read through the whole thing and it made me laugh so much. Tumblr lets you post pictures straight from your webcam so it's really easy to give them quick, cute update pictures of what you're up to. We posted songs that reminded us of each other. Ben even posted a video of himself dancing to my favorite Smiths song. It made me smile every time I watched it. It was so nice to come home every day and check what he'd posted on the tumblr for me. One day on Skype he told me to check the tumblr for what he'd posted, so I logged on expecting to see a picture of Pauly D or something, but instead I saw this. It was the best moment ever!
Another way to keep connected and keep them updated is get a twitter account. Usually there is nothing worse than people who constantly tweet about what they're eating or watching on tv, but when you're in a long distance relationship you actually kind of care about that mundane stuff. With social networking nowadays, it's easier than ever to be at each others fingertips. Don't tell other people what your twitter account is, and then you won't feel you have to censor it for the masses. It can be your guys' own personal chit chat tool.
From now on, Skype is your best friend. Oh my god, what would we have done without Skype. It's so wonderful to see their face when they wake up (yes, you have to get up early to say goodnight to them, it's worth it.) or actually see them laugh, instead of just hearing it. It's important to put in the effort to make sure you don't slack on calling each other and that you're online when you said you would be. Remember, your both sex deprived so you're going to be a bit moody. It takes two minutes to install Skype if you're staying at a friends house for the night. Another thing we used to do was watch TV shows online with the show open in one window, and Skype open on the other side so we felt like we were watching together.
Send them packages of things significant to where you are. For example, I really miss English things like Jaffa Cakes and PG Tips tea, so that would have been a perfect thing for Ben to send me. You can write them a nice hand written card that you can even spritz with your perfume. I know it sounds really, really cheesy but scent and memory are very closely linked and it's comforting to smell them when you're feeling down.
Resist other people. You are most likely going to meet people of the opposite sex and when you're lonely and craving love they may seem tempting. Also, as I mentioned before, you're sex deprived and propably pulling your hair out with frustration. It's easy to forget, after a few cocktails and some pick up lines, that you've got someone miles away who you love and that this random guy is not better than him. Trust is so important when you're far away from each other. Be strong, go home and have a wank. You'll be with the one you really want soon enough.
Don't get married to your computer. Go out and live your life! In order to keep your Skype conversations interesting, you have to have interesting things to talk about. Most of the conversations you'll end up having will be about what you did that day, and I doubt your boyfriend wants to hear about the Real Housewives marathon you watched, no matter how much drama there was. Go to concerts, art shows, paint them pictures, make an awesome summer checklist and then do it! Make sure you continue being the vibrant, exciting person they fell in love with.
Don't expect every call to be perfect. You will still argue sometimes and there will be times when you have nothing interesting to say to each other. When that happens, it's better to just end to call and don't dwell on it. Nobody gets along all the time and just because your last phone call was a bit lacking, it doesn't mean they don't love you or they're out there boning some loser. Sometimes you're just not in the mood to chat, even to the person you love most in the world.
Well, there you have it. It's not easy, and I'm not saying I never cried or doubted if we would make it. But we did, and it was worth every minute we spent apart to be together now. I wish you all the best of luck, and commend you for your dedication to your relationship!
1. exactly! rigth now skyping across the ocean..)
2. @chestnutmocha
Aw, I wish you both all the best.
3. yeahh! it's so hard! thanks for the tips!
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Amanda Vanstone
Amanda Vanstone
Born in Adelaide, Amanda Vanstone studied Arts and Law at the University of Adelaide and before entering politics worked in the legal area, retailing and small business.
Amanda entered the Australian Parliament in 1984 and was a Liberal Senator for South Australia from 1984 to 2007. She was the only female member of the Howard Cabinet following the 1996 election that brought the coalition to power. She held several ministerial portfolios in the Howard Government including Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs, Minister for Justice and Customs, Minister for Family and Community Services, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Status of Women, Minister for Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs, and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Reconciliation.
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
and now for some dumb pastor news
I don't know what to say... Pastor Shoots off cat's head.
Virginia - A volunteer firefighter who leads weekly religious services at a homeless shelter received a suspended sentence for shooting the head off a neighbour's cat.
Jonathan Hubert Powell, 39, said he decapitated the cat, named Garcia, because it was scratching his car, according to his testimony.
But on Monday, Powell said he shot at what he thought was a raccoon or possum.
He was convicted of animal cruelty in the April 2006 shooting and received the two-year suspended sentence.
After his sentencing, Powell said he learned some "very valuable lessons" that he hopes to share in his ministry.
"I'm sorry that an animal had to die," he said. "I will admit I made a very poor decision."
I don't have anything snaky to say. I must not be feeling well.
The Anonymous Atheist said...
Damn, I want to know where that is! I live in Virginia, and I'd like to know how far away this guy is.
yinyang said...
Isn't cruelty to animals one of the signs of a serial killer?
tina said...
Please don't let your animals roam free. It's all for the better, diseases, attacks by other animals, more babies, feral cats spraying doors marking territories, it just makes sense. I feel bad for the people that owned the kitty though, they're like part of your family. This guy is a pastor??
Johnny Crow said...
I guess I just think a bit differently, If you have a varmint or creature that is on your property, I would shoo it away or even do what the guy did. I would have shot the damn thing. Then again if you didn't know it was a cat then he shouldn't have shot at it in the first place... but that is besides the point... I just don't see how this is bad. Also whether he was religious or a pastor or not is moot, he was a guy who shot at a cat or animal because it was on his property and fuckin with his shit. Sounds like me. lol. Thats just my two cents.
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A wounded boy is treated by a doctor in Aleppo, Syria, where the civil war is expected to have a terrible psychological impact on children.
A child's 'chain of violence' in the Syrian crisis
Many say the Arab Spring took root in Syria after the detention, torture and murder by government forces of a 13-year-old boy named Hamza Al Khateeb.
He was arrested at a protest in Daraa in April last year. When he was returned to his family nearly a month later, his lifeless body bore burn marks, broken kneecaps, three gunshot wounds and mutilated genitals.
His death became an early rallying point for opponents of Bashar Al Assad's regime, who organised under the slogan "We Are All Hamza Al Khateeb". Since his death, about 2,000 more children have died as Syria has become mired in civil war.
For the children who will escape the conflict physically unscathed, questions remain about the long-term psychological impacts.
For an indication of what might be ahead for the children of Syria, one only needs to look across the border to Israel and the Palestinian Territories.
A study released two months ago based on 1,500 Palestinian, Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Israeli children showed that a "chain of violence" is created when children are exposed to ethnic and political conflict. The younger the children are, the more strongly they are affected and the more aggressive they become in response.
The findings, based on peer-reviewed research funded by the US-based National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, are seen has having profound implications on how disputes become intractable.
The study involved three yearly sets of interviews with 600 Palestinian families, 451 Israeli-Jewish families and 450 Israeli-Arab families. In each group, one third were 8 years old at the time of the first round of interviews, another third were 11 and the final third were 14.
The research began in 2005, around the time of the end of the Second Intifada.
Paul Boxer, the lead author of the study, said the evidence was clear: ethnic and political violence adversely affect children, especially the very young.
"We found that over time, exposure to all kinds of violence was linked to increased aggressive behaviour among the children," said Boxer, a Rutgers University psychologist.
"We also found that these effects were strongest among the youngest age group, and that they appear to result from a chain of influence in which ethnic-political violence increases violence in families, schools and neighbourhoods, which in turn increases aggressive behaviour among children."
The exposure to violence was quantified by asking the children and their parents questions such as: how often a friend or acquaintance had been injured as a result of political or military violence; how often they had spent a long period of time in a security shelter or under curfew and how often they had witnessed actual violence.
They were also quizzed about the exposure of violence in the community that was not ethnic or political, such as violence at school and violence within the family.
Children were asked how often in the last year they had engaged in violent behaviours such as pushing, punching, hitting or choking, saying mean things, or taking others' things without asking.
They found that Palestinian children had the greatest exposure to violence, although Israeli Jews experienced more security checks and threats. Palestinian children also showed the highest levels of aggressive behaviour. Boys experienced more violence and displayed higher levels of aggression than girls.
Rowell Huesmann, the co-author of the study and a research director at the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research, is a veteran of several studies about the impact of violence on the young, including western children who watch violent television or movies or play violent video games.
"Violence is really like a contagious disease," he said.
"Except in one sense, it's worse. With contagious diseases, you have to be near the person in order to get it. Violence is contagious even at a distance.
"We found that late childhood was a critical period. The children who were 8 years old at the start of our study were more susceptible than older children to the effects of witnessing violence."
The results are unsettling, but not surprising. An earlier study by Huesmann based on the same study showed both Palestinian and Israeli children are being psychologically scarred.
Roughly half of all Palestinian children aged between 11 and 14 had seen other Palestinians upset or crying because someone they knew had been killed by Israelis. Nearly as many had seen in person Palestinians who were injured or dead as a result of Israeli attacks in the previous year.
The figures in reverse - of Israeli children seeing the effects on other Israelis of attacks by Palestinians - were more than one quarter and nearly 10 per cent.
Although the Palestinians' experience was worse and they were seeing "extraordinary amounts of very disturbing violence in their daily lives", Huesmann said both groups' exposure to violence was appallingly high.
"This exposure is very deleterious. It is associated with dramatic increases in post-traumatic stress symptoms and increases in aggressive behaviour directed at peers," he added.
The reaction was directed inwards, in the form of fear, anxiety, nightmares and incapacitating thoughts, or outwards, in the form of increased violence towards others.
He said the study also showed the behaviour was a reaction to what was being experienced rather than characteristics of the subjects' families.
What has happened to the children caught in the Palestinian-Israeli dispute - and is likely to happen to the children caught in the middle of Syria's civil war - is also being compared to other parts of the world associated with a culture of blood feuds.
The mindset is described as a "culture of honour", characterised by a tendency to avoid unintentional offence to others but also with a low tolerance to perceived slights by others.
Sicily, Corsica, the Basque country in the Pyrenees and Greece are examples of feuding cultures, as are the southern states of the United States.
When University of Michigan social scientists Richard Nisbett and Dov Cohen investigated why the southern states had significantly higher rates of violence than northern states, they did an experiment in which young men were recruited for an undisclosed task.
After having their testosterone and cortisol levels measured, they were asked to complete a questionnaire and then walk down a long, narrow hallway to submit it to a proctor, who would utter an insult under his breath as he accepted it.
In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell said there was only one significant difference that predicted how the young men responded.
"The deciding factor isn't how emotionally secure you are, or whether you are an intellectual or a jock, or whether you are physically imposing or not," he wrote.
"What matters … is where you're from. The young men from the northern part of the United States, for the most part, treated the incident with amusement. They laughed it off. Their handshakes were unchanged. Their levels of cortisol actually went down, as if they were unconsciously trying to defuse their own anger.
"But the southerners? Oh my. They were angry. Their cortisol and testosterone jumped. Their handshakes got firm."
The experiment went a step further. After being insulted, the subjects walked back along the narrow corridor, where they met an imposing 6 feet 3 inch man who was secretly part of the experiment. They would test how close they got to the man before stepping out of the way.
The northerners got out of the way two metres before meeting the man, whether they had been insulted or not. The southerners were more deferential if they had not been insulted, stepping aside nearly three metres away, but if he had just been insulted, they waited until they were less than 60 centimetres away.
Theories vary about why the southerners had such short fuses when insulted - one is that they were descendants of herdsmen from the lawless borderlands of the United Kingdom - but the implications for places like Syria and more widely through the Middle East is that behaviours and attitudes become entrenched and can continue to affect behaviour generations later.
And for the traumatised children of Palestine and Syria and their increased tendency to violence, that is troubling indeed.
John Henzell is a senior features writer for The National.
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Remote rural landscapes are often critical for biodiversity conservation, and also for supplying natural resources vital for rural human livelihoods. Underlying policies and programmes on sustainable development is the assumption that use of natural resources to fulfil human needs can be sustainable. The Addis Ababa Principles and Guidelines (AAPG) provide a solid basis on which to try to achieve this - to ensure that management planning for natural resource use considers the needs and rights of potential users, while also emphasizing the need to minimize damage to biodiversity and the ecosystem.
A further consideration, recognized in the (AAPG), is the use of science to assess how this balance can be achieved, and the recognition that knowledge of both biological and social systems is essential if the conservation and societal goals are to be met. Those goals can only be met if we know the productivity of the resource being used, the limits to sustainable offtake levels, and hence the potential of the resource to provide livelihood support. If offtake is unsustainable, no amount of politically wishful thinking will prevent the resource from being depleted, and people from being tied to a declining resource base.
An illustration of this is a case example: the use of wild meat by people living across the tropics. Although very specific, the underlying principle of understanding the limits to natural productivity, and using that in management planning, applies equally to any other natural resources which are intimately linked to livelihood support.
Definition - Sustainable use
Defining sustainability is difficult, given the complexities of biological systems, and the range of relevant management goals. If the concern is wildlife conservation, hunting can be regarded as sustainable if hunted populations do not consistently decline in numbers over time or are not reduced to levels where they are vulnerable to extinction. Given the importance of hunted species to people, it is also important to include a third criterion for sustainability: that hunted populations are not reduced to levels where they can no longer meet human needs.
Importance of wild meat to tropical forest peoples
Many rural peoples across the tropics still depend on wild meat for their nutrition. E.g.:
• Two-thirds of the meals of a remote Kelabit community in Sarawak, Malaysia, contain wild meat, and it is their main source of protein.
• Efe Pygmies in the Ituri Forest, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, eat about 160g of wild meat per person per day.
• Ten indigenous groups in Latin America consume an average of 184g of wild meat per person per day. Some rural hunting communities eat even larger quantities of wild meat. Especially if other foods are scarce, people can obtain much of their overall nutrition from wild mammals. Estimates of daily consumption of wild meat per person include: 160-290g for families in northern Republic of Congo, 250g for the Yanomamo in Amazonia, and more than 250g for the Kalahari bushmen in southern Africa. The Yanomamo and also certain rural peoples in Central Africa eat more meat than many people in developed countries.
Variation in potential supply of wildlife from different tropical ecosystems
Productivity of an ecosystem for wild meat depends on the number of breeding animals per unit area, their size (the amount of meat per animal), and the average number of offspring per capita per unit time. The former two factors are captured by measuring biomass. Tropical grasslands commonly support mammal biomasses of 15,000 - 20,000 kg/km2. Most are fast-breeding ungulates and rodents. Thus, in grasslands, significant amounts of wildlife can be hunted and still be sustainable. In the humid tropics, human-disturbed areas such as farm fallows can also be very productive for rodents and ungulates. In contrast, mammal biomass in intact tropical forests rarely exceeds 3,000 kg/km2, and most are primates which breed slowly; thus overall productivity for wild meat is low. Tropical forests can only sustainably support a maximum of only one person/km2 if they rely solely on wild meat for their protein.
The limited productivity of tropical forests for wild meat means that options for livelihood support and poverty alleviation strategies based on hunting are limited, especially as human populations grow. Across most of the humid tropics, use of wildlife for food is already unsustainable. E.g., in Tangkoko Duasudara Nature Reserve, North Sulawesi, from 1978 to 1993, hunting reduced the number of crested black macaques by 75%, anoa and maleo birds by 90%, and bear cuscus by 95%. In Bioko, Equatorial Guinea, hunting has reduced primate populations by 90% in some areas and to local extinction in others. And in 23 heavily-hunted sites across Amazonia, densities of large mammals have been reduced by 81%. If heavy hunting and wildlife trade continues, whole populations disappear. In the last 40 years, 12 species of large animals have become extinct or virtually extinct in Vietnam mainly as a result of over-hunting.
The people who immediately suffer as wildlife disappears are the millions across the tropics living at the development frontier, who are often the poorest and most marginalized in their countries. As their lands are opened up, wildlife declines. These people typically lack the education, skills and cultural context to take advantage of cash-earning jobs. They also lack capital or access to agricultural markets, so cannot readily switch to alternative livelihoods or food sources. They sometimes sell wildlife for cash, but if this is unsustainable, both their protein source and income vanish. Between 1975 and 1985, as their land was opened up by roads and hunting pressure increased, the proportion of successful hunts of the Agta in the Philippines declined from 63 to 16%, and the number of kills per hunt declined from 1.15 to 0.16 animals. The Agta went from being hunters of abundant wildlife in primary forests, to being struggling foragers with inadequate wildlife resources. The protein intake of the Yuquí Indians in Bolivia declined from 88g to 44g of protein per person per day after their lands were opened up to outsiders. Thus, the supply of wild meat is not meeting the demand. Theoretical calculations from Central Africa predict that, at current harvest rates, wild meat supplies will decline by 81% over the next 50 years.
Many more people do not depend on wildlife as a full-time source of food or income, but as a buffer to see them through times of hardship such as unemployment, crop failure, or warfare. That buffer goes if the wildlife disappears.
Thus, as human populations grow, the amount of wild meat which can be supplied from tropical forests will become increasingly unable to support human livelihoods. Moreover, the productivity of the wildlife resource is insufficient to provide capital to raise people out of poverty and into other livelihoods. Exceptions are rare, and occur where people are at extremely low population densities, e.g., the Amana Sustainable Development Reserve, Brazil, where human population densities are about 0.1 people/km2.
Savannahs and human influenced landscapes can, in theory, produce more wild meat, so their capacity to support both biodiversity conservation and human livelihood support through harvesting of wildlife is greater. Even here, however, the supply of wild meat in these systems has limits. The systems are highly variable and cannot easily be quantified, but sustainable offtake will be exceeded if human populations are high, and if offtake is supplying significant outside commercial markets.
Implications for management
How do we ensure that we conserve biodiversity and ecosystem function (Principles 4 and 5) while also respecting the rights and needs of local communities (Principles 9 and 10)?
Systems can be sustainable, but we must acknowledge that:
• There are biological limits to the amount of wild meat that natural systems can supply sustainably.
• If the people who truly depend on the resource are to continue to use it sustainably, management must ensure that user rights are clear and legally codified, and that systems are in place to ensure that only they have access to the resource.
• This usually means preventing commercial trade, and outsiders from hunting in traditional lands.
• Human livelihoods are most effectively sustained in highly modified ecosystems, where humans have intensified agriculture and grazing systems.
• To achieve sustainable landscapes, planning must be at a landscape scale. These must contain areas dedicated to production of food to meet human needs, and areas dedicated to conserving wildlife.
Consumption of wild meat is one specific case example. To examine the role which any natural resource can play in sustaining human livelihoods, a similar examination of the productivity of the resource and the needs of the users is essential in planning any extraction regime. Only if we do this can we ensure that the Addis Ababa principles of balancing human rights and needs with biodiversity conservation will be met.
Robinson, J.G. and Bennett, E.L. (2004). Having your wildlife and eating it too: an analysis of hunting sustainability across tropical ecosystems. Animal Conservation 7: 397-408.
Elizabeth Bennett is Director of the Hunting & Wildlife Trade Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society. Email:
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Achieving loud, rich sound from micro speakers
Shawn Scarlett, Director of Marketing, Mobile Audio, NXP Semiconductors
7/25/2012 11:34 AM EDT
While the video screens of mobile phones, tablets and notebooks have seen stunning improvements, audio performance has lagged far behind. Phone speakers still sound quiet and tinny, limited by their tiny size. Designers use various techniques to increase the volume and sound quality, but with limited success. They also bring risks: blown speakers are a common cause of failures in mobiles.
Simply limiting the output power makes for a poor user experience, and doesn't protect against blocked speaker ports or high ambient temperatures. Temperature measurements can help but do little to improve sound quality. High-pass filters reduce the speaker excursion at the resonant frequency but cut out too much bass.
Feed-forward techniques can improve bass response but on their own aren't enough and the can be a reliability risk. Additionally, clipping and low battery voltages can degrade sound quality even further.
This article will address these issues, as well as discuss NXP's new TFA9887 - offered as the first IC to solve all these problems, using a combination of techniques including adaptive excursion control.
Speakers come full circle
Speakers and phones have developed hand-in-hand for over 150 years. The first speakers were used in telephone receivers, shortly afterwards they branched off into sound reinforcement and grew larger and more powerful.
In the 1980s and 90s things came full circle. Modern mobile phones have two speakers. One, still called a receiver, is in the earpiece. The second is for sound reinforcement, for things like ringtones, music playback and hands-free calling.
Micro speakers try to bridge the gap, aiming to produce room-filling sound from a tiny volume. What began with a move to play better polyphonic ringtones has now grown towards using a cell phone instead of a home stereo. These speakers are caught between two opposing trends, more output power and smaller size. As these trends accelerate, speaker designers are starting to look for new and innovative ways to get the best possible sound.
Modern micro speakers have a permanent magnet and a voice coil that is attached to a diaphragm that pushes the air to create sound. The entire speaker is enclosed in protective box that provides the "back volume" for the speaker to push against and project the sound from the speaker.
Output limited by temperature...
The first way to get more sound out of a speaker is simply to put more electrical power in. Small micro speakers rated at ½ Watt can generally handle many times that for very short periods. All the extra power going in has to come out somewhere, though.
Maximizing efficiency converts as much power as possible into sound. However, much is still wasted as heat in the voice coil. This 'self heating' is directly related to the current in the voice coil. If the temperature climbs too high, the glue holding the voice coil together can be torn apart (Figure 1).
Figure 1: Dissipating too much heat can tear the voice coil apart.
The speaker is cooled by conducting the heat out through the membrane, case and other components and by the cooling effect of moving air from the sound waves themselves. Lower frequencies generate more air movement causing more cooling and hence allowing higher powers.
This relation breaks down if the speaker port is blocked, the air movement is restricted or the ambient temperature rises. If the air cannot cool the coil, the internal temperature rises much faster than expected, and the speaker can be damaged in a few seconds. The relationship between coil temperature, power level, frequency, duration, ambient temperature, and airflow is complex, and is virtually impossible to reliably predict.
...and speaker excursion
Because micro speakers must be small, it is easy to move the diaphragm further than the maximum allowable excursion (typically around 0.4 mm). As speakers get thinner, the excursion becomes smaller, which is a major restriction on output sound level.
A speaker's biggest excursion problem comes at and near its resonant frequency. At the resonant frequency the membrane moves easily, so small amounts of power can push the speaker beyond its limit. Micro speaker systems normally add a high-pass filter at around 1000 Hz to reduce the excursion. This can minimize the impact of the resonance peak, but losing the bass significantly degrades the sound quality.
The resonant frequency can change dramatically over the operating conditions, too. Temperature, ageing, a poorly designed phone case, and changes in the acoustic environment like blocking a speaker port will all cause shifts in the resonant frequency. Wear-and-tear on the phone case can also cause leaks in the speaker's back-volume. Any of these changes can cause speaker failure in a fixed-filter system.
Tony Casey
7/26/2012 4:08 AM EDT
It is not strictly correct to state that loudspeaker impedance rises linearly with temperature. Only the resistive part of impedance due to the voice coil behaves this way.
Over most of the frequency range of a typical moving coil loudspeaker, the impedance is dominated by either the motional impedance caused by back-emf at low frequencies, or voice coil inductance at high frequencies. It is only essentially resistive in a narrow frequency range between these two, where it is largely determined by the voice coil resistance.
Any attempt to infer temperature by measuring current, must therefore take this into account (presumably by bandpass filtering the current sense signal).
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7/30/2012 2:06 AM EDT
Good point. But the *rise* in impedance should be linear with temperature. so, if you take a 25C measurement across the spectrum, you should get a nice linear increase across the full spectrum as temperature increases.
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Tony Casey
7/30/2012 7:06 AM EDT
That's not something you can rely on either.
For example, suspension compliance will change significantly with temperature, changing both the resonant frequency and impedance peak. Moving mass, on the other hand, should remain constant. :-)
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8/1/2012 6:02 AM EDT
Yes, and not only with temperature but with aging. Ideally, positional determination should be independent.
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7/26/2012 12:20 PM EDT
OK, so as far as I can tell the cone positional information is not exactly acquired in real time (which would be very difficult) but rather developed as a model which resides in the DSP.
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7/26/2012 12:58 PM EDT
Does this part have any value for piezo speakers?
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7/26/2012 3:21 PM EDT
While what the author is stating is true it is much more important to provide a means of acoustic control over the diaphragm. The low frequencies need not be limited by back EMF nor the highs by inductance if a means to provide constant pressure behind the driver is provided. Typically the driver will have a more shallow roll off and not experience as much breakup under these conditions. Pat.7207413 B2 and others pending to allow for dynamic volume modification of the enclosed volume behind the driver. Impedance variations are also not as aggressive and critically damped resonance peaks enhance bass response. These conditions are established pre-electronics allowing for less aggressive DSP requirements to fix the speaker.
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7/27/2012 8:37 AM EDT
Author has briefed an important topic and triggered my thoughts. Always there is research going on improving the quality of the sound produce by the loud speakers. This is because the loud speaker efficiency is around 5% maximum. When it comes to fidelity again a quite a lot of limitations. This is because the speaker has to reproduce about more than a 1000 different types musical instruments sounds from a big drum to a smallest string instrument.So naturally it is difficult to design a single transducer to reproduce these sounds.And micro loudspeakers really tough to satisfy.Researchers can think of any other new type of transducer.
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8/3/2012 7:13 PM EDT
How about using some of that air pumping functionality to cool the coil?
Add a sub chamber and and a mechanical diode (one way valve for the air) and project it along the coil or better inside it.
badabing badabong.
Now only do this at the exteme travel points and add damping and only pump cooling air when at max power when you need it.
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Here's a simple, yet frustrating, problem. I cannot check my oil, because the dipstick is stuck fast to the tube.
I don't really want to pull and twist so hard that it breaks off.
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Try pulling it when the engine is hot. A that point the metals might have expanded a little and you might actually get it out.
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I agree - you might want to add a couple of firm taps with a metal mallet as well. Don't bend anything - you just want to let any corrosion or adhesion know that you mean business. – Bob Cross Mar 26 '12 at 1:06
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Travel light and keep moving
It’s nice, I guess, to be credited as the founder or initiator of a literature that has burgeoned in the law reviews over the last ten or twelve years. Hence, I enjoyed noting a newly published article by Ilan Benshalom and Kendra Stead, entitled “Values and (Market) Valuations: A Critique of the Endowment Tax Consensus,” which begins as follows:
“A consensus is hard to come by, and to the extent you find one you should be suspicious of it. There are hints of such a consensus among several prominent tax scholars—endorsement of endowment as the ideal tax base. An endowment tax would be based on individuals’ ability to earn income rather than on income actually earned. This Article challenges this agenda at a crucial moment, as developments in genetics and quantitative social sciences may start allowing endowment taxation to creep outside the boundaries of abstract tax theory, potentially affecting real tax policy arrangements.
“Many leading tax scholars writing today have endorsed the endowment tax—that is, the tax of material wealth and innate earning capacity one is born into—as a tax base superior to consumption or income. Daniel Shaviro was the first tax law scholar to articulate the potential importance of the endowment tax, noting that endowment could serve as a proxy for well-being. Viewed as an indicator of well-being, endowment appears to be an equitable tax base under certain liberal egalitarian approaches. The main appeal of the endowment tax, however, is that its progressivity does not seem to have very high efficiency costs. If endowment is innate, individuals cannot change their behaviors to avoid the tax and will therefore have the incentive to allocate their time and wealth resources in the most efficient way. Given the undeniable force behind this reasoning, the notion of endowment as an ideal tax base has won many supporters.”
Benshalom and Stead then criticize the idea and several of its prominent recent proponents, making what they recognize is a more old-fashioned case for wanting to base taxes on actual earnings or income, rather than on some gauge of mere potential.
My original article on endowment taxation attempts to make one point clear that has frequently been forgotten in the debate (which itself sometimes strikes me as having too much of an angels-on-the-head-of-a-pin character).
“Inequality … plays an important role in a variety of views of distributive justice, although under any it rests at least one turtle from the bottom. [Footnote citing the old story of the woman who claimed that the earth rests on the back of a turtle and, when asked what the turtle rests on, responded that it was “turtles all the way down.”] The move from a description of who is better-off under some metric to the claim that tax burdens should vary by reason of the differences that this metric identifies requires motivation.”
I argue that, under plausible assumptions, endowment or earnings ability is one turtle down from actually observed income or market consumption as a marker of material wellbeing. For example, if we think of utility as produced by market consumption plus leisure, someone who voluntarily chooses more leisure isn’t, by reason of the choice, worse-off than someone who happens to prefer choosing more work and market consumption.
But endowment differences, even if deemed both meaningful and measurable, don’t get you all the way to relative wellbeing, and they certainly don’t get you all the way to relative marginal utility of a dollar given people’s circumstances, which is the key distributional factor in a utilitarian social welfare function.
So we’ll always remain a few turtles from the bottom (to put it optimistically), no matter how far down we go. And endowment can’t be a first-best tax and transfer base, any more than income or consumption, even if in some respects it’s superior. (Not in all respects, however – for example, it can’t address the role of an income or consumption tax in addressing the risks associated with under-diversified human capital, e.g., because one may have to specialize in a particular profession that faces variable future returns.)
First-bests are generally unavailable theoretically, not just practically.
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I know that there is a 15 block limit before a repeater is needed, however I am looking for the TOTAL distance that current can travel. Is it infinite? Can I keep adding repeaters and go on forever?
I don't mind whether "old-school" repeaters are used (2 NOT gates) or the ones added in Beta 1.5, biggest distance wins.
Interesting stuff guys, I would love to see some pictures of your findings!
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I'm curious what the purpose of the bounty is; it seems like Ronan gave you an exhaustive answer 7 minutes after you asked, and you didn't expand on your question. – Nick T May 21 '11 at 2:09
@Nick I'm looking for a more specific answer - Ronan's doesn't give a hard limit, just that it will stop when some of the wire is no longer loaded. – soulBit May 21 '11 at 9:51
That's because there is no limit, it depends on how many other chunks are loaded, render distance and RAM(?) – Ronan Forman May 21 '11 at 19:10
maybe this is also interesting for you: They claim, that redstone will cease operating after 281 blocks (which are 17.5 chunks) – frosch03 Jun 22 '11 at 7:36
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Short version:
Using repeaters the travel distance is infinite. This can be exploited to build moderately large memory buffers utilizing delay-line memory, for fun and profit.
Note that there might be practical limits to how much the game engine can handle before it blows up.
Long version:
If it is not a question of distance, but rather an issue of the theoretical maximum number of wire/repeater blocks that can be powered by a single redstone torch, this number is fairly large.
When you consider the fact that redstone repeaters will reset current to 15, the actual distance itself is infinite, but there is a practical distance; loaded chunks. This limits you to an area of 16 * 16 * 81; and if you want to keep your circuits isolated; this works out to an approximate upper limit of 11000 powered pieces of wire/repeater, unless you use nothing but repeaters and wires for turns, in which case you can almost completely tesselate all of the loaded area, allowing for a lossage of approximately 144 blocks to turning space.
Edit: It's worth noting that in an all-repeater configuration; while you get upwards of 20000 square meters of active redstone; said redstone won't be able to power anything much; and any escape gap you make to allow devices to draw power will carry a pretty big penalty to the number of blocks that can be powered (upwards of an entire row).
Reedit: Did a bit of a gaffe in my math:
In an all-repeater configuration, you can also use several levels; up to about 62 (allowing for bedrock and sky) layers of tightly packed redstone; giving you somewhere north of 1,200,000 meters of redstone current; or a little south of 1.2 megabits of storage in delay-line memory; 150 kilobytes.
In a single player game this 150kB is as such the absolute maximum storage any Minecraft-based computer can have. 150kB might not sound like a lot; but if you use some sort of clock and a suitably designed buffer, it amounts to almost 10 minutes of 256-tone music, or over an hour if you limit yourself to 32 tones. (Of course, you would have no space to build the music player and still have the memory work, but that's not the point. ;)
A screenshot of a possible design of a Minecraft High-Density Memory Cell:
Repeater memory cell concept
Not pictured: A monostable circuit allowing 1-tick input and a loopback device turning it into permanent memory
This particular design uses both ^^ gates and compact repeaters; the function of the repeaters is essentially to increase isolation, increasing density and, by extension, distance; but they also double as delay-line memory. A memory cell like this built from bedrock (4) to sky (128) over 81 chunks has an approximate maximum travel distance for a redstone pulse of 144 * 144 * ((128 - 4) / 2) + (128 - 4) = 1,285,756 meters; with a total capacity of 1,276,828 bits.
Note: Working out how large a stretch of redstone will have to be sacrificed in the central chunk of this memory cell in order to build a 32-tone music player; a 32-bit buffer and utilities to program the music is left as an exercise to the reader.
As is actually building it and seeing if it will actually work on the scale described. ;)
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Short answer:
It can go on forever lit torches and repeaters will always give a current of 15.
Long answer:
Current will travel until some of the wire is no longer loaded, if the source of the current is not inside the render distance current will not start. (This is why Minecraft inside Mincraft will not work, there is not enough space to run all of a computer)
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81 local chunks are loaded into memory at any one time, and each chunk is 16 blocks long. So, based on that current should be able to travel at most 16 * 9 = 144 blocks. – chandsie May 13 '11 at 16:25
That's a straight line though - you can have a longer line, as long as it is bent. – Douglas Leeder May 13 '11 at 16:32
What he said -- redstone will work anywhere in a loaded chunk. if you have a powered wire that goes out of the loaded area and then comes back in, the wire will be powered until it hits the edge of the loaded chunk, then where it comes back in it will be unpowered. – Doktor J May 13 '11 at 16:41
What if the user walks alongside the wire as current is traveling down the wire? What about SMP servers with multiple people spread out to keep as many chunks loaded as possible? I feel like combining both of those, as well as having users set their coordinates on the map, the answer truly could be infinite, as long as people have the patience to continue moving into new chunks. – Dave McClelland May 17 '11 at 19:55
@Dave I was going to test the walking down a wire theory but spawning that much wire at once crashed the game. :( – Ronan Forman May 17 '11 at 21:08
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You can extend the range as far as you want in SMP, as long as other players or bots are in place to keep chunks in memory that are outside the 81 chunks that are loaded around the player. Several of the larger redstone creations on youtube have bots stationed at regular intervals to keep the whole circuit in memory.
In single player you are limited to 81 chunks, 144 blocks.
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144 blocks plus up/down! – Joe the Person Oct 23 '11 at 2:40
For those running their own server - a bit of additional information. I'm running 1.8. I had built a very long circuit which was not working. I didn't count or do the math, but FYI -- I changed my view-distance parameter from the default of 10 to 15 and my circuit worked as expected. Apparently, as I'd hoped, a longer view-distance keeps more chunks in memory.
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I've done some research into this myself. I've got 16 sets of memory at 2bytes each. Each memory section is approx 40 blocks long. Redstone propagation is good up to the 5 section. Sometimes it will get as far as the 8th section. So current is limited to 200 blocks reliably, and up to 320 will limited reliability. I'm on a normal render distance, and it's possible that with a higher render, you'll get farther propagation.
I'm using standard side-by-side parallel communication with a space between lines. At 16 bits per section, that leaves 32 blocks reserved for communication. The additional 8 is required space for routing of signals to where they need to go. These are sustained by redstone repeaters at approx 12-14 blocks between each.
Now this is lateral communication, not vertical. Because vertical remains within the same chunk, I believe that vertical signal propagation is infinite to the min and max of the chunk itself.
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This, of course, is assuming that the player isn't moving. – GnomeSlice Jul 15 '12 at 21:03
15 Blocks is your answer. With repeaters it can be infinite.
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Please refrain from making posts that don't add anything already mentioned by other answerers. – Nick T May 21 '11 at 15:57
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Extracting ArcGIS rasters from the HYCOM global ocean model's 4D netCDFs
The Hybrid Coordinate Ocean Model, or HYCOM, is a sophisticated, high resolution system for simulating ocean physics. HYCOM is a set of equations refined over many years that describe the effects of the tides, winds, earth's rotation, and many other factors on the flow of water. Using supercomputers, the HYCOM team executes these equations at fine spatial and temporal scales to produce daily 3D snapshots of oceanographic variables such as temperature, salinity, and current velocity. At the time of this writing, HYCOM had been applied to global ocean simulations at 1/12º resolution and several ocean basins at higher resolution.
Acknowledgement: Thanks to Alan Wallcraft from the Naval Research Laboratory for providing critical hints that made this example possible.
Advantages of HYCOM over satellite data
• HYCOM resolution is similar to satellite resolution. The 1/12º simulations have a cell size of approximately 8.9 km at the equator. This is not as good as the popular global SST products; NODC AVHRR Pathfinder 5.0 and MODIS have cell sizes of 4 to 5 km. But it is far better than the popular Aviso geostrophic currents product, which has a 37 km cell size.
• HYCOM images are cloud-free. Daily satellite images are often very, very cloudy.
• HYCOM is 3D. Satellite images only provide data for the ocean surface.
Disadvantages of HYCOM
• HYCOM is a model, not reality. While HYCOM has a high spatial resolution, is very sophisticated, has been under refinement for years, has been tested extensively against in situ measurements and satellite estimates, and uses assimilation to improve its accuracy, it is important to keep in mind that HYCOM is a model. If you have in situ or satellite data available, we recommend you compare it against HYCOM output and form your own opinion about whether HYCOM provides enough accuracy for your situation.
Below is visual comparison of relatively cloud-free GOES satellite SST images and corresponding HYCOM SST images for the Gulf Stream. The top HYCOM image is from the HYCOM Global 1/12° Simulation (expt_05.8), while the bottom one is from the HYCOM + NCODA Global 1/12° Analysis (expt_90.8). As you can see, both HYCOM images resemble the GOES images at a broad spatial scale, but the bottom HYCOM image shows a better resemblence at finer scale. Also, both HYCOM images appear to deviate from the GOES images in the hottest and coldest areas by as much several degrees.
These differences may or may not be important, depending on how the data are used. In showing these comparisons, we make no claims about whether HYCOM output might or might not be suitable for your analysis. We simply urge you to make your own comparison and decide for yourself. An important difference between the two HYCOM datasets shown here is that the top one was a "free run" that simulated the global ocean without attempting to increase accuracy by assimilating in situ or satellite measurements, while the bottom one did use assimilation. The bottom one is also several years newer than the top one and is probably based on improved science. Finally, it is very difficult to model the fine scale structure and dynamics of the Gulf Stream, so it is not surprising to find that HYCOM does not match the satellite at fine scales. Better correspondance might be observed elsewhere, in less dynamic regions.
• HYCOM data are available for limited time ranges. At the time of this writing, global simulations were available from 2003 to the present, a north and equatorial Pacific simulation was avialble for 1979-2003, and a Gulf of Mexico simulation was available from 2008 to the present. Data that incorporate the latest assimilation techniques are only available for the most recent years.
• HYCOM provides only physical variables. These variables typically include temperature, salinity, u and v current vectors (eastward and northward velocity), sea surface height, and various properties of the mixed layer. For biological variables such as chlorophyll density or primary and secondary productivity, you must use products estimated from satellite data or other ocean models such as ROMS-CoSINE.
• Global HYCOM simulations use a complicated coordinate system. As discussed below, global HYCOM simulations use three different coordinate systems, making it difficult to import these data into a GIS as raster data. Most of the complexity of this example relates to this problem; please see below for details.
The structure of HYCOM output
HYCOM output is structured as a time series of snapshots of the state of simulated region. At each time period, typically 1 day, there are a set of 2D grids that provide ocean surface parameters such as sea surface height, thickness of the mixed layer, and so on. There are also a set of 3D grids that specify temperature, salinity, and u and v current vectors at a series of depths. There are typically 33 depth layers: 0, 10, 20, 30, 50, 75, 100, 125, 150, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1000, 1100, 1200, 1300, 1400, 1500, 1750, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500, 4000, 4500, 5000, and 5500 meters. Although HYCOM executes the simulation at a variety of depths using a sophisticated algorithm, the model outputs are usually interpolated to these 33 common depths, for consistency with other global ocean datasets.
Acquring HYCOM output
At the time of this writing, HYCOM output could be acquired from as OPeNDAP datasets in a THREDDS catalog and as series of netCDF files from an FTP or HTTP server. If you are familiar with OPeNDAP and can write the code necessary to acquire data through it, I suggest you use it, particularly if you only need a small subset of the data.
In the project that gave rise to this example, I needed to acquire four years of temperature and currents data for all 33 depth layers. This worked out to be about 9 TB of data. I found that it was faster to download netCDF files than go through OPeNDAP for that much data. Although the HYCOM FTP server appeared to impose a throughput limit of 1.25 MB/s per FTP download, I was able to run 15 simultaneous downloads with SmartFTP and maintain an overall throughput of 20 MB/s. If you have a fast Internet connection, this may a good way to acquire data quickly. The remainder of this example assumes you will also use netCDF files.
On the HYCOM FTP server, the directory housing each dataset was organized like this:
The data directory contained the model output. The 2d subdirectory contained one netCDF file per day. Each of these contained the 2D variables representing the state of the ocean surface, as you can see in this netCDF header. The salt, temp, uvel, and vvel subdirectories contained the salinity, temperature, eastward current velocity, and northward current velocity data, respectively. These also contained one netCDF per day, as shown above. Each netCDF contained a single physical variable (salinity, temperature, u, or v) as well as several auxiliary variables representing the grid coordinates, as you can see in this netCDF header. Each physical variable had four dimensions, time, depth, x, and y, with just one time slice but 33 depth slices.
The topo directory contained four files:
• regional.depth.a contained the bathymetry grid used by the simulation as a 2D binary array of big endian 32-bit IEEE 754 floats in column-major order (i.e. Fortran order).
• regional.depth.b was a text file specifying the dimensions of regional.depth.a.
• regional.grid.a contained grids specifying the latitudes and longitudes of the centers of the HYCOM grid cells.
• regional.grid.b was a text file specifying the dimensions of regional.grid.a.
The HYCOM User's Guide, available on the HYCOM documentation page describes these files in detail.
How HYCOM output is geolocated
One of the biggest challenges in working with HYCOM output is understanding how it is georeferenced and getting the data into a GIS-compatible raster format. The HYCOM User's Guide provides some essential information but is written for oceanographers who will be running HYCOM, not for ecologists who will consume HYCOM output. The essential parts are chapter 3: The HYCOM Grid, section 2.3: I/O File Formats in HYCOM, and section 5.1: File "regional.grid.[ab]". From these, some hints from Alan Wallcraft, and extensive experimentation, I was able to understand how HYCOM data is georeferenced and develop a strategy for getting it into ArcGIS-compatible format.
HYCOM simulations are either global or regional. This discussion concerns global simulations. I have not looked at any regional simulations yet so I don't know how much of it applies to them.
The main difficulty with global HYCOM simulations is that they use three different map projections in one grid, as shown below. Ignore the data (the colors) in this map and just focus on the geographic elements.
The central part of the grid uses a Mercator projection with square cells and a fixed cell size. This section can be converted directly to an ArcGIS-compatible raster format without much trouble. To the south is an equiangular section (i.e. a traditional "geographic" projection in ArcGIS terminology). Although these cells have a fixed size (in degrees), the cell width and height are different. The common raster formats compatible with ArcGIS require square cells, so this section is more difficult to get into ArcGIS. To the north is a "bi-polar" section. To my knowledge, there is no way to represent this directly in ArcGIS without ESRI introducing support for this projection.
My approach to dealing with this is to extract three ArcGIS rasters from each HYCOM grid. I call these the equatorial, Arctic, and Antarctic rasters. The equatorial raster is simply a verbatim copy of the Mercator section of the grid. The Arctic and Antarctic rasters are created by treating the HYCOM cells in those sections as points, projecting to a polar stereographic projection, and interpolating using ArcGIS's inverse distance weighting algorithm. The details of this are shown in the code below.
HYCOM simulations assume the Earth is a sphere with radius 6371001.0 meters (yes, 6371001.0, not 6371000.0). Alan Wallcraft provided this information; I did not find it in any documentation. Thus the rasters output by the code below use a custom datum having that spheroid. To get other geographic data into these projections, you can use a custom geographic transformation, as described in the Sinusoidal MODIS example.
Step-by-step instructions to extracting HYCOM output
Prerequisites / assumptions
• ArcGIS 9.1 or later is installed (note: this has only been tested with 9.3.1)
• MGET 0.7 or later is installed
• You are comfortable running programs from the Windows command prompt (a.k.a. DOS)
• You are using a global HYCOM dataset, not a regional one; the procedure will probably fail on regional datasets but you could adapt it to work with them
• You are extracting the one of the 3D variables called temperature, salinity, u, or v; you must modify the code to extract one of the 2D surface variables (e.g. ssh)
The steps
1. Create a folder on your hard drive. I suggest and will assume you will use C:\HYCOM, although you can use a different folder if desired.
1. Right-click on the following files and save them into C:\HYCOM:
1. Using your favorite web browser or FTP client, go to the place where you download files from the HYCOM dataset you want. From the topo directory on the HYCOM server, download the files regional.grid.a and regional.grid.b and save them to C:\HYCOM.
1. Create the directory C:\HYCOM\NetCDFs.
1. From the HYCOM server, go to the data directory and then to the subdirectory for your oceanographic variable of interest, either salt, temp, u, or v. Download the netCDF files (.nc file extension) for your dates of interest. If you are downloading a lot of files and have a fast Internet connection, consider using a program like SmartFTP that can download multiple files simultaneously, to work around the per-file throughput limitation imposed by the server. (I was told by Michael McDonald of HYCOM that this is ok.)
1. Create the directory C:\HYCOM\Rasters.
1. Start a CMD shell. (On Windows XP or Server 2003, click Start, Run, type CMD, and press Enter. On Vista or later, click Start, type CMD, and press Enter.) CD to the C:\HYCOM directory.
1. Before extracting a large batch of data, you should verify that you can extract a single depth layer from a single file. Type the following into the CMD shell and press Enter (this assumes you want to extract the temperature variable for the 0 m depth layer from the file NetCDFs\ temperature regional.grid.a regional.grid.b Rasters 0
You should see output that looks like this:
C:\HYCOM> NetCDFs\ temperature regional.grid.a regional.grid.b Rasters 0
2009-10-01 10:52:16,187 INFO Initializing the ArcGIS geoprocessor.
2009-10-01 10:52:25,671 INFO This HYCOM grid has 4500 rows and 3298 columns.
2009-10-01 10:52:25,671 INFO Each 2D variable in a HYCOM .a file takes 59375616 bytes, including the padding to a 16 KB boundary.
2009-10-01 10:52:25,671 INFO Reading the longitude and latitude grids from regional.grid.a.
2009-10-01 10:52:30,625 INFO The cell size of the Mercator section of the grid is 8895.5955278281017 m.
2009-10-01 10:52:30,625 INFO The central meridian is -105.88.
2009-10-01 10:52:30,780 INFO The Mercator section of the grid spans rows 1126 through 2907, inclusive, where the top row is 0.
2009-10-01 10:52:30,780 INFO The center latitudes of the top and bottom rows of the Mercator section are 46.9873 and -66.1599.
2009-10-01 10:52:30,780 INFO The projected x and y coordinates of the lower-left corner of the Mercator section are -20015089.937613226, -9914094.8628181182.
2009-10-01 10:52:31,171 INFO Found 1 input files. Looking for existing output rasters.
2009-10-01 10:52:31,217 INFO Extracting 1 total depth slices spread across 1 input files.
2009-10-01 10:52:31,217 INFO Reading depth slice 0 from C:\HYCOM\NetCDFs\
2009-10-01 10:52:44,203 INFO Creating ArcGIS raster Rasters\temperature\Equatorial\Depth_0\2003\temp20032322.img...
2009-10-01 10:53:32,233 INFO Writing 1788880 points to a temporary CSV file.
2009-10-01 10:53:50,483 INFO Executing program: C:\HYCOM\ascii2shp.exe C:\Temp\GeoEcoTemp_jjr8\tmp0vucia\points.csv C:\Temp\GeoEcoTemp_jjr8\tmp0vucia\points.shp X Y
2009-10-01 10:54:28,250 INFO ascii2shp.exe returned exit code 0.
2009-10-01 10:54:30,421 INFO Projecting the points to a polar stereographic projection.
2009-10-01 10:58:29,437 INFO Interpolating an Arctic polar stereographic raster with cell size 6065.1235625980898 m.
2009-10-01 10:59:06,421 INFO Copying ArcGIS raster C:\Temp\GeoEcoTemp_jjr8\tmp0vucia\raster to C:\HYCOM\Rasters\temperature\Arctic\Depth_0\2003\temp20032321.img...
2009-10-01 10:59:10,733 INFO Writing 753298 points to a temporary CSV file.
2009-10-01 10:59:19,655 INFO Executing program: C:\HYCOM\ascii2shp.exe C:\Temp\GeoEcoTemp_jjr8\tmpkdlzzm\points.csv C:\Temp\GeoEcoTemp_jjr8\tmpkdlzzm\points.shp X Y
2009-10-01 10:59:34,500 INFO ascii2shp.exe returned exit code 0.
2009-10-01 10:59:34,546 INFO Projecting the points to a polar stereographic projection.
2009-10-01 11:00:55,125 INFO At the northernmost row of the equirectangular Antarctic section, the cells are 3595.4712307818422 m wide and 8809.0454264488071 m high.
2009-10-01 11:00:55,125 INFO Interpolating an Antarctic polar stereographic raster with cell size 8809.0454264488071 m.
2009-10-01 11:01:09,203 INFO Finished extracting: 0:08:37 elapsed, 1 slices extracted, 0:08:37.985000 per slice.
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The Truth About Time-Shares
This vacation option is more popular than ever, but is it really a smart investment?
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The Pitfalls of Time-Share Investments
Time-shares -- those vacation deals that let you purchase in perpetuity a week or so every year at a given destination -- have changed a lot since the bad old days of the 1970s. Back then the market was unregulated: Among the developers who snapped up unsold condos and sliced them into blocks of time to sell to vacationers there were some dishonest operators who sold promises they couldn't keep -- nonexistent amenities such as spas and pools -- for cash they didn't return. What's more, their unsavory sales tactics included high pressure and outright lies, the biggest being that time-share units were lucrative real-estate investments.
The time-share industry has come a long way since then. Today, thanks to changes such as new consumer protections, increased flexibility, and the emergence of established hotel chains as time-share providers, this vacation option is more popular than ever, with 3.9 million American owners. But one important factor has not changed: Most time-shares are still not a good investment because they do not appreciate. In fact, pitching a time-share for investment purposes in most states (unless the company selling the property is registered with the SEC) is now prohibited by law in this country, according to David Sampson, a time-share attorney at Baker & Hostetler, a Los Angeles law firm. "If you buy a time-share, it should be solely for your own consumption and use, not for any resale value," he says.
Technically a traditional time-share is real estate -- you actually receive a deed for a fraction of the property you share with all of the many other owners. But don't be fooled: In most cases, time-shares sell for a mere fraction of their original value. "Just as any product on the secondary market, resold time-shares don't come with the same warranties and bells and whistles and may not be eligible for certain developer benefits, such as frequent guest services and preferential rates," explains David Gilbert, executive vice president of resort sales and marketing at Interval International, a vacation exchange company. Buyers are also wary because taking on someone else's property can mean assuming any past-due fees or mortgage payments. Owners who want to get rid of a time-share frequently feel they have no recourse but to take a significant loss if they want to free themselves from the ongoing financial obligations.
On average, when you purchase a new two-bedroom time-share, you pay about $17,000 up front, according to the American Resort Development Association (ARDA). In addition, you're responsible for annual maintenance fees, which average $505 nationally, and property taxes, which run approximately $75. Periodically, assessments may be made to fix a leaky roof or upgrade a swimming pool. By contrast, if you had simply invested $17,000 in an average S&P 500 stock portfolio 10 years ago, calculates Maury Harris, chief U.S. economist at UBS Securities, in Stamford, Connecticut, you'd now have almost $40,000. For the same outlay, your 10-year-old time-share would be worth much less if you sold it.
But even though a time-share isn't generally an investment, it can still add up in terms of savings when you calculate the cost of paying for a quality hotel year after year, because having prepaid for your stay protects you against the room-rate inflation at hotels. "If I buy a time-share at $15,000 and I spend $500 a year in fees and taxes, then over 10 years it will cost me $20,000 to vacation," says Howard Nusbaum, president and CEO of ARDA. "Had I rented two rooms in a gorgeous two-bedroom resort each year, it would have cost me $42,000."
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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Pastel Rainbow Nails Tutorial
It's just an animation, but it's pretty self explanatory. This is such a cute dreamy design and couldn't be more simple! The only special thing you would probably need to buy is that flat brush. It honestly just looks like a flat eyeshadow brush. I already have a paint brush like this that came in a set. I'm assuming either one will work. You don't need to buy a special nail painting brush at the beauty supply store.
If anyone tries this, let me know and post a pic / link in the comments!
Need some nail polish?
Head over to Lime Crime and browse their assortment of dreamy colors! Click!
1. Wow, thanks for sharing this! I will try it:)!
2. It doesn't explain how to do it...
3. I have to try this Ihih
Well,to me it seems that the image does not explain but it's not hard to understand how to do it-.-
Simply mix three Nail Polishes (as in animation), pass with a flat brush (as in animation), and paint (as in animation lol). And voila! That's it;)
*Kisses from Portugal*
4. Ya, that's what I thought too Malaika.
Maybe it's easier for certain people to understand. Especially if you are like me and look at beauty stuff online all the time ;)
5. nice!! I can't wait to try this c:
6. Oooh I'm off to buy a flat brush asap to do this =)
7. This is probably a stupid question, but is that tape you're using to keep the nail polish from getting on your fingers or something else?
8. That is not tape. It's just a gloss that got on the fingers. You can clean it up with a q-tip and nailpolish remover after your done. Oh and this is not my hand! It's just a picture I found online ;)
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Hugh Hewitt
Recommend this article
The day after the president's face-plant in front of 67 million viewers, the geniuses behind the nation's dismal economy instructed the president to go ugly, setting off the "Mitt Romney is a liar, liar, liar" chorus in the wholly-owned Obama subsidiary known as the MSM. The president led the charge himself, repeatedly referring to the "fellow who played Mitt Romney last night" in stump speeches Thursday, a weirdly nasty-but-ineffective attempt to argue that his whupping wasn't fair because Romney made arguments the president hadn't heard inside the cocoon, though they are the same arguments Romney has been making on the campaign trail for the past year.
A desperate Manhattan-Beltway media elite seized on Friday's job report as a life line without realizing what was at the other end: The "revisions" in the numbers that led them to claim victory at 7.8% unemployment also meant that job growth has been declining for three straight months, with fewer jobs created in August than in July and fewer still in September than in August --exactly what one expects in a slowing economy, one headed for the recession that is the worry of the CEO survey and the direction pointed to by The Index of Leading Economic Indicators and downward revision in 2Q GDP as well as the FedEx and Norfolk Southern forecasts which shocked serious observers of the economy.
It is a recession, folks, and it is headed this way, accelerated by President Obama's election year campaigning for growth-killing tax hikes and the promise of energy-production-destroying anti-fracking rules and other EPA job killing moves in December. (The recession has already arrived in the Eurozone.)
The economic reality most people feel is the price at the pumps --double what it was when President Obama took office-- and the knowledge that they have of the joblessness of friends and family and the job insecurity they and others worry over. The cluelessness displayed by President Obama on Wednesday night has become the symbol of his entire presidency, and his aimlessness in answering direct questions is what most distressed independent voters who moved so decidedly towards Romney in the Frank Luntz focus group that shocked long-time watchers of such groups.
The huge polling margins that declared Romney a winner in the debate took away a lasting impression of the president because it is consistent with the suspicion that has grown up around the 100+-rounds-of-golf playing Commander-in-Chief, the one who jetted off to raise money on the day the nation learned of the brutal murders of our ambassador and his aides in Benghazi and who then participated in the cover-up of that slaughter.
The wandering-in-answer Obama Wednesday night was the same guy who doesn't sit down with the press (and now we know why) and who cannot defend his record though offered repeated opportunities to do so by Jim Lehrer.
The takeaway from the first week in October, as the voting begins across the country, is that President Obama was as unprepared for the debate as he was for the presidency.
He isn't doing his job because he can't do his job.
The cluelessness President Obama displayed erases any argument that his on-the-job training has equipped him for a second term or earned him a second chance.
It was the worst debate performance by a sitting president in the history of these meetings, and millions who tuned in have now tuned out his appeals for one more chance. Not this time. Not with conditions this serious.
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Hugh Hewitt
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Three Items That Have Saved Me Money Quite Quickly
Let’s face it – there are a lot of items out there on the market that claim to save you money, but either don’t actually do what they claim or don’t actually provide the savings they’re promoting.
Here, I’m going to tell you about three things I’ve tried in the past several months that have actually exceeded my expectations, saving me money in the long run and also working exactly as promoted.
LED bulbs for our ceiling fans
I’ve been trying out LED bulbs since they first hit the market a few years ago. The potential has been there for a long time – an LED bulb will last 20,000 hours, compared to an incandescent bulb lasting 1,000 hours, and it uses about 8% of the energy, too. The drawback is that they’re expensive and that, with every one I’ve tried, the light produced has been too cold, looking almost blue.
These LED bulbs are the first ones I’ve been happy with. I’ve been using them in our ceiling fans in our home for quite a while now and none of them have blown out or reduced in light quality. In the ceiling fan in my office, they’ve lasted for several months, whereas the incandescent bulbs would blow out about every two months.
Let’s assume that these bulbs reach the average of 20,000 hours that they proclaim to be able to reach. They cost $14.70 apiece at the link I provided and use 1.8 watts. On the other hand, a virtually identical incandescent bulb costs $0.72 and uses 40 watts. Let’s assume also that electricity costs $0.12 per kWh.
Over 20,000 hours of use, I’ll use one of the LED bulbs (costing $14.70) and it will consume 36,000 watt-hours, or 36 kWh, costing $4.32 for energy, bringing the total cost to $19.02. Over that same time, I’ll use twenty of the normal bulbs (costing $14.40) and they will consume 800,000 watt-hours, or 800 kWh, costing $96 for energy, bringing the total cost to $110.40.
Assuming one is perfectly happy with the light quality – and I am – this is an upgrade well worth doing. I strongly encourage you to check out LED light bulbs. Give one of them a try and see if you’re happy with the light quality. If you are, you will save money over the long haul.
Razor blade sharpener
For the last several months, I’ve been using the Razorpit razor blade sharpener on a regular basis and you can’t even tell I’ve used the sharpener at all. At about every fourth shave, I put just a bit of soap on the Razorpit, run my razor blade on it a few times, and it’s pretty much like new. I’ve increased the use of each razor I use by about five times because of this thing.
Let’s say a new disposable razor blade costs me $0.50. They’re going to vary a lot, of course, depending on what exactly you’re getting, but we’ll use $0.50 as a baseline. Let’s assume that I shave every day and that the razor is getting rough after five normal shaves. That means, over the course of a year, I’m running through 73 blades, costing me a total of $36.50.
Now, if I run a blade on this thing every fourth or fifth shave, I can now get 25 uses out of a single blade. That means, over the course of a year, I’m running through about fifteen blades, costing me a total of $7.50. That’s a savings of $29 over the course of a year. I’ve been using the sharpener for several months and it’s basically identical to when it was new, so wearing out the sharpener isn’t a significant issue.
If you use more expensive blades than that, the annual savings will go up. If you shave less frequently or manage to squeeze more shaves out of a blade, the savings will go down. Still, most of the time, the sharpener will have paid for itself well within a year.
Dryer balls
I was really dubious about trying . The idea behind them is that they keep things moving better in a typical drum-style dryer, which helps reduce drying time. However, after using a dryer ball quite a few times, I’m a believer.
These balls are basically little rubber things with tentacles all over them. Inside your dryer, they bounce around, keeping smaller items from sticking to the corners inside your dryer drum.
I tried them in a few different loads. With heavy items, I didn’t notice a whole lot of difference. If you’re doing a load of jeans and towels, they don’t seem to help much.
Where they seem to make a very big difference, though, is in loads full of smaller stuff. Socks. Underwear. Children’s clothes. Children’s socks. Wash cloths. A dryer ball shaves about 30% off of the drying time on these (that’s my best estimate, anyway, as it’s hard to get an exact amount due to all of the variables of drying).
Let’s say you dry three loads a week where a dryer ball would help. Mr. Electricity estimates that, with a typical electric dryer, if you do three loads a week that require 60 minutes to dry at $0.12 per kilowatt hour, you’re spending $82 annually on drying. If you cut that down to 45 minutes per load, which seems completely reasonable based on my experience with a dryer ball, you drop that down to $62 annually, a savings of $20.
A dryer ball costs $1.75. Even if you just save a fraction of that amount, a dryer ball still pays for itself pretty quickly.
As always, don’t rush out and buy these things. However, if you see an LED bulb or a razor blade sharpener or a dryer ball at a particularly low price, pick one up and give it a shot. I’ve found all three to be very economical in our home.
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Posted: Tue, 2008-03-25 05:22
I've got my self very confused.
In all the reading i've done about using urtl_rewrite, eveyone mentions the use of the .htaccess file as the common place to stoore this information, and mention is made of the ease with which things can be fouled up when the file is overwritten.
I'm having trouble debugging my rewrite situation because in my wordpress install (wpmu 1.3.3) I dont have a .htaccess file.
Does that mean that the rewrites are registered internally? If so, what does that do to wpg2 rewrites? I have not seen wpg2 create a .htaccess file.
If i cant see the rewrites in a files somewhere, does anyone know of any easy way to see them? This would make debugging alot easier.
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Posted: Tue, 2008-03-25 09:57
Just a few points here to help you out..
A) If you are running an Apache Web Server you will have two .htaccess files, one in your Wordpress ROOT directory and the other in your Gallery2 Root Directory
B) If you are running IIS you will NOT have a .htaccess file, as IIS handles this internally.. (and at times this is not handled that well)
C) Wordpress actually has two sets of rewrite rules, one internally and a "greedy" external rule in your .htaccess which basically makes all requests refer to the internal rewrite rules.
and most of all, very little you can do to tweak either your wordpress or Gallery2 rules as both rule set are automatically generated..
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Let's talk (with kids!) about sex
In a dreaded undertone, a mom friend admitted, "My 6 year old daughter asked me about 'humping' and now I think we have to have the talk." Another mom turned red at the thought. Others looked at the ground, embarrassed and full of empathy. The mom who brought it up looked like she would rather do just about anything else. Oh dear.
Let me just stand right up and be the weird one (again): My friends, at one point or another in your parenting, you are going to have to have the talk. It doesn't have to be uncomfortable or even particularly embarrassing. In fact, the sooner the better, I say (of course, saying that out loud guarantees the other moms will--and do--look at me like I'm crazy)!
Here's another fact that makes all the other moms stare at me in disbelief: we had the talk with our older daughter when she wasn't yet 5 years old*. What were we thinking?! Well, quite a few of my friends were pregnant at that time, and she kept asking how babies get in the tummies. Rather than fluff around with words I might have to eat later, I went for it and just explained it...or rather, I let a book explain it.
where babies come from book
Whether this topic is uncomfortable for you or maybe you just don't know how much to share with a young child, I highly recommend buying a copy of "Where Did I Come From?": The facts of life without any nonsense and with illustrations by Peter Mayle.
where babies come from book
True to its title, this book does not bother with nonsense. The illustrations are a bit funny, which can help break the tension. That being said, the illustrations do picture two naked adults to show how (and tell why) male and female bodies are different, and they even show two naked adults in bed having good times. And yes, just to make you blush, the book acknowledges that love-making is indeed good times. It even explains an orgasm (how else do those sperm get going?).
where babies come from book
This is a book about where babies come from, and it runs from conception to birth. While it isn't only about sex (it starts with that because that is where babies start), I focused my description on that part of the book because this is a subject adults find difficult to discuss with children. As you can see from the text in the photo above, this book lays it all out. It might make grown adults blush, but kids, at least in my experience, not so much. For a child, this is simply a book with funny pictures that gives interesting, factual information about a curious subject.
If you are really worried about the sex talk, this book might make you squirm, but it will give you a great place to start. Read it with your child. Any questions might come up naturally as you read or perhaps later. When they do, at least all the bases are covered.
For those of you who aren't so inclined to have the talk (now or ever), experts will tell you that kids are exposed to sexuality much earlier than you would hope...and you should keep in mind that a child's mind is like a sponge. Any information (or misinformation) they hear will soak right up. If they hear it from others, information you provide afterwards will only fill in the space that is left. What makes the biggest impression is what they hear first, so don't you want that to be correct information from you?
Okay. I'm done now. Go have a glass of water, and allow your cheeks to return to their normal colour. We don't have to talk about this again until puberty (luckily, there is a book about that too!).
*For those of you who are curious, I doubt anything substantial from our first sex talks with our daughter really sunk in. She was interested at the time and wanted to read the book again and again (which we did). There were a few awkward weeks when she was happy to factually point out that the pregnant lady's husband has a penis, etc., but then it passed, as have so many other topics of keen interest in her life thus far. She is 7 now, and I know we need to have the talk again sometime soon, given that she is better prepared to understand it. However, the topic has been broached and it was fully okay to discuss with us; that's the most important point I wanted her to take away.
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1. So true--lotte asked me the other day how she got in my tummy and i told her..i didnt prepare- i just answered her questions. I can feel she has many more now but is processing it all...i must try and get that book in the library..
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The nexus of God and grape
Throughout history, wine has served as link between secular and sacred
By Bill St. John, Special to Tribune Newspapers
December 26, 2012
I once asked Christian Moueix, the scion of the family that owns Bordeaux's Chateau Petrus, why he named his Napa Valley wine Dominus, Latin for "Lord God."
"A religious name for one's vineyard or wine is common in France," he said. Indeed, his home property, Petrus, means Peter, as in Saint Peter. On every bottle of Petrus, you see the first pope's likeness; in his hands he holds the papal keys.
The vineyards of Bordeaux are chockablock with religious names; chateaux are named after the gospel (Evangile), more popes (Pape Clement), places of prayer (l'Oratoire; Eglise), even prayers themselves (Angelus; Gloria). And as many chateaux take their names from the word for saint or holy — St. Croix, St. Georges, St. Julien and on and on — as there are saints in heaven. Well, almost.
In their use of religious names for wine, Germans seem to favor priests and nuns (Forster Jesuitengarten, Erdener Pralat, Durkheimer Nonnengarten). My favorite religious name for a wine is the Burgundian red Beaune Greves Vigne de l'Enfant Jesus, of which the Carmelite nuns who originally tended the vineyard are to have said, "This wine is so smooth that it slips down the throat like Baby Jesus in satin diapers." I cannot make that up.
History is steeped in religion and wine, in Europe clearly, but also in the New World. Were it not for religious orders of priests such as the Jesuits and Franciscans, wine's footprint in California and South America, even Australia and China, would be far different than it is.
Viewed even by unbelievers, religion functions as a meaning-giving and meaning-making human enterprise. Religion helps answer our questions about what really matters, about what's good and what's ultimate.
It helps us relate the everyday with what we might believe is outside or beyond the everyday, the transcendent — how our "here" fits with a "there."
As such, wine (and food, for wine is food in this way) has figured, through the long history of Western culture, as a medium or a contact between both secular and sacred time and place. This is an appropriate moment of the year to think about that.
The ancient Greeks considered wine itself to be divine; the here and the there were one and the same. In the "Odyssey," Ulysses, on the island of the Cyclops, finds "spontaneous wines from weighty clusters pour, And Jove descends in each prolific shower."
Noah is known as "the first vintner" because on disembarkation after the flood he immediately planted vines. Lucky for him, he needed to stow only one plant because most wine grapevines are hermaphroditic.
And so wine flows, through Greek and Roman symposia, Jewish Passovers and other rituals, and Christian Masses and ceremonies.
Using or not using wine even became an identifying marker, in modern times, for religious communities such as those in the Amana colonies or the Latter-day Saints.
In my view, we are able today to learn some significant secular lessons about the truth of wine from past religious experience with it.
I think especially about how Christian monks carved their names into the history of wine in Europe.
The most important example is the period of 700 unbroken years, from the Middle Ages until the French Revolution, when Benedictine and Cistercian monks labored in the vineyards of Burgundy, France, midwifing from one generation of monks to the next this incredibly fecund terroir.
This was not mere work for them; it was prayer. "Orare et labore," the monk's motto, is variously translated as "Work and pray, "To work is to pray" or "Work is prayer." (The motto lives to this day in hundreds of monastic communities throughout the world.)
The monks of Burgundy, in a way we have difficulty understanding in our more secular age, lived in a world that did not separate the natural from the spiritual.
These monks were able, over their 700-year stewardship of their vineyard land, to isolate the hundreds of parcels that we call the vineyards of Burgundy, to rank this one over that one in quality, to delineate (literally, "draw a line around"; they used stone fences) the specialness of each vineyard.
They could do this because they were much closer to nature than we are, much more attuned to its wildness and untamed way. They could listen to the individual voice in which each parcel of Burgundy spoke and fine-tune that voice for the next generation of winemaker.
This hypersensitivity to the ways of the Earth defines Burgundy; it is the quintessence of the idea of "terroir."
This ancient history is now come alive again. More and more modern winemakers find it to be their own best thinking about growing grapes and making wine.
But for the Burgundian monks, the nexus between God and grape was both their labor and their prayer, their here and their there, one and the same.
It is a rather inspirational way to think about wine, even today.
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No Country for Old Men
By Cormac McCarthy
309 pages. Alfred A. Knopf. $24.95
Cormac McCarthy's latest novel, ''No Country for Old Men,'' gets off to a riveting start as a sort of new wave, hard-boiled Western: imagine Quentin Tarantino doing a self-conscious riff on Sam Peckinpah and filming a fast, violent story about a stone-cold killer, a small-town sheriff and an average Joe who stumbles across a leather case filled with more than $2 million in hot drug money.
Intercut with this gripping tale, however, are the sheriff's portentous meditations on life and fate and the decline and fall of Western civilization. These lugubrious passages, reminiscent of the most pretentious sections of earlier McCarthy novels like ''The Crossing,'' gain ascendancy as the book progresses and gradually weigh down the quicksilver suspense of the larger story.
Sheriff Bell, we learn, is haunted by a ''Lord Jim''-like episode from his past. Although he won a bronze star during World War II, he was guilty of an act of cowardice that contributed to the deaths of many men in his unit. Ever since then, he has been trying to make amends, looking upon his job as sheriff as a second chance to prove himself.
Mr. McCarthy has always vascillated between clean, Hemingwayesque prose and pseudo-Faulknerian grandiloquence, and in this novel, he makes poor Bell the mouthpiece of his most ponderous, sentimental and high-falutin' musings. Bell blathers on about how the country is changing for the worse, how there has been a decline in good manners and a rise in horrendous crimes, how people nowadays ''dont have no respect for the law'' -- -- ''dont even think about the law.'' ''Any time you quit hearin Sir and Mam,'' he observes, ''the end is pretty much in sight.'' Certainly the current case that Bell is investigating is a particularly nasty bit of business: out in the border country near Mexico, half a dozen bodies have been found, along with a dead dog and signs of a missing heroin stash. To make matters worse, a mounting number of deaths appear to be related to this massacre -- beginning with the strangling of a sheriff's deputy by an escaped prisoner who proceeds to hijack a car and kill its driver on his way to committing even bloodier and more senseless deeds.
This escaped prisoner is named Chigurh, and like the mad, nihilistic Judge Holden in ''Blood Meridian,'' he embodies the violence and evil that Mr. McCarthy sees at the heart of the human enterprise -- the conviction, as the judge put it, that the only man who has truly lived is the ''man who has offered up himself entire to the blood of war, who has been to the floor of the pit and seen horror in the round and learned at last that it speaks to his inmost heart.''
Chigurh's favorite means of killing is a pneumatic air gun (like those used in cattle stockyards) that shoots a plunger into a man's brains. He has a sadistic taste for taunting his victims before he kills them and likes to think of himself as adhering to some sort of ancient Hobbesian code of war. His grisly killing spree is chronicled by Mr. McCarthy with a keen sense of verisimilitude, made up in equal parts of chilling technical detail and an almost lyrical appreciation of the ritual of bloodshed.
''There's no one alive on this planet that's ever had even a cross word with him,'' says one character who's made the acquaintance of Chigurh. ''They're all dead. These are not good odds. He's a peculiar man. You could even say that he has principles. Principles that transcend money or drugs or anything like that.'' The man on the run from Chigurh is a Vietnam veteran named Llewelyn Moss, a man who plays a similar role in this novel to that of John Grady in ''All the Pretty Horses'' and ''Cities of the Plain'' -- someone with whom the reader can sympathize and root for in his quixotic and seemingly doomed quest. In this case, that quest means getting away with the money he's found at the shootout scene and starting a new life with his beloved wife some place far away. It is also a quest that involves crossing and recrossing the Mexican border -- that most metaphorical of Maginot lines in Mr. McCarthy's fiction -- in an effort to elude Chigurh, the authorities and all the other people who might be pursuing him.
Mr. McCarthy turns the elaborate cat-and-mouse game played by Moss and Chigurh and Bell into harrowing, propulsive drama, cutting from one frightening, violent set piece to another with cinematic economy and precision. In fact, ''No Country for Old Men'' would easily translate to the big screen so long as Bell's tedious, long-winded monologues were left on the cutting room floor -- a move that would also have made this a considerably more persuasive novel.
Photo: Cormac McCarthy (Photo by Derek Shapton/Knopf)(pg. E4)
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I am writing an Automator "script" that rsyncs media on my 10.6.3 MacBook Pro to my Ubuntu 10.10 HTPC. I can make Automator run my shell script for rsync commands, but I can't make Automator mount the three volumes on the HTPC (folders for music, videos, and pictures).
I automatically mount these volumes when I login (these computers connect via a wifi network), but sometimes the HTPC volumes get unmounted, so I'd like to remount by default.
Is there a way to mount the volumes in Automator? I am open to shell scripting, too. Thanks!
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I build automator workflows like this all the time. You only need two actions, and they're both Files & Folders actions.
1) Get Specified Servers. This will let you build a list of shares to connect to. If you can map it from Finder -> Go -> Connect to server, you can use this.
2) Connect to Servers. This will connect to any servers passed to it (either from get specified servers or from ask for servers).
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+agreed: this is exactly how i do it in an rsync workflow I use for syncing an iTunes library. Make sure you use Eject Volumes if you don't want the network drive to stay connected after the workflow completes. – Robert S Ciaccio Oct 19 '10 at 18:55
Eject Volumes is also handy if you want a "reverse" workflow. I use the procedure I outlined above as part of a workflow I run when I get to work (open programs, connect to servers and even remote into a virtual machine). At the end of the day, I have another one that disconnects all my servers and quits all my programs. – Ben Wyatt Oct 19 '10 at 19:05
I use the following applescript to mount directories in conjunction with MarcoPolo so network shares are automatically mounted when I get to both my office and home.
You'll need to change USERNAME, PASSWORD, SERVER/SHARENAME and possiblt smb:// depending on your server type.
tell application "Finder"
mount volume "smb://USERNAME:PASSWORD@SERVER/SHARENAME"
delay 1
end try
end tell
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San Francisco, California
A Bangladeshi Movement in San Francisco
(Written with contribution from Raj Hameed)
On the weekend of February 9th, the Bangladeshi diaspora around the world met at city squares of Berlin, London, New York, and San Francisco to show solidarity with Bangladeshis in Dhaka, who are demanding capital punishment for the war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971.
On February 9th in San Francisco, Ms Rabab Mohsin, Ms Salwa Mostafa, and Mr Ashraf B. Islam organized an event at the Golden Gate Bridge Visitor’s Information Center. They planned to express solidarity with the protesters in Dhaka by passing out leaflets to San Franciscans and tourists to inform them of the spontaneous protest movement in Dhaka. Like the Dhaka protesters, this group was unaffiliated with any political parties of Bangladesh, and the organizers took great pains to ensure that the event would not be hijacked by politics. And like the Dhaka protests, this event was organized using social media, and the invites reached a large number of bay area Bangladeshis in a short time.
The event was scheduled from 12 PM - 2 PM. By 1 PM the visitor center became filled with bright red and green Bangladeshi flags, and people dressed in sarees and dresses in red and green were everywhere. People drove in from as far as Sacramento and San Jose. There were students, families, kids in strollers, as well as elderly grandmas ambling along with their walking sticks. An estimated 70-80 people showed up, and they mingled with tourists and other San Franciscans to explain what they were demanding.
They came with homemade placards and leaflets that said:
"We demand maximum sentence for the killers of the Bangladeh Genocide in 1971"
The emotions of the participants were palpable. “We want justice. We have waited 42 years, no more.” they said.
The highlight of the event was when the crowd sponstaneously sang out"Dhono Dhanney Pushpe Bhora"--a well-known song of patriotism, followed by the national anthem: "Amar Sonar Bangla" . The non-Bangladeshi on-lookers stopped and started taking pictures during the songs.
The Facebook page for the event is: https://www.facebook.com/events/526044234085747/
Events in Bangladesh
The Shahbag Mass Movement of 2013 in Bangladesh began on February 5, 2013 in Dhaka, Bangladesh, with the demand of capital punishment for Abdul Quader Mollah and all other accused war criminals of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. On February 5, 2013, the Bangladesh International Crimes Tribunal(ICT) sentenced Mollah to life in prison because he was proven guilty of committing genocide, murder and rape (including rape of underage girls) during the liberation war. Mollah was found guilty of being behind a series of killings including large-scale massacres in the Mirpur area of Dhaka, which earned him the nickname of "Mirpurer Koshai" - Butcher of Mirpur. The movement began at the Shahbag intersection in the heart of Dhaka city, which subsequently came to be known as Projonmo Chottor, or Generation Circle (English translation), which hints at the spontaneous protests and mass movement of the current generation of youth whom many thought were apathetic and uninvolved. Thousands have been holding vigil at Shahbag demanding that they will not leave the streets until Mollah receives capital punishment.[1]
During Bangladesh’s nine-month war of liberation in 1971, atrocious war crimes were committed against civilians. "It is the most incredible, calculated thing since the days of the Nazis in Poland,” reported a high ranking US official in Time Magazine.[2] More than 3 million people were killed, nearly a quarter million women were raped, and more than 10 million people were forced to take refuge in India due to persecutions at home.
Excerpt from the writings of an eye-witness reporter of the mass murders:
"11.11.1971- I went on the top of the hill on the other side of Faiz Lake with three others. What did I see? Countless dead bodies. All women. Naked. Most of them young and two/three days old dead bodies I estimated. Then I noticed, most of the dead bodies have fetus rotting in their wombs. Bodies were piled in 10/15 a pile all over the hill. One of my companions fainted. I tried best to keep my senses and counted the bodies one by one. One thousand and eighty two, 1082. They were all killed by slicing open their wombs. Later I came to know these women are educated and from reputed families, abducted and kept here at Chittangong cantonment to satisfy the sexual needs of Pakistani soldiers. Since these women were for so long and repeatedly raped every day, they became pregnant and sexually less desirable. So they were killed and disposed of in this remote place."[3]
During the war, Bangladeshis who opposed the liberation movement were employed by the Pakistani army in trained paramilitary forces called Razakar, Al-Badr, and Al-Shams. These groups were in charge of “keeping the peace” by terrorizing the local population as a means to discourage individuals from supporting the freedom fighters.
Abdul Quader Mollah joined these groups, and was found guilty by the ICT for murdering 6 people, plotting the massacre of 344 people, and for committing rape. The International Crimes Tribunal of Bangladesh sentenced him to life in prison.
Aftermath of the verdict
Following the verdict, the protests started almost instantly, with online activists urging people to come join them at Shahbag--the central square of the capital city. The demonstrators sang the national anthem, drew murals, and chanted slogans demanding capital punishment for Mollah and others like him.
Why are protesters asking for capital punishment
In Bangladesh law, there is ample precedence of capital punishment verdict for crimes such as murder and rape. Therefore, there is a legitimate demand for similar punishment for crimes committed during war.
Additionally, the Bangladeshi legal system is such that a prisoner given a “life term” can have his/her life-term reduced by the executive branch. If the government changes in the next election, for example, a prisoner like Mollah can be pardoned and released. He could potentially receive a heroes welcome from the government and be given a job as an ambassador or minister, free to declare revenge against the witnesses who testified against him. Because this scenario has occurred several times in the past, Bangladeshis are demanding capital punishment.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Shahbag_Protest
2. Pakistan: The Ravaging of Golden Bengal, Time, 1971-08-02 http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,878408,00.html
3. A.K.M Afsar Uddin, Eye witness ( from book ISBN: 984-70124-0107-1)
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Swimming and Diving
The Nebraska swimming and diving team strives for success both in the pool and in the classroom. The Huskers have finished in the top 12 at the NCAA Championships five times since 1995 and have won 10 conference championships.
The Huskers are led by Head Coach Pablo Morales, who is a three-time Olympic Gold Medalist. Coach Morales is also one of approximately 100 former collegiate student-athletes in history to be inducted into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame.
Overall, Nebraska’s swimming and diving program has produced 11 Olympians, including two-time gold medalist and world-record holder, Penny Heyns.
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====================================================================== ========================== ======================== ======================== PEBBLES PRESS ======================= ========================== ======================== ====================================================================== ``The Straight Poop on Heather'' 14 December 1995 Vol. 2, No. 3 Editor-in-chief: Heather Contributing Editors: John & Marie Fashion Editor: Aunt Susan Contributing Poet: Hinkmond Wong ************************************************** ************************************************** *** SPECIAL HOLIDAY ISSUE *** ************************************************** ************************************************** -- POETRY! WE GET POETRY! [Contributed by an esteemed reader:] Another fine edition of the Pebbles Press! I found Heather's glossary to be quite interesting. She has a vast enough vocabulary to become somewhat poetic at this point in time. Wouldn't it be glorious if she were to suddenly utter a bit of poetry from her crib? ;-) Teddy run up, Susie sit-down, Cookie push Ernie, Elmo kick clown. Big Bird not-going, no-go-'way, Gamma buttdat cookie? Baby yummy, yay! Cory help push choo-choo, Uh-oh, kikky/kah go poo-poo! Daddy, climb tree? Apple bucket em-mee. Fowow, water, bread, Buttsdis, monkey head? Buh-ee walk water, diaper dirty, Ross, tee-sa, Meaghan all-done pee-pee. Good tickle, read book, moon eye, Pebbles go night-night, baby buh-bye. Well, it's not Keats... but, it has a rhythm to it... :-) Hinkmond Wong -- MOTOR DEVELOPMENT UPDATE Heather is running! Climbing! Swinging by her hands! Throwing! Really trying to jump (but her feet don't actually get off the ground)! Her fine motor control is really amazing too. She's great with a fork and spoon, and draws really well for a 20-month-old (at least *I* think she does). One day at an unnamed junk-food restaurant where we would *never* feed our precious child, Heather got a plastic "storefront" in her Happy Meal (oops, gave it away) with a card that you could slide through the slot on the front so you'd see the people on the card through the "windows" of the store. I pulled the card out and handed the two pieces to Heather; of course she couldn't fit them together, so she pushed them towards each other, and then said "hep, hep". So I did it for her, but left it sticking out a bit so she could pull it out. She pulled it out, looked at it, tried shoving them towards each other, then backed off, and carefully inserted the card into the slot. I couldn't believe she had the fine motor coordination to do it -- it wasn't that easy for ME to do. She does get really frustrated when she tries to do something and can't, either because she doesn't have the strength or because she doesn't have the coordination. See "ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT" for more on the results of said frustration. -- TRAVEL UPDATE Heather hasn't been traveling but everybody else has, so adding in the fact that she started in a new room at day care since the last issue (see SCHOOL DAYS), things have been chaotic and unsettling. I went on my first long trip away from Heather in September -- I went to a project meeting in Pittsburgh, then visited CMU and the University of Massachussetts in Amherst to give talks and meet with people. I spent the weekend in between meetings in Boston. It was a really nice trip, and it was nice to have some time to myself, but I was a little worried about how Heather would take it. She seemed to do okay. I made a special tape for her -- I taped myself singing lullabies -- and I put some pictures of me on a little photo keychain she has. I told her in advance that I'd be leaving for a few days, which upset her (until I said "I'm not leaving *now*"), but I don't think she really understood how long I'd be gone. John said she did pretty well -- had a few restless nights, and listening to the lullaby tape made her more upset instead of soothing her (I guess it reminded her that I wasn't there). She was VERY happy to see me when I picked her up at day care the day I got back!! John went to a conference in New Orleans over Hallowe'en. Heather and I had fun dressing her up as a lobster, going to my office's Hallowe'en party, and answering the door for trick-or-treaters. At first, she was afraid of the scary masks, but I told her "Heather, if it's scary, just yell 'boo! go away!' and that worked." We also went to a local kiddie amusement park together (see FUN 'N' GAMES), which was fun. She missed Daddy, though, and would sometimes remember that he was gone and get very sad, especially when she saw an airplane (she knew he had left on an airplane). The airport is becoming a traumatic place for her. I took another trip in November, to Boston for a conference, then to Mississippi for a couple of days to visit Penny. Aunt Barbara came out to visit just before I left, and Heather had a great time with her. Unfortunately, when Barbara left a couple of days before I got back, Heather really fell apart. John's dad also visited, in September, and loved getting to spend time with his granddaughter. (We loved the free babysitting.) Uncle David also visited, over Thanksgiving. Heather initially refused (very coyly) to say his name in front of him -- she'd say it to me, but if she thought he was paying attention, she'd just grin and peer out at him from under her lashes. But she really liked him, and was even very good for him one night when we left them home together, and went out to dinner and a movie. I've also joined a choir and a book club, so I've been gone one night a week (plus extra rehearsals lately!) for choir, and one night a month for book club (when I'm not traveling). And of course, Daddy's frequently busy with homework and studying, so he's often working. -- ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT Heather is really lots of fun. Really. Well, most of the time. She just likes to have things her way. All of the time. We're gradually developing new ways of making our lives run smoothly -- most of which involve letting her have some control over what's going on, while still getting where we need to go. For example, she'll happily walk to the car, and from the car into school, if you ask her to carry her lunch bag. Before she goes to bed every night, she sits in the rocking chair with one of us and we read books to her. Sometimes she'd throw a tantrum when we said it was time to stop reading and go to bed. The solution? - let her take the book she's been reading to bed! She falls asleep clutching it. One day we made strawberry-banana pancakes (for TKP snack) together. She "helped" me stir (I gave her her own fork so she could do her thing while I actually stirred); she munched on the strawberries while I cut them up. Then I had to take the bowl away from her to go over to the stove, and she started to protest loudly. So I had a brilliant inspiration -- I went and got a little bowl and put a little bit of batter in it, and told her to keep stirring that. Worked like a charm! We also try to find times when we can just completely let her guide things -- we put ourselves at her disposal when she's playing at home ("Mommy sit here! Daddy [eat] soup!") or go for walks where she can lead the way and decide where she wants to go. She's very good about following the rules (no picking up trash off the ground, no going places we tell her not to go, and absolutely never step in the street unless she's holding a grownup's hand). In fact, one day I had taken her outside the restaurant where we were having brunch so she could run around a bit, and she was running back and forth across the patio. I had told her when we got there not to go down the steps to the street, and pointed them out; she had totally stayed away from there. But there was a bike-stand area that was in a concrete area a few inches below the brick patio, so there was a short curb there. She walked over, stood on the edge, looked down, said "no" to herself while shaking her head, then looked up at me and said "street." I was very proud of her. She's starting to have a sense of time (future reward for good behavior in the present), so sometimes if you remind her what's going to happen next, she's willing to wait ("we're getting a Juice Club, but we have to wait in line first. Let's watch them make it.") One day, a few months ago, when we were waiting in a checkout line, she started to throw a tantrum -- she obviously didn't want to be sitting in the cart. I had mentioned earlier that we could get frozen yogurt after we picked up the pictures, so when she started fussing, I said "we have to wait in line to pay for the pictures, and after that we can get frozen yogurt. But if you're crying, we won't be able to stay. So you have to stop crying while we wait in line, then we can have yogurt." I didn't think she'd really understand me, but she stopped fussing to listen to me, and didn't cry any more after that. Amazing. Tantrums are tough though. In full-blown tantrum mode, which generally only happens at home (and not very frequently) she runs around the house, screaming "no no no!" or maybe "mine mine mine!" or maybe just yelling. She throws herself on the floor and kicks her feet, or plops down and bends in half, then rolls around crying, then runs from room to room again. She won't let any grownup come near her, but cries if you walk away from her. Usually they only last 5 or 10 minutes, or even less, but we've clocked some of her tantrums at 45+ minutes. One book I read had a description of a tantrum that lasted "six long minutes," which just made me laugh hysterically. In full-blown tantrum mode, it really doesn't help to hold her, so we just tell her "I know you're mad, I'll be here if you want to come over," put her down, and let her go at it for a while. Every ten minutes or so we'll go over and offer something that might distract her (book, food, drink, holding her, going outside). Eventually this works a little (maybe she sobs "yes," or just doesn't try to pull away). Occasionally the distraction ends it; sometimes it keeps going on. One day, when I was trying to eat my lunch (Heather had already eaten), she wanted my soda, so I went and got her juice, which made her happy for a couple of minutes. Then she wanted my crayon (pen -- any writing implement is a "cayon" to Heather), so I sat her up in her high chair with some markers and paper. That worked for a while, and she was happily drawing, but then she decided she wanted my soda again (I think). This time when I said no and offered her juice, she went ballistic. I couldn't get her to calm down in the chair, so I took her out, and she just kept yelling "mine, mine, mine" and generally tantruming. So I put her down on the floor and went back to eating my lunch. (I read a column in a parenting magazine called "Step Over the Body" -- that about sums up my philosophy.) She ran into the living room, threw herself against the bedroom door, and wailed for a while. After 2 failed attempts to console her (and leaving her a while longer), I went over and asked her if she wanted some french fries with ketchup. Almost immediately, she stopped crying, looked at me, and said "yes" (still sobbing and hiccuping, though). She sat up in her chair eating french fries for a while, then wanted to draw again so I let her. After about two minutes, she said "all done." I got her down and tried to finish eating. After playing for a few minutes, she came over and wanted to draw some more. I said "you said you were all done," and before I even had the chance to actually say "no" she went into tantrum mode again. This time it took me another two or three consoling attempts, before she let me hold her, and then I said "do you want to curl up and go to sleep?" She said yes, so we curled up on the sofa, and within 5 minutes she was sound asleep. Another day, we were at a local ice cream parlor having a treat (this was the day I got back from my first trip). She was doing really well until she decided she needed TWO spoons -- hers and John's -- and wouldn't give me one back. So he just went and got another spoon, which settled things for a while. But then she dropped one of her spoons on the floor and reached over to take mine. I said "no, this is Mommy's spoon, I'm eating ice cream too" and before I could say anything else she went into tantrum mode. I immediately scooped her up and took her outside, sat down in front of the store, and said "we can't stay inside when you're crying. when you're stop crying we can go back in and finish the ice cream" -- and almost immediately she stopped crying. I told her if she had another tantrum we'd have to throw away the ice cream and go home. I had also told her (before we went) that eventually the ice cream would be all-gone, and then there wouldn't be any more, and she shouldn't cry, because there wouldn't be any more whether or not she did. Maybe it was a coincidence, but these explanations seemed to work -- she didn't cry any more, and when she did try to take my spoon, she gave me her spoon in return. When the ice cream was gone, she said "all-done! trash!" and we went over and threw the empty cup and spoon away together. No tears! She's still pacifier addicted. I recently read an article about the American Academy of Pediatrics' recommendations for getting babies to develop good sleep habits. It says, and I quote, "Don't allow the baby to take a pacifier to bed. If she learns to depend on the pacifier to put herself to sleep, she'll need you to help her find it when she wakes up at 3 a.m." Yeah, right. This baby has her pacifier retrieval routine down so solid she can do it in her sleep. And I'm trying to imagine how we would have gotten Heather to sleep in the first place without a pacifier. It's not a pretty mental image. -- TODDLER DINING Dining is not necessarily Heather's top activity any more. She's still pretty broad-minded about what she'll eat, but is getting less and less likely to choose to eat at all (or at least to eat much).` Apparently at day care none of the kids eat their lunches -- certainly Heather doesn't, since almost everything we send with her is still left at the end of the day. I think they just have BIG mid-morning (around 9:30) and mid-afternoon (around 3:30) snacks, and nibble at lunchtime (11:30). Some of Heather's favorite foods, at least some of the time, are soup (she's really obsessed with soup, especially clear-broth type soups; mostly I think she likes practicing her dexterity, and making a big mess), potstickers and other dim sum, hot dogs (well, those used to be her absolute number one favorite, but the last few times I've given them to her she hasn't touched them), pizza (if the planets are aligned correctly), ham or turkey sandwiches (ditto), fruit (always), cereal (definitely always), raisin bread (every morning, first thing, without fail, and woe be the parent that runs out of raisin bread!), Juice Club (that's a smoothie, or blended fruit drink -- she'll NEVER pass one of these up!). -- SCHOOL DAYS She loves TKP! The first two weeks were pretty bad sleep-wise, though -- she was up a couple of times a night, almost every night, and was often cranky at home, throwing some of her truly notable tantrums. Even now she sometimes cries very hard when we leave, but she's joyously happy for the whole day, and has obviously been having fun whenever we get there to pick her up. And some days she doesn't cry at all, especially if we can time it so we leave during snack time or story time (Heather is ALWAYS happy during story time; I think the only time she really throws tantrums at day care is when story time is over). Co-oping can be a bit tough, since she tends to be clingy while we're around (and I think she's sometimes upset that we showed up at day care, but aren't taking her home). But one of the teachers, Maria, is the mom of one of Heather's friends from CIP1 (who's now in a different classroom, since she's older than Heather). Maria's been on maternity leave, but started in TKP again a couple of weeks ago. Heather's very fond of Maria, and very comfortable around her; last time I co-oped, Heather was off hanging out with with Maria. In fact, she had all but one of the kids sitting around her in a big circle, doing some activity or another; later, all but a different one of the kids quietly sat lined up on a log, waiting for Maria to read books to them. You have to realize how AMAZING it is to see 10 toddlers lined up quietly -- it's like the Harmonic Convergence or something. -- HEALTH NEWS No news is good news! So far, we've made it through the cold-and-flu season with no major catastrophes. I, however, sprained my ankle. Again. But I kept off it completely for a day, and it's healing much better than the last time. Although Heather hasn't been sick, we've been to the doctor's office a couple of times for well-baby visits, and once or twice when she had a fever (but it didn't seem to be anything real). She used to be quite happy at the doctor's office, except when she was getting things poked in her ears or getting a shot, but she throws a BIG fit as soon as we walk into the examining room. We still love Dr. Laurie, but Heather has decided she's The Enemy. Two of her eyeteeth are in, and the other two are coming in -- this has been going on, on and off, since September or so. Why doesn't she just get it over with? She gained 1/2 an inch from her 15-month to her 18-month appointment -- but lost an ounce. Go figure. Our petite Heather. Mommy, however, sprained her ankle. -- ALL THE POOP THAT'S S*IT TO PRINT [Warning: not for the squeamish] We have no exciting poop news this month. One of these days we'll be able to tell you that she poops in the toilet, but not any time soon, is my guess. I do think she knows when she's pooped, but if you ask her "did you poop?" she says "no!" quite violently. She REALLY hates getting her diaper changed. Though one time, right after she pooped, she came over to me and said "babboo" -- I think she realized she needed a clean diaper, and we usually let her have her pacifier while she's being changed. [Will you squeamish people QUIT reading the part that's clearly marked "not for the squeamish" and QUIT complaining? Jeez.] -- BABY TALK This child is just an unbelievable talker. She's now saying lots of 2-word, 3-word, and even the occasional 4-word sentence. Most importantly, though, she finally calls me Mommy! Heather has many uses for the word NO, as you can imagine a verbal toddler might -- she uses it not only to answer a yes-no question in the negative, but to indicate her lack of desire to do something, to say out loud that she's not supposed to do something (see ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT for an example), and to indicate that she got a question wrong ("what's this?" (pointing to a lizard) "snake... no..."). She also knows how to say "YES" to answer a yes-no question positively, though, and she really seems to enjoy saying it -- she always gets a big grin, then says "YES!" ("Heather, are you wearing a hat?" "YES!") Her pronounciation is getting so much better -- she's very understandable a lot of the time, even to strangers. (Then again, sometimes even *I* can't understand her.) It's sort of sad when her baby pronunciations go away, though. She used to say "namma" for "banana," then went through an intermediate stage where she said something like "bammamma" that kept changing every time she tried to say it; now she very clearly says "ba-na-na!" Words & phrases: interesting words (only a partial list) * adjectives/concepts: heavy, big, little, dark (sssh! quiet!), lights on! * verbs: running, walking, sleeping, climbing, swinging, sliding, hiding * emotions (she loves books and pictures where she can recognize the emotions of the characters): mad, happy, sad, sleepy * amazingly obscure/difficult words: dolphin, seal, whale, walrus, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, decoration, California (she has no idea what it means, but loves to say it), iguana * often uses the plural "s" appropriately 'sentences' * noun-verb ("Mommy running" "Heather sitting down" "Elmo sleeping" "Daddy hold it" "Mommy find it" "train coming! ding ding ding!" "'nother train coming! ding ding ding!") * compound nouns ("crossing gate" "raisin bread") * adjective-noun ("mad piggie" "happy Mommy" "red car" "little book") * possessives ("Heather's book" "Mommy's shoe" "Daddy's slippers" and recently even "MY babboo!") * object identification ("there's the bear!" "here it is!" "this is 'I Can'" (one of her library books)) She can also recite Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (and often goes around the house chanting it to herself), most of the alphabet song, and can count (with prompting: "and what comes after 5?") from 1 to 10. Only when she's in the mood, though, which means that mostly she won't do any of this in public. I like to talk to her when I pick her up from day care and ask her about her day. Typical conversation: Mom: Did you have fun at school today? Who did you play with? Heather: Theo! M: Who else? H: Reid! (thinking) Ryan! (thinking more) Amy! M: What did you do with Theo? H: Theo... hug! M: Did you give Theo a hug? That's very nice. What did you do with Reid? H: Spash! Heather spash! M: Did you play in the water with Reid? H: (with a big grin and nod) YES! M: Your hair is very pretty today. Who did your ponies? (what she calls ponytails or any hair arrangement -- sometimes she gets French braids or a little bun!) H: Te-REEsa ponies! (her old teacher from CIP1 comes in to fill in on Thursday afternoons when the TKP teachers have their group meeting, and she's the acknowledged hair genius) M: Okay, let's go home now. What do you want for dinner? H: (thinking) Pizza dinner!! M: Okay, I think we have pizza. Do you want some milk with it? H: Milk! Heather... milk! -- FUN 'N' GAMES Heather loves pretending! She pretends to make planes (or any random object that she feels like pretending is a plane) fly through the air. She pretends to make and eat soup, pancakes, pie, and cake in her kitchen. She toddles around the house with her canteen slung over her shoulder, pretending to drink out of it and saying "mmm! coffee!" She pretends to make her Sesame Street action figures go down a pretend slide I built out of blocks, and pretends to make them go to sleep and wake up ("g'morning!") in a pretend house I built out of Legos. While John was out of town, Heather and I went to Happy Hollow Park and Zoo, a kiddie amusement park in San Jose. It was lots of fun. Heather loved the animals, and was fascinated watching the rides, but every time she said she wanted to go on, and I'd try to put her on, she'd freak out and get very upset. So we skipped them (but I kept going along with it if she asked to try). Finally, towards the end, she wanted to go on this little roundabout ride with police cars and fire cars. I told her I thought it might be too scary, but she could ride if she wanted to. This time the cars were low down to the ground, and I had the inspiration of letting her walk in, pick out her own car, and climb in by herself. Worked like a charm -- she loved it. Then she didn't want to get off, of course, Current favorite fads: trains (especially Thomas the Tank Engine), tunnels of any sort, Mr. Frumble (or any Richard Scarry book or character), Sesame Street, slippers (especially grown-up size ones), her new kitchen (we got her a play kitchen for Christmas and set it up early - she loves it!), shoulder bags (especially Mommy's fanny pack, or her plastic pumpkin), pumpkins. Somehow she got it into her head that one has to play "games!" while lying down on one's tummy. Preferably wearing Daddy's Gumby slippers (which are HUGE on her). We play a very simple version of concentration, block-matching games, and a card-matching game from Sesame Street. These are all so far beyond her tiny mental capabilities it reminds us how young she really is, even though sometimes she seems wise beyond her years. Of course, her all-time favorite activity is still reading books. The first thing she wants to do every morning is cuddle. The next thing is to read books. The third thing is raisin bread. This kid has her priorities straight -- education before nutrition. -- FASHION We are delaying this column until after the Christmas deluge of new fashions. We might simply remark to any grandmas or aunts who are listening that Heather could really use a pair of rain boots, size 6. -- STAY TUNED Next time, it will be next year!
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Well this is some creative marketing. Head on over to markoftheninja.com to play through a ninja-centric text adventure game. It's called "Mark of the Ninja," and it's brought to you by Klei Entertainment, makers of Shank.
(Well, it's not really a "text adventure" game like Zork or The Lurking Horror, it's more of a "choose your own adventure." But I digress.)
You'll assume the role of a black-clad Japanese assassin, making choices about how best to hunt and kill your prey. Do you lash out from the shadows, or do you wait?
Here in the street stands another guard, bigger than the last. He's guarding the entrance to a squat hotel. He is the only man standing between you and your prey.
You wait for the guard to glance away, and then fling your grappling hook at the lightpost. It hooks the metal and pulls you through the air with a gentle whoosh, until you are perched above your enemy. Even if he looks up, he won't see you: the light is in his eyes.
As you make decisions, the prompts asking what you'd like to do melt away, replaced by a "final" version of the story you just told. It's neat! And then you finish the story and, of course, are treated to some gameplay footage of the real Mark of the Ninja, an upcoming 2D stealth video game made by Klei.
And so this choose-your-own-adventure game stealthily becomes a video game teaser... just like a ninja.
Mark of the Ninja [Klei Entertainment]
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I cannot seem to find info on creating web pages on my Ubuntu 12.10 server. Is there a program to do this like Microsoft has (such as Frontpage)?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10, PHPMyadmin, MYSql, Lamp server, postfix.
Now what should I do?
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Possible Duplicate: – Seth Jan 8 at 4:32
@iSeth I don't know if MikeM24 wants an IDEs, so this may not be a duplicate. – Vreality Jan 8 at 4:36
Front page is discontinued and replaced by visual web developer. If you want similar app for ubuntu try bluegriffon – Tachyons Jan 8 at 5:00
In case the OP wants a WYSIWYG HTML editor, this question is a duplicate of… Otherwise it's a duplicate of the question about IDEs linked to @iSeth – Sergey Jan 8 at 5:17
possible duplicate of Basic Web Development IDE/Editor like Dreamweaver? – Tachyons Jan 8 at 7:44
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Usually servers are set to hold and serve pages, the development machine is at the hand of the developer, and syncs the web application using a protocol such as SFTP, FTP or WebDav.
If you have a xserver desktop on your machine, I'd recommend you Gedit that can be set up to be a great text editor for web development. (Some tips here)
For non-GUI use (i.e. ssh access) there is vim which is widely used, and nano which is very simple.
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There is another way to improve Gedit:… – Lourenzo Ferreira Jan 8 at 7:44
Vim is a great start. If you plan on making it yourself, a text editor like vim or an IDE such as geany would probably suit you well. If you're learning, making it yourself is the best way in my opinion.
Here are some editors to look into. If you want a "What You See Is What You Get" kind of editor (like Dreamweaver) then Kompozer looks like a good option if you don't mind compiling from source. Amaya and SeaMonkey are two other options. Here's a paid app you could check out: quickandeasywebbuilder
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Kompozer is no longer maintained so it is not available in ubuntu 12.10 repository. Blue griffon is better than kompozer – Tachyons Jan 8 at 5:01
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Kaduna state has been the centre of many attacks, mostly on churches. Kaduna state has been the centre of many attacks, mostly on churches. (Google map)
Gunmen armed with rifles and machetes attacked a rural village Sunday in northern Nigeria, killing at least 12 people, including worshippers leaving a mosque after prayers before dawn, officials said.
The attack happened in Dogon Dawa, a village deep in the pasturelands of Kaduna state where police and security forces maintain only a light presence. The number of dead could be higher as emergency responders acknowledged that estimates of those killed in the attacks varied wildly and few eyewitnesses could be directly reached after the attacks. Police and soldiers also cut off access to the region Sunday, limiting the response of aid agencies.
A rescue official in the state who lives near the village told The Associated Press the attacks began in the early morning under the cover of darkness, with as many as 50 gunmen surrounding the village and its surrounding farmlands. The majority of those killed appeared to be leaving the village's main mosque after the early call to prayers, the official said.
The official spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear of being targeted by those who carried out the attack. Kaduna state police commissioner Olufemi Adenaike later said 12 people were killed in the attack, though police in Nigeria routinely downplay casualties.
"We cannot ascertain the [total] number of people killed for now, and more over we cannot say what or who was responsible for the attack," Adenaike said. "We couldn't get immediate information from the area because the [cellphone] network there is very poor."
While police routinely have many officers stationed throughout major cities in Nigeria, police presence in villages can sometimes be a single officer working out of someone's home.
Dispute between nomads and farmers
The reasons for the attack remained unclear Sunday. The emergency official said locals already had blamed a gang of robbers who recently arrived from neighbouring Zamfara state and had begun attacking villages and robbing people along the road. Dogon Dawa had formed a local vigilante committee to patrol their area and that group and the robbers had been killing each other over the course of the last weeks, the official said.
'The spasm of violence and senseless bloodshed in the northern parts of Nigeria has reached an alarming and unacceptable level.'—Shenu Sani, Civil Rights Congress
"This time around they decided to launch a reprisal attack," the official said.
However, activist Shehu Sani, who leads the Kaduna-based Civil Rights Congress, said it appeared the attack was between Muslim farmers and Muslim nomadic cattlemen. Tensions and violence spring up between the two groups over land rights, though not often with such an intensity.
"The spasm of violence and senseless bloodshed in the northern parts of Nigeria has reached an alarming and unacceptable level," Sani said.
Kaduna state sits on the fault line running between Nigeria's largely Christian south and Muslim north, where mass killings and violence have occurred over the last decade. After the April 2011 presidential election, protests over Christian Goodluck Jonathan winning quickly turned into ethnic and religious violence that saw hundreds killed in that state alone.
There also have been church bombings and suicide car bomb attacks in the state as well, some carried out by a radical Islamist sect known as Boko Haram, which has killed more than 690 people across the country this year alone, according to an AP count.
In the northeast city of Maiduguri on Sunday, a bomb exploded near a neighbourhood where a lieutenant was killed last week. That killing had set off a reprisal attack by soldiers stationed there that saw more than 30 civilians killed, locals said. The blast targeted those trying to go to a church nearby, military spokesman Lt. Col. Sagir Musa said. He did not say if anyone was injured in the blast.
Meanwhile, a traditional ruler in the city who helped gather others together in a conference calling for an end to attacks by Boko Haram was shot dead in his home Sunday afternoon, a security official said. The official said he believed Boko Haram gunmen targeted the ruler named Mala Kaka. The official spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to speak to journalists.
The violence has embittered many living in the region and exposed the inability of Nigeria's weak central government to provide basic security in the nation of more than 160 million people.
Responding to the latest attack in Kaduna state, Sani said: "We have become a nation of unknown gunmen and absentee leaders."
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Why grocery stores still aren't allowed to sell wine (or even hard liquor) is beyond me. And we call ourselves the land of the free...
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It was a number of years ago. I was living in Trinidad, Colo. and periodically I would go down to Raton to catch the horse races there at the track which was so much a part of the area about three decades ago. I am not a big gambler, but I do enjoy watching a man and animal work in tandem and I enjoy watching a horse run well. On this particular Saturday afternoon, I had watched the horses run for most of the day and won a few dollars, and had lost a few dollars; all-in-all, a good day’s entertainment. After the race, I decided to get a beer or two and have a good steak in kind of classy surroundings, and at that time there was basically one place in northern New Mexico to do that, Tinnie’s Palace. The Palace at that time, it closed not long after the racetrack closed, was not like anything of the 20th century. It was more like something from the century before. It had stained glass windows and cut crystal, little intimate private dining rooms for romantic dinners and a wine cellar that would do a New York restaurant proud. In short, it had a class that simply does not exist any more, and when it did exist, it was a rarity. Being race day, it was crowded. I was standing at the bar waiting for a place in the dining room and I got to talking with a gentleman there who also seemed to be on his own waiting for a table, or possibly just taking in the atmosphere. The Palace had tons of it. He was dressed in what my father used to call “Sunday cowboy”, a good pair of boots, a nice hat upside down on the mahogany, a dark shirt, and a western cut sports coat. After we began to talk, it became clear he was clearly a well-read man and as reading people often do when they get to talking, we talked books. We actually got to comparing whom we thought the best books or authors in specific genre were. I would mention science fiction and he said he thought Robert Heinlein was the best and I agreed he was good especially Stranger in a Strange Land, but my preference was Isaac Asimov. I would put forth Raymond Chandler for hard boiled detective authors and he would counter with Dashiell Hammett who wrote the Maltese Falcon and Thin Man. I would suggest Pushkin and he was say Dostoyevski. He would suggest Agatha Christie and I would counter with Arthur Conan Doyle. Each time we would discuss the merits of the specific author and why we thought he or she was preferable. We went back and forth like that quite some time on a variety of different books. In fact, we had our food brought to the bar so we could enjoy the conversation and food as we stood there. Finally he brought up western novels. Here I became adamant. I told him that I would not accept any argument about this. I said that he might argue Zane Gray, for actually starting the modern western novel or suggest somebody like Luke Short, there was really only one person that could claim the title of best western author and that was Louis L’Amour. I said everybody else was a poor second. I went on in this vein for some time (remember we had been drinking beer for most of our discussion), and I didn’t notice him fiddling with his wallet and sliding something over to me on the bar. When I paused in my rant to glance down at the thing, and I realized that I was looking at the drivers’ license of Louis L’Amour. I had just been telling Louis L’Amour what a great writer Louis L’Amour was. At this point, I am not certain just what I said. I vaguely remember it was something to the effect of ““ stretched over what seemed like hours, but I have a hunch it was only a few seconds. He put out his hand and took mine and said, “Ya know, I like your taste.” He died about 15 years ago, but last week would have held his birthday and I thought this might be a good time to tell this story.
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Monday, March 06, 2006
What's with the parental consent study?
The blogosphere is abuzz over the New York Times article, "Scant Drop Seen in Abortion Rate if Parents Are Told".
The New York Times looked at data from six states, and found "a scattering of divergent trends".
What I find interesting is that the New York Times based their conclusions on data from six states, when fully 34 states have parental involvement laws in effect. Are we seeing a little data massage going on here?
So, I looked elsewhere.
"Using Natural Experiments to Analyze the Impact of State Legislation on the Incidence of Abortion" noted that data "indicate that when a parental involvement law is enacted, the abortion rate decreases by 16.37 abortions for every thou sand live births and the abortion rate decreases by 1.15 abortions for every thousand women between the ages of 15 to 44. Parental involvement laws that are passed by a legislature and then later nullified by the judiciary result in modest increases in the abortion rate and a modest decline in the abortion ratio."
Religious Tolerance: "Parental Consent and Notification Laws for Teen Abortions: Pro and Con" noted mixed results.
What this all boils down to is this:
1. That we have no clear data on the impact of parental involvement laws on teen abortion rates is old news.
2. Contrary to abortion proponents' prognositications, we've not seen hoards of coathanger-impaled teenagers strewn across the front lawns of states with parental involvement laws.
So whatup with all this buzz? It's as if the New York Times published a study indicating that cats catch mice, and everybody got in to a tizzy about it. There's something odd going on here.
And I'm gonna place a bet: The next time a parental involvement law comes up in a legislature or in court, we'll still hear the cries of how the law in question will lead to massive carnage among the teen population.
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Weaker on an Up Day: What Next?
Kudos to Rennie at Market Tells for pointing out that today's stock market was weaker than Friday despite the rise in the level of the large cap indexes. According to the data that I keep, which tracks all NYSE, NASDAQ, and ASE stocks, we made fewer 20-day highs today than on Friday.
So what happens after a weak up day in the market? I went back to late 2002 (when I first began collecting the 20-day high/low data) and looked at all cases in which SPY closed up on the day, but fewer stocks than the day previous made fresh 20-day highs.
Three days after the weak up day, SPY averaged a loss of -.25% (124 occurrences up, 133 down). For the remainder of the sample, SPY averaged a three-day gain of .07% (808 up, 638 down).
Interestingly, the weakness following a weak up day was more pronounced when the weak up day registered less than 500 new lows (as was the case today). That seems to suggest that a weak up day in a relatively strong market is particularly vulnerable to reversal, as a longer-term move may be waning. The average three day loss in SPY when new lows were low was -.41% (55 up, 63 down). When new lows were high, the average three-day loss was -.11% (69 up, 70 down).
It's a nice example of how looking at price change alone can mislead traders.
ex_wirehouse said...
Great peice, all makes perfect sense, I am afraid that the holiday week and qrtr end will skew everything to the upside however, will trade accordingly, either way
Chee said...
This is great stuff. Where can I get the daily data for stocks making there 20 day highs and 20 day lows?
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Telstra strikes $10B deal for Australia broadband
— The government and Australia's largest telecommunications company announced a deal Sunday that clears a major hurdle to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's plans for a superfast national broadband network.
The Australian dollars 11 billion ($9.6 billion) deal will give the government-owned company building the new network, the National Broadband Network Co., or NBN, access to existing infrastructure owned by Telstra Corp., which controls the only national communications network.
The deal means NBN will not have to build its own infrastructure - considered one of the largest and most expensive parts of the government's AU$43 billion plan.
The government will pay Telstra AU$9 billion for access to infrastructure including pits, ducts and wires, and a further AU$2 billion to help Telstra set up a new company to implement the deal.
Telstra will also be able to move its customers from its existing copper wire and cable networks to the new fiber-optic one.
Announcing the deal, Rudd said on Sunday it would be mean the rollout of the new broadband network would be faster, cheaper and more efficient.
The government last year announced a plan to deliver broadband speeds of 100 megabits per second to 90 percent of Australian homes, schools and businesses within eight years through fiber-optic cables connected directly to buildings.
The role that Telstra - a former government-owned monopoly that controls the aging copper wire system that is Australia's only national communications network - would play was not immediately clear. Negotiations with the government started last year.
Telstra is now privatized, but remains heavily regulated to promote competition from smaller phone companies that rent access to its existing copper line network.
The government wants Telstra to further dilute its market dominance by splitting its wholesale and retail businesses, and has introduced legislation to encourage that move. The company is resisting, arguing it has a duty to shareholders to keep its businesses intact.
The deal announced Sunday still needs the approval of Telstra shareholders and Australia's competition regulator.
The Associated Press
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Actually banking terminals are supposed to fault when tampered with, and afair they do have some crypto identifying them to the banks network. That said, couple years ago British scientists played tetris on one such terminal and further demonstrated a relay attack (when you think you're paying for one stuff but you're in fact paying for a simultaneous transaction in a nearby location).
These are still very impractictal to implement though. There's heavy crypto involved in this, with time constraints limiting the timeframe on which someone would use your unlocked private key. I'd say you're far more susceptible to theft of the card and PIN than a bogus terminal. All in all the "real world" debit card system is pretty sound, the internet part certainly could use some work.
Paypal and such systems are actually a fine answer. Zero-locked accounts you have to fill with some exact amount for payments are probably the best thing you can do beyond never paying anything on the internet.
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Sadly, paypal is not zero-locked, though it has the advantage of displaying the amount you're going to pay on the login page.
About physical terminals, I wonder... Instead of messing with an existing one, couldn't the attacker just build something which looks like a card reader, behaves like a card reader, but in fact only saves credit card information and PIN in a way that the hacker can later make a copy of the card whose PIN he has extracted and use it ?
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Rediscovering Human Beings, Part 1
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August 17, 2012 Tags: Brain, Mind & Soul
Today's entry was written by Edward Feser. Please note the views expressed here are those of the author, not necessarily of The BioLogos Foundation. You can read more about what BioLogos believes here.
Rediscovering Human Beings, Part 1
Note: In yesterdays’ post, Fuller Seminary scholar Joel B. Green laid out some of the challenges to familiar concepts of the soul posed by both contemporary science and careful attention to the Scriptures. Today and tomorrow, philosopher Edward Feser—who comes at the issue from a Catholic tradition assumed in some circles to be uniformly and “simply” dualist in its thinking about the essence of humanity as created by God—presents exactly the kind of sophisticated approach to thinking about “human being” that Green suggests must be forthcoming. Feser affirms both the embodied and incorporeal aspects of our experience without suggesting that they are radically separated or two different “substances.” In part one, below, Feser lays out an argument for the immaterial character of abstract or conceptual thought, and suggests that we have lost sight of the way classical philosophers understood humans to be a seamless unity of the material and the immaterial.
Everyday experience tells us that a human being is the sort of thing that eats, sleeps, grows, reproduces, sees, hears, walks, feels, loves, hates, speaks, thinks, and chooses. Aristotle’s way of summing up this homely truth was to say that we are by nature rational animals. That we are animals is thus something we hardly needed Darwin to tell us. It is obvious from the fact that, like other animals, we have stomachs and skin, eyeballs and ears, limbs and teeth, muscles, brains, and the other organs necessary to carry out the activities in question. Like dogs and cats, apes and eels, we are essentially bodily creatures.
Yet it doesn’t follow that we are mere animals, and our rationality is what sets us apart from the rest of the genus. Indeed, for Aristotle, and for Aquinas after him, rationality is unlike our other capacities in having an essentially immaterial and non-bodily aspect. The reason has to do with our capacity to form abstract concepts, which underlies all our other distinctively rational activities. It is because you can grasp what it is to be a man -- not just this particular man or that one, but any possible man, man as a universal -- that you can go on to form judgments like the judgment that all men are mortal, can reason from that judgment together with the judgment that Socrates is a man to the conclusion that Socrates is mortal, and so forth.
There are several arguments that establish that this capacity for abstract thought cannot in principle be reduced to or otherwise entirely explained in terms of brain activity, even if brain activity is part of the story. The arguments have their roots in Plato and Aristotle and have been defended in recent years by Aristotelian philosophers like Mortimer Adler, John Haldane, David Oderberg, and James Ross.1 Answering the various objections to (and misunderstandings of) these arguments takes some work, but the basic idea can be set out fairly simply.2
Let us take as an example the thought that triangles have three sides. For that thought (or any other) plausibly to be material, it would have to be identifiable with something like a symbol or set of symbols encoded in the brain -- something analogous to the symbols encoded in the electronic circuitry of a computer. But there is no way a thought could be entirely reducible to that sort of thing. For no material symbol could possibly have the determinate or unambiguous content that at least many of our concepts have; and no material symbol could possibly have the universal reference that our concepts have.
Consider the most unambiguous symbol of triangularity there could be -- a picture of a triangle, such as the one to the right. Now, does this picture represent triangles in general? Or only isosceles triangles? Or only small isosceles triangles drawn in black ink? Or does it really even represent triangles in the first place? Why not take it instead to represent a dinner bell, or an arrowhead? There is nothing in the picture itself that can possibly tell you. Nor would any other picture be any better. Any picture would be susceptible of various interpretations, and so too would anything you might add to the picture in order to explain what the original picture was supposed to represent. In particular, there is nothing in the picture in question or in any other picture that entails any determinate, unambiguous content. And even in the best case there is nothing that could make it a representation of triangles in general as opposed to a representation merely of small, black, isosceles triangles specifically. For the picture, like all pictures, has certain particularizing features -- a specific size and location, black lines as opposed to blue or green ones, an isosceles as opposed to scalene or equilateral shape -- that other things do not have.
Now what is true of this “best case” sort of symbol is even more true of linguistic symbols. There is nothing in the word “triangle” that determines that it refers to all triangles or to any triangles at all. Its meaning is entirely conventional; that that particular set of shapes (or the sounds we associate with them) have the significance they do is an accident of the history of the English language. But something similar could be said of any material symbols whatever. Even if we regarded them as somehow having a built-in meaning or content, they would not have the universality or determinate content of our concepts, any more than the physical marks making up the word “triangle” or a picture of a triangle do. But then the having of a concept cannot merely be a matter of having a certain material symbol encoded in the brain, even if that is part of what it involves. Nor can it merely be a matter of having a set of material symbols, or a set of material symbols together with certain causal relations to objects and events in the world beyond the brain. For just as with any picture or set of pictures, any set of material elements will be susceptible in principle of alternative interpretations; while at least in many case, our thoughts are not indeterminate in this way.
We might understand the point by analogy with sentences. If you are going to use the English sentence “Snow is white,” you are typically going to have to express it via some material medium -- ink marks, pixels, sound waves, or what have you. All the same, the meaning of that sentence cannot be accounted for in terms of any of the physical properties of those media. There is nothing in the shapes of the letters that make up the words of the sentence, or the chemistry of the ink in which they are written, or the physics of the compression waves in the air that you generate when uttering them, that makes them refer to snow or to whiteness or indeed to anything at all. A sentence is a seamless unity of the material and the immaterial, and it is created by another seamless unity of the material and immaterial -- a human being.
At this point there will no doubt be those who object that positing ectoplasm or spook stuff is hardly a better explanation of thought than an appeal to brain activity is. And that is quite true. But then, I said nothing about ectoplasm or spook stuff in the first place. When a mathematician points out that it is just muddleheaded to speak of the square root of 25 as if it were a kind of physical object, it would be silly to accuse him of believing that the square root of 25 is made out of ectoplasm or spook stuff. If your picture of reality cannot accommodate numbers alongside physical objects, that is your problem, not his. Mathematics simply provides a powerful example of a body of truths that cannot be captured in the language of physics, chemistry, neuroscience, and the like.
Similarly, to point out that whatever a thought is, it cannot in principle be reduced to the physical properties of brain activity, is simply to provide another example of an aspect of reality that cannot be entirely captured in such language. Only if we assume that all of reality must be so captured will this sound odd, but that we should not assume this is, of course, precisely the point. And if we do assume it, we are doing so in the face of the evidence, and not on the basis of the evidence. For it is precisely what we know about thought from our everyday familiarity with it -- such as the fact that it sometimes has a determinate content, and a universal reference -- that tells us that it cannot be entirely material, just as it is what we know about numbers from our everyday familiarity with them that tells us that they cannot be physical objects.
But doesn’t neuroscience show that there is a tight correlation between our thoughts and brain activity? It does indeed. So what? If you smudge the ink you’ve used to write out a sentence or muffle the sounds you make when you speak it, it may be difficult or impossible for the reader or listener to grasp its meaning. It does not follow that the meaning is reducible to the physical or chemical properties of the sentence. Similarly, the fact that brain damage will seriously impair a person’s capacity for thought does not entail that his thoughts are entirely explicable in terms of brain activity.
Aristotle and Aquinas, though they regarded the human intellect as immaterial, would not have been surprised in the least by the findings of modern neuroscience. Indeed, they would have been surprised had neuroscience not turned up the correlations it has. This will sound surprising if you take Descartes as your paradigm of a philosopher who affirms the immateriality of the human mind. But defending Descartes is exactly the reverse of what I have been doing. For it was Descartes who substituted the real, concrete human being -- a seamless unity of the physical and the mental, the bodily and the immaterial -- with a bizarre patchwork of abstractions of his own devising. Materialists have followed him ever since. Materialism is just a riff on Cartesianism, not its opposite. Tomorrow, I’ll explain exactly what I mean.
1. See Mortimer Adler, Intellect: Mind Over Matter (New York: Collier Books, 1990); J. J. C. Smart and J. J. Haldane, Atheism and Theism, Second edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 96-109; David S. Oderberg, “Hylemorphic Dualism,” Social Philosophy and Policy 22 (2005); and James Ross, “Immaterial Aspects of Thought,” Journal of Philosophy 89 (1992).
2. I provide an exposition and defense of such arguments in chapter 7 of my book Philosophy of Mind and chapter 4 of my book Aquinas. An especially detailed exposition and defense can be found in my article “Kripke, Ross, and the Immaterial Aspects of Thought,” forthcoming in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly.
Edward Feser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Pasadena City College in Pasadena, California. He has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a Visiting Scholar at the Social Philosophy and Policy Center at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. He holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a master’s degree in religion from the Claremont Graduate School, and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and religious studies from the California State University at Fullerton. He is author of numerous books and writes regularly on his own blog. You can learn more about him at his website.
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by Larkin Hill
I'm in love. I want to be 38 right now, with two kids who are very active, and I want the Suburban. I want to pick them up, along with all of their friends and comfortably drive them anywhere.
It's huge! It's luxurious! It's easy to drive! It's the perfect momma mobile (in addition to the Volvo, of course).
Upon first glance, it looked ridiculously large. Not only was it tall, but the thing was about 40 feet long, well, not really...but it might as well be. Opening the door required actual muscle...quite a shock in this day and age where the cars are puny and the exterior is plastic. However, the Suburban is a stereotypical American beast, it's the largest and the heaviest sport utility vehicle on the market...it's basically a functional family truck. Also, it looks like a family truck ... a GMC 4X4 longbed with smoother lines and nicely tinted windows.
It was not until I climbed inside that I fell absolutely in love. The Interior was not fancy, sure it had gadgets, but the styling wasn't exactly inspiring or even worthy of notation. It was simply a coordinating plastic dash that faced the driver, a matching center console, and plenty of room to store things. The most ingenious feature that perfected the Suburban's image as a family car was the three rows of air conditioning. Perfect for those varying temperatures of the numerous people that could climb in at any occasion. The seats were American style comfortable...soft and cushy. There were tons of storage compartments that were sporty and functional. The overall interior was quite nice...roomy and comfortable.
The engine was typical of what you'd find in a full size family sports utility, strong enough to pull a boat or a trailer. A V8 half ton pickup with four wheel drive that would be necessary in a place like Montana, where you might take the horses out, go on a white water rafting trip, or simply have to drive into town on a cold December morning. The Suburban's suspension is such that there would be little effort required to maintain control while traveling down the most treacherous of roads. The ride is comfortable and smooth with just enough height to clear most terrain, yet low enough so you don't feel like you'll tip at the slightest sway.
The overall experience was amazing; I've never fallen in love with a car and not wanted it immediately. This is a vehicle that I can only aspire to at this point, and only if I'm in the perfect situation. I would not want this vehicle for every day use in certain situations...such as a huge city like San Francisco or San Diego. The only reasonable use for an automobile this large, on an every day basis, is if you live in a somewhat rural setting or must haul around a tremendous amount of stuff each day. For holidays and long camping trips with the family the Suburban would be perfect if you lived in the City. I loved it for its feel on the road...smooth, powerful, and yet still a bit feminine. As I said before...a perfect momma mobile.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Why I Still Support Obama
So why do I still support Obama?
David L said...
I voted for Ron Paul in the Republican primary in Early Voting for the 5 Feb IL primary. He puts America First and would basically leave it to Israelis and Palestinians to settle their problems on their own.
bar_kochba132 said...
I see other so-called "progressives" like yourself such as Richard Silverstein and MJ Rosenberg are enthusiastic supporters of Obama. Of course those two live in the US and, presumably, they are interested in his American domestic policies in addition to what his policy towards the Middle East, but I am really curious why people think Obama can change anything? What does he have that the other don't have? Regarding Israel, no other President was willing to weigh in with so much effort in order to make "peace", and he failed, why should anyone think Obama will succeed? Regarding his domestic policy...well, the US is a country of a quarter of a billion people with a huge industrial and agricultural base that go back many years, and with VERY strong entrenched interests. In order to be elected President today, one needs hundreds of millions of dollars. Where does this money come from?..the "little guy" or these same entrenched interests who expect some sort of return for their "generosity"?
I am really mystified as to why these progressives should think Obama or anybody can really make the "progressive utopia" these people seem to expect.
Jerry Haber said...
David and BK
I don't know much about Ron Paul, or Obama, for that matter. Since I care about Israel, however, the last thing I want anybody to do is to leave it alone...the US has interests in the Middle East, and once it adopts a realist policy (a la Walt and Mearsheimer) things will change for the better for Israel, the Palestinians, and the US.
As for BK's comment...I don't think any intelligent person sees the possibility of utopian change, whether a Naderite or a Christian evangelical. But some presidents are better than others. Had Gore been president arguably we would not be Iraq, Iran would not have the power it now has in the region, and I doubt we would still be in Afghanistan. And did somebody mention action on global warming? So while there is no possibility of utopian change, there is the possibility of a good deal of change. Bush was successful in changing the ideological character of much of the Supreme Court. So I think who is in charge matters, even in a stable democracy such as ours (speaking as an American citizen.)
By the way, if you read my post, you could hardly infer that I am an enthusiastic supporter of Obama. I am not. If he is elected president, no doubt I will be as disappointed of him as my necon friends are of GWB. But voting is always choosing the least of the evils, is it not?
Diana said...
I like you when you say things like that.
I voted for Obama this morning. Every vote is hope against hope; in my heart of hearts, I KNOW that this man recognizes what the real situation is because he has let slip the dogs of truth before. Of course he'll be hemmed in by what we call reality but there's the faintest glimmer of hope with Obama in the White House, while there is no hope if Hillary (or McCain) is there.
And, as an American, Israel isn't my only focus.
Jerry Haber said...
Rob Malley, it turns out, is not a player in the Obama campaign, and it is way too early (check date of this note) to talk about a Mideast advisory team. We can only hope that Malley, who works at the Belgian-based International Crisis Group, is called in as a consultant/advisor if Obama becomes president.
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The habit of the shrub maybe further qualified by the number of branches/breaks/lateral growths which can be expected for a given size of specified plant at point of sale. Grades have now been established indicating the minimum number of breaks which can be expected for bare root, rootballed and container grown shrubs of a range of growth types and sizes.
Bare Root Shrubs
Table 1: Typical ornamental amenity shrubs: showing breaks in lower third
Ht. in cm. Compact Low Medium Vigorous
20-30 4 4
30-40 5 4 3
40-60 5 4 3 4
60-80 5 5 3 4
80-100 3
100 + 3 5
Table 2: Hedging shrubs e.g. Ligustrum spp.
Ht. in cm. No. breaks
40-60 6
60+ 6
80-100 8
100+ 8
30-50 3
50-80 3
50-80 5
Rootballed Shrubs
The number of branches, which is dependent on growth habit and size, may be specified in the following grades :
2 3/4 5/7 8/12
Container Grown Shrubs
The number of breaks occurring in the lower third of the plant may be specified. This is dependent on the habit and size of the shrub, bushy plants typically have more breaks (3-6) whereas branched plants have less (2-3).
Hamamelis spp. = 2 breaks
Lavandula spp. = 3 breaks
Cytisus spp. = 5 breaks
Sarcococca spp. = 5 breaks
The genus Rhododendron is an exception; the number of breaks varying from 4 to 10 dependent on size and type.
Larger Container Grown Shrubs
These specifications cover shrubs grown, typically, in 2-3 litre containers. This represents the majority of the plants for sale. For larger container volumes the OVERALL HEIGHT will and the NUMBER OF BREAKS may increase dependent on the habit and vigour of the plant.
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Booting services add to the fun of Xbox Live
John Biggs
Friday, February 20th, 2009
Are you 12? Do you not like someone on Xbox Live? Do you not have to go to the table right now and finish your yogurt? Well, you’re in luck because for $20 you can kick someone off of Xbox Live.
A fairly breathless story by the BBC describes hackers who send DDOS attacks to certain IP addresses, kicking the victim’s IP address off of XBL. There are two popular methods, one involving hosting a game and watching incoming traffic and another basically asking the victim “YO WUT IZ UR IP ADDY?” Both seem to work quite well when dealing with pre-teens.
The hacker then sends a botnet after the victim who can then unplug their router and get a new IP address from their ISP. Microsoft is less than outraged at these attacks, noting that you’d have to be a doofus to think that this was an XBL problem.
In response to the rise in attacks, Microsoft said: “We are investigating reports involving the use of malicious software tools that an attacker could use to try and disrupt an Xbox LIVE player’s internet connection.”
It added: “This problem is not related to the Xbox Live service, but to the player’s internet connection. The attacker could also attempt [to] disrupt other internet activities, such as streaming video or web browsing, using the same tools.
Thought: Perhaps the BBC interviewed only dumb kids?
Tomorrow on the BBC: Kids are downloading encrypted files, called Graphics Interchange Format programs, to share secret levels of popular games like Kid Icarus and Legend of Kage!
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Why we charge a fee for certain types of bill payments
Posted by Bob Zahn
When I shop online and pay by credit card, I pay for the product and often pay for shipping. I don't pay a service fee because I used a credit card. However, if I were to pay my We Energies bill by credit card, I would get charged $3.95 to use that method. Why is that?
All companies, including We Energies, pay fees whenever they accept credit card or debit card payments. Ultimately, the fee we charge is paid to our payment processor (Bill Matrix), credit card companies, the processing banks and the banks that issued the cards. Our company does not receive any part of the fee.
Most companies increase their product and service prices slightly to recover these credit or debit transaction costs from all their customers, but we can't do that. Utilities are not allowed to subsidize the cost of one-time payment options by spreading the costs across all of their customers. Instead, regulators require that processing fees be paid solely by the customers choosing the one-time credit card, debit card or electronic check payment option.
We have contracted Bill Matrix and negotiated the lowest fee we could -- $3.95 per transaction. Some neighboring utilities charge $4.95 or more, or base the charge on a percent of the payment.
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Southern service cuts - Department for Transport responds
Here are the salient parts of the letter:
Matt-Z said...
So the DfT are blaming TfL. I'm sure I recall TfL blaming Southern / the DfT. Like the station steps it seems nobody want sto take responsibility.
Bobblekin said...
For what its worth I have sent a letter to Ruddock and copied in Pidgeon and Adonis complaining about the reduction in services and asking for an explanation and whether any action will be taken up.
Anonymous said...
To be fair, I think most people in their heart of hearts knew this would happen. We are still left with a situation better than we have now.
ppp said...
"I think most people in their heart of hearts knew this would happen. " Well we did but people who spoke out, were branded doom mongers.
Lou Baker said...
Indeed. I always thought the ELL was bad.
Still have heart.
Although it'll be much harder to get to the City, impossible to go direct to the West End and you'll need to go via zone 1 (or walk through Croydon) to get to Gatwick at least you can get to Hackney 8 times an hour without changing.
It might be no good for work but it'll be much easier to spend an evening out in Hoodie Central.
The Labour run DFT has shown itself to be lying and duplicitous. Let's not forgot that come election time..
Anonymous said...
Not great but I still believe that overall Brockley will be better connected. The world does not start and stop at London Bridge. I have to decend in to the depths of London Bridge tube so not so different from changing at Canada water.
At the peak there will be 14 trains an hour heading into London from Brockley.
Headhunter said...
I got the same response as published here from Lord Adonis, I pasted it into comments on the other thread yesterday.
I'm afraid I have lost interest completely in the ELL extension because of this. It's no longer an enhancement to accessibility in Brockley but a way to shunt us off into the back of beyond. We already have convenient access to the Dockland along the DLR which for those in northern Brockley is a stones throw away (Deptford Bridge an Lewisham) and I really have little need to go to Hackney.
It seems that Southern, TfL and local officials have known all along that we would lose trains to London Bridge and Charing X but have hushed this up, with Southern even going as far as issuing statements about a year ago promising that there would be no reduction in trains to London Bridge.
One of the (main?) reasons for the reduction in the number of trains to central London for us seems to be to allow Southern to run more profitable fast link trains to London Bridge from the depths of Kent where people pay 4 figures for annual travel passes.
Concerned said...
I wonder what this will do for house prices?
Yes we'll be on the tube map?
But the inconvenience of getting home from central London.
And there's risk if the decision making bodies have been so 'reckless with the truth' about train services before might they be so again. Might they cut morning trains too?
Headhunter said...
Anon - Yes of course if you're heading elsewhere in London and are changing to the Tube at London Bridge anyway, then it's probably fine to do the same at Canada Water, but for many people London Bridge, Waterloo East and Charing X were ultimate destinations. I barely ever use the Tube at the moment - literally once or twice a month - because once you get to one of the 3 mainline, Central London stations you can walk or take a short bus trip to most other central destinations.
Tamsin said...
Posted yesterday on thehill website forums
"The Mayor of Lewisham has sent a strongly worded letter to the Managing Director of Southern Railways asking for him to reconsider the decisions made. This has been copied into a number of relevant parties including Lord Adonis, the Transport Minister.
The matter is on tonight's Lewisham Council Meeting agenda although it was one of the last items and I could not wait to the end. I'll post a report when I hear back from the others there.
Representatives of the Sydenham, Forest Hill and Telegraph Hill Societies were present at the start of the meeting to present a copy of the petition to date to Councillors. Some 700 signatures have been collected in the first week - but obviously we need more - so if you haven't signed, or you know anybody who hasn't signed, now is the time. If you can volunteer any time to help with the campaign, it would now be a good time to do so (via ths
We had a meeting with Southern Railways last week - basically they put the blame on the Department for Transport (although given that the issue is one of timetabling between Southern and SouthEastern and both companies are owned by Govia, there are probably things they could do to alleviate the problem without having to suffer a large public campaign!
The local amenity societies are now seeking a meeting with the Department for Transport."
@ Anon. 9.54 The world may not begin or end at London Bridge - but quite a lot of it starts at Gatwick and the loss of the East Croydon connection is a serious one.
Headhunter said...
Concerned - They already are cutting morning trains. The cuts affect peak and off peak trains.
Headhunter said...
I wasn't aware that we were losing the connection to Gatwick as well! Brockley really is going from a relatively well connected if lesser known location to a backwater on the edge of the Tube map with links to nowhere...
Brockley Nick said...
@hh what morning services are they cutting?
dude said...
Are you referring to Hackney here Lou Baker?
I often find that Hackney shares a similar problem to South East London. Those that are critical of it rarely know what they are talking about.
Headhunter said...
I thought there was a reduction in peak trains as well? To be honest I am personally less interested in peak time trains as I never use them, so I haven't paid as much attention to that.
Headhunter said...
Hackney may or may not be "hoodie central" however I doubt wouldn't count it as such an attractive destination that we need 8 trains an hour up there!
Anonymous said...
What also concerns me and granted this is a nighmare scenario. But it's this connectivity with Hackney. Like many other inner city boroughs Hackey has a problem with drug users and suppliers. A police crackdown a few months -
Operation Dominix resulted in about 15 people being arrested.
We in Brockley have a similiar but less developed situation, there's been crack houses closed down(google SLP for more). With this new connectivity we could find these too areas hooking up on that front.
There's lots of new affordable housing being built and a recession happening. We could find this area rapidly changing in character.
Anonymous said...
Dude Hackney and Brockley have a lot similiarites but that is THE problem. Plus it'll be easier for drug dealers to get down to New Cross to get at the Goldsmiths Freshers.
I think people need to prepare themselves.
fabhat said...
HH: the cutting of trains to London Bridge is a real problem - as well as the added blow of losing the East Croydon/Gatwick connection. It's classic train company profit minded behaviour and I hope with all this protest we can do something to stop it, or at least reduce the damage...
But behaving as if the the ELL just connects to Hackney is daft. Okay you're not interested in going to Hoxton, but getting to Liverpool St will be much easier and that IS a bonus and opens up another part of the city. It will also mean you can go to places like Bond St without having to go on both the train and tube which will save money.
Anonymous said...
Surely we can change at Norwood Junction for the Gatwick connection instead?
dude said...
If you work on Bishops Gate, around Old Street, Fenchurch St etc then that service is quite handy, quicker than going via London Bridge. The area itself has a lot to offer and Brockley shares many qualities with it in terms of the arts and creative industries.
Portraying it as a ghetto is not only lame but slightly hypocritical because to some, Brockley is considered a bit of a ghetto too.
Would you take offence if someone from Hackney questioned the need for a train every 7 minutes to Brockley because it was a dodgy area?
dude said...
Anon 10:37, that is a seriously daft assumption to make.
When was the last time you physically left your home?
Anonymous said...
Free and fair trade of drugs is what Brockley needs. Half the conservation area are on coke - and it's expensive, artisan coke at that. A more ethical market that benefits the supplier and the user would be most welcome.
Anonymous said...
Most people in London don't even know where Brockley is. If pushed they think it's a place in Bristol.
Real politics said...
What's saddening about this is the sense of mistrust it creates.
1.No dept (govt, tfl or train company) is taking responsibility for the decision.
2. No one is taking responsibility for how the apparently implicit/inevitable decision to cut trains was presented.
Which was to say the exact opposite of what was going to happen.
People (Forest Hill society and others) suspected they'd be cuts but others read official pr statements and said "no you're worrying too much...look it says no're be reactionary". People don't want to be seen as negative so the critical mass that could have formed to lobby against any potential cuts didn't form. Now it appears its too late.
Being reasonable and fairminded (not Daft) when conversing with dissemblers doesn't seem to you very far.
Headhunter said...
Fabhat - OK I accept that getting to Liverpool St will be easier but getting to Bond Street won't! Previously I would have take the train to Charing X (4 stops) and walked there at the other end! It's about a 10 minute walk through the side streets. I bet I could make it there faster than using 2 Tube lines!
This is what I mentioned earlier, the link to London Br, Waterloo and Ch X basically gave us access to many central London destinations without having to make a single change and without having to set foot on the overpriced Tube system.
Headhunter said...
IME most people assume I mean Bromley...
Brockley Nick said...
@Real Politics - I totally agree with you that this is one of the worst aspects to the whole thing - I dislike combative, reactionary politics, but this is a kick in the nuts for reasonable politics.
@HH you're being daft. Brockley to Bond Street would take you 45 minutes by that route. Via ELL, it's maybe six mins on the ELL and then 20 mins on the Jubilee Line.
Plus, with the ELL, waiting times for trains to / from Brockley will be much shorter.
Brockley Nick said...
@HH - there is no reduction in morning services. There is a reduction in evening services, from 6 to 4.
That is the main issue, IMO.
Anonymous said...
It is really difficult to get on Jubilee trains to canary wharf from canada water.sometimes It takes 2-3 trains before I can get on because they are so packed (from people getting on at London bridge).I am sorry everyone. This sucks!
Brockley Nick said...
@Anon - you are referring to morning journeys from London Bridge to Canary Wharf. There is no change in morning services to London Bridge, so this is not going to be an issue.
Also worth noting that it regularly takes 2-3 trains to get on at London Bridge, where they often close the gates temporarily due to over crowding.
Finally, in terms of the general problem of overcrowding, the Jubilee Line capacity is increasing by about 50% (work was due to be completed before the end of this year and although it is running a few months late, it should be ready before the ELL opens).
Suggestion said...
Re-open Brockley Lane station for off peak and particularly evening travel from London, as compensation.
Matt-Z said...
High Level platforms at Brockley would certainly sort this problem out. I wonder how much it would cost to reinstate them? Seeing as some steps and a ramp have come to £330000 I'm guessing at least £5m.
Anonymous said...
There is no Brockley Lane station. A few rotting old brick walls full of weeds, smashed glass and dog shit does not make it easier to (re)open a station there than anywhere else.
drakefell debaser said...
£5 million and and probably 2 parliaments.
Pete said...
At least South Londoner La Roux has the right idea;
"Move to Kensington?" she muses. "I'd rather live in a bin"
Headhunter said...
I got a response from Southern. They blame Souther Eastern and the fast link to Kent and the DoT
Thank you for your email.
I note the concerns you have raised and can fully appreciate your disappointment. Alas we are not in a position currently to alter the upcoming changes as they have already been specified to operate. However, timetables are constantly under review, and feedback is warmly welcomed and not disregarded out of hand.
The forthcoming timetable changes, precipitating the withdrawal of Southern services to Charing Cross, are rooted in Southeastern’s December 2009 timetable, (including the new high-speed link between Kent and London), and the new South Central franchise – operated under the name Southern – from September 20 this year.
During the development of the Southeastern’s December timetable, it was identified that in order to make it workable, there would be significant limitations on the ‘through London Bridge’ pathways available for other Train Operating Companies. There were seen to be implications for First Capital Connect services during peak-time at London Bridge, and Southern off-peak services to Charing Cross and Waterloo East.
Subsequently, the Department for Transport did not specify that South Central franchise services should operate through to Charing Cross from December 2009. Further scrutiny of the timetable by ourselves, has confirmed that it is not possible to run Southern services through London Bridge into Charing Cross given Southeastern’s timetable specification from December. The service levels between these stations will be maintained by Southeastern.
I hope this explains clearly what the reasons behind what is happening in December. We would of course be happy to offer further clarification and assistance where necessary.
Thank you for taking the time to contact us.
William Henry
Southern Customer Services
You can send us emails and reply to us directly at: comments@southernrailway.or click on the following link if you would like to submit a webform:
Dumbo said...
Thanks HH, but it's too complicated for me to understand.
Headhunter said...
Exactly, The obfuscation and general web of confusion is being maintained as all parties involved try to blame each other.
Matt-Z said...
Aaargh! Southern say "it's Southeastern's fault and anyway the DfT didn't ask us to run trains between London Bridge and Charing Cross".
Why do Southeastern get special treatment? If they've already been given a whole bunch of new paths into St Pancras along HS1, surely there should be some spare paths into Charing Cross?
Anonymous said...
As for La Roux she's lives in Herne Hill /brixton and they don't take the kinda sh*t we put up with here and besides her mum is a celeb (June Ackland the Bill) she can pull in the press.
Anonymous said...
As for La Roux she lives in Herne Hill /brixton and they don't take the kinda stuff we put up with here and besides her mum is a celeb (June Ackland the Bill) so can pull in the press when in need.
Anonymous said...
She'd fit in quite well in Brockley as a ginger
drakefell debaser said...
Brockley has a few celebs too. Perhaps we should set up commutercamp on Hilly fields and get the press in.
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> I can also modify a file with a hex editor so it fails to
> be read with any code i want it to fail with.
> what kind of argument is that supposed to be?
The kind that is convincing enough to change the code. Just because I used
a hex editor doesn't mean the files don't exist out in the world.
> i can create a file that works without your patch and
> fails with your patch for example if i wanted
I'm sure this is possible. To me that just means there's more work to do.
In the meantime, my patch seems like an improvement.
> The questions are
> 1. Do such files exist out there
Possibly, yes.
> 2. if yes, why does our code fail
> once we know why it fails we can think about how to fix that.
We know why it fails. That's what I showed in the last message. I actually
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In an advance that could help curb global demand for oil, MIT researchers have demonstrated how ordinary spark-ignition automobile engines can, under certain driving conditions, move into a spark-free operating mode that is more fuel-efficient and just as clean.
The mode-switching capability could appear in production models within a few years, improving fuel economy by several miles per gallon in millions of new cars each year. Over time, that change could cut oil demand in the United States alone by a million barrels a day. Currently, the U.S. consumes more than 20 million barrels of oil a day.
The MIT team presented their latest results on July 23 at the Japan Society of Automotive Engineers (JSAE)/Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) 2007 International Fuel and Lubricants Meeting.
Many researchers are studying a new way of operating an internal combustion engine known as "homogeneous charge compression ignition" (HCCI). Switching a spark-ignition (SI) engine to HCCI mode pushes up its fuel efficiency.
In an HCCI engine, fuel and air are mixed together and injected into the cylinder. The piston compresses the mixture until spontaneous combustion occurs. The engine thus combines fuel-and-air premixing (as in an SI engine) with spontaneous ignition (as in a diesel engine). The result is the HCCI's distinctive feature: combustion occurs simultaneously at many locations throughout the combustion chamber.
That behavior has advantages. In both SI and diesel engines, the fuel must burn hot to ensure that the flame spreads rapidly through the combustion chamber before a new "charge" enters. In an HCCI engine, there is no need for a quickly spreading flame because combustion occurs throughout the combustion chamber. As a result, combustion temperatures can be lower, so emissions of nitrogen pollutants are negligible. The fuel is spread in low concentrations throughout the cylinder, so the soot emissions from fuel-rich regions in diesels are not present.
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According to Green, ignition timing in an HCCI engine depends on two factors: the temperature of the mixture and the detailed chemistry of the fuel. Both are hard to predict and control. So while the HCCI engine performs well under controlled conditions in the laboratory, it is difficult to predict at this time what will happen in the real world.
Green, along with Professor Wai K. Cheng of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, and colleagues in MIT's Sloan Automotive Laboratory and MIT's Laboratory for Energy and the Environment have been working to find the answer.
A large part of their research has utilized an engine modified to run in either HCCI or SI operating mode. For the past two years, Morgan Andreae (MIT PhD 2006) and graduate student John Angelos of chemical engineering have been studying the engine's behavior as the inlet temperature and type of fuel are changed.
Not surprisingly, the range of conditions suitable for HCCI operation is far smaller than the range for SI mode. Variations in temperature had a noticeable but not overwhelming effect on when the HCCI mode worked. Fuel composition had a greater impact, but it was not as much of a showstopper as the researchers expected.
Using the results of their engine tests as a guide, the researchers developed an inexpensive technique that should enable a single engine to run in SI mode but switch to HCCI mode whenever possible.
To estimate potential fuel savings from the mode-switching scheme, Andreae determined when an SI engine would switch into HCCI mode under simulated urban driving conditions. Over the course of the simulated trip, HCCI mode operates about 40 percent of the time.
The researchers estimate that the increase in fuel efficiency would be a few miles per gallon. "That may not seem like an impressive improvement," said Green. "But if all the cars in the US today improved that much, it might be worth a million barrels of oil per day--and that's a lot."
This research was supported by Ford Motor Company and the Ford-MIT Alliance, with additional support from BP.
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Will gas top $4 a gallon this summer? I say yes.
by Andrea Karim on 7 May 2007 19 comments
Before you go jumping all over the place and pointing out that I have done no real market analysis to back up my prediction, I would like to point out: I have done no real market analysis to back up my prediction. This is just a gut feeling.
Like a good, Birkenstocked liberal, I was listening to NPR on my commute home today, and it was announced that gas prices had just topped $3 a gallon in the US.
This wasn't exactly news to those of us living on the West Coast. Our gas prices topped $3 a gallon a couple of months ago.
This time around, prices are being blamed on reduced output at refineries, although no clear-cut reasons are being given for the reduction.
Refineries operated at 87 percent capacity last week, below pre-Hurricane Katrina levels in 2005. They produced 8.9 million barrels of gasoline per day, while the country has been consuming 9.2 million barrels per day, or 1.6 percent more than this time last year.
NPR had the audacity to quote someone, I believe it was a AAA representative, as claiming that the refinery difficulties stem from refinery technician lay-offs in the 1980s. I've never been good at economics, and my memory of the 80s is sort of clouded by hairspray fumes and Madonna lyrics, but something about that explanation struck me as disingenuous. Lots of companies had lay-offs in the 1980s, but most major corporations have managed to rehire people, you know, over the past couple of decades.
Also, it's not as if gasoline demand increases are unpredicatable - summer's coming, so prices are expected to increase, but the increase started much earlier this year than last. It would seem to me that oil refineries have had twenty-odd years to correct their personnel reduction.
A slightly more plausible explanation that encompasses a broader range of possible reasons for the gas price hikes:
Conspiracy theories aside, a number of factors are preventing more supply from flowing into the U.S. market. The overall picture is a system under such strain that any outages or disruptions ricochet quickly into retail prices. Because of high costs and a lack of public support, refiners haven't built an entirely new plant since 1976. While they've been expanding existing plants, the industry isn't keeping pace with growing demand. Any additional stresses -- hurricanes such as Katrina or the persistent power outages -- curb output. Add to that a shortage of skilled workers and government rules mandating cleaner fuels, and the reasons behind scarce supplies emerge.
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I love how they manage to turn something like suspecting that oil companies are greedy for profits into a conspiracy theory. Nice touch. The thing about conspiracy theories is that they are, on occasion, correct. I remember how, when I lived in the Silicon Valley back in 1999-2002, and we were experiencing those "rolling blackouts", most everyone was grumbling about how suspicious the entire thing was. NPR and mainstream news outlets called it a "conspiracy theory" back then, too, but it turned out to be, well, a freaking conspiracy.
As someone who does care deeply about the over-consumption of fossil fuels, even I understand the importance of maintaining an afforadable fuel supply to the US economy until alternative infrastructure can allow us to rely on other means of moving ourselves from one place to another. For those of us with fewer options other than driving, gas prices are very important. I'm curious as to why the media isn't delving more into this topic, really investigating why prices are going up the way they are right now.
Lots of people believe that this current supply reduction has everything to do with the kind of accidentally-on-purpose reduction in output that occured during the well-engineered energy "crisis" that we experienced in California back in 2000 and 2001.
It looks as though certain Congressional minds are at least pretending to care about the whole thing.
The recent hike in gas prices has prompted Sen. Charles Schumer - who has received plenty of calls from those motorists - to call for a federal investigation into the oil refineries that make the gas.
He said he thinks the hefty prices could have resulted from oil companies being lax on maintenance, thus short on capacity.
"The looming question is, are they putting money into maintenance and keeping up refineries as they should?" Schumer asked. "Or are they happier with lower production and higher prices?"
Me, I'm going to call it now. Gas prices well above $4 a barrel on the West Coast and averaging $4 a barrel nationally, before July. That's what I'm putting my money on. I'll be happy to eat humble pie if I'm wrong (note to self - dig up good recipe for frugal humble pie).
Next up: What to do about the rising cost of gasoline. Does it make sense, from an economic standpoint, to take the bus (if that's even an option)?
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Though I wouldn't be surprised if your prediction is right (any feelings on what tonight's lottery numbers will be, by the way?), but just in case, here you go: A quick Yahoo! search turned up a recipe from recipezaar.com for what looks like a vegetarian-safe Humble pie. As I really don't want to pay $4 a gallon, here's hoping you end up needing it!
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It is all I can do not to cry when I pump gas, I'm not exaggerating. It TRULY has hurt me in the wallet & I feel like no one gives a sh**.
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The price keeps going up, there is never a valid reason for it, and as long as we continue to put up with it - it will go to $4/gallon. Unfortunately, I do not have public transportation that runs from my community into the city. So, I have to drive 20 miles each way to work. Everyone is moaning about the high price of gas, yet I still see gas guzzling cars on the road, and even heard a news blip this morning that there has no been a reduction in sales of these larger vehicles! And, at the end of each quarter , I keep reading about how many freaking billions that the oil companies made! It's only going to get worse here in Florida, the first sign of a Hurricane forming and they will use it as an excuse to bump the price up 20 cents a gallon!
Bill Bradle's picture
How about looking into the reason no one has built a refinery in this country for the past 20 plus years? Why go through the hassle?
Andrea Karim's picture
Bill - thanks for reading. I did mention the reasons that are frequently given for no new refineries being built, but to be honest with you, I have a feeling that the reasons being given are bunk.
Remember a couple of years back, when Bush was pushing nuclear power? Fox News and other media outlets kept repeating, "There hasn't been a new nuclear power station built in the US in 30 years!" implying that somehow, the nuclear industry was being thwarted by pesky anti-nuke types. And it turned out that no one had even applied for a permit to build a new facility? I feel it's likely the same story with these refineries.
Why go through the hassle? Well, maybe because the demand for gasoline is increasing. The better question to ask is, why NOT go through the hassle? Businesses go through all kinds of hassles to get to new oil sources. Are refineries struggling to build new facilities, only to face strong opposition from tree-huggers and their ilk? Or are they perfectly happy to see capacity go down and prices go up?
Steve - thanks for the recipe link! I sincerely HOPE that I end up making the pie rather than being correct on my prediction.
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The idea that refineries are happy enough to see low supply only makes sense if there is a single organization controlling all American refining. "The refineries" are not a monolithic structure, neither are they a cartel. Since multiple companies are competing to produce refined gasoline, the motivation is too high not to increase your supply and cut prices. Even if there was some mysteriously undiscovered cartel amongst refineries, there is no enforcing authority, so the motivation to jump ship and up your supply remains. So why hasn't a new refinery been built in so long? I honestly don't know. Perhaps they don't apply because the cost is high and their chances of being approved are slim. But I have a feeling that the executives of Misc Oil Company #7, as Gordon Gecko-ish as they may seem to us, probably know more about the relative costs and benefits of such an investment far better than any of us do.
As to whether there is a "valid reason" for prices to increase, I would say that there are only ever two "valid" reasons for any price increase. Either the supply goes down or demand goes up. The same commenter that decried the lack of a valid reason for price increases also noted that demand is increasing, so there we have an answer to her problem.
But there's another answer: supply decreases every Spring because refineries are required by law to make a heavyside switch from winter to summer blends and most do so at the end of April. As a result supply is disrupted this time of year and prices increase like clockwork, only to fall again later in the year. This is honestly not a mystery, and I don't see any reason to posit a conspiracy when there are well-known and understandable causes evident.
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Thanks for taking the time to comment.
Prices are not JUST increasing in a predictable manner - they are going up higher and higher every years. Oil company profits are up, and the price of gasoline is up. Sure, the price will go down next fall, but not to the same levels (even considering inflation) as they were last fall. The rising price is not commesurate with the rising demand, and the decreased capacity this year is a bigger reduction than we've ever seen outside of a natural disaster. Not remotely suspicious?
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Your original post was about the seasonal rise we've seen (and will likely continue to see, as you point out) in recent months. It was this short-term flucuation that I attempted to responded to.
You have an excellent point about longer term price increases coincident with record profits. I honestly don't know why the seasonal adjustment would be higher this year than in the past, or why profits are growing proportionally faster than sales. Let me point out though that higher profits are also a function of decreased upcoming investments, probably due to regulatory burdens. (That is something that could hurt consumers 5-10 years from now, but has no relation to higher retail prices now.)
In that regard, you're right to pin California's c.2001 energy problems on the corruption of Enron, but that's only one of two causes. Enron forced PG&E to buy power at a higher rate, but state regulation prohibited PG&E from increasing retail prices. Both were necessary to precipitate the collapse we saw. I'm as likely to be suspicious of well meaning but ineffective or counterproductive regulation as of some secret industrial cartel.
Finally, I don't think there's any more reason to believe there's a price fixing conspiracy among five competitive oil companies than I am to believe there's a conspiracy among unversities or movie distributors, two groups whose prices have also outstripped inflation and increased at even higher rates than have gasoline.
I'm not trying to say anyone shouldn't be suspicious: suspicion keeps people honest and that's good for everyone. I'd just like to see our scepticism spread around among the possible causes instead of being directed solely at corporations.
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I want to thank you for your thoughtful comments. What you say about university tuition is a very interesting point - I'd love to aim my skepticism and highly tuned sense of suspicion towards universities as well.
Paul Michael's picture
How can the oil industry report massive record profits month after month (billions upon billions of dollars) and not pass that profit back to the consumer somehow? IS there not some law against making huge profits from unregulated pricing? I'm sure Bush, the oil man at heart, wouldn't really care because his family is no doubt making millions from oil profits, but surely something can be done. And by the way, isn't it unfair to make such huge profits when the country is at war and not share the wealth?
Andrea Karim's picture
I have a few theories on your comment:
1. The doctor's drugs have really taken their toll on you.
2. You are a communist.
3. You are making a brilliantly sarcastic point about my whining about capitalism.
4. You really believe this.
I attach no judgement to any of these possibilities. I like people who are tired, hungry and grumpy. I think communists are cute. Sarcasm is my favorite, and you have every right to believe that unregulated profits should somehow cycle back to the consumers (that would be trickle-down economics, which doesn't actually work). :)
Let me know which one it is, eh?
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I choose all 4. And no 5.
Andrea Karim's picture
I mean, that's cool and all, but I'm surprised by your stance. I know that the US isn't a PURE market economy, but I can't think of a time in which we have required a business that is doing well to give back to the community or the consumers in any way - the way most businesses give back is through increased profits meaning better payout for stockholders. I believe that stockholders get priority over customers. Does that sound correct?
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Why are you surprised by my stance Andrea? I'm European. America is the capitalist giant of the world, and it seems money rules everything here. Did you know when an American and European motor company tried to merge a few years ago, the biggest problem was getting the US CEO and Executives to agree to the massive pay cuts that would be required in order to fall in line with what real pay should be (they didn't by the way). The income gap between the top management and the workers in Europe is way, way smaller than over here, where a CEO of Comcast can earn $28 million a year and no-one bats an eyelid. How do you even justofy $28 million a year.
I for one don't think capitalism is so bad, I'm all for making money. But when it gets to the point that the divide between rich an poor is so great (and the middle class is being wiped out) then I think something is wrong. Stockholders may have the priority over customers, but is it right? When you find out that people lose jobs by the thousands, production costs are slashed, products are made with cheaper materials and the consumer gets price increases, all so the stock can rise 1/4 point and make a few people very rich, do you agree with that? It seems cutthroat. I don't know, maybe Americans and Europeans will never see eye to eye, but this country sometimes staggers me with its attitude to money. The mighty dollar (which ain't so mighty by the way...it's now less than half of the British Pound at current exchange rates) is worshipped in this country. America considers itself a family nation, yet the average Joe works more hours per year than a Japanese worker now, takes less vacation, less sick days and is working himself/herself to death for money. Imagine what would happen if the big oil companies decided to use one half of their proifts (record profits) to help feed and cloth the hungry and sick in America? Wouldn't we be closer to a more civil society.
I'm fairly clear on this. I like to save money, but I'm not mercenary and I don't want a seat at the great capitalist gang-bang. I despise big oil, big corporations that choose wealth over people, and I hate the arms industry too. If that makes me a communist, or a socialist, then as I often say at the end of my posts...POWER TO THE PEOPLE. In fact the reason I write for Wisebread is to help the little people get deals whenever they can from the big corporations. When I found out my paper-reams post was doing so well, I was happy. Big Corporation ZERO, Average Joe Consumer ONE. And to be honest, I'm surprised at your stance Andrea...as a Wisebread blogger, I thought you'd be behind the customers, our readers, and not the capitalist stockholders and giant corporations.
Does this mean we're not friends any more? When you drive by in your Ferarri and I'm in my little Civic, I'll still wave hello.
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That's not my stance at all - I was just stating what I believe to be United States economic policy, and seeing if that was the general consensus - that the US doesn't legislate that businesses, be they American or foreign, to pass along profit to consumers. I'm acutally not much of a history buff, so I don't know.
Sorry if I came across as mocking - I was just kidding about you being a commie, but I'm looking at that comment I wrote and it's roughly half as funny as it originally appeared in my head.
I agree that corporations who are doing booming business are morally obligated to give something back. They just aren't currently legally obligated, and I'm not sure how anyone could go about changing that.
Paul Michael's picture
Sorry Andrea.
Maybe it is the drugs and the lack of food. I thought you were actually behing big business for a second, which actually made me really upset because I know how smart and cool you are.
NOw that I see that you were simply taking about what is law, not what is right (as we all know, they are poles apart) then I am humbly sorry in all the ways that a man in my state can be.
Did I mention I'm still sick? And a moron to boot.
As a side note, during the major world wars, I'm fairly sure big business had to contribute to society in some way. Any historians out there with actual facts? Please fill us in.
Andrea Karim's picture
You're not a moron, Paul. I didn't state my point very clearly at all, muddled my arguments, and sent a very mixed message by combining a serious topic with a flippant tone. No sweat.
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This via The Consumerist
If you were a betting person, you could fill your tank with your winnings.
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I love saying "I told you so", but not in this case.
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While much of the buzz leading up to last Wednesday’s Samsung Mobile Unpacked event focused on the Galaxy Note 2, it could be argued that the real star of the show was the Galaxy Camera, Sammy’s new Android-powered point-and-shoot. Sure, the Note 2 is an impressive piece of kit, but it is essentially an incremental upgrade of a device we already know. The Galaxy Camera, on the other hand, could represent the future of point-and-shoots, or an entirely new class of product altogether.
There’s been much talk of Samsung the copycat over the past month or so, but the Galaxy Camera is an example of the Korean manufacturer using its experience in multiple product categories to introduce something really new. Like the original Galaxy Note, it’s a new spin on an existing category of device that’s just crazy enough to succeed. And if you think about it, it makes perfect sense. Read on to find out why.
It’s easy to forget that Samsung is about more than just smartphones and tablets. Though the company dominates the smart device landscape, it’s also involved in a wide range of other markets. At the IFA 2012 show in Berlin, much of its main booth was populated by glistening LED TVs, and it even had a second hall in another building, where it showcased everything from cleaning robots to refrigerators. Somewhere in the middle of all that is the company’s point-and-shoot camera range.
At last year’s IFA, Samsung debuted a range of Wifi-enabled compact cameras, and like most devices in this category, they were running their own non-expandable proprietary software. As mobile devices in general become more connected and app-friendly, it makes less and less sense to develop these kinds of products in a bubble. Presumably, that’s an idea that presented itself to Samsung’s camera team over the past twelve months, when the decision was made to bring smartphone hardware and software into a point-and-shoot camera.
Samsung already produces all the individual components required to make a compelling connected, smart point-and-shoot. The company already makes touchscreens and chips for Android-powered mobile devices, as well as software to enable features like on-device sharing, video and photo-editing. It already produces and sources lenses and image sensors for its standalone camera line-up. The parts are all there, waiting to be assembled into a next-gen compact camera.
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With other manufacturers pushing towards connected cameras with ever-expanding functionality, it makes sense for Samsung to combine its strengths into a product like the Galaxy Camera, and attempt to leapfrog the competition. Most point-and-shoots still run janky proprietary software that’s neither intuitive nor powerful. And though TouchWiz isn’t the prettiest Android skin around, compared to the average point-and-shoot UI, it’s an oasis of usability.
In terms of software in particular, Samsung has already done most of the hard work. TouchWiz on the Galaxy S3 boasts video and photo editing out of the box, as well as a wealth of sharing options through bundled apps like YouTube and AllShare, and other apps via Android sharing intents. And if it’s half as developer-friendly as Samsung’s line-up of smartphones and tablets, you can bet we’ll see no end of extra functionality hacked onto the camera within days of release.
The inclusion of Instagram on the device, in addition to features like Wifi direct sharing, shows that Samsung’s keen to position the device as a social camera. But for content creators, the Galaxy Camera is an even more tantalizing prospect.
Take Android Central as an example -- when we visit a large trade show like CES, MWC or IFA, we need to handle a huge amount of photo and video content, and get it turned around within a short space of time. Traditionally, liveblog photos need to be uploaded through a combination of a DSLR connected to a laptop over USB, using PC or Mac apps like Photoshop and Chrome to crunch them down to size and upload. The use of a Galaxy Camera could reduce this tedious process to the press of a single button within our liveblog provider’s Android app.
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Similarly, for quick hands-on videos on the show floor, we’d be able to record content directly on the camera, patch in audio from an external source, add intro and outro segments and upload to YouTube, all without pulling out a laptop. Needless to say, we expect to see more than a few tech journalists rocking Galaxy Cameras at next year’s CES in Las Vegas.
Sure, this is a niche use case, but even the simple task of taking and sharing vacation snaps could be made considerably easier with an Android-powered camera. Having an easy way to catalog, edit and share photos on a dedicated imaging device is going to be extremely useful to a lot of people. It’s true that you could do most of those things on a Galaxy S3 or HTC One X, but not everyone is inclined to pick up a high-end smartphone with a high-quality image sensor if they already have a point-and-shoot. And besides, there’s currently no smartphone that offers a 16MP sensor or 21X optical zoom.
On the other hand, the Samsung Galaxy Camera isn’t going to replace your DSLR. It’s a point-and-shoot camera, and we’d expect image quality to be comparable to other high-end cameras in that category. There are also concerns about how much the Galaxy Camera will cost, as Samsung has so far remained quiet on pricing. Price it too high, and many of the benefits become irrelevant.
For us, the Samsung Galaxy Camera is an exciting product, and an example of something we always like to see -- Android being applied to new and interesting device categories. Sure, it’ll be a long while before smartphone tech finds its way into the majority of point-and-shoot cameras. But based on what we’ve seen of the Galaxy Camera and its benefits, we’re confident that we’ll soon be wondering how we ever got by with cameras that just took pictures. After all, it wasn’t long ago that a mobile phone was just a phone.
More: Samsung Galaxy Camera hands-on, Samsung Galaxy Camera - camera app preview
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rovex says:
I agree, but i think it has 2 problems. First.. Price point, It needs to be cheap enough that its not compared to DSLR devices, because it will lose (a camera is ultimately about the pictures), but not so cheap that it makes tablets and phones look over priced. That is something thats already a problem and will continue to be as more android device variations come out.
The Galaxy Camera is basically a Galaxy Player with a moderately decent point and shoot camera attached, if its cheaper or only slightly more it would make you wonder why the Player is so much, after all it actually contains less hardware..
The other problem is the number of people who dont seem to understand what it is. Reading some of the comments on here makes it very clear that some people think its a phone with a better camera, that cant makes calls (!), or a tablet with a zoom lens. I dont understand the confusion, but its there.
dmchenry35 says:
I couldn't agree more about the masses not know what it is. Some of it has to do with the crappy headlines and context that AC used during the initial unveiling, but most of it has to do with Samsung not having any thing to go by on how to market this (After all Apple doesn't have this product, so they aren't sure what to do yet.)
The pictures I've seen with this are pretty disappointing. Either the person who took them sucked, or the camera sucked. Or both. The images were grainy, near distorted and it didn't perform well in lowish light.
Really this is a nice idea, but I dont see it taking off.
n8ter#AC says:
This, exactly this. The camera on this thing simply isn't that good, and that's the whole point of it. It will require a data plan if subsidized, and it will be overpriced - probably cost similar to most smartphones by virtue of the [very arguably] better optics in it. The camera sensors on devices like the GS2, iPhone 4S, HTC One Series, and some of Sony's Android handsets take quite decent pictures. This camera didn't seem all that much better than those.
All Samsung has to do is produce a smartphone that isn't focused on being AS THING AS POSSIBLE and put better Optics in it. Nokia knows this. Everyone does, except the Android manufacturers. If you want the best optics in your devices, they have to be a little thicker than perhaps you'd like.
There are a few smartphones that take better pictures than this thing. It's pretty much DoA as far as I'm concerned. At least to me.
1. Why would I want to carry another device to take pictures with a camera that is barely better than what I have?
2. Why would I want to pay the price they'll charge off-contract for it, and if subsidized, why would I want the carriers to Molest this device with bloatware and delayed updates?
3. Why can't they just create a thicker phone with better optics in it instead, that way we can still carry only one device that does everything without the added bulk?
Wow! Just really?
It has 16MP dedicated lens, optical zoom, plus BSI sensor for low-light.
While the quality of the lens can't be improved over time, the software for producing (or reproducing) pictures could be improved a hell lot.
I saw the news about Nikon point and shoot camera with Android the other day, and one thing that been bugging me is the non 3G data capabilities.
At my place, and same with every other countries non-US/Europe, Wi-Fi isn't widely accessible. And for journalist or reporter, this will be great to send pictures or video as fast as you can.
To put such a statement without knowing how much this thing cost is.. just...
Oh well..
n8ter#AC says:
I don't really care how many MP it has since even a 5MP cam is more than enough for almost all consumers. The pictures lack sharpness and have a lot of noise in them. It doesn't take a genius to take a decent photo. I can point my skyrocket at something and take an image in auto mode that's at least on par with what was posted from this thing. The Vivid I had would have blown it away. Most recent smart phones have BSI sensors in them, as well...
My issue is more of.convenience and quality disparity than close. Even at $100 I'd never buy this unless it absolutely blew my smartphone away in picture/video quality. Its yet another device to carry and I actually use my phone as a phone. The pictures posted do not justify giving this thing any thought. It will likely be at least $449 off contract here.
Good idea. Poor execution. Especially putting a cell radio in it. All it needs is wifi and GPS. Carriers will molest this.
n25philly says:
First rule of photography, if you shoot on auto you don't know how to take a decent photo
jam4775 says:
I'm not sure why anyone would want to pay for a monthly data service on a camera that's limited to only that device? If you need internet access everywhere then get a mobile hotspot.
Talne says:
The BEST camera in a phone takes snapshots, if you want a photograph you MUST HAVE a dedicated camera, the quality of the photograph involves MUCH more than the optics alone, much more, a phone is great for those that cant tell the diference between a phone picture and a camera picture but for those of us that can a phone camera just doesnt cut it.
dchawk81 says:
If we're looking at the same sample gallery, they look fine to me considering who took them. My sister and I own the same point and shoot Fujis. People think she has a crap camera and I have an amazing one because I understand photography and she doesn't have the first clue.
joebob2000 says:
The camera itself is basically the Samsung WB850F, a unit that has gotten good reviews so far, and CAN take decent pictures (look for reviews of that camera, not of the Androided version...) Like you pointed out, the user has a lot to do with whether or not the picture is going to be any good. The Android "professional" reviewers I have seen (every single one of them) are just absolutely horrible at taking pictures, from any device. They will take a picture of their own horrific unshaven face, half-lit by fluorescent tubes, and call it a review. It's disgusting. I will wait for DPreview to fully review the camera before making a buy decision, but I guarantee you their sample shots will be 100x better than any phone reviewers are.
dchawk81 says:
Exactly. The only way this camera can really and truly fail is if it has no manual overrides whatsoever. Granted, no one will be shooting professional wedding, event, sport, etc photos with it but no self-respecting professional does that with any P&S.
cj100570 says:
I'm in the market for a point-and-shoot so I've already penciled this in as my next camera purchase.
Gearu says:
The camera is awesome in every way except the one that matters - photo quality - Unfortunately it takes absolute rubbish photos.
dchawk81 says:
There isn't a camera on this planet that can save someone from his own ignorance 100% of the time. Crappy photos are almost always the fault of the button pusher, not the button.
3mp3ror says:
This whole time I thought Samsung was trying to push the social aspect of photo taking when they decided to show off a pre-production device... Oh wait, they were.
Suntan says:
I'm a photo hobbiest and I enjoy my GSIII, but I have to say this camera falls more on the side of "neat gadget" than it does anywhere close to "game changer."
dEcmir says:
I would rather say Proof of Concept. Imagine a good DSLR with android, photoshop, perfectly clear and Gmail Google Drive...
gujupmp88 says:
anyone that even considers themselves a decent photographer with a brain would never get a dslr with this type of function. that would be marketed towards the wannabe photographers.
give me a camera with good optics and a large sensor(among other core things) and i would take it in a heartbeat over this toy.
crxssi says:
I can imagine it, but it is not the Samsung Galaxy camera.
knigitz says:
Says the photo hobbiest. Once people start preferring Instagram wedding photos tagged to their facebook timeline - live, as opposed to 'professional photography', you'll see where you were wrong.
RETG says:
Choices. Take an excellent photo with a professional grade camera, and have the bride groom wait a few weeks to obtain the results; or take a crappy photo with a point and shoot and try and sell those for hundreds of dollars to a bride and groom (or worse yet, try and sell them to the mother of the bride).
The relatives and the friends can take the crappy photos with this, or any other point and shoot, and get them uploaded to facebook or any other asinine website in a few hours.
If people think a magazine editor is hard to work for, try a bride, groom or the mothers of both!
crxssi says:
Or you can take great photos with a real DSLT/DSLR *and* upload and/or distribute them quickly. There is no rule saying good photos have to wait for weeks before they are obtainable.
dchawk81 says:
Indeed. I like the idea of uploading the proofs as they're taken, and/or "live" teasers to facebook. Right now I can only transfer to the tablet/laptop as they're taken and upload to the website later...and my only control over what is transferred and what isn't transferred is the lock function.
Granted, I can set up a convoluted system for live teasers to facebook and/or proofs if I have a connected laptop/tablet but it's a mess. Doing it right from the back of the dSLR would be a lot sexier and I could actually do it while shooting rather than taking time out later or praying I don't accidentally lock a photo that I didn't mean to lock.
joebob2000 says:
LOL, you aren't married, are you?
Suntan says:
My friend, that trend has been going on for a couple years now. Heck, in the field I can shoot an image, pop the card into a little reader, plug the OTG cord into my GS3 and have that picture uploaded long before you can even find a public hotspot to connect this wifi camera to.
It isn't about speed. It is about this thing doing overlapping duty that other gadgets do, but not being able to do it well enough to replace either.
Still have to take your phone with you, so all those smartphone features are redundant. Want to take instagram snaps? Do that with your phone. Want to take quality pictures? I'm afraid this smart-camera isn't capable of that.
Want to take "better than cell phone" pictures but have the ability to load them directly to the web from the camera (when close to wifi)? Well, here you go. But I don't see that need as a huge market.
terrycanfly says:
That last paragraph is exactly what ive been telling everyone. The cameras on phones have become better but they still dont match even a half decent point and shoot. People want thinner phones but they want more camera functionality. The better image sensors are too large to fit in an s3 or oneX then add a nice optical zoom. The best camera is the one you have on you and giving the camera features to keep it on you like the ability to have the inter apps and games is going to make this the best camera because people will always have it on them. Its a stand alone device that you dont have to connect to a computer in order to use plus having 3g and 4g means you dont need to find a hotspot to use either.
n8ter#AC says:
Agree. The obsession with thinness is holding smartphones back in the camera area. If you want a great ssmartphone camera you have to be able to put up with something like the Nokia N8 or PureView.
n25philly says:
smart phones will never be good camera unless someone figures out how to put a good lens on them.
21plays says:
this is only the beginning. Android powered tv's, etc
Android based TV's are closer than you might think.
My TV is a Samsung LE32C550, launched in 2010, and it is already Linux-based...
gujupmp88 says:
so google tv? i think sony already has a couple of those out
schriss says:
Excellent idea! Now I wait for Sony to come up with Sony NEX camera with Android 4.1. That touchscreen on the back just begs for it.
veii says:
I don't care how hard you try, you aren't selling me the Samsung Galaxy Camera.
priority9 says:
Please don't forget that Nikon already released an android powered camera. The Nikon Coolpix S800c was announced August 22nd, a full week ahead of Samsung.
Even though the S800c isn't running the latest version of Android, I'm sure it will handle quite well. Plus I personally trust the build quality of a Nikon camera above that of Samsung. Partly due to brand loyalty and partly for being in the camera biz for over 15 years.
I have the S800c currently on order and hoping it arrives soon. Looking forward to using it, connecting it to the Gnex via portable WiFi hotspot and sharing photos.
terrycanfly says:
Thats the biggest issue with the nikon. It wont be able to support future photo apps unless they update the software and its wifi only. It defeats the purpose of all the built in functionality because its not a stand alone device so nikon failed. Then they only have half the zoom
I'm in the market for a good P&S camera. While the inclusion of Jelly Bean in the Galaxy Camera is awfully tempting, the less-than-stellar photo quality that I've heard about will be a dealbreaker for me. I'd rather spend more and get a high-end P&S camera, something like a Leica D-Lux 5 or a Sony RX100.
And besides, as much as I love Android, I already have a SGS2 and a Nexus 7. Do I really need another Android device? If I'm going to spend some serious money on a dedicated camera, then first and foremost the picture quality has to be *outstanding*.
gujupmp88 says:
if you can swallow the price point, the rx100 is the best p&s camera i have ever used. it has pretty much replaced my nex5 in my camera bag. it takes amazing photos, given that you keep it under 1600 ISO. bought it a week or 2 ago and never looked back.
Jim says:
The days of high demand consumer cameras is over. The vast majority of point and shooters are more interested in convenience and reasonably good pictures. Many late model smart phones already provide this. Our point and shoot and SLR sees very little action these days unless we are at home. If we're on the go my wife's SII and my One S are almost always sufficient.
Rob White says:
I love the criticism of picture quality from this camera, especially from those who haven't used it! News flash: wait until we actually see this camera in retailers & can get our hands on it. Read the reviews from here & other tech sites & photography sites. Then & only then can this camera be fairly judged.
For me, hands on time aside & reading some reviews, $200 - $250 is the price range that makes since. Otherwise Wal Mart can't put it with other cameras & show consumers is differences & advantages. With tablet prices coming down to more realistic levels, where they should have been from the beginning, the Galaxy Camera could become just another Android device if Samsung prices it too high.
Oh & purely speculating... I'm betting now Apple tries to ban this thing. They'll cite some obscure patent or small tech company they bought that this camera violates technology or trade dress or patents of. Mark it down. You heard it here.
samirsshah says:
I fully agree with you.
juandpineiro says:
I'm just a little scared about this price I see in the Nikon S800c page
I mean, 350$?? Come on...
JobiWan144 says:
Yes indeed. Wait till people actually review it (hands-on at a trade show doesn't count), then judge it based on camera quality. This article is about why it's a good idea, not whether you should buy it. That will come when AC reviews the thing.
And about the Apple thing: it uses TouchWiz Nature UX on top of Jelly Bean. Apple can't touch it on hardware, but they can still sue over the software, like they're doing to the S III and the Note. So it's not as obscure as you claim it to be.
JobiWan144 says:
Darling, darling, come take a picture of little Sophie. What do you mean you spent the camera's battery playing angry birds and adding a moustache to that picture of my mother? OK, go and charge it. All charged? Good. Show me the photos you took last week. Well I don't know, look for the Apple photo icon, it's in there somewhere with all the rest of them. Just scroll! Further! There! God, why do you even need your calendar on the camera? What has GMail got to do with photography? If only they'd put some thought into optimising the interface for non-confusing, camera-centric use. OK. OK. Look, come and take a picture of this penguin. Well why can't you zoom? Take your gloves off then. Alright. I'm calm. Just set the time and come and take a group photo. Why isn't it taking a picture? What do you mean a Foursquare location alert popped up? Cancel it. Now set the timer. Why can't you find it? Look under Settings>Features>Camera Menu>Photography>Enhancements>S-Time>. OK. All set. Everyone smile. There.
Looks like a well thought-out and thoroughly optimized product to me. As usual from Samsung then...
omg it will never be sold in the states its looks like an iphone i mean an ipad wait apple invented the camera
skinja99 says:
If it has WIFI, then won't we pretty easily be able to make wifi calls with it? I know it is hokey. But it doesn't seem like it would take much for a developer to figure out how to use the microphone and speakers. Not to mention using groove-ip or google voice on it.
Ep3n3wp says:
I wonder how this compares to the Sony nex series cameras.. I'm now debating whether to wait and get the Samsung camera or the Sony Nex-F3
vip_uc says:
I'm puzzled by the reference to streaming in audio from another source when shooting video. Does this mean the camera doesn't capture sound when taking videos? Do I also conclude that there's no audio output either? Must admit I've seen no mention of audio in reviews.
I'm wondering about all this because I'm visually impaired but am still interested in photography. On an Android phone or iPhone, that's all sorted and I can get the accessibility functions going. I'm wondering if this camera takes the same advantage of the supposedly accessible aspects of Android, such as Talkback?
Not that Android makes it altogether easy. In version 4.1, you give your device a strange kind of 2-fingered salute, while in version 4 you are supposed to draw a rectangle around the edge of the screen if you can work out where that is. What's the method for version 5 going to be? stand on your head and sing the Marseillaise? Come on, Google, sort it out!
I am interested in this camera especially after seeing some pleasingly natural-looking HDR images from it, As far as I can judge, they are of a much better quality than has been talked about here, though until I've taken my own I probably can't be sure.
More questions than answers.....
hrstrand says:
As an app developer of a fairly popular camera app for Android, I see this as really exciting hardware - most features in camera apps are limited by the relatively poor sensor quality that ships with most phones.
Hopefully, this will inspire us devs to come up with stuff that is truly useful, other than WIFI sharing and online storage of photos
grantith says:
pjdell says:
Is there anyone else who thinks this would just be a fantastic smartphone? I love photography but I don't always have my DSLR with me, and more often than not when I really see something I want a photo of I don't have my DSLR and my phone is just not good enough. Although i might get some funny looks, this thing doesn't look to bulky for my deep pockets, and i wouldn't mind holding it up to my head to make phone calls. Add 4g to this thing and make it a phone please!
leaponover says:
It is going to come down to price and that's all there is to it. People keep talking about the pic quality but it's not a final version. The lens is excellent quality and that will be easily fixed. The point is, Nikon's Android camera is $350 and not as full featured as this. How hard is Samsung going to hammer our wallets with this one. It's what i'm looking for, but will the price be reasonable? Methinks not!
I'll wait for an HTC camera. Or I'll stick with my HTC EVO 4G LTE....
graymulligan says:
That's so old news...the new HTC CAPSLOCK3000 4G LTE ASAP OMG BBQ is going to be in stores soon, you should check it out.
jlunardi says:
What surprises me is no one has mentioned eye-fi cards. I have an eye-fi card in my point and shoot camera which connects to my Galaxy S3 either over my home wifi network, over WiFi tethering from my phone or via a direct mode where the eye-fi card creates a network for my phone to connect too. Then using the MoPhotos app the photos are sent to my phone almost as soon as they are taken. From the Phone I then have full control of what happens next.
With this I can chose any camera I want (that takes SD Cards) and have all the features this camera will have.
dchawk81 says:
I too have an Eye-Fi card. Yes it allows you to wirelessly transfer but it's clunky and slow by comparison. An Android camera would allow you to share photos as if you shot them with your smart phone in the first place.
a lot of people seem to be forgetting that the gs3 was taking horrible shots pre-release. that being said... i still think the s-pen would have been a great addition to this for editing photos.
Samsung makes garbage point and shoot cameras when compared to Nikon and Cannon. It's not going to change now that they put Galaxy branding on the camera.
mcleodglen says:
While many of the above Samsung Galaxy Camera accessories are still prototypes, it’s clear Samsung has high hopes for its recently unveiled Android-powered point-and-shoot.
zackh121556 says:
Stop apple from slowing global innovation by suing everyone for doing what apple cant do itself!!!!
Steve jobs1 says:
Nokia lumina 920 FIRST HANDSON !
cobrakon says:
I've post this elsewhere but I will post it again as to why this camera makes NO SENSE at all. Ever been out on a trip\vacation and been taking many varied pictures with your P&S camera? I bet your battery died after about 300 shots or so and I bet that is with a 3" LCD screen. Your saving grace is if your P&S takes AA's and you can grab them from anywhere.
The BIGGEST power draw on any camera is the telephoto motor followed by the LCD screen. So Samsung went and made a P&S with HUGE screen in addition to a telephoto lens so that this camera with be dead after 160 shots or so. The POINT of having a P&S camera with you is to be able to TAKE PICTURES. A dead camera is no use to anyone..
dchawk81 says:
Your saving grace is being prepared, period.
Our phones only have 5-7 hours of talk time. If we need more usage we have to charge them or have spare batteries to swap out or we're screwed but that doesn't stop us from buying cell phones.
And the reason P&S "only" get around 300 shots on a charge is that they usually have a 1000-1100 mAh battery. The Samsung Galaxy comes with a 1650. It should last quite a while if you don't play Angry Birds on it all day.
laura28 says:
i really loved the Camera when i tested it. I went to an adventure park and look what came out of it :)
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Risks of Bubbles in Soft Commodities
In NaviMap analysis, the Box 1, 2 and 4 is warning that the conditions for creating an asset bubble exist. Let's for a moment remove Box 1 "Economic Growth" from the picture. Then there should develop between Box 2 and Box 4 a counterbalancing loop. The logic is like the population balance achieve from herds on limited grazing grounds. In reality, unless there is an unemployment problem, a reinforcing loop exist between Box 1 and Box 2.
In a primitive economy, there should a dashed line between Box 4 and Box 1. But in more advanced economies, it is a promoting line. E.g., an advanced economy will make capital investment in agriculture (Box 6) attracted by rising product prices. Furthermore, a developed economy have alternative ends for agricultural produce, i.e., bio-fuels.
Result: Spiralling agricultural commodities prices.
The long term bull case for such commodities is intact, but even in the short term, you could easily over pay for such assets especially Box 3 is an infrastructural support for speculation.
Government hates volatile prices. Under pressure to keep prices stable to pacify voters, it will time releases from strategic stockpiles (Box 5). This only make it doubly hard to invest.
Box 8 is to accomodate the possibility of Black Swans and Box 7 represents generational power that eventually reverse the logic of this NaviMap.
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The Nuclear Edge--Emergency Update
Okay, so just the other day, I posted (and I'm sure you've seen here or somewhere by now,) that the Guns n' Roses album "Chinese Democracy" will be released November 23rd. Yes, it's been delayed for a baker's dozen years. Yes, we all made the joke about there being a democracy in China before there being a "Chinese Democracy." No, I don't know who could possibly be listed as band members in the liner notes. At this point, there's a slim but fair chance that you and I could be in there.
Anywho, I was jokingly curious where I could get my free Dr. Pepper, as the company had promised a free drink to everyone in the United States except for Slash and Buckethead. This was all provided that the album be released in 2008.
Well, Dr. Pepper's marketing VP, Tony Jacobs, told that they intend to make good on their promise, also admitting that they never thought they would have to.
That said, for the 24 hours that comprise November 23rd (and not a second more,) you can receive a voucher for a free 20 oz. Dr. Pepper through their website. The coupon expires February 28th, 2009.
If I can editorialize for a moment (not that I ever wouldn't,) I can't help but wonder what's going to actually happen with this album. There's no way that it could possibly live up to the hype at this point, right? Unless the case shoots lasers and the album brings planetary unity like the Wyld Stallyns were fated to do in "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure," this album isn't going anywhere. More than likely, I see a dismal redux of "Use Your Illusion I," and then it'll be the answer to a trivia question and that's it.
Moreover, are people even excited by the possibility of "Chinese Democracy" any longer? Or is it more like it'll be when the Cubs finally win a World Series, when for ten minutes, we'll all be happy, and then everyone who isn't a Cubs fan will say "Okay, you won, now sit down and shut up."
I may or may not end up reviewing this album. Either way, I get a foreboding feeling that the legacy of "Chinese Democracy" will be that it momentarily fed my taste for processed, artificial food products.
Also, Dr. Pepper does seem to be sticking to the United States on this one. Good luck, Canada.
-Couple other notes-
-One of my Agents In The Field just got back from a Dimmu Borgir/Danzig show. He said, surprisingly, that Dimmu was remarkably boring.
-Busy week ahead, with concert for Alice Cooper, Green Jelly, Henry Rollins (spoken word,) and maybe The Roots. Stay here for updates.
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How Sensor And Gauge Accuracy Impact Chiller Efficiency
Historically, plant engineers have kept chiller operating logs to measure chiller performance and determine causes of problems. The data collected includes readings taken from the chiller during scheduled inspections such as evaporator and condenser temperatures, pressures, flows, running load amps, volts, etc. This schedule varies from every two hours to once a shift, depending on the type of operation and more importantly, manpower constraints. In most facilities, logs were a vital tool in scheduling downtime, preventive maintenance, and inspections based on chiller run hours. Today, it is common for facilities to maintain logs, but they rarely get reviewed until there is a problem, which is too late.
Garbage In
The old adage of "garbage in equals garbage out" holds especially true when determining chiller performance. All temperature and pressure sensors/gauges lose their calibration and drift over time. The period of time and amount of drift vary from one sensor to another. If your sensors haven't been calibrated in the last year and are over three years old, the odds of them being inaccurate are almost 100 percent. Evaporator and condenser water flows can fluctuate during seasonal changes, when circulating pumps begin to wear out or there are plant changes from original design. Therefore, if flows aren't measured and adjusted as needed, they are probably far from design.
Add the potential for human error into the equation. When logging data, it can be very easy to flip-flop readings, use outlet voltage instead of inlet voltage, transpose values, or use approximations when using mercury thermometers or dial gauges that are not properly sized for the operating pressures. Digital gauges that measure to the 1/10 are highly recommended for accuracy and the reduction of human error.
In most facilities today, manpower is a major problem. Cutting back on preventive maintenance and taking logs has become a target for saving manpower resources. It's hard to argue with an operating engineer when they say "I don't have time to take logs on a regular basis, much less evaluate the data." Compound this with inaccurate data, which renders it almost worthless and makes any clear-cut analysis virtually impossible. One can only hope that when problems occur they are not major, affecting operations and requiring expensive repairs.
Figure 1. EffHVAC daily report.
Determining Chiller Efficiency
A common method for determining chiller efficiency has been to calculate the actual kW/ton, then determine the difference between actual and design full-load kW/ton. The problem with this method is it can only be accurate if the chiller is operating at full load conditions when compared to design full load. This occurs on average less than 2 percent of the time. To calculate kW, take the square root of 3 (1.732), multiply by the actual running load amps, multiply by the actual volts, divide by 1,000, then multiply by the power factor (PF).
kW = [(1.732 x amps x volts) ÷ 1,000] x PF
To calculate tonnage, take the evaporator delta temperature (∆T), which is the difference between the evaporator water temperature in and the evaporator water temperature out, multiply by the evaporator water flow gallons per minute (gpm), and divide by 24.
Tons = (∆T x gpm) ÷ 24
Efficiency Technologies Inc. has taken these calculations and developed an Internet-based efficiency and trending tool for chillers, boilers, and plate exchangers called EffHVACâ„¢. EffHVAC accurately measures chiller performance at all part loads and any operating condition with a proprietary Calculated Part Load Value (CPLV). Comprehensive reports (Figure 1) include advanced diagnostics and fault detection that identify the cause of inefficiency (including bad data) and provide detailed corrective action instructions.
Determining Accuracy
There are some obvious ways to tell if your sensors are out of calibration. If the ∆T's vary high or low from design operating conditions, then it could be an indication that one or both of the temperature sensors are inaccurate or water flow may be off-design. If the evaporator leaving refrigerant temperature is greater than the evaporator chilled water out temperature, or the condenser leaving refrigerant temperature is less than the condenser water out temperature, then it indicates a problem in either the water temperature sensor or the refrigerant pressure sensor. If leaving refrigerant temperatures are not recorded, then pressures can be converted to temperature from a standard refrigerant/temperature chart, which can be downloaded at www.efftec.com. Without a tool like EffHVAC, it can be difficult to detect bad sensors and determine how far they are out of calibration.
Figure 2. Ice bath temperature measurement.
Garbage Out
The impact of inaccurate data can have a dramatic effect on energy consumption. Every 1°F decrease in chill water temperature caused by an inaccurate high reading creates a 2-4 percent increase in energy usage to maintain that unnecessary low temperature. Not knowing the real temperatures can cost a fortune in wasted energy, not to mention wear and tear on the chiller components by running outside of intended parameters. The four main contributors of bad data are temperature sensors, pressure sensors, water flow, and human error.
How do inaccurate temperature sensors/gauges affect efficiency calculations? Take an example of a chiller with design specifications of: design tonnage = 600, full load amps = 500, volts = 460, PF = 0.9, design ∆T = 10°F, gpm = 1,440 and design kW/ton = 0.598. If this chiller's evaporator water in temperature sensor is reading low 1°F and the evaporator water out temperature sensor is reading high 1°F, this gives a combined total of 2°F off or an 8°F ∆T at full load. When the kW/ton is calculated, it equals 0.747. Divide 0.598 by 0.747 to get 80 percent efficiency. Just 2°F drift can make it appear that the chiller is 20 percent inefficient.
This can alter scheduling of maintenance, produce inaccurate cost analysis, and skew the plant load profile by 20 percent, making decisions concerning chiller sizing very difficult. At 80 percent efficiency, a 600 ton chiller running at 50 percent load, 24 hours/365 days, at $0.06/kWh would indicate a $24,912 loss. This emphasizes why sensors and gauges must be accurately calibrated to 1/10°F.
Figure 3. Calibrating the temperature sensor.
Temperature Calibration
Temperature gauge calibration is very easy. Make sure the gauges to be calibrated are clean and dirt free. If a commercial temperature bath to perform a 3- or 5-point calibration is unavailable, freeze about 2 liters of deionized (DI) water and crush or shave into pieces as small as possible. Fill an insulated container, such as a Dewer flask or thermos that will maintain a temperature with the crushed ice. Fill the container with chilled DI water, and then drain the water out. Make sure the ice settles in the bottom of the container, minimizing air pockets in the ice. Continue this process until the volume is filled with ice and minimal liquid/air space. Submerge the entire length of the temperature probe into the ice bath until the readings stabilize (Figure 2). Adjust calibration dial until it reads 32.0°F (Figure 3). If calibrating more gauges, use the same ice bath, which can last for 1-2 hours.
Temperature sensors for a chiller panel or building automation system (BAS) may not be able to be calibrated. Typically, an offset can be entered into the BAS/chiller software to compensate for calibration. To do this, a calibrated sensor must be used to get an accurate temperature reading and the difference between the calibrated sensor and the BAS sensor entered as the offset. Entering an offset is not as accurate as using a calibrated sensor and replacing the sensor with one that can be calibrated is recommended.
When refrigerant pressure sensors/gauges calibration drifts, it affects the ability to diagnose problems. Inaccurate pressures can give the indications of fouling or scaling, high or low refrigerant levels, refrigerant stacking, and noncondensable gases. Misdiagnosis of these conditions can not only cost in wasted energy, but also potentially damage the chiller.
Figure 4. Dead weight tester for pressure calibration.
Pressure Calibration
There are several ways to calibrate pressure sensors/gauges including hand pump calibrators, dead weight testers (Figure 4), portable field calibrators, and laboratory calibration services. These devices and services range in price from hundreds to several thousand dollars. If a pressure calibration device is unavailable or cost prohibitive, replacement of the sensor/gauge is recommended. A typical factory-calibrated gauge can cost under $30. A high-quality, coil-type gauge that will hold calibration for a long period of time will cost slightly more.
Water Flow
One of the most common assumptions made by a facility is that water flow to the chiller is constant and always at design. Unfortunately, this may not be the case because chillers are dynamic, ever-changing models, which must adapt to the environment around them. They expand and contract from their original design and are subject to wear, tear, and age.
The impact of off-design flow can be illustrated by taking the same chiller design specifications as in the temperature example with a design kW/ton = 0.598, but with a pump that is oversized 20 percent, making the actual gpm 1,728, which would drop the ∆T to 8.33 at full load. Following the standard kW/ton equation above (using design gpm of 1,440 if flow is not actually measured), the calculated kW/ton would be 0.717, giving an apparent efficiency of 80 percent based on inaccurate data.
Figure 5. Makeshift ∆P gauge.
Measuring Water Flow
Four methods for determining flow are an inline flow meter, external flow meter, delta pressure (∆P), and ∆T. Flow meters can be high-quality turbine type, magmeter (inline), or ultrasonic (external), and give the most accurate gpm flow readings. The gpm can be determined by ∆P using a manometer or annubar. The ∆T cannot actually measure gpm, but it can determine potentially high or low flows. If an accurate ∆T at full load is greater than design, it can indicate low gpm. Conversely, if the ∆T at full load is less than design, it can indicate high gpm. If inline or ultrasonic flow meters are not available, a handheld manometer can be purchased for a few hundred dollars and is a very effective way to use ∆P to correct flow (see sidebar below).
An even more affordable but less accurate way to measure ∆P is to make your own ∆P gauge (Figure 5). Take a pressure gauge, attach a "T" pipe, connect a ball valve to each end of the T, and then connect couplings for the pressure lines to the ball valves. Connect the pressure lines to the device and the chiller's pressure inlet and outlet. Open the inlet ball valve, take a pressure reading, and then close the ball valve. Open the outlet ball valve, take a reading, and then close the valve. The difference between the inlet and outlet pressures is the ∆P.
Figure 6. Handheld manometer with couplings connected.
Sidebar: Using A Handheld Manometer To Measure ∆P
Connect the pressure hose couplings to the manometer (Figure 6). Connect the female coupling of the pressure hose that is attached to the positive side of the manometer to the male coupling on the side of the evaporator/condenser with the greatest pressure (the inlet). Connect the female coupling of the pressure hose that is attached to the negative side of the manometer to the male coupling on the side of the evaporator/condenser with the lowest pressure (the outlet). If the positive and negative are reversed, the manometer will read in negative pressure. Turn pressure valves on for the inlet and outlet and read manometer ∆P. If the manometer reading fluctuates rapidly, reduce the pressure valve flow. This will slow the fluctuation of readings. Make minor water flow valve adjustments on the evaporator/condenser until the chiller's design ∆P is met.
Important: The positive and negative (inlet and outlet) pressure connections on the chiller should be level, or the same height, in order to read the most accurate pressure. If a pressure reading is taken higher up on a pipe than its counterpart, the reading may be inaccurate.
Don Clark is with Efficiency Technologies Inc., a Tulsa, Okla.-based company that develops energy efficiency programs for commercial/industrial HVAC systems. He has over 24 years of experience in the fluid dynamics, water treatment, and chiller industries. He can be reached at 866-333-8321 toll free. For more information, visit www.efftec.com.
Publication date: 12/26/2005
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Tech Talk: Cotton Firm Gets Satellite Internet
Producers Gin Co. is a cotton producer with 51 employees in Theodore, Ala., outside of Mobile. The company was still using dial-up Internet to file commodities reports with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and conduct other business online, office manager Georgi Starr tells IncTechnology.com, until subscribing to a satellite broadband Internet service. Elizabeth Wasserman: Why does a cotton producer need Internet access? Georgi Starr: We’re a cotton gin. We take cotton from the field and process it by taking the seeds and trash out, cleaning it up and sending it to the mill. Right now, we’re approaching 30,000 bales per year, but we’ve been as high as 35,000 bales and as low as 12,000 bales. It varies every year. When we gin the cotton creating bales it becomes a commodity that’s traded on the commodity markets. When we birth those bales, we attach a receipt to it that has to be transferred to the USDA, just like with sugar or peanuts or corn – it’s sort of like our currency. We have a specialized program through a company called eCotton to create those receipts through the Internet and make a successful transmission, either by selling the cotton, putting the cotton up for bid if not already presold, and transmitting the receipts to the new owner. If we don’t transmit those receipts in a timely manner to the USDA, we can face potential files or lose our license. Wasserman: Why couldn’t you get broadband Internet service before? Starr: We’re located in a rural area. We continued to hope that companies would bring DSL or cable Internet here, but there are just not the lines for it. Originally we were on dial-up, which was hideous. After Hurricane Katrina it was so horrible we were seeking anything to help us. In the summertime, when our business picks up moving the cotton and selling the cotton, we would have trouble with connection speeds. We couldn’t transmit those receipts at all sometimes because of the weather. Or in the middle of a transmission we would lose all of our data. It was horrible to have to go back and recreate all of those big files. It also took ups three days to update our program with the eCotton software. That was just unacceptable. We heard about satellite and subscribed to HughesNet. We have the Business Internet 400 plan with speeds that go up to 2 megabytes per second for $119 per month. Wasserman: What have the results been? Starr: Great. The good thing I’ve noticed that’s very different is that even in inclement weather we still have a connection. We have yet to lose service during inclement weather. Also the speed is impressive. To update the software and send the receipts it’s just seconds now compared to minutes and hours and days before.
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Ingredients Feedback Science Toys
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Ingredients --
Chemical Formula:
Beeswax (Triacontanyl palmitate),
Octadecyl octadecanoate (stearyl stearate),
Dodecyl hexadecanoate (lauryl palmitate),
Cetyl palmitate,
Canauba wax
Glycol distearate
Jojoba oil
Waxes are esters, combinations of long chain alcohols and long chain fatty acids. (There are waxes made from more complicated building blocks, but what we commonly call waxes are esters.)
The wax that bees make is a complicated mixture of many compounds, but about 70% of it is the wax made from the fatty acid palmitic acid and the long chain alcohol triacontanol (melissyl alcohol).
Waxes are used as a water resistant coating on cars and furniture.
Waxes are also used in lipsticks and eyebrow pencils, in liquid soaps and shampoos to give a pearlescent effect (the tiny flakes of the wax glycol distearate reflect the light).
Lanolin is a wax made by sheep sebaceous glands and washed out of wool with detergents. It is used in many hair and skin care products.
Waxes are the principal component in traditional varnishes such as shellac, a wax made by the cochineal insect Tachardia lacca.
Waxes are made into candles, but most candles these days are made from long chain hydrocarbons called paraffin, which are not true waxes.
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In the Garden:
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This simple retreat invites you to sit with a good book and a cup of tea.
Create a Garden Retreat
If you spend more time working in your garden than relaxing and enjoying it, maybe it's time to create a garden retreat. After all, a successful landscape isn't just attractive, it's also inviting and livable. It's a place you can look forward to after a day's work. A garden retreat is different than a family picnic table or deck. Ideally, it will offer a bit of privacy and quiet, things often lacking in our today's hurried culture.
Where to Put It
If your yard includes mature trees and shrubs, it shouldn't be hard to find a good spot. Look for a place that's as far as possible from daily commotion (streets, sidewalks, your own or your neighbor's swing sets). A cooling breeze is nice but it should be sheltered from strong winds. It should be relatively flat and easy to navigate.
If your yard is mostly lawn, you'll need to get creative. Where could you plant some evergreen and flowering shrubs to section off your retreat? A rose-covered trellis bordered by shrubs might make an inviting entry and create a feeling of privacy. At first, the planting may appear to stick out like a sore thumb in that broad expanse of turf, but as the plants fill in and you add accessories, it will begin to feel more settled. Remember, you have to start somewhere! Planting a few trees will also help anchor the retreat in the landscape.
Adding a Floor
Prevent the annoyance of having to move lawn furniture weekly to mow by building a "floor." If possible, flatten the area by adding or removing soil. Then lay landscape fabric and pour gravel or arrange bricks, pavers, or flat stones. The more even the surface, the less likely you'll stumble as you make your way back to the house as twilight approaches.
What to Sit On
Garden magazines showcase wooden benches and delicate wrought iron chairs, but who wants to spend more than a few minutes in those? Give me comfort! I like to sit with my feet up, so an Adirondack chair with matching footrest and a weatherproof cushion or two suits me just fine. There are so many options for outdoor furniture -- and now, at the end of the gardening season, is a perfect time to find a deal. If possible, sit in different chairs for a few minutes to gauge their relative comfort. Invite companions and conversation with two or more seats. If you truly want privacy, include only one chair.
Other Accessories
For me, a place to put my coffee (or iced tea, or beer, or glass of wine) is essential. Select a table with a height that's appropriate for the chair so you can reach over without taking your eyes off your book. A fountain with the sound of splashing water is soothing for some people. Do people really gaze at gazing balls? Go ahead and add one if it suits you. If the site is sunny, figure out a way to add shade -- an umbrella or a simple pergola covered with shade cloth, for example. Or build something waterproof so you can enjoy the sound of the rain.
Build a Path
If you'll use your retreat on dewy mornings or if your yard stays wet after a rain, I suggest you build a path. Dig large, flat stones into the lawn (so you can safely mow over them), or create a gravel walkway. Add some solar lights if you like, and maybe a few perennials or container plants to ease your transition back and forth to the house.
Add Personality ... Or Not
Your retreat can be simple or ornate, depending on your style and what you hope to get from it. If you're looking for a place to unwind after hectic days, you might want to keep it simple and soothing. If you're hoping to be energized, consider your retreat a canvas and add art and color as you please. It can be as unconventional or as classic as you like. Forget the garden rules you've read about.
Many years ago a friend in Vermont put a tepee in her backyard so she could have a quiet, sheltered retreat while her husband watched her two rambunctious children. I suspect she slept out there a few times, imagining she was far from the world of work, dishes, laundry, and homework duties. We can all use such a retreat.
School Garden Grants, Fun Activities, Lessons and more at -
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From: Glenn Morton (
Date: Mon Sep 22 2003 - 21:13:36 EDT
Hi Josh,
>From: Josh Bembenek []
>Sent: Monday, September 22, 2003 8:34 AM
>Glenn, no one who believes something would tell you that what they believe
>is untrue. How highly they regard their interpretation is another issue.
>And you never answered: what if, despite all of this, they were right?
>Empiricism, and "what is observed" could be biased despite your claim that
>it is not.
If it could be shown that either observational data supported YEC or that
our senses are biased to make us see evolution and vast antiquity of the
universe when there is indeed no evolution and the universe is young, then I
would become a YEC. That being said, I suspect the probability of that
happening is on the order of pigs flying. I could be wrong of course if they
flew very fast and very high so that I couldn't see them.
>-Well, Christ walked on water, turned water into wine and rose from the
>dead. Adam was purported to be an adult when God created him, there's no
>record of his childhood. This is as impossible as pigs flying- heck in
>Joshua the sun stopped moving in the sky.
Josh, there is a big difference here. Jesus walked on water MIRACULOUSLY,
and he turned water to wine MIRACULOUSLY. He didn't do it via natural law.
If someone came up to explain how Jesus had made natural law make wine
instantly and that explanation didn't fit observational data, then I would
say that guy is as wrong as the YECs. If the YECs would just allow that God
did it all miraculously, all I could do would be disagree with them but I
would have little problem with that point of view. I disagree with the
Christian scientists who believe the world is an illusion, but I (an
illusion in their world) don't try to convince them I am here. I ignore
them. And that is actually why YECs don't take the miraculous approach to
their problems. They don't want to be ignored.
And if the geologic record is the result of a global flood, a miraculous
global flood, then God himself arranged the fossils in a pattern which leads
us to evolution. Why would God do that? Why would God take tiny little
microscopic animals and make them lay in the earth in layers in which they
NEVER overlap each other? It looks as if they were not on the earth or in
the water at the same time, yet if there was a global flood, then
supposedly, they were in the waters at the same time but turbulence NEVER
mixed them together. Seems kind of odd to me, but YECs have an amazing
ability to ignore any piece of evidence. The fossils I am speaking of are
nanoplanckton, diatoms and benthonic plankton. see
There may be perfectly natural
>explanations for these events, but somehow the God I know purports to be
>capable of acting above limits of repeatable scientific observations. Who
>said (Pascal?) what we believe is above reason, not un/reasonable? It may
>not be aesthetically pleasing for God to create a universe with light in
>transit to earth such that we can see stars billions of light years away
>without them actually being that old IN YOUR MIND, but that
>doesn't make it
>impossible. And following with the conclusion of my argument, I
>would much
>rather see a faithful christian living a life filled with God's
>spirit than
>him accepting the implications of modern science and accepting old
The problem with the appearance of age argument is that it isn't just light
that has to be created in transit. Images have to be encoded in that light
as well. These are images of things which never happened, things like
galactic collisions, supernova, stellar bodies orbiting each others, pulsar
rotations etc. For God to do this, I would think Him a wee bit deceptive
because he is encoding 'memories' upon the fabric of the universe of
non-existent events. And if He can do that, why couldn't he have created
the world 5 seconds ago and created us with our memories encoded in our
brains. And if He created the world 5 seconds ago with all our memories,
then Christ never actually came--he becomes a historical illusion.
And a God who can or would do that is not one who can be trusted to tell us
how to be saved. How do we know if he hasn't pasted an illusory bit of
information in our brains? If God lies about Nature, how can we trust him to
tell us how to be saved???? I would like a real answer to that question from
> If you are being actively led by the spirit, my guess is that you have a
>better chance of finding ultimate truth, than if not. Believing my magic
>bullet arguments may pursuade you of my belief, but that isn't nearly as
>beneficial as being a spirit-filled Christian.
They are reviled NOT for being Christians, but for being silly. They are
the only ones who think they are being reviled for being Christians.
Remember what the Bible says. If we are persecuted for what we do wrong, we
gain no reward in heaven. They are persecuted for what they are doing
wrong. period. Shouldn't we try to help them out of that situation? Someone
>-I think the same approach applies to Gerardus as to Ken Ham. Being a
>spirit filled Christian is the top priority. The way I see it, if YEC and
>heliocentricity is wrong, which is what I believe, then those who
>believe it
>with great passion require excessive effort to persuade otherwise.
Agreed. But if they are wrong, as you believe, why are you not trying to
talk them out of it??? Is it fun just to let them embarass themselves?? I
prefer to do what I can, however imperfect it is, to get my brothers to see
how they embarass themselves by placing God into a position where He
manufactured a false history of the universe, or by teaching a universe
whose laws cannot show the glory of God because we must deny and ignore
> In fact,
>a sign of uncritical thinking is to believe what you want to believe. If
>someone wants to believe something, then you will never change their mind,
>and this I have personal experience of coming out of Mormonism. No logic
>can refute the Mormon doctrine to a follower due to the passion and amount
>of desire to believe its true. My mother has told me that she
>would rather
>go to Hell than not believe mormonism. That, my friend, is an impossible
>battle. I think praying for God to work in ways that I cannot do as an
>imperfect fallible and limited human is the only productive method
>of moving
>forward at that point.
Changing a world view is tough, as you and I both know having both changed
our world views. But unlike you, I am unwilling to let my brothers perish in
their ignorance. They may not like me, they may call me all sorts of names,
but by golly, I am going to do what I can to force them to look. The
Germans after the war who knew but failed to look at what their government
was doing to the Jews, were forced by Ike to walk through the gas chambers
and look at the carnage. YECs in some sense must be made to face up to the
carnage they produce spiritually. I know more atheists who were former YECs
or who are atheists because they think the bible requires YEC. And you want
to leave this situation as it is? I don't. I won't.
>-Sure, but I think we should follow the instruction of 2Timothy 2:23-26.
>Gentle Instruction and Kindness being key here. I made the same point to
>our Pastor and he understood where I was coming from, but looking
>at Jesus,
>how do we reconcile him calling people "brood of vipers" etc.? I tend to
>think that airing on the side of tenativeness going around using
>my beliefs
>and position on controversial subjects to thump others is better for you,
>and for him.
Do it your way. I do it mine. I have had a number of former yecs thank me
but only after years of working with them. As you say, they are difficult to
>>If you won't grant Gerardus the same freedom you grant YECs, why not?
>-Gerardus can call me a heretic and devil worshipper all he wants. I'll
>pray to God that he's wrong and that if so, God will move in his heart to
>change him. But in addition to that, I've got other battles to
>fight. If I
>ever meet him, I would try out some gentle instruction and
>kindness on him,
>and hope for God to lead him to repentance. This assumes of course, that
>he's wrong :-)
If we can't trust our eyes, why do you trust what you read on the pages of
the Bible? I would contend that if, as you suggested above, the YEC case is
true, then we can have no faith in observation. If we can have no faith in
observation, why would I trust what I observe on the pages of the Bible? It
is self-defeating at least to me.
>>If people hadn't taken an aggressive approach with me, I would never have
>>been forced to face the data. I would still be a YEC. While I didn't
>>let them know that I listened, and I argued strongly against their
>>positions, and they thought they were wasting their time, they were making
>>an impact on me.
>-Aggressive gentle instruction?
Different people respond differently. They have different needs
I guess it's possible, but let's be clear
>on our goal which is not to lump all creationists into some kind of stupid
>bag and belabor the point that they are purposely trying to distort all
>reality to justify their interpretation of the bible.
I won't let you get away with this. Distorting reality is precisely what
they do to fit their interpretation of the Bible. I showed a seismic line to
a YEC friend and told him how it showed an old earth. He distorted reality
by saying that the only reason I held the beliefs I did was to hold down my
job. He would rather beleive I was a sell out to the truth than that the
data in my hand was true.
>-Again, compared to living a life of the spirit-filled Christian,
>no amount
>of scientific misunderstanding can outweigh the value of that. There are
>beautiful and amazing truths that science reveals to us, but none of them
>can compare in any way to the experience of God's spirit permeating your
>life. Let's see, an accurate understanding of God's creation, or
>an active
>relationship with the Creator of the universe... easy choice here.
No, they want to teach their terrible science to my grandchildren, they want
mistakenly think.
>>Do you grant that the Christian Scientists may be correct, that is, that
>>we see might be mere illusion?
>-I grant that this is their opinion and would strongly disagree
>with them.
>If I ever meet one I will spend some time trying to talk some sense into
>them. But God can do alot better job of leading someone to
>repentance than
>I can, this is a guaruntee.
YEC or a Christian Scientist?
>>If Scripture actually does
>>require the violation of all we see, then Scripture pays a high price--it
>>simply false.
>-This I don't believe. If there is a God who accurately inspired the
>accounts of the bible (axiom one) and created all of nature (axiom
>two) then
>there should be a perfect reconciliation between the two data
That wasn't the choice, Josh. I said that if YEC is actually what the Bible
teaches, then simply put the bible is wrong. There would be no perfect
if there was, then the Bible wouldn't teach YEC.
If God
>inspired the bible to say that the earth is young, then we simply cannot
>understand why nature isn't revealing that same fact to us. It is
>that we may never understand why nature doesn't indicate this fact. But
>that isn't the same as us knowing for absolute sure beyond any
>shadow of any
>doubt that the universe is in fact old. We have a pretty high
>confidence in
>that fact, but the omphalos (right term here?) argument trumps
>what science
>can tell us.
No it doesn't. It leads to the deceptive God who can't be trusted to tell us
how to be saved. If it is true, then God didn't tell the truth about nature,
in the memories clearly immplanted in the fabric of the universe. If he
didn't tell the truth there, why trust him for salvation?
Remember omphalos is nothing more than the implantation of a memory in the
fabric of the universe of something which never happened. If God created you
5 seconds ago with all your memories of mom, dad, your favorite dog and cat,
etc but you never had a mom, dad, or any pets because you sprang into
existence 5 seconds ago, would you think that is a good thing? That is what
the YECs are doing. The only difference is that they think the earth sprang
into existence with all its memories encoded in nature 6000 years ago. The
only difference between them and the fake mom and dad case is the time
frame. There is nothing different qualitatively.
>-The only difference is that we can see cats with wiskers. We cannot see
>whether or not God created light in transit to earth.
We can tell that he didn't do it within the past 6000 years by a study of
supernova 1987a see the next to last article on
>-What if someday, they succeed in their effort and create the perfect
>paradigm for understanding all of science in a young earth
When they do that, I will become a YEC again. And I won't be embarassed to
do it. The data is with me now. If it were to change, it would be with them
and I will go with the data.
> But even the most ardent materialistic atheist can recognize
>that once you allow for a God who can cause the resurrection, the realm of
>possibility increases significantly. You are making the same either/or
>scenario that they make, which isn't necessarily a whole lot more
>responsible, IMO.
what it shouldn't say, then God becomes untrustworthy.
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Who Has the Solution for Unemployment?
by Phyllis Schlafly December 18, 2009
The biggest political issue today and in the 2010 election is that one in six Americans are jobless. The political party that offers a solution has the best chance of victory but, so far, both parties just don't seem to get it.
We are told that the unemployment rate is 10.2 percent, but that's only part of the problem. When you add discouraged Americans who have quit looking for a job, plus the underemployed (i.e., working only part-time while seeking full-time work), the figure rises to at least 17.5 percent.
President Obama plunged America into incredible debt by telling us that his $787 billion Stimulus bill would "save or create" 3.5 million jobs. To borrow a phrase from an earlier campaign, that was just "campaign oratory."
In arguing for his Stimulus, Obama promised "shovel-ready" jobs, which gave us the mental image of construction workers in hard hats repairing our highways and bridges. But while four out of five who lost their jobs were men, more than half the jobs created by the Stimulus were for women in education or government, where no hard hats are needed.
Two reasons explain this disconnect. The feminists had a tantrum and demanded Stimulus jobs, and Obama wants to make more people dependent on government rather than the private sector (a.k.a. socialism).
Many Stimulus jobs went to keep state and local jobs from succumbing to budget cuts. That was a payoff to public sector unions such as SEIU (whose president is now the most frequent White House guest), but does nothing to increase jobs in the real economy.
Young people voted for Obama for President by 66 to 32 percent, but they made a bad bargain because three million of them now have no jobs. According to the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, the percentage of young men actually working is the lowest in the 61 years of record-keeping.
Among men aged 20 through 24, only 65 of every 100 are employed on any given day, and among males aged 16 through 19, only 28 of 100 are working. John Podesta's answer to this problem is to give a few thousand of them government jobs in AmeriCorps.
These figures were detailed by the New York Times' African-American columnist, Bob Herbert. He tactfully refrained from stating the obvious, that the ones hurt the most by this unemployment are young black men.
It's refreshing that some are waking up to how Obama has used but not helped his biggest constituency, the African-Americans.
A more biting criticism was leveled at Obama by the leftwing journal Rolling Stone in its December 10 issue, which lambasts him in an eight-page attack-article called "Obama's Big Sellout." Rolling Stone is in shock at discovering that Obama's socialism means payoffs to his rich friends and Wall Street contributors while spreading the poverty around (instead of the wealth).
The health care bill is another direct attack on the young people who voted for Obama. The Democrats' plan will force young people to buy insurance they don't want in order to subsidize expensive care of seniors. Of course, young people will be stuck with a staggering debt hanging over them for the rest of their lives.
Obama's promise to allow 20 million illegal aliens to stay in the United States is another broadside attack on the job prospects of young American men. Obama's immigration policy betrays our own black and white high school dropouts who desperately need entry-level and other minimum-wage jobs to start building a life.
The Center for Immigration Studies reports that there are an additional 18.7 million native-born Americans with only a high-school diploma or less who are not in the count of unemployed/underemployed because they are not even looking for a job. The current employment of seven to eight million illegal aliens is a major cause of unemployment for our ample supply of native-born high school dropouts.
Only the private sector can create useful jobs that offer hope for the future. Small business, which has the capacity of creating good jobs, hasn't been hiring since Obama was elected because he is threatening them with tax increases plus a mandate to provide health insurance for their workers that employers can't afford.
If Obama continues with his current financial, immigration, international trade, and globalist policies, he will give us a repeat of the 1930s Great Depression. To understand and reverse Obama's attack on American jobs, which is dashing hopes and opportunities for the young, all congressional candidates should read Jerome Corsi's newest book, America for Sale.
Corsi also explains Obama's policies that are destroying the dollar and wiping out the middle class by exporting blue-collar and white-collar jobs while importing an underclass. Economic hard times are ahead unless the voters call a halt in the 2010 congressional elections.
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Signal Timing Design: Theory and Concepts
Critical Movement or Lane
While each phase of a cycle can service several movements or lanes, some of these lanes will inevitably require more time than others to discharge their queue. For example, the right-turn movement of an approach may service two cars while the straight-through movement is required to service 30 cars. The net effect is that the right-turn movement will be finished long before the straight-through movement. What might seem to be an added complexity is really an opening for simplicity. If each phase is long enough to discharge the vehicles in the most demanding lane or movement, then all of the vehicles in the movements or lanes with lower time requirements will be discharged as well. This allows the engineer to focus on one movement per phase instead of all the movements in each phase.
The movement or lane for a given phase that requires the most green time is known as the critical movement or critical lane. The critical movement or lane for each phase can be determined using flow ratios. The flow ratio is the design (or actual) flow rate divided by the saturation flow rate. The movement or lane with the highest flow ratio is the critical movement or critical lane. You will see how this concept is applied in the cycle length and green split discussions.
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The juvenile in this case is a 12-year-old boy. He allegedly brought two guns to school recently. One of the guns was said to be a loaded semi-automatic weapon. The guns were reportedly found by a school resource officer in the student's backpack.
Florida authorities claim to have found marijuana growing operation
A 51-year-old Florida man is facing serious drug charges after police say they found marijuana plants in his home worth $45,000. The man's arrest came after an early-morning raid of his home in nearby Longwood. Authorities claim to have found 50 marijuana plants in the man's shed. They say they also found handguns, $19,000 in cash as well as processed marijuana and hashish.
Authorities called the alleged growing operation "sophisticated." They say this is the third alleged growing operation that they have uncovered since December in which plants were grown using the hydroponic method.
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AFA Shooters drop one to TCU, but maintain high scores
Seery shoots career high 587 against TCU
Seery shoots career high 587 against TCU
Feb. 6, 2012
U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. (Feb. 4, 2012): On Saturday, the Air Force Academy rifle team competed in a match against the TCU Horned Frogs. The Falcons lost the match, 4695-4618, while maintaining the competitiveness to score high points as a team. In team scoring, the Falcons scored 2283 points in smallbore and 2335 in air rifle.
Falcons' shooting scores in the high 580s include: Pat Everson (Eagle River, AR) who was the team's high scorer with a career best 582 in the smallbore. Everson (Cadet Squad 07) finished third overall with scores of 100, 100, 96, 96, 96 and 94. He also scored a 586 in the air rifle (97, 99, 97, 97, 97 and 99). Everson contributed to the Falcons' overall score with an individual cumulative 1168 points, a career-high.
Meredith Carpentier (Waukegan, Il., CS 21), last week's athlete of the week, was the air rifle squad's high scorer with a 588, finishing in fourth place. She shot a 98, 98, 99, 98, 97 and 98. Carpentier also had a 563 in the smallbore.
Also contributing to the air rifle squad's overall scores were Mike Seery (Oregon, Ohio, CS 22), with a career high 587 and a 565 in smallbore. Robert Vasquez (El Paso, TX, CS12) helped top off the squad's score with a 581 (94, 97, 99, 98, 96, and 97) and a 540 in smallbore. Ben York (Larkspur, CO, CS 33) also contributed 580 points (99, 97, 97, 94, 98, 95) and shot a career high 573 in the smallbore.
AFA's Craig O'Daniel had a 575 in air rifle and a 571 in smallbore. Matt Kluckman competed in smallbore and shot a 562. Kyle Phillips scored a 581 and 562 in air rifle and smallbore, respectively.
While under the leadership of Head Coach Launi Meili, this weekend's individual scores have been the highest for the Falcons versus the Horned Frogs, and the team scores have been climbing above the 4600 mark.
Air Force is now 7-8 heading into the upcoming matches in Forth Worth, TX, against TCU on Feb. 16 and the NCAA qualifiers hosted by TCU on Feb. 18.
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Clark's Coral Snake (Micrurus clarki)
Order: Squamata
Family: Elapidae (fixed front- fang venomous snakes)
Other common names: Clark's coral snake, coral, coralillo, coral macho, gargantilla
Distinguishing Features
Small to medium sized coral snake, adults usually 50 to 60 cm long (max. 90 cm); Top of head black; posterior yellow rings narrow middorsally (some incomplete). Body pattern of very broad red rings (usually including some black pigment) separated by 13 to 20 broad black rings narrowly bordered by yellow or cream bands. Tail has 5 to 9 black rings.
Geographical Range
Found in the Pacific lowlands of extreme southeastern Costa Rica, Panama and western Colombia.
Primarily found in rain forest; found along river banks in drier areas transitional between tropical wet and tropical dry forest. Occurs up to 900 m (usually less than 500 m) elevation.
Life History
Not much known for this species, but coral snakes are usually mainly nocturnal, and mainly terrestrial (or burrowing). They usually are nonaggressive; most bites occur during attempts to capture the snake. They are usually oviparous with less than 15 eggs in a clutch) and mainly eat available lizards, other snakes, frogs, or invertebrates.
Not much known for this species, but coral snake have mainly highly potent neurotoxic venom, injected through grooved, fixed upper front fangs. Due to the small size of their mouth, coral snakes bites to humans usually occur on fingers, toes, or webbing between them.
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Durant doesn't do anything better than Wade except shooting and rebounding (and it's due to size). Wade has a case to be the best player on the planet right now, Durant doesn't. It's that simple for now. But in a couple of years it might change as Wade starts declining and Durant improves all other aspects of his game.
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I was unhappy to read the letter by Philip Jones of Cornwall who voiced concern over the satellite study of the jabiru stork in the Pantanal of Brazil (Letters, 25 May). His statement, 'Discovering where they go will mean that the area will almost certainly need protection,' is exactly the reason this sort of research is undertaken. How can a migratory species be saved if all its critical seasonal habitats are not also protected?
Mr Jones's concern, although sincere, is founded not on scientific reasoning but on a romantic view of how the world should be. In fact there no longer exist places where humans don't venture into wild areas, where exotic and mysterious species (such as the jabiru) have undisturbed refuge from the misactions of Homo sapiens. Indeed, what in Central and South America is not put into protected areas by the end of the century will invariably suffer ...
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Microsoft Woos Developers To The (Upcoming) Windows Store
To succeed, Microsoft's new app store will need developers to build apps. Microsoft execs tossed out their best pitch yesterday.
Windows Store
When Microsoft launches Windows 8, its completely revamped operating system, next year, it will follow in Apple's wake and unleash a store that will sell apps to run on its PCs.
And Microsoft wants app developers to know that it will be a very good store indeed--one that, among other things, allows developers who sell large numbers of apps to keep more of the revenues than the Apple store.
To that end, Microsoft held a preview of the upcoming Windows Store in San Francisco on Tuesday, which seemed designed to hammer this point home. "This is the biggest and most signficant developer opportunity ever," said Antoine Leblond, Microsoft’s corporate vice president for Windows Web Services.
The store will launch with a limited number of apps as part of the Windows 8 beta, which Leblond said will begin in late February. For the store to succeed, Microsoft needs to convince developers to take on the burden of building versions of their apps for Windows 8, in addition to the versions they create for the Apple and Android markets.
Leblond reeled off all the reasons developers should be excited about the Windows Store. First is the size of the ecosystem: 1.25 billion PCs in the world use Windows, Leblond said, and half a billion licenses for Windows’ latest operating system, Windows 7, have been sold so far. In comparison, only 247 million tablets and phones run Android, and only 152 million devices have the iOS (the iPhone and iPad) operating system.
Windows offers "incredible, incredible reach," Leblond told the developers in the audience. "That’s what you get to participate in by writing Metro-style apps." ("Metro" is the name for apps written for the new Windows platform.)
Microsoft says it will also allow developers to keep a bigger chunk of the pie. The Windows Store will use a 70/30 revenue split--the same as Apple and Android--but only up until the first $25,000 in sales. After than, Leblond said, Microsoft will reduce its share of the take to 20 percent and let developers keep the remaining 80 percent.
"We’re going to give you a bigger bite of the apple," Leblond said, only slightly tongue-in-cheek.
The Windows Store will also save developers time by offering a "free trial" option that will allow customers to give apps a spin before deciding whether to buy.
That’s enormously attractive to app developers, Yash Bandla, a product manager for Sling Media, who was at the event, told Fast Company. It means developers will only have to build a single version of their apps. That capability doesn’t exist on iOS, so developers who want to give customers a taste of their apps have to build two versions: a free one and a paid one.
Leblond promised developers greater flexibility in managing in-app payments and in things like subscription management. The store will be global, available in 231 markets around the world and in 100 languages.
As for the approval process, Leblond said Microsoft will seek a happy medium between the Android free-for-all, which has led to problems with malware, and the Apple black box, which can take months to get approvals and leave developers in the dark when their apps are turned down.
Leblond said the Windows Store will set a maximum app price of $999.99 ("because $1,000 is too much for an app") and a minimum of $1.49.
Asked to explain the rationale for the minimum, Leblond told Fast Company that was due to calculations Microsoft had made about the minimum a developer would need to charge in order to break even on development costs.
"You can't buy a song for 99 cents anymore," he said. "$1.49 seemed like a reasonable price."
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Patent Wars: A Market Solution
Patent Wars: A Market Solution
There have been numerous articles complaining about patent lawsuits such as those being filed against Google and the Andriod apps developers.[1] For instance, see Mobile Computing Giants in Patent Free-for-All, in the Silicon Valley MecuryNews. These articles often complain about the cost and time involved in litigating patents. In this article, I will propose a market oriented solution to resolving these issues.
The solution involves creating a voluntary association of manufactures and inventors involved in a market space, such as the Andriod marketplace, that will quickly and inexpensively clear patent rights. The Association would operate somewhat like a Standards Organizations, such as the IEEE P1394 (Firewire) Working Group that covers the IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus. These standards organizations often divide patents into various groups such as “essential” and “nonessential.” The term essential patents usually means a patent that contains one or more claims that are necessarily infringed to practice the standard. The members of the standards organization generally have to agree to license all essential patents on fair, reasonable, and nondiscriminatory terms to all members or to anyone.
The Association would also divide all patents of the members into “essential” and “nonessential.” All members of the Association would be able to license the essential patents for the Andriod marketplace for a fixed percentage of their sales, such as 6%. The Association would then rate the essential patents and each member of the Association who had essential patents would receive a portion of the royalties received based on the number and value of patents that are part of the essential pool. The Association would also keep a list of nonessential patents and the terms that members were willing to license them under. Members would be strongly encouraged to license all patents or fair, nondiscriminatory terms, under the theory that they will generally make more money emulating the VHS model than the Betamax model.
If a non-member of the Association asserted a patent against any of its members that was determined to fit in the essential category, the Association would undertake an independent analysis of the claim. If it were determined that the asserted patent covers an essential part of the standard and is valid, then the Association would undertake to license the patent for all members and/or the Association would start developing a design around. If the asserted patent was believed to not be infringed by practice of the essential part of the standard, but it was asserted that the patent does cover the essential part of the standard, then the Association would undertake the defense of against asserted patent. The Association would also begin an effort to design around the asserted patent. If practice the patent is not alleged to be essential, then the Association would only undertake a defense if a significant number of the members would be affected if they were found to infringe the patent.
If there is a patent contention between two members of the Association about a patent(s) mainly related to the Andriod market space, then the members would agree that the case would be resolved based on limited discovery rules, limited defenses, literal infringement only, limited times to present your case, and strict timeframes (3-6 months) in which a ruling is made. The panel adjudicating the case would be made up of 3-5 judges selected from members/employees of the Association. The judges will include both technical people and patent attorneys. All technical people serving as judge will have to take a course in the basic principles of patent law. The judges would only decide whether infringement existed, not damages. The parties could appeal the decision in federal court, but members would have to agree not to retry issues unless new evidences was presented and a strong presumption would apply to the Association decision.
Other functions of the Association would include performing basic clearance searches and opinions for members, providing technical advice on how to implement the standard, helping Members explain the technical aspects of their non-essential patents. The technical employees of the Association would also create interoperability guidelines so that software and hardware inventions can easily be integrated in with existing products. This should increase the speed at which new inventions are integrated into the marketplace.
The Association would be funded with a one-time membership fee and with a percentage of the royalties collected. For instance, the Association might keep 1% of the 6% charged for the essential patents. As a result, the Association would have only a minor impact on the cost structure of the market at worst and most likely would reduce the overall costs of Association members. The Association would also charge fees for adjudicating patent disputes between members.
This article provides an outline for a market oriented solution to the patent wars in the wireless market place. Clearly, the details of how the Association would operate would have to be further defined. However, this outline clearly shows that a market oriented solution to reduce the costs and time associated with patent disputes can be achieved.
[1] I have written on this issue before, but this post was inspired by my interview with Maisie Ramsay, Associate Editor, Wireless Week, on the patent wars in the wireless space.
1. That sounds mostly like an ordinary patent pool with indemnification (kind of) added.
2. Nat,
There are some similarities, but a patent pool was just an agreement not sue. It did not evaluate patents and technology. It did not promote a technology. The antitrust attacks against patent pools were wrong, they served a useful purpose
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Publish It
What is Music Publishing?
Wherever music is used there is a charge which is paid to the songwriter/composer. Regardless of whether it is a ringtone, a CD sale, a live performance at a medium-to-large venue, or having a composition used in an advert, a 'royalty' is due to the person who wrote/composed the music.
The publisher will aim to get the work of a songwriter/composer used in as many ways as possible. This can include helping to secure a record deal, having the music 'synched' on a radio/TV programme, advert or film, or seeking other artists to record a 'cover version' of the song. It is also the publisher's responsibility to 'administer' the catalogue, ensuring that where a composition has been used, the appropriate amount has been paid. This is done in conjunction with collection societies such as 'PRS' and 'MCPS'. The societies collect money from music users and pass it on to the publishing companies and/or songwriters/composers, after deducting a commission.
Publishers also deal with a wide range of other companies including record labels, film producers, ad agencies, ringtone providers and other artists and artist managers.
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HC Deb 17 October 1820 vol 3 cc749-56
Lord Castlereagh moved, "That a Committee be appointed to inspect the Journals of the House of Lords, with relation to the present state of any proceedings, bad respecting the bill of Pains and Penalties against her Majesty."
Mr. Tierney
said, that from some circumstances which had come to his knowledge, it was of great importance that the proceedings of this day, in the House of Lords, should be included in the motion.
Lord Castlereagh
thought it was sufficient, to move generally for a committee to inquire into, and report upon the present state of the proceedings.
Mr. Tierney
said, that any question not immediately connected with the innocence of her majesty, but connected with the manner in which the proceedings had originated, was a fit subject for the consideration of that House. He should move that it be an instruction to the committee to include the proceedings, of their lordships on this day.
The motion, so amended, was agreed to.
Lord John Russell
rose, to present a petition from the inhabitants of Plymouth against the bill of Pains and Penalties against her majesty. It was signed by 2,000 inhabitants, the largest number of persons who had come forward upon a public question since the petitions against the property tax. The petitioners prayed that if the bill should ever come down to that House, the House would immediately throw it out. They were of opinion, that this proceeding, whether considered in a judicial or political point of view, was calculated to bring the administration of justice into contempt, and to endanger the security of the country. As this petition had been entrusted to him, he felt it his duty to present it. He had no hesitation in declaring that he entirely concurred in the sentiments of the petitioners; and that if ever the bill should come down from the other House, as he sincerely hoped it would not, he should be ready in his place to oppose it in every possible way. Without entering into the merits of the evidence which had been delivered before the House of Lords, he might be permitted to say, that the result of that evidence was not such as to make the people of England believe the Queen guilty. If the pretence for this bill were a tender regard for the morals of the country, be conceived that the whole ground of it taken away; if it had been entertained as a public measure, in order to prevent the effects of a bad example, it was quite clear that if the people believed the Queen to be virtuous, the public morals could not be affected. Besides, let the House look at the mischievous consequences which the mere agitation of such a measure had produced. In addition to the evidence taken at the bar of the House of Lords, there had been propagated by the public press a thousand calumnies which could not be foreseen. Through that medium some members of the highest classes of society had been grossly calumniated, for no other reason than the giving evidence in her favour. He hoped, on the other hand, that the people would not lose any opportunity of expressing, in that House, their opinion against the unwarrantable and unprecedented conduct at present pursued and persevered in against her majesty.
Mr. Lockhart
hoped that the House would pardon him for a short time, if he ventured to deliver his sentiments on the subject of this petition. That opinion was in entire concurrence with the sentiments expressed in the petition itself. He could not but regard its prayer, as he looked upon the mode in which this bill of pains and penalties had been instituted, and the record of which was now before them on their Journals, as not only a most unconstitutional violation of the parliamentary laws of this kingdom, but as endangering the safety of the lower and middling ranks, by first of all striking, as was the practice in former ages, at the lives of those who were in the highest. When he called such a mode of instituting a proceeding, and such a proceeding itself, a violation of the laws, he meant to say a violation of the statute of Edward 3rd, which was the statute of treasons, and a violation of the express declaration of our Magna Charta itself, which had ordained in these words:—"Nemo capiatur aut imprisonetur, aut aliquo modo destruatur; nisi per legale judicium parium suorum, vel per legem terræ." Now, this very bill of pains and penalties—this unjustifiable species of encroachment—was that "aliquis modus destruendi," which our ancestors had so well pointed out and with so much providence endeavoured to avert—a method of procedure which was now in a civilized age revived—which was at this day brought forward, against the authority of all precedents, and the force of all laws. He meant to say, and he said it unhesitatingly, that by this measure, the statute of Edward 3rd was most essentially violated; for, as the House had now a formal knowledge of the bill, he thought that was made to appear, and was charged as a misdemeanor, which, on the showing of the framers of the bill, was high treason. He ventured to affirm, that under the pretext of the commission of a misdemeanor only, the bill itself, however carefully it had been drawn, did in fact charge that which was high treason; or at least pointed out no particular crime in favour of which such a distinction could be taken, as to render it less than high treason. He had understood, that the general reason assigned for the opinion that the charges alleged against the Queen did not amount to high treason was this—that a queen consort was incapable of committing high treason with a foreigner in a foreign country. Now, what would the House think of this proposition, when it learned, that though the bill alleged the acts to have been committed with a foreigner, it did not allege them to have taken place in a foreign country? He was surprised that those learned gentlemen who had drawn this bill, and from whose habits more legal accuracy might have been expected—had not more carefully performed their task.—The hon. gentleman then proceeded to read the preamble and various clauses of the bill of Pains and Penalties, for the purpose of showing that there was that omission of which he had spoken; and further, that though the intercourse was charged to have been continued in various foreign places, no place was laid where it was charged to have been commenced. He contended, that the utmost precision and certainty and accuracy were required in the preambles, provisions, and enactments of all bills of this extra-judicial nature; and that whatever might be the difference of opinion entertained among men as to the character; or expediency of such bills, every one would readily agree, that it was not competent for parliament to assume that sort of jurisdiction which they had done in the present case, namely, to soften down a particular offence into one of another character, and then to proceed against it by a bill of pains and penalties, under a pretence of favour and kindness to the party against whom it might be instituted.—It was urged, that if they proceeded by impeachment in this instance, there was this danger—that they might decide that the crime was high treason; and then the accusation must necessarily fall to the ground. Now, he maintained, that the very circumstance of this being a doubtful case as to whether it was one of high treason or not, took it entirely out of their cognizance, the law itself upon this point too, was in extreme doubt. It was doubtful notwithstanding all the authorities which might be cited, whether the queen-consort, or the companion of the eldest son of the king committing adultery was high treason or not, whether with a foreigner or otherwise. And first there was lord Coke's authority, he said, "If the queen-consort consents to him that commits the crime, she is equally guilty with him." And this he illustrated by authorities; but those authorities he (Mr. Lockhart) had looked into; one was the case of Anne Boleyn, as reported by a judge of the name of Spelman; and the other that of Catherine Howard, who was attainted. With respect to the first case, supposed to be reported by Spelman, who, by the way, was the judge who tried sir Thomas More, a circumstance not much in his favour, he had searched almost every library for it, and he believed that no such report existed. Burnet, indeed, mentioned his having seen the Common-place book of Spelman, containing the report of Anne Boleyn's case, with some of the leaves torn out. He believed, however, that it could not be Anne Boleyn's case, for he could prove to the House that she was not tried for adultery. First of all, the proceedings were suppressed and burnt, and the sentence only remained. But it-did appear, that before Anne Boleyn was executed, a divorce was obtained by Henry 8th, and sentence pronounced against her, declaring the marriage void ab initio, on account of a pre-contract. If this were so, it was utterly impossible that she could be guilty of high treason, because she was not the wife of the king. She never could have been tried for adultery; and as the statute was silent upon the subject, the case cited by lord Coke was no authority to prove that a queen-consort could be tried for high treason. This conclusion was confirmed also by the authority of parliament; for it appeared that the crime with which she was charged was not high treason, but conferring with divers persons to the danger of the Icing's person. The other case cited by lord Coke was that of queen Catherine, and he had. been followed by Hawkins, Hale, Mr. Justice Blackstone, and all the other text writers, who concurred in declaring, that a queen-consort consenting to the crime of adultery was equally guilty with her accomplice. It was not true, however, that queen Catherine was attainted for the crime of adultery; and he could prove that it was not true by the best evidence in the world. He had been favoured by the president of Magdalen College, Oxford, with a book written by Mr. Thomas, clerk of the privy council to Henry 8th, and his son Edward 6th. It was there stated, that Mr. Thomas being in Italy, and making apologies to divers enemies of the king, who was of course much detested in Catholic countries, among other things he had occasion to answer the charges against him for cruelty to his wives. When he came to queen Catherine, what did he, who was an eye-witness of the proceeding, state the charge against her to be? He told them, that Catherine was attainted not for adultery, but for her dissolute life previous to her marriage. Was it possible for any gentleman to believe, after the authority of the manuscript to which he had alluded, and which was now in the Cotton library, that queen Catherine was attainted for adultery, when the great apologist of Henry 8th, stated distinctly what her real crime was? This very defence, too, was followed up by an act of parliament declaring it to be high treason, if any woman who had been deflowered should marry the king, or if any queen-consort should, by letter or token, solicit the commission of adultery. Lord Coke, therefore, was no authority to prove that a queen-consort was within the provisions of the statute, and there were most serious doubts whether a queen-consort could commit high treason. The very circumstance of the other House calling upon the Judges, and asking whether the offence amounted to high treason, was sufficient to show that great doubts existed upon the subject. This was a point to which he was extremely anxious to draw the attention of, the House. If it was doubtful to every reasonable mind, whether the offence amounted to high treason or not, the legal mode of resolving that doubt was not to resort to a bill of pains and penalties, professing, as a sort of salvo, to change the nature of the crime by diminishing the punishment. This course was quite contrary to the spirit of the law; for if an officer of justice were to change one punishment for another—if, for instance, he were to substitute decapitation for burning, a punishment now happily abolished, lie would, by the law of the land, be guilty of murder. Where any doubt existed in cases of high treason, the law did not even trust the Judges with the explanation of that doubt. In all other cases the exposition of the law was confided to the Judges, but in cases of high treason the only legal and constitutional course was to refer all doubts and difficulties to the king in parliament. With respect to the express words used in the statute of Edward, "se l'on violast," he contended that those words were never meant to imply carnal cognition. In the Weavers' case, as reported by sir Matthew Hale, a doubt arose whether going about to destroy looms in general amounted to high treason. The question was referred to the Judges, but they delivered no opinion upon it. They declared, that it was doubtful whether the offence came within the statute, and they advised the facts to be specially found and submitted to the judgment of the king in parliament. This was the course recommended to the attorney-general, and the attorney-general declined proceeding any further.—He contended that her majesty ought to have been proceeded against by impeachment, and not by a bill of pains and penalties. If impeachment had been resorted to, the facts might have been separately found, and any doubts arising out of those facts as to the nature and amount of the offence, might have been referred to parliament. The bill of pains and penalties was a flagrant violation of Magna Charta, a proceeding fatal to the liberty and security of the country—a proceeding vexatiously protracted, when no doubt could remain of her majesty's innocence, like a wounded snake, "dragging its slow length along," unfit to live, and yet unwilling to die. He could not say that the husband alone, or the king's ministers alone, were guilty of vast laches in permitting the departure of the Queen from this realm, because he feared that many persons in that House, and himself, unfortunately, among them, had been their accomplices. He well remembered that the late Mr. Whitbread, who was extremely averse to her majesty's quitting this country, put a question to the noble lord opposite, whether it was meant that the Queen should go abroad or not? The answer given to that question was, that it was not meant to imprison her royal highness. If any crime had been committed, and he was happy to think that no court of justice would say that crime had been committed, but even if there had, it would have been more for the dignity of the Crown, more for the security of the government, more for the public morals of the country, and much more expedient in every sense of the word, if it had been arranged in any other way than that which was so unfortunately, and fatally, and to no purpose adopted. He entertained the strongest doubt with regard to the bill itself, whether it was a proceeding to which parliament could consent, under any circumstances, without a departure from its duty: whether the only course in which they could have proceeded constitutionally, was not that of impeachment. But, however the House might feel as to that opinion, he hoped at all events that they would take some decisive step to get rid of the proceeding at once, to get out of it in some way, or in any way, no matter how, as a proceeding which every consideration of justice and expediency required that they should resist.
Ordered to be printed.
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lighty developer blog
… or the hidden secrets of lighty. X-Sendfile is one of the important, but mostly unknown features. Time to put the spot-light on it and see why you want to use it. X-Sendfile is a special header option you can set in any FastCGI backend to tell lighty to ignore the content of the response and replace it by the file that is specified in the X-Sendfile header. Doesn’t sound dramatic in the first place, but if you spin the idea on some use-cases you will see why this is a good idea: “you are using a application based authentication before you grant access to files on your server. As you don’t want to allow to fetch the files by non-authed users you have to place them into folder which is not accessable from the document-root. In your application you are streaming the file (let’s say 200Mb each) to the server which forwards it to the client.” But wait: you are basicly sending a large static file. That’s lighty’s job. That’s what it can do best. X-Sendfile is exactly doing that. You tell lighty to send the static file as response. All the response headers from the backend are forwarded, just Content-Length is added. As result your whole application will use alot less memory, will be several times faster and you spend less time in optimizing your application. To use it you have to load mod_fastcgi and set the option “allow-x-sendfile” in the fastcgi.server configuration. By default X-Sendfile is disabled as it allows to send any file that the webserver has access too. In short: only use it in controled environments. * “mod_fastcgi docs”: * “How to fight deep linking”:
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Republican Wins Hawaii Seat
Democrats Gird for Fall Rematch, Saying Special-Election Rules Aided Victory
Democratic and Republican leaders are preparing for a rematch for a Hawaii congressional seat this fall after a GOP candidate won a special election in President Barack Obama's native state Saturday.
Charles Djou, a Honolulu city councilman, won the race with 39% of the vote to become the first Republican to represent Hawaii in Washington in 20 years. Trailing him were two Democrats: state Senate President Colleen Hanabusa, with 31%, and former Congressman Ed Case, with 28%.
Associated Press
Republican Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou, left, has his picture taken with Marian Crislip on Saturday in Honolulu. Mr. Djou won the election.
Mr. Djou will fill the seat held by Neil Abercrombie, who resigned this year to focus on his gubernatorial campaign. The Republican must defend his seat in a regular election in November.
The win nudges Republicans toward the party's goal of winning the more than three-dozen seats it needs to retake Congress. It also ends the GOP's losing streak in competitive House special elections at six.
Mr. Djou's victory was aided by Hawaii's unusual special-election rules, in which the top vote-getter wins without a primary or runoff, and a feud between the two Democrats who split the liberal vote.
Democratic leaders cited those circumstances in saying they were optimistic about retaking the seat in November, after a primary that will produce one candidate from the party.
"Democrats got 60% of the vote in that race last night," said Tim Kaine, the Democratic National Committee chairman, on ABC's "This Week" on Sunday.
"In the November election, it will be one Democrat against one Republican, and we feel very, very confident about winning that race," he said.
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said political observers shouldn't dismiss the significance of the Hawaii vote, saying Mr. Djou ran a grassroots campaign that focused on local issues. "It is a significant win," he said, also on the ABC show. "It is the birthplace of the president of the United States."
Rep. Pete Sessions, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, said the race had national significance. "The voters of Hawaii reaffirmed that middle-class families are looking for fresh, new leaders who will take this country in a new direction and serve as a check and balance to Washington Democrats' reckless and unpopular policies," he said in a statement.
The Hawaii race was unlike others in recent state history. Campaigns there are usually congenial and low-key; candidates spend a significant amount of time standing on sidewalks, where they hold campaigns signs and wave to motorists.
The Democratic rivalry pitting Mr. Case against Ms. Hanabusa made this election different. Ms. Hanabusa was a favorite of the state's Democratic establishment, earning endorsements from the state's U.S. senators. Mr. Case was not, having upset party leaders by running against Sen. Daniel Akaka in the 2006 primary. For the special election, he positioned himself as a moderate.
The two Democrats trained their attacks on each other and on Mr. Djou, a 39-year-old who spent the last decade on Honolulu's city council and in Hawaii's legislature. Mr. Djou, whose last name is a French take on a Chinese name, ran on a platform of fiscal conservatism.
Political scientists expectthat Mr. Djou will have a tougher time in the regular election, but that his youth, his reputation as a social moderate and status as an incumbent will aid him in November.
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The 13th Egg
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September 1946
Everett had no idea how long his parents had been standing outside his bedroom door. He hadn’t heard them knock or try the knob, hadn’t heard them call out. But by the time he opened the door his father was kneeling at the lock with a screwdriver in his teeth. His mother stood just behind, clutching her elbows.
His father removed the screwdriver from his mouth. “Well?” he said.
“Well what?” said Everett.
“You didn’t hear us out here?” said his mother.
His father stood, joints popping. “We’ve been pounding on your door for five minutes.”
“I’m sorry,” said Everett. “I must have had the record playing too loud.”
“What record?” his mother said.
The question confused Everett. The record playing: “Travelin’ Light” by Johnny Mercer. But then the hiss and thump of the needle became audible to him, and he saw that his old tabletop had finished playing some time ago.
“I guess I was distracted,” he said.
“Distracted.” His father turned and shot his mother a look. “Well whatever you were doing, you ought to put on some clothes. It’s almost one o’clock.”
Everett looked down and saw that he was wearing only a loose robe. He closed the collar and tightened the belt, trying hard to concentrate.
“Are you sure you’re all right, honey?” said his mother.
Everett presented a smile. “I’m great.”
“You don’t have to be great, yet,” said his father. “You’ve been home a month. You can be anything you want.”
“Evvy,” said his mother, “if you’re feeling up to it, we have something we want to show you.”
“Right now?” said Everett.
“No, next week,” said his father. “Yes, now. How are your marks?”
“Still there.”
“Are you using your ointment?” said his mother.
He told her he was. Everett could feel himself coming back; the sensation was like being poured slowly into his own body, his feet and legs taking on weight, his chest filling.
“Well, we’ll just have to wait and see on that one,” said his father. “Now put on some clothes.”
“Right,” said Everett. “Will do.” He went to close the door, but his father blocked it with his foot.
“No more locks.”
“At least for now, okay?” said his mother.
“Okeydokey,” said Everett, gently closing the door. As he dressed, he was careful to avoid the mirror; he was feeling a bit better now, sharper, but he knew that the sight of his bare skin would distract him again, draw him back into his thoughts. Once his body was covered—letterman sweater on, trousers belted—he afforded himself a quick peek, and there he was, himself again: an average-looking nineteen-year-old. A little thin, a bit lanky, but broad enough in the shoulders to hide it. He smiled, inspecting his teeth, poking at the muscles of his face. After a moment of hesitation, he leaned closer to the mirror and opened his mouth wide, sticking out his tongue. Cautiously, he peered down into his throat.
“Ev?” his father called from downstairs.
“Coming,” Everett said.
He found his parents waiting for him in the backyard. On the grass in front of them lay a steel pod, nearly six feet long.
“Well,” said his father, “what do you think?”
Everett’s first thought was that the object was a bomb. His parents had lost their minds and somehow purchased a 10,000-pound cookie. They stood over the thing, smiling, waiting a reaction.
His father knocked on the steel hull with his knuckles. “I thought we could work on it together.”
“Like a hobby,” said his mother, rubbing his father’s shoulder.
Confused, Everett examined the steel hulk more closely. He saw that, in fact, it wasn’t a bomb, but a fuel tank from a light fighter airplane. He’d served on a destroyer, not a carrier, but he’d seen enough fighters up close to recognize a belly-tank. The thing had come from a P-51 or 36, he figured, and then the picture suddenly became clear to him: his father wanted to construct a race car together. It was an idea they’d joked about before Everett had enlisted. Maybe when he got back they’d buy an old Ford, supe it up, then drive it out to the playa. The town sat less than five miles from one of the largest dry lakebeds in Southern California and had a long tradition of drag racing. As long as there were automobiles, the people of Boilerville had been driving them out to the desert and racing them across the flats.
“This is the new trend,” Everett’s father said. “Everyone’s using these things to make their racers. It’s easy. I was talking to Hal. Mr. Water-heater guy. He built one. Stuck on a chassis, loaded it up, and whoosh. Got the sucker up to 110 miles an hour. Can you believe that?” His father gave a little laugh.
“Wow,” said Everett.
“You could just use a regular car, though,” said Everett’s mother, waving away the fuel tank. “If you’re not comfortable.”
“Of course he’s comfortable, Margot,” said Everett’s father, his eyes fixed on Everett. “He will be, at least. Once he’s zooming across the desert in this thing. Right, Ev?”
“Right,” said Everett. He was thinking of that scream a Hawk 75 made as it flew by, the strange, hysterical shriek it gave off that caused a ship’s cables to shiver. He wondered how much energy it took to make a plane go that fast, how much power, and before he could help it, the heat in his gut was back, like an oven blazing to life. Panicked, he tried to think of cold, still things: a frozen lake. An iceberg—his iceberg, floating on the Atlantic. But the flames were reaching up through his chest and neck.
“So how about some lunch?” his mother said.
The blaze was in Everett’s throat now, a roaring heat just behind his tongue. He nodded, keeping his mouth clamped shut as tight as he could.
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The Feedback Music Quiz
Illustration by Bob Aul You should read some of the fantastic crap-filled press releases we writers wade through every day. EVERY DAY!
It's enough to make you scream. It's enough to make you claw your eyes out. It's enough to make you compulsively wash your hands and run around the office yelling, "Bullshit! Bullshit! It's all bullshit!"
And it really, truly, is. Big, hoary, flowery, gnarled piles of overinflated 50-cent words. A continual flow of new complicated ways to say the same old very simple thing. Smoke and mirrors. Bullshit and purple prose.
Don't think so? Try your hand at the following blurbs. See if you can pick out the real press-release excerpt from the imposter. Answer key at the bottom.
1. Perfect Circle
a) "A Perfect Circle is not a side project. A Perfect Circle is not a hobby for any of those involved. A Perfect Circle does not represent the end of anything. A Perfect Circle does not represent the beginning of anything. A Perfect Circle is not a religion. A Perfect Circle is not a political movement. A Perfect Circle is the continuation and the furtherance of many extraordinary musical ideas."
b) "A Perfect Circle is not a cure for cancer. A Perfect Circle can't end Third World hunger. A Perfect Circle won't feed your dog when you're out late at night. A Perfect Circle is not perfect. A Perfect Circle is not a circle. A Perfect Circle is the sound of your soul."
2. Nashville Pussy
a) "Straight off the blocks, Nashville Pussy were positively infamous for their ferocious, take-no-prisoners live shows—and immediately the most talked about band in the country."
b) "What do Oprah, Ted Nugent, Gene Simmons and Vaclav Havel have in common? They're all talking about Nashville Pussy! The most talked about band in the entire universe!"
c)"But all that—as they say—is history, and Nashville Pussy is focused on the here and how."
d) "Everything's Zen. So's Nashville Pussy."
3. The American Girls
a) "Their major-label debut evokes a compelling crispness while sounding like nothing else you've ever heard. . . . The American Girls are genuine and fearless, hopelessly romantic and infinitely catchy."
b) "Their latest effort recalls the crispness of a winter's day and the heat of a hot summer night . . . on acid! The American Girls are tried and true, stodgy and steadfast, bitter and caustic, innocent and naive, and looking to rock you from here to kingdom come with their tales of woeful lust and youth gone wild!"
4. 58
a) "58 is not so much a band as a sonic adventure in which anything—and everything—goes. Glam rock blends with hip-hop. Industrialized heavy metal gets jiggy with funky grooves. Rootsy guitars twang alongside drum & bass rhythms and Internet modem sounds. And the melodies stay in your ears long after the laser has flashed its path across the disc. . . . Diet for a New America sounds at once like everything and nothing you've ever heard before."
b) "Fasten your seat belts and check your expectations at the door! Welcome to the world of 58, an exhilarating sonic playground where everything is nothing and nothing is everything and sometimes things look like other things but they aren't really; they're the things that you first thought they were, but sometimes they're not because sometimes they aren't even there at all! Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!"
5. Ignite
a) "Put simply, Ignite inspires.
"In a musical world crowded with misogynistic, hedonistic and meat-headed rock acts, the welcome Ignite remains molten and moving within a breath."
b) "Ignite's gonna getcha!
"Springing forth from the stifling terrain of agoraphobes, xenophobes, misanthropes and phobe-phobic-thropic-phobic-phobes, Ignite are kinetic, elusive and never more than a second away."
6. Bob Lowery
a) "Considering his hunger for the truth, it's not surprising that singer/ songwriter Bob Lowery would title his Cayman Records debut album Yellow Light. In a world where everything is reduced to red and green extremes, Lowery chooses to explore the mysterious center—that complex place of transition where all options are considered and from which life's most important decisions are made."
b)"What if no one told the emperor he was naked? What if no one challenged the notion that the world is flat? What if no one wrote music from the deepest portions of his soul where words run dry and time is infinite? What if there was a party in your pants and everyone was invited but no one showed up? What if no one asked what if anymore? Enter Bob Lowery, a man not afraid to be afraid of the complex web of green intricacies and blue complications and maroon options and the burnt sienna meanings that connect all of them and all of us."
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White Admiral/Red-spotted Purple Caterpillars Emerge from Hibernation
5-15-13 white admiral larva 133Butterflies in the family Nymphalidae are also referred to as brush-footed butterflies (their front pair of legs are much reduced, brush-like and nonfunctional). Several species of Admiral butterflies belong to this family, and one of the most common in New England is the White Admiral, also known as the Red-spotted Purple. White Admirals overwinter as caterpillars and emerge in late April to feed for several weeks on the young leaves of cherries, willows, poplars and birches, as well as other trees, before forming chrysalises and transforming into butterflies. It is relatively easy to recognize the larva of any species of Admiral butterfly, as they are our only horned bird-dropping mimics. Quite an effective way to discourage predators!
Six- and Twelve-spotted Tiger Beetles Active
4-25-13 6 and 12-spotted tiger beetlesTiger beetles (named for their ferocity) can be easily recognized by their quick, jerky movements, huge eyes and large, multiple mandibles. Look for these voracious hunters in sunny, open spots where they can easily spot prey and potential predators. The six-spotted tiger beetle is hard to miss, thanks to its iridescent green outer wings, or elytra. Contrary to that which its name implies, this species can have five, two or even no white spots. It is most likely to be found on exposed rocks, logs and tree trunks, whereas the twelve-spotted (may have 12 or fewer spots) tiger beetle tends to prefer moist sandy spots. They both capture and liquefy their prey by masticating it with their formidable mandibles, squeezing it and swallowing the juice. Both of these species of tiger beetles have a two year life cycle, overwintering as adults their first winter, emerging early in the spring, mating and laying eggs during the summer and then overwintering as larvae.
Eastern Commas Flying
4-23-13 green comma IMG_9353Commas are a group of butterflies also known as anglewings (for obvious reasons). There are several species of commas in New England, all of which have a silver mark in the shape of a comma underneath each hind wing. Like mourning cloaks, these butterflies overwinter as adults in bark crevices, logs or other protected spots. You often see them in the woods, where they feed on tree sap, mud, scat and decaying organic matter. When perched with their wings closed, they are extremely well camouflaged and easily mistaken for a dead leaf.
Mourning Cloak Butterflies Emerging from Hibernation
4-11-13 mourning cloak IMG_2827
A male mourning cloak butterfly basks in the sun on an eastern hemlock while its dark wings act as solar collectors, warming the hemolymph (a circulatory fluid analogous to blood) in the wing veins and returning the warmed fluid to the butterfly’s body until it reaches a temperature sufficient for flight. This butterfly has just emerged from hibernating in a sheltered spot, such as behind loose bark. Because they overwinter as adults, mourning cloaks are one of the first butterflies to be seen in the spring. The adults mate and lay eggs, and the caterpillars that hatch from the eggs will metamorphose into adults in June or July. After feeding for a short time, the adults become dormant (estivate) until fall, when they re-emerge to feed and store energy for hibernation.
Goldenrod Ball Gall Fly Larva
Mating Flies
3-18-13 mating flies IMG_6645 (2)It’s hard to believe that flies are not only active but mating now, given the snow and low temperatures that Vermont is still experiencing, but these two flies were perched atop coyote scat doing just that. They are in the Heleomyzidae family, whose members are often found in dark or cold places, and are most likely to be encountered in the spring or late fall. There are species associated with caves, mammal burrows, carrion and birds’ nests, in addition to scat.
Snow Spider
3-14-13 snow spider IMG_6089It’s always surprising to find any form of life crawling on top of the snow, but for some reason spiders seem particularly fragile and susceptible to the elements. There are species, however, that remain active in winter, even in the northeast. Most live in the leaf litter beneath the snow, but they often emerge when temperatures are about 25°F to 35°F. Tentative I.D. has the spider in the photograph belonging to the genus Tetragnatha.
Winter Stoneflies Emerging and Mating
3-4-13 stonefly IMG_5015Stoneflies spend the larval stage of their life in streams, but as adults they are terrestrial. When the larvae mature, they leave the streams they grew up in, split their larval skins and emerge as winged adults, ready to mate. Most species mature in warmer months, but there are two families, referred to as winter stoneflies, that emerge at this time of year, perhaps because of the scarcity of predators. You can often find these cold-hardy stoneflies crawling around on top of the snow near streams.
Hibernating Queen Wasps
2-7-13 hibernating wasp queen2 IMG_2680The queen is the only wasp in a colony to live through the winter (the others all die), and she usually does so in a sheltered spot such as a rotting log or under the loose bark of a tree (pictured). I wasn’t aware, until discovering this wasp, that queens actually chew a cavity in which to hibernate, but that appears to be the case in some instances. You can see the woody bits of fiber under the wasp that accumulated from her excavating the chamber. The cavity is roughly one inch long and ¼-inch deep. As a rule, hibernating queen wasps protect their wings and antennae by tucking them under their bodies. Some species produce glycerol, which acts as an antifreeze, while others allow ice to form around their cell walls and simply freeze solid. Most queen wasps die over the winter, primarily from predation by other insects and spiders, not the cold. (The pictured wasp had succumbed.) Warm winters are more likely to affect queens, as they emerge from hibernation too soon and starve due to lack of food.
Blueberry Stem Gall
Spider Egg Sac
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Bruce Spanworm Moths Flying
If you’ve walked in New England woods recently, chances are great that you’ve noticed light tan moths with a one-inch wing span flitting about — an odd sight for this late in the year. These are male Bruce Spanworm Moths (Operophtera bruceata), also called Winter Moths, as the adults are active from October to December. They belong to the Geometer family of moths, the second largest family of moths in North America, which includes many agricultural and forest pests. The males are seeking wingless, and therefore flightless, females to mate with. Eggs are laid in the fall, hatch in the spring, the larvae pupate in the summer, and emerge as adult moths in the fall. Bruce Spanworm larvae periodically defoliate hardwood trees, preferring the buds and leaves of sugar maple, American beech and trembling aspen trees.
Cecropia Moth Cocoon
This past summer there seemed to be more giant silkmoths than usual, including Cecropia Moths (Hylaphora cecropia). (see ). Assuming many of these moths bred and laid eggs, and that most of the larvae survived, there are probably a large number of Cecropia cocoons in our woods. Even so, it is not an easy task to find them, as they are so well camouflaged, and are often mistaken for a dead leaf. Cecropia caterpillars spin silk and fashion it into a three-inch long, tan cocoon (giant silkmoths make the largest cocoons in North America) which they attach lengthwise to a branch or stem. There is a tough but thin layer of silk on the outside, which protects an inner, thicker and softer layer of silk on the inside. The caterpillar enters the cocoon through loose valves it makes in both layers, which are located at the tip of the cocoon’s pointed end. Shortly after the larva crawls inside both of these layers, it pupates. Its skin splits, revealing a dark brown pupa. For the rest of the winter and most of the spring, it remains a pupa. In early summer it metamorphoses into an adult moth and exits the cocoon through the same valves through which it entered.
Wasps Still Flying
Autumn Meadowhawks Mating
Meadowhawks are the only small red dragonflies seen in New England (most males are red, most females are brown).The latest species of dragonfly flying in the fall in this area is the Autumn Meadowhawk (Sympetrum vicinum), which doesn’t emerge until mid-summer. It seems a bit incongruous to observe these dragonflies not only flying, but mating and laying eggs in late October, but that is exactly when you can expect to see them. Until there have been several hard frosts, these winged masters of the air are able to keep active by basking in the sun and warming their flight muscles. The two pictured Autumn Meadowhawks are copulating in the typical “mating wheel” fashion, with the male grasping the female behind her head while the female places the tip of her abdomen at the spot on his abdomen (the seminal vesicle) where he stores his sperm. The female Autumn Meadowhawk lays her eggs in tandem with the male (his presence prevents other male meadowhawks from replacing his sperm with their own).
Piles of Snow Fleas
We tend to associate snow fleas, a type of springtail, with winter, as that is when we can easily see their tiny black bodies against the white snow. However, these insects don’t magically appear when it snows – they are in the leaf litter and soil all year round. Snow fleas are considered to be one of the most numerous land animals on earth, with several hundred thousand inhabiting a cubic yard. Even so, it was with amazement that I found several piles of snow fleas at the base of my garage door this morning – it’s the wrong time of year, and most of the individual snow fleas were not scattered apart from each other. Several solid black patches of snow fleas, one patch measuring roughly 6” by 2 ½ ”, piled 1/8” high, had appeared overnight. Something about the warm, humid air this morning may have caused them to leave the safety of the forest floor and for some unknown reason gather in piles on the cement. Once the garage door was raised, the piles disappeared within five minutes, as each tiny snow flea catapulted itself several inches away and disappeared into fallen leaves.
Insects in Winter
Insects in Winter
Woolly Bears on the Move
Although it’s fun to try to predict the severity of the coming winter by the amount of brown on a woolly bear caterpillar (the more brown = the milder the coming winter, according to folklore), the coloration of any given woolly bear caterpillar has more to do with its diet and age than the coming weather. The more a Woolly Bear eats, the more frequently it molts, and each time it molts a portion of the black hairs (setae) is replaced by brown ones. A Woolly Bear can molt up to six times — the best fed and oldest woolly bears, which have molted the most number of times, have the widest brown bands. (After overwintering as caterpillars, Woolly Bears pupate and emerge as small, brown moths called Isabella Tiger Moths, Pyrrharctia isabella.)
Sawfly Cocoon
Jumping Spiders
Jumping spiders are aptly named as they can spring more than 50 times their own body length to land on unsuspecting prey. They hunt actively rather than catching prey in a web and they have excellent vision, with four big eyes in front and four smaller eyes on the top of their head. Jumping spiders have three-dimensional vision which allows them to estimate the range, direction and nature of potential prey, essential skills for a predator that catches prey by pouncing on it.
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How much is one life worth?
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I know you know about Moammar Gadhafi's death. Who could miss the news? The major players rushed to the world stage with their opinions. The Vatican issued a statement.
Wang Yue died around the same time as Gadhafi. What have world leaders and the Vatican said about Wang Yue?
Wang Yue. She was a 2-year-old girl run over by a van in Foshan in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong. The driver seemed to notice what he did, backed up, went over her again, then drove off, leaving her bleeding in the street. Incredibly, after 18 people walked by with barely a glance, another van ran over her.
Finally a woman -- described as a rag picker -- dragged the little girl to the side of the road. Wang Yue's mother rushed to cradle her child, who died eight days later in a hospital intensive care unit.
You can probably still find the YouTube video of the event. Almost 750,000 people have watched it.
I saw it once. You don't need to.
You don't need to see it any more than you need to see video of a bloodied Gadhafi being dragged out of a drainage pipe, or lying dead in a meat locker, or any of the other gory presentations that masquerade as news.
Bloodcurdling photos and video gone viral on the Internet present a new pornography. There are several points in this Technicolor sensationalism that world leaders or, I daresay, the Vatican, might comment on.
First, there is a question of common decency. We've seen these images in the news before: the grainy cellphone video of Sadaam Hussein being hanged, the photos of a dead Osama bin Laden. What are we looking at and why are we so transfixed?
Next, there is the question of retribution against enemies. That's it, the world muses. They're done, we got them, hooray for us! What are we feeling?
And then there is the question of the value of human life. These are real events with real people. Are we so inured to horror movies that we make no distinction between the fictional and the real? Do blood and guts upon the pavement no longer invoke any recoil or remorse?
We know Gadhafi and the other two dead leaders ruled in horrible regimes, and their deaths can be attributed to the horrors of war. Such does not make staring at their corpses any saner, but it might help explain it.
But what about the little girl? This was a tiny injured human being, ignored by real people. What replaced humanity in the 20 passersby in the surveillance video of this incident? They walk, they saunter, they ride their bikes and merely look askance at the bleeding and no doubt wailing little girl. How could they not help this child?
Yes, China -- or at least the province where the tragedy played out -- does not seem to have Good Samaritan laws. Not that long ago, a young driver stopped to help an old lady who had fallen. The old lady later sued -- and won -- charging that the man who said he stopped to help had really hit her with his car.
But a little girl? A little girl left like a bundle of bleeding rags on a market street until a simple woman pulls her to the curb?
Of course there is somewhat of a national, even international, firestorm. At least two Chinese citizens interviewed by the BBC gave the answer to what replaced humanity in the players in this tale. They said China's religion and morality has fallen in the face of economic growth. They were quite clear and succinct in their diagnosis of the illness: Money replaced morality.
So, will the Chinese national outrage remain, or will the firestorm die down? Reportedly, the first van driver said he ran over Wang Yue a second time because it was cheaper to pay for an accidental death than for hospitalization. From what I recall of the video, it does not appear the second driver knew he did anything at all. They are both under arrest.
To what end? Each man can claim an accident. Each can claim he did no wrong. Each will be tried and fined.
Which brings us to the moral of the story. In this world these days there is a price that can be put upon a human life. There was a hefty price put on Sadaam's head, just as on bin Laden's, and probably (though secretly) on Gadhafi's as well. To the victor went -- or will go -- the spoils.
So with Wang Yue. Someone will assess the "damages" and her family will be reimbursed. But we will learn Wang Yue was not "worth" as much as any of those other three, her "value" was much lower.
How much? How much, exactly, is one human life worth?
[Phyllis Zagano is senior research associate-in-residence at Hofstra University and author of several books in Catholic studies. Her most recent books are Women & Catholicism, published by Palgrave-Macmillan in June, and Women Deacons: Past, Present, Future (with Gary Macy and William T. Ditewig) newly released by Paulist Press.]
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without the banal, there can be nothing remarkable
welcome to this... situation - tino sehgal.
life is either a daring adventure, or nothing - helen keller.
last week was quite the remarkable week.
an amazing week of synchronous interactions that have filled me up. you know that feeling, when you're open to whatever life brings.
and it does.
bring it.
give me something to listen to
a chunk of this was all about just being available and open to whatever people bring you. i had an amazing night and it was kind of the beginning of being open to new experiences.
arty farty friday
breakfast with raphael, coffee with stephen from fitzroy presses, lunch with eddy and birthday celebrations with a stack of arty farty types.
sometimes you just have those days where everyone you meet on the street is awesome and leads you to the next awesome person.
old mate saturday
after being nursed back to health by thomas at small block, i walk into penny farthing in northcote and run into an old mate - michael. michael studied art, is a shit-hot musician and is studying anthropology! awesome. the last time i saw him was also a chance meeting in monmouth covent garden. it's almost our MO.
then i'm walking down the street on phone call and i get the big reeni 'hey lozza!!!' (which only a few people get away with these days :). we end up catching up properly on saturday afternoon at mess hall, amongst the saturday wedding fracas.
falling in love sunday
i'm in northbridge, after hangin' out at the fringe freebies comedy session and i'm heading towards the bird to check out a band. i'm actually stopped, texting on my phone when a dude in sparkly jacket, tripod/video camera and cat mask comes up to me and asks if i'm adventurous.
yes i am!
admittedly, i kind of have a clue as to what the hell was going on (the mask and the camera being a bit of a giveaway for gob squad), but i was still clueless to exactly what was going on.
this cat, erik, asked me if i was willing to fall in love. and that in that journey, would i be willing to kiss a rabbit. sure! why not! all of this is kind of happening on camera (i assume). but i had no idea that it was live. i got spun around northbridge, ended up dancing with other peeps in costume (a fabulous silver sequinned jumpsuit), a gorilla and a few peeps watching.
then, an oversized rabbit came running towards me, he took me in his arms and kissed me in slow motion. he picked me up in his arms and we assumed the pose of a thousand movie kisses.
the he proclaimed his gratitude to me by sacrificing himself - well, taking his clothes off bit by bit. his mask, tie, sweaty shirt and pants.
then i was whisked off to the state theatre to watch a show that i had wanted to see (but it had sold out) and was now the star of!
it was quite exciting to see the context for what just happened, watching the story unfold (and being a bit behind the rest of the audience who had participated in the first part of the show).
and it was a little weird seeing myself on screen, but it was actually much better than it has ever been before. i obviously chose relatively flattering clothes :).
at the end, the cast whisked me onto stage with them and i got to do curtain call and clap and say hey to the peeps! it was quite amazing.
see? you get to fall in love if you're open to what life brings.
Will said...
That is damned amazing. Brilliant
lauren said...
it was pretty damned amazing!
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Active hidden Markov models for information extraction. (English)
Hoffmann, Frank (ed.) et al., Advances in intelligent data analysis. 4th international conference, IDA 2001, Cascais, Portugal, September 13-15, 2001. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer. Lect. Notes Comput. Sci. 2189, 309-318 (2001).
Summary: Information extraction from HTML documents requires a classifier capable of assigning semantic labels to the words or word sequences to be extracted. If completely labeled documents are available for training, well-known Markov model techniques can be used to learn such classifiers. In this paper, we consider the more challenging task of learning hidden Markov models (HMMs) when only partially (sparsely) labeled documents are available for training. We first give detailed account of the task and its appropriate loss function, and show how it can be minimized given an HMM. We describe an EM style algorithm for learning HMMs from partially labeled data. We then present an active learning algorithm that selects “difficult” unlabeled tokens and asks the user to label them. We study empirically by how much active learning reduces the required data labeling effort, or increases the quality of the learned model achievable with a given amount of user effort.
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Southside (Virginia)
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Traditionally, the term Southside refers to the portion of Virginia east of the Blue Ridge Mountains and south of the James River, the geographic feature from which the term derives its name.[1]
Southside of Virginia
During the colonial era, Southside was considered the area where entrepreneurs settled, as opposed to some of the more established families in the Tidewater counties, although many early Southside settlers were younger sons of established Tidewater families.
Today, however, some people use a more limited definition of the region: those counties lying east of the Blue Ridge, west of the fall line, and south of the Appomattox River. That is to say, the southern end of Virginia's Piedmont region. While this definition describes an area long considered to be the heart of Southside, it also accounts for changes that have occurred in recent decades as the Richmond suburbs have eaten up large portions of Chesterfield and even Powhatan Counties.
While Southside has long been reputed for its isolated, rural, and culturally conservative character, in recent years the aforementioned counties have become increasingly linked to the Richmond metro area. Counties often considered part of this region include Patrick, Henry, Bedford, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Charlotte, Mecklenburg, Campbell, Lunenburg, Brunswick, Nottoway, Amelia, Prince Edward, Appomattox, Buckingham, Cumberland, Powhatan, Dinwiddie, and Greensville counties. The cities of Danville, Emporia, Lynchburg, and Martinsville, which under Virginia law are not located within any counties, are also considered to be in this region.
Climate [edit]
Southside's climate is unique from much of Virginia's. Summers are typically hot, with highs generally in the upper 80s to low 90s; quite often 5-7 degrees hotter than in Richmond. Winters are generally mild, and nighttime lows often drop below freezing; frequently 5-7 degrees cooler than Richmond or Norfolk. Much of this has to do with the lack of the temperature-moderating effect of the Atlantic Ocean.
Snow and frozen precipitation usually falls every year in Southside (usually less than a foot), with the western and northern fringes of the area getting several inches more snow than the rest.
Industries [edit]
Southside, along with much of Upper South, was long well known for its tobacco crop. The nutrient-rich soil, along with frequent spring rains, provided ideal growing conditions for tobacco as well as soybeans and some cold-hardy cotton plants.
Beginning in the 1940s, various textile mills opened up in the Southside area, most notably the enormous Dan River Mills in Danville. The textile industry found it an ideal place due to inexpensive labor (costs of living in much of Southside is low), while the Southside workforce found textile work to be much more lucrative than the low incomes that frequently come with farming. Along with tobacco manufacturing, textile mills aided the economy of the Southside region to become more prosperous. Beginning in the 1970s, however, many of the textile mills closed up and outsourced work to countries such as Mexico, China and India, where the labor costs were significantly lower. Furthermore, the waning demand for tobacco products hurt Southside somewhat.
The Bassett Furniture company is in the town of Bassett. The Army bases Fort Lee and Fort Pickett employ many people, although fewer than during World War II. Some residents commute to the Philip Morris factory in south Richmond, Virginia|Richmond.
The 1990s brought some new manufacturing jobs to the area, often for industrial-grade metals and ceramics. Numerous prisons were established in the area, and employed local people in relatively high-paying security jobs.
Media [edit]
Television stations are receivable from all parts of Southside, with the eastern parts receiving Richmond TV stations and the western parts receiving Roanoke/Lynchburg TV stations. In addition, some viewers on the northern or southern edges of the region receive Charlottesville and Raleigh/Durham TV stations, respectively.
While most people receive large-market radio stations from the same places as their TV stations, Southside has a large variety of local radio. Country stations tend to dominate Southside radio, though local classic rock, adult contemporary, Top 40, and public radio formats exist.
All of Southside can receive Virginia's largest newspaper, the Richmond Times-Dispatch. In addition, all the towns listed below (and others) have local newspapers, and they are generally weekly publications. The Prizery is a new fine arts cultural center located in a former tobacco warehouse in South Boston.
Higher education [edit]
Colleges in the Southside region include:
Cities and Towns associated with Southside [edit]
References [edit]
1. ^ Melton, Herman (2006). Southside Virginia: Echoing Through History. The History Press. pp. 11–12. ISBN 1-59629-137-0.
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One of the questions I get the most this season is: How is Cutter doing?
Cutter being Cutter Dykstra.
This story over at has a lot of the details with off the field stuff. But, to answer the on the field question.
This season, he has been a designated hitter with Potomac. Going into Saturday night’s game he was batting .273 with no extra-base hits, four RBIs, and two stolen bases.
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Leaseprobe - Company Profile
Our Services
As the largest lease review service company in the nation, LeaseProbe, LLC specializes in providing cost effective, customized and comprehensive lease administration services, whether for a specific project or on an ongoing basis. Companies with their own in-house team of real estate professionals turn to LeaseProbe to abstract or validate existing leases and lease data within their portfolio. They understand that failure to manage all of the complex details contained in a lease portfolio can lead to potentially disastrous financial and legal consequences.
Missing a tenant renewal deadline, failing to act on a rent step up or not passing through every possible expense to the tenant can result in losses that far exceed the cost of a comprehensive portfolio review. That is why it is critical to know and utilize accurate lease data to effectively manage commercial real estate. LeaseProbe is a niche service company that assists with this essential process. Our team of highly experienced Lease Specialists ensure every piece of lease data a company relies upon is both current and accurate.
LeaseProbe also provides services to assist with CAM (Common Area Maintenance). More often than not, a tenant's CAM audit bills have not been accurately calculated. LeaseProbe can perform a desktop audit and review operating expenses, CAM, taxes and insurance. Desktop audits often uncover errors that can result in significant savings to the tenant. LeaseProbe’s team of experienced attorneys and accountants can directly negotiate with the landlord, assertively seeking the appropriate refund amount while being ever mindful of the importance of the landlord/tenant relationship.
To see how LeaseProbe’s services can directly impact a company’s bottom line or to have LeaseProbe validate a sample of a portfolio’s leases at no cost, contact LeaseProbe at 877.56.LEASE (877.565.3273). Or visit us online at
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Study: Reduced Meat May Aid Weight Control
Research suggests a little less meat on the plate could mean less bulk on your frame. In a study, women who consumed few or no animal products were less likely to be overweight or obese than self-identified meat eaters.
In their American Journal of Clinical Nutrition article, researchers PK Newby, Katherine L Tucker and Alicja Wolk conclude:
Even if vegetarians consume some animal products, our results suggest that self-identified semivegetarian, lactovegetarian, and vegan women have a lower risk of overweight and obesity than do omnivorous women. The advice to consume more plant foods and less animal products may help individuals control their weight.
Make fresh fruit, vegetables, whole grains, and legumes your diet staples. For a protein fix, opt for low- or non-fat dairy, skinless chicken, nuts, or fish to control saturated fat.
Plant-based diets consisting of fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains are high in fiber and nutrients and low in fat and calories, all of which may help you lose weight. This study suggests that people who classify themselves as vegetarian, semivegetarian, or vegan are much less likely to be overweight or obese than meat eaters.
However, you don't need to go completely meatless if that doesn't suit your lifestyle. Just choose appropriate portion sizes and low-fat cooking methods. A serving of meat is equal to three ounces, about the size of a deck of playing cards. If you eat red meat, limit consumption to no more than one serving per week. Also, limit intake of meats high in saturated fat, such as bacon, sausage, and fatty cuts of beef.
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How is full encapsulation of HTML elements possible
01-09-2003, 02:13 PM
For example, say there's a page with this global CSS:
div { width:500px; }
How do I create a <div> element which doesn't apply this property; ie, how do I fully encapsulate HTML elements? Is it even possible?
01-09-2003, 03:19 PM
As far as I know it isn't possible.
01-09-2003, 04:07 PM
you have to create another style i.e: div.small {width:100px}
<div class="small">
or overwrite the style properties:
<div style="width:100">
but I think that you can't call off a global style; that's why sometimes it isn't a good idea to define one
01-09-2003, 05:05 PM
Yeah I thought as much. But I have a situation where
- I can't control what's in the style sheet
- I can't override properties like that because I need the div to be unstyled
That's why I literally need something that can isolate a block of html, like
<div> ... all of this including the outer DIV is not affected by anything else on the page ... </div>
I'm open to ludicrous ideas ...
01-09-2003, 05:37 PM
Here's one: Assign an id to the div, and then use JavaScript to override the element properties:
Assuming, of course, that you've given your div the id outerdiv. ;)
01-09-2003, 05:56 PM
Without changing anything on the page, the only way to do that is with child selectors. Of course this only works if the element you want to isolate is in another element.
div {
global style
td div {
local style
01-09-2003, 08:57 PM
Cool .. cool ... I like those last two ideas.
But ... it gets worse (this isn't an academic challenge, it's just that I'm only just realising myself how deep this issue is running)
The end use is a dhtml layers API where I have literally no idea what else is going to be on the document. I can't override all possible style properties of all possible elements (div width is only one specific), but of course I can apply new style properties to the layers.
Maybe line-height is a more interesting example - there is no default line-height value - it varies between browsers and even "line-height:auto" isn't useful, because it's unstable in some browsers - such as ns4, where line-height:auto can cause <br> tags to have no visual effect so the lines run over each other - and similair issues in opera 5 and 6.
What I'm after I guess is a method for making part of the document not part of the document, in some way .. somehow ...
Unless I;ve missed some obvious trick that would render the whole issue irrelevant ...
01-09-2003, 10:23 PM
Originally posted by brothercake
Perhaps I'm missing the point, but anonymous content in Gecko, and ViewLink content in IE can be forced to be completely isolated from the document.
01-09-2003, 10:40 PM
I don't know what that is ... it sounds good :) I shall check it out
Yup, I think that's it. Nice one :thumbsup: or at least, I found plenty of ViewLink documentation for IE; can you recommend any docs on the Mozilla method you mentioned?
I was hoping for a full x-browser solution, but that's pretty unlikely, this helps a lot because at least it narrows down the problem range, and I can do something for the others with class selectors for the most common properties of the most common elements, as others have suggested. thanks.
Mr J
01-09-2003, 10:41 PM
Could you not use Class Selectors or ID Selectors
A simple selector can have different classes, thus allowing the same element to have different styles. For example, you may wish to display code in a different color depending on its language:
code.html { color: #191970 }
code.css { color: #4b0082 }
or even
ID Selectors
#me { text-indent: 3em }
This would be referenced in HTML by the ID attribute:
<P ID=me>Text indented 3em</P>
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Recently, I was wondering how division of aleph numbers would work. First, I thought about how finite cardinality division would work. What I came up with was that the result of $A/B$ where $A$ and $B$ are both cardinalities, is the number of times that each element of $B$ had to be mapped to an element of $A$ in order to ensure that all elements of $A$ were mapped to.
Extending this to aleph numbers, specifically, I thought that $\aleph_1/\aleph_0$ would be $\aleph_1$. The reasoning behind this is that there are an infinite ($\aleph_1$) number of real numbers between any two natural numbers. As such, that mapping would need to be applied.
Can anyone validate this idea? Is this how division of aleph numbers actually works, or am I totally off base?
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Yes, $\aleph_1/\aleph_0 = \aleph_1$ is the only thing that makes sense. But what about $\aleph_0/\aleph_0$ ... shouldn't you do that one first? And what about $\aleph_0/\aleph_1$ ... – GEdgar May 18 '12 at 22:02
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Much like I wrote in Cardinal number subtraction, if $\kappa$ and $\lambda$ are two $\aleph$-numbers, it might be possible to define division, but this definition would have to be limited and awkward.
If $\kappa$ and $\lambda$ are both regular cardinals and $\kappa<\lambda$ then every partition of $\lambda$ into $\kappa$ many parts would have to have at least one part would be of size $\lambda$. In a sense this means that $\frac\lambda\kappa=\lambda$. This is indeed the case with $\aleph_1/\aleph_0$, both are regular cardinals are $\aleph_0<\aleph_1$.
If, however, $\kappa=\lambda$ this is no longer defined, since $\kappa=2\cdot\kappa=\aleph_0\cdot\kappa=\ldots=\kappa\cdot\kappa=\ldots$, so there can be many partitions of $\lambda$ into $\kappa$ many parts, and in each the parts would vary in size (singletons; pairs; countably infinite sets; etc.)
When $\lambda$ is a singular limit cardinal, e.g. $\aleph_\omega$ this breaks down completely, since singular cardinals can be partitioned into a "few" "small" parts. In the $\aleph_\omega$ case these would be parts of size $\aleph_n$ for every $n$, which make a countable partition in which all parts are smaller than $\aleph_\omega$.
The only reasonable way I can think that cardinal division can be defined would have to consider the Surreal numbers, and the embedding of the ordinals in them. However this will not be compatible with cardinal arithmetic at all (the surreal numbers form a field).
I should also remark that your reasoning for $\aleph_1/\aleph_0$ being $\aleph_1$ is invalid. First note that neither is a real number, and that it is possible that $\aleph_1$ is much smaller than the cardinality of the real numbers (so between two natural numbers there are a lot more real numbers). Secondly, note that between two rational numbers there are also infinitely many rational numbers - does that mean $\aleph_0/\aleph_0=\aleph_0$?
However your rationale is not that far off, as I remarked in the top part of the post, if you take a set of size $\aleph_1$ and partition it into $\aleph_0$ many parts you are guaranteed that at least one of the parts would have size $\aleph_1$.
Further reading:
1. Cofinality of cardinals
2. Cofinality and its Consequences
3. How to understand the regular cardinal?
4. How far do known ordinal notations span? (Cantor normal form)
5. surreal and ordinal numbers
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Very nice. Do we need some sort of choice principle to determine that, given a partition of $\aleph_1$ into $\aleph_0$-many parts, at least one of the parts must have size $\aleph_1$? I understood that it is consistent with ZF that $\aleph_0$ is the only regular cardinal, so doesn't that mean that, for example, $\aleph_1$ can be realized as a countable union of countable subsets? – Cameron Buie May 18 '12 at 23:25
@Cameron: Of course. I assume choice through and through in this answer. Indeed it is consistent with ZF (and without large cardinals at all) that $\aleph_1$ is a countable union of countable sets. If you want two successive singular cardinals you need some pretty large cardinals in the background, though. – Asaf Karagila May 18 '12 at 23:39
If you're looking for something compatible with cardinal multiplication, you'll have to deal with the fundamental problem that $\kappa\cdot\lambda=\max\{\kappa,\lambda\}$ whenever $\kappa,\lambda$ are well-orderable cardinals and at least one of them is an aleph. That sort of absorption means--for example--that $\aleph_0\cdot\aleph_2=\aleph_1\cdot\aleph_2=\aleph_2\cdot\aleph_2=\aleph_2$, so even trying to define $\aleph_2/\aleph_2$ in some way compatible with cardinal multiplication is problematic. Now, one could choose a convention for $\lambda/\kappa$ in instances that $\kappa\leq\lambda$--say, for example, that it's always just $\lambda$--but trying to compatibly define it when $\kappa>\lambda$ is fruitless.
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What is the difference between being well-orderable and being aleph? I was under the impression that the aleph numbers are defined as well-orderable cardinalities. – Dustan Levenstein May 19 '12 at 2:14
Apologies for the ambiguity. The definition of aleph that I learned was infinite well-orderable cardinalities (i.e: $\aleph_0$ is the least aleph). Does that clarify things sufficiently? – Cameron Buie May 19 '12 at 3:17
oh, yes, of course. I wasn't even thinking about finite cardinals. – Dustan Levenstein May 19 '12 at 12:18
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Comment: Bezos originally said the same thing. (Score 1) 207
by dpbsmith (#43488595) Attached to: Kobo CEO Says Not Selling Washing Machines Key To Overtaking Amazon
Can't find the quotation, but early on he was very clear on Amazon having focussed on books, for what seemed like very good reasons. As I recall, the point was that there were humongous numbers of titles--far more than any physical bookstore could stock; there was a well-structured database of them--Bowker's Books In Print; shipping size and weights were manageable; and there were straightforward and fairly speedy mechanisms to get any book in print from any publisher--you or I might have trouble ordering directly from a publisher, but a modest-sized business like a bookstore or like Amazon did not.
As I recall, he said that it was much more suitable business than CDs, I think because the number of books in print was far higher than the number of CDs "in print."
He gave what SEEMED like a very convincing case for books being uniquely suited to Internet commerce. I remember being very surprised when they branched out into consumer goods.
Comment: Electric recording is no substitute for acoustic (Score 1) 166
by dpbsmith (#43277469) Attached to: Direct-to-Vinyl Recording Makes a Comeback (Video)
Electric recording has a harsh sound that can't compare with the human warmth of direct, acoustically-recorded 78-rpm shellac.
Although direct acoustical recording has a peaky response, the peaks occur in just the right places to make the sound richer.
There is no upper frequency cutoff at all. Logically, ultrasonic frequencies must move the recording stylus and make some impression on the disk, an impression that can be heard even if it can't be seen or measured. These homeopathic doeses of ultra-high-frequency sound explain the airy "open" feeling never experienced with vinyl LPs.
A pair of ticks separated by 1800 milliseconds on an LP distract your attention and spoil the sonic experience, but you can listen "through" a steady continuous series of ticks at 767-millisecond intervals on a scratched 78, because due to the endless repetition you can anticipate and ignore them.
Finally, and most important, when you drop a 78 on edge and it instantly shatters into three wedges held together at their points by the label, the sharp pang of sudden loss makes you feel how valuable and precious these disks are, giving you an emotional connection you can never have with unbreakable vinyl.
Comment: That's because the vendors do a lousy job (Score 1) 418
A couple of years ago I needed greyscale images, nothing fancy but using color was just silly, and wasted over a day trying to get Microsoft .NET PixelFormat.Format16bppGrayScale to work. It kept throwing exceptions and I was just going nuts, unable to figure out what I was doing wrong. Eventually I Googled, and found three-year-old forum postings explaining that Microsoft had never implemented that functionality. But in three years, they couldn't be bothered to remove it from their symbol tables or to update their documentation to at least indicate that it was "reserved for future implementation" or something.
Look for yourself: the online documentation still shows it as available. "The pixel format is 16 bits per pixel. The color information specifies 65536 shades of gray."
Mac OS X is just as bad. The so-called documentation looks and feels as if it were automatically built from header files.
Forum postings and crowd-sourced chatter is great--it's where I learned what I needed to know about PixelFormat.Format16bppGrayScale--but it's not a substitute for documentation. And, by the way, neither is sample code--it is valuable in show what works--or worked at the time it was written--but it does not show you the limitations or the boundaries, and nobody takes any responsibility for its future accuracy.
Comment: Earlier IDEs (Score 3, Informative) 181
by dpbsmith (#42797937) Attached to: The History of Visual Development Environments
Without even trying to do any historic digging:
Comment: W. Grey Walter's "Toposcope" (Score 5, Informative) 25
by dpbsmith (#42767953) Attached to: Amazing Video of a Brain Perceiving the External World
This is reminiscent of the "toposcope," built In the 1940s by late W. Grey Walter. It was a 22-channel EEG, or perhaps one should say EES for electroencephaloscope, which displayed a map of the brain's electrical activity in real time... if I recall correctly, on 22 "magic eye" tubes, allowing the special propagation of brain waves to be visualized.
Comment: Perhaps I belong to the only generation... (Score 1) 5
by dpbsmith (#42539285) Attached to: Public Health Nightmare as First Cases of 'Incurable Gonorrhea' Emerge
...to live out an entire lifetime relatively free of terror of bacterial disease.
I was born in the Penicillin Age.
Comment: A rant from an unhappy G1G1 buyer. Caveat emptor. (Score 1) 99
by dpbsmith (#42530665) Attached to: OLPC To Sell 7-Inch XO Tablet In Wal-Mart
This may be unfair, but it's what I'd do with any other "product" as like the 2008 G1G1 XO and any other "company" that produced it. It was a while ago and hopefully things have utterly changed, but I have to say that my experience with the 2008 G1G1 program was so inexcusably bad that it poisoned MY opinion of the program. Supporters will make excuses and some may be valid, but the thing was a travesty. It fell utterly short anything we expect from a "product." It was simply not as" advertised".
The biggest disappointment to me was that it was billed as a transparent system, with all of its own OS code supposedly exposed and viewable via a "View Source" key. As delivered, and during its first year of updates anyway, that button did nothing of the sort. It would show you HTML source within the web browser, and did nothing at all elsewhere--not even give a warning.
The claimed "20 hour" battery life turned out to be about 3 hours. Several subsequent "power management" updates increased it to about 4.
At least my keyboard worked. A colleague who bought one had a keyboard failure within about a month of delivery, and it turned out that such failures were common--and that anything resembling "customer service" simply didn't exist.
Comment: Sore finger from PDP-1 light pen (Score 2) 610
by dpbsmith (#42495105) Attached to: 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over
Actually, I used a light pen on a PDP-1 and my problem was that I got a sort spot on the pad of my index finger. Normally, there was a shutter closed over the sensor, and you had a slide a little spring-loaded slide to uncap it. The spring was probably stronger than it should have been, and the slide had little ridges on it to give a better grip.
My finger didn't actually get blistered, but close. It got sore and painful enough to make me realize I needed to avoid using it for a day.
Comment: Hung fire for forty years? REALLY? (Score 2) 610
by dpbsmith (#42495071) Attached to: 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over
Vertical desktop touch screens have been with us since at least 1972. The University of Illinois' PLATO project didn't just deploy them on a significant scale, it exposed impressionable students to them.
Since then, many perfectly good touchscreen technologies have been available, commercially, and have been widely deployed e.g. in kiosks. And GUI software support behind them, e.g. Windows for Pen Computing, GO, etc. has been around for two decades.
Meanwhile, successful deployments of touchscreen technology have been widespread since, let's say, 1997 and the Palm Pilot--but always on small, handheld, horizontal-screen devices.
If large vertical touchscreens are really usable for sustained periods of time, and if they really add something of substantial value to mouse point-and-click GUI's, I find it very, very hard to believe they wouldn't have already gained traction.
I'd add that if multitouch gestures are really a significant improvement, I think it's at least as likely that they will take the form of detached, horizontal trackpads like the Apple Magic Trackpad. Horizontal surface, small-muscle coordination.
Comment: Horizontal touch surface? (Score 1) 6
by dpbsmith (#42491319) Attached to: 'Gorilla Arm' Will Keep Touch Screens From Taking Over
Nevertheless, I would point to the Apple "Magic Trackpad" as a possible compromise. If, in fact, multitouch gestures add real value to a GUI, but large vertical screens cause "gorilla arm," then an auxiliary flat multitouch panel is a possible solution--and has the advantage of being retrofittable to existing displays. It was once thought that people would have great difficulty adapting to the "abstract" nature of mouse movements in one plane causing pointer movements in another--and indeed there seem to be small percentage of people who find this to be a real problem--but by and large people adapted quickly.
Comment: Adaptive significance? (Score 1) 2
by dpbsmith (#42461235) Attached to: Humans Have Been Drinking Alcohol for at Least 11,000 Years
When something has been going on that long, it seems likely that the ability to get drunk must somehow confer survival benefits on the human species as a whole. Otherwise, there would have been selection against alcoholism and selection for people who are alcohol averse for whatever reasons. Given the actual variation we see in taste preferences and sensitivity been people, there would have been plenty of variation to act on, and most children, for example, find the smell of alcohol repellent. 11,000 years is thirty thousand generations, plenty of time for selection to have taken place.
Comment: About the same as 1980 in real terms (Score 4, Interesting) 430
by dpbsmith (#42445611) Attached to: 2012 Set Record For Most Expensive Gas In US
In real dollars, i.e. corrected for inflation, it's about the same as in 1979-1980.
It's interesting, without shortages and lines at the pump, how much less threatening it seems. I remember visiting my aunt that Christmas and being quite concerned because our tank wasn't big enough to hold gas for the whole round trip, and in addition to lines, many, many gas stations had short hours--there was no certainty of being able to find a gas station open on Christmas day.
Comment: Falsification of history (Score 3, Insightful) 149
by dpbsmith (#42432213) Attached to: Origin of Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step' Line Revealed
I listened to the event live, and I and everyone in the room heard it as "one small step for man." And I remember at the time hearing a comment, "shouldn't he have said one small step for a man?" The audio recording is perfectly clear. There's no squelch, no gap, and nothing half-buried under static. The New York Times reported it as it was.
Neil Armstrong originally insisted he had said "a" but later acknowledged that he could not have said so. Wikipedia cites sources.
Yet some encyclopedias and history books include the "a." It is a kindly falsification of history, made out of misguided respect for Neil Armstrong's feelings.
And I find it shocking.
It is a trivial distortion, but it is a distortion of an event that was witnessed in live broadcast by half a billion people and electronically recorded.
If such a thing can be distorted simply to spare one man's feelings about a completely inconsequential mistake, what does that tell us about the trustworthiness of basic, prosaic factual details of historical events with few eyewitnesses, no electronic records, and money, politics, or national pride hanging in the balance?
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- "I'm getting tired of all the sloppy grammar people use these days," lamented Karl, my friend and part-time curmudgeon.
What are you thinking about?
"That," he said, gesturing at my face wildly.
I still don't know what you're talking about, I said. That's some grouchy mood you're in.
"Gaah! You're killing me, Kid!" I knew what he was talking about. I just couldn't resist. "Don't end your sentences with a preposition," he said.
Fine. That's some grouchy mood you're in, jerk.
"Ha, ha," he deadpanned. "You know what I mean."
We were sitting in The Yodeling Mountaineer, a Liechtenstein bar and grill, watching the Lichtenstein national soccer championships on satellite tv. Mauren was facing Eschen for the Liechten-Stein national trophy. Eschen was beating Mauren 2-1.
You know that's not a real rule, right?
"Bull!" said Karl. "That's all our English teachers ever drummed into us when I was a kid. And I can't think your teachers were slouches when you were a kid either."
Well, ignoring your starting that last sentence with 'and,' - "Dangit!" said Karl - that whole not ending your sentence with a preposition thing is a myth perpetuated by people who haven't extended their grammar education beyond the 7th grade.
Karl sputtered and plonked his empty beer mug on the table. "I learned from Mrs. Halberstadt, a stern German woman who taught English by making us memorize all these rules. If we didn't recite them correctly, she would whack our palms with a ruler."
So? I learned it from Mrs. Taylor in the 7th grade, but that doesn't mean she was right. In fact, she was wrong about a lot of things, mostly including whether I could read "All Quiet On The Western Front."
"About what are you talking?"
Sorry, I was talking to myself. And, eww! 'About what are you talking?' That was awful.
"Hey, it's important that I practice good grammar if I am to correct these gross misuses," Karl sniffed.
I motioned for Heinrich the bartender for two more. A brown ale for me, and a doppel bock for him, I told Heinrich.
"Kid, you know full well that I'm an educated man. I'm a writer, for God's sake."
That doesn't make you a grammarian.
"It makes me more of a grammarian than you'll ever be."
Heinrich brought the beers back and set them in front of us.
"In whose mug did you pour this beer?" asked Karl.
Oh, come off it, I said. Heinrich just looked confused. I grabbed my beer and took a drink.
"You're just upset that I know more about grammar than you."
No, because if you knew anything about grammar, you would know the basic rules of ending your sentences with a preposition.
"Which are... ?"
Basically, if you can take the word off the end of the sentence, and it doesn't change the meaning of it, you should leave it off. But if you take it off, and it changes the meaning, it has to stay.
"Now you're just confusing the issue," said Karl.
Not at all. Try 'where's it at?' If we remove the 'at," then we have 'where's it,' or actually 'where is it?' The sentence stays the same, so we can drop the 'at.'
"Told you so."
Not so fast. Now take the sentence 'what are you looking at?' Take off 'at,' and it becomes 'what are you looking?' That completely changes the sentence, so it has to stay.
"Why can't you just say 'at what are you looking?'"
Come on, would you actually say that? Can you imagine trying to intimidate some punk with 'at what are you looking?' He'd laugh in your face and then pound you.
"Whatever, Kid," said Karl.
Ooh, or maybe Robert DeNiro in "Taxi Driver," should have said 'To whom are you talking? To whom are you talking? Well, I'm the only one here.
"Now you're just making it sound stupid," said Karl.
I'm not trying that hard either. Even the strictest grammarians don't think people should speak that way.
"Kid, I don't think you know into what kind of grammar quagmire you're getting yourself."
Karl, would you just knock it off? It's not a real rule. It was created by 17th century linguists who wanted to impose rules on the English language. And since Latin sentence structure doesn't allow for prepositions at the end of a sentence, they made that rule for English too. But the rules just don't work, and they've been perpetuated by misinformed English teachers for centuries.
Would I lie to you about language?
Karl thought for a moment. "No, I guess not. That's not something you've ever messed with."
That's better, I said.
Erik publishes his humor column and other articles at his http://laughing-stalk.blogspot.com>Erik Deckers' Laughing Stalk blog.
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About Bruno Weinschel
Bruno Weinschel was born in 1919 in Stuttgart, Germany. He stayed there until he was about eighteen years old and went to graduate school at Columbia University. At Columbia, Weinschel worked with Professor Isador Rabi to build microwave sources. Hired at AT&T, Weinschel worked on microwaves in the Bell Laboratories. In the mid 1940s, he became chief engineer of Industrial Instruments in Jersey City, NJ, which designed measuring equipment. During the time he was with Industrial Instruments, Weinschel worked at the National Bureau of Standards, and eventually joined the Bureau to become a section chief of Ordinance Development Division 13. He stayed there for about three years until 1952. Being ambitious, Weinschel started a private business while he still had a government job. However, he soon quit the job at the NBS and managed his private company as chief engineer and sole owner until about 1986. The main products of his company were precision passive microwave component, especially attenuators.
Bruno Weinschel was involved with IEEE professional activities from about 1977 while he was Vice President of the NBS. In 1978, he became Chairman of the Finance Committee of the IEEE Technical Activities Board. Soon, he started organizing the Washington office and restructuring personnel at the IEEE. In 1979, Weinschel put together a committee, which eventually became the US Competitiveness Committee. He also testified in Congress for various issues, including world trade, taxation, anti-trust, etc. He was also a member of the IEEE Educational Activities Boards and IEEE Publication Board.
In the interview, Bruno Weinschel talks about his half-a-year mechanical apprenticeship at Zeiss in Germany, his lectures in India for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, and implications of global consumer markets. He also describes his various activities, which have been made possible by his heavy backgrounds in physics and chemistry. Weinschel discusses his involvement with IEEE professional activities in detail. In addition, he emphasizes the importance of the quality of education and his efforts to push the agenda further within the IEEE. The interview concludes with description of Weinschel's activities as IEEE President and Weinschel’s opinion on the IEEE publication practices.
About the Interview
BRUNO WEINSCHEL: An Interview Conducted by William Aspray, IEEE History Center, 7 March 1996
Copyright Statement
It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows:
Bruno Weinschel, an oral history conducted in 1996 by William Aspray, IEEE History Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
Interview: Bruno Weinschel
Interviewer: William Aspray
Date: 7 March 1996
Childhood, family, and education
I always enjoyed physics probably to my father's chagrin. He wanted me to be a banker. He was a diplomat. He wanted me to apprentice in a bank that was owned by the Belgian Consul, a good friend of his.
Then where were you born?
Stuttgart, Germany. I stayed there until about age 18.
What year?
I was born in 1919 so I must have left there in 1938-39. I was fortunate enough that I skipped three grades and I failed one grade so I was ahead by about 2 years of my colleagues. By the time I was 18 I had pretty much finished what they called “vordiplom” which is equivalent to a bachelors in the US, so I was an eighteen-year-old genius when I came over here with a bachelors in physics.
Graduate studies, Columbia U.
Did you study in Stuttgart?
Oh yes, and I went to graduate school at Columbia University. There I again was very fortunate that my professor was Isidor Rabi. He eventually got a Nobel Prize. He also became Truman's science adviser. Of course he had a lot to do with nuclear weapons that was not talked about a lot at that time. By the way Enrico Fermi, a Nobel Prize bearer who was a poor teacher, was one of my professors. I failed thermodynamics twice taking his course I finally figured the hell with it so I just did not go to the third one. I just read the books and passed it. His teaching was miserable.
I was fortunate that I was asked by Isidor Rabi to build his microwave sources that were below actually 1300 megahertz. He used them for investigating the magnetic moment of molecules, which eventually led to his Nobel Prize. This is the technical foundation of the non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging for medical examinations. Some people call it nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) but the word nuclear is de-emphasized since laymen probably think more of nuclear destruction than of peaceful nuclear energy uses. I was using some Western Electric Triodes vacuum tubes for my R. F. source. We worked in a basement about two levels below ground so there were no changes in temperature, resulting in the absence of temperature control, which requires instrumentation. On the other hand I could see the frequency modulation in my receiver sometimes when in the middle of the night probably about a half a mile away due to a subway train, very light vibration penetrated to my lab. It was at this point when I was taking graduate courses in Physics.
Mechanical apprenticeship at Zeiss
I didn't realize it at the time but one of the AT&T people in one of my classes, Cliff Corbet, was a department chief, and one day when I went out to the Bell system to look for a job, he interviewed and hired me as an engineer because he knew me from some advanced calculus and operational calculus courses. So he thought I was a find. He did not know how much of a find I was because he didn't realize that in Germany before you can qualify to be a student in physics you must have half a years mechanical apprenticeship and mine was at Zeiss. So you really learn to work with your hands, tools and machine tools.
To give you a little feeling for the first day I came to work at Zeiss, in order to take me down a few pegs, they put me in with another group inside a boiler to clean off calcium deposits. Those boilers were about tree stories high and about as wide as a room. What we were doing in there was working with hammers and chisels just trying to get rid of the deposits and you can realize with five, six, seven people chiseling, the noise level was very high. So they let me do that for about two days and I came home with all this white stuff in my hair and clothing.
Then two days later they reestablished my self-confidence by letting me handle something that was very interesting which I had never done before. There was a time during the day that the Zeiss factory used more electricity than the city could furnish so they had their own big generators in there and of course they had to be synchronized in voltage, but especially in phase very carefully before you connected them, because if you connect them at the wrong speed and phase it would lift them off the foundation. They did not tell me much, they just said here is the synchronizing equipment and here are your synchronizing lamps and I had a lot of fun with these controls, changing the speed and then connecting the generators at the right moment.
The actual time spent by a supervisor during this mechanical apprenticeship on me was about twenty-five percent of his time. The first thing I had to do was filing. He gave me a piece of steel that was roughly about two inches cube. He said, "Now you file this thing to be a perfect cube. By the way here is some bluing paper and here is a flat surface plate and here is the file". I was not used to it and I bloodied my hands so I had to put tanning liquid on to my hands to toughen them up because I just could not work it. It took me about a week. Of course the first two surfaces to get them flat and at a right angle to one another, well that was not too bad. The third one was very difficult. After that I learned that there were some big surface grinders on the shop floor and I made friends with some of the operators and I said, "Now you grind that for me so that it is nice and flat." Then I messed it up just a little bit with a file so that it looked more natural. During my apprentice training I had to use all hand tools and many machine tools. It was an interesting experience.
For about one week I was working in a smithy hardening steel and getting things white hot and surface hardened. It was a lot of fun. I learned a lot. I finally ended up in inspection where I learned the various inspection tools.
It took about six months and this was a requirement. There were only four approved facilities for the Technical University in Stuttgart for this kind of apprenticeship. It was one of the prerequisites. We do not have it in the USA. Even today in Germany you have two parts of this apprenticeship. You have one before you are allowed to matriculate and you have to pass that and then one just about before you graduate. And by the way, the German engineering degree is about equivalent to two more years in a US graduate program -- that's two years after the bachelor --the undergraduate degree or “Vordiplom” which is about equivalent to a bachelor.
United Nations Industrial Development Organization; global consumer electronics markets
With that kind of experience, two years ago I was over in India sponsored by the UNIDO, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. They paid all expenses. I was lecturing over there and talking to some of the young engineers because they expect India to get more active in the world trade and be competitive. At that time my subject was how to design for manufacturability for global competitiveness. I talked to some of these people ... Oh you design an antenna? ... How do you do that? Are you sketching it out first? And then do you go to the shop? Do you build a few and test them? Their reply showed excessive specialization. They had to get a mechanical engineer to lay out the drawings. And I asked who is going to make it? And who is going to go to a shop and try it out? Who is going to test it? Is somebody else going to measure it? They were not used to getting their hands dirty in manufacture or test. They must overcome such problems and prejudices if they wanted to succeed in global competitiveness.
I was lecturing for two weeks for about six hours a day plus a few hours for questions and answers. It was a very interesting experience. There are great cultural differences for engineers in different countries. They are all different. Some of the more recently developing countries like maybe Thailand, Indonesia, and of course China, have learned that you have to immerse their technical professionals deeply in all related work. They in turn are making it a necessary condition to grant a permit for foreign manufacturer – for building, e.g., a factory in China or to have a joint venture there -- a part of the agreement that they must disclose new technologies to the local engineer. You must spend a certain amount of effort to teach those in the Universities and you have to disclose proprietary processes and license your patents.
Of course the long-term goal is that they want your knowledge to create a facility, which will contribute maybe 60 or 70 per cent of the output to their export. And they plan to eventually to invade your own domestic market. I am talking about high-tech shops not about the low technology stuff you buy at Christmas that was made in China or some textiles. We are talking about cellular telephones and VCRs and advanced communication equipment. There is a complete change, which many of our industrial people are not fully aware of.
I am worried about how we are going to cope successfully with industrial competition from China and in my opinion it is only a question of time maybe a ten-year time that we will have a similar problem with Russia due to their well-educated labor force. The Russian education is quite a bit superior to ours. They changed in the middle sixties to embrace math and physics and the hard sciences. The average Russian even today has much better education today than the average US high school graduate. So I think down the road maybe another ten years we will have interesting problems because of the educational background of some of those countries and their capability. It is only a question of time until enough capital and technology is transferred to those ambitious and well-educated countries.
Bell Labs career
Can you trace your working career for me?
Having a very good background in physics was extremely fortunate when I came to Bell. It put me into an area of designing the test of some microwave equipment that was all classified. The interesting thing was I had a physics background and the American engineers around me had an engineering background. They did not know a thing about what makes microwaves tick. But I came out of physics so I had worked with waves so it was easy for me. I designed all kind of equipment for making attenuation measurements and standards at about five thousand megahertz.
I worked on some very complicated time division multiplex equipment, which had eight channels and was used by MacArthur. It gave rise to the present TV microwave links. This was the basic equipment, which later on became the microwave links for telephones and video. I respected the Bell system that they had enough foresight to push those developments. We had the highest priorities like triple A-X.
We could take equipment from anywhere. Once I took some Teletype test equipment off a battleship. They had just gotten it and I just took it right off. So it was a very interesting time in my life. In the Bell Laboratories I was the person to transfer technology to Western Electric for manufacturing planning and complete testing and quality control and I was to liaison back to the Bell Laboratory. I was very fortunate to work with some of the leading scientists in microwaves. We became very good friends. I was a youngster, they were much older and I just had a very good time. My work was really fun.
And how long did you do that?
Well, I must have done it to about the middle forties maybe and then maybe a little later. And then I became chief engineer of a small company, Industrial Instruments in Jersey City, NJ. We designed measuring equipment. Then I talked my boss into letting me build some coaxial attenuators to 2 GHz and I was allowed to do that.
National Bureau of Standards
I worked then at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington, at division 13, which was known as the Harry Diamond Laboratory, a part of the Army ordnance development. I had handled a classified contract for NBS when I was at Industrial Instruments, which had to do with the measurement of microwave reflection of ice and snow and from all kinds of surfaces. That information was needed for designing of V.T. fuses so you could pick out the reflected signal. The people at the National Bureau of Standards had a standing offer for me to come down to Washington. I was going back and for as liaison and eventually I joined the Bureau and I became section chief of a bunch of very good people. I brought in some of my old Bell Lab friends to join me and I was there for about three years to about 1952.
What section was it?
It was Ordinance Development Division 13. It was the Division with the biggest budget. And at the time when I was involved, everyone was envious of the kind of funding, which we had. Then I was ambitious and I really figured I wanted to design what I learned from the Bell System attenuators. When I designed at Bell, my boss said that now what we are building them at fifteen hundred megahertz and they are really good enough. There is really no need to improve it. There is no requirement for a better device. And being a typical engineer, I always wanted to build something better, so eventually I built those in my own laboratory. I started accepting all the orders in a new private business while I still had a government job. In order to protect everybody, I made a full disclosure of the possible conflict of interests. There was no connection with my work at the Bureau of Standards. Eventually, the director of the Bureau of Standards Allen Astin became a good friend of mine and later in another business venture became a member of my board of directors. He was concerned while I was at NBS that a newspaper may pick the information up and use as a headline for an article on page one that “a Bureau of Standards Civil Service Employee has Air Force prime contracts." He said, "Oh we might clear that up but it will take a couple of weeks to clear the thing up, the correction will probably be on page twenty-two. This being explained a few weeks later, the political damage in congress has been done to us and to our appropriations and therefore I cannot take a chance for you to continue. I will give you a choice either you work at the Bureau full time or you quit your policy-making supervisory position and we will keep you on for a while as a consultant so we don't suffer for lack of your input and eventually you will have to be separated. So in case we are ever accused we can say that you have not made policy, you were just a consultant."
Private company; precision measurement equipment
And I thought about it for a while and it was a very, very hard decision. I had saved up some money. So I quit. Things just kept on going well and we were doing well. We had even more money in 1960. The little company I put together was made public on the stock market. Personally I think it was wrong. I held on to my company from about 1952 as chief engineer and almost sole owner until about 1986 when I sold it.
And did the plans of work you did in the company change over time or grow over time?
No, I always liked precision measurements. Without the benefit of marketing studies, just by mine own gut feeling and experience, I figured that if I had a need for those precise measurements, others also do. Then there must be a market for that same equipment. Our main products were precision passive microwave components, especially attenuators. To exercise quality control I needed some very fine measuring equipment, which was way beyond anything available. So the tools I designed eventually turned product. The attenuator gave us an income since I was good at manufacturing processes and chemical technologies.
I had a very heavy background in chemistry. I almost became a chemist instead of a physicist so I had a lot of chemistry knowledge. The film technology, which we developed, included cracking of hydrocarbons at 700 centigrade. I did all that development myself which was fun. That product I enjoyed because of the manufacturing and development of the technology. Then the designing of the tools, some of the best test equipment, I thoroughly enjoyed. And I published freely. I probably should give you a list of about fifty or sixty journal articles, which I published. I found that while I enjoyed the writing, I was good at it. It came easy. Also, I was teaching graduates and postgraduates here and there. I found that my publications had a very unexpected side effect. The people who read those articles worldwide had a positive impact on the sale of my products. Because they apparently thought that, if I know such technology with these tolerances and those instruments, then the product must be of similar quality. So that's how it went.
IEEE activities
When did you get involved with IEEE professional activities?
That was an accident. In 1977, Joe Dillard, IEEE President, called me one evening. I had been very active at the level of IEEE Standards at that time--I was Vice President of Standards for quite a while--and for some reason, the Chairman of the IEEE Standards Board never showed up for IEEE Board of Director meeting so I guess because he figured it was nuisance work so he sent me in his place. I did not know any better so I went and Joe Dillard was watching me for about two years and I think I also was Chairman of the Finance Committee of the IEEE Technical Activities Board. He said “I want you to be the chairman of the Technical Activities Board in 1978.” I had watched TAB and I knew this was a very unruly combination of very independent academics whom you could never get to agree. I think it was almost a self-neutralizing board pulling in many different directions simultaneously. I said I am not going to waste my time on those guys because they are unmanageable. I don't want to have any heart attack. I said -- and this was in great ignorance --- Why don't you give me something simple like “Professional Activities” in the Washington area, most of the work with Congress is down here and I know what is going on --I had testified in Congress--and thought that was easy. I did not realize that I was walking from the rain into a shower.
But in time it became easy and I started organizing the Washington office. I did a couple unheard of things when I did not like the performance of an IEEE employee --I think for two years I was vice-president of professional activities 1978-1979-- when I wasn’t satisfied with somebody I took the attitude of a commercial company and I took steps to get rid of several people at the top. You don't fire people in the IEEE, but I managed somehow and that's how I handled IEEE professional activities more efficiently.
U.S. Competitiveness Committee of the IEEE
It was no great planning; it was kind of a great accident. It became very clear to me that looking at the change for about ten major industrial sectors and looking at the export-import trade balance that in everyone of them we were slipping. So it was only a question of time with this high-tech area until our trade balance would be negative. And I tried to understand why we were slipping in that many areas, anywhere from automobile to you name it. I think that the chemical industry was the only--in my memory--industry, which managed to stay on top. And I tried to understand what is the relationship to education. Why is one industry better than another? The chemical industry and the chemical engineers are very close in education to industrial applications. They did not have any separate basic R & D and then applied R & D. It was kind of all one thing. While Bell Laboratory was a very fine example a bunch of basic work here and applied work there and then Western Electric used it in the factory.
I put together in 1979 a committee, which eventually became the US Competitiveness Committee. Initially we were only concerned with innovation in electrical technology and the kind of people I had on that committee I selected myself. There were only three of them. I took Dr. Allen Astin, NBS Director; I took Dr. Sam Raff who was chief scientist at the Navy and I worked with him on some classified measurement projects so I knew him inside and out. I worked with him for a couple of years. I took Jacob Rabinow, a division chief out of the National Bureau of Standards who was their mechanical genius. He had about two hundred patents. He could solve any mechanical problem he put his mind to.
I testified in Congress a lot, very often in world trade. Jacob Rabinow I enjoyed and I respected -- we respected one another for our capability in design. He's in his nineties and still plays tennis. Anyhow with these great people on my committee, the committee was easily run. We were started inside the IEEE with innovation and we eventually got into all kind of economic tasks: e.g. why do we have in the United States such a big ratio between the salary of the top man in the company and the average salary in the company. The US is the only country, which has that big ratio. You go to Japan, the ratio is way down, I mean way down, and they all had respect, social respect for the engineer.
In Japan and Germany the respect for engineers is much greater than in this country, so we got a little bit into why our profession is respected in other countries more. Then we started looking at such things as --- lets take maybe the top three leading technical companies in Japan and Germany, Britain and the US and look at education of their three top people and see how many of those people have hard science or technical education. We found that in those other countries--not in Britain, the Brits do the same things we do, but in Japan and Germany--the ratio of people with real good technical education running companies was much bigger than in this country. So we got the idea that maybe it is necessary that we have some technical people way on top. We saw that as an answer. I am not sure that it is the whole answer but it is part of the answer that top people must know more technically.
We eventually got into all kinds of different issues, like tax. When I started as vice president in 1978, the biggest hot issues in Congress was the long-term capital gains tax. I forgot if it was Nixon or who it was, but the administration wanted to really raise that tax. There was one congressman, William Steiger, who showed the correlation between the availability of capital to new companies and the level of the long-term capital gains tax. I took the IEEE fully behind it. I had a full endorsement for the legislation in the US by the IEEE Board of Directors. You know the IEEE board of directors covers worldwide regions. I said this is an issue which is a worldwide issue, which happens to be right now on top of our problems, and we should support it. It won. Then we followed up on that. There was a very close relationship between the increase in “initial public offerings” and the private money, which was available for investment in public companies. I supported this legislation and eventually I think at that time we aimed for a capital gains tax of about twenty-five per cent maximum. Eventually it was reduced to a maximum of twenty per cent. So we got slowly into issues, which had nothing to do directly with technology, as we were starting to get concerned with taxation.
I'll give you another one in which I got involved which I never realized was very important. I found that the US department of Justice, the second man down was the Assistant Attorney General in charge of anti-trust. He had a completely different attitude than the Japanese had about anti-trust. And it took us a while -- as a matter of fact I spent one day solidly sitting and arguing with him -- and I said, "Look at anti-trust, when it was put together against the robber barons to protect the public, you were talking about small domestic markets. Today you are talking about global markets and you have to judge a company be it IBM or whatever, not by what portion of the US market they have, but how qualified are they in light of the global competition they have. It took a while and we were successful in putting a law through which facilitated cooperative research of different companies as long as they did not fix the price in manufacturing or decided what regions are their sales territories. We were effective on that. So we got into subjects which I had never dreamt that I would be concerned with and the average engineer still does not think or realize how important some of these things are.
I helped to push legislation that had nothing to do with innovation and patents or technical advances but facilitated the cooperative work of some people without being in violation of anti-trust considering global markets and things like that. So that is a couple of strange things that I just bumped into.
How did the professional activities grow over time, change over time?
I think in the last couple of years we became very concerned with competition and the strange thing is that we had four IEEE ex -presidents on the “US competitiveness committee of the IEEE”. We became concerned with something very unprofessional, something, which was almost close to unions, and something, which was in the economic area completely. We became concerned with the economic security of the employed US IEEE member. About two years ago this more and more lifted itself to the surface as being our top priority and we had unanimous resolutions on that thing in that committee of about twenty people. That became our first priority because we saw what was happening in jobs being exported. I just came back from India and US companies have sixty thousand good Indian computer specialist hooked up to the US by Indian governments investment in satellite links.
I saw IBM and Hewlett Packard and Tektroniks and all the big companies having offices in Bangalore, India, and I knew that with all the overhead loading and all the extra expenses and the liaison expenses and travel expenses it cost about Ω what it did cost in the US If you had a lot of complicated software to do you. You could do it for about half the price of what you could do it in the United States. I realized that, with that kind of difference, you couldn’t protect those US engineering jobs. It is just a fact that we have to understand. Somebody who has a big amount of software to do would act uneconomically if he spends ten million dollars extra just for patriotic reasons in the U.S. as long as he has the skill available in India or Russia. We have to emphasize new work on some more advanced developments while some of the more competitive but simpler work can be subcontracted to countries with lower professional labor cost.
Engineering education; IEEE Educational Activities
I found that the same thing was going on in other countries like using Russian scientists, Romanian Scientists and skilled labor in East Germany. You have to take a much greater field of view to really say what you want to do in the United States for this -- what is best for the engineering degree and what is best for employment--and it always comes back to the same equation. Let me give you an example. We own since 1960, a place out in Vail, Colorado. I was surprised that Hewlett Packard had nearby a plant in the middle of nowhere in Colorado and it became very clear to me that by the Winter, it had nothing to do with access to railroads, but it was the local quality of education, the availability of educated people that were available for their factory.
And doing a little more thinking about it, it became very clear that--and I had learned that from some of my friends in Germany who have factories with excess of seventy thousand people all over the world--that we transport our blue prints and our technology to their plant in Argentina or anywhere in the United States digitally by telecommunication without trouble. And I knew how easy it was to transfer money by wire transfers. So I knew that funding and technology was almost immediately transferable. But the skilled people normally don't lift themselves up readily and move thousands miles or five hundred miles. So really from the point of view of the trade balance of an area or state or of New England, New York or Maryland, the investment in human capital, the quality of the broader population and their education and skill is really the determining factor.
Take a look at the new companies which started around MIT and some of the Universities that have a nucleus for some of these ideas, then they spread out but for manufacturing and service industries you need skilled people. While New England and California therefore may go through some transitions of displacement where one technology goes down and another one goes up, in the average they will prevail because of the quality of their educated work force. So it became obvious to me that the quality of education, be it engineering, be it management be it K-14 is most important.
I was active to run the right people for the school board in Montgomery County and Maryland. It is probably in the long term, the determining factor controlling the quality of life, the standard of living of an area. And as time went on, I went to work for Educational Activities trying in the IEEE to push undergraduate engineering degrees. The professors on IEEE Boards always voted me down. The necessary change in the emphasis in the professional efforts in the IEEE was partly in recognition of the importance of the skill level and education.
How well did the IEEE embrace these issues about competitiveness? What kind of support did you get?
Very good. It took me a while to realize that Educational Activities for professionals was ruled in the IEEE by low-level academics and that they really did not want to see any changes that would affect the security of their financial future. As a matter of fact I told my wife the very impolite sentence as far as these guys were concerned they say "Let me play in my sandbox, give me the money and go away, don't disturb me". They had no interest in national problems, in technical national needs. The first time I bumped into it when my navy member Dr. Raff, who had been on the National Science Board at NSF and had been in charge of a program called RAN, Research Applied to National Needs--he said that it was so logical that it was needed but was opposed by the academics--and this was sometime in the sixties.
It’s about twenty-five, thirty years until some NSF president, and some higher-level people at the National Academy of Science finally said, "Well, you know we have to worry about National Needs." Frank Press who was the OSTP chief, the White House science chief under Carter and then for 12 years the President of the NAS, had good ideas, but he didn't make out too well. Now he is a very fine ex-president of the National Academy of Sciences. Frank Press, was a good friend of mine, had been sitting in the White House eventually ended up as President of the National Academy of Sciences and Engineering and I was in close touch with Frank even today. I talked to him just a few days ago about his latest report. Frank Press at the National Academy went on record to say, "We have limited capabilities of supporting science and technology. We can not just fund everything that everybody thinks about, and therefore the science community must get together and arrive at priorities," which they absolutely refuse to do. They say that every project is as important as any other project.
And I, just a day ago, got from Frank a report of a committee we chair. That report just came out and it has the same story. You can't do everything at one time you must prioritize. This is flying right in to the face of all R&D scientists. But this is what the National Academy did say right, and here, twenty-three years later. The report he sent to me which I am going to give you and to my IEEE friends. The policy-making committees and Boards of the IEEE who are mainly occupied at about a seventy percent by low-level academics, are not interested to do things in the interest of the average IEEE member. If I take a look at the IEEE membership, the great majority are working engineers and they are engineering managers and they are absolutely not represented on those policy-making boards.
The first official run-in I had with those academics was when I was a member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board and I chaired the committee on “Enhancing the Importance of Undergraduate Engineering Education.” Some of the people I had on there were people like Schmidt and Mulligan. That's the kind of caliber of people on my committees. Such people could run circles around those low level professors. But after we agreed in our committee one hundred percent and we brought the thing to the floor of the EAB, we got voted out the door by the little guys. We didn't make any headway. I had the same experience on the IEEE Awards Board that I was a member of. And I found that the basic research people did not want to give us a gold medal for the “Excellence of Engineering Undergraduate Engineering Education”. We had to settle for a lower level field award, which was split between graduate and undergraduate teaching. Well it was better than nothing so we took it.
I was on the IEEE Publication Board for about two years and I thought it was nothing more that the extension of the IEEE Technical Activities Board. You have a bunch of retired editors and academics and they are mainly, until about two years ago, always pushing archival publication of basic research.
I was doing some fighting at the level of the Fellowship Committee of the IEEE Awards Board. It took me about a year and then I got good support from people to add to the criteria in addition to the quality of applicants and review applicants on basic research as a criteria “Reduction to practice” of an idea, which is not just in a research journal.
The Japanese will run with it if its good and they will reduce it to practice and then they will bring it back here and take our money, while we don't reduce things to practice. If we reduce things to practice it was not respected in the top IEEE circles unless you wrote some good basic research papers, which could be reviewed at an academic level. I wrote them so I know and I reviewed them.
But when you say what was the support from the IEEE for some of those things I say zilch and even today it is zilch. My wife says I am foolish and that I am fighting windmills and wasting my life. I will be 77 in May. She says you are healthy. You race sailboats. You enjoy family. You enjoy seeing grandchildren. You enjoy skiing. You enjoy water skiing. You like those things you'll never get any time to do them.
So why do you?
I don't know. I am bull-headed. I find that there are more and more people at a high level in the IEEE who slowly see it my way and I am not sure if it is just timely or if it is the time or if maybe I had some slow impact. Who knows? But then you know having colleagues of mine agree with me, it just gives me a tremendous boost. Some of the IEEE president’s agrees with me. And there are a lot of people who are in support of me. And they agree with me two hundred per cent on those things, which come out of industry.
Of course it is extremely important because it gives shape to the direction of our academic education in engineering. That is very important. Especially the fact that people like Frank Press and Jack Rabinow agree. Anyhow with people like that you know, sharing ideas encourages one to fight on it? I find that some policy-making people somehow start to support me. I don't know if that is a good answer.
Does IEEE really have a voice in Washington? Do they listen to you?
It does, but it has nothing to do with these issues of how IEEE should be learning. Should the Publication Board really publish more application-oriented things? Should the IEEE get away from just supporting basic academic research results? Or should EAB really get involved with the problems of engineering education? This is what I criticize. I do not even want to talk about these things on the outside because it kind of throws dirt on my own pals in the IEEE. But I am not pleased with what the two IEEE boards; EAB and PUB are not doing for the good of the members.
Initial IEEE involvement
Lets go back for a couple minutes. Can you tell me how you got involved in IEEE in the first place, or in IEE?
Technically. I was involved in both. Basically in technical publications and technical conferences and standards work.
Was this the student days or after?
This had nothing to do with my student days. It was way beyond that. I had some papers to give so I did.
IEEE Presidency; CD ROM publications
And how did your presidency come about?
I don't think that I can give you a good answer on that really. I was about three years in the making and my wife saw the whole thing developing and she knew all the people. My wife used to run the Sperry government office in town and had parallel interests as the IEEE. We used to compare notes. We had parallel goals on many issues.
Did you have an agenda in mind?
I realized that both the educational and the publication activities did not support the needs and interests of the majority of the IEEE members, especially in regions 1-7 which provided IEEE’s major income. Maybe looking at the heading of my 1986 editorials you can see that I concentrated on that. I worked with some of the other engineering societies: mechanical and chemical. I was quite active a few years before that, in the American Association of Engineering Societies. That was where I headed up their Engineering Activities Board, so I think that I was slowly almost being pushed into it by all the people who picked me. I don't think that I had any ambitions to be IEEE president.
How did you find the year once you became president? It’s really a three-year job.
At least. I was very fortunate that some of the important committees had people on them that were parallel in their opinions, which I tried to enhance and support. So at first it was not an uphill fight. As a matter of fact it was a relatively easy job. I don't know if you have ever spent time with the former IEEE manager Eric Hertz. Eric has told Shirley and me that he thought that I was the absolute best IEEE president.
He has mentioned your name to me many times.
I had no selfish ax to grind on anything. I really tried to improve matters. I eventually learned that there were very few things I could really get done and the ones I wanted to do, I had to do myself on full time. Like this change in the evaluation criteria for the fellowship award adding the “reduction to practice”. I was almost spending full time on the fellow committee changing things almost with my own handwriting. I could not delegate it.
I got involved in something else, which I thought was very important. I saw new technologies and publications coming out. When I said CD ROM as far as I am concerned, had sufficiently stabilized and reached a good level of technology accomplishment. So we should put our IEEE staff to put all journals on CD ROM. And I had some ideas on that which much later were reduced to practice. The most I could push it was that we were digitizing abstracts but not scanning our articles. Only recently are we slipping into digitizing it. Once it is digitized you can search it. The other thing I said was, "You know a few publication staff people are afraid that it will take away your hard copy income. That is a bunch of hogwash because you can always get your hard copies out and people want to read it and they will never sit for hours at a screen". I know how long I can sit at a screen without getting a headache. I have probably a collection of hard copies of five hundred journal articles, well cross-indexed so one can find them easily, in four legal sized cabinets. I said, “When I am really interested in something I always want a hard copy. I will never be satisfied with scanning”.
I don't think that I am that different. I think there “you will never lose your hard copy business". I said, "On the other hand I see a completely different future. I see two futures you people don't see." I said, "Take maybe the ten most widely-read non-IEEE journals read by the IEEE members in the United States. Then let us negotiate with each one of those journals and convince them that in the first place we would use the same digital method or the “standard mark-up language” and then make a deal with them that we will publish on CD ROM all their stuff after a time delay so that they don't lose hard copy income. So we will pay them a little license fee for their contribution. I said, "Actually in the long run in my opinion it will enhance and enlarge their hard copy income." I said, "Let us do that and not just restrict ourselves to what we publish in the IEEE and what we publish in the British Journal." I never got that idea across. And the other thing which I tried to push and I said, "I know how low the production cost of CD ROM is and from people we do business with up in Ann Arbor what the real production cost were". I said, "With the purchase power of the IEEE we should be able to make a very interesting package available to our members".
As far as I am concerned at least between five and ten per cent of the US members would buy the PC, printer, and interface, whatever. It meant given away the CD ROM at almost cost with a little administrative cost on top and give everybody access to, what I used to call in my editorial, a library without walls so they could have it at home. If this house has five thousand books I keep my reference material down in the shop because it just takes too much space here. And this house is much larger than it looks from the out side but I haven't got the space unless I dig out more space in the basement, so I would buy all those CD ROM references.
The older American engineering faculties prefer not to teach at the undergraduate level--a little bit at the graduate level especially for the Ph.D.--the need to do research to see in a library what is available before you reinvent the wheel all over again. If you go into a normal factory where they do R&D, chances are they will not go into a real search to see what has been done in different countries. So I wanted to have, for the average IEEE member, access at a very low cost to all those publications and use the purchase power of the IEEE to get a PC at maybe half of what you could buy it at retail and the printer and all that kind of stuff. That was my dream and it did not go anywhere.
People making IEEE publication policy used to say, "Look we have all this really nice income by selling the hard copy and you know we price our CD ROM so high that it wouldn't replace our hard copy. That was not the market that I was replacing. I was not replacing the library market. I was addressing the IEEE membership and it did not get anywhere. So when you ask me what happens to all these ideas, I can tell you it is very frustrating to be stopped by the Academics on policy making boards who want to keep the status quo.
What kinds of things haven't we talked about so far that you would like to make sure we talk about?
I think between what I said here, my 1986 editorials, and what we already discussed that covers a lot of things.
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Recently one of my constituents, a university student, came to see me and I noticed that he had cuts and bruises on his hands. He wants to remain anonymous, so let's call him Scott.
He told me that, walking home in the late evening in his university city, he encountered a gang of four hooded youths - Scott actually called them something unprintable - who demanded that he handed over his mobile phone.
He refused and was pushed to the ground and jumped on, but before the mugger could strike a blow or seize the phone, Scott struck his assailant hard and managed to run away from the others. He thought that he might have damaged the man's jaw, possibly quite badly.
Days later, Scott was clearly still furious about what had happened to him. I asked if he had reported the incident to the police. He said no - first because he had no faith in the local police force to actually do anything about it, and second because he was concerned that if they did catch the mugger it would be he, Scott, who was prosecuted for assault, because "the legal system does seem to favour the aggressor."
Scott told me: "I believe I acted in-line with the wishes of the silent majority of this country who understand the need for tough, preventative policing and sentences for people like my mugger. I want this to be an example that crime goes unreported because the public do not have any confidence in the efforts of the police or the legal system to support them as they should."
In the last few days I've been across the country campaigning for the local elections, and one of the consistent messages coming up on the doorsteps is real concern about violent crime and antisocial behaviour. Scott is indeed speaking for the silent majority. I'm determined to give him, and them, a voice.
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March 7, 2004 10:26:26.170
Doc Searls takes the typical intelligentsia swing at TV - "it's all crap" while explaining why TiVo hasn't caught on:
Part of the problem is this right here: the Net. It's much more interesting and informative, and even entertaining. TV can't compete. So I think the problem is with television itself. It's still mostly a drug, and getting a better way to administrate it doesn't change the nature of the substance. It just facilitates better abuse.
I have gotten very tired of this brand of slam - whether it comes at TV, at the net, at politics (etc). It's all the same thing - Sophisticated people love to tell you how crappy something is, and why they don't pay attention to it. It's a tiresome argument, and reveals far more about the person making it than about anything else.
To be sure, there have been changes in TV over the last few decades. It's simply no longer the case that one of the major networks can get the attention of a large plurality (or even a majority) of the viewing audience with a few shows. There's simply too much competition. Say you like science fiction - it used to be that you had to just sit back and take Star Trek, or whatever else the networks offered (or didn't). Now you have the SciFi channel. Is there always something on that's worth watching? No, but there's a decent number of interesting things for that fan base within a given week. It's the same thing for history and science - it used to be that all you had was Sunday morning fare and public TV. Now there's the History Channel, the various Discovery Channels, and the Weather Channel (which airs weather related infotainment when it's not covering the weather). Which explains why you don't have to wait up for the 11:00 news anymore - the Weather Channel is always there, as are the 24 hour news networks.
And that doesn't even get into the vast sea of movies and series that are available on cable. Or into classic movies on things like TCM (Turner Classic Movies). The point is, TV isn't "crap" - it's filled with a huge variety of things, some good, some bad, some excellent, some awful. That's where a PVR - TiVo, ReplayTV, etc - helps out a lot. You set up the things you are interested in (either specifically or by category), and then it does the heavy lifting of separating the wheat from the chaff for you. So why haven't these things taken off yet? Well, I'd guess that we are still in "early adopter" mode on these. It took VCR's awhile to really take (I can remember many people questioning their worth in the late 70's), and - until recently - they were only being offered by two very small companies (one of which, ReplayTV, has had numerous issues). That's about to change though. My local cable company is offering PVR's as part of its service now, as are other cable (and satellite) vendors. This is going to help mainstream the technology.
It's not just the smallness of the vendors that has prevented takeoff though. Setting up a PVR is no walk in the park for most people. Getting all of these pieces properly set up:
• The TV
• The Stereo equipment
• The VCR
And adding the PVR into the mix such that you can watch one thing while recording another is asking a lot. I suspect that having the cable company offer to come out and hook it up will help with penetration - lots and lots of people's eyes glaze over when they are confronted with the sea of cables that have to be connected - mine included. I've set up two ReplayTV's, to two different tv/stereo/vcr setups now - and adding the Replays also meant adding a network connection into the A/V mix. I think the biggest issue with PVR penetration is the same issue we face with PC's - people mostly want to buy it, plug it in, and have it just work. Outside the hobbyist community, twiddling with cables and connections is work, not entertainment, and getting things subtlely wrong is just too easy. The cable and satellite vendors are adding a service offering into this mix, which will help a lot.
Enough with the "it's all crap" thing already though - get over yourself....
[] March 8, 2004 10:16:29.305
Smart people and TV: In a book of Isaac Asimov's letters, published after his death, I was pleased to learn that after spending each day writing articles and books on tons of different subjects - science, history, literature, brain-teasers (his "IQ" quizzes are still being published in newspapers), limericks, science fiction - he used to watch TV. "Cheers" was one of his favorite shows.
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Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 04:21:51 +0000 From: Jorge Grossao Subject: grossao-pornstar/tailor-shop-2 Grossao Pornstar/ Tailor Shop 2 by Jorge Alvarez Dr. Heitor's story about Grossao's tailor shop became a hit porn movie. Here's the second part. TAILOR SHOP 2 Than God I'm a proctologist! With the help of my custom-made creams and potions I was able to recover in record time after being fucked up the ass by Grossao's monster dick. I was eager to return to his tailor shop to have a new session of buttfucking magic. I go through the door into the empty room. The receptionist is not at his desk. It's lunch time, maybe everybody is out. I ring the bell. No answer. I decide to take a look inside and pass through the waiting room, then the little fitting room, still smelling of cum, where Grossao fucks his clients. No one. There's a large, dark room in the back. There, far away, there's someone working on a sewing machine and watching TV. I get closer. It's an old black man. A tailor. He sees me and turns the TV off. "In what can I be of service?" "Hi! I'm Dr. Heitor..." "You come to have your pleats straightened?" "Y-y-y-e-sss... I was looking for Grossao..." "My grandson took the day off. He has been working too hard. Come closer. Let me take your measures. Excuse me for not getting up. I'm old and my legs are not very good". I come near him and the old tailor tells me to turn around as he measures my waist and inseam. I stop with my back turned to him. Slowly, his large trembling hands follow the plump contours of my ample buttocks. "Young man, I'm going to remove your trousers so I can work on them. Stay there, let me do it..." The old black tailor unbuckles my belt, unzips my pants and they fall on the floor. I never use underwear, so my ass is now bare under his calloused fingers. I support my arms on the tailor's table so I can bend over while he works on my buns. The old man's breathing gets deeper and faster. He groans in lust as I let him play with my butt cheeks. I feel proud of my gorgeous bottom and horny for him. I wonder how big his dick is. As big as his grandson's? Or bigger? I let him enjoy himself a little before taking the next step. He has expert fingers, long and thick, hot and hard, like ten dicks vying for my butt. I have enough tail for all of them, big juicy glutes rounded by sweet baby fat, a deep moist crack, pink-white skin covered in peach fuzz, a male cunt with red swollen lips hungry for big black dick and the come-hither, slutty disposition of a well-fucked male whore. I start to moan like a bitch when the old man rubs the tip of a big finger around my fuck hole. He knows how to get me going. My pussy tries to bite his finger off by snapping its ravenous slut snout. He chuckles and slaps my butt hard, making me whimper like a puppy while he slowly sticks one, then two, now three fat fingers up my back entrance. 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TENNIS: Matches may not be determined by true skill level
— The value of points in a tennis match constantly changes. Players often struggle with keeping the proper perspective when they are playing with regard to how valuable each point truly is. Everyone knows that match point is important and there is a lot of data to prove that the first point of a game is important. However, I always work with my players to help them realize on a point-by-point basis where they are and how important some points can be.
Each point has an equal value before it starts. Once the skill level of the players and strategy combine the players can play the point with strategy and tactic hoping for a successful outcome. Unfortunately or fortunately, depending on what end of the deal you are on, tennis matches may not be determined by the true skill level of the two opponents.
More often than not, something intervenes to upset the true balance of skill. This interference can manifest itself in many different forms. The most obvious to players is emotional interference. Once a player becomes emotional about the environment they are in the value of the point can become distorted. This distortion of value can lead players to make improper decisions. Wildly swinging at a return when it would be best to simply put the ball in play, or failing to take advantage of a weakness in an opponent because you are angry with oneself about the point before can be examples of poor value recognition due to emotion. To make matter worse, generally this emotive state does not stick around simply for one point it often can be a factor for many points causing the player to play many points with improper value.
Players can also be distorted by over confidence or lack of respect of their opponent. This can happen while playing against players that are unorthodox or play a style that the opponent does not respect. When this happens players tend to fail to recognize where they are in the game and in turn make decisions that they may not have made if they would look at the point for what it truly is. Over hitting against a dinker or trying to out finesse a feel player when you are stronger can be examples of this type of distorted value. This distortion often causes the player to fail to make rational decisions about what is necessary to be successful and create a false value for the points they are playing.
When you watch the best players play you generally cannot tell if they are winning or not. Pros spend a great deal of time trying to maintain a rational thought process under pressure. This training is often more important than any physical training.
Here are a few tips on how to keep your emotions and values in check. First, take your time and remind yourself what your game plan is when you feel pressure. Players tend to get preoccupied with what has happened and they fail to try to focus on the present. Remind yourself of a few things you had planned to do to your opponent prior to the match. If the backhand looks weak, try to remind yourself to go after it. If your plan was to get to net, remind yourself of that and try to play several points in a row with your plan at the forefront of your thought process.
Second remember the acronym NITBAD. I tell my players to remember that Nothing Is That Big A Deal in tennis if the point you lose is not match point you can deal with it and still win. You can always get back in a match if you get back on your plan. Generally if you can blow off a few things you can start to make decisions based on the true value of your points. This ability to deal with adversity will generally get us back to dealing with the value of the present point we are playing thus giving us a chance to implement our plan.
Third, breathe when you feel pressure. Most players fail to get the much-needed oxygen to their brains when they are in a distorted state of mind. Generally if you get a little oxygen going to your brain you can start to think more clearly and determine where you really are in the game you are playing. Take your time and make sure you fill your lungs prior to each point. This will give you time and the fuel needed to think more clearly.
Everyone loses points in tennis. Much of what we do is centered on dealing with the points we lose and taking advantage of the opportunities we get. If we can keep a rational thought process about what the true value of the point that we are playing at the present time is, we will not upset the balance and the percentages can come out in our favor. With close matches coming down to such a few points, making an improper decisions based on distorted value can cost you the match.
Keep your heads players! It is your best weapon in a tough battle. See you on the courts.
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san_angelo_ex_pat writes:
Also, any previous point is gone. You can't replay it. You can't obsess on it. You play one point at a time, and at any time in a match the most important point is the current one.
And the single most important point in a match is the last one.
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• Publisher: Atari
• Release Date: Sep 4, 2004
Zoids: Battle Legends Image
1. First Review
2. Second Review
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User Score
Universal acclaim- based on 11 Ratings
• Summary: In Zoids: Battle Legends, you can play as your favorite character from the Zoids cartoon series. Create and customize your own Zoids to overcome challenging enemies.
Score distribution:
1. Positive: 0 out of 3
2. Negative: 1 out of 3
1. 50
The lock-on system needs serious work. It arbitrarily locks on to enemies behind you when it’s supposed to focus on the closest enemies, regardless of their position. Movement feels awkward at best, with vehicles lacking any real sense of weight. The main story mode is also maddeningly difficult.
2. Fans of the show might find something to like about Zoids but gamers that know their mechs will be stunned at how restrictive and faulty this game is.
3. Play mechanics are lacking, making it difficult to aim and fire at the same time, and computer-controlled ememies are brutal early on. [Nov 2004, p.131]
Score distribution:
1. Positive: 8 out of 8
2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
3. Negative: 0 out of 8
1. MichaelG.
This is the best zoids game.
2. EricC.
This game rocks i love it so many zoids could have been better.
3. TylerB.
It is the best game i have owned ever since i got a gamecube. it is so cool.
4. DamienH.
The targeting is wonky, the difficulty is steep, and the voice acting is TERRIBLE... skip that. The voiceovers in this game are an insult not only to fans of the series', but to gamers in general! But desptie all that, this is still a good game, especially for fans of the series. The sheer selection of Zoids, parts, and weapons give it excellent replay value, and the action itself is enjoyable. Give it a rental if you can. Expand
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A breakthrough nanotech coating for cartridges in firearms can transfer hard-to-remove tags to gun offenders and better capture DNA
Ammo Bullets coated with nanotech tags could make crime-solving easier. kcdsTM (CC Licensed)
Gun-slinging evil-doers beware. Scientific justice is just around the corner thanks to a new nanotechnology system that not only better captures DNA on guns, but attaches hard-to-remove, microscopic tags to the hands and clothing of criminals who fire their weapons. Developed in the U.K., the tags are a unique blend of naturally-occurring pollen, known for its extraordinary adhesive properties, and nanotechnology particles. The composition can be used as an abrasive coating to capture skin cells on gun cartridges, usually too smooth or shiny to retain much evidence in the way of fingerprints or DNA. The tags in the coating also transfer themselves to anyone handling the cartridges and are very difficult to wash off.
But the benefits of the nanotechnology don't stop there. Most evidence is usually destroyed after a gun is fired, because of the heat generated. The coating has been designed to avoid such heat damage and can even be varied subtly for every cartridge batch, making it easier for officials to tie guns back to the offenders. The breakthrough technology is cost-effective and could potentially be put to use within a year. Researchers may also consider applying the system to other weapons like knifes.
Via PhysOrg
the cartridges could be washed with a mild acid -- even soda pop -- to clean them.
Plus -- if the criminal is using a revolver -- there's no cartridges at the scene of the crime to recover.
Bad science, I think.
its extemely easy to load your own ammo. this is a stupid idea. what idiot would use this ammo if they planned to commit a crime? and it would do nothing for the shooting spree types who dont plan to get away in the first place.
There is always Chris Rock's suggestion: solid gold bullets that cost $5000 each. Nobody's going to spray them randomly at that price.
Seriously though, gun control isn't going to solve anything and the science behind identifying and matching a gun to a bullet is pretty well proven already, so I don't see what this provides.
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