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More thoughts from Desslock ( I cannot wait for my issue of PCG to arrive this month…)
Originally Posted by comment on combat difficulty
Yes, probably — try it on the default setting and go down if you find it too difficult (which has friendly fire, although that makes less of a difference than it would in NWN2 for instance). I think you can adjust it while playing, in case you get stuck or are just annoyed at replaying a battle, but I'll confirm that. I've stuck on "normal" and have spent a long time on some battles to develop better strategies (and, occasionally, relying on BG1-type kiting).
This is great for me, since I always play a Mage char first.
Originally Posted by On classes and Mages
Classes are distinct - you can't turn a Mage into a fighter-mage, for instance. You'll have to opt for a fighter, rogue or mage - they all play very differently despite some overlap in powers. Skills can be chosen by any character, even though in other games you'd typically associate them with specific classes (like herbalism, for making potions; stealing; trapmaking — those aren't confined to mages, rogues, etc. as you might intuitively expect).
Mages are also extremely powerful, but vulnerable, almost to the extent of the older editions of D&D. They're also very customizable - one mage will play very differently from another based upon the wide range of available spells (you can try to be a jack of all trades, but at high cost, since you could instead progress in the 4 ranks of spells to choose from in each specialization.
But mages are uber-dangerous, which also fits well with the background lore of the setting. While in most D&D games typically one of the easiest ways to blast through the storyline is to have a band of fighter types, that wouldn't work as well in Dragon Age, where combat is really tough without a mage's AOE damage and crowd control spells and healing (no clerics, so mages fill that role too).
In my primary playthrough, for most of the game I ended up using 2 mages, a warrior and a rogue (my main), which is a mix that I don't think I ever used in a D&D game.
Originally Posted by On choice making in DA:O
Hey, as I mentioned in my review, BioWare games usually have 3 choices - good/bad/petulant teenager-nobody-ever-chooses-option.
While I definitely think that's a legitimate criticism (which I share) of past games, it's not true of Dragon Age generally, which does a better job of providing choices that seem varied and reasonably viable than almost any RPG. Dragon Age is a significant improvement in that respect. To be honest, it's the first BioWare game that (at least) matched the style of Troika/Obsidian, old Black Isle games in that respect - BioWare games have always had good stories and generally solid dialogue, but their method of storytelling has been simpler. There's an amazing amount of choice in Dragon Age.
Sure there are some quest instances where you have to elect to help, or not, but even when there's only two end results in those circumstances, there's different ways to arrive at those endings - the bottom line is, the choices just feel more "natural", less like you're gaming, and are more ambiguous and intriguing, so you're more likely to choose a personalized path based upon the character you're roleplaying instead of just "gaming" the result you think you want to have.
This is the best bit of news that I have read, about the mages. I "bolded" the bits that made me very happy:
I think you'll also like the way magic is handled in Dragon Age, then. Mages are fucking dangerous and treated as such. They're lobotomized, hunted down, forced into training, or executed.
People aren't using light spells to walk their dogs - the clergy have no magic (and are opposed to it, for possibly legitimate reasons) it's a relatively low magic setting. It's a testament to the quality of the writing that reactions seem alternately sensible and atrocious, but always plausible.
It's the way stuff like that is handled that makes Dragon Age the "mature" RPG that I really enjoy - not the animated puppet sex.
Not that I needed more motivation to play a mage char first…
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Ayiti: The Cost of Life
While reading an article on the current trend of “Serious Games,” I came across a game called Ayiti: The Cost of Life (www.costoflife.org) where a player is given the task of trying to create a better life for an impoverished family in Haiti. Here is the introduction to the game:
The Guinard family of five is struggling to get by in rural Haiti (“Ayiti” in Haitian Creole). The father, Jean, and mother, Marie are doing their best to give their teenage son and daughter, Patrick and Jacquline, and their little boy, Yves, the best life possible.
The family has a simple home and a farm that earns them a little money. Jean and Marie have very little education, but they’re working to help their kids get an education and improve their chances for a comfortable life.
There are a few international NGOs (non-government organizations) trying to help members of the impoverished community, but they need volunteers to get any major project off the ground.
The Guinard family faces some difficult challenges resulting from poverty, severe weather, and even potential violence. But if they’re careful and lucky, they may have a chance at a better life.
You have four years to help the Guinard family as they confront the “cost of life.” Good luck!
So far I have yet to survive four years (my average is about two), and this game was created BEFORE the current environment resulting from the tragic earthquake in Haiti on Jan. 12, 2010. This all-ages online experience is both heart-breaking and hopeful–I recommend you play! | http://blogs.davenportlibrary.com/reference/tag/haiti/ | robots: classic
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The History of Madrid, Spain
Madrid's Plaza Mayor Madrid's Royal Palace
The site of Madrid has been occupied since prehistoric times, as has been shown by numerous objects found during different excavations along the banks of the River Manzanares. Many of these objects (axes and small Palaeolithic objects, remains of animals that prove the existence of large mammals, Neolithic ceramics, etc.) can be seen at the National Archaeological Museum. Madrid's population was initially Iberian and later Roman, and is possibly the Mantua found in certain ancient references and the Roman Miacum from the "Antonine itinerary", although some historians dispute this.
It is now commonly believed that the original name of the settlement here was Matrice, a pre-Muslim word, which refers to the waters of the area and particularly to the stream running down the Calle de Segovia.
However, Madrid as such does not achieve a mention in chronicles until the late tenth century, at which time there was already a fort or castle where the Royal Palace stands today. This fort was occupied by the Moors, who having named the River Manzanares al-Magrit ("source of water"), referred to the area as Mayrit (from which Magerit, then Madrid) and around which the borough of Madrid developed in the following centuries. The old arab walls surrounding this settlement can still be seen today (more info here).
Between several different warriors, the Moors kept rule until Madrid was finally conquered in 1085 by Alfonso VI in his advance towards Toledo. This king ordered the main mosque within the fort's walls to be "purified" and consecrated as a Catholic church under the guidance of the Virgin of the Almudena, the name deriving from a religious icon found near the "almudín" or wheat deposit. La Virgen de la Almudena later became Madrid's female patron saint, whose saint's day is celebrated on 9th November and who gives her name to Madrid's cathedral.
In the year 1329, King Fernando V assembled The Court of Madrid for the first time.
A little later, due to the Reconquista, Moors and Jews formed a concentrated population in the area that still today carries the name of Morería, but in 1494 the "unbelievers" were expelled and the mosque and other indicative buildings disappeared.
Later, Madrid was taken by the followers of Enrique of Tastamara and ceded by Juan I to King Leon V of Armenia who was then dethroned by the Sultan of Babilonia. Having been destroyed by fire during the reign of Enrique II, the city was rebuilt by his grandson Enrique III, who reincorporated Madrid under the Crown of Castille and who also founded El Pardo, situated just outside the city.
Enrique VI gave Madrid the title of "Very Noble and Loyal" and celebrated here his magnificent wedding with Doña Juana of Portugal. The death of the king caused the formation of two distinct bands within the Castille kingdom - the two sides disputing the succession of the throne. Isabel and her supporters overcame Doña Juana's followers and the victorious "Catholic Kings" (Isabel and her husband Fernando) solemnly entered the city to reside in a mansion in the Plaza de la Paja owned by Don Pedro Lasso de la Vega.
During the war of Communities, the Borough of Madrid took sides with the "Comuneros", although this did not prevent Emperor Carlos V bestowing on the city the title of "Crowned and Imperial". As remnants of these times we can cite the Church of San Jerónimo, the Church of del Paso and the Tower of Lujanes, this last in the Plaza de la Villa, opposite the Ayuntamiento or City Hall where Francis I of France was held prisoner after his defeat at Pravia in Italy.
Carlos V was certainly enamoured with Madrid, amongst other things because he managed to cure himself here of tertian fever. However, it was his son, Felipe II who moved the Imperial Court to Madrid in 1561, although without making any official declaration. The population of the borough at this time was around 25,000. From this time Madrid was now the kingdom's capital, apart from the brief years between 1601 and 1606 when Felipe III installed his court in Valladolid.
Madrid enjoyed significant changes during the 18th century, when city gates, bridges and new buildings gave it a new appearance. The Royal Palace (also called the Eastern Palace - Palacio de Oriente, standing next to the large Plaza de Oriente square) was constructed on the site of the ruins of the Alcazar or old Moorish Castle which had been destroyed by fire in 1734. After 1738 Juan B. Sachetti directed the construction work on the Palace, helped out to some extent by Ventura Rodríguez and developing on original plans made by Juavera. The work was practically completed by 1760.
The reign of Carlos III (1759 - 1788) helped to greatly improve the appearance of the city. The work on the Royal Palace was totally completed (as we know it today), as was the construction of the city gates of Puerta de Toledo, Puerta de Segovia (no longer standing) and Puerta de Alcalá, together with the Royal Theatre, the building that now houses the Ministry of Finance (Hacienda), the Natural Science Museum, the Botanical Gardens and the temple of San Francisco El Grande, amongst others. Also, the Retiro Park was significantly improved and several new buildings built: Casa de Cisneros, the General Hospital, the College of San Carlos, the Royal Mint, Casa de los Geranios and the fountains of Cibeles, Neptune and Apollo.
The reign of Carlos IV gave Madrid the Buenavista Palace (today the Ministry of Armed Forces) and other notable mansions such as that of the Dukes of Liria in Princesa Street and that of the Count of Altamira in Calle de la Flor.
On the 2nd of May 1808 a popular revolt started in the Puerta del Sol, initiating the War of Independence. There are numerous place names in Madrid dedicated to these patriotic disturbances, the most significant being of course the Plaza Dos de Mayo in Malasaña. Once General Castaños had repelled the invaders in Bailén, he entered Madrid on 23rd August 1808. However, there were further battles when Emperor Napoleon presented himself in Chamartín and also in December of the same year when José Bonaparte entered Spain, only to be expelled three years later under pressure from the Anglo-Hispanic army led by Wellington. The last of the French left Madrid on the 27th May 1813 and the following year King Fernando VII entered the city.
In 1835 the famous University of Alcalá de Henares was transferred to Madrid, where the Faculty of Science was added, becoming the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
The city continued to be improved during the reign of Isabel II with old houses in the Puerta del Sol being pulled down and the Congreso de los Diputados or Parliament, Royal and Zarzuela Theatres and the Canal de Isabel II (Madrid's water lifeline) being built. Also, in 1857, Madrid's gas lighting system was inaugurated.
Since then Madrid's urban progress has accelerated to reach, today, the level of one of Europe's most beautiful capital cities - pleasing both for its intense animated spirit and its suitable mix of modern and classical appearance.
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Pope Benedict made the annual papal Christmas address to his Curia today, in which popes reveal their thoughts on the state of the Church and the world. Benedict focused his remarks on the family, the nature of interreligious dialogue, and the new evangelization. Of particular interest are his strong remarks on the family, in which he affirms its fundamental nature and role and sees it threatened not only by a mistaken conception of human freedom but chiefly by a “new philosophy of sexuality” under the mutable banner of “gender” rooted in the denial of Being:
James Bradshaw
December 21st, 2012 | 11:42 am
Is this always a bad thing? I’m glad that some folks have decided not to live up to some culturally imposed gender role: we have male chefs along with women physicians and politicians and even military leaders. They co-exist just fine along with male firefighters and female “stay-at-home moms”.
Many of these cultural ideals are arbitrary, anyhow: didn’t our “manly” forefathers wear powdered wigs and silk stockings?
Further, people with physical limitations often attempt to rise above them: I’ve seen amputees run marathons, for example.
Is it true that only women have a uterus and that only they can bear a child? Sure, but so what? What other conclusions are we supposed to draw from this?
Alexander S. Anderson
December 21st, 2012 | 12:35 pm
James, the Pope’s entire point is that sex differences are not all cultural, that they cannot all be controlled and stripped away. At the end of the day, we are both body and soul, and not just will. He attacks these assumptions, but instead of defending them, you just assert them. The pope is saying that man has a nature that is received, and not decided by him, and you treat the Pope as if he were trying to decide our nature, without really proving that that’s what he’s doing.
Justin R
December 21st, 2012 | 1:52 pm
Step back, think about what the first sentence of your final paragraph implies. Then consider your response to it. You dismiss the potential for human creation, life sustainment and child-bearing with a, “so what?”. Your frivolous treatment betrays a lack of understanding or seriousness or both.
If you do not believe that, alone, disregarding the myriad other differences, doesn’t mean we have been given a specific nature by God, I recommend trying to breastfeed your next child.
Merry Christmas.
December 21st, 2012 | 2:32 pm
James, you got a lot of learning to do, that is clear. And I am not talking about culture. Maybe you can start with the old left-right brain things that scientists figured out decades ago. Male brains don’t work the same way as female brains. We have less connections from left to right. That alone is a pretty big deal. After all, everything starts from the brain, doesn’t it? How about hormones? The fact that men and women have different hormonal makeups is not something made up by right wing religious nuts. Hormones affect the brain, more differences. It isn’t just about the ability to make babies.
Andrew O'BRien
December 21st, 2012 | 2:46 pm
James –
One problem the Pope sees – and a lot of us who trust the Church as an expert on human nature – is not the plasticity of certain cultural conceptions of masculinity and femininity but that a lot of these more modern conceptions back into a false dilemma.
For example, while it could be true that more women nowadays have more specific career aspirations than they have had in the past, the that she has been taught to pursue these goals has pit her against herself. Her biology is seen as an obstacle to these goals and thus an obstacle that stands in the way of her happiness. Her fertility is then a problem in need of a solution. It isn’t uncommon nowadays to find fertility treated like an illness – exemplified by the fact that women go to doctors (people who heal) in order to have this problem cured (by interfering with the beauty of their feminine biology).
But Pope Benedict doesn’t buy into this dilemma. Neither do I. Women might just find that they would be happier if they viewed their biological capabilities as a good thing pursued their personal goals without subverting their biological nature.
December 21st, 2012 | 3:17 pm
Most men are also physically much stronger than most women. In most cases, the difference is drastic. For example, a female professional tennis player will normally find a male high school tennis player to be a decent challenge.
It has been my experience that unfortunately women do not always do the same job as well as men, when that job involves physical strength and the enforcement of strict discipline. The US military is rife with double standards created in the name of “equality.” For starters, the physical fitness requirements are different for men and women. There were many instances where the women did not pull their weight in terms of getting physical work done, and they were often lax in confronting subordinates directly, preferring to gossip and spread rumors.
If women are capable of passing the same physical fitness requirements as men, and of impassionately maintaining good order and discipline, then they have earned the right to military office. In my experience, though, they’re generally not as good at those things as men are.
Sex differences are real. Of course, women are much better than men at other things. In certain respects, women’s strengths — mercy, social graces, beauty — are more noble than the physical dominance and preoccupation with rank and with control that men excel at. Men and women can learn much from each other, and marriage is the institution par excellence in which such learning occurs. But men can only learn from women as women, and women can only learn from men as men, not as blandly amorphous asexual things.
December 21st, 2012 | 3:24 pm
As concerned as I am with James’ easy dismissal of women’s ability to bear children, at heart I think he confuses the difference between roles a culture deems appropriate for men and women and the inherent differences and complementary attributes of each sex. Thankfully we’ve arrived at a point where most arbitrary role distinctions have been eliminated; that does not mean men and women are the same.
jason taylor
December 25th, 2012 | 12:29 pm
Whence comes this priviledging of the “natural” over the “social”? Those who have no “social nature”(the only ones of which are abandoned feral infants) are so traumatized that they are pretty much insane. The natural IS the social.
January 3rd, 2013 | 4:36 am
The nature of humankind is social and two-sexed, not one without the other. However, this or that particular socialization is not a given. Socialization in accord with human nature is the pith of the issue raised by Benedict. | http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2012/12/21/pope-benedict-on-the-defence-of-the-family/ | robots: classic
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The charms of Odd Blood, the trio's latest fretless-bass campfire dance party
New iTunes genre tag: "LOL Brooklyn." New entry under said tag: Yeasayer's Odd Blood, wherein the fanciest of boroughs gets its very own Tears for Fears. Geographically sprawling, blithely psychedelic, deadly earnest, unapologetically corny, wantonly synth-overloaded, occasionally transcendent '80s new wave frivolity—r&b for people who still refuse to listen to actual r&b. Shameless is the move. You can do worse. Many people will. So make like their famously NSFW "Ambling Alp" video, take off all your clothes, mind that glowing geodesic dome, start sprinting precariously downhill through the desert, and let's do this.
Yeasayer's 2007 debut, All Hour Cymbals, occasioned more instances of the word "tribal" than any other record, ever. Like an apocalyptic campfire sing-along drenched in reverb and manic percussion, barely skirting the worldly cheeseball pop of Deep Forest or Enigma, and sometimes not skirting it at all. The band played a couple of mildly zeitgeist-y Bowery Ballroom shows with MGMT, who seemed like doppelgängers at first but turned out to be way poppier and more nihilistic. (And marketable.) Whereas Cymbals' best quality is its blatant, aching sincerity: "I can't sleep when I think about the times we're living in/I can't sleep when I think about the future I was born into," co-frontman Chris Keating moans on "2080" (as in, "In 2080, I'll surely be dead"). "Red Cave" ended the album with a startlingly direct chant: "I'm so blessed to have spent the time/With my family/And the friends I love/In my short life/I have met so many people I deeply care for," repeatedly intoned, amid yearning sitars, with a Jesus Christ Superstar sort of guilelessness, daring you to laugh. A sweet, solemn affirmation worthy of the band's name.
Chris Keating, looking sharp
Santiago Felipe
Chris Keating, looking sharp
And now, a few years later, despite all the nudity-based visual and sonic wackiness (concussive drums, squiggly keyboards, some farting horns to offset those multi-part, karaoke-proof bouts of flamboyant falsetto), Odd Blood's "Ambling Alp" is basically a jazzercise self-help seminar. Chorus: "Stick up for yourself, son/Never mind what anybody else does." Triumphant conclusion: "Now the world can be an unfair place at times/But your lows will have their complement of highs." (Fans of The Secret, take note.) The lyrics are daring you to laugh again: "Everybody's talkin' 'bout me and my baby," Keating breathlessly intones on the manic "Mondegreen," amid a stuttering, booming yeti-handclap beat and more horns, more thunderous keyboards, more everything. "Makin' love to the morning light/Makin' love till the morning, morning light/Makin' love till the morning." Another tune mimics the pornographic robo-funk of Of Montreal, but instead of being called "Heimdalsgate Like a Promethean Curse" or whatever, it's called "Love Me Girl," and it is serious.
It's tempting to lump these boys in with Animal Collective and be done with it: lush, grandiose drum-circle overproduction in the service of the twee-est sentiments imaginable, four walls and adobe slabs here replaced by stuff like, "You don't move me anymore/And I'm glad that you don't." But succumb to this brazen goofiness (and survive military-stiff, plodding, android-voiced, seemingly deliberately terrible opening track "The Children," the ogre guarding the bridge), and this can all actually be delightful. When the triumphant oooh-wee-oooh chants burst into view like a twin sunrise on "Madder Red," you can either flee in terror or go prancing toward Narnia along with them. "O.N.E.," led by warmer-voiced co-frontman Anand Wilder, ascends to flashback-lunch dance-party heaven. And "I Remember" is a monster ballad, the synths and Keating's falsetto both even goopier than usual, overwhelming in their kaleidoscopic ardor. Chorus: "You're stuck in my mind/All the time." That'll do, pig.
That one goes over pretty big Monday night, back at the Bowery Ballroom—no MGMT this time, just a packed room of blissful proto-hippies who request a neighborly iPhone light to assist in rolling their joints. (All right, that's just the one guy, but still.) Even with five dudes onstage, there's plenty of canned drumbeat and synthesizer action, leaving the actual drummer and his miscellaneous-percussion cohort a little lost and superfluous at times, though the latter does illustrate the old zen koan that the only way to look remotely badass while playing maracas is to be dramatically, colorfully backlit. For a long while, Cymbals tracks integrate everything and everyone together far more effectively; "Wait for the Summer," though a pretty breezy handclaps-and-quasi-yodeling affair, is an instant energy jolt. It takes me nine songs before I even notice that fretless bass, that most potentially disastrous of instruments, is prominently involved here.
We survive. "Mondegreen," the yeti-handclap tune, shows up late in the set and is much improved from the Odd Blood version—less cluttered, more lithe and muscular, magically transformed into a sort of aggro reggaeton. There's a lot happening with these guys, a considerable amount of it somewhat ill-advised, but the whole electro-jam-band thing wins you over, eventually. We climax with "Ambling Alp," that dopey chorus shouted en masse, a roomful of converts suggesting, in unison, that you think for yourself. There's a little fretless bass solo at the end. We don't mind.
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An index fund tracks the underlying index. So if one invests 100 $ in an index fund tracking S&P 500, and the index grows 8 % in a year, will the 100 $ grow to 108 $?
If not, how can the investor predict the earnings for his investment?
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An index fund tracks the performance of an index by investing in securities in the benchmark in the same proportions as the benchmark. The funds track their indexes pretty closely, with the following factors contributing to deviations:
• Dividends. Some indexes exclude the dividends in their numbers, while the fund invested in the stocks of the index earns dividends. This helps the fund outperform the index.
• Cash. Because of redemptions and contributions, some of the fund's funds are in cash rather than securities. Example: if 5% of the fund is in cash, only 95% is subject to growth or decline. If the market goes up 1%, the fund's value goes up 0.95%. Similarly if the market goes down 1% the fund loses 0.95%. This helps the fund outperform in bad markets and underperform in bad markets.
• Fee: the fund incurs expenses for management, infrastructure, administrative fees, etc. The index is a theoretical portfolio. This hurts the fund's performance relative to the index.
• Trading: Funds incur trading costs any time contributions or redemptions occur. Also some indexes are rebalanced frequently, causing funds that follow them to trade more frequently to keep matched to the benchmark. This hurts performance.
• Benchmark deviations: While the funds attempt to mirror the index, they can never do it 100% at all times due to market fluctuations, purchase timings, etc. This can either hurt or help the performance of the fund.
Hope this helps.
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In the case of a index such as the S&P and its largest ETF, SPY, the fees are deducted from dividends, with a current yield of 1.73% and expenses of .09%, there's little risk the dividend wont be sufficient to cover the expenses. The ETF price should track the S&P very closely, the total return in a given year should be close to .09% less than the index total return.
On the other hand, there are ETFs that don't quite do the job tracking that they might. I wrote a piece on this titled ETF'ed in which I describe one such product.
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Yes, it will grow the same as the underlying fund minus the fund fees which is usually something like couple percent the whole fund property every year, so the fund actually grows less than the index.
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It 'should' grow the same; or nearly the same, depending on how well it tracks the index. – ChrisW Jun 14 '11 at 13:28
@ChrisW: Yes, but don't forget the fees - the management company want money too. – sharptooth Jun 14 '11 at 13:29
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Concession is called way to continue negotiations
WASHINGTON --President Bush and the Chinese government both declared their full support yesterday for a Russian proposal to allow Iran to operate civilian nuclear facilities as long as Russia and international nuclear inspectors are in full control of the fuel.
Bush's explicit public endorsement puts all of the major powers on record supporting the idea, even as most acknowledge that it is a significant concession to Iran and runs the risk that it will drag out the negotiations while continuing to produce nuclear material.
Yet officials say they believe it is the best face-saving strategy to pursue negotiations with Iran.
European and U.S. officials familiar with the details of the offer that Russia made to Iran say that Iran would continue to be allowed to operate its nuclear facility at Isfahan, which converts raw uranium into a form that is ready to be enriched.
That is a step both Europe and the United States said last year that they could not allow - and that was explicitly barred under the agreement between Iran and Europe in late 2004 because Iran could divert the uranium to secret enrichment facilities.
Iran began operating the Isfahan facility again in August.
Bush did not discuss the details of the Russian offer. But American, European and Russian officials, who like others discussing the issue spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to be seen as interfering in the negotiations, said the offer would allow Iran to continue operations at the plant that turns yellowcake, a concentrated form of uranium ore, into uranium hexafluoride, a toxic material that centrifuges spin into fuel for reactors or bombs.
Critics of that concession say it could send a signal to Iran that it no longer has to comply with all provisions of its November 2004 agreement with Europe.
"A red line was crossed" when Iran began producing uranium last fall, said David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, a nonpartisan research group that follows developments in Iran.
"The Iranians got away with reopening the conversion facility, and now people have accepted it's never going to be shut again and have taken it off the table."
Bush made his statement embracing the Russian idea at a news conference yesterday in which he declared: "The Iranians have said, `We want a weapon.'"
In fact, Iran has denied that it is pursuing a weapon, and in the afternoon, the White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, acknowledged that Bush had misspoken.
"He was referring to their behavior," McClellan said by telephone later. "Our concern is their intention is to develop a nuclear weapon under the guise of a civilian program."
Nonetheless, Bush's slip could cement the perception among some members of the board of the International Atomic Energy Agency that he has decided, at least in his own mind, that Iran is intent on building a weapon as fast as it can, a situation he has said repeatedly he would not tolerate. Bush gave no hint yesterday that he was thinking of military action, instead saying, "We are working hard to continue the diplomacy necessary to send a focused message to the Iranian government, and that is: `Your desires for a weapon are unacceptable.'"
Bush's statement came at a moment of heightened concern in Vienna, Austria, home of the IAEA, that if the agency's board votes next week to send Iran's case to the U.N. Security Council, Iran might make good on its threat to limit cooperation with inspectors and begin full-scale enrichment of uranium.
North Korea threw out inspectors three years ago, and one senior American official said recently that "the Iranians have looked closely at that model."
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Is there a way by which you can measure replication lag in MySQL with a resolution of less than 1 second?
That is, can replication lag be measured on the microsecond or millisecond level?
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The built-in "seconds behind master" is terribly inaccurate and a guesstimate at best. I hope the answer includes a finer resolution and a more accurate number. – David Hall Jan 4 '11 at 19:19
Can it even be that precise? I mean, we're talking about stuff that takes time to transfer, apply, etc. Getting to 8 significant figures or whatever isn't really that much of a help when it's going to fluctuate slightly with load, network traffic, etc. – Joe Jan 4 '11 at 22:52
see How to accept an answer – jcolebrand May 31 '11 at 2:37
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Have you tried maatkit heartbeat ? This is the one I'm currently using. You will need another perl process running, but from my perspective, this is much more helpful than the current MySQL mechanism.
I'm also using mk-slave-delay to generate lag. I keep a 1 hour lag in one of the slave to have an extra layer of protection in case of SQL injection or user errors.
These two scripts do the trick.
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As a quick and dirty answer, you may want to use the source code and create a UDF to make replication monitor the lag in microseconds.
However, I thought of an interesting method for figuring out a more granular approach to replication.
Create a database (replagdb) whose sole purpose is to record this granular timestamp. Within the replagdb database, create a table that only holds a floating point number representing the timestamp.
use replagdb
INSERT INTO replagtb VALUES (0);
Create a perl script the opens a DB Connection on the master, and then in an infinite loop performs this on the master:
1. Get the output of date +"%s.%N" from the OS on the master
2. UPDATE replagdb.replagtb SET tmstmp = numberFromStep1;
Letting this replicate from the master to the slave, you could then perform this on the slave:
1. Get the output of date +"%s.%N" from the OS on the slave, store it in a variable t1
2. SELECT tmstmp FROM replagdb.replagtb and store this in variable t2.
3. Set variable df = t1 - t2
df will represent the replication lag as a double precision floating point number.
To prevent massive relay log growth on the slave, you must set max_relay_log_size to 8G on the slave. You must also carefully monitor the rate of growth for your master's binary logs.
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There are several issues inventing a precise replication delay metric.
• If your slave is on the other side of the world, you could have a 200ms delay just because of the connection distance.
• Similarly, if you are monitoring from here, but your slave is there, you information will be another 200ms out of date.
• If you inject a precise heartbeat, all it tells you is the delay in that heartbeat; it tells you nothing about the long statement that started right after it. Nor the statements that are queued up behind that statement.
• If you inject a sub-second heartbeat too often, you will be slowing down replication.
How do you expect to "use" a precise heartbeat?
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Maatkit's mk-heartbeat tool has support for microsecond-precision timestamps in recent versions. This will do what you are looking for.
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Good to know (+1). BTW Congrats on becoming an Oracle ACE !!! – RolandoMySQLDBA Aug 11 '11 at 17:13
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Posted by Michael Larabel on September 27, 2011
Martin writes that the schism between different Linux desktop environments is still in place. Martin also calls for greater collaboration between the GNOME and KDE projects. "I hope that also the two organizations around KDE and GNOME can help to make a united vision come true. Why is there no mention of GNOME on the KDE web site? Why is there no mention of KDE on the GNOME web site? Why are release notes of GNOME not published on the KDE news site, isn’t it a news worthy event if our collaborators have a release? Why is it so strange that a picture of a GNOME developer is in a release note of KDE that it has to be mentioned in a keynote at Desktop Summit? Such collaborations should be normal and nothing which needs to be mentioned."
Read more in Martin's blog post.
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LEADER ARTICLE: South Asia's New Czars
SWAGATO GANGULY, Oct 1, 2007, 12.36am IST
In trademark commando style, General Musharraf stated he would give up his army post only after, and not before, he is re-elected president. There's an implicit threat here. If he does not have his way with the presidency he will re-assume his military role, and may even use it to suspend Pakistan's democratic process. Sure enough, he managed to bend both the election commission and the supreme court to his will.
The charge against civilian politicians is that they are corrupt. But the Pakistani military, particularly the army, has massive economic interests of its own, ranging from businesses whose costs are financed out of the military budget to access to prime plots of lands for high-ranking officers. Musharraf himself has acquired eight plots worth $10 million. Because the military controls economic resources as well as institutions of governance, civilian politicians and businessmen need to make themselves beholden to it. Such entitlements set up the Pakistani military as a superior caste, with privileges far greater than ordinary inhabitants of the realm.
Is this a moment for Indians to turn condescending? Has Indian democracy delivered us from the seductions of an illiberal oligarchy? Though India is currently getting raves in global media while Pakistan gets mostly bad press, the uncomfortable truth is that in terms of ensuring a decent existence for the majority of their citizens the difference between them may be like the margin of India's victory over Pakistan in the T20 cricket World Cup finals: a question of five runs here or there.
If we look at the human development record of democratic India and military-feudal Pakistan, it's mostly a race to the bottom. India comes in at 126th on the UNDP's human development (HDI) rankings, squeaking past Pakistan at 134th. Both lag behind Gabon, Namibia, Tajikistan and Equatorial Guinea.
Pakistan may have its Islamic extremism which fuels military autocracy. But India has Fabian socialism, the doctrine that decrees that a government-fostered elite should have extraordinary powers of direction over the rest of society because it knows the interests of the governed better than the governed themselves. Translated into Hindi, that's mai-baap sarkar. Its proselytisers and mandarins, present among politicians, bureaucrats, judiciary, academics and intellectuals, make up a neo-Brahmin elite. We may be a democracy, but one enmeshed in bureaucratic red tape.
While Pakistan's military elite invokes the spectre of the corrupt politician to stay in power, India's neo-Brahmins scare us with the bogey of the bad businessman. If Pakistan empowers its military and mullahs, the neta-babu nexus is supreme in India. They would not only like to occupy the commanding heights of the economy — which makes PSU disinvestment a lost cause — they wish to command every sector of civilian life through state patronage.
There's no more graphic illustration of that than what happened when India's victorious T20 team landed in Mumbai. In a function ostensibly meant to felicitate India's triumphant sport heroes, those who lifted the World Cup were crowded out of the front row of the Wankhede stadium dais by BCCI babus and Maharashtra's ruling politicians. Those who the crowds had come to see, the cricket players themselves, were relegated to back rows and obscured from view (with the sole exception of skipper M S Dhoni). This would be unthinkable in most countries, particularly liberal-democratic states.
Netas and babus tend to be against economic reform, because it would prune their functions and cede space to civil society. Those who argue for and against economic reform are both party to a myth: that India has carried out large-scale reforms. The World Bank's latest study shows that India ranks 120th among 178 countries in ease of doing business, which closely tracks its human development rankings. It is actually the second worst performer in South Asia, ahead only of Afghanistan at 159. Liberal reforms have been half-hearted at best, crippled by the perception India's neo-Brahmins like to propagate that they will hurt the aam aadmi. They are undertaken only when it seems the whole house might come crashing down, as happened in 1991 when India was running out of foreign exchange to pay for imports.
Neither does the Hindutva right seriously challenge the Fabian Left. Both see reform and globalisation in a negative light. They want to roll back the retail revolution, which could rescue Indian agriculture and benefit the consumer. They jointly oppose the India-US nuclear treaty. The issues they differ on are unwordly ones: whether Rama existed, and whether a ridge running underneath the Palk Straits were built by workmanlike monkey troops belonging to his army.
But even if Left and Right are conspiring to kill the liberal middle, there's still hope. There's a civil society upsurge in Pakistan that could topple Musharraf. Even if he unleashes large-scale repression he will have to do it before the television cameras, a new factor in Pakistani politics. India has world-class companies in its private sector and a growing middle class, planting the seed of its future growth. Indian media regularly highlights issues which embarrass the politicians. Perhaps that's precisely why the information and broadcasting ministry — a Fabian stronghold which any half-decent liberal democracy ought to abolish — is readying a draconian broadcasting Bill which will throttle media freedom. The empire will not go away easily, it looks for ways to strike back. | http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-10-01/edit-page/27962358_1_military-role-military-budget-general-musharraf | robots: classic
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Oprah.com | February 08, 2010
Admitted child molesters
Stranger Danger Myth
Over the decades, Oprah has done countless shows about child abuse and sexual predators…but this is a first. In January 2010, Oprah sat down with four admitted child molesters and their therapist, Dawn Horwitz-Person, for a frank discussion about the cycle of abuse, graphic details of their crimes and how they methodically groomed their victims.
"I was raped at 9 and molested from the ages of 9 through 14, and because of that, I've always wanted to be able to sit down and talk to a group of child molesters and ask them why and how they do what they do," Oprah says. "It's the most honest conversation I've ever had with sex offenders."
Watch Oprah's two-hour conversation in its entirety. Watch
After getting a rare insight into the minds of molesters, Oprah says there are four things every person should know.
First, 90 percent of child molesters know their victims. Most are not strangers who lurk in the bushes, waiting to kidnap children. "We're talking about family friends, uncles, fathers, brothers and neighbors," Oprah says. "Less than 10 percent of molesters are the strangers who are abducting kids who you see on the news."
Before Lee was caught molesting a 5-year-old girl, he says he was a close friend of the girl's family. His victim even called him "Grandpa." "She relied on me quite a bit instead of her parents," Lee says.
Both Darren and David were related to their victims. David says he molested and raped a close family member for 12 years, while Darren was once sexually obsessed with his 12-year-old daughter.
At first, Darren says he had sexual fantasies about his daughter. Then, he began to act on these fantasies. He started touching her inappropriately while she slept or pretended to sleep out of fear. Over time, the abuse escalated. "I asked her if I could orally copulate her, and she said no," Darren says. "She actually told me once that, 'I didn't want you to do that because you're my dad.'"
Despite her plea, Darren says the abuse continued.
Oprah and Dawn Horwitz-Person
How They Gain Victims' Trust
The second thing Oprah wants every parent to know is molesters don't choose their victims at random. They seek out vulnerable children, gain their trust and seduce them.
"It's all very calculated, and it's all very deliberate," Oprah says. "Without trust … the sexual abuse is not possible. Trust is the number one factor that they need to succeed."
Robert, a man who has raped four young girls, says he gained the girls' trust by telling them he loved them. He also sought out girls who displayed similar characteristics. "I see anger in her—anger against her parents, retaliation against their parents," he says. "I see trust for them toward me."
Dawn says some molesters don't think they're doing any harm because they don't cause the child physical pain. "I think that's why [the abuse] continues, too, because of that trusting relationship," she says. "They oftentimes don't yell, don't scream, don't tell right away, which reinforces their belief system."
David says he was able to seduce and rape a family member because she was neglected by her parents. "I was the only one there in her world who would listen to her, who would validate her," he says. "That gave me such power over her."
Lee discusses the grooming process
The Grooming Process
The third lesson is that some abusers are so conniving, they are able to manipulate their victims and make the molestation feel good. "That confuses the child into blaming themselves when it's never the victim's fault," Oprah says.
According to these men, the "grooming" process starts early, and at first, it's subtle.
"How I initiated my grooming process is I would listen to her, and then I would listen to her with my hand on her shoulder," David says. "Then we would cuddle on the couch together, and then [I was] priming her for me to be physically intimate with her."
Darren says he gave his daughter back and foot rubs so she'd get used to being physically touched by him before he started touching her sexually. "It kind of creates a bond," he says. "I knew it was wrong, but I justified it in my own mind by saying it was a special thing between us, and I wasn't hurting her."
Even though Lee was in his 60s when he molested a 5-year-old, he says he truly believed he was giving her physical pleasure.
"You didn't think that you were a disgusting old man?" Oprah asks.
"At the time after it got started, yes," Lee says. "After I started it, to me it was just too late to stop."
How Parents Can Protect Their Children
Lastly—and most importantly—these admitted child molesters say there are things parents can do to protect their sons and daughters.
First, Lee says to be on the alert. "You don't have to mistrust everybody," he says. "But at least open your eyes and look around and see what's happening." If you're at a party and you notice someone who spends more time with the children than the adults, Lee says it's a red flag.
When Darren's daughter first reported her abuse, Darren says he lied his way out of it. Now, he urges parents to pay attention to their children's cues and listen to them. "When they tell you someone touched me, you believe them, because kids don't lie about that stuff," he says. "A lot of times, they'll be dismissed because they'll believe the adult instead of the child. Listen to the children."
"Is there anything your daughter could have done to have stopped you?" Oprah asks.
"She did. She turned me in, and I'm very proud of her for that," Darren says. "She had every right to protect herself, and I'm glad she took that initiative."
If you're the victim of abuse, Oprah says the best way to make it stop is to tell someone. "If they don't believe you, you keep telling until somebody does," she says. "Molesters do not want you to talk. Tell somebody today."
More from Oprah's conversation with child molesters
How potential child molesters can get help
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Election time and Filipino stupidity
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
5 things you should be doing at least once in your lifetime
Life is too short and the living is not always an easy ride. If you try to listen to the news, the negative things are always in a war with the good ones for dominance. The world has become, as it’s been from the very beginning, a battleground between the forces of good and evil. But no matter how the world has become good or bad in the process and changed we should remember that, as citizens of this world, we have (individual) duties and obligations that we must carry out to make this planet a much better place in which to live. The following are, in my own opinion, just 5 of the things each one of us should be doing at least once in our lifetime:
1. Take time to plant trees. Planting trees is one of the best of gifts you can give to Mother Earth and for the future generations. Trees help create shades, filter pollution from the air, prevent soil erosion, provide a dwelling place for animals, help recycle water, and many more.
2. Take time to give to the needy. To freely share what you have to others (be it help, time, or money) without expectation or reward in return is one of the most rewarding of acts you can do for yourself. We must remember what Jesus had said: “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
3. Take time to learn a new language. Learning a new language allows you to better understand other people’s culture and history. It is through this understanding that the gap between ignorance and cultural differences shall be bridged.
4. Take time to write a poem. While not all of us are born poets, you can still make a poet out of your own self. Poetry writing is one of the purest forms of expression while, at the same time, it reconciles you to the world. Be the poet that you are capable of making by writing down what you feel and think.
5. Take time to make a pilgrimage. It is an oldest form of religiousness. But wherever your journey may take you and for whatever reason motivating you to do it, one thing is certain though: it is to seek inspiration, by which one wants to gain a new perspective, for a change of mind and heart.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
The Korean crisis: Are we on the brink of war?
With the latest situation involving the two Koreas getting worse--the North and the South--together with the South's ally the United States and with such a slim chance of bringing such a case to the negotiating table at the moment, which fought a battle some five decades ago, would only suggest that war is imminent. War should be at all times avoided but if all means to peaceful settlement of any dispute done and failed, then war begins. It will be fought again with renewed fury--a rematch in the battle for supremacy these two countries are waging and one that could affect at least 70 percent of the world’s population. Yet I hope these two countries would finally settle their differences by talking it all out in the table. Threats from Nokor (North Korea) which are going to include launching of missiles with nuclear capability aimed at Seoul, Tokyo, US military bases in the Pacific, or even reaching as far as the mainland US, should not be taken lightly. North Korea has the world’s largest military with its million-strong standing army which could outnumber the South, but with the US backing the South the retaliation would be devastating should the North invades.
Will North Korea becomes just another Iraq should the war erupts? It’s hard to make comparison between the two countries but North Korea poses a real threat for any country than what was the Saddam Hussein-era Iraq appeared to be hyped. It’s only that North Korea would likely to become the advance party or as pawns pushed on purpose and when that happens new enemies would emerge later on. China will top the list. When the Korean crisis develops into a full-blown conflict and hit a domino effect with every nation, the world will be at war again. This generation will be witnessing a magnified version of World War II. World population will be cut by half as a result of that war. North Korea would be crushed out and China will be paying a heavy price. The United States will remain the world’s lone superpower country. Nations will be rebuilt. Life will be back to normal (although it will never be the same again after a war fought with nuclear warheads).
War should only be the last resort. But oftentimes it happened by accident and one by which our leaders should be held most accountable with out of such a great responsibility imposed upon them. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, as inexperienced a leader as he is and can be, should make no mistake. He must give his people freedom instead, not war.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
This country needs a good, strong leader, not weak, pretentious leadership
This country needs a good, strong leader, not weak, pretentious leadership. A leader who could defend Philippine pride and freedom. A leader who do not only know the history of his own people and nation very well but, also, one who can make the beating of every citizen's heart as his own; a leader who treats his people like his own children. A leader who understands, provide services, protection and, most importantly, one who will never abandon his children in the face of danger no matter how much his children have failed to listen to him in the process. Yes, to some degree, he must be a disciplinarian. But his reconciliatory gift will make the disciplining felt like just a tap on the shoulder and brings his lost children back into the fold.
With the country’s midterm election coming in May, the Filipino people are once again given the chance to choose individuals who will run the government for them. Politicians will be most busy courting the people. The quest for a strong leader is a rarity that’s why we have to grab the opportunity and waste no time electing him or her into office when it comes. Except when the options are limited, we have to choose the best, more deserving ones.
A good leader knows how to handle a crisis even to the point of something that will have caught him off guard. His strong leadership unites a nation and one that settled out differences from all sectors, heals. He is not only intelligent but, most importantly, as patriotic as he is God-fearing. His decision making ability for any situation could save lives instead of losing them. He is, above all, a man of positive actions. The present administration’s handling of the Sabah crisis somehow frustrates me. The indifference, arrogance, and lack of initiative in dealing with the Sabah standoff are only indicative of a poor leadership this administration has to show. The president of the Republic of the Philippines, being the commander in chief, should have done something so bloodshed could have been prevented in the first place.
Again, this country of ours needs a good, strong leader, not weak, pretentious leadership. If your actions inspire others to dream more, to quote from John Quincy Adams, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. But could we see these qualities in our politicians running for different positions in our government?
Saturday, February 23, 2013
Malaysia must abide with historical truth and give Sabah back to its true owner
Filipino Muslim gunmen of about 400 with about 200 of them heavily armed infiltrating the Sabah state in Malaysia a little over a week ago and identifying themselves as the Royal Sulu Sultanate Army lead by one of the heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu Sultan Raja Muda Agbimuddin Kiram might be a case, for the now Islamic country and former British colony, of taking a dose of its own medicine. Malaysia has been a major supporter of a Muslim rebellion in the southern Philippine island of Mindanao as its way of weakening the Philippine republic as well as a diversionary tactics to keep the Philippine government’s focus away from claiming Sabah back. It must be known, for those who still don’t know the real score why that Northern portion of Borneo (called Sabah) once owned by the Sultanate of Sulu has now become a part of Malaysia, that the Sultanate of Sulu which is a part of Philippine territory is the true owner of Sabah. Allow me to give you just a brief review on history.
Sabah has been given by the Sultanate of Brunei to the Sultanate of Sulu as a gift for the latter’s military assistance to the former in the year 1703. Several years later it was leased back to the British company based in Brunei by which, as what was agreed upon between them, the company will provide arms to the Sultan to repulse the Spaniards in the Philippines and an annual rental of 5,000 Malaysian ringgits based on the Mexican peso value at that time or its equivalent in gold. Malaysia has continued the rental payment up to the present time. It was the British who, upon granting Malaysia its independence in 1963 opted Sabah to form the new Malayan state by which to also include Singapore, Malayan peninsula, and Sarawak.
It was not until the presidency of Philippine president Diosdado Macapagal in the year 1962 that the Sabah claim by the Philippines has been formalized based on the Sultanate of Sulu heirs’ claim on the said territory. The late and only Philippine president who later on became a dictator Ferdinand Marcos almost made it to take Sabah back from the Malaysians by force. He trained young Muslim recruits from Mindanao secretly in the island of Corregidor as part of the force that will invade Sabah. But when the said operation has been leaked out to the media, all the young trainees were eliminated except for one that survived by swimming across the sea towards the mainland Luzon. Upon learning about the aborted mission by the Philippine government, Malaysia somehow retaliated by giving support to the rising number of Muslim rebels from Mindanao who were so much angered by the massacre of their brothers in Corregidor island.
These heirs of the Sultanate of Sulu have earlier announced that they will not leave the area and will fight to the death whenever necessary and to stay in the land they have called their own. Malaysian troops as well will only be following orders from their boss and is every now and then waiting for the go signal. The Philippine government lead by the commander in chief himself, Philippine president Benigno Aquino III must act and carefully address for the peaceful resolution of the said stand-off as soon as possible to avoid bloodshed. He must have the initiative to draw ignorance out of the picture while, at the same time, bringing the issue into the light of historical truth and stand by it.
Saturday, February 9, 2013
It’s not how much money we have but how much we enjoy by giving what we have
Money can do many things for you, but not everything. It can't even buy you happiness (Pleasure? Perhaps, there are lots of them for you to choose from depending on your taste). I'm not going to be one of those pretentious people who should sound as if money is not at all that needed, but what I'm trying to convey here is that money should not be treated as though it was the only important thing or as something by which you can tread on other people. I heard about people who change for the worse and because of money and they're not even that wealthy as they should suppose after all. Below is a short essay I have produced by combining the quotes of Henry Ford, Benjamin Franklin, Mahatma Gandhi, Epictitus, Aristotle Onasis, Sophocles, Lucretius, and Alan Watts (with their own views on wealth, money, and happiness).
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business --(Henry Ford). Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants --(Benjamin Franklin). It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver --(Mahatma Gandhi).
He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money --(Benjamin Franklin). After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts. --(Aristotle Onassis). Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. --(Epictetus). Wisdom outweighs any wealth --(Sophocles).
The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. --(Alan Watts). Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. --(Epictetus). The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied --(Lucretius).
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Why video games can do more harm than good for your kids?
The people who will say that video games could not do harm to their children is to indeed admit, in a surreal way, that they are because video games can actually be bad for your kids. Addictive computer or video games can harm your children’s mental development. Of course, there are a few positive effects of playing video games but the damage they may have caused, to some degree, could be most alarming. Video game playing, I mean excessive video game playing to be exact, socially isolate your kids. Not only that, once your kid gets addicted to it, the impact out of such an obsession could affect their thought span, academic skills, and perception of the real world. In other words, it will confuse reality and fantasy.
In an article of The Telegraph dated 14 October 2011, Science Correspondent Nick Collins quoted about what Baroness Greenfield, the former director of the Royal Institution, have explained about how computer or video games can literally “blow the mind” by temporarily or permanently deactivating certain nerve connections in the brain.
Video games can only make your kids do what the game lets them do which is to limit the brain’s ability to learn something new by getting stuck in that same sphere of activity compared when they are in the outside real world playing, interacting, and enjoying where they can do what they want to do and because, unlike in video games, their actions and thoughts are not limited there’s a great potential for learning new and different things all at once. In a study conducted by the Minneapolis-based National Institute for Media and Family, have found out that, aside from the fact that video games could be addictive for kids, the kids’ addiction to these video games could increase their depression and anxiety levels. Health problems such as obesity, video-induced seizures, and postural, muscular, and skeletal disorders could result from too much playing of video games over a long period of time.
I’m not totally against video games. What I’m trying to suggest is, for the parents who have kids that play video games, for them to monitor what video games their children are playing and to set time limits. Discipline your kids whenever necessary and make sure to make them understand why you are doing that so but in the right manner; kids who are aggressive or spoiled are simply just a product of poor or dysfunctional parenting. Encourage or convince your kids to try doing other things like interacting with other kids, playing sports, and many more. The natural world is, still and always, the best way to learn something from for the best. | http://www.nnalcot.blogspot.com/ | robots: classic
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Tips for a healthy, safe and fun active outdoor vacation
(ARA) - Mom zip-lining, Dad mountain biking, a sibling hike at sunrise - for many travelers, a vacation isn't just for relaxation, it's the perfect opportunity for adventure in the great outdoors. The summer travel season is ideal for camping, hiking and biking - great travel activities for couples and families alike. With a little pre-travel planning, you can help ensure that the elements and the unforeseen of outdoor travel don't derail your good time.
The easiest way to avoid any mishaps is to adequately prepare before your trip. Follow these tips for a healthy, safe and enjoyable outdoor vacation:
Pack the right clothing
Mother Nature is a fickle beast - meaning that even during warm seasons, weather can be unpredictable and temperatures can plummet after nightfall. Packing clothes that can be layered is wise so you can add on or remove as necessary. Because you'll be active, a good pair of supportive shoes is crucial as well as several pairs of light socks to keep feet dry and blister-free. If rain might be an issue, pack rain gear, or at the very least, an emergency poncho. When deciding what to wear for your outdoor adventure, plan for comfort rather than fashion - you'll be sorry at the end of your half-day horseback ride if you wear shorts and flip-flops.
Remember sun protection
When spending long hours outdoors, the sun can be intense, especially if you're doing an activity on the water or away from shade. Always pack plenty of sun block at SPF 30 or higher - remember to spread all over your body including often-forgotten areas like feet, ears, hands and knees. Make sure to pack sunglasses for the whole family to protect the eyes and face. It's wise also to bring hats and light, cotton long-sleeve shirts too, which can provide additional protection from the sun and from bug bites.
Buy travel assistance
Whether you are traveling 50 miles or 5,000, both domestic and international travelers should get emergency medical and travel assistance from a company like On Call International. Membership includes unlimited coverage any day at any time for emergency medical evacuations to the hospital of your choice, expert medical monitoring, worldwide medical referrals and family travel costs related to the injury/sickness. With a deluxe travel assistance membership you get additional benefits such as protection and assistance during natural disasters and civil unrest, and even assistance with the care and return of your pet.
Be water wise
Your body always needs adequate hydration, but when you're doing physical activities outdoors, it's even more important to have a plentiful supply of water. Make sure that wherever you are going has a source of safe drinking water. Even if the hike you planned includes a rest stop where a drinking fountain is located, it's still wise to bring a water bottle because you never know when a fountain might be broken or unavailable. Avoid water from lakes or streams - no matter how clean and pure it looks, it likely contains water-borne parasites and micro-organisms that can make you ill. If necessary, use a chemical treatment to purify water.
Make a plan for the unexpected
Whether you're taking a causal hike or trying a new activity like rock climbing or kayaking, it's smart to bring a companion. In case of an emergency, you don't want to be alone. If you'll be out for a while, pack a portable first-aid kit for minor injuries. Talk with your travel companions ahead of time and develop an emergency plan should someone get lost or a medical emergency occurs. On hikes or during camping trips to more remote locations, parents often give children whistles to blow in case they become lost.
A little planning and some smart thinking means adventure travel outdoors can be safe and full of memory-making potential. Consider these tips and you'll be well on your way to having a great vacation.
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1. Jimi Hendrix
2. Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
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4. Eric Clapton
5. Robert Johnson
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7. Stevie Ray Vaughan
8. Ry Cooder
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1. rib says:
I’m sorry, I forgot Elmore James, place him where you would like. Also, to those who read some guitar rag or another and don’t knoweth of what floweth from their holes, please, verbally masturbate elsewhere…you suck at the axe and always will…peace
2. Phillip says:
Daniel Johnston is the best guitar player alive. Those who think differently suck even harder at the axe and always will. Peace!
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India's miracle is the subject of a special issue of the british weekly New Statesman. I have already posted on one article, about the country's economic growing pains. But there are five other articles worth mentioning: * Ramachandra Guha kicks off th... [Read More]
Why this paradox? As an insider I see the false belief among politicians,general public and the academicians that IT sector alone is the true symbol of development.
What kind of labour gets employment in the IT sector? Urban rich and the middle-class benefit out of IT boom; majority are working as IT "coolies".
To remove poverty, a return to Nehruvian industrialisation combined with Nurksian balanced growth strategy are urgently needed.Gandhian need and want minimisation are also essential.
Troy Aikman
Too late, it's just too late for India to get industrialized, your giant neighbor, China, is absorbing every single manufacturing job from the west. India just simply cannot compete with China, due to poor education and infrastructure
Too late, folks, too late
Arthur Eckart
The U.S., and other countries, are fortunate there are Indian immigrants (along with Chinese and other Asians):
"About 64% of Indian Americans have attained a Bachelor's degree or more.[5](compared to 28% nationally). Almost 40% of all Indians have a master’s doctorate or other professional degree...Indian Americans have the highest median income of any national origin group in the United States and Merrill Lynch recently revealed that there are nearly 200,000 Indian American millionaires... one-third of the engineers in Silicon Valley are of Indian descent, while 7% of valley high-tech firms are led by Indian CEOs. (Source: Silicon India Readership Survey) In 2002, there were over 223,000 Asian Indian-owned firms in the U.S., employing more than 610,000 workers, and generating more than $88 billion in revenue.[7]"
Troy Aikman
Arthur, your data are nothing but propaganda pushed by some Indian supremacists, remember the following widely cited data?
38% of doctors in USA are Indians.
12% scientists in USA are Indians.
36% of NASA scientists are Indians.
34% of Microsoft employees are Indians.
28% of IBM employees are Indians.
17% of INTEL scientists are Indians.
13% of XEROX employees are Indians.
You can find this BS everywhere on the internet, often written by a "proud indian".. Here is one http://www.southasiabiz.com/2006/08/iproud_to_be_an_indian_15_amaz.html
It turns out these data are just bullshit. 36% of NASA scientists are Indian, are you freaking kidding me? Bill Gates personally rebuffed the 34% claim.
Stop the propaganda, and india is the biggest victim of brain drain, there is really nothing to be proud of sending your best to the west.
Troy Aikman 6.29 AM,
Poor infrastructure I agree, but not poor education.
10.49 AM,
We are not sending our best to the west...we spend huge amounts on their education here but they migrate and desert us due to globalisation trends and the benefits given to the non-resident Indians.I propose an NRI tax and boosting up of top-level salary in India side by side to control out migration.
Troy Aikman
what's the literacy rate in India?
Arthur Eckart
Troy, presenting mixed data from a less credible source to prove other data are false doesn't make sense. U.S. census data, which is real data, show that 77% of Indians who worked at Silicon Valley's high-tech firms in 1990 had a Bachelor's degree or higher compared to 40% for Chinese and 18% for Whites. 55% of Indians had a master's degree or higher (see first link table 2.4). There are many "Silicon Valleys" throughout the U.S. and the percentages may be similar or higher today.
Troy Aikman,
India is a federal country.Use disaggregated data on literacy.Some states like the south western state of Kerala has 100% literacy including female literacy comparable to developed western countries.
First, according to the wikipedia page, Kerala has a literacy rate of 91%, not 100%.
Second, what's your point? I am pretty sure there are have high literacy rate regions in Bangladesh as well. An overall literacy rate of 60% shows the sorry state of Indian education.
Arthur Eckart
I made an error above. 1990 Census data for Bachelor's degree or higher in Silicon Valley high tech jobs were 49% for White, 71% for Chinese, and 77% for Indians. Master's degree or higher were 18% for White, 40% for Chinese, and 55% for Indians.
Arthur, I have no problem with your data on Silicon Valley, it's the Silicon Valley for Krishna's sake. It does not reflect the current state of Indian education, Indians in the SV are the cream of the crop of 1 billion people. Of course the majority of them have post-graduate degrees.
If this is indeed true, dont you think the number of Indian CEOs is improportionally small? Arthur, I work for a Fortune 500 high tech company and around 10% of the research scientists are of Indian origin. Not bad, but still far from Indian dominance or even 30%. Reading all those "proud Indian's" posts, I'm just fed up with this India shining, India rising, India is the next superpower BS.
Yes, I was fooled by those "facts" too
TA 1.16 AM,
I mainly meant urban literacy.Try:
Arthur Eckart
TD, clearly some of the statistics in Southasiabiz are ridiculous. However, the Wikipedia statistics could be true. Only 1% of the U.S. population is Indian-American. A few years ago, the quota of HB1 Visas (for high-skilled workers) was raised and there's a large quota for millionaires. So, it's possible 64% of Indian-Americans have a Bachelor's degree or higher and 40% have a master's degree or higher (i.e. over 21 years of age). Also, there may be 200,000 Indian-American millionaires, which is roughly 7% of the Indian-American population (of any age). Moreover, it could be true one-third of Silicon Valley engineers are Indian descent, although 7% of valley high-tech firms are led by Indian CEOs, since not all CEOs are engineers (many are accountants, economists, biologists, etc.) and most Indian-American high-tech workers may be engineers. Initially, most Cuban-Americans were affluent and recently many high-skilled and rich Venezuelens moved to the U.S. (because of Hugo Chavez). I suspect, Chinese, who moved to the U.S. in recent years, are also more highly educated or affluent than Americans in general, etc. U.S. high-tech jobs are created faster than Americans can acquire skills. So, high-skilled foreigners are needed. I agree, Indian education standards are lower, although India's few top schools are at the highest world quality. The link below from an expert believes it's more of a "brain circulation" than a "brain drain," since "there's a healthy flow of financial and intellectual capital between California, Taiwan, and India."
It's H1B visa, and if you followed the recent H1B visa scandal, you would know that a lot of those Indian H1B visa holders are not paid that handsomely
You can dig a lot of news about this H1b scam if you are willing to, it's quite disturbing. Those Indian outsourcers are abusing the H1B system by sending cheap programmers from India. They are neither high skilled nor well paid. Again, let's not spread the false "facts" about how rich, how well educated and how powerful those Indians are. They are simply not. I am not going to rebuff every claim by you. You cannot convince anyone by arguing "it's possible", "it might be true"... It might be true that I'm Bill Gates.
people do not lose big picture..
india is 1.1 bil,that is ~20% of the world pop lives in india so you expect some tiny number of folks to do well (silicon valley/IT etc)
india adds 1 australia every year..80 % lives on less than $2/day. If a true democracy amongst so called majority literate india existed, this state of affair would invite societal revolution long back. Try to engage in doing business in india, you will flee , my friend.
This garbage of globalization induced higher GDP idea was mooted by western industry (eg. the buffoons in goldman sachs after .com collapse) and then capitalism's drive to make better profit sped up ( and hence the current gilded age for the top 0.1% in western world while a churn amidst people due to housing bust in US now (but soon to spread to bloody bubble lands of UK/ireland/Spain etc)..the ultra loose monetary policy also went hand-in-hand along w/ globalization CRAP.
Early 20th century disruptions of this sort led to world wars. Indians should not be fooled by 3yrs of unusual growth due to rampant liquidity and credit bubble despite which we have grinding poverty amongst cell-phone toting unwashed masses of india..
What a joke
And the bigger joke is that buffoons of BEAR STEARNS wish to be bailed out by govt's tax money. What kinda of capitalism is this???
Arthur Eckart
TA, right, it's H1B Visa. I'm not surprised there's some misuse, which seems to be small, given demand for visas exceeds supply. What I meant was the Wikipedia statistics are more feasible than some of the Southasiabiz statistics. Of course, if you had the time, Census data may prove or disprove the statistics. Andiron, I wouldn't say people working in Wall Street investment banks, money center banks, brokerage houses, etc. (which make large profits) are buffoons. Many of them graduated from top schools, including Indian-Americans. If Third World countries want to overproduce by buying dollars and selling their currencies, then it's appropriate for the U.S. to increase its money supply to at least partially offset U.S. underproduction (i.e. close the output gap), which has caused those Third World countries to overproduce even more. It's not a U.S. economic problem.
Arthur Eckart
Also, I may add, mutual funds, pension funds, insurance firms, etc. have been propping-up U.S. financial markets (following New York institutions) to raise GDP, which was successful. While the U.S. stock market rose from mid-2006 to mid-2007, U.S. real GDP rose from less than 1% in Q1 2007 to about 3 1/2% in Q2 2007 (the stock market correction began right after second quarter GDP was announced, although inflation was much lower than expected, the U.S. trade deficit remained near the all-time high, and the U.S. budget deficit was estimated at only $150 billion in 2007). The New York Fed has mitigated some of the hedge fund losses by exchanging dollars for mortgage-backed securites, which increased demand deposits (through high-powered money or the money multiplier, since the effective Fed Funds Rate rose from 5 1/4% to 6% on a "credit crunch"). So, it seems, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, etc. were somewhat rewarded, e.g. through Citigroup and Chase (i.e. money center banks). Obviously, the Fed and New York financial institutions are working together for the benefit of the country (similar to JP Morgan before the Fed) to maintain sustainable economic growth.
Arthur Eckart
Frank, most people don't realize the extent of poverty in China, India, and many other developing countries. India has produced a $2,500 car recently, the Tata Nano. Currently, only 7 out of 1,000 Indians own a car. Also:
"China has 23% of the world's people on 7% of the world's arable land. China is down to 1/4 of an acre of arable land per person. That is very close to the limit of how much land is needed to grow crops to feed a person. You can't get much less than that without starving. China must import a billion tons of food annually to feed its population. That's why China has a crisis driven policy to limit their population - a policy of "one is best, at most two, never a third" and "later, longer, fewer", promoting late marriages, long intervals between births, and two child families. With these measures, China's total fertility rate is 1.8, down from 4.8 in 1970. Even with the lower birthrate, as the large group of young people entering reproductive age, China will add another 1/2 billion people by 2020."
Pollution, urban sprawl, overgrazing of livestock, overcultivation, improper irrigation techniques, etc. have resulted in "one-sixth of China’s total arable lands are polluted by heavy metals, and more than 40 percent are degenerated due to erosion and desertification." Also, about 50% of China's labor force works in agriculture (compared to less than 3% in the U.S.).
Arthur Eckart
Below is a related article about China's food prices:
China Makes New Anti-Inflation Move
Monday January 14, 2008 1:28 am ET
BEIJING (AP) -- China's cabinet on Monday sharply increased penalties for price-fixing, expanding an anti-inflation campaign that has failed to cool a surge in politically sensitive food costs.
Food costs soared by 18.2 percent in November, pushing the overall monthly inflation rate to 6.9 percent, its highest level in 11 years.
The surge in food prices has been especially painful for China's poor majority, who spend up to half their incomes on food.
Suppliers of meat, eggs and other food have been ordered to report price increases over 5 percent to the government.
Premier Wen Jiabao warned last week that with global prices for crude oil, grain and other commodities rising, pressure for Chinese prices to rise "is still great."
Local authorities have been ordered to pay subsidies to the poor to cushion the blow of higher food costs.
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World number one Victoria Azarenka laid down a marker with a 6-0 6-1 trouncing of Zheng Jie to reach the fourth round of the US Open.
There have been plenty of one-sided matches involving the top seeds this week, but this was different because Zheng is ranked 28th in the world and a tough competitor.
Azarenka began the year with a 26-match winning streak, which included her first grand slam title at the Australian Open, and looked back to that form here.
The Belarusian raced through the first set in only 25 minutes for the loss of just seven points, and it was not until the fourth game of the second set that Zheng got on the board.
The crowd gave the Chinese player a huge cheer but that was to be the only consolation for Zheng, who lasted only 59 minutes in total.
Azarenka, who next plays Georgia's Anna Tatishvili, was playing her first night-session match and credited the New York fans for her sparkling performance.
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Cape Elizabeth is a town in Cumberland County, Maine, United States, and is the state's most affluent municipality (per household median income) based on Census 2000 data. The population was 9,068 at the 2000 census. A residential and resort area situated on the southern shore of Casco Bay just south of Portland, Maine, Cape Elizabeth is home to Crescent Beach State Park and Two Lights State Park. Cape Elizabeth is the location of the Beach to Beacon 10-kilometer road race that starts at Crescent Beach State Park (the "beach") and ends at Portland Head Light (the "beacon"). This road race attracts world-renowned runners and was founded by 1984 Olympics marathon gold medalist Joan Benoit Samuelson who grew up in Cape Elizabeth. Cape Elizabeth is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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by: David Sirota
Tue Nov 25, 2008 at 15:30
Grover Norquist is regularly billed as one of the leading intellectual lights of the conservative movement - and I think you will agree that the arguments he made in a debate with me over taxes this morning on CNBC highlight not merely the shocking intellectual bankruptcy of the movement he leads, but just how out of touch Republicans in Washington really are.
The debate revolved around President-elect Obama's potential plans to put off raising taxes on the very wealthy. Norquist begins the debate with the claim - I kid you not - that "the economy is in the present state because when the Democrats took the House and Senate in 2006 you knew those tax increases were going to come in 2010." He insisted that, "The stock market began to collapse as soon as you recognize that those old tax rates were coming back." Yes, because under "those old tax rates" - ie. Clinton-era tax rates - the economy was so much worse than it is today.
David Sirota :: The Tax History Conservatives Want Us to Forget
As you'll see, the CNBC reporters start laughing at Norquist, having trouble taking him seriously. And I must say, I really wasn't sure he was being serious - but, of course, he was. I went on to make the point that I've often made in the past - the point that conservatives simply want everyone to forget: Namely, that President Clinton faced down a recession in 1993 by raising taxes on the wealthy in order to finance an economic stimulus package, and the economy subsequently boomed.
That simple, undeniable bit of history undermines the entire structure of conservatives claim that raising taxes on the super-rich will hurt the economy. And as you'll see from Norquist's response, they simply cannot deal with that truth. Indeed, Norquist actually goes all the way back to the 1920s as his example that raising taxes on the wealthy impedes economic growth - somehow ignoring the history from 15 years ago. He then goes on to claim with a straight face that Franklin Roosevelt created the Great Depression (this, along with the "center-right nation" propaganda, seems to be the right's new talking point).
The question now is whether the Obama administration buys into Norquist's fact-free nonsense, or whether it musters the same courage President Clinton mustered in prudently raising taxes on the super-rich to responsibly finance an economic stimulus package. Sure, temporary deficits are acceptable right now - there's no arguing that. But doing what's necessary to minimize those deficits is also important.
In terms of policy, if, as Congressional Quarterly reports, Obama wants to enforce budget discipline on a necessarily large economic stimulus package, it will require generating additional revenue from the wealthy. In terms of raw politics, if Clinton's 43 percent of the vote gave him enough political capital to come into office during an economic downturn and do that, I'd say Obama and his 53 percent gives him enough political capital to do the same today. And I would argue that if Obama backs off his promise to raise taxes on the wealthy, he will effectively validate the false conservative frame that claims tax increases on the wealthy endangers an economy.
While I certainly agree with the CNBC reporter that the 2008 is different than the 1990s, it isn't different when it comes to taxes - we have very recent history that proves raising taxes on the wealthy in order to raise revenues for economic stimulus, if done prudently, helps an economy recover. That is the argument that nobody during this debate was able to undermine - and it is the argument conservatives fear most, because they know it is accurate.
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You Go David!!! (4.00 / 5)
You sent Grover back to Sesame Street. Your stock went up 1000%. Great point, and you stuck to it, textbook debating.
Next time you see CF you should take her to lunch, she was good, too.
Questions: (0.00 / 0)
Should Obama let the tax cut lapse, or spend political capital pushing for a vote on early termination of the tax cut? One of my memories of the '93 vote was the Republican takeover of Congress the next year. Letting the tax cut lapse is politically safer, but can we wait that extra year? Is it better to let it lapse later so that the grown ups stay in charge and prevent a devastating tax cut in 4 years under President Palin and Senate leader McConnell?
John McCain won't insure children
There Is No Evidence That The Tax Cut Is Why The GOP Took Over (4.00 / 1)
I'm sure it was a factor in a few races. But as Mike Lux pointed out a while back, the main reason we lost in 1994 was because we didn't do enough to bring out our base. And as I pointed out, a close second was the Perot vote, which was more interested in blancing the budget than it was in lowering taxes.
So, beware of false "pragmatism". Check your facts and figures first.
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Mostly, I think that '94 was due to (0.00 / 0)
Clinton's early political ineptness (e.g. poorly handling gays in the military, universal health insurance, vetting of political appointees, relations with the Dem-controlled congress, media relations, etc.), along with Dems' lack of cohesion and a sense that they didn't stand for anything, and GOP sharks smelling blood in the water and exploiting Clinton and the Dem's weakness fully. Gingrich, Armey & Co. basically outplayed Clinton, Foley & Co.
As in '68, '80 and '00, there was no real underlying substance to the Repub takeovers, but rather a shrewd and cynical exploitation of exigent political realities to make the more effective sales pitch. Repubs haven't been serious about policy, in terms of the national rather than narrow interests, since the 50's. Since then, it's been largely and increasingly about messaging, grass-roots organizing, and dirty tricks. Even Nixon, the last Repub president with some decent policies, couldn't help putting politics way ahead of policy.
It only works when Dems lose focus and fail to stand and fight for anything. Which, sadly, has been often. Hopefully, that will no longer be the case.
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Wow he really is out to lunch. (0.00 / 0)
Stuck in a time warp, fighting the last war (last two wars actually) and denying the reality around him. It was interesting to see Chrystia Freeland nodding her head emphatically when you called him out for making a dated political argument at the end there.
speaking truth to idiocy (0.00 / 0)
por fin!
1993 Clinton stimulus package (4.00 / 1)
You stated that "President Clinton faced down a recession in 1993 by raising taxes on the wealthy in order to finance an economic stimulus package, and the economy subsequently boomed." My memory is that the primary focus of the 1993 budget bill that included the tax increase was basically deficit reduction -- Clinton wanted to rein in the budget deficits he had inherited from Bush on the theory that public borrowing to finance deficit spending had made borrowing by the private sector more expensive (and had resulted in economic stagnation). If I remember correctly, Clinton's stimulus package was ultimately blocked by Republicans in the Senate, and the total value of that proposed package was only around $16 billion. Clinton may have linked financing his stimulus package to a budget bill aimed at deficit reduction, but I don't believe the stimulus package was ever enacted.
I remember how Republicans argued at the time that we simply could not afford that package, and now 100x, 200x of that amount is given away to banks in the blink of an eye...
Bush recession I (4.00 / 3)
Just once I'd like to have Pete Wilson's idiot utility deregulation and the consequent looting of California by Enron get the condmnation it deserves.
The huge economic controversy of my adolescence was the right wingers constantly bashing LBJ for not raising taxes immediately during the Vietnam war. They attributed every drop of inflation for at least 20 years to that.
Bravissimo, David! (0.00 / 0)
I swear, I never know if it's polite for folks to interrupt each other during these talking-head debates, but that seems to be the only thing that works in such a constricted time frame.
Strongly agree (0.00 / 0)
The tax plan Obama laid out should be followed.
Also, as dissimilar as 2008 is to 1993, its obvious even less like the late 1920s.
Saxby Chambliss
grover, about that bathtub (0.00 / 0)
rather then drowning the govt how about you drown yourself in that bathtub, the country will be better off and you won't have to look so foolish after making another one of your idiotic comments, oh, and while i'm at it, get a real job.
The GOP is furiously throwing memes against the wall to see what sticks (0.00 / 0)
Lacking the ability, discipline or integrity to try to formulate serious policy proposals, they're basically throwing together ad hoc memes and talking points and tossing them out at a furious pace in the hopes that some might stick. This is just the latest one, but there have been so many these past few months:
--ACORN, the CRA, shiftless blacks and Dems caused the financial meltdown
--Massive voter fraud, also caused by ACORN (and Obama)
--Obama's a socialist Marxist communist radical terrorist secret Muslim
--FDR caused, or at least didn't end, the great depression
--Drilling NOW is the solution to our energy problems
--It's a center-right nation
--Joetheplummer and Sarah Palin are the real America
Um, yeah. But they'll keep at it, as it's all that they've got. Always was. Oh, plus the ratfucking.
The rich don't spend. (4.00 / 1)
Taxing the rich as a means to economic stimulus is effective because it puts more money into circulation than would otherwise be there. Yes, the rich have the capacity to invest, but they're not going to do so during a recession, particularly not one that is hinging on becommming a depression.
Even if you cut taxes on the rich right now, they'll just soak it up and save it. Actually, in general I think a tax cut right now is a bad idea in that respect. Infrastructure spending is the way to go. Even the middle class will use any tax cut to pay down debt/save...not bad, but not effective stimulus either.
Rather than delaying the tax increase on the rich, Obama should be pondering delaying the middle class tax cut.
on top of that (0.00 / 0)
when they do invest, they don't invest in things that hire a lot of people. People are expenses.
They like pure financial instruments, which have (HAD) a higher return than actually producing things or providing services.
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Taxes on the rich (4.00 / 1)
Certainly it is correct that raising taxes is good, but let's not go overboard on some nemes. In particular, Clinton's tax increase, while there, was meagre compared to that of Wilson, FDR, Truman, and even Eisenhower-those people had 75% top rates and more, for God's sakes. If Clinton had wanted to balance the budget he should have raised taxes and cut defense spending much more than he did. Not that I am favoring such a policy, as a Keynesian first, last, and all the time, but the idea of Clinton restoring fiscal stability to this country is largely a myth. Also, the debacle of 1994 was because: Clinton was too conservative, not proposing a single universal social service, excepting health insurance which he (not his wife) proceeded to botch up, not proposing any measures to fight big business and the Overclass or to help the working person, unions, labor, etc., and NAFTA and sundry other "economically liberal" acts; and the Democrats never carried out the promise of the Progressive era and the Roosevelt-Truman period. They never carried out anti-business and pro-labor acts, never even proposing universal social services, never doing anything truly radical to solve the nation's great problems. That goes for the 60's and 70's as well-Kennedy and Johnson never did anything as radical as the early 20th century presidents did, with the exception of civil rights, which was increasingly used as a substitute for doing anything else. Please someone just look at the Great Society, and ponder-it really was not as radical as the New Deal was, and was inadequate for the growing problems of our nation, things began getting out of hand right then. And so, after 30-40 years of waiting for the Democrats and othe non-Republicans to do something, the American people, in 1994, just gave up.
One last matter: the middle class tax probably should be delayed, if not reconsidered entirely. We should help the great middle income groups in our society-that includes the workers and farmers-and also the poor, by spending money on them, through a universal welfare state. The middle class does not hate taxes, it merely wants some of the money to be spent upon them.
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Today we take a break from our usual grumblings about politics, economics, and the gradual decline of civilization to note the passing of one of the great men of American culture. Earl Scruggs died Wednesday at the age of 88, and the nation is vastly poorer for the loss.
Scruggs wouldn’t have minded a bit that most of the obituaries will describe him as a banjo player, but anyone who ever heard him play that much-maligned instrument knows that he was much more than just another picker. He was a extraordinary virtuoso who revolutionized the way his instrument is played, became a key figure in the development of an important American musical genre in the process, and influenced musicians in fields ranging from country to rock ‘n’ roll to jazz. Just as important, he was widely respected for his character, helped bridge the musical generation gap of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, and stood as an example of the democratic greatness of American music.
Born to a poor but loving family of talented musicians in the hills of North Carolina, Scruggs was a child prodigy who began to develop his own three-fingered technique for playing the five-string banjo by the age of 4. Passionate about the music, and free of the modern distractions that have doubtless derailed many young talents in a more affluent age, Scruggs was single-mindedly devoted to music and given to a legendarily rigorous practice regimen. By his teens he was ready to change the course of American music history, although he was probably only hoping to make a living.
He first came to prominence by joining Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys, a crack outfit that was beginning to attract attention with an innovative style of traditional rural music. Scruggs replaced the beloved David “Stringbean” Akeman, a capable banjoist of the old claw-hammer school whose main role in band was to provide cornball comedy between songs, and the change transformed the band. Although his shy, taciturn, and rigidly dignified personality made him ill-suited to the comedian’s role, Scruggs had a fast, flowing, propulsive style of playing — known to fans everywhere as “the roll” — that sped the band into a brand new style of music that became known as bluegrass.
Having played the pivotal role in creating bluegrass, Scruggs joined forces with fellow Bluegrass Boy Lester Flatt to do more than any other musicians to popularize it. The pair and their outstanding band introduced the music to the folk-crazed college students of the early ‘60s at numerous festivals, serenaded an audience of millions every week with their “Beverly Hillbillies,” and gave millions of others their very first taste of bluegrass by providing the soundtrack for “Bonnie and Clyde” with their signature tune, “Foggy Mountain Breakdown.”
Bill Monroe had been famously hostile to the hippies who were already taking over his musical creation by the late ‘60s, but the easy-going open-minded Scruggs had a more accepting attitude than his old boss. When he formed the Earl Scruggs Revue, featuring his long-haired sons, both fine musicians in their own rights, Scruggs added songs by Bob Dylan and The Byrds to his repertoire and welcomed the tie-dyed set to his shows. We had the privilege of hearing Scruggs play at the old Henry Levitt Arena in Wichita on a bill with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dave Bromberg, and a little-known comedian named Steve Martin back in the early ‘70s, and we vividly recall that everyone in attendance seemed to agree that the quiet, middle-aged hillbilly in the non-descript suit was by far the hippest cat they’d ever seen.
Scruggs has been a constant musical companion ever since, his finest recordings taking their place of honor our shelf along side those the other truly great musicians of the American tradition. In addition to the hours of happy listening, he also provided us with a cheering reminder that true greatness can come from anywhere, and in any form. Scruggs proved that greatness can be learned through family traditions as well as an academy, that it can be honed out behind the barn as easily as in a classroom, and that it can happen in the Grand Ole Opry as well as the fanciest opera halls.
Rest in peace, Earl, and may your music always roll on.
– Bud Norman
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The Long and Short of Obamacare
Obamacare might yet survive the scrutiny of the Supreme Court, but the consensus of informed opinion seems to be that the oral arguments on its behalf have not gone well. By the end of Wednesday’s session arch-liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg was openly musing about what portions of the law the court might “salvage,” arch-conservative Justice Antonin Scalia retorted that forcing his clerks to rummage through the law’s 2,700 pages in search of something worth salvaging would be a violation of the constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment, and the pundits had moved on to talking about the political ramifications of it all.
One view, put forth by various commentators, holds that Obama finds himself in a “lose-lose” situation. The argument is that if the law is struck down Obama will be blamed for spending two years of congressional time and most of his political capital on a bill that proved unconstitutional, and if the law is upheld he’s stuck with a very unpopular policy and a newly re-energized opposition. Another view, put forth by former Clinton advisor and current CNN spinner James Carville, holds that a victory in the case would vindicate Obama but that a defeat “will be the best thing to ever happen to the Democratic Party…” He argues that health care costs are going to continue rise, and that Democrats will be able to blame their opposition if the law isn’t in effect.
The view here is that both arguments have some validity. In the short term Obama is likely to suffer politically regardless of how the court rules, while in the long term whichever side loses the case will ultimately reap a political benefit.
Obamacare’s popularity is such that Obama only mentions it “on occasion,” and not on such occasions as the anniversary of its passage, and it cannot help the president’s popularity to have the bill once again in the headlines. There’s already been a controversy over the law forcing the Catholic Church and other religious institutions to act against their beliefs, and a Congressional Budget Office report saying that the law is far more expensive than promised, so if the court rules that the law is also unconstitutional it will be very difficult for the media cheerleaders to find some good news to cheer about. If the law is upheld, on the other hand, it will serve as a timely reminder of the bill’s existence to the millions of Americans who desire its repeal.
Over time, though, whichever sides loses the court case should be able to gain an advantage.
Carville is quite right that health care costs will rise if the law is struck down, of course, and all the other imperfections of the pre-Obamacare system will also be back in place. There will be no way to positively disprove the claims that have been made for Obamacare, meanwhile, and those claims will grow increasingly extravagant. Within a few years a mythology will become commonplace that Obamacare would have given everyone futuristic medical for free, all dispensed by kindly doctors and comely nurses, and that grandma would still be alive and kicking at age 150 if not for the darned Republicans.
If the courts and the electorate allow the law to go into effect, on the other hand, health care costs will continue to rise and there will be other problems. At worst all of the predictions ventured by the Republicans will continue to come to true, with national bankruptcy at the end, and at the very best it will not be the perfection the Democrats have promised. Nostalgia for the good ol’ days will inevitably result, with all the imperfections of the past forgotten, all the problems of the present very much in mind, and no doubt about who’s to blame for the current system.
The only question, then, is whether the short term stretches into next November.
– Bud Norman
Reductio ad Broccoli
The reviews are in on Tuesday’s oral arguments at the Supreme Court over Obamacare, and the government’s lawyer is being panned by almost all the critics. The typically star-struck Associated Press conceded that “The fate of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul was cast into deeper jeopardy” by the proceedings. The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin, who can usually be counted on to rave about the president and all his works, called the oral arguments a “train wreck for the Obama administration.” Even the hippies at Mother Jones dubbed it a “disaster.”
In fairness to Solicitor General Donald Virrilli, however, it should be noted that he was working from a bad script. The questions that had Virrilli coughing, stumbling, and stuttering concerned what limits on governmental power would still exist if Obamacare were found constitutional, and it’s not easy to ad lib an answer. We haven’t heard a good one yet from the many politicians, writers, activists, and acquaintances who have given it a shot, and they weren’t being peppered with questions by members of the Supreme Court.
If the government can compel a citizen to purchase health insurance, what can’t it do? At various points in the proceedings Virrilli was asked if the government could also mandate the purchase of cell phones, automobiles, or burial insurance, and on at least three occasions the question of government-mandated broccoli arose. The example of broccoli was apparently intended as a reductio ad absurdum argument, according to press reports, but it doesn’t seem so very far-fetched when one considers the healthy eating fetish of the First Lady or the militant veganism of some people we know.
Virrilli gave the broccoli question a brave effort, answering that the health insurance market and the food market differ in that the local grocery store “is not a market in which you don’t know before you go in what you need, and it is not a market which, if you go in and — and seek to obtain a product of service, you will get it even if you can’t pay for it.” Perhaps the keen legal minds of the Supreme Court will be able to parse that sentence successfully, but most observers sensed that at least several of the Justices were not finding it convincing.
Virrilli was handicapped, perhaps, by an inability to answer honestly. He might well have preferred to answer that yes, the government would be able to mandate the purchase of cell phones, automobiles, burial insurance, broccoli, or anything else it chooses, and what of it? In several private conversations we have heard people state frankly that they see no reason the constitution should restrain the president — the current president, at least — from doing anything he might want to do, and while the argument is frightening and ridiculous at least they weren’t coughing, stumbling, and stuttering when they said it.
Such frankness doesn’t play well with the mass audience, however, and thus poor Virrilli is left groping for other arguments. This is a difficulty not just for Obamacare but for the entire liberal project, whose advocates know that it wouldn’t do to come right out and say that they know best and should therefore have all the power, at least not in front of the yokels, and then head down the most circuitous rhetorical trails in search of a more palatable way of putting.
Obamacare might yet survive the challenges in the court, but it seems to have already lost the argument in the court of public opinion, and Tuesday’s proceedings won’t likely change many minds.
– Bud Norman
Sex Strike in Kansas
One of those pesky e-mails recently brought us on a rare visit to our Facebook page, where we noticed a brief announcement that a sex strike has been scheduled in Kansas.
The message did not make clear who was organizing the strike, but it did explain that it was “in response to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s proposal that doctors be allowed to lie to pregnant women about potentially life-threatening complications.” We took this to be a reference to a bill Brownback has proposed which would require women to undergo an ultrasound before receiving an abortion, and we assume that the potentially life-threatening complication is childbirth, but the note did not explain how that bill would allow doctors to lie to pregnant women, so it might well be referring to some other dastardly scheme that Brownback has devised. Perhaps there’s an “Allowing Doctors to Lie to Pregnant Women” bill out there that has somehow escaped the attention of the state press.
Of greater interest than the bill, however, is the unusual tactic being deployed against it. The idea of a sex strike dates back at least as far as 411 B.C., when Aristophanes penned “Lysistrata,” a rather bawdy comedy about the women of Athens withholding sex until the men stop waging war, but it’s unclear how such a plan might be applied to abortion politics in contemporary Kansas.
If Brownback is at all the puritanical curmudgeon his critics portray, he’s unlikely to be dissuaded by the prospect that people aren’t having sex. There might be some economic repercussions, such as a precipitous decline in the sale of cocktails, lobster dinners, and prophylactics, but it probably wouldn’t be enough to rattle the governor. The point might be to have Brownback inundated with angry phone calls and letters by men who blame him for their sudden celibacy, but we can’t foresee many Kansas men publicly admitting that they aren’t getting any action, and in any case the striking women are probably depriving men who already share their enthusiasm for abortion.
Besides, the strike is only scheduled to run from precisely midnight on April 28 to precisely midnight on May 5. That might be harrowing for the youngsters, but the older married men should manage the duration without breaking a sweat.
The sex strike plan apparently originated with a Texas-based group calling itself Liberal Ladies Who Lunch, and is being promoted here in Wichita by the local affiliate of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement. We know little of the former group, except that they’re liberal, ladies, and like to eat lunch, all of which sounds like something we could easily do without for a week or more, but we’ve seen enough of the local “Occupiers” to be confident that the strike won’t affect activities here.
– Bud Norman
Seeking Justice, Not Revenge
– Bud Norman
A Pregnant Per Se
A most interesting quote from President Barack Obama appeared in the news on Thursday.
Asked by the host of National Public Radio’s “Marketplace” program about Solyndra, the cylindrical solar panel manufacturer that received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal loans and was touted by the president as a “model” for the new “green economy,” Obama replied that “Obviously we wish Solyndra hadn’t gone bankrupt. Part of the reason they did was the Chinese were subsidizing their solar industry and flooding the market in ways Solyndra couldn’t compete. But understand, this was not our program per se.”
The statement is remarkable in part because it was prompted a tough question from someone at National Public Radio, a famously genteel news organization usually disinclined to bring up such embarrassing matters to this president. The question was framed as delicately as possible, delivered with that soothing public radio voice, and there was no derisive snort at the answer, but by NPR standards it was a remarkable act of lese majesty nonetheless. We wish the host much luck with his next employer.
It is obvious that Obama wishes Solyndra hadn’t gone bankrupt, given that even Jon Stewart couldn’t resist mocking him about it, and not at all surprising that he would blame the Chinese. What’s striking about the statement, however, is that “per se” affixed to the end.
“Per se” is one of those phrases that immediately arouses the suspicion of an alert listener. One usually hears it at the end of such sentences as “I don’t think you’re fat, per se,” or “I didn’t run over your dog, per se.” Some clarification of what the speaker means by “per se” should always be demanded, except apparently by members of the news media.
Obama helpfully explained that “Congress, Democrats and Republicans, put together a loan guarantee program because they understood, historically, when you get new industries, it’s easy to raise money for start ups, but when you want to take them to scale oftentimes there’s a lot of risk involved, and what the loan guarantee program was designed to do was help get start up companies to scale.” So he apparently means by “per se” that it was actually a program of Congress, Democrats and Republicans, and they should be the ones that even Jon Stewart is ridiculing. He might as well have noted that it was also a program of the Department of Energy, an agency established during the administration of Jimmy Carter, and that his already much-maligned predecessor should therefore bear the blame.
Such a “per se” obscures a few key points. The funding for the Solyndra loans came not from some long-ago act of Congress but from the stimulus package that Obama was once eager to claim as his program, a point that he reiterated when he gave a much publicized speech at the Solyndra factory in happier times and told the adoring crowd that “Through the Recovery Act, this company received loans and expanded its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans.” The funding was also approved by Obama’s appointees at the Department of Energy, over the objections of the career civil servants there, and had been wisely rejected by the previous administration. Also, while it might not have been his program, per se, those were definitely his campaign bundlers who were getting the loans.
There’s no wondering why Obama would want to distance himself from the Solyndra fiasco, but it remains a mystery why he stubbornly clings to the rest of his failed “green jobs” policies. Solyndra is but one of several heavily-funded “green” projects hat have gone bust, from Ener1 to Beacon Power to the Chevy Volt, and it’s going to take a lot of per se to revise that history.
– Bud Norman
Oklahoma Crude
– Bud Norman
Profiles in Budgetary Courage
The budget plan introduced Tuesday by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and his fellow House Republicans is imperfect, as are all human creations, but they deserve some credit for at least being daring enough to offer up anything at all.
No matter how much one might wish for another option, there are only four things that any budget proposal can do. It can continue to hurtle the country headlong toward the fiscal cliff, impose massive tax hikes on almost every citizen, make steep cuts in government spending, or concoct some combination of the three. All four of these ideas poll badly, of course, and most politicians therefore prefer to stand foursquare against all of the above.
One of the most revealing moments of the Obama administration came last year when Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner testified before a Senate committee. Sen. Jeff Sessions, speaking in a severe Alabama accent, asked Geithner his opinion of a particular budget proposal that would increase the budget every year of the next ten years by hundreds of billions of dollars, and Geithner agreed that “absolutely, it is an excessively high interest burden, it is unattainable.” Clearly flummoxed by the response, Sessions reiterated that he was referring to the Obama budget plan, which Geithner’s boss had recently delivered to the Senate. Geithner seemed slightly surprised that anyone in the Senate had bothered to scan the document, and explained with a shrug that it was up to the legislative branch to find a sustainable solution, adding that “we’ll be able to see from the House, from this body, whether you people can find the political will to go deeper.”
At this year’s hearing, Geithner made clear the administration is no more eager some political will of its own and is happy to leave the necessary but unsavory reforms to Congress. Questioned once again by the dogged Sessions about the latest Obama proposal, Geithner conceded that “Even if congress were to enact this budget, we would still be left with, in the outer decades, as millions of Americans retire, what are still unsustainable commitments in Medicare and Medicaid.”
Nor have the congressional Democrats shown any political will when it comes to budgets. The Democrat-controlled Senate hasn’t passed any budget since April of 2009, voted down last year’s Obama budget by a convincing score of 97-0, and has yet to offer any new suggestions this year. Searching the internet for the House Democrats’ budget we found plenty of stories with such headlines as “Democrats ramp up attacks on House GOP budget proposal,” but nothing that spelled out an alternative plan.
The Ryan plan has no chance of passage, of course, and would be vetoed even if it were somehow passed by both chambers, which makes it all the more daring for them to expose themselves to the withering criticism that will surely come their way. They could have just as easily stayed quiet and run on the boast that at least they aren’t raising taxes, cutting spending, or doing some bi-partisan combination of the two. That would eventually lead to an economic catastrophe, of course, but that might not come until after the next election.
– Bud Norman
Brainwashed Blues
The incident was brought to mind by a video from 1995, recently uncovered by the invaluable Brietbrat.com site, which features current Attorney General Eric Holder employing a far more troubling use of the term “brainwash.”
– Bud Norman
Obama’s Green Lemon
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NOAA > NWS > CPHC > FAQ > Tropical Cyclone Climatology
Tropical Cyclone Climatology
1. When is hurricane season ?
2. How does El Nino-Southern Oscillation affect tropical cyclone activity around the globe ?
3. What may happen with tropical cyclone activity due to global warming ?
At the end of the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, many scientists, reporters and policymakers looked for simple answers to explain the extent of the devastation, which totaled more than $40 billion according to the National Hurricane Center. Some prominent scientists proposed that the intense 2004 hurricane season and its considerable impacts, particularly in Florida, could be linked to global warming resulting from the emissions of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere (e.g., Harvard Medical School 2004; NCAR 2004). But the current state of climate science does not support so close a linkage.
Tropical cyclones can be thought of to a first approximation as a natural heat engine or Carnot cycle (Emanuel 1987). From this perspective global warming can theoretically influence the maximum potential intensity of tropical cyclones through alterations of the surface energy flux and/or the upper-level cold exhaust (Emanuel 1987, Lighthill et al. 1994, Henderson-Sellers et al. 1998). But no theoretical basis yet exists for projecting changes in tropical cyclone frequency, though empirical studies do provide some guidance as to the necessary thermodynamic and dynamic ingredients for tropical cyclogenesis (Gray 1968, 1979).
Since 1995 there has been an increase in the frequency and in particular the intensity of hurricanes in the Atlantic. The changes of the past decade are not so large as to clearly indicate that anything is going on other than the multi-decadal variability that has been well documented since at least 1900 (Gray et al. 1997; Landsea et al. 1999; Goldenberg et al. 2001). Consequently, in the absence of large or unprecedented trends, any effect of greenhouse gases on the behavior of hurricanes is necessarily very difficult to detect in the context of this documented variability. Perspectives on hurricanes are no doubt shaped by recent history, with relatively few major hurricanes observed in the 1970s, 80s and early 90s, compared with considerable activity during the 1940s, 50s and early 60s. The period from 1944 to 1950 was particularly active for Florida. During that period eleven hurricanes hit the state, at least one per year, resulting in the equivalent of billions of dollars in damage in each of those years (Pielke and Landsea 1998).
Globally there has been no increase in tropical cyclone frequency over at least the past several decades (Lander and Guard 1998; Elsner and Kocher 2000). In addition to a lack of theory for future changes in storm frequencies, the few global modeling results are contradictory (Henderson-Sellers et al 1998; IPCC 2001). Because historical and observational data on hurricanes and tropical cyclones are relatively robust, it is clear that storm frequency has not tracked recent tropical climate trends. Research on possible future changes in hurricane frequency due to global warming is ambiguous, with most studies suggesting that future changes will be regionally-dependent, and showing a lack of consistency in projecting an increase or decrease in the total global number of storms (Henderson-Sellers et al. 1998, Royer et al. 1998; Sugi et al. 2002). These studies give such contradictory results as to suggest that the state of understanding of tropical cyclogenesis provides too poor a foundation to base any projections about the future. While there is always some degree of uncertainty about the future and model-based results are often fickle, the state of current understanding is such that we should expect hurricanes frequencies in the future to have a great deal of year-to-year and decade-to- decade variation as has been observed over the past decades and longer.
The issue of trends in tropical cyclone intensity is more complicated, simply because there are many possible metrics of intensity (e.g., maximum potential intensity, average intensity, average storm lifetime, maximum storm lifetime, average wind speed, maximum sustained wind speed, maximum wind gust, Accumulated Cyclone Energy (ACE) and so on), and not all such metrics have been closely studied from the standpoint of historical trends, due to data limitations among other reasons. Statistical analysis of historical tropical cyclone intensity shows a robust relationship to the thermodynamic potential intensity (Emanuel, 2000), suggesting that increasing potential intensity should lead to an increase in the actual intensity of storms. The increasing potential intensity associated with global warming as predicted by global climate models (Emanuel, 1987) is consistent with the increase in modeled storm intensities in a warmer climate, as might be expected (Knutson and Tuleya 2004). But while observations of tropical and subtropical sea surface temperature have shown an overall increase of about 0.2 C (0.4 F) over the past ~50 years, there is only weak evidence of a systematic increase in potential intensity (Bister and Emanuel, 2002; Free et al., 2004). The limited studies that have addressed tropical cyclone intensity variations (Landsea et al. 1999; Chan and Liu 2004) show no significant secular trends during the decades of reliable records.
Looking to the future, global modeling studies suggest the potential for relatively small changes in tropical cyclone intensities related to global warming. Early theoretical work suggested an increase of about 10% in wind speed for a 2 C (4 F) increase in tropical sea surface temperature (Emanuel, 1987). A 2004 study from the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton, N.J., that utilized a mesoscale model downscaled from coupled global climate model runs indicated the possibility of a 5% increase in the wind speeds of hurricanes by 2080 (Knutson and Tuleya 2004; cf. IPCC 2001). Michaels et al. 2005 suggest that even this 5% increase may be overstated and that a more realistic projection is on the order of only half of that amount. Even if one accepts that the Knutson and Tuleya results are in the right ballpark, these would imply that changes to hurricane intensity on the order of 0.5-1.0 m/s (1-2 mph) may be occurring today. This value is exceedingly small in the context of the more than doubling in numbers of major hurricanes between quiet and active decadal periods in the Atlantic (Goldenberg et al. 2001). Moreover, such a change in intensities would not be observable with today's combination of aircraft reconnaissance and satellite based intensity estimates, which only resolves wind speeds of individual tropical cyclones to - at best - 2.5 m/s (5 mph) increments.
In summary:
• Storm total RAINFALL may also increase on the order of about 5% more precipication.
• Bister, M. and K. A. Emanuel, 2002: Low frequency variability of tropical cyclone potential intensity, 1: Interannual to interdecadal variability. J. Geophys. Res., 107 (4801), doi:10.1029/2001JD000776
• Chan, J. C. L, and S. L. Liu. 2004: Global warming and western North Pacific typhoon activity from an observational perspective. J. Climate: 17. 4590-4602.
• Elsner, J. B., and B. Kocher, 2000: Global tropical cyclone activity: A link to the North Atlantic Oscillation. Geophysical Research Letters, 27:129-132.
• Emanuel, K., 1987: The dependence of hurricane intensity on climate. Nature, 326, 483-485.
• Emanuel, K., 2000: A statistical analysis of tropical cyclone intensity. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 1139-1152.
• Free, M., M. Bister and K. Emanuel, 2004: Potential intensity of tropical cyclones: Comparison of results from radiosonde and reanalysis data. J. Climate, 17, 1722-1727
Goldenberg, S.B., C.W. Landsea, A.M. Mestas-Nunez, and W.M. Gray, 2001. The recent increase in Atlantic hurricane activity : Causes and implications Science. 293:474-479
• Gray, W.M. (1979): "Hurricanes: Their formation, structure and likely role in the tropical circulation", Meteorology Over Tropical Oceans. D. B. Shaw (Ed.), Roy. Meteor. Soc.,
• James Glaisher House, Grenville Place, Bracknell, Berkshire, RG12 1BX, pp.155-218.
Gray, W.M., J.D. Sheaffer, and C.W. Landsea, 1997: Climate trends associated with multidecadal variability of Atlantic hurricane activity. "Hurricanes: Climate and Socioeconomic Impacts." H.F. Diaz and R.S. Pulwarty, Eds., Springer--Verlag, New York, 15-53.
• Harvard Medical School, 2004. Press release: Experts to warn global warming likely to continue spurring more outbreaks of intense hurricane, 21 October, [A full transcript of the press conference can be found here:]
• Henderson-Sellers, A., H. Zhang, G. Berz, K. Emanuel, W. Gray, C. Landsea, G. Holland, J. Lighthill, S-L. Shieh, P. Webster, and K. McGuffie, 1998. Tropical cyclones and global climate change: a post-IPCC assessment. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 79:9-38.
• IPCC, 2001. Climate Change 2001 - The Scientific Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. J. H. Houghton, Y. Ding, D. J. Griggs, M. Nogue, P. J. van der Linden, X. Dai, K. Maskell and C. A. Johnson (Eds.), Cambridge University Press, 881 pp.
• Knutson T. R., and R. E. Tuleya, 2004: Impact of CO2-Induced Warming on Simulated Hurricane Intensity and Precipitation: Sensitivity to the Choice of Climate Model and Convective Parameterization. Journal of Climate, 17:3477-3495.
• Lander, M. A., and C. P. Guard, 1998: A look a global tropical cyclone activity during 1995: Contrasting high Atlantic activity with low activity in other basins. Monthly Weather Review, 126:1163-1173
• Landsea, C.W., Pielke, Jr., R.A., Mestas-Nunez, A.M., and Knaff, J.A., 1999: Atlantic basin hurricanes: Indices of climatic changes, Climatic Change, 42:89-129.
• Lighthill, J., G. J. Holland, W. M. Gray, C. Landsea, K. Emanuel, G. Craig, J. Evans, Y. Kurihara, and C. P. Guard, 1994: Global climate change and tropical cyclones. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 2147-2157.
• Michaels, P. J., P. C. Knappenberger, and C. W. Landsea, 2005: Comments on impacts of CO2-induced warming on simulated hurricane intensity and precipitation: Sensitivity to the choice of climate model and convective scheme. _J. Climate_, (in press).
• NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research), 2004. Hurricanes and climate change: Is there a connection?, NCAR Staff Notes Monthly, October,
• Pielke, Jr., R. A., and Landsea, C.W., 1998: Normalized U.S. hurricane damage, 1925- 1995. Weather and Forecasting, 13:621-631.
• Pielke, Jr., R. A., C. Landsea, K. Emanuel, M. Mayfield, J. Laver and R. Pasch, 2005: Hurricanes and global warming. _Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society_, in press.
• Royer, J.-F., F. Chauvin, B. Timbal, P. Araspin, and D. Grimal, 1998: A GCM study of impact of greenhouse gas increase on the frequency of occurrence of tropical cyclones, Climate Dynamics, 38:307-343
• Sugi, M., A. Noda, and N. Sato, 2002: Influence of the global warming on tropical cyclone climatology: An experiment with the JMA global model. Journal of the Meteorological Society of Japan, 80:249-272.
4. Are we getting stronger and more frequent hurricanes, typhoons, and tropical cyclones in the last several years?
Globally, no. However, for the Atlantic basin we have seen an increase in the number of strong hurricanes since 1995. We have had a record 33 hurricanes in the four years of 1995 to 1999 (accurate records for the Atlantic are thought to begin around 1944). The extreme impacts from Hurricanes Marilyn (1995), Opal (1995), Fran (1996), Georges (1998) and Mitch (1998) in the United States and throughout the Caribbean attest to the high amounts of Atlantic hurricane activity lately.
As discussed in the previous section, it is highly unlikely that global warming has (or will) contribute to a drastic change in the number or intensity of hurricanes. We have not observed a long-term increase in the intensity or frequency of Atlantic hurricanes. Actually, 1991-1994 marked the four quietest years on record (back to the mid-1940s) with just less than 4 hurricanes per year. Instead of seeing a long-term trend up or down, we do see a quasi-cyclic multi-decade regime that alternates between active and quiet phases for major Atlantic hurricanes on the scale of 25-40 years each (Gray 1990; Landsea 1993; Landsea et al. 1996). The quiet decades of the 1970s to the early 1990s for major Atlantic hurricanes were likely due to changes in the Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperature structure with cooler than usual waters in the North Atlantic. The reverse situation of a warm North Atlantic was present during the active late-1920s through the 1960s (Gray et al. 1997). It is quite possible that the extreme activity since 1995 marks the start of another active period that may last a total of 25-40 years. More research is needed to better understand these hurricane cycles.
For the region near Australia (105°-160°E, south of the equator), Nicholls (1992) identified a downward trend in the numbers of tropical cyclones, primarily from the mid-1980s onward. However, a portion of this trend is likely artificial as the forecasters in the region no longer classify weak systems as "cyclones" if the systems do not possess the traditional tropical cyclone inner-core structure, but have the band of maximum winds well-removed from the center (Nicholls et al. 1998). These changes in methodology around the mid-1980s have been prompted by improved access to and interpretation of digital satellite data, the installation of coastal and off-shore radar, and an increased understanding of the differentiation of tropical cyclones from other type of tropical weather systems. By considering only the moderate and intense tropical cyclones, this artificial bias in the cyclone record can be overcome. Even with the removal of this bias in the weak Australian tropical cyclones that the frequency of the remaining moderate and strong tropical cyclones has been reduced substantially over the years 1969/70-1995/96. Nicholls et al. (1998) attribute the decrease in moderate cyclones to the occurrence of more frequent El Nino occurrences during the 1980s and 1990s.
For the Northwest Pacific basin, Chan and Shi (1996) found that both the frequency of typhoons and the total number of tropical storms and typhoons have been increasing since about 1980. However, the increase was preceded by a nearly identical magnitude of decrease from about 1960 to 1980. It is unknown currently what has caused these decadal-scale changes in the Northwest Pacific typhoons.
For the remaining basins based upon data from the late 1960s onwards, the Northeast Pacific has experienced a significant upward trend in tropical cyclone frequency, the North Indian a significant downward trend, and no appreciable long-term variation was observed in the Southwest Indian and Southwest Pacific (east of 160°E) for the total number of tropical storm strength cyclones (from Neumann 1993). However, whether these represent longer term (> 30 years) or shorter term (on the scale of ten years) variability is completely unknown because of the lack of a long, reliable record.
5. Why do tropical cyclones occur primarily in the summer and autumn ?
The primary time of year for tropical cyclones is during the summer and autumn: July-October for the Northern Hemisphere and December-March for the Southern Hemisphere (though there are differences from basin to basin). The peak in summer/autumn is due to having all of the necessary ingredients become most favorable during this time of year: warm ocean waters (at least 26°C or 80°F), a tropical atmosphere that can quite easily kick off convection (i.e. thunderstorms), low vertical shear in the troposphere, and a substantial amount of large-scale spin available (either through the monsoon trough or easterly waves).
While one would intuitively expect tropical cyclones to peak right at the time of maximum solar radiation (late June for the tropical Northern Hemisphere and late December for the tropical Southern Hemisphere), it takes several more weeks for the oceans to reach their warmest temperatures. The atmospheric circulation in the tropics also reaches its most pronounced (and favorable for tropical cyclones) at the same time. This time lag of the tropical ocean and atmospheric circulation is analogous to the daily cycle of surface air temperatures - they are warmest in mid-afternoon, yet the sun's incident radiation peaks at noon.
6. What determines the movement of tropical cyclones ?
Tropical cyclones can be thought of as being steered by the surrounding environmental flow throughout the depth of the troposphere (from the surface to about 12 km or 8 mi). Dr. Neil Frank, former director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, used the analogy that the movement of hurricanes is like a leaf being steered by the currents in the stream, except that for a hurricane the stream has no set boundaries.
Many times it is difficult to tell whether a trough will allow the tropical cyclone to recurve north or northeastward or whether the tropical cyclone will continue west or northwest.
7. Why doesn't the South Atlantic Ocean experience tropical cyclones ?
The National Hurricane Center in Miami has documented the occurrence of a strong tropical depression/weak tropical storm that formed off the coast of Congo in mid-April 1991 (McAdie and Rappaport (1991)). This storm lasted about five days and drifted toward the west-southwest into the central South Atlantic. So far, there has not been a systematic study as to the conditions that accompanied this rare event.
Penn State University article on the South Atlantic hurricane
8. Does an active June and July mean the rest of the season will be busy too ?
Yes and No. The vast majority of Atlantic activity takes place during August-September-October, the climatological peak months of the hurricane season. The overall number of named storms (hurricanes) occurring in June and July (JJ) correlates at an insignificant r = +0.13 (+0.02) versus the whole season activity. In fact, there is a slight negative relationship between early season storms (hurricanes) versus late season - August through November - r = -0.28 (-0.35). Thus, the overall early season activity, be it very active or quite calm, has little bearing on the season as a whole. These correlations are based on the years 1944-1994.
However, as shown in (Goldenberg 2000), if one looks only at the June-July Atlantic tropical storms and hurricanes occurring south of 22°N and east of 77°W (the eastern portion of the Main Development Region [MDR] for Atlantic hurricanes), there is a strong association with activity for the remainder of the year. According to the data from 1944-1999, total overall Atlantic activity for years that had a tropical storm or hurricane form in this region during JJ have been at least average and often times above average. So it could be said that a JJ storm in this region is pretty much a "sufficient" (though not "necessary") condition for a year to produce at least average activity. (I.e., Not all years with average to above-average total overall activity have had a JJ storm in that region, but almost all years with that type of JJ storm produce average to above-average activity.) The formation of a storm in this region during June-July is taken into account when the August updates for the Bill Gray and NOAA seasonal forecasts are issued.
9. Why do hurricanes hit the East coast of the U.S., but never the West coast ?
Hurricanes form both in the Atlantic basin (i.e. the Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea) and in the Northeast Pacific basin to the west of the U.S. However, the ones in the Northeast Pacific almost never hit the U.S., while the ones in the Atlantic basin strike the U.S. mainland just less than twice a year on average. There are two main reasons. The first is that hurricanes tend to move toward the west-northwest after they form in the tropical and subtropical latitudes. In the Atlantic, such a motion often brings the hurricane into the vicinity of the U.S. east coast. In the Northeast Pacific, a west-northwest track takes those hurricanes farther off-shore, well away from the U.S. west coast. In addition to the general track, a second factor is the difference in water temperatures along the U.S. east and west coasts. Along the U.S. east coast, the Gulf Stream provides a source of warm (> 80°F or 26.5°C) waters to help maintain the hurricane. However, along the U.S. west coast, the ocean temperatures rarely get above the lower 70s, even in the midst of summer. Such relatively cool temperatures are not energetic enough to sustain a hurricane's strength. So for the occasional Northeast Pacific hurricane that does track back toward the U.S. west coast, the cooler waters can quickly reduce the strength of the storm.
Recently (Chenoweth and Landsea 2005), it was re-discovered that a hurricane struck San Diego, California on October 2, 1858. Unprecedented damage was done in the city and was described as the severest gale ever felt to that date nor has it been matched or exceeded in severity since. The hurricane force winds at San Diego are the first and only documented instance of winds of this strength from a tropical cyclone in the recorded history of the state. While climate records are incomplete, 1858 may have been an El Nino year, which would have allowed the hurricane to maintain intensity as it moved north along warmer than usual waters. Today if a Category 1 hurricane made a direct landfall in either San Diego or Los Angeles, damage from such a storm would likely be on the order of a few to several hundred million dollars. The re-discovery of this storm is relevant to climate change issues and the insurance/emergency management communities risk assessment of rare and extreme events in the region.
10. How much lightning occurs in tropical cyclones ?
11. What is my chance of being struck by a tropical storm or hurricane ?
In the Pacific:
The following return periods have been suggestd for tropical cyclones wind speeds within 250 miles of Honolulu, close enough that watches would likely be issued for some portion of the state of Hawaii:
Maximum wind speed (kt) 1949-1995 (Full Data set) 1970-1995 (Satellite Era)
34 3.2 3.2
50 4 4
64 66 6.6
60 12 13
100 33 42
110 59 81
125 137 202
Chu, P.S., and J.X. Wang, 1998: Modeling Return Periods of Tropical Cyclone Intensities n the Vicinity of Hawaii. Journal of Applied Meteorology, 37, 951-960.
In the Atlantic Basin
Empirical Probability of a Named Storm
The figure here shows for any particular location what the chance is that a tropical storm or hurricane will affect the area sometime during the whole June to November hurricane season. We utilized the years 1944 to 1999 in the analysis and counted hits when a storm or hurricane was within about 100 miles (165 km). This figure is created by Todd Kimberlain.
For example, people living in New Orleans, Louisiana have about a 40% chance (the green-orange color) per year of experiencing a strike by a tropical storm or hurricane. For the U.S., the locations that have the highest chances are the following: Miami, Florida - 48% chance; Cape Hatteras, North Carolina - 48% chance; and San Juan, Puerto Rico - 42% chance.
For any particular location the chance that a hurricane will directly affect the area sometime during the whole June to November hurricane season is shown here. We utilized the years 1944 to 1999 in the analysis and counted hits when a hurricane was within about 60 miles (110 km). This figure is created by Todd Kimberlain. (For example, the chance for Miami, Florida is about 16%.)
For any particular location what the chance is that a major hurricane (Category 3, 4 or 5) will directly affect the area sometime during the whole June to November hurricane season is shown here. We utilized the years 1944 to 1999 in the analysis and counted hits when a hurricane was within about 30 miles (50 km). This figure is created by Todd Kimberlain. (For example, the chance for Miami, Florida is about 4%.)
Many folks are concerned about the possible impacts that a hurricane could have on their vacation. If so, please check with your hotel, cruise company, etc. to find out how they inform their guests when a hurricane is coming, what actions they plan and what refund policies they have (if any). Keep in mind that a direct hit by a major hurricane is an extremely rare event.
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I’ll be however I wanna be. If you don’t like it get the fuck on.I give no fucks.
It frustrates me to hear men say they rather date a ugly & skinny girl instead of a pretty chunky girl or a dumb skinny girl instead of a smart chubby girl. It shouldn’t matter of the size of the girl, if they have a really good personality it shouldn’t matter about their size or how they look.
I really don’t understand people sometimes. Shady ass people.I’s hard to know whos real or fake around here.And that just sucks cause it makes you put up a front , a guard against almost everyone you come across.Never letting those people know who you are..ugh
Ya know when looking back at things when you were younger than you are, that you cant do anymore really makes miss those things and never being able to do them again. oh nostalgia.. It helps you realize how thankful you are that were exposed to those things in that time in your life. All that time you’ll never get back..All the mistakes you could have made that could have set you on a different path. But then again I guess why we didn’t chose those things because it wasn’t our path to go down, but it makes you curious as to why not me? All the people you could have helped or met if you wasn’t so reserved or shy or whatever the case maybe. I don’t know just thoughts.. | http://tuffles13.tumblr.com/tagged/rant | robots: classic
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Instant Immersion English v2.0 (Spanish Version) by TOPICS Entertainment
El camino mas rapido a un nuevo idioma - Begin your course of study with Talk Now! English, your computer primer for basic vocabulary and accurate pronunciation. Talk More English reinforces your learning progress with video technology and supplemental phrases. Graduate to intermediate level with World Talk English and its recording studio and interactive game show features. Build your English lexicon with 2,000 word entries from the Interactive Picture Dictionary offering audio and pictorial definitions. Finally, test your command of your new language with Who is Oscar Lake? English, the interactive mystery game in which hunting down a stolen diamond in a foreign city is your only chance to clear your name.
* Review Headline:
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The most useful comments contain specific examples about:
• How you use the product
• Things that are great about it
• Things that aren't so great about it
* Bottom Line:
Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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The AP1-dependent secretion of galectin-1 by Reed Sternberg cells fosters immune privilege in classical Hodgkin lymphoma
Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsJuszczynski, Przemyslaw, Ouyang Jing, Monti Stefano, Rodig Scott J., Takeyama Kunihiko, Abramson Jeremy, Chen Wen, Kutok Jeffery L., Rabinovich Gabriel A., and Shipp Margaret A.
AbstractClassical Hodgkin lymphomas (cHLs) contain small numbers of neoplastic Reed-Sternberg (RS) cells within an extensive inflammatory infiltrate that includes abundant T helper (Th)-2 and T regulatory (Treg) cells. The skewed nature of the T cell infiltrate and the lack of an effective host antitumor immune response suggest that RS cells use potent mechanisms to evade immune attack. In a screen for T cell-inhibitory molecules in cHL, we found that RS cells selectively overexpressed the immunoregulatory glycan-binding protein, galectin-1 (Gal1), through an AP1-dependent enhancer. In cocultures of activated T cells and Hodgkin cell lines, RNAi-mediated blockade of RS cell Gal1 increased T cell viability and restored the Th1/Th2 balance. In contrast, Gal1 treatment of activated T cells favored the secretion of Th2 cytokines and the expansion of CD4+CD25high FOXP3+ Treg cells. These data directly implicate RS cell Gal1 in the development and maintenance of an immunosuppressive Th2/Treg-skewed microenvironment in cHL and provide the molecular basis for selective Gal1 expression in RS cells. Thus, Gal1 represents a potential therapeutic target for restoring immune surveillance in cHL.
Year of Publication2007
Pages13134 - 9
Date Published (YYYY/MM/DD)2007/08/07/
ISBN Number0027-8424
KeywordsCancer, Cytokines, Forkhead Transcription Factors, Galectin 1, Hodgkin Disease, Humans, Immune Tolerance, Reed-Sternberg Cells, Regulatory, T-Lymphocytes, Th2 Cells, Transcription Factor AP-1 | http://www.broadinstitute.org/publications/broad828 | robots: classic
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The Base Rate Fallacy
Here is a simple puzzle:
A man takes a diagnostic test for a certain disease and the result is positive. The false positive rate for the test in this case is the same as the false negative rate, 0.001. The background prevalence of the disease is 1 in 10,000. What is the probability that he has the disease?
This problem is one of the simplest possible examples of a broad class of problems, known as hypothesis testing, concerned with defining a set of mutually contradictory statements about the world (hypotheses) and figuring out some kind of measure of the faith we can have in each of them.
It might be tempting to think that the desired probability is just 1- (false-positive rate), which would be 0.999. Be warned, however, that this is quite an infamous problem. In 1982, a study was published1 for which 100 physicians had been asked to solve an equivalent question. All but 5 got the answer wrong by a factor of about 10. Maybe it’s a good idea then to go through the logic carefully.
Think about the following:
• What values should the correct answer depend on?
• Other than reducing the false-positive rate, what would increase the probability that a person receiving a positive test result would have the disease?
The correct calculation needs to find some kind of balance between the likelihood that the person has the disease (the frequency with which the disease is contracted by similar people) and the likelihood that the positive test result was a mistake (the false positive rate). We should see intuitively that if the prevalence of the disease is high, the probability that any particular positive test result is a true positive is higher than if the disease is extremely rare.
The rate with which the disease is contracted is 1 in 10,000 people, so to make it simple, we will imagine that we have tested 10,000 people. Therefore we expect 1 true case of the disease. We also expect 10 false positives, so our estimate goes from 0.999 to 1 in 11, 0.09091. This answer is very close, but not precisely correct.
The frequency with which we see true positives must be reduced by the possibility that we can have false negatives also, how do we encode that in our calculation?
We require the conditional probability that the man has the disease, given that his test result was positive, P(D|R+). This is the number of ways of getting a positive result and having the disease, divided by the total number of ways of getting a positive test result,
P(D|R+) = P(R+D)/(P(R+D)+P(R+C)) (1),
where D is the proposition that he has the disease, C means he is clear, and R+ denotes the positive test result.
If we ask what is the probability of drawing the ace of hearts on the first draw from a deck of cards and the ace of spades on the second, without replacing the first card before the second draw, we have P(AHAS) = P(AH)P(As|AH). The probability for the second draw is modified by what we know to have taken place on the first.
Similarly, P(R+D) = P(D)P(R+|D), and P(R+C) = P(C)P(R+|C), so
• P(D) is the background rate for the disease.
• P(R+|D) is the true positive rate, equal to 1 – (false negative rate).
• P(C) = 1 – P(D).
• P(R+|C) = false positive rate
which is 0.09090.
The formula we have arrived at above, by simple application of common sense is known as Bayes’ theorem. Many people assume the answer to be more like 0.999, but the correct answer is an order of magnitude smaller. As mentioned, most medical doctors also get questions like this wrong by about an order of magnitude. The correct answer to the question, 0.0909, is called in medical science the positive-predictive value of the test. Generally, it is known as the posterior probability.
Bayes’ theorem has been a controversial idea during the development of statistical reasoning, with many authorities dismissing it as an absurdity. This has led to the consequence that orthodox statistics, still today, does not employ this vitally important technique. Here, we have developed a special case of Bayes’ theorem by simple reasoning. In generality, it follows as a straightforward re-arrangement of probabilistic laws (the product and sum rules) that are so simple that most authors treat them as axioms, but which in fact can be rigorously derived (with a little effort) from extremely simple and perfectly reasonable principles. It is overwhelmingly one of my central beliefs about science that a logical calculus of probability can only be achieved, and the highest quality inferences extracted from data when Bayes’ theorem is accepted and applied whenever appropriate.
The general statement of Bayes’ theorem is
Here 'I' represents the background information: a set of statements concerning the scope of the problem that are considered true for the purposes of the calculation. In working through the medical testing problem, above, I have omitted the 'I', but in every case where I right down a probability without including the 'I', this is to be recognized as short hand - the 'I' is always really there and the calculation makes no sense without it.
The error that leads many people to over estimate, by an order of magnitude, probabilities such as the one required in this question is known as the base-rate fallacy. Specifically in this case, the base rate, or expected incidence, of the disease has been ignored, leading to a calamitous miscalculation. The base-rate fallacy amounts to believing that P(A|B) = P(B|A). In the above calculation this corresponds to saying that P(D|R+), which was desired, is the same as P(R+|D), the latter being equal to 1 – false positive rate.
In frequentist statistics, a probability is identified with a frequency. In this framework, therefore, it makes no sense to ask what is the probability that a hypothesis H is true, since there is no sense in which a relative frequency for the truth of H can be obtained. As a measure of faith in the proposition H in light of data, D, therefore, the frequentist habitually uses not P(H|D), but P(D|H), and so he commits himself to committing the base-rate fallacy.
In case it is still not completely clear that the base rate fallacy is indeed a fallacy, lets employ a thought experiment with an extreme case. (These extreme cases, while not necessarily realistic, allow the desired outcome of a theory to be obtained directly and compared with the result of the theory - something computer scientists call a 'sanity check'.) Imagine the case where the base rate is higher than the sensitivity of the test. For example let the sensitivity be 98% (ie 2% false positive rate) and let the background prevalence of the disease be 99%. Then, P(B|A) is 0.98, and substituting this for P(A|B), we have an answer that is lower than P(A) = 0.99. The positive result of a high-quality test (98% sensitivity) giving lower probability that the test subject has the disease than before the test result was known.
[1] Eddy, D. M. (1982). Probabilistic reasoning in clinical medicine: Problems and opportunities. In D. Kahneman, P. Slovic, & A. Tversky (Eds.), Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases (pp. 249–267). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. (In this study 95 out of 100 physicians answered between 0.7 and 0.8 to a similar question, to which the correct answer was 0.078.)
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Photographer on Focus: Anka Zhuravleva
photograph by (c) Anka Zhuravleva,
all rights reserved by photographer
It has mostly been my life experience to find soul-mates after they have died. T.S. Eliot, for example. I remember reading his work in college, falling head over his words, and then having to come to terms with the fact that he was, in fact, dead. It happened again when I watched Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly, and then continued to watch all of his films. He had not died yet, but I could not think of what to write to him on a postcard. But then he died, as people tend to do.
I don't know how I came across Anka Zhuravleva's photographs, but I did recently, and I think we have a similar vision of the world. Or, at least, I recognize in her vision something of my own. I suppose that's one sign of a great artist . . . making it sort of impossible for anyone not to see themselves in the vision.
In her bio, she notes the deaths of her parents, within two years of each other, when she was a young woman. Perhaps, then, that's what I share with her. Perhaps there's something that happens, when that happens, if it happens at just the right time in a persons's life, and that person already had tendencies to imagine herself away. . . Maybe that's what I see in her work that makes it seem to me that she has shown me a photograph she took of my nightmare last night, and of my dream by day.
Regardless, her work has a disjointedness about it that I enjoy. The way she shows the impossibility of reality by showing what it can't do. To show how impossibly grounded the world is by showing the wishes. To show the limits of the body by showing images of the body in motion, the body outside of gravity, the body moved by the unseen that isn't. The photograph's attempt to capture the can't-be, as though it did catch it, like you will hear suddenly the voice of a long-dead friend saying your name, and you turn to it and find you'd heard the voice through your mind and not through your ear. And then you remember why and see that you're still standing in the world, somehow, and on your way to whatever task you have.
I think one of the great things about Zhuravleva's work is that, unlike the typical visions we're given of impossible worlds (the romantic comedy, for example, or most anything on TV) is that she's asking us to ache for the can't-be rather than pretending that the can't-be can. She provides longing for us, and lets us both feel it and think about it. Her photographs don't say, Here is a fantasy for you to escape your life by living. Her photographs don't say, Fantasy is better than reality, and so despise your reality now that it isn't like what you can imagine. Her photographs say, Look, look what I found for you, look at the impossibility of beauty through its impossibility.
photograph by (c) Anka Zhuravleva,
all rights reserved by photographer
This especially becomes interesting when even scrolling down her Facebook page, for there is a mix of the obviously fantastical photographs with straight-eyed head shots, or a woman sitting at a table and not, as in another photograph, floating into the room. And so the bleed-over from the fantastical photographs onto the more realistic photographs begins a deeper narrative about the real. For suddenly, I think, the viewer begins to see the woman floating while being trapped inside the gaze of a woman who stares out, daring us to look away, to float away, to leave as all people do eventually. | http://www.erinpringle.com/2013/03/photographer-on-focus-anka-zhuravleva.html | robots: classic
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10-18-2009, 23:37
After developing this film (120) I get a myriad of tiny black spots covering the whole negative. They are only visible under a loupe. Depending on the scene, sometimes they will appear in the copies and sometimes won't. I am currently using alternatively rodinal and ultrafin plus. It happens with both developers, but only with foma 200. I also use Tmax 100 (35 mm) and foma 100 (120) and both are fine.
I would like to know if someone has a similar experience and, if possible, how to avoid it. Thank you very much.
10-19-2009, 00:55
Hello Javier,
Probably you have got a film from a bad batch of T200. It is sometimes happens, when T200 is manufactured (bad gelatine ? ).
Roger Hicks
10-19-2009, 01:52
Distressingly, this is not uncommon with the Foma 200 roll-film, but it is very rare with 35mm (which I really like). The best guess I've heard is convoluted and dirty pipe-work on the 120 line.
10-19-2009, 02:33
Thanks to all for the quick answers. The temperature is correct, 20 degress (C). I don't remember the expiration date, but the film is certainly fresh. First time I suspected the fixer, but after changing it and seen the good results with other films, I assume it must be a bad batch :-(. Curiously foma 100 in 120, from more or less the same time is perfectly fine.
I have tried overfixing the film and some spots disappeared, but not all. Thank you again
10-19-2009, 04:52
Sometimes I hear people blaming the stop bath for those. Don't know how accurate that info is. I'm not a chemist. | http://www.rangefinderforum.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-81253.html | robots: classic
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I have two models, A and B, and one light, L. I would like model A to cast a shadow on model B. I don't want to bother with shadow volumes or proper shadows for the moment, just a simple circle shadow will suffice. The effect is that model A is treated as a sphere for shadow casting purposes.
Here is how I envision the algorithm:
For each triangle in model B, draw the triangle. Project a circle onto the triangle along the line from L to A, increasing the size of the circle depending on how far away the triangle is. Ensure the circle is clipped to the triangle's boundaries (using the stencil buffer in some way, I imagine).
I'm working with OpenGL and plain C.
Any pointers on some reference documentation I can read? Or implmentation ideas?
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2 Answers
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I think it is actually easier to implement correct shadows because OpenGL can do the work for you.
I found a working shadow code with lots of documentation here:
The code above renders the object twice: first normally then with a special matrix. It does a lot of unrelated things such as control with mouse and reflections. So here are the interesting parts.
This calculates the shadow matrix:
/* Create a matrix that will project the desired shadow. */
shadowMatrix(GLfloat shadowMat[4][4],
GLfloat groundplane[4],
GLfloat lightpos[4])
GLfloat dot;
/* Find dot product between light position vector and ground plane normal. */
dot = groundplane[X] * lightpos[X] +
groundplane[Y] * lightpos[Y] +
groundplane[Z] * lightpos[Z] +
groundplane[W] * lightpos[W];
shadowMat[0][0] = dot - lightpos[X] * groundplane[X];
shadowMat[1][0] = 0.f - lightpos[X] * groundplane[Y];
shadowMat[2][0] = 0.f - lightpos[X] * groundplane[Z];
shadowMat[3][0] = 0.f - lightpos[X] * groundplane[W];
shadowMat[X][1] = 0.f - lightpos[Y] * groundplane[X];
shadowMat[1][1] = dot - lightpos[Y] * groundplane[Y];
shadowMat[2][1] = 0.f - lightpos[Y] * groundplane[Z];
shadowMat[3][1] = 0.f - lightpos[Y] * groundplane[W];
shadowMat[X][2] = 0.f - lightpos[Z] * groundplane[X];
shadowMat[1][2] = 0.f - lightpos[Z] * groundplane[Y];
shadowMat[2][2] = dot - lightpos[Z] * groundplane[Z];
shadowMat[3][2] = 0.f - lightpos[Z] * groundplane[W];
shadowMat[X][3] = 0.f - lightpos[W] * groundplane[X];
shadowMat[1][3] = 0.f - lightpos[W] * groundplane[Y];
shadowMat[2][3] = 0.f - lightpos[W] * groundplane[Z];
shadowMat[3][3] = dot - lightpos[W] * groundplane[W];
I do not pretend to understand this completely. lightpos is the position of the light source. The first 3 coordinates of groundplane are the normal vector of the ground surface. The fourth is the offset (how far is it from 0,0,0).
And this part actually renders the shadow:
/* Project the shadow. */
glMultMatrixf((GLfloat *) floorShadow);
There are some things you need to glEnable/glDisable first for this to work so look at the link.
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This just "flattens" the model onto a plane.. good for projecting a shadow onto a flat surface. The OP wants to render the shadow onto an arbitrarily-shaped 3d object. – Jim Buck Jul 12 '09 at 0:14
This one can supposedly do that: Unfortunately I can not compile it with gcc. – stribika Jul 12 '09 at 0:37
This method seems good, but the cost of drawing the source model once for each face in B seems high. Is there a way to reduce the complexity of this method? – Martin Jul 12 '09 at 15:26
I have settled (for the moment) for this method, iterated once for each triangle of model B, it seems to work, but the speed leaves something to be desired. Thank you! – Martin Jul 12 '09 at 22:48
Here's a working link to at least the full code: – andy Jun 1 '12 at 7:20
This paper seems to cover your requirements, using OpenGL and hardware acceleration to create a detailed shadow map.
If I were trying to accomplish this, I would be tempted to use ray casting. For each triangle in B, create a vector from the triangle to the light. If it hits anything along the way, it is in shadow. This would be kind of slow unless you were using a decent acceleration structure and a fast triangle hit test. I like bounding volume hierarchies; many programs use them for collision detection as well.
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When I buy new cloths/shoes, I tend to always wear them in the begining. Same thing with baking books, I am still on the Tartine Bread Book wagon, so here's another one: olive oil brioche. I always thought brioche is all about showcasing the flavor of butter, but apparently it can be made with olive oil (no butter) and it's a traditional bread from south of France.
I broke out my best olive oil for this one - A TON OF it too, looking that the half empty bottle, i was hoping the result would be worthwile, and it was! Very frangrant, flavorful, and soft, different from the butter ones I made before, but has its own unique charm.
The mixing process was a tad scary. Oil was added after most of the gluten was developed (just like butter broiche recipes), but the dough was literally swimming in a huge puddle of oil at first, didn't seem possible for it to completely absorb the oil. Just be patient, it took quite a few minutes, but all of a suddent, the dough absorbed it all and became silky smooth. Yes, it's still wet and sticky, just like a brioche dough should be, but very smooth. Other than that, the process is straightforward: levain and poolish were added to the final dough for flavor; extra dry yeast was also added so it's a fairly quick bread to make; the dough can also be frozen for up to a week (defrose in fridge overnight before shaping) which also makes it flexible.
I combined this formula with another brioche formula in the same book - removed a pound of the dough aftter mixing and added toasted hazelnut, prosciutto, thyme, and pepper, utterly delicious!
I kneaded the dough very well, hence the airy soft rich crumb for both variations.
The full recipe makes a lot of dough, I halved it, still got 1500g of dough. Other than the small brioche tete, also made a big one (500g) using my brand new ceramic mold. Went a little overboard with the egg wash (3 layers!), so it's kinda dark on top, but it's not burned. Just super fragrant and flavorful.
The formula can be found in the book, or the preview link at
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I swear I am not taking a cut from Chad Robertson (:P), I guess the formulas in the book just really works for me, so I keep going back for more. As I have mentioned before, it's not a cover-all bread book like "BBA" or "Bread", it only has a handful of base formulas (4 for lean breads to be exact), then some variations. Since I have posted about the Basic Country Bread and WW Country Bread, I am not going to post formula for this Semonlina loaf just to be fair to the author(s). if you like the breads, I think it's a book worth buying.
The procedure is similar to the other two breads, at 80%+ hydration, I am not suprised about the open crumb, but I was pleasantly surprised by the flavor combo - fennel seeds and black seame, both in the dough and on the crust, so frangrant! Both of those two seeds have such strong aroma on their own, I never thought they would mingle so well together! I was toasting them together before mixing into the dough, such heavenly smel! I knew it would be a winner then.
Open and colorful crumb, and trust me, it's an explosion of flavors in the mouth.
Recently bought a triangle proofing basket from here, I like the result. BTW, the basket is small, enough for 1lb dough probably. However, I did half the recipe this time since DH is out of town, so I had two 1lb loaves, one triangle and one oval, rather than the usual 2X 2lb loaves. I think it's actually better to shape into smaller loaves for two reasons:
1. High hydration dough tend to spread a bit on baking stone (Chad recommend to bake in a cast-iron pot thingy that I don't have), but it's much less noticable with smaller loaves;
2. The seeds on the crust came out just right after 35min in the oven, any longer, they would get burned a little, which happened to my bigger loaves before.
Last time, Sylvia wanted to see how my bastkets are floured, here's a picture of the oval one after being dusted with AP+rice flour - see the little bit of flour gathered in the left? I dumped those out after.
Needless to say, I will make this again, maybe try the other flavor variation in the book to combine fennel and raisin with semolina.
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I am so glad that some of you tried and liked the 36 hour sourdough baguette formula. I am still making it every week - it's our Friday "treat". Of course, I just can't help messing with a good thing, so I modify the original formula a little bit each time, some turned out really well, the following 3 are my recent favorites:
1) Pumpkin baguette - a.k.a. I don't care it's still nearly 90F out, it's FALL!
The idea came from this blog post, but I used pumpkin instead of butternut squash, toasted pumpkin seeds instead of sunflower seeds, and my basic 36 hour sourdough baguette formula.
AP Flour, 425g
pumpkin puree (I used canned), 165g
ice water, 223g
salt, 10g
starter (100%) 150g
pumpkin seeds, 50g, toasted and crushed a little
-Mix flour, pumpkin puree, ice water and autolyse for 12 hours.
-Mix in salt, starter, and seeds, then follow the basic 36 hour sourdough baguette formula here.
I find pumpkin puree generally makes bread moist but "sticky", which does make the crumb of these baguettes less open than the basic formula, but I think the brilliant golden color makes up for it, how very autumn-like.
Pumpkin seeds are bigger than sunflower seeds, so I crushed them a little before adding into the dough, they still "blocked" some holes, but the crunch and flavor they add to the bread was great.
I counted 50% of the pumpkin puree weight is water, which turned out to be a good assumption. The dough felt similar to my usual 75% baguette dough, and I think I am getting better at scoring this wet baby.
2) Wheatgerm baguette
This is inspired by a formula we did at the SFBI baguette workshop. I love baking with wheatgerm, even my hands smell nice after touch the dough.I noticed at the workshop that wheatgerm tends to absorb extra water and make the dough a little dry, so I added extra water to compensate. The hydration ended up being 78%.
AP Flour, 425g
ice water, 315g
salt, 10g,
starter (100%), 150g
toasted wheat germ, 11g
- Mix water, flour and wheat germ, autolyse for 12 hours. Then follow the basic 36 hour sourdough baguette formula here.
The increased hydration worked, I got very open crumb AND fragrant wheat germ flavor.
If you really look, you can see the wheat germ grains on the wall of those big holes
After making, and photographing so many baguettes, I was excited to find a new way to present it - in a paper bag!
I was in love with the flavor, and thought it ahs become my favorite variation, until I made the next one...
3) Rye starter baguette - MY FAVORITE SO FAR!
I have been wanting to add rye or other whole grain flour in the 36 hour baguette for a while now. In order to keep the open crumb, and the classic baguette mouth feel, I know I can't add too much. However, I do want to add enough to really taste the whole grain taste I love. This past weekend, I had a thought: instead of adding rye in the main dough, why don't I "add" it in the starter? Why not just use my rye starter instead of the white one? Since the formula has 30% of starter, which means the dough would have 15% of rye. The result is fantanstic, rye starter reallly adds noticable flavor even though rye ratio is low, at the same time, the crumb remains open, and crust is still thin and crisp.It's now my official favorite variation of 36 sourdough baguette, I am very happy that this experiment turned out so well!
Note that I did increase the hydration to 80%, mostly because I have been making breads from Tartine Bread Book, and its ww and semolina dough are both 80%+ hydration. Only that I forgot baguettes are a lot more tricky to shape than boules, oh, don't forget the minor details of scoring. I can now tell you first hand that scoring 80% wet baguettes is punishingly challenging. Crazy. Both I and the damn dough!:P
AP flour, 425g
ice water, 325g
rye starter (100%), 150g
salt, 10g
- follow the basic 36 hour sourdough baguette formula here.
Such open crumb
One can get lost in these holes. Can't you just see the rye? YOu can taste it too! From the wall of the holes, yu can really see how moist the crumb is.
But the scoring left much to be desired, no matter, I know I will have plenty of opportunities to practice!
We usually eat these baguette as is, or simply with some butter or cheese, but I actually "loosely" followed a recipe from Tartine Bread Book and made a sandwich out of these rye baguettes. Tuna confit, roasted sweet pepper, fresh spinach, Yum!
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Right after I made and posted about lye pretzels last time, arlo brought this article to my attention - ah ha! Who knew lye pretzels are "in fasion" again, does that make up for my 10 year old jeans? :P Still having that whole big jar of lye to use up, I made pretzels again, but the recipe is a combo of the NY Time recipe and Nancy Silverton's Sourdough pretzel recipe, then at the very end, I added my own "TXFarmer spin". I had some cooked red bean left from making mooncakes, so I filled a few of those prezels with sweetened coarsely mashed red bean paste. Delicious! I do apologize if it offends any German TFLers though. :P
Sourdough Pretzel (NYTimes+Nancy Silverton+my own craziness)
-makes 12 pretzels, each about 110g
water, 218g
starter (100%), 207
bread flour, 567g
barley malt syrup, 21g
salt, 2tsp
lard, 23g (Yes lard! Butter would work but lard gives a better/more authentic flavor, as well as whiter crumb. I have a big container of lard in my fridge at all times, embrace pig fat!)
1. Mix and knead very well. This is a dry dough, similar to bagel, but do knead well. I kneaded by hand since my mixer was doing other more important things like whipping 12 eggs, it' took some elbow grease but could be done.
2. No bulk rise, divide dough into 12 portions, round, and rest for 45min.
3. Shape into pretzels, do keep middle portion fat, and two ends pointy.
To add filling, first shape the dough into a batard, then roll into a long oval, add filling (not too much though!), roll up, seal well, roll out to desired length
4. Rise at room temp for 1 hour, the dough would've visibly expanded, then put in fridge for 12 to 24 hours.
5. mix 30g of lye into 1000g of water, wait for 10 min for it to completely dissolve, the water would become warm. Dip each pretzel in lye water for 30 sec, put back on baking sheet, score at the "fat belly" (if you have filling inside, score at an angle so the filling won't leak out), spread coarse sea salt on top (not for my red bean paste ones).
6. Bake for 20 to 25min at 400F.
Tight even crumb, just what I like. I didn't wait for the lye water to dry before scoring, so if you look closely, the edges of the cuts are yellow, need to improve on that.
The ones with filling are REALLY good, this way I don't have to dip the pretzel in other stuff. There are many other filling possibilities, PB&J? Nutella? Pumpkin pie? Maple cream? BBQ pork? Curry chicken? Endless.
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Here's a great coconut cupcake recipe I made a few days ago for my running friends,
I highly recommend this epicurious recipe, I did use cake flour rather than AP flour in the recipe, and used a cream cheese icing rather than the original one, both the taste and texture are really good.
The key of the recipe is "reduced coconut milk", I have some leftover, and I will be dunking everything in it! Even if you don't make the cake, make this!
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This is the WW loaf from the new "Tartine" Book, the procedure is very similar to the basic country loaf (which I posted about here), just with more WW flour(~70%) , even more water(80%+), and slightly lower mixing temperature since whole grain flour fermentate faster.
One thing that bothers me about the book is his math - when he calculate baker's percentage for ingredients, he doesn't count flour in the levain. He doesn't use a lot of levain, so in reality it probably doesn't matter, but it bothers my engineering brain. That's why I adjusted the formula, so the ww amount is really 70%, both in levain and final dough. Phew, feel a lot better after that.
100% sourdough starter, 1/2 tbsp (I used 8g)
WW flour, 140g
white flour, 60g
water(78F), 200g
1. Mix and put in a cool place until it grows by 20%. If you pinch a bit of levain and put it in water, it should float. About overnight at 65F.
-Final dough
200g levain
700g ww flour
300g bread flour (book says AP flour but I used BF for the extra lift)
water(75F), 800g (I used a bit more, probably 20g)
salt, 20g
2. Mix levain, flour, 750g of water. Autolyse for 40 to 60min. Add the rest of water and salt, mix to combine.
3. Bulk rise around 80F for about 3 hours until it increase about 30% in volume. S&F every 30min in the first 2 hours, after that S&F according to what the dough needs. If mix with cooler water and let rise in cooler temp, the bulk rise time can be adjusted.
4. Divide and round, bench rest for 20min
5. Shape and proof upside down in floured brotform. I retarded my shaped dough in the fridge (40F) overnight, then warm up for another 30min before baking. The dough can also be proofed right after shaping for 3 to 4 hours at 75F to 80F.
6. Bake with steam for 45min at 450F.
Awesome oven spring, crackling thin crust that sang loudly. Since it's a very soft high hydration dough, at the begining of the bake, it tends to spread a bit, so I kept the oven temp at 500F for the first 5min, then dropped to 450F after that. The finished loaves are quite round and tall.
Quite an open crumb for so much ww
It's not quite as "hole-y" as the basic country loaf. Chad Robertson says whole grain hearth bread can indeed have open crumb, even though it might depend on many things including the type of the flour. I might increase the hydration even more to see how much I can push it.
Just like the basic country loaf, this bread is not noticably sour, but very sweet, very fragrant with whole grain flavor. Next up, I want to try the semolina formula.
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This is a 100% sourdough rye from the book "Bread Matter". that book is an excellent read but for some reason, this is the first recipe I made from it. Well, second actually, but that Russian Rye was a total disaster. I think there's a printing error in the formula, it just has too much water. Yes, I know pure rye breads should have very wet dough, clay like in fact, but that one was in the porridge territory. Anyhow, back to this Borodinsky - opposite of that Russian Rye, it's perfect. The formula is right on for everything. My husband is still just getting used to the taste of heavy rye, even he immediately liked it.
I did make one major change -- I know, I know, I seem to be incapable of sticking to instructions, but this time it's not my fault! Sort of. After I mixed the clay like dough, I discovered that I don't have a loaf tin that's the right size for this amount of dough. I don't want something that's too big since I want the bread to have some height, in a pinch, I used an oval Japanse cheese cake tin I got from China, it's pefect! about 60% full going in:
Almot to the top at the end of fermentation
And a little domed over after it's done:
- levain
rye starter (100%), 20g
rye, 90g
water, 190g
1. Mix and leave at room temperature for 12 to 24 hours. Mine was left for 20hours, very bubbly and sour.
- main dough
levain, 270g
rye, 230g
salg, 5g
coarsely grounded coriander seeds, 5g, plus more for topping
molasses, 20g
barley malt syrup, 15g
water, 90g
2. Mix everything, and dump into an oiled tin, smooth the top if necessary but try not to press it down, otherwise the dough mighth get into crease and make it hard to demold.
3. Rise for 2 to 5 hours, if the dough is a little over half of the tin going in, at the end of the rise, it should be just below the top. Mine was left at 23C for 2.5 hours, my rye starter is lightening fast.
4. Brush water on top and spread a layer of coarsely grounded coriander seeds
5. Bake at 430F for 10min, then 400F for 40min. Maybe my cake tin doesn't conduct heat well, but at that point I took it out and the bread is not nearly done. I put it back and baked at 400F for another 20min, perfect. Wrapped for 36 hours before cutting in.
Nice even crumb, still a bit bottom heavy but getting there. I think I prefer a "not so warm" rise for my sourdough rye, as supposed to the "very warm temp" what most books suggests. It's moist but not sticky, very flavorful. I decide that I really like coriander in my breads.
I was complaining about not being able to find rye flour in local grocery stores, Eric pointed me to fresh ground Rye from Country Creations (flourgirl51), I got two huge bags, and that''s what I use in my rye breads these days. Very flavorful and great price/service.
Completely unrelated, here's a Chocolate-Almond torte I whipped up to use up some egg whites, very good.
The recipe is from "Pure Dessert", but can be found here. The recipe asked for a 9inch pan, I used an 8 inch, worked out wel.
Easy to make and VERY VERY VERY delicious, especially if you like dark chocolate. Perfect with a little whipped cream.
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I received my copy of the new "Tartine Bread Book" last week, flipping through the book, I was struck by two things: 1. I want Chad Robertson's life (especially the part about living in the French hills with artisan bakers/cheese makers/farmers, living and doing what he loves along the coastline of beautiful Northern CA, oh yeah, let's not forget the part where he and his friend surf in the morning and bake in the afternoon!); 2. I have been making those 36 hour sourdough baguettes with high hydration, no kneading but S&F, long fermentation, and Chad Roberton's method is very similar in these aspects.
I made his basic country loaf this past weekend with great result. The formula and procedure have been well documented in detail here, and the following are my "study notes":
1. He is after a bread with balanced flavor without too much sourness (I guess his French study is showing), so he ues a levain (a.k.a. sourdough preferment, sourdough poolish) that's very young. In fact, he says to use it when it has JUST started to float in water, only expanded 20% in volume. He accomplishes that by adding a lot of water and flour to a very small amount of starter (100%), and leave it overnight at a very cool temperature (65F). This is dfferent from the usual practice of using the levain when it has reached the peak volume.
2. He use a very small amount of levain in the main dough: 200g of levain at 100% in 1000g of flour, which means only 9.1% of the total flour is in the levain.
3. He uses relatively warm water to mix the main dough, and the bulk rise temp is pretty warm too (78F to 82F), which counter-balance point 1 and 2 above, to speed up the bulk rise somewhat
4. At the end of bulk rise, he only aims for a 20% to 30% volume increase in his main dough. That takes 3 to 4 hours at the warm-ish temp he describled in the basic flow, but can also be modified according to preference. For instance, lower the water temp to 65F, and keep the dough at 60F, the bulk rise could take 10 to 12 hours, a convenient overnight schedule. (Food for thought: I often wonder how much bulk rise a dough really needs. I know it needs some to build up basic strength and falvor, but I have seen and tried a variety of fermentation schedules, some put more time in bulk rise less in proofing, some do the opposite. Of couse each can be successful, IF it satsify some basic rules, and each would produce breads with different flavors. My conclusion so far is that different style of breads would prefer different fermentation schedule. For instance, the book mentions an example where a pan bread that would have support thoughout proofing and baking could have a very short bulk rise since the dough needs less strength, while a free form loaf may require longer bulk rise. In addition, I think a fuller bulk rise would change the crumb structure too.)
5. The dough is very wet. He says the basic formula is 75% hydration, but he's not counting the 100% levain, it's actually 77%+, wetter than my usual baguette dough. I used all the water (two addition, the last 50g is added after autolyse), the dough felt silky and easy to handle - yes, it's wet and sticky, but I have been making very wet baguettes every week, so I am used to the "wet glob" kind of dough. The "let time and fermentation do their job" method works well here again, don't be freaked out by the initial puddle of mess, give it a couple of hours and some S&F, you will see how it will turn into a beautiful silky cohensive "puddle".
6. After I posted about the 36 hour baguettes, some have asked me about how to S&F such a wet dough. As I mentioned in that thread, I simply take the dough out, hold it in my hands, left hand strentching out, then fold back. Repeat with right hand. Put back in the container. The key is to have the container and hands well oiled. When I do that with my baguette dough, it was easy, and quick, and efficient. However, when I tried to do that with this dough, I immediately realized that it's not the best way - because the dough is much larger. My baguette dough has 500g of flour, this one has 1100g, and I have small hands. If I try to do the same thing with this dough, it would try to slip off, so I had to dig my fingers into the dough a bit to grab on, which hurts the dough. So I changed to Chad's method describled in the book: folding the dough in the container. My point is that it's not important to known how exactly a S&F is done, it's important to know the principle. YOu need to stretch out and fold the dough back GENTLY. Once - in a way that's most convenient for you.
7. With such a wet dough, it's the best to make simple shapes. I made a boule and a batard, both have very open crumb, but the boule has more and larger holes, because it was handled less during shaping. (Who's up for shaping this dough into baguettes? I can't get the thought out of my head, there's something wrong with me! The funny thing is that Chad's baguette formula has LESS water than this country loaf.)
8. I retarded the shaped dough overnight at 40F, put them at room temp for another hour the 2nd morning to finish proofing, then baked. The book says I can proof and bake on the same day of bulk rise, but I never seem to have that much time in one day, and I like the flavor better after a long proof.
9. The crumb is VERY open, to the point that it's hard to slice. Especially the boule, which has a large crosssection and the crispy crust is thin, I think I need an electric slicer to cut through those airholes cleanly, now I know why hole-y baguettes are shaped long and thin, so there's more crust support and easier to cut!
10. The book ueses a cast iron dutch oven set to bake the bread in, I don't have such things, so I baked them on my stone with steam. I can see how they spreaded out a bit on the stone in the first few minutes, but then quickly sprung up beautifully to give great volume. However, I can see how a vessel with limited space can contain the shape even better to give a higher/rounder shape. Next time I may try a higher baking temp for the first few minutes.
11. The flavor is sensational. Very moist, cool crumb, matched well with crackling thin crust. What struck me the most is the sweetness. Even after a night of retarding, there's barely any sourness, but the sweetness of the wheat is very apparent. My husband and I both loved it.
Next up: I want to try the WW loaf in the book, even MORE water!
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Another winning recipe from Nancy's Silverton's "Breads from the LA Brea Bakery", I adapted it slightly to use my 100% starter, and changed the fermentation schedule a little too. The best part about this walnut bread is ... the walnuts, A LOT OF walnuts. The original recipe asked for 14oz, which is a lot to start with, I tend to go overboard with nuts and dried fruits in breads, ended up dumping in all the walnuts in the jar, a little less than a pound. I don't regret one bit. So fragrant, rich, and crunchy, walnuts are a great match for the ww and rye flour in the dough.
Walnut Levain
*makes 2 big loaves, each a little over 2lbs
- sourdough sponge
mature starter (100%)，139g
barley malt syrup，21g
ww flour，227g
rye flour，99g
1. Mix, cover, leave at room temp for 5 hours until there are visible bubbles on the surface, put in fridge for 8 to 12 hours.
- main dough
water，170g (I added a bit more to make the dough softer, didn't measure how much more though, I tend to like softer/wetter dough)
sugar, 1tsp
bread flour，624g
walnut oil，2tbsp
walnut halves, 14oz (I used almost 450g)
2. Mix water, sugar, flour, sponge, autolyse for 20min. The books says: add salt, mix until medium strength, mixer at medium speed for about 5min. Add oil, mix until well absorbed, another 2 min. Knead in walnuts. I mixed for much less time since my dough is softer and I intend to S&F.
3. Original recipe says to store the dough in the fridge right away for overnight bulk rise. I know from experience that it wouldn't be enough time, and I don't have a lot of time the next day to finish the bulk rise, so after mixing, I let the dough rise at room temp for 1 hour then put the dough in the fridge. Since my dough is softer than the original version, I did 2 S&F during that hour too.
4. The next day, take the dough let it continue to rise at room temp to double of original size if it hasn't so far. Mine needed another hour. Divide into two portions. Round, rest, shape into whatever shape you like. Rise upside down in brotform. Mine only needed 1.5 hrs, even though the book says 2 to 2.5.
5. Bake with steam for 45 min at 450F.
I really like this scoring pattern.
It bakes pretty dark, and that's the way I like it. The fully caramelized crackling crust matches perfectly with crunchy walnuts. And it sings!
There are so many walnuts, they are peaking out everywhere
This is a bread perfect for toasting. The recipe yields a lot of bread, I at first considered to only make half, luckily I didn't. It's so delicious and fragrant that we can't seem to stop eating it!
From all the breads I've made, and there have been a lot, this is definitely one of our top 10! And it's not hard to make at all.
Sending this bread to Wild Yeast's YeastSpotting event.
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This is Ruby. Whenever people ask me what kind of dog he is (yes, he's a boy, with a girl's name, what? he is man enough to be OK with it! :P), my answer is "a yellow running dog". While we have no idea what breeds are mixed in his blood (probably a lot), it doesn't take long for anyone to notice that Ruby loves to run. He is always ready to take off running, any time, any place, any weather. I am a marathon runner, and he is my running partner - 45 to 55 miles a week, but that's merely a trotting warm-up for him, he really lives for the trips to the dog park, where he can be unleashed and just SPRINT forever. So far he's can run faster and longer than any other dogs we know, and even some slower cars. :P
There's one thing he loves ALMOST as much as running - eating. Ever since we adopted him 5 years ago, he has always INHALED his kibbles in minutes. Sometimes I don't even think the kibbles actually hit the bowl, I think he intercepts them midair and just swallow. He also eats anything that resemble, or don't resemble food - the most memorable one was half of a Gatorade bottle lid, which then scratched his inside and caused bloody diarrhea, even that didn't affect his appetite. Whenver my friends tell me about their dogs that don't eat, I simply don't undersand, what a foreign concept - until 10 days ago.
We had just picked him up from doggie daycare (I know I know, we are the worst kind of spoiling doggie parents, but he loves to run and it's a all day play kinda place...), stopped on the way to pick up a new bag of dog food (Iams minichunk in green bag, the same kind he has eaten for all 8 years of his life). Got home in time for dinner, opened the bag, poured kibbles to his bowl, he sniffed and WALKED AWAY! We were stunned, was he having a heat stroke? Sometime wrong with his teeth? Did he eat something bad in the daycare? For the next 3 days, he simply refused to eat his food during the day, before bed, he would slowly chew a few kibbles and walk away again. He would take some treats we gave him, but we don't usually give him people food, just some plain bread slices. With so little food, he was not as energetic as usual, still wanted to run in the morning, but slower and slower. During the day, he would just lay there and look weak. We were seriously concerned.
Finall got in a vet appoinment, the exam and blood test showed no problems - until we mentioned about the food. My vet said Iams had switched production facility and ingredient formula 3 months ago, ever since then there have been a lot of problems. Many of the foods are being recalled, the ones are not recalled (including the one Ruby was eating) also have some bad feedbacks. A lot of dogs would not eat the food, even though they have been eating the same brand/formula for their entire life. Some would get seriously sick after eating, a few older/smaller/weaker ones even have to be put down. We returned the Iams food immediately and got Hills Science dog food instead, Ruby immediately started eating - really immediately because we opened the bag right outside of the store and he started inhaling the kibbles on the sidewalk! Even since then, we have been feeding him part homecooked food (bland rice + chicken), part new dog food, by yesterday, he is eating all dog food, and doing very well. We ran 10 miles this morning, let's just say he's not the one that slowed us down. :P
I am beyond livid about Iams, how can they change ingredients without warning the customers? And what poisonous ingredients are they putting in the food that makes Ruby refuse to even get close?! What about those dogs that got seriously ill or even died? Who's going to take responsibility for them? So here's the PSA: if your dogs/cats are eating Iams, be very careful about feeding them food that's bought after July, if they eat less or get sick, it's very likely the food! In the mean time, check out this link: , especially the comments.
Anyway, now that the scary episide is behind us, I made these sourdough biscuits this past weekend for the poor little guy to make up for what he had to go through. They are full of human grade nutritious ingredients, as well as added benefit of sourdough. I adapted the formula from Nancy Silverton's "Breads from LA BREA Bakery", but Wild yeast has a similar adaption here. I did add one extra egg in the dough since Ruby runs a lot and needs the extra protein. The dough is very easy to handle, and the process is straightforward. It's a great way to use up extra starter!
I made sure to bake them long enough so they remain crispy for a long time. The recipe does yield a whole of cookies, so I froze a lot of them.
Ruby LOVES these, look, he's practically cross-eye-ed.
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This baguette has many inspirations: the long cold autolyse from Anis, long cold bulkrise from Gosselin, SD instead of instant yeast from David's San Joaqin SD... With 12 hr autolyse, 24 hr cold rise, the process last at least 40 hours from start to finish, however, very little time is spent on real work, most of the time, I just have to wait and let time do its magic.
"Little hands-on work" does NOT equal to "easy to make", in fact, with the extra long process, there could be a lot of variations on how much to S&F, when to start and stop fermentation, etc, not to mention shaping and scoring continue to be a challenge at 75%+ hydration. With plenty of tweeking and adjusting, tthe end result is DELICIOUS: thin and crackling crust dark from all the caramalized sugar, airy and moist crumb, sweet and layered flavor - in the past 2 months, this is our weekend dinner of choice. I have made it at least once a week, sometimes twice a week.
Right now, this is my favorite bagette to eat - and to make.
36hr+ SD baguette
100% hydration starter: 150g
flour: 425g (I usually use KA AP)
ice water: 300g (sometimes a tad more when I feel extra daring)
salt: 10g
1. mix flour and water into a lump of mass, cover and put in fridge for 12 hours. (let's say Thurs morning, takes <5 min)
2. add starter and salt to the dough, use hand to mix until roughly evenly distributed. Note that the 100% starter here has two purpose: it's levaining power to raise the bread, AND it's extra water acts as the "2nd hydration" step in the original Anis formula. To make it even better, the consistency of the starter is much closer to the dough than pure water, so it's easier to mix.
3. bulk rise at room temp (70 to 75F) for 2-3 hours until it grows about 1/3 in volume, S&F every half hour until enough strength has been developed. Put in fridge. (Thurs evening, 3 hours, with 15 min of hands-on work.)
4. 24 hours later, take out dough, if it has not doubled or nearly doubled, give it more time to rise at room temp. I usually have to give it about 1 to 2 hours, depending on temperature, which means the dough can probably be stored in the fridge for even longer than 24 hours.Do make sure it has a sufficient bulk rise, so the dough is strong enough; but don't let it go too long, the dough will be so bubbly that the shaping would be difficult - this is where you need to experiment with timing a lot.
5. divide and rest for 40min.
6. shape and proof for 30 to 50min, score, bake with steam at 460F for 25min. (about 2 to 4hours on Friday night)
There is a lot of room here in term of how to arrange the bulk rise timing - more time before fridge, less during/after; OR more in the fridge; OR now that it's cooler at night, put the dough outside instead and skip fridge all together... The goal is to give the dough a long sufficient bulk rise, regardless how it's done. The key for me is to learn how the dough "feels" and "looks" when it's properly fermentated, so I know I've gotten to the finish line, using whatever fermentation schedule. Before I thought the most difficult part of making baguettes is the shaping, now I thihk it's in managing fermentation - even though I am really not doing anything in that step.
Since we love to eat it, I will conitnue to make this bread a lot, hopefully I will get better with scoring this wet dough! Right now, I am not even trying to get ears, just aim to have the cuts expand properly in the bake.
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JOHANNESBURG, Dec 11, 2012 (AFP) - South Africa's highest court ruled Tuesday that prisons are responsible for protecting inmates' health, finding jail authorities liable for negligence in the case of a prisoner who sued them for contracting tuberculosis.
The Constitutional Court decision overturned an earlier Supreme Court of Appeal ruling which had rejected inmate Dudley Lee's suit, saying he could not prove that negligence by prison authorities led to his infection.
The Constitutional Court ruled that the prisons department had "violated its own health regulations, failed to perform its constitutional obligations and violated Lee's constitutional rights".
It called on authorities to "take immediate steps to remedy the horrendous conditions to which prisoners and awaiting-trial detainees are subjected".
Lee contracted tuberculosis while held at Cape Town's Pollsmoor prison, one of the country's most overcrowded facilities.
Right groups hailed Tuesday's decision as a "landmark judgement", saying it highlighted the state's responsibility for safeguarding the constitutional rights of detainees.
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by Rie Yamaoka
Harald and Catherine live thirty minutes away from their daughter Carole and son-in-law Jim. Their granddaughter Julie goes to school thirty-five minutes away from home. Though a close- knit family, their perception and experience with war distinguish them; there is a definite transition between a generation of radios, B-29s, and atomic bombs, to a generation of mass-media, Iraq, and chemical warfare hysteria. Or is there?
Can you tell me your names, and when you came to Michigan?
Harald: My name 's Harald. I was born in 1920 April 2, in Tildon, Illinois.
I came to Michigan on April 46 after the war.
Catherine: I'm Catherine. I was born in Detroit in 1920 and lived here all my life
Where were you during the bombing of Pearl Harbor?
H: I was raised in Salem, Kentucky. I was at a little gas station just outside of town. I heard on the radio that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor.
What were your first reactions?
H: I don't really remember. But I wanted to go to the Pacific. One reason was that I wanted to go to Australia, but when I went into the service on Feb. '42, I was drafted to England. My basic training was in Mississippi.
What was the basic training like?
H: They get you conditioned to take orders. When you're a civilian, you do your own thing. But when you're in the service they tell you what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. One of the ridiculous things that they have you do is, Nov. of '42, I ended up in Indianapolis. There was snow on the ground, and what they had you do was pick up the cigarette butts 'cause you don' t want cigarette butts in your snow man. It's a little thing like that to get you conditioned to taken orders. Extensive basic training, basically.
Do you remember any training films?
H: Oh yeah. . .no, not really. It's such a long time ago I forgot about that stuff. But most of the training was on health care and personal hygiene.
Do you remember seeing any films that talked about 'the enemy'?
H: No.
Were you living with your family?
H: Right.
Do you remember how they sent you out? Were there any tears?
H: No. There was nothing to cry about. It was our duty. I was glad to go.
What did your family say?
H: Naturally they hated to see you go, but I didn't see any crying as far as I know of. I just went up town and got on the bus. They gave me orders to pick up so many people, they gave me a list of the names. We all got on, and I finished the roll call, and we took off to the nearest army camp.
Where were you during Pearl Harbor?
C: When we received word, we were out in a car, and then we got home and my father turned on the radio and heard that Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor. We were just really stunned. We could hardly believe a thing like that. It was just a state of shock for a few days. And of course, we got the President's speech of the declaration of war. It didn't take long for them to start protection in the cities, like keeping the things dark at night because we didn't want to be attacked, and Detroit was quite a industrial city, and was valuable to the war effort. Of course it didn't take very long for rationing to be established. We had gasoline rationed and you didn't go more than where you had to go. Other than that, it just sort of clipped our wings as far as going any place because there wasn't the gasoline to go joy riding or anything like that. You went where you had to go, to work, and so, other than that, there wasn't really too much of a difference. The food was rationed. We didn't have some of the things that we were used to. I never stood in line, but I remember my mother standing in line for a few hours, waiting for meat to come in-- certain kind of meats were rationed and others weren't. She would find out when they were going to have the delivery of the meat, or other things that were rationed. She would stand in line with a whole lot of other women, waiting for their turn to be waited on. Of course, that was a time before supermarkets and you had more personal service than you have these days. Other than that, I don't think any of us suffered. I think it made us that much more patriotic. You realize that the effort we made would help settle the war, eventually.
Were you living with your family?
C: With my mother, father and sister.
Do you remember what you talked about the war with your family?
C: I'm sure we talked about the war, but I don't recollect specific things. The rationing made a difference in people's lives, and different foods, but none of us were starving.
Carole: Did Grandpa and Uncle George talk?
C: Probably so. That was when Don was in the Second WW War-- he was in the Korean war, but my cousins were all younger than me, so they weren't in the service. So we really didn't have anybody in the war. Herald and his brothers, he has an older brother, he was in the Pacific, and Max was in the Korean War.
Carole: Was uncle Thomas in the war?
H: Yup. He was in after the war, though.
C: We were quite fortunate because we didn't have any immediate family that was in the war. But we had people all around us and I knew several people that had brothers that were in the service.
Did your family or friends go away to the war?
C: My first cousin married a fella that was in the service and he went over to Europe. He was over there but they were married before he went. He was out in Kansas, because I went out to visit him over a weekend, and then he went overseas. She came back to Detroit and she had her daughter. Her first child was born when he was overseas and he had been wounded, but it wasn't life threatening or anything like that. Their little girl was born while he was still overseas, and then he came back to them a couple of months after she was born. Sheryl was born in '45. But that's the only person in our family, on my side of the family that was in the service. He's (Sheryl's father) been gone now, he's died of cancer 5 or 6 years ago.
What was your feeling when somebody around you was drafted?
C: You understood why they had to go. Of course there were lots of young men who already had families. They were given deferment-- exempt from the service, but there were others that rushed to get married, because they had received word that they had been drafted. I know we have several people in our church that got married before they went overseas. I didn't have anybody that I knew of, there were no fellas that I had gone with. There was one man that I had dated during the war, but he was a little bit older than me, and I guess his job was that important that he was exempted from going. But I didn't date any fellas that were in the service. In fact I didn't date during the war, there weren't that many men around! It makes a difference!
Has your impression of the German/Japanese during Pearl Harbor changed before/after Pearl Harbor?
H: Well, I thought it was a pretty sneaky attack, and what you've got to do is go and try to straighten it out. As far as the German people or the Japanese people are concerned, you can't feel bad at them. They were only doing the same thing that I was, what the government told them to do. If you want to place blame, you place blame on the government. That goes for this country or the Japanese or the Germans. Now if you take all of those presidents and dictators or whatever you want to call them and put boxing gloves on them, they should go ahead and fight it out. There'd be a lot of boys still living, and you wouldn't have as many wars. But the old saying is 'the rich man's battling and the poor man's fighting.' I don't know if you've ever heard that expression or not, but it's pretty true.
C: Like Harald said, I think it's pretty sneaky. But I do feel that the wars are fought because of the dissension in the government and a lot of people die on the behalf of the leaders of the country. As far as Japan was concerned, they were doing their government's bidding, as same as Germany and our country. Like Harald said too, there'd be a lot of lives saved if they just got down to brass tax and talked things over and used some diplomacy. But the dictators were having things done their way, and Hitler had ideas ruling the world, and Tojo probably had the same ideas. We couldn't let that happen. We thought it should be a free world. It was a bad time for an awful lot of thousands and thousands of soldiers.
Do you remember any documentaries, or Hollywood films?
C: I don't remember. I don't know if they would be documentaries or not, but there was one done after the war. I can't even remember the name of it...
H: I can't think of any. We didn't have any theaters where I lived. We had to hitchhike about 12 or 15 miles to the nearest theaters. Back in those days, we didn't have money to go to the theater, although it only cost a dime, but we didn't have that dime. Ten cents was about ten dollars in those days.
Carole: What about those news reels? Didn't you say the movie house had news reels that showed you what was going on overseas?
C: They probably did show you the battles that went on and stuff like that. . . but that was no more than two minutes and went on to another subject.
Carole: But you didn't have TV, so that was the only way you could see real action.
C: You got radio, and that was it, because you didn't have the pictures, but there was something over Tokyo or something like that. That was another one that showed the planes coming down, making glide bombings on boats.
Carole: 'Tora, Tora, Tora'?
C: Yeah. That's the only one that I can think of.
H: That was after the war.
C: But that was after the war, and it wasn't a documentary.
H: That was a Hollywood film, an entertainment picture.
Any specific images, or things you heard on the radio that you remember? Any slogans?
Carole: 'Uncle Sam wants you'?
C: Yeah.
H: Yeah, I remember that.
C: Oh, you used to see the placards around too. 'Uncle Sam wants you,' and you'd have a hand, with a finger pointed at whoever was at the opposite side of the picture. I think we had to use our imagination a whole lot more than after these days, 'cause you got everything right there in front of you. But we did get the news reels, and they were pretty good. Other than that, I don't remember any visions or ideas.
H: I don't remember any slogans. I can't think of any.
C: You were more where there was more action, in England, but we were more on state-side.
H: We didn't have any slogans.
When you moved stations in England, how long were your there?
H: About two years, nearly two and a half years.
What was your job there?
H: Well I was in the eighth air force. I was attached to the eighth air force. I was in the service group, and fire fighting and rescue work. I went to school over here for about 2, 3 months in New Orleans, to learn fire fighting. Then when I was shipped overseas. I went to school there for 3 months to learn how to adapt American equipment to the English equipment. We were assigned to an air base at that time.
What did the fire fighters do?
H: We took care of the plane crashes, the planes came in all shot up. We were stationed not too far from the channel, and when the planes would come over--they always flew over our base-- if they needed to land, if they were out of gas and needed to land, or an emergency landing, they always landed at our air base. We had to take care of them.
How many planes would come in a day?
H: That varies. A normal day would be, it's been pretty long, but I'd imagine 25, 26 (planes).
How many people were in your group?
H: Eight or twelve.
When were you sent back to the States?
H: We didn't come back till the war was over in Germany, and then we came back to the States and then we were able to go home for a month's vacation. Then we had to report back and ended up in Dayton, Ohio, Patterson Field. And then were sent to north Dakota and I was stationed up there for a while. And then we were transferred down to a little air base in Kansas. I can't think of the name of it now, (it was) way out in no man's land. All there's out there is tumble wheat. They had the B-29s out there. We had to take the training with them to learn the escape patches, and how the best way to approach them when there was a fire. Then we were scheduled to go to Okinawa. . . . .and we were lucky.
So you never went to Okinawa.
H: . . . . . . .
Carole: When you were in England, Dad, did the air raids that the Germans flew over England, did they affect you?
H: Oh, they came right over.
Carole: Did they bomb you guys then? Like night after night after night?
H: No, not every night, but. . .about twice a week, maybe.
What would a typical day be?
H: A typical day was 24 hours on, 24 hours off. We didn't have any extra duties other than fight fires, and take care of the planes.
What did you do on your time off?
H: We just chewed the fat around the barracks, go into town.
C: Go to the pubs.
H: Go to the pubs. Have a few beers.
Carole: Did you ride a bike?
H: Ride a bike... if we wanted to go to town we had to ride a bike. Everybody had their own bicycle.
What was a typical day for you?
C: I was working at the Edison company when the war started. I worked in the cashier's office in the Edison company, and a typical day would be to either get a ride with a person who'd sort of took a group of us that were going to the same building--that were working the same hours. That, or get on a bus and go downtown where my job was. After the day was over, I'd come back home on the street car or the bus or with a driver. One day was pretty much like the other. During the week, I know that my mother and dad had a victory garden, to grow vegetables, for our table, and I used to go out and help my mother and dad. My dad didn't do too much gardening-- he wasn't much of a gardener, but my mother was. We had pretty good gardens during the war, and it helped with the food bit, but it was a matter of helping people, helping my folks and things like that. But on off time, like after my work day, sometimes I'd stay downtown and have dinner with other of my friends-- my work friends down there, and girls that I went to high school with. We'd meet because they were working at other places downtown, and we'd go out to dinner and go to a show or something like that. Other than that, it wasn't too active of a social life. It was a little on the dull side, but it was better than just working everyday and just going back home!
Where were you when the war ended?
H: Where was I when the war ended? In Germany or in Japan?
In Japan.
H: I was in. . .I can't think of the name of that air base.
Carole: In Kansas?
H: I was stationed in Kansas at that time when the Japanese surrendered. I was still in England when the Germans surrendered.
How were you informed that the war had ended?
H: I heard it on the radio. I had a radio when I went overseas, and I brought it back with me after the war. I carried it with me all the time I was in the service. All of the boys in our group used it. That's the way we heard about it.
Do you remember how they said the war ended on the radio?
H: How they said the war had ended? Not really. I don't remember word for word, but the fact that the Japanese had surrendered. Then it was all 'hooray,' and--
C: Oh man, was it!
H: Everybody was glad that it was over--
C: Yeah. . .
H: -- and we knew that we'd be going home before too long.
Where were you when the war had ended?
C: I was. . . I can't remember if I was at work, or whether I was at home when we received word, but my gosh! I guess I must've been at work, because I got home from work, but I remember my dad driving us downtown, because downtown Detroit was just! Oh, the people! You couldn't drive downtown. I mean, you just had to park your car and get out on the street and of course everyone on the street was huggin' everybody, and kissing everybody, and the yelling and the screaming! Oh, it was unbelievable!
H: I was stationed in Victoria, Kansas. It just came to me. It was a little one-horse town. In fact, I'd never even go to town, it was so small.
Were you informed about how the war had ended?
C: You mean with dropping the bomb and things like that? Oh, yeah.
What were your feelings about that?
C: Well it seemed like a terrible thing for that to have to happen in order to stop a war. But we figured that was the only way the war was going to stop. But it certainly was devastating to an awful lot of people. I remember we got back, we drove back to the main part of downtown, and it was my uncle's birthday. So we were over at their house for ice-cream and cake, but of course all we could talk about was the war being over. But yeah. . . it was a horrible thing to happen. . . and so many lives. . . If people were alive, they were so devastated. The injuries that they received, and the cancers that they got. . . generations had that happen to them. . .
H: Have you seen Hiroshima?
Yes, I have.
H: It has recovered, quite a bit?
C: I'm sure that it has.
H: But the bomb in itself in Hiroshima was in a way a life saver. Because if we had invaded Japan, there would've been twice as many people killed.
C: Probably so. . .
H: On both sides.
C: Probably so.
H: And they thought that one or two times they would have to bomb Japan. It would kill a lot of lives, but it would save more lives than it would kill. . .and I think that probably held pretty true. If you look at the times when they invaded Okinawa, and some of those other islands, the number of people that were killed on both sides-- the lives saved would be a lot more if they didn't have the bomb. It was hard on. . . a lot of innocent people died--
C: Yeah, that's the thing. . .
H: -- but that's the way it is in any war.
C: Yeah.
How would you feel if in the future there was another bomb dropped somewhere?
H: Depends on the situation. . .now if you're talking about Iraq, or something like that, I'd say go ahead and drop it.
C: Hope they got Sadaam.
H: Just hope that Sadaam's under it. Then you'd have peace over there. But as long as he's in power you're not going to have peace. I think it's. . .I don't like the idea of using it again, but it's a good deterrent. As long as the people think that you might use it, they'll think twice before they try to invade and try to take over other countries. But little countries like Iran and Iraq , well, I don't think it would ever be necessary. But if you're talking about Russia, then it might be. But I don't think the atomic bomb will ever be used. I think that's the thing that matters.
C: Yeah.
What did you tell your children about the war?
H: Don't fight.
C: Oh golly.
Carole: We never talked about it. I didn't. You wanted to talk with Glen, because he was the history person.
C: Yeah, our son.
Carole: I was never interested.
H: I don't think he was too much interested.
Carole: Anything to do with history would fascinate him.
Carole: I wasn't interested in it when I was younger, so I don't think it was ever discussed
around the house.
C: I don't remember if it was discussed all that much. Glen was the history buff, and he still is. But I don't recollect that there was too much of a conversation. I kept scrap books, during the war. Or in fact, I started before the war. I started when I was 13, 14 years old. So all during the war, I kept pieces from the newspaper and kept them in loose leaf books. . .and so when Glen got older, and he was interested in history, I showed him the scrap books. Of course he'd go and leaf though them and read different articles, but as far as holding any kind of conversations with him, there really wasn't too much of that. It was what anyone was just interested in. I had my scrap books, and you (mom) looked at them, but as far as the war was concerned, that wasn't of any interest to you.
Carole: Not back then.
Do you still have the scrap books?
C: Mmhmm. They're quite yellow, very fragile.
How many articles would you cut out in a day?
C: A day? Oh dear. . . I couldn't tell you as far as that's concerned, because some days there might not be that much in the paper. Maybe from a day up they were just getting the information, later, but other times, in a big battle or something like that, I would cut that out and put it in my scrap book.
You started when you were 13?
C: Of course that was before the war. I was 21 when the war started. I started my scrap book when I was 13, 14.
What did you cut out when you started?
Carole: I remember Emilia Earhart.
C: Yeah, Emilia Earhart-- that was '37. Yeah, when she was lost. . .
H: The Hindenberg.
C: When the Hindenberg crashed--
H: Major event at that time
C: When the Duke of Windsor, when he abdicated his throne to wed Wallis Warfield Simpson, the deaths of different kings. . .oh gosh. I'd have to get my scrap books out to remind me. I kept taking things out of the paper. I guess when we were first married, then after Glen came, I just couldn't keep up with it. I wish lots of times that I could have, because there'd been so many things that had happened that were something for the history books. But that's gotten lost in time. . .I thought maybe Glen might take over
Carole: He did for a while
H: -- but he got busy with school and things like that .
What kind of articles did you cut out during the war?
C: Just things that I thought were of historical value.
How about things mainly about the war itself?
C: Lots of things on the war; different ships that were sunk, and different notables that were in the war. Eddie Rickenbacker and Ernie Pyle when he died of. . .he was a war correspondent--
H: He was shot.
C: Just things that I thought were of historical interest, and things like that. I don't know what'll happen to them after I'm gone, but there down in the basement right now!
Do you remember anything about Executive Order 9066?
H: Never heard of it..
When the Japanese-Americans in California were relocated?
H: Oh, you mean when we put them in the concentration camps. I didn't hear anything about it, because I was in the service, and that was all pretty hush-hush until after the war.
C: I remember hearing about it. But it was sort of taken as a, well, that we couldn't do anything else but, because they didn't know how many people might be doing spying, or doing subversive activities.
H: Sympathizers.
C: And it was one way from keeping anything like that happening. I could see were there would be a lot of Japanese-Americans put out because they were indicting the rule, Americans because they had come over, or they had been born in this country. But that was the protection that the United States had to take for their own people, and it was just one of those things. Like an act of war that had to be taken care of in order to protect the citizens of this country.
H: If we had another war, we'd have the same thing again. It would be with all different ethnic groups.
C: We've got a lot of them over now. The ones that we didn't have then.
Did you say that they 'would' ?
H: I'd imagine that they will. . . if we get attacked again. Any other country would do the same thing. There's really not that much difference in the Japanese holding all of the Americans in the prisons over there. There isn't too much difference, it's the same thing.
How about in terms of the Japanese-Americans being civilians, people who had houses, people who weren't soldiers. Do you think there would be a difference there?
H: In what way?
Would you say there's no difference?
H: If they had a home here? If they had property here?
If they thought of themselves as Americans.
H: Well, I don't think that was much the problem. It was their parents; if they were born here, they were naturalized Americans. But who knows what their parents was. They was raised in the old country. They were raised in Japan, they were educated in Japan, and then they came over here for a better livin'. A better life. And then they were naturalized. But still, they have roots back in Japan. So naturally they're going to have feelings for Japan, it's only natural. That's where the problem lies. It wasn't the people that were born over here, probably there wasn't any difference. They didn't know the Japanese custom.
Do you have any family, relatives that were lost in the war?
H: I had a cousin that died in the Pacific. He was on the destroyer Spence. It went down in a typhoon. He was in 5 or 6 battles in the Pacific. Both ships were damaged, pretty badly. They came back to SanFransisco for repairs, and then he went out to the Pacific again, and the typhoon came up, and. . . there were no survivors in that. They all went down. And I had a cousin that was in the service. He was only in for a few months, and he got wounded over in Germany. But his brother went through the whole campaign-- North Africa, Sicily, Tunisia, Normandy, and over in Germany, without getting a scratch.
C: Oh, the Lord can pick out the certain ones.
H: He was in the group that liberated Guatemala prison, and liberated that. When he was over in Germany, he made some pictures of that prison camp-- several rolls. He was in Germany, and they had a group of prisoners that they wanted to send back to the States, so they asked him if he would volunteer to take them back. They said, 'Well you've been in the service quite a bit,' and they said 'you need some R & R anyway.' So they gave him these prisoners to bring back to the States. Well, he started back with them, and somewhere in France, I forgot where it was, but they took the prisoners off of his hands and told him that the war's over, as far as we're concerned, and he said you go on home. So they sent him back home and they asked him when he got back to the states, if he would like to have a discharge. And he said 'yes.' He was so nervous he could hardly sign his name on the papers. But they discharged him, sent him home, and he forgot all about the film that he had in his army boots. When he turned his stuff in, he left all his film in his boots and that stuff was all turned in. Good Lord only knows what happened to the film, but it would've been a prize film if he could've had it because that was the actual photographs of the prison. It was such a surprise that they offered him a discharge, that he forgot all about the film.
C: Probably everything else was dismissed from his mind.
You were released in '45?
H: I was discharged in October of '45. I went over on the Queen Mary, I came back on the Queen Mary.
How did you feel when you were returning?
H: Like any soldier. I was glad to get home.
You haven't seen your family up to that time?
H: I'd seen my folks in November. We went overseas on November the 22nd, 1944, I believe it was. When I went's been so long...........
C: I think that's all (for now).
H: . . .I said Nov. 22, it was Nov. 14 that I went overseas. I was sworn in on the 22nd. When I went overseas, I sent Mother and Dad a short letter. . .just enough to have my name on it. When I put my return address on it, or when I signed the letter, because you couldn't put a return address on it. . . when I signed the letter I signed my middle initial. . and then they knew I was going over seas.......................
Carole: That was your code to tell them that you were being shipped out?
C: Yeah, it must've been, yeah.
Carole: Did you write Grandma and Granddaddy? Did you have communication back and forth in the years that you were over there?
H: Oh yeah. . .
Carole: Were they ever censored?
H: They had to. But they didn't censor mine, whenever I was over there. Of course I wasn't over in Germany, I wasn't in combat, battle. But I was stationed in England all the time.
C: But they would still censor the letters, wouldn't they?
H: Not as much as over in Germany and in battle. That's where you were censored. But ours wasn't censored that bad.
Did you write about what was going on?
H: I never wrote about what was going on.
C: Play it safe.
H: Yeah.
C: Did you write to Malva and Sylvia?
H: No, they were all home. They could all read the same letter.
H: You wouldn't write more than you had to. I'll bet the letters were short.
Carole: One of the gals at work, her father worked the telegraph, and she said that to this day, when he's bored, she'll notice that his hand is tapping. She said it drives her nuts!
She doesn't know what he's tapping but to this day he's tapping it out!
H: Morris Code..
Carole: (to Jim) Your mom wrote soldiers. His mom was born in '29, so she was considerably younger, but she had a whole raft of fellows that she wrote to. Just to cheer them up, I guess.
Julie: She's a sociable gal!
Carole: She had a whole raft of them that she'd write to over there.
Jim: She was 14, 15.
What are your feelings about the 'enemy' countries now?
H: I'd like to go back to Japan.
C: We've never been there!
H: Yes we have, at the airport. Well, that's Japan!
C: Oh, I know it but I mean... you make it sound like we've been around the streets!
You had a stopover there?
H: Yeah.
C: When we were going to China.
H: I'd like to go to Japan for a visit. Not just to stopover. I'd like to go to interesting countries to see. I'd especially like to go up to where they just had the Olympics.
H: That's a resort area. That's where everybody goes to ski. That country side is just littered with caves. And the reason for it was that the Japanese people dug these caves in case of another attack. So they would have some place to go and hide. At least that's what they said in the paper not too long ago.
Do you travel a lot?
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Interesting comment that I forgot to mention in my last few blogs. When we went to our neighbor's house for dinner the other night, the mother made a comment that struck me. As she was telling us her stories from visiting her brother in San Francisco, she mentioned how friendly everyone was to her in the US. She barely spoke English at the time, and she claimed that everyone she talked to was very helpful. No one spoke French but everyone was willing to work to understand what she needed or wanted. We expressed that whenever we are in a time of need here in France, whether it be directions or the location of a particular place, just about everyone we asked would at least stop and tried to help. No one blatantly ignored us or gave us a hard time. The mother was very relieved to hear us say that and she had feared that many French that we would encounter wouldn't be so friendly. It was nice to hear her say those kind words of Americans and it was also comforting to hear that there were compassionate people like her that would worry about the kindness of her country.
18 Fevrier: I can shower during spring break!
Exciting news: we switched our hostel! Woo, no more dirty, gross hostel. Big sigh of relief on that one. I'm actually really excited for spring break now that I don't have to fear the worst in terms of cleanliness for ten days.
17 Fevrier: faded churches and adorned tombs
We weren't off to a bright start this morning but most of us got to revisit a few places before we leave Paris. This last Sunday is a little bittersweet. I love the fact that Parisians really don't work on Sundays. A lot of us claim that we relax on Sundays but we don't. I don't agree that everything should be closed on Sundays but it is nice to enjoy everyone just enjoying life and not working. Tim and I got to appreciate that when we headed up to Montmartre and see Sacre Coeur again. Before walking up to the top of this "mountain of martyrs," we checked out the incredible graveyard at the base of the hill. It was unlike any cometary I have ever seen and I loved it in all its morbid splendor. The "tombs" were more like monuments or mausoleums, I guess. Most were anywhere from 6-15 feet high with everything from stained glass and mosaic to sculptures and paintings ornamenting them. Some were simply beautiful. Most were old, going back a few hundred years. There were some recent as well though. We were able to peek into many of them and the insides were sometimes just extravagant as the outside. The whole area was a lot of fun to just walk around and check out all the unique tombs and monuments.
So, we walked up to Sacre Coeur, where the atmosphere is just spectacular. There are dozens of artists, selling their works and painting new ones as you walk past. There was a man playing his guitar and singing some good old American songs like Oasis and even some Elvis. When I threw some money into his guitar case, I asked where he was from and he surprised me with a German accent! It was pretty funny but he was nice to sit and listen to for a while. Again, we got to enjoy that glorious no-work Sundays as the place was packed and all the grass was filled with people relaxing and soaking up the sunshine through their winter coats. And of course, that view is spectacular.
We tried to find the Moulin Rouge but we probably just circled it 5 times. We never actually came across it and finally, after tiring from walking up and down the mountain so much, we gave up and headed back down. We did find a neat church at the bottom, St. Jean. It was unlike any other church I had seen anywhere, even in Paris. The doors were wide-open and it looked as though the constant sunshine spilling in had faded all of the wooden walls and pillars. Old, washed out paintings covered the walls and a wonderful mosaic/tiling motif ran throughout the church. I loved it.
16 Fevrier: you're jealous you didn't get the headphones : )
Versailles today- so beautiful. Although Tim and I were seemingly very confident in our RER/metro skills, and although it is our last week in Paris, we still managed to have some difficulty in getting there thanks to that damn C line that keeps looping around. Anyways, once we got there, we did make the revolutionary decision to rent the headphones with our ticket. Best decision of the week by far. I always want to get the headphones in various museums that we visit but they usually cost at least 5 or 6 euros. At Versailles, they were only an extra euro so we splurged. It was nice to finally understand everything I was seeing, or at least get a brief description of it. I've decided that cities should start making those headphone sets for the whole city that people can rent and just walk around and learn about everything they pass. However, after touring through the inside for an hour, we heading out to the gardens, not realizing that once you're outside, you must wait in the gigantic line again. So, we only got to spend a few hours actually looking at Versailles but that was fine with us. We still enjoyed it a lot.
After getting back into the city, we headed over to the chapel of the miraculous medal, a special trip for my mom. There was a mass when we got there but we still got a chance to walk in and see the chapel a little. I was able to buy a few souvenirs for my mom as well so it was a success.
On the way to finding the chapel, though, a funny thing happened. Tim and I were mistaken for Italians. Now, I realize that Tim is probably the one who caught the attention, because he does look quite Italian all on his own, but it was still fun to be mistaken with him. Not that there is anything wrong with Parisians knowing that I'm American, but everyone tells us that they can immediately tell when someone is from the US. They claim it's not a bad thing but little things give it away that scream United States. It was kind of fun to be thought of as European. Different, but interesting.
14 Fevrier: "one way & made in spain"
Very busy Valentine's Day today. Gerri took us on another grand tour. We started at St. Paul's cathedral, made our way through parts of the musee carnivale (which had a special exhibition on Ben Franklin, which was nice for us Americans), ate a fallafel in the Jewish district, stopped at a tea museum, and ended up at the arch de defense. Later on, we had a dinner with some neighbors in Fontenay. It was a great experience to meet a French family and see their home and eat a meal with them. They spoke some English, more than our French so we were able to communicate that way. Their 17 year old son was pretty fluent, so he jumped into the conversation as well. The dad was a dentist and he told us that Americans are much better at flossing their teeth and taking care of their teeth than are the French. Interesting tidbit. The mother was hysterical, very animated and told a few humorous stories from when she visited her brother in San Francisco. Least to say, it was very entertaining.
13 Fevrier: that isn't art, it's a stick figure!
Yes, stick figure art. In Paris. In a national museum. An entire gallery dedicated to this primitive "art." With all the art that they have in this city, with all the beautiful statues, architecture, paintings, and churches, the city has dumbed herself down to calling the work that we saw at the Musee de Mod as "art." We met Oxanna at the modern art museum and went through a few galleries of artwork. It was interesting because it was a completely different scene from the old, classical museums that we had been visiting and there were some particular rooms I enjoyed. I'm not bashing the museum, but the one particular artist that was featured was simply annoying to me. Walking through, I disliked his works and I knew it was because it was too simple and seemingly not creative but after talking with a friend of Oxanna's I realized another reason why it didn't strike me as art. He mentioned that he didn't like it because it wasn't creative, it was simply emotion. That's what I see as well. It's not about style or color or beauty, it was about the artist's expression. Expression isn't a bad word in my vocabulary but it didn't give anything to the viewer- it was only for the artists. Again, that's fine and dandy, but should it really be displayed in a national museum if no one else can extract meaning or emotion except for the artist? In that case, it's art for that artist, he/she can feed from it. However, I don' t feel as though it's meant for everyone if it's that personal. Perhaps others can grasp a level of meaning that I simply was unable to, but it makes me question who does or should benefit from art.
12 Fevrier: infinite funds...or not
The last few days have proved to be difficult in planning our spring break trip. It's quite a challenge to combine the interests and preferences of seven very different people into one trip. Not everyone is going to be completely happy.However, we did finally settle, although we have chosen to split up for the ten days. Half are going to Prague, half are going to Rome. I'm going to Rome- very excited. One simple lesson learned though: travel is not cheap and although I already knew that, it was reinforced during our search. There are tricks to traveling inexpensively, however, a lot of it depends on sheer luck as well. Costs of flights change not only weekly, but daily. One moment you can find a cheap ticket from Rome to Toulouse, the next minute it's 100 euros more. It's a hard game to play and unless you have infinite funds, it's pretty frustrating as well.
10 Fevrier: So, they really don't work on Sundays...
Exploration day today! Tim and I ventured around to some of the metro stops which we hadn't been to yet. It was fun to just explore and not be on a time frame at all. We stopped at Cite Universitaire first to see the international university. There wasn't much to see but we walked through their park for a while and that was relaxing. People here are a lot more active it seems. Parks are always full of runners, joggers, walkers, bikers, and soccer players, especially on Sundays. We walked down to their stadium and even got to watch some of a soccer game. We assumed it was a club game because no one else was really watching but it was fun to sit on the sidelines and watch. It was a beautiful day outside too so that always helps. After we jumped back on the metro, we got off at the Jardin du Luxembourg. This reinstated the fact that Parisians really do not work on Sundays. It was jammed pack! There are hundreds of lawn chairs randomly strewn about the garden, especially around the fountain, and almost each chair was taken up. We finally found two and sat down, read a little, and then just people-watched.
After Luxembourg, we rode down to the Eiffel Tower because we still hadn't gone up the tower yet. Since we're leaving in two weeks, we figured we'd try it out today since you can only go to the very top on the weekends. That was definitely well worth the 12 euros. We tried to time it with sunset the best we could and it actually worked pretty well. The best part was that we were able to walk down to the ground floor while the lights were on- the sparking of it created a great effect through the iron as we ran down the gazillion flights of stairs. We also ventured across the river from the Eiffel Tower just to get some pictures but ran into a pretty neat area. We're heading back that way this upcoming week with Gerri so hopefully we'll get a chance to see a little more of it.
8 Fevrier: paranoid, paranoid
I've decided that studying abroad is definitely a humbling experience. It's bringing out a self-consciousness that I thought I left freshman year of high school. It just seems to bring out a whole new level of self-recognition. We went to a club with Alexia and met her friend there. It was a cool place, a lot of fun actually, great music, but I can't help feeling so out of place so many places that I go. If I ever felt that way at home, it wouldn't make a difference to me- who cares? But here, I feel as though I'm constantly being judged. It's a weird feeling to be experiencing at this point in my life and I think that's why I feel as though this whole trip is very humbling. Although I'm totally comfortable in my normal surroundings at home and at school, the world is much bigger than just those two places. It's weird to learn that even though it's an obvious statement.
Also, learning to be fluent in a language is still completely unfathomable to me and I have so much respect for people who can master more than their original language. It baffles me and I couldn't imagine "thinking" another language like I do English. There are just so many people who speak both French and English here and it amazes me. I think I feel out of place because I don't know the language well and in that sense, I feel as though I'm intruding in a space where I didn't do my research. I hate being an inconvenience to anyone in general so I'm having a lot of trouble dealing with constantly being difficult. I don't like other people having to do my work for me, and I'm in their country so I feel even more intrusive. I also like being efficient and trying to make things go as smoothly as they can and that just doesn't seem totally possible here. It's frustrating but I'm glad for the experience- if it wasn't tough at all, I wouldn't learn anything and I'm definitely here to learn about others and myself.
7 Fevrier: rowdy french professionals
Another simple thing makes my day: mailing some letters. Pretty pathetic, huh? But very true. Anyways, after I successfully bought stamps and talked to the mail clerk, we went out with Oxanna to a night club called Plaza Madeleine. It was a lot of fun- it went from about 7-1 and through a fourteen euro entrance fee, we got "dinner"(more like appetizers but at least something) and an open bar from7-9. Apparently "open bar" over here is an open champagne bar. lol. Oh well, aside from the terrible hoard of people crowding the bar like starving people seeing food relief, it was a good time. It was different crowd at first- the dress was pretty classy looking and and age range was more around 20-35 or so. Everyone there looked as though they had just gotten off their work shift, which, according to Oxanna, was precisely why. We felt a little out of place at first not only because we are American but because we were students and it didn't completely seem like our scene. But, as everyone had a few more drinks and the music got louder, the dance floor became much more crowded and it was fun to watch all those professionals suddenly start looking like a bunch of rowdy college kids. And as it got a little later, our younger crowd seemed to emerge, ones not quite as dressed up and who looked a little more like us. The music was great though- if the French truly don't like Americans, they sure love our music. Anyways, it was fun regardless.
6 Fevrier: bunny for lunch
We had a different kind of French class today with Gerald, our professor. As a way to allow us to learn a little more about French culture, as opposed to just grammar, we went to his house by the Eiffel Tower and helped him and his wife, Olga, cook ourselves lunch. It was fun to make the food and not just eat it. It looked very professional and culinary and it was very satisfying to know that we actually made it. It was actually pretty simple to make too. We had rabbit- a first for me but it just tasted like chicken I thought. We also had a salad with a vinaigrette dressing, walnuts, and melted goat cheese on top. The cheese was good, not too strong like some French cheese I've experienced, but it was a little overpowering for me just over the greens. I liked it more with my baguette. We also has couscous and baked tomatoes with the rabbit. I helped make the best part of the meal- mousse au chocolat. It was surprisingly simply to make considering how good it was. I'm excited to take that recipe back with me when I go home. We also got a lesson on another important part of the French meal- the wine. And after three glasses and a huge wave of fatigue, we left Gerri's home and went to the Musee de Rodin- home of the famous "Thinker" sculpture. We didn't stay too long there but I definitely liked his work. It really is fun going to all the museums now that we're learning a little more about the technical aspects of art through our class.
5 Fevrier: advertisements
I love how some of the advertisements here make use of art. It's as though everyone who lived here is completely consumed in it here. These Parisians grow up surrounded by it- in their museums and architecture and culture- they can't get away from it if they wanted to. I mean, their government funds living arrangements for starving artists. It's a completely different concept over here. I see ads with women on it that look as thought they were painted hundreds of years ago and could be hung in a museum. And here it is being used as an ad to sell a cell phone. I guess you have to know the people of the culture before you try to appeal to them and these Parisians are way different than us.
4 Fevrier: choreography dans la gare
As you ride the metro, you watch all the people all around you- just watch and think and imagine. And as all the people rise from their seats as they hear the train approaching, they move like a wave. Their one commonality being simply waiting for a train- never knowing any of the thousand of similarities between them. It's like a choreographed dance: each person rising up one after another, completely synchronized, one-by-one. I find it fun to watch with every stop of the train.
Speaking another language really makes one realize how simple phrases and words can be- nouns and verbs alone can get you far- even when they aren't conjugated. We have a lot of unnecessary words. But that's what being human is all about- the ability to communicate. We can speak to the same people every single day and still always have something to share. My biggest language barrier is the lack of any real socialization. Sure, I "communicate" with Parisians, but I don't truly socialize with them, unfortunately. I was so excited to meet people and get to know them but without being fluent, there's only so much to say. It's near impossible to really talk. It is big disappointment but I guess I should have expected it.
1-3 Fevrier: mind the gap!!
Our first adventure is officially under our belts. London welcomed us with their glorious english-speaking ways and their incredibly addictive accents. The trip as a whole was pretty amazing for only being there 2 1/2 days. We got to see a lot- thanks to Karen's brother who is living in London right now. He was able to kind of tour us around the major landmarks. It was nice to be able to follow someone for a while and not try to find anything or decide where to go. We got to see the London Bridge, Big Ben, Parliament, changing of the guards, London Eye, Portebello Road, St. Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Trufalgar's Square, Herod's, National Galleries, and Picadilly Circus. I'm sure those aren't all spelled correctly but you get the idea- we got to see a lot in a very short amount of time. We didn't go in anywhere because of time and money limits but that was fine with me. I think we got to see more things in general because we weren't inside at all really.
Anyways, our first hostel experience was definitely a success. We met some fun people- Leo in particular, a student from Brazil who stayed in our room. He was a cool guy and made us all feel a little more comfortable about the whole sharing rooms with strangers concept. Aside from the couple who arrived late at night, we didn't have any other discrepancies...Anyways, like I mentioned, we met some interesting people there and it was definitely a good experience. The hostel overall was surprisingly clean and modern. It used to be a court house so it's a great twist of old and new.
Karen's brother also took us to a few bars, one being Waxy O'Connors- this great six-story bar that has this rustic Irish feel to it. It was jam-packed when we went but that made it all the more fun, I think. Good music too. Oh, and the one bartender was absolutely hysterical and basically kept us at that bar for like an hour longer than we anticipated. London was ridiculously expensive- which we were prepared for but it still hurt. We basically starved the whole trip, only purchasing tea and a meal of fish and chips just for tradition-sake. We brought along some baguettes and clementines so we survived, however, we looked pretty homeless at more than a few instances. Haha it was funny though. | http://hannahufnar.blogspot.com/2008_02_01_archive.html | robots: classic
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What Rights Do We Really Have In The 2nd Amendment?
“With No Malice”©2012
A General Interest Opinion Column by an opinionated person.
Vic Topmiller Jr.
What Rights Do We Really Have In The 2nd Amendment?
What a question. How many debates. What lengthy interpretations. What ambiguous reasoning. What fear resides in the hearts of people of both sides of the issue as to how some court will decide.
I, for one, find that it is not a big problem. I read it, I read several interpretations of it and now I am ready to go to battle.
Unfortunately, reasonable people will not be allowed to decide, but rather it will be the courts. Federal courts. Meaning, as we have noticed more and more lately, that federal courts are seated with strange people that fail to interpret anything with common reason and reverence to the highest and most fought for document in all of history.
“The Constitution not only is, but ought to be, what the judges say it is.” Chief Justice Charles Hughes.
You see, the psychology of the modern thinker and judge is to think in first person, as if he or she is an independent entity endowed with esoteric wisdom and shielded from the consequences of wrong or prodigious interpretations.
If we're talking about bottom lines, well, I guess that is the bottom line. Unfortunately, if the courts are no longer the final word then we become a country of confusion. Civil wars and anarchy. That's not acceptable—look around the world and you will see why. Which points to the power of the president and his ability to direct the political consequences through the appointment of Judges. Think the president doesn't have astronomical power? Appointing judges is just one of his near dictatorial powers.
Do you think that a judge raised with a sucker in his mouth and a feather at the other end and is protected at both ends by a gloating mother is going to interpret the Constitution the same as you and I would?
“To Keep and Bear Arms”
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
So tell, my man, how many ways can we interpret this? Yet the arguments go on and on. Simple, interpreted for today or for two hundred years ago when the writers of the Constitution became aware of some tweaking and explaining that needed to go along with the basic constitution, it says, to paraphrase, “hey guys, we went to all this trouble putting together a literary work of art here, now we better explain how it is to be used. The folks of that time had just beat the heck out of the British. They did it with just the folks. Yes, not a trained military, just the folks, with their hoes, shovels and guns. By rights, these guys owned it, they won it. Against a well trained, fed, clothed and equipped British invasion. Do you remember what King George IV had to say about the whole thing when he sent to get his army and navy out of there before he lost the whole thing? “If George Washington doesn't appoint himself king of the new world he is surely a fool.” George IV, you're the fool. These folks didn't bleed and die in order to bow down to a ruler—they did it for freedom.
Inch by inch, the people are giving away the freedoms we inherited on the bloody fields of the east. Why are we doing this? Have we lost the sense of what freedom is and how big and vast are the implications and consequences that travel with it?
I don't know if you have noticed, but in every crowd or relationship, there is one person trying to dominate those around them. In every government, there are those trying to dominate those under them.
In the Government of the United States, and even in the Governments of the various States, there are those who have lied, cheated, bribed and bought their why to political dominance so that in the political pyramid they can force the folks to do their bidding.
That's why the designers of the Constitution were quick to install the 2nd Amendment.
As long as you and I are ready and willing to put our blood and life in the streets they will never rule the folks like every dictator desires.
Keep your guns well oiled and your powder dry, and pray that you will never need them.
“The history of liberty is the history of resistance, a history of the limitation of governmental power.”
Woodrow Wilson.
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Choosing A Lawn Mower (page 2 of 3)
by Maggie Oster
The basics
Adjustable mowing height. Some mowers make this easy, changing all wheels with one lever. Look for a mower that offers plenty of mowing height options, from 1 to 3-1/2 inches at least.
Deck materials. Mower decks are traditionally constructed of steel, which is strong, but rust prone. Aluminum decks don't rust but are heavier. Modern plastic resins such as Xenoy are lightweight and nearly indestructible.
Wheel styles. Yes, they're still round, but large rear wheels provide better maneuverability over rough, rocky, or hilly ground. Front wheels on casters instead of fixed in place also improve maneuverability. The best mowers will have ball-bearing wheels. Check to see if the tires have rounded shoulders, which cause less damage to lawns.
Type of engine. Both self-propelled and mulching mowers require more engine power than the old mowers offered. Newer engines are often 6 horsepower. More advanced engines with overhead camshafts (OHC) or valves (OHV) are available on some mowers. These engines are more powerful for their size and they also generate much less air pollution.
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City Council gets peek at Convention Center hotel
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- Embassy Suites is on track to come to the Port City.
Today Wilmington City Council got a look at the latest rendering of the hotel that will be attached to downtown's Convention Center.
The hotel will house 176 rooms for guests and be complete with a restaurant, bar, terrace and ballroom.
"We're excited," Mayor Bill Saffo said. "Obviously this has been a long process, and they've worked very hard on trying to fit a very nice hotel on a small lot."
The hotel is expected to be done in 2014.
So, council got a look at the "latest rendering" ?
That's what ... rendering number 2,402,036?
Every time they see another drawing, council members run around like fools proclaiming "The hotel is coming! The hotel is coming!"
2014 is a long way off in this never-ending hotel saga. A hotel, by the way, designated to service a convention center that'll never turn a profit.
Yeah after all these attempts I think I'll hold my enthusiasm until they break ground.
The hotel stands a better chance at turning a profit as opposed to the convention center. Tourists not affiliated with an event might want to stay at a down town place as opposed to the higher priced beach hotels.
Of course Embassy is still trying to arrange financing which is a crap shoot in today's economy. This is why I will keep my enthusiasm in check for now.
Best Regards
The hotel stands a better chance than the convention center ...
... if it never even gets built.
Will look Great
Neighbor to the Stadium,welcome!
And who and when was it determined the stadium would be down town?
Tell you what - I'll give my total approval to the stadium if it costs the taxpayers as much as the hotel did to develop. How's that?
They could also use the ball field as a KOA campground and solve the hotel season of course. On season...the RV's would have to form a line around the outer perimeter of the field and have "NO" glass windows in case of a Home Run ball!!
Pipe Dreams...they come and then they are gone (Over the fence) :-(
random unncecessary quotation marks
Why should they have "NO" glass windows? Why can't they just have no glass windows? Do the caps and qt marks add something that I'm missing?
Sorry...I meant to write
Sorry...I meant to write "Know" glass windows. How's that?
Hey Vog
Why would it be anywhere else,hotels,convention center and stadium probably makes too much sense for you.
Let it happen,Downtown has never looked better.
Hey Duke
How much should the city spend on the stadium?
I hope council is paying attention
$0 110 votes or 80%
Seems as though baseball supporters have a problem.
Not many want the city to pay anything for it
Not $20M
Not $30M
Not $42M
Nothing. Zero Zilch Nada
Read the poll yourself........
Got it?
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Mr. Griffin out in Hollywood this week with her Majesty promoting Wilmington film making opportunities? If not, why not?
How can he promote Wilmington if he is not out there with our "Head of State"?
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} | 797 | The Drama of the Olympic Trials
We’ve all seen the commercial, during college football and basketball, telling us how most of the young men and women playing college sports won’t be playing professionally after college. While in a few sports it is because they just won’t be talented enough the reality is that for most sports there isn’t a professional step after college. When an athlete in most sports finish their senior season it usually spells the end of their competitive careers.
That is what makes the Olympics, and the preceding trials, such riveting television. Young men and women are taking the final step after a decade or more of practice and competitions and for all but an elite few the dream will end in disappointment. With the raw emotions on display from both the winners and losers it is hard not to get caught up in the excitement. While the NFL, NBA, NHL and MLB drafts are enjoyable to watch the stakes are so much higher at the Olympic trials.
Let’s put the trials in perspective. Much like in football or basketball players have specific positions, swimmers, runners or gymnasts tend to specialize at one thing. In the NFL draft each year eight to ten quarterbacks hear their name called, giving them a chance to compete at the top-level in their sport. Over the course of four years over 40 new players at that position find their way into the professional ranks, however briefly. For the competitors in the Olympic trials there are two or three spots available for each event every four years. That is an entire generation of college athletes fighting for those two spots. And add to the mix that previous Olympians and also-rans are also trying for those spots it shows just how daunting a challenge it is. While being the best college QB each year is usually a ticket to the next level there may be a dozen NCAA champions competing in each event at these trials.
Don’t fool yourself that these athletes are funded by the USOC or private sponsors between Olympic years either. While some athletes, like Micheal Phelps or Lolo Jones, might have lucrative sponsorships to support them between national and international events, most of the athletes are self funded until (and sometimes after) they make the national team. In fact, in many cases they have only had partial scholarships during their college years as well. In swimming, for example, there are only enough full scholarships to field half a team, so most schools split up those funds. Only a small handful of swimmers will have a full ride over four years, most will be on partial scholarships until they prove they are a national title contender. In most cases these young people are coming out of college in debt and working or borrowing to make ends meet while training between major events.
While we’ve spent a lot of time talking about some of the depressing parts of the trials there is also a lot of joy to be experienced. Last night Galen Rupp, a 26-year-old runner from Oregon, defeated his rival Bernard Lagat for the first time in his career, giving him a chance to redeem a 13th place finish in Bejing. Janet Evans, whose first Olympic appearance was in 1988, came out of retirement for one last try in the 400m and 800m freestyle and to compete against a generation of swimmers who grew up idolizing her. Dozens of young men and women, from across the country, will realize a goal they have worked for since they were children, and some of the victors will be children themselves, like 17-year-old swimmer Missy Franklin.
Another great thing about the Olympic trials is the camaraderie between competitors. In the professional team sports opponents often socialize before and after games but they have their own benches and locker rooms for support. While the Olympic hopefuls come from different colleges or private teams, at the trials they are forced together throughout the event. Most of the elite athletes have competed against each other for years, and socialize during the competitions while knowing that the winners will be teammates after the event keeps the trash talk to a minimum. Watching someone congratulate the winner when their own careers have likely just ended never fails to elicit an emotional response.
This weekend NBC and NBCSN will be airing the conclusions of the swimming, gymnastics and track and field trials. If you are a sports fan you owe it to yourself, and the athletes, to watch.
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Fossil range: Template:Fossil range/Sandbox?Late Paleocene - Recent
Horse hoof
Horse hoof
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Infraclass: Eutheria
Superorder: Laurasiatheria
Order: Perissodactyla
Owen, 1848
The odd-toed ungulates are browsing and grazing mammals which compose the order Perissodactyla. This order includes horses, tapirs and rhinoceri. The odd-toed ungulates (animals having an odd number of toes on each hoof) are usually large, have relatively simple stomachs and a large middle toe. In contrast to the Ruminant Artiodactyl ungulates, perissodactyls are hindgut fermenters; that is, they digest plant cellulose in their intestines rather than stomach.
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Homogalax tapirinus skull
Although no certain records are known prior to the early Eocene, the odd-toed ungulates probably arose in what is now Asia during the late Paleocene, less than 10 million years after the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event. By the start of the Eocene (55 million years ago) they had diversified and spread out to occupy several continents. The horses and tapirs both evolved in North America;[2] the rhinoceroses appear to have developed in Asia from tapir-like animals and then recolonised the Americas during the middle Eocene (about 45 million years ago). There were approximately 15 families, of which only three survive (McKenna and Bell, 1997; Hooker, 2005). These families were very diverse in form and size; they included the enormous brontotheres and the bizarre chalicotheres. The largest perissodactyl, an Asian rhinoceros called Paraceratherium, reached Template:Convert/STTemplate:Convert/test/A, more than twice the weight of an elephant.
Perissodactyls were the dominant group of large terrestrial browsers right through the Oligocene. However, the rise of grasses in the Miocene (about 20 million years ago) saw a major change: the even-toed ungulates with their more complex stomachs were better able to adapt to a coarse, low-nutrition diet, and soon rose to prominence. Nevertheless, many odd-toed species survived and prospered until the late Pleistocene (about 10,000 years ago) when they faced the pressure of human hunting and habitat change.
The members of the order fall into two suborders:
• Hippomorpha are odd-toed ungulates that are, today, fast runners with long legs and have only one toe. The only extant family of this suborder is Equidae (whose sole surviving genus is Equus), comprising the horse, zebra, donkey, onager, and allied species. The extinct, rhinoceros-like brontotheres are also included in this suborder. Both families probably descended from palaeotheres.
• Ceratomorpha have several functional toes; they are heavier than and move slower than the Hippomorpha. This suborder has two extant families: Tapiridae (tapirs) and Rhinocerotidae (rhinoceroses). The extinct chalicotheres may belong to this suborder as well.
The three surviving families of odd-toed ungulate are classified as follows.
It was thought that odd-toed ungulates are closely related to even-toed ungulates. But recent molecular comparisons show that even-toed and odd-toed ungulates may not form a clade. Instead, perissodactyls may be more closely related to carnivorans, bats and pangolins (and, by default, the Creodonts and Cimolestids). So, some biologists group the orders Perissodactyla, Carnivora, Chiroptera, Pholidota, Creodonta, and Cimolesta as the clade Pegasoferae (Nishihara et al., 2006; see Matthee et al., 2007 and Springer et al., 2007 for alternate views).
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The tapir hooves
The living perissodactyls are a diverse group, with no generalized appearance. At one extreme are the lithe and graceful horses; on another, the huge, tank-like rhinoceroses; and in the middle, the vaguely pig-like tapirs. All extant perissodactyls are large, from the 180-kg Mountain Tapir to the 2,273-kg White Rhinoceros.
Extinct perissodactyls possessed a far more diverse range of forms, too, including the tiny, vaguely tapir-like paleotheres, the monstrous brontotheres, the knuckle-walking chalicotheres, and the gigantic rhinoceros Indricotherium, which dwarfed even elephants.
However, all perissodactyls, extinct and extant, have a mesaxonic foot structure. In other words, the symmetry of the foot passes through the third digit. This means that this digit holds the animal's weight. In equines, the mesaxonic foot has been modified so that the non-weight bearing digits have atrophied away, while the third toe has enlarged, so that modern equines have only one toe. Also, all perissodactyls are hindgut fermenters. Hindgut fermenters, in contrast to the ruminants, store digested food which has left the stomach in a pouch-like extension of the large intestine called the caecum (literally "cave"), where the food is digested by bacteria.
Social structuresEdit
Today, the equines are the only social perissodactyls still extant. Horses organize themselves into small bands with a dominant mare at the top of the pecking order, as well as a resident stallion. Several bands will share a common territory, with some members of one band joining another band, every so often. These bands, in turn, form a "herd." Huge fossil beds made of the bones of hundreds or thousands of individuals suggest that many of the larger brontothere species, and some prehistoric rhinoceroses, such as Diceratherium were also social animals which organized themselves into herds. Modern-day rhinoceroses, on the other hand, are solitary animals which maintain territories, often attacking members of their own species when their space has been invaded. Tapirs, too, are solitary animals, though they are shy, retiring creatures which do not defend or maintain territories.
Mating and reproductionEdit
A tapir calf
As with the males of many other animal groups, male perissodactyls often spar with each other for the privilege to mate with receptive females. A male which has found a female will attempt to taste her urine in order to see if she is in estrus. The female may also signal that she is in estrus, such as the whistling of cow Indian rhinoceroses and tapirs. Perissodactyls tend to have one foal or calf at a time. Very rarely, the female may have twins. Gestation is very long, from about 11 months in horses to 16 months for rhinoceroses. The calf or foal is capable of standing within moments of birth, but is very dependent on its mother. The young stays with its mother even after weaned, usually until it is chased off by the mother upon the birth of a new foal or calf. At this time, in horses, the foal will enter into the herd proper, later, young stallions are often chased off and join bachelor herds. With rhinos and tapirs, the newly weaned calf wanders away to search for new feeding grounds.
Humans and conservationEdit
Humans have a historically long interaction with perissodactyls. The wild ass was the first equid to be domesticated,around 5000 BC in Egypt. Horses were domesticated 1000 years later. The zebroid, that is, a zebra hybrid, began appearing in zoos and menageries during the 19th century. During the 16th century, the Spaniards brought horses with them, and inadvertently reintroduced horses back into North America. While no rhinoceros has been domesticated, they have been captured for zoos and menageries since ancient times.
The Przewalski's horse, one of the most endangered equids
The odd-toed ungulates have been among the most important herbivorous mammals, at times, they have been the dominant herbivores in many ecosystems. However, over the course of millions of years, many species went extinct due to climatic change, newer, coarser-leaved plants, predators, disease, and competition from other herbivores, particularly the artiodactyls. The Chalicotheriidae was the most recent family of perissodactyl to become entirely extinct. The perissodactyls' decline continues even today. Most species are listed as threatened species, and although no species are confirmed to be extinct, some subspecies have gone extinct. The quagga was hunted for its meat, the tarpan were hunted for sport, and a subspecies of Black Rhinoceros was hunted for its horn (as with all other African rhinoceros species).
Perissodactyls tend to do well in captivity, and there are many breeding programs in place to help replenish wild populations. The Przewalski's horse has been recently released back to the wild. Some of the captive breeding programs for some equids are unusual, in that breeders have been carefully selecting specimens in order to recreate various recently extinct equids, such as the Tarpan and Quagga. Most wild rhinoceroses are monitored, and some have their horns trimmed off in order to discourage horn-poachers. Even so, if conservations do not improve, it may very well be that the only living perissodactyls left will be the domesticated horse and donkey.
Two recently extinct equids
See alsoEdit
1. Hooker, 2005, p. 206.
2. Savage, RJG, & Long, MR (1986). Mammal Evolution: an illustrated guide, New York: Facts on File.
Dichotomous Key may have more about this subject.
• Hooker, J.J. (2005). "Perissodactyla"; pp. 199-214 in K. D. Rose and J. D. Archibald (eds.), The Rise of Placental Mammals, Origins and Relationships of the Major Extant Clades. The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. ISBN 080188022X
• Matthee, Conrad A., Eick, Geeta; et al. (2007). Indel evolution of mammalian introns and the utility of non-coding nuclear markers in eutherian phylogenetics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 42 (3): 827–837.
• McKenna, Malcolm C.; Bell, Susan K. (1997). Classification of Mammals Above the Species Level, New York: Columbia University Press.
• Nishihara, H., Hasegawa, M.; Okada, N. (2006). Pegasoferae, an unexpected mammalian clade revealed by tracking ancient retroposon insertions. PNAS 103 (26): 9929–9934.
• Springer, M. S., et al. (2007). The adequacy of morphology for reconstructing the early history of placental mammals. Systematic Biology 56 (4): 673–684.
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How to deprecate an API:
• Add a @deprecated item to the docblock tag, with a {@link <class>} item pointing to the new API to use.
• Update the deprecated code to throw a Deprecation::notice() error.
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• Make sure that the old deprecated function works by calling the new function - don't have duplicated code!
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Here's an example for replacing Director::isDev() with a (theoretical) Env::is_dev():
* Returns true if your are in development mode
* @deprecated 3.1 Use {@link Env::is_dev()} instead.
public function isDev() {
Deprecation::notice('3.1', 'Use Env::is_dev() instead');
return Env::is_dev();
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1. gio5656 answered: to rewind time, but for only1 hour and only once a day
2. stripped-to-the-waist said: Telekinesis
3. persianbaby18 reblogged this from theblackballerina and added:
Reading minds!
4. bowhynot answered: The power of Love to finally be able to love everyone
5. percilie answered: Flying - have been dreaming that I could fly since I was a little girl <3 I love seeing things from above
6. omrb1010 answered: I would have the power to fly. Being able to fly will give me the ability to see the world from more than my eyes, through my eyes.
7. primaveraof12 answered: A time machine, not for the future but for the past.Not for to change what I did but to see memories that I can’t remember, currently.
8. sarasshow answered: the power of controlling time, to turn it back and undo my mistakes.
9. je-suis-blanche answered: flying is all I ever wanted <3
10. athuran answered: Teleportation
11. babioleries answered: Teleportation !
12. kerningandcrumpets answered: The superpower to morph into types of animals. Although I feel like if I did that I’d just be an obnoxiously large animal all the time.
13. beingmeblue answered: Control the time, to sleep more than five minutes every morning
14. theoutregirl answered: teleportation. anywhere I want to go, anytime.
15. travelingcolors answered: A magic pocket full of magical stuff, just like Doraemon. There’s no need to explain why. Dooooraemon lalala
16. mazomani answered: 4 MOTHER FUCKING ARMS
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Israel arrests Palestinian terrorist/"policeman"
Just another shining example of the types of people that Mahmoud Abbas is paying for his "police" force that does no policing.
A Palestinian policeman involved in the October 2000 Ramallah lynching has been arrested. Numerous investigations have shown that Wassim Radi, the Palestinian policeman in question, was directly involved in the murder of Sergeant First Class Yossi Avrahami. Wasam Radi was arrested May 22nd, 2005 in a joint IDF and ISA operation.
Radi is suspected of being directly involved in the Ramallah lynching on October 12, 2000, during which two IDF reserved soldiers were brutally murdered. Radi, a 30-year old Palestinian policeman, is originally from the Gaza Strip and is currently a resident of the village of Beituniya, southwest of Ramallah.
The IDF will continue to hunt all those who were involved in the murders until they are brought to justice.
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
According to the news, only settlers are "extremist" and only Palestinians are "moderate"
Number of hits in Google News search for the phrase "extremist settlers": 106
Number of hits in Google News search for the phrase "extremist Palestinians": 1
Number of hits in Google News search for the phrase "moderate settlers": 0
Number of hits in Google News search for the phrase "moderate Palestinians": 125
In other words, people who advocate genocide of Jews, who danced on 9/11, who cheered Saddam's SCUD missiles, who burn the American flag regularly, who idolize people who blow up pizza shops, who name public squares after terrorists, who prefer Hamas to any non-Muslim - they don't have an extremist among them!
So what crimes are the extremists in this conflict doing? Read the articles: they are doing such heinous crimes as stopping traffic on Israel's highways, protesting and getting hit by moderate Palestinian stones, building houses, and, um, that's about it.
A reasonable question to all "news" sources would be why wouldn't they use scare quotes when talking about "extremist" Jewish settlers when they will use them while talking about Muslim terrorists?
Arabs helped Titus conquer Jerusalem in 70 AD
Interesting tidbit (thanks to Emet m'Tziyon). Publius Cornelius Tacitus mentions this in his Histories:
[5.1] EARLY in this year Titus Caesar, who had been selected by his father to complete the subjugation of Judaea, and who had gained distinction as a soldier while both were still subjects, began to rise in power and reputation, as armies and provinces emulated each other in their attachment to him. The young man himself, anxious to be thought superior to his station, was ever displaying his gracefulness and his energy in war. By his courtesy and affability he called forth a willing obedience, and he often mixed with the common soldiers, while working or marching, without impairing his dignity as general. He found in Judaea three legions, the 5th, the 10th, and the 15th, all old troops of Vespasian's. To these he added the 12th from Syria, and some men belonging to the 18th and 3rd, whom he had withdrawn from Alexandria. This force was accompanied by twenty cohorts of allied troops and eight squadrons of cavalry, by the two kings Agrippa and Sohemus, by the auxiliary forces of king Antiochus, by a strong contingent of Arabs, who hated the Jews with the usual hatred of neighbours, and, lastly, by many persons brought from the capital and from Italy by private hopes of securing the yet unengaged affections of the Prince. With this force Titus entered the enemy's territory, preserving strict order on his march, reconnoitring every spot, and always ready to give battle. At last he encamped near Jerusalem.
So while students of the Bible may not be surprised, Tacitus shows that Arab hatred of Jews pre-dates Islam by many centuries.
I imagine that they were only upset by the "occupation" of Canaanite land a millenium earlier, and that they were just trying to help the Romans uphold international law.
By the way, Tacitus clearly hated Jews and Judaism, but some of his complaints (the few that are accurate) are actually quite complimentary to Western eyes:
This worship, however introduced, is upheld by its antiquity; all their other customs, which are at once perverse and disgusting, owe their strength to their very badness. The most degraded out of other races, scorning their national beliefs, brought to them their contributions and presents. This augmented the wealth of the Jews, as also did the fact, that among themselves they are inflexibly honest and ever ready to shew compassion, though they regard the rest of mankind with all the hatred of enemies. They sit apart at meals, they sleep apart, and though, as a nation, they are singularly prone to lust, they abstain from intercourse with foreign women; among themselves nothing is unlawful. Circumcision was adopted by them as a mark of difference from other men. Those who come over to their religion adopt the practice, and have this lesson first instilled into them, to despise all gods, to disown their country, and set at nought parents, children, and brethren. Still they provide for the increase of their numbers. It is a crime among them to kill any newly-born infant. They hold that the souls of all who perish in battle or by the hands of the executioner are immortal. Hence a passion for propagating their race and a contempt for death. They are wont to bury rather than to burn their dead, following in this the Egyptian custom; they bestow the same care on the dead, and they hold the same belief about the lower world. Quite different is their faith about things divine. The Egyptians worship many animals and images of monstrous form; the Jews have purely mental conceptions of Deity, as one in essence. They call those profane who make representations of God in human shape out of perishable materials. They believe that Being to be supreme and eternal, neither capable of representation, nor of decay. They therefore do not allow any images to stand in their cities, much less in their temples. This flattery is not paid to their kings, nor this honour to our Emperors.
Islam is more a political ideology than a religion
One of the reasons that the West treats Islam with kid gloves is because of our understandable desire for world-wide freedom of religion. But when religion becomes more than a personal or community-based belief system and turns into a worldwide political philosophy (and a very bigoted and ugly one, at that) then the free world has no obligation to treat it like a religion, rather it should be treated the way that fascism is treated - with no tolerance.
The latest evidence that Islam is not acting like a religion comes from this latest demand:
Islamic states want permanent seat on UN Security Council
Foreign ministers of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) opened a meeting with a call for a Muslim permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
OIC secretary general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu urged a greater role for Muslim countries in world affairs and demanded a 'permanent representation for the Islamic world on the UN Security Council'.
'The Islamic world, which represents one fifth of total mankind, cannot remain excluded from the activities of the Security Council which assumes a fundamental role in keeping security and peace in the world,' he said Tuesday.
Notice that they aren't saying that any single Islamic state should be represented.
Notice how they wouldn't support India (which is also seeking membership in the Security Council), even though it has more Muslims than any other nation - because it is not an "Islamic state."
Notice how they put aside all their many political differences in order to push their agenda of increasing Islamic influence on the world.
The West needs to wake up and treat Islam on a geopolitical level the way that it treats all other oppressive and bigoted ideologies. The fig leaf of "religion" should not protect today's Islam.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
June 28, 1935-36: The Power of Lies
A sobering article in the June 28, 1935 edition of the Palestine Post:
Everyone knew what was happening in Nazi Germany. Everyone saw the vile Jew-hatred coming from Europe. (In the same edition of the Palestine Post was an article about how cities in Germany were stripping Jews of their citizenship, even before Hitler's national law disenfranchising Jews took effect.) While they may not have imagined genocide, it was very clear that for the foreseeable future Jews would be heavily persecuted in Europe.
Britain could have saved millions of the Jews by just allowing them to go to Palestine (and Cyprus and Trans-Jordan.) So why didn't they?
The reason is simple. They didn't want to upset the Arabs.
And the Palestinian Arab leaders had no qualms about playing up their "fears" that Jews would destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque, that they would "endanger the Arabs existence" - any convenient lie would do.
As can be seen in the Post on June 28, 1936:
Do these complaints sound familiar? They are the same complaints we have heard for the past 70 years. And they are just as absurd as they were then.
And the British weren't stupid. They knew that the Arabs were liars (also the same issue):
But lies are insidious. When someone hears a lie, even if they know it is false, it still affects them. A little bit of us tends to think, "What if it is true?" Or, more commonly, "Both sides are very passionate and I don't know all the facts - probably the truth is somewhere in between."
Couple that with the fact that the Western mind has a very hard time accepting that someone would lie to our faces. Hitler did it in the 30s, and the "relief" that could be felt in the West whenever he claimed that he was finished his expansionism was palpable. And they were always lies.
The Arabs learned very well from Hitler's playbook. A lie, repeated often enough, tends to be believed. And in this case the Arab lies about their "fears" of their future (rather than the Jew-hatred that was truly the source of their being against Jewish immigration) made the British pause and think that perhaps this year isn't the best time to allow Jews to save their lives - maybe next year, maybe after negotiations, maybe when the Arabs stop rioting and things calm down - maybe then we will do the right thing. But until then, it is easier to close our eyes and believe some of the lies coming out of the mouths of vile bigots.
Westerners are fans of fair play, of the adage that "there are two sides to every story." It is very hard to accept that one side is right and that the other side is lying.
Arab lies and British (and world) apathy helped combine to the destruction of European Jewry. And the Arabs have never stopped their campaign of getting rid of any Jews in positions of power in the Middle East, partially through their incessant repitition of anti-Semitic lies to their own people and to the apathetic West.
Each lie affects us all until they are called out and exposed for what they are. It is a moral responsibility to expose each Arab lie about Israel and Jews and show the liars to be the bigoted scum they are.
And it is the height of stupidity to believe the promises of liars.
Monday, June 27, 2005
Muslim male bombers get virgins. What do the women get?
From OpinionJournal's Best of the Web:
Girls Gone Wild
Fundamentalist Muslim mythology has it that terrorist 'martyrs' are greeted in heaven by 72 virgins. With Palestinian Arabs increasingly making use of female suicide bombers, we've often wondered what they get in heaven. Now we have the answer, thanks to a report in London's Sunday Telegraph from an Israeli prison:
One of the inmates, Ayat Allah Kamil, 20, from Kabatya, told me why she had wanted to become a martyr: 'Because of my religion. I'm very religious. For the holy war [jihad] there's no difference between men and women shaid [martyrs].'
According to the Koran, male martyrs are welcomed to Paradise by 72 beautiful virgins. Ayat, as with many of the women she is incarcerated with, believes that a woman martyr 'will be the chief of the 72 virgins, the fairest of the fair.'
That is to say, the highest aspiration for a fundamentalist Palestinian girl is murder, suicide and prostitution. Has there ever been a more depraved culture?
Jibril Rajoub is funnier than Chris Rock
"We deserve a state"
JERUSALEM - The upcoming disengagement will allow the Palestinians to show the world they deserve an independent state, Palestinian Authority National Security Advisor Jibril Rajoub said at a conference in Jerusalem Monday.
Gaza will be a model for the Palestinian state,” Rajoub said in the session, organized by The Media Line news agency at Jerusalem’s American Colony hotel.
Other greatest hits from Rajoub include: "The Israelis may have killed the Israelis in Taba."
"The blood of Arafat will chase the Jews forever, the same as Christ's blood"
Why Some Jews Still Believe in Arab Myths (Alex Grobman)
By Dr. Alex Grobman
What irony! While there are so many reasons for American and Israeli Jews to feel threatened by Arab politicians and religious leaders, they act as if they are not. Arabs, who for the most part could count on Jews to be their friends, continue to act as if Jews are their mortal enemies.
Arabs have been hostile to Jews in Israel for over 100 years. Najib Azouri, a Christian Arab, wrote in 1905 that the Arab nations and Israel were destined to fight until one of them wins. The most recent indication that Palestinians refuse to recognize Israel as a Jewish state was in Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ mentioning the right of return during the 15 May 2005 Naqba (catastrophe) ceremony. Harvard psychiatrist Kenneth Levin gives psychological reasons for this. One is that reality is too painful to accept; another is believing peace will come if Jews make concessions, which also makes Jews feel they are in control of the situation. Another example of self-delusion is that Palestinians and Jews have the same goals, which led them to be taken in over and over again by Yasser Arafat.
Political correctness also plays a role since Jews might be accused of racism if they were to challenge Arabs. Clearly, many Jews who are the wronged people in this conflict believe they are in the wrong.
I have often wondered how people translate information into knowledge. During the Shoah, there was no historical precedent for the systematic, bureaucratically administered, mass murder of the Jews of Europe. Even when information became available, it took time to assimilate the dimensions of what was happening. Marie Syrkin, a Labor Zionist leader and editor of the Jewish Frontier, explained how American Jews, including Jewish journalists who since 1933 had been actively involved in the fight against Nazi persecution, were not psychologically prepared to accept the truth:
“Today when genocide, gas-chamber and massextermination are the small coin of language, it is hard to reconstruct the more innocent state of mind when American Jews, like the Jews in Europe’s ghettos, could not immediately grasp that the ascending series of Nazi persecutions had reached this apex.” Further, she asked: “If such was the psychological unreadiness of sophisticated publicists whose ‘concerns’ had been to expose each new phase of the Nazi terror, what could be expected from a less informed general public?”
Given our recent experiences with the Nazis, however, why has it been difficult for so many Israeli and American Jews to recognize that the attacks against Israel by Arab religious and political leaders constitute a threat to our very existence as a people and as a nation? How many Israelis have to be killed or maimed by homicide bombings. How often do Jews have to be portrayed in the Arab media and in sermons as Satan, sons of apes and pigs, and as a cancer? How often do Israelis have to have their connection to Jewish holy sites refuted and the Holocaust denied, before we acknowledge the true extent of Arab enmity and their real objectives in dealing with the Jewish Question?
Arab hostility to Jews in the Land of Israel is, after all, not a new phenomenon. In March 1899, Zadok Kahn, Arab Mayor of Jerusalem, responded to Zionist overtures with a suggestion that “the Jews would do better to go somewhere else.” In 1905, Najib Azouri, a Christian Arab who worked as the assistant to the governor of the sanjaq (district) of Jerusalem, was the first Arab publicist to predict that Arab and Jewish national movements would end up in serious conflict with each other. In the introduction to his book, Le Reveil de la Nation Arabe dans l’Asie Turque (The Awakening of the Arab Nation in Turkish Asia), Azouri warned that these two movements, the emerging Arab nation and the “latent effort of the Jews to reconstitute ‘the ancient kingdom of Israel’ are destined to fight each other until one of them wins. The fate of the world will depend on the final result of this struggle between two peoples representing two contrary principles.”
One would be hard pressed to find any indication that these sentiments have changed. If anything, Arabs now are even more vocal about their contempt for Israel and their determination to destroy the country. In a 1974 interview with Oriana Fallaci, an Italian author, writer and journalist, Yasser Arafat was asked how long the conflict would continue. He indicated that the Palestinians did not think in these terms: “We are just beginning to get ready for a long, long war, a war that will run for generations. Ours is not the first generation to fight. In the 1920s our fathers were already struggling against Zionist invaders. We will never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed.” When Fallaci questioned Arafat about whether he was seeking peace, he replied: “We don’t want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel’s destruction and nothing else. What you call peace is peace for Israel. For us it is shame and injustice. We shall fight on to victory. Even for decades, for generations if necessary.”
In a November 1992 speech to an Arab youth group in Amman, Jordan, Faisal Husseini, the leading spokesman for the Palestine Liberation Organization in the disputed territories, declared, “We have not conceded and will not surrender any of the existing commitments that have existed for more than 70 years. We have within our Palestinian and united Arab society the ability to deal with a divided Israeli society. We must force Israeli society to cooperate with our Arab society, and eventually dissolve the ‘Zionist entity.’” During the Oslo period, he asserted that their objective was to establish a Palestinian state “from the river to the sea.”
At a 15 May 2005 ceremony in Ramallah commemorating the Naqba (Arabic for catastrophe), Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said, “Peace, stability and security in the Middle East” is subject to “achieving a just and agreed solution to the refugees issue.” Zalman Shoval, who twice served as Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., concluded, “the Palestinians, by claiming the ‘right of return’ are still refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state.”
Kenneth Levin, a clinical psychiatrist at Harvard Medical School, offers a plausible answer as to why, in the face of continuous killing of Jews, open declarations to destroy Israel and blatant violations of agreements made with the Jewish state, many Jews still disregard this evidence and cling to the notion that Arabs want peace. Israelis, Levin says, are in “state of chronic siege,” which causes them to seek ways to extricate themselves from this predicament. This has produced “the Oslo approach,” which is based on “wishful thinking divorced from reality.”
Maintaining this position regardless of countervailing evidence and tolerating no debate is textbook “delusional,” according to Levin.
This self-delusion, he says, manifests itself in a number of other ways as well. One is to believe they can actually maintain some kind of control of the situation. By accepting the condemnation of their enemies and appeasing the terrorists, Israelis think they will themselves bring an end to hostilities. If only the Jews would make enough concessions to the Arabs, and stop obsessing about defensible borders and other strategic issues, peace would soon be at hand and such concerns would become irrelevant.
Why do some Israelis respond in this way? Levin suggests that since Jews were historically subjected to so much abuse, elements within the community are so eager to escape this painful experience that they interpret the ostensibly improved conditions under Oslo as proof that the past is behind them.
There is also an element of arrogance to “this self-delusion.” Jews assume a responsibility for something over which they have no control in order to ward off despair. Levin suggests that this is similar to an abused child who feels responsible for his plight and views himself as “bad.” The child maintains “the fantasy that if he becomes good enough,” his father will cease hitting him, his mother will give him attention and whatever other form of abuse he suffered will stop. In the same way, some Israelis are delusional when they assume they can control Arab behavior.
Another myth is to describe Arab intentions as “moderate,” even in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
A third assumption is the “fellowship fallacy” - that the Palestinians share Jewish values, goals and positions. Some Israelis have met informally or in public forums with high-level individuals from the territories who are connected to the PLO. The Israelis hear more nuanced statements about the conflict in these discussions than are usually heard from the PLO leadership. These words are then interpreted as reflecting what the PLO would agree to in negotiations with Israel. Such was the case after informal discussions with Faisal Husseini. In October 1989, Husseini proclaimed, “The Palestinian Peace Camp has won, and now leads the PLO and the Palestinian people.”
In the speeches quoted above there was no doubt the Arabs’ ultimate goal was the destruction of Israel. The attitude toward Husseini demonstrated the willingness of many Israelis to overestimate words of encouragement and to underestimate the contradictory and inflammatory rhetoric he said to others. This scenario continued under Yasser Arafat, whose guarantees about his yearning for peace would, incredibly, be accepted with greater credibility than his speeches and statements to the Arab media and public, and the racist curricula taught in Palestinian schools about Jews and the need to destroy Israel.
Those who challenge these myths are attacked as racists and bigots for denying the humanity of the Arabs and their feelings and aspirations. Mordecai Bar-On, a founder of Peace Now, suggested that part of the reason for this intolerance and narrow-mindedness toward the Arabs among some Jews and Israelis can be attributed to a lack of education and upbringing, which breeds less tolerance and an inability to understand the “other” and “the complexity of the issues.” This would account, he said, for the Sephardic community’s mistrust of Arab objectives. This distrust could also be found among elements of the Ashkenazi community that were less educated and had a more traditional background.
Levin has done a great service by diagnosing the irrational behavior of many Israelis and Jews who persist in acting out these fantasies. If we are to move beyond this delusion, to accept the situation as it is instead of what we wish it to be, we need to understand the nature of this pathology, which has caused tremendous damage to Israel and the Jewish people.
Today's "peaceful" news
Teen victims of West Bank shooting attack laid to rest in Jerusalem
Hamas gathers several thousand Gaza fighters and arsenal of Kassams
Terror tunnel uncovered in Gaza - The 20-meter tunnel, which appeared to be freshly dug, had meant to bypass a checkpoint to allow Palestinian terrorists to infiltrate Israeli territory, Israeli military sources said.
The Saudi newspaper Al-Watan reported over the weekend that PA Civil Affairs Minister Muhammad Dahlan, who is in charge of coordinating the withdrawal with Israel, has invited Hamas leaders to move to Gaza.
"We want to see you among us," Dahlan reportedly told Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal and his top aides.
Nayef Hawatmeh and Khaled Abdel Majid, the leaders of two other Syrian-based groups, are also planning to move to the Gaza Strip, the sources revealed.
Nice to see such dividends from "disengagement" and the "cease fire."
Sunday, June 26, 2005
June 26, 1936: Ataroth Buries its Dead
As one reads articles about Arab terror against Jews (and the British) in the 1930s, it is hard not to notice eerie parallels to today's Arab terror.
For months in 1936, the Arabs rioted and terrorized the Jews and British in Palestine, ostensibly in protest of the increased Jewish influence and power in the land. There were shootings, bombings, and destruction of Jewish property and businesses, often parallel to the Nazi persecutions of Jews that were happening at the same time. The British did not treat the Arab criminals with kid gloves.
In the details of the murder mentioned in this article and the one following, notice that then as now, the Arab people closed ranks around the terrorists and criminals. They knew that the British would collectively punish entire villages where the terrorists came from and instead of giving up the criminals, the Arab residents would prepare for the punishment by getting rid of the articles the British would confiscate. The nascent hero-worship of Arab terrorists had already started decades before the current Palestinian idolization of murderers. And, as happens today, ordinary Arabs can be counted to support the worst Arab terrorists rather than appear to be on the Jews' (or West's) side.
Without understanding this history of terror-worship, without learning about how the current Arab culture of death pre-dates Israel's existence, one cannot hope to change anything. Superficial words and assumptions that these Arab murderers and their supporters are "just people like us" who will react positively to acts of goodwill and concessions are deadly miscalculations. At no time in history (that I am aware of) can one say that for Arabs, peace was a goal - when it was desired, it was merely a tactic in a war that spans centuries.
Which means that for any true peace to ever happen, the Arab world needs a complete change of culture - one abhorring violence rather than embracing it, one with a true desire for peace rather than a desire for the concessions that it expects will accompany it. Until then, anything that the West does is just a Band-Aid, and more often than not, counterproductive.
Also, in wake of this weeks attempted terror attack against an Israeli hospital by a Palestinian woman who had received treatment there, here is an article from the same issue about how Arab terrorists would try to use Jewish humanity as a means to kill them:
Cross-posted to Palestine Post-ings.
Friday, June 24, 2005
Report: U.S. Government Funds Terrorism-Promotion
Not too surprising, given that Hamas and Al Aqsa have to get their money from somewhere, and the only places they get money from are the US and EU since Saddam's generous terror support dried up....
An Israeli watchdog group alleges that American aid to Palestinian universities and cities promotes terrorism.
A report to be released Friday by Palestinian Media Watch singles out the U.S. Agency for International Development, contending that it has ignored new congressional restrictions that the group helped craft last year on aid money. Specifically, the report points to American development assistance in the West Bank and Gaza that funds universities with student chapters of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which have funded roadwork for streets renamed to commemorate suicide bombers and television programming that encourages hatred of Jews.
A USAID spokeswoman yesterday said that procedures are in place to make sure that in-kind donations to Palestinian institutions are not diverted to terrorism. But the report has already drawn attention from Capitol Hill, where Palestinian Media Watch's director, Itamar Marcus, is scheduled to testify Friday before the House International Relations Committee on his findings.
3D Test of Anti-Semitism - Natan Sharansky
A nice test to see if someone is giving legitimate criticism of Israel or just hiding their Jew-hatred behind "anti-Zionism".
When I was a dissident in the former Soviet Union, one of my regular activities was monitoring anti-Semitism, and smuggling out evidence and records of such activity to the West. I believed then that the free world, particularly after the Holocaust, would always be a staunch ally in the struggle against anti-Semitism.
Unfortunately, I was wrong. Today, as a minister in the Israeli government in charge of monitoring anti-Semitism, I find myself regularly summoning the ambassadors of West European states to protest anti-Semitic attacks on Jews in their countries and the often meek response of their governments.
Over the past four years, we have witnessed a resurgence of anti- Semitic activity in the democratic world. In Europe, synagogues have been burned, rabbis have been abused in the streets, Jewish children have been physically attacked on the way to school and inside schools, and Jewish cemeteries have been desecrated.
Recognizing the "New Anti-Semitism"
Moreover, the so-called "new anti-Semitism" poses a unique challenge. Whereas classical anti-Semitism is aimed at the Jewish people or the Jewish religion, "new anti-Semitism" is aimed at the Jewish state. Since this anti-Semitism can hide behind the veneer of legitimate criticism of Israel, it is more difficult to expose. Making the task even harder is that this hatred is advanced in the name of values most of us would consider unimpeachable, such as human rights.
Nevertheless, we must be clear and outspoken in exposing the new anti-Semitism. I believe that we can apply a simple test - I call it the "3D" test - to help us distinguish legitimate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism.
The first "D" is the test of demonization. When the Jewish state is being demonized; when Israel's actions are blown out of all sensible proportion; when comparisons are made between Israelis and Nazis and between Palestinian refugee camps and Auschwitz - this is anti- Semitism, not legitimate criticism of Israel.
The second "D" is the test of double standards. When criticism of Israel is applied selectively; when Israel is singled out by the United Nations for human rights abuses while the behavior of known and major abusers, such as China, Iran, Cuba, and Syria, is ignored; when Israel's Magen David Adom, alone among the world's ambulance services, is denied admission to the International Red Cross - this is anti-Semitism.
The third "D" is the test of delegitimization: when Israel's fundamental right to exist is denied - alone among all peoples in the world - this too is anti-Semitism.
The Rise of Arab and Islamic Anti-Semitism
I am particularly concerned about the constant and growing stream of anti-Semitic propaganda from the Arab and Muslim world - including propaganda that is genocidal in nature against both Jews and the State of Israel. This should be of grave concern, not only to Israel and Jews but to men and women of good conscience everywhere. Such venom defiles the Middle East and the international climate of discourse, and makes it possible for unabashed Jew-hatred to be expressed with impunity.
Earlier this year, my office published a 150-page report on "Anti- Semitism in the Contemporary Middle East." The study surveys anti- Semitic reporting, editorials, and editorial caricatures in the government- controlled press of Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the Gulf states. In the more than one hundred editorial cartoons included in this report, Jews and Israelis are invariably represented as poisonous snakes, murderous Nazis, and bloodthirsty Crusaders.
We found that vicious anti-Semitism which expressly calls for massive terrorism and genocide against Jews, Zionists, and the State of Israel is becoming more and more commonplace across the Arab Middle East. Moreover, the borders between anti-Semitism, anti- Americanism, and anti-Westernism have become almost completely blurred. The overwhelming majority of this propaganda is issued from the government-controlled media and from supposedly respectable publishing houses closely tied to the Arab regimes.
There is a direct link between the laxity with which countries have responded - or not responded - to growing Arab/Islamic anti- Semitism and the sharp increase in physical and verbal attacks on Jews and Israelis globally.
I recognize that there have been positive developments in the fight against anti-Semitism over the past year or so. The Organization of Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has held several meetings on fighting anti-Semitism, and for the first time ever the UN Commission on Human Rights condemned anti-Semitism in three separate resolutions, which were adopted by consensus.
But these important initiatives are not sufficient to combat state-sponsored anti-Semitism, especially of the Arab/Islamic variety described above. For real progress to be made, the free world must be willing to not only publicly and forcefully condemn this anti-Semitism, but also to pursue a policy of linkage against states that support anti- Semitism.
The Need for a Linkage Policy
The effectiveness of a policy based on linkage was powerfully demonstrated a generation ago after a group of dissidents inside the Soviet Union, including myself, decided to form the Helsinki Group in the wake of the Helsinki accords - the very agreement that led to the establishment of the OSCE.
With the help of courageous leaders in the West who were willing to link their relations with the Soviets to their treatment of their own people, the Helsinki Group helped ensure that the Soviets could not take one step in the international arena without their human rights policies becoming an issue. As a result, real progress was made.
I believe that combating anti-Semitism ought to become a much more prominent issue in the bilateral relations between America and the Arab and Muslim worlds. Linkage can be used to marginalize the extremists and to encourage and support those who reject this virulent hatred.
Anti-Semitism is not a threat only to Jews. History has shown us that left unchecked, the forces behind anti-Semitism will imperil all the values and freedoms that civilization holds dear. Never again can the free world afford to sit on the sidelines when anti-Semitism dangerously emerges.
We must not let this happen. We must do everything in our power to fight anti-Semitism. Armed with moral clarity, determination, and a common purpose, this is a fight that we can and will win.
Supreme court allows towns to destroy private buildings - will the ISM protest?
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that local governments can force property owners to sell out and make way for private economic development when officials decide it would benefit the public, even if the property is not blighted, and the new project's success is not guaranteed.
The landmark 5-4 ruling provided the strong affirmation state and local governments had sought for their increasing use of eminent domain for urban revitalization, especially in the Northeast, where many city centers have decayed, and the suburban land supply is dwindling.
[...]Justice John Paul Stevens, writing for the majority Thursday, cited past cases in which the court has interpreted 'public use' to include not only such traditional projects as bridges or highways, but also slum clearance and land redistribution. He concluded that a 'public purpose' such as creating new jobs in a depressed city can also satisfy the Fifth Amendment.
So when are we going to see Rachel Corrie's parents and friends standing in front of bulldozers in American slums?
Or will they argue that a strip mall is more of the public interest than Jews stopping arms-smuggling tunnels and terrorist hideouts?
Perhaps, just perhaps, they can resolve the contradiction by arguing that killing Jews is in fact in the public interest, as the ISM evidently believes.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Wiesenthal Center Letter to United Church of Christ on Divestment
This relates to the last article. It is a good letter being written to people who don't give a damn about the human rights of Jews.
The Rev. John H. Thomas
General Minister and President
United Church of Christ
700 Prospect Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44115-1000
Dear Rev. Thomas,
In the name of more than 400,000 member families of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, we express our deep concern and dismay regarding resolutions to be considered at the General Synod that call for the dismantling of Israel’s security barrier, and divestment from companies doing business with Israel.
One of us is writing from Israel, where earlier today a young woman from Gaza, Faha Samir, had permission on a humanitarian medical request to cross into Israel to seek medical treatment. By the grace of G-d, and through a combination of an anti-terror security fence and other protective Israeli measures, she was foiled from what she admitted was her plan – to blow up Soroka Hospital, which offers medical services to Jews and Palestinians alike. Ten kilograms of explosives were wrapped around her body.
Resolution #16 is entitled “Tear Down the Wall.” It boggles the mind that a major denomination could even think of endorsing such a slogan. We cannot fathom what mixture of naivete, lack of a real grasp of the facts on the ground, and wholesale embrace of the Palestinian narrative produced such folly. Temporary walls and strong preventive security measures are saving innocent Israeli lives – Jewish and Arab– every day. Such defenses should be supported and endorsed by those who care about saving lives, and obtaining the peace that will eventually obviate the need for such measures.
As you are well aware, there has been real movement towards that peace for several months. Israelis and Palestinians have talked and negotiated with each other, for the first time in years. Secretary Rice is still in the region, helping the sides hammer out the fine points of agreements. Why would the UCC introduce resolutions against the security barrier and for divestment just now, when the rest of the world is trying so hard to offer encouragement to the fragile talks, and the United States has thrown its full prestige behind making them succeed?
Has the UCC not considered that such resolutions will be dangerously counterproductive? What are its goals? The easing of Israel’s grip on Palestinians? On the cusp of a painful disengagement that has divided Israelis against each other, Prime Minister Sharon is expending his entire political stock to make sure it happens. Does the UCC want to see the release of prisoners? Israel has released over 900, some of whom have already been apprehended in the process of new attacks against Israeli civilians. What effect can these ill-timed resolutions have, if not to embolden the most extreme elements of Palestinian society, and demoralize Israelis who thought they wanted to press on towards peace? Israel should be encouraged and praised for her efforts, not kicked in the teeth.
Why, then, is the UCC seeking to punish Israel?
When another Protestant denomination recently considered similar resolutions, Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, had this to say. “Israelis are already traumatised and feel that the world is against them. This proposal, if it is agreed, would be another knife in the back. Christians who owe so much to the Hebrew Scriptures and to Israel itself should not be among those who attack Israel in such a way.”
The UCC should be concerned with the plight of Palestinians, as should all good people. But the UCC has not heard the pain of Israeli terror victims, or to the larger narrative of the majority of Israelis who are prepared to make concessions for peace, but not at the cost of dismantling their country. While paying lip service to security for the Jewish state, the programs, literature and website of the UCC have shown a decided preference for Palestinian voices and carefully sanitized opinions from the extreme of the Israeli left. We can point to the national tours of Palestinians to local churches. When did the other side ever get a hearing?
These resolutions will work against the cause of peace, and inflict collateral damage upon relations between Jews and the UCC, and the safety and security of Jews around the world. We are in a position to know, as the largest Jewish membership organization on the globe. We have worked in the name of peace with leaders of foreign governments and as a UN recognized NGO. One of us signs this letter between conferring with the Arab League and a meeting with the King of Jordan. We have championed human rights concerns abroad, and pioneered programs of intergroup tolerance at home.
To most people, divestment means South Africa, and its apartheid regime. To link it with an Israeli democracy that guarantees and delivers freedoms of worship and expression to its Arab citizens; where an Arab sits on its Supreme Court; where Jewish and Arab students sit side by side in university classrooms – is a moral outrage, and a declaration of malice to the Jewish people.
Divestment also threatens other Jews throughout the world, or at least outside of the United States. Since the hate-fest at Durban in 2001, we have monitored an explosion of antisemitism and attacks against Jews. They are linearly related to one-sided rhetoric of Israeli brutality and oppression. Around the world, whatever Israel does, Jews are made to pay. Divestment – with its popular link to apartheid – adds an important brick to a growing edifice of the vilification of Jews.
For decades after the Holocaust, American Jews have noticed and appreciated the attempts of church groups – including the UCC – to promote cooperation and good will. Please do not underestimate how damaging the three resolutions will be, how much positive feeling will be dissipated at the upcoming Synod if they pass. Please do not underestimate the depth of feeling American Jews have for the security of Israel and Israelis. While when many openly disagree with particular policies of the Israeli government, American Jews are united in their commitment to the Jewish State’s right to protect the lives and safety of her citizens. They see fairness trampled upon. Inestimable damage will result to the relationship between our communities.
At this critical juncture, the Simon Wiesenthal Center believes that the UCC ought to drop these resolutions in the interests of a fuller peace for all the inhabitants of the Middle East. If in fact UCC is interested in learning of the horrific toll and suffering of Israeli citizens, and the related spike in Islamist-inspired antisemitic violence, our institution stands ready to provide expert testimony for your Synod participants.
We respectfully await your response.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
Assistant Dean Director, Project Next Step
Israel's failure at hasbara
The Christian West has a marked, and growing, prejudice against the state of Israel that the government of that country ignores at its peril. The latest instance will be laid before the Anglican Consultative Council in Nottingham tomorrow, in the form of a recommendation that the 38 provinces of the worldwide Anglican Communion should consider divesting themselves of holdings in companies that support the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The recommendation stems from a report on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict issued last September by the Anglican Peace and Justice Network (APJN).
The report is a piece of sanctimonious claptrap whose authors didn't even bother to talk to Ariel Sharon's government. It takes scant account of the trauma to which the second intifada has subjected Israeli civilians and endorses policies, such as the right of return of Palestinian refugees since 1948, that would spell the death of the Jewish state. It has rightly been condemned by, among others, the International Council of Christians and Jews, Lord Carey, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, and Sir Jonathan Sachs, the Chief Rabbi.
If the APJN recommendation is accepted by the consultative council tomorrow, it will be passed to the individual provinces for a decision on implementation. In most cases, they will do nothing. But the American Episcopal Church, which is a member of the Anglican Communion, is considering disinvestment, while the Presbyterian Church (USA) has already embarked on that course. Even where it is shelved, it will serve as a powerful symbol of hostility to Israel.
Mr Sharon is a "power and stockade Zionist" who believes in accomplishing "facts on the ground". His government is not doing nearly enough to advance the moral case for Israel to those Christians who believe that the present-day population has nothing to do with the Jewish aboriginals and therefore has no right to Palestinian land. The further the Holocaust recedes into history, the less Mr Sharon can count on natural sympathy for the Zionist cause. The fact that two Churches in the United States, a country whose support Israel tends to take for granted, are at the forefront of the moves to disinvest is a salutary warning: moral force is just as important as acquiring the latest military gismos from Washington.
This fact cannot be overstated: Israel's "hasbara" has been criminally incompetent. The moral case for Israel is crystal clear and it is botched daily by the people who supposedly "own the media."
There are a number of reasons for this that are not Israel's fault - endemic anti-semitism; the West's guilt over colonialism; the Left's knee-jerk support for the seemingly weaker party in any conflict regardless of the facts, Islam's manipulation of the West's inability to distinguish between the religion of Islam and the fascist political ideology that it also represents, and the media's desire to frame a conflict as "balanced" where a Sharon who gives land for nothing is considered a "hawk" and an Abbas who denies the Holocaust and whose government has yet to show Israel on any map of the Middle East is a "moderate."
Even so, the job of Israel to show its side to the West has failed miserably. Israel already lost the semantic war ("illegal occupation", "settlements", "Palestinian") and it has so far not managed to make much of a dent in presenting its moral case. There are of course some shining exceptions, examples of individual organizations like MEMRI and Honest Reporting who manage to point ou the truth among the deceptions. But from an Israeli government level the incompetence has been stunning, not the least because of self-loathing Israelis who are more than happy to go in front of foreign cameras and tell reporters what they already want to hear.
The number of Israeli government representatives who forcefully and accurately can make Israel's case have been few. Netanyahu was very good when he was Israel's ambassador to the US, and Moshe Arens used to be excellent, as was Sharansky when he was in the government. But it is not enough, and it hurts Israel immensely.
And when it gets to the point that churches, institutions that supposedly are meant to be the leaders in morality, openly support the terrorists and oppose those who want peace and freedom for all, it is clear that Israel has failed at getting her message out.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
The PA is finished
The PA is being run by a bunch of wimps who get no respect from anyone. Their days are numbered unless they can figure out a way to actually put some force behind their "peaceful" words.
Oh, and when they say they are against violence, it means against themselves, not against Israelis.
BALATA REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank - Gunmen in a refugee camp opened fire Wednesday, disrupting a lecture from the Palestinian prime minister about the need to end violence. The brazen shooting highlighted the difficulty of his task.
'This country needs order, needs quiet,' Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia shouted, repeating a theme he has pressed for weeks. But even as he spoke, gunfire rang out, startling Qureia and putting his bodyguards on high alert.
Associated Press Television News footage showed militants angrily waving their weapons as Qureia's security guards ��� their rifles trained on the gunmen ��� stood at the windows of the building where the prime minister was speaking in the Balata camp next to the city of Nablus.
'Don't listen to them. Don't be scared, don't let these gunmen run the show,' Qureia implored his audience.
After Qureia's speech, gunmen opened fire again and set off an explosive device about 300 yards from his convoy. No one was injured. Qureia was whisked away.
See also this from al-Ha'aretz:
The weakening of Abbas is very troubling to the American administration. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who came to the area last week, was impressed by the seriousness of a report she received from her security coordinator General William Ward, who decribed the crumbling of the PA, power struggles and infighting at senior levels of Fatah.
She asked her Israeli hosts to do all they could to help Abbas. Washington understands that Abbas' fall would be considered a failure of President George W. Bush's policy of democratization. But even the Americans are wondering whether to continue assisting Abbas or if the time has come to realize that nothing will help him, and even if he gets extra assistance, he won't be able to give anything in return.
Beyond ordinary morality
Check out this remarkable article about how Israeli hospitals and doctors treat Arab terrorists, often going above and beyond.
The moral dilemma of treating someone who wants to kill you is beyond my wisdom, but it once again shows the stark contrast between the truly superhuman way that Israeli Jews keep their morality under fire and the subhuman acts that Palestinians routinely practice and support.
Tuesday, June 21, 2005
June 21, 1938: Why We Need Israel
It is very scary reading the Palestine Post in the 1930s as it watches the rise of Nazism and yet has no idea of the magnitude of the crimes yet to be committed.
Here is a fairly typical article. showing the increasing criminal acts against Jews in Berlin and Vienna in 1938:
On the same front page is this smaller, far more hopeful item, showing Jews who managed to get out of the ovens of Germany to build a new life in Israel. They built a new town on Jewish-owned land with their own hands and escaped the fate of their doomed families in Germany. They even built their own security fence to keep the inevitable Arab terror attacks from reaching them.
This is the story of Israel and anyone who considers this "immoral" hasn't the faintest idea what the word means.
Cross-posted to Palestine Post-ings.
Is it stupidity or denial?
MEMRI has another winner:
In a June 15, 2005 editorial titled 'All the Evidence Proves that Al-Zarqawi is an American Agent,' a leading Egyptian government daily Al-Akhbar's states that Al-Zarqawi is working for the U.S. and is massacring Iraqis in an effort to extend the occupation in Iraq. [1] The following are excerpts from the article:
'All the evidence proves that Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi is working for America, because his victims are Iraqis and not [members of] the coalition forces under the command of the American occupation forces in Iraq. Abu Mus'ab Al-Zarqawi's official title is 'leader of Al-Qa'ida's faction in Iraq.' Osama bin Laden is the commander of the Al-Qa'ida organization, and this proves that [Al-Zarqawi's commander,] bin Laden, has [also] been an American agent ever since he operated against the USSR forces in Afghanistan in favor of the Americans!'
So the question is, are Arabs that publish and presumably believe such idiocy struly imbecilic, or is this just an extreme manifestation of the absurd Arab pride that cannot admit that any Arabs can ever do anything wrong?
How Palestinian Arabs are treated under Arab nations' laws
I guess I missed when Amnesty International condemned these laws.
Palestinians in Jordan are NOT given full Jordanian citizenship, and DO NOT have the same rights and duties as any other Jordanians. Palestinians in Jordan carry special identification stating that they are not Jordanian. They are disproportionately represented in business, but underrepresented in the army. Information from the Jordanian censuses which distinguishes between Palestinians and pre-Nakba Jordanians is not publicly available; however, the Palestinian population is estimated to be 50-60%.
An estimated number of 500,000 Palestinians are living in the kingdom of Saudi-Arabia as of December 2004. They are not allowed to hold or even apply for Saudi citizenship, as the new law passed by Saudi Arabia's Council of Ministers in October 2004 ( which entitles expatriates of all nationalities who have resided in the kingdom for ten years to apply for citizenship, with priority being given to holders of degrees in various scientific fields ) has one glaring exception: Palestinians will not be allowed to benefit from the new law because of Arab League instructions barring the Arab states from granting them citizenship in order 'to avoid dissolution of their identity and protect their right to return to their homeland'.
Palestinians in Lebanon are barred from 73 job categories including professions such as medicine, law and engineering. They are not allowed to own property. Unlike other foreigners in Lebanon, they are denied access to the Lebanese healthcare system. The Lebanese government refuses to grant them work permits or permission to own land. The number of restrictions have been mounting since 1990.
Israeli hospital helps Palestinian woman's injuries; she then tries to blow it up
Palestinian depravity keeps getting worse, just when you thought it wasn't possible.
Israel says a 21-year-old Palestinian woman arrested carrying explosives at a Gaza checkpoint planned to blow herself up in an Israeli hospital.
Wafa al-Bis was stopped on her way on her way to Beersheba hospital where she was to receive treatment for burns.
Ms Bis said on Israeli TV she wanted to be a suicide bomber but then later told foreign journalists the explosives were planted on her without her knowledge.
The incident comes amid a rise in violence despite a four-month truce. (Someone please explain what a truce means according to the BBC.)
The Israeli military said Ms Bis was stopped by suspicious soldiers at the Erez crossing point between Gaza and Israel.
The army said she had tried to blow herself up there but the explosives did not detonate.
Israeli officials said Ms Bis, who comes from the Jabaliya refugee camp in Gaza, was burnt in a cooking accident five months ago, and had received treatment on humanitarian grounds in the Beersheba hospital.
They said she was making another trip for follow-up treatment on Monday, but planned to blow herself up instead.
In an interview shown on Israeli television, Ms Bis said her 'dream was to be a martyr'.
She said she was recruited by the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades - an off-shoot of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction.
Ms Bis also said she had been angry over allegations that Israeli guards had ripped out pages of the Koran at a prison in northern Israel, claims Israel denies.
'What angered me and the Palestinian people is the abuse of the Koran,' she said. 'Should we sit in silence with our hands tied?'
Later, she pleaded for mercy because she 'didn't kill anyone'.
Presumably if she has managed to blow herself up with a bunch of Jews she would not be pleading for mercy.
Incidentally, where does the Al Aqsa Martyr's Brigades get their money from? Could it possibly be from the PA - from the millions coming from Europe and the US? As far as I can tell, no one from the PA has ever declared the Al Aqsa terror group illegal - which sounds to me like they are still on the payroll. Probably "policemen."
Terrorist commander in West Bank says he's going to be a policeman in Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's security forces
Monday, June 20, 2005
Syrian historian: Palestinian moms' wombs are weapons factories (MEMRI)
The following are excerpts from an interview with Syrian historian and author Dr. Georgette 'Attiyya. Syrian TV aired this interview on June 15, 2005.
Dr. Attiyya: The Palestinian woman's womb is a factory for the conflict; it produces fighting children. After this fighting child is produced, he is taught: 'This is your land, this is your country, you will fight for it, stand on it, and die for it.' Therefore, a very important connection exists between motherhood, land, and blood."
Sunday, June 19, 2005
My streak may be over...
but SoccerDad threw me a pity mention in the latest (excellent as usual) Haveil Havalim, mentioning my Palestine Post-ings website as well.
Hey, a pity mention is almost as good as a regular one :)
Mediacrity: Reuters Buries the Lead--and the Truth
Example #2659 of Reuters' explicit pro-terror bias in this article in Mediacrity.
Friday, June 17, 2005
The Palestinian Arab Refugees in April, 1948 (Palestine Post articles)
In April 1948, in one of the battles that preceded Israel's War of Independence, the Haganah decisively defeated the Arab fighters for control of Haifa. The Palestine Post has a few articles that describe the Arab refugees from Haifa during this time period that shed a little light upon the basic question of who created the Arab refugee problem?
This is only about Arabs in Haifa (and Jaffa) in a very small timeframe, but it shows the mindsets of the Jews and of the Arabs at the time and that it would be reasonable to expect that these mindsets remained somewhat consistent throughout the duration of the war.
The first article describes the Arab dilemma of whether they should leave a Jewish-controlled Haifa. Notice that these decisions are being made after the major fighting is over, while the truce is being negotiated. These Arabs, at least, were clearly not leaving because of war.
Notice also how the Haganah is bending over backwards to try to respect the rights of the Arab citizens of Haifa, pledging to protect their property and clearly expecting them to return. This is not the behavior of people who are trying to ethnically cleanse an area.
Meanwhile, Arabs were streaming out from Jaffa. A telling detail emerges in this account of the flight to Egypt: that Arabs were the ones encouraging other Arabs to leave, and other Arabs were upset by this. But no where do they say that Jews are expelling Arabs.
The general sense of panic among the Palestinian Arabs at the time can be seen from the tiny article at the end about the run on banks.
The next week, in a recap of the events that happened in Haifa, we see that it was clearly the Arab leadership who encouraged their people to leave. Interestingly, shortly thereafter most of Haifa's Arabs have returned to their intact homes, safe and sound. This is not the first time that the Arab leadership's treatment of the Palestinian Arabs were at cross-purposes with what the people wanted.
Again note how explicitly the Haganah is trying to keep the Arabs in their homes.
This is only a snapshot in time from a single source, and this is all before the outside Arab armies invaded (although this was considered a fait accompli), but it does show a couple of inescapable facts:
* The Haganah was acting in a way totally inconsistent with the desire to create a Jews-only state.
* The Jews were bending over backwards to respect Arab property and lives.
* The Palestinian Arab people were feeling that their leadership was not acting in their best interests. This feeling was amplified in an article the following week, right before Israel declared her independence:
The analogy to today is clear. Today the Palestinian people remain pawns in the hands of their supposed "leaders" - while the people just want to live and be able to raise their families, their leaders are obsessed with the destruction of Israel and are willing to sacrifice as many of their people as necessary to reach that goal. While the Arabs show no respect for the religion or property of others, the Jews retain respect for the human rights of their declared enemies. While the Arabs create nations that are Judenrein, the vast majority of Israelis have no desire to kick out the Arabs from Israel.
Crossposted to Palestine Post-ings.
UPDATE: SoccerDad adds this article with more details about that time period.
Thursday, June 16, 2005
Is Sharon abandoning Gaza to make Washington happy?
I continuously look for reasons for the disengagement that makes sense. In a Jerusalem Post op-ed, one reason is given (although this is not the point of the article:
One explanation for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's about-face on the settlements, his willingness to uproot what he himself planted, is that in his mind as a statesman – rather than in his view as a general – a close strategic relationship with the US will do more to protect Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Netanya 50 years down the line than a hilltop settlement.
When Sharon is asked what he is getting for disengagement from Gaza, he – or his aides – reply that they are not getting anything from the Palestinian Authority, but are getting something very substantial from Washington: commitments that the US will back Israel's position on the Palestinian refugee issue and on retaining the large settlement blocs. This is far more important than a billion-dollar arms deal with Beijing.
Sharon has built up an unprecedented relationship with US President George W. Bush, but at the same time he has also stacked Israel's eggs in one basket to an unprecedented degree.
If this is the reason for the pullout, it makes no sense. While Sharon and Bush do have a close relationship, what good does that do Israel when either of them are out of office? To think that this will help things 50 years down the road, or even ten years from now, is foolish as well as foolhardy.
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Fatah still recruiting kids to blow themselves up
It is always interesting to hear the deafening silence from the world about daily Palestinian child abuse. And this isn't Hamas; it is Fatah Tanzim, whose salaries are paid by our favorite terrorist in a suit, Mahmoud Abbas.
The Shin Bet and IDF have arrested in recent weeks four Palestinian minors, aged 15 and 16, who were recruited by the Fatah Tanzim to blow up in Israel, details released for publication on Wednesday afternoon revealed.
Arrests conducted by security forces in the Balata and Askar refugee camps in Nablus thwarted the attacks that had been in advanced planning stages.
One of the minors admitted to being recruited by Muhammad Nakib, 21, who was arrested in January this year for involvement in terrorist activities.
The minor told officials that he expressed intentions to follow in the footsteps of his friend, Omar al-For, who blew up in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv in November 2004 – an attack that claimed the lives of three Israelis.
Two other minors from the Askar camp said they were recruited in April by Tanzim activists in the Balata camp to blow up at an IDF checkpoint near Nablus. The fourth minor said he had been recruited by operatives in Balata to blow up in Israel.
Four suspected recruiters that belonged to the infrastructure were also arrested. According to officials, they had received instructions and funds from Hizbulalh in Lebanon.
New blog just for Palestine Post articles
I decided that the articles that I write based on historical Palestine Post clippings would be more effective on their own blog, so I created one called Palestine Post-ings.
All of those articles will continue to be posted here as well, and I am not turning on comments on the other site, but it looked to me that having them all gathered in one place is more effective than searching through the other assorted stuff here.
Arab blood libel against Jews alive, well and updated
Remember how the Jews used to be accused of poisoning the wells during the Bubonic Plague?
Palestinians seem to be students of history.
RAMALLAH, June 13 (Xinhuanet) -- Palestinian chief of Environment Authority Yousef Abu Safeya accused Israel Monday of glutting the Palestinian markets with carcinogenic canned juice.
'Such kind of drinks are specifically produced for the Palestinian consumers in the Gaza Strip.' Abu Safeya told a weekly session of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).
He pointed out that the Palestinian security services had recently seized a number of shipments, including canned juice containing a carcinogenic substance.
He added that the Egyptian authorities impounded two Israeli trucks carrying child toys polluted with carcinogenic and radioactive substances at the Rafah commercial crossing on the borders with Israel in March.
UPDATE: The specific carcinogenic substance that Israel is inflicting on unsuspecting Palestinians has been identified:
It is saccharine.
For some reason, no one is saying that the PA is inciting terror when it makes classic anti-semitic claims like this with a straight face.
Sunday, June 12, 2005
Haveil Havalim 24 - My streak has ended
But it is a very good issue even without yours truly being linked.
I will not be blogging during the yom tov. Chag kosher v'sameach!
Friday, June 10, 2005
Early 1948: Arabs recruit Nazis to kill Jews
Arab countries in 1948 realized that they had natural allies in fighting Jews: Germans who were in British POW camps in the Middle East during World War II.
The Germans had the advantage of real-world combat experience to be able to effectively train Arabs to throw the Jews into the sea.
Soon, it became apparent that there were other Nazi sympathizers who could be called upon to help in this jihad:
And soon, a more organized campaign was started by Egypt and Syria to recruit Muslims who had fought with the Nazis in Europe to act as mercenaries against the Jews in preparation for the upcoming, inevitable war.
Apparently, the International Refugee Organization operating in Europe was at least partially complicit in this plan to allow former Nazi sympathizers to be recruited to try to finish the job that Hitler didn't.
There has been much documented about the collusion of Arabs and Nazis, but the Nazi contributions to the Arab cause in 1948 and the active Arab recruitment of Nazi and Fascist elements appears to be a lesser-known chapter in this wicked partnership.
Jihad in Dublin
An all-too familiar scene - rabid Jew-hatred in a European city where the police stand by doing nothing.
THE blazing afternoon sun is beating down and youngsters with kaffirs wrapped round their heads mimic Palestinian terrorists, drawing on the full power of their small voices to scream anti-Israel slogans.
"Victory to the intifada," shouts one, perched on his father's shoulders as a megaphone is thrust into his face. Another clutching a "death to Israel" placard, is encouraged to join in with the chanting hundreds.
Slowly it forms into a sea of Palestinian flags and banners; the baying crowd's animosity towards the Jewish State is unequivocal.
Incitement to hatred? Not to the police, who turn a blind eye and happily offer consent to the protesters venting their venomous spleens.
It's an all-too-familiar scene frequently played out across the Middle East. Yet these aren't the dusty streets of Ramallah or refugee camps in Gaza. Welcome to the embodiment of liberal harmonisation: 21st century Europe and one afternoon on the streets of the Irish capital.
What had been promoted as a political protest against Israeli government policy turned out to be a furious demonstration of vitriol against the State - and anyone Jewish who caught the protesters' gaze.
The Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign pledged it would be peaceful, but the evidence on the streets revealed far more disturbing manifestations. The timing was meticulous, coming just hours before Israel challenged Ireland at Lansdowne Road for a World Cup spot.
As the early afternoon downpour subsided, a ragbag of activists gathered at 3pm on the plaza outside Dublin's Central Bank.
The influence of non-Palestinian groups was unmistakable. The presence of Sinn Fein banners, IRA supporters and Socialist Workers' members was barely concealed. A teenager, barely 16, flogged copies of Republican newspaper An Phoblacht. A Palestinian flag was draped round his back.
Floppy-haired teenagers togged out in black Nirvana and Slipknot T-shirts arrived in search of an afternoon's 'entertainment'. They eagerly accepted placards claiming the Israeli army were responsible for the deaths of 3,600 children. Chants about the security barrier were interspersed with cackling as they mischievously adjusted the words.
Either they are unusually well informed for their age or they were just looking to stir up trouble on an otherwise mundane Bank Holiday weekend. Whatever their politics, conflict can never be a laughing matter.
Girls, who have barely finished nursery school, waved banners proclaiming Sharon to be a war criminal that their parents had cajoled into their tiny arms. Like so many generations of Irish children bedevilled by conflict, they risk being the latest young pawns in a complex political battleground.
Then there were the football fans. Celtic and Ireland shirts were encased in Palestinian flags - any tactic to incite the opposition before such a decisive match.
Mostly it was a tame affair - for such a gathering. Leaflets were handed out; flags were being flogged for 10 Euros; and the chatter between marchers was punctuated by chanting.
Until the baying crowd scented their blood: passing Israeli fans.
They had come to support their team, on the brink on an historic second-only qualification for a major international football tournament. None would talk politics, that was a matter for another day - back home. Instead they shrugged their shoulders, amazed that they were facing such animosity.
The only conflict they expected to witness was on the Lansdowne Road pitch. That changed when they came into the sights of the radar of the Palestinian supporters. Their blue stripes and Magen David flags acted like red rags to a bull.
Unprovoked, they found demonstrators squaring up to them, ranting about Israel. The travelling fans were bemused. They assumed they'd left hostilities at home, thousands of miles away. Now they were expected to act as spokesmen for Ariel Sharon, despite no-one enquiring whether they backed the Premier.
"Sieg heil! Sieg heil!" shouted one Irish fan as he proudly Nazi saluted the city's guests - scenes captured by our photographer.
All the Israelis had done was to offer a handshake as a gesture of peace, after spotting the potential flashpoint. It was declined in a forcible manner. The garda (police) response to quell the tensions? To force the Israelis out of the vicinity, as if they bore the brunt of the culpability. The rules of engagement were established.
And worse was to follow. Initially the Socialist Workers, Sinn Fein activists and Muslims reserved their condemnation for the "occupation of the Territories" and the Israeli military.
Until the marching hundreds spotted another group of Israelis. Their Budget Hyundai hire car - adorned with "Israel loves Ireland" posters - was designed to be an illustration of goodwill in this febrile atmosphere.
No chance. Hissing, booing and jeering followed. These Israelis were targeted for backing a simple, non-political message of peace. A Muslim - clad in an "end the occupation" T-shirt, a kaffir around his forehead and a Palestinian flag tied round his neck - gesticulated aggressively towards them.
A one-fingered salute made his feelings transparent: you're not welcome.
Gardai seemed to concur. Confronting the vehicle's owners, their posters promoting harmony between the two nations were confiscated and screwed up. Free speech wasn't applicable for the Israelis on Nassau Street. Their only crime was being football fans.
As one senior constable warned the fans to vacate the vicinity of the protest, without warning their vehicle was removed at speed down the street by a colleague. They were dumfounded.
An officer monitoring the protests told me: "We've been told to remove Israeli flags and banners. I don't want to be here, but I'm only doing my job."
Edging slowly towards the Embassy, a middle-aged Irish woman whipped up the crowd in a frenzy with yells of "Israel is a waste of space" into her megaphone
Passing pub-goers chanted: "Up the PLO. Up the IRA". Groups of marchers were soon echoing this. Arms raised aloft, the spectre of Nazi salutes again reared its ugly head on the route. Gardai turned a blind eye.
As the rally continued down the long road, the venomous chants built up apace. Increasingly it resembled a rally in the Palestinian territories supporting jihadist militants. There they revel in terror; here the guise was a peaceful demonstration.
When they spotted a man sporting a Republic shirt and a kippah, the police stepped in. He was a Chelsea fan from London, and had come for the weekend with friends to watch the match. Bafflingly, the garda tried to remove him from the street. When the Palestine Solidarity marchers spotted him, the response was by now sadly predictable. They turned their venom on him, despite displaying no signs of affiliation with Israel and being one of their own - an Ireland fan. The kippah was enough; this made him fair game.
Again this overt antisemitism and incitement to hatred was unchallenged.
By the time the crowd reached the Israeli embassy their blood was boiling. But as the international television crews pitched up, the speeches delivered by the Palestinian supporters were forced to take on a moderate tone.
Against a backdrop of a re-creation of the security barrier, they claimed their argument was not against Israel.
Try explaining the "waste of space" and "victory to the intifada" yells that reverberated around Dublin. They called for the aerial attacks on Palestinians to stop. Then issued a plea for bombers of their own.
One became suspicious of my presence, having followed them on foot for nearly three hours.
"Your sort aren't welcome," the Muslim protester angrily informed me - assuming that I was Israeli.
At 5.20pm as the crowd dispersed could Dublin now prepare for the main event, a World Cup qualifier?
WITH the clock counting down until kick-off, the strains of Hevenu Shalom Aleichem and Am Yisrael Chai struck up at the rear of the Israeli Embassy. A small group of flag-waving Israel fans began passionately expressing their support.
Some were Irish Christian Friends of Israel, others had made the trip across the Irish Sea and later fans from the Jewish State upped the tempo with festivities and flag waving.
In an instant, the atmosphere was soured when a break-off from the Palestinian rally breached the confines of this peaceful gathering on the narrow pavement.
"A tiny crew of middle-aged motley tree huggers," remarked one observer. But with their giant flags they were determined that their presence was felt.
The Israeli team had been due to pass by the embassy to greet the travelling fans en route to Lansdowne Road, but security concerns prevented this from happening.
Meanwhile the police - so hasty preventing anyone interfering with the earlier Palestinian demo - did nothing to halt this intimidation. Palestinian supporters were allowed to heckle and taunt. One delivered repeated shouts of "Nazis".
Despite Israel fans urging them to halt the standoff, the police response was mute. The scuffles were inevitable.
One skin-headed man openly admitted to being an Irish Republican Army backer, the terrorists responsible for some of the worst violence in Ireland and Britain.
Sealed lips from watching police, despite their quick-fire interventions earlier in the afternoon against the Israelis.
The two sides remained fixed in place, eye-to-eye, flag-to-flag, until they departed for the match. As one protester packed up his placard, another poster was already in place on the reverse, campaigning for the bin tax to be axed. The bedraggled coalition had revealed their true rent-a-mob colours. On to the next demo then.
INSIDE the creaking Lansdowne Road, specks of red, green and white exposed themselves, but stewards appeared powerless to remove the Palestinian flags being hoisted in the stands.
Initially animosity was reserved for Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern. The Taoiseach's anthem was booed, while silence ensued throughout the Hatikva. The 600 Israel fans in the North Bucket braved the teeming rain to belt out the anthem with pride.
But within 11 minutes of the whistle the Israelis were silenced. Lethal strikes from Ian Harte and Robbie Keane appeared to wrap up the tie. Struggling to press forward, Israel didn't appear to have a chance.
On their journey through the heated streets of Dublin, the team had been distracted by a replay of last month's Champions League final. Now they desperately sought to draw inspiration from Liverpool's comeback, a feat they accomplished within six minutes of the break.
Stage one was completed by Avi Yechiel, who marked his international debut with a well-timed equaliser.
Stage two came in the second minute of injury time when Yossi Benayoun, who was being watched by Newcastle United scouts, was brought down in the penalty area. After being forced thrice to retake the spot kick, with jeering ringing in his ears, Avi Nimni displayed coolness to level the tie and edge Israel closer to the World Cup finals in Germany.
At half time fans burst into a chant of "Israel Milchamah" - Israel's army - while the Irish were in shock. In the VIP area, an ashen-faced Taoiseach faced an ecstatic Roman Abramovitch, as the Chelsea owner tucked into kosher sandwiches.
And as the tie went into a nailbiting second 45, the visitors faced a barrage of antipathy as their players fought to defend the draw. The acrobatics and apparent histrionics of goalkeeper Dudu Awat infuriated the home crowd and they never forgave him for seemingly feigning injury which led to Andy O'Brien's sending off.
If anything, it was surprising that just one red card was brandished by Greek referee Kyros Vassaras. Israel defender Shimon Gershon feared the closing stages were developing into a street fight. "Tackles and elbows were flying in everywhere," he said.
At 9.31pm, with dusk settling over Dublin, Israel secured the vital point that nudged them closer to the finals in Germany. One Israel fan summed up the mood: "For the first time in Irish history, Israel was attracting the ire and venom of the Irish public with total justification."
However, an Irish fan would not let the tension remain on the field. As Awat was sitting in the lobby at the team's hotel, a bucket of ice was hurled at the Israeli keeper, who was already suffering from a suspected broken nose.
It underlined the rage facing Israelis even before the match. And it signalled the end to a disturbing day the Irish capital would rather forget.
A city that has played witness in centuries past to the tortuous results of bloodshed was again given the oxygen to become a battleground for simmering rivalries - even in the 21st century. Even in Europe, where for one weekend Israelis hoped to find solace in sport and escape the daily traumas back home. Some chance.
(hat tip to Pounce_UK)
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Any similarity between Palestinians and adult human beings is purely coincidental
Palestinian Minister Mohammed Dahlan, in charge of coordinating Israel's Gaza withdrawal, said Thursday that Israel has failed to provide vital information about the pullout and accused the Israelis of creating the conditions for a new Palestinian uprising.
In other words, he is saying, "If we don't get what we want we're going to start to throw things! Waaaaaa!"
In other words, he is saying, "My people cannot control their emotions. They are mentally unstable. You have to give them what they want or they might make things uncomfortable for you."
In other words, he is saying, "Palestinians do not have the same free-will that God gave real human beings. They cannot choose right and wrong. They only have instinct. And, unlike dogs and cattle, they cannot be domesticated."
In other words, he is saying, "If you do what we want, nobody gets hurt. For now."
In other words, he is saying, "We have no responsibilities. We only have demands. And no matter what you do, we will always have more demands."
In other words, he is saying, "When you do something bad it is your fault. When we do something bad it is your fault."
This is the mentality of the Palestinian Arabs.
UPDATE: SoccerDad has some observations.
News flash: Palestinian leaders lie!
It is not news when Palestinian leaders, officials, and media lie. What is amazing is that despite decades of consistent lying - easily debunkable lies, bald-faced lies, lies that are so absurd that one would have to be an idiot to believe them - the news media still will report Palestinian statements without even a hint of cynicism.
I think it is a Western pathology - since we are brought up to think that "honesty is the best policy" it is beyond our experience to believe that someone is a complete and utter liar. (Although we are also taught to stretch the truth, to color our observations, and to soften facts a bit for various etiquette and cultural reasons, Westerners are averse to real in-your-face lies.)
This blindness to when someone is lying to your face can have very bad consequences. The Western press is obligated to act with suspicion, to check facts, to be cynical, especially when the person who is stating his stories has been shown to be a liar time and time again. For one to act "even-handed" when comparing the statements of known liars and their more-truthful counterparts is dishonest itself.
Let's look at some history of Palestinian Arab lies:
"Since its establishment, the racist Zionist entity has been implementing various forms of terrorism on a daily basis which are a repetition of the Nazi terror There is no difference between Hitler and Ben-Gurion, and if there was a difference at all, it was one of quantity and not one of substance." - from an article in the official PA newspaper "Al-Hayat Al-Jadida", September 3, 1997.
"Israeli practices in many aspects are equal with, if not more brutal than, those practiced by occupying Nazi soldiers dealing with French-Dutch citizens during the Second World War." PA Information Ministry press release, December 10, 1997.
"Abd Al-Fatah Hamid, the Head of the Control and Inspection Department in the PA Ministry of Supplies, said that a committee will work ... against spoiled goods and food supplies, which are one of Israel's means in its war against Palestinian society." from an article in the Palestinian daily, "Al-Ayyam", October 29, 1997.
"They brought Russian Jewish girls with AIDS to spread the disease among Palestinian youth." Abdel-Razek Al-Majida, Commander of the Palestinian General Security Service in Gaza, quoted by the official PA newspaper "Al-Hayat Al-Jadida", May 15, 1997.
"... there is no tangible evidence of any Jewish traces/remains in the old city of Jerusalem and its immediate vicinity. PA Information Ministry, December 10, 1997.
'Jerusalem is not a Jewish city, despite the Biblical myth implanted in some minds ? There is no tangible evidence of Jewish existence from the so-called 'Temple Mount Era' ? The location of the Temple Mount is in question ? it might be in Jericho or somewhere else' (Walid Awad, Director
of Foreign Publications for the PLO's Ministry of Information, interviewed by the IMRA news agency, Dec. 25, 1996).
Attallah Quiba, the Palestinian ambassador in Sri Lanka, believes that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was killed by unnamed Israelis using advanced technology, the Island newspaper said. Responding to questions at a media conference in Colombo on Friday, Quiba claimed that two Israelis who met Arafat on the day he was taken sick "used a laser device to attack Arafat."
Palestinian television reported, on the basis of an official announcement by the Palestinian leadership, that a priest named Jacques Amathis had been killed and dozens of monks wounded in an IDF action in Bethlehem. The announcement was published prominently in the Italian and French media and prompted a storm of protest. The following day the 'late" priest was interviewed by the MINSA agency and confirmed that he and the monks in the monastery were safe and well.
Saeb Erekat accused Israel of a "massacre" in Jenin and published the number of 520 deaths (ten times the actual number).
'The Nazis probably killed less than one million Jews and the Zionist movement was a partner in the slaughter' - Mahmoud Abbas in his book.
In April, PA head Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a meeting with Israeli reporters that the PA has collected all the weapons held by 'wanted' Palestinians in Jericho and Tulkarem and that they will all soon be joining the PA security forces. In fact, none had been collected.
"We have started to deal with the culture of violence, we stopped the culture of violence and the Palestinian people have started looking at it as something that should be condemned and it should stop." - Mahmoud Abbas
There is a famous, possibly apocryphal quote from Yassir Arafat: ""I am ready to kill for the sake of my cause; wouldn't I lie for it?" Although I cannot find a source to it, it brings up a fundamental truth - why does the Western press trust murderers and proven liars? Why do they give the same weight to statements by Palestinian sources who are known to have lied to the press in the recent past? Why are Palestinian newspapers quoted as authoritative sources?
But there is a far more fundamental question that is much more important than the fact that Palestinians habitually lie to the world: How can anyone expect Israel to make agreements with liars? Time after time, the Palestinian "negotiating" stance has offered nothing of substance, nothing but words - and their words are worth far less than the words of honest people. Yet the world expects Israel to give real concessions in exchange for only words - the words of proven liars.
This is Israel's "peace partner." No one in their right mind would buy a car from someone who acts like this; but Israel is expected to spend much more on the empty promises of terrorist-supporting liars.
The world press gives the Palestinian position legitimacy by its refusal to do basic fact-checking or context when Palestinian officials speak. This is fundamentally immoral and dishonest itself, and it results in more lies and more deaths. To treat Palestinian lies with deference that would not be given to the leaders of any Western nation is not journalism - it is a political agenda that has no place in newsrooms.
(Sources for some quotes: here, here and here. If any of them can be shown to be in error, please let me know.)
UPDATE: See also this article from 2003.
Bizarro World Israel
Here is who is getting arrested:
Seven 15-year-old girls were arrested early Monday morning - for writing slogans and their names in the soot of a Jerusalem tunnel wall.
Here's who is getting freed:
Palestinian former prisoners pay their respects at the grave of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at his former headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Thursday June 2, 2005.
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Israel buys huge tool to destroy tunnels
OK, a purely defensive device, won't hurt anyone, designed to stop people from bringing in weapons to kill Jews.
How long before we see Palestinians and terror-supporters complaining about it, under the guise of "human rights" or "religious tolerance" or something similar?
The Israel Defense Forces have found a way to block the tunnels Palestinians dig under the Gaza-Egypt border to smuggle in weapons by using a huge trench-digging machine, according to a military publication.
The 100-ton behemoth would dig deep channels along the border route Israel patrols, exposing the tunnels, the soldiers' weekly 'Bamahane' reports in its current edition.
The new trenching machine, made U.S. company Trencor Inc., might provide at least an interim answer to the smuggling problem by neutralizing tunnels now in operation.
A small picture of the machine in the weekly shows the 'Trencor' logo on the side of the yellow vehicle, sporting a snout designed to dip deep into the ground to dig trenches.
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I got called out the other day for getting it wrong in my last blog. Got called out by no less than the co-producer of Treme, Eric Overmyer, in front of no less a knowledgeable audience than Sync-Up, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation’s symposium for music insiders. Got called out—and rejoiced! And here is why: Overmyer spoke to the way people were picking over Treme for every little thing the producers didn’t get right. And even some things that the producers did get right but that the pickers-over thought they got wrong. Like my recent blog where I had to point out that WWOZ wasn’t broadcasting from Armstrong Park after the Federal Flood of ’05.
Well, I got called out on that one, Mr. O. saying, “We did our research and we know that WWOZ was back on the air in New Orleans by December.”
But with no establishing shot to place WWOZ in its present location, and the show being named Treme and all, and the visuals showing an uber-funky studio reminiscent of our Treme tree-house, I’ll continue to claim that it was an honest mistake on my part to think they were placing ‘OZ back in Armstrong Park. Only in the second week was there a reference to our current French Market location, when D.J. Davis McAlary predictably decries our move from the hood to WWOZ’s soulless bastion of tourism in the French Quarter. (Of course, true to character, D.J. Davis McAlary would never mention the fact that the electricity, being supplied by the City and not Entergy, was not restored in the park for months and months, necessitating such a move.) McAlary’s remark made the French Market people nuts, but we, at WWOZ, understand this is fiction, and pretty damn good fiction at that.
But what is this preoccupation we all seem to have with details, if this is, after all, just fiction?
Well, here goes my theory, and here’s why I’m rejoicing at being called out:
One of the things that always irritated me about reading the Bible, is the way you get going on a really good story, and then, bam—you have to wade through 3 chapters of say, how the tabernacle is put together (“And its pillars shall be 20 and their sockets 20 of copper the hooks of the pillars and their decorative bands shall be of silver…..”) or what the high priest wears (“And two chains of pure gold at the borders of the breastplate will you be making them of plaited work, not links, and you will be putting the chains of plaited work onto the settings….”), or the endless laws, not just repeated but three-peated and then spoken and then inter-woven like beads on an Indian suit. Why-oh-why insist on arresting the storyline just when it’s getting interesting only to focus on all this minutiae?
I’m not the one who came up with it, but I do think there is something to the idea that all those details were memorialized by a school of priestly scribes in the Babylonian captivity around 600 B.C.E., and they did so because, in the end, it might well be the details more than the storyline that ended up defining these people on the fringe who eventually called themselves Jews. Each detail is another marker distinguishing “us” from “them.” And when you’re in exile, it’s just about all you got. Every detail forgotten is another piece of you erased. So the most important thing is to remember the details. It starts as part of the grieving process, rehearsing over and over in your mind the inventory of every little loss suffered-- then idealizing each little thing, until it grows into an obsessive memory, a catalog of obsessive memories that becomes the composite you hold onto when the forces all around threaten to swallow you up.
If in fact the scribes get the details wrong, or they favor one set of details over another—whatever details they gave us is pretty much the basis for who folks think we were once we’ve passed the scene . Mess up a detail and it will redefine you for the rest of time.
So even if art-- or fiction-- is the lie that tells the truth—- such as the truth of Chief Albert Lambreaux’s unbending determination…. if even one little marabou detail is wrong… well, in New Orleans, some guardian of the groove will pounce on the inaccuracy to decry your betrayal and, in this city there are so many opportunities to go wrong. If New York has Houston Street, we got a million Bur-GUN-dies.
So why are we like this? Why is it so damn important to us? Because New Orleans had the first opera house in the U.S. is why. Looking back to our early history, there has always been an ingrained hostility between the highly cultured “locals” and the barbarian intruders from the outside. That’s why we have neutral grounds instead of esplanades. We’ve constructed every defense imaginable for the past 300+ years to protect who we think we are and who we insist on being in the face of overwhelming influences that would homogenize us, Americanize us, wash out and dilute our identities. Long after we have been exiled by time and circumstances from our Creole past, we still retain the habit of scanning for the markers of our heritage. Scrupulosity is its name and in scrupulosity shall we retain our sense of self.
And that is why I rejoice so at being called out by Eric Overmyer. This is the ultimate proof (as if any were needed) that his cultural DNA has become infected with our disease. By industry standards, the producers of Treme have expended a frivolously unnecessary amount of time and money making sure they got right as many details as possible. And it’s obvious they fret more than any one we’ve ever known in the business when they get a detail wrong, or someone thinks they got it wrong. They have, in short, become one of us. And I rejoice.
Nothing much has changed from the days of the Babylonian captivity of the Israelites to the church of the present day. The priestly caste is still about the minutiae over the truth.
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The word 会儿 means "a short amount of time." All dictionaries I have checked say that the correct pronunciation of this word is huìr (i.e., 4th tone). Nevertheless, I am fairly sure that I have heard it pronounced huǐr (i.e., 3rd tone) from time to time. It's especially obvious in constructions like 等会儿, where the speaker will pronounce 等 as déng in accordance with tone sandhi.
Is 会儿 ever pronounced huǐr in casual speech? Am I totally mistaken? If you're a native speaker, how do you pronounce it?
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You are right. 会 is the 4th tone in the dictionary (the most official 新华字典) and if you are in a test, you'd better follow that. However, in daily Chinese, there are a lot of people using the 3rd tone as casual speech. Actually, 会 is a kind of popular mistake. There are a lot of examples for that. In the ancient book POEM （诗经；shi jing）, one sentence reads 君子好逑 jun1 zi3 hao3 qiu2. But people tend to read it as jun1 zi3 hao4 qiu2. Upper level Chinese classes in Chinese high school specifically teaches the importance of these terms. But the daily talking is in a kind of casual style. Anyway, people are able to follow your mind despite one or few pronunciation differences.
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China is a large country, and people in different parts of China have different accents. It's totally ok if you pronunce in the third tone, we can understand you.
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Then Robin Williams showed up.
"Hello, MTV!" the energetic comedian announced, before being reminded by a handler that he wasn't supposed to mention the names of news outlets. "Oops, I'll retract that," he laughed, saying it again backward.
"Robots" stars Williams as the free-associating sidekick of McGregor's Rodney Copperbottom, an inventor who dreams of making the robot world he inhabits a better place through science. That cartoon planet was brought to life with all the chaos of the movie's premiere Sunday. Williams was even more caffeinated than usual while discussing the film, which marks the star's first foray into animation since his Genie in 1992's "Aladdin."
"The look of it is so ... you just look at the detail and see that the whole world is like that," he struggled, for once momentarily speechless. "They did a wonderful job with the main, upscale robots and then the Rusties, who are my peeps. They're pretty amazing, how they fall apart."
Williams' Fender is one of a group of amiable, rusted 'bots that also includes Amanda Bynes as Piper Pinwheeler. So what's the worst part about being a robot? "If you think about it, you can literally put oil on yourself and shine yourself up a little bit," Bynes said, smiling. "There's nothing wrong with being a robot."
Williams refuted her point with two simple words: "Metal pants," he said, shaking his head. "It does a real number, it chafes."
As the world's most advanced humanoid robot, Asimo, walked by and waved to Williams, it got him riffing on what he'd do with a robot of his own. "Ooh, big potential — without a lawyer, that one's hard. If I could get one to ride bikes with me that would be great. Just to drive behind a beautiful female robot, particularly Halle's character, would be lovely. That would be so sweet."
Co-star Harland Williams ("Half Baked') continued the co-star fantasies. "Well, Halle Berry is behind me on the red carpet here, so I'd make [my robot] go and pick up Halle Berry and bring her to me," he said, grinning mischievously. "And we would have wonderful romantic evenings together just getting to know each other and maybe falling in love. That's all I ask for from a robot — bring me Halle Berry, you bad, bad robot boy."
Bynes went for a more appropriate, G-rated suggestion. "I would have it make me delicious meals, like four-star meals. I would want a chef robot."
With people like Drew Carey, Conan O'Brien, Mel Brooks and the two Williams providing voices for the computer-animated adventure, the recording sessions often became chaotic exercises that had jokes flying in every direction. Naturally, the premiere was much the same.
Harland Williams, for example, offered up his thoughts on one robot that is definitely not in the movie. "That freak who was along with Will Robinson [on TV's 'Lost in Space']," he said, flailing his arms around. "It was like, 'Danger, danger Will Robinson!' He was the most overprotective robot, and no one ever listened to him. They'd step on the giant mushrooms, and he'd be like, 'Danger, danger!' and they'd go, 'Aw, shut up!' and go jump on the giant mushrooms anyway."
Robin Williams took it a step further, referring to the clunkiness of movie droids from yesteryear. "Did you ever see the giant one, the one that used to walk up stairs like an old [lady]?" he laughed, putting on a voice. "Even old [ladies] would say, 'I move faster than him!' "
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Kristin Chenoweth on dating Jeff Probst (0:41)
Now, on to S60, which was alluded to by another reporter at the end of the previous clip (and, as you heard, goaded on by me). Did she recognize pieces of their her and Sorkin's relationship in the relationship between Matt Albie (Matthew Perry) and Harriet Hayes (Sarah Paulson)? "Recognize? Yeah!" she laughed. Then, in her light Southern drawl, she explained the genesis of the character. "He asked me if it would be ok to have a character based on me." She agreed to it because she figured it would be only loosely based on her. "A lot of it was very loose, and some of it wasn't."
When the show was on the air and struggling to find an audience, Sorkin always skirted claims by critics that the show was a kind of roman à clef that paralleled their relationship, even though he's admitted that Hayes was based on Chenoweth. "I don't know why he did that," Chenoweth said. "I can't speak about that. I just know that some of the things that happened in my life were on the show, and I do a really good Nancy Grace (an impression Harriet did), and I sing a lot of Gilbert and Sullivan, and I did do the PTL show. So, if you watch Studio 60, you can make your own (conclusion).
"It wasn't a bone of contention at all," she continued. "It might appear that way, but not at all. What was frustrating was that it was taken from my life, but not exactly. For example, (Harriet) was kind of iffy on gay rights," something Cheoweth was not. "I'd have to go on my website, because people were like, 'Ban her concerts!', and say 'But that's not me! At all!'"
The week before, Sorkin accompanied Chenoweth to the ABC all-star party, setting the surrounding crowds abuzz with speculation that they were back together. One reporter noted to Chenoweth that Sorkin was a complete gentleman during the party. "He's precious," she said in a semi-serious manner. When I asked her if the two of them were back together, she refused to say, upping the chirpy Southernness to say, "I don't talk about my private life!" She would say that Sorkin "acted like a really good friend that night, like he was just proud of me. It was really cool."
I did ask Chenoweth one question about Daisies: What song would she like to sing on the show this year? The answer was interesting:
Kristin Chenoweth on what she wants to sing on Daisies this year (0:16)
"Eternal Flame." Interesting. When I mentioned that to series creator Bryan Fuller, he said that "we're going to work it in somewhere. She sang it on a little... she's recording an album, so she sang it and sent it to me."
There's your "scoop" folks. The Bangles being sung on Pushing Daisies. Sounds like a good fir, doesn't it?
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Why blame Sorkin for Harriet Hayes on "Studio 60" being so unsympathetic and unlikeable? He is a good writer, and may have intentionally set out to make her unlikeable, but writing is only part of this. You've got to give a good chunk of the blame to the actress, Sarah Paulson.
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I think the writing on Studio 60 was kind of lame for Sorkin and rehashed from bad movies. He does like reusing lines / storylines, but it felt he didn't know what to do with Studio 60.
However you are completely right, everyone else on the show did a wonderful job with the scripts given, and the character was just horribly miss-casted.
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I'm a huge Aaron Sorkin fan, but I gotta tell ya ... if Harriet Hayes was based on Kristen Chenoweth, then Sorkin did a terrible job writing the character.
Hayes was unsympathetic (and obviously, controversial, though I never really got that) and unlikeable. Chenoweth is a media and masses darling who can do no wrong. There's a huge disconnect there.
Anyway, thanks the audiobits Joel. I assume the stuff about Probst is just joking when y'all use the word "date", as last we knew, Probst is still married to a former Survivor, yes?
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e're on the lam for a few days. No authorities are hot on our trail, however; just life and responsiblities. I'm in the air with two guys from my church, Tate & Jon, heading to Navajo Country in Arizona. An evening flight meant no bleary-eyed rush to shut off alarms and get up and out on time. It did mean a normal workday for everyone, and putting off packing until the last 30 minutes before the car pool showed up. It's strictly carry-on for this trip, though Jon claims that he "packed like a woman." I'm guessing/hoping he means "organized and with floral scents" and not "are these cutoffs too tight?"
Jon is leading our trio while Tate and I follow along. Jon's been to this area of the country numerous times, and has a heart for working with the Navajo people. He's also the fella that led the trip to the Basque region of Spain that I went on a few years ago. He and his missus just had baby recently, so I know he's probably feeling some ambivalence about heading out for a number of days. I'll just assume he's out to rediscover bachelorhood and cut loose. That's probably how he rolls.
Tate is a bit unknown to me, but he came bearing snacks and sock monkeys, so I'm willing to cut him some slack. He's also about six times better looking than Jon or I, so it will be a relief to not have to endure all the lacivious stares that typically burden me so.
Me? I'm just here to play the heavy. Grump, curmudgeon, professional wet blanket - that's my purview. Oh, you're having a good time? Think something is "fun?" No. None of that. Go sit in the car Tate, because WE ARE NOT HAVING FUN and THIS IS NOT AWESOME.
Our flight time is scheduled to be about 3 hours. There were dwindling pockets of empty seats, so I managed to grab a row of 3 to myself, and kept them to myself by virtue of rapid shoe removal. Seriously, it's like I'm fermenting roadkill in these things. I'm guessing there's a cure for the Hunta Virus growing in the petri dish of my insole, but, dang. So yeah, 3 seats to myself.
What's that? Oh, the actual plan? We want to build some vegetable gardens. Raised planters, in people's backyards or on some land of a local community center. Technically we won't be doing a ton of garden work on this trip - it's mainly a scouting trip to find other folks in the community who want to partner with us and help maintain the gardens between visits. The plan is evolving, the situation is fluid, etc. etc. The idea would be to come back later this summer and build out a good number of these gardens, with an eye towards sustainability in the desert conditions of the area.
There's a lot of issues within the Navajo nation that make it a tough place to grow up, both for plants and humans. The hope with these gardens is to build something that can provide some nourishment, encouragement, motivation, a bit of beauty, and ideally be an ongoing benefit to the locals. We're hoping something takes root. (You knew that pun was coming, right?)
And for all the ladies out there -- actually just for one -- Don't worry Mom, just because I'm planting vegetables doesn't mean I'll accidentally eat one. Also, pray for my wife, as her sobbing was so great at the thought of my absence it almost sounded like muffled laughter.
[hours pass as our heros try to sleep through the plane ride...]
Fast forward to our arrival in Arizona. We landed safely, though not at the airport Jon was expecting. There are two airports in the area, and about 40 miles between them. Our hotel was next to the airport we didn't land at, making for a long ride with Paul, a cabbie originally from Homewood, Illinois. We learned a great deal about Paul, thanks in no small part to Tate, who's a total Chatty Cathy.
After dropping things off at the hotel, we used our keen powers of "smartphone manipulation" to locate a place open after 11pm on a monday night. Jobot Coffee looked promising and specialized in crepes... holy crepe! I love crepes. It was only a half mile away and open until midnight. The food hit the spot, and the hipster vibe reminded me I'm not at all hip and likely never will be. I saw a guy walking around with a plate looking for a seat, and taking a cue from Tate, said "Hey, you can sit here - it's open", while motioning to the empty seat at our table.
"I don't know you people." He replied, walking away.
I should have tossed my stinky shoe at him.
PS: What do you call the scary cook at the Jobot Cafe? I don't know, but he gives me the crepes.
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More curmudgeon humor that I miss so dearly, please. :-)
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Try the frybread. SO NUTRITIOUS and tastes like an asbestos shingle. Remember that walking DOWN Mt. Dilkon is overrated. Slide on your butt. The experience (and pain) will last much longer.
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06-06-2006, 07:37 PM
Can someone, whoever it was who made that awesome little Balsawood Airplane
that they let crash into a couple of blocks, please post that up again if you still
have it, as I now can't find it and I need to check out some of your settings
that you used, as I think they were what I am looking for?
Thanx if anyone here still has it or who ever made it can post it?
EDIT: OK, I did manage to find the old, VERY old thread and who posted it.
It was:
Robert Wilson
UnCommon Grafx
But the files are no longer available.
So, Robert, if you (hopefully) still have that old scene,
can you please repost it or email it to me again?
I've search everywhere and can't find it!
Please help me, if you can, cuz I really, really liked that sample test scene you made
and right now am trying to make something very similar to what your scene was, but
mine will have to be activated when it collides and I can't seem to figure out how the
flip to do that, even though I could swear that I used to know how to do this really easy trick?
My plane needs to fly on a path for a few miles and THEN it collides into a
tree and THATS when I need it to start cracking up and crashing and all that.
I can't for the life of me get it to crash ONLY when it collides AFTER it's long flight path.
The only other way I can get it to do the crash, which works every time, is to just let it
crash from it's starting point, but of course, this isn't how the flight is supposed to go.
Thanx tons!
06-06-2006, 09:29 PM
Hey Mark!
He11, I recently erased a bunch of stuff off of my ISP so yeah, it's gone. I'm sorry.
However, I will look high and low to find the stuff so that I can upload it again. That I can assist you will be all the more worth it!!
Do you remember where you saw the link? That ought to make it easier to find the zip file.
Thanks for asking. Off to find it...
06-06-2006, 10:48 PM
Thanx, I got your emails and am sending replies right now :)
06-06-2006, 11:47 PM
Hey Mark,
Bringing it back here to be more community minded. ;)
Let's do this here and share it with the community. I'm willing to make a balsa plane again; a particular one if you have a reference. From there, I'll animate that setup again. All of this as [9]-capable so Nodal fun included. ;) I understand the system even better than I did then so it should be able to be tweaked a bit more. I never even did wing movements to see what the dynamics engine would do to it... Pure glider. Hmm, food for thought.
So yeah, what's the challenge? Ready to roll. I have two days for this; about four hours total time at the computer is all I'll allow so let's get goin'!
06-07-2006, 12:37 AM
Thanx for keeping it here!
I wasn't sure if you were even going to be interested in such an old subject? LOL
And I agree that it's better to keep it here so that way we all can get something out of this.
I have a real plane, so the Balsa Plane was just to be used to see what your settings were.
I want to to be able to fly around on a flight path that I set.
Then once it comes too low and then finds itself in trouble, namely crashing
into a tower or what ever, can't really be too specific, but we'll say a tower
or tree or pole, it hits it and then THAT causes the crash to begin.
I assume I need some kind of Event, like On Collision or something,
but that's where I keep getting myself lost, as I don't want the
thing to start crashing untill it's supposed to when hitting the Pole.
Once it hits the pole, then it begins to make use of the Dynamics and begins to
crash and hit the ground which further crashes and breaks the plane all up some more.
Hope this all makes sense.
I would also prefer to keep it as basic as possible, because I'm not that brainy
to follow any complex techniques, though I wouldn't mind seeing those too? LOL
I understand you wanting to make use of the Nodal method, which I'd love
to see, but I kind of might have to keep this scene basic for other reasons too.
So, for me, both methods of basic and complex would be wildly wellcomed.
And yes, there would most likely be some other objects
already on the ground that the plane ends up wrecking into.
06-07-2006, 12:59 AM
Found a prototype of the final. Had an 80 gig drive die that had all kinds of goodness on it...
It is setup to stay as a whole when it falls. Change the 'piece mode' to parts to watch it fall apart on impact. That should get you started.
I'm so busy (read: Lazy? ;}) to give back like I should. So a chance to help is appreciated. ;)
Give this a shot and let's see what you need from here.
06-07-2006, 02:45 AM
Sounds close, and I'll check it out.
As I recall, your last (original) scene was something like this too?
The falling to the ground and crashig is actually not the problem I have, as that was easy for me, really.
Dynamics are truely easy to use, but sometimes you can easily overlook the obvious,
i.e. like what do I use to activate the collision while using a flight path as opposed to simply
letting the plane fly on it's own down to the ground, which I suspect this scene here will do?
I kept setting mine to begin collision (the crashing and parts falling all over) On Collision Start.
Or whatever it was called? LOL
But, alass, it would crash and either bounce clean off of the
object (pole) on the ground or it would just sit there and do nothing.
Anyway, let me check this out and see what's up?
06-07-2006, 05:27 AM
Well, one thing is for sure, I (after searching up for a few hours through ALLlll of my old backed up CDs)
I finally found the old original scenes.
Here's the link to the old files, as good as they are.
Not as good, I don't think, as you new stuff, but at least you can see what your old stuff looked like LOL
I added a ground plane because that object was missing.
And one of the scenes I think I may have messed with ages ago, but one is the original way it was.
Anyway, dought it helps any for what I'm looking for or for you, but there they are.
Oh, and it crashes 9 out every time I close the scene too LOL
06-07-2006, 10:29 AM
I'll look at this later. Thanks for your efforts.
I think you should be able to put the parts you want to break off into groups such that when it hits collision A, group A breaks off; collision B and group B falls off, and so forth. And because of your flight plan route, you can strategically place your groups around to have action at specific places.
Using this method you would use By Event to have the action. At least, I would at first glance... But in groups, it doesn't matter as the parts will stay until their group is met.
I know some of what I am saying may have to be figured out. I'm now curious... I'll set up a scene to test this later today.
06-07-2006, 06:25 PM
Thanx, and I'll be looking at this later on today a lot better too.
Unfortunately, I have to leave and also there may be some project coming in LOL
This is much funner! LOL
This and my clouds, which involves the whole plane deal.
And why the plane crashes in the first place.
BTW, I like your ideas for how the plane could crash.
They sound like pretty good possible things to test out.
Can't wait to get back home in a couple hours to try this out.
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How much potassium metabisulfite should I add when racking my wine or cider?
Measurements in grams/gallon please. Thanks!
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I'm not certain about grams per gallon (why are you mixing metric and english?). The general rule for wine (and probably cider as well) is one campden tablet or 1/8th tsp of k-meta per gallon.
According to wikipedia one campden tablet typically weighs .44 grams and 10 campden tablets equals 1 tsp of k-meta so I'd guess between .44 and .55 grams of k-meta per gallon. (1/8th of 4.4g is .55g)
Adding a little extra won't hurt, especially if your wine or cider is done fermenting.
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An ad about the "Fur and Loathing" episode.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation is a popular television crime drama on CBS in the United States. The original series is set in Las Vegas, Nevada. Spinoff series called CSI: Miami and CSI: New York have debuted to cater to those local markets.
The fifth aired (but sixth produced) episode of season four, Fur and Loathing (first aired 30 October 2003), had characters Gil Grissom and Catherine Willows investigating the murder of a raccoon fursuiter and following the trail to a fictional furry convention called PafCon. The show portrayed furry conventions as being not much more than lectures and sex orgies, showcasing a private furpile during one scene. Gil Grissom, though, saw spiritual aspects to the fandom and even took interest to a speech and other information relating furry fandom to ancient spirituality.
[edit] Collaboration with Southern California Furries
In August of 2003, the producers of CSI approached Dark Fox (now known as Sabre Fox), who was then head of the SoCalFurs Yahoo! Group, inviting local furries to participate as extras in the already-scripted and in-progress episode "featuring" furry fandom. Dark Fox made an optimistic post to the mailing list, suggesting that furries might be able to finally contribute to portraying the fandom in accurate, positive light.[1] Much discussion was taken up about the positive and negative consequences such an episode would bring to the furry fandom.
After compelling Dark Fox and Kiyo Fox to sign a non-disclosure agreement, the producers lent the two a copy of the draft script for review.[2][3]. Dark Fox quickly singled out many errors and misconceptions (which he cited as being based on the MTV Sex2K furry episode). During a follow-up meeting with CSI's director, producer, set designer, and creative director, he pointed out these errors, describing and showing real photographs of furry conventions. Nonetheless, even after being shown the truth and correcting many of the crew's perspectives (including the creator of the show), the director gave Dark Fox the ultimatum that the show would continue as previously planned.[4]
Yet another post described Dark Fox's frustration with the impending negative consequences that the CSI episode would have on the fandom's image, including the feeling of futility in dealing with the unmovable objectives of the director and producer.[5] Moreover, he received many "weird" emails. While most seemed supportive, he cited his concerns with being blacklisted for his efforts. Fearing retribution, he posted a public comment on Flayrah, explaining his hardships. [6]
The episode's convention scene was shot on September 15th of 2003 at the Valencia Hyatt, in Valencia, California. Though the view of most local furs was cautious, about 10 chose to participate as extras. Others were held back at the studio gate reportedly due to payroll concerns. Most of the furs were in normal street clothes, wearing the occasional ears and tails; However Vircoo's fursuit Java, was featured prominently in a scene. The resulting episode showed the real fans several times in several scenes, lingering on Axel Ferret and Glyph for several seconds. The majority of the fursuits shown were of paid actors in "fursuits", scritching each other en-mass in the lobby of the hotel. However many of the non-costumed extra's were indeed local fans, including Jwoulf, AlohaWolf, WhiteTiger, cat, Iron Badger, Mel, Tess Theredpony, and Stego. All extras, including fandom members, were paid by the production company.
[edit] Quotes
Logo of the fictional PafCon.
• "It’s Vegas. People come here to be animals."
• Gil Grissom: "Think of stuffed animals as a Jungian archetype. What’s the one quality they possess that a man like Bob Pitt might want? . . . They’re lovable."
• (after gathering several furries in blue fursuits together) - Grissom: "I guess we're lucky blue's not a more popular color" - Fursuiter: "Hello? This is racial profiling!"
• "Sexy" (aka Bud Simmons), when asked to take "her" mask off: "I'm a lawyer, I know my rights - you can't sequester a domestic animal without due cause."
• Catherine Willows: "Well, I like hairy chests, but I'm not about to bop a six-foot weasel!" (6 ft = 1.83 m)
• "He's a raccoon. They're all low-lifes. I mean, honestly, what do they do? Screw? Eat garbage? Screw some more?"
• ". . . she helped me become . . . who I am. I always knew that I was a - something else - and Linda made it real."
• "I'm not so sure that people who dress up like cuddly forest creatures carry guns" -- "You don't think they allow plushies in the NRA?"
• At the end of the show, "We took one look at those furry suits and thought foul play, but this was really just a domestic dispute gone mad."
• "It's fur and loathing in Las Vegas."
• "This isn't a costume, it's a six-foot condom."
• "This is fascinating. A whole tribe of people who prefer to interact as furry animals rather than human beings."
• "It's not that weird. It's instinctual."
• "birth is not destiny. And a human form doesn't always come with a human spirit."
[edit] Views of the program
A t-shirt drawn by Jimmy Chin and produced by Chairo, jokingly pretending to be from the convention featured in the CSI episode. The back side reads, "I thought it was a coyote!" (a line from the show)
Most agreed that the number of fursuiters and the extent to which they wore them was unrealistic (let alone the furpile!).
I really don't blame the show for taking the weirdest possible angle, because if I were writing the show, I'd do it too. Why? Because a bunch of weirdos in costumes writhing around to porno music is waaaaay better for the ratings than an hour of slightly geeky people in T-shirts with wolves on them arguing about whether the Lion King was a better movie than Watership Down.
It certainly wasn't all bad, as some people joined the fandom as a result.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
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1. "Attn SoCalFurs!"
2. "As promised.. a CSI Update"
3. Second CSI Update
4. Crew's reactions to being shown real pictures of furry conventions
5. Dark Fox's frustration
6. Dark Fox's Flayrah reply
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Quote# 60726
Jesus appeared to Zane and comforted this hurting dissociative identity.
Jay Bartlett, Deliverance Blog 71 Comments [3/20/2009 1:10:00 AM]
Fundie Index: 117
Submitted By: Nausea
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60693
Fundie Index: 115
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60686
[re: marrying Jesus after the rapture]
ArkieTuzie, Rapture Ready 112 Comments [3/19/2009 2:57:29 PM]
Fundie Index: 98
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60685
We are going to a wedding soon, and we are going to get new bodies and robes. The robes will be shining white and spotless and our bodies will never grow old or sicken or get dirty....ever.Our bridegroom is the most perfect person in the entire universe.....which He made by the way. He is the most wonderful and mighty and worthy Person to ever live......He is our Lord God Almighty. He chose......us. Can you get your head around that? He chose us to be His beloved. You and me and all the millions of belivers who live or ever lived. He knew us before we were concieved, and chose us. He loved us from the beginning. HE LOVES US. We are his bride, His beloved, and He is getting ready to come for us. We are going to a wedding.........and we are going to marry the King Of Kings,Lord of Lords, The Holy Lamb of God, Jesus Christ our Saviour, the only Son of God. We are going to a wedding, the biggest most beautiful wedding to ever take place..........ever.
caligal, Rapture Ready 94 Comments [3/19/2009 1:38:36 PM]
Fundie Index: 80
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60721
Witch doctors and security forces in Gambia have detained up to 1,000 people on suspicion of being witches, Amnesty International said Wednesday. The Gambian police dismissed the reports as lies. Victims have been held in secret detention camps for up to five days and forced to drink hallucinogenic substances, which have killed at least two people, Amnesty International said in a statement. Quoting an unidentified Gambian described as a witness, the group said that armed paramilitary police officers had surrounded a village and threatened its residents with death if they tried to escape. Then, the person said, hundreds of men and women were forced onto buses at gunpoint and taken to the home area of the president, Yahya Jammeh, where they were stripped and had to drink and bathe in a potion made from toxic herbs.
Unknown (Gambia), New York Times 29 Comments [3/19/2009 1:00:47 PM]
Fundie Index: 43
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60680
Happily, I was a very easy convert [to Quiverfull]. I loved being a mom and having babies.. But I knew that Brendon did not share my views. He worked 60+ hours a week just so I could stay home with our children. He was concerned with house and car payments. But as time went on, I could be silent no longer. I was very hesitant to share my thoughts with him. So I prayed. I prayed that the Lord would prepare his heart for what I had to say. I also prayed that the Lord would give me contentment if Brendon said no more babies. A few days later I felt the Lord give me the okay. I was on my way out of town to a conference for two days. I decided to write him a letter and let him think about it while I was away. I did not want to influence him directly. I truly wanted his conviction to come from God. I gave him this letter as I was backing out of the driveway.
[Long letter]
The Lord is so good. The day I got back from my trip, we never used birth control again.
We Christians are believing lies from the very pit of hell. If we were to list all the reasons why Christians use birth control, we would see that they are the same reasons why a woman aborts her child. The primary reason children are murdered is because they are an inconvenience. Babies interfere with our pursuit of happiness, or Lexus's, swimming pools, careers, 3,000 square foot houses....you get the idea. One of the main reasons why we as the Church have failed to act against abortion is because we have the same anti-child mentality as those who advocate it.
How are we ever going to impact this lost and dying world, if we conform to its standards? Jesus calls us to be peculiar, to be different. How far are we willing to go? We are to crucify ourselves, put to death our own selfish wants and desires.
Nikki Keith, Quiverfull 83 Comments [3/19/2009 11:55:43 AM]
Fundie Index: 70
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60676
"What an exciting time to be alive." "We are the greatest generation."
It makes me sick when Pastors and ministers make the above statements. I enjoy JR Church and his ministry, but he made the above statement yesterday. I wanted to ask him, " what time and place to you live?" I've heard it over and over "we are the greatest". I'm not a pessimist or a negative believer, but I believe these are some of the worst times to be alive, sin is rampant, our society is hateful & anti-faith, anti-morals, greedy, Godless, seekers of pleasure, Killers, homosexuals and pedophiles, thieves and drug abusers they do not seek God and they hate those who do, they kill innocent babies daily and seek to kill those born who were supposed to be aborted, We live with the possibility of nuclear anniliation. Next to Sodom and Gomorrah and Noah's day we're the worst in history. I would have rather been born in 1862 instead of 1962. Does anyone else wish they would have been born a 100 years earlier?
These statements, they make me want to (puking smiley)
johnbmcginnis, RR 58 Comments [3/19/2009 11:55:37 AM]
Fundie Index: 38
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60668
Pope claims condoms could make African Aids crisis worse
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 17 March 2009 14.57 GMT
Pontiff's remarks on first visit to continent outrage health agencies trying to halt spread of HIV and Aids
The Pope, guardian.co.uk 57 Comments [3/19/2009 8:39:07 AM]
Fundie Index: 80
Submitted By: Tolpuddle Martyr
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60652
Test : Raise & Praise
Target Question: "Am I showing too much belly?"
'Truth or Bare' Fashion Test, Secretkeepergirl.com 82 Comments [3/18/2009 4:51:49 PM]
Fundie Index: 68
Submitted By: centauri
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60642
Right. For you to talk to me, you as somebody who is not a Scientologist to talk to me about what my beliefs are or to ask me to explain any core religious belief, that's an offensive concept. Nobody should ever be asked to do that.
Tommy Davis, kesq.com 77 Comments [3/17/2009 6:09:46 PM]
Fundie Index: 124
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60643
There are three races, Jews, Gentiles and the Church.
BibleNuggetLady, Rapture Ready 103 Comments [3/17/2009 5:52:59 PM]
Fundie Index: 183
Submitted By: Khaine
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60638
Students, give this test to your teachers. When they fail it, ask them why they are teaching this nonsense!
Teachers, give this test to your students if you really want them to know the truth about evolution!
1. Which evolved first, male or female?
5. Which came first:
...the eye,
...the eyelid,
...the eyebrow,
...the eye sockets,
...the eye muscles,
...the eye lashes,
...the tear ducts,
...the brain's interpretation of light?
8. List any of the millions of creatures in just five stages of its evolution showing the progression of a new organ of any kind. When you have done this, you can collect the millions of dollars in rewards offered for proof of evolution!
9. Why is it that the very things that would prove Evolution (transitional forms) are still missing?
10. Explain why something as complex as human life could happen by chance, but something as simple as a coin must have a creator. (Show your math solution.)
13. Why hasn't anyone collected the millions of dollars in rewards for proof of evolution?
15. Why hasn't evolution duplicated all species on all continents?
Missing Universe Museum, MissingUniverseMuseum.com 301 Comments [3/17/2009 4:20:06 PM]
Fundie Index: 418
Submitted By: Journeyer
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60633
[In response to a graph showing that God killed 2,038,344 and Satan only killed 10]
Well, God created everything He has the right to kill it if He wants to. I trust Him.
ema, GraphJam 76 Comments [3/17/2009 3:03:04 PM]
Fundie Index: 74
Submitted By: J.T.
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60623
Im not going to argue with you due to the fact you are speaking out of a pro homosexually influenced mindset...thus you are incapable of logical and rational reasoning and interaction with others.
Im not typing japanese so its not hard to understand what i said.
Homosexuals are attempting to screw things up so badly that there can not be the existance of a "normal teenager" anymore. Pretty bad when its not possible for normal teenagers to exist in this world. Because the self avowed homosexuals are so screwed up they want everything and everybody to be screwed up so they arent perceived to be freak shows.
OldSchoolMethodist, Topix 78 Comments [3/17/2009 11:42:40 AM]
Fundie Index: 94
Submitted By: The Lazy One
WTF?! || meh
Junior Scientist Award
Quote# 60622
Physicists have been theorizing for decades about the 'electromagnetic force,' the 'weak nuclear force,' the 'strong nuclear force,' and so-called 'force of gravity'. And they tilt their findings toward trying to unite them into one force. But readers of the Bible have already known for millennia what this one, unified force is: His name is Jesus...
Paradigm, RaptureReady 116 Comments [3/17/2009 3:17:44 AM]
Fundie Index: 123
WTF?! || meh
The You Even Freak Out Jesus Award
Quote# 60603
Hubby and I both bawl all day long!!!
Hubby says that while he is working (he owns his own paint contracting company), and starts to think about Jesus and His return and the tears start to flow. Or while He is saying the Lord's Prayer, he breaks out in tears. He says he sobs when thinking about Jesus' return and seeing Him face to face. He says also when he remembers certain passages, like John 14:6, "Jesus said to him, I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
I too have been breaking down in tears and literally sobbing. My heart is overwhelmed and it is overflowing with the love that Jesus has for me. I can barely listen to a song that praises Jesus without bawling. Reading the Bible yesterday had me in tears. Reading some of the threads on this board make me break down.
But I think it is because the Holy Spirit is quickening our hearts. He is talking to us, now - more than ever and is calling us home. He is warning us and preparing us. Jesus IS coming. I think the entire Bride has heard His voice. He is giving us the urgency of the imminent return of Jesus for His Bride, and how important it is that we witness to as many as we can.
These tears are tears of joy IMHO. We long to be with our Father, and our Father has given us this yearning. I can only imagine that God is looking around the place that Jesus is/has prepared for us and is making sure everything is perfect. God is ready to tell His Son to, "Go get your Bride"!!!!
It won't be long now. Shout it from the rooftops!! Jesus is coming soon. He is Lord and Master and is getting ready to show Himself like never before!!!
Come Lord Jesus!!!
Chicken5516, RaptureReady 154 Comments [3/16/2009 2:20:49 PM]
Fundie Index: 161
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60582
*Obama Reverses Stem Cell Ban*
Fundie Index: 95
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60578
[in response to: You all are intolerant asses. I wish you could all see that people are truly just people. So what if they love people of the same gender? You all sicken me.]
To Mary Boyd: intolerant? Looks like you're intolerant of homophobes. I'm going to call you Bitch okay? Bitch, there are many reasons as to why homosexuality is fucked up. Number 1, it's by choice. If it was genetic, hey, not their fault their genes are fucked up, but when a person willingly chooses to become gay that's when I get angry. Not only am I angry that Gay's even exist, i'm pissed that you consider Gays as people. These 'people' want special rights for them and THEM only. Since when has being a fag entitled you to having extra rights?
You know what they did back in the biblical times? They killed gays. That's right, stoned their asses to death. You know why? Because God hates gays. By not hating gays, you're disobeying him, and you don't want to go to hell do you?
Danny Jung, Facebook group - I hate homos 226 Comments [3/15/2009 5:13:32 PM]
Fundie Index: 328
Submitted By: Will Creech
WTF?! || meh
Freaky Fantasy Award
For those who's fantasies are just plain freaky
Quote# 60605
I want to see that in real life, in real time! Beautiful picture Steve! When we see Jesus we are all going to be bawling our eyes out Chicken, you won't be alone! I'm just going to take mine out of their sockets, give them to Jesus and ask him to wipe them dry, then pop then back in so I can see.
cocopea9052, RaptureReady 13 Comments [3/15/2009 4:38:20 PM]
Fundie Index: 26
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60577
Jim David Adkisson, Yahoo News 96 Comments [3/15/2009 3:02:24 PM]
Fundie Index: 206
Submitted By: a mind far far away
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60567
It's funny-the atheists insist on utilizing their rights to have no religion, and their rights of freedom of speech and freedom of expression to convey their message, but they miss in the Constitution that we have been endowed by our CREATOR with certain unalienable rights-where do they think our rights and freedoms originate? If not God, then nthey are not rights, but priviledges GRANTED by the state, which can then be taken away at will by those granting them.
So, in their fight against the Creator, they seem winning to lose ALL rightts according to the whim of the powerful. huh.
ukulele mike, Christianpost.com 63 Comments [3/15/2009 12:07:03 PM]
Fundie Index: 54
Submitted By: MozMode
WTF?! || meh
Lying for Jesus
Because sometimes that much fail is win!
Quote# 60576
I am aware that people might think I'm crazy due to some of what I'm saying in this post. I don't care because I've seen this stuff firsthand and it's true. I'm not posting to start some debate, either. I don't want to get into a theological or apologetics debate or anything. I just want to tell you what I've experienced. It is difficult to convince people that the Bible is without internal or external contradiction (although I believe it myself), but I believe based on personal experience, not based on the reliability of the Bible. After trying to defend the Bible and my beliefs for months, I think it's as good a time as any to share some personal experiences.
This past week has been spring break at my school. I went with 600 other college students on a mission trip to south Texas, very close to the border. Crazy things happened. Guys, I don't know how to say it, but to say that miracles happen. I personally witnessed a guy's leg get physically healed (and heard several other stories the week from people who I trust with my life). I also personally saw five people come to Christ, and after praying for the Holy Spirit to come and fill them (like they did in the Bible), the people would say they felt "weird," "different," or "excited." One lady even said she felt "caliente" after being praying for a filling of the Spirit. I heard similar stories from friends all week.
And we shared the Gospel wherever we went, and many people came to know Christ. That's not to say we didn't face rejection, but even our bus drivers to and from home and the Subway workers on our dinner stop on the way back came to know Christ. There was no discrimination or specific group of people that were more receptive. Hispanics, blacks, whites, rich, poor, bus drivers, college students, children, adults, etc. They all came to know Christ and I heard crazy stories about people of all sort. After a week in which I experienced the power and love of God in such a tangible way, I don't know what to say but it's real. Having said that, I wonder how many of y'all have heard the Gospel. There might be fewer people on a Religion Board who haven't heard it, but I was surprised at how many people, especially in Texas, had not heard the Gospel.
joel is cheese, Gamefaqs 62 Comments [3/14/2009 9:05:17 PM]
Fundie Index: 18
Submitted By: wackadoodle
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60542
Fundie Index: 51
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60511
[Regarding a bill proposed, and shelved, in Connecticut.]
If I understand this right the gays want the state and federal government to recognize domestic partnerships. I think where the real anger with them lies is they want the state and federal government to equate the domestic partnerships with marriage between and a man and a women. The gays already have the legal right to have a domestic partnership so, the question is what are they actually wanting. Is it that they say want the benefits and privileges that come with marriage, is that the real issue? Tax purpose wise marriage doesn't have any benefit, as a matter of fact the tax burden on married people is greater than that of those single or living together. There are some employee benefits such carrying a spouse on group insurance plan, health and life. In the states where homosexuals unions have been made legal, do they declare at the time of the union which is the acting male figure and female figure on the license so the judge knows who to assign alimony payments in case of divorce? No I think the main reason for the push for the change in a 220 year old law is to desecrate the marriage institution because it is ordained by God, just as every other God honoring thing is under attack in America today.
Offenses are sure to come but woe unto those who they come by.
forsaltnlight, the Christian Post article comments 39 Comments [3/14/2009 12:31:15 PM]
Fundie Index: 21
Submitted By: GreenEyedLilo
WTF?! || meh
Quote# 60540
[On the FSM]
first thing: What the hell? You are just crazy, mislead idiots, who see some kind of personal profit in you “pastafarian” ways. Stop misleading innocent people. Who the hell worships a bundle of flying spaghetti with meatballs? It´s just sick. AND who is the leader of this “church”? My pastor and family would like a word with him.
HOW dare you sick idiots portrait that fictionous monster in place of God and Jesus. HOW DARE YOU! YOU are just a bunch of freaks and hillbillies that aren´t educated, have been neglected as children, and want to stand out in a freakish kind of way and say: “oh ho, i am a psycho pastafarian” or “look at me, i have been sent by the BDSM, i mean FSM, i come in peace, join us, spread the word of this goddamn thing.” keep your worship to yourselves and don´t taint the believe of normal people.
Think of it as this: What kind of Psycho draws up a pile of spaghetties, makes a church (so that he doesn´t have to pay taxes for his ventures AND to get MONEY form his crazy, damn followers) out of it, and even involves children and young people in this damn shit?!
I SAY, humans invented noodles around 2000-3000 BC!!! All who believe, this sick THING made US all up, is mislead AND has some serious problems with his life.
sfg, Chruch of the Flying Spaghetti Monster 124 Comments [3/14/2009 10:53:54 AM]
Fundie Index: 71
Submitted By: Orlor
WTF?! || meh
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Super Heavy: Roger Gracie vs Ricardo Abreu Gonzalaez
Ultra Heavy: Gabriel Vella vs Rodrigo Cavaca
Open: Roger Gracie vs Romulo Barral
Post fight Interviews with: Bruno Malfacine, Guilherme Mendes, Samuel Braga, Rubens "Cobrinha" Charles, Michael Langhi, Marcelo Garcia, Romulo Barral, Braulio Estima, Roger Gracie, and Gabriel Vella
Optional English and Japanese commentary
Disc 2: Women's Black Belt Finals
Light Feather: Leticia Ribeiro vs Michelle Nicolini
Feather: Sayaka Shioda vs Bianca Barreto
Light: Kyra Gracie vs Luanna Alzuguir
Middle: Hannette Staack vs Monica Vanessa Silva
Medium Heavy: Penny Thomas vs Val Worthington
Heavy: Lana Stefanac vs Luciana "Megatona" Dias
Open: Lana Stefanac vs Kyra Gracie
Post fight interviews with: Leticia Ribeiro, Bianca Barreto, Luanna Alzuguir, Hannette Staack, Penny Thomas, and Lana Stefanac
Optional English and Japanese commentary
Disc 3: Men's Quarter and Semi Finals Part 1
Felipe Costa vs Bruno Mafacine
Bernardo Pitel vs Caio Terra
Light Feather:
Pablo Santos vs Guilherme Mendes
Rafael Freitas vs Carlos Vieira
Joao Paulo Kuraoka vs Daniel Beleza
Sebastian Lalli vs Samuel Braga
Guilherme Mendes vs Carlos Vieira
Daniel Beleza vs Samuel Braga
Mario Reis vs Rodrigo Faria
Jonatas Gurgel vs Bruno Frazatto
Rafael Mendes vs Carlos Lemos Jr
Wellington "Megaton" Dias vs Rubens "Cobrinha" Charles
Mario Reis vs Bruno Frazatto
Rafael Mendes vs Rubens "Cobrinha" Charles
Gilbert "Durhino" Burns vs Rodrigo Simoes
Rafael Barbosa vs Eder Persiliano
Michael Langhi vs Augusto Mendes
Gilbert "Durhino" Burns vs Rafael Barbosa
Michael Langhi vs Philippe Della Monica
Sergio Moraes vs Augusto "Tio Chico" Vieira
Alan Do Nascimento vs Pedro Bessa
Marcelo Garcia vs Tiago Alves
Lucas Leite vs Kron Gracie
Sergio Moraes vs Alan Do Nascimento
Marcelo Garcia vs Lucas Leite
Med Heavy:
Otavio Sousa vs Marcello Salazar Bergo
Gregor Gracie vs Tarsis Humphreys
Romulo Barral vs Eduardo Santoro
Victor Estima vs Tony Eduardo
Otavio Sousa vs Tarsis Humphreys
Romulo Barral vs Victor Estima
Disc 4: Men's Quarter and Semi Finals Part 2
Robert "Cyborg" Abreu vs Alexandre Ceconi
Rodrigo Pinheiro vs Braulio Estima
Rodolfo Vieira vs Alexandre de Souza
Fernando di Pierro vs Rafael Lovato Jr.
Alexandre Ceconi vs Braulio Estima
Alexandre de Souza vs Rafael Lovato Jr.
Super Heavy:
Roger Gracie vs Bruno Bastos
Rodrigo Medeiros vs Bernardo Faria
Ricardo Abreu Gonzalez vs Antonio Peinado
Eduardo Telles vs Tiago Gaia
Roger Gracie vs Bernardo Faria
Ricardo Abreu Gonzalez vs Tiago Gaia
Ultra Heavy:
Marcio Corleta vs Fabio Vilela
Charles Cachoeira vs Rodrigo Cavaca
Gabriel Vella vs Marcel Fortuna
Moacir Oliveira vs Andre de Freitas
Marcio Corleta vs Rodrigo Cavaca
Gabriel Vella vs Andre de Freitas
Roger Gracie vs Rafael Lovato Jr.
Claudio Calazans vs Rodrigo Cavaca
Braulio Estima vs Gabriel Vella
Romulo Barral vs Antonio Braga Neto
Roger Gracie vs Claudio Calazans
Gabriel Vella vs Romulo Barral
Disc 5: Purple and Brown Belt Fights
Bianca Campion vs Beatriz Mesquita
Beatriz Mesquita vs Tammy Griego
Josh Vogel vs David Bass
Ronis Gracie vs David Bass
Vince Parra vs Phelipe Guedes
Cyril Lambert vs Greg Souders
Gustavo Galvao vs Adam Piccolotti
Hillary Williams vs Priscila Prandini
Lucas Rocha vs Greg Souders
Lucas Rocha vs Newton Casimero
Rafael Benedito vs Michel Langhi
Michel Langhi vs Ross Finlayson
Anthony Carlson vs Mikael Marffy
David Bass vs Roberto Souza
Thiago Gaia vs Roberto Souza
Greg Souders vs Vince Parra
Yuri Simoes vs Joshua McNamara
Daniel Elias vs Ary Farias
Ary Farias vs Samir Chantre
Bruno Sena vs Ary Farias
Ary Farias vs Thiago Santos
Ian McPherson vs Rhalan Gracie
Kayron Gracie vs Chip Coffey
Leonardo Noquiera vs Kayron Gracie
Kayron Gracie vs Daniel Garcia
Kim Terra vs Justin Rader
Rayfan Barbosa vs Sung Sil Kang
Jared Nathanson vs Rhalan Gracie
Arman Barros vs Ryan Beauregard
Ryan Beauregard vs Gunnar Nelson
Alexander Koustas vs Ryan Hall
Ryan Hall vs Henrique Resende
Ryan Hall vs Michael Cusi
Thiago Rocha vs Steve Rosenberg
Zak Maxwell vs Eduardo Ramos
Zak Maxwell vs Koji Shimasaki
Zak Maxwell vs Leonardo Fernandes
Zak Maxwell vs Ryan Hall
Disc 6: Extras
Best Moves:
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Technique Breakdown with Sean Williams and Sean Patrick Flannery
Option for Japanese Subtitles
Saulo Ribeiro
Demian Maia
Rickson Gracie
Renzo Gracie
Carlos Gracie
Sergio Moraes
Marcelo Garcia
Tarsis Humphreys
Roger Gracie
Kron Gracie
Ian McPherson
Xande Ribeiro
Penny Thomas
Kyra Gracie
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League of Legends Build Guide Author Sukiiru
Gangplank - Twisted Treeline Massacre
Sukiiru Last updated on April 2, 2012
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Build 1 (Cheat Sheet)
Champion Build: Gangplank
Health 2403
Health Regen 17.75
Mana 1335
Mana Regen 19.1
Armor 133.59
Magic Resist 149.56
Dodge 0
Tenacity 0
Movement Speed 415
Gold Bonus 0
Attack Damage 253
Attack Speed 48.911
Crit Chance 40.58%S
Crit Damage 0%
Ability Power 55
Life Steal 12%
Spell Vamp 0
Armor Penetration 21.52
Magic Penetration 0
Cooldown Reduction 25%
Recommended Runes
Ability Sequence
Ability Key Q
Ability Key W
Ability Key E
Ability Key R
Mastery Tree Is Outdated
Offense: 21
Honor Guard
Defense: 9
Strength of Spirit
Utility: 0
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Hello and welcome to my 3 v 3 Twisted Treeline Gangplank guide. This guide is for the champion when in this game mode, not for the Twisted Treeline itself. For information about Twisted Treeline, check out Calisto's guide here.
This is my first guide, I hope that it is helpful for you, I will go through as much detail as I think I can give. If there is anything that people think needs adding. I will read it, and if it fits in, is needed or I have missed out, I will add it to the guide and give you the credit for it. I will not take the credit for myself.
Please note that if you are looking for a 5 v 5 guide. This is NOT the right place for you. Though saying that, I would be happy for you to carry on reading as it may gives tips and advice on playing Gangplank as a champion alone.
There may be still be bits missing, please be patient or help if you can.
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Pros / Cons
+ Great farmer.
+ Takes out carries very quick.
+ AoE Ultimate anywhere.
+ Great lane dominance.
+ Can prevent CC.
- Focused a lot.
- Melee based.
- Relies on crits.
- Can be squishy.
- Low mana pool.
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I use a 21/9/0 mastery set-up mostly for offensive purposes.
The main purpose of going offensive is to be offensive. Unlike in a 5 v 5 game, you're really time limited to what you can do. Usually you'll be passive on a top lane in a 5 v 5, usually in a 1 v 1 against a brusier or an offtank and you can farm up without a real struggle. As for 3 v 3, it's similiar apart from it is a faster paced gameplay.
I suppose going 9/21/0 or 21/0/9 would also work, but I haven't really tried these myself so I couldn't tell you how well it would work.
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Greater Mark of Armor Penetration
Greater Seal of Armor
Greater Glyph of Magic Resist
Greater Quintessence of Critical Chance
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Summoner Spells - What works best and why.
Flash is a great escape tool and great for jumping into a fight.
Ignite is great against enemies like Vladimir, Dr. Mundo or Tryndamere. This will block a lot of the healing along with damaging them. Igniting Tryndamere just after he ults will most of the time kill him instantly before he can heal and escape.
Ghost is a nice way to get around and to escape along with Remove Scurvy to block out CC.
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Abilities + Ability Sequence
Grog Soaked Blade: This gives a great early game slow as well as that extra bit of damage over time. This skill will also trigger when you use Parrrley. Overall it is a rather good passive when you play offensive.
Parrrley: This is great for harrassment. It does decent damage alone, it has the possibility of doing crit damage and it also applies on hit effects, including your passive. Grab that red buff and harrass constantly and you'll have quick dominance over the lane.
Remove Scurvy: Really self explained. It's a great heal but as a bonus, it stops all current CC that you have inflicted upon you. This isn't just a great way to stay in your lane, it will help you get away and survive.
Raise Morale: Once again, no need to go into too much detail. Gives you a small AD and Movement speed boost. This is also given to your team, so if they aren't quite fast enough to get away and you're in range, pop it off, save a team member. Don't just save it for yourself.
Cannon Barrage: A great ult. You can rain cannonballs at anyone, anywhere you are. This also slows them down so they are sure to take some damage. This can secure a kill, allow your team to catch up or just add some more damage into a team fight.
Ability Sequence:
Ability Sequence
Parrrley is your main damage dealer, especially once you have your Sheen. It scales with sheens proc, meaning you will be dealing extra damage. Because Parrrley also applies on hit effects and crit damage, this makes the ability very strong anywhere throughout the game. You will want to max Parrrley first, as it is the only big damage dealer from your abilities.
Remove Scurvy is your survivability skill, this is why I max it second. Not only does it heal, but it also removes all current CC you have on you. This is great for when you need to escape. On the other hand, you can max this last if you don't need it as much, at level 2 this will heal 190 health + 100% of the AP you might have. That is enough to survive with until you get around to level it more.
The problem I see with newer players on Gangplank is that they will only use this to heal, or use it close to the CC ending. Remember that it's not just a heal, it is your saviour. If you get stunned or slowed and need to get away, use it without fail and you should be fine. It also scales at around 0.9 AP so you'll be healing close to 400 HP after your Trinity Force.
Cannon Barrage is good for a lot of things. You can initiate with it to slow the enemy down, so your team can all be there at once. You ultimate should always be maxed by level 16 on almost all champions. This can be a great tool to win team fights if used correctly.
Raise Morale isn't the best of abilities at first glance. It does give you a small amount of extra AD and Movement speed, which can help more than you think. When activated, the passive doubles for you and when maxed, this gives you a free B. F. Sword. It is also given to friendly champions, but they only receive half of it. This is great for catching up or escaping, best used just after you remove CC with Remove Scurvy to speed up your getaway slightly. It is best to max this second as it can improve your early damage. Don't underestimate this ability, it can save you and your team.
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Build items
Before you read through the item choices, remember that in Twisted Treeline you a limited. Most games will last between 15-30 mins. It is rare to see a 50+ min game. So you have to base your items around cost and effectiveness. You should average 11-14k gold. My two builds are between 12,300-13,500 gold which may be pushing the upper limits. Though with that in mind, the order I buy them in gives the effectiveness when you should need it.
Remember that builds should never be exact unless it works for the situation. Situational items are usually penetration or survivability items. Learning what you need and when you need it will help you throughout any game you play.
Trinity Force: This item gives you a lot. The problem is it can be expensive, but the items that build it up will give you the needed damage you need for the early game. You should manage to build a full Trinity Force by the mid game. Once you have this main item, you can start to decimate the enemy, especially while still laning. This item gives great early survivability along with your Remove Scurvy.
Infinity Edge: This item is amazing. Not only does it give the best flat AD for an item, it gives you 25% crit chance as well as making your crits do 250% damage compared to 200%. If you don't think that extra 50% damage is good, then just do the math. This will combine with the effect of Trinity Force and give you 'tons of damage'.
Atma's Impaler: You may be thinking why have an atma's when you only have 2.2k HP? Well, it may not be the biggest HP pool to get this item with, but it works well in this scenario. You will ofcourse be needing a way to get around an AD carry from doing too much damage, this is where the armour it gives comes in handy which will also scale up with your Greater Seal of Armor runes. This gives you a decent amount of armour to play with, without having to risk less damage to go tankier. You will still manage an extra 44~ AD along with 18% crit chance, giving you more crits and damage. This item is great value for it's cost compared to what you get from it.
The Bloodthirster: This item gives the biggest AD boost when you max out the stacks. A whopping 100 AD without going through the trouble of the Sword of the Occult. Not only does it give AD, it will give you 12-20% lifesteal, depending on the stacks. All of this scales with your Parrrley giving you health back per hit, which when you're dealing a lot of damage, can keep you alive under extreme odds. This can be a great item.
Phantom Dancer: Now, a lot of people will be thinking, why attack speed if your Parrrley is your damage dealer? Well, while that is on cooldown and you're in a teamfight, you'll be wanting to get as much out of your items as possible. With attack speed on my crit build, you'll be dealing a lot more damage while waiting for that cooldown. Add that to a little lifesteal and Remove Scurvy and you should manage to survive very well. The 30% crit chance will also allow you to crit more often, the movement speed will aid chases/escapes.
Avarice Blade: This item is a good early item if you are building a crit strike build. Not only does it give you 12% crit chance, it gives you 5 gold per 10 seconds, which will slowly add up and pay for itself later on in the game. Once the later game comes, this item won't seem to be as good. You can trade this in for some more damage or lifesteal or even some armour pen if needed. Don't forget, this item is paying for itself and more.
Quicksilver Sash: This is a great item but I never see many people use it. It is great for carries that rely on abilities, being able to block a silence or just simply blocking out CC and other debuffs. This is basically a 3rd summoner spell, giving you a cleanse every 90 seconds. The magic resistance is pretty nice too. This item can be underestimated, but you just need quick reactions for it's active.
Wit's End: This item can will boost your attack speed by a lot, allowing you to play with it's passive more. Not only will it give you more magic resistance per attack/stack, it will also help stack Grog Soaked Blade's poison damage. If that wasn't enough, it gives you extra magic damage on top of that. This is a rather cheap way to get attack speed and magic resistance that can work so well in the right circumstances.
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Other items
Hexdrinker: This item now has an upgrade, but it is expensive to upgrade it. This can be a great item against an AP caster that can nuke you down in seconds. It also gives a little more AD along with it.
Maw of Malmortius: Ok, so this is a new item that has never failed me so far. It probably isn't going to be needed as much as I use it on other champions. But the shield is great against AP carries/nukers. This can allow you to survive huge damage from the AP caster and fight back without being slaughtered instantly. The other part of the passive is awesome too, when in team fights, it can change a lot. It's basically the opposite to Atma's Impaler but scales similiar. The more health lost, the more AD you gain. This can give you a big AD boost when low health, which with your Parrrley and the rest of the damage boosters you have, you can usually take out a carry with 1 hit. Then heal up and help ace the team.
Last Whisper: If your armour pen from Weapon Expertise , Greater Mark of Desolation and The Brutalizer isn't piercing through the enemies armour enough, this item will make sure it does. It has 40% armour pen along with an extra 40 AD for only 2290 gold. This is yet another amazing item for Gangplank as well as AD carries. Don't forget to get this, you'll soon see the results. Swap The Brutalizer for this item if you need more armour pen.
Banshee's Veil: This item is great against an AP caster/nuke, it can prevent a huge amount of damage and it gives nice health/mana as well as magic resistance. This can be used instead of Maw of Malmortius. They are rather similiar but Banshee's Veil has more magic resistance. The choice really comes down to your preference.
Guardian Angel: This can replace either Maw of Malmortius or Atma's Impaler. Once again it's on personal preference. If you think you need it over one of the other items, then go for it. The resistances are nice and the Unique passive is great, but your reactions might have to be fast if you're the only one left to 1 v 1 the remaining enemy team member.
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An expensive build for those long games
Item Sequence
Ionian Boots of Lucidity
Trinity Force
Infinity Edge
Atma's Impaler
Maw of Malmortius
Last Whisper
This was my original build for this guide, though the cost of it was close to 17,000 gold. In the Twisted Treeline, that amount of gold is hard to get in the average game. Though if the game drags on it is possible. This build is amazingly strong once you get the hang of it. You can always keep it in mind for those longer games.
As for the explantions on all of these items, they are all above for you to read about. As for it being possible for a Summoners' Rift build, I wouldn't know, I have never used it there. If anyone wants to try it for me and post the results, I would be very greatful, Thanks.
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Boots and Explanations
Ionian Boots of Lucidity: 15% cooldown reduction, Enhanced movement 2. These boots allow you to spam short cooldown abilities quicker. They are great on Gangplank as his Parrrley will be close to a 3 second cooldown. Ever had a team fight where you could of won, only if that ability came off cooldown a second earlier? These boots can change that.
Ninja Tabi: 25 Armour, Enhanced movement 2, non-turret basic attacks damage reduced by 10%. These boots are great against those auto attackers. If that 10% doesn't seem much, then let's say Xin Zhao is auto attacking you and he has 400 AD. That 10% is taking away the damage of a B. F. Sword which in theory, is wasting 1650 gold of his he used. Also that 25 armour also adds up eventually too, blocking out a little more damage.
Mercury's Treads: 25 Magic resistance, 35 Tenacity, Enhanced movement 2. These boots are a Ninja Tabi that counters AP and CC. The 25 magic resist will prevent some of the damage of an AP caster and lower the time the CC lasts on your character. The tenacity can help when your Remove Scurvy is on cooldown.
Berserker's Greaves: 25 attack speed, Enhanced movement 2. I personally don't think these boots help with Gangplank, especially the way I usually build him. That being said, with the second build in this guide, they can help to do more DPS. Other than that, they're not worth it on Gangplank.
Boots of Swiftness: Enhanced movement 3. I don't like these boots at all. Sure they give you a lot more movement speed than the other boots, but they don't give anything other than that. They might be good for chases or getaways though. But they are not needed, especially if you get a Trinity Force as that along with Raise Morale will give you more movement speed overall.
Boots of Mobility: Enhanced movement 2, when not in combat, Enhanced movement 5.
Never really seen these used in Twisted Treeline. A lot of junglers will use these boots in Summoners' Rift to run between lanes and the jungle at a faster rate, but in Twisted Treeline, the lanes are so close together, they aren't needed. The only other use I have seen for them, is when a stealth champion such as Twitch will get them to roam about with. I wouldn't use them on Gangplank.
Sorcerer's Shoes: 20 Magic Pen, Enhanced movement 2. Plain and simple in this case. You aren't an AP caster, there is no need for these boots.
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Gangplank can be played many ways. The way I am showing you in this guide is to play really offensive. The first thing that anyone needs to learn is that the start of Twisted Treeline is different to Summoners' Rift.
What people tend to aim for is first blood straight away, the way they do this is that they buy their starting items ASAP. They then rush down the the bottom lane brush that is next to the edge of the map, in the middle of the lane. The first players to get inside the brush usually have the advantage. Once the enemy steps into the brush, the first person is focused down and first blood is usually gained. Sometimes you can even see a team being aced around the 1:00 mark. This is important to know, do it well and get some first bloods. The starting item I use can produce a powerful early crit, this will help you get those kills before the enemy does.
In Summoners' Rift, you would usually play as a solo top or a jungler. Either way, you still do a nice amount of damage but you're also rather beefy, so to speak. But in Twisted Treeline, people hardly play like the usual solo top. The top laner is usually a damage dealer, looking to level up more quickly to the bottom lanes 2 v 2.
Being solo means that you have the ease of getting the minions to yourself. Never think of it as an easy task though. You're prone to ganks at any time, just like you are on Summoners' Rift, and the distance between lanes isn't much. They could reach you within seconds and end what you thought you would win. The best way to play pre-6 is to play defensive and count up the creep score.
Now I know this seems weird because I have been saying that you should play more aggressive. Well the pre-6 aggressiveness comes from pushing back the enemy champion with your Parrrley to try and deny them creeps. When you are managing to dominate the lane, you can start to use Parrrley to start getting extra gold on creeps by last hitting them with it. Always try to save enough mana for Remove Scurvy to get away/survive unless you know that you'll be fine. You never know when it can save your life.
With Parrrley's extra gold gain, you can get your items rather quick. Those small amounts of gold eventually add up. Once you hit level 6-11, you can start either roaming, gaining creep score or even go in for kills without much worry. This part of the game is usually where the team fights begin. Just keep an eye on the map while you farm and help when you're needed.
Once you start coming into the late game, usually 1-2 turrets on the map have been pushed down and you're starting your push to win the game. You should have a nice amount of damage and survivability. Here is where you start pushing as a team. Stay close together, focus the damage dealers first and win the game.
Important notice:
Kills vs. Creep Score: Ok, so first blood is worth 400G, kills after that are worth 300G and start lowering as that person dies more. Eventually the kills are worth less than creeps. The best thing to do is to farm over kills unless you know you can secure a kill. A full creep wave is close to the same amount of gold gained as a kill. Keep this in mind.
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Credit given where credit is due.
I would like to say a big thanks to JhoiJhoi, her guide creation guide was an amazing help to me. You can view it here: Making a guide - by JhoiJhoi
tehAsian - Gave the idea for the cheaper builds and more insight into Raise Morale and starting items.
A Chubby Baby - Gave an idea of lifesteal, tried to implement it how I see it will work.
Fulundry - Reminded me about Last Whisper being viable if enemy has 113+ armour, nothing less.
Also, I'd like to say a thank you for reading my first guide. I hope it helped you.
~ Jei ~
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Change Log
• Added boots explanation chapter.
• Changed the build to be cheaper, took 3-4k gold off the price.
• Added another build that focuses on critical strike.
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Tolkien On The Antiques Roadshow
6/04/02, 11:13 am EST - Xoanon
Dan writes: On the British Antiques Roadshow, I saw a woman whose father was in an Oxford literary club with such notables as C.S. Lewis an J.R.R. She presented a post card from "the Man" himself, and was given a value of 500 quid. | http://archives.theonering.net/perl/newsview/1/1023203611 | robots: classic
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Harnham Water Meadows
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Last Visited: 2006
Salisbury Cathedral from Town Path
Salisbury Cathedral from Town Path
Harnham Water Meadows are probably best know from John Constable's Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows, but how many people know what water meadows are?
I have to admit that it was a term I bandied about for many years without realising it meant more than an area of grass down by a river. In fact Water Meadows (along with the Fulling Mill) were one of the major innovations that powered what is sometimes (inaccurately in my opinion) referred to as the little Industrial Revolution of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Water Meadows
The principles are easy to understand:
1. A series of ridges and ditches were built across a meadow roughly parallel to a stream or river.
2. Water was diverted from the stream along the top of the meadow and fed along the tops of the ridges.
3. It cascaded down the sides of the ridges and flowed down the ditches.
4. From there it flowed to the bottom of the meadow and was returned to the river.
The continually moving sheet of water helped to keep the grass frost-free, and ensured that there was plenty of new grass early in the Spring. This in turn allowed a hugely increased number of animals (principally sheep) to be over-wintered, and gave rise to a vast expansion of the wool trade.
Alongside many rivers, if you look carefully, you can still see some evidence of the ridges and furrows, but at Harnham, surprisingly enough, not only do they still survive almost untouched, they are slowly being restored by the Harnham Water Meadows Trust.
The project has been going since 1989, and has already restored some of the many hatches and sluices that were used to control the flow of water across the meadow, and has purchased Rose Cottage (a Grade 11 listed building of about 1840 near Harnham Mill) the only dwelling on the meadows. This was the home of the chap in charge of the sluices who must have one of the coolest job titles ever, The Drowner. This is set to become a visitor information and education centre.
Harnham Water Meadows Map
Elsewhere on the meadows the Trust have introduced a small flock of the rare breed traditional Wiltshire Horn sheep, and a solitary llama for no particular reason that I could fathom (but see comments below).
Whilst it would be amazing to see a fully working water meadow in action, and I wish them every luck, I can't help wondering if domestic and industrial water extraction hasn't lowered the water table so much that this would be impossible without introducing pumps.
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David Runciman
• The Wikipedia Revolution by Andrew Lih
Aurum, 252 pp, £14.99, March 2009, ISBN 978 1 84513 473 0
The best one-volume encyclopedia in the world used to be the Columbia Encyclopedia, first published by Columbia University Press in 1935. In our house we have the fifth edition, from 1993, and we still get it out occasionally to look up kings and queens and old-fashioned stuff like that. It’s a lovely book, fat but portable and full of nuggety little entries on most things you can think of. It also has quite a poignant preface, in which the editors talk about the difficulties of updating an encyclopedia in such a fast-changing world: they note how much history, politics, even geography they have had to revise since the collapse of the Soviet Empire just a couple of years earlier. They are clearly proud of their efforts to keep up to speed, but some things inevitably slip through the net. There are for example no entries for ‘email’, the ‘World Wide Web’ or the ‘internet’, all of which were just beginning to attract attention in 1993. The editors think the pace of change at the end of the 20th century means that traditional works of reference are going to have a hard time keeping up. Really they have no idea.
1993 wasn’t so long ago; Bill Clinton was president, a fact that the Columbia editors boast about having been able to include at the last moment (the last moment here meaning the weeks or months between the book’s being set and its arriving in the shops or in the hands of door-to-door salesmen). Yet in encyclopedia publishing, 1993 is now prehistory. Even 2000, when a sixth – one has to presume final – edition of the Columbia appeared, belongs to another age. Two years later, a one-time market analyst called Jimmy Wales started up an experimental online project called Wikipedia, which allowed volunteers to create their own encyclopedia entries that could then be revised or even entirely rewritten by anyone else who happened to be logged on. Wales, like everyone else involved in the project, didn’t know if it would work, but since the technology was available it seemed worth a try. In its first year, Wikipedia generated 20,000 articles, and had acquired 200 regular volunteers working to add more (this compares with the 55,000 articles in the Columbia, all subject to rigorous standards of editing and fact-checking, though this in itself was a small-scale enterprise compared to the behemoths of the industry like the Encyclopaedia Britannica, whose 1989 edition covered 400,000 different topics). By the end of 2002, the number of entries on Wikipedia had more than doubled. But it was only in 2003, once it became apparent that there was nothing to stop it continuing to double in size (which is what it did), that Wikipedia started to attract attention outside the small tech-community that had noticed its launch. In early 2004, there were 188,000 articles; by 2006, 895,000. In 2007 there were signs that the pace of growth might start to level off, and only in 2008 did it begin to look like the numbers might be stabilising. The English-language version of Wikipedia currently has more than 2,870,000 entries, a number that has increased by 500,000 over the last 12 months. However, the English-language version is only one of more than 250 different versions in other languages. German, French, Italian, Polish, Dutch and Japanese Wikipedia all have more than half a million entries each, with plenty of room to add. Xhosa Wikipedia currently has 110. Meanwhile, the Encyclopaedia Britannica had managed to increase the number of its entries from 400,000 in 1989 to 700,000 by 2007.
Part of the reason the astonishing growth of Wikipedia took even its founders by surprise was that this wasn’t their first attempt to set up an online encyclopedia. Wikipedia was an offshoot of something called Nupedia, which Wales had established in 2000 with the aim of using online volunteers to produce a new work of reference that would be free to use. The mistake Wales and his Nupedia collaborators made was to assume that any encyclopedia has to go through a formal editing process if it’s going to be reliable. Editors were appointed whose job was to decide on appropriate topics, open them up to online editing and then approve final versions once an agreed standard had been met. The editing process had seven stages from ‘assignment’ to ‘mark-up’, and was a slow, frustrating and ultimately fruitless business. By the end of the first year about two dozen articles had been completed, while the drafts of a few hundred more were still being fretted over. It looked like the vast additional resources and manpower that the internet had made available for checking reference books was going to overwhelm the capacities of anyone trying to process the information.
Hence the Wikipedia solution, stumbled on more by chance than by design: don’t try to process the information. It is generally assumed that what is distinctive about Wikipedia is that it is open to anyone to contribute, but that was true of Nupedia too. Wikipedia is different in that it doesn’t try to frame the creation of new entries with commissioned beginnings and fixed endpoints. It is open to anyone to initiate an entry on Wikipedia, and no entry is ever formally closed, since it is also open to anyone to keep editing and altering whatever is already there. Wikipedia still uses a large volunteer army of editors and ‘janitors’ to oversee the whole process, looking out for flagrant abuses and sounding the alarm when disputes get out of hand. But it is not the job of any editor to decide what counts as an entry. If there is any doubt about whether something is too trivial to take up space even in so limitless a space as Wikipedia it is put to the vote of others users (and any vote can always be overturned by another vote further down the line); otherwise, if you don’t like an entry it is up to you to change it. The editors are there to try to ensure this is done in as non-abusive a way as possible. But it is not up to anyone to call time on anything.
That’s how it works. The puzzle is why it works, given that this way of compiling an encyclopedia seems to have a flaw so obvious it is hardly worth stating: if no entry is ever nailed down, how do you know when you are reading an entry that someone hasn’t just interfered with it, making it thoroughly unreliable? The early years of Wikipedia were dogged by this suspicion, and many people – including a lot of schoolteachers and university lecturers who could remember the distant days before 2002 when books were books and editors actually edited – were openly derisive of a work of reference that appeared to make no effort to discriminate between good information and bad. It is easy to assume that some version of Gresham’s Law, which states that bad money will always drive out good, must apply to the circulation of facts as well. Why would anyone with good information want to put it in a place where bad information could contaminate it at the touch of a button? Wouldn’t they choose to keep it to themselves, or at the very least give it to someone who could recognise its true value, leaving open-access encyclopedias to the mercies of all the flakes and grudge-bearers who want to use its veneer of objectivity to force their craziness down other people’s throats? Well, the answer is apparently not. One of the remarkable achievements of Wikipedia is to show that on the internet Gresham’s Law can work in reverse: Wikipedia has turned into a relatively reliable source of information on the widest possible range of subjects because, on the whole, the good drives out the bad. When someone sabotages or messes with an otherwise sound entry, there are plenty of people out there who see it as their job to undo the damage, often within seconds of its happening. It turns out that the people who believe in truth and objectivity are at least as numerous as all the crazies, pranksters and time-wasters, and they are often considerably more tenacious, ruthless and monomaniacal. On Wikipedia, it’s the good guys who will hunt you down.
Wales thinks this tells us something surprising and reassuring about human nature. ‘Generally we find most people out there on the internet are good,’ he says. ‘It’s one of the wonderful humanitarian discoveries in Wikipedia that most people only want to help us and build this free, non-profit, charitable resource.’ But in truth it’s a bit more complicated than that. Wikipedia works because it is highly distinctive in the way it pulls knowledge together from many different sources. Most internet-based techniques for gathering information are aggregative, in that they try to pool as much information as possible, allowing all the prejudices and random bits of disinformation that attach to individual opinions to cancel each other out. This is true of the many different kinds of polling that take place on the internet, which use the wisdom of crowds to produce answers far more accurate than any individual can give. It’s also pretty much what happens at Google, where everybody else’s searches are monitored to help filter the information that you might find useful. Aggregative methods minimise personal responsibility for what is produced and place all the emphasis on collective outcomes – after all, who knows, or cares, what their own Google searches are adding to the sum of knowledge (or subtracting from it)? However, Wikipedia’s approach to knowledge gathering is not aggregative but cumulative. It builds up information bit by bit, edit by edit, and it never stops. It also leaves a virtual paper trail for every entry, so that it is possible to trace the various steps by which an article has reached its current form.
When knowledge is generated by crowds, no single individual has much personal responsibility for what is produced, but nor does any one person have a realistic prospect of shaping the outcome. With Wikipedia, the opposite is true. The fact that there is no final version means that anyone can change anything, but it also means that every given change can be attributed to a particular individual. Though it is possible, and common, to make edits on Wikipedia anonymously (by hiding behind a nickname), it is still true that someone is always responsible for everything that happens, and that someone always knows who they are. So the fact that there are no authoritative versions on Wikipedia is what makes it possible to generate a sense of personal accountability for particular entries, since any entry at any given time is the responsibility of the last person to edit it. This seems to be enough to make most people want to get it right. But it also means that those who don’t want to get it right can have their mistakes corrected. The secret to Wikipedia’s success lies in the fact that personal responsibility for particular mistakes can’t be erased, but the mistakes themselves can be.
Still, it takes a lot of policing. Wikipedia has a ‘Recent Changes Patrol’ whose job is to surf the site picking up on all the endless obscenities and absurdities that are inserted by people who can’t believe a website would allow anyone to change any page on it (when they discover that they can, but that changes quickly get corrected, the fun wears off). More serious tinkering requires more concerted oversight. From its outset Wikipedia has aimed to operate according to a code of conduct (of which the centrepiece is the proposition that ‘Wikipedia has a neutral point of view’), but to dispense with firm rules. However, in 2004, the three revert rule (‘3RR’) was introduced in order to prevent tit-for-tat battles, whereby corrections are corrected back to their original form (known as ‘reverts’), then corrected back again, and so on, because two contributors cannot agree on a single point of view. The classic case concerned the entry for Gdansk. The name of the town was changed by a German contributor to Danzig, then by a Polish contributor back to Gdansk, then back to Danzig, with no sign of this stopping until the administrators intervened. The 3RR states: ‘An editor must not perform more than three reverts, in whole or in part, on a single page within a 24-hour period.’ Just three changes per 24 hours in a work of reference might seem absurdly fluid by traditional standards, but for Wikipedia this was a draconian measure, adopted with deep reluctance by some. Even so, the Gdansk/Danzig wars were only finally settled when the matter was put to a vote of the wider Wikipedia community, and it was agreed that the town could be referred to as Danzig in relation to the period between 1308 and 1945, and in the biographies of ‘clearly German persons’; otherwise it was to be Gdansk. It took two years of back and forth to reach this point: a traditional encyclopedia editor could have settled it in ten minutes. Nevertheless, the consensus position on the name appears to have stuck, which given the history of Gdansk/Danzig is no small achievement.
That Wikipedia represents a finely calibrated balance between licence and surveillance, and between anonymity and responsibility, is something often missed by those who want to translate its achievements elsewhere. It is not an easy model to replicate. One notorious failure came in 2005, when the editorial page of the Los Angeles Times decided to experiment with a ‘wikitorial’, which would allow anyone to contribute to the writing of an editorial column using the same techniques as a Wikipedia entry. The aim was to let readers shape the views expressed by the newspaper; the result was a complete mess, as the entire process was hijacked by vandals determined either to skew the political slant of the piece, or to overwhelm the Times editorial page with the sort of shock images in which the internet abounds, and the project was quickly abandoned. The newspaper had made two mistakes. First, its editors seemed to imagine that a wikitorial would edit itself, so they left it alone while they devoted themselves to other things (like editing ‘real’ columns). But as Wikipedia shows, freedom requires constant vigilance, and a column will write itself only if someone is on hand to fight off all the people who will try to wreck it. Second, a newspaper editorial is actually a much less open-ended form of writing than an encyclopedia entry. Newspaper writing has a shelf-life: it appears and is read at a particular time, often on a particular day. As a result, contributors have an incentive to try to skew the whole process at the moment of maximum impact. The Wikipedia principle that all mistakes can be corrected (so that it is hardly worth trying to introduce them) has much less force in the case of newspapers, because by the time any corrections have been made most readers will have moved on.
This is why encyclopedias have been made better by the advent of the internet, but newspapers have been made worse: the cumulative impact of the readers’ comments that can now be appended online to almost any article tends to diminish most forms of human understanding. Bias is not cancelled out on the readers’ pages of newspaper websites, as might happen if opinion were being aggregated, but nor is it eliminated over time, as in the case of Wikipedia. Instead, each contribution just sits there, glowering back at you, demanding your attention. I recently read through the hundreds of comments that Guardian readers had attached to an article about Julie Myerson, the novelist who wrote about her drug-addicted son and sparked a wave of middle-class outrage and voyeuristic delight. What was striking was not just the anger of all those who wanted to see the Myersons suffer horribly for their crimes, but the equivalent anger of all those who were disgusted by such vindictiveness, and the anger of the people who were appalled by the prissiness of that response, and the anger of the people who couldn’t believe anyone would waste their time caring about this rubbish, and on, and on. Everyone was furious with everyone else, and determined not to be shouted down. No one with a reasonable point of view would bother wasting it on a site like this. When tempers are frayed, and time horizons are short, the bad drives out the good.
One of the ironic consequences of the open-endedness of the Wikipedia editorial process is that many of its articles are preoccupied with the immediate past. The desire to update the facts about any given subject often means that the facts that remain are the most up-to-date ones. Biographical entries on living individuals tend to concentrate on the most recent things they have done, particularly if these have generated a lot of newsprint that can be used as source material. For an encyclopedia, Wikipedia devotes far too much space to the latest scandals and controversies, whose significance, if any, is impossible to gauge. But this is not a reflection of some desire on the part of the founders of Wikipedia to stir up interest by courting topicality and trivia. Far from it: it reflects an almost touching reverence for properly grounded evidence that underlies the entire Wikipedia project. Although anyone can edit anything in Wikipedia, everything that appears there is supposed to carry a reference to some published source so that it can be checked by other readers. The Wikipedia policy on this is as follows:
The threshold for inclusion in Wikipedia is verifiability, not truth – that is, whether readers are able to check that material added to Wikipedia has already been published by a reliable source, not whether we think it is true. Editors should provide a reliable source for quotations and for any material that is challenged or likely to be challenged, or the material may be removed.
The proliferation of newspaper sources on the internet means that this is often the best place to look for new, verifiable source material (particularly if you are not too bothered about truth). Most of the information out there is recent information, and so therefore is most of what winds up on Wikipedia.
The insistence that everything in Wikipedia can be referred to something outside itself stems from an anxiety that the encyclopedia might otherwise become its own source material, and start to generate free-floating facts out of nothing. One of the many fascinating details to emerge from Andrew Lih’s The Wikipedia Revolution is that both Jimmy Wales and one of his first collaborators, Larry Sanger, are self-confessed and totally earnest ‘objectivists’, meaning followers of the philosophy of Ayn Rand. Sanger wrote his doctoral thesis at Ohio State University under the title ‘Epistemic Circularity: An Essay on the Problem of Meta-Justification’. He and Wales first encountered each other on an internet forum Wales had established in 1992, which offered a ‘Moderated Discussion of Objectivist Philosophy’ and described itself as ‘the most scholarly of all Objectivist discussions available on the networks’. Other early contributors to Wikipedia learned about its existence through the community of online objectivists, and it was this bond as much as anything that drove the project forward in its initial stages.
What is objectivism? Frankly, I have no idea. I have never read a word by Ayn Rand, and though I know she is an object of veneration in some surprising places (Alan Greenspan, for instance, is a fan), the little bits I have picked up always sounded a bit bonkers to me.[*] So this seemed a good test of Wikipedia’s much vaunted NPOV (neutral point of view): I would look her up on Wales and Sanger’s encyclopedia to find out what she’s all about. Well, it’s hard to express in mere words just how dispiriting an experience it is trying to find out about objectivism on Wikipedia. This isn’t because the entries seem biased or uncritical. It is just that they are so introverted, boring and just long. The entry on Ayn Rand herself is more than 8000 words long and covers her views on everything from economics to homosexuality in technical and mind-numbing detail. There are separate lengthy entries on objectivist metaphysics, objectivist epistemology, objectivist politics, objectivist ethics, plus entries on all Rand’s various books, including the novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, and entries on all the characters in these novels, and entries that offer plot summaries of these novels, and even entries on individual chapters. All of it reads as though it has been worked over far too much, and like any form of writing that is overcooked it alienates the reader by appearing to be closed off in its own private world of obsession and anxiety. Compare this with the entry on Rand in the 1993 Columbia Encyclopedia:
1905-82, American writer, b. St Petersburg, Russia. She came to the United States in 1926 and worked for many years as a screenwriter. Her novels are romantic and dramatic, and they espouse a philosophy of rational self-interest that opposes the collective of the modern welfare state. Her best-known novels include The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957). In The New Intellectual (1961) she summarised her philosophy, which she called ‘objectivism’.
That’s it (with a couple of references appended), and seems admirably clear in 70 words. Also, by allocating her 70 words, the Columbia editors give some indication of what they think she’s worth: on the same page she gets more space than the French architect Joseph Jacques Ramée (1764-1842) and the Swiss novelist Charles Ferdinand Ramuz (1878-1947), but fewer words than the French historian and politician Alfred Nicolas Rambaud (1842-1905), the Spanish histologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934) and the Scottish chemist Sir William Ramsay (1852-1916). That also seems pretty clear.
Wikipedia still has its advantages, however. Despairing of discovering anything about Rand that I could make sense of, I looked up the article on Jimmy Wales, to see if that shed any light on his personal philosophy. This article is also long, but more reasonably so, given that Wales is responsible for one of the most significant inventions of the 21st century. It is also admirably even-handed, managing to convey that Wales is both something of a visionary and also something of a creep. The section on his personal life includes this detail, which neither he nor anyone else has seen fit to edit: ‘His first wife, Pam, was quoted in a September 2008 W magazine article as saying that Wales, because he believed altruism was evil, discouraged her from pursuing a nursing degree when they were married.’ The entry also details the break-up of Wales’s second marriage and the claims of a subsequent girlfriend, the Canadian conservative columnist Rachel Marsden, that she only discovered he was ending his relationship with her by reading about it on Wikipedia. I guess that’s ‘objectivism’ for you.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, Wales has long since fallen out with Sanger, re-editing his Wikipedia entry to remove any reference to him as a co-founder of the project, even though both men were there from the beginning. But it may be Sanger’s PhD title that gives the clearest indication of some of the difficulties that lie ahead. ‘Epistemic circularity’ is a fancy way of saying that Wikipedia could prove too successful for its own good. This is not because entries on the site are likely to start cannibalising each other and end up reducing the whole thing to a relativistic soup: Wikipedia is still very good at distinguishing cross-references within the site from source material outside it. Instead, the problem may come as the source material itself starts to ape the wiki-model. Already, academic publishers are grappling with the problem of open access, which makes increasing numbers of academic articles freely available on the web (‘free’ here meaning not only free to use but also free to dice, slice and reproduce in another format). Some of the pressure for this move is coming from the people who fund academic research and who want to see it disseminated as widely as possible. But a number of funding bodies (particularly in the sciences) are also questioning whether it makes sense to wait until research is ‘completed’ before publishing it. Why not put earlier draft versions out there, or even just the initial raw data, and let others see what they can make of it? This opens up the possibility of collaborative editing online: authors might ‘publish’ draft versions of their books and readers could tinker with them to produce something they are happy with. Of course, the idea of the permanently updatable book raises the prospect of nightmarish copyright issues (or more likely the end of copyright altogether), and it is hardly attractive for academic publishers, since it cuts off their most obvious revenue stream, which has always been to charge for the finished product, properly edited in-house. It also raises difficulties for the idea of verifiability. Wikipedia needs its source material to be relatively stable, so that its entries can have fixed reference points. But if the reference points are themselves subject to endless change, then it becomes much harder to know what counts as verification.
Meanwhile, as conventional publishing starts to open up to the Wikipedia way of doing things, the encyclopedia is toying with a revert back to more conventional methods. German Wikipedia has started experimenting with ‘flagged’ articles, which means articles that have been certified as reliable and free from vandalism, to meet a demand for certainty from German users. (Incidentally, this is not the only international variation in Wikipedia practice that seems to conform to national stereotypes: on Japanese Wikipedia, editors are much more reluctant than their Western counterparts to alter existing pages and prefer to conduct their exchanges on adjoining discussion sites rather than blithely interfering with what someone else has written.) The German experiment has now led to a demand for approved articles to be published separately on a static website protected from editing, in order to give readers the option of something that has been pre-verified.
The question of ‘flagging’ is one of the issues discussed in the afterword of Lih’s book, which addresses the most pressing challenges Wikipedia is likely to face in the future. Other concerns include the creation of a fully-paid executive staff, something that may cause serious divisions in an organisation that relies so heavily on voluntary labour; the risk of a major lawsuit by someone who has been libelled in a Wikipedia entry (the fact that anyone can remove the offending information doesn’t prevent them from trying to sue, though it isn’t clear who would be liable – the person who introduced the libel or the last person to edit the page on which it appears?); and the increasing complexity of the editing software, which is putting off many new contributors. More interesting than any of this, though, is the fact that the afterword was written as a wiki: that is, as a collaborative exercise using software similar to that of the encyclopedia itself, and made available to be freely copied and distributed. It is good of Lih to include it, since it is somewhat better written than the rest of the book, having a tighter style and a sharper focus. The single-authored chapters are full of interest but rather indulgent, containing too much incidental detail about people Lih wants to please. The afterword has none of that – it just gets to the point, and doesn’t worry about offending anybody. It helps that this is a book, so space is limited, and this particular wiki can’t indulge in the commonest vice of entries on Wikipedia, which is not knowing when to stop.
Yet even a piece of writing that has been edited by so many people can’t resist the occasional cliché. The multiple authors of the afterword write: ‘The Wikipedia community might be like the frog slowly boiling to death – unaware of the building crisis, because it is not aware how much its environment has slowly changed.’ When I read this, I thought: is it really true that frogs can be slowly boiled to death without realising what’s happening to them? So I looked it up on Wikipedia, confident that there would be an entry. There is: type in ‘boiling frog’ and you go straight to a page that tells you everything you need to know. It gives you examples of the use of the term, its history and a discussion of the veracity of the central idea, including a description of the late 19th-century experiment in which it was first demonstrated and the more recent experiments that have cast doubt on it. Links at the bottom of the page take you to accounts of these later experiments in scientific journals, which suggest that the whole thing is a myth. So there it is: you won’t find any of this in the Columbia, or Encyclopaedia Britannica, or anywhere else for that matter. There is no other way I could have found out about boiling frogs – truly, for all its flaws, Wikipedia is a wonderful thing.
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Nucleic Acids Res. 2002 December 15; 30(24): 5382–5390.
PMCID: PMC140077
Odile Lecompte, Raymond Ripp, Jean-Claude Thierry, Dino Moras, and Olivier Pocha
Laboratoire de Biologie et Génomique Structurales, Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (CNRS, INSERM, ULP), BP163, 67404 Illkirch Cedex, France
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Received September 10, 2002; Revised October 24, 2002; Accepted October 24, 2002.
A comprehensive investigation of ribosomal genes in complete genomes from 66 different species allows us to address the distribution of r-proteins between and within the three primary domains. Thirty-four r-protein families are represented in all domains but 33 families are specific to Archaea and Eucarya, providing evidence for specialisation at an early stage of evolution between the bacterial lineage and the lineage leading to Archaea and Eukaryotes. With only one specific r-protein, the archaeal ribosome appears to be a small-scale model of the eukaryotic one in terms of protein composition. However, the mechanism of evolution of the protein component of the ribosome appears dramatically different in Archaea. In Bacteria and Eucarya, a restricted number of ribosomal genes can be lost with a bias toward losses in intracellular pathogens. In Archaea, losses implicate 15% of the ribosomal genes revealing an unexpected plasticity of the translation apparatus and the pattern of gene losses indicates a progressive elimination of ribosomal genes in the course of archaeal evolution. This first documented case of reductive evolution at the domain scale provides a new framework for discussing the shape of the universal tree of life and the selective forces directing the evolution of prokaryotes.
The ribosome is at the core of the translation machinery of all organisms and assures two key functions: the decoding of the genetic information contained in messenger RNA and the formation of peptide bonds. It is a ribonucleoprotein particle of 70S in prokaryotes and 80S in eukaryotes composed of two subunits (30S and 50S subunits in prokaryotes, 40S and 60S in eukaryotes). As the ribosome is universal and submitted to strong selection pressure, ribosomal RNA (rRNA) has been extensively used as a reference molecule in phylogeny and is at the origin of the division of living organisms into three domains: Bacteria, Eucarya and Archaea (1). Recent advances in structural biology have enabled the observation at high resolution of the 30S subunit of the thermophilic bacteria Thermus thermophilus (2,3), the 50S subunit of the bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans (4) and of the halophilic archaeon Haloarcula marismortui (5). The complete structure of the 70S ribosome of T.thermophilus has been determined at 5.5 Å, in the presence of a transcript molecule and cognate transfer RNA (tRNA) bound to aminoacyl, peptidyl and exit sites (6). Together, these crystal structures provide a considerable amount of information on the global architecture and protein–RNA interactions as well as details on ribosome interaction with mRNA and tRNA (reviewed in 7). They also confirm that the functional regions for peptide bond formation in the large prokaryotic subunit (3,8) and the decoding center in the small prokaryotic subunit (9) consist entirely of rRNA. Information on the eukaryotic ribosome structure is not so abundant but a recent cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction of the yeast 80S ribosome (10) confirms that the fundamental mechanism of protein synthesis is highly conserved throughout the three domains.
In parallel to the spectacular progress achieved in understanding the structure of ribosome, the development of genomics has enabled the examination of ribosomal protein (r-protein) genes in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic genomes. These analyses confirm that most of the bacterial r-protein genes are clustered in a few operons allowing coordinated regulation (1115) and are rarely duplicated (16). In contrast, eukaryotic r-protein genes appear widely scattered across the chromosomes and show numerous duplications (1723). Wool et al. (24) were the first to compare the rat r-proteins to the available sequence data from human, yeast, archaea and Escherichia coli. This pioneering work establishes that the rat r-proteins can be divided into three groups: (i) proteins with counterparts in both archaeal and bacterial domains; (ii) proteins with orthologs in the archaeal domain; and (iii) proteins exclusively found in Eucarya. However, no recent systematic comparison of the r-protein component of ribosome from the three primary domains is available. Here, we propose a comparative analysis of the r-proteins from 66 different species that includes r-proteins not previously reported in genome annotations. The wide range of genomes examined allows us to establish the phylogenetic distribution of r-proteins within and between each of the three primary domains, providing new insights into the emergence and evolution of the protein component of ribosomes.
An initial set of r-proteins classified into 102 families was obtained at For each family, representatives of various lineages across Bacteria, Archaea and Eucarya were used as probes and systematically compared to a non-redundant protein database consisting of SwissProt, SpTrEMBL and SpTrEMBLNEW using the BlastP program (25) with a cut-off of E < 0.001. The results of the BlastP comparison were cross-validated by a TBlastN search against a complete genome database including the bacterial species Aquifex aeolicus, Thermotoga maritima, D.radiodurans, Chlamydia muridarum, Chlamydia trachomatis, Chlamydia pneumoniae, Synechocystis sp., Anabaena sp., Mycobacterium leprae, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Bacillus halodurans, Bacillus subtilis, Listeria innocua, Listeria monocytogenes, Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium acetobutylicum, Mycoplasma genitalium, Mycoplasma pneumoniae, Ureaplasma urealyticum, Lactococcus lactis, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus pyogenes, Caulobacter crescentus, Brucella melitensis, Agrobacterium tumefaciens, Mesorhizobium loti, Sinorhizobium meliloti, Rickettsia conorii, Rickettsia prowasekii, Neisseria meningitidis, Ralstonia solanacearum, Campylobacter jejuni, Helicobacter pylori, Buchnera aphidicola, E.coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella enterica, Yersinia pestis, Haemophilus influenzae, Pasteurella multocida, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Vibrio cholerae, Xylella fastidiosa, Borrelia burgdorferi, Treponema pallidum; the archaea Aeropyrum pernix, Sulfolobus solfataricus, Sulfolobus tokodaii, Pyrobaculum aerophilum, Pyrococcus abyssi, Pyrococcus horikoshii, Pyrococcus furiosus, Methanopyrus kandleri, Methanococcus jannaschii, Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum, Archaeoglobus fulgidus, Halo bacterium sp., Thermoplasma acidophilum, Thermoplasma volcanium; and the Eucarya Homo sapiens, Drosophila melanogaster, Caenorhabditis elegans, Arabidopsis thaliana, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Schizosaccharomyces pombe and Encephalitozoon cuniculi.
The putative new gene sequences detected by the TBlastN searches were examined in the light of their genomic context to eliminate false-positives ‘hits’ and further compared to the RefSeq database (26). For each r-protein family, the likely r-protein sequences obtained by the BlastP and TBlastN searches were included in a multiple alignment constructed by MAFFT (27). All alignments were refined by RASCAL (J. D. Thompson, J. C. Thierry and O. Poch, manuscript submitted) and their quality assessed by NorMD (28). These alignments were manually examined to remove false-positives observed in some r-protein families, in particular those containing ubiquitous RNA-binding domains. All the alignments are available at
Gene detection
The distribution of 102 families of ribosomal prokaryotic and/or eukaryotic cytoplasmic proteins has been analyzed in complete genome sequences from 66 different species, including 45 bacteria, 14 archaea and 7 eukaryotes. In the case of ribosomal genes which often exhibit a biased composition and a small size, the results of a database search can greatly depend on the choice of the query sequence. Thus, for each protein family, we performed multiple searches in the non-redundant protein database using query sequences from phylogenetically distant organisms. All these sequences were also compared to complete genomic sequences, allowing the localization of the corresponding genes on the genomes. This cross-validation appears to be a prerequisite to obtain a correct picture of the phylogenetic distribution of ribosomal genes since a small but not negligible number of short genes escape annotation, as revealed by re-annotations of complete genomes (29,30). Using this approach, we detected 24 potential genes (Supplementary Material, Table S1) in the complete genomes investigated that were overlooked during the gene prediction process but are likely to encode r-proteins. Among them, 12 have already been created as provisional records of the RefSeq database (26) and integrated in the COG database (31,32). The convergence of two independent processes substantiates our method and confirms these open reading frames as functional genes.
Inter-domain distribution
The overall phylogenetic distribution of prokaryotic and/or eukaryotic cytoplasmic r-proteins is summarized in Figure Figure11 and a more detailed description, including nomenclatural correspondence between protein names, is provided as Supplementary Material (Table S2). We detected 57 different r-protein families in Bacteria, 68 in Archaea and 78 in Eucarya, which underlines the protein enrichment of the ribosome from Bacteria to Eucarya. Among the 102 r-protein families, 34 (15 in the SSU, 19 in the LSU) are represented in all three domains of life (the BAE set in Fig. Fig.1)1) but two of them are absent in some bacteria (see below), leading to a total of 32 families conserved in all the complete genomes studied (Table (Table1).1). In E.coli, 22 of the 32 universal proteins belong to the S10-spc-alpha operons which constitute the longest array of genes conserved in bacterial genomes (1113). Many of the universal proteins have been shown to be crucial for the ribosome assembly such as the early assembling proteins S4p, S7p, S8p, S15p, S17p, L2p, L3p, L4p, L5p, L15p, L18p (33,34) and the proteins implicated in the bridges between the two subunits (S13p, S15p, S19p, L2p, L5p, L14p) (6). Others are in contact with the tRNA (S7p, S9p, S12p, S13p, L1p and L5p) or surround the polypeptide exit channel (L22p, L24p and L29p) (6). It is noteworthy that the proportion of universal r-proteins is higher in the SSU than in the LSU: among the 22 r-protein types experimentally identified in E.coli ribosomal small subunit (35,36), more than two-thirds are conserved in all studied genomes, whereas only half of the 33 r-protein types from the E.coli ribosome large subunit are universal. The greater evolutionary stability of the SSU protein component may be linked to the higher conservation of the SSU rRNA compared to the LSU rRNA despite striking differences reported between E.coli and eukaryotic small subunit morphology (37).
Figure 1
Figure 1
Venn diagram showing the general distribution of r-protein families between the three domains: Bacteria (B), Archaea (A), Eucarya (E). The number of families is indicated for each set. The two numbers enclosed by parentheses refer to r-protein families (more ...)
Table 1.
Table 1.
Distribution of r-protein families in Bacteria (B), Archaea (A) and Eucarya (E)
The r-protein families common to Eucarya and Archaea but absent in Bacteria constitute an extended pool (called AE in Fig. Fig.1)1) of 33 members (13 in the SSU, 20 in the LSU). The high number of r-proteins specific to Eucarya and Archaea reflects the deep resemblance between the informational proteins of the two domains previously noted in comparative genomic studies (3840) and is in agreement with most phylogenetic studies on rRNA. However, this number is substantially higher than expected from previous comparison of r-proteins (12,24). Another large set (set B in Fig. Fig.1)1) corresponds to the 23 r-proteins (8 in the SSU, 15 in the LSU) exclusively found in Bacteria. The major split between Bacteria on the one hand and Archaea and Eucarya on the other hand is further supported by the absolute absence of proteins specific to bacterial and archaeal domains or to bacterial and eukaryotic domains despite the wide phylogenetic range of genomes studied here. When proteins are positioned in the available 3D structures of bacterial and archaeal ribosomal subunits (Fig. (Fig.2),2), no clear correlation arises between the phylogenetic and the spatial distributions of the r-proteins, except for the bacteria-specific proteins in the small ribosomal subunit which are mainly found at the periphery of the ribosome. This could be in agreement with the observation of Spahn et al. (10) who note the presence of additional proteins with no counterpart in Bacteria as well as expansion segments of rRNA at the solvent exposed surface of the yeast ribosome. The two remaining sets of r-proteins correspond to the archaeal-specific r-protein LXa (set A in Fig. Fig.1)1) and to the 11 r-proteins (4 in the SSU, 7 in the LSU) exclusively found in Eucarya (set E in Fig. Fig.1).1). Thus, with the exception of LXa, all the r-proteins found in Archaea are also found in Eucarya and the archaeal ribosome, which is close to the bacterial one in terms of size, appears to be a small-scale model of the eukaryotic ribosome in term of r-protein composition.
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Figure 2
(A) Overview of the 30S ribosomal subunit of T.thermophilus (2) and (B) of the 50S ribosomal subunit of D.radiodurans (4) and (C) H.marismortui (5). The 30S subunit is presented from the back side (as defined in 2) and the large subunits are presented (more ...)
Phylogenetic distribution of r-proteins in Bacteria
The r-protein families ranging from S2p to S20p as well as the r-protein families L1p-L6p, L9p-L24p, L27p-L29p and L31p-L36p are encoded by all bacterial genomes investigated (Table (Table1),1), defining a stable pool of 50 r-proteins (19 in the SSU and 31 in the LSU) in Bacteria. Only four well established bacterial r-proteins exhibit a disparate distribution: the bacterial-specific S1p, S21p, L25p proteins and the L30p found in all three domains of life.
The pattern of absence of the S1p and S21p families is very puzzling since they are lacking in only a few lineages widely dispersed in the phylogenetic tree of Bacteria, ranging from early divergent free-living bacteria such as D.radiodurans and T.maritima to intracellular pathogens (Fig. (Fig.3).3). Although the S1p and S21p are adjacent in the ribosome small subunit of E.coli (41), there is no strict correlation between the absences of the two proteins; the pattern of absence seems, on the contrary, indicative of erratic and independent gene losses. The haphazard character of the phylogenetic distribution of the S1p protein is further illustrated by the discrepancies observed between closely related species since this protein which is absent in the complete genomes of M.genitalium and M.pneumoniae has been identified in Mycoplasma pulmonis under GenBank accession number Q98R80. It is noteworthy that we detect a DNA region in the T.maritima genome similar to the S1p gene but including a frameshift that could reflect a recent decay of the S1 gene in T.maritima.
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Figure 3
Schematic representation of the universal tree of life (adapted from 49). R-proteins exhibiting a heterogeneous distribution within a primary domain are symbolized by circles or a triangle. Full circles indicate proteins absent in all complete genomes (more ...)
Interestingly, the L25p and the L30p proteins absent in two cyanobacteria are also the sole proteins missing in the ribosome of the spinach chloroplast compared to the bacterial one (42,43). This strong similarity between the cyanobacterial and chloroplast ribosomes is in agreement with the endosymbiotic theory in plastid evolution (44) and suggests that the gene losses occurred before the endosymbiotic event. However, the L25p and L30p gene losses are not always correlated (Fig. (Fig.3).3). In fact the L30p constitutes an evolutionary maverick since this protein that is lost in some bacterial lineages is conserved in Archaea and Eucarya.
Additionally, two potential small r-proteins have been identified in very few bacteria: (i) the 45 amino acids long SRA protein (stationary-phase-induced ribosome associated protein, S22p family) in E.coli (45,46) and Salmonella species; and (ii) the 26 amino acid long Thx protein in Thermus (47,48). The latter, classified in the S31e family, fits into a cavity between multiple RNA elements in the crystal structure of the 30S subunit of Thermus (2,3). Thus, in contrast to the S1p, S21p, L25p and L30p, the SRA and Thx proteins may constitute recent and specific innovation in the course of bacterial ribosome evolution. In addition to these bacterial proteins, a similarity has been detected between the L7ae family found in Archaea and Eucarya and hypothetical proteins from T.maritima and bacterial species of the Bacillus/Clostridium group but no experimental data implicates these proteins in the bacterial ribosome.
Phylogenetic distribution of r-proteins in Archaea
Among the 68 r-protein families represented in Archaea, the L41e protein exhibits such an extremely biased composition and very small size (~20 amino acids) that no clear-cut pattern of presence/absence could be obtained. Among the 67 other archaeal r-protein families, 57 are preserved in the 14 archaeal genomes examined. Remarkably, this set of conserved archaeal r-proteins is also present in all complete genomes of Eucarya. Thus, r-protein genes stabilized in Archaea are also fixed in organisms ranging from the amitochondriate intracellular pathogen E.cuniculi to H.sapiens.
For the 10 proteins exhibiting a heterogeneous distribution within the archaeal domain (Fig. (Fig.3),3), the pattern of presence/absence is not patchy as observed in the case of the four dispensable bacterial r-proteins but seems to fit the tree of life with the exception of L35ae. All 10 proteins are present in at least one representative of the deeply branched kingdom of Crenarchaeota while five proteins (L38e, L13e, S25e, S26e and S30e) are missing in all representatives of the Euryarchaeota kingdom. Within this latter kingdom, the absences also seem to match the branching order established on the basis of rRNA sequences (49) and confirmed by r-protein sequences (50). For example, the early diverging Pyrococcus lineage retains five r-proteins absent in genus that emerged later such as Thermoplasma and Halobacterium. The high number of missing r-protein genes observed in this latter genome is corroborated by the crystal structure of the ribosomal LSU of H.morismortui (5), which lacks the same LSU r-proteins as its close relative, Halobacterium.
The great variation in the number of r-proteins observed within the archaeal domain is intriguing but the comparison with Bacteria and Eucarya sheds light on how the existing distribution has arisen. Excluding the archaeal-specific LXa gene, the nine dispensable genes are absent in Bacteria but are found in a wide range of Eucarya, including all complete genomes of Fungi, Plants and Animals. Moreover, all of them are detected either in the incomplete genomes of Diplomonads or Euglenozoa and are also found, with the exception of L38e and L14e (see below), in the complete genome of the amitochondriate protist E.cuniculi. The presence of these nine ribosomal genes in early divergent representatives of Eucarya and Archaea suggests their existence in the common ancestor(s) of the two domains. This makes the crenarchaeal ribosome the most ‘eukaryotic-like’ within the available archaeal ones, which is in agreement with the eukaryotic traits previously reported in Crenarchaeota in both the ribosome morphology (51) and the elongation factor EF1α (52).
The apparently dispensable nature of 10 r-proteins in Archaea raises the question of their role in the archaeal ribosome. Some of their eukaryotic counterparts have been shown to bind rRNA, tRNA, mRNA or translation factors (5357). Unfortunately, experimental studies are lacking in Archaea, except for the L30e protein of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, which is responsible for establishing a key bridge between the large and small subunits by specifically binding a helix–loop–helix motif (58). Nevertheless, the involvement of the 10 genes in the translation apparatus is supported by their genomic context since most of them are adjacent to other informational genes with four genes (L34e, L14e, LXa and L30e) belonging to large operonic structures that include r-proteins (Fig. (Fig.4).4). Interestingly, the L14e and L34e genes that share the same phylogenetic profile are located in the same cluster of genes in some archaeal genomes (see Fig. Fig.4).4). This could be indicative of a physical interaction between the two proteins since co-occurrence of genes across complete genomes as well as co-localisation of genes have been frequently used to infer functional coupling (15,59).
Figure 4
Figure 4
Genomic context of dispensable r-protein genes in Archaea: L34e and L14e (A), LXa (B) and L30e (C). Arrows represent genes with their relative orientation in the genomes. Contiguous arrows represent adjacent genes while broken lines indicate a loss of (more ...)
Phylogenetic distribution of r-proteins in Eucarya
In the eukaryotic domain, 78 (32 small subunit and 46 large subunit) cytoplasmic r-protein families have been identified to date. Except for the L28e absent in the budding yeast, all these families are conserved in mammals (compiled in 24), S.cerevisiae (19), S.pombe (18), A.thaliana (21) and, according to our analysis, in C.elegans and D.melanogaster. One of these families, the L12P, includes three eukaryotic subfamilies of acidic ribosomal phosphoproteins: the P1 and P2 proteins (60,61) represented in all the eukaryotic species mentioned above and the P3 protein which is plant specific (62). This leads to a total of 80 r-protein types in the Eukaryotic domain, of which 78 are strictly conserved in all complete genomes of animals, plant and fungi currently available.
As shown in Figure Figure3,3, the remarkable homogeneity in r-protein composition observed within the eukaryotic ‘crown’ group is far from being verified in the E.cuniculi genome. Discarding the L41e (see above), four proteins are absent in E.cuniculi: the strictly eukaryotic S21e and L28e proteins and the L14e and L38e found in Eucarya and in some—but not all—Archaea. It is notable that the r-proteins encoded by all archaeal genomes are also preserved within all the eukaryotic genomes while r-proteins exhibiting a heterogeneous distribution within Eucarya are absent either in all archaeal genomes (such as the S21e and L28e) or in some of them (such as the L14e and L38e). As both the L14e and L38e genes have been detected in deeply branched Archaea, it seems likely that the ancestral genes have been secondarily lost in the Encephalitozoon lineage. The case of the L28e gene (also absent in S.cerevisiae) and of the S21e gene is more controversial since, both of them being eukaryotic specific, we could not infer their presence in the common ancestor of eukaryotes. However, the absence of the L28e gene at least in S.cerevisiae may result from a gene loss since the L28e gene is present in the Euglenozoa branch that diverged earlier than Fungi.
Our investigation of the complete genomes from 66 different species allows us to gain insight into the conservation of r-proteins across the three primary domains of life and within each of them. Regarding the inter-domain distribution, 32 r-proteins are strictly conserved in all the bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic studied genomes (BAE set) in agreement with structural comparison between prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosomes (10) which demonstrates the preservation of the core and global shape of ribosome. The high number of r-proteins conserved in all species of the wide phylogenetic range covered confirms the prevalence of r-proteins within the universal pool that may be present in the last universal common ancestor (63,64).
The distribution of the other r-proteins shows a profound rupture in the protein component of the bacterial ribosome as opposed to the archaeal and eukaryotic ones. No r-proteins are specific to Bacteria and Eucarya (BE) or to Bacteria and Archaea (BA) while 33 are common to Archaea and Eucarya (AE) and 23 r-proteins are bacterial specific (B). Even if we cannot exclude that some of the proteins of the B and AE sets have in fact the same ancestral origin but have diverged beyond recognition, the importance of the two sets testifies to a specialization of bacterial versus archaeal/eukaryotic ribosomes. An appealing hypothesis is that the B and AE proteins are involved in the folding of lineage-specific rRNA extensions shown by comparison of rRNA sequences (65). However, some of these r-proteins could also interact with domain-specific translation factors or be implicated in extra-ribosomal functions as frequently observed for r-proteins (66).
The intra-domain distribution of r-proteins shows unforeseen differences between the three domains of life. In Bacteria, a relatively simple picture of conservation emerges since only four proteins are lost in the wide collection of bacterial species investigated in our study. Gene losses are restricted to a small number of divergent species or genera suggesting that gene disruptions occurred independently in these lineages. From a physiological point of view, there is a bias toward losses in intracellular pathogens with M.genitalium and M.pneumoniae lacking three of the four dispensable proteins. In addition to these losses, some small r-proteins are found in a restricted number of bacteria such as the Thx protein in Thermus species. It is therefore possible that additional r-proteins limited to a small phylogenetic spectrum are still unknown and could lead to a slightly more diverse picture of the bacterial ribosome than expected.
The distribution of r-proteins appears more complex in Eucarya and Archaea and reveals intricate evolutionary relationships between the two domains. In Eucarya, we observe a remarkable conservation of r-proteins in all investigated genomes except in E.cuniculi that lacks at least four proteins. The homogeneous distribution of r-proteins in representatives of the eukaryotic crown group is noteworthy since rRNA exhibit numerous taxon-specific insertions in these groups (67,68). Interpretation of gene absences in Microsporidia is complicated by both their intracellular parasitic lifestyle and their uncertain phylogenetic position but gene absences appear directly correlated to the extremely small size of the rRNA which is reduced to the universal core in this species (69). The amitochondriate Microsporidia were first considered as one of the most basal eukaryotic lineages (70,71) which diverged before the endosymbiotic event that led to mitochondria. According to this evolutionary scenario, the small size of rRNA and the absence of certain r-protein genes in E.cuniculi could be considered as primitive characters. The appearance of eukaryotic-specific proteins after the emergence of the Microsporidia would be a trace of the eukaryotic ribosome enrichment in proteins in the course of evolution. However, according to a growing number of studies (reviewed in 72), Microsporidia may be atypical fungi that secondarily lost mitochondria. If this later origin is confirmed, the reduction of rRNA size and the loss of some r-proteins would participate in the general process of genome compaction revealed by the genomic sequence (73) which is probably linked to its intracellular parasitic lifestyle.
In Archaea, the pattern of r-protein conservation differs dramatically from those observed in Bacteria and Eucarya. In the archaeal domain, losses include 10 r-proteins while only four proteins appear dispensable in each of the two other domains, revealing a higher than expected plasticity in the archaeal ribosome. Moreover, the losses cannot be explained by an intracellular lifestyle as in the case of eukaryotes and, to a lesser extent, bacteria, since all archaeal species considered in our study are free-living organisms. On the contrary, the pattern of gene losses indicates a progressive elimination of r-protein genes in the course of archaeal evolution, with the deeply branched Crenarchaeota exhibiting up to 10 r-proteins more than the latest divergent representatives of Euryarchaeota. This ribosome ‘striptease’ is, to our knowledge, the first tangible example of reductive evolution observed at a primary domain scale. It is all the more remarkable since informational proteins involved in a macromolecular complex are concerned. The subsequent question is why these r-protein genes have been lost. One could imagine that the loss of r-proteins is functionally and/or structurally compensated by a rRNA enlargement. The inverse mechanism has been proposed in the case of mammalian mitochondrial ribosome where the deficit of rRNA relative to the bacterial one is balanced by a protein enrichment (74). However, the situation seems more complex in Archaea since there is no indication of an rRNA shortening between the deeply branch Crenarchaeota and the later diverging Euryarchaeota. Thus, the ribosome of a Crenarchaeota, like A.pernix, may be a rich target for structural studies aimed at understanding the fundamental mechanisms underlying the reductive evolution process.
From an evolutionary perspective, our results lead to troublesome conclusions. On one hand, it seems that, with the exception of LXa, the full complement of archaeal r-proteins was present at an early stage of evolution, i.e. in the cenancestor of Archaea and Eucarya and was progressively eroded. This is in agreement with the eukaryotic-rooting tree (75,76) which proposes that prokaryotes would have evolved by simplification of an ancestral eukaryotic-like genome. On the other hand, the clear-cut opposition between bacterial and archaeal/eukaryotic r-protein complements is in agreement with the bacterial-rooting tree (77) or the symbiosis hypothesis (discussed in 78) which both explain the close relationships observed between Archaea and Eucarya. It even suggests that the ribosome specialization has been constitutive of the segregation of the bacterial lineage from the cenancestor(s) of Archaea and Eucarya, in agreement with Woese’s proposal that the translation apparatus ‘crystallizes’ first. Faced with these two opposite evolutionary scenarios, genome sequencing of early branching representatives of the three domains and comparative analyses of other macromolecular complexes will be essential in deciding whether the reductive evolution is a special trait of archaeal ribosomes or whether it constitutes a general trend in prokaryote evolution.
Supplementary Material is available at NAR Online.
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We wish to acknowledge Marat Yusupov and Gula Yusupova for helpful discussions. We thank Julie Thompson, Frederic Plewniak and Claudine Mayer for a critical reading of the manuscript and their assistance during this work. This work was supported by institute funds from CNRS, INSERM, the Université Louis Pasteur de Strasbourg and the Fond de Recherche Hoechst Marion Roussel (Aventis Pharma FRHMR1-9728).
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3. Each major will be recorded on an official transcript when all program requirements for the major are completed. If a student applies for a B.S.B.A., B.A., B.S., B.S.N., or B.F.A degree and meets the requirements for either major but not both, the student will be graduated from the completed major only. The student may return as a post-baccalaureate student to complete the requirement(s) for the second major.
Criteria for students who have graduated from Robert Morris with a Bachelor Degree:
1. Students must complete the requirements of the second major which are in effect at the time of reinstatement.
2. Upon returning to RMU, students must change their program code to indicate a Secondary Major/Second Degree. The Academic Services Office will assist the student in filing a change of major form or reinstatement form.
3. Once the program requirements for the second major have been completed, the student must file a request to have the second major or degree recorded on his/her transcript. The form is available in the Academic Services Office.
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Turkey Day is Over. Troy faces a BEAR.
by RubySioux // Wednesday, November 29, 2006 // News, Upfront, Promo Music // 0 Comments
Why is it always about size with guys? gentry caught
I'm sorry to say that Troy Gentry, of Montgomery Gentry, has gotten caught in the act of exaggerating.
He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge on Monday morning in Duluth, Minnesota. Charged with falsely recording a prized bear he killed as a wild one, he narrowly escaped a felony charge of transporting an illegally registered animal. Troy purchased the bear from Lee Greenly and together they planned the event hunt down to the story they would tell when registering the find.
Shame shame.
We all want to tame the wild and brag about it, but unfortunately the wildlife laws in Minnesota do not support embellishing the truth. Exceptions made for Garrison Keeler who claims all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.
Troy is a hell raiser who sure knows how to keep things exciting. As part of the plea he lost his right to game in Minnesota for the next 5 years, so he'll just have to take his antics elsewhere. | http://www.yallwire.com/news/turkey-day-is-over-troy-faces-a-bear-3.html/ | robots: classic
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} | 124 | View Full Version : Separate lobbies.
27-05-2009, 23:24
We badly need separate lobbies for English-speakers and russians.
28-05-2009, 00:00
not really cos sum rus plp speak english
28-05-2009, 06:39
And some non russian on the english forums dont seem to speak english...
Anyhow I'd like to see this, though it would create much less games for the non russian lobby... Its annoying to join game full of russians (luckily my ping isnt high if they live in Moscow/St Petersburg areas...) as you can't really understand anything they are saying. And then if they kick you or if they close the game you cant even ask why as as said above you dont understand! Still there would be much less games to join... | http://digitalmindsoft.eu/forums/archive/index.php/t-3293.html | robots: classic
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.ValcanoMP Year 8357.
Acid:Hmm..its only a matter of time before they all awaken, im going to need the team here fast if im going to explain the crisis here, these people..their to valuable to give up now, we must keep them safe here befor he finds us and we all die....We cannot defeat him, and he has ruled us for to long..they know how, they have defeated him before..long ago. I need you to go to Old Town and try to recover any information you can on him, we dont know what he is capable of up close, he is a demon and he has proven himself strong and resisting, he is not of this world nor does he stay dead, Yes, Yes...Go to the old town and discovver anything you can on this "Wicked" Demon, that town is where the last great battle was held..there has to be something of use there, a weapon or a clue, we can us anything we can get to figure out a way to beat him, we cant hide in this Valcano for ever.[color]
Mellissa:Agreed, Ill find what i can, can you handle them?
Acid:Don't worry, they will not be powerfull enough t attempt anythng, their bodies havnt been used in over 5300 years, they will get a dose of "It" though to help speed up recovery, Now Go!
Mellissa:Im On it.
*Dashes off in an instant a red flash laving her presence as she zooms threw the Vast land of rock*
Khrome:-Waking up with hesitation, laying on the floor stiff trying to breathe-uh..wha..wha the hell is going on...im alive? how..wh..where am i? -Staring at acid- h..he..hello?hey..lady..ladyyy...
Acid:-Turns around and rushes over to Khrome-Hello? Heloo!? can you breathe okay? is everything fine? try not to move!
Khrome:whats going on..wh...why cant i mo.movee
Acid:I've revived you, your body is trying to substain consciousness so you can survive, you might experiance pain, ,youve been dead for a long time, but the important thing now is that you, and your team are recovering, you'll be safe for now, but i cant not but be anxious to tell you what lies ahead, tis a bad path..
Khrome:Team? my...my team is here??ho..how?who..who are you why did you br..bring us back..am i goin. going to die?
Acid:My Name is Acid, i work For EvilGamerZ like you used to long ago, the coperation was re built and refunded, we are now entirely top secret, no more slipups on are whereabouts, me and my team have been trying hard to gather all of your souls and bring them back to your bodies, some of them, including yours, were horribly beat up, we had to find your DNA's which took us months so you would look like your normal self again,your also going to be injected with a new serrum called "It", it will make you faster, stronger,and swift, you..and your team are going to need all the power you can get, you guys were the only ones to defeat...That "Wicked" Demon.
Khrome:-Interupting Acid- So..another EvilGamerZ agent? heh, you must be some talent..who is the leader now...what is his name? and this demon..i remember his name...but i cant say it..i want to but for somereason its blocked...almost as if i dont know it.... its a faint memory...you have to stop him..i you dont hel...hell...hell be to powerfull..once hes Invincible, theres no way we ca defeat him...
Acid:we are well aware of that,it is not of are main piority right now, are main goal is to get you and your friends back to health, as for are leader, his name is Moon.Now..Relax im going to give you the injection.
Khrome:-Clenching his fist->.< it burns....ahhh...ughhh...
Acid:you should start to feel more calm soon...it hurts i know, try to fight it, but relax you have to get better, if you dont recover correctly you will die..
Khrome:Pleasent...so where exactly..is your team..
Acid:I Sent my Lead Operative for them, as well as a little Search and Recover mission at the old town.
Khrome:The town? what good can you find there....am i missing something?
Acid:i forgot...you were murdered werent you..the town...was destroyed....it was where the final battle was held...everything was destryoed its in ruins now...the search if for anything of use,weapons,artifacts..information..anything we can use yo help us get farther in this mission.
Khrome:Hmph..i feel better now..can i get up?
Acid:Yes..let me show you around youll be training here for awhile.. let me help you up.
-Reaches her hand out to khrome and helps her up slowly-
Acid:Folow me.
-Acid Takes Khrome to The Danger Simulation Area-
Acid:This is where you can practice by yourself, it has everything you need, any weapon you can think of, any stage,scenario anything. You can not be hurt either,instead in sends a slight shock to the part of the body that has been hit, once you have been hit enough times the Arena will come to a conlusion on your condition and wieither oud be alive or dead.
Acid:Now Onto The Duel Arena.
Khrome:sweeettt some nice 1 on 1 fighting.
-Shows him the Arena-
Acid:Here, unlike the simulation, you will battle your teammates, do not worry all of are equipment is safe so dont worry about killing your friends, but you will feel pain here.
Khrome:Sweet sounds funt o me.
Acid:On To the last part, The Main Building. -Takes Khrome down a longg halway into a big open room-here is everything you need, food, research,weapons,and armour, its all here in different sections, we have a warehouse full of stocked food, we have all the Weapons customized for are specific needs in are arsonary, Standarized Customly Create EvilGamerZ computers which give us acces to ANYTHING and some things you could of never thought possible to access ares, and last but not least you have the armour area that contains all of are gear and Uniforms.'
Khrome:This Place is huge!..how long have you guys been up here? and were are we suposed to sleep?
Acid:Where you awoke is where you will stay, as for how long we've been here, we have been here for about 3 years in hiding it took us a long time but youll find it very comforting then staying out in the open, youll get used to it.
Khrome:Im Just glad im alive...what bout the others? how much longer till they wake up?
Acid:We are not sure, lets just hope they Awake...
Khrome:What do you mean..hope..they might stay dead?
Acid:Not Neccesirly, all of their bodies recover differently some could be awaking right now, some might take days, its complicated.
Khrome:I see. Well I guess i should get back to resting...Is there any estimated time on the Mission Start?
Acid:Not Until i get the order from Moon to comence it, btw, check the arsonary, theres somethng there for you, See you around.-Slowly walks away into the distance-
Khrome:Hmph...-Looks over at the arsonary-hmm...
-Khrome slowly walks over to the room with the Words Arsonary written over the huge metal doors, he opens it slowly, and he lights turn on, inside he sees a massive storeway for Lots of diferent weapons, everykind imaginable.
Khrome:Impresive.. Oh? Whats this?
-Something caught Khromes eye something shiny, a long lost Sword.-
Khrome:No Way... My Sword! -Khrome rushes over to his sword and picks it up slashing and dbfing all over doing all these fancy moves enjoying his sword again-it feels great, i feel...more power, i can do this..im not going to die this time...i will be the one to take down This Demon...Aziz.....AZIZ! Thats the name! i have to tell Acid so they can get info on him, but first ;)
-Khrome Grips his sword tight gives a loud yeah! and starts to tbf all over the arsonary trying not to slash anything but having the time of his life catching up on all his skills-
Khrome:Oh Yeah....Im Ready >:]
-The Next Day-
Acid:Umm....Amanda...what are you doing?
Amanda::D what do you meeaann?
Acid:Why are you staring at khrome like that..
Amanda:I wanna wake him up :D
Amanda:Cause! i dont know :D i want to make a new friend.
Captain-Kill:Dont you have enough Friends?
Acid:oh god...
Amanda:Uhh excuse me i dont think i was talking to you!
Captan-Kill:Thank god..bad enough were on the same mission.
Acid:Um Guys..
Amanda:Why dont you just back off, ill take you out right here!
Captain-Kill:Ha! Dont break a nail@
Amanda:Thats it!
- They Both Stop and look toward khrome-
Acid:This is khrome
Captain-Kill:-rolls eyes-I'll be in the main room...
Acid:Khrome, this is Amanda, Also known as Vamp, One of are best agents we have..apparantly shes been dying to meet you.
Khrome:Nice to meet you :)
Amanda:Hehe likewise,so so so so so so :D how was it to dieee
Khrome:um..it....it ****ed?
Amanda:Did it hurt :O
Amanda:awww oh well at least your back :D now get up silly! i want to introduce you to the rest of the team :D.
-Khrome gets dressed and follows amanda into the main building where he is Joined By the other Members of EvilGamerZ.
Amanda:GUYS! here is one of the original members of EvilGamerZ!!
Hades:Whats up?
Stealthfire:Hola haha.
Cyrus:Hey. :)
Amanda:Khrome these are all my friends, and they are the best at what they do, they all specialize in certain catagories, all in all, there the best agents in the world.
Khrome:Nice to meet you all. Say...Amanda where is acid i need to talk to her.
Acid:What is it Khrome?
Khrome:folow me its important.
-Khrome an Acid Go back to the sleeping chambers and close the door behind them-
Cyrus:He seems cool, from what we've heard hes suposed to be really good at what he does.
Stealthfire:Especially since he is one of the original Members, it would make sense for him, and the others to be *****s.
Captain-Kill:hmm..he doesnt look so tough to me.
Amanda:yeah but im sure he could still kill you in a second.
Captain-Kill:mmm.....-walks out into the open and starts running really fast-* to himself*
screw this, i dont need this, ill defeat this demon on my own, not like they'll help, theyll just slow me down, i can do this. its in my bloodd!-eyes start to change color, and go into a dark red,his body becomes intense with great heat and he zooms into the air a trail of fire leading him off as he goes.
Cyrus:Whats with him..why is he always in that mood?
Amanda:Who knows..but who cares if hes going to act like that we dont need him anyways...
SilverRose:*to herself, yes SilverRose is a girl in this story if not a girl already* why..why does he always have to be like that...if only hed talk to me, i could make him happy :/
Acid:So the demonds name is aziz, a friend of yours brother?
Acid:Exactly which of your friends...is his brother?
Ace:His Name is ace, one of the most deadly fighters, i have seen.
Acid:hmm i see, all we can do is..
Amanda:Acid! Khrome! Come quick they're awakining!
Acid:Khrome come on!
KillerQueen:Awwhh what the hell is going on...-killerqueen the first one to stand-i thought i died, im alive? Khrome? Ace?..what the..
Acid:Calm Down KillerQueen.
KillerQueen:how do you know my name?
Acid:I brought you back to life.
KillerQueen:i see..well umm..where exactly am i?
Khrome:A Valcano.
KillerQueen:Hey i know that voice! Khrome? Khrome! Dude!-killerqueen runs up to khrome and gives him a big hug lifting him in the air then down.your alive!
Khrome:Yeah, haha, nice to see you again.
Ace:uhhh...whe.. O.O-he looks over to acid who is staring him straight in the face with a smile-
Ace:*to himself* what da.. *outloud* umm hello? where am i?and who are you?
Acid:My name is acid :D and you sir, are on a valcano ^-^
Ace:a valcano....
Acid:You are correct :D
Ace:Umm yeah. so am i..dead?
Acid:Far from it handsome.
Acid:Nothing :)-runs off into the main building-
Ace:Strange,hmm wow all of my team and friends are here?
Paul:hmm.......what the..Sega?
Segaomega:-turns his head towards pauls bead-are we in hell O.O?
Paul:umm...id say no, but i think maybe we should look around?
Segaomega:um...is hat really the smartest thing to do?
Khrome:Hello Gentlemen haha.
Paul and Segaomega:Khrome!
Paul:Your alive!K..KillerQueen?
KillerQueen:Holy ****! Paul!
Paul:your alive omg you guys are all alive? how are we all alive right now?
Segaomega:-still a little dizzy-magic!
Khrome:Um..is he okay?
Paul:Um.....No :) lets just let him get used to the fact that were all freaked out about being live.
Ace:Joe....JOE.......JOE!!......JOEEEE!!!!!-ace smacks joe accross the face-
Ace:-slaps him again-Jeez man, calm down, im not so sure either, but were on a valcano somewhere suposably, i have no idea how we are alie or how we are even moving.
Joe:this is creepy!
Tagerinator:Well look who it is..could someone please explain to me what the hell is going on...
KillerQueen:whats going on?! who was screaming?\
Ace:-pointing to joe-ehem.
KillerQueen:oh..well that would explain it.Hello Again joe..
Brandon:o.o...what the..im...im alive? how...what the....and im not ripped in half..wow this is wierd...ima go back to sleep.
Brandon:OMFG Killer! dudee!! where am i?
KillerQueen:a valcano! yeah i know wierd but were alive!
Brandon:wow dying ****s doesnt it.
KillerQueen:yeah didnt it? son of a ***** killed me and my girl..
Brandon:know what it feels like to be ripped in half...not goooddd
KillerQueen:i could imaginee.
Amanda:-Speaking threw the Speaker all threw the valcano-HELLO PEOPLEZ OF TEH PAST I AM FROM THE FUTUREE! OOOOOOO MY NAME IS AMANDA AND I AM ANXIOUS TO MEET YOU ALL :D I HOPE YOU ALL LIKE FOOD CAUSE IM MAKING A BUFFET!--Someones voice form the background "Hey what are you doing on there!"--UH O..WELL IT LOOK LIKE I GOT TO GO! LATER PPLZ! AHH!-"jeez! lady how many times we have to tell you not to use it"-a million more times!-Click-
Paul:-Slaps his hand to his face-
KillerQueen:Um..Acid is it? i think you might wanna check up on Sega.
Acid:is that the deluted one.
Segaomega:who you calling mealuted!
Acid:Oh yeah...thats him.
Ace:I think were missing someone...
LadyKiller:NONE OF YOU MOVE! anyone move and kill her!
LadyKiller:Shut your mouth!
Cyrus:wowow Drop the gun buddy!
Stealthfire:Take aim!
Ace:Dont shoot! you might hit her! LadyKiller! let her go you dont know what your doing!
LadyKiller:Silence!-Points the gun towards ace and cocks it, while still holding acid by the neck from behind-Dont...move..
KillerQueen:Hm..LadyKiller...Brandon..come with me
Brandon:where are we going?
KillerQueen:i dont know but there has to be guns around here somwhere!
-KillerQueen and Brandon rush into the main building and finally find the arsonary room.-
Doinkz:uh what the..where..where amm i? huh-trying to focus on the figure holding the gun-ladyKiller?--Doinkz slowly stands up and starts walking towards LadyKiller.--
LadyKiller:WHat the hell? Stay back!--Points the gun away from ace and towards Doinkz--doinkz im warning you dont come any ****ing closer!
Doinkz:whats going on! what are you doing.
-continues to walk towards Ladykiller-
LadyKiller:Fool...--Opens fire on doinkz--
--LadyKiller Lifts up acid with one hand and throws her far towards the wall knicking her unconcious, then he slowly wals to towards the wounded doinkz kneeling o the floor, and runs up and kicks him in the face.--
Doinkz:._. wh...what are you doing..!
LadyKiller:I warned you, but now you must die!
Doinkz:wow wai dude no!
--LadyKiller Smacks away doinkz hands and opens fire all over hi chest rapidly untill hes out of ammo
-KillerQueen,Brandon, and the rest of the team unleash hell on LadyKiller but the bullets dont penetrate him.--
Stealthfire:What the hell!
LadyKiller:Hmph >:]
KillerQueen:oh shit...GEt readdyy!!
-they all draw out their guns and start to reload when LadyKiller Charges at full force with a elemental sword--
Ace:Tag! Joe! you know what to do... ill take care of acid! Paul help me!
Joe:Just like we used to...Lets do it.
Ace:shh...your going to be okay, can you breathe?
Acid:Not really..wha..whats going on?
Ace:Were handling it..now come on i have to get you safely inside!
KillerQueen:Brandon No!
Brandon:Oh sht!-Brandon relizes LadyKiller is coming straight for him with the sword burning up, and he desperatly trys to run away.
Brandon:sht sht sht sht ohhh ****!
-LadyKiller Grabs Brandon from the back and starts to aim the sword towards his stomach--
Brandon:oh shtt..
KillerQueen:Noo Firee NO OMG KILLHIM!
LadyKiller:Breathe your last breathe heh..hahah!!
Mellissa:EvilGamerZ Do you copy?....EvilGamerZ Do you Copy?!?!.Damn...something must be wrong.Hmm, but i have to finish my mission, im going to need to find anything i can, but where to look! this place is completely destroyed it seems almost impossible to find anything!. Ugh this seems impossible!
-Infuruated Mellissa Grabs her sword and slashes it straight into the floor, but it doesnt it instead,a loud clang is heard and mellissa is forced back far, with a slash on her stomach-
Mellissa:****! What the?
Aziz:Hahahahaha!Silly fool, i supose that hag acid told you to come here? ha! as if you could actually do something you weak mortal, to bad acid isnt going to know about this..Cause your going to die >:]
Mellissa:What the..What why dont you show yourself you coward!
- Theres a long silence for awhile, Mellissa heres footsteps to the left and grabs out her breakers and unleashes 2 rs's in that direction-
Mellissa:Show yourself!
Aziz:As you wish...
-Aziz appears Behind her and Points the tip of his Shotgun at the tip of her head-
Aziz:Any last words before i lay you down for good?ha!
Aziz:Hmm?! o.o! damn.
-Mellissa ducks and knocks aziz off his feet with a backside sweep to his legs and while he is in the air about to hit the floor, she grabs her sword and slashes him over and over double-butterflying keeping him in the air, spiriling him and cutting him at the same time, on the last slash as he is aout to fall she knocks him up into the air, and jumps up to him and slams her sword threw his stomach then slams him down into the floor with a shotgun blow the face.-
-Mellissa starts to walk away and remembers she needs her sword, she turns around and aziz isnt there, she looks around and sees aziz standing there no bullet holes, and the sword straight threw his stomach-
Aziz:Ha...Impressive, i guess i underestimated you..sadly for you, i dont make 2 mistakes in one day.
Mellissa:Well just have to see wont we?
Aziz:heres your sword... >:]
-Aziz rips the sword out of his stoach and lunges it at Melissa. barely noticing it, she dodges the sword only to be skinned on the arm, she starts to ran after her sword and aziz brings out his sword, licking the end of it, as mellissa gets her sword, again aziz vanishs and leaves mellissa at a game of hide and seek.-
Mellissa:gah!...(i cant do this...hes to powerfull, i got lucky with all those hits, im going to need to do better to get away alive! im not going to be able to defeat him!)
Aziz:Whats the matter tired! were just gettin started here >:]
-Aziz comes out infront of her again, slamming her in the face with the back of his sword slicing her stomach once again as she goes flying threw the air, as she slams the ground hard, aziz rushes over and kicks her in the face-
Aziz:Hmph...get up your making this way to easy, the fun has only just begin.
Mellissa: :'( >:[! ughhh die!
-Mellissa Grabs her shotgun points it to Aziz's stomach and fires. aziz takes the shot, grabs the gun from her and shoots her in both legs and reloads, then points it to her face-
Aziz:Thanks For the training
Mellissa:pleas god....dont do this Please!
Aziz:biatch...i am god.
-Aziz cocks the gun but then pauses-
Aziz:hmm...i have a better idea, ill let you live..but you work for me now >:] get over here!
Brandon:-Blood shooting out of his chest-gahH!! n..NO!
LadyKiller:ha! squirm for your life..
Hades:open fire! Aim for his head!
KillerQueen:Its not going to do anything!
Hades:Do it!
Amanda:What the hell is going on!
LadyKiller:Oh...now who do we have here?
-LadyKiller throws brandon off his sword and he goes flying hitting the ground hard-
Hades:Oh shit! amanda get back inside! Now!
-ladykiller draws out his gun and fires at hades, hades manages to take cover but cannot seem to do anything, he looks down at his leg and relizes he has been badly wounded-
Hades:aww! Damnet! Amanda get out of here!
Brandon:Somebody ****ing help me!
Pure_G5Im coming brandon hold on! try not to move!
Brandon:Dont worry i aint going nowhere like this!
Amanda:Who are you! Omg what you killed that man! and your atacking everyone! whats wrong with you!
LadyKiller:I Suggest you shut up.
-Ladykiller charges his sword and starts to charge into Amanda, and Segaomega happens to be walking right infront of her at the time-
-The Sword goes straiht hrew segaomega and hes pinned to the wall-
Pure_G5what happened!
Amanda:Sega is hurt! BAD!
Segaomga:Nah im fine i can walk....wait a minute..OH MY GAWDD AHH!!!! HELPP MEE AHH IT HURTS!!!
LadyKiller:Pitty...now back to you darling.. >:]
Brandon:Aw ****! i cant breathe!
Pure_G5:no try! Try breathe slowly dont die!
Brandon:ahhh! i cant hold it >.<
Amanda:>:[ thats eeeNOUGH!!!!!!!!!
-Amanda Litterally sets o a huge array of flames and her eyes starts to glow, a sword apears in her hand and litterally sets on fire into a blue flame, shes jumps into the air, and everything goes into an inverted colour, and time moves really slow, she slowly aproaches ladykiller, and slams her sword straight into his face and threw it, then slashes upwards ripping it out of his head. next she walks over to sega and rips the swor out of him and the wall and fires some of the blue flame on him, it heals his wound, she then walks over to brandon, puts her hand on his stomach and closes the hole, she goes back to ladykiller and backkicks him right in the stomach and time goes back to normal, and LadyKiller is dead-
Brandon:O.O... i feel....normal
Pure_G5:Thank god -.-
-They all look at sega and start cracking up as they look at him as he lays on the floor,his foot caught on a rock-
Stealthfire:where is joe and tagerinator!
-They Look over and see SilverRose with a sword straight threw her, she trys to walk and then suddenly gets open fired on by machine guns from the back, as she falls they watch in horror as joe and tagerinator Remain in the back-
Stealhfire:Aw come on!
Brandon:Omg! No! What the fu.
-Joe and tagrinator start opening fire on everyone throwing gernades and everything blowing everything up, the rest of the team takes cover behind some rocks and are trying to hide int he fir, brandon was the last one to get their and was open fired on before he could make it, brandon remains on the floor, blood coming out from under him-
Brandon:oh god...
Joe:Tag pick him up!
Joe:Ill take care of these fools.
Ace:Try to relax..you cant be moving i think you broke some bones, and your bruised badly, wheres the medical equipment!
Acid:ughhh it hurts :'( :'(..the medicall equipment...its near the arsonary..
Pewwar:Im on it!
-Red Paul runs down the hallway trying to find the room when he hears a girl crying-
Pewwar:h..hello?is anybody here! can i help you! whos crying!
Kyrstal:over here! Help!
-Paul rushes arund the corner, and watches as the valcano starts to cllapse from all the explosions, he notices the girl, krystal, trapped under one of the rocks, her legs is wounded and she ant run-
Pewwar:Hang on imm coming!
KrystalHelpp Please!
Pewwar:Im trying!
Acid:Thank you..
Ace:no need to thank me, it was the right thing to do.
Acid:no no..i have to, if not for you id be dead..
Ace:Well, your welcome
Acid: :)
Aziz:The more you fight, the faster youll die!
-Aziz grabs her by the neck and lifts her into the air! Choking her until her eyes re about to explode then dropes her, as she gasps for breathe, he takes out a knive an slits his arm, and wipes it with his hand, he reaches down to Mellissa and opens her mouth, and puts his hand over it, she trys to fight but hes to powerfull and he makes her drinks his blood-
KillerQueen:Sht! we have to get butters!
Hades:We cant theres no way! Joe is firing to much!
Amanda:Why are they doing this!
KillerQueen:They are demons, theyve always been demons, but theyre to powerfull, theure more demon then human, i guess after al this time they forgot how to tell good from bad, so theyre destroying everything int heir path, we cant defeat them in this state, i can change but not atm i havent had any kills! i need blood in order to change!
Paul_G5:Im Going in!
KillerQueen:No Pure dont!
-Pure stands up, and dashes towards joe, dodging bullets left and right, explosions coming from all around him, and lots of smoke making it hard to see and breathe, no matter how fast he goes joe seems so far away to him, he sees tag pick butters up over his sholder and turn around to start and walk back, so he takes out his pistol and tumbles towards a big rock to protect him from fire, he waits there untill joe starts to reload, then he goes on the side and starts firing at tag trying to stop him from moving but tag is un harmed and stilll continues to walk, joe finish's reloading and starts to open fire on pure again this time hitting him in the arm-
KillerQueen:We have to help him!
Amanda:how? i used all of my power!
KillerQueen:We have to do something
Razorblade3:Ill go and help pure!
-Razorblade stands up and gets shot in the face and dies-
Amanda:Didnt know that was gonna happen..
KillerQueen:obviously neither did he..well anymore ideas?
Hades:umm..ill go in, i can make it to pure and help provide fire.
KillerQueen:Are you sure?
-Pure stands up again and trys to aim with his wounded arm at tag, its a miracle that joe hasnt killed him yet, there are so many bullets flying at him and he manages to miss them all.Pure takes off when he notices joes reloading, and runs as fast as he can towards tag, when tag stops and just looks straight ahead, almost as if he wants pure to attack him-
Joe:hah...this will be good.
Pure_G5:Time to dieee tagg!
-Pure jumps towards tag and then a huge array of blue almost like a big blue flame comes off of tag, and sets pure on fire, and he starts to roll on the floor trying to put the flames out, as tag starts walking away.
Pure_G5:owww **** damn omgggggg.
Hades:NOO!! damn u!
-Joe walks over to pure.-
Joe:to bad your one of them, you would of made a great devil.
-Joe Points it to pures head and pulls the trigger no hesitation-
-Hades stabs joe in the back and it comes out of his stomach and he lifts him into the air, tag notices right away turns around and throws his dagger straight into the neck of hades,hades lets go of the sword, joe lands on his feet with the sword still in him, and starts to walk with tag, hades remains on the floor trying desperatly to breathe while keeping the blood in-
Joe:Hmph, lets go now this bores me, time to find aziz.
KillerQueen:Amanda come on we have to help him! hes gonan bleed to death!
Amanda:Come on sega!
Amanda:omg where did he go!
KillerQueen:idk but we have to help hades!
Aziz:Thats it..soon you will not feel your body, then the pain will set in, then...youll work for me, you will become a demon, you will be im mortal, and you will destroy the world with us.
Mellissa:noo!!!! i..i wont do it! ill fight itt! i wont let it take over me!
Aziz:Fighting it will only make it hurt more, you have no choice anyways.
Mellissa:ahhh! Damn u! EvilGamerZ Forgive me..
-Mellissa closes her eyes then screams really loud as she is being revived into a demon, the pain is intense and the only thing she can do is wait untill she has no longer control of her body and belongs to aziz-
Aziz:Hmm where is Joe and Tagerinator with my male demon..
-Joe and Tag arrive from afar-
Joe:Were here.
Tag:we have one of them, his name is brandon.
Aziz:Perfect, lay him on the rocks, ill start the transformation.
Ace:where the hell is Paul!
Paul:Lift! come one you have to try i cant get you out of here unless you try harder! your going to bleed to tdeath!
Kyrstal:ughh i cantt!
Paul:okay cover your eyess!
-Paul takes out his gun and blasts the rocks right off of her, and helps her to her feet-
Paul:Can you walk?!
krystal:i think so..
Paul:well come on my friend is in desperate need of medical help! i need to find it!
Kyrstal:i know where it is folow me!
-Krystal takes paul over to the medical area near the arsonary, and they get the supplies they need, then paul takes her hand and takes her back to where acid and ace are-
Ace:Paul finally!..whos that?
Kystal:im Krystal..OMG ACID! what happened!
Acid:dont worry, had a little run in with a demon, ill be...okay.
Paul:ok now we have to give her a shot! its going to numb the pain!
Acid:a shot!!! EEK! where!
Paul:in the arm in thee arrm!!
Ace:i dont know how to give a shot!
Krystal:i think i do! give me the needle!
-they give krystal the needle, and she carefully takes the needle and tells acid to hold her breathe, she then takes the needle and sticks it into her arm slowly injecting the medicine-
Ace:Hold on! your doing great its almost donee the medicine is almost in you!
Paul:bandage it and then get her onto this stretcher!
-They Bandage acids arm and lay her ontop of the strecher making sure to not furtherly damage her bones-
Krystal:okay now we have to take her into the medical center so she can rest there, its going to be some time before her bones heal, but the equipment we have can speed the time!
Paul:im going to go check on the others!
Krystal:umm ill go with you!
Paul:okay give me your hand!
-Paul takes her hand and they go outside looking for the others-
Ace:Now which way do we go?
Acid:its straight down the hall..
Ace:are you going to be okay?
Acid:im going to be fine, as long as you stay with me..
Ace:dont worry, im not going anywhere.
Aziz:ahh, okay he has my blood in him now, we must wait now untill it takes full affect and he is revived as one of us.oh, and i almost forgot gentlemen, we have a new long lost friend rejoining us.
Joe:What who?
-From the distance-
DaStyle:Hello Gentlemen.
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Once upon a time, there was a boy and his best friend, a blue monkey named “Ah-ah”. For years, they were inseparable, like a real life Woody and Andy. One day, the kindergartner lost his Ah-ah while camping! Now, every mom who has a kid with a lovey can relate to the panic of this situation! (We do have a back up Curious George in our house now). Sadly, the monkey wasn’t found and life moved on. The boy, now a third grader, has probably forgotten about Ah-ah and is much too old to care about silly stuffed animals, right? Wrong. When after three years he sees his beloved sidekick again, he’s overcome with emotion and becomes that wide eyed, attached little boy again.
As moving as that is to witness (especially with a 9 year old son of my own), it isn’t what touched me the most. It’s the mom. Sure, there was a lot of luck involved in her finding his monkey, but the point is she was still looking, three years later. In the choked up moment when she shows her son his long lost love, she becomes the face of all of us moms who have obsessed about, searched for, found or fixed up the things that are special to our kids. It sums up the entire experience of motherhood for me. We go through every heart wrenching feeling our kids do. And we’ll do anything we can to make them happy, no matter how long it takes.
Do your kids have loveys? Have they ever been lost?
Plus, more from
Biggest Toddler Problems, Solved
Funny Ways Kids Say I Love You
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Answering Emma's Question
Emma posted this great question in the comments section, and it deserves a good answer:
"How much of this - composition and emphasis through arrangement of elements and lighting - is a story guy's job and how much is a layout guy's? Where's the line?
Because a story guy has to get the point across, but doesn't design the whole thing (right?)"
And my colleague Mark Walton answered the question pretty definitively in the same comments section. The thing I want to emphasize - that I keep repeating - is something that I want to be clear no matter what. It's one of the immutable laws of storyboarding, and it's this:
Nice storyboards will never save a bad story. A good story is the most important thing, as we all know. So a good story illustrated with poor story sketches is always preferable to the alternative.
I talk a lot about drawing on this site. Some of it is really basic, and some of it is more high-end stuff for people who already know a bit about drawing. Just don't ever get the idea that I'm saying every story artist has to draw superbly well, that's not the case at all. The most important skill that a board artist needs is a good sense of story structure - how to put together a story, how to assemble a sequence, what makes a scene work or figure out why it's not working. If nothing else, a board artist needs to have a good sense of entertainment. Without that, nothing you board will be worth watching!
A good friend of mine always says "Storyboarding isn't about drawing. It's about ideas." There is no truer statement about what we do.
That's where drawing comes in, as Mark Walton mentioned. The more you can draw, the more you can communicate. The better you can communicate, the more range you have as a board artist. But the most important thing about any story sketch is that it should communicate the idea it is meant to express. If it fails to be a clear drawing then nothing else matters. That's the second immutable law about storyboarding:
If the drawing isn't clear, all the pretty drawing in the world won't fix it. A story drawing must be clear, first and foremost.
As Mark Walton mentioned, a lot of it has to do with the director, and also the type of movie. Some directors want to get the whole movie figured out as fast as possible so they can see the shape of it, because everyone knows that once you get the thing up once, you will change pretty much all of it as you go along trying to make it better. So why spend time on pretty drawings the first time around? Other films, ones that tend to be more technically challenging, or more subtle in their emotional range or storytelling, might require a bit more finesse and control in the boarding in order to judge if it's working. It's all on a case-by-case basis, and every film is different. Every studio is different.
But the whole point of my blog is this: as long as you are going to be a board artist, you will have to deal with these aread; how to tell a story, how to assemble a film and how to draw storyboards. For me, if I'm going to have to deal with those areas, then I'm going to want to learn as much as I can about them in order to be better at my job, and ultimately make my job easier. Plus if I'm going to spend the time doing something, I'd just as soon try to do it well. So I'll talk about a lot of stuff, some of it very relevant to the job and some tangentally so. Just remember those two "laws" I mentioned above to keep in all in perspective. A good story is always the most important part!
Benjamin De Schrijver said...
Great post! Ollie said a similar thing about animation: "conentrate on drawing clear, not clean".
pbcbstudios said...
don't start dragging the walton into this -
Lee-Roy said...
A common question, I think. And a seemingly ambiguous answer, but it all rings true. Basically, it seems that as a board artist, you need to be prepared to draw your characters in an environment and in many cases laying down some basic elements to give the panel perspective is going to help you communicate the camera angle and action you are trying to describe. What if "the boss" doesn't want that? You have to be equally prepared to leave it out or keep it to a minimum. There may still be times when there is no layout design for a particular scene, yet the script calls for your character to walk through a door, or pick something up off of a table, or any number of things. Be ready to design what is necessary to tell the story.
So where is the line? Draw the line.
Emma said...
Okay, so it doesn't matter the quality of the drawings, as long as the story is sound and being illustrated. So really basic drawings would be sufficient for some stories, but stick figures can't show so many subtle emotions (I was going to say, can't show emotional change but then I drew a stick figure slouched over being sad and he DID look sad), so you draw to fit the story...?
So you don't have to keep track of the layout, only when it's important... you don't have to keep track of where the door is through the whole scene if he only walks through it at the beginning. And a shot where the composition and lights and darks are really important you refine and detail that way, but you don't carry it on past its usefulness, because it's not the environment that's important to story, it's what's happening to the character (usually).
Pretty sure I get it now... that's (a small) part of what I've been struggling with recently, is getting anal and keeping TRACK of that door in every panel when it's really not important anymore and can just gracefully fade back into oblivion.
'nother great post. Thank you!
Scott LeMien said...
Is it possible that the story dictates the style of the board?
For example, if two cartoony characters engage in a conversation, you can have lots of great 2-dimensional shapes without ever moving the camera. The in's and out's of the conversation can seem very dynamic, but when you try and shoot this realistically, you have to move the camera, and it may be impossible to convey the intent of these boarded panels.
Does that make any sense? I know I tend to board things with a 2-d sense of composition, and see it as a limitation.
Waste of Aces said...
Hey Mark, long time no see. I just found this, your blog, and am dropping a note to say 'hi', so, hi! Nice storyboarding advice.
mark walton said...
I really appreciate the recognition, Mark! I'm honored! It does seem kind of silly that I'm putting so much time and thought into these posts instead of putting the into my own 'blog, but it's always been easier for me to react to and riff off of other people's ideas than generate my own material. I guess that's why I'm a better board artist than I would be a director (actually there's a LOT of reasons for that). Once again, though, you have cut to the heart of the matter far more clearly and eloquently than I could: the ideas themselves mean more than anything, and after that, communicating those ideas as clearly as possible.
As for Scott's post, I tend to err on the side of staging things in a 2-D, "flat" way, probably to a fault. But I've seen some great ideas become obfuscated or lost in a bunch of fancy, unnecesarily complicated camera work, too. Don Hall has said (and I tend to agree) that flat staging is usually best for comedy - putting the empahsis on the action and the the idea (particularly when it's based on character business, rather than, say, the glacier cracking in one of the Ice Age movies - even then, you don't want fancy moving camera shots to get in the way of showing the idea clearly, which they sometimes can. Notice how those squirrel gags have a lot of static, lingering shots to allow you to really focus on and enjoy the funny acting on that character). Obviously, if your camera never moves, it may not seem very "real", but nothing draws attention away from the story and to the technique (for me, anyway) then too many shots that spin around the subject (nobody seems to think that audiences are tired of "matrix" gags yet - they keep pitching them here!), or at an impossible speed through space, or contstantly drifting cameras that scream "this could only be done in CGI!" Sometimes limiting most of the camerawork to what could actually be done in real life makes the film seem more real, more plausible (not that you should never do fancy camera work, but only if you're making a story point or heightening an emotion, not just showing off). I remember Ed Gombert's scene of the poacher and the monitor lizard trying to steal his eggs in Rescuers Down Under" which is a very long, static, flat shot with no background detail, and it's one of the funniest things I've ever seen - the choreography and the timing is so great, you wouldn't want anythng else happening to distract you from it.
SMacLeod said...
This blog is wonderful! You give and you give. Now, give me more or else!
Hey, will everyone please come to the calarts prod. show? Our open show is this friday night at 8pm in the cafeteria, but the prod show has to be good this year b/c there are loads of good films! Today was our deadline and it was craziness.
mark kennedy said...
Thanks for the comments! Hey Jun!
Scott, good question. I have worked in feature boards for a long time now and that's what I'm used to, but obviously there are some TV shows and some features where the characters are purposely flat and the challenge is to stage them using good design and not necessarily trying to get depth, etc.
Obviously the most important thing is to tell the story clearly and effectively, no matter what the characters look like. I tend not to board camera moves unless there's a really specific storytelling reason - too much room for confusion, especially if the editor starts re-ordering panels - then your camera move starts to look really confusing. Amyway, don't know if I answered your question - drop me a line if you have more questions.
Skribbl said...
Hear Hear! Staging for clarity and for story emphasis. THEN Layout can add the extra camera goodness BUT as long as it's still clear.
Hey Marks, are you going to the CalArts Producer's Show?? I've got my tickets reserved. I hope Walton busts out again with his dance routine!!! W00T!
Kennedy you ought to work out a routine with Walton. Aw heck, why don't you add chickennuggets to the mix too! :-P
chickennuggets said...
i don't dance for free, bitches.
mark kennedy said...
Hey Skrib-
Uh, I never go to those, maybe I should? I dunno, I'll e-mail you....Walton danced at one of those things? It's supposed to be about the students, Walton.
Nuggets - um, yikes.
Skribbl said...
"i don't dance for free, bitches."
Tell me about it!!!
The hightlight of the evening is the unofficial after party. That's where the "magic" happens. I guess you have to see it to believe it. Yeah, e-mail me.
mark walton said...
Yes, I will be there. I have absolutely no memory of creating any "magic" last year, but irregardless, Kennedy, nobody's stopping the students from stepping up to the plate and getting down, are they? The best way to teach is by example, yes? If you students can't stand the heat from the fi-yah, the teacher will school your sorry a**!
OK, sorry...I really need to get more sleep.
Anonymous said...
Hi, great job on this blog Mark! I'm Leo, an European story artist, vis dev, BG painting etc etc. (small studios here in Europe so we get to tend to most things).
Anyways, just wanted to recommend both Hollywood camera work DVDs specially the 5 and 6 th DVD. Also the book "on film-making" by alexander mackendrick. great stuff.
A thought that popped up is that richard williams was going on about in animators survival kit about the story panel being the absolute key frame of the scene which I think is a very good thought. The closer you nail it the better, whilst staying on schedual and budget of course, So values, BGs etc etc. I try to include as much as possible in my boards. Usuallly the BG is a seperate layer in Photoshop (scanned) and the characters are overlays (also scanned drawings). I'm trying to draw digitally but I'm still faster and better (if I'm good at all right? ;) with paper and pencil. | http://sevencamels.blogspot.com/2006/04/answering-emmas-question.html?showComment=1146023220000 | robots: classic
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Flaking Scalp Problems
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flakesFlaking Scalp
Why do so many people suffer from dry flaking scalp? There are lots of contributing factors. Some of the most common are cold winter weather, diet changes, dehydration, styling tools, and use of chemical ingredients in many shampoos and conditioners. Some of the conditions that may result in flaking are dandruff or seborrheic dermatitis.
Dandruff occurs when the natural skin renewal process of the scalp is not working correctly. Instead of being sloughed off once they are dead, skin cells are sloughed off before they die on a scalp with dandruff. It is usually relatively mild with small amounts of flaking and itch, but dandruff can be more severe. Flakes can stick together causing large mounds of flakes to form on the scalp. This is an uncomfortable as well as embarrassing condition for many people.
Seborrheic dermatitis is characterized by scaly scalp with yellowish or white flakes. It tends to be greasy and may have swollen red areas as well. Seborrheic dermatitis may spread to the face and ears as well. Many people find it hard to resist the urge to scratch with this condition. Scratching causes irritation and sometimes infection.
The underlying factor in most flaky scalp conditions is actually an imbalance in the scalp. It is important to have the correct amount of oil on the scalp. Too much or too little oil will lead to problems including flaking. The majority of hair products contain chemicals that dry out the scalp and cause problems. There are natural ingredients like zinc, jojoba oil, and emu oil that work to balance the scalp. Zinc is a natural cleaner, and it works to regulate the sebum gland, which produces oil on the scalp. Jojoba oil and emu oil are moisturizers for the hair and scalp. | http://scalp-acne.com/blog/?cat=7 | robots: classic
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Call Off the Bulldozers, Pull the For Sale Signs
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The Long Island-based owners of the AM&As complex have pulled the property off the market and expect to proceed with plans for a renovation after all. Revived plans call for rehabilitation of both the main building and the warehouses along Washington Street into a mix of 180 apartments and ground floor retail. The new development comes just days after two prominent developers suggested demolition was the best solution for the prime, yet long-vacant properties.
New Horizons Acquisitions had put the properties up for sale with a $3.99 million asking price and in a strange twist now says the properties were put up for sale in error. According to this morning’s Buffalo News:
Fakiris said the AM&A’s complex was apparently placed on the selling block in error. He was looking into the matter Thursday but speculated that the “mistake” might have occurred when he was in Europe.
“I own the building, and the building is not for sale,” he said.
The jump-started renovation plans carry a $60 million price tag. A development soap opera!
What Others Have To Say
1. Balth
4 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 09:29
All of you people posting on the other article about how Paladino and Ciminelli are so amazing can finally SHUT UP! When have we ever torn a building down in this city and gotten something of better quality than what was there? The Tishman? The Main Place Mall/Tower? Key Towers? ANY PARKING GARAGE? We need to stop tearing things down around here unless there is a plan to replace it, PERIOD.
2. Buffalopundit
1 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 09:33
The interior of AM&A is a disaster. They should maintain the facades and completely re-do the interior. How's that for win-win?
3. Perry
0 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 09:46
Buffalo Pundit - I agree with your post. Plus, we can preserve that Steve Christie ARTVOICE billboard that's on the side of the building. It's so old, it might warrent preservation status.
4. Biniszkiewicz
3 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 09:47
Stay tuned. There are more twists to come in this saga, I'll bet. My guess is that these particular owners will not redevelop the property and will, in the end, sell it. In the meantime, it does not offend me that the building is vacant. So long as the bones are preserved (repair/replace roof, etc.), there is little downside to keeping the structure up until redevelopment plans become concrete.
5. al-alo
1 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 09:55
hahhahahahahah! bulldoze it anyway! crush - kill - destroy! leave nothing standing! I demand parking and minimalls!
but really, who mistakenly tries to sell a building for 4 mil? do i ever say: "oops - did i just sell my house? i should have paid better attention."
6. Jefferson
0 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 09:58
7. pantsonfire
0 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 10:07
I can't wait to see this on Leno... There are good reasons for us to be the butt of so many jokes!
8. jstraubinger
1 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 10:17
Sounds like the "For Sale" was a trial balloon to test the market for interest. Looks like the test was a failure so it's back to a development plan again. I don't think the current owners will do anything with this building except use it for tax depreciation. "I was out of the country" is almost as lame as an excuse as "My dog has been eating my homework".
9. Hospitable
0 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 10:52
A BIG NEVERMIND..... gut the interior restore this 1840's facade I've heard about... anyone have any pictures of what it looks like underneath the current skin?
10. Olcott_Beach
0 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 10:56
I have never been in the AM&A’s Building but have continuously heard that it is a combination of five buildings erected over a lengthy period of time.
It has been also mentioned that the building is a forest of building columns but, considering that this was a department store, I cannot fathom building columns being randomly placed. The building must have a certain amount of open space in order to have accommodated counters, isles, etc.
By chance, is there any urban explorers who have managed to enter this building and take a few photographs?
11. Spaulding97
1 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 11:03
Next time on "As Am&As turns", find out who really is behind all the secret for sale rumors, and if that isn't exciting enough, wait till you hear what Paladino says about this out-of-town developer... it ain't pretty! One of these three developers won't make it out alive mwghghghahaha!!
Well back to square one.
12. Quinn
0 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 11:10
Square One should be a cell block. If I let my house go like or purchased a home and let it sit in that condition, I'd be in front of Judge Nowak and paying a huge fine. Why, Why, Why do these out of town speculators get to adjourn like crazy and never pay fines? I remember reading that the owner was cited for violations. Shouldn't the next step be long-arm jurisdiction for a stint in jail? Where is the accountability? Has the building in fact been secured?
13. atypical
0 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 11:10
If the state can provide a $5.1 million grant for the Hyatt, why can't the owners of this building receive similar grants to rehab this old building?
PS: BuffaloPundit: What's up with your site?
14. MisterChips
1 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 11:19
Here's a history of the AM&A's complex. The ornate 19th century facades were removed when it was reclad in limestone in the 1930s. To appreciate the lost Main Street facades, all you have to do is walk around the block to Washington Street and look up. The rear facades of the combined buildings were not altered in the 1930s remodel.
15. HelenWheels
1 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 12:03
Quinn, all the inspectors ever say during sentancing in Judge Nowak's court on commercial properties is "In the interest of econcomic development the city would request a reduced or zero fine" BULLSHIT! Tobe has to give a little back to the little guys, too, not just the big bozos who let these properties sit and rot. Afterall, it's the little guys (us citizens) who have to deal with the decay.
16. dude
0 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 16:06
Fakiris is obviously full of shit. In that recent video interview, Paladino pretty much called his investment group out for who they real are-- out of town flippers.
Even though I kinda like the 30s facade, I think it would actually do these buildings a great service by subdividing the complex into the separate buildings they once were and subsequently bringing back the old facades. But hey, as Carl says, "this is Buffalo"...we know the right thing will never be done.
1 ratings12345
Jun 1st 2007, 21:19
Wow!!! Look at that pic...That street is teeming with people... This guy is obviously just covering his ass
18. RPreskop
2 ratings12345
Jun 2nd 2007, 12:42
Yeah right, the current owners have revived plans for the redevelopment and restoration of this mediocre work of architecture from the 1930s. That is what they have been saying for the past several years and nothing seems to come to fruition and old AM&As continues to deteriorate closer to the point of no return. When is this soap opera with the old AM&As going to end is anyones guess. When are we finally going to be free to demolish and clear out this decrepit, deteriorated department store and get on with life. Fakiris and his investors are a bunch of political bullshit artists and out-of-town slumlords just like the last owners of this site. They are just holding this prime downtown site hostage for their own personal gain and if anyone cannot see this then they cannot see clearly. Fakiris has no intention of doing anything with old AM&As other then to just sit on it and wait for downtown property values to increase and the region's economy to fully revive. Hey Balth, The Key Towers at fountain plaza are a definate major architectural and aesthetic improvement over the decrepit, decayed, crammed-in rat traps that formerly occupied that prime site. The twin towered Key Bank complex is also architecturally superior to the shitty, mediocre AM&As department store complex so do not find fault with Key Towers because they are among Buffalo's best buildings PERIOD.
19. Denizen
1 ratings12345
Jun 2nd 2007, 22:56
RPreskop, "crammed in" streetscapes happen to make up some of the most exciting city environments. Go visit a real city sometime. You'll notice this right away.
20. aka_mouse
0 ratings12345
Jun 3rd 2007, 00:57
Hell yeah Denizen... Id also like to ask RPreskop whats gonna be in its place once its knocked down ? A weed choked dumping ground collecting trash? or yet ONE MORE surface parking lot downtown? PICK ONE. A decaying empty building is ugly. An empty lot in the middle of a city is a million times uglier. And for all the talk of potential "green space" - never gonna happen in a million years. It'll be an above ground urban landfill full of beer cans/bottles and car tires (and maybe larger junk) and nothing else.
21. TBone
0 ratings12345
Jun 3rd 2007, 16:07
Sounds like someone realized they weren't going to get anyone to buy at their ridiculous asking price. Next step? My guess is the owner will sit on it for a few more years and try again... this guy seems more interested in speculation than in development.
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I am doing a curl in PHP to post data on site and echo the result but it doesn't post data here is my code:
$imei = "imei=XXXXXXXXX";
//set POST variables
$url = '';
//open connection
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_POST, true);
curl_setopt($ch,CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $imei);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, '');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_STDERR, fopen('php://output', 'w+'));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
//execute post
$result = curl_exec($ch);
//close connection
echo $result;
echo $imei;
when i echo $imei, it shows up the full string but data isn't passed :S
Please help, what's wrong with code??
Thanks in advance
Update: In the orgignal html of the website it's name="imei" not id="imei"
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You should have to echo the string $result – PHP Bugs Dec 7 '12 at 8:07
That's not my probelm, even if I echo the result it doesn't show Data posted it says invalid imdi because it hasn't been passed – Seif Hatem Dec 7 '12 at 9:38
What do you expect from echo $imei; ? It is "imei=XXXXXXXXX" – Sorin Trimbitas Dec 7 '12 at 9:58
I'm echoing it to make sure that it's set correctly – Seif Hatem Dec 7 '12 at 9:58
How do you know it's not passed? Make a script on your server with <?php print_r($_POST); ?> and do a request to that script url to check if POST data is passed or not. Are you sure the url you request is correct? I see no www. there and they might redirect you to the url with www. and POST data is lost on redirect. – Ranty Dec 7 '12 at 10:01
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You haven't set the option CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER. cURL does not return the response if you don't set this option to true.
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
I also suggest changing your POST data to an array instead of a string. The cURL option accepts an array and it automatically builds and encodes the string from that. if you build it yourself, you have to encode it as well.
$imei = array('imei' => 'XXXXXXXXX');
Edit: based on your debug data, I think your resource requires a GET request not post. You should also set a user-agent, because the site may reject requests without one:
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0)');
From the Manual:
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still having the same problem :S \ – Seif Hatem Dec 7 '12 at 9:55
What does var_dump($result); show? Also check your error log – MrCode Dec 7 '12 at 10:10
Also see my edit about post data. – MrCode Dec 7 '12 at 10:16
$result: shows the webpage with error that the imei hasn't been passed – Seif Hatem Dec 7 '12 at 11:32
I think you need a GET request not POST, so remove the curl post options, and set your URL to – MrCode Dec 7 '12 at 11:39
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When designing legged robots, we generally see an even number of legs. Mainly, we think, it is due to us modelling things after nature. But with robotics, you’re free to do whatever you want. [Iketomu-san] has built this unsettling 5 legged robot out of parts he had lying around. The gait is fairly interesting. He mentions that it could be used for robot fighting, where the odd leg would serve as a prop from behind and the two legs up front could be weapons. What kind of gait or use can you come up with for this thing?
1. Spork says:
I prefer this to the 3 servo hexapod that was posted recently, which had 6 legs but much more limited motion. The zero turn radius on this robot is a major advantage in my book.
2. andrew says:
Cool. I wonder what he’s sending over radio.. Specific servo positions? Or, direction info with the occasional instruction to use a different pre-programmed gait?
3. Hackius says:
I’m so building that tripod I had on the drawing board so many years.
4. herbicide says:
I expected it to stand up, near the end.
5. Brian says:
This thing reminds me of a poison headcrab zombie *shudders*
6. Dielectric says:
Put a glove on it. It’s Thing T. Thing!
7. LuciusMare says:
Walking alarm clock!
8. Stranger says:
the fifth leg seems a little useless, it always held one stiff and drug it along. the only time it used all five was in turning, which it could of pulled of with four. using it for a prop when fighting makes sense. with more complex walking patterns could make use of the extra leg too (can’t imagine that easy tho).
9. _aa_ says:
I am reminded that kangaroos walk with five legs.
Of course, when running, this changes to two legs.
10. itsme says:
so it’s a biped that needs three stabilizers cause it can’t balance?
11. Andar_b says:
This thing reminds me of this guy I saw once, he must have been an acrobat or something, he wore a mask and a mannequin head between his legs, and would alternate between walking on hands and feet.
Anyway, the motion reminded me for some reason.
12. mooneyj says:
Need to put this things motion through some evolutionary algorithms, then we can see its capabilities.
13. Jack Sprat says:
How about moving in a sort of sideways cartwheel motion? Not sure the arms move fast enough to pull that off though. The 5th arm makes the robot appear dysfunctional when it just drags it along.
14. Torque says:
Definitely agree the gait needs work, didn’t really see any that I’d call a true pentapedal(?) motion, always working in pairs or as a support. Nice project though, and an intriguing concept, can’t wait to see the next iteration
15. sasquatchking says:
I would have to say this is modeled from nature. The 5th leg is certainly nothing new, though we generally call it a tail.
16. Fallen says:
17. smoker_dave says:
Agreed, five is definitely more of a “natural” number than four or six. Everything else in nature (plants, fruits, vegetables) is based on the Fibonacci series of which five is a part.
18. PKM says:
I agree with Stranger, Torque- this isn’t what I’d call walking with five legs, it uses the back four (looking a bit like a gorilla to me) with the front one dragging.
I’d prefer to see it move one leg at a time going around the body, either sequentially or 1-3-5-2-4. Three are enough to balance on, so it should theoretically be able to always have two off the ground…
19. Panikos says:
fifth appendage makes me think of the scorpion tail. Invert it and use as such for tool/weapon :)
20. robomonkey says:
I’m thinking insect like locomotion in the same way that an ant can manipulate all 3 segments, just without the segments.
21. Jim Foster says:
You should name him “draggy”. Pretty cool though, I’m sure 5 legs is pretty difficult to program.
22. barry99705 says:
I was thinking the same thing, though I’ve never seen how a starfish moves.
23. markii says:
is this thing gonna come and get me?
24. Boudico says:
I don’t understand why so many bot builders neglect a simple and cheap part… A small piece of rubber or neoprene on the ends of the feet. That thing seems to waste much of it’s energy with slips/slides. The concept is interesting however.
25. Drake says:
Why use genetic programming when you can use your hand … better yet make it look like a hand and freak people out
Like thing from Adams Family
or a Floormaster/Wallmaster from Zelda. That my good sir would kick ass
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Bradley - 5:05 am on Dec 12, 2000 (gmt 0)
Current situation:
I am looking at building a directory of sites in a well established industry that has a few major players. The major players have directories that contain 13,000+ categorized links.
In an attempt to rapidly grow my directory, I am seeking the most effective and ethical method for adding links into my directory. Any suggestions?
My thoughts:
I need to create a process that can be "mass produced" but also be inviting to the person reading an email they receive from me. (I am well aware of SPAM and its consequences.) My initial thought is to traverse through my competitors' directories and visit all the sites in their directory. I would search for an email address on the website and email the owner. The email would inform the person of our website and request that they add their free website link to our directory. Obviously if I have to personally visit 13,000+ websites, this is going to be a very innefficient process. Are there any programs out there that can help me increase the efficiency of this process?
Once I have about 5,000 sites listed in my directory, I would then request a reciprocal link. In return, the websites would receive a better ranking within their respective category.
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} | 763 | I bet a lot of you were looking forward to putting your car up for sale today. Well, today I decided to be nice, but don’t worry. There will be at least one car gone by the end of the month.
Today I’m going to discuss the management of things, that is, what many of us refer to as “stuff”. It probably holds for most of you, myself included, that you have more stuff than you actually use. By extrapolation (technically induction), it therefore holds that other people has more stuff than they use as well. The cumulative mountain of unused stuff is a symptom of economic inefficiency. Inefficiency is what will slow you and everyone else down from early retirement or even prevent it.
Typical excuses for keeping stuff (around)
1. I need it. (Answer: Then why haven’t you used it for the past 12 months?)
2. I might need it. (Answer: Highly unlikely, since you haven’t used it for the past 12 months.)
3. I didn’t know I still had that. (Answer: Roll eyes.)
4. This was a gift from aunt Martha. (Answer: How about regifting it aunt Bertha?)
5. This [antique[ is worth a lot money. (Answer: Then sell it!)
6. I will just hold on to it a little longer. (Answer: How long?)
I’m sure you can think of other excuses.
The main problem here is that people have grown accustomed to acquiring stuff by buying it new from stores and forgotten all the alternatives. As a result, everybody on your street owns a blender that they have used maybe 10 times over the past year; everybody owns a ladder even though they have only been up on the roof once (I own a ladder, but I’m up there every other week); everybody stock a home library and a private movie collection (and maybe even a private cinema sized projector system); and everybody owns some kind of crafts/hobby supplies that were fun for about a month but which were then put on hold.
This wasteful activity stops right now 8-)
There is a major untapped resource here though. You might be one of the few people that actually have some desire to own a blender, if only for a short while. Instead of buying it (on sale, of course, everything is always on sale in this country, ugh!) get it for free.
Here’s how to get it for free. Use freecycle.org. Click on the link and see how it works. Then join. After you sign up you should start getting emails.
Your task for the week, should you choose to accept it, is to find one (or several) of your unused(*) possessions and OFFER it on freecycle. See what happens. If you do not have a bicycle, your task is to get one for free. Simply post a WANTED ad detailing your desire to get one. Oh, and if someone actually offers you a bicycle be sure to pick it up!
(*) A good definition of unused is anything you have not used for one year. If you have used everything you own for a year, then congratulations. You get a C. Move the time frame back to six months. Still good? You get a B. Move the time frame back to one month. If you’re still good, I have nothing to teach you. You get and A and you can skip this exercise :-)
You will find that most things show up on freecycle sooner or later. If you want an xBox360, we’re talking much later, but I did recently see someone offer a PS1 and I gave away an Atari2600 simulator I got for xmas one year (it was fun for 30 minutes!). Freecycle will also teach some valuable lessons about lifecycle management. Unless you repeat the stunt of our former neighbors, who put an estimated 10-15 large black trash bags of stuff (clothes, toys, …) out for garbage pickup during the last spring cleaning (Disgusting does not even begin to describe that kind of waste!), you will probably see that getting rid of stuff is a lot harder than acquiring it. We truly live in an affluent society, otherwise people would be knocking down your door to get your superfluous things. However, be patient, sooner or later someone will take it. If not freecycle, then craigslist.
The effects of this exercise is
1. Saving other people money.
2. Saving yourself money.
3. Thinking more deeply about future purchases.
4. Needing less storage and fewer bedrooms.
5. Having an easier time to move to a new place.
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A New Approach to Fortify Your Software
In an era where crackers are increasingly finding ways to get into corporate networks to cause havoc, a startup out of Menlo Park, Calif., has come up with a seemingly novel approach to security -- get rid of application vulnerabilities before they're deployed.
With that approach in mind, Fortify Software launched its company Monday, pitching its Source Code Analysis and Run-time Analysis software suites, designed to comb through source code in an application development project and point out likely security lapses.
Application vulnerabilities are becoming more than just a nuisance in recent years. According to Carnegie-Mellon's CERT Coordination Center, the number of reported vulnerabilities has jumped from 171 in 1995 to 3,784 last year. The result: crippling breaches, not just in Microsoft products, but in seemingly-secure software such as FreeBSD and OpenSSL Project.
The software fits every sphere of influence in the project; from the desktop tool, Developer Toolkit, which programmers run before filing their day's work with the program lead, to the server-based Source Code Analysis Server, which takes the code and runs a comprehensive scan (a la late-night database refreshes) against a list of 540 known code vulnerabilities. Run-time analysis lets project testers and quality assurance teams rake the software through the coals just before deployment, including simulating a hacker using every trick in the bag to compromise the software.
The Monday announcement is a "sounding-out" exercise to see if application security is really a concern with businesses worldwide; in beta tests with several companies now, the software suites won't be publicly available until sometime between now and June.
The company's already garnered some high-profile traction -- financially backed by Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers since its formation in 2003, AT&T Wireless and PayPal have already committed themselves to the software.
It's likely to grab some attention, and new customers, in the wake of an April 1 U.S. Task Force report, "Improving Security Across the Software Development Lifecycle," which finds software security awareness lacking. The coalition of academics, trade associations and public and private sector executives report security "must be at the heart of the software specification, design and implementation process," the report stated. The task force is looking at several incentives to get companies and agencies to embrace software-as-a-lifestyle choice, including: making software security a job performance factor, awards/grants/rewards, and certifying proven secure software implementations (with the end goal of creating a National IT Security Certification Accreditation Program).
Its clear Fortify's software caters to large customers. A 25-programmer team using the security platform runs around $150,000 to start, with an annual $1,000 subscription to get the latest rules when they come out.
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In January 2003, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP), published 10 "surprisingly common" vulnerabilities found in software code: buffer overflows, invalidated parameters, broken access control to name a few. "A stunning number of organizations spend big bucks securing the network and somehow forget about the applications," said Aspect Security CEO of web applications Jeffrey Williams of the OWASP report.
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I've noticed that a lot of software start-up companies do not post a contact phone number on their website. Even some seemingly established companies (such as 37signals) do not post their phone number (or, if they do, it's not easy to find). There's simply a "got questions? fill out this form!" page.
Is this a good strategy for a start-up business? Is there a degree of panache to having no phone number?
What if no one can answer the phone all the time? Should we just have a voice mail?
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Posted for discussion; personally, I find that having no phone number for b2b services to be about as professional a website hosted at geocities, but a lot of companies seem to have it, so maybe there's a good reason. – Alex Papadimoulis Oct 12 '09 at 21:37
I second what Alex wrote and add "arrogant" to the discussion. – Val Lynn Oct 16 '09 at 19:46
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up vote 19 down vote accepted
I debated this when first launching our website, but felt it was really necessary to have a phone number listed if you wanted to appear as a "real" business. But I didn't want to use my own phone or cell really want to appear bigger than a 1 -3 person shop.
Ultimately, I found a service called, that I'm really happy with. I'm sure there are other services out there..but this lets you setup a 888 number, have a professional voice over for your company intro, and then assign extension numbers to specific dialing rules. IE, "For sales, Dial 2" rings my cell phone, but for "Support dial 3" calls my CTO s makes you look very professional and is a very inexpensive way to stay connected to your prospects, clients, etc all while looking like a professional company.
FYI, I ended up choosing a woman's British accent for our voice over...very global! :)
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Ha! No kidding - we went with Ringcentral as well, and went with an Australian accent. Global... and fun :-) – Alex Papadimoulis Oct 13 '09 at 2:24
I think a better question is when you should get a number. If you customers want to contact you through a particular channel, it pays to listen.
So how or when are customers likely to contact you? Through your website? Email? Twitter? By phone?
In our case, it would have been better to wait to get a dedicated business phone line until after our 1.0 release became commercially available. Even now, the cost isn't justified, since most of our early adopters prefer Twitter or email to using the phone.
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There are 2 aspects to this:
1. You want to present a professional image to your potential customers. Obviously, having a valid address and a phone number adds some kind of legitimacy to the business. Wouldn't you agree? (Please don't read it the other way: I am not saying that companies not having an address and phone numbers are fly-by-night companies, but it does provide some insight into the professionalism and approachability of the company.)
2. Another aspect is: do you "want" your potential customers to contact you, or call you? Why would you lose out on a potential client just because it was hard for them to reach you. Obviously, today we tend to contact companies via email or web forms, but phones are still in use! :)
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What do you have to lose by actually trying this out?
I've heard that customers really like to be able to call you, and are pleasantly surprised that they can speak to the founder.
I would go for a phone number backed by VOIP like Skype (or Google Voice if they allowed you to get multiple numbers), since it will be cheaper than an actual line. Even if the comments go straight to voicemail, you can always return the calls yourself later.
Introduce yourself as the founder, and talk to your customers. You might actually learn something!
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It depends. If your customers are businesses, you definitely should get a phone number and post it on your website where it can easily be found. (Hint: the top or bottom of every page is an easy place to find it.)
If your customers are consumers, and your product/service is not based on providing high levels of service, then you may not want to publish a phone number, as the calls you will get are going to be more of a distraction than a benefit.
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I think its definitely a good idea to have a number, I have always had my number on The Lounge and Ruby Row sites... it just happens to be my cell-phone number. I made sure my voicemail includes my company name and I try to answer it professionally if I don't know the number. Obviously this won't scale forever and I will eventually get a nice 800 number, but it has worked out so far.
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It never hurts to have a phone number (unless you ignore the calls). Your customer or prospect should be able to reach you by whatever means they prefer, not just those you find convenient.
Get a free Google Voice account and choose a number in your area. You can set it up to ring your cell. Configure it to show your GV phone number as the caller ID so you know it's a company call. Or send all the calls to the GV voicemail. It will email them to you along with a call transcript which, although riddled with sometimes humorous errors, lets you get the gist of the message.
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Sadly Google Voice appears to be invite only at the moment, and only for US residents. – newyuppie Mar 17 '10 at 2:49
If your startup is B2B, I'll highly recommend getting a phone number. Businesses, especially small businesses like dealing with a person on the other end.
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I would encourage you to list a number for your business. I don't see any "sophistication" value in not having one.
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I wouldn't publicize a phone number when you have no intentions of answering during business hours. A 1-3 person company that lies about the size of their business is going to get caught regardless of the electronic voice mail's accent. If you had an international business, you'd be listing your international customers.
The sites that don't advertise their phone number probably only give it out to paying customers and high-end B2B sales & service people give out their cell phone numbers as well. Saves a lot of time on stupid sales calls.
Do you list your real address or a fake international address?
Just not enough time in the day to play charades.
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My advice is to get one even if it just goes to voice mail and says something like, "To keep our services affordable we receive your message and send you a reply within 1 business day"
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I think it depends on the type of company. If customers can sign up for your service right on your site, then a phone number is not necessary. You can handle sales and customer service via email or GetSatisfaction.
If your sales process requires personal attention, you certainly need a phone number. I recommend GotVMail/Grasshopper. It's similar to RingCentral that Mike recommended, but I'm not sure how it compares. It really helps to have a service like this where you can set up custom menus and voicemail boxes. You can have voicemails emailed to the appropriate person, and route calls to home, work, or cell numbers as needed. If you do decide you need a phone number, I highly recommend a virtual PBX like these services as opposed to a Skype or Google Voice number.
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You could get a Skype number for little money in the State and City of your choice (I have mine in Sanfran). This number forwards the call immediately to your Skype account, you can even set Skype to reforward that to your mobile. This whole thing works beautifully.
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You should have a phone number if you cannot answer all the questions about your product or services in an FAQ or about us page.
Then again--there is no right answer to this question. You mentioned 37signals, they are doing something right. Their products are not cheap (but very well priced compared to the market) however they were one of the first and got a lot of visibility and carved a very particular niche out.
If your message is so much aligned with your target audience on your site that when they arrive the total experience entices them to stay then...
**Here's An Idea**
Everything is is subject to testing--you can setup a funnel in Google Analytics to test how aligned your message is with your audience. Setup a 3 step funnel in GA and try to drive visitors through the funnel to a sale without a phone number.
check out Avinash Kaushik's site for more information on setting up GA funnels and every other imaginable concept on quality metrics.
For me I have ring central as well, no complaints, can get a virtual desktop "soft phone" and field live calls from your PC forward calls to your cell or google voice number. It's affordable even to test a new business idea.
There is no right answer to this question until you test your audience and niche and particular message.
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Having a visible phone number for processing credit cards, and to a lesser degree, for sending out marketing email is a requirement. It makes you look good, and while you obviously want to channel customer inquiries through a form that enables tracking and ticketing, there are some phone calls you want to get. You want to get the call from a customer who's about to spend big, but is impatient by nature and your soothing intervention - while it may knock your schedule out of whack, is worth it.
On the flip side, people who actually bother to call show an interest level above the norm. Sure, some can be irritating, but from our experience, the calls we get do matter.
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Sincerely, I HATE PHONES. They are disturbing machinges from hell. Aside from my biased and subjective personal view...
I think that a well established Company should have a phone number, or... provide good quality ALTERNATIVE CHANNELS such as
• Community Forum (classic like PHP-BB, or for Q&A like StackExchange), so the users will help themselves
• E-Mail for formal communications (I written message is far better that a call, IMHO).
• On-Line chat with peolpe who really can solve problems
• Remote-Desktop support (if you are a software company), so you and your customer can see together wat's going on with the application.
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Yes yes yes! you just look so fly-by-night, hole in the wall and dodgy without one!
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Telecommunication is vital for the success of the business. YES YOU NEED TO GET ONE!
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The problem w/ publishing your phone number is that you have to make sure someone answers the phone. If people are getting thrown into voicemail constantly, what's the point? Just put a form out there.
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This new Readers Circle edition includes a reading group guide and a conversation between Firoozeh Dumas and Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner.”
Chapter 1
Leffingwell Elementary School
When I was seven, my parents, my fourteen-year-old brother, Farshid, and I moved from Abadan, Iran, to Whittier, California. Farid, the older of my two brothers, had been sent to Philadelphia the year before to attend high school. Like most Iranian youths, he had always dreamed of attending college abroad and, despite my mother's tears, had left us to live with my uncle and his American wife. I, too, had been sad at Farid's departure, but my sorrow soon faded-not coincidentally, with the receipt of a package from him. Suddenly, having my brother on a different continent seemed like a small price to pay for owning a Barbie complete with a carrying case and four outfits, including the rain gear and mini umbrella.
Our move to Whittier was temporary. My father, Kazem, an engineer with the National Iranian Oil Company, had been assigned to consult for an American firm for about two years. Having spent several years in Texas and California as a graduate student, my father often spoke about America with the eloquence and wonder normally reserved for a first love. To him, America was a place where anyone, no matter how humble his background, could become an important person. It was a kind and orderly nation full of clean bathrooms, a land where traffic laws were obeyed and where whales jumped through hoops. It was the Promised Land. For me, it was where I could buy more outfits for Barbie.
We arrived in Whittier shortly after the start of second grade; my father enrolled me in Leffingwell Elementary School. To facilitate my adjustment, the principal arranged for us to meet my new teacher, Mrs. Sandberg, a few days before I started school. Since my mother and I did not speak English, the meeting consisted of a dialogue between my father and Mrs. Sandberg. My father carefully explained that I had attended a prestigious kindergarten where all the children were taught English. Eager to impress Mrs. Sandberg, he asked me to demonstrate my knowledge of the English language. I stood up straight and proudly recited all that I knew: "White, yellow, orange, red, purple, blue, green."
The following Monday, my father drove my mother and me to school. He had decided that it would be a good idea for my mother to attend school with me for a few weeks. I could not understand why two people not speaking English would be better than one, but I was seven, and my opinion didn't matter much.
Until my first day at Leffingwell Elementary School, I had never thought of my mother as an embarrassment, but the sight of all the kids in the school staring at us before the bell rang was enough to make me pretend I didn't know her. The bell finally rang and Mrs. Sandberg came and escorted us to class. Fortunately, she had figured out that we were precisely the kind of people who would need help finding the right classroom.
My mother and I sat in the back while all the children took their assigned seats. Everyone continued to stare at us. Mrs. Sandberg wrote my name on the board: F-I-R-O-O-Z-E-H. Under my name, she wrote "I-R-A-N." She then pulled down a map of the world and said something to my mom. My mom looked at me and asked me what she had said. I told her that the teacher probably wanted her to find Iran on the map.
The problem was that my mother, like most women of her generation, had been only briefly educated. In her era, a girl's sole purpose in life was to find a husband. Having an education ranked far below more desirable attributes such as the ability to serve tea or prepare baklava. Before her marriage, my mother, Nazireh, had dreamed of becoming a midwife. Her father, a fairly progressive man, had even refused the two earlier suitors who had come for her so that his daughter could pursue her dream. My mother planned to obtain her diploma, then go to Tabriz to learn midwifery from a teacher whom my grandfather knew. Sadly, the teacher died unexpectedly, and my mother's dreams had to be buried as well.
Bachelor No. 3 was my father. Like the other suitors, he had never spoken to my mother, but one of his cousins knew someone who knew my mother's sister, so that was enough. More important, my mother fit my father's physical requirements for a wife. Like most Iranians, my father preferred a fair-skinned woman with straight, light-colored hair. Having spent a year in America as a Fulbright scholar, he had returned with a photo of a woman he found attractive and asked his older sister, Sedigeh, to find someone who resembled her. Sedigeh had asked around, and that is how at age seventeen my mother officially gave up her dreams, married my father, and had a child by the end of the year.
As the students continued staring at us, Mrs. Sandberg gestured to my mother to come up to the board. My mother reluctantly obeyed. I cringed. Mrs. Sandberg, using a combination of hand gestures, started pointing to the map and saying, "Iran? Iran? Iran?" Clearly, Mrs. Sandberg had planned on incorporating us into the day's lesson. I only wished she had told us that earlier so we could have stayed home.
After a few awkward attempts by my mother to find Iran on the map, Mrs. Sandberg finally understood that it wasn't my mother's lack of English that was causing a problem, but rather her lack of world geography. Smiling graciously, she pointed my mother back to her seat. Mrs. Sandberg then showed everyone, including my mother and me, where Iran was on the map. My mother nodded her head, acting as if she had known the location all along, but had preferred to keep it a secret. Now all the students stared at us, not just because I had come to school with my mother, not because we couldn't speak their language, but because we were stupid. I was especially mad at my mother, because she had negated the positive impression I had made previously by reciting the color wheel. I decided that starting the next day, she would have to stay home.
The bell finally rang and it was time for us to leave. Leffingwell Elementary was just a few blocks from our house and my father, grossly underestimating our ability to get lost, had assumed that my mother and I would be able to find our way home. She and I wandered aimlessly, perhaps hoping for a shooting star or a talking animal to help guide us back. None of the streets or houses looked familiar. As we stood pondering our predicament, an enthusiastic young girl came leaping out of her house and said something. Unable to understand her, we did what we had done all day: we smiled. The girl's mother joined us, then gestured for us to follow her inside. I assumed that the girl, who appeared to be the same age as I, was a student at Leffingwell Elementary; having us inside her house was probably akin to having the circus make a personal visit.
Her mother handed us a telephone, and my mother, who had, thankfully, memorized my father's work number, called him and explained our situation. My father then spoke to the American woman and gave her our address. This kind stranger agreed to take us back to our house.
Perhaps fearing that we might show up at their doorstep again, the woman and her daughter walked us all the way to our front porch and even helped my mother unlock the unfamiliar door. After making one last futile attempt at communication, they waved good-bye. Unable to thank them in words, we smiled even more broadly.
Hot Dogs and Wild Geese
Moving to America was both exciting and frightening, but we found great comfort in knowing that my father spoke English. Having spent years regaling us with stories about his graduate years in America, he had left us with the distinct impression that America was his second home. My mother and I planned to stick close to him, letting him guide us through the exotic American landscape that he knew so well. We counted on him not only to translate the language but also to translate the culture, to be a link to this most foreign of lands. He was to be our own private Rosetta stone.
Once we reached America, we wondered whether perhaps my father had confused his life in America with someone else's. Judging from the bewildered looks of store cashiers, gas station attendants, and waiters, my father spoke a version of English not yet shared with the rest of America. His attempts to find a "vater closet" in a department store would usually lead us to the drinking fountain or the home furnishings section. Asking my father to ask the waitress the definition of "sloppy Joe" or "Tater Tots" was no problem. His translations, however, were highly suspect. Waitresses would spend several minutes responding to my father's questions, and these responses, in turn, would be translated as "She doesn't know." Thanks to my father's translations, we stayed away from hot dogs, catfish, and hush puppies, and no amount of caviar in the sea would have convinced us to try mud pie.
We wondered how my father had managed to spend several years attending school in America, yet remain so utterly befuddled by Americans. We soon discovered that his college years had been spent mainly in the library, where he had managed to avoid contact with all Americans except his engineering professors. As long as the conversation was limited to vectors, surface tension, and fluid mechanics, my father was Fred Astaire with words. But one step outside the scintillating world of petroleum engineering and he had two left tongues.
My father's only other regular contact in college had been his roommate, a Pakistani who spent his days preparing curry. Since neither spoke English, but both liked curries, they got along splendidly. The person who had assigned them together had probably hoped they would either learn English or invent a common language for the occasion. Neither happened.
From the Hardcover edition.
Firoozeh Dumas|Author Q&A
About Firoozeh Dumas
Firoozeh Dumas - Funny in Farsi
Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran, and moved to California at the age of seven. After a two-year stay, she and her family moved back to Iran and resided in Ahvaz and Tehran. Two years later, Dumas returned to California, where she later attended the University of California at Berkeley. Funny in Farsi is her first book.
The book was a finalist for both the PEN/USA Award in 2004 and the Thurber Prize for American Humor, and has been adopted in junior high, high school and college curricula throughout the nation. It has been selected for common reading programs at several universities including: California State Bakersfield, California State University at Sacramento, Fairmont State University in West Virginia, Gallaudet University, Salisbury University, University of Wisconsin–La Crosse and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Dumas is also the author of Laughing Without an Accent, a collection of autobiographical essays published in May 2008. She currently lives with her husband and their three children in Northern California.
Author Q&A
A Conversation Between Khaled
Hosseini and Firoozeh Dumas
I first met Khaled at a fundraiser for the Berkeley public libraries
his name. From the first time I had seen the name
Soon after our first meeting, we decided to meet for dinner
to an Afghani restaurant, appropriately named Kabul. We have
been friends since.
KH: You're very funny in person, Firoozeh. Fess up. Have you always
been funny?
FD: My father is the absolute funniest person I have ever
the reaction has been?
FD: Iran does not adhere to the international copyright laws,
which means that any book can be translated without permission.
my stories I was very careful about being funny without being
horribly embarrassing for my family. So I found my own translator
to the censor’s office, since no book can be published in
Iran without government permission. Six months later, we got it
Islamic theocracy. The book has not yet reached the bookstores,
the reaction of the people you have mentioned in your book?
“how could you say that about me” questions?
be bringing up. Definitely not enough Mylanta in the world for
relatives, it would be a fourteen-volume set.
KH: What has been the reaction of the Iranian community in
America to Funny in Farsi?
side of the Iranian people to the world. Most Westerners think
Middle Easterners just discuss politics and religion all day. We’re
actually quite fun.
Where do you write? Do you have any writing rituals?
means the house gets very messy and dinner is something frozen.
can’t concentrate on anything else. I also keep writing in my
head when I’m not actually writing, which means that I become
until my kids got up.
There were photos of spectacular cottages on lakes and woodpaneled
rooms filled with travel mementos. I just always tried to
found out the hard way that glitter left over from my daughter’s
art projects really sticks to computers.
Wanna Have Funds” without crying at the end.
KH: How has your life changed since the publication of Funny
in Farsi
United States and met thousands of people. I have spoken in
always believed that there are far more good people in this
world than bad ones and that most people want to be reminded
of our shared humanity rather than our differences. Since the
publication of Funny in Farsi, my theory has been thoroughly
many schools throughout the United States are now using
tale of being an outsider. If you’ve gone through adolescence,
me that even their students who normally do not read loved
very, very sweet.
KH: What are you working on now?
and I’ve been editing a book for UC Berkeley’s International
House about the effects of September 11 on ten individuals.
KH: You remembered so many details from your childhood. Did
everyone forgot about. I have always listened and observed, so
immediately replaced by another.
America is that no one knows much about Iran except what is
on the evening news. Politics has grossly overshadowed humanity
commonalities far outweigh our differences. They get it.
think of yourself as Iranian or American?
my American side combined with the fear of facing my father.
in your kids? How about French culture?
are familiar with their heritage. But more important, I wanted
always discussed other countries and religions, and my children
and chicken tandoori are as ordinary to other kids as pizza or
chicken strips.
I always spoke Persian to my children when they were little.
started school they insisted on speaking English. I didn’t really
fight because there are enough battles between parents and children
and you have to choose them carefully. I hope someday
My children love Persian food. Who doesn’t? And they are
crazy about my extended family. When they were little, family
gatherings scared them. All that cheek pinching and enthusiastic
that and appreciate how much my family loves them.
movies to songs. We have traveled several times to France and
plan to go there more often now that we have reconciled with
and not much has changed. Abadan no longer exists as
KH: Any funny book-tour stories?
as a keynote speaker to an event where I was told there
with no budget, so I bought my own plane ticket,
thinking that the high volume book sales would more than make
five minutes for my speech and that instead of five thousand
kids, five hundred showed up. I had arranged with a
bookseller to bring six hundred books. This bookseller had also
sent four employees.
When I went to speak, we realized the microphone did not
People kept walking toward us enthusiastically; then we realized
dinner and apologized profusely. And I helped them put the 598
copies of Funny in Farsi back in the boxes.
Praise | Awards
Los Angeles Times Book Review
“Often hilarious, always interesting . . . Like the movie 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding,'this book describes with humor the intersection and overlapping of two cultures.”
The Providence Journal
“Heartfelt and hilarious—in any language.”
San Francisco Chronicle
"A humorous and introspective chronicle of a life filled with love--of family, country, and heritage."
-Jimmy Carter
WINNER School Library Journal Adult Books for Young Adults
Teachers Guide
Teacher's Guide
Funny in Farsi offers readers an intimate look at the immigrant experience through the lens of an exceptional–and exceptionally funny–Iranian family. Author Firoozeh Dumas teases out the everyday uniqueness of life in the United States as she recounts her family’s experiences as transplants from oil-rich Abadan, Iran, to the epicenter of the American pursuit of the perfect tan: Newport Beach, California. With her wry take on everything from television commercials to Disneyland to mixed marriage, Dumas uncovers what makes America so unique and so utterly puzzling to those unacquainted with its larger-than-life customs. Her poignant descriptions of what it feels like to be a stranger in a strange land will resonate with anyone who has ever experienced social alienation at any stage of life. In her unflinching examination into the essence of the Iranian immigrant experience, Dumas exposes America as it has never before been seen.
Funny in Farsi grew out of Firoozeh Dumas’ experience of moving to Southern California in 1972 at the age of seven. She originally intended her collection of essays as a gift to her children–to show them that our commonalities far outweigh our differences–and she wrote the book almost entirely in the hours before they woke for school.
Arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of his graduate school years here, Firoozeh learned to adapt to her new surroundings with a special eye to the more absurd elements of American culture. Funny in Farsi chronicles the American journey of Dumas’ wonderfully engaging family: her engineer father, a sweetly quixotic dreamer; her elegant mother, who never fully mastered English; her uncle, who combated the effects of American fast food with an array of miraculous American weight-loss gadgets; and Firoozeh herself, who as a girl changed her name to Julie, and encountered a second wave of culture shock when she met and married a Frenchman.
Funny in Farsi is an excellent addition to Language Arts and Literature courses, especially those on the genre of memoir. The book is appropriate for all reading levels, and its humor and relatability will make it appealing to a wide variety of readers, from voracious to reluctant to ESL/ELL. The book lends itself to frank discussions about ethnic assumptions, cultural differences, and racial biases, and the author’s tremendously entertaining and unflinching look at her own family’s misadventures offers fertile territory for class discussion and analysis.
Given its expansive examination of everyday life and culture in Iran and America, Funny in Farsi would also be an ideal text for students of social studies and world cultures. Its depiction of life in the 1970s, and its focus on the political crises that developed between Iran and the United States at that time, would make it a useful text for courses in American and Middle Eastern history, and for classes that study the immigrant experience.
1) How does Firoozeh feel on her first day of elementary school when her mother cannot locate Iran on a map? What kinds of assumptions might her fellow classmates make about Firoozeh’s inability to speak English, her unusual Persian name, and her mother accompanying her to school? To what extent do you think language barriers are to blame for cultural misunderstandings?
2) Firoozeh’s parents don’t speak English fluently, and their efforts to do so often lead to embarrassment, especially for their children. Why doesn’t Firoozeh do more to encourage her parents to learn English? To what extent can you relate to the experience of being embarrassed by your family?
3) How would you characterize the role of television in Firoozeh’s family? Why does television’s visual medium connect her relatives to American products and attitudes in ways that their language cannot?
4) How does Firoozeh’s experience at Disneyland, where she is encouraged to communicate with another missing child in her native Persian, expose Western biases about people who don’t speak English fluently? How do you feel about “racial profiling,” or making assumptions about someone’s ethnicity based on their appearance and accent? On what past occasions have you experienced or carried out racial profiling, and how do you feel about it now, in light of Firoozeh’s encounter?
5) How did the experiences of Firoozeh and her family in America compare to how their friends who arrived after the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis were treated? Why are immigrants whose native countries are in conflict with their adopted country sometimes subjected to mistreatment and–in some cases–discrimination or abuse? What does this all-too-common phenomenon suggest about the intersection of patriotism and xenophobia?
6) Firoozeh’s husband, François, experiences life as an American immigrant much differently than does Firoozeh. What do you think accounts for Americans’ biases in their attitudes toward immigrants from different countries? To what extent are these biases grounded in stereotypes about the immigrants’ native countries?
7) How does Firoozeh’s experience of sleepaway camp highlight the social isolation she experiences as someone who is perceived by others as “different”? How does her decision not to bathe the entire two weeks contribute to her loneliness? To what extent can you relate to her feeling of being “invisible” at camp?
8) What does Firoozeh’s decision to take an American name suggest about her feelings toward her adopted country? What might her name change to Julie suggest about her identity as an immigrant? How does her dual identity (and her ability to speak English without any discernable accent) enable her to see how Americans really feel about Iran?
9) Firoozeh’s father, Kazem, is grateful for his opportunity to vote as a naturalized American citizen. Why might being able to vote make someone feel especially connected with one’s community or country? Based on the information about Iran you have learned from Funny in Farsi, how do the political rights of Iranian citizens compare to the political rights of American citizens?
10) How is the Thanksgiving meal at Firoozeh’s house a metaphor for her American assimilation? To what extent might eating another culture’s traditional cuisine enable one to better understand its people?
11) How did the promise of education in America change Kazem’s life forever? To what extent does education seem to hold the same opportunities for both immigrants from foreign countries and native citizens?
How does Firoozeh’s interaction with her many relatives compare to your involvement with your extended family? To what extent is the notion of one’s family defined differently by each culture? How might one measure the importance of the family in American society?
How does Firoozeh’s experience of violence during the Shah’s visit with President Carter in 1977 affect her? How do you think Firoozeh is able to reconcile this experience of violence and racial hatred with her appreciation for all that America offers her family? 14) How does Firoozeh’s engagement to François, a French Catholic, affect her relationship with her parents? To what extent does her mother’s reaction to the news reflect her acceptance of the changing realities of contemporary life in America? Are mixed marriages (ethnic, religious, racial, etc.) accepted or considered controversial in your community, and why?
15) How does Firoozeh’s use of humor to describe her experiences as an Iranian immigrant in America enable you to appreciate the more confusing or mystifying aspects of American culture? How would the experience of reading this book differ for you if it were told from a more serious perspective? Of the many humorous moments detailed by Firoozeh Dumas, which was most memorable for you, and why?
Funny in Farsi contains 27 chapters, each addressing various themes for discussion. To begin a general discussion of the book, I suggest asking, “What chapter stands out for you and why?”
For those who prefer a chapter-by-chapter guide, I have prepared the following questions, followed by a set of general questions.
Leffingwell Elementary School
1. How do you react to someone who does not speak English? Do you make assumptions about their intelligence?
2. When Firoozeh’s mother could not find Iran on the map, who do think was more embarrassed, Firoozeh or her mother?
3. Do you think geography matters? Why?
Hot Dogs and Wild Geese
1. In some cultures, it is considered very rude not to try new foods. Do you try new foods? Is there a polite way to refuse?
2. What foods in this culture might seem strange to a foreigner?
In the Gutter
1. What role does television play in shaping our hopes and dreams?
2. Have you ever quit something because you thought you were not good enough?
Save Me, Mickey
1. Have you ever been lost?
2. Have you ever been mistaken for someone from another country?
3. Have you ever assumed you know where someone is from based on his or her appearance?
Swoosh, Swoosh
1. Why did Nematollah feel compelled to try every American food item?
2. What do you think of the culture of weight loss in this country?
3. Why did Nematollah believe the ads on TV?
With a Little Help From My Friends
1. Do you have a world map in your house?
2. By studying geography from first grade, Iranian students learn that the
world matters. Do you think the rest of the world matters?
3. Do you believe that kindness is never forgotten? If yes, give an example from your life.
4. How would this book be different if Firoozeh had only known America after the Iranian Revolution?
1. When you see negative events in the news about another country, what assumptions, if any, do you make about the people of that country?
2. Imagine coming to America and only watching the news. What would you think of American society? Would you feel safe?
A Dozen Key Chains
1. Share your worst camp experience.
2. Do you think Firoozeh would have made friends if she had bathed?
You Can Call Me Al
1. Find Abadan on a map. Find the Caspian Sea. Trace the drive through Tehran, the capital of Iran. If you drive that distance from your hometown, where do you end up?
2. How do you define “vacation”?
Of Mosquitoes and Men
1. Do you like to travel to exotic locations or do you prefer the familiar?
2. Why do you think some people seek adventure when they travel while others seek only comfort?
The “F” Word
1. How do you react to someone with a difficult name?
2. Do you know an immigrant who changed his name to an American name?
3. On Ellis Island, many immigrants were given new anglicized versions of their last names. Discuss the pros and cons.
1. Has anxiety ever prevented you from learning something?
2. Do you think anyone at any age can learn anything or is there a time limit on certain skills?
America, Land of the Free
1. Do you automatically try all free samples?
2. We all know the expression “nothing is free.” Is that true?
The Ham Amendment
1. Firoozeh’s father believes that there are good and bad people in every religion. Do you agree?
2. How is religion used to divide people? How does it unite?
Treasure Island
1. Education changed Kazem’s life. Do you think education can transform everyone?
2. Meeting Albert Einstein was the most exciting event in Kazem’s life. If you could meet anyone, whom would you pick?
It’s All Relatives
1. Family plays a huge role in the Iranian culture. What role does it play in the American culture?
2. In America, the role of family has changed over the years. Discuss the pros and cons.
Me and Bob Hope
1. What is it like to live in America and not celebrate Christmas?
2. Some non-Christians celebrate Christmas so their children do not feel left out. How do you feel about this?
3. Even though Christmas is a religious holiday, many believe that it has become a shopping extravaganza. What do you think?
I Ran and I Ran and I Ran
1. How did this chapter make you feel?
2. Were you surprised by the events?
3. Firoozeh wrote this story because nobody was seriously hurt. Do you think she would have written this if anyone had been seriously injured?
I-Raynians Need Not Apply
1. Even though America is the land of immigrants, immigrants do not necessarily feel welcome. During the 19th century, Irish immigrants were faced with signs in shop windows stating “N.I.N.A.” meaning No Irish Need Apply. How do we treat immigrants now?
2. Who was the immigrant in your family?
3. Some people feel we should limit immigration. Do you agree?
Girls Just Wanna Have Funds
1. Firoozeh held a string of odd jobs to earn money. Have you ever had an odd job?
2. Firoozeh’s Aunt Sedigeh did not have the educational opportunity that Firoozeh had. Do you think that educational opportunities for the next generation are improving in America?
3. Do you think that anyone who wants an education in America can obtain one?
Joyeuse Noelle
1. Firoozeh’s summer in Paris turned out very differently than what she had imagined. Have your expectations of an event ever clashed with reality?
2. Noelle was very excited that Firoozeh was from California. What stereotypes might foreigners have of Californians? What has shaped their ideas?
The Wedding
1. Have you ever attended a wedding of people from different religions?
If so, what was it like?
2. Some people believe that people should only marry within their own religion. Do you agree?
3. Firoozeh says that her mother became a “pioneer” by accepting Francois. Did you expect Firoozeh’s mother to react that way?
4. Every culture has marriage traditions. What are yours?
I Feel the Earth Move Under My Feet
1. Firoozeh described her china as having “bad karma.” What do you think she meant by that?
2. Do you agree with what Firoozeh did with the china?
A Nose By Any Other Name
1. Firoozeh says Iranians are obsessed by noses. What is the obsession in America?
2. How do different cultures define beauty?
3. The librarian had learned to accept herself as she was. How different would we be if we accepted ourselves as we are? What would happen to the beauty or diet industry?
Judges Paid Off
1. What do you think of beauty pageants?
2. Firoozeh said she thought the beauty pageant should be replaced with a spelling bee. Do you think it would be any easier to lose in a spelling bee?
If I Were a Rich Man
1. Why do you think Firoozeh’s father refuses to apologize for his mistakes?
2. What is the American dream? Has it changed over the years? Is it
3. How we define wealth in America?
Afterword: Kazem and Nazireh Jazayeri
1. Firoozeh still keeps in touch with her second grade teacher, Mrs.
Sandberg. Why do think this is?
2. Firoozeh says that everybody has a story to tell and everybody’s story counts. Do you agree?
General questions:
1. The theme of Funny in Farsi is “shared humanity.” What does that
mean to you?
2. How would our communities, both locally and globally, be different if we saw our commonalities before our differences?
3. Most Americans’ perception of the Middle East is limited to what is shown on the evening news. Since only bad news is news, how does
this effect the perception of Middle Eastern immigrants in this county?
4. Immigrants often do not try to be a part of American society,
preferring instead to spend time with their own compatriots. What can be done to encourage assimilation?
5. Should immigrants speak their native language at home?
6. Firoozeh’s book is funny without being mean. Discuss the humor found in television.
1)Ask your students to address some of the more confusing elements of American culture that Firoozeh Dumas pokes fun at in Funny in Farsi, and have them prepare an essay in which they describe the experience of viewing their country through the eyes of one unaccustomed to its idiosyncrasies. Ask your students to analyze how effective Funny in Farsi is at using humor to bridge the cultural divide between author and reader.
2)Ask your students pretend to they have just arrived in America, knowing nothing about Americans or American culture, and have them watch the evening news for 5 consecutive nights. Ask them to then write about their impressions of Americans and share these thoughts with the class. This exercise is particularly useful in helping students understand how Iranians, or other groups, often feel about having almost entirely negative news shown about them on a consistent basis; it also raises issues for discussion of media and its impact on how people formulate opinions and biases.
Ask your students to reimagine one of the typically humorous chapters in Funny in Farsi from the perspective of an Iranian immigrant who arrives in America soon after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. How did American sentiment toward citizens of Middle Eastern descent change in the wake of terrorism on American soil? You may also ask your students to describe their own stereotypes about Middle Easterners or Iranians, and how their attitudes changed in the course of reading Funny in Farsi.
Remind your students that Firoozeh Dumas reveals the experience of what it feels like to be an Iranian immigrant through a series of brief and humorous episodes from her everyday life. Have your students then brainstorm the events or incidents they would include in memoirs of their lives. Ask them to consider how many of the events they would include are rites of passage, like Dumas’s wedding or her first day of school in America, or whether they are more simply snapshots from their lives. Have your students prepare mini-memoirs in which they connect a series of these memories together in a narrative. Ask them to share their memoirs with their classmates, and to identify what the events they’ve chosen to include (and exclude) reveal about them.
Firoozeh Dumas defines most Persian words in context in the course of Funny in Farsi, but the following terms may be useful to readers.
• ameh, — father’s sister
• amoo, — father’s brother
• aqd, — Persian wedding ceremony
• dye-yee, — mother’s brother
• khaleh, — mother’s sister
• pessar ameh, — son of father’s sister
• pessar amoo, — son of father’s brother
• shohar ameh, — husband of father’s sister
• shohar khaleh, — husband of mother’s sister
• sofreh, — a hand-sewn cloth on which family arranges food and objects that carry special meaning in the traditional wedding ceremony
1) Funny in Farsi refers to a number of political controversies that arose between Iran and the United States in the 1970s, including the hostage crisis, the Iranian Revolution, and the rise of anti-Shah sentiment in America. Ask your students to research more about the history of American-Iranian relations, with a particular focus on the years covered in Funny in Farsi. Encourage your students to examine the American-Iranian relationship today, and to consider how the status of this international affiliation has changed in the past thirty years. How would Firoozeh and her family have experienced America as Iranian immigrants if they had arrived today?
2) In the past few years, a number of memoirs have been published that examine the Iranian immigrant experience in America, many of them penned by women. Ask your students to select a memoir from the list of titles below and to prepare essays that compare and contrast both works. In their analyses of both works, students may want to consider such themes as cultural assimilation, social alienation, political disenfranchisement, and political empowerment.
3) Firoozeh Dumas is also the author of the nonfiction collection, Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad. Ask your students to read Dumas’ other book and prepare an essay in which they analyze how Dumas’ opinion of the United States has changed over the years, as her acquaintance with this country has grown. Students may want to explore how the immigrant experience evolves from childhood to adulthood.
Also Available by Firoozeh Dumas
Adventures of an Iranian American, at Home and Abroad
Funny in Farsi author Firoozeh Dumas returns with Laughing Without an Accent to tell more stories about her hilarious, warm, and loving family, and the experience of being not just an American, but a citizen of the world. Whether describing her Iranian family’s wonder at her French husband’s Christmas traditions, or comparing questionable delicacies in international cuisines, or what it’s like to live in the International House college dorm when you’re an American after all, Firoozeh Dumas’ wit, warmth, and insight illuminate the universality of the human condition, and show how our differences can become our bonds.
Villard Books | HC | 978-0-345-49956-1 | 240 pp | $22.00/$25.00 Can.
Iran Awakening: One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Life and Country, Shirin
Abadi and Azadeh Moaveni
All the Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer
Laughing Without an Accent: Adventures of an Iranian American, At Home and
Abroad, Firoozeh Dumas
Journey from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, Roya
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Satrapi
This guide was prepared by author Firoozeh Dumas and writer Julie Cooper.
Julie Cooper is a graduate of Harvard University, Oxford University, and the University of Washington. She has taught beginning and advanced fiction writing at the University of Washington, and works as a freelance writer of educational materials and reading group guides for several major publishers.
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JWOWW drags Deena out of her dark hole of misery, and Pauly calls Deena the ultimate C word one can say in the universe of Jersey Shore: "Changed." (The F word is "Fake", obviously). This kind of goes in a different direction than my twisted mind would have thought, and Deena starts crying because, why did she kiss that girl? She would have never done that, what is happening?* She expresses that her actions come out of feeling alienated and alone, which I wish is a statement that would come out of Mike's mouth rather than hers. We're getting real here, and it's nice. Also nice: Deena's stuffed animal. What is that, a green raccoon? We end with a healthy jab at Sammi's poor judgement and call it a night.
(*I think it's messed up when people make other feel guilty about their sexual choices, obviously. In some ways it's good that Deena is finding herself and logically working through her emotions, but it could just be her giving into Pauly's slut-shaming and now she's convinced herself that she is wrong for acting on a harmless drunken sexual urge. The reason I hate Dr. Drew Pinksy so much is in part because I once went to a speaking of his and I saw him slut-shame basically an entire freshman class of college women. They were all crying and freaking out and I raised my hand and was given a microphone and told him that it is sexist and unfair to say that girls only ever act on sexual urges because they're weak/insecure/confused/trying to impress men/etc. and then he called me a slut and rolled his eyes! That fuck.)
Pauly, Deena and Snooki wake up at 5 AM to work at the pizza shop. Deena proves to have a decent sense of direction, which I find relieving, since "We can't find anything here!" is a trope that I am quickly growing tired of on this show. They get into cute pizza gear and Pauly starts his game. It's hard to tell if the girls are falling for him and his tan neck or just want to take pictures for when they come back home from study abroad.
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Heart's "Stairway" at the Kennedy Center (sheer brilliance...)
I have no words to describe this - just watch, and listen.
Its good - really good - till 3:21, at which point it becomes great, till 4:20, at which point it quite literally goes into overdrive.
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nebule's avatar
Is there any way that I would be able to shadow a surgeon?
Asked by nebule (15645 points ) January 16th, 2010
I’m not really sure what I want to do with my life career wise. I am currently studying Philosophy looking to complete a Philosophy and Psychological Studies Degree in 2012. During my studies I have become increasingly fascinated with the human brain and body in general, specifically thought the brain and heart.
I wanted to know if (in the UK) there was any way that a surgeon would let me shadow them for a week and watch their surgeries even having no medical training or background…would there be any way that you could shadow them and just watch their moves for a week?
My motive for wanting to do this would be two fold…
1) I’d really like to see what a neurosurgeon and cardiologist do in terms of actually watching their work for career purposes
but really more than anything
2) I’m truly fascinated by the human body and would love to just be able to see an open heart surgery.. to see a real heart and to see a real brain… even if I don’t eventually choose this path, I think actually seeing something like that could be really transformative…
I would imagine that people just don’t do these sorts of things unless you are a medical student, dedicated to learning the profession… but I’m just wondering whether it’s worth some well thought out letters of begging sent to a great number of surgeons…(maybe I’ll get lucky?) to enable my dream to come true…So if anyone knows anything about this specifically relevant to the UK I’d be very grateful… Thanks
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john65pennington's avatar
I can only tell you this. in my occupation, we sometimes have “ride alongs” in the police cars. a waiver must be signed releasing the government and the officer from any liability. i realize the police are not surgeons, but the same seneraio may apply. my suggestions is to call your local hospital business office and ask your question. since you are a student, this may be in your favor. be sure to tell them this. john
BhacSsylan's avatar
It depends on the surgeon. I had a neurosurgeon friend who offered to let me shadow just because I was thinking of becoming Pre-med, I was in no way ‘dedicated’ to the profession yet. So I’d say try and ask around, you may find someone who’s amenable to the idea, though you may have to ask for a decent while depending on how nice the surgeons in your area are.
Ron_C's avatar
I’m glad you cleared the question up in your comments. I thought you wanted to “stalk” a surgeon. The only people that I know, in the U.S. that are allowed in the operating room with the surgeon are medical and nursing students. There are some teaching hospitals with observation rooms but they are usually limited to qualified personnel.
I would say becoming a surgeon is something you decide after completing medical. First of all it is a requirement, second you can make a much better decision about what branch of medicine you want and if you can qualify.
Dr_Lawrence's avatar
As long as local laws, and hospital policies do not prohibit it, you may be able to obtain the cooperation of such medical specialists if you approach them appropriately and explain your reasons to their satisfaction.
Patient consent may also be required due to privacy issues.
Ron_C's avatar
Really @Dr_Lawrence I thought they were trying to reduce clutter in the surgery suites. I signed permission for medical students but not for observers. I would object to that.
lilikoi's avatar
I am in the U.S. I took a graduate level course relating to physical therapy and one of my classmates said she got to sit in on a knee reconstruction surgery. I don’t think she was in med school at the time but I’m not sure. I’m guessing if you have the right connections you could probably find a way in. Even if you can’t, I would definitely want to talk to many surgeons about the field and what they like/dislike about the work. Brainstorm all the questions you have about this career then pick the ones you want answered and use those to craft an interview.
If I were thinking about being a surgeon, I’d ask myself this: Do I like working with my hands and do I have good manual dexterity? Am I good at making quick decisions based on limited information or am I the kind of person that wants all the info before deciding? Do I like studying the natural sciences (biology, chemistry,...) and am I good at committing large quantities of facts to memory? Am I willing to commit to several (something like 7 in the U.S.) years of additional schooling and training (and associated debt) for a career? How do I deal with competitiveness?
nebule's avatar
thanks guys…. great answers and ideas… I don’t think I would end up being a surgeon, based upon the answers to the questions that @lilikoi just asked me to ask myself, which I have indeed questioned myself about before. But that doesn’t necessarily rule out all other kinds of medical career….
Dr_Lawrence's avatar
@Ron_C I do not disagree. I was not advocating for such a request, I merely proposed how the OP might get an answer.
babaji's avatar
Check this out
there is one on open heart surgery as well
you might search “surgery videos” on google, there are a lot.
Leo's avatar
I don’t know about the UK but here in California you can observe if the Surgeon says ok and the Patient also says ok. They only let observers in after the patient has been preped and draped and is fully covered. There is no way to see the face or any part of the body except the small part that is being opened and usually that is also covered by plastic which they cut through. No bodies on parade. It’s very professional.
I also like babaji’s answer. There must be many surgeries on line you can watch. It might, in the long run be easier.
Saschin's avatar
Point a flashlight at a surgeon. The shadow will appear on the ground. Congratulations, you are now shadowing a surgeon.
Darwin's avatar
If you cannot find a surgeon who will allow you to shadow them, I have found that veterinary surgeons are often willing to allow students to shadow them. That would give you a taste of surgery, enough to let you know if you want to pursue surgery on humans. My son was allowed to watch surgical procedures at our vet’s office one summer. He came out of it certain he did not want to be a doctor of any sort (which doesn’t surprise me).
Rarebear's avatar
Find a surgeon and talk to them and tell them of your interest. Tell them you’re considering it as a career path. You’ll probably need to go to the hospital and sign up as a volunteer, and sign a HIPAA (confidentiality) agreement. Then, assuming the surgeon agrees to let you shadow, you’ll probably need to get formal written permission from the surgeon, the charge nurse in the operating room, the anesthesiologist, and the patient. Once that’s done, you’ll be able to do it.
The veterinary route is probably easier. Even easier would be to talk to a local pathologist or medical examiner and ask to go into an autopsy.
Hope that helps.
mcercusmetic's avatar
Don’t take this the wrong way, but how do you know you’re so interested in surgery? I’m a junior in college, and I have no idea what exactly each field of medicine entails, and I am not the least concerned – since I know that these bridges/decisions will be crossed when it’s time to do clinical rotations in 3rd and 4th year of medical school.
I know you’re enthusiastic about the career and all, but you’re a sophomore in high school, and right now, you’re already doing what you should be doing – learning how the hospital environment in the ER functions, and researching your career of interest. If I were you, I would hone my basic science skills right now (physics, chemisty, biology) – as they will surely help you in college and in 1st and 2nd year of medical school.
Sure, it might be ‘cool’ to shadow a surgeon in the OR, but having this ‘clinical’ advantage won’t really affect your career progress in anyway – so there’s no need to feel at a loss if you’re not able to find a surgeon to shadow. [link removed by Fluther via internal edit]
nebule's avatar
um…I am not a sophomore in high school or doing any of that stuff
zzc's avatar
I’m in the U.S., so not familiar with how it would be in the U.K. Does your college or university, have any medical programs? If so, or even go to one that does, talk to the heads of the programs about your interest. In the U.S., even some high schools, offer programs where students can observe, and get insight into medical careers. Such programs are set up and run to eliminate the disruption to the OR. If your interest is more a “fascination”, I, and I think a lot of other medical people, would refer you to the many sources, i.e. T.V. Internet etc. for wonderful programs showing, explaining surgeries and the human body. If you actually were serious about the field, (but you, yourself, said you may not choose that path), I would encourage you to think of another specialty than brain or heart surgery. Neurosurgeons and cardiologists are . . .how to say, in my experience as a nurse, can tend to be uhm, personalities that, you may find another specialty more open to the idea. Please bear in mind, surgeries are not something to be watched, like a sporting event. It is not a simple thing you are asking. You are asking to be allowed behind the scenes, in an environment of professionals, highly trained to assure the privacy, safety and success of a surgery. You are an unknown, a complication with unknown potential. There are students in surgeries, or fathers in the delivery room, who get sick, or faint and fall, possibly hurting themselves, possibly contaminating or upsetting the the set up for the surgery, taking time and attention away from the patient. To ask to do so on your own. . .who is going to be responsible for you if that happened? The focus needs to be on the patient, not an onlooker. There are legalities for the hospital and surgeon. It’s not a simple thing, at all, that you are fantasizing. . .it’s not like watching a medical T.V. show being filmed. ITS FOR REAL. Ask yourself, do you have the aptitude in the sciences needed? The intelligence and endurance for becoming a surgeon, not to mention the finances, and the record to compete to even be accepted into a medical school? It’s for these reasons, and more, that what you’re asking for, is not a common experience. If you were in a program set up for it, there would be people with you to answer questions and talk about the experience. The people doing the work, do not have time to do that. Even orientations for new employees and very fast and intense, time is a precious commodity. Confidentiality is another huge issue. Many, many people are fascinated with medicine and the human body. . . making the advertisers for medical T.V. shows very happy . I’m sorry, if I’ve sounded harsh. It was not my intent. I meant to be realistic with you. I’ve been involved with surgeries, as an RN, for 33 yrs, the last 24, in a university setting. Good luck, it’s difficult to find, and follow your passion.
nebule's avatar
@zzc Thank you…I don’t find your comments harsh at all, I thoroughly respect what you have said and appreciate that surgery is very serious and all sorts of factors have to be considered as you have cited above. Thank you for your input. Since posting this question I have decided not to go into this area due to the intense and immense amount of training I would have to do, which is simply not feasible for a single mother…well not me anyway. I simply can’t afford all the time away from my son to go through the necessary training. I am however continuing my studies in Philopsophy and psychology to get a degree and hopefully do a post-graduate conversion course which will enable me to get accredited with the British Psychologist’s Society. This in turn will enable me to go into possible forensic psychology or neuro-psychology. Thanks again for your advice x
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I just wanted to share this new stop-motion music video from directors Yuval & Merav Nathan ("Her Morning Elegance"). I've had the pleasure of working with Yuval & Merav on more than one occasion and I am constantly amazed at how unique and sincere their work and approach to animation continues to be. This video is no exception and the fact that it was all animated in stop-motion on an actual beach with real sand is truly a testament to the ability and skill of all the animators involved including "jack of all trades" Guy Ben Shetrit who is also the guitarist/songwriter for this amazing band.
It's art like this, that successfully marries two different mediums together to create something completely new and original, that makes me wonderfully excited to see how much further the stop-motion medium has yet to be pushed and explored.
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1. That was beautiful. Simply beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
2. WHAAAA?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!!??!???!??!?!??!?!!?!?????????
wow. that's some impressive use of beach sand! I'm curious how you had your space set up and how big your sculptures were. Also whether anything was added to the sand to hold it together...? i mean really, eel teeth? made of sand?
so good!
3. Hey Brian! I didn't actually get to work on this video, though I was able to talk to the director about his technique and how he was able to put it together. First he said that everything was shot on a public beach at night. He had to bring along a generator to power a few high power lights and set up a laptop with Dragon Stop-Motion installed to use as a frame grabber. For some of the more intricate creatures, like the eel, he did use a partially pre-sculpted head in combination with the natural sand just so that the form would be easier to animate. Other than that it was basic beach sand held together with water straight from the ocean. There's even a frame in the video if you can find it where he's walking towards the shore with a pail to get more water.
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QUIPUS (Khipus, Qippos), the ancient Peruvian name for a method of recording which was in use at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards. It consisted of a cord two feet in length to which were attached a series of knotted-strings (Peruv. quipu, a knot) hanging like a fringe. These strings were coloured, and the knots, their number and size, their distance apart, the colours, the order in which the coloured threads hung, all had a signification, e.g. white was silver, yellow gold; white meant peace, red war, &c. In this manner a rough register of important events, of births, deaths and marriages, and other statistics was kept, the quipus even constituting a rude history of the people. They were also much used for conveying orders to military chiefs in the provinces.
The idea of knotted strings to aid memory is so simple that it is common to many peoples. A Pelew islander, visiting England, knotted strings as a diary of all that struck him during his travels. In the Hawaiian Islands native carriers have knotted-string records of their rounds. The Peruvian quipus is simply the perfecting of a system of mnemonics common to the Red Indians. See also WAMPUM. | http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Quipus | robots: classic
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I like how the PC version of Skyrim lets you use the number keys to switch quickly between spells, but its awkward to use this capability when you are in a spell + shield configuration. As far as I can tell shields can only be equipped in the left hand, and this is unfortunately the same hand used to equip a spell when you press the assigned number key.
I want a setup where I can press the number keys to select different spells for my right hand while keeping the shield equipped on my left hand. How can I do this?
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I've figured out one way to do this but its pretty clumsy. The key is that double tapping a spell key will equip the spell in both hands. So I have my hotkeys as follows:
1 - Shield
2 - Spell A
3 - Spell B
If I want to equip shield + spell A, I hit 2, 2, 1. This will equip spell A to both hands and then put the shield back into the left hand.
If I want to swap to shield + spell B, I hit 3, 3, 1.
This works but I would still much prefer a simpler way.
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I'm afraid there isn't a simpeler way – Lyrion Nov 22 '11 at 7:32
Very necessary tip thanks Paul. Would be a shame if there really is no easier way. – Andrew Moylan Dec 11 '11 at 19:34
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Wednesday, March 09, 2005
Nanotechnology and the Entrepreneurial Mind
Last evening, I had the opportunity to serve on a panel at a forum on nanotechnology held by the Minnesota Entrepreneurs Inc. In my short time before the group, which had just been bombarded with a series of short lectures on the technical and futuristic aspects of nanotechnology, I tried to convey the immense opportunity entrepreneurs can help play in bringing nanotechnology to the commercial marketplace.
It is conventional wisdom that the emerging field of nanotechnology is complex and the field will not suffer from the rash of start-ups that the Dot.com era witnessed. While this is true, I noted that there was no reason to be intimidated by the field—or write it off just because you don’t have a PhD in physics, biology or the material sciences. There will be no shortage of entrepreneurial opportunities for those who understand how nanotechnology-enabled advances in the materials sciences, data storage, energy devices and a myriad of other products might soon be utilized by the masses.
My point was that tomorrow’s most successful entrepreneurs will not just be those people who actually start nanotechnology companies (my guess is that this number will be relatively small and will be limited to those with a deep base of scientific knowledge and/or access to a deep reservoir of financial capital which will be necessary to bring their product(s) to market), it will also be open to those individuals who understand how nanotech-enabled advances can be used to improve people’s everyday lives and enhance business operations.
Let me provide a few examples. Nanotechnology is driving a revolution in material sciences. Nano-Tex’s stain-resistant pants are often held up as a model example for how nanotechnology can revive an industry—the textile industry—that was long given up as outdated and uncompetitive. The question the entrepreneur has to ask is this: Are there new business opportunities that could emerge from this revolution? For instance, if cloths are now lasting longer—and staying cleaner—are there additional business opportunities to rent clothing—or other products—coated with nanofibers? Similarly, as other nanotech companies manufacture lighter, stronger, and more dent and scratch resistant materials, what new opportunities could emerge? If self-cleaning or energy-enhanced windows become more prevalent, how can the engaging entrepreneur harness these properties to improve a company’s—and thus his or her own—bottom line.
The advances nanotechnology is enabling in data storage arena offer similar entrepreneurial opportunities. To illustrate my point, I offer the example of Reed Hastings, the founder of NetFlix. He didn’t invent DVD technology. He was simply among the first to recognize that eventually DVD technology would get so inexpensive that he reproduce and send out DVDs in the mail and allow customers to keep them for an indefinite period of time. In so doing, he successfully challenged the entire video rental industry.
Will similar opportunities emerge in the future? Yes, and it is going to be the entrepreneur—not necessarily the developer of the technology—who gets rich in the process.
Another area, I am personally excited about are the advances being made in flexible solar cell technology. Konarka is reportedly working with the U.S. Army to embed solar fabrics directly into the uniforms of our soldiers. The purpose is to help our fighting men and women reduce the number—and weight—of batteries they must carry. Solar fabric, by allowing them to essentially recharge their computers and other electronic equipment from their clothing, will do this. The technology will undoubtedly be beneficial for our soldiers, but is there also a successful business lurking in the technology? Yes. I don’t necessarily know what that business will be, but if people can recharge their cell phones, laptops, and IPods from their clothing, my guess is that the entrepreneurial mind can think of some exciting possibilities.
To do so, however, the entrepreneur must first understand where nanotechnology is pushing a variety of technologies. By doing so, they can get out ahead of the herd and capture these opportunities before they become obvious to everyone else.
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Develop a new mindset towards your food to achieve your goals
Posted on by Krista Austin
power lunch
Photo by Oskar Karlin
Performance nutrition is defined as using food and fluids strategically, to optimize training and performance. For many, this may require seeing food in a new way: eating to optimize training and work, rather than training just so we can eat. In order for nutrition to be performance focused, goals for training and competition must be set to drive one’s nutrition plan. For triathletes, this frequently includes goals such as increased stamina, improved body composition, or racing without GI distress or muscle cramps. This mentality towards food can be extended into our performance at work as well. Goals for the workplace might include improved cognitive function and steady energy levels—both which allow for a more productive, enjoyable day.
Nutrient timing is a key aspect of performance nutrition. Simply put, this is about identifying key time points within the day where food or fluid consumption will impact your training goals, an aspect of competition, or your performance at work. In the case of food, this will also involve determining the best type of fuel source for achieving energy demands and your main performance goal.
Time your caffeine intake right/Photo by Amelia Bellows
Time your caffeine intake right/Photo by Amelia Bellows
Meals or snacks can have a fast, moderate, or slow rate of digestion and absorption depending on the ratio and type of carbohydrate, protein, and fat that the food and fluid contain. Here are some examples of nutrition strategies that can apply simultaneously to performance goals in training and performing well at work.
The power of low-glycemic foods
Low-glycemic foods (like most vegetables, fruits, and whole grains) optimize our energy. Improvements in the ratio of muscle to fat mass result in an enhanced power to weight ratio, which is critical to an athlete’s success in triathlon. Reducing fat mass and increasing muscle mass is best achieved through energy intake via moderately sized, low-glycemic meals or snacks that are consumed every three to four hours throughout the day. In addition, low-glycemic foods consumed prior to exercise have been shown to increase time to exhaustion, allowing for a high quality training session. In addition, focusing on a nutrition plan that is based on low-glyemic foods can also optimize mental energy at work. Maintaining stable blood glucose levels can help in tasks that require sustained attention and complex analysis b
Hydration for recovery and mental performance
Good hydration is critical for a number of physical reasons, but many don’t realize the significant impact it can also have on mental performance. Have you ever been in the middle of a workday and wondered why you feel so tired and sluggish, despite eating regular meals? Dehydration might be the culprit. Dehydration by more than 1 percent of body weight leads to decreased cognitive function and mental energy. By consuming small amounts of water or other low-calorie fluids every 15 to 20 minutes, we improve our mental function and our physical recovery. Fluids help remove waste products from the body that are generated by normal metabolism and exercise. They also help to optimize muscle recovery by keeping body temperature at its optimal point.
Timing caffeine ingestion
When we feel good, we perform well in training and at work. Caffeine is a nutritional supplement that acts as a stimulant to the central nervous system and helps to sustain mental and physical performance. It increases the release of beta-endorphins (especially during exercise), which not only promote a feeling of well-being but, perhaps surprisingly, can also help us to relax later in the day.
Caffeine enhances physical performance through the recruitment of muscle fibers and by liberating fat for use as a fuel source. Up to 300 mg of caffeine can be safely consumed by healthy individuals on a daily basis. While some love to get a strong “hit” of caffeine in the morning to get them thinking or moving, a more strategic and timed use of caffeine depending on when we need it the most might be best. Throughout the work day, consumption of caffeine in small, even doses may help to sustain cognitive function and mood by ensuring that we don’t experience withdrawal symptoms, and so that we leave work feeling good enough to train. In the case of a long distance triathlon, gradually increasing the amount of caffeine with each ingestion of carbohydrate can help to sustain focus, energy and muscle recruitment over a prolonged period of time. When the going gets tough in the later stages of a race, we need all the “feel good” energy we can get!
Performance nutrition is about designing what you eat and drink to gain an advantage in physical and mental performance. Develop a new mindset towards your food to achvieve the goals you have for training and work. Start today by identifying three key goals you have for your own performance and see how you can purposefully eat and drink your way to success.
Krista Austin is a physiologist and nutritionist who consults for the Nike Oregon Project, numerous track and field athletes, USA Triathlon, among others. She’s worked as a physiologist for the U.S. Olympic Committee and as a performance nutritionist for the English Institute of Sport and England’s Cricket Team. She has a PhD in exercise physiology and sports nutrition, a master’s degree in exercise physiology, and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. Visit her online at | http://lavamagazine.com/training/eat-for-life-nutrition-strategies-for-work,-life,-and-training/ | robots: classic
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Delivery of healthcare is changing; the demand for rapid diagnostic testing is becoming more prevalent. The new global imperative is to speed up the diagnostic process, tailoring it more effectively to individual patients and their circumstances.
Testing at an earlier stage in the disease cycle for chronically sick patients offers clear potential to improve their quality of life by allowing self monitoring of their conditions at home or locally, rather than requiring hospital visits. In acute situations, where speed of diagnosis is critical, effective PoC testing has a crucial role to play. For example, the possibility of running an accurate and precise Troponin I assay in an ambulance on a potential heart attack patient may make a material difference to treatment and clinical outcome.
The factors driving this new approach create an opportunity for rapid diagnostic testing to play a more significant role in the patient care cycle. There is clear demand for rapid, intuitive, easy to use, robust handheld technologies that can safely take the testing environment to patients at a practical cost. Such platforms must deliver the level of sensitivity required for accurate measurements, from the smallest possible sample, and with the precision and accuracy of hospital laboratory systems.
The PoC market is growing rapidly. Forecasters suggest 10% growth per annum over the next 4-5 years making the total market worth over $22 billion. Growth rates are driven by the wider adoption of PoC technologies and new product launches. Improved accuracy and tests for a wider number of conditions will continue to see the self-test market develop rapidly. A key opportunity is for improved PoC product penetration in primary and secondary care settings.
Effective and reliable PoC technologies at the right price, such as those developed and in development by Bio-AMD can meet this need; improving care, saving costs and positively affecting clinical outcomes.
Bio-AMD has positioned itself as a leading innovator in the field of reader technology development
PoC diagnosis requires the combination of two main fields of science:
1. Bio-chemistry designed to detect changes in body fluid chemistry and signal a medical condition and;
2. Electro-mechanical engineering required to create apparatus to measure those chemical changes.
There are three elements to the successful delivery of PoC diagnosis:
1. The biochemistry itself; and
2. The medium that holds and combines the bio-chemistry with a body fluid sample; and
3. The device (“reader”) that detects the changes in the biochemistry and communicates the result to the user/patient.
The most typical format for the detection medium is a “smart” strip e.g. a lateral flow strip that allows diagnostics chemistry and extracted body fluid to mix and react in a pre-determined way. Readers are typically designed to “read” the chemical changes on detection strips. Against this background the main trends in the PoC market are:
the development of increasingly wide ranges of complex bio-chemical detectors and markers;
the increasing sophistication of smart strips to accommodate the innovations in bio-chemistry and;
the increasing sophistication of readers, now regarded as alternatives and complements to complex laboratory equipment.
The first stage of our corporate strategy has been to develop a universal digital strip reader (DSR) capable of reading a variety of lateral flow strips to detect differing conditions. We also have in advanced stage development a blood coagulation monitor (COAG) and a generic quantitative magnetic particle reader (MPR). | http://www.bioamd.com/poc-market/10 | robots: classic
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CNN: Dick's Sporting Goods Suspends Sale of Certain Semi-Automatic After Shooting. Apparently no one at Dick's Sporting Goods knew that semi-automatic rifles could be used to kill lots of people very quickly until just recently. Ahem.
HuffPo: Sandy Hook Shooting Sparks Gun Sales Surge. Of course it did. I don't know about you, but I am increasingly concerned about being killed by some gun-toting fuckbrain with fantasies of heroic vigilantism who mistakes a French loaf for a sawed-off shotgun at the grocer than I am by someone who intends to kill a bunch of strangers.
Politico: Republican Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell (R-Va.) Says It's "Time to Have a Discussion" About Arming School Officials. Yep. Just another excellent idea from the brain trust known as the Republican Party.
TPM: Tennessee Considers Training and Arming Schoolteachers to Protect Against Shootings. Again: Perfect.
(Aside: I know it's SO SHOCKING that the gun lobby would talk out both sides of its mouth, but "keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill" and "arm teachers" effectively means that no one with psychological disabilities can become an educator. Another solid idea from the Great Ideas Team! Because kids with psychological disabilities never benefit from having teachers who can tell them, "I understand, because I'M LIKE YOU.")
New York Post: Adam Lanza's Weapons.
Has technology rendered the 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution obsolete?
That is, has the application of modern military design to civilian firearms produced a class of weapons too dangerous to be in general circulation?
We say: Yes.
...Weapons designed expressly to kill human beings, and then modified (wink wink) to meet the federal machine-gun ban, have no legitimate place in American society.
Time to get rid of them.
When the New York Post is a voice of reason, we have officially derailed as a nation.
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by sj
Right. The Mammoth Hunters picks up right where The Valley of Horses left off. Jondalar and Ayla were out riding their horses and are hailed by a big dude with a smile on his face. Ayla’s first impression of him is how huge he is, because he’s even bigger than Jondalar (who is 6’6″ and looks like a young Ron Perlman, remember?) So, the giant invites them back home with him (cos everyone is super friendly in the stone age, dur) and they meet the Mamutoi of the Lion Camp.
I could go into all of the names and hearths and stuff, but it was pretty boring and I kind of zoned out while I was reading it (I did find this awesome 360 view of what one of the Mamutoi Lodges looked like, though). Important people: Nezzie, the mate of the headman of the Lion Camp. Ranec, a half-African man whose father is Mamutoi, but his mother died on the trip back from Africa when he was small. Mamut, the ancient mystic shaman. Frebec, asshole. Rydag, boy of mixed spirits that Nezzie adopted (he’s got a bad heart and has been frail since birth).
There are a bunch of long-winded introductions (which sets the tone for even longer-winded introductions in later books), but they’re not as long as they could be because Ayla introduces herself as “Ayla of No People.” She has an interest in the boy that Nezzie adopted because he kind of reminds her of Durc – the son she was forced to leave behind. Rydag is unable to speak because he inherited his neanderthal mother’s underdeveloped vocal cords, so Ayla teaches him the Clan sign language and the rest of the camp starts using it as a way to communicate with him, but also just to mess around.
Ranec decides pretty much the minute they show up that Ayla is The Love of his Life, and is determined to convince her to share his hearth with him. This pisses Jondalar off, but he’s too busy being a passive aggressive jerk to actually tell Ayla how he feels about it.
Little known fact, Jondalar was the world's biggest douche until James Spader came along as Steff in Pretty in Pink.
Of course, because Ayla is so Mary Sue awesome everyone loves her (except Frebec, more on him in a bit) and they decide that instead of her being Ayla of No People, they’re going to adopt her and make her Ayla of the Lion Camp of the Mamutoi. Ayla decides this is an awesome idea since her totem is the Cave Lion. When she finds some amber on the ground with a bug inside, it cements her decision because that was obviously a sign from her totem. At about this point, there’s this big long passage about how she is wearing pants for the first time, so she has to figure out how to pee without taking them completely off. Not only did she not invent the pants (shocker, I know!) but she isn’t even smart enough to figure out how to pull them down a little and squat.
Mamut realizes that she’s a very powerful medicine woman, and instead of letting the Lion Hearth adopt her (as was originally intended) he speaks up during the ceremony, saying that she will now be part of the Mammoth Hearth. Jondalar sits there all pissy because he doesn’t really want Ayla to become one of these people, he wants to take her home to mommy…only he’s never actually told her this, so how is she supposed to know? Frebec stands up and objects because Ayla was “raised by Flatheads” and had a half-breed baby, so she’s an abomination he doesn’t want associated with him in any way. He changes his tune when Ayla shows off her mad fire-making skillz, and Ayla is adopted into the Mamutoi.
There is much celebrating that night, much bouza to drink (not joking, their alcoholic drink is called bouza) and Ranec invites Ayla to “share his furs.” Since she was raised that women don’t say no to men who are making advances, she goes with him and Jondalar has a massive freak out. He starts giving her the cold shoulder and stops sharing a bed with her. Ayla has no idea what she’s done wrong, she just thinks her Jondalar doesn’t love her any more. This goes on and on. Seriously, they spend the whole winter there and everyone senses the tension between them, but not one person suggests that they actually, you know, talk to each other. Ranec seizes his chance and convinces Ayla to be his mate because he loves her so much and blahblahblah. Ayla agrees, but really only wants Jondalar.
blahblahblah, nothing much happens except Ayla convinces an old lady to teach her the secret of making white leather, and she works on a soopersekrit tunic that will be a surprise for an unnamed someone. Oh, and she invents the sewing needle, no big.
One day, Ayla is out collecting ermine from her snares and sees that a black wolf has been eating her kills. She becomes very upset and chases after the wolf. She kills it with her sling, then notices that it was a nursing mother. Overcome with a fit of remorse, she follows the trail and finds its den. Inside is a lone puppy wolf. She deduces that because the mother was black it was ostracized by the other wolves for being different, and various other things that are just to give this baby wolf a back story. The bottom line is, she killed its mother so she’s now responsible.
She takes the wolf puppy back to the lodge and everyone is super shocked at first. The horses are one thing because they’re useful, but this is a meat eater! Nevermind that he’s a super tiny puffball, some people don’t want him to stay. Too bad. This is Ayla Sue, she always gets her way.
Mamut is trying to teach Ayla the ways of the spirit world, but they have a bad drug trip and Jondalar calls her back before she’s trapped there forever. She doesn’t know that his was the voice that called her home, and sees Ranec when she wakes up…they spend the night sharing Pleasures. Ew.
Jondalar decides he can’t take it anymore and that he’s going to head out THIS INSTANT to get home. Nezzie convinces him to stay, because they want him to hunt mammoth with them at the Summer Meeting and show off those nifty spear-throwers he invented.
They arrive at the Summer Meeting, and everyone is totally wary of Ayla and her animals. Not only are the horses and wolf with her, but Baby (remember, her lion?) shows up and starts trying to cuddle up to some other blonde chick. Ayla goes to greet him, then rides him across a meadow. It’s pretty ridiculous. After that, though, people are sure she’s sent by Mut, and everyone wants her to be their mate.
A whole bunch of them head north to hunt mammoth and on the way back to camp a volcano erupts! Sadly, this was not as exciting as it sounds, it just covers everyone in ash. Wolf (yes, that’s his name) was left at camp with Rydag, and he comes running to find Ayla even though they’re days away from the meeting at this point. Of course Wolf finds her and she hurries back, but it’s too late. Rydag dies shortly after she arrives and she gives him a proper Clan burial.
Jondalar sleeps with a bunch of women at the meeting, but none of them compare to his beautiful Ayla. He’s even asked if he’s willing to participate in the First Rites ceremonies, but (for possibly the first time ever) he declines, claiming the girl they want him to “open” is too close to him and it would be like doing his little sister. The day Ayla is supposed to be mated to Ranec is the day Jondalar actually leaves. When she realizes he’s gone, someone finally tells her to go after him and she does. They profess their undying love for each other, and tell each other how stupid they’ve been for the last year. DUR, EVERYONE SAW THIS BUT YOU!
So, yeah. After this, they ride off into the sunset together. We’ll find out more about that journey next week.
13 Responses to “Trashy Tuesday – The Mammoth Hunters”
1. And he is the first dude to get down on one knee to propose. So all you guys out there, you have a lusty cro-magnon to thank for that pose.
2. “Little known fact, Jondalar was the world’s biggest douche until James Spader came along as Steff in Pretty in Pink.”
You are hilarious!
3. I think my favorite is the part about the pants and the peeing conundrum- I couldn’t stop laughing!
• You know…there are so many things that I thought were going to have some grand significance because of how much time she spent on them, only to have her never bring them up again.
Learning how to pee was one of those things. >.<
• Ok, so I had this book on hold before I wasn’t sure if I actually wanted to keep reading the series. It became available and now I’m reading it (why, I don’t know). She actually does resolve the issue of learning to pee. It’s briefly mentioned when Ayla is walking with Deegi somewhere, and they stop to pee and Ayla thinks something of being grateful for seeing Deegi peeing so she could figure it out.
But, yes Jondalar is a possessive douche who thinks Ayla should be able to read his mind. And otherwise, I skip quite a few paragraphs.
4. I think James Spader was so vicious because he hated being 29 and still in high school. Can’t really blame the guy.
• I’m sure he’d be thrilled to know that when I think ‘passive aggressive jerkwad,’ I think of his name.
He plays the role so well (in everything he does) that I’d be disappointed were I to meet him and find out he was actually a nice guy.
5. This is like an Adult Swim version of the book. Now I want to read the book just to compare your version. And you have the best commenters.
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