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SALINAS, CA--Since around 1960, methyl bromide (MB) has been the foundation for soilborne disease and weed control in California strawberries. MB, classified as a Class I stratospheric ozone-depleting chemical, has been phased out since 2005, but is still being used in strawberry production under a critical-use exemption.
Strawberry production is important to California's economy; the state leads the U.S. in strawberry production. In 2006, the fruit harvest yielded a value of $1.2 billion, and accounted for 79% of the total U.S. gross sales.
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A research study published in the American Society for Horticultural Science journal HortScience evaluated the effectiveness and cost efficiency for weed control in lower- and higher-elevation nurseries with MB-alternative fumigants.
Researchers Steven A. Fennimore, Milton J. Haar, Rachael E. Goodhue, and Christopher Q.Winterbottom noted that weed control in strawberry nurseries is more difficult than in fruiting fields. "Because weed control methods such as mulches used in fruit fields can't be used in nurseries, fumigants are one of the most important weed control tools available for strawberry nursery fields", the team explained.
Assessing weed control in the study consisted of three methods: weed seed viability, weed density counts, and timing of hand-weeding inputs by crews. Strawberry and weed seed samples were treated with the alternative fumigants to determine the potential for strawberry and weed seed to survive in the nursery fields. Fumigant effectiveness was studied in fields treated with the combination of MB plus Pic, iodomethane (IM) plus Pic, and control fields. Additional treatments tested were 1,3-dicloropropane (1,3-D) plus Pic followed by dazomet, and Pic followed by dazomet. Overall, there were few to no differences in weed control between IMPic, 1,3-D Pic followed by dazomet, Pic followed by dazomet, and MBPic. Relative to the control fields, hand-weeding times were reduced in all fields that had been fumigated.
The main difference between fumigating with the different methods was material cost. The researchers explained that, because current prices were used to calculate hand weeding and treatment costs, these prices will change over time and may become more equitable given different circumstances.
The study results showed that that fumigating with MB is currently much cheaper than using IM. On the basis of weed control, all of the alternative fumigant treatments were acceptable replacements for MB.
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Michigan regulators: renewables cost less than coal
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The following statement, by a conservative public service commission in Michigan, is a sitting duck for controversy.
"A Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) report show's Michigan's renewable energy standard is directly sparking Michigan's economy, generating $100 million in investments, spurring manufacturing and business growth, and creating jobs, the Energy Innovation Business Council said today. The report also shows that renewable energy now costs less than coal."
Personally, I will be fascinated to see how this statement and the report that purportedly supports it play out in the media and the presidential campaign. Many of us consider the 2012 election an opportunity for the American people to choose a candidate that reflects their view on clean energy, among many other issues. But any time someone compares renewable energy sources to coal—let alone states that the former is less costly than the latter—they're looking for attention.
Of course, this bombshell landed yesterday, just before last night's Republican primary debate and days before Michigan's voters go to the polls next Tuesday to cast ballots in their state's Republican primary. That's a "closed" primary in which any voter who declares their interest in voting in the Republican primary may do so. In practical terms, Michigan voters of many stripes are likely to determine a very important dynamic: whether Rick Santorum or Mitt Romney gets a much-needed boost prior to the Super Tuesday contest on March 6, in which 10 states hold their primaries.
Let's connect current events to the future of clean energy efforts, leaving aside for the moment the argument over whether renewables have reached parity with fossil fuel costs. (Perhaps I'll undertake to examine the MPSC's logic around that issue in tomorrow's column.)
Michigan, of course, is pivotal in the 2012 Republican primaries because Mitt Romney grew up there; his father served as governor of the state during tumultuous times, 1963-1969. Forty-three years later, George's son is looking for some home state love as Santorum pulls ahead in many polls. Santorum has made much of his grandfather's coal mining experience.
Will a moderator at the debate or a reporter covering the primary next Tuesday pose a related, clean energy question to the candidates? It would be good to know where the two leading Republican candidates stand on the general issue of clean energy and economic development and the particular question of the Michigan commission's surprising finding.
Why would folks in the smart grid space care? Well, if President Obama wins in the fall, but faces a House controlled by his opposition, federal energy policy will remain gridlocked. Should one of the Republican candidates win the White House and have an allied Congress, which direction will they go on federal energy policy? We know Santorum and Romney are hostile to regulation in general and environmental regulation in particular. But what are their positions on the dozens of key issues buffeting the power industry? The Michigan report would be an excellent vehicle for finding out.
How Michigan regulators reached their conclusions linking clean energy to economic development should be examined, because Michigan has been hit so hard in the downturn that it has developed a very practical approach to growth. The state is not likely to be chasing chimeras.
I think back to two examples of Michigan's outlook that I've covered.
First, I closely covered Consumers Energy's efforts to test and deploy advanced metering infrastructure and foundational IT systems in a cooperative fashion with the commission's oversight and the state's other utilities. (See "Consumers Energy's Measured Steps.")
That story made clear that the MPSC was exercising its full power to ensure that any such grid modernization programs were beneficial and cost-effective for the state's ratepayers, who've been battered more than most Americans during the recent recession.
The other insight was a talk given in November 2010 at an Itron users' conference by Steven Kurmas, president and CEO of Detroit Edison, an investor-owned utility serving southeast Michigan. Kurmas described some of the impacts on Detroit and his utility as a result of "the most difficult economy in our lifetimes." Whereas the average ratepayer nationally pays out 3.7 percent of their out-of-pocket expenses on home energy use, Detroiters spend as much as 10 percent, largely due to poorly insulated homes, Kurmas said.
The upshot is that scorching economic times have given Michigan a very conservative, show-me-the-money-and-the-hard-numbers kind of perspective. If steely-eyed realism has resulted in a positive take on the economic development aspect of clean energy, either there's really something to base that on or those folks have, under pressure, lost their minds.
I'm guessing it's the former. In fact, the bombshell press release and report cited here was a cooperative effort between the MPSC and the Energy Innovation Business Council. According to the EIBC, it "aims to diversify and accelerate the growth of Michigan's energy sector and create partnerships to expand business opportunities, secure access to capital, engage the public and policymakers, advocate and build consensus for policy, and advance energy innovation with the goal of generating jobs and economic development."
According to regulators and businesses in one of the nation's hardest hit states, that approach is working. Let's see what everyone else now has to say.
Phil Carson
Intelligent Utility Daily
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I like adventures.
Whether they are as epic as meeting Kobe Bryant in Las Vegas....
We had a very stimulating conversation. I said, "Can I take a picture with you?" and he said, "No."
as stupid as walking across the Brooklyn Bridge with a paralyzing fear of heights...
or as confusing as trying to find Lance Armstrong at the finish line of the Tour de France.
That's not him in yellow, contrary to our popular belief at the time.
I've been spoiled in that I've traveled to so many interesting places, as early as a wee three year old. Did I mention I lived in Holland?
...in the 1600s, apparently.
Now, thanks to being dragged from country to country, museum to museum for as long as I can remember, I hate sitting still. In my spare time I plan hypothetical vacations and browse kayak.com. And when I find $100 plane tickets to Chicago from my local regional [usually expensive] airport, I don't pass that up.
So, I recruited two friends and we're off to Chicago tomorrow morning before the sun comes up. I think I'm most excited to step outside without sweating and drink my first pumpkin spice latte of the season - they aren't quite as exciting when it's 90 degrees and the closest Starbucks advertises them like this:
I've actually been to Chicago once before, just for a day, and made the unfortunate mistake of wearing boxers under a dress in order to ride a bike without flashing anyone.
Which leads me to the real reason I'm going to Chicago -- I need pictures of myself in the Windy City where it doesn't look like I'm wearing a diaper.


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Greetings, I've purchased a used set of Evans NSP with G and D chanters, complete with Butler's handbook for maintenance of the same. I'm fairly adept in trying new things, but I'm dubious about restoring my pipes to optimum playability on my own. The pipes were produced in 2008, barely played since, shipped from Glasgow to Oklahoma City this month. From my observations, listening, and cursory reading of the handbook, I believe several problems need addressing.
1. The chanter reed does not seal when inserted.
2. The drone reeds squeal and may need adjusting.
3. The drone plungers are loose, and the lowest drone does not sound at all.
4. I don't know when the last time the bag was seasoned, the wood oiled, the keys/cork maintained.
If I'm to persist with my new instrument, I'll need to learn all about how to maintain them. But, my preference would be to have a respected maintainer restore them, preferably someone in the US. I'd appreciate any help and suggestions. That would help me remain motivated to play them!
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The summer lull in K-pop is over. It's now time for the big guns to make some noise again! I haven't written a K-pop review in a few months, and since quite a few popular artists have made their return, I figured I too could make a comeback!
SHINee – "Everybody"
SM Ent. still seems to love dubstep. Starts off that way, but the fact that you hear the chorus even before the first verse kind of ruined the impact of the song for me. The sound is very electronic, and the interludes make the song sound like a bit of a mess at times. It's nice to see Minho get more lines to actually sing and not squeeze in a rap line or two just to make his presence felt. "Everybody" is very much an electronic dance music (EDM) influenced pop song, and one that owes a lot to it's pulsating chorus for much of it's praise.
Of course being a SHINee song, I look forward to the choreography as much as I look forward to hearing the song. While the choreography has its moments of sheer awesomeness, just like the messy bits of the song, some of the moves look… silly.
SHINee will of course walk off stage with a few music show wins, and that's largely due to to power of Shawols and their rabid fanbase. I kind of wish SHINee didn't win every single one of them for the next two months, because below is the song I feel was the better song released the same day "Everybody" came out. – 3/5
T-ara – "Number 9"
I was never really a big fan of T-ara. After all, their past hits included the downright corny "Bo Beep" and "Roly Poly". In fact, 'corny' and bad Engrish are exactly what many K-pop fans expect from T-ara, and cheesiness aside, you can't deny their songs have an infectious hook. It also helps that the girls are some of the cutest in K-pop.
That said, "Number 9" is in my opinion, T-ara's best song so far! As the song began with a hook, I immediately thought this might end up being yet another signature, hook-driven song by Shinsadong Tiger, the producer behind most of T-ara's biggest hits. But when Ji Yeon began her verse, I changed my tune as well. The song finally won me over with the chorus. It's been a while since I have fallen in love with a K-pop song upon first listen. And I haven't felt this way about a K-pop song in a long while. SM Entertainment's productions are now largely Westernized songs with Korean lyrics. YG has their hip-hop swagger, but songs like "Number 9" is why (and how) I fell in love with K-pop in the first place!
I'm not a teenager, so I always appreciate a more mature sound in K-pop. "Number 9′" definitely has that and the MV is just as sexy. The girls look absolutely gorgeous (no comments on Soyeon's face) and the choreography is simple but effective. Favourite bit? The look on Hyomin's face as she's dancing to that hook. Sex-y!
Although watching the dance version of T-ara's "Sexy Love" is a guilty pleasure of mine, I would never listen to a T-ara song on its own and I never had a T-ara song on my iPod. Well, not anymore. I bought the song from iTunes right away because I couldn't stop listening to it. "Number 9" may very well be my favourite K-pop song of 2013. – 5/5
Block B – "Be the Light"
I'm highlighting this song more than "Very Good" because I really want to showcase a side of Block B that isn't promoted much. Right from the time they debuted, Block B have been a breath of fresh air in K-pop's cliched library of group "images" and concepts. Their attitude was that of 'zany' and 'fun'. Sadly, their attitude got them into trouble among netizens and troubles with their old management firm meant Block B haven't been able to make a comeback for quite some time.
I've said it the last time I reviewed Block B's music — the group, and Zico in particular, are hella talented! "Be the Light" is a much needed comeback song. It's a mid-tempo, emotional ode to all the crap they have been through. Sure, they returned to their usual zany form in "Very Good," but having listened to the mini-album, I still think "Be the Light" is the best song on that compilation, and glad it got the MV treatment.
I'm just happy Block B are back. K-pop needs their energy and haters needed to get the message exaggerated controversies aren't going to hold back talented artists. Here's hoping for more Block B in 2014. – 4/5
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I know this song came out a couple of weeks ago, but damn, this song needs to get some love! SPICA are a girl group known for their power vocals and this song doesn't disappoint in more ways than one. It's uptempo, rocking, and the melody does great justice to the girl's voices. I even love the unconventional video (watch the girls play Holi ;)) — it's so very indie. Definitely one of the finest K-pop highlights of 2013:


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Because We All Know What Skype Was Missing Was Intrusive Advertising, Microsoft Has Decided To Add It
from the that's-not-how-it-works deptIt appears that Microsoft's first big contribution to Skype... is to put giant-ass ads in the middle of your call that look kinda like another caller has joined your call... except that caller is some company wanting you to buy stuff:
While on a 1:1 audio call, users will see content that could spark additional topics of conversation that are relevant to Skype users and highlight unique and local brand experiences. So, you should think of Conversation Ads as a way for Skype to generate fun interactivity between your circle of friends and family and the brands you care about. Ultimately, we believe this will help make Skype a more engaging and useful place to have your conversations each and every day.Now, I've been a big believer that good advertising is relevant content, and not just intrusive content. So I can understand the basics of what they're saying. But there's almost nothing in the execution that suggests that the folks at Skype actually understand why "advertising is content" works. It's because it provides useful or compelling content in a manner such that people want to seek it out, not have it suddenly jump up in the middle of their conversation.
As Jon Brodkin, over at Ars Technica notes (sarcastically), positioning this as a user enhancement is just silly:
Skype has provided a great service for years, keeping us connected with friends and family. But there's always been one thing missing—marketers interrupting calls with giant display ads.This stinks of an idea that some committee came up with, where no one on that committee actually uses Skype.
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As a new member, Hello to everyone,
I'm driving a BMW E82 1 2012 since December 2015, my car AC is working very nice!
May I ask here about my car audio project?
Floating ground Adapter for Car audio line level signal?
I have an Audi that uses the Bose outside amplifier (according to the datasheet of LME49811TB/NOPB - https://www.icrfq.com/part/2402808-LME49811TB_NOPB.html . Bose/Audi planned the framework to utilize a solitary regular between the take unit line off and the Bose amplifier line input, so it is four wires (FR+, FL+, RR+, RL+, Common) with the normal not attached to the ground, it is a floating normal. However, new auto sound hardware utilizes atypical that is fixing to the ground, with both the head unit and outside amplifier binds the ground to the line level normal.
One clarification I've perused, and I have no trust in the exactness, is that Bose utilizes some kind of capacitor sifting on hold level contribution to request to channel the "pops" that a head unit makes when exchanging inputs.
In any case, now with another head unit that uses the ground tied regular for its line-level yield I now hear a pop when the unit switches inputs, changes radio stations and so on. One clarification is that evidently with the ground tied basic the separating capacitors in the Bose amplifier get attached to the ground amid the info changes of the head unit and release to ground.
What most I've found on the web says to utilize is a "Gliding Ground Adapter" (FGA) between the head unit and the speaker.
Being the electrical specialist I am I'm thinking about whether anybody has any recognition with these auto sound frameworks and could help me to design an FGA, or concoct some other approach to decouple the ground so as to keep these pops while, ideally, not influencing the sound quality?
Thanks for your time and helping me!
May I ask here about my car audio project?
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It's a very interesting project, Andrew. Sadly, I lack the technical knowledge to be of any help. But I'm interested if you figured anything out yourself. Any updates?
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President Elect Barack Obama wants to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan. But the US/NATO occupation is less popular than ever. Eman, an Afghan woman's rights activist with RAWA tells Uprising host, Sonali Kolhatkar, that Obama must end the occupation. RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan, is the oldest women's political organization in Afghanistan, struggling non-violently against foreign occupations and religious fundamentalism for more than 30 years.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Many on the American left are celebrating the election of Barack Obama to the presidency of the US. But while he has pledged to end the Iraq war, he has also promised to increase troops in Afghanistan. What is your opinion of Barack Obama and his stated policy on Afghanistan?
Eman: We can easily judge Obama from what he said in one of his recent interviews that he does not feel the need to apologize to the Afghan people. We do not consider this [the result of] a lack of information. But didn't he feel the need to apologize for the wrong policies of the US government for the past three decades in our country? Didn't he feel the need to apologize for the fundamentalist-fostering policies of the US government in creating, arming, and supporting these brutal, misogynist groups like the Northern Alliance and other fascist groups during the past three decades? Didn't he feel the need to apologize for the occupation of our country under the banner of democracy, the so-called "war on terror," and women's rights, but then compromise with terrorists like the Northern Alliance, who cannot be distinguished from the Taliban in the history of their criminal acts? In fact these murderers were the first to destroy our nation. And even after seven years of a very long and very costly "war on terror," terrorism has not been uprooted in Afghanistan but has become stronger and the Taliban are becoming more powerful. Plus recently [the US is] talking about negotiating with the most wanted terrorist, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, and with the Taliban, which is in contradiction with what they claimed and what their main objective was in occupying Afghanistan.
From his statements during his election campaign, we don't think that Obama's position is different from the Bush administration; it is the continuation of Bush's foreign policy. As Obama's first message to our country was that of war, we cannot be hopeful about him.
Kolhatkar: Do you think the troops should be withdrawn and if so, what will happen in Afghanistan if US/NATO forces leave Afghanistan?
Eman: RAWA strongly believes that whatever happens, a withdrawal of foreign troops should be the first step, because today, with the presence of thousands of troops in Afghanistan, with the presence of many foreign countries in our nation, for the majority of our people particularly poor people in the other provinces of Afghanistan outside Kabul, the situation is so bad that it cannot get any worse. Today they are also suffering from insecurity, killing, kidnapping, rape, acid throwing on school girls (as happened just last week), hunger, lawlessness, lack of freedom of speech (with journalist Parwiz Kambakhsh being imprisoned), After seven years of occupation [the US] failed to bring peace, security, democracy, and women's rights that they claimed. I think seven years is quite enough time to prove that democracy and peace cannot be brought by foreigners. It can only be achieved by our own people by democratic organizations and individuals. It's our responsibility to become united as an alternative against the occupation, to rise up, to resist and to organize our people.
Obviously it is very difficult. No one can predict how long it will take, how much blood, how much sacrifice, and what price should be paid. But this is the only solution, as RAWA has always emphasized.
Right now our people are under attack from different sides. From one side we have the Taliban, from the other side are the US air strikes, and from another side are the Northern Alliance warlords in different provinces. We are in a political confusion. With the withdrawal [of troops] our people will at least get rid of one of these enemies.
We believe that even with the withdrawal of the troops they have a moral duty towards Afghanistan as they have empowered these dangerous fundamentalist groups economically; and given them arms which were a big threat to the security of our country. If the US and its allies are kind enough to try to help us and they are honest in their claim of helping our people then they can prove it in other ways. They can prove it by the disarmament of armed groups. They can prove it by stopping any kind of support, help and compromise with any fundamentalist groups by helping our people to prosecute our war criminals of three decades. They can do this by supporting democratic voices. So they have other alternatives to help us if they really want to.
Kolhatkar: Hamid Karzai's tenure is up next year and there are to be new elections. What do you think needs to happen before the elections, and is there any chance the elections could bring some positive change inside Afghanistan?
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Eman: We have two kinds of elections ahead of us: parliamentary and presidential. About the presidential election, everyone knows that the White House determines who is going to be the next president. Our public's votes are just used as a formality. But what we are sure of is that the next president will not be independent or a real democrat. So our people are not so hopeful about those elections.
About the parliamentary elections, it is important to state that this election, like the last one, will be conducted under the shadow of guns, airpower and money. So we cannot call it a fair and free election. For a fair and free election to be held we think that disarmament of the powerful warlords which have private armies in different provinces, is a necessary factor. Otherwise it will be a repeat of the last election. For example, according to a law made by the Election Commission, warlords cannot take part in the elections. The last time, our people appealed to the election commission against criminal candidates and drug lords with evidence but nobody paid attention to them and these most-wanted murderers found their way to parliament. There were just a very few exceptions who were really elected by the people. The majority were well-known murderers, criminals, and rapists.
Kolhatkar: In RAWA's recent statement on the 7th anniversary of the US war on October 7th, you say "Our freedom is only achievable at the hands of our people." How strong are democratic grassroots forces in Afghanistan, and are they capable of rising up and leading the country?
Eman: Unfortunately the democratic forces are very weak due to many reasons. The two main reasons are, firstly, financial problems because there is no government support at all, and powerful international forces like the United Nations have never been interested in supporting democratic groups, individuals, and voices. Secondly they are weak for security reasons, which have always suppressed these groups. We believe that the main source of power lies with our people. Today they have become hopeless with false promises from the West of establishing democracy. And moreover people are fed-up of the fundamentalism of the Taliban, Northern Alliance, and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, etc. So today if we witness demonstrations organized by our suffering and tired people, tomorrow they will be much more organized under the leadership of democratic movements. So we should not lose our hope. The groups are weak but they exist. I think it's the duty of democratic forces all over the world to support democratic movements in Afghanistan and they should show their practical solidarity with them.
Kolhatkar: When we started our conversation, you weren't very optimistic about Barack Obama's stated policy on Afghanistan. What advice would you give President Elect Barack Obama, when he takes office in January?
Eman: We believe that if the American government does not have any bad, expansionist, hidden intentions regarding our country then they have to accept and change their long-term mistakes and wrong policies in our country. In the early 1990s they supported the anti-democratic, anti-women forces and they still have not learned a lesson and still they rely on and compromise with the different fundamentalist groups, which makes the situation of our country even worse. So from one side they are still nourishing and working with those drug lords and warlords of the Northern Alliance. And from the other side they complain about drugs, corruption and insecurity which is a painful game with the destiny of our people, who do not want more troops and war. Our people want justice, peace, and democracy.
As the US failed with spending billions of dollars on the presence of thousands of troops for the past seven years, I'm sure that they will fail even if they bring millions more troops as long as the American government does not change its policies in Afghanistan.
Kolhatkar: Finally, what advice would you give the American anti-war movement on what Afghanistan needs from them?
Eman: Since the US government has always supported fundamentalist groups and ignored democratic voices in our country, I think that the US government does not represent all American people. But there are great American people and great peace movements who have always raised their voice against war and defended peace with justice. History shows that these movements have always affected government policies, for example on the Vietnam war. So I think that they have a great responsibility to put pressure on their government and especially its foreign policy, to change the policy and to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan. And they have to show their solidarity with the democratic movements in Afghanistan. It's very very important for us and we need their voices. But I just read an article that some parts of the US peace movements are supporting the Iranian government. We condemn this position because we consider the Iranian government a fundamentalist, fascist government. But as long as the peace movement is concerned, we need their solidarity and we are very happy to have their support.
Find out more about RAWA at www.rawa.org.


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In a curious town like Pye-in-the Skye there are many ways to be considered 'mad.' Max was not an idiot but the folks thought he was a borderline case. They didn't take kindly to those who did not live unto their expectations. Nor did they warm up to those who stuck to their guns. As soon as he learned to assemble a refrigerator he knew he wanted to sell one. Where did he go but to the North Pole and naturally the rest sighed and said, 'Good riddance.'
He wanted to sell refrigerators to the natives.
The Inuit didn't buy a single one and he died a very poor man. All that he left behind was some ice boxes and a technical manual.
On the other hand Dr. Faustus having made a pact with the devil became the most celebrated scholar. He knew everything that went under the Sun, which passed for knowledge. How the crowned heads and scholars alike feted him! Then came the computers that made him redundant. He died in grief. He said that a machine beat him. Yes.
The world went a-changing! Then came a thaw and ice melted. The polar caps vanished as an icicle in a furnace. The people in Nunavut learned to live with the climate changes. Then someone found the papers of 'Mad' Max and it was a discovery that electrified the whole region. They began to make fridges themselves and control their houses to the right temperature.
The world in their own muddling ways saw a great injustice was done to Inuit. They owed to them a great debt for destroying their old way of life. How to repay them?
Nunavut became synonymous the home of refrigerators. The world leaders came to an agreement that fridges made there could be sold worldwide duty-free. Buying fridges made in Nunavut was consistent with principles of ethical living. Inuit prospered.
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Walking through the gardens of Terry and Genie Graham is like a stroll back in time. Their home and property located at 8603 Van Wyck Road date back to over 135 years ago.
Though it has experienced changes over the decades, the yard is still filled with many of the original plants. By blending a little of yesterday and today, they have created a beautiful homeplace filled with blooms throughout the year.
This year they also added a huge bulb garden filled with thousands of tulips, daffodils and hyacinths as well as their first crop of strawberries.
One of my favorite childhood memories is of hiking a mountain trail in southwest Virginia with my father.
We were walking along admiring the flowering Mountain Laurel when suddenly we were in a clearing staring up at a very tall fire lookout tower.
I was fascinated by the idea of someone living so high above the trees scanning the horizon for puffs of smoke.
For years afterward I secretly dreamed of being that person, the sentinel standing watch over the forest.
For the third year in a row the saucer magnolia in our backyard lost hundreds of ready-to-open blooms to sudden below-freezing night temperatures.
According to Steve Bender writing in "Southern Living," this is a situation that regularly occurs about two springs in three. Still, it is very disheartening to see the lovely waxy buds that are pinkish-purple outside and white inside turn an unlovely brown. The poor tree will keep trying to replace the frozen blooms for months.
Quantifiable data shows that reducing stress and brain fatigue is as simple as taking a walk in the park.
According to a study by researchers at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh and the University of Edinburgh, people who live near trees and parks have lower levels of stress hormones and improved concentration. The study appeared this month in The British Journal of Sports Medicine.
But how good is South Carolina for your mental health?
Coleman finishes basic training
Back in April 2007 when Mike and Mashalle Bailesfirst purchased their home at 930 Sherwood Circle, they realized the house and yard needed a little attention. With the windows of the house almost covered in overgrown hollies, English ivy and the thorny spikes of ileagnes throughout the yard, the Bailes had to make a few choices.
Many of the shrubs were removed and replaced with slower growing lower maintenance varieties such as nandina.
GREAT FALLS – They want to go to a One Direction concert.
The girls are in awe of the English-Irish boy band based in London.
Instead of asking their parents for money for the concert tickets, the girls put their heads together to find ways to raise their own money.
Haley Albert, 12, Isabella Davis, 12, Lydia Mills, 13, and Breanna Burchett, 13, have solicited help from their mothers in their fundraising efforts.
News of a Mississippi newborn supposedly cured of an HIV infection has HIV advocates and researchers in South Carolina hopeful as well as skeptical.
The potential for the cure to change the standard of care for those infected would be especially welcome here in the South, where the highest death rate due to HIV occurs.
Following Valentine's Day and the shelves piled high with those heart-shaped boxes of candy, I have been thinking about the pleasure cacao trees have given the world.
The fruit of the cacao tree are large football-shaped pods, each containing up to100 seeds. Cacao seeds are the basis of all chocolate. The seeds, or beans, are very bitter, but the pulp that surrounds them is sweet and when it is allowed to ferment, the bitterness of the beans is reduced and they develop a heady chocolaty aroma.
Back in 1999 when Michael Burgess first began working at Hartley Funeral Home, little did he know one day he would end up owning and operating the business.
With a degree in Sports Administration from Limestone College, he worked in his field of study for about a year before his uncle Jerry Hartley offered him a chance to learn the funeral business. He accepted the job and spent most of his time maintaining the landscaping of the funeral home while learning firsthand about the business.
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Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001) lived just into our new century, having transformed the orchestra and how we listen to it as radically as Stravinsky and Ligeti during the last one.
Volume 3, the latest to be released of this admired series, consists of mature and late works - abrasive, tough music, astringent and exhilarating, but exhaustion could supervene if you tried to listen to these densely scored works straight through. No 'tunes' but a wealth of textural and rhythmic interest, often of mind-boggling complexity.
Synaphaï (a piano concerto, 1969) requires a soloist who can read ten staves simultaneously (one for each finger!) and Xenakis, reassuringly advises: "the pianist plays all the lines if he can"! The Japanese pianist Hiroaki Ooï sounds unfazed by his assignment and the whole thing is recommended to intrepid explorers; but do shut the window first.
I favour trying the two works from the '90s first; Horos and Eridanos share some material and the superimposition of orchestral blocs, varying from a single section to the whole orchestra. Computer manipulations are an essential tool for this former architect (a colleague of Le Corbusier) but he allows for aesthetic intuition to play a part in what reaches our ears; Xenakis has always been fascinated by undisciplined, 'chaotic' natural events. Most of the music is loud and with a full sonority, put over by this experienced team with complete conviction. There are also passages of welcome calm and stasis to be found within the maelstrom.
I cannot and will not attempt to describe these works in any detail; that is provided by John Tyler Tuttle in English and my favourite insert-note writer Harry Halbreich, who runs to seven pages in smallest type, in French; both writers make the strange assumption that purchasers and listeners will have scores as they do – it would be far more helpful if their annotations were to track timings instead of bar numbers!
Volume 1 of the same series also has Halbreich in French as chief guide, together with an essay in English by Nouritza Matossian, author of Iannis Xenakis (Kahn & Averill UK 1990), whose biographical notes are helpful for the ordinary listener. She says that Xenakis' music gives the impression that it has only just been composed and makes a claim, with some justice, that it gives the latter 20 C. A glimpse of the new millennium. That earlier CD may be a more attractive starting point for the inclusion of a vocal setting of passages from the Odyssey, featuring solo percussion and the remarkable Greek singer Spyros Sakkas, and for a broader representation of Xenakis' musical personality; "I am a classical Greek living in the twentieth century", he said.
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Most of us are required to wear an ID badge at school. I wear mine on a lanyard, to which I've attached a large white button with black lettering, stating: "HALF TEACHER, HALF SUPERHERO". I've felt that way for a long time, but this past year I believe it even more. I wear these words as a mantra, a shield, and a shout out to all my fellow educators. Who else but a teacher can know what it's really like?
We pay our respects to the children and educators lost in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14. While the grim news affected our entire country, it touched teachers in a most profound way. Who would ever imagine that the joyful place called school would one day invoke the saddest of tears? And, are we even surprised that teachers would step forward to protect those in their charge?
I'm even more determined to make it known, that ours is the most humbling of professions. The huge expectation placed on our students as indicated in the new standards, and the incessant testing that robs us of teaching time, wears at us. Teachers are more burdened than ever with district mandates, tight schedules, and the urgent need to reach every student. A typical school day with its ups and downs– bad behavior, laughter, the discovery of a weeks-old muffin in a desk (and an accidental science lesson!), multiplication facts that make you shake your head, great discussions, no homework and MIA parents, and the collective "Nooooo!!!!" when the bell rings and it's time to go home – is tiring, overwhelming, heart-breaking, and inspiring.
I often tell myself "I'm done!" with this exhausting work, it's just too much sometimes. And yet, I fall in love with it again day after day. Right before we broke for the holidays, my newest student - who has only been here a few months – laughed at a joke I told in class. His eyes lit up and he guffawed! Another student, who refused to speak since September, began to bloom during guided reading, as she shared the story of her arrival to the U.S. – a connection she made after reading When Jessie Came Across the Sea. Moments like these mean a lot to a teacher, especially a teacher of ELLs.
It's been too easy to criticize teachers lately. But when it gets really tough, and when it counts the most, we stand firm. And so, in the New Year, I recommit to being the best teacher I can be. I'll teach my kids with energy and enthusiasm. I'll prepare engaging lessons. I'll keep myself informed. I'll have high expectations of my students, but I'll also be sensitive to their needs. I'll watch over them.


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Military goals in Iraq
From the nation's military point of view, according to one military intelligence official who spoke anonymously to the press corps, even a veto-proof congressional majority elected in 2008 is unlikely to demand a full, immediate military withdrawal from Iraq. Instead, any withdrawal will be staggered to preserve the most stable situation possible in the hopes of preventing internal chaos. The military's best possible scenario, as this official forecast, is to "get (Iraq) as stable as we can, with the troops we have, and in the time available. And then, we'll back out as carefully as we can."It's certainly not an outlandish estimate of what the political climate is likely to allow as military options for the next two years. And it's instructive for Americans to understand what the military, as opposed to the administration or political candidates, thinks it will be able to accomplish before they leave that war-torn country. Note, for instance, that there is no talk in the military these days of securing a stable democracy in Iraq, of making friends with the Iraqis and establishing U.S. bases or diplomatic outposts there with the intent of helping reshape the Middle East, let alone sharing in their oil wealth. Rather, the military's goal has been diminished to propping up an unstable government and leaving with a hint of stability in place so we're not boarding the last planes home with mortar fire at our backs.The better American voters understand the military's assessment of this war, the better they will be able to assess the political goals of the various presidential candidates and of this administration. Bush, for example, is still talking of a military victory and establishing Iraq as a democratic toehold in the region. Most political and military analysts know he's whistling Dixie — and out of tune, at that. Presidential candidates from both parties can similarly be judged on the commonsense of their proposals.Does a complete and immediate military pullout of U.S. troops make any kind of sense? Most likely not. A phased withdrawal may well be in the best interests of Iraq and of the U.S. troops stationed there. And most Democrats advocating pulling out of Iraq agree that a phased withdrawal lasting several months will be necessary from a logistical and military perspective.It's also essential American voters revisit the goals that President Bush and Congress established this past January when Bush requested a military "surge" in troop levels and dollars spent to reestablish security. Entered as a law of the land to secure additional funding for Bush's surge, the president is now required to meet 18 specific goals that would be met before additional funding would prolong the war. That report and assessment will be made in September. An interim report to Congress is due in late July and it is already known that none of the 18 goals will be met by the proposed deadlines. Instead, the situation has deteriorated, yet Bush continues to insist he is on the right course in his fight against terror and is now undertaking a campaign to convince the public that a new set of political and military goals and parameters be used to judge whether progress has been made.The late historian Barbara Tuchman describes such presidential stubbornness in her best-selling book, "The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam." She wrote: "Wooden-headedness… plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists of assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish, while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts."It should be clear to Americans, by now, that Bush and his neoconservative cohorts will not change course even in the face of overwhelming evidence. Only the majority's voice, spoken loudly and clearly, will guide this nation out of Iraq and direct the country's military resources to more effective use.


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CK Sketch Variations: March/April 2011
Use this issue's sketch to easily fit five standard-size photos on your scrapbook layout. Leave even margins around the perimeter of your layout to frame your photo grouping.
Or try two variations to give you more ideas on how evenly space your photos with equal margins between them, to give your layout a delightfully orderly and uncluttered look.
Variation 1
Spring Training by Paula Gilarde. Digital Supplies: Software: Adobe; Patterned paper, baseball accent, circle accent, and transparency: Anna Aspnes; Chipboard, frames, and sticky notes: Katie Pertiet; Word art: Ali Edwards; Font: Luna.
Even it up: Create a fun, spontaneous look on your layout by allowing accents to break out of a very structured design. On Paula Gilarde's layout, observe how the stacked, framed photo overlaps neighboring photos and the circle accents cross over into the margins.
Variation 2
Spring Is in the Air by Smitha Katti. Photography by Nachiket Katti. Digital Supplies: Software: Adobe; Papers: Crystal Wilkerson and Katie Pertiet; Ribbon: Shabby Princess; Stitching: Shabby Princess and kevinandamanda.com; Buttons: Crystal Wilkerson; Fonts: Pea Jack & Jane and Pea Jokilyn Doodles.
Even it up: Give your layout an asymmetrical twist by making the outer margins uneven, like Smitha Katti did on her layout. Notice how the smaller top margin lifts the position of the photo grouping, giving the layout an optimistic feel. Keep even margins between photos and other elements to maintain the balance of the layout.
Get more sketches! Check out the Bonus Sketches for the March/April 2011 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine.
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Little Ella Marie by Jesse Rankin
Jennifer and I are thrilled to announce the arrival of a new family member, Ella Marie. I have the short version and the long version of the story for those who would rather not read a long winded description of the birth. The short version is: Ella Marie Okonsky Rankin was born on Tuesday, November 4th at 12:39 PM. She is early (expected due date was December 31) so she is little and adorable. She weighs 3 pounds 10 ounces and is 16 inches long. She is in good health and she and Mama are doing well. She was born at St. Luke's Hospital here in San Francisco. We had planned to have a home birth but little Ella had other plans. After the birth Mama and daughter were transferred to UCSF to their Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. This is standard for premature baby's so not to worry. She will stay for about a month. Sometimes with baby's born this early they need help breathing but Ella is breathing fine on her own so Mama and Papa have been able to spend hours holding her.
On Monday night Jennifer and I attended our birth class held at our midwife's practice. We had a great instructor, Jane Austin, who also teaches pre and postnatal yoga classes. Jennifer was taking the "pre" courses and now will move on to the "post" classes. Luckily, Monday night's class was devoted to labor. Little did we know that 13 hours after leaving the class we would have a little one on the outside. That night Jennifer was having some pain in her lower abdomen and felt some contractions but just assumed they were Braxton-Hicks contractions (practice contractions for those unfamiliar). In retrospect, she may have just been hoping that was the case since we would have liked her to stay in a little longer (at the time - now we are thrilled she's here). We went to bed and Jennifer woke up at around 3am and was having contractions. I woke up around 5am and we talked about it and I gave her a massage to try and help. I got up and left for work and thought everything was normal.
Meanwhile the contractions continued and Jennifer grew concerned. Next thing I knew I get a phone call at 9:30am. Jennifer was upset and concerned and needed to go to the hospital. I left immediately. Ella wasn't even born yet and she's already getting me out of meetings. Good girl! I was very worried about Jennifer and baby at this point and literally ran out of the building and did my best impression of how I used to drive at 17. I'm a little slower but I am still able to maneuver quite well in traffic. I made it home safely and picked up Jennifer. She asked me to grab her a jacket on the way out and of course I grabbed the wrong one. :-) She was in some pain and concentrating on her breathing. I got a little impatient with the city traffic when Jennifer brought me back to reality and reminded that my role in labor is to support her and not ADD stress but REDUCE it. She said that my "words of advice" to the other vehicles on the road wasn't helping her and she had to waste precious breath on that reminder. Whoopsy. And by they way, she added, watch the bumps! We went to St. Luke's Hospital because it was the designated back up when we arranged the home birth. We got into the building and waited about 47 days for the elevator. We went to the third floor and were taken into labor and delivery room 3. They put Jennifer on the bed and it was approximately 10:30am. Things were a little slow from my perspective and the gravity of the situation wasn't readily apparent yet. Not everyone knew yet that this was early and an unexpected labor. That changed quickly and they brought in the monitor to check Ella's heart-rate. Now, we had been going to a midwife and Jennifer had not been hooked up to any equipment to this point except for a "quick" ultrasound at 16 weeks. When they first put the monitor on there was not a heartbeat but that was because they had to find the right spot. Not knowing this, I was a bit freaked. Luckily they found the heartbeat but it was fluctuating a lot due to the contractions. At 32 weeks the little ones aren't as well suited to deal with the stress of labor. They gave Jennifer some magnesium sulfate to try and stop the contractions.
Let me just say that Jennifer and I made decisions about how we wanted her pregnancy to proceed as well as how we will proceed with Ella Marie's healthcare. We make no judgments on decisions taken by anyone else, just do what we think is best. I say that because this is a sensitive topic. One reason we wanted a home birth is because we wanted to avoid medical interventions if possible and once in a hospital setting, in a tense time you have a knowledge gap, even when Mama is a health professional. It's the classic if I knew 2 days ago what I know now I think we would have avoided the magnesium sulfate. It hasn't proven to be effective at stopping labor and Ella proved that. What's done is done but it's overwhelming when you have a room full of people telling you what should be done. Which led us to a moment I'll always remember.
They had already tried the magnesium sulfate and were giving antibiotics and some steroids to help Ella's lungs when the doctor mentioned to Jennifer that she would like to give her something else, perhaps for the pain. Jennifer very clearly stated that she didn't "want any more crap put into her body," to which the doctor responded, "it's not crap." Good stuff. No more crap added. Jennifer went from 3-cm dilated at approximately 11am to 10cm dilated at 12pm. The most difficult part from the time we arrived until 12 was that the labor was being treated as a problem to be stopped, not a birth to embrace. That is not stated to point fingers, just describe what was going through my mind. It was between 11:30 and 12:00 where it just became "we're going to be parents today." Game on.
After that I wasn't worried that something was wrong with Jennifer and baby although it's very difficult to watch someone you love in pain. Don't like it one bit. In the meantime we had put in a call to our midwife, Maria Iorillo, and St. Luke's had a midwife, Emily, on duty as well as a pediatrician named Karen. These 3 women were amazing and kept the mood positive, explained things and were who provided a profound sense of calm. Once it was determined Jennifer was 10cm dilated they decided to move her to the OR because Ella was a premie but they also broke out the C-section consent form. That's where it was great having Maria who we had spent time with discussing all these things and we all knew that there was no need for that. Ella made the decision for everyone.
They didn't have time to move Mama and Ella to OR. At this point there was a tremendous amount of activity in the room with machines, doctors, nurses, midwives, Mama and Papa. Someone directed me to the right side of the bed. I went over but realized my view was terrible and I was restricted from being close to Jennifer. Maria said to come back over to see the baby be delivered. As I was making my way around the bed through the maze of people and equipment, Jennifer was saying "I feel a lot of pressure, I feel a lot of pressure." Boy did she. As I got to the left corner of the bed, Jennifer's waters burst. It was projectile and doused Maria and Emily. I thought, "Whoa, I'm not sure if that's something you see everyday." 2 minutes later Ella's little head was crowning and she entered the world.
She was brought right over to a little bassinet to be checked out by Karen and me. Karen explained what she was doing and I chatted with Ella and we looked into each other's eyes. I then cut the umbilical cord. After a couple of minutes I went to check on Mama and said, "ok, let's deliver that placenta!" Papa too late once again. Already done said Mama. Karen brought Ella over to Mama for a kiss before taking her upstairs to wait for the transfer over to UCSF (Univ. California San Francisco). After about 20 minutes Jennifer was asking when she could go up and see Ella. She was told she needed to rest and then they would bring her up in a wheel chair. She hurried that along and pushed the chair aside. After some quality time with Ella the transfer team showed up and brought Ella to UCSF.
Jennifer was transferred at 5pm as I went home to collect clothes and vote. I heard it was a big day for some other reasons. We've now been spending all our time at UCSF with little Ella Marie. She's on the 15th floor and has an incredible view of San Francisco, the Golden Gate bridge and beyond. I know other parents already know and it's a cliche, but all we want to do is sit and hold Ella. We're transfixed and love this little person in a way I can't articulate. She's too small to hug her the way I'd like to but some gentle nose petting is quite fun. To put the feeling into an easily watched, pop culture reference I point you to this link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nqP3p5IBx8) and advise you to watch from minute marker 7:12 to 8:18. For those that already know the reference, it is when Ed is handed Nathan Jr. (so they think) by one H-I McDunnough. Her spontaneous teary announcement of her affection for this child is how it feels.
Lastly, we've also been thinking that she took us too literally when we read to her in utero. The book we would read to her is "Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go!" adapted from the works of Dr. Suess. The last page of reads:
You'll find that this world's
a great place to begin,
but it could use some help–
which is where you come in.
So now, as my voice
burble-urps in your ear–
with a bump-thumpy sound
that is not very clear–
the words I am saying
you hear in your heart,
and know that I wish you
the very best start.
It's a scrumptulous world
and it's ready to greet you.
And as for myself...
I can't wait to meet you!
It seems she was ready to meet us too and decided to come out. She's her mother's little girl.
But, she is also her own strong little self. We later found out that the reason for the pre term labor was the bodies anticipation of a placental abruption. Once the placenta was delivered, a tear was noticed, indicating its beginning of coming away from the uterine wall. Placental abruption is a complication wherein the placental lining has separated from the uterus. It is the most common cause of late pregnancy bleeding. In humans, it refers to the abnormal separation after 20 weeks of gestation and prior to birth. It occurs in 1% of pregnancies world wide with a fetal mortality rate of 20-40% depending on the degree of separation. Placental abruption is also a significant contributor to maternal mortality.
It is our belief that the body is so efficient, as is little Ella, that the body and her knew that they needed to exit and enter the world before the abruption happened. And thankfully all that 'crappy' magnesium sulfate did not work to stop the labor or we would have been in real danger.
Ella was discharged from the NICU on December 3rd, weighing in at 4 lbs. 14 oz.


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Using CrashPlan I've configured two backup sets:
- online backup in crashplan's cloud (this is running perfectly)
- a local backup on a usb harddisc directly connected to the local laptop.
The USB drive is only connected rarly when being at home. When connecting the drive it mounts automatically. Is there a way to start the local backup whenever the usb disc connected.
My guess is that using udev it should be possible to "somehow" tell crashplan to reevaluate the presence of backup location. Any ideas to do this?


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Eloquent justifications for what is, ultimately, a description of plausibility.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Why Bother?
So, about a month and a half ago I started reading Questioning Q: A Multidimensional Critique, editted by Nicholas Perrin and the de facto mayor of the Biblical Studies global village, Mark Goodacre. For reasons I'll outline, it took me until yesterday to finish it.
A discussion on historiography on the FRDB interrupted me to re-read Hayden White's MetaHistory, which (in the sort of bizarre lead-ins that can only happen in real-life; and we hope to understand ancient minds?) led me to Statues in Roman Society, which led to The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus, which led (by reference) to The Companion to the Roman Army (which led bizarrely, to a couple brief looks at commentaries on Samuel). In the midst of all this, I decided to do something I'd intended to do for awhile, and read the Aeneid through.
Something struck me as I read Vergil's work. The care he took with it is well-known, and often emphasized by the observation that his average pace is roughly three lines a day. The fruits of that careful labour are readily apparent, and the Aeneid is a literary masterpiece by any standard.
But I'm not the intended audience, so more than once I had to check references, consider interpretations offered by scholars of the subject matter. And here's the rub: The most convoluted reading of the Aeneid pales in comparison to the most straightforward reading of the Gospel of Mark.
I am implicitly expected to accept that the Aeneid is less densely nuanced than a work whose greatest literary contribution is slapdash Greek and the abuse of the word kai.
When you look at it, phrased like that, it seems absurd.
The reason for that is simple: It is absurd.
Hervey Cleckley's seminal work on psychopathy, The Mask of Sanity, provides an insight that now seems self-evident but at the time, psychology being what it was, did not. He cites a piece on the attraction of a drum majorette.
The attraction of a drum majorette should be obvious. She's hot, scantily clad and jumping about. But no, the piece contended, the obvious attraction wasn't it. The drum majorette protruded from the band the way an erect penis protruded from the body, and attraction to the drum majorette reflected our repressed homosexuality.
This notion, Cleckley observes, was accepted, cited and built upon uncritically by a number of professionals. That it's ridiculous should be self-evident. A hideously unattractive drum majorette would not be terribly appealing no matter how she protruded.
Cleckely's criticism, of course, is that there was a tendency to accept crap because it sounded good, and sounded like it was in keeping with the received notions of what psychology was. But it had nothing to do with whether or not it was true, nothing to do with whether or not it was critically assessed, and nothing to do with even the most basic test of whether or not it makes obvious sense.
While I would not suggest that Biblical Studies at large has gone as far as the drum majorette, I also wouldn't suggest that there are not a few drum majorette papers out there.
We have no rules. And consequently our interpretations of the texts are as nuanced as we need them to be, and we build them on the last guy, who also made it as nuanced as he needed it to be.
Which brings me back to Questioning Q. Or, more specifically, a paper by Eric Eve contained therein. In "Reconstructing Mark" Eric Eve takes on a test he discussed before online. Can we build Mark from Luke, Matthew and Q? The answer, predictably, is no, and even if one isn't persuaded against Q, surely we should follow the caution in the difference between what Perrin calls "Warranted Q," and "Actual Q." The former is exceedingly unlikely to be the latter.
But he provides a necessarily brief discussion on Matt.16:22-23. He plays by all the "rules," and develops a case from linguistics and Matthean redactive tendencies that we would have to view 16:22-23 as a Matthean invention. The case is solid, and it's easy to see how it could develop into a very full treatment. Even if we ultimately rejected it in an "International Mark Project," I'm hard-pressed to believe that everyone would be convinced of that.
Except the answer, of course, is wrong. Matt.16.22-23//Mk.8.32-33.
So he makes his case, so far as the IQP goes, but the implications go farther than that. Because Eve doesn't do anything that we don't do in virtually every branch of Biblical Studies. We try and find out if this verse or that verse owes itself to the author's redactive tendencies, if it was interpolated, if it is OT symbolism and on and on. Eve has essentially falsified the entire approach we take to the texts.
Falsification isn't inherently that big of a deal. Speculation is a necessity, not a vice, as a Beck quote I posted recently attests. I can't think of a criteria that can't be reversed, that can't be applied in at least one instance to get the wrong answer. It's the nature of the beast that we deal in plausibilities, things like "explanatory power" and "common sense."
But to be falsified so fundamentally that we would, quite realistically, mistake a distinctively Markan theme as a distinctively Matthean verse? That's a problem. That's a very big problem indeed.
So with the combination, Eve's paper and reflections of Virgil, it just seems so futile. I'm severely tempted to pack the NT in. . .maybe I'll switch to the early Romans. I know little enough that the subject still fills me with wonder and excitement at finding something new, not so little that I'm starting from scratch, and not even close to enough that I'm filled with the same sense of frustration.
4 comments:
- Steve Runge said...
I can appreciate your cynicism about such topics, and the list could be expanded quite easily. It was these very issues that led me to major in Hebrew Bible, since they seemed to have turned a corner toward more practical exegesis in some areas.
One important lesson I learned along the way is that you do not need to pursue their questions (or at least along the same lines). Presupposition builds upon presupposition, eventually creating a house of cards. What is needed is to reframe the question in such a way that you can move in a more profitable direction, which is what I see Goodacre to have done regardin Q. There is indeed a lot of crap masquerading as research, unfortunately. As long as folks need to claim something new for a thesis or dissertation, the flow of crap will continue. I would suggest focusing on finding a new approach rather than attempting to turn crap into creme brulee. You will find it less frustrating.
- Rick Sumner said...
Hi Steve,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
The problem of presuppositions is paramount, I think. One can even find an example of it in my post--the answer isn't necessarily "wrong." The more appropriate response, if we find Eve's treatment of Mt.16.22-23 persuasive, is to count it as a point in favour of Griesbach.
That, of course, would lead to a response from the proponent of Markan priority, followed by rejoinder, and so on and so forth, and would end up being endemic of the problem I see. The explanations would get more nuanced, more convoluted, both parties would refer to Occam a lot, and in the end we'd get a reading that almost inherently has more to do with the milieu of twenty-first century scholars than early Christian authors. Everyone would go home banging their head against the wall, wondering why the other party didn't see the obvious.
It's interesting that you chose Hebrew Bible for those reasons, since I recently picked up a bunch of books on a wide array of subjects in the OT state of affairs, for precisely that reason. The hope being that I'd find a venture that caught my eye the way the Historical Jesus or the New Perspective on Paul did for the NT.
But there I run into a different problem: All roads lead to Egypt. They had the gold, they had the grain, they called the shots, to a large degree.
Me? I'm something of an anomaly. The ANE fascinates me. Except Egypt. Egypt bores me to tears until after the Ides of March.
A new approach is exactly what I think is needed. Not just for me, but generally. Though just for me would be a good start for. . .well, me. I'm just not sure that I have one. Which is all the more reason I think I need a break, if not an outright abandonment of the NT. Maybe I'll find something to freshen the perspective elsewhere. But as I see it right now much (most?) exegesis should be graded on how creatively it uses the texts, not how likely it is to be true.
- Alan Lenzi said...
The Hebrew Bible isn't much better. I think religious zeal is what motivates most scholars in these fields. When you lose that, you start to scratch your head and wonder why no one else is tired of reading ANOTHER commentary on X or ANOTHER monograph on Job 28, etc.
- Steve Runge said...
For the record Rick, I am back in NT studies for the long haul. I got some things figured out regarding how to reframe questions from Christo van der Merwe. I am beginning to focus on the synoptic debate by applying discourse principles to evaluate the minor disagreements in the triple tradition. There is lots to be done, and at the end of the day I am reading my Bible much more closely than I would have before, regularly finding new things in old texts, I could not be happier. I am now psychotically passionate about the importance of having a sound and adaptable theoretical framework. All the rest flows out of this. I'll never go back to the old way again. Reframing the question requires understanding all sides of the argument well enough that presuppositions can be identified. This requires a significant amount of engagement of the theories, and the scholars that employ them. Where are people coming from and why, what led them to make such a hypothesis? If another more plausible explanation can be provided, it eliminates the need for the kooky hypothesis. Note to self: Biblical scholars never throw something out, they add something new. Once a theory has been postulated, it is rarely ever abandoned. Instead, some "remodeling" is done to compensate for the new data. So I have given up on trying to change the mind of the proponent, focusing instead on winning the hearts and minds of the interested spectators who do not have a dog in the fight. They have little to lose with change, but change is very costly for the proponent.


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