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Monitoring Disk Usage
Microsoft SQL Server uses Microsoft Windows operating system input/output (I/O) calls to perform read and write operations on your disk. SQL Server manages when and how disk I/O is performed, but the Windows operating system performs the underlying I/O operations. The I/O subsystem includes the system bus, disk controller cards, disks, tape drives, CD-ROM drive, and many other I/O devices. Disk I/O is frequently the cause of bottlenecks in a system.
Monitoring disk activity involves two areas of focus:
Monitoring Disk I/O and Detecting Excess Paging
Isolating Disk Activity That SQL Server Creates
Monitoring Disk I/O and Detecting Excess Paging
Two counters that can be monitored to determine disk activity are:
PhysicalDisk: % Disk Time
PhysicalDisk: Avg. Disk Queue Length
In System Monitor, the PhysicalDisk: % Disk Time counter monitors the percentage of time that the disk is busy with read/write activity. If the PhysicalDisk: % Disk Time counter is high (more than 90 percent), check the PhysicalDisk: Current Disk Queue Length counter to see how many system requests are waiting for disk access. The number of waiting I/O requests should be sustained at no more than 1.5 to 2 times the number of spindles that make up the physical disk. Most disks have one spindle, although redundant array of independent disk (RAID) devices usually have more than one spindle. A hardware RAID device appears as one physical disk in System Monitor. RAID devices created through software appear as multiple instances in System Monitor.
Use the values of the Current Disk Queue Length and % Disk Time counters to detect bottlenecks within the disk subsystem. If Current Disk Queue Length and % Disk Time counter values are consistently high, consider doing one of the following:
Using a faster disk drive.
Moving some files to an additional disk or server.
Adding disks to a RAID array, if one is being used.
If you are using a RAID device, the % Disk Time counter can indicate a value greater than 100 percent. If it does, use the PhysicalDisk: Avg. Disk Queue Length counter to determine how many system requests, on average, are waiting for disk access.
Applications and systems that are I/O-bound may keep the disk constantly active.
Monitor the Memory: Page Faults/sec counter to make sure that the disk activity is not caused by paging. In Windows, paging is caused by:
Processes configured to use too much memory.
File system activity.
If you have more than one logical partition on the same hard disk, use the Logical Disk counters rather than the Physical Disk counters. Look at the logical disk counters to help determine which files are frequently accessed. After you have found the disks with high levels of read/write activity, look at the read-specific and write-specific counters to learn the type of disk activity that causes the load on each logical volume; for example, Logical Disk: Disk Write Bytes/sec.
Isolating Disk Activity Created by SQL Server
Two counters that can be monitored to determine the amount of I/O generated by SQL Server components are:
SQL Server:Buffer Manager:Page reads/sec
SQL Server:Buffer Manager:Page writes/sec
In System Monitor, these counters monitor the amount of I/O generated by SQL Server components by examining the following performance areas:
Writing pages to disk
Reading pages from disk
If the values for these counters approach the capacity limit of the hardware I/O subsystem, try to reduce the values by tuning your application or database to reduce I/O operations (such as index coverage, better indexes, or normalization), increasing the I/O capacity of the hardware, or adding memory. For example, you can use Database Engine Tuning Advisor to analyze typical SQL Server workloads and produce recommendations for indexes, indexed views, and partitioning to improve server performance. For more information about Database Engine Tuning Advisor, see Tuning the Physical Database Design.


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Definitions of ogle
v. t. - To view or look at with side glances, as in fondness, or with a design to attract notice. 2
n. - An amorous side glance or look. 2
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And bizarre is the nicest word I can find for the Government's plan to lend taxpayers money to private citizens so that they can buy new cars.
Apparently, the British borrow a staggering £20 billion a year to finance the purchase of new cars. And with credit drying up and sales down 36.8% on the previous year, motorcar manufacturers have been left with thousands of unsold (some might say "unwanted") cars.
Step forward Lord Mandleson, scourge of savers and friend of the spendthrift.
The Times reports that car-buyers are to receive loans from the taxpayer: finance companies linked to the auto industry will be given access to the Bank of England's special liquidity scheme so that they can continue to offer loans.
It is bad enough that the government intends to underwrite mortgages at a time when the assets underpinning them are falling in value. At least a house will continue to have some value; few houses will not cover the majority of a person's mortgage. Cars, by comparison, are not assets but consumption goods, and lose value from the moment they roll off the forecourt. What is more, the collapse in new car sales has been shadowed by a parallel collapse in the sale of second hand cars that has pushed down the price of used cars and so will hasten the depreciation of the value of new cars.
Where is this madness to end?! Will the government soon be offering interest free credit at Dixons? How long before one can sign up for an HM Treasury credit card (26.5% APR and balance transfers of up to the sum of your mortgage, interest free until the next financial year).
The fact that Britons were borrowing £20 billion a year to finance the purchase of new cars is not an admirable state of affairs to which we should be aspiring, but a symptom of the extent to which the UK had become a buy-now-pay-later culture. As the government held down interest rates so as to stoke an unsustainable boom, saving became unattractive while borrowing was made all-too-easy. The result was that economic growth and personal consumption were based on unsound foundations. The dangerous credit bubble that was created has now burst, throwing millions out of work and causing the economy to shrink by over 2% in just six months, and we cannot avoid these tragic consequences by trying to recreate the failed system.
The solution to the current crisis, and the way to avoid returning to boom and bust, is not to pour millions of pounds worth of taxpayers' money into the hands of people who want to buy a new car. That the car manufacturers mistook inflationary demand for real demand is a tragedy, and reality will hit shareholders and employees hard. But restoring the credit flow will only push them back into fantasy, while depriving the taxpayers of the money that they would otherwise spend on other things, saving or creating other jobs. If the only way to maintain a car industry at the size it operated in 2007 is for consumers to borrow £20 billion a year, then the car industry will have to contract.
There is a recession on. People are right not to buy new cars. If the need to replace their cars, the second hand showrooms are full of good cars at great prices. If they really must buy new, they should be willing to pay the market rate of interest – which in these uncertain times is suitably high. For the government to deny this is unbelievably stupid. But then, what did I expect?


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Count your lucky stars that Star Fox takes place in the Lylat system and not here, because if it did we'd all be screwed.
In the video above, YouTube user Warialasky takes a look at the horrible, collateral damage that a Star Fox dogfight would cause on a major metropolitan city. Sure nobody dies, but you still get Michael Bay-level devastation in an otherwise quaint Nintendo franchise.
Dammit, Fox. Take that somewhere else.
Star Fox: Invasion via Warialasky
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Webcast: Shades of Gray – Incorporating Marketing Into Transactional EmailDaniel Randa
Transactional email is one of the most engaging communication channels, yet many companies fail to take advantage of its potential. With the CAN-SPAM act and deliverability concerns, many companies are afraid to incorporate marketing into their transactional messages. Join Carly Brantz and Brian O'Neill on September 25th at 1:00 PM EST as they break down ways to increase ROI and engagement with your customers through discrete marketing in your transactional email.
Carly Brantz is a veteran in the email deliverability space working to make email simple and easy for developers. She manages the Inbound Marketing group at SendGrid that is responsible for creating demand through innovative marketing programs and developing engaging content. Outside of work, Carly is a mom to two little girls, loves yoga, reading and the Denver Broncos.
Brian O'Neill has spent the last 12 years working on email marketing products in various roles; from developer to product manager. The last 4 years were spent building an email marketing and notification platform for a large public company's event management software. At SendGrid, Brian is the Product Manger for the transactional service and is building out a product management team. Brian likes running, hiking 14ers, snowboarding, cooking and hanging out with his kids and dog when not working.
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There's nothing cheap about owning a car and new data from AAA hows just how costly it can be to get around in the U.S.
Today's drivers shell out upwards of $10,000 per year, which comes out to about $0.60 per mile, according to "Your Driving Costs," a survey the organization has released every year since 1950.
The figure varies slightly depending on the kind of car you own, and, obviously, how often you drive it. AAA bases its estimates on someone who drives an average of 15,000 miles per year.
For a person behind the wheel of a four-wheel drive SUV, it could cost $11,600 per year to operate, while a small sedan costs just $7,000.
All in all, just about every aspect of car ownership got more expensive this year, from auto insurance premiums to gas and maintenance.
Maintenance costs skyrocketed by 11.3% on average for sedan owners, thanks to rising labor and parts costs and a "major increase in the price of extended warranty policies due to high loss ratios by underwriters," according to AAA.
And just about everyone followed the peaks and valleys (mainly peaks) of gas prices across the nation last year. Overall, fueling up on regular grade fuel rose 4%, to $3.50/gallon.
Lastly, insurance premiums saw modest increases of 3%, bringing them to $1,029/year for most drivers. Though it's worth noting AAA calculated that cost based on a "low-risk" driver with a clean driving record. Speed demons, young people and men likely saw their premiums jump even more.


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You bet! Throughout the past few months, Drs. Foster & Smith's Aquaculture Coral and Marine Life Facility has put a variety of
LED (light-emitting diode) lighting fixtures to the test. Not only have the LED fixtures proven to be extremely cost-effective, they've also proved intense enough to allow a variety of corals to flourish.
Kevin Kohen, Director of LiveAquaria®, continues to oversee the LED implementation. He is extremely pleased with the results thus far. The results did not come as a complete surprise, however, since Kohen has already enjoyed success with LED lighting on his own reef aquariums. "The aquarium industry has benefited greatly from the LED technology becoming much more prevalent in industrial, commercial, home, and other applications," he said. "I am confident that this technology will eventually become the standard, replacing the use of T-12, T-8 and even T-5 fluorescent bulbs, as well as energy-hungry metal halide lights."
Beneficial, promising, EXCITING results
Constantly evolving, leading-edge LED technology perfectly complements the Facility's progressive nature, as well as the doctors' desire to provide aquatics hobbyists with the healthiest, most vibrant aquatic life available. LED lighting has also brought the Facility many important benefits. According to Kohen, LED lighting has proven to be:
Kohen also reports that LEDs have allowed lighting customization not previously possible with other lighting types. "We have the ability with some units to ramp up and then turn down the intensity during the day and even fine-tune the specific coloration and intensity of the lights over certain corals when needed," Kohen said. "This feature is very beneficial in helping us acclimate newly acquired species brought into the Facility, then slowly adjust them to full lighting intensity and finally offer them for sale in the Diver's Den® section of the LiveAquaria.com website." Further, Kohen said that intense blue LED light continues to enhance coral coloration, especially with deepwater Acropora spp., LPS corals, polyps and mushrooms. "The results so far are very promising," he said.
Earth-friendly technology continues to give great results
With the addition of several LED fixtures from Ecoxotic, EcoTech, Acan and other industry leaders, the Facility will become more environmentally friendly overall (by using less energy and generating fewer burned-out bulbs). And, of course, the Facility's ultimate goal remains to provide hobbyists nationwide with optimally healthy, spectacular aquatic life.
Based on his ongoing experience implementing LEDs throughout the Facility, Kohen offers practical advice for aquarists considering making the LED switch. First and foremost, he advocates taking the proper steps, just as one would when changing out bulbs in a metal halide system. Also, he reminds aquarists to be aware of existing corals' photo-acclimation requirements prior to implementing LEDs. Changing lighting intensity or spectrum without taking preventive measures can quickly result in coral damage.
LEDs are truly the "wave of the future." Each passing day brings advances in LED design and intensity, further solidifying LEDs' popularity and prominence in the overall aquarium hobby. And as industry leaders such as Drs. Foster & Smith's Aquaculture Coral and Marine Life Facility continue to provide conclusive evidence of LEDs' possibilities, aquarists may confidently incorporate LEDs into their home reef setups.
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1. Heat 1/4 cup of the olive oil in a large saute pan over medium-high heat until hot. Add the mushrooms and do not move them until they begin to brown, about 1 minute. Then saute until brown all over, about 5 minutes. Add another tablespoon olive oil if the pan is too dry. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
2. Add the garlic and cook quickly until light brown. Add the thyme, fennel seeds, and stock and bring to a boil. Add the greens, season with salt and pepper, and simmer until tender, about 8 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, bring a large pot of water to a boil and add salt. Add the pasta and cook until al dente, about 12 minutes. Drain, refresh quickly under cool running water, and toss with the remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil.
4. Stir the butter into the greens and add the pasta and parsley. Toss to heat through and add half of the Parmesan. Toss well again and pour onto a heated serving platter. Dust with the other half of Parmesan and serve.


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At least some content in this article is derived from information featured in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery. Spoilers will be present within the article.
- "A small grey cactus in a pot, except that it was covered with what looked like boils rather than spines."
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The Mimbulus mimbletonia is a very rare plant, surmised to be originate in Assyria.
It is most notable for its pulsating and squirming nature and its unique defence mechanism. When prodded, Stinksap is squirted out from the boils on the surface of the plant. Stinksap is a non-poisonous liquid and is described as dark green and smelling like "rancid manure".[1] After receiving one of them as a gift during the summer of 1995, Neville Longbottom demonstrated its defence mechanism for Harry Potter on the Hogwarts Express, accidentally covering the compartment and the people in it with Stinksap. Later on, it is discovered that further on in the plant's development, it makes "odd crooning noises when touched."
Mimbulus mimbletonia was used as the password for the Gryffindor's common room at the start of the 1995–1996 school year, which Neville was overjoyed by, as he could finally remember the password.
The plant is also mentioned by Hermione Granger in 1997, when retorting to Ron Weasley that she doubts that he "would find a woman who sulked for half an hour because Madam Rosmerta didn't laugh at their joke about the hag, the healer and the Mimbulus mimbletonia" after his comment about women being easily upset.
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (First appearance)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (film)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (video game)
- Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Mentioned only)
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2[2]
- Harry Potter: The Character Vault
- Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery
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- ↑ Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix: chapter 10
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01wKDq_ja5s&feature=player_embedded
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Keep Tabs on Network Services with Nagios
Nagios Ain't Gonna Insist On SainthoodNagios provides an advanced server and device monitoring solution. It has become the de facto standard among other service monitoring applications, and is highly competitive with the non-free ones. This article will explain why Nagios is useful, and then cover some installation concepts to help get you started.
Previously known as the NetSaint project, Nagios morphed into its current form about four years ago. Nagios can monitor servers and their services, as well as network devices. More primitive monitoring solutions only allow for a simple ping to detect whether or not a server is still up and running. All too often administrators find that a server will respond to pings, but no services are actually working. Nagios connects to various different network services to test for functionality. To test, for example, a mail server, it will connect and wait to get the SMTP greeting before it declares the service operational. Nagios will monitor most common network-based services out of the box, and plug-ins exist for most anything else.
Nagios and its many plug-ins can monitor an astounding number of services, and more. It can check, intelligently, all of the standard services: Web, SSH, telnet (gasp), ftp, etc. But that's only the backend. Nagios wouldn't be very useful if it didn't notify people of these outages. It does, and it also provides a very intuitive Web page. But we aren't talking about just a simple page that displays some errors, a la syslog output. Nagios presents a control center from which you can monitor, acknowledge, and view the history of all your alerts.
From the webpage you can view all of your hosts, and their status, in an easily read red-equals-bad, green-equals-good interface. But wait, there's more, as the infomercials would say. Nagios also allows users to comment on an event and includes a "schedule downtime" feature. When you comment on an alert, everyone else knows that you're working on it, or at least that you've acknowledged the failure and returned to bed. When scheduling a downtime, Nagios suppresses all notifications of failures so that your pager battery isn't depleted during the window of time that you expect things to be broken.
All of this software still wouldn't be useful if you had to hire an administrator to maintain Nagios, like some commercial applications require. As you might have guessed, Nagios is fairly painless to get up and running. The concept is just like most other open source applications: download, compile, install, configure.
There are a few things to realize, though. Nagios needs to be able to SSH into your servers, and you probably want to run it as its own user. So use your account management system and create a 'nagios' user on all of your machines.
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Photos from Fall Tour 2015 with Two Cow Garage. Thanks to our tour mates for taking good care of us, plus everyone who hosted us, fed us, and extra special thanks to the crew making Fest in Gainesville such a rad thing. Hope to see you back next year!
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Lindenwood University will hold its commencement exercises May 16 and 17 at the Family Arena in St. Charles; the keynote speaker during undergraduate ceremonies on May 17 will be former U.S. Senator Alan Dixon.
St. Charles County Executive Steve Ehlmann will speak at Baccalaureate and graduate commencement ceremonies on May 16, at which the university will award its first doctoral degrees–in education. The doctor of education degree program was launched in 2007.
The undergraduate commencement May 17 and the Baccalaureate/graduate commencement (at 7:30 p.m. on May 16) will both be held at the Family Arena in St. Charles. More than 800 graduating students will take part in the undergraduate ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday. Approximately 650 students are expected to take part in the graduate ceremony.
Dixon was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980 and served until 1993, prior to which he served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1951 to 1963 and the Illinois Senate from 1963 to 1971 and as Illinois' treasurer from 1971 to 1977 and secretary of state from 1977 to 1981. He is currently a partner in the law firm of Bryan Cave in St. Louis.
Ehlmann holds the rare distinction of having served in all three branches of government. He was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1989 to 1993 and the Missouri Senate from 1993 to 2001, serving two terms at the Republican floor leader in the Senate. He served in the judiciary as associate circuit judge from 2001 to 2003 and circuit judge during 2003 for the 11th Circuit Court. Ehlmann took office as county executive in 2007, prior to which he served as the county's director of administration.
Student speakers at the commencement ceremony will be undergraduate Megan Shipley, president of the Lindenwood Student Government Association, and graduate student Kelly Kothe.
Receiving the university's Alumni Merit Award (at the May 16 ceremony) will be Martha Ackmann (class of 1973), award-winning author of "The Mercury 13: The True Story of Thirteen Women and the Dream of Space Flight."


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IAB Engage for Travel conference
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Live blogging some bits and bobs this morning.
Just finished a speech at the Internet Advertising Bureau's Engage for Travel conference, titled "Challenge for Advertisers with Travel 2.0".
Plenty of nods in the audience when talking about ad budgets and engaging so-called Web 2.0 sites such as blogs and social networks. One of the people I spoke to when writing the speech said there is a real sense that experimental advertising is being reigned in, favouring the measurable - i.e. search and affiliate advertising - marketing campaigns.
Lewis Lenssen of Netizen Digital: measure the effectiveness of offline brand campaigns with a strong pay-per-click advertising push.
Price and product are still king. If the product is poor you'll get found out still.
Russell Gould, Thomas Cook:
The TCG ecommerce four-point plan - 1) customer acquisition 2) customer retention and growth 3) customer conversion 4) measurement and optimisation. Simple?
Engagement hugely important: maintaining contact constantly (and usefully) with the customer, primarily through email marketing.
Gould is "stunned" by the impact of video on conversion rates on thomascook.com. User who looks at video converts at 30% higher than those who don't.
40% of people that clicked on the recently Thomas Cook interactive magazine then went to the website, via the Book Now buttons.
Gould invites delegates to try the new Beta thomascook.com.
User reviews coming. Not Tripadvisor. Will use negative and positive reviews, will moderate against profanity, etc.
Best bit of the speech: personalised video demonstration.
Videos created live, simply by pulling together clips from the preferences put forward by the user. Very impressive.
Kevin May, editor, Travolution


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Friday, February 5, 2010
In which I attempt to defend Griefing...
Evil, by definition, is doing that which is morally objectionable. Moral, in this sense, being the standard of what is right and wrong as it conforms to the rest of society. The norms of society are really important to this definition because each individual person has their own perception of morality. It's only within the context of society that we can judge that which is immoral or evil.
MMOs are interesting in that the social dynamics of the community certainly provide a society for that MMO. And as with all societies, acceptable behavior is defined by the norms of the people in that society.
In this way, there are very clear definitions of what is right and wrong behavior in any MMO. These norms may not be the same in each game, or even a reflection of the broader real world society, but they do exist within the confines of that game.
Men Behaving Badly
In real life, we view things like drug use, lewd or rude behavior, and even sexual promiscuity as immoral acts. And yet, it's not uncommon for men to revel in a politically incorrect world of booze, burps and boobs.
Morally objectionable? Yes. Fun? Hell, yes!
Therein lies the problem. It may not be proper, it may not even be accepted. But dammit, it's fun.
We even have a term for the idea that the pursuit of pleasure is the actual (and proper) motive of every action: Hedonism. And if someone is too prudish or too morally upright, we say they have a 'stick up their ass'.
And our dirty little secret? Everyone has some guilty pleasure they KNOW is questionable but love to do.
The Humor in Griefing
OK. So one of my dark little secrets is that I can see the humor in griefing. I don't think it's appropriate, I don't think people should do it, and I most certainly absolutely hate it when it's done to me. And yes, if people get griefed, I am very much inclined to blame and hold the developer responsible for allowing it to happen.
And yet, it can be funny. It can be entertaining. And yes, I've even done it.
The Bank Hiests in Darkfall is perhaps the worst griefing story I have every read. The author of that link describes in great detail his exploits in robbing and destroying several guilds. It is appalling. It is unacceptable. I feel horrible for the people involved. And yet, I couldn't help but laugh and marvel at his accomplishments.
Sometimes when the dark parts of our soul get exposed it's humorous. Many comedians, films, authors have been incredibly successful because of the dark nature of their humor. Perhaps one of the most memorable scenes in Pulp Fiction is the car scene where Marvin gets shot in the head. Taken out of context, it's horrible and awful. But oh man did it make me laugh when I first saw it.
In fact, to really understand what makes Griefers tick, you really should visit Something Awful, the birthplace of the most famous MMO griefers – The Goons. This is a website dedicated to all the awful things that make us laugh.
Different Strokes for Different Folks
As Tobold also pointed out, when actions are consensual, it's not really griefing. From this perspective, it's important to realize that the society morals of a game like Darkfall (with corpse looting) may be much different than a game like World of Warcraft.
Each MMO really is an individual community with it's own social norms. Certain behavior that is unacceptable in one game may be perfectly acceptable in another game. Even in WoW, social conventions can be different between two servers. If you have ever gone from a PvE to a PvP server (or vice versa), then you likely have some idea what I'm talking about.
Griefing is Evil
But, at the end of the day, despite the potential humor -- Griefing is just not that fun for the guy getting Griefed. It just plain sucks to get Griefed and have your day ruined because some asshat thought it was funny.
Which is ultimately why I will fail in this attempt to defend Griefing.
Because, in the end, Griefing is not something you can defend. It is horrible. It is awful. And funny or not, it isn't something we should condone or support in our games.
5 comments:
- Stabs said...
I think evil is a very misused word in this context.
I think evil is a stronger word than simply not socially acceptable. To some communities it's not socially acceptable for a woman to walk around unveiled but doing so is not evil.
Evil is absolute. Murder is evil because it is always wrong to kill another person for selfish reasons. War is evil although it may be a lesser evil than submitting to tyranny.
Playing games is not evil. Not even if you grief. There is always the safety net for players of just turning the game off and walking away so there is a limited extent to which you can be harmed by another player's actions.
If you personally can't cope with experiencing mean people that's about you, not about them. They're not evil, you're just not coping.
- February 6, 2010 at 2:22 AM
- sid67 said...
The word 'evil' has several definitions depending on its usage.
If used as an adjective, then 'morally corrupt' is a perfectly acceptable way to use the word. For example: The con man is an evil person because he defrauded that elderly lady out of her savings.
That is really the context in which Tobold (and myself) are using the word evil.
It can also be used as a noun. That usage, according to Wikitionary is more in line with your definition: forces/behaviors that are the opposite or enemy of good. Evil generally seeks own benefit at the expense of others and is based on general malevolence.
- February 6, 2010 at 10:01 AM
- Stabs said...
The problem with dictionaries is that they indiscriminately expand the language.
If I use evil to mean mildly naughty most people would say that's plain silly whereas a lexicographer would add 7. Adjective. Mildly naughty to his list of definitions for that word.
I don't buy it that the word can be used for "mildly naughty". Did you see Catch Me If You Can? Was Frank Abagnalle, the conman on whom the film was based evil? I don't think so and I don't think the film-makers thought so. But he conned a lot of little old ladies.
Tldr acts in video games are not, in a real sense, evil whether it's kidnapping puppies in Dragonblight in WoW or robbing guild banks in DF. Sure there are some harsh knocks to be had playing video games - it sucks to be ripped off - but these actions are no more evil than beating an opponent in chess or tackling someone in sport.
- February 8, 2010 at 2:18 AM
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Nice turn around in conclusions there.
- February 8, 2010 at 5:22 AM
- sid67 said...
The problem with dictionaries is that they indiscriminately expand the language.
Are you really arguing about the dictionary definition of a word?
Seriously, all evil is not absolute. That's why we use the adjectives like 'absolute' or 'pure' to clarify when someone or something is the most evil.
Evil, as an adjective, is a word that can have varying degrees. Consider it's antonym: Good.
Are some good deeds better than other good deeds? Would you say that sacrificing your life to save another person is equal to helping out at a homeless shelter?
Just as there are degrees of good, there are degrees of evil. And as you say, do all the little evils we do outweigh all the good? THAT's how we measure the worth of people like Frank Abagnalle.
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The changing legal definition of marriage has roiled American culture from courthouse to altar, expanding civil rights for some but challenging the religious rights of others, particularly the Catholic Church and its myriad social service ministries.
Adoption services that have, for 100 years or more, provided children with good, safe and traditional homes with a male husband and female wife are facing a take-it-or-leave-it scenario in the new legal landscape: Accept the sweeping social change in the most elemental compact in the history of mankind — the nuclear family formed by the marriage of one man to one woman — and abandon 2,000 years of dogma by continuing to find children homes through adoption services, including same-sex couples; or close up shop.
The necessity of accepting one of two equally objectionable choices confronts dioceses and Catholic Charities in 17 states from Minnesota to New Mexico and Massachusetts to California.
The collision of constitutional rights poses irreconcilable demands. When religious organizations work for the common good — the welfare of children — and accept taxpayer money from state and local governments, the attached obligation is to treat all comers equally. For Catholic organizations to comply is to violate Church doctrine.
"In the name of tolerance, we're not being tolerated," Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Ill., told the New York Times when Illinois dioceses stopped adoption services rather than comply.
Similarly, the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., ended an 80-year "legacy of high quality service to the vulnerable in our nation's capital" when the city informed Catholic Charities in 2009 that "the agency could no longer serve as a provider of foster care and public adoption services as a result of the D.C. same-sex marriage law," said Sheridan Watson, communications manager for the Office of Media and Public Relations at the archdiocese.
"This is because under the new law, in order to have a contract with D.C. to provide such services, providers were required to certify the marital status of adoptive and foster care families and to place children with same-sex married couples, which would violate the tenets of the Catholic Faith."
The secular change in the definition of marriage and its civil consequences has not deterred the archdiocese in its mission to help the needy, Watson said.
"Catholic Charities ... (has) been unwavering in its commitment to serve those in need and is the largest private social service provider in the Washington metropolitan area," Watson said.
The Archdiocese of Boston got out of the adoption business in 2006 after the Vatican affirmed that Catholic adoption agencies could not arrange adoptions to same-sex couples in response to the news that the diocese had brokered adoptions to 13 gay couple in the previous two years. Adoption services by Catholic agencies and dioceses may have ended elsewhere in many of the 17 states that now recognize same-sex marriage, but the work of the Church continues even in some of those states.
The Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, which is located south of the Boston archdiocese, is home to more than 300,000 Catholics and has a total population of more than 800,000.
The diocese has soldiered on, with its Office of Catholic Social Services handling adoptions for the neighboring Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, where same-sex marriage was adopted in 2013.
"It hasn't come up for us," said Phyllis Habib, adoption coordinator for the Fall River agency. "I think just by the name of our agency, same-sex couples do not approach us. We have couples who are not Catholic who apply for adoptions, and, as with any application, we conduct home studies and seek doctors' certifications as is required by law in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island."
The adoption business has shifted from Catholic agencies, which handled as many as one-third of the placements in some states, to private arrangers and attorneys, regardless of whether same-sex marriage laws have been adopted or not, according to social workers and executive directors at Catholic Charities organizations and dioceses across the country.
"That is our whole issue (as to) why we have seen a decrease in adoptions," said Steven Bogus, executive director of Catholic Charities in Louisville, Kentucky, where same-sex marriage has not been enacted. "They have an unfair advantage over us in that they are not regulated by the state — as we are and as private adoption agencies are. We keep doing adoptions because we do a lot of other services for women, including pregnancy counseling."
The mother of a child placed for adoption has the final choice as to who the adopts the baby, so there is the possibility she may select a gay couple to raise her child.
"I'm not sure if a woman who is looking to place the child for adoption would see an advantage to choosing a same-sex couple," Bogus said. "You find that a single mother who is placing her child for adoption may be more in line with traditional values. She has chosen the life of the child over abortion, so likely she would prefer a traditional family life for her child."
In the Diocese of Lafayette, Louisiana, another state where same-sex marriage has not been passed into law, Willa Blackwell, director of Catholic Social Services, said her office is processing about six cases a year.
"My fear is that there is not the realization (in the commercial transaction of adoption between two parties and brokered by a lawyer) that they are committing for the life of the adoption, which is what we do."
The Archdiocese of Hartford, Connecticut, is "continuing to do adoptions, and it is in alliance with the teachings of the Catholic Church, which means we are unable to place children with same-sex couples," said Lois Nesci, executive director of Hartford Catholic Charities.
"We are a private-pay program with no state monies," she said. "There is a decrease but not attributed to the marriage issue; we haven't gotten as many mothers seeking adoption services for their children."
The Archdiocese of Baltimore observes Church law and civil law in its adoption program operated by Catholic Charities because it handles only international adoptions, mainly through China, the Philippines and Colombia. All three countries have "a prohibition" against same-sex couples adopting children, said Ellen Warnock, director of adoptions for Baltimore Catholic Charities.
The agency started international adoptions in 1979 as the number of domestic adoptions continued a decade-long decline that Warnock attributed to a number of factors, including the increased number of abortions (Roe v. Wade was decided in January 1973), the growth of family planning and a lower birth rate in the United States.
"And there is an anti-adoption culture of young people," said Warnock, who along with other Catholic adoption professionals noted that a stigma is attached to an unwed mother who chooses to deliver her child and place the infant within a traditional family setting.
With Maryland's same-sex marriage law in place, "there are plenty of agencies out there who will appeal to you as a same-sex couple who wishes to adopt," Warnock said. "Adoption is a huge undertaking and it is expensive, both financially and emotionally, so who is looking for a fight at that point when there are plenty of non-sectarian agencies who will work with same-sex couples?"
Despite the presence or absence of same-sex marriage laws, most Catholic adoption agencies are continuing the other needed parts of their ministries, meaning the Church may retreat in the area of adoption when forced to by law, but it still remains heavily involved in supporting families in need.
"We are seeing more pregnancy support and fewer adoptions," said Gerard Carter, executive director of Catholic Charities in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, where same-sex marriage is not recognized. "We have teen parenting programs and support programs."
The work goes on.
Joseph R. LaPlante writes from Rhode Island.
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One of the few downsides of the trend towards automatically enrolling employees in 401(k) plans is that it tends to depress participants' average savings rates. Indeed, as I've written in the Wall Street Journal, savings rates have fallen in recent years as auto-enrollment has taken off.
The problem: Many companies that auto-enroll employees set contribution rates at a relatively low 3% of salary or less, unless an employee chooses otherwise. That's far below the 5% to 10% rates participants typically elect when left to their own devices, researchers say, and also well below what most financial planners recommend.
Auto-enrollment has long been celebrated for its impact on participation rates. Companies that have implemented it report average participation rates above 85%, compared with 67% for plans without auto-enrollment, according to Aon Hewitt, a plan administrator. But plan administrators also have linked auto-enrollment to a decline in average contribution rates. Among plans Aon Hewitt administers, average savings rates fell to 7.3% in 2010, from 7.9% in 2006. The Vanguard Group Inc. says average contribution rates at its plans fell to 6.8% in 2010, from 7.3% in 2006. Over the same period, the average for Fidelity Investments' defined contribution plans decreased to 8.2%, from 8.9%.
The good news: New data from New York Life Retirement Plan Services indicates that the gap in savings rates between those who are auto-enrolled and those who voluntarily sign up tends to narrow over time. Among the 480 401(k) plans that use New York Life as an administrator, 64% now auto-enroll, up from 21% in 2006. The average participant who was auto-enrolled deferred 4.65% of his or her salary at first. But after four years, the auto-enrolled population was saving 6.1% of pay. In contrast, for those in plans that don't offer auto-enrollment, deferrals started at 7.29% and declined to 6.77% after four years.
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It's a year since Last Hope Animal Rescue opened a lovely Adoption Center in Wantagh, so it's time to celebrate in style. This Sat., June 16 at 3 p.m., Last Hope will be holding a Swimsuit Competition. The bathing beauties are not from Sports Illustrated or Miss Universe. They will be our dogs adopted from Wantagh, coming back to visit, decked out in their best beach attire.
'Tis safer that Last Hope alumni cats skip the fashion show and stay home. The cats need only send their "peeps" to the first anniversary festivities. The celebration will take place at the Last Hope Adoption Center, 3300 Beltagh Avenue, next door to Hempstead Town Shelter and across the street from Wantagh High School. There will also be a DJ and a clown.
I will be the "Bert Barks" of the canine swimsuit competition as I introduce the contestants. (Must be dating myself, spoofing the long-time Miss America announcer.) Our judges, Lisa and Whitney, are two young fashionista Last Hope volunteers. The winner will receive a gift card. I haven't decided if it will be to Prada or Petco.
The party is for the families of the Last Hope Wantagh cat/dog adoptees plus volunteers, but everyone is welcome to watch the dog training demo at 2 p.m.; bathing suit contest at 3 p.m. and tentatively scheduled Search & Rescue dog team at 4 p.m. Pooch participation in the bathing suit contest is by invitation only. Owners of 180 Last Hope dogs adopted since the Wantagh facility opened last June received phone calls. It will be interesting to see how many attend.
Can't say how many bikini-clad or swimming-trunk dogs will strut around the wading pool. We won't turn away any Last Hope dogs, but other pups won't be able to enter. Don't be insulted, even my Halle and Edgar Afghan Poe who posed for contest promo photos aren't invited since they are Afghan Hound Rescue rather than Last Hope alumni.
A dog bathing suit contest brings back fond memories. In 1994, I entered my two black Afghans in the "All American Dog Contest" at South Shore Mall. Alan was a hula dancer while Trevor was his Don Ho. Alan, a shelter rescue, made the cut when he stood up on his hind legs on stage to hula. His brother was eliminated. The hosts forgot to tell us that there would be a bathing suit competition too.
Trevor, who was from a top show kennel, owned a vast wardrobe; Alan wasn't as fashion conscious. I rushed Trevor home and smuggled out his gold lamé bathing suit, thinking he'd never know that Alan borrowed it. I hadn't figured that Trevor would see Alan wearing his "Esther Williams" ensemble on Channel 12 that evening. During the finals, Alan placed second to a Cocker Spaniel that waved to the crowd.
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During the wee hours of June 3rd Sweet Pea whelped seven pups but only four lived. After struggling to deliver such big babies, she needed a C-section at an emergency clinic. It was a very long night for all, especially Sweet Pea. The firstborn puppy didn't survive, nor did a brother and sister who died during the procedure.
Sweet Pea is a wonderful, stoic mama to her quartet of Baby Peas, all female, all resembling tri-colored Beagle pups. At her foster Mom's home, she is so patient while three curious dogs watch at the edge of her whelping box. Meanwhile she enjoys small portions of vanilla ice cream to stimulate her milk supply. Although the frozen Friendly's may not be as scientifically based as Tums to supplement calcium, the ice cream sure does taste better. Just ask Sweet Pea. * "Trump"- "Pets" two weeks ago ended while we were still waiting for Trump's biopsy report which ultimately contained a mixed message. Originally from Babylon Shelter, "Trump" is a handsome German Shorthaired Pointer, about eight years old, with personality plus despite his tale of woe. Trump absolutely loves people and is in his glory when someone is either throwing him a tennis ball or treating him to a belly rub. He knows sit and shake, and of course, how to point at birds.
Picked up as a stray, Trump was immediately taken by the shelter to the hospital because of a huge, ulcerated testicular mass. He also had a lick granuloma and calloused elbows hinting at lots of time lying on concrete. The shelter had blood work, including a heartworm test done- all fine. He also had hip and knee x-rays because his hind end seemed wobblyalso fine.
Trump had a scrotal ablation to remove the mass. His biopsy came back as a squamous cell carcinoma, completely excised with clear margins and a 75% cure rate. He moved to Last Hope a week later. Presently Trump is on Rimadyl because there is some research that NSAIDS have been shown to reduce the rate of cancer cell growth. Both his calluses and lick granuloma are healing.
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Friday, February 19, 2010
Green Fruit Salad
Making fruit salads during summer is easy. Take some strawberries, apples, pears, wild forest berries, juicy apricots or nectarines - basically, whatever is in season - slice, dress, garnish and serve.
During winter - at least in this part of the world - it's a lot more difficult. We're in the middle of the coldest and snowiest winter many of us can remember. None of the local fruits are in season, and the imported stuff is often of questionable quality. However, here's a recipe I've made few times that seems to suit the chilly climate of the moment. You can find reasonably good and sweet kiwi fruit, and the grapes (all imported, of course) in the shops at the moment.
I guess what I like about this simple salad is the colour. The vibrant green reminds me that the Spring is just around the corner, however unlikely it seems in Estonia at the moment...
Green Fruit Salad Recipe
(Roheline puuviljasalat)
Serves 4 to 6
4 to 6 ripe and sweet kiwis
250 g green (seedless) grapes
half a lime, juiced and zested
a drizzle of maple syrup
Peel the kiwis and cut into thin slices. Wash the grapes, halve and remove the seeds, if necessary. Drizzle the kiwi slices and grape halves with lime juice and maple syrup, place on a serving bowl.
Scatter the lime zest on top and serve.
7 comments:
- Jess - Healthy Exposures said...
mmm- yummy! I always forget about making fruit salads...I always just end up eating it as I'm preparing it! haha. But this definitely sounds like it's worth waiting for :P
I haven't had a kiwi in FAR too long.
- 3:58 am, February 20, 2010
- Lisa said...
wow...sounds wonderfully refreshing!
- 7:07 am, February 22, 2010
- Anette said...
Tere Pille!
Mul on kohe mitu küsimust:-)
Avastasin enda jaoks sellise toreda foorumi nagu Nami-nami ja lugesin, et on käimas tordivõistlus. Kiire pilguga vaadates ei leidnud aga kuskilt tähtaega, kas veel jõuab osaleda?
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Tv, Anette
- 10:18 am, February 22, 2010
This is my favorite too! I have added also some (canned) pineapple. It gives nice sweetness for the sallad. I have served this kind of sallad with chocolate cake or fondant.
- 4:10 pm, February 23, 2010
- Joy said...
This looks really good!
- 3:25 pm, February 25, 2010
My husband loves fruit salad, so I prepare it very often. I've tried this recipe - it was the first time I prepare fruit salad with maple syrup - we loved it. Thanks!
Claire (baby cloth diapers)
- 5:19 pm, March 01, 2010
- Rosa said...
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The rebuilding of a "temporary" U.S. 34 through the Big Thompson Canyon required some heavy lifting:
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DRAKE - In a symbolic gesture during a day full of symbolism, the mayors of Loveland and Estes Park hugged at Thursday's ceremony celebrating the opening of the vital U.S. 34 link between the cities.
Despite the bitter cold and falling snow, the mood was upbeat for the event outside the Big Thompson Canyon Volunteer Fire Department station in Drake.
With "Love Don't Die" by Colorado band The Fray providing the soundtrack, scores of highway workers celebrated, officials gave speeches and Gov. John Hickenlooper helped paint the final stripes down the middle of the highway that was rebuilt after September's flood.
Estes Park Mayor Bill Pinkham, after sharing an embrace with Loveland Mayor Cecil Gutierrez, talked about how important Thursday's highway opening was.
"On Sept. 12, our mountain paradise became our prison," he said. All roads into and out of the tourism-dependent town were impassable except Trail Ridge Road to the west. Even outside phone communication was cut off, he said.
"It was overwhelming," Pinkham recalled.
'Open for Business'
But highways 7, 36 and 34 are flowing again, and "Estes Park is now truly open for business," he said.
With U.S. 34 running through Loveland up to Estes Park, Loveland mayor Gutierrez said his city considers itself the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park. He thanked everyone responsible for reopening that gateway.
"When people start driving this road, they are not going to be impressed," he said, "because they will not have seen what you started with."
What the Colorado Department of Transportation, contractor Kiewit Infrastructure and many local subcontractors started with was an 18-mile stretch of canyon roadway that needed repair or rebuilding on 70 percent of its length.
To drivers getting their first look at the rebuilt road, the new temporary U.S. 34 looks much like the old highway - paved the entire way, with passing lanes and shoulders in places.
"To get this done in 10 weeks is amazing," said Hickenlooper, who pledged in the first days after the flood that the state would build temporary roads on every destroyed highway route.
"Rebuilding these roads is a first step toward people rebuilding their lives," he said. "As a state, we're not going to stop until we get everybody back on their feet."
The governor said the reopening of each flooded highway has carried a theme, and the motif of the U.S. 34 completion "is all about reconnecting communities ... that are almost siblings."'Worth Every Bit of It'
John Eaton, a Kiewit grading foreman from Texas who volunteered to come up for the job, sported an embroidered stocking cap on top of his hardhat that an appreciative canyon resident had made.
"A lot of work went into this to get this open for these people," Eaton said, describing 47 straight 14-hour workdays.
"It was worth every bit of it," he said.
To Grouse Hollow resident Barb Anderson, whose home survived the flood, Thursday's event meant one thing: "It means I can go home."
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Makes one 14-ounce smoothie
1/2 cup frozen organic blueberries
1/2 cup frozen organic strawberries
1/2 cup chilled green tea, unsweetened
3/4 cup plain low-fat organic yogurt
2 tablespoons ground flaxseed
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Blogs and Blogging...
Here's an interesting blog to read if you enjoy fashion, particularly vintage fashion: A Dress A Day.
It's an interesting theme for a blog. That's probably why it's currently on the "Blogs of Note" list on the Blogger homepage.
I really have to admire someone who sets a theme and sticks to it with discipline. I don't even stick to the mood I've declared here (the "cheerful" ramble.)
There's some good stuff every now and then in those "Blogs of Note". That's where I found the blog Stuff to Think About that has instructions for installing the Google Ajax Search API.
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The Consumerist relates the story of a potential Verizon customer who grew frustrated with his inability to get its high-speed FiOS Internet service. After resorting to emailing the CEO of the company, his service was promptly installed.
"Verizon is a corporation who cares about their customers and not only about the bottom line," wrote the newly happy customer.
Now ask yourself: Just how separable are "caring for customers" and "the bottom line"?
It's interesting that many people's ideological grooves have these concepts in opposition. But business owners know how much time they spend slavishly trying to please customers—because that affects their bottom lines. When big businesses do it badly, that affects their bottom lines and invites competition.
(Needless to say, the telecommunications area needs more competition, to bring customer service and bottom lines closer together).
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Friday, January 2, 2009
Artistic creativity and the brain
"The [frontal cortex] may be involved in assessing whether such behaviors conform to social demands, exerting inhibitory control over inappropriate or maladaptive performance"
And there you have it!
Any artistic achievement that is tailored to conform to social demands rather than to the real, uninhibited, feelings of its creator, is destined not to reach the heights of achievement, or even fail. It is only when an artist is dis-inhibited that he or she can reach the heights of artistic achievement.
This is perhaps what Wagner and Schopenhauer meant when they said, in a somewhat clumsy way, that an artistic work must "flow from the sub-conscious", which I interpret to mean without self-censorship. This is perhaps what Proust also meant when he wrote in his Contre Sainte Beuve, "Every day, I become more aware that it is only outside [intelligence] that the [artist] can attain something of himself and the only material of art" (see my earlier blog).
It is at any rate wonderful to have in this recent work a neurological insight into a prized characteristic of all art, but especially of jazz and dancing.
12 comments:
- Jade Booth said...
Yeah I think your right, thank you for sharing. Raw untainted human expression definitely provides something more substantial. However what is produced from it doesn't always seem to fit with the problem/goal/question (I guess this could be taken to mean the goal was non-optimal)
- January 5, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I think it is also important to realise that the de-activation of the frontal-cortex must be in the wider context of a high-functioning frontal-cortex; in order to apply the goal-driven behaviour and discipline that builds up procedural skills encapsulated in the rest of the cortex and cerebellum. Without practice and such procedural skills (or even simply the driven-effort required to show others) the artistic work would typically be of little artistic merit.
- January 6, 2009 at 11:14 AM
Interesting piece of research, I have a few comments on my blog about this paper http://whywedoit.wordpress.com/2009/01/08/neuromusic-and/
- January 9, 2009 at 10:23 AM
I wonder if athletes "in the zone" demonstrate similar patterns?
Also, at the risk of nitpicking, I wanted to point out a terminology error in some of your posts. A blog (named for "web log") is an ongoing record of individual posts, in the same way a data log is a record of individual data. In other words,"Prof Zeki's Musings" is a blog, and "Artistic creativity and the brain" is a post. In the opening sentence of this post, I expect you mean that you "wrote a post in May", not "a blog in May."
- January 22, 2009 at 9:27 PM
- Art Group at Berkeley said...
From a harvard neuroscience student and artist ~ =
yes, when I'm running against the other girls, against the wind, I know that when I'm 'in the zone' I will win, without pain without difficulty, . . . I seek the dreamy bright shimmering zone, colored on the edge of sky and fresh cut lavendar. It is the same when drawing or painting. Sometimes, in the right place or time, Zoning is like meditation, the tickly, happy copper smell where I create most effortlessly, enlightening myself and others who will see the blue smooth of it as I imagined as the brush dipped itself and sparkled across the cold-pressed canvas on it's own.
Professor Zeki,
Like Werner, I think that being more open about such matters might help us. I suppose I am also a 'neuroesthetic' in some sense, the only artist allowed in this small program here. They can't keep me from sketching. I draw everything I see. Yesterday I drew Gardner and his wife talking about creativity and thought. Today I argued with the doctoral student who thinks all art is a sign of illness, or sadness. Poor fellow. I think he missed the inaugural concert for sure.
Saying "maybe" or "perhaps" might be better for us to do than making final judgments about how an artist's brian works. There are so many kinds of artists and art, requiring so many parts of the brain to create. Some art uses all of the brain - like cooking. Cooking activates more parts of the brain then almost any human activity.
I did see several brain scans here of practising artists that show frontal lobe activation while they were creating their art. The fascinating feature about this is that it is the right frontal lobe activation! This is shown in very skilled artists but not in unskilled artists doing the same creative work. There are some publications that you should check out which support this as well. I think, since we are just now forming this field, we should be open-minded, like the classical Werner, an amazing observationist who accurately assumed (quite a bit of) potential functionality of the brain before it was technically possible. His style of writing is so beautiful, not because he writes like a poet, but because he writes with 'possibility.' Our theories must always be changing, evolving and correcting ourselves, the possibility of the unknown open to wonder.
After years of art school and years of making art with hundreds of artists worldwide, I am now a neuroscientist studying the cutting edge of this miraculously new and discoverable field. Humble in amazement, I know that most art (as my fellow artists say and show and live) is made of and out of joy. How to explain this to the scientists and educators around me? I seek to find a way to wipe the dust from their minds. To put artists in a box, to say that we are all sad or somewhat schizotypal is really narrowminded. You say,... (I said to the school) it is mad to live within a dream? Well, then I say to you, .... it is insane to live without one!
Remember this my fellows, . . .
If de-activating the front means I'm free, then it explains why artists are considered 'those who have freedom' in society, through their creative work. To be free, the 'rulemakers' leave their orderly boxes and seek the colorful neighborhood of artists and musicians, free for a moment, free until return to the drudgery of control and the sad pursuit of monetary gain. And then, to see those who seek this freedom, can this 'art' work be called work after considering it's liberation? Then we must then not eliminate the thought that artists liberate society from constraint. And let us not forget the individual observer who owns the linear, rational,sequential mind, a mind so frequently active in the left frontal lobe, he hurts from the restraints of it. Wanders he, accidentally into the corridors of a random gallery, fully taking in a synaestheiast's purely joyful, ethereal and unrestrained expression of release. After standing, trancelike, without fully conscious of his doing so, mesmerizingly takes in the fullness and depth of such a vision, he is temporary healed. For a few moments afterwards, he can "think out of the box," he has the innovative solution to the problem at work, and the romantic understanding of how to impulsively seduce his wife for the first time in years. He is 'unburdened' by the experience of art.
This is the true actualization of an artist's dream. Only a thouand words can express an artists' vision painted with reverence. When I write "vision" I mean 'what the artist feels when painting, which is what they want to share with the viewer.'
or, . . .
"I personally should like to renounce speech altogether and . . . communicate everything I have to say in sketches ________________________________ Goethe, quoted from Huxley 1957: 58 f.
or better yet, . . .
"There are no untalented artists, there are only untalented observers" ____________________________ Shemshurin in 1920, quoted from Lodder 1983: 80
.....................sunshine shimmering gold colorful secrets of synaesthesian painters . . . . know, that - some see art, but do not EXPERIENCE art. . . . . . . There are a thousand colors of green she said. . . . . . dancing, . . . . . . . deep jazzy rain feels yellow and blue . i paint because ........ it's not about me, it's all about you.
- January 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM
It would be not only interesting - but necessary- to state (from a scientific point of view) the difference between:
1) Self-censorship in relation to oneself: The "This is really what I want?" idea.
2) Self-censorship in relation to the others: The "What will they say?" idea
It's my hope Neuroesthetics field will make interesting discoveries in the near future, because all what we have is essentially the perception of ourselves in opposition to the perception of the others.. or what some call the "inner" and the "outer" world.
- February 12, 2009 at 10:27 AM
- mcguire said...
Regarding this musing by Professor Zeki and the later exuberant comments by "The Art Group at Berkeley" and Halewyn's address of censorship:
In one hour, I will be attending a lecture here at Harvard's Mind, Brain, Behavior tea led by Herbert H. Clark, PhD Professor of Psychology Stanford University - where he will discuss with us this very domain. The abstract for his talk is as follows:
"Ordinary language use is far from the ideal characterized in standard theories of grammar, pragmatics, and communication. People in conversation decide what to say not alone, but in collaboration with their interlocutors. They are constantly changing course as they speak, often mid-sentence. When they misestimate (well, George W. Bush misunderestimates) what their interlocutors know, they have techniques for dealing with the consequences. And in speaking, they
hesitate, add uh and um, repeat words, redo phrases, and abandon phrases, all in great numbers. According to traditional theories, all of these behaviors are
irrational aberrations from the ideal. But are they? In the traditional theories, people using language are assumed to have omniscient rationality. What if they were assumed to have bounded rationality based on limited knowledge and limited processing capacity? I will lay out a model of language use based on bounded rationality and show that it accounts for many of these "aberrant" behaviors as fully rational."
Aaahhhh.... how interesting. And it so reminds me of today's early morning lecture by Professor Kurt Fischer (always interrupted by James Croft of course) discussing the matters of how advances in brain cognition and development typically follow a regress/progress kind of S loop of sorts.
So, in essence, we all should keep our eye on the ones (the thoughts, the people) that are in tangents, wavering between intangible and within our grasp, for those are the ones that shall bear innovative fruit.
- March 16, 2009 at 12:06 PM
- Sheila Heti said...
This study talks about the brain of musicians improvising. But there is also the editing or selection part of art, where the artist stands back, looks at what they have done, and evaluates it. A writer reads over what they have written in a state of, say, improvisation, and then edits it, improves upon it, layers in other ideas, and fixes it to conscious standards. What part of the brain is engaged when the artist performs this part of the labour? Surely this part of the labour -- call it logical, evaluating -- call it skill, craft -- is as important as the primary "ecstatic" impulse, and should be studied as well. What part of the brain does it come from? For the creation of art really comes in two parts: the "free," let's call it, but also the part which evaluates that freedom by the artist's own standards.
- June 9, 2009 at 7:19 PM
- Adeline said...
There are some publications that you should check out which support this as well. I think, since we are just now forming this field, we should be open-minded, like the classical Werner, an amazing observationist who accurately assumed (quite a bit of) potential functionality of the brain before it was technically possible.
Brainhealthandpuzzles - brain creativity
- July 23, 2009 at 5:51 AM
- ikhoo said...
I am an art student researching on Colours, Light and Perception.
I read in a book about the fear of colours.
'colours are associated with primitivism, infantilism and is something foreign to the the intellect.
Colours are associated with the feminine and are secondary and superfluous.
My 'silly' question which I would like to ask is
Do we need intellect to perceive colours?
Which part of the brain are we using as artists when we decide/feel like placing shocking pink next to shocking green for instant?
Thank you for answering my questions.
- December 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM
- Professor Zeki said...
Thanks for your question. The simple answer to the first part is "No, we do not need intellect to perceive colours". The more sophisticated answer is that colour is a wholly subjective experience but a subjective experience in which a brain programme comes into operation to determine the colours that we see. Hence it is not in our power to choose which colours we see.
The situation is different when we come to choose what colour to put next to another colour. Surely memory and intellect come into play then. S Zeki
- December 16, 2010 at 5:45 AM
- Nicholas Stangherlin said...
Dear all,
I am a PhD student of literature and have only recently become acquainted with the fascinating field of Neuroesthetics. I would like to ask the readers of this blog if they know of any interesting papers, articles or books that deal with olfactory data within a diegesis and how that data is processed at a neurological level by the reader. My hypothesis –which I hope to confirm or disconfirm– is that olfactory data is often more effective and more reliable in eliciting a response than visual or auditory data and that the memory of said data is less subject to re-elaboration over time. In summation, I am trying to find empirical evidence of the evocative power of olfactory data in literature which goes beyond the tradition of Proust's madeleines and which is more reader-oriented.
Please excuse the approximative nature of this post and thank you all in advance.
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