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The law of rationality insists that a person should accept only those propositions and ideas for which there is adequate evidence. This law of thought is so general and ubiquitous in its application that few people even realize they actually use it on a regular basis. For instance, if a man shows up at his office late for work with a torn shirt and a black eye, claiming that he was attacked by killer fairies from Sherwood Forest, the man's boss does not have to think very long before reprimanding the tardy employee. On the other hand, if an employee shows up claiming to have been in a car accident, and he bolsters his claim with the evidence of a dent in his car and a police-written ticket verifying that an automobile accident occurred, then the boss most likely would believe the employee. We see, then, that the law of rationality is used by most people on a regular basis.
Sometimes, however, a certain idea or philosophy will present itself that does not have the adequate, verifiable evidence necessary to demand acceptance. Because of this lack of evidence, the proponents of this idea appeal to certain "proofs" that, on the surface, seem to be legitimate, but in reality are not evidence at all. For example, suppose that a salesman is selling medallions that are supposed to keep elephants away from the owner of such a medallion. And suppose that the salesman happens to be selling these amazing contraptions to the citizens of Alaska. When one suspicious customer asks if the medallions really work, the salesman replies, "Sure they work, you don't see an elephant within 100 miles of here, do you?" Looking at the salesman's statement, it is easy to see that something is amiss, but exactly what is it? In short, the salesman has committed a logical fallacy known as argumentum ad ignorantiam (argument from ignorance). The argument from ignorance basically says, "You cannot prove that my elephant medallions are not the reason why there are no elephants here." The essence of this fallacy is the claim that a person accepts a proposition because it cannot be proven untrue. The problem with this line of reasoning is that it does not present any positive proof, therefore, in reality, it presents no proof (see Geisler and Brooks, 1990, pp. 95-96). The above example is just one of a plethora of logical fallacies—i.e., appeals to as proof that, in reality, offer no proof at all.
The primary logical fallacy with which the remainder of this article will deal is known as argumentum ad verencundiam (appeal to authority). This faulty line of reasoning suggests that a certain idea or proposition should be accepted because all the "authorities" accept it. And, while it is true that legitimate authorities can be trusted to supply real evidence, it is not true that a person should accept a conclusion solely because "an authority" says that such is the case, without that authority giving proper evidence for the conclusion (Geisler and Brooks, pp. 98-99).
One classic biblical example of a faulty appeal to authority is found in John 7. In verse 32, Jesus had defied the Jewish leaders to such an extent that they commissioned officers to take Him by force. The officers, however, after listening to Jesus teach boldly, returned to the chief priests and Pharisees without apprehending Jesus. When asked why they did not arrest Jesus, the officers stated: "No man ever spoke like this Man!" They were, in essence, making the argument that Jesus should not be arrested because He spoke things that no ordinary man could have known or spoken. Yet, instead of dealing with the actual evidence of the case (i.e., the things Jesus actually said), the Pharisees made a false appeal to authority when they said, "Are you also deceived? Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed" (vss. 47-49). Notice that the Pharisees did not expound on the parts of the law that Jesus allegedly was breaking, nor did they offer any rebuttal to Christ's statements. Instead, they "proved" their argument by suggesting, "We know more than you and this ignorant crowd, therefore you should believe what we tell you, even without proper evidence." After being made aware of the logical fallacy of an appeal to false authority, it is evident that these Jewish leaders were guilty of offering "proof " that proved nothing.
Even today, the false appeal to authority is a common ploy used to bolster ideas or conclusions that lack sufficient evidence. This logical fallacy finds a welcome seat at the table of many books and papers that purport to "prove" the theory of organic evolution. The following sampling of statements goes a long way toward showing how this appeal to authority (without supporting evidence) is used in evolutionary circles.
As one can see, statements that purport to show what all "reputable" biologists believe, or what all those "entitled to a judgment" say, are clearly designed to appeal to a sense of intellectual authority for which supporting evidence is not deemed necessary. In fact, J. Savage is on record as stating, "No serious biologist today doubts the fact of evolution.... The fact of evolution is amply clear. We do not need a listing of evidences to demonstrate the fact of evolution any more than we need to demonstrate the existence of mountain ranges" (1965, preface, emp. added).
Of course, showing that the "intellectually" elite sometimes use the logical fallacy of appealing to false authority in their attempt to prove evolution, does not disprove the theory of evolution. It does, however, manifest the fact that this "proof " of the theory frequently is offered instead of actual evidence. Could it be that sufficient, verifiable evidence does not exist to prove rationally the theory of organic evolution. H.S. Lipson, an evolutionist himself, wrote: "In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to 'bend' their observations to fit in with it" (1980, p. 138). If many of today's scientists maintain a belief in the theory of evolution because they have been taught that "serious," "reputable," educated scientists believe in evolution, is it not time to dismiss this false appeal to authority and go in search of actual evidence? If this ever happened on a grand scale, I believe that the bulk of scientists, like the officers of the Pharisees, would become increasingly skeptical of the establishment's pseudo-evidence. In fact, with enough honesty and diligence, I believe they inevitably would arrive at creationism as presented in the Bible, declaring that, "No book ever spoke like this one."
Dawkins, Richard (1989), "Book Review" (of Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey's Blueprint), The New York Times, April 9, section 7, p. 34.
Geisler, Norman L. and Ronald M. Brooks (1990), Come Let Us Reason: An Introduction to Logical Thinking (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker).
Goldschmidt, Richard (1952), American Scientist, 49:84.
Lipson, H.S. (1980), "A Physicist Looks at Evolution" Physics Bulletin, 31:138, May.
Savage, J. (1965), Evolution (New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston).
Vance, B.B. and D.F. Miller (1958), Biology for You, (Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott).


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In a package small enough to fit on your keyring, the Sensordrone contains 11 sensors, which between them can detect pretty much everything about your surroundings:
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Had chicken rice balls for dinner today. The rice was cooked the same way as for Hainanese chicken rice, the only difference was making the rice into small rice balls. Served the chicken rice with spring onion condiment and chili sauce I made earlier. As for the chicken, I marinated chicken wings with salt and five spices powder for 2 hours or so then deep fried till golden brown. A simple yet hearty dinner for me.
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Chef Ann Cooper to Leave Berkeley Unified in June
Berkeley's self-named "renegade lunch lady," Ann Cooper, will leave her position as Berkeley Unified School District's nutrition services director and move to Colorado at the end of the school year to work with a school district there, Berkeley school officials confirmed Tuesday.
After hiring Cooper for a three-year term in October 2005, the district extended her contract last October.
Cooper said that her contract with the school district was up in June and that she would be working as a half-time employee until the end of the school year.
Local restaurateur Alice Waters' Chez Panisse Foundation, which funded Cooper with a three-year grant to revamp nutritional services in the Berkeley public schools, will no longer be giving money to Berkeley's lunch program, but Cooper said that wasn't the reason why she was leaving.
"I am leaving because it's time," she said. "I finished doing what I was brought in to do and it's time I let others do the job. We have a really good manager—Marnie Posey—and executive chef—Bonnie Chris-tensen—and the district will have to decide who will take over my role."
Cooper also credited the rest of her staff—including her sous chefs—for their excellent work over the years.
"I only had a three-year contract and I always knew I would be leaving at some point," said Cooper, who will be consulting with the Boulder Valley School district in Colorado and working on her nonprofit Food-Family-Farming Foundation after she takes off from Berkeley.
A press release on the website of the Boulder Valley School District—which is about four times the size of Berkeley Unified—announces its efforts to start the School Food Project, which, with the help of a $100,000 contribution from Boulder residents and district parents Robin and Kevin Luff, would fund most of the six-month consulting contract with Cooper, who heads Lunch Lessons LLC.
The community-wide effort seeks to make Boulder Valley school breakfasts and lunches healthier, not unlike what Cooper sought to do in Berkeley.
Cooper, whose lunch lessons changed cafeteria culture in the Berkeley public schools, will leave behind a legacy that involves a transfat- and frozen food-free diet of made-from-scratch meals.
When she was hired by the school district with the help of the grant from the Chez Panisse Foundation to revamp nutrition services in the schools, Cooper banned transfats, preservatives, refined flour, sugar, high-fructose corn syrup, white bread, generic hot dogs and hamburgers and extremely salty foods, encouraging parents and educators to buy cook and feed differently. Her efforts won her national media attention, including a profile in the New Yorker.
Cooper's menus boasted of gourmet dishes like rotini with fresh tomato sauce and herb roasted chicken or fresh fruit and low-fat milk, meals that Berkeley Unified students had never before seen at school.
Working on a tight budget proved to be a challenge for Cooper, and she was often seen at Berkeley Board of Education meetings making her case for additional funding for staff, facilities and ingredients.
Her vision, as she stated again and again in earlier interviews with the Planet, was not only to improve the way children ate at Berkeley Unified but to create a blueprint that would change school lunches nationwide.
"We wish we could keep her forever but we always knew that she was going to leave after a while," said Mark Coplan, the district spokesperson. "That was the plan from the very beginning."
Coplan said that when the district's former nutrition services director Karen Candito left to work in one of the Alameda County jails, Cooper had been working as a consultant on the School Lunch Initiative.
After she was hired, Cooper worked with a team of sous chefs and cooks to prepare hot meals for children at 16 of the city's public schools.
Over the years, she implemented the Universal Breakfast program, which provides free breakfast for every school in Berkeley, started salad bars at all the school and a breakfast bar at Berkeley High School and most recently oversaw the opening of the $8.7 million King Dining Commons, which serves as a cafeteria for King students and the central kitchen for the entire district.
"I have really, really enjoyed Berkeley but it's time to do something else," she said, adding that she hoped that the food services department would be able to sustain itself by the time she left. "That's one of the biggest things I will be working on for the remainder of the time I am here—getting kids to eat more at school."


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Forget that Longboat Key has this $28 million unfunded pension liability. We've got Town Commission term limits burning holes in our pockets.
Priorities, you know.
We are referring to the town of Longboat Key's term-limits law, which restricts town commissioners to three consecutive terms.
At Monday night's Town Commission meeting, commissioners are expected to adopt a resolution revising the law to allow Mayor Lee Rothenberg to run for re-election.
Rothenberg began serving in the District 1 seat in October 2004, after being appointed to fill the vacant seat of Commissioner Ken Legler, who resigned. As required by charter, Rothenberg was to stand for election the following spring, March 2005.
But, because that year was an off-year, mid-term election for District 1, Rothenberg was elected for only a one-year term before being required in 2006 to stand for election again.
And there's the rub. Look at this snapshot of Rothenberg's terms:
• Appointed, October 2004
• Elected, March 2005, term: 2005-2006
• Elected, March 2006, term: 2006-2008
• Elected, March 2008, term: 2008-2010.
By next spring, Rothenberg will have served three consecutive terms — depending, of course, on how you interpret the charter. In the strictest sense, he will have reached the town's term limits.
But, unlike other commissioners, Rothenberg will have served only five years, not six. (Actually, he will have served five-and-a-half years.)
Vice Mayor Bob Siekmann says there's a matter of fairness here. Commissioner George Spoll, for example, was appointed to the commission in District 2 in December 2004, two months after Rothenberg. When Spoll was required to stand for election the following March, he ran for a full two-year term. His race was a not a one-year, mid-term election as was Rothenberg's.
This means Spoll will have served six years and three months by the time he hits the term limit.
OK, maybe it's not "fair." The "three-consecutive-terms" provision can short-change some commissioners. That would justify changing the law — from hereafter.
But cynics that we are, there may be another agenda at work here: Who will be Longboat Key's next mayor?
If Rothenberg cannot run for re-election and is replaced by likely candidates Lee Pokoik or Lynn Larson, bets are on for Commissioner Spoll winning the mayoral sweepstakes. But if Rothenberg can run and is re-elected, in all likelihood, the mayoral sweepstakes will go to Vice Mayor Siekmann. Rothenberg is the swing vote.
+ Remember Pearl Harbor
Monday, Dec. 7, will mark the 68th anniversary of the "Day of Infamy" — the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the event that triggered an epochal shift in America's social and economic future.
It used to be on Longboat Key there were many World War II veterans who could speak in great detail about the events of that day. None was more vivid in his recollections than the late Gen. James Edmundson, who was at Ground Zero at Hickam Field among the many performing heroic acts.
Those numbers — from our Greatest Generation — are shrinking fast. And it's a great loss. To hear first-hand recollections from the voices of 80-year-olds who lived it is always moving.
Woody Wolverton, a Longboat Key resident, didn't fight on Pearl Harbor those 68 years ago; he is not a World War II veteran. He was only 7 at the time, but he was there, living with his parents and younger brother at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, a defense installation for Pearl Harbor.
Wolverton was the first in his family to see the attack. "I was looking out my bedroom window, looking down the barrel of a gun on a Japanese Zero," Wolverton told us this week. "I could see bullets digging up the ground in front me."
He ran to his parents' bedroom to wake them. His father, an artillery captain, skedaddled to the base. Wolverton, his mother and brother were shuttled to a basement, where they huddled for 15 hours. At midnight, soldiers loaded them on a bus that had been splashed with black paint for camouflage. They were carted to a school in the Oahu mountains. As they drove by Pearl Harbor, Wolverton recalls his mother saying: "If we live, you're seeing history."
Wolverton, his mother and brother lived for the next 14 days at the school with hundreds of Schofield's dependents, sleeping on grass mats and subsisting on fruit. "We thought that's all we were going to have the rest of our lives," Wolverton says.
"The thing I remember about that day," Wolverton says, "is the lack of organization. We were unprepared.
Everybody was in a state of shock."
Dec. 7, Sept. 11 — never forget.
Key Club vote
When the Longboat Key Planning and Zoning Board gathers at 9 a.m. Friday, Dec. 4, at Temple Beth Israel, let's hope it has a singular purpose: to conduct a final vote on the Longboat Key Club and Resort's proposed redevelopment and expansion plan.
A final vote is crucial. To delay by becoming mired in what is sure to be a long list of controversial stipulations from the town planning staff easily could jeopardize the chances for the project to make it through the Town Commission before next March's Town Commission elections.
Be focused, planning board. Act as though this is the final deadline.
+ Dreams come true
Normally, this is verboten in The Longboat Observer — bragging about the family. But we're exercising publisher's prerogative here to highlight one of those occasional instances of "dreams do come true" and "local girl makes good."
Our middle child, Kate Walsh Honea, will perform as the Sugar Plum Fairy in Sarasota Ballet's Friday and Saturday night performances of "The Nutcracker" at the Sarasota Opera House.
For almost every little girl who puts on a tutu, this is a dream come true. Kate dreamed of this when she saw Miami City Ballet's "Nutrcracker" at age 7 at Ruth Eckerd Hall, in Clearwater.
Ballet has been her life ever since.
It's a long journey. Many tears; bloody, gnarled toes; more rejection and disappointments than triumphs; lousy pay.
Kate joined Sarasota Ballet as an unpaid apprentice in 1997, when she was a sophomore at Booker High School. She left Booker before her senior year to attend Pittsburgh Ballet Theater School.
She lived in a home with a single mom, her three kids and six other bunheads. The bunheads would catch a city bus to ballet class every morning at 6 a.m., take another bus to the public high school for academic classes from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., then catch another bus back to ballet from 2 to 7 p.m., often later; and a final bus home for a late dinner and homework. These were 16-year-old girls on their own.
Kate graduated with honors from Shenley High School, in Pittsburgh. Never having time for much else but ballet, she didn't have her first date until age 17 — to the senior prom.
After another year with Pittsburgh Ballet, Kate joined Sarasota Ballet in 2001.
Ballet teachers have told us Kate wasn't blessed with natural ballet gifts. She has worked at everything. And, step by step, she has moved up the company's ballet ladder, reaching principal this season. Kate is the company's longest-tenured member — 10 years.
It's fun when Sarasota Ballet attendees tell us they've been watching Kate all these years. They see her as the company's local, homegrown girl.
For all those grandparents and parents who have aspiring little ballerinas in tutus, this year's Sugar Plum Fairy is a storybook lesson: If you work at it hard enough, you can — and will — make your dreams come true.


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Forgive the long blockquote, but I think this puzzle from philosopher Eric Schwitzgebel (who blogs at The Splintered mind) earns it:
In Anglophone philosophy since the 1960s, the dominant approach to the mind has been materialism: the view that human beings are naturally evolved beings, wholly made out of material stuff like elementary particles, with no immaterial soul of any sort. On materialistic views of consciousness, the reason that we have a stream of conscious experience is that we have brains that represent the world, can guide us in goal-directed action, and that are massively informationally connected in complex self-regulating loops. It is that fact about the complexity of our organizational structure that is responsible for our having a stream of conscious experience so that there's "something it's like", phenomenologically, to be us, or to be a mouse, while there's nothing it's like (we ordinarily think) to be a toy robot.
But the United States appears to have all those same features! The citizens of the United States are massively informationally connected, in complex self-regulating loops – not in the same way neurons are connected, but just as richly. The United States engages in environmentally responsive coordinated action, for example in invading Iraq or in taxing imports. The United States represents and self-represents, for example via the census and in declaring positions in foreign policy. As far as I can tell, all the kinds of things that materialists tend to regard as special about brains in virtue of which brains give rise to consciousness are also possessed by the United States.
The United States is a large, spatially distributed entity. But why should that matter? Isn't it just morphological prejudice to insist that consciousness be confined to spatially compact entities? The United States is composed of people who are themselves individually conscious. But why should that matter? We can imagine, it seems, conscious aliens whose cognition is implemented not by neurons but by intricate networks of interacting internal insects confined within their bodies, where each insect has a minor animal-like consciousness while the organism as a whole has human-like consciousness and intelligence. (Maybe such aliens are much-evolved descendants of bee colonies.) In the vast universe, it seems likely that intelligent environmental responsiveness, and consciousness, could emerge in myriad weird ways. It seems chauvinistic provincialism to insist that our way of being conscious is the only possible way. So why not regard group organisms as possibly conscious? And if so, why not the very group organisms in which we already participate, given that they seem to meet standard materialist criteria for consciousness?
This notion strikes me as being somewhat similar to Heidegger's notion of Dasein — though I could be wrong about that, since I still have only the fuzziest notion of what Dasein is supposed to be. (Nor, if the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on Martin Heidegger is to be believed, can real philosophers agree on a single account. Which should surprise no one.) Still, the fact that the Dasein label has been applied to both individual human beings and entire nations suggests a certain level of conceptual overlap.
There is a key difference, though: Dasein is a category of being within phenomenology, the field of philosophy which examines structures of experience while bracketing the question of whether the objects of those experiences are real. In other words, a phenomenologist might say that we sometimes have the experience of being part of a larger conscious body called a nation, though that conscious body may or may not exist outside of our experiences. Schwitzgebel, on the other hand, is not bracketing: he is suggesting that, in a very real sense, the United States is conscious.
With that in mind, some questions:
1.) Am I horribly misreading Heidegger? Wouldn't be the first time.
2.) For the materialists who follow this blog (and who I occasionally successfully bait into replying to posts like this): Is Schwitzgebel's theory correct? Why or why not?
3.) How big or small can a composite conscious entity be? What's the criteria for determining when one exists and one does not? For example, can a family be collectively consciousness? What about all of humanity?


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Previewed in January 2005 at Rotterdam's Stedelijk Museum, and at a conference at the nearby Piet Zwart Insitute, the website designtimeline.org has completed and archived their open history project, comprising innovations, anecdotes and events relating to web design of the past decade. Ranging from sentimental to technical, questions posed by site visitors and their subsequent answers, catalogued by year, present a working history of the techniques and procedures that were created, forgotten and expanded between 1994 and 2004. When collected en masse, the subjective answers to basic questions like, "When did you first learn to make websites?", or "What was the first search engine you used?", can start to form a more objective outline for the past decade and the various paths that have led to the present state of online design and communication. It is a simple plan, but can be as dynamic as its participants. Also, the general template for the history program is now available for download on this site. One can imagine that the format could be copied in innumerable ways for any topic, large or small. So, as the designers implore on the designtimeline website, "Please--make history!" - David Senior
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Live Video Streaming from Artists' Studios
During the autumn of 2005, Localmotives will be organizing a project which aims to stream live video imagery from several artists' working spaces (aka «studios»). The project is named Why Bother and will be produced in collaboration with i/o/lab and Atelier Nord. The video streams will be part of localmotives' 11th themed publication. The publication is titled 1:1 and will be physically manifested at Rogaland Art Centre (Rogaland Kunstsenter) from the 15th of September to the 27th of November.
We would like to get in touch with artists who already enjoy a high bandwidth connection to the internet, and would like to participate in Why Bother. You don't need to know a lot about video streaming. We will provide the technical assistance to make things work.
There are no million euro cheques to win here, but on the other hand you won't have to behave like an ass. We expect you to do the things you'd usually be doing, and you don't have to be in front of the camera all the time. It doesn't matter whether your working space is a desk, a corner of your livingroom or a good old studio.
We hope to gather participants from a geographic area as possible. The live streams from the various studios will be displayed in steady rotation on monitors in the exhibition room at Rogaland Art Centre.
Interested? Get in touch with: Geir Egil Bergjord, geiregil[at]localmotives.com (+47 51 89 33 39/+47 922 27 616) or Kevin Foust, kevin[at]iolab.no (+47 412 97 293)
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Ruccas.org Turns One Year Old
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Today, on August 1st, Ruccas.org (http://ruccas.org) celebrates the end of its first year of operation, and the start of the next. A year ago, ruccas.org launched with a handful of artists. Today, it features the works of over seventy artists and collaborative projects, nearly all of which are available under a Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org).
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Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by John Nowak
Visavisgames: mobile & pervasive
Julian Bleecker, one of the most insightful observers of cyberculture, is involved with a startup, Visavisgames, which will be previewed Tuesday from 11-noon at Guerilla Studio's Games Atelier booth at SIGGRAPH:
demo video
We're developing a new kind of game experience using outdoor viewable mobile devices that anticipate the near-future of pervasive electronic gaming. These devices range in size from about that of a tiny laptop, to the size of a small book. We then configure these portable mobile devices with a GPS sensor that measure your location in the real world, and orientation sensors that can tell precisely where you're looking. This combination makes for designs that represent a true innovation in game play.
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bake this concept: Pschocyberographic Memoirs > Let Your Fingers Do the Drifting
Pschocyberographic Memoirs > Let Your Fingers Do the Drifting
"travelers in a labyrinth revealed by their wish to find it"
Verite applied to the web is simply called surfing. The web surfer
as flaneur. This concept was overworn as early as 1998. Generative
psychogeography is easy enough to apply the web. It's called a
linkbot (or an "intelligent agent" for those more anthropomorphically
inclined). Search engines send them out in droves to harvest pages
for their databases.
The problem is, merely automated psychocyberography is missing the
point of psychogeography. The point is not for a robot to re-map the
city. It's not the non-euclidian path in and of itself that
transforms the city; it's the fact that you as a subjective person
are walking the path, experiencing the ride along the way. Your
subjective experience is the transformative factor. Even if a bot
could cull images and text from its web journey and randomly assemble
them into a collage similar to Debord's _Memoires_, they would just
be the memoirs of the bot. Feel free to steal this tangential
concept and implement it. Entitle the piece "Memoirs of a Bot."
As incidentally transformative as reading Debord's _Memoires_ may be,
it can never be as transformative as experiencing the LI and
collaging _Memoires_ was to Debord himself.
Create a set of instructions for surfing the web (the web being
analogous to the modern city). Instead of saying "go down three
lights and turn left," the instructions might read "tab forward three
links and click." Instead of saying "follow a woman in a blue," the
instructions might read "click on the next linked image of a woman."
You may create these instructions with generative software, or simply
write them out the old school analog way (cf: non-digital ...
click on for more ...
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Mr. Punch
Mr. Punch is a crossover between an early automata
from the 30ties and a modern videogame,
created by Tilman Reiff, Volker Morawe and Roman Kirschner
from - "FUR
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Call for proposals: The Infinite Genealogy: Intercultural Approaches to New Media Art
Call for proposals
The Infinite Genealogy: Intercultural Approaches to New Media Art
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, May 2006
The Infinite Genealogy is a conference for international scholars, artists, and researchers from a variety of fields to explore non-Western genealogies and intercultural understandings of contemporary new media art. Submissions are invited for papers and artists' presentations and performances.
Deadline: December 1, 2005
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by Laura Marks
Director of Technology report, July 2005
(or: what I did on my summer vacation, by Francis Hwang)
For better or for worse, changes keep coming. Below are some of the
bigger ones that happened this past month:
1. New front page
The new front page allows our superusers to cast a broader net,
collating interesting things both from Rhizome Raw and from the broader
world of new media arts online. The backend involved all sorts of
components stuck together inelegantly with chicken wire and duct tape,
but I won't bother you with the details (other than to thank the teams
behind the reBlog and Wordpress projects for putting out said
newly-sticky software). The end result is far more interesting: A front
page that pulls content from all corners of the web. And if you've got
a new-media-arts-related RSS feed out there, please email it to me, so
I can pass it on to all our superusers.
2. Location
From time to time at Rhizome, I get emails that read like this: "Dear
omniscient webmaster, I just moved to [city that is not New York or
London], and would like to find out about the new media arts scene in
the area. Whaddya got for me?" Thus was born our new Location feature,
in which Members can opt-in to display their location. We hope this
will help people build and strengthen new scenes in places outside the
stereotypical art hubs. It's also just sort of cool; right now you can
see that there are at least two Rhizome Members living in Finland.
Shout-out to my peeps in Finland.
Keep an eye out for more cool Location-y features in the future. In the
meantime, browse it all at:
3. Featured Member-curated exhibit
Once a month, we're ...
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by Francis Hwang
call for proposals, The Infinite Genealogy: Intercultural Approaches to New Media Art
Laura Marks:
The Infinite Genealogy: Intercultural Approaches to New Media Art
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, May 2006
The Infinite Genealogy is a conference for international scholars, artists, and researchers from a variety of fields to explore non-Western genealogies and intercultural understandings of contemporary new media art. Submissions are invited for papers and artists' presentations and performances.
The premise of this conference is that contemporary new media are already informed by the histories, knowledges, and worldviews that come to us from Chinese, Indian, Arab, African, indigenous, and other worlds of science, mathematics, cosmology, spirituality, and technology. We are interested not only in non-Western adaptations and critiques of new media, but also in affinities and historical connections between new media and traditional and "hybrid
Originally posted on Rhizome.org Raw by Laura Marks
August on -empyre- soft-skinned space:
Wearable Technologies
This month on -empyre-, we venture into the world of wearable technologies in the context of social and public art practice. Katherine Moriwaki (US) is an artist and researcher investigating clothing accessories as the active conduit through which people create network relationships in public space. Florian 'Floyd' Mueller (AU) designs interfaces that deliberately require intense physical effort to facilitate social connectedness between remote participants. Heidi Kumao's (US) incisive feminist practice currently investigates the RFID tags that industry is adopting for product tracking, the government for border control and public libraries for automatic checkout.
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Colt Banana wrote:Here's Kozina Vs. Ryan Kidd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPMp86PR ... r_embedded
Itchypanda wrote:I see both points of view and I'm glad that Kyle O'Reilly decided to refund the money despite his right for travelling expenses and booking time. I hope he continues to get booked around the country. I hope this minor disruption becomes a distant memory for the fans.
Concerning the Iowa ordeal:
I don't have any philosophic phrases like O'Reilly, nor empty threats which seems to be the darling way to be tough now-a-days behind the protective veil of the Internet (the quickest sure fire way to prove your an absolute coward). But what I do have is the truth and I'll indulge you.
Now O'Reilly already told the story so and he's a much more patient man than I so I'll just drop the main points: I was trained that you don't disrespect veterans. There's a pecking order in this business, and if you go against it you get your ass handed to you. I was trained that the boys stick up for each other and don't allow others to disrespect them, because it reflects on the business as a whole. So when a guy who took my seminar the day prior and all of a sudden, over text message (everyones got balls of steel behind texts/twitter/fb) disrespects the guy who helped bring me and Kyle up, and more importantly, my friend, I feel 100% justified taking action. So, not over text/twitter/fb but in person (I know, can you imagine some people actually confront people face to face?? Insanity!!) I tell this guy how disrespectful he was and if this was 10 yrs ago he would have gotten his ass beat. He agreed and apologized and insisted he shake Tony's hand. Before this he tried and admitted to lying saying he didn't know whom he was talking to on text so he didn't know he was disrespecting Kozina (a lie Tony quickly called out as, and we have the text messages to prove, Tony said in the beginning, "This is Kozina".)
Now understand I'm in the middle of Iowa, 7 hrs from home in the middle of corn fields (which is beautiful scenery btw) and this guy looked out and saw 25 people at his show, knew he was going to lose his ass and tried to cancel us off when we're 2 hrs away. Tony and Kyle were hurt, an unfortunate and common aspect of how we train and work. So we tried to get an 8 man. The promoter at first said the fans paid to see singles (to which Tony responded, and we have the texts, "ok well do the singles") which contradicted his later statement of "well noone here knows who you guys are".
As far as me physically threatening him, sorry ace, never happened, and if you truly think it did - press charges! I have nothing to hide, do you?
I came to you face to face like a man, told you how I felt. I don't do backstage rumors, gossip, social media tough guy stuff. I tell people how I feel in person and take full responsibly for it all.
Ok, and now to the blockbuster crime of the century: we took -- wait for it -- drum roll -- people are on then edge of their seats -- 350$!!!!!
Did I? I sure did, I took 350$ and left on Saturday. Tuesday afternoon I paypaled him -- wait for it ----- drum roll ---- 350$ back!! So he lost ----- 0 dollars! No one asked me to do this. I said to him, well here you read the text:
"Ok I'm going to pay pal you your money back. I never spent it, it was on principle. You'll have it today. I'm sorry things got to this level. Please text me to let me know you got it. Yea dude it's crazy. I don't hold any grudges man. I wish you and your crew the best."
I've said for years, I don't talk, I do. I let him feel what we felt -- to be disrespected an screwed. So the same thing doesn't happen to another wrestler (remember what I said about the boys sticking up for the boys?).
I have the PayPal receipt as well to prove it.
Ok so stealing and threatening have been covered, what else?
Oh I know! Ya know I could, I could slander your name as you have mine, wished harm on you as you have me (the getting in a car wreck bit was sure classy) or I could post your phone number on a social media site like you did mine. But I won't, I won't hang at the bottom of the barrel with you buddy.
And really 15 min after this ordeal this loser is on twitter begging for a match in ROH, like a certain someone in the ROH office said, "This is this losers big shot at getting some attention and he's going all out". Well friend I'm not mentioning you by name. Your going to have to get attention the same way I did in this wacky business- work your ass off and earn it.
I know it's the socially dictated right thing do to apologize and try to make amends. But c'mon that wouldn't be ol DR now would it?
So instead of trying release myself from responsibly by saying it was "anger taking hold or it was emotionally driven actions and comments" I'll simply say from the bottom of my heart that I don't apologize for anything, I'm proud that I stood up for my friend, what I was taught, and how I was raised, and most of all what I believe to be right. I meant every word and every action and take full responsiblity.
I don't talk, I act. I treat people how they treat me. I stand up for what I was taught and for my friends.
If I'm the bad guy for it, I welcome it with open arms. I'm more than willing to take shots for what I believe in.
I'll always be the first help people out (ask Adam Cole, Eddie Edwards, Kenny Omega, Kyle O'Reilly, and countless others) but I will also to call out what I don't believe to be right.
Maybe I just have rebel blood running through me, but I don't bow down, I don't keep my mouth shut, I don't run from what I disagree with. I speak up, I stand up and I fight for what I believe in. That's how I raised. If it's the end of ol DR then I couldn't be more proud.
It's like my grandma used to say to me, "It's better to hated for who you are than loved for who you're not".
In the end, to the guys in Iowa -- god bless ya, I wish you guys nothing but success. Hopefully y'all wake up but that's your cross to bear not mine.
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Clever bastard, you are. Powerpuff Girls, right? Or is it Captain Underpants? My childhood escapes me.
El Asian wrote:I do wonder if PWG should consider replacing Davey for BOLA given the recent problems as of late
eastbay510 wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyeWsDJablk
I dont know why it didnt post my video but heres the link... I cant wait to boo the shit out of Davey at BOLA... I wont boo Kyle as much as I view him as just a guy who blindly follows Davey
CheMateo wrote:El Asian wrote:I do wonder if PWG should consider replacing Davey for BOLA given the recent problems as of late
I don't see why PWG would replace Davey. The problem is not between Davey and PWG. I assume things are good between the two. I am curious as to whether or not Davey will get some heel heat for this at BOLA.
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WILLISTON PARK, N.Y., Dec. 5 (UPI) -- Police in New York state said a man shot his girlfriend during a fight about whether a zombie outbreak as seen on AMC's "The Walking Dead" could actually occur.
Nassau County Detective Lt. Raymond Cote said Jared Gurman, 26, argued via text messages with his girlfriend, Jessica Gelderman, 27, just after 2:30 a.m. Monday about the possibility of a zombie apocalypse as depicted on the AMC series, WNBC-TV, New York, reported Wednesday.
"He feels strongly about the possibility that some military mishap could occur. She thinks it's ridiculous," ABC News quoted Cote as saying. "She was not taking him seriously or taking the show as seriously as he does."
Cote said Gelderman became worried about Gurman as the argument became heated and decided to go to his Williston Park home to calm him down,the report said.
Gelderman attempted to talk to Gurman and enter his home, but he shot her in the back with a .22-caliber rifle, police said.
Gurman drove Gelderman to the hospital, where she was treated for a shattered rib, a pierced lung and a pierced diaphragm.
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PAC Gallery is pleased to announce an intimate and introspective look at local artist, and New York Times best selling Graphic Novelist, David Mack.
The gallery's walls will be filled with originals from the award winning Daredevil series, published by Marvel Comics. Also included are mixed media drawings featured in the most recent installment, Kabuki.
In the Small Gallery, Mack will make available his children's book, The Shy Creatures and his first children's story, My Invisible Friend. Also it will have other handmade Artist books that Mack has created as well as published work pertaining to Kabuki, a 320 page art book of Mack's work, and smaller sketch book publications that tie together the works in the show. There will be Limited Edition hardcover volumes that have an original brush and ink drawing bound to the front of the book, and a special edition of KABUKI: The Alchemy. Alongside his published work will stand life-size figures of sculptures that he has made.
Lastly, there will be a section that showcases the collective documentary film of Mack's work: The Alchemy of Art.
The exhibition will run through February 26, 2011


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Q: Why doesn't SQL Server use the RID for lookups from a nonclustered index into a clustered table?
A: Actually, that is almost how versions prior to SQL Server 7.0 worked. In prior versions (before 7.0) SQL Server used a volatile RID – which would follow the row on every update. More specifically, when a row was updated in these earlier versions and the row needed to physically move within the clustered index, then all of the nonclustered indexes needed to be updated as well. Given that you can have 249 nonclustered indexes on each table, the work to update these nonclustered indexes could become terribly expensive (in terms of time, disk space, logging, etc…). As a result, the architecture was changed in SQL Server 7.0 to use the clustering key (instead of this volatile RID) – if the table is clustered. This is an optimization so that even when a row must be relocated the nonclustered indexes don't need to be updated (as long as the clustering key value doesn't change). And, it's important to note that there's a similar optimization in heaps (tables that do not have a clustered index) where they use a fixed/physical RID for lookups. Even when the record is relocated this "fixed" RID does not change. Instead, SQL Server using a forwarding record to point from the original (ie. fixed) physical RID to the new location of the record. If the row moves a second or third time, the point will always only point once – from the original RID to the new location. This allows you to have more nonclustered indexes without any additional overhead when records relocate. I'm not suggesting that you create a lot of nonclustered – there are other forms of overhead but this particular expense has been eliminated. All of these optimizations – in both heaps and clustered tables – reduce the overall metadata modifications, logging and therefore improve performance. And, this is yet-another reason for choosing a specific clustering key. Choosing a clustering key value that's heavily updated would be a very bad choice.
Some have also asked me why the SQL Server team chose to use the clustering key and not just use the RID approach for clustered tables. For this, there are multiple reasons. First and foremost, data can move a lot more in a clustered table as the table's order has to be maintained. A fixed/physical RID really wouldn't work here. Second, and this is a bit of an optimization as well, the RID is an eight byte value that takes space to store it within the nonclustered indexes and it's not "real" data. If actual data could be used within nonclustered indexes then we might be able to save space and get more uses out of our nonclustered indexes because they'll automatically have an additional column of data in the index? And, when the clustering key is narrow, then you won't unnecessarily waste space. However, this can go horribly wrong too. What if you were to place the clustered index on a column such as LastName? SQL Server does allow you to create this clustering key; however, behind the scenes SQL Server will enforce uniqueness by adding an integer to the values that are non-unique. This value is added to the data row (at insert) and then is automatically part of every nonclustered index. This value is necessary to to make sure that every row is identifiable from the nonclustered indexes but it wastes both time and space.
So, that also brings me back to one of the more common points I've made about the clustered index. Choose it wisely and choose it well. You really want a value that's naturally unique, naturally narrow and naturally static. Ideally, the value should also reduce fragmentation but not having too many insertion points.


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Everything Missouri does seems to work. Back-up quarterback against one of the top defenses in the SEC? No problem. Beat Georgia and Florida in back-to-back weeks? No sweat. You name it, Missouri has done it this season and the Tigers are now the team to beat in the SEC East. Missouri continued to climb the division ladder on Saturday with a 36-17 victory over Florida, holding the visiting Gators to just 151 yards of offense while racking up 500 yards themselves.
Missouri got more than they needed from back-up quarterback Maty Mauk, who completed half of his passes for 295 yards and a touchdown while being picked off once and rushing for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Henry Josey put together a great afternoon on the ground with 136 rushing yards against a Florida defense that was run over by LSU a week ago. This was a game of defense setting up the offense to take advantage and the special teams coming through in a big way for the Tigers. Missouri kicker Andrew Baggett converted all five field goal attempts he was asked to try.
Missouri's win could not have come on a better day. South Carolina lost to Tennessee and Georgia lost to Vanderbilt, putting Missouri comfortably in first place in the SEC East with a two-game lead in the loss column. Next week Missouri will host South Carolina, who may be without Connor Shaw after suffering a left knee sprain. If Missouri wins next weekend's battle of the Columbias, the Tigers will take a giant step forward to Atlanta to play in the SEC Championship Game.
This Missouri team is for real. They may not be on par with Alabama, LSU or Texas A&M, but in the middle of October they are certainly the class of the SEC East right now, having picked up wins against Florida and Georgia already.
They are Missouri, and they just may be awesome.


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History of Possum Skin Cloaks
Possum skin cloaks are one of the most sacred cultural expressions of south-eastern Aboriginal peoples.
Aboriginal people throughout south-eastern and western Australia wore skin cloaks, as these areas were colder than the northern parts of Australia. The cloaks were made from the skins of possums, kangaroos and wallabies.
The cloak was worn by placing it over one shoulder and under the other it was then fastened at the neck using a small piece of bone or wood. The cloaks were worn both with the fur on the outside and on the inside depending on the situation.
The cloaks had many uses including to keep warm, to cradle babies, to sleep on or under, for ceremony, for a drum, for burial and to share stories and language through the designs.
Photo: An original possum skin cloak from the Hunter Region, 1839 – 1840,
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, www.australiandressregister.org
There are only five traditional possum skin cloaks surviving in the world today and most skin cloaks that people get to see are in museums and locked away from our people. Now that cloak revival is happening, Aboriginal people are now actually able to see, feel and use the cloaks just as our ancestors did a long time ago.


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Facebook sent out invitations to mysterious press event Tuesday, and its stock price rose 5 percent following the news.
The invitation was sent Wednesday to the media for an event on Tuesday at its Menlo Park headquarters. The invitation read, "Come see what we're building," and provided no other details. Facebook shares rose above $30 for the first time since July on the news.
Others are speculating what the even could be about, including a Facebook phone, according to Forbes. Other ideas include a stronger push towards gaming, more on Facebook gifts or that the social network plans on enhancing its integration with Instagram.
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We've been noticing a lot has been going on over at Netflix, including adding personalized profiles for users and sharing information, which sounds very Facebook to us. That and the seemingly tight relationship that Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg has with Netflix chief Reed Hastings, makes this seem like a done deal.


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Dear Gnatterboxers,
Am frantic trying to remember the name of a minimum space layout contest, possibly based out of France, or certainly in Europe. The core details were that once the modeller had picked their desired gauge, the max allowable layout footprint dimensions (length and width) were some perscribed multiple of the chosen gauge...
Does this ring a bell to anyone? Anybody remember the same contest, have examples, or links to the rules?
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"Mammals are a group of species related by their evolutionary history".
A creationist - I forget where - recently suggested in a thread that I participated in that it might be difficult to be sure that an extinct animal found fossilised actually was a mammal. That may be true if the find is just a small fragment. But if the fossil is near-complete the task may be easier.
If I recall correctly, I think I referred the person to part 2 of the recent BBC Two Attenborough mini-series.
It appears that not all mammals were 'created' on the same single day in Genesis. Which is probably another Bible argument (but not a scientific argument) against evolution beyond 'kind' boundaries eg from land mammals to air-breathing sea creatures such as whales.


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Sprint in Talks to Buy Clearwire
Sprint Nextel Corp. is in talks to acquire the 49% of Clearwire Corp. it does not already own in a move to clear up a tangled ownership structure that has left Sprint unable to control the decisions of a key strategic partner, people familiar with the situation said Tuesday.
Sprint is also after its smaller partner's spectrum rights.
A deal may not happen and could be complicated by the pending acquisition of Sprint by Japan's Softbank Corp. and the need for approval from a diverse group of Clearwire shareholders, one of the people said. Sprint may seek to condition a Clearwire deal on the Softbank deal going through, the person said.
CNBC reported the talks earlier Tuesday. Clearwire shares were up 15% at $2.75, giving the company a market value of about $1.8 billion.


text: This volume deals with one of the most complicated inter-state border disputes involving India and China-the two most populous countries in the world. Sino-Indian border is conveniently divided into three sectors-Western, Middle and Eastern Sectors. The focus of the volume is on the Eastern Sector where China claims 98000 square kilometer of territory lying south of the McMahon Line presently under Indian occupation that roughly corresponds to Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh which China calls South Tibet.


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Monday, February 10, 2014
Sports News
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[February 10, 2014]
By Timothy Heritage
SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) — After putting up
for years with dust, noise and traffic jams while their drab Russian
resort was transformed into a modern sports hub, the people of Sochi can
finally judge for themselves whether it was worth it.
As the $51-billion Winter Olympics got into full swing on Sunday,
the answer from spectators, seeing the Olympic Park up and running
for the first time, was a resounding "Yes".
"It's just fantastic," Sergei Klyuyev, from the Adler area where the
park was built, said as he walked through with his family, admiring
the state-of-the-art stadiums and enjoying the party atmosphere.
"There's been building work here for five years but look at all this
around us. We regret nothing, not even the cost."
Some Sochi residents are still angry that hosting the Games meant
turning the city into what even President Vladimir Putin described
as the world's biggest construction site, and have set up a website — Blogsochi.ru — to vent their spleen.
In the heart of the subtropical city on the western edge of the
Caucasus mountains, cranes still tower over half-finished apartment
But the critics were nowhere to be seen at the venues far from
central Sochi as the Games began, partly because some have been
barred from travelling to Sochi and partly because of the good
impression created by the new stadiums.
Putin hopes the Games will portray Russia as a successful and
thriving modern state, and protests would threaten that.
"There are definitely people who had a hard time of it here," said
Yevgenia Mertilova, referring to the hundreds of people whose homes
were razed to make way for Olympic buildings and were mostly housed
elsewhere by the state.
But, as she walked beside the main Fisht stadium with her
9-month-old baby, she said: "Look how good these stadiums are.
After the Games there'll be a trade center here, which can only be a
good thing. I'm impressed."
On one side of the park, men in red peasant tunics and women in
colorful blue and white dresses performed traditional dances to the
music of balalaikas.
In the center, the Olympic flame burned fiercely in its cauldron
towering over the park. In fountains beneath it, shoots of water
rose and fell to the music of Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
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"I was at the Moscow Olympics in 1980 and this is much more
grandiose," said Nadezhda Kharitonova, a woman in her 70s who
was dressed in her red Sunday best as she walked hand in
white-gloved hand with her husband.
"It's all down to Putin. Without him, it would never have happened.
Whatever the cost, it was worth it," she said.
That will be music to Putin's ears after months of carping at home
and raised eyebrows abroad over the high cost, plus criticism of his
stance on gay rights.
Russia's first medal of the Games brought whoops and cheers from a
crowd watching on a big screen, and concerns about security seemed
to have been forgotten as security officers patrolled the perimeter
fence on horseback.
There were, however, a few in the crowd who were still unhappy at
the hefty price tag.
A man who gave his name only as Vasily said he had taken leave from
his job as a clothes designer to work as a cleaner at the Games so
that he could soak up the atmosphere.
"It's a once-in-a-lifetime event. I wanted to see it from the
inside," he said, a broom in his hand. "It's all amazing but of
course the cost is too high for Russia. You should really think more
about the many poor people."
Putin says the Olympic construction will give the city and region an
economic boost. Critics doubt this and Blogsochi.ru posted its
latest criticisms as the Games got going.
"Because of the Olympics endless queues have appeared in Sochi like
queues for sausage in Soviet times," wrote Alexander Valov, who has
repeatedly used the website to draw attention to problems in Sochi.
But even he wrote of an "unforgettable experience" at the Olympic
Park, and the criticisms on the site were interspersed with entries
celebrating Russia's first medals at the Games and unusually
positive interjections such as: "Hurrah! Well done!"
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Scott directs the state-funded UC Mosquito Research Laboratory, based in Briggs Hall on the UC Davis campus. His team includes UC Davis associate professor and medical entomologist Anthony "Anton" Cornel, based at the Kearney Agricultural Center, Parlier; researcher Amy Morrison who lives in Iquitos, Peru and has directed their research there since 1999; program manager Leslie Sandburg; postdoctoral and graduate students; and a long list of collaborators at his field sites in Mexico, Peru and Thailand.
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