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Book I - The Walls of Moria
An expedition of dwarves known as the Iron Garrison begins its attempts to excavate and enter the Hollin Gate, lead by Brogur and Bosi. They finally succeeding with the player's help, yet when the last rocks are cleared, the Watcher in the Water attacks the assembled dwarves, claiming the life of Brogur's son Broin. As they regroup, they turn their hope to a discovered cache of older weapons, tasking the player with discovering if one such weapon might be endowed with the power to fight off such a foe as the Watcher. After selecting, training with, and reforging such a weapon, the Iron Garrison faces the Watcher again. This time, it is forced from the Black Pool, and the Iron Garrison passes into Moria.
Book II - Echoes in the Dark
Establishing themselves in their new home, the Iron Garrison begins the task of rediscovering the lore and artifacts of their heritage. One such passage of lore speaks of an ancient dwarf-smith, favored by Durin, who endeavored to create an axe of solid mithril. So large was the task that an entire forge was created specifically for it: The Heart of Fire. After searching the mines for clues to its location, the Heart of Fire is unearthed, yet the axe, Zigilburk, is nowhere to be found. Nevertheless, the dwarves are heartened by the recovery of one of their greatest forges, and Brogur pushes onward into Moria, establishing a command post in the Twenty-First Hall.
Book III - The Lord of Moria
Brogur sees to the defense of the Twenty-First Hall, only to learn of the presence of the White Hand's minions nearby. Meanwhile, excavation begins in the Chamber of Mazarbul, producing the Book of Mazarbul, a record of the demise of Balin's Company. While Bosi takes on the task of reading the tome in its entirety, his son Bori plans a strike against the White Hand in Broin's honor. While a pair of dwarves cause a diversion, Bori and the player sneak into the White Hand camp and confront the commander, Ashpar. Before he dies, he boasts that his is not the major power, and mentions the name Mazog. Brogur rests assured that Ashpar was simply boasting, yet the news weighs heavy on Bosi. Mazog, he reveals, was the orc commander who slew Balin's company at Mazarbul.
Book IV - Fire and Water
The Orcs and Dwarves each prepare for war. Fearing that attacks may be imminent, Brogur and Bori see that the defenses are secured at the Twenty-First Hall, the Chamber of Crossroads, and the Heart of Fire. The player is sent into the rotting Waterworks and orc-infested Flaming Deeps beneath Moria to both harass the orcs and gather supplies. In the meantime, Bori sneaks a look at the Book of Mazarbul, finding mention there of a dwarf named Oin who went off in search of Zigilburk. Bori and the player follow Oin's path, arriving after a time at a flooded treasury, The Hall of Mithril. There they find not only Zigilburk, but also Broin (wounded, but alive) and the Watcher in the Water. The player drives the Watcher from the hall, and the dwarves return in victory. Yet Broin confesses from his sickbed that he feels a dread about Zigilburk, and fears it may be cursed.
Book V - Drums in the Deep
Broin is still worried about the repercussions of recovering Zigilburk, and asks the player to tell Bori of his reservations. Bori laughs them off, and sends the player to Zabadgathol, Mazog's fortress, to defeat some of his bodyguards. Some of these in their dying words speak of an alliance they have obtained, and the player is again sent away to collect some of the treasure in Zabadgathol to see if it can shed some light on the issue. It is discovered that Mazog is indeed allied with Dol Guldur. After learning this, Bori plans a raid on Zabadgathol to defeat Mazog once and for all. Even with Zigilburk, Bori and the player are unsuccessful, and Bori along with the legendary axe are captured. After this blow, the player is sent by Brogur to consult with Bosi. He, too has lost hope in the expedition to reclaim Moria, and leaves it up to the player to see to the defenses during a major raid by Mazog's forces.
Book VI - The Shadowy Abyss
Even after the successful defense of several key locations, Bosi's spirits are still low. He sends the player to Lothlórien to seek help from the Elves of the Golden Wood. After proving to Haldir that you are indeed a friend, he asks the player to assist his brothers in patrolling the borders of the Wood while messengers are sent to Galadriel to relay Bosi's request for aid. By the time the task is done, a company of elves has already been sent to the Foundations of Stone, and the player is directed to help them. Once there, the player is directed to defeat some of Mazog's minions that are believed to have been sent into the Foundations to search for something, but the Elves believe Dol Guldur is behind this move of the orcs. After collecting confirmation that the orcs are indeed searching for something, the player is sent back to defeat some of them. After the player has slain many of the orcs, some more of the elves sent from Lorien ask for aid in other tasks. The player is instructed to find clues of Gandalf's passage through the area, and also to help contain some of the nameless creatures that dwell in the Foundations. Finally, an elf named Magor has gone missing, and the others are getting worried. A clue is found outside a dark cave, and the player is sent in to see if Magor is inside. It is revealed that Magor was captured by orcs who took him inside the cave, and the player is able to free him from his captors. Magor then asks for the player's help in defeating the source of the evil that Galadriel sensed beneath Moria. After a hard-fought battle, the player defeats the nameless creature in the depths of the cave. Finally, hearing of the victory the Lady Galadriel summons the player to her garden where many secrets are revealed, including a partial explanation of the fate of Gandalf.
Book VII - Leaves of Lórien
The Fellowship rests in Lórien, while elves and dwarves take their first steps toward peace. Bosi is granted an audience with Celeborn and Galadriel, resulting in a contingent of Galadhrim being dispatched to aid the dwarves in Moria. Among their first joint tasks is to sweep an infestation of Globsnaga from a recent excavation in Buzun-ghar - a matter that proves especially frustrating to Broin, in the wake of Bori's capture. Instead of working to free their kinsmen, Brogur is pushing ahead with mining efforts, tasking Broin with searching old mining records for notes on potential nodes. Yet such efforts once again prove fruitful, as one record speaks of a secret emergency passage leading from Durin's throne (on which Mazog sits) to Buzun-ghar. Through its use, and the cooperation of elf and dwarf, Mazog is soon captured, yet Bori is nowhere to be found, having been sent away to Dol Guldur. Celeborn grants the player an audience, commending them while also disagreeing on the notion of sparing Mazog's life. And afterword, Haldir confesses the time may be drawing near for the elves to cross the Anduin to confront the evil in Mirkwood.
Book VIII - Scourge of Khazad-dûm
After talking to Haldir the player visits the elves of Lothlorien and their history keeper asks the player to recount the finer points of how the player escaped with Mazog from his throne room, causing the player to "relive" the escape with varying results based on your prowess. Broin here helps with a changeable banner and by fighting alongside the player. Things get dangerous in spots but eventually the player escapes with Mazog and Broin (who has to survive). Mazog lets slip a chilling fact, that he's not interested in being a king of Moria because Moria will soon not be fit to rule. This probably refers to the fungus taking over the lower regions. The player then talks to the elves about this vile pestilence.
Book IX - Fortress of the Nazgul
The band of elves known as the Hidden Guard has crossed the Anduin river into the region of Mirkwood, with Mazog as their prisoner. As the elves of Lothlorien set up numerous camps through Mirkwood, they plan their attack on the fortress of Dol Guldur. The Hidden Guard continues to take Mazog through the dangerous forest unseen and through the Scuttledells, where Issuriel and Mazog are seriously wounded by the giant queen spider who dwells in those parts. The elf Achardor becomes furious that his companion has been wounded and threatens Mazog's life if Issuriel falls. Issuriel speaks of a rare antidote that will cure the posion but later refuses to take it instead to let Mazog take it. Achardor is even more outraged with this action taken but just before Issuriel loses her life the dwarf Broin finds more of the rare herb and the quest to Dol Guldur can continue. The Hidden Guard soon arrives at the gates of Dol Guldur where the trade of Mazog for Bori takes place. But Gorothul and Ringwraiths arrive at the scene and refuse to hand over Bori, Broin quickly saves the elves from been slain by Gorothul but the elf Achardor chooses to stand against the Nazgûl and is killed. Mazog is freed and returns with the enemy. The elves of Lothlorien soon strike the fortress of Dol Guldur and free Bori from his cell. The elves capture the outside walls of Dol Guldur now only the tower is left to take. The raid on Dol Guldur continues within the dark tower and at the end of a tremendous battle the orc Mazog is slain by the mithril axe Zigilburk.
Epilogue - Of Elves and Dwarves
The elves and dwarves finish the last deeds throughout southern Mirkwood. The axe Zigilburk is buried yet again where the dwarves found it, to never wield its power again. The Elves of Lothlorien also strike several additional blows against the dark fortress, scouting three key locations and capturing one. Additionally, Gorothul is challenged in another assault within his quarters in Sammath Gul, where he is finally defeated.
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I was reflecting recently on how the business of writing, like so much else, has changed drastically over the past couple decades. I thought it might be fun to set down on this electronic page some memories I have of a world that has vanished.
I came of age as a writer in that brief day of the word processor. Does anyone remember that? It wasn't a computer, yet it blew typewriters out of the water. It was a bulky machine that covered half the desktop, with a screen that swung up from its closed position against the keyboard to show about eight or ten lines of text — dark green against light green or dark gray against light gray, depending on how bright the environment was. It had one font unless you changed the plastic snap-in print wheel. I think I had two or three of those; but there was no way to get, for example, one word in a line to be in a different font (like this).
Still, I thought it was the greatest invention ever! I'd used a manual typewriter as a kid, an electric typewriter through college, and this machine was WAY better than those — I could correct typos or revise without once committing the text to a printed page, and when I printed, the manuscript would be glorious! I could store documents to be printed again — yes, to be printed all over again, without re-typing them! It sounds so laughable now. But then, these were miracles of technology. The tools of the writer had taken a quantum leap forward, and we could focus on the writing, not on the physical chores. We wondered how Tolkien, Dickens, and others had managed without these things.
There's a quote from Mark Twain that gets reprinted now and then in the trade magazines. He's waxing enthusiastic about the marvelous new device that allows you to get your words onto the paper as fast as you can think them. It sounds for all the world like he's talking about a computer — or a word processor, if you read the reprint back in the eighties — but the machine he's raving about is the new-fangled manual typewriter.
I wonder if the document survives in which some long-ago scribe is singing the praises of the miraculous new ball-point pen . . . or the fountain pen, the quill, or the hammer-and-chisel.
But back to my reminiscences: in that word-processor "era," I was convinced that I would never need a computer. They were fine for the math and science people, but for those who wanted to write, the word processor was clearly superior. The WP produced documents that looked nice, as if they'd come from a typewriter; the computer, on the other hand, spewed ugly dot-matrix printouts, faint and rudimentary, with holes along the sides of the paper. Bleah! What serious writer would ever need a computer?
But as wonderful an electronic gadget as the WP was, we were still standing firmly in the world of paper documents. The function of the WP, remember, was to produce beautiful typewritten pages. Real pages. Paper pages. The WP didn't connect to an invisible, interconnected world — for that matter, neither did computers quite yet.
I remember that one day my mom couldn't get the document she was working on to save onto the diskette. (There was no hard drive: any saving you did was onto a little disk. I didn't know you could save things onto a computer's hard drive until several years after I'd started using one.) That was a moment of techno-glory for me, because I figured out the problem and solved it. The paper label that came inside the slipcase with every diskette had gone into the disk drive with the diskette but not come out again. The label was forming a physical barrier between the diskette and the drive's reader. I discovered the paper in there, fished it out, and boy, was I proud of myself!
Paper . . . and my mom . . . Mom was a great conserver of paper. She would go through every piece of junk mail and save any sheet, large or small, that had a blank side. These would go into her stack of scratch paper beside her elbow at the kitchen table. They became her notepads for jotting ideas and rough drafts of stories or articles, usually early in the morning or late at night, when she had the kitchen to herself. Regulation-sized scratch paper, such as the blank backs of outdated manuscripts, occupied a drawer in her office, and would become the tablet for new, typed rough drafts.
And envelopes! Mom would save envelopes that came in the mail, too. Why, all they needed was a scratching-out of the old addresses, and they could serve again. All through college and my Japan years, I received weekly letters from home, invariably in second-service envelopes. For Christmas or her birthday, I would often give Mom boxes of brand-new business-sized or manila envelopes (a great present for a writer, and she loved getting them) — but I could probably count on one hand the times she used a new envelope out of the box. I'm sure it felt horrible to her, like shooting a buffalo and taking its skin, leaving the carcass to rot.
Mom even used recycled manila envelopes for story submissions to editors. Once a Cricket editor complimented her on her recycling.
The value was certainly passed along to me; that's the way I did things, too. When it was time to submit a story to a magazine, I'd go to the cabinet, which was chock-full of used envelopes of every size. I'd look for two cleanish, respectable ones, make sure the old addresses were obliterated, and dutifully make my self-addressed stamped envelope to go inside my outbound submission. SASE . . . I wonder if writers younger than thirty have even heard that term? There was IRC, too, after I went to Japan: international reply coupon.
How did you find places to submit stories in the pre-Internet world? Well, you scanned the Markets sections in Writer's Digest and The Writer. You made trips to the library and paged through Writer's Market and Literary Marketplace. That last one is where I located the address for Arkham House, and Dragonfly finally found a home.
I loved printing out and signing those cover letters. I loved the heft of the hard-copy story and the taste of envelope glue (previously licked by who knows whom). I loved the drive to the post office and the satisfaction of plunking down a little money and watching the postmaster drop the story into the outbound bin.
But even more, I love how that era made us appreciate the mail. When stories were out on submission, I'd go to the mailbox with such anticipation, just waiting for that response from an editor. I guess the memory is colored by the fact of how young I was, dwelling in that magical time when I had yet to receive a single acceptance, and any day, the mail might change my life forever. The fondness is tied up with childhood and youth, checking a mailbox in the shade of great oak trees, with dogs around my feet, on halcyon summer days when my parents were hale and the world stretched limitless and kind before me.
To discover a heavy manila envelope in the box was bittersweet: you knew at once that the editor had returned the manuscript, but there might be an encouraging note inside, a request to try the magazine again with something else, and that took away much of the sting.
Better by far was a small, light envelope from the magazine's office . . . not a recycled SASE in your own handwriting, but a new, crisp envelope, some pristine thing never before glimpsed, perhaps fallen from Heaven — because such an envelope couldn't possibly contain your manuscript. It could only hold a letter saying "We here at *** have all read and loved your story, and we would be delighted to publish it."
Ah, the age of paper! It was slower; it taught us patience. Yet patience is a quality that, as a writer, I'm glad I learned.
A writer friend of mine made the point not long ago that in a few hundred years, no one will be able to access the electronic data that we in the present are producing. Who among us now could go home and play back the music on an eight-track tape, watch a movie on a Beta cassette, or recover my first novel from those Smith Corona Power Word Processor diskettes? If our descendants don't have the exact hardware we're using today, where will our data be? And what's the life expectancy of hardware these days?
For his epitaph, John Keats wrote, "Here lies one whose name was writ in water." Brothers and sisters, we are writing our legacy in water. It is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius.
Even now I save pieces of junk mail for memos. Still it hurts me to print on clean, new paper without a Very Good Reason. Still I don't sleep well unless a manuscript — or even a manuscript-in-progress — is printed out (on scratch paper until it's ready to go out and make good impressions). Here in the gentle light of my workspace, there will always be a place for paper. He is an old friend; and old friendships, as they say, are golden.
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A man responsible for the worst fatal fire in the history of Peoria remains committed at a mental health center after he was found unfit to stand trial. The next hearing to determine if he is still unfit to stand trial is set for Wednesday.
When the call came in about 2 a.m. one April morning in 1989, Rich Booth was already sitting in the fire truck.
"The dispatcher was talking about a working fire, and I could hear people yelling and screaming in the background," he recalled. "That's when I said, 'This isn't going to be good.'"
Fellow Peoria firefighter Greg Walters hurried down the fire pole as the voice on the radio warned the men at Central House that there were people trapped inside and that they "better step it up."
The first crews arrived to find three people on the roof who had managed to escape the ravenous flames and choking smoke still billowing from the second-story windows.
"I hopped off the truck before it even stopped, because I knew our first job would be pulling those people off the roof," said Walters. "Firemen don't normally run, because we can get injured or winded before we get any work done. But that time, I ran."
Over the next 10 minutes, firefighters rescued the three adults from the roof before pulling nine more bodies from the flaming windows.
But it was too late. Those nine people - seven children and two mothers - had already died in what has gone down as the worst arson in Peoria's history. Joe Pickens, the man who set fire to a mattress on the vacant first floor of the duplex, remains committed at a mental health center.
Twenty years to the month later, Peoria County State's Attorney Kevin Lyons says the deadly blaze has stayed fresh in his mind.
"I remember the Joe Pickens case like it was 30 minutes ago," he said. ". . . Pickens had been allowed to stay in the house but, earlier that day, had been disruptive and told to leave. In retaliatory anger he lit a candle and burned curtains which engulfed the house of sleeping residents, many children. I walked through the rubble myself."
Pickens, 35 at the time, wandered into the Peoria Police Department about a half-hour after the April 11 fire began and asked if there was a warrant for his arrest.
He eventually was charged with more murder counts than anyone in Peoria County history but was found unfit to stand trial after doctors testified he was mentally ill, mentally retarded and had no concept of time.
He now resides at Singer Mental Health Center in Rockford because mental health code allows for committal equal to what Pickens could have been sentenced to if convicted in criminal court, with the exception of a life sentence. For Pickens, that equals up to 60 years for each of the nine people killed, or 540 years.
But in accordance with Illinois law, the court must revisit his case no less than once per year. The next hearing to determine if he is still unfit to stand trial is set for Wednesday.
Lyons said it's likely nothing will change, as a seasoned Bloomington psychiatrist chosen by the State's Attorney's office recently concluded Pickens remains mentally ill and mentally retarded.
"His conclusion was that Pickens is wholly unfit and, therefore, I have elected to continue with our position that he should remain unfit and kept in mental health confinement," Lyons said.
Pickens' attorney, Thomas Penn, agreed. "He is unfit for trial and will forever be unfit for trial," he said recently.
Killed in the fire were Wanda Hobbs, 20; Felicia Hobbs, 4; Ashley Hobbs, 1; Eugene Young, 2 months; Terry Davis, 27; Karlissa Davis, 2; Arnisha Davis, 7; Tanoa Davis, 10; and Jacolby Thomas, 2.
Eric Davis, 14 at the time he escaped the blaze, told the Journal Star in 1998 that 10 years later he still thought about it every day. His mother and three sisters died in the fire.
"I remember I was watching Arsenio Hall on TV when I fell asleep," Davis said. "When I woke up, there was screaming and smoke.
"I remember breaking a window, but I don't recall how I got out. I'd like to meet whoever helped me."
Walters, now division chief of the fire department, remembers helping Davis, who was already badly burned, down a ladder to safety.
"Every step we made, he was saying 'ow, ow, ow,'" Walters said. "Once we got him to the ambulance, he was still saying 'ow,' but he was saying 'ow' and 'thank you.'"
Walters said the part of that morning that most sticks with him is when he was handed one of the last children still left in the house.
"He was the age of my son, just a little bundle in my hands, and the sorrow I felt was overwhelming," Walters said. "When I got home the next morning, I spent the whole day in the rocking chair with my son in my arms."
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Should Piers Morgan be deported from the US or not? Leave aside all of the legal matters at this point, does the First Amendment trump calling for a change in the Second and so on. Ponder instead the exact method* by which we're going to resolve this particular problem.
I think we're all aware by now of the petition that went up on the White House site. Calling for Morgan to be deported back to Britain. This now has just over 80,000 signatures as I write and there will indeed be at some point an official reaction from said White House.
However, there's a problem with this outcome desired so fervently by so many Americans. Which is, as I pointed out here, that we Brits don't actually want him back. I'll admit that he's a very talented journalist. His interview with The Guardian's editor, Alan Rusbridger, is a thing of beauty (and well worth reading in full here).
However, talented though he may be his period as editor of the Daily Mirror did leave a number of us with, well, without a great deal of love for him shall we say. Which leads us to the second petition on the White House site.
we petition the obama administration to:
Keep Piers Morgan in the USA
We want to keep Piers Morgan in the USA.
There are two very good reasons for this. Firstly, the first amendment.
Second and the more important point. No one in the UK wants him back.
This only has 3,800 signatures so far, this is true. But it's only just hit the UK newspapers this morning so give it a little bit of time. It only hit the country's leading (by traffic at least, if not necessarily by good taste) blog last night.
So there's still time for it to catch up. And that there are two diametrically opposed petitions means that we have a horse race on our hands. So, which will win?
The distaste for Piers Morgan among Americans who have only seen a bit of him or the distaste among the Brits who know him rather better?
Oh, and given that it's a horse race we do need to handicap it. There are 300 million Americans and only 60 million of us Brits. So therefore, in fairness, one of our votes counts for five times one of yours. So if the you have to keep him petition gains 20,000 votes and your we'll get rid of him one sticks on 80,000 then we win.
Yes, I know, this sounds so dreadfully unfair. Almost un-English, for everyone knows that we invented the very concept of fair play. Which is a good trick that we've managed to pull off over the years. We'll play fair when it doesn't really matter, of course, in order to lull everyone into a false sense of security. But on important matters we'll cheat with the best of them. Not having Piers Morgan is one of those important matters.
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In the spirit of Nick Sieger's short statement on the recent uproar over Matt Aimonetti's "pr0n star" talk, I'm posting my one and only blog response to the whole thing.
Unlike Nick, I too often have used this blog as a soapbox. And too often I've ground my personal axe against projects that may or may not have deserved it. I'm human, I'm passionate and proud of my work, and I'm defensive of what we've accomplished, so I don't think this is surprising. I also see the same passion and pride in the Ruby community at large, and it's why I'm much more interested in attending Ruby conferences than Java conferences, where many attendees just seem to be going through the motions. And I know I've crossed a line at times, making or taking things too personal, and hopefully I've apologized or corrected myself whenever that's happened. If not, mea culpa.
But there's a disturbing trend in the Ruby community I haven't had to deal with since high school: in preference to open inclusion, more and more Rubyists seem to choose exclusivity.
This recent firestorm has continued in large part, I believe, because of the poor initial response by folks involved. Rather than recognize that there are people with different views, taking offense at different ideas and images, some decided to say "fuck you, this is who I am" and further alienate those people. I certainly don't expect we as passionate individuals won't commit occasional faux pas, especially when trying to be funny or provocative and especially when coming from different backgrounds that may be more or less accepting of certain behaviors. But to claim no responsibility for an obvious mistake, indeed to claim it's somehow the fault of the offended, or American sensibility, or political correctness...well that's just sophomoric.
I think to some extent we can understand (but not excuse) such behavior by realizing that the Ruby (or perhaps the Rails) community is largely a very *young* community. That's a large part of why this community is so passionate, why they're so committed to their ideals, why they're so opinionated, why they're so much more fun to hang out with than many 30-year programmers from other communities who've had the life sucked out of them. It's also a reason so many in the Ruby (or perhaps the Rails) community seem to act like they're in high school, forming cliques, sitting at their own tables, snubbing the new kids or the weird kids or anyone they perceive as "trying to be cool."
Have you been invited to any exclusive Ruby communities? I've been invited to a couple, and without exception I've found the idea offensive every time. In some cities, there are now multiple tiers of Ruby group: one for the proles, where anyone is welcome and everyone is either new to Ruby, a little weird, or both; and then perhaps one or two levels of more "exclusive" groups, usually more "advanced" and sometimes invite-only but generally exclusionary in some way.
There's also a technical "coolness" exclusivity many projects have had to cope with. Folks working on JRuby and IronRuby, for example, have had to deal with perceptions that they're either less "cool" because of their platform of choice or at least somehow less "Ruby" because they're not following the same golden path everyone else follows. Or perhaps their employers are out to take over Ruby, or they're going to infect Ruby with a bunch more "new" people who don't "get it". All the while the folks that use and work on these projects are working just as hard as anyone else to bring Ruby to the world, staying true to what makes Ruby special, and largely going against the grain in their original communities as well. Being snubbed, mocked, or attacked is often their reward.
You start to see a pattern here, yes?
So let's spell it out. I like the Ruby community because it's filled with people who love playing with new technology, without biases and prejudices getting in the way. My closest friends in the community are people like me, who find it repugnant that being opinionated has been too often equated with being rude and boorish, exclusionary and sophomoric, or simply mean. We are all here because of our love of technology, all here because we didn't feel like we fit in other places that weren't so passionate about beautiful code and fresh ideas. We are all here because we don't care if you're male or female, religious or irreligious, young or old, experienced or inexperienced, beautiful or plain, conservative or liberal, tall or short, fat or thin, foreign or domestic, gay or straight, black or white, or any grey areas in-between. We are all here because we love that more and more people like us join the community every day...the same people some of us immediately judge and box into their own subcool subgroups.
I don't want to join your damn clique. I don't think it's ok to set people aside or treat them like dirt because they don't believe what you believe or because they have their own way of thinking and acting or because they're not as worldly and mature and oh-so-smug as you are. I don't believe in "rock stars" and I don't believe that dubious title gives anyone the right to be an asshole to others or to have free reign to act any way they choose. I don't care what kind of car you drive, what house you live in, or what clothes you wear...and I sure as hell don't care how many people follow you on Twitter.
What I do care about is whether you're interested in sitting down and hacking out some code, looking at new projects with an open mind, helping someone new (maybe me) improve their skills, being part of something larger than yourself. If you promise not to treat me like a weirdo or a rock star, I promise to talk openly about your ideas, to show you the heart and soul of my code, and to freely share my thoughts...no matter who you are. I hope you'll attend my presentations and/or try out my projects, and in exchange I'll try to do the same the same for you. I hope you'll walk up to me at conferences and tell me about whatever "crazy" or "stupid" idea you have, and I guarantee to listen since it's probably not as crazy or stupid as you think. And I expect you to do the same for everyone else in the community and not treat me or anyone else any differently.
Now, let's move forward and get back to hacking and having fun!
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Stand and Be Counted
In the spirit of Nick Sieger's short statement on the recent uproar over Matt Aimonetti's "pr0n star" talk, I'm posting my one and only blog response to the whole thing.
29 comments:
- Unknown said...
Great post, I really enjoyed it. I stay(ed) away from a lot of Ruby users groups due to this exclusivity and bitchyness that sometimes rears it's ugly head. Bring on more friendly folks who want to hack and work on great ideas ...
- Chrisl said...
- johnrellis said...
Good Stuff!! Being picky about who you want using "your" technology is the most stupid thing I have ever heard!! Grow up guys! :)
Great post. I fell acidently into the Ruby world (and so.. soon after, into Rails) simply because I said yes to a collegue who wanted us to use Ruby on our project in 2005. That moment of "love at first sight" comes to all people in different ways. I was hooked.. not by coolness, not by elitism, I was hooked on getting more done in less time... I was hooked on understanding OO better though Ruby eyes, I would also invite new-blood to enjoy Ruby (in all her many coats and colours) just for what RUBY IS .. a robustly enjoyable solution to a current problem.
- knowtheory said...
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- knowtheory said...
I think it's really important to point out that there are some fantastic, open and welcoming Ruby Brigades out there.
The Columbus, Ohio Ruby Brigade, with which i am most familiar invites all sorts of people to their meetings, including people who know nothing about Ruby (.NET and Java users from other groups in the Columbus area).
Dialogue and engagement is the only way you can communicate what you are doing. We're in OPEN source software. A rising tide lifts all boats. :)
I also think it's important that we do more than simply stand up and speak out. We must each stand up and act to make our community a better place.
- Joe Corcoran said...
Really excellent post.
Great post, Charles! Clearly the best I've read on this subject.
- Unknown said...
Great post,
All I have to say is open source should mean an open community. Sad to hear this is not the case in the Ruby community. Very glad to hear that some people are doing something about it :) This post is a very good start.
- Unknown said...
Reminds me of the article by CS Lewis, The Inner Circle.
- Praki Prakash said...
Well put!
Part of the problem, and it is in no way exclusive to Ruby/Rails, is that people want in but lack the skill and make up for this by being 'passionate'.
Trouble is that when you have a room full of people like this then it becomes almost impossible to talk about programming because people only want to talk about Ruby.
There is more to programming than programming languages (if that doesn't get me lynched I don't know what will :) )
- Charles Oliver Nutter said...
Joshua: I think you mean "The Inner Ring", which I had not read before. Very timely and important advice, thank you for pointing it out.
- Unknown said...
Hear Hear.
- Unknown said...
Great post! I've been thinking about this issue in the community. Personally, I don't understand why all of this is happening.
I also think discussing projects with an open mind goes a long way to making this community better. In our era, no one knows everything, everyone has bits of information, it's scattered, an open-minded dialogue facilitates finding the best solution.
Being opinionated is fine in my view, but I don't think it's mutually exclusive with having an open-mind. I consider myself pretty opinionated, but context is everything. A solution is probably not the best in every context and that's where the open-mindedness comes in, you need to consider alternatives, all the time.
Furthermore, a major step in being more open-minded is to do extensive research, know your stuff and know why you've chosen some solution over another, if a new solution is proposed by a peer, receive it with curiosity and explore. You never know what you might discover, in addition to the invaluable new knowledge it should bring you.
Anyways, very good article, maybe we need a google group for open-minded people to discuss projects and solutions openly? Just kidding. Or am I? :)
Once again Charles you've articulated it to a tee. You are totally correct that the furor resulted largely from the reactions of a few, followed by similar, and often much more virulent, reactions of many. Thank you for pointing this out because it admitting this seems to be a problem for some people. Anyhow, it is a testament to the Ruby community that instead of going silently into our little worlds like DHH and many others believed we would, a significant portion of this community has stood up and rejected immaturity in a public digestion of nerd sexism. It's out in the open now, and I hope it will stay that way.
This has been brewing for ten days, and I know that I am burnt out on it after only knowing it for three. But if this is indicative of the kinds of blogs we will see today, then at last it will feel like those of who were summarily dismissed in the beginning are vindicated in some way. It's not the end, because we have a long ways to go, but at least it feels like all the time and energy spent writing on this has actually gone somewhere.
Keep leaning, all.
Agreed. Completely.
One of the great things about this incident is that it highlights the great people like you in the community.
Similar to Matthew in the above comment, I'm another Ruby/Rails/Merb developer (for 3 years, in Chicago, too) who has never attended an event, conference or group (beyond the people and companies with whom I work) because of the attitude of the "leadership." I'm guessing we aren't the only ones who have avoided community involvement because of them.
I'm holding on to hope, though. Thanks to you, _why and others, I feel like I'm seeing the first glimpses of it changing for the better.
So, thank you.
- Alex Kane said...
I give this post two thumbs up
- Jilles said...
Absolutely right. As far as rock stars are concerned in the wider Ruby community, I consider you to be one of the few. Happy hacking
- Unknown said...
Charles, awesome post! I run a Ruby group in Cleveland and currently we cater to the new devs, and I'm trying to find a way to keep the experienced people interested without being exclusionary. Thanks for the post, it will help me when thinking about meetings for our group.
- Unknown said...
As Groucho Marx said, "I would not want to belong to a club that would have me as a member."
I enjoy the work I do in the Ruby world, but I've worked in dozens of other programming and scripting languages and each has their time and place (some of them may be the past and hell, but certainly not all).
I feel much the same about Ruby as I do about politics...I respect other peoples' right to a differing opinion, and embrace those opinions, as some of the people of a differing mind are smart and have good ideas. In fact, sometimes their arguments may change and/or open my mind to something, resulting in an improvement in my own quality of life. Thus, open dialogue is not only welcomed in my world, but encouraged.
Kudos for a well-articulated point. If only more people saw the technology landscape from 10,000 feet, instead of the driver's seat of their own technology.
- Michael Easter said...
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- Michael Easter said...
Well-said. I knew someone would show some leadership on this. It is no surprise to me that Charles is part of it.
Here is my (sincere) response to you and Nick, with as much irony as I can muster.
- Arnon Moscona said...
Right on every point!
This extends to very serious issues in the Ruby language itself and especially the Rails framework. The community is not only anti anything not Ruby, there is also a very strong streak of anti anything that's not Linux, and in particular to Windows.
As a result, the rails people basically refuse to address serious performance problems that exist with the framework. On Windows, rails is super-slow. The community generally flatly blames Windows itself and refuses to acknowledge that the performance difference cannot be accounted for by Windows. Any benchmark you care to use shows Windows to be extremely close to Linux on almost every aspect (and can seriously beat Linux in network applications if you use Windows-specific advanced socket APIs). Rails performs easily an order of magnitude slower on Windows (and even worse on cygwin), but it seems that no one wants to address the problem. This leaves a huge portion of the servers in the world out of the running.
Luckily we have Grails. But really, the Rails people would do themselves a great service if they took Windows (and cygwin) much more seriously. Not only they will double their potential audience, but in the process they will improve the Linux version as well as I am positive that in searching for the performance problems in Windows or cygwin they will find quite a few tuning opportunities that apply across the board.
Sadly, it's not likely to happen soon, and the palpable hostility in the community is likely to continue to be self-defeating.
BTW - I am a full time Ruby programmer on Linux, but I spent quite some time on Jave, Groovy, and Grails on Windows and Linux.
On that same note, it would be nice if we could have as smooth an integration between Ruby and Java as exists in Groovy. At least in JRuby. That is much more likely to happen, luckily.
Arnon: I would avoid cygwin, it's full of performance problems and it doesn't even support ipv6 for sockets. (The last time I checked)
Fuck You Nutter!
I know this is aimed at me. Why don't you stop hiding behind pretense and just call me out. I'll take you down JRuby Boy!
(just kidding)
It's totally a thing. I hate to drop the kumbaya for a moment, but there's a lot of knife twisters in programming circles.
My analysis of the situation is that development, like politics, has this bizarre tendency to attract a lot of sociopaths. They love to try to out e-penis each other and sit at their special table and stuff like that. I'm often the youngest person in the room, and it's kindof sad to see grown men several years older than you acting like pack animals (I hate to compare them to children, who are far more open minded and spirited). These days I show up every blue moon to say hi to the remaining good hearted people (there's a lot of them thankfully) and then disappear into the wilderness in search of more people worth knowing.
I recall a time when a developer I thought was a nice person conspired to get me fired from a job (the first and only time I've ever been fired from anything). I backed him up through the whole problematic project and then he turned on me. Personal feelings aside, at the time I was helping a friend pay his medical bills from a bad accident (ask me how broken our healthcare system is, and I'll give you an earful), and I had to scramble to find new work to continue helping him out. Frankly, I still have trouble trusting developers because of it. Guy still shows up from time to time and I just pretend he isn't there. What else am I supposed to do?
It's actually pretty easy to tell the good from the bad, assuming you're not a psychopath. The good enjoy your presence, the bad tolerate you out of politeness. For newcomers to this system, you'll initially think "what the hell did I do to deserve this"? The answer is nothing. Sociopaths only care about you if they think they can get something out of it, otherwise they ignore you.
Honestly though, I've been around the block, and you eventually see this with every programming group. It's one of the reasons these groups don't last more than a few years before dieing out. I have higher hopes for the survivability of the Ruby scene, but who knows. Scenes, like empires, ebb and flow. It's just the way of things I suppose. Until somebody comes up with something better than Ruby though, I'm sticking around. Even if not so publicly anymore.
- Vita Rara said...
Well spoken.
Mark Menard


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Campton Hills plans survey for drug recovery center
Campton Hills leaders plan to survey residents through a postcard in the village's upcoming newsletter in an attempt to get opinions about a controversial, 96-bed substance abuse treatment facility proposed at the former Glenwood School for Boys.
Village President Patsy Smith said each of the village's 3,608 homes will receive a numbered postcard ballot in the village newsletter in the first week of December asking for opinions on the Kiva Recovery Center.
The cards are due back no later than Dec. 15 and village leaders hope to get at least 1,500 responses, Smith said.
"It just gives the board an idea of how the community feels," she said. "Every household will get one vote. By doing the postcard, it gives everybody a safe environment to provide input."
Kiva opponents argue the facility will overly burden the village's fire/ambulance service, pose a security threat to nearby homes, hurt property values and tarnish the village's image.
Kiva officials say they will not detox clients at the facility, which will cost $30,000 for a month's stay and will be geared toward recovering professionals.
The proposal received a thumbs-up from the village plan commission in early November; trustees began consideration of the plan this week, hearing from more than 30 people who spoke at a meeting attended by more than 400 residents.
A follow-up meeting is planned for 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Kane County Fairgrounds, 525 S. Randall Road, St. Charles, where trustees could review a study from an independent appraiser on whether Kiva will hurt property values.
A Dec. 17 meeting also is planned and trustees could possibly vote then; no location has been decided but past meetings have been held at the Congregational United Church of Christ, 40W451 Fox Mill Blvd., Campton Hills.
For updated information, visit villageofcamptonhills.org.
Kiva opponents also want village trustees to put an advisory referendum on the April 2013 ballot and note how the village has asked for opinions via advisory referendum on less controversial matters.
For example, 5,480 people out of 7,731 registered voters chimed in on Nov. 6 on whether the village should allow video gambling, according to the Kane County Clerk's Office.
"It won't have the validity of a referendum. A postcard poll -- leave that to 'American Idol,' " said Abe Andrzejewski, spokesman for residents opposed to the plan. "The right way to take a poll is at the polls."
But Smith said a spring referendum is not feasible.
"The petitioner has a contract pending and they need to have a resolution on this," she said. "(The postcard survey) is easier than voting. All people have to do is check a box and put it in their mailbox."
The postcard will ask homeowners if they support the plan, oppose it, or are neutral and believe the matter is best left up to trustees.
Patrick Griffin, an attorney for Kiva, says he realizes trustees are trying to do the right thing by getting residents' input via the postcards, but is concerned that people responding will be influenced by misinformation. "The village trustees and plan commission members who hear all the evidence are the best to make the final decision," he said.


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It's baby's first splurge!
According the Daily Mail, this week, Beyoncé received a pair of sneakers for eight-month-old Blue Ivy — that reportedly cost about $800. Designed specifically for Blue Ivy, the baby booties are adorned with an abundance of amethyst Swarovski crystals.
To us, it's not clear whether Beyoncé actually bought the shoes, or if they were a gift from the designer, but the singer's catching a lot of flack from it — some media outlets are writing jabbing titles such as "Beyonce Drops $800 On Shoes For The Not-Yet-Walking Blue Ivy".
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However, this is not Blue Ivy's first pair of designer footwear. The baby already has a collection that rivals Imelda Marcos, complete with Jeremy Scott x Adidas J Wings and Marc Jacobs Mouse Ballet Flats, say some reports.
What do you think of Blue Ivy's pricey shoes? Do you think Beyoncé has gone overboard, or would you buy them, too, if you were rich and famous?


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There's things I don't understand in her book, but I recommend it anyway
In trying to curtail, control and circumscribe the wide array of creativity available, we steal from ourselves. Making everyone comply with an idea of perfection (personally, politically, religiously, or socially) we admit our own fear of ourselves, a distrust that isn't true. We are not, at heart, evil and flawed. If we expressed only curiosity and admiration for each other's different creative lives instead of trying to fix or save those who are different from us, we might find ourselves in a fascinating world. If we understood that we are deliberate co-creators of the world and all experience within it, relatives of and co-creators with the rocks and grass, trees and tigers, wind and storms and tsunamis, the world might quit creating a "war on this and a war on that" and instead imagine a cooperative world, the first step to its creation. We might each find profound meaning in what we now think of as small and insignificant lives, thereby letting go of the desire to impose ourselves on others; we might dispose of the need to impose meaning and value in our lives through the deviance of misapplied competition and violence, instead finding it through harmony


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No description.
Subject: Society & Culture, Blogs & Social Media, Universities & Libraries, Feminism., New media theory., New media cultures., Gender studies.
Rights: The default license for the content on Ada is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. Individual article copyright terms may differ. Please refer to each article for its license.
Collector: Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.
Archived since: Jul, 2020
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Subject: Arts & Humanities
Creator: University of Oregon Department of Art History
Publisher: University of Oregon Libraries
Date: 2009
Archived since: Dec, 2011
The University of Oregon Documenting Freshman Year Experience Project is undertaken every Fall Term by a Residential Freshman Interest Groups (FIG) course. As part of each course students create weekly project entries in a variety of media that include ephemera and photographs taken during their first term at the University of Oregon.
Subject: Universities & Libraries, Society & Culture, College Freshmen -- Oregn -- Diaries, University of Oregon -- Freshmen -- Diaries
Creator: UO Freshman Interest Group Course, HIST 199
Publisher: University of Oregon
Collector: University of Oregon
Archived since: Oct, 2011
ePortfolios enhance linkages between professional preparation, academic coursework, and technological applications by supporting students, courses, and project advancement through tutoring, project evaluation, and interdepartmental collaboration.
ePortfolio is a 3-year pilot project, which began in the Arts and Administration Program in the School of Architecture and Allied Arts in 2005. The purpose of ePortfolios is to connect students with professional and academic communities through professional digital portfolios, digital skills development, course project gallery and public archive, and to serve as a communication hub – or virtual bulletin board - to connect students to job and internship opportunities, with alumni and other professional networks, and to foster relationships between the university and professional communities.
During Years One and Two of the pilot project, we implemented systems to support students in the Arts and Administration Program to create and manage their ePortfolios.
We conducted program evaluations during the first and second year to assess program management and project improvement.
During Year Three, we are focusing on the development of a comprehensive three-level website that will allow students and faculty to post and manage eportfolios, to work collaboratively on course-based projects and display products in a public gallery space, and a fully private academic archive of student work. We are also working to further cross-disciplinary boundaries with our colleagues in the Center for Advanced Technology in Education and School of Journalism to establish discipline-specific standards and systems that connect students with their faculty, with alumnus, and with employers through a seamless integrated ePortfolio community.
Subject: Arts & Humanities, Universities & Libraries
Creator: School of Architecture and Allied Arts
Publisher: University of Oregon
Date: 2005-2007
Archived since: Dec, 2011
This collection consists of news stories about Richard Lariviere's dismissal as President of the University of Oregon.
Subject: Universities & Libraries, Spontaneous Events, Government - US States, University of Orgeon, Lariviere, Richard, Oregon University System, Oregon State Board of Higher Education
Archived since: Dec, 2011
This collection contains the official website of the Occupy Eugene (Oregon) movement. The website includes meeting minutes, announcements, a blog, and other material related to Occupy Eugene.
Subject: Spontaneous Events, Politics & Elections, Universities & Libraries, Eugene, OR, Occupy Eugene, Occupy Wall Street
Creator: Occupy Eugene
Publisher: Occupy Eugene
Type: website
Collector: Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries
Archived since: Aug, 2012
One major reason for this site is to provide a convenient place to discuss the variety of OA-related activities are going on at the UO.
The site will also touch on some of the interesting debates in the open access movement.
Subject: Universities & Libraries, Blogs & Social Media, Computers & Technology, Scholarly communications, Open Access, Scholarly publishing
Creator: Johnson, JQ
Publisher: University of Oregon
Format: blog
Contributor: Johnson, JQ
Archived since: Jan, 2020
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Archived since: Apr, 2019
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Subject: Arts & Humanities, Society & Culture
Archived since: Jan, 2012
This course is a collaborative project with the goal of understanding how past societies have adapted to widespread changes in their foods and fuels, and how our current society can learn from their successes and failures in the contemporary global energy context.
Part of our job is to determine which energy sources are currently in transition, and which are not; which are under pressure to be changed, what those pressures are, and how energy policy might work either to promote or to hinder these changes. We will be particularly interested in ways that groups of people make hard choices, or don't, in the face of energy scarcity.
Subject: Science & Health, Society & Culture, Computers & Technology
Creator: students in HC 441: Energy in Transition
Publisher: Google
Date: January 23, 2012
Collector: University of Oregon Special Collections and University Archives
Archived since: Jun, 2019
The Artful Fabric of Collecting site introduces viewers to Chinese textiles from the collection of Gertrude Bass Warner (1863-1951), an American who developed the conviction that improved relations between nations can only evolve from the mutual understanding and appreciation of educated minds.
Subject: Arts & Humanities, Society & Culture
Creator: Ina Asim, University of Oregon Libraries, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Publisher: University of Oregon Libraries
Date: 2019
Rights: The digital exhibition The Artful Fabric of Collecting is copyrighted by Ina Asim and the University of Oregon under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. Individual items displayed in this digital exhibition may be subject to different copyrights; see item pages for credits.
Language: English
Archived since: Jul, 2011
UfoliO uses WordPressMultiUser as a personalized, easy-to-use blogging and web publishing environment adaptable to many purposes:
Students can use UfoliO as a personal learning environment — an online workspace for project development, reflection, and sharing of curricular and extracurricular learning and research. Instructors can use UfoliO in their courses to encourage scholarly exchange, clarify expectations, and highlight excellence. Groups and programs can use UfoliO hubs for building community and developing interdisciplinary instruction and research initiatives. The hubs can support activities that fall outside of departmental curricula such as orientation, summer readings and living-learning events.
Please note that UfoliO is a pilot service and currently open to approved users only.
Subject: Blogs & Social Media, Universities & Libraries
Creator: University of Oregon Libraries
Archived since: Feb, 2012
This website was begun as a comprehensive work area for those involved in the accreditation process, then as a reporting mechanism for the 2007 Accreditation, and ultimately as a component of the ongoing commitment to campus-wide communication and information sharing.
Subject: Universities & Libraries, Northwest Commussion on Colleges and Universities, University of Oregon, accreditation
Creator: University of Oregon
Publisher: University of Oregon
Format: web page
Archived since: Aug, 2011
The UO Athletics Collection archives the content of the goducks.com website. Goducks.com is the official web home of Oregon athletics and includes online media guides, rosters, schedules, press releases, game video, and other content related to intercollegiate athletics at the University of Oregon.
Subject: Universities & Libraries, athletics, University of Oregon
Creator: Duck Athletics (University of Oregon Intercollegiate Athletics)
Publisher: University of Oregon
Type: Collection
Date: 2011
Archived since: Jul, 2012
Additional Common Readings Sites Archived under UfolioO: https://www.archive-it.org/collections/2759
Subject: Arts & Humanities, Universities & Libraries, Society & Culture
Archived since: Jun, 2018
The UO Library Staff Association promotes communication and a spirit of cooperation and fellowship among all library employees, and offers opportunities for educational and skill development through programs and service on Staff Association committees. The LSA website is an informal communication forum for staff members of the University of Oregon Library Staff Association.
Subject: Universities & Libraries
Creator: University of Oregon. Library Staff Association
Date: 1998-2017
Language: English
Archived since: Aug, 2018
The Office of the Provost (OtP) is responsible for carrying out the academic mission of the University of Oregon. In doing so, the office works closely with faculty and staff to enhance academic excellence, student success, and the UO's overall academic profile. The OtP website houses information related to academic initiatives, policies, and procedures.
Subject: Arts & Humanities, Universities & Libraries
Creator: University of Oregon Office of the Provost
Type: Collection
Date: August 2018
Rights: University of Oregon
Archived since: Feb, 2012
The University of Oregon website serves as the public web presence of the University. Each of the colleges, schools, departments, and administrative units are represented on the website.
Subject: Universities & Libraries, University of Oregon
Creator: University of Oregon
Publisher: University of Oregon
Archived since: Jun, 2018
Photo by Marian Wook Kolisch
Subject: Arts & Humanities, Blogs & Social Media, Society & Culture, Collection comprises Ursula K. Le Guin's official website and linked pages external to the www.ursulakleguin.com domain, as well as Ursula K. Le Guin's social media accounts, including Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.
Creator: Ursula K. Le Guin
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Climate Change is making our familiar monsters bigger, stronger and more dangerous.
Supertyphoon Haiyan (known as Yolanda in the Philippines) blew past the definition of a Category 5 storm. It looks like it's time to create a new category, just as Australia has created a new category for fire alerts - we now have 'Catastrophic' sitting above the old 'Extreme' Fire Warning.
The diagram above shows how warming oceans provide the energy that makes cyclones/typhoons/hurricanes bigger, stronger, and more damaging.
Professor Will Steffen, a researcher at the Australian National University, says scientists understand how a hotter, moister climate is already affecting storms such as Haiyan.
Once cyclones form, they get most of their energy from the surface waters of the ocean. We know sea-surface temperatures are warming pretty much around the planet, so that's a pretty direct influence of climate change on the nature of the storm. Prof Will Steffan.
Data compiled from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows sea temperatures were about 0.5 to 1 degree above normal in the waters to the east of the Philippines as Haiyan began forming. The waters cooled in the storm's wake, an indication of how the storm sucked up energy.
So, when someone says, "We can't say that climate change made that storm worse," you can reply, "We can say that climate change is making tropical storms worse. It's a brave person who would claim that doesn't apply to this particular storm. Especially when, like Haiyan, it is the biggest storm ever to make landfall."
Without strong action to reduce emissions, we are ensuring there will be ever-bigger monsters battering our children.
News from the Transformation tab.
Apple has announced plans to open a new factory in Mesa, Arizona — a facility that will run on 100 percent renewable energy from day one.


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Who benefits from your donation to the STIHL Tour des Trees? EVERYONE! Healthy, mature trees are the crown jewels of our communities, and science is the urban forest's best defense against pests, diseases, and the hazards of urban living.
Your donation helps to keep the trees in your world strong and healthy and their caretakers educated and safe. Please be generous. Thank you!


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Contains news items.
Hot paper from Matsui Group
Prof. Matsui's new paper was designated as a hot paper by a top journal in chemistry.
Cover of Chemical Reviews
Professor Drain's review article is featured on the cover of the most prestigious review journal in chemistry.
ACS Fellow from Hunter
Professor Spiro Alexandratos was elected to become a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Holiday Party 2009
Department Holiday Party was held on Thu Dec 17
Cancer Sensor Chip
Hunter Chemists have developed a cancer sensor chip, which was highlighted as one of five recent research news in National Cancer Institute
Fulbright Scholar
Prof. Alexandratos has been named a Fulbright Scholar for the 2010-2011 academic year.
Prestigious Award to Nurxat Nuraje (Matsui Group)
Nurxat Nuraje in the Prof. Matsui's group received the prestigious 2008 Materials Research Society (MRS) Graduate Student Award.
Prof. Alexandratos elected to the ACS Committee on Science
Prof. Alexandratos was elected to the ACS Committee on Science
New Dyes for Organic Solar Cells Developed
Three new modes for assembling and attaching organic dyes in solar cells developed by Hunter team
Autonomous biomimetic motors fueled by peptide assembly
A new hybrid biomimetic motor system powered by the release of consisting of diphenylalanine (DPA) peptides from a metal-organic framework (MOF) in a manner resembling the metabolization and production of resources in cells. In nature, biological motors convert chemical free energy to mechanical power directly by creating isothermal and non-equilibrium conditions through biochemical reactions such as the metabolism of chemicals by cells to produce products that are simultaneously exploited as energy resources. In this new bioinspired system, a MOF is used to encapsulate DPA peptides in its pores. Release of the stored peptides and their subsequent reconfiguration into hydrophobic assemblies creates a non-equilibrium condition by generating a large surface tension gradient. The chemical energy generated by this process propels the MOF to swim like bacteria towards the higher surface tension side of the gradient. Lessons learned from understanding how this "motor" operates could be used to design systems that sense, capture, and store or "metabolize" target chemicals and control the local environment of materials.
A breakthrough in nanotechnology by the Matsui Group
A Hunter Chemistry team lead by Prof. Hiroshi Matsui made a breakthrough in Nanotechnology. This outcome was just published in Nature Communucation (DOI:10.1038/ncomms4870).
High impact review article on glycosylated porphynoids from CM Drain lab
The Drain lab published an article in Chemical Reviews, which is the top journal in chemistry in terms of the impact factor (Impact factor 46.568 in 2014)