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"The continuation of this struggle between the different political forces ... could lead to the collapse of the state."
Those were the words of Egyptian Army chief Abdel Fatah al-Sissi to military academy students, in a speech posted online today.
When the Egyptian military warns of state collapse, it's time to start worrying. Though a coup is unlikely, that's always a subtext when senior officers start talking about those incompetent civilian politicians failing to safeguard the very state itself. And it's worrying enough that he might even believe it.
But the fact is that Egypt is now at yet another dangerously chaotic, polarized point, with at least 50 people dead from four days of clashes in Cairo and the main cities of the economically vital Canal Zone under a state of emergency, with soldiers on the streets. The formation of a national consensus about the future from the elections of the past two years? It never happened. Instead, Egypt today has a Muslim Brotherhood president and a Constitution bitterly opposed by the opposition.
A parliament? The results of that election, which the Muslim Brothers and their Islamist allies won, were annulled by the courts, with a fresh parliamentary election promised by the end of April. The political opposition? In as much disarray as ever. The street protesters? An amalgamation of soccer hooligans, political activists, self-styled anarchists in black balaclavas, and secular political parties with little uniting them beyond their anger at the state of Egypt and the leadership of President Mohamed Morsi.
While the outpouring of popular outrage has sent a message to Morsi, he's shown no signs of flexibility or creativity in responding to it. Secular politicians have brushed off his calls for dialogue, with Mohamed ElBaradei, the former head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, saying the offered talks are a matter of "form and not content." That is, he expects any such talks to lead nowhere.
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State television and Brotherhood leaders have denounced "thugs" and cried "anarchy," with little sensitivity to the various grievances fueling both violent mobs and peaceful protests. This week, Egyptians were treated to the irony of the Gama'a Islamiyah, a former terrorist group that helped inspire Al Qaeda (that group's current leader, the Egyptian Ayman al-Zawahiri, is a former GI leader), praising Morsi's decision to declare a state of emergency and calling the violence "unacceptable." The GI spent much of the 1990s trying to destroy the Egyptian state with a campaign of assassinations and indiscriminate killings, culminating in the murder of 62 people, most foreign tourists, in the Luxor massacre of 1997.
Amid all this, events are trundling on in a way that says little good about how Morsi and the state security institutions that (nominally at least) answer to him are handling the situation. Egypt's economy has been delivered yet another blow after two years of them – recent events are only going to deter investors and tourists further – and it's hard to see how an International Monetary Fund loan seen as crucial to shoring up the plummeting Egyptian pound (down about 7 percent against the dollar in the past few weeks) could be approved amid all the chaos.
Last night, the Semiramis InterContinental Hotel on the Nile corniche in downtown Cairo was attacked for hours by armed thugs, one of whom was wielding a semi-automatic weapon. The staff's panicked calls to the police and the Army were ignored for hours. The hotel is within a mile of Tahrir Square, the US and other foreign embassies, and a slew of other five-star hotels and multinational offices. Here's how Ahram Online described the scene:
Ahmed Ibrahim, another InterContinental guard described 40 men armed with birdshot guns, knives and a semi-automatic weapon, approach the hotel around 2.30am. They succeeded in breaking through the hotel's fortified shutters. Ahram Online reporter saw electrical wire tied to the metal gates, clearly used to force the doors open. "One had a semi-automatic gun and started shooting inside the building, I was inside trying to hide and call the police, it was terrifying," Abdel-Wahab continues.
Some guests trapped in the hotel, locked themselves in their rooms to avoid the tear gas and bullets, as employees desperately struggled to evacuate the building. After the police failed to appear, Abdel-Wahab says, hotel staff phoned the army. "However they didn't arrive, they left us."
"It was terrible - I was scared to death," recalls Nabila Samak, Director of Marketing and Communications, who made the desperate calls for help from the hotel Twitter account. Samak added that Semiramis staff had even resorted to calling Egyptian TV talk shows to draw attention to their plight.
Yes, the hotel's director of marketing was reduced to issuing panicked calls for help via Twitter (for instance: "PLEASE SEND HELP! SOS"). Soldiers eventually arrived and no one was injured. But the hotel is now closed, and a message has been sent to potential tourists and investors alike that even in the heart of Cairo, the state is not up to the task of providing basic security at the moment.
Meanwhile, state TV has been creating a new bogeyman – the "Black Bloc," a shadowy new protest group that seems inspired in equal measures by the online antics and fashions of hacker collectives like Anonymous and Egypt's hardline soccer supporters groups known as "Ultras." The young men in black balaclava's have participated in some of the unrest of the past few days, but the public prosecutors order for the police and the military to arrest all members of the group today for their "terrorist activities" has more than a hint of scapegoating about it.
To be sure, the emergence of the group, defined entirely by anger at all forms of state authority, does say something powerful about the failure of Egypt's young revolutionaries to create a coherent political movement in the two years since Mubarak was driven from power. Ursula Lindsey writes: "The whole Black Bloc phenomenon is pretty silly. It's a symptom of the immaturity, lack of foresight and drift from peaceful (and seemingly fruitless) protesting to glamorized, indiscriminate, anti-authoritarian violence that has characterized a wing of the protest movement."
Not all protests are created equal. In the gritty canal city of Port Said, where resentment of state authority stretches back to the 1960s and 1970s, when the area suffered the brunt of Egypt's wars with Israel, the violence has largely been about a soccer riot last year that left more than 70 people dead. On Saturday, a court sentenced 21 people to death, most supporters of local club Al Masry, for their participation in the riot, touching off an attempt to storm the prison that left dozens dead. Kristen Chick wrote of the general sense of dispossession and fury among protesters there for us today.
One man pulled out an Egyptian flag and attempted to set it on fire. Some in the crowd tried to stop him, but soon, smoke was rising from the strips of red, white, and black. The crowd broke into cheers at a sight that would be unthinkable in protests in almost any other Egyptian city, where antigovernment protesters raise the flag as they battle with police.
Meanwhile, there was a little-noticed piece of evidence today of the changes the Brothers have wrought in the Egyptian legal system. Ali Gomaa, the grand mufti of Al Azhar who's been given a legal advisory role in the new Muslim Brotherhood Constitution, formally approved the death sentences of seven people, all tried in absentia, handed down by an Egyptian court last year. Their crime? Involvement in producing an online film clip that insulted the prophet Muhammad and Islam more generally. Most of those sentenced to death are Egyptian Coptic Christians resident in the US.
Though there's still a chance that the sentences will be overturned on appeal, the use of the death penalty to silence expression, however distasteful, sends another message about the direction Morsi is seeking to take Egypt.
This video is part of a series about the Egyptian revolution produced by Samar Media.


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Wisconsin is home to hundreds of roundabouts, and now the state is rolling out commercials urging drivers to slow down.
Coincidentally, the roundabouts were designed to slow traffic down. Yet the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has started an advertising campaign giving drivers instructions on how to slow down and properly use them.
VIDEO: WISN 12 News Investigates: Roundabouts ad campaign
"We saw from our traffic cameras and talking with police, is that the main issue with roundabouts is people not slowing down," DOT US 41 Project Communication Manager Mark Kantola said.
WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott found the state is spending thousands of dollars to launch a statewide TV ad campaign to give drivers a step-by-step instructional on how to drive through the roundabout, slowly.
"Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow," the ad says.
Paul Kautza of West Bend likes the ad's message, but others, like David Piechowski, of Richfield, aren't convinced.
"I'm not sure about that. I'm not sure it's worth spending the money on that," Piechowski said.
Phyllis Krueger of Greenfield thinks the state could do better than the ad.
"Do you think this is the answer?" Wainscott asked.
"No, no, stop building them," Krueger said.
The DOT said roundabouts do work -- dramatically reducing the number of serious accidents.
The ad campaign was launched last year in Green Bay. The DOT said it was so successful they decided to take it statewide.
The $160,000 total ad buy comes out to about $800 in advertising for every roundabout in the state.

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The bidders for the UK's 4G bandwidth have been announced, with BT and a Buckinghamshire telecoms company amongst the more familiar names of the major UK networks.
The auction for a big swathe of the UK's spectrum (800 MHz and 2.6GHz) occurs early next year, and communications regulator Ofcom has named the seven bidders for the sections of spectrum.
The main networks are present and accounted for, including EE - which already holds the honour of the UK's first 4G network, Vodafone, O2 (Telefonica) and Three (Hutchison Whampoa).
What are they bidding 4G?
Less familiar to many will be PCCW - a Hong Kong-based telecoms conglomerate and MLL Telecom - a Bucks-based network supplier.
Rounding out the list is BT - through its subsidiary Niche Spectrum Ventures, which is an interesting move for Britain's most familiar telecoms giant.
"New 4G services will stimulate investment, growth and innovation in the UK, and deliver significant benefits to consumers in terms of better, faster and more reliable mobile broadband connections," said Ed Richards, Ofcom's chief executive.
Those benefits principally mean faster data transfer, with 4G all set to bring in things like streaming HD video on the go, video calls and super-fast surfing.


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This special edition of the EJKM is a selection of the most significant papers challenging the known paradigms of the Intellectual Capital and showing new perspectives or constructs in this dynamic field of study, presented at the 2nd European Conference on Intellectual Capital hosted jointly by ISCTE Lisbon University Institute, Lisbon, and Polytechnic Institute of Leira, Portugal, 29‑30 March 2010.
Statistics show that 186 abstracts were received for this conference. After the double blind, peer review process only 85 full papers were accepted for publication in the Conference Proceedings. They are the intellectual product of 199 authors, from more than 30 countries from all over the world. Finally, only 72 papers were presented during this conference. Judging by statistics and content of ideas, this was a truly international event contributing to a complex and stimulating knowledge sharing process.
The core mini tracks this year were: Knowledge metaphors, Knowledge dynamics, Intellectual capital and higher education, Intellectual capital and entrepreneurial performance, Intellectual capital amid the global economic crisis of 2007‑2009, and How to introduce and manage intellectual capital in SMEs? They were the main attractors for researchers from all over the world and the main thematic clusters of this conference. The opening keynote address was given by Göran Roos, Intellectual Capital Services, UK, in a captivating manner.
The knowledge structure and the knowledge dynamics model developed by Nonaka and his co‑workers was challenged by new perspectives presented by Eckhard Ammann and Constantin Bratianu in their papers Intellectual capital development by means of knowledge conversions, and A critical analysis of the Nonaka's model of knowledge dynamics, respectively. Ammann presented in his paper a new construct of the knowledge structure based on a 3D approach and a cube metaphor. The new dimensions are: type, kind and quality. The type dimension contains internal, explicit and external knowledge. The kind dimension contains propositional, procedural, strategic and familiarity knowledge. The quality dimension contains level, structure, automation, modality and generality knowledge. The author extended Nonaka's spectrum of conversion processes with the explicitation process, designed to transform the internal latent or conscious type of knowledge into explicit knowledge. From a different angle, Bratianu demonstrated the limitations of the known Nonaka's model of knowledge dynamics. Using ideas from thermodynamics, he considered that a real knowledge transfer can be performed only from a higher level of knowing toward a lower level of knowing. The SECI knowledge cycle does not respect this axiom, leading to a knowledge perpetuum mobile. Also, instead of the tacit knowledge‑explicit knowledge dyad used by Nonaka, Bratianu suggested the new cognitive knowledge‑emotional knowledge dyad, emphasizing the importance of the emotional knowledge in the managerial decision making. Stimulated by the metaphorical analysis promoted by Daniel Andriessen in the Intellectual Capital domain, Tiit Elenurm presented the paper Knowledge as an open space. This metaphor appeared in the knowledge sharing process, in the context of using functional interfaces between the internal organizational knowledge and the external field of knowledge.
Strategic thinking and decision making in the context of the organizational intellectual capital is the framework for another group of papers. Christine van Winkelen and Jane McKenzie presented An IC‑based conceptual framework for developing organizational decision making capability. The purpose of this paper was to identify the main factors that will enable knowledge managers to help build decision making capability in their organizations able to support the dynamics between the internal and external business environment. This capability may develop into a dynamic capability if the decision makers learn from their own experience as the external environment becomes more turbulent and unpredictable. Recognizing the strategic importance of the Intellectual Capital, Annie Brooking presented in her paper On the importance of managing intangible assets as part of corporate strategy a practical method that enables management to share the story, called The Dream ticket method. As high technology companies tend to manifest value by way of intangible assets it makes sense to develop a corporate strategy that grows and develops these assets. The challenge is to figure out which assets to develop and how to do it for maximum value. From the same strategic perspective on valuing knowledge assets, with application in the energy systems domain is the paper Valuing knowledge assets in renewable energy SMEs: some early evidence, elaborated by Maria Weir, Robert Higgins, Giovanni Schiuma, Antonio Lerro and Daniel Prokop. This paper presented a four‑step methodology for valuing organizational knowledge and organizational intellectual capital, focused on the Scottish Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the renewable energy sector.
Finally in this issue, there are three papers dealing with a larger perspective of the intellectual capital, beyond the organization borders. Florida Matos, Albino Lopez, Susana Rodrigues and Nuno Matos considering a larger business referential system ask themselves Why intellectual capital management accreditation is a tool for organizational development? Stimulated by other fields of business, the authors make a critical exploration of intellectual capital management accreditation as a factor inducing dynamic innovation in SMEs. Kei Mertins, Markus Will and Cornelia Meyer present in their paper Analysing and enhancing IC in business networks: results from a recent study some specific problems concerning intellectual capital networking, like: reasons, enablers and barriers. The German approach presented in this paper aims at displaying the German business landscape based on its intellectual capital, and to show its configuration of a whole group of companies. Carol Yeh‑Yun Lin and Leif Edvinsson performed a very interesting research, stimulated by the generic question What national intellectual capital indices can tell about the global economic crisis of 2007‑2009? Their approach is based on integrating significant indicators into a representative set for the intellectual capital of a country, and on a comparative analysis of 40 countries from all over the world.
Constantin Bratianu
Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania
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Internet network performance problems are not only annoying to users -- they are costly to businesses and network operators. But since the Internet has no built-in monitoring system, network problems often go unnoticed. To help fix this problem, researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new way to detect and report such problems in real time through their Network Early Warning System.
While choppy playback on streaming video may be irritating to a user, it can drive thousands of potential customers away from the site providing the feed. As the Internet continues to grow, these network problems, or anomalies, become all the more frequent and frustrating.
Determining the existence, let alone the impact, of network anomalies is important because the Internet has no overall monitoring system. Current monitoring systems try to identify network anomalies and can look for issues that could lead to performance problems but cannot tell whether individual users are actually experiencing problems.
Yet every day, millions of Internet users worldwide naturally generate data traffic that inherently provides information about whether the network is working or not. (Think of the million of peer-to-peer users in systems like BitTorrent or Skype.). By sharing high-level information about their experience, these users could very efficiently and accurately detect where problems occur in real time.
So Fabian Bustamante, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science, and doctoral student David Choffnes are exploiting this observation to build a participatory approach to detecting, isolating and reporting network anomalies: the Network Early Warning System, or NEWS for short.
"You can think of it as crowd sourcing network monitoring," said Bustamante.
While the concept behind NEWS is straightforward, Bustamante and Choffnes overcame a number of design challenges to bring the approach to an Internet-scale deployment. By gathering information about network conditions from natural data traffic, NEWS focuses only on problems that affect end-users and does so without requiring any extra and potentially wasteful network-measurement traffic. NEWS incorporates knowledge of "normal" behavior for network applications to prevent false alarms and confirms suspected problems by checking with other nearby users.
NEWS is currently implemented as an extension to a popular BitTorrent client. By generating warnings about problems in the network, the software allows users to ensure that they get the proper Internet service they pay for. This was incentive enough for more than 12,000 users to install the software during its beta-testing phase. The researchers are also developing a portal for network providers to be notified about the network problems reported by their users.
Bustamante and Choffnes, who previously released the Ono extension for BitTorrent (now with more than 300,000 users worldwide), are applying the NEWS approach to build other services, such as enabling comparison shopping for different Internet Service Providers based on the performance seen from subscribers.


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The ring of invariants $S^T$ of $k[a,b,c,d]$ under the algebraic torus action $T = k^{*}$ with weights (1,1,-1,-1) is $S = k[ac,ad,bc,bd]$ which has multigraded Hilbert series
$\frac{1 - abcd}{(1-ac)(1-ad)(1-bc)(1-bd)}$
Is there a software package that can compute multigraded Hilbert series? Can it be computed using Macaulay2?
Alternatively, is there software that can compute the multigraded Hilbert series of a toric variety, specified by its fan?
For this example $v_1 = (0,0,1), v_2 = (1,0,1), v_3 = (1,1,1), v_4 = (0,1,1)$ specify the vertices of the toric fan. The multigraded Hiblert series is given by the index which counts points in the dual cone $S_{C^{*}}$ $\sum_{m \in S_{C^{*}}} q^m = \frac{(1 - q_1)}{ (1 - q_2)(1 - q_3)(1 - q_1 q_2^{-1}) (1 - q_1 q_3^{-1}) }$
"Linear diophantine equations and local cohomology," R.P. Stanley, 1982.
"Combinatorial commutative algebra," E. Miller and B. Sturmfels, 2005.
"Sasaki-Einstein manifolds and volume minimisation," Martelli, Sparks, Yau, 2006.


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You know Seth Green - actor and co-creator of "Robot Chicken" - is an even bigger "Star Wars" geek than you, so on which side of the fence does he fall regarding George Lucas' latest digital tinkering with the old school saga?
"It's his stuff, dude – he can do what he wants with it," Green, who's lampooned Lucas' epic canon on three "Robot Chicken" specials, tells PopcornBiz of the filmmaker's continued tweaking of the films with the imminent Blu Ray releases, which reportedly feature an added "Noooooo!" cried by Darth Vader as he confronts the Emperor, among other reworkings.
"We have all the other copies of the way it was if you like it better that way, you know what I mean?" says Green. "You can't tell him not to do it. You can just, like, cry and get mad about it if that's how you feel."
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Green's gotten pretty tight with Lucas, getting stamps of approval for the "Robot Chicken" parodies that led to a gig developing a new "Star Wars" TV project. "We've been developing that animated show for Lucasfilm that no one can talk about," says Green, "so that's kind of where we're putting all of that energy. I can say that it's animated and we're working on it. It's a thrilling process…that I'm excited to be able to talk about at some point."
What Green says fans should know about Lucas before hurling another epithet his way for sullying their childhoods: "He's so much more of a human being than anyone realizes because he's an incredibly successful, perennial billionaire. But he's really just a dude who makes awesome stuff that people have liked. And so nobody realizes that."
We asked Green if he had any sense of what Lucas thought about the outcry that continually erupts when he adds new tweaks to his space fantasy. "Who knows?" mulled Green. "I've never asked him about any of that. Maybe I will. I'll ask him."
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We spend about one-third of our lives sleeping, but much of that function remains a mystery. Weekend Edition Sunday is asking some pretty fundamental, yet complicated, questions about why we do it and why we can't seem to get more of it.
Dr. Matthew Walker says the question of why we sleep remains "that archetypal mystery."
Walker, the principal investigator at the sleep lab the University of California, Berkeley, works with patients who suffer from sleep abnormalities. He says the complexity of sleep makes the research that much more fascinating.
"There have been so many great discoveries within science based on the revolution of sort of genetics and molecular biology, and sleep remains resistant to all of that in terms of an answer," he tells Weekend Edition host Rachel Martin.
Walker says there have been several critical discoveries, however, illuminating how sleep helps us learn and retain information. Researchers are also taking note of the negative side effects of not getting enough sleep.
Research on learning suggests "sleep is critical at almost all stages of memory formation, memory processing and long-term memory retention," he says.
Science also backs up historical anecdotes about how sleep fosters creativity.
"There seems to be some type of memory processing that's creative that starts to take pieces of information that we've learned recently and starts trying to test the connections between that recent information and all of the information you've got stored in your brain," he says. "So it's almost like memory pinball — you're bouncing that information around, you're testing which connections to build."
So what happens if you don't sleep? "A whole constellation of different brain and body functions start to deteriorate," he says. Our brains are less effective at absorbing new information without sleep. Plus, our ability to retain recently learned information is impaired, and "you lose the chance to essentially hit the save button on that information."
Aside from memorization, sleep deprivation makes it harder for the brain to regulate emotions.
From an evolutionary perspective, sleep doesn't seem like a good idea: survival instincts are on hold. But Walker says the fact that sleep has stuck around so long shows its biological importance.
"Sleep serves so many wonderful, beneficial functions that far outweigh those potential downsides to it," he says.
We spend one-third of our lives sleeping. That's more time than we spend doing anything else, but we still don't know very much about sleep. So today, we're trying to answer some pretty basic yet complicated questions: Why do we sleep? Can we live without it, and how can we get more? Because let's face it, there are a lot of us out there who are not exactly sleeping soundly.
LISA HURST-CAIRNS: You're looking at your clock and it's - oh, 2:20, 2:30, 2:40; and you're doing the math. Now I've got three hours, or four hours, to sleep, and I'm going to be dead tired in the morning.
WILL PARKHURST: I started noticing in the morning that there'd be like, pretty much just crumbs on the ground next to my bed, and I'd have food next to my bed that I did not remember ever bringing to bed with me.
RAQUEL ZIC: I usually take Benadryl and melatonin. To get up at 2:30 in the morning, it's kind of a necessary evil.
PARKHURST: So I started off with a lot of ice cream. Cereal's pretty common. Pretzels, stuff like that; chips, crackers. For a while, I was eating a bunch of granola in my sleep.
HURST-CAIRNS: For so many years, I was like, fighting this, you know, inability to stay asleep. So every night, waking up and just kind of going, oh, no. Now, I only have like, four more hours; and I've got to do this and this and this the next day - and really, just getting in this like, anxious spiral.
MARTIN: That was Lisa Hurst-Cairns(ph), an insomniac from Minneapolis; Will Parkhurst(ph), a sleep eater from Austin, Texas; and ambulance driver Raquel Zic(ph), who has to wake up at 2:30 a.m. To better understand the mystery of sleep, we called up Dr. Matthew Walker. He's the principal investigator at the Sleep Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Walker says after decades of sleep research, there are still some gaping holes.
MATTHEW WALKER: We still cannot give you, the public, a definitive answer to the question, why do we sleep? We've known the functions of the other three main biological drives - which are eating, drinking and reproducing. But this question of sleep still remains that archetypal mystery.
MARTIN: Is this a source of embarrassment at all, for people who do what you do; that you can't answer that fundamental question?
WALKER: Well, I think it's either an embarrassment, or it's an embarrassment of research question riches - because there have been so many great discoveries within science based on the revolution of sort of genetics and molecular biology. And sleep remains resistant to all of that, in terms of an answer. So it's a fantastically complex puzzle. And as a researcher, that's what you want. You don't want something where there's an easy answer.
MARTIN: So how do you define success in the field of sleep research?
WALKER: Yes. So, I think there's really two avenues of success metric, as it were. One of them is to try and answer those basic fundamental questions - you know, what are the benefits of sleep, and what is sleep doing? I think the other is upon knowing that, how can it help people? There are several things that we've been discovering that are critical. The first is the role of sleep in learning and memory. And now, there's really very good evidence that sleep is critical at almost all stages of memory formation, memory processing and long-term memory retention. And then secondly, we have more recently been discovering that sleep plays an intimate role in regulating our emotional well-being and our mental health.
MARTIN: We hear all the time that sleep is a state that perhaps opens different doors of our minds, our brains, and allows a greater sense of creativity. How is that so?
WALKER: Well, firstly, we've got wonderful anecdotes throughout history of sleep-inspired creativity. Paul McCartney apparently came up with lots of music, in dreams. Frankenstein, Mary Shelly's text - Dmitri Mendeleev came up with the creation of the periodic table of elements - the construction of that - by way of sleeping. Well, recently, we've been able to find evidence to statistically show that sleep can support that type of creative memory processing. And there seems to be some type of memory processing that's creative that starts take pieces of information that we've learned recently and starts trying to test the connections between that recent information and all of that information you've got stored in your brain.
So, it's almost like memory pinball. You're bouncing that information around. You're testing which connections to build. And I think when those types of processes start to happen in sleep, when we start to fuse things together that shouldn't normally go together, they cause marked advances in evolutionary fitness. And that's what we're starting to find in our science.
MARTIN: What happens when we don't sleep?
WALKER: A whole constellation of different brain and body functions start to deteriorate. You can't learn information as effectively. So, pulling the all-nighter is a very bad idea. Your brain is about 40 percent less effective without sleep in terms of absorbing new information. It's almost like a waterlogged sponge. Nothing more can be soaked up. But we also know that if you don't sleep after learning, you lose the chance to essentially hit the save button on that information. And that information isn't transferred into long-term memory. We also know, from an emotional perspective, that certain regions within the brain, deep within the brain, those regions become amplified in their emotional reactivity. So, you become excessively emotionally reactive and part of the reason is because your frontal brain - a part of the brain that we call the prefrontal cortex - that becomes impaired. And it normally helps regulate those deep emotional senses, so we don't become irrational, we don't become Neanderthal. But without sleep, that's exactly what seems to happen.
MARTIN: I've got kind of an evolutionary question for you. From one perspective you might think that sleep actually goes against some basic survival instincts. I mean, when we're sleeping we're not eating, we're not protecting ourselves from predators. Why would we need sleep? Why would we evolve to do this?
WALKER: From an evolutionary perspective, everything screams at us that sleep is the very worst thing that you could do. The fact that sleep has fought it way heroically through every step along the evolutionary pathway, what that tells us is that sleep is essential at the most basic of biological levels. And what we're finding now is that it was very smart because sleep serves so many wonderful beneficial functions that far outweigh those potential downsides to it.
MARTIN: Are you a good sleeper?
WALKER: Yes and no. Certainly, I will routinely get seven and a half to eight hours of sleep a night. The no part of the yes and no is because you sort of become the Woody Allen neurotic of the sleep world. So, you know, if I'm sort of lying in bed and I'm thinking, you know, I know all the biology behind sleep, I know what should be happening and I'm thinking, well, this neurochemical is being released, this part of my brain is not shutting down. And at that point of analysis, you're dead in the water for the next two hours, so...
MARTIN: So, you can't just drink warm milk or a shot of bourbon and call it a day. You...
WALKER: I wish, I wish. And certainly I should know bourbon is a bad idea. Alcohol is profoundly disruptive to sleep. It fragments your sleep and it prevents you from getting REM sleep. But I wish I could and, sadly, no.
MARTIN: Matthew Walker. He is the principal investigator at the Sleep Lab at the University of California, Berkeley. Thank you so much for talking with us, Matthew.
WALKER: You're very welcome. Sleep well.
MARTIN: You're listening to WEEKEND EDITION from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Societal Aspects of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Cambodia
Cambodia has the highest HIV prevalence rate in Southeast Asia, but has made heartening progress in lowering that rate in recent years, according to the Cambodia Human Development Report 2001. The Report also finds that the rate of HIV infection among people ages 15 to 49 has declined steadily from 3.9 per cent in 1997 to 2.8 per cent last year, putting Cambodia on track to achieve the Millennium Development goal of halting and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS by 2015. However, despite progress, the impact of HIV/AIDS could reverse recent development gains. Pointing to complex links between HIV/AIDS, poverty and human development, the Report shows that HIV/AIDS poses a serious threat to the social welfare of an already fragile society. The authors recommend adopting a broad approach that gives voice to people living with HIV/AIDS, ensuring respect for the rights of people with the disease through improved awareness, and mediating social inequity to enable participation and mobilization of all social groups.


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Rare 'Sleeping Beauty Syndrome' Causes 15-Year-Old Girl to Sleep for Two Months
Some people need a good night's sleep.
Some need a good month or two of sleep.
According to reports, a 15-year-old British girl named Stacey Comerford suffers from an extremely rare neurological disorder called Klein-Levin Syndrome, which can knock a person into a stone cold sleep for extended periods of time — with absolutely no warning at all.
Also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, this little condition, which only affects about 1,000 people around the world, can result in random episodes of sleep for more than 20 hours.
In Stacey's case, her latest two-month pseudo-coma is her longest yet, since experiencing her first symptoms nearly a year ago.
"When she's in an episode, she might get up to go to the toilet or get a drink but she's not awake. I call it sleep mode," said her mother Bernie Richards.
Since being diagnosed with this condition in March, Stacey has missed nine tests in school, as well as her birthday. She's also lost nearly 28 poundst.
Although there is no known cure for Kleine-Levin Syndrome, some medical experts believe that individuals will either grow out of it or sleep through it — either way, they are not going to be awake to complain.


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Can't believe the weekend is almost over! Where did it go?
Breakfast was non-fat plain Chobani with raspberries and blueberries. It was a little too bland for me, so I added some Bonne Maman jam too. Is it just me or does Chobani seem thicker than it used to be? I was so full after this big bowl!
Lunch was a spinach salad with mushrooms, grape tomatoes, herbed tofu, and feta cheese.
Then it was time for us to head out of the house. We took a drive by the house that my sister-in-law bought last week! It was cute and in a nice area. I'm excited to see the inside now.
After that, we went to Mayfair Mall to check out the laptops.
I'll definitely be getting one of these very soon. The reason that I didn't buy it today was because I want to clean some items off of my current iBook a bit more before having the Apple store transfer items to the new computer.
I played with Photobooth for a while. 🙂
Then it was ice cream/frozen yogurt time in Wauwatosa!
Craig and I are signed up to get a free scoop of ice cream from Baskin Robbins for our birthdays. He picked out cherry and it was tasty!
Right near Baskin Robbins, there is a new frozen yogurt place! It just opened in June of this year. After becoming a bit obsessed with frozen yogurt in Florida, we longed to have a place like Menchie's or Pinkberry in Wisconsin. We finally have it with Yo Mama!
Here's how it works:
Craig always goes for the fruity combinations and I go for chocolate, caramel, etc. Today, I chose Dulce de Leche and Cake Batter swirl. I topped it with heath bar crumble, brownie bites, & cookie dough. Fantastic combination!
Our total for two came to $8.31, which this numbers freak got excited about because my birthday is 8/31 and I love when it pops up unexpectedly at a cash register like that. I know, I am a dork. The yogurts were 45 cents per ounce.
The interior is cute and reminded us of Menchie's in Orlando, Florida.
Love the wood on the exterior.
I've come to the conclusion that I could open up my own frozen yogurt place and just eat it all the time that way. 🙂
We walked down the street and I was reminded that I still need to check out the French Cafe Le Reve and the olive oil place next door sometime.
What a great afternoon with Craig!
I needed to burn off some of the frozen yogurt, so after a little cat nap with Karma sprawled out on my lap, I hit the gym. I biked for 25 minutes (my ankle is not in tip top shape again, so biking is mainly what I have been doing lately) and lifted weights. I even went to the "men's weight" area and used the barbells in there to do some Body Pump moves. I was so proud that I broke through my fear of going in that area. Now I'll never be scared again (I hope).
This is so wrong, but while I meditated, I started craving a BLT. Well, we didn't have any bacon, so I was imagining a tempeh BLT sandwich and that's what I made!
Like frozen yogurt, tempeh reminds me of Florida because the first and only other time I tried it was while we were there in February. I had it in my Whole Foods salad bar creation and I liked it then.
I cooked it up on the stove and topped it with spinach, mayo, and roma tomatoes.
Time to go watch a movie, since I have been half ignoring it and half paying attention.
How was your weekend?


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"The Voice" got its Top 10 on Tuesday, and it's a fearsome one this season.
Until now, the fates of "Voice" contestants had been ultimately been in the hands of their coaches, but Tuesday saw America's votes alone sending home two contenders for the first time yet this season. New coaches, Shakira and Usher, both lost a hopeful each -- gravelly-voiced 17-year-old Garrett Gardner and energetic R&B singer Vedo.
The night began with a slew of performances not just by the aspiring pop stars competing for the title prize — though there were plenty of those — but also by some household names: Robin Thicke, T.I. and Pharrell Williams, with the help of contestants Vedo and Kris Thomas, performed "Blurred Lines."
Later, Blake joined the three members of his all-country team for a honkytonk cover of Brooks & Dunn's "Play Something Country," and Team Adam's three women joined with Lady Antebellum for "Goodbye Town" and later with their own coach for a cover of the Cure's "Love Song."
But, unsurprisingly, things really heated up when the contenders for the title of "The Voice" assembled onstage for the eliminations.
Team Shakira's Kris, he of the impeccable vocal range, was first to be declared safe, followed by Team Blakes's The Swon Brothers, the competition's only duo. Next announced safe were Team Adam's silken-voiced Sarah Simmons and Team Usher's pop-rock crooner Josiah Hawley.
Next came two contestants nobody had any doubts would continue on the show: another Team Adam member, soul diva Judith Hill, and Team Blake's Danielle Bradbery, whom Adam himself declared Monday night was the one to beat.
And as things came down to the wire, indie-pop belter Michelle Chamuel was announced safe, followed by Team Adam's country crossover hopeful Amber Carrington — meaning Team Adam had survived the eliminations intact.
Country singer Holly Tucker got a reprieve, too, meaning all of Team Blake had also emerged unscathed. Team Shakira's soul-turned-Broadway singer Sasha Allen got good news, too.
That meant something else altogether for her teammate, Garrett Gardner, and for Team Usher's Vedo. The pair now head home.
"The Voice" now has its Top 10 but not for long.
The live playoffs, replete with more eliminations, will continue next week.
"The Voice" airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8/7c.
"The Voice" Gets Its Top 10 as Vedo, Garrett Head Home
The coaches were powerless Tuesday night to save the two contestants America voted to send home.
"The Voice" got its Top 10 on Tuesday, and it's a fearsome one this season.


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Welcome to Watch List, where we identify five things on TV to watch while you stay at home and eat your All Bran. LET'S GO!
GREAT WHITE INVASION – 9:00PM Sunday (Discovery) When it's the dead of summer and there's nothing left to fill the time until school and football begin, where do you turn? I'll tell you where: SHARK WEEK. Discovery Channel's annual paean to those cold-blooded seamurderers is back, and at just the right time. Kick off Shark Week with this hour-long special explaining why great white sharks are swimming closer to our shores than ever. FACT: You are going to eaten by a shark. There's no two ways about it. Even if you don't go in the ocean, the shark will evolve feet, come to your door, pose as a candy gram, and then devour you. There's no escape, my friend. Sharks will soon take over everything. ANTICIPATION: SHARK WEEK!
OUTNUMBERED – 11:00PM Saturday (BBC America) I'm excited for this one. It's the UK's answer to "Modern Family," and it's been getting excellent notice from critics since it screened. So rejoice, for there is now something on Saturday night besides terrible made-for-TV movies. ANTICIPATION: HIGH!
AGE OF THE DRAGONS – 9:00PM Saturday (SyFy- an NBC/Universal network) Speaking of made-for-TV movies, here's one with Danny Glover! This one's a knockoff of Moby Dick, with Glover playing Ahab and a weirdly CGI'ed dragon playing the part of the white whale. I assume Ishmael will be played by an elf of some kind. Or maybe a dwarf. ANTICIPATION: GLOVER!
AGAINST THE WALL – 10:00PM Sunday (Lifetime) Have you missed Treat Williams ever since the end of "Everwood"? Well, he's back again, playing the father of Abby Kowalski's internal affairs detective in this new Lifetime series. You have to love a man who spends his entire life going around with the name Treat. ANTICIPATION: TREAT!
MTV2'S 120 MINUTES WITH MATT PINFIELD – 1:00PM Saturday (MTV2) Back when MTV played actual music, they aired "120 Minutes" late every Sunday night to showcase the hottest college and indie bands in the world. Now the show is back, and to prove their new-found commitment to music, MTV2 is airing the show ONCE A MONTH. Once a freakin' month! Are there more valuable properties they have that have to go into that 1AM Saturday time slot? Could they really not stand having Pinfield come in on a weekly basis? Come on, man! Give us something to work with! ANTICIPATION: ALT-ROCK-ALTNESS!
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Disqus data shows pseudonymous commenters are best
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I've argued previously in defence of online anonymity – getting into the pseudonymity debate in the comments. My view since then has not changed, I still believe this is a battle we must not lose. So I'm very excited by some figures just published by Disqus. The platform, which enables people to comment across multiple websites via the same identity, has just released data showing that pseudonymous participation is actually the healthiest type.
According to the data, 61 percent of all Disqus comments are made via pseudonyms, versus 35 percent anonymous and 4 percent using real names (i.e. Facebook). People with pseudonyms also comment 6.5 times more than those who comment anonymously and 4.7 times more than commenters who use real names… Disqus maintains that not only does allowing pseudonyms produce more comments, but the quality of the comments is also better, as measured by likes and replies.
Given they are the largest cross-media platform designed for online commenting – used by blogs and participatory sites everywhere and mainstream media from CNN to Fox News, this is surely a shot in the arm for all us keen on protecting the right to operate online under identities of our choosing. (It might even persuade TechCrunch – the site I first saw this research on – to give up its attachment to real name Facebook comments on its own site)
Both images from Disqus – see the full pseudonyms infographic here
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"the quality of the comments is also better"
Without a definition of what "better" and "worse" are in this context, that statement is so subjective as to be meaningless.
but the quality of the comments is also better,
as measured by likes and replies.
But ***holes get lots of replies and very often facetious comments get "likes." I am skeptical of this as a metric of quality.
I like being allowed to use a pseudonym on sites. It isn't that I don't want my comments associated with me, but rather that I want to keep my personal life, my Facebook life, separate from other online activities. A work and a personal identity if you will. There is nothing preventing someone from knowing both of them or knowing they are the same person, just a slight distinction between technically private and technically public.
Where's that "like" button when you need it? 😉
Too right! My family dragged me kicking and screaming first to MySpace, then to Facebook. There are people in one family member's Friends who were actively dangerous for me… Undue ties to my ex-husband…. who abused me… So I feel very uncomfortable with Facebook, because anonymity is not a real option.
Corporate 'culture' has really been a terrible thing! I go online to enjoy myself and to inform myself. It's like the pub down the corner without the drinks or the smoke or the risk of getting mugged on the way home. In any good pub, people often had nicknames, like Skin-The-Goat or whatever. How real you were had to do with what you brought to the table, not your name or your money.
I keep a lot of my Internet life separate from Facebook, because it just upsets the Facebook ones to read stories about Bosnia, the news from there or my life there.
I am am out of the Wonderful World of Work for some time now. I don't miss all the tongue biting. I don't want it back.
[…] Disqus data shows pseudonymous commenters are best I've argued previously in defence of online anonymity – getting into the pseudonymity debate in the comments. My view since then has not changed, I still believe this is a battle we must not lose… […]
The article text remarks that pseudonymous posts get more likes. Can we see the numbers for that? Particularly on a per-capita or per-post basis?
Great article and thank you for pushing this concept! I agree with you fully. Many of us have opinions on many stories that may not match the "corporate culture" of our employers. As a result, when our employers pay people to follow up on us and find posts with differing opinions/values, we can be terminated. It is an unfortunate side effect of living in the most greedy and litigious society in the world. But we need to remember this is a Country that SHOULD belong to the people and not corporations, so until that pendulum swings back in favor of the people we need to have the freedom to voice our views without worrying about losing our ability to generate an income and support our families.
In my experience, internet users who go by a persistent, self-chosen handle – whether that handle looks like a "real" name or not – tend to be people who have more invested in the internet. They don't just see it as a marketing tool, but as a community. Therefore, they are more concerned about the quality of interaction and try not to contribute junk.
It has been remarked many times in recent debates on the subject that you'll find horrifying comments nowhere faster than Facebook, posted by people proud to show not only their "real name" but also real photographs of their ugly mugs. Despite the self-serving narrative of the Zuckerberg clan, the Facebook mentality seems to have engendered not better behavior online in a lot of cases, but a kind of self-promoting narcissism. Internet belligerence.
Pseudononymous internet users seem to often strike a happy medium. Many pre-date the Facebook phenomenon and are from an era when people were wisely advised to not be careless on the internet, and to value their privacy.
In this ongoing discussion, beware the false prophets – people who go on about being old internet hands who found that their sites or forums were made superior by insisting on real names, photographs, and recreating the limitations of real life. Often, these persons have little real experience with the wilds of the net or the real scope of online culture. The examples they site of the virtues of isomapped RL identity, and the "dangers" of pseudonymity are oft culled from tiny communities or insular monocultures.
Good job, well done.
I understand why people use pseudonyms, I did myself for years in order to protect and compartmentalize myself. However, I'm working toward self-actualization, so I post under my real name everywhere I go, from sex blogs to parenting blogs.
I am one of the few out there who can be completely open and honest with my beliefs and interests. My parents, partner, and daughter all know what I am about and accept me for who I am. The freedom to be yourself is wonderful!
I am not sure judging the quality of comment by the number of replies and likes is a good way to judge whether a comment is good or bad.
The number of words use, the type of word use, the relevancy of comment to the article, the quality of grammar, the accuracy of the comment is far more relevant when it comes to judging a quality of a comment than the number of likes or replies to that comment.
People liking a comment tend to agree with the statement the commentator is making in that comment and not judging the quality of the content in that comment.
If your comment goes against the majority of the site readers you will not get many likes but may get a lots of insults thrown at you.
Whiles a short inaccurate poorly written and offensive comment may be get more likes because it supported by the majority that read the site and is clearly less quality.
David Knowles, not frighten to use his real name across the web
"a short inaccurate poorly written and offensive comment may be get more likes because it supported by the majority that read the site"
Why comment on such a site.
Because the article may have been interesting.
If you only limit your own interactions with those take your point of view or have your own politeness, then you never learn anything new or any new ways of viewing the world.
Also if they never encounter views different to there own then they will never change there ways or there point of view.
More replies to a post doesn't necessarily mean higher quality. It can also mean that the post was an effective troll, or simply had bad inaccuracies that caused someone to comment on it. More "likes" is more likely to reflect real quality, but it can also reflect popularity of the opinion posted.
First, I'd like to recognize that there are good reasons people may have to not post online under their real name, depending on the kinds of lives they have.
Me, I don't think I have those kinds of valid reasons. For a long time I did try to minimize my presence online, largely out of low self-esteem and fear of appearing stupid or wrong or silly. When I decided to participate in commentary more online (and started a blog), I had to decide my purpose. I decided that for philosophical and practical reasons (such as, eventually you can get found out anyway), I'm only going to say things online that I would say out loud to people in person or in front of my family. So I am under my real name everywhere.
I like the way Disqus does things. I believe that a user should have to register for an account and if they want to use their real name or pseudonym, it doesn't really matter. The operative word is by registering you have a little more accountability while increasing comments. There are websites such as Topix that don't require users to sign up or anything. That site has become simply awful and is now unreadable. I think the way Disqus does things offers the right balance.
Any sort of discussion-oriented site needs to allow pseudonyms. If they don't, then it's pretty clear they're not interested in having quality comments but rather in using the implicit threat of future social condemnation to prevent unpopular ideas (even if correct) from being aired. This leads to either a degradation in quality of comments overall, or an echo chamber effect where only approved views are aired..
I never really thought that people would really want to post comments with their Facebook account. It's just something that too personal for a lot of people.
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Given that people may be afraid (for any number of legitimate reasons) to post a comment under their legal name, it might dicouage them from ever commenting at all on subjects which matter to them.
I think the drive to remove the option to remain anonymous on the Internet is a Bad Thing.
It's bad for the reason I mentioned.
Sometimes on Facebook there are people I need to avoid arguments with. I even have to be careful who I friend and unfriend, as it leads to drama, and I want to friend or unfriend them because of the drama they created in the first place.
It forces me into a lot of blanness. It's not like I go around insulting people or Trolling, I just feel too inhibited to have any real fun.
Thanks Mariam, for sharing this.
It is definitely a balancing act but for us it's all about helping people to have quality discussions, whether people want to use a pseudonym or not. It seems as though most people currently associate a commenter using their real name as one who produces a higher quality comment. We're looking to let everyone know, by our data, that's incorrect. It's also important to remember that improving discussions isn't just about a commenter's display name but the methods by which the website owner is cultivating their community. Facebook Comments require a real name and that's fine for them because it fits inside their ecosystem. Disqus has a much broader reach across millions of websites with individual personalities of their own. Limiting users in such a way would be a disservice. Our goal is to be forward thinking on ways that will help websites improve discussions moving forward. Giving users the ability to use pseudonyms are one of those ways. Stay tuned for what else we have in store.
[…] – In Defense of Online Anonymity – Disqus data shows pseudonymous commenters are the best […]
[…] outrageous about the claims for this need for real identities is that past studies have shown that pseudonymous comments are best & Bruce Schneier highlighted how we lose our individuality if we are under an ever-watchful […]


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This project involves upgrading the stock BMW Angel Eyes of a 2010 BMW 328i to LED ones. We were very pleased with the result, and so was the owner of this beautiful Bimmer. The first thing any driver will notice is the unique blue color. As you see, there is a huge difference between old yellowish BMW Angel Eyes and LED BMW Angel Eyes, as the LED gives this E92 a classy and a sleek appearance.
Installing this product is as simple as putting the biscuit in the basket? It's a plug and play. But you should have in mind that for the High Power LED BMW Angel Eyes to fit, the BMW must have factory equipped HID Headlights. It sure fits in 2010 BMW 328i, as well as all E92 above 2008, but for a complete compatibility list, please check out the product description on our website.
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When chooks trigger memories of friends and family
THE Taj Mahal of chicken coops is perched on a little promontory overlooking the bush.
It is a thing of beauty.
It has multiple levels, a penthouse with views, a viewing platform where the chooks can be the mistresses of all they survey, and a large lower lounge area where they can sun themselves and scratch in the dirt to their hearts' content. It has two hay bales for the fastidious, a baby mulberry tree and a pot in which a very healthy succulent is growing. No spa though, I noted to the owner.
If there was a Vogue Living for chook pens the Taj Mahal would be featured in a spread, with the chickens draped across their little wooden benches sipping martinis and eating worm mousse on crackers.
If there was a Vogue Living for chook pens the Taj Mahal would be featured in a spread, with the chickens draped across their little wooden benches sipping martinis and eating worm mousse on crackers.
The coop is home to eight bantam hens of different colours. I first saw them a few months ago when they were tiny puff balls in the frontyard, before the Taj Mahal was built. I wasn't the only one who worried for them as they wandered and scratched near the road, as quiet as the road usually is. But they were street-smart chooks, their owner assured me this week after I dropped in to admire their home.
The chickens didn't cross the road, in other words.
They were out of the coop the other day when I dropped in, fluffed-up and scratching in bushes beneath a large tree. They were moving as a loose group in that endearing way little chooks do, looking self-important and determined in the never-ending search for worms and bugs, and hunkering down every so often when a noisy miner bird buzzed them.
The chooks have elaborate names - so elaborate that I can only remember one of them. Shake 'n Bake. I laughed when I heard. But before I had the chance to ask "Why Shake 'n Bake?", with a tiny alarm bell ringing in the back of my head about the answer, I was introduced to the next which had an even more improbable name – something like Lady Penelope Blinkington-Phelps, and we moved on.
A quick Google search turns up a product called Shake 'n Bake, a "flavoured breadcrumb-style coating for chicken" which comes with a bag that you shake the crumbs and chicken in, so I'm glad I didn't ask.
The chickens' owners are a young woman and her husband who built the Taj Mahal using materials recovered from family, friends and neighbours.
The young woman, and I'll call her Belle, is 12 days younger than my middle son.
Belle's mother, and I'll call her Joy, and I were pregnant together and our babies were born in 1987.
Our eldest children – a girl for Joy, a boy for me – were born six weeks apart in 1985, my son first.
Joy, my former husband and I first met a year or so before we became pregnant. She was one of the sweetest, most beautiful women I have known, with a radiance that came from her inner goodness. I can hear her voice as I write this – soft and with a lovely lilt from her home country.
We hit it off. When she introduced us to her husband we became friends who spent a lot of time together. I have photos of those years when our children were young – of us camping, sharing holidays, eating at each others' homes, spending Christmas together.
I had a third and final son. Joy and her husband had another three children – two boys and a girl.
Her youngest daughter was born the day Joy died of a cerebral haemorrhage in the mid 1990s. She was in her late 30s.
Like a lot of shocking events it is remembered as separate, vivid images and phrases – turning my car too quickly into a driveway while crying and hitting a median strip; the tightness in my husband's face when I told him, and the way he didn't respond at all for quite a few seconds while he struggled with disbelief; standing in the kitchen with Belle and her older sister that night and talking about food we had no stomach to eat; seeing Joy in the hospital, kept alive by the drugs she was given for her daughter's birth; seeing her newborn sleeping baby in a crib in the nursery, surrounded by other babies.
She had her mother's dark hair. She was beautiful and healthy and in that setting with its lowered lights, the babies wrapped and mainly sleeping, she looked like the others. But her life, only minutes old, was already very different.
In two weeks I will be a grandmother for the first time. A little baby girl. My youngest son and his partner are prepared and live a few streets away. I have been the butt of every joke going around about what deals were done to ensure I am the closest grandparent.
I have photos of my youngest son when he was barely two, walking around the backyard of the house we had at the time carrying a big fat black chook in his arms. She was one of four we kept in a large pen where they produced big brown warm eggs.
Our sons named them. Thus we had four chooks called Joanne. I was the butt of the joke back then as well and my children hadn't even started school. It was my youngest son's great joy to walk around the yard carrying the chooks, one at a time. The chooks must have felt supported because they sat in his arms until he plopped them down, and went off to get another one.
Joy did not live to see her grandchildren. She now has four. There was an echo of grief all over again, even all these years later, as I left her daughter's house and headed in the direction of where my youngest son now lives. Her youngest daughter – the baby whose head would turn a certain way and cause a pang for those who saw it, because she was so much like her mother – is a mother.
Joy is gone but not gone.
I stood in that yard the other day talking to Belle's husband while the chickens clucked and scratched, and Joy was there – in the love of that home and the sense of welcome. Which is how we should remember.


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Was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart the world's first rock star?
Cam Pipes thinks so, but not because the famed classical composer made it rich as a musician. Quite the opposite, actually.
"Even in his heyday, when he was being commissioned to write pieces, Mozart was a starving artist," the vocalist for Vancouver epic metal band 3 Inches of Blood says. "He partied, he blew his money, he drank it away. I'm sure it parallels a lot of bands and musicians. He lived it up and didn't set anything aside and he died poor. That's rock 'n' roll."
Pipes argues Mozart's lifestyle (and that of many composers) was closer to his peers' working in heavy metal today.
In fact, a strong case could be made that heavy metal and classical music have more in common than people would normally think.
One is associated with leather, tattoos, distortion and fantastic tales of horror and fantasy; the other bow ties, formality and pomp.
Yet at their core, they share certain similarities. Both musical genres are characterized by visceral outbursts of virtuosity and histrionic emotion.
Vancouver Symphony Orchestra composer-in-residence Edward Top agrees that classical and metal are essentially about "releasing energy."
It may surprise many to learn that Top is not just a skilled classical music maker but also an avowed heavy metal fan with a soft spot for thrash metal bands like Slayer and Anthrax.
"A few years ago in London I saw Napalm Death live," Top says, "and the energy was unbelievable."
Napalm Death is a band that pioneered the "grindcore" genre, taking the punk-influenced speed of thrash metal (whose most popular offspring is Metallica) and coupling it with the pummeling viciousness of hardcore bands like Black Flag.
Now 41, Top remembers proudly wearing a leather jacket with the lyrics to the Napalm Death song Life? printed on its back when he was 16.
"It was the energy in a small space and the sheer volume — you could never do that with an orchestra in a large hall."
One of Top's most recent pieces, Totem, draws inspiration from tribal rhythms and Napalm Death's blast-beat drumming.
Totem is one of many pieces in Top's catalogue infused with his heavy metal indoctrination, which began in the '70s with bands like Queen and Van Halen and later went on to include the likes of Iron Maiden, German band Accept, and Canadian technical metal trailblazers Voivod (another band that was represented in patch form on his leather jacket).
If you ask Top, the best heavy metal album ever recorded is Slayer's 1986 opus Reign In Blood, which he finds as exciting and musically inventive as any classical music piece.
"For me personally, the divider between different musical styles such as classical violin concertos and thrash metal has never existed in the experience of listening," Top says.
Classical music has been an important cornerstone in the evolution of heavy metal, from British legends Black Sabbath borrowing the tritone (ie. "the devil's note") in their monumentally creepy self-titled song, to Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore borrowing from medieval music, and guitar gods Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen transposing complex classical violin solos into their six-string work.
Listening to 3 Inches of Blood's catalogue, including its latest opus Long Live Heavy Metal, you can hear some of the classical undertones in the band's music: Squealing, rapid-fire guitar solos, Pipes' operatic singing style, and tales of sword and sorcery are at the core of the Vancouver metal favourites' work.
"Paganini was a shredder," Pipes says of the celebrated Italian violinist.
Certainly the most "metal" violinist, Paganini was rumoured to be in league with the devil, and the church denied his body a Catholic burial.
"Some of his stuff is all over the place. It's easy to see where guys like Malmsteen get their crazy fretwork. He's all about 'more is more' — it's over the top."
Pipes admits classical music has always been a part of his life, and his first encounters were connected with his parents constantly listening to CBC radio at home when he was a kid.
"One of my earliest fascinations with classical music was the William Tell Overture, which to me was The Lone Ranger theme song," Pipes says, explaining the piece's charging finale could easily be transposed as a heavy metal guitar riff. "We had a record with the William Tell Overture on it and I used to listen to it over and over. I lived in Calgary and we went to the Stampede every year and I had a Lone Ranger costume. So that's where it started."
Though he was never classically trained, Pipes continued to listen to classical music through university and later on in life, with his favourite composers remaining Mozart, Beethoven, Bach and Wagner.
Wagner is often considered a heavy metal composer for the sheer epic-ness of his work.
The monstrous Ride of the Valkyries is but one example among many, and his Ring Cycle has a Norse mythology resonance that makes it a prized series for metal bands with more "Viking tendencies" such as 3 Inches of Blood.
"I didn't really put two and two together until later," Pipes says, "until I really got into rock music that was around before I was born."
In recent years, more heavy metal bands have emerged showing an overt classical-influenced style, especially in Europe.
Symphonic power-metal bands such as Finland's Nightwish and Sonata Arctica have taken a synth-based approach to string arrangements, progressive metal acts like Sweden's Opeth have fused death metal with neo-classical leanings, and British extreme metal icons Cradle of Filth have made their music stand out with a theatrical flair equal parts Italian opera and Alice Cooper shock-rock.
On the other side of the spectrum, incorporating metal into classical has been more difficult.
"For a long time I've been careful in using metal in classical music because these two things kinda don't match," Top says.
While Top is slowly attempting to break down those barriers, the classical world certainly doesn't revel in the same level of visual stimuli as heavy metal does, which ultimately may be the main divide between the two styles.
Metalheads are often more than happy to talk about the genius of Paganini and Wagner, yet classical music fans (which tend to be a little older) mostly find heavy metal a little too extreme.
"But quite a bit of composers and performers of classical music enjoy metal," Top admits, talking about collaborators unafraid to come to rehearsal sporting Obituary T-shirts.
Ironically, classical and metal are both "outsider" genres in the great battle against mainstream pop, and both camps are made of people that are probably too smart or too nerdy for their own good.
If they started digging, they might just realize how similar their roots are.
"We're mostly influenced by other heavy metal bands, and by association we're influenced by what they were influenced by," Pipes says of his work with 3 Inches of Blood. "There's the genetic breakdown and there are fragments that remain. If some 13-year-old kid wants to start a band and he likes to listen to a lot of Deep Purple, whether he realizes or not he's being influenced by the classical stuff Ritchie Blackmore loved."


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December 17th, 1978, fell on a Sunday. It was day 351 of 1978. The decade was the 1970s.
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The date is December 17th, 1978 and it's a Sunday. People are enjoying their weekend. The Christmas season of 1978 is in full swing. The decorations are up and festive songs are playing on the radio.
In America, the song You Don't Bring Me Flowers by Barbra Streisand & Neil Diamond is on top of the singles charts. Over in the UK, Mary's Boy Child by Boney M is the number one hit song. Jimmy Carter is currently the President of the United States.
Because it's 1978, the music charts are being dominated by the likes of the Bee Gees, John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, the Village People, Boney M and Andy Gibb. The film "Superman" has just been released in movie theaters. People are watching popular TV shows such as "Columbo.", "The Rockford Files", "What's Happening!!" and "Soap".
Meanwhile, gamers are playing titles such as "Pursuit", "Gun Fight", "Breakout" and "Space Invaders". Kids and teenagers are watching TV shows such as "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", "All in the Family", "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids" and "Mork & Mindy". Popular toys include the likes of "Big Jim (action figure)", "Dungeons & Dragons", "Kenner Star Wars action figures" and "Hungry Hungry Hippos".
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Popular music artists in 1978 included Andy Gibb, The Bee Gees, Debby Boone, Exile, Player, A Taste of Honey, Commodores, Frankie Valli, Kate Bush, John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John, Eric Clapton, Paul Davis and Samantha Sang.
China's Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping was named as the Time Person of the Year in 1978 after he overthrew Hua Guofeng and became the "Supreme Leader" of China.
Movies released in 1978 included Grease, Superman, Animal House, Every Which Way but Loose, Heaven Can Wait, Hooper, Jaws 2, Revenge of the Pink Panther, The Deer Hunter, Halloween, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Dawn of the Dead.
"Just the Way You Are" by Billy Joel would go on to win a Grammy for 1978's Song of the Year.
"The Deer Hunter" won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1978.
Between January, 1978 and February, 1979, a revolutionary movement formed in Iran. This eventually led to the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of an Islamic Republic led by Ayatollah Khomeini.
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