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Evolution of morality
The evolution of morality refers to the emergence of human moral behavior over the course of human evolution. Morality can be defined as a system of ideas about right and wrong conduct. In everyday life, morality is typically associated with human behavior and not much thought is given to the social conducts of other creatures. The emerging fields of evolutionary biology and in particular sociobiology have argued that, though human social behaviors are complex, the precursors of human morality can be traced to the behaviors of many other social animals. Sociobiological explanations of human behavior are still controversial. The traditional view of social scientists has been that morality is a construct, and is thus culturally relative, although others argue that there is a science of morality.
Though animals may not possess moral behavior, all social animals have had to modify or restrain their behaviors for group living to be worthwhile. Typical examples of behavioral modification can be found in the societies ants, bees and termites. Ant colonies may possess millions of individuals. E. O. Wilson argues that the single most important factor that leads to the success of ant colonies is the existence of a sterile worker caste. This caste of females are subservient to the needs of their mother, the queen, and in so doing, have given up their own reproduction in order to raise brothers and sisters. The existence of sterile castes among these social insects, significantly restricts the competition for mating and in the process fosters cooperation within a colony. Cooperation among ants is vital, because a solitary ant has an improbable chance of long-term survival and reproduction. However, as part of a group, colonies can thrive for decades. As a consequence, ants are one of the most successful families of species on the planet, accounting for a biomass that rivals that of the human species.[1][2]
The basic reason that social animals live in groups is that opportunities for survival and reproduction are much better in groups than living alone. The social behaviors of mammals are more familiar to humans. Highly social mammals such as primates and elephants have been known to exhibit traits that were once thought to be uniquely human, like empathy and altruism.[3][4]
Humanity's closest living relatives are common chimpanzees and bonobos. These primates share a common ancestor with humans who lived four to six million years ago. It is for this reason that chimpanzees and bonobos are viewed as the best available surrogate for this common ancestor. Barbara King argues that while primates may not possess morality in the human sense, they do exhibit some traits that would have been necessary for the evolution of morality. These traits include high intelligence, a capacity for symbolic communication, a sense of social norms, realization of "self", and a concept of continuity.[5][6][7] Frans de Waal and Barbara King both view human morality as having grown out of primate sociality. Many social animals such as primates, dolphins and whales have shown to exhibit what Michael Shermer refers to as premoral sentiments. According to Shermer, the following characteristics are shared by humans and other social animals, particularly the great apes:
- attachment and bonding, cooperation and mutual aid, sympathy and empathy, direct and indirect reciprocity, altruism and reciprocal altruism, conflict resolution and peacemaking, deception and deception detection, community concern and caring about what others think about you, and awareness of and response to the social rules of the group.[8]
Shermer argues that these premoral sentiments evolved in primate societies as a method of restraining individual selfishness and building more cooperative groups. For any social species, the benefits of being part of an altruistic group should outweigh the benefits of individualism. For example, lack of group cohesion could make individuals more vulnerable to attack from outsiders. Being part of group may also improve the chances of finding food. This is evident among animals that hunt in packs to take down large or dangerous prey.
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All social animals have hierarchical societies in which each member knows its own place.[citation needed] Social order is maintained by certain rules of expected behavior and dominant group members enforce order through punishment. However, higher order primates also have a sense of reciprocity. Chimpanzees remember who did them favors and who did them wrong.[citation needed] For example, chimpanzees are more likely to share food with individuals who have previously groomed them.[10] Vampire bats also demonstrate a sense of reciprocity and altruism. They share blood by regurgitation, but do not share randomly. They are most likely to share with other bats who have shared with them in the past or who are in dire need of feeding.[11]
Animals such as Capuchin monkeys[12] and dogs[13] also display an understanding of fairness, refusing to co-operate when presented unequal rewards for the same behaviors.
Chimpanzees live in fission-fusion groups that average 50 individuals. It is likely that early ancestors of humans lived in groups of similar size. Based on the size of extant hunter gatherer societies, recent paleolithic hominids lived in bands of a few hundred individuals. As community size increased over the course of human evolution, greater enforcement to achieve group cohesion would have been required. Morality may have evolved in these bands of 100 to 200 people as a means of social control, conflict resolution and group solidarity. This numerical limit is theorized to be hard coded in our genes since even modern humans have difficulty maintaining stable social relationships with more than 100-200 people. According to Dr. de Waal, human morality has two extra levels of sophistication that are not found in primate societies. Humans enforce their society's moral codes much more rigorously with rewards, punishments and reputation building. People also apply a degree of judgment and reason not seen in the animal kingdom.
Human Social Intelligence
The Social Brain Hypothesis, detailed by R.I.M Dunbar in the article The Social Brain Hypothesis and Its Implications for Social Evolution supports the fact that the brain originally evolved to process factual information. The brain allows an individual to recognize patterns, perceive speech, develop strategies to circumvent ecologically-based problems such as foraging for food, and also permits the phenomenon of color vision. Furthermore, having a large brain is a reflection of the large cognitive demands of complex social systems. It is said that in humans and primates the neocortex is responsible for reasoning and consciousness. Therefore, in social animals, the neocortex came under intense selection to increase in size to improve social cognitive abilities. Social animals, such as humans are capable of two important concepts, coalition formation, or group living, and tactical deception, which is the ability to hold false beliefs. The fundamental importance of animal social skills lies within the ability to manage relationships and in turn, the ability to not just commit information to memory, but manipulate it as well. [14] An adaptive response to the challenges of social interaction and living is Theory of Mind. Theory of Mind as defined by M. Brune, is the ability to infer another individual's mental states or emotions. [15] Having a strong Theory of Mind is tied closely with possessing advanced social intelligence. Collectively, group living requires cooperation and generates conflict. Social living puts strong evolutionary selection pressures on acquiring social intelligence due to the fact that living in groups has advantages. Advantages to group living include protection from predators and the fact that groups in general outperform the sum of an individual's performance. But, from an objective point of view, group living also has disadvantages, such as, competition from within the group for resources and mates. This sets the stage for something of an evolutionary arms race from within the species.
Within populations of social animals, altruism, or an acts of behavior that are disadvantageous to one individual while benefiting other group members has evolved. This notion seems to be contradictory to evolutionary thought, due to that fact that an organism's fitness and success is defined by its ability to pass genes on to the next generation. According to E. Fehr, in the article, The Nature of Human Altruism, the evolution of altruism can be accounted for when kin selection and inclusive fitness are taken into account; meaning reproductive success is not just dependent on the number of offspring an individual produces, but also the number of offspring that related individuals produce. [16] Outside of familial relationships altruism is also seen, but in a different manner typically defined by the Prisoner's Dilemma, theorized by John Nash. The Prisoner's Dilemma serves to define cooperation and defecting with and against individuals driven by incentive, or in Nash's proposed case, years in jail. In evolutionary terms, the best strategy to use for the Prisoner's dilemma is tit-for-tat. In the tit-for-tat strategy, an individual should cooperate as long others are cooperating, and not defect until another individual defects against them. At their core, complex social interactions are driven by the need to distinguish sincere cooperation and defection.
Brune details that Theory of Mind has been traced back to primates, but it is not observed to the extent that it is in the modern human. The emergence of this unique trait is perhaps where the divergence of the modern human begins, along with our acquisition of language. Humans use metaphors and imply much of what we say. Phrases such as, "You know what I mean?" are not uncommon and are direct results of the sophistication of the human Theory of Mind. Failure to understand another's intentions and emotions can yield inappropriate social responses and are often associated with human mental conditions such as autism, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, some forms of dementia, and psychopathy. This is especially true for autism spectrum disorders, where social disconnect is evident, but non-social intelligence can be preserved or even in some cases augmented, such as in the case of a savant. [17] The need for social intelligence surrounding Theory of Mind is a possible answer to the question as to why morality has evolved as a part of human behavior.
Evolution of religion
Psychologist Matt J. Rossano muses that religion emerged after morality and built upon morality by expanding the social scrutiny of individual behavior to include supernatural agents. By including ever watchful ancestors, spirits and gods in the social realm, humans discovered an effective strategy for restraining selfishness and building more cooperative groups.[18] The adaptive value of religion would have enhanced group survival.[19][20]
Sexuality and morality
Human sexuality is intricately linked with notions of virtue and modesty. In particular, compared to males, females tend to be under more intense social scrutiny regarding promiscuous behavior. Evolutionary psychology suggests that this differential application of sexual morality may be an evolutionary adaptation related to parental investment. Because women invest more resources into rearing children, such as a nine-month gestation, it is argued that they must select a mate who is willing to participate in rearing children. Consequently, women have evolved[citation needed] more exacting criteria for mates than men. Women have a stronger preference for long-term partners,[citation needed] whereas men have preferences for both long- and short-term partners.[citation needed] The theory supposes that men are more open to dropping their standards for short-term partners as there is no parental investment.[citation needed] In this regard, promiscuous behavior by women would be maladaptive, as they would have to raise children with no or little parental support.[citation needed] In most societies, female adultery is generally seen as a greater moral infraction than is male adultery.[21][22] This is likely reinforced by the fact that in most human cultures (known as "patri-lineal") family identification, property, and status within the society are transmitted through the male hereditary line. In such societies it is vitally important to the social order that females be monogamous so that their male partners are assured that their title, property and legacy are in fact being left to offspring that are biologically theirs. In such a society, a child's paternity must be known, else his status within the society cannot be determined and his relationships to other members are ambiguous.[citation needed] Sexual morality and female parental investment is also be linked to the evolution of female choice which is divided into four non-mutually exclusive components, including, direct benefits to the female, "good" genes or genes correlated with high fitness, runaway sexual selection also known as the "sexy son hypothesis," and sensory bias.[23]
The Wason selection task
In an experiment where subjects must demonstrate abstract, complex reasoning, researchers have found that humans (as has been seen in other animals) have a strong innate ability to reason about social exchanges. This ability is believed to be intuitive, since the logical rules do not seem to be accessible to the individuals for use in situations without moral overtones.[24]
Disgust, one of the basic emotions, may have an important role in certain forms of morality. Disgust is argued to be a specific response to certain things or behaviors that are dangerous or undesirable from an evolutionary perspective. One example is things that increase the risk of an infectious disease such as spoiled foods, dead bodies, other forms of microbiological decomposition, a physical appearance suggesting sickness or poor hygiene, and various body fluids such as feces, vomit, phlegm, and blood. Another example is disgust against evolutionary disadvantageous mating such as incest (the incest taboo) or unwanted sexual advances.[4] Still another example are behaviors that may threaten group cohesion or cooperation such as cheating, lying, and stealing. MRI studies have found that such situations activate areas in the brain associated with disgust.[25]
See also
- ^ Wilson, Edward; Bert Hölldobler (1994). "The origin of cooperation". Journey to the Ants. Cambridge, Mass; London: Belknap Press. ISBN 0-674-48525-4.
- ^ Wade, Nicholas (July 15, 2008). "Taking a Cue From Ants on Evolution of Humans". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-08-27.
- ^ Byrne, Richard; Lee, P.C.; Njiraini, N.; Poole, J.H.; Sayialel, K.; Sayialel, S.; Bates, L.A.; Moss, C.J. (2008). "Do Elephants Show Empathy?". Journal of Consciousness Studies. 10-11 15: 204–225.
- ^ a b Rodriguez, Tommy (2011). Diaries of Dissension: A Case Against the Irrational and Absurd. iUniverse Publishing. ISBN 1-475-91933-6.
- ^ What Binti Jua Knew
- ^ King, Barbara (2007). Evolving God: A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion. Doubleday Publishing." ISBN 0-385-52155-3.
- ^ Excerpted from Evolving God by Barbara J. King
- ^ Shermer, Michael (2004). The Science of Good and Evil. New York: Times Books. p. 16. ISBN 0-8050-7520-8.
- ^ Shermer, Michael (2008). The Mind of the Market. New York: Henry Holt & Co. LLC. ISBN 0-8050-8916-0.
- ^ Videos of chimpanzee food sharing
- ^ Reciprocal food sharing in the vampire bat
- ^ Capuchin Monkeys refusing unequal rewards
- ^ The absence of reward induces inequity aversion in dogs Range, Fredericke et al.
- ^ Dunbar, R. 2009. The Social Brain Hypothesis and Its Implications for Social Evolution. Annals of Human Biology 562-572.
- ^ Brune, M., and Brunecohrs, U. 2006. Theory Of Mind—Evolution, Ontogeny, Brain Mechanisms And Psychopathology. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 30:437-455.
- ^ Fehr, E., & Fischbacher, U. 2003. The Nature Of Human Altruism. Nature 425:785-791.
- ^ Brune, M., and Brunecohrs, U. 2006. Theory Of Mind—Evolution, Ontogeny, Brain Mechanisms And Psychopathology. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 30:437-455.
- ^ Rossano, Matt (2007). "Supernaturalizing Social Life: Religion and the Evolution of Human Cooperation" (PDF).
- ^ Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior. New York Times. March 20, 2007. Nicholas Wade.
- ^ Matthew Rutherford. The Evolution of Morality. University of Glasgow. 2007. Retrieved June 6, 2008
- ^ biology of promiscuity
- ^ Buss, D.M. (2011). Evolutionary psychology
- ^ Kirkpatrick, M. (1982). Sexual Selection and the Evolution of Female Choice. Evolution, 36(1), 1-1. Retrieved October 1, 2014, from http://www.indiana.edu/~curtweb/L567/readings/Kirkpatrick 1982 Evolution.pdf
- ^ http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/1870/the-science-good-and-evil?page=0,0
- ^ Tybur, J. M.; Lieberman, D.; Griskevicius, V. (2009). "Microbes, mating, and morality: Individual differences in three functional domains of disgust". Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 97 (1): 103–122. PMID 19586243. doi:10.1037/a0015474.
External links
- Evolution of Morality on PhilPapers
- Richard Dawkins video clip on morality
- Marc Hauser, Evolution of a Universal Moral Grammar, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- Is morality innate? Brief video clip that examines whether infants have a sense or morality.
- Sam Harris: Can Science Help Determine what is Moral? Part 1, Part 2
- Jonathan Haidt on the Five foundations of morality
- Peter Swirski. "You'll Never Make a Monkey Out of Me or Altruism, Proverbial Wisdom, and Bernard Malamud's God's Grace." American Utopia and Social Engineering in Literature, Social Thought, and Political History. New York, Routledge, 2011.


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Life Groups are small groups at church that meet to study God's word, fellowship, pray and in our case, eat. And then we go back for seconds.
I have been in a few Life Groups, and I must say our current one astounds me, because when I look around at the people God has brought together, I see something only God could do, and I am grateful.
My friend Keri and I have prayed over the downtown neighborhoods for years. She had to move from the area we prayed over, yet God has brought the very folks we've prayed about through my front door on an acreage south of town.
We are all so different: A single mama working and raising her two kids. An airplane mechanic from Texas. My son-in-law's sister and husband from Washington. A gal who hopped on a bus in Oakland, California a year ago, and hopped off the bus in our fair city to start a new life. The neighbors she invites! Our neighbor and her son from Ohio. A woman with an intellectual disability who loves people, loves to gather together, and calls me her aunt.
So we give God the glory for bringing this motley and amazing snippet of the Body together, giving us a rich fellowship and oh, so many different perspectives. And a side blessing is that my kids enjoy this, too. They actually get out of bed on Sunday mornings to join us. That should tell you something.

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FiringSquad.com has a new interview with the Bioware team on their upcoming MMO Project. Anyone else frightfully excited? They make good games.. I'm curious to see what game they have to show us.
FiringSquad: Why did BioWare want to launch an MMORPG and establish a base in Austin Texas to handle the development?
Ray Muzyka: BioWare has been considering developing an MMORPG for quite some time weve always felt that developing an MMORPG would be a natural extension of BioWares past experiences in developing roleplaying games. Austin has a tremendous gaming heritage with a lot of talent, especially in the MMO space. Austin offers a very friendly environment to game and technology development, with lots of experienced, talented, passionate individuals and weve got a great team at BioWare Austin already as a result! Were very excited to take the best feature of the MMO space and combine them with the RPG experience we have at BioWare.
Be sure the read the interview. It has some really interesting info on what they have in the pipeline.
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Bird, D. J. and Potter, I. C. (1981) Proximate body composition of the larval, metamorphosing and downstream migrant stages in the life cycle of the Southern Hemisphere lamprey, Geotria australis. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 6 (3-4). pp. 285-297. ISSN 0378-1909 Available from: http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/7035


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Sharing images that I enjoy.... hope you find them delighful too.
Ha, this artist has a fine sense of humor! Funny image Rose!
Thanks so much for the sweet visit, Rose. You would have loved this church! As for RP, I don't know much about him yet. But he sure has the media in a frenzy!!
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Friday, 29 June 2012
How the SCOTUS saved itself, rather than the POTUS
The problem with the United States Supreme Court is that it's supposed to be a neutral arbiter of what is, and is not, constitutional.
Except that it obviously isn't. If you wanted any more confirmation of that fact than take a look over Justice Scalia's extraordinary and unprofessional rant the other day about Arizona's immigration and document-checking laws. Want to read a ridiculous partisan, personal screed from a childish ideologue? Look no further.
That's why yesterday's decision by the Supreme Court - to uphold President Obama's Affordable Care Act in all essentials - is so important. It's preserved a huge decision for the American people and the American electorate, rather than nine black-clad appointees on the bench. Rather cleverly, the Chief Justice and his colleagues have avoided the danger that their personal views might seem to hold more sway than those of the President and the Congress. Chief Justice John Roberts (above) knows that forcing people to buy health care insurance is a red-button issue. But he also knows that it will be one capable of being resolved in the Presidential election in November. Or not, of course, since neither party is likely to hold the 60 seats in the Senate that will make them filibuster-proof in the upper chamber.
So Roberts has hunkered in a foxhole to avoid all the shooting. He's had to tie himself in knots to do it - arguing that conservatives were right that one cannot use the Commerce Clause of the Constitution to force people to buy anything, but that liberals can rest easy, as the government is effectively forcing you to pay a tax. But he's managed a deft political manouevre that will resonate for many years - even decades.
We've been here before, of course. The Supreme Court struck down some elements of President Roosevelt's 'New Deal' recovery programme just before he sought re-election in 1936. Little harm it did him, of course - or his reputation (partly deserved) as an economic saviour. The Supreme Court's leader at the time, Chief Justice Hughes, tacked and trimmed all he could to avoid an all-out constitutional war with the president (with some success). Roberts knows all this. He knows the harm that's been done in the past to the Supreme Court's authority by its rulings on race, on the National Recovery Administration, on big corporations' 'right' to spend as much as they like on political campaigning, and on much else. He's no fool.
The whole thing is a victory for good sense - though it leaves the American political scene in Congress and White House more deadlocked, more partisan and more extreme than ever.
That's a story for another day, though. For now, Justice Roberts has looked over the precipice, and declined to throw himself off it. Good for him.
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Water at last. On Wednesday Cairui one of the driest desolate and miserable places in Timor had flowing tap water. People were ecstatic. Us too for that matter. It looks like all the hard work has paid off and the people will get the water they deserve. Of course we have already started to have problems where people have tried to increase their water flow by messing with the taps resulting in broken pipes and facet heads. One location people won't turn off the water facet. People down the line get less and less water as it runs out creating lots of mad people. Half are mad at us saying we didn't build it right. Half are mad at each other and have already started fights. Needless to say there will still continue to be problems the community will have to sort out but at least the system is working.
The last concrete pour is tomorrow completing the last of three water tanks and my main work will be finished. I will continue to stay on until the end of the program which ends about thanksgiving. This week Vincent is off taking his vacation days in Bali. I am not sure it is the best timing in the middle of crunch time at the end but it is ok. We still have quite a bit to do. There are lots of tap stands still not done and only one of three solar systems is finished.
This weekend some friends and I camped on the beach again. This time near Manatutu on the way to dili. This last week was a holiday for most in Timor. At least the people in Dili. Me, I had to work.
The situation in Timor is still not good and seems to be in a perpetual holding pattern of lousiness. No one sees the way out either. The raining season should start any day now. I am looking forward to it and not. I can't wait for things to get lush and green again yet fear for what the rains will do to the situation here. With rain in the IDP camps the sanitation problems might get worse leading to more disease and then problems. Lets hope not. Anyway things are moving alone. lv jesse
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ELF had a sale on Studio products last week that I discovered at the last minute. I bought everything on my wish list (except for HD Powder - they never seem to have that in stock).
Shipping took over 2 weeks which is longer than usual for them but hey, sale season, I understand.
And these are the products I bought:
- Warm and Golden bronzers (far too shimmery to be used on the face but pigmented enough for use as eyeshadows which is what I'll be using them for)
- Blush and Bronzer Duo (Bronzer is too shimmery for me and the blusher does have gold sparkles too but I find the blush flattering on top of cheeks)
- Complexion Brush (another awesome brush nearly as wonderful as the ELF Studio Powder Brush)
- Angled Foundation Brush (too flimsy to be used as foundation brush but I bought it for use as a cream blush brush and so far so good for that job!)
- Cuticle pen (this is only £1.50 and lasts me a while, good stuff)
- Disposable mascara wands (great for doing other people's makeup)
- Mineral eyeshadow primer (am running out of UDPP so this is my replacement, i've used this before but this new one seems to have a slightly more watery texture. Hope it still works okay though)
- Compact Mirror ( teeny tiny thing that came in a slightly battered box with mirror covered in strands of sawdust. Not happy with this one)
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Mark Zuckerberg won a legal battle against former Harvard classmates who accuse him of stealing their idea for Facebook, but the feud made famous on the silver screen is not over yet.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss must accept a cash and stock settlement with Facebook that had been valued at $65 million, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday. Meanwhile, a New York man filed an amended lawsuit against Zuckerberg on Monday, citing a 2003 email in which Zuckerberg discusses an urgent need to launch his site before "a couple of upperclassmen" could launch theirs, an apparent reference to the Winklevoss twins.
The Winklevoss brothers argued their settlement with Facebook was unfair because the company hid information from them during talks. But the twins were sophisticated negotiators aided by a team of lawyers, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Alex Kozinski wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel.
"At some point, litigation must come to an end," Kozinski wrote. "That point has now been reached."
An attorney for the brothers, Jerome Falk Jr., said on Monday his clients would seek a rehearing before a larger, "en banc" group of 9th Circuit judges.
That larger group can overrule a three-judge panel, although only a fraction of cases undergo such a review. Should the 9th Circuit refuse to rehear the case, the last option would be an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Falk said he "respectfully" disagreed with the 9th Circuit's conclusions.
The 6-foot, 5-inch (1.96-meter) Winklevoss brothers are Olympic rowers who participated in the 2008 games in Beijing, and their saga with Zuckerberg was dramatized in the film "The Social Network."
In the movie, actor Armie Hammer played both identical twins. Zuckerberg's character snidely called them on-screen the "Winklevi."
The twins, along with Divya Narendra, started a company called ConnectU while at Harvard. They say Zuckerberg stole their idea. Facebook denies these claims.
Facebook took in $1.2 billion of revenue in 2010's first nine months, according to documents that Goldman Sachs provided to clients to entice investors in a special fund set up to invest in the giant social networking firm.
The company was valued at $50 billion as part of that transaction. The company said on Monday it is evaluating the Internet market in China, but a source indicated it has not yet signed a business deal with any companies there.
The Winklevoss twins and Narendra agreed to a settlement that had been valued at $65 million. But they argue that, based on an internal valuation that Facebook did not reveal, they should have received more Facebook shares as part of the deal.
A lower court had granted Facebook's request to enforce the settlement with the Winklevoss twins and Narendra. The 9th Circuit agreed on Monday.
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The GMC Yukon XL 2500 is a three-quarter-ton, full-size sport utility vehicle (SUV) manufactured by General Motors under the GMC division. It is part of the extremely popular GMC and Chevrolet Suburban SUV series, which has been in production since 1937 without an end in sight.
The Suburban was introduced as a vehicle with a station wagon body mounted on a commercial frame. However, the vehicle became a full-size SUV during the later generations in the late 1980s. The GMC Yukon XL 2500 and the Suburban are one of the largest SUVs ever produced. The Suburban has outlasted several of its competitors, including the Ford Excursion and Jeep Wagoneer.
The GMC Suburban has been used over the years as a police and fire chief vehicle, as well as an EMS emergency response vehicle. The U.S. Secret Service uses armored versions of this SUV for the President. GMC used the Suburban nameplate for just a little over 60 years, and it was dropped and renamed as the GMC Yukon XL 2500 for the three-quarter-ton SUV and as the GMC Yukon XL 1500 for the half-ton SUV. Chevrolet continues to sell the SUV with the Suburban nameplate.
The GMC Yukon XL 2500 and 1500 comprise a part of one of the longest selling automobile models in the world. The Suburban has a reputation for being an extremely reliable car because of its station wagon body and truck-based frame underneath. It can be used commercially as well as for personal purposes, and the renamed GMC Yukon XL 2500 retains this reliability. The SUV provides one of the first choices for families that need the best cargo and passenger capacity among SUVs along with a good towing capacity.
The name has changed, but the GMC Yukon XL 2500 is unmistakably still a Suburban with its rigid underpinnings, comfortable ride, spacious seating, and strong performance. Other large SUVs in the segment offer better luxury features, but the GMC Yukon XL is the only full-size SUV that still sells in light- and heavy-duty versions.
The 2012 GMC Yukon XL 2500 comes with a comfortable and fresh interior that carries forward from a recent redesign. The exterior looks sleek and more aerodynamic than the previous generation Yukon XL. Nevertheless, the frame of the vehicle remains strong and rigid in keeping with its SUV heritage.
As a heavy-duty version, the GMC Yukon XL 2500 can comfortably seat a maximum of nine passengers. The vehicle comes in two-wheel and four-wheel drive. The former can tow a maximum of 9,600 pounds while the latter can tow 9,300 pounds.
The 2012 GMC Yukon XL 2500 offers two trim levels: SLE and SLT. Both variants contain a 6.0-liter V-8 engine under the hood that delivers 352 hp at 5400 rpm. The engine is compatible with E85 fuel, and couples with a six-speed automatic transmission gearbox.
Both SLE and SLT models of the GMC Yukon XL 2500 have certain standard safety features, such as side curtain airbags, dual-stage front and seat mounted airbags, a StabiliTrak stability control system, dynamic rear proportioning, four-wheel anti-lock disc brakes, an OnStar security system, and a tire pressure monitoring system.
The GMC Suburban was renamed the Yukon XL in late 1999, and the name change came into effect in the 2000 model year. However, the half-ton 1500 and three-quarter-ton 2500 versions remain. The GMC Yukon XL 2500 and 1500 come in Base LS and LT trim levels, with either two-wheel drive or pushbutton four-wheel drive, which includes a low-range transfer case. The vehicle comes with a relatively inexpensive tow hitch and trailer wiring option that proves quite popular for the Suburban.
The previous generation Suburban models featured the very popular 5.7-liter and 7.4-liter V-8 engines. However, a new 6.0-liter V-8 comes on the newly renamed GMC Yukon XL 2500 and 1500. Other new features found in this SUV include puddle lamps in the side mirrors of the LT and LS models, spare tires beneath the vehicle instead of inside the cargo space, and four-wheel disc brakes. The LT models have climate control and load-leveling Autoride suspension, while the LS model offers a self-leveling Premium Ride suspension.
The V-8 engines received a power boost of 20 hp in 2001, and the GMC Yukon XL 2500 also received an optional 8.1-liter V-8 engine. In 2005, GMC discontinued the longtime standard barn door style and replaced it with the liftgate style.
The 2007 GMC Yukon XL 2500 was introduced at the 2006 Los Angeles Auto Show. The previous generation Yukon XL used a box-like GMT800 platform, but the new GMC Yukon XL 2500 builds on the more modern and sleeker GMT900 platform. Dealerships began to sell the eleventh generation Suburban in April 2006.
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Bug #1019
Cppcheck: Suspicious usage of 'sizeof' with a numeric constant as parameter.
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|Robin Mills
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In jp2image.cpp lines 555, 561 and 567 there is
sizeof(16) as third argument for
memcmp. Cppcheck reports
It is unusual to use a constant value with sizeof. For example, 'sizeof(10)' returns 4 (in 32-bit systems) or 8 (in 64-bit systems) instead of 10. 'sizeof('A')' and 'sizeof(char)' can return different results.
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#1019. Thank You Thomas for finding this issue.
#1019. Thanks to private email with Thomas about the MSVC issue. Changed a signature in the patch to calm the compiler.
MSVC is more strongly insistent than GCC or Clang about signature match.
#1 Updated by Robin Mills about 4 years ago
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- Target version set to 0.25
#2 Updated by Robin Mills about 4 years ago
This is very suspicious! I think the sizeof(16) should simply be 16. It appears to be copying UUIDs which are 128 bits = 16 x 8bit bytes. The sizeof(16) would have "throttled" the UUID to 4 or 8 bytes. This would cause part of the data to be in an undefined state, without overflowing the buffer to which the data is being copied.
Fix submitted r3538. Thank you Thomas for finding and reporting this.
#3 Updated by Robin Mills about 4 years ago
- Status changed from Assigned to Resolved
#4 Updated by Robin Mills almost 4 years ago
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#5 Updated by Andreas Huggel over 3 years ago
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When I was at Lake Como last September I had two days before my flight to Milan. I'd been thinking of going north to the Dolomites: the Stelvio, the Gavia. But there was snow in the hills, and no sign of the temperature poking its nose above zero. I needed an alternate plan.
On the bike car, toward Genoa
So I decided to head southward. After some snafus at the train station, where I ended up buying two tickets by accident, then lost the relevant ticket and had to beg the stern conductor for forgiveness (funny: I take the train to work almost every day and have never forgotten my ticket there), I arrived in Genoa.
The next morning I boarded another train, to Savona. More of the trip was underground than above, which impressed me given the debate over burying high speed rail on the peninsula between San Francisco and San Jose. Cheap labor plus the ability to dig laterally into cliffs makes things happen. But eventually we arrived at my destination, which was to be the starting point for my journey westward, tracing the final, most famous portion of the Milan San Remo corsa.
Given how simple it should have been to begin my trip, I spent a surprising amount of time wandering the steets of Savona looking for an exit. Along the way I foudnd a very tasty pretzel, not what I expected to be eating in Italy. But finally I found the main road, numbered 1, along the coast, and set off retracing the steps of the greats of bike racing history.
Soon I had cleared the city and knew I must be going in the right direction, because the beach was on my left:
Beach southwest of Savonna
I was getting hungry, so stopped for a delicious panini at Bar Torino:
Bar Torino
The thing I love about Italy is I can stop almost anywhere and get delicious, fresh food. In contrast, in the US, I need to pick my stops with care: the comparable place here would have sold greasy burgers and an over-sized serving of comparably greasy fries. But here: roasted vegetables on fresh-baked bread with recently-pressed olive oil. And on the television, the start of a Moto Grand Prix race. I ate slowly, watching the race, until it was time to move on.
The road was surprisingly flat, despite the hilly terrain near the coast. Suddenly, a peloton coming the opposite way:
It was some sort of sportif event, it seemed. The police had a rolling closure on the roadway, and I didn't hear a single complaint from any of the drivers who were held up. Cycling is an essential component of the history and culture of Italy and few there question the value such events have in their lives.
Eventually I climbed a gentle grade, something which back home, for example on Highway 1, would hardly have registered on the radar. But this was no ordinary gentle grade, it was one of the great "capi", the climbs which mark the crescendo of Milan San Remo:
Capo Berta
I didn't stop for the pizza: the race was on!
Berta is the final capo along the main coast road. As the depth of talent in the pro peloton increased, the derailleurs reduced the sting of the climbs, the organizers began introducing a few scenic detours to the route to spice things up approaching the finish. The first of these two, final climbs is Cipressa.
From looking at the map I was afraid I'd miss it, or that I'd get lost along the way. As to missing it, not an issue:
to the Cipressa
start of the climb
and although the name of the road changes name several times toward the summit from the initial "Via Cipressa", as long as one keeps moving in the "obvious" direction upward, there is no getting lost. The road was in pristine condition, and the paint from past races left little doubt I was going the right direction:
Climbing Cipressa
The descent following the church at the summit was surprisingly technical. I didn't come even close to approaching race speed. The big boys bomb down these roads at the limits of traction. The descent is actually more impressive than the climb, which was hardly a challenge at my tourist pace.
The Poggio was the next challenge... not so much to my legs, which could feel neither pain nor fatigue in my state of bliss at being on such a legendary cycling road, but to my impared navigational ability. Poggio, it turns out, is incredibly clearly marked. But along the way there were a few "candidates", of course unmarked, which attracted my attention. One of these I climbed a short distance, but the other turned into quite an impressive climb, ending in a recently developed residential pitch which had me glad for my 34/26. Nice view, however:
Wrong turn!
I returned to the coast road the way I had climbed and continued onward. It was a surprising distance from the Cipressa to the Poggio. It made all the more impressive the accomplishment of Clauddio Chiapucci when, in 1994, he attacked on the Cipressa, riding solo over the Poggio and to the finish in San Remo.
But eventually, after futilely trying to ask some locals for directions, I came across the sign marking the Poggio. "Poggio" it said, leaving no doubt of the way to go. Had I not worried so much and just ridden, I would have stayed on course without problem.
The climb of the Poggio was nothing short of a religeous experience. I didn't want to break the bliss by removing my camera, even: straight up and over. The climb was remarkably easy: big ring all the way except for a short bit where I downshifted for only a few seconds. Of course I was riding at less than 2/3 the speed of the pros last Saturday.
Then the descent. The descent where Sean Kelly famously overtook Marino Argentin to win in 1991. This was even more technical than the Cipressa descent, with switchbacks so tight, if you were to fall over the guardrail on the upper portion of road you'd land on the lower portion of road.
From the bottom there was a surprising distance to San Remo. I must have missed the finish line area. But after stopping for a snack:
snack time
I came across this, closer to the beach:
bike path
Then it was time to catch my train back to Genoa, then the next day pack my bike and catch a series of trains to a motel near Malpensa, from where I flew back to San Francisco.
Here's the Strava data from the ride:
I had the honor of defining these climbs on Strava. Hopefully more riders visiting this part of Italy will upload their data.


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After years of debilitating knee pain and two meniscus repair surgeries, 68-year-old Terri finally agreed to a total knee joint replacement procedure. Preparation for her surgery at a top-notch orthopedic clinic included a joint replacement education class, several preoperative appointments and a lot of internet research. Terri is a fit senior without other serious health issues. She's also an avid mobile technology user, using her laptop, iPad and iPhone to stay connected with friends and family on social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Pinterest.
Despite this level of connectivity and her high-level understanding of her pending procedure, Terri still faced some very serious mental and physical challenges during and after her knee replacement surgery. "Before my surgery, I felt really prepared and thought I knew how my recovery would go. I knew there would be hard parts and pain, but the reality of it was very different than my expectations."
A well-prepared patient who is proactive in her own health, Terri took good steps in organizing her life for surgery. She attended joint class, ordered home health supplies and made sure her house was set up for recovery. She informed friends and family so that they could be available when and if she needed help. Although Terri was understandably nervous about the surgery, she was also excited to get it done and enjoy increased mobility. She had faith in her surgeon selection and the hospital facility.
To get organized and communicate with her family, Terri used email and Facebook to count down to the day of surgery.
Terri's primary caregiver when she was discharged from the hospital was her daughter, Karen, whose main role was to communicate with the hospital staff, advocate for her mom's needs, keep extended family and friends informed, and to take care of her during her first weeks home. She was aware that her mom would need extensive monitoring and felt prepared to do so, but there were several challenges she hadn't expected.
Tracking paperwork
Karen comments, "In addition to folders stuffed with pre-op instructions, every day I received additional paperwork and instructions from everyone involved in my mom's care. There were icing instructions, medications to monitor, safety sheets, emergency sheets, appointments to schedule and more. By the time Terri was discharged after a three-day stay, I'd probably talked to 20 caregivers and had 50 pages of documents. It was a little overwhelming."
"The care team was great and I know my mom received excellent care. But I wish we'd had a better way to coordinate her recovery. One day a home health nurse would come and tell me that she needed to ice her knee more. The next day, the physical therapist would come and say that we needed less ice so the blood could flow to the joint. We didn't know whose advice to take because we trusted both of them!"
Tracking progress
After a week home and with the reduction in pain medication, Terri was able to take a more proactive role in her own recovery. She began working her exercise plan and trying to reach important milestones, including more walking, bending her knee to greater degrees and strengthening her supporting muscles. But it was a tough process.
Terri explains, "I had so much more pain than I'd expected, even after taking the class. I was afraid at every point that something was wrong, that I was getting an infection or that I wasn't recovering quickly enough. It was pretty depressing and confusing. If I had to take a satisfaction survey during that time, I would have ranked everything very low because the experience was so different than what I expected and I was overwhelmed."
A few days after Terri was home, she developed a bothersome rash. "Luckily, my home health nurse was able to identify it during a weekday visit soon after it developed, otherwise I probably would have had my daughter take me to the ER, afraid it was a staph infection or something. Turns out, the surgery triggered a mild case of shingles which soon subsided."
As with the majority of joint replacement patients, Terri began to feel better each day and hit the milestones necessary to discontinue physical therapy and regain her independence. But her first 2-3 months were very intense, fraught with anxiety about the pace of her recovery and pain management.
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Jenny Brodie-Hall catches up with Shanan Worrall in this week's 'Where are they now?'
Big wave surfing is a discipline within surfing that most of us are in awe of but would never be brave enough to attempt. What makes a big wave surfer? Obviously courage in large doses, the thrill and adrenalin rush of risk taking, the ability to think clearly and stay calm in the face of danger and the desire to always push personal boundaries.
Those attending the Horizon Power Sports Star of the Year Awards tomorrow night will have a unique opportunity to meet a true adventurer in Shanan Worrall who won the gold medal of surfing achievements when he was awarded the 2017 WSL Big Wave Award for Tube of the Year for a 6.5 m barrel ride at the famous break, "The Right". In taking out that prestigious title Shanan defeated many professional surfers. WA has some of the best big wave destinations in the world and for Shanan it was the culmination of being nominated as a finalist in numerous other big wave awards including the Oakley Big Wave Awards in 2010, 2012 and 2014.
Shannan Worrall was born in Esperance in 1978. His reputation as an all round waterman began when, at the age of 6, he started surfing, fishing, spear fishing and free diving, quickly developing a lifelong affinity with the ocean. At ESHS teacher, Craig McLean was a favourite with Shanan and his mates as he was a surfer and shaped surfboards. He still shapes Shanan's boards today. Craig also taught Shanan how to keep a positive mind-set when times are tough.
By far the most influential person in Shanan's life was his brother Nath. He was a fun-loving, naturally gifted surfer whose talent and adventurous spirit has been the inspiration and motivation throughout Shanan's journey. After leaving school Shanan had a variety of jobs such as cruising the WA coast hosting luxury fishing charters, crayfishing at the Abrolhos Islands, working on an oyster farm in Tasmania and, when necessary, laying tiles at building sites.
A series of interactions with sharks caused Shanan to re- assess his life. He was abalone diving east of Esperance in October, 2013 when Greg Pickering was attacked by a great white. Shanan was in the water at the same time as Greg so counts himself lucky to have escaped. He and his colleagues administered first aid to Greg and under extreme circumstances managed to keep him alive until medical aid arrived. It was, and is, a remarkable story of survival. An experience like that has its consequences and for Shanan it was months before he could return to the ocean. At each attempt he would end up in tears and throw up. He ceased abalone diving and moved to Margaret River.
Months later, just as Shanan was donning his wetsuit to make another attempt at returning to the ocean, a horrific, fatal shark attack of a close friend occurred in front of him. These days Shanan is loving being back in the water but being very aware of the "shark factor" decided to use his experience and knowledge of sharks to form a company called Shark Eyes, with the aim of educating water users on water safety and developing an affordable visual shark deterrent. Sharks have high visual capabilities and rely on the element of surprise to ambush their prey.
Research shows that sharks become more cautious and change their behaviour when eye contact is made and because the "shark eyes" product is designed to mimic human eyes the shark feels it has been seen and moves away. For more information view the website www.sharkeyes.com.au
Although happily living in Margaret River with wife, Heather and 4 month old daughter, Olive, Shanan still thinks of Esperance as home so is excited to be returning this weekend to catch up with sister Kristen and many friends, as well as presenting the Sports Star Awards and participating in a Q and A session. Shanan will be accompanied by Joe Knight from One Ocean International and guests will be entertained by a short movie compiled by world renowned surf movie maker, Tim Bonyothon.
Despite winning the ultimate surfing award, Shanan has no ambitions to turn professional. While he will always be a man of the sea his focus is now more on his family, his company and helping keep the rest of us who enjoy the ocean safe.


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I'm not a big fan of predictions. I've written here before about my reluctance to make them, but my friend Mark Schaefer has roped me into it in this week's edition of The Marketing Companion. I think we did a good job, and I bet you'll hear some (from Mark, especially) that are actually profound (and not, say, "This mobile thing is going to be big with the kids.")
We had a lot of fun on this episode, including a preview of our new movie Attack of the Drones, with guest appearances by AHNOLD, Don Pardo, Christian Bale, and the late Don LaFontaine. And I especially enjoy how Mark doesn't just make a prediction--he follows through with implications that you might not have considered.
For my part, I'm all about reliable discernment of the present, so I cheated--my three are already happening. Enjoy the show, and if the holiday spirit strikes you, why not leave us a review on iTunes?
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Fitz and the Tantrums 'More Than Just a Dream' – Album Review
Following the release of their 2010 debut album, 'Pickin' Up the Pieces,' L.A.-based Fitz and the Tantrums became a band to watch. The critically acclaimed record yielded a string of successful singles and guest spots on a variety of late night talk shows, including 'Kimmel' and 'Leno.' Unsurprisingly, though, some questioned how long the band could maintain the retro soul-pop direction they established on 'Pieces.'
On their sophomore album, 'More Than Just a Dream,' Fitz and the Tantrums prove it's possible. The six-member outfit keep their sound fresh by throwing in influences other than the '60s Motown soul that dominated 'Pickin' Up the Pieces.' Here, they revisit other decades, mixing in '80s synths and '90s hip-hop beats. By diversifying their approach, Fitz create a sound that doesn't get dulled or play like a mere gimmick.
Co-vocalist and primary songwriter Michael Fitzpatrick's past experience as a studio engineer alongside producer Tony Hoffer (Depeche Mode, Phoenix) give 'More Than Just a Dream' the same shiny, well-oiled-machine quality that was present on the band's debut album. At times, it's a little too perfect, and some have called the Fitz sound formulaic.
But on 'More Than Just a Dream,' the result is a handful of incredibly catchy, radio-ready songs like the record's first single, 'Out of My League.' The opening track locks in on a groove, something Fitz and the Tantrums are clearly very accomplished at. The intermittent claps and layered keyboards make for a fun song sure to get more than a few feet tapping.
Tracks like '6AM' soar due to the not-to-be-ignored partnership between Fitzpatrick and fellow lead vocalist Noelle Scaggs. It plays out like a conversation between the two singers and feels like an '80s dance-pop version of Hall & Oates' 'She's Gone.' Likewise, 'Break the Walls' and 'Spark' are bound to become fan-favorites with their shout-it-out choruses.
However, 'The End' and 'Merry Go Round' are too calculated. The collective "heys" and "ohs" are a bit lifeless, and Fitzpatrick and Scaggs don't shine quite as brilliantly as they do on other tracks. In these moments, the band sounds burned out on their own creation, which gives credence to the critics who say Fitz's retro-pop is overwrought and tired.
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You would not allow your companion animal to go through the most excruciating pain as it gets old and dieing, right? Your great love would dictate you that, when the time comes and the quality of life decreases so much and the pain is so severe, you'd humanely put it to sleep, right? As rational love is the kindest act of love you could give to your beloved sweetheart.
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This blog will take you on a journey into the wild. It documents my visits to lesser known places in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala , Andhra Pradesh and Goa. It documents places nestled deep in the beauty of the Western Ghats.It documents beautiful ancient temples, sculptures and heritage buildings of India. It has something for all travelling and trekking enthusiasts.
Friday, March 15, 2013
Trip to Sathodi Fallz
8 comments:
- Murali Krshna said...
Yet another enjoyable blog read. thanks for reminding us, as we thought of going there for sometime. keeping posting the good work Rakesh!!
- March 15, 2013 at 1:05 PM
- Team G Square said...
Wonderful pictures . Loved the snake picture very much .
- March 15, 2013 at 2:19 PM
- Divya said...
Came across your wonderful blog on the Facebook page of Gurunarasimha yuvakara balaga. Wow! Truly Amazing photography! You also seem to have a penchant for discovering hidden jewels in the Southern landsape and displaying the same in an never-seen-before light!
- March 15, 2013 at 4:17 PM
- Ashok said...
Nice place for family trip... Good place..
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- R Niranjan Das said...
Excellent post. The falls look beautiful.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
"The trouble with snark"
Love this article by Roger Ebert about snark, particularly as it relates to reviews of the Oscars but as applies to our society in general, too. I've certainly snarked before, and it's fun and cool and easier than really understanding something, but I agree with Ebert that the damage it does is probably not worth it. And unlike him, I have seen snark aimed at regular people rather than celebrities -- you can see it in blog comments and online forums pretty easily -- and nothing ends a useful discussion like it. Food for thought, anyway.
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From the Directors: Streetcars and Highway Widening Projects Paving the Way for Injustice
August 5, 2013
by Diana Copeland
Detroit has long struggled with access to transportation issues and the two main transportation projects recently introduced to the city do not appear to offer any reprieve.
As a representative of East Michigan Environmental Action Council, I regularly attend North End Woodward Community Coalition meetings. There, I witness testimony of Detroiters that have waited for over an hour for a bus; people that have lost their jobs because they were late for work because of bus delay; and folks waiting for buses only to have 2 or 3 busses pass them by at the bus stop. It is clear that what Detroiters want and need is a reliable accessible rapid transit system. But, in recent project proposals for transportation that I have carefully pored over, there is no sign of help coming any time soon.
In April this year the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) finalized the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the streetcar project. This project was approved to replace the Woodward Light Rail project but it is a far cry from the Light Rail plan in terms of serving the people of the city of Detroit. Despite overwhelming community turn out against the proposal, the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) voted June 19th, for their 2040 transportation plan which includes a very controversial highway widening project of I-94 and I-75 freeways.
These elaborate and expensive plans (the streetcar will cost 137 million and the highway widening 4 billion) make little mention of a connected transit initiative. If anything, that is still far off in the future. The main issues with the justice implications of both projects are that they do not address improving health and quality of life, accessibility and affordability for the majority of Detroit residents. The Northend will be especially adversely affected by the streetcar's Vehicle Storage and Maintenance Facility (VSMF), as noted in the EIS, by noise pollution caused by the streetcar turning in and out of the facility, storage of potentially hazardous materials and maintenance activity.
Neither project address accessibility issues in a meaningful way. The streetcar system would serve less area than the original Light Rail plan and even less than an alternate improved bus service with increased number of buses, stops and system throughout Detroit would. On both the original Light Rail and Streetcar EIS's, very little information was given explaining why a sophisticated bus system was not considered in place of the Light rail or Streetcar. It is essential to demand a cost comparison of both plans to an upgraded Bus System.
Both projects come with large price tags for the city and residents. The EIS states the system would largely serve the economic development of Downtown and Midtown, yet residents throughout the city will be stuck paying the unwieldy bills. A majority of funds, $86 million, are coming from private and public investors, $25 million in Federal grants and $16 million in New Market Tax rebates for a total of $137 million. For the amount of money that will be spent on the Streetcar system, a sophisticated bus service efficiently serving the entire city could be created that would more effectively meet the needs of the majority of Detroit residents while still bringing tourists' dollars to local businesses. The Highway widening project is billed as part of a 4 billion dollar project.
As part of a variety of community transportation initiatives, EMEAC brings a race and class analysis to the forefront of the debates over transportation investments; we want to make sure that equity is at the heart of the transportation movement. We do not feel like it is too much to expect that Detroit has basic transit service since our low-income people and people of color rely on them every day.
As an organization we strongly urge officials to guide transportation policy by the following principles:
• Accessibility: Transit systems must support the critical, day-to-day travel needs of the "transit dependent" - people without reliable access to a car. Transit routes must be reliable and well coordinated to allow for trips to school, work, shopping, recreation and medical care.
• Health and Quality of Life: Vehicles must be clean running to prevent toxins from polluting our environment and poisoning our bodies.
• Affordability: Fares should not exceed what families can reasonably pay. Youth should get free rides or significantly discounted rides as many Detroit youth depend on buses to attend school.
• Public Participation: Community members must have a meaningful voice in decision making about how services can be improved and how dollars are spent.
• Accountability: Transportation planning and funding should reflect community priorities.
• Fairness: Low-income riders must receive an equal benefit from public transit dollars as higher-income riders do. Subsidies should be targeted to those who are least able to pay.
We reject both the street car proposal and the highway widening proposal. Detroit's businesses, residents, and families would be better served by transportation systems that include Accessibility, Quality of Life, Affordability, Public Participation, Accountability, and Fairness as policy principles.
We strongly encourage concerned citizens to attend the Northend Woodward Community Coalition (NEWCC) meetings held every 1st and 3rd Monday at St. Matthew & St. Joseph Episcopal Church (8850 Woodward Ave. Detroit 48202) at 5:30pm. For more information about the meetings please call Rev. Ross at 313.460.7076.


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My son doesn't mind much, either, especially when we are sharing our common passions.
Like Star Wars! I grew up watching the original Star Wars movies, which are now considered #4 - #6.
By the time the prequels were released, I was beyond having time to appreciate such fantastical things.
What a blast I've had with my son re-discovering my long lost Star Wars passion. Last year we watched the entire series of movies together, resulting in him becoming a die hard fan, as well. I think I nearly had as much fun searching for the perfect Star Wars gifts for his birthday and Christmas as he had in receiving them.
I had a similar experience with my daughter in her younger years, discovering Harry Potter. We were behind in getting on the Potter bandwagon, but the timing turned out to be wonderful. We started out by reading the first book, which, as you can imagine, took a significant amount of time. Correction. I read the first book to her as the vocabulary was a bit sophisticated. Coincidentally, after we had finished the first book, the first movie premiered, very close to her birthday. Thus, a tradition was born. As much as I enjoyed sharing the series with her, I was thrilled when she was able to take a turn with the reading!
When I was given an opportunity to review the latest installment in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series written by Michael Scott, The Necromancer, I at once wondered, could this be my literary adventure with my son? A quick search on the series confirmed it was a serious contender! (Thank goodness, one can only read so many American Chillers books!)
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Can't wait to dive in? I don't blame you. You can read more about Michael Scott and his wonderful series at Random House, not to mention, get the book for yourself.
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I'm not a fan of figure skating, but I am a fan of athletic competition. So needless to say, I was deeply disturbed last night when the Canadian pairs figure skating team was robbed by the judges. At the time, I found it odd that the judges who voted for the Russian team were the Russians, Chinese, Polish, Ukrainian, and French. The French judge clearly didn't fit with the others. So today, we learn that the fix was in. The block of judges that was going to vote for the Russians no matter what managed to rope in the French judge, in exchange for a French gold in ice dancing.
What's interesting about this is that it was an open secret in 1998 that the ice dancing competition was completely fixed. There is a block of five judges that agreed among themselves who to vote for, and thus cut the other four judges out of the game. The losers who run the figure skating "sport" ignored that, and now the corruption in ice dancing has ruined pairs figure skating as well. I honestly believe that the quality of judging at the Westminster dog show this week is higher than the judging in figure skating at the Olympics.
I honestly cannot imagine what it feels like to do the best you possibly can only to be cheated by judges with ulterior motives. I'd imagine that it robs you of the very impulse that drives you to compete in the first place. And the thing is, this sort of bias and favoritism rears its head in every facet of regular life. Who gets hired? Who gets fired? Who gets promoted? Rarely are these decisions made based strictly on performance, it's not what you know, it's who you know, after all. The world of athletic competition is supposed to offer us some sort of refuge against this sort of thing. The judges in Salt Lake City chose to take that away. Shame on them.


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The Forgotten Potential of Elluvial Gold (Part 2)
(This gent knows his stuff...he's searching around and below a "blow out" on an elluvial slope.)
In this, the second post of this series, I'll be addressing some specific aspects of elluvial gold deposits that you should know if you're interested in recovering some (or all?) of the yellow metal they contain. You should know by now that I'll shoot you straight with both the positives and the negatives from an informational standpoint. After all, I'm no dream merchant. But you knew that already, didn't you?
OK, let me get to the heart of the matter by pointing out the obvious:
1. It's a waste of time to pursue elluvial deposits where major mining operations (open pit or underground) took place.
I can't stress this point enough. Common sense should dictate why this is so (especially in the case of open-pit mining operations), but let me explain a bit anyway. In the old days rich lode mines were the subject of quite a bit of attention, not to mention work and development. Even if you can access the ground these old mines are located on, the nature and scale of the overall operations on that ground pretty much precludes the possibility of finding an associated elluvial deposit. The hub of activity around that old lode included just about anything you can imagine, including wagon or vehicular traffic, sample holes or test pits, the construction of ore dumps, processing facilities, head frames, slag heaps, huge tailings piles, structures of all sorts, and so on. This beehive of activity means that any elluvial gold that was not found or recovered in these larger operations is probably buried under all sorts of structures or debris, or was dug out deliberately or perhaps inadvertently while that mine was in operation. Sure, famous old mines are great places to visit from a historical standpoint, but my suggestion to you is to avoid them like the Black Plague if you're intent on finding an elluvial gold deposit.
(Here's an interesting looking elluvial slope.)
I know what some of you are thinking. It goes something like this: "Well, I could take my super-duper gold detector to one of those big mines and if there's any elluvial scattered around I can probably find it." Really? I don't think so and here's one more reason why. The sheer amount of metallic trash laying around those larger mine sites (not to mention smaller ones) is absolutely daunting and includes large pieces of trash metal right on down to small bits of wire, nails, and screws. Hundreds of thousands of false signals that you're gonna have to dig up if you want to be sure you aren't missing any small pieces of elluvial (or other) gold. Any nugget shooter worth his or her salt will tell you that using discrimination of any sort on your machine can prevent you from finding smaller pieces of gold. You'll get so damn frustrated you'll be ready to hurl that machine down the nearest mine shaft by the end of the day, provided you lasted that long. It ain't worth it. Trust me, I know. I've tried it. Still, people do get struck by lightning and you might too, metaphorically speaking, that is. My advice (for what it's worth) is to let that idea go. Unless you've done your research homework and established the fact that elluvial gold existed at that site in the first place (we'll talk more on this point next), you're just pissing into the wind in the first place.
2. Research helps, but it's hit or miss with elluvial gold.
You all know what a fanatic I am when it comes to doing your research homework before heading out on any mining or prospecting enterprise, especially to a new location or area. Research is a big help in most contexts and it can be when trying to get a line on elluvial deposits as well, but it's a hit or miss proposition much of the time with elluvials. Again, not all lode mines had much in the way of elluvial gold. Others had none. But some had elluvial gold up the wazoo. Those latter are the locations you want to try and find or stumble across. I guess in the end either way is OK as long as you find the gold. Just understand that most of the historical mining literature is spotty when it comes to elluvial gold but if you look hard enough through old narratives and reports you just might turn up a significant nugget of information as I did back in the 1980s when I found a small elluvial deposit. No, it didn't make me rich but gave me some nice gold for my efforts. I was pretty proud of myself at the time because it was my own research that led me to that elluvial deposit in the southeastern California desert. Sure, I had some luck with me too but this is one case where information about a potential elluvial was there to be gleaned and I was the one who harvested that info. That said, I do believe in most cases you'll experience a reasonable amount of frustration trying to gain information on most elluvial deposits simply because the ones you're most likely to find elluvial gold at or on are going to be associated with smaller hard rock lodes that were also worked by a solitary miner or a small group thereof. And what academic wants to focus his or her eye on those piddly sorts of efforts when there are bigger fish to fry historically?
3. Smaller lode mines are one of your best bets for finding elluvial gold.
It's equal parts experience and opinion that make me believe this to be true. First of all, smaller lode mines and their coincidental mining activities never reached the same heights of action applied to larger, richer, and better-known mines. You can even find many of these smaller mines close by (geographically) to the larger and more familiar mines.These smaller lodes worked by a single-blanket jackass prospector or a pard or two hold promise for the following reasons:
- They were not given as thorough a going over like the larger, richer sites.
- Usually they are not as well known (or are unknown altogether) in the historical mining literature (Yes, you're right...this can be a two-edged sword).
- Smaller sites hold greater potential for elluvial deposits that were either un-worked or under-worked.
- Smaller lode sites are especially numerous and spread throughout the southeastern, western, northwestern, and southwestern United States (and elsewhere for that matter).
(One of the many smaller old mine sites scattered throughout the West.)
- Accessing these smaller venues will be easier (for the most part, anyway).
- From a gold detecting standpoint these smaller mines have less metal trash to contend with (but there'll probably still be enough to make you want to tear your hair out by the roots!).
- Smaller sites (including test pits) have not experienced as much attention after the fact as the larger, better-known mines.
Until then, be safe.
(c) Jim Rocha (J.R.) 2015
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