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Monday, September 27, 2010
"Better Lucky than Smart": The Urban Legend of Warren Buffett
Asked by an audience member if returns such as those posted by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chief Executive Officer Warren Buffett…are the product of luck or talent, Taleb [Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of "The Black Swan"] said both played a part.
If given a choice between investing with Buffett and billionaire investor George Soros, Taleb also said he would probably pick the latter.
"I am not saying Buffett isn't as good as Soros," he said. "I am saying that the probability Soros's returns come from randomness is much smaller because he did almost everything: he bought currencies, he sold currencies, he did arbitrages. He made a lot more decisions. Buffett followed a strategy to buy companies that had a certain earnings profile, and it worked for him. There is a lot more luck involved in this strategy."
—Bloomberg Businessweek, September 25, 2010
Far be it for we here at NotMakingThisUp to take on the author of "The Black Swan," which is almost certainly the most timely cautionary thesis ever printed, warning as it did of the higher probability of random, dramatic, unforeseen, global cataclysms than most investors believed possible, just a year before the subprime mortgage crisis triggered a systemic risk of near-death proportions.
But Taleb's comments, reported this week by the alliterively named "Bloomberg Businessweek," during a speech in Montreal—comments that echo earlier statements by Taleb that "Soros has 2 million times more statistical evidence that his results are not chance than Buffett does," whatever that actually means—deserve a quick look, if for no other reason than they are the stuff of urban legend. And it is a legend believed by more people than you might think.
Specifically, the urban legend surrounding Warren Buffett—about whom we took a very clear-eyed look in " Secrets in Plain Sight: Business and Investing Secrets of Warren Buffett" (eBooks on Investing, 2011), including issues never before examined in the extensive literature on Buffett and his investment style—is that Warren Buffett was more lucky than smart.
It is a legend that comes up at least once every time we give a speech. Some skeptical guy (it's always a guy: women love Buffett) who dislikes the personal politics of The Oracle of Omaha and is hoping to find a reason to believe his investment results are a sham, will be sitting there frowning, arms crossed, waiting for a chance to ask a question…and his question will always be along the lines of whether Buffett is really as smart as the masses make him out to be, and isn't most of Buffett's success owed to his luck at coming of age as an investor in the right place (America) at the right time (post-Great Depression), and where does Buffett get off going around lobbying for higher taxes anyway?
Now, Taleb has added a sort of statistical patina to the urban legend of Warren Buffett, by claiming that Buffett's buy-and-hold investment strategy possesses a "randomness," and that this randomness makes his returns suspect.
George Soros, on the other hand, "made a lot more decisions" than Buffett, according to Taleb (trading currencies as well as stocks, and also engaging in arbitrage), which would indicate that Soros's returns are less random, and therefore more due to brains than luck; Buffett's more random, and therefore more due to luck than brains.
The howler here, as anyone who has studied Buffett over the last few decades, is evident immediately, in the line about Buffett making "fewer decisions" in his career—the fallicay being, of course, the notion that buying (or shorting) something is the only act that involves a decision.
For if Warren Buffett has demonstrated anything, it is that deciding not to buy (or short) something is also a decision—and frequently a harder decision to make than writing a trade ticket and going along with the mood of the market.
Indeed, the reason Buffett left New York City for his native Omaha after working with Ben Graham in the 1950s was precisely the issue that, as he once put it, the closer to Wall Street an investor was situated, the more "stimuli" hit the investor, encouraging all sorts of decisions that were not necessarily productive or likely to be profitable.
When asked why he moved back to Omaha, Buffett once said, simply, "It's easier to think here."
And that thinking led to extraordinary results—results that everyone accepts but few people actually grasp.
How good has Buffett been? Well, you can read the graphic facts for yourself in "Secrets in Plain Sight: Business and Investing Secrets of Warren Buffett," but consider that the S&P 500 closed at 89.66 on the day Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway (May 10, 1965) and today stands at 1,148—a 13-fold increase excluding dividends
Meantime, a share of Berkshire Hathaway has risen from $18 that same day to $124,850—a 6,936-fold increase, and purely from price appreciation, since Berkshire doesn't pay dividends.
As for Taleb's charge that Soros is more facile than Buffett for using currencies and arbitrage in his bag of investment tricks ("he did everything"), this actually says more about Taleb's spotty knowledge of Buffett's investment history than it does of Soros' abilities, great though they may be.
For not only has Buffett bought and sold currencies—his U.S. Dollar short early last decade was a money-maker for Berkshire, as was his long position in the Brazilian Real a few years back—but he has bought and sold commodities such as oil and silver, and frequently engaged in billion-dollar arbitrage deals such as RJR Nabisco.
Indeed, Buffett once arbitraged a chocolate maker's stock by selling cocoa beans on the open market, marking his first encounter with the Pritzker family, from whom decades later he purchased, lock-stock-and-barrel, an industrial business—something Soros has never done. So much for Buffett being a mere buy-and-hold equity investor.
Oh, and as far as shorting stocks goes, well, back in his hedge fund days (yes, Buffett ran a hedge fund before taking control of Berkshire) the Oracle of Omaha once borrowed and shorted the entire stock portfolio in Columbia University's endowment.
Lucky? Sure. Smart? Surer.
Jeff Matthews
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33 comments:
- stocksystm said...
Warren Buffett is certainly a smarter than average man, but I have to agree with Taleb on this one. He was the recipient of quite a bit of luck. Shrewdness (related to brains) also played a part. As a former holder of Clayton Homes (bought out by Berkshire for a song) I know how managements were charmed into selling out to him for a pittance.
Buffett could be absolutely dumb in hindsight:
- rob said...
Good post.
Taleb also ignores examples of Buffett making complex derivative bets etc. I also don't understand Taleb's logic. The "lucky fool" hypothesis is that many investors strike it rich though chance. Neither of these men probably qualifies for this label.
But if one investor finds something that works and consistently repeats this strategy, it seems rather silly to say that this person is more likely to owe his good fortune to luck. There's probably more certainty in this strategy (and it implies the investor knows his limits, which seems pretty wise to me).
It's also amusing considering Taleb's analogy of "when a coin is flipped 20 times and comes up heads every time, only an academic would say the odds are 50% that the next flip will be tails. The coin is probably fixed"
- Luke said...
Let's also not forget that Buffett is allocating about $140 billion of equity capital + another $40-80 billion of intangible value depending on whom you talk to. This is a far more difficult task than allocating the $30-odd billion that Soros is managing.
I would take Buffett over Soros even managing 4-6x more capital. If they were both given $10 billion to start with, it's a no-brainer.
- Anonymous said...
Buffett is one deflationary bust away from being an average investor. Soros can make money long/short. If you gave Buffett a short-only mandate I bet he'd underperform similar managers.
- Ken Houghton said...
Wouldn't swear to it--it may not track the DJIA practice--but doesn't the S&P500 Index also de facto include dividends with its baseline assumption that dividends are reinvested to derive the Index Average?
- Anonymous said...
Thinking that what Buffet did / does, and the success of it over a long period of time, can be attributed in any significant way to luck is really an extraordinary statement. Is such thinking the product of myopia, or an inexperienced person? Don't know, but I find it laughable.
Not saying that is what Taleb is saying, but it is what some of the commenters are saying. To Taleb I would say "it's not what you say, it's what they hear."
- bluewingcap said...
Apples to Oranges on the comparisons.
To paraphrase Soros: "The most money I have made was identifying a trend I knew was wrong, riding it, and getting off before it ended". Soros is an amazing speculator, the perfect skill set for these frenetic markets. Buffet is a great fundamental investor, who has made much money for Berkshire in more recent years through trades on macro fundamentals or corporate distress (Level 3 Communications debt comes to mind) rather than long term investments.
- Dr W said...
Most of Soros's real profits came from a few big bets and it was not him alone either..
Basically, it was Jim Rogers who did most of the work the first ten years in the Quantum Fund and from about 1989 to 2000 (when almost all of the profits were made) it was Stan Druckenmiller who ran it.
Soros is also on record stating that if you exclude the "Black Wednesday" pound trade (which by the way was Druckenmiller's idea) and a couple of other big currency trades, he would have an overall net loss in currency speculation.
If luck was a determining factor for one of these guys, it clearly was for Soros.
The problem with Taleb is the fact that he doesn't seem to understand business.
Warren Buffett is first and foremost a businessman, not a pure trader/speculator or maybe gambler in the way Taleb understands it.
- valuemonitor said...
Taleb also criticised the authors of 'The Millionaire Next Door' in a way that indicated he didn't understand their point. He said that the millionaires in the book got that way as a result of investing in the stock markets during a time the markets went up. The authors of MND, on the other hand, said the millionaires got that way as a result of being cheap. Don't you know people who have gotten rich through being unwilling to spend money? Apparently Taleb doesn't.
Buffett's success prior to 1989 was in large part due to his skill at merger arbitrage. He lost money at it in '89, and gave it up then because Berkshire's size and the increased competitiveness of that business made it more difficult to make money. This business required changing the portfolio every few months.
- Tom said...
Well, Soros returned 8% in 2008, while Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway was down 32%. To borrow one of Buffett's favorite sayings - it's only when 2008 ended that you learn who has been swimming naked.
It should be OBVIOUS that Soros is better than Buffett if all you want is absolute performance... and if you are a sophisticated investor, you want lots of absolute performance.
For the die hard Buffett worshipers, it must be hard to face the possibility that while Buffett is extremely smart, maybe he is not the smartest. Maybe people like Soros are smarter. Maybe lots of people are smarter than Buffett when it comes to investing.
- Anonymous said...
The major difference between Buffett and most money managers is that he owns entire companies that generate enormous amounts of free cash flow which Buffett can allocate into other businesses. Money managers can't do that. The Berkshire model is itself a smart decision for which Taleb does give full recognition.
- Alpha Za said...
Great piece, I'd still bank on Buffett because he seems to have a sharp understanding of what he's doing. He discerns fundamental trends, keeps the management in checks and rides it out. He doesn't speculate, he's thoughtful and puts more effort in his relatively small number of deals than Soros does in his vast.
Also, I think we don't give Buffett enough credit, the man knows what he's doing and he does it consistently even when the chips are down.
Napoleon once said, If I'd had to choose between a great General and a Lucky General, I'd pick the lucky one every time.
- Anonymous said...
So let me get this straight. According to Taleb if I make a dollar though some complex trades (derivatives, swaps, multi-currency trades) I'm smarter than if I make a dollar doing something "simple" like buying something low and selling it high? I think I'd vote for the guy that could deliver the most consistent results regardless of how it was achieved...
Anyone wanna sell me some shares of Simons' Renaissance Technology hedge funds (not the mutual funds)?
- macuy said...
All of the above. He is both smart and lucky BUT he is more smart than FORTUNEate. Remove luck out of the equation and his decisions are so fundamentally sound that he will do just as well. I admire Mr. Buffett, luck or no luck he figured it all out!
- macuy said...
Both + smarter than Soros. "Don't work harder...work smarter." "Make the money work for you...not vice versa" LOL I got your back Mr. Buffett 8)
- Anonymous said...
Oh come off it! This is like comparing Lance Armstrong with Tiger Woods (in their respective sports, not their extracurricular activities).
- Hayseed said...
speaking of Taleb and tail events, how close was BRK to going away during the financial meltdown and what did Buffett do to avoid the catastrophe?
- jb said...
Jeff, I want to respectfully dispute your point that there is any "urban legend surrounding Warren Buffett... that Warren Buffett was more lucky than smart." This is a straw man argument.
Other than Taleb's pot shot where does this urban legend lurk that says Buffett is lucky?
Did you hear it a Berkshire's annual meeting? Did some of the thousands who made the pilgrimage tell you they were there to see a lottery winner and not the Oracle?
A Google search on 'Warren Buffett is lucky' turns up this article as the wellspring of the meme.
And Taleb has said before, "I am not saying Buffett doesn't have skill—I'm just saying we don't have enough evidence to say Buffett isn't doing it by chance."
Taleb's quip sounds like a backhanded put down. His Black Swan has been stuffed and made into a buttery intellectual Foie gras that gives him a license to serve up all forms of tut-tuting and pontificating. Nice work if you can get it.
I've followed Buffett for years and I haven't heard this "lucky" criticism. I have seen that his ethics have been called out on occasion, but not his acumen.
Didn't Buffett write the book on arbitrage plays in the 70's and 80's? He just got too big for it to make a difference. Taleb is just ignorant of the facts.
- Yechezkel Zilber said...
The number of decisions is what matters rather than which kind they were.
With 50 coin throws you have way more chance to success by chance than with sya a million.
Soros made very many individual trades, which makes his results much much more significant statistically than Buffet, who made overall quite little trades.
This does not have to do with how many *kinds* of trades he did, but rather with the absolute number of individual trades. (the diversity of strstegies has also a statistical meaning, but the number of trades is much more significant here)
- Jeff Matthews said...
JB asks where we hear this "lucky" stuff about Buffett. JB apparently didn't read the blog, which describes exacty where we hear it: pretty much everywhere we go.
Hayseed asks how close Berkshire came to a melt-down during the crisis. Aside from the fact the Berkshire CDS were blowing out as the insurance companies that had bought market puts from Berkshire bid up the price of making sure they'd get their money back, the answer is: not close at all.
As for Yechezkel Zilber's statement that "the number of decisions" matters more than what kind of decisions they are, well, statiscally significant that statment may be, he or she apparently does not invest for a living.
We'll take a couple of great decisions over a zillion bad ones any day.
- jb said...
Jeff, I apologize for doubting your evidence that this is widespread urban legend. I guess we both are not reading very well. Because you didn't directly answer my question of if you had heard this "lucky" criticism at the Berkshire annual meeting. But, you imply it was circulating there, because you've heard it everywhere. I'm just a little surprised people would spend serious time and money going to Omaha to hear someone they really consider lucky, especially since the meeting is so well covered these days.
- Jeff Matthews said...
JB: Again, I hear it whenever/wherever I give a speach.
As for whether this is a topic of conversation at the annual meeting, it kind of goes without saying that it is not something that the Berkshire investors who go to Omaha for the annual meeting don't think along those lines.
- Anonymous said...
Buffet is not only a great Investor he is a great manager. Buffet's investment record may be beaten, but to match his amazing managerial record would be next to impossible. Tell me how many managers have built and managed a world class organization with just 20 people in the head quarters. I'm sure Soros Quantum fund would have more people in the back office than that. He has invested in almost everything; he wagered on Silver in 1998, Soros just happen to discover Gold.
And oh, this guy Tableb has successed in getting what he wants, if he has said the obvious nobody would have bothered to talk about it nor would he have got the people's attention. Any publicity is good publicity.
- lucky said...
Interesting theory of Taleb. Putting it in another way: you aim and shoot 100 shots, and you hit, say, 90% of times - then you're just lucky. If you close your eyes and just shoot , and you hit, say 10'000 times, and you hit, say also, 90% of times - you're a good shooter. Statistically. Really? I do not buy it, anyway! :-/
- Hank said...
Not sure if the Taleb quote is out of context, but if you read Taleb's Fooled By Randomness, there is a clear bias in favor of Soros and against Buffett (page 144). Could chalk this up to Nassim having met and liked Soros.
- Anonymous said...
Wow, the vitriol against Buffet is interesting.
It's comparing apples and oranges. But for the long-term investor, Buffet's Hathaway is clearly the choice.
I don't think Buffet's decline in 2008 means anything, given the nature of his business. I lost less on a percentage basis than Berkshire but that means absolutely nothing--Buffett wins hands down over me. Where is he and his longterm investors now? In pretty good shape compared to virtually every investor.
This is not meant as a put-down of Soros. But the decision not to either buy or sell is a decision--not no decision as Taleb seems to infer--and Buffet's willingness to hold onto his cash/capital until he sees a reasonable return is what distinguishes him, I think. In fact, I try to emulate it by seeing 5-10 years as the only investment period that an investor like me can possible match against the Street. That has served me well the last 3-10 years, but reversion to the mean rears its head in a way that Buffett has absolutely destroyed. There is virtually no change Buffett's returns are chance and he would tell you, I think, that more of it is due to Munger than himself. That, in itself, is a a sign of Buffett's superiority.
My 5c (if it's worth that much.)
- Anonymous said...
Buffett's most amazing part is convincing everyone he is just a country yokel who invests in brand name stocks. He has crews of sophisticated investors making bets on his behalf. Soros and Buffett are really no different in they are very opportunistic and love "free money" when other investors are in weak positions.
- Al said...
Why bother Jeff? Every successful value investor has a moment where he/she thinks "Why doesn't everyone do this?" This sort of predictable diminution of Buffett's status is a wonderful phenomenon, and I wholeheartedly encourage it!
- Anonymous said...
Buffett by far the best " hedge fund" manager ever! Most people only hear about his large equity holdings and think that is all he does. Options buying and selling, munis or distressed debt, currency plays, REITS, arbitrage, buying whole companies, and the most genius of all leverage from insurance float. Only thing holding back higher returns today is law of large numbers. Go back and look at upside downside capture of hedge fund days before BRK. He is smarter today than 40 years ago. Would be fun and amazing to to see what he could do today with 1 billion. i say 20-30% a year. The cons on Buffett probably think that Tiger won't ever win again too! BP
- Anonymous said...
The golfer Gary PLayer once said, "the harder I work, the luckier I get."
I'm not sure I've ever agreed with Taleb, but definitely disagree this time. And, even if one is to buy the argument about Buffet not making many decisions, Soros only made about four big ones: Hire Rogers, listen to Rogers, hire Druckenmiller, listen to Druckenmiller.
- Buffett said...
I saw this article saying Warren Buffett has not generated any alpha in 10 years:
Warren Buffett's Alpha and Returns
Does this make sense to you?
- Jeff Matthews said...
'Buffett' posts a blog on Warren Buffett's "alpha" and asks if it makes sense to us.
First, saying that Warren Buffett's "alpha" (excess return above the market) has declined over time is like saying Derek Jeter is not the same hitter he was ten years ago.
The difference is that Jeter's deterioration is due to age, while Buffett's performance deterioration is due to the law of large numbers: it's hard to make money on large sums, and Buffett has been warning this would happen since (literally) the 1960s.
So, to that extent, the blog is stating the obvious.
Second, however, the decline in "alpha" (a term that would make Buffett vomit, by the way: why not just say "performance"?) seems exagerrated here, as the article claims Buffett's 10 year "alpha" was zero while in fact Berkshire's stock was up 100% in the last ten years while the S&P 500 is actually down.
So, net net, yes, in general, this article states the obvious. As we have written in these virtual pages, "This is not your father's Berkshire." Anybody expecting returns from BRK/A that are wildly in excess of the overall market will likely be disappointed.
On the other hand, they will not wake up any time soon and see their company disappear, like Bear Stearns, Lehman, Fannie Mae and the rest.
- Anonymous said...
I must say i read most of the posts but not all.
People tend to forget that George Soros spend 8 billion dollars the last 30 years. Even when the dollar was skyhigh against other currencies.
I think not attempting to be cynical but that this strategy is paying off the last couple of years if one sees the performance of his hedgefund. That's why right wing organisations are trying to ridicule or harass the master. He will be a lot more richer than other billionaires is my opinion, even if crashes or bullmarkets will explode. in % terms i mean it.


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Prenda Lawyer Says Judge Wright's Order Is Inapplicable In Georgia Because California Recognizes Gay Marriage
from the wtf? deptSo, you may recall that as a part of Judge Otis Wright's Prenda sentencing, he ordered that a copy of the ruling be submitted in every other case involving Prenda:
For the sake of completeness, the Court requests Pietz to assist by filing a report, within 14 days, containing contact information for: (1) every bar (state and federal) where these attorneys are admitted to practice; and (2) every judge before whom these attorneys have pending cases.In one Prenda case (involving AF Holdings again) in the Northern District of Georgia, the defendant, Rajesh Patel, and his lawyer, Blair Chintella, submitted Judge Wright's ruling themselves to the court in the case. As pointed out by Fight Copyright Trolls, Prenda's local counsel in Georgia, Jacques Nazaire has filed one of the most ridiculous filings we've ever seen yet in all of the Prenda filings. It argues that the court should not allow Judge Wright's order to be entered into the docket because California recognizes gay marriage and Georgia does not. I'm not joking.
The defendant has filed a copy of that Order hoping that it would be viewed as a mandate by this Court. However, the defendant's attempts to issue this mandate should fail for the following reasons.It doesn't stop there. It notes that California courts have different immigration rules and (randomly) that NY has different gun rights. Basically, it throws out every hot button issue that stereotypical conservatives might disagree with stereotypical liberals on.
First and foremost the undersigned respects the California decision and believes that it was rendered in the best interest of the residents of California.
Nevertheless, this instant case is pending in a Georgia District Court and it is trusted that any decision rendered, whether for or against the plaintiff, will be done so in the best interest of the residents and practitioners of Georgia.
While this Court may or may not agree with some of the issues presented in the California case, unbeknownst to the defendant, the California case will not necessarily become a mandate on this Court. It is solely within the discretion of this Court to follow or not follow the decisions made in the California case.
The defendant should realize that California has different laws than Georgia, a different Governor than Georgia; a different legislative body than Georgia, different business needs than Georgia and different views than Georgia and as such all of its decisions cannot serve as a mandate for Georgia.
For example the California Courts have legalized gay marriage. Perry v. Schwarzenegger 704 F.Supp.2d 921 (N.D. Cal., 2010);Certified question, 628 F.3d 1191 (9th. Cir.); Answered 52 Cal.4th 1116 (2011) Affirmed, 671 F.3d 1052 (9th Cir.) Such a decision cannot serve as a mandate on Georgia Courts to legalize gay marriage as well.
Of course, all of that is meaningless. While it's true that Judge Wright's ruling is in no way a precedential ruling for the Georgia court, it's still a ruling about federal law, not any specific state law. And the ruling itself is about flat out misconduct (including potential racketeering and tax evasion claims) by the plaintiff in this case, because of actions in a nearly identical case. That's not about California having a "mandate" over Georgia. It's about very relevant additional information that the court should know about.
Nazaire then goes on to list out a ridiculous parade of horribles that he claims would happen if the Georgia court "followed the aforesaid California Order" including that law firms wouldn't be able to use boilerplate text any more. This makes absolutely no sense at all. First of all, the inclusion of Judge Wright's order is not about having the Georgia court "follow" the order, but adding additional important information about the parties in this particular case. Separately, the idea that adding a California ruling into the docket suddenly means lawyers wouldn't be able to cut and paste any more... just doesn't make any sense at all.
Nazaire then tries to argue, incredibly, that there is no "proof beyond a reasonable doubt" that Alan Cooper's signature was forged. Earth to Nazaire: that ship sailed a long, long time ago. It also leads to this completely random attack on the EFF:
Prior to filing the document, the undersigned contacted Prenda Law to find out whether or not Mr. Cooper would be available to testify at trial but was advised that they could not locate Mr. Cooper. The undersigned was advised that Mark Lutz and Peter Hansmeier would be available to testify as witnesses. Had the undersigned realized that the Electronic Frontier Foundation was hanging with Mr. Cooper, he would have been able to track down Mr. Cooper and questioned him about the documents. It turns out that Mr. Cooper was a caretaker of one of the properties of a Prenda Law member and had left said property in August, 2012.Wow. Honestly, this one needs no commentary. It speaks volumes (of insanity) for itself.
Therefore, even if the undersigned had placed a knife to the throats of each of Prenda's members, none would have been able to give him Mr. Cooper's contact information at the time on November 5, 2012 when Plaintiff commenced its law suit. It is certainly not the first time a company has lost contact with an agent (or alleged agent as stated).
And Nazaire is not done. He also argues that Patel's lawyer, Chintella, was "one of the two star witnesses in the California case" (which, um, isn't true) and then claims that this is an ethics violation in Georgia.
This whole filing really is quite remarkable, but certainly seems to fit in to the growing pile of "Prenda crazy" filings in various cases around the country.
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Catalina is a local destination I'd never visited before. The occasion? A day trip with a dear friend who was celebrating her birthday. Since she's more in the know than I am, she had acquired a free boat pass courtesy of the birthday promotion at www.CatalinaExpress.com. (Take a look! The offer is legitimate and it is good through April 2012.)
I booked my passage online to complement hers, departing San Pedro. There is a rather youthful senior-citizen rate (ahem, 55 and up), and if you wish to phone in reservations, AAA offers a $7.50 discount for up to six in a party. The boat terminal is located 45 minutes south of Pasadena. Parking for the day costs $12.00. Now if the facility looks vaguely familiar, perhaps it's because you've made some joyous drops here in the misty past, sending kids off to summer camp. I have, and that was my only association with the terminal. Now it was my turn to sail away.
Waiting in what feels like a small-town airport--friendly staff, no sense of impending terrorism--I read maps and recommendations and the correction that Catalina Island is not 26 miles away; it is twenty-two. The ride over takes 75 smooth minutes. Docking in Avalon calls for a southern California brain change; walking is the norm here! Almost all transport is by foot, golf cart ($40 per hour rental), or wheel (bikes, segways). The other adjustment is accepting that everything is on a tinier scale, more akin to Main Street Disneyland or Brugge. Small clapboard houses, narrow alleys, dinky splashes of gardens. First we located a deli and bought sandwiches. We took our lunch and walked toward the curvilinear casino, a 1920s Mediterranean landmark that houses performance space, a cinema, and a museum. Soon we sat on a bench to people-watch and read aloud all the boat-names we could see in the slips. After lunch we got serious about walking.
Through the town there are charming flat-lander neighborhood streets. We went into St. Catherine's Catholic Church, whose stained glass windows cast their nautical glow into the silent sanctuary. Then we headed upland in search of the Wrigley Garden. This route was more rustic, among eucalyptus, a campground, the sunny summer smell that results from sunshine falling on trees. We never did reach the botanical garden, but we did find a golf course with a snack shop offering dollar tacos. Sold! We fortified ourselves before heading back to the dock.
Thirty minutes before departure is the line-up formation. The return ride was simple, though I did spy some campers going home after their Catalina adventure. But they weren't my campers, and I coasted back to the mainland without a care in the world.
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This code section should account for 100% rated breakers being used.
690.9(B) has an exception for this, but 705 does not accommodate this.
690.8(B)(1) Has an exception for 100% rated breakers as well with similar language. I think this should be added here.
I also think wording for switchboard/switchgear should be added where applicable to (a) thru (d) since some of these sections clearly only apply to panelboards, while this code provision could be used on larger equipment.
As an example, I have 1440A of PV current, a 1600A 100% rated breaker, but yet I must account for 1800A on the bus which will not exist.


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Feels Like The First Time
No, no, no, not that! Get your heads out of the gutter! In anticipation of the upcoming season, I was reminiscing about the blossoming of my love for the game, and ultimately the first baseball game I ever attended.
I spent my formative years in rural northeastern Pennsylvania. Well, at that time it was rural – not so much anymore. This was back in the days pre-cable, pre-satellite, pre-anything except good old-fashioned broadcast television. We were pretty much equidistant from both Philadelphia and New York, so the team you ended up rooting for was pretty much determined by which TV station your antenna could pick up (I know you young'uns out there are probably having a hard time imagining such archaic technology 😉 ).
Some people could only get Philadelphia stations. Some could only get New York stations. Some poor souls could get practically none at all. My family was apparently blessed with the ideal location, as we could get both! This led to an early schism in our household – I rooted for the Phillies,
but my sister ended up following the Mets.
Or as I so lovingly teased her, the Mutts.
So the two girls in the family would argue over which team to watch (oddly enough, our younger brother didn't even like baseball, so he didn't care). I'm pretty sure the only reason my sister watched the Mets was because she had the hots for Lee Mazzilli, though she will deny that. Note Lee's nifty late-'70's hairstyle.
Let's fast-forward now through my high-school and college years, when I regrettably succumbed to the peer pressure that it wasn't "cool" for girls to like sports. And since there were no MLBlogs at the time, of course I didn't know that there actually were a lot of female baseball fans out there. I guess none of you went to my school – oh well.
So finally, two years out of college, at the ripe old age of 23, I finally get to attend my first major league game. Yay!
May 15, 1987. The Padres are playing the Phillies at everybody's favorite stadium to bad-mouth, the Vet. A guy I had recently met asked me out on a date – yay! To go see the Phillies – double yay! But I was recovering from having my appendix removed – not yay. He also didn't believe in buying tickets ahead of time – double not yay. We got to the stadium and he bought what were actually pretty decent seats from an "unofficial ticket salesman" in the parking lot, and the view from our seats was pretty much like this:
Not too bad! We settled in to watch the game, and now here comes the memorable part. Sometime in the middle innings, San Diego's catcher lofts a high foul pop toward the upper deck behind us. Everyone is craning around to see (except me – limited mobility from the appendix, you know), and it appears to be caught by someone in the first row or two up there.
But they dropped it!
As I look up to see the ball falling towards us, what seemed like dozens of hands are all reaching above me to try to catch the ball. All I could do was cringe, close my eyes, and cover my head to keep from being whacked unconscious. Then I heard voices asking "Where is it?", "Where'd it go?"
I opened my eyes to see, believe it or not, the ball nestled between my feet. All these years later, I still have it. Here it is:
The ball was off the bat of Benito Santiago, who went on to win the Rookie of the Year award that year,
and later played for the Phillies in 1996.
Sadly, I don't even remember the name of the guy that took me to the game (it was our one and only date). The Phillies won that game, 7-4, but would go on to finish fifth (out of six) in the NL East that year.
After that, my love for the game was back to stay. So thank you, whoever you are, for taking me out that night!


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"It is unacceptable for the heads of these companies to evade testifying before Congress in order to avoid answering questions about the U.S. government's major report on the oil spill for which their companies share responsibility," Rep. Edward Markey of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, said in a statement Tuesday.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (MCT) — Toting the football he caught Sunday for a 24-yard touchdown, Brandon Marshall headed toward the first row of seats behind the Bears bench with more purpose than any route he ran all game.
Marshall found his father, Freddie, and handed him the ball. It was the only thing the Bears wide receiver didn't hold onto all day.
"I gave it to my dad," Marshall said after the Bears' 41-3 thumping of the Jaguars at EverBank Field. "That was big."
For Marshall, everything about the Bears' fourth victory was. Marshall's sentimental journey to his home state turned into a highly productive business trip for him and a Bears offense that enjoyed its most prolific day in 23 years. The 501 yards the Bears gained represented their highest total since Sept. 24, 1989, against the Lions.
"They brought me here to be a No. 1 receiver, but in our offense we have the ability to game-plan around different guys," Marshall said. "When teams take me out, we have guys that can step up."
What happens when nobody takes Marshall out of the game plan and everybody steps up anyway? The Bears offense makes franchise history just so it can keep up with a defense that set another record.
It helped that the Jaguars chased ball carriers like they were running on a 100-yard Florida swamp, but coordinator Mike Tice's crew established enough momentum to last until they play again in 15 days.
Matt Forte gained 107 yards. Backup Michael Bush jumped over a tackler. Jay Cutler rediscovered a rhythm missing early. The offensive line protected. As for Marshall, he did what the Bears acquired him to do by being harder to cover than a neck tattoo.
"Whenever he gets one-on-one we expect him to win," Cutler said. "If he comes to the sideline and says, 'I just can't win,' I'll say, 'Why not?' "
Marshall likes to explain the varying amounts of an NFL receiver's weekly output in a unique way. "Some days it's a shot glass," he says, "some days it's a wheelbarrow."
Sunday was a day to get the gardening gloves and push.
In catching 12 passes for 144 yards, Marshall became the first Bears wide receiver since Marcus Robinson in 1999 to gain at least 100 yards in back-to-back games. Not since Marty Booker in 2002 has a Bears wide receiver caught 10 or more passes in a game.
One of the biggest came on fourth-and-1 at the Jacksonville 45, with the score tied at 3. The Bears lacked a zeal for teal in the first half and Lovie Smith sensed his team needed to break out of the doldrums. So Lovie lit the match.
"We talked about how disappointed we were in the first half and couldn't come out and punt the ball right away," Smith said.
Instead, Tice called a pass the Jaguars defended until the last moment Marshall read Cutler instinctively enough to escape for a 12-yard connection. The conversion changed the game. The Bears flipped a switch.
"We had pressure and he slid it into a nice inside hole cover," Jaguars coach Mike Mularkey said. "Those guys have been playing long enough that they know what he is going to do before he does it. It was a monumental momentum change."
Over the final 20 minutes, the Bears scored 35 points. Forget any concerns over the Bears playing down to their level of competition against a Jaguars team that looked like a 2-14 team quarterbacked by the second coming of Jonathan Quinn. Overlook the silly, destructive mistakes Gabe Carimi made on a long day for the Bears right tackle. Stop trying to figure out why the Bears would squib-kick when Robbie Gould is so good at booting the ball into oblivion.
When the Bears show that much explosiveness for the second straight game, they demand the focus stays on what this can do instead of what it can't. On a day the Packers (2-3) lost again to a Colts team the 4-1 Bears beat — think tiebreaker — that only seems fair.
"We're still peaking," said cornerback Charles Tillman, whose 36-yard interception return for a TD broke the game open.
Indeed, the Bears enter their off week a good football team with potential for 2006-like greatness. Three straight beatable opponents await the Bears. They have a defense that scores so regularly that Tillman and Lance Briggs have more touchdowns so far than Calvin Johnson. They have an offense getting more acclimated to Marshall every game, even if this one in 88-degree weather tested the Florida resident.
"I've got Bear blood in me now," Marshall kidded. "I've lived here all my life and still not used to it."
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70g ground almonds
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That sounds devine!I'm not sure how u stopped yourself from slathering more nutella on top though.
these with nutella sounds really amazing, my kids love nutella!
Almond sponge and Nutella? Yes please! Can't go wrong with that. :)
Look delicious. I love anything almond. I agree they often taste better the next day. Getting 6 is much better than eeking it out to 18. Yum
Almond and nutella sounds like a fantastic combination. I may have to order this book for my nutella loving friend's birthday next month.
I just received the same book and bookmarked this recipe as I recently made financiers and am absolutely in love with them. So pleased to see how it turned out - please send some over :)
Nutella is pure heaven in a jar! Thanks for the heads up the book too - you are such a good friand ;)
Oh YUM! What a treat! My boys sure love to have these financiers for snack & me too! ;)
Friands haven't taken off here like cupcakes but I love them, if only as an excuse to use my friand tin. Lovely filling to use and I always like the way the friands look as if they are about to explode!
Be still my beating heart - yum!
Very impressed you have friand tins. I wasn't really quite sure what shape they would be, but since discovering them last year, I've made many friends - or did I mean friands ;-)
A gooey layer of nutella in the middle has got to be a good thing.
These look great. I don't cook much with almonds anymore as my daughter is allergic but these are really tempting!
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In the massive purple crater you missed out the "Beagle 2" label.....
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander is on its final approach for a slated touch-down on the Red Planet's Arctic region on 25 May amid a certain amount of nail-biting as to whether it will survive the landing. Ed Weiler, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, admitted yesterday: "This is not a trip to grandma's …
Astronomy buffs and Elvis seekers might not be so eager to find life elsewhere after reading this:
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Why I hope the search for extraterrestrial life finds nothing.
By Nick Bostrom
Technology Review - Published by MITMay/June 2008
Went and read Bostrom's article . . .
If (big if) he is correct, and there is some "great filter" in our future, now at least we have some warning that something nasty this way comes (maybe), and we can possibly take steps to do something about it. Forewarned is forearmed.
There's also the (big) possibility that he's totally wrong and spinning castles in the air, completely out of touch with (the as yet undefined) reality of the universe.
Consider this also - group of people living on an island somewhere, the height of their technology is flint knives. A submarine goes past their island, submerged, silent. They'd never know it was there. There could be a daily parade of submarines, and it would make no difference at all to the islanders - they have no way of detecting them, communicating with them, stopping them, the islanders are beneath the notice of the submarines, or if they are noticed, they are of no interest.
Our flint knives are more advanced (from our perspective), but we may be beneath the notice or of no interest whatsoever to a more advanced civilization - which by definition is more advanced than we are because they have mastered interstellar travel and we have not.
Personally, I'd like to see some evidence of life (current or extinct) on Mars - it would put another nail into the coffin of the creationists.
And what about this scheduled for later today?
Methinks the aliens are worried that they are losing media and conspiracy theory coverage on earth, what with the situation in Mess'opotamia (apologies to Jon Stewart), natural disasters on earth, man-made disasters in the US (primaries), UK (Gordon & Boris) etc. etc.
This will get the wires chattering again
Read the article posted. Not that big a worry, in part because of the comment posted by Miami Mike, and in part because of other little parts that are flawed in there.
For example, we routinely push radio signals into space. However, because of diminishing returns, we know that it requires an absolutely enormous amount of energy to push a signal to the range that would be necessary to require it as "proof", if such a thing can be proved, that there exists no other civilization capable of space travel than our own.
In addition to that, we also know that if you focus a signal, then it gets to its destination with lower power requirements for the sender- I don't need the same kind of power for a directional beam to go ten miles that I do for an omnidirectional signal to go ten miles. So, wouldn't it make sense for most communication to be relatively narrow band signals from one solar system to the next? And therefore, wouldn't us picking up those signals require that we also be in the path of those narrow band signals?
further, the great barrier IS distance.
If or when, we manage fast travel (faster than light) then it's in the submarine scenario. Also speaking on galactic scales, we've only been beaming radio signals into space an EXTREMELY short time.... With technology, we may not need or want to for very long. With fiber to the house, and high bandwidth wireless from fiber connected sites (or auto-directional antenna's for high bandwidth). Plus doesn't high bandwidth stuff attenuate faster. The window for which a society spams radio may be short. Add in technology to encrpyt and potentially hide signals in background noise...... Doesn't supprise me we'll probably find aliens in person before we intercept their signals.
Then figure how long it's taking us to frag this planet...any signals we make in the future may not originate from the direction of class M planets. (for all of you wanting to point directional antenna's at those planets) :>
Nah. "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold and one Shepherd."
Of course it could be argued this was just a reference to people who weren't Israel but, where's the fun in that?
... conspiracy theorists.
Nothing fazes these people. They'll just claim that NASA fabricated it all and we'll be back to square one.
Once they've decided to believe something, they *really* like to keep on believing it - and no amount of scientific fact is going to change their minds. After all, the discovery of dinosaurs didn't stop them did it?
Despite what you might think, nothing about creationism actually rules out the possibility of alien life. I know there are times when creationists have said otherwise but they're silly people.
Look at it this way: if you were God, would you stop at one planet?
There's an entire universe out there! The evolutionist looks at it and marvels at the wondrous possibilities of nature. The creationist looks at it and is struck by the infinite majesty of God. You know that feeling you get when you look up at the stars and realise just how far you're actually seeing, the one that makes you feel so very, very small... anyway the assumption that God would only make one planet full of life is silly, and people on either side of this great chasmic debate using that assumption are equally silly.
In fact it's all silly. Lets go and get merry instead. And no, I don't care if it is thursday.


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Psy Wins New Media American Music Award + Performs With Madonna in New York City
'Gangnam Style' star Psy has already won a 2012 American Music Award in advance of this weekend's ceremony, but more importantly, he got to perform two songs onstage with Madonna at her Madison Square Garden concert on Tuesday!
Madge surprised the crowd by bringing out the Korean pop star during her set and doing the 'Gangnam Style' dance along with him. She grinded next to him and crawled between his legs while he rapped his worldwide hit.
Psy also hung around for 'Music,' dancing with Madonna as she sang her classic No. 1 song. Psy has now completed a meteoric rise from being unknown in America six months ago to performing in an iconic venue with the queen of pop music.
As a result of his online success and social media buzz, Psy has been named the winner of the New Media Award at the 2012 AMAs, and he has been added to the performance lineup, according to People.
That's yet another trophy for the singer, who took home Best Video at the MTV Europe Music Awards. The New Media Award doesn't exactly have the most impressive history — past recipients of the award were DeStorm, Christina Grimmie and Karmin — so we hope Psy has a more prolific post-award career.
The AMAs air live this Sunday (Nov. 18) at 8PM EST on ABC. Psy will receive his award during the pre-show, which begins at 5PM EST with a live stream on YouTube.


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I love how the digital graininess somehow ironically imparts a sense of nostalgia. I can almost hear a soundtrack to go along with these.
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- Paul Festa's first film, Apparition of the Eternal Church (2006, 51 min), captures the responses of 31 artists to the apocalyptic music of Olivier Messiaen (with Justin Bond, John Cameron Mitchell, Harold Bloom; screenings: Grace Cathedral, Barbican Centre, Library of Congress; "Remarkable"—The New Yorker; "Stunning"—Chicago Sun-Times; "Sublime"—Globe & Mail; numerous awards). Festa performs the Tchaikovsky violin concerto, opposite members of the San Francisco Ballet and The Cockettes, in his award-winning second film, The Glitter Emergency (2010, 20 min), a silent-film drag ballet comedy ("Enormous visual and musical inventiveness…full of pleasure and joy...Festa gives a bravura performance."—Film Threat). He produced, wrote and edited, with director Austin Forbord, and was chief archivist, for the Emmy-nominated documentary Stage Left: A Story of Theater in San Francisco (2010, 80 min: with Robin Williams, Bill Irwin, Peter Coyote; screenings: Geary Theater, KQED; "Intriguing...entertaining...a valuable record"—Variety). Performances as violinist and actor: ODC Theater, Center for Performance Research, Kunst-Stoff, TheatreFIRST, North Bay Shakespeare, Albert Fuller's Helicon Ensemble (Merkin Hall, Weill Hall at Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall). US, Boston, NYC, SF, LA and DC (Coolidge Auditorium at the Library of Congress on the "Betts" Stradivarius) premieres of Messiaen's Fantaisie for violin and piano. He is the author of OH MY GOD: Messiaen in the Ear of the Unbeliever, based on Apparition of the Eternal Church, and several anthologized essays, and has written for The Daily Beast, Salon, Nerve, and The New York Times Book Review. Current projects include a novel and Tie It Into My Hand (2014, ca. 80 min), a documentary feature that has screened as a work in progress at the Cannes film market and at ODC Theater in San Francisco (with Alan Cumming, Gary Graffman, Peter Coyote, Mink Stole, Robert Pinsky; "A fascinating exploration of the artistic life, as rollickingly entertaining as it is insightful and stirring."—San Francisco Bay Guardian). Education: Yale (B.A.; prizes, honors, distinction), Juilliard (Cert., Adv. Cert., scholarships). Residencies: Yaddo, MacDowell, ODC Theater, Centre des Récollets.
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Two doctoral candidates at the City University of New York Graduate Center recently scored prizes from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for a project in which they created a free inquiry-based science curriculum to teach college and high school students how to do modern biological research.
Marissa Bellino, who is studying urban education, and Stephen Harris, who is studying biology, sought to develop an "experience and skill set" that would encourage students to become interested in the sciences. The project began in 2010 at a public high school in New York City through a STEM education program run by the National Science Foundation. The project has also been tested in Belize, a country that had no DNA lab before the program was put on for about 20 high school students.
In "DNA Barcoding from NYC to Belize" students collect field samples and learn how to extract DNA and generate barcodes. According to Bellino and Harris, "sampling can occur in local parks as a way to inventory biological diversity or at local markets to investigate potential mislabeling."
The course materials also explain to teachers how to run both low-budget and more advanced DNA barcoding labs. DNA barcoding is the process of identifying species based on short fragments of DNA. The DNA sequences developed in the two field tests have been made publicly available on The Barcode of Life Data Systems as a resource for the international scientific community.
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The EEB Grad Book Club Presents:
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
By Stephan Jay Gould
Gould, S. J. 2002. The Structure of Evolutionary Theory. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University. 1433 p.
As biologists – and evolutionary biologists at that – we all strive to retain some knowledge of the historical underpinnings of our vast discipline (or multi-disciplines) plus, at the very least, we hope to maintain a cursory understanding of the complex ideas that render evolutionary biology a controversial field. At this informal gathering we will touch upon a number of those contentious topics, and conventional topics for that matter (it's a given that Gould will have some unorthodox spin on those well-accepted areas), and voila – we will be better EEB graduate students because of it (even if we only improve our vocabulary skills). So bring your copy of Gould and a dictionary and meet us at ….
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text: Incense in Art and Poetry by Katlyn Breene "The vital role played by smoke in ancient magic and religion is little comprehended by modern students of the occult. Ancient man seems to have taken for granted the existence of an animus or indwelling soul in every object and he believed the same of the food he offered his gods. An ever-expanding demand for incenses helped to open up trade routes between widely differing cultures, all of which made their contribution to the growth and development of ancient civilizations. At night the smoke of a multitude of exciting aromatics arose in intoxicating clouds in the temples of the ancient priesthoods."- The Magic of Perfume"In a world sayable and lush, where marvels offer themselves readily for verbal dissection, smells are often right on the tip of our tongues - but no closer - and gives them a kind of magical distance, a mystery, a power without a name, a sacredness.""Nothing is more memorable than a smell"- From "A Natural History of the Senses" by Diane Ackerman"I sit at peace-burning an incense seal,Which fills the room with the scent of pine and cedarWhen all the burning stops, a clear image is seen,Of the green moss upon the peigraph's carved words." - by Wang Chen (768-833), soldier, poet and official of the court who lter became a recluse"Along the perimeter, in a spiral, in a circle,Burning evenly, Burning smoothly,Making the paths closer still,Bending in and out, finally unfolding.Moving in accord with heaven's design,As duplicated by human artiface,To reveal the heart's flowerAs if from within a cloud. - Excerpted a poem by Ting Yun, 1878. "All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the serenity of the air, the fineness of seasons, the joy of light, the melody of sounds, the beauty of colors, the fragrancy of smells, the splendor of precious stones, is nothing else but Heaven breaking through the veil of this world, manifesting itself in such a degree and darting forth in such variety so much of its own nature."- Wiliam Law"The sense of smell is the most perfectly connected sense to the deep recesses of our elusive sub-conscious self. Subtle aromas can awaken within us long forgotten memories or even open hidden passageways back to the hidden self. Therefore, the proper use of incense is an invaluable tool in any form of meditation or healing."- The Ven. Vajracarya DaijoWHY INCENSE?Smell is the only sense that proceeds directly to the limbic system without communicating with the neocortex. Smell is not censored. We are able to enter into an intimate relationship, untainted by words and ideas, with another entity through smell. Our emotions likely evolved from our sense of smell. First there was smell then there were emotions. Emotions arise out of smell better than any other sense. The reason for this is at least partly because smell is registered uncensored, and also because smell triggers learning as has been proven in experiments. The act of giving flowers, perfume, incense, or some other scented entity is an act of giving memory.What does this tell us? Smell is our best bridge to the primitive world, the wild. The aromatic plants that we cultivate allow us access to the wild as our other senses had access to the wild before the Word. As we have more and more abstracted Nature into a mental construct called a phonetic language, we have tamed nature and lost our intimacy with Nature. Fortunately, we have not been able to tame our sense of smell.From what we have spoken of, it is apparent that scent has the ability to manipulate the mind. This was recognized by bans of perfumes and incense periodically from ancient times up until at least 1770 (see JACOBSON'S ORGAN, by Lyall Watson). The herbs and resins we have chosen to burn for incense today that were first burned on ancient altars appear not to have been chosen randomly. They appear rather to have been chosen for their ability to create an ecstatic feeling, and it is reasonable to discover that they resemble human hormones in chemical composition, which they do indeed! Sex and religion fertilize each other through incense.Why was incense so pervasive in ancient times? The ancients believed incense provided access to the gods. "Listening to incense" allows direct access to our primitive brain, allowing us to get outside ourselves. That was the only way to contact the gods.We long for intimacy. Why, because our evolving culture and language deny us intimacy with each other and with Nature in general. This lack of intimacy has created sickness amongst us. True healing depends on our ability to bridge our isolation and meaningfully connect to the Universe. Incense allows us a simple way to facilitate the magic of plants. Incense helps us to get out of ourselves and enter into an ecstatic relationship with the universe.by John Yagar'And so he would now study perfumes, and the secrets of their manufacture, distilling heavily-scented oils, and burning odorous gums from the East. He saw that there was no mood of the mind that had not its counterpart in the sensuous life, and set himself to discover their true relations, wondering what there was in frankincense that made one mystical, and in ambergris that stirred one's passions, and in violets that woke the memory of dead romances, and in musk that troubled the brain, and in champak that stained the imagination; and seeking often to elaborate a real psychology of perfumes, and to estimate the several influences of sweet-smelling roots, and scented pollen-laden flower, of aromatic balms, and of dark and fragrant woods, of spikenard that sickens , of hovenia that makes men mad, and of aloes that are said to be able to expel melancholy from the soul'. -Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray THE PHOENIX"Most beings spring from other individuals; but there is a certain kind which reproduces itself. The Assyrians call it the Phoenix. It does not live on fruit or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums. When it has lived five hundred years, it builds itself a nest in the branches of an oak, or on the top of a palm tree. In this it collects cinnamon, and spikenard, and myrrh, and of these 'materials builds a pile on which it deposits itself, and dying, breathes out its last breath amidst odours. From the body of the parent bird, a young Phoenix issues forth, destined to live as long a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and gained sufficient strength, it lifts its nest from the tree (its own cradle and its parent's sepulchre), and carries it to the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in the temple of the Sun."- Ovid, Metamorphosis FOR LOVERS"I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.""his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh . . . thy name is an ointment . . . a bundle of myrrh is my well-loved unto me . . ""What is this, coming up from the desert?Like a column of smoke,Laden with myrrh, with frankincenseAnd with the perfume of every exotic dust?Your are the garden that puts forthPomegranates, With all choice fruits;Spikenard and saffron, calamus and Cinnamon,Myrrh and aloes with all the fine spices.You are garden fountain, a well of water,Flowing fresh from Lebanon.Arise, north wind! Come, south wind!Blow upon my garden,That its perfume may spread abroad.- The Song of Songs 3:6LalitaThe breath of thy garment is incenseA perfume unsealing the lightWith only thy dark hair to veil theeRevealing the dance of the nightThe myrrh and the musk they lingerOn thy dark skin of smoke and of silkA perfume that comes from within theeThy tongue tastes of honey and milkYou have made of my heart a censerWith the spark of a ruby jewelThy hips are the boat of heavenAnd thy heart is a sacred poolLike midnight thy hair flows about theeWith fingers like stars that shineYou lift them to gather the incenseLike an offering unto the shrineIt is always the scent that draws methat lingers in memory not sightA garden , a fountain of spicesI return to you night after night...- Katlyn" Why do floral smells excite us , well, flowers have a robust and energetic sex-life: a flower's frafrance declares to the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar"- A Natural History of the Senses" by Diane Ackerman"A puff of wind, a puff faint and tepid and laden with strange odours of blossoms, of aromatic wood, comes out the still night—the first sigh of the East on my face. That I can never forget. It was impalpable and enslaving, like a charm, like a whispered promise of mysterious delight.... "- Joseph Conrad Thank you for taking the time to read this article. We hope that you keep in touch with us as you continue along the incense path and share your discoveries and experiences . All your feedback is appreciated! This article was published on Thursday 29 March, 2012.


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Sunday, March 11, 2012
Retelling familiar tales of pregnancy and birth in European cultures
Tues 3rd-Weds 4th July 2012, Oxford
Purpose of conference
This conference aims to bring together leading specialists from a range of the medical humanities with healthcare professionals to explore the trope of the retelling of stories about pregnancy and birth. While recent work has considered the way in which stories of exceptional pregnancies and unusual births have been told again and again over western history, from Greek mythology and the Old Testament until the present day, the methodological and intellectual questions raised by these retellings have not been discussed in detail. Taking a very broad geographic and chronological focus (Europe from Antiquity to the present day), our objective is to encourage innovative interdisciplinary exchanges by addressing the following questions. How did the growth of print culture in Europe encourage the retelling of familiar birthing tales, and how were new ones added? Why did some stories of pregnancy and birth circulate more widely than others? When stories are retold, which details of the original are always retained, which are lost in the retelling, and how and why do new accretions creep into the story?
The gathering particularly looks to provide the opportunity for discussion and exchange on both substance and methodology between, on the one hand, a wide range of academic disciplines contributing to the medical humanities (e.g. cultural history, art history, history of the book, literary scholars) and, on the other hand, health-care practitioners who have been increasingly focused on the oral transmission of case histories (midwives, obstetricians and gynaecologists, psychiatrists). The four sessions proposed are thus wide-ranging and deliberately aim to juxtapose contributions from academics and practitioners in the various sessions.
1) The trope of repetition, or why some tales of pregnancy and birth are retold
2) Exploring accretion and loss: how tales are retold across time (Antiquity to the present) and across different geographic and cultural European contexts
3) Who sees or experiences, who tells and who reads repeated tales: patients, practitioners, witnesses and readers:
4) The significance of the material circulation of repeated tales in word and image
Keynote plenary session: Professor Monica Green (Arizona State University)
Practical Details
The conference sessions, including lunches and dinners, will be held in Lady Margaret Hall, a college of the University of Oxford, located in attractive grounds in the north of the city. We are looking to provide bed and breakfast accommodation in another Oxford college for the nights of 2-3-4 July 2012 for delegates who wish to take advantage of this. Alternatively, Oxford has a range of good guesthouses and hotels for those wishing to organise their own accommodation. We hope to have some bursary support available for students.
Submitting a proposal for a paper
Please email all proposals for papers to Professor Helen King (email@example.com) by 3 April 2012. Papers should last for 20 minutes to allow 10 minutes discussion after each speaker. A proposal should give the title of the paper, an abstract of up to 400 words, and your contact details. Proposals for shared papers or panels are particularly welcome, as are poster presentations. The working language of the conference will be English.
All proposals will be considered by the organising panel: Professor Helen King (Open University), Dr Janette Allotey (Manchester, Chair of De Partu History of Childbirth Group, University of Manchester, and Professor Valerie Worth (Trinity College Oxford)
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you know, rather than tropes we should be more active to bring awareness on pregnancy prevention method.
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I learned about 20 minutes after I put the post up that John Idzik first signing as Jets GM was former USC and Cincinnati WR Vidal Hazelton. Here's what I wrote about him in the player interest list back in 2011:
WR Vidal Hazelton (Cincinnati) 6-2, 210, 4.57, 40yd dashHazelton ended up going undrafted, but signed a free agent deal with the San Diego Chargers on July 26th, 2011. However, they released him 5 days later. He was out of football until December 2011, when the Cincinnati Bengals signed him to their practice squad. He tried to make their team in camp, but was waived on August 31st. The Tennessee Titans signed him to their practice squad a few days later on September 3, 2012. The Titans released him from their practice squad on October 23rd.
Projection: 7-UDFA Description: A New York native, has a private workout scheduled with the Jets. Hazelton originally went to USC where he was one of Mark Sanchez's favorite targets, but transferred to Cincinnati after Sanchez jumped to the NFL. Hazelton is somewhat of a mystery. He had to sit out of football for the 2009 season because of his transfer and then suffered a season ending knee injury in the opening game of the 2010 season. Thus, he hasn't played much football for three years which is a major concern to scouts. However, when healthy Hazelton has tremendous potential. He is an unbelievable athlete who will likely be a possession receiver at the next level. He did not receive an invite to the NFL combine.
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