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Tuesday, April 04, 2006
Water moving uphill
The nights were filled with a dark Meno geometry from underneath the mosquito net, the mosquitoes so dense that you estimated by sound how many there were in each square foot of the dark room. Then when the last human sounds of the city had died, the dogs would begin. One bark maybe a kilometer away, then another from another area much closer, then yet another to the east, two to the west, until the city was filled with the sounds of dogs barking, gossiping, telling jokes, having patiently slept the day away or scrounged the streets for food in preparation for the nightly conversation.
I had no particular plans when I arrived in Nepal other than to see Kathmandu and then to go walking into the Himalayas. I was going to follow along with the anthropologist thinking that this would be a particularly nice way of exploring some of the country.
As it turned out, I ran into a friend from the US by sheer accident. Last he had heard of me, I was still living in Japan. Last I had heard of him - via another friend's letters picked up at the American Express office in Bangkok - he was possibly going on a scientific research mission to Australia. Those were the days of those wonderfully rare letters written by friends who had no idea whether you would ever receive them. No internet cafes yet, which now populate even the most remote places. They were the days when "Lonely Planet" signified a sentiment all longer-term travelers understood. Lonely Planet, the guide, had started as what was called simply "the yellow book," perhaps the most famous guide to Southeast Asia, passed from one traveler to another. That intimacy with strangeness and delicious loneliness changed quickly over the 1990s.
But the friend, J.... I went to pick up the required trekking permit at a small dusty brick building in Kathmandu. A Euro-American exited as I approached. You say "hello" to other Euro-Americans. A fellow colonialist. Foreigners were rare in this part of the city, mostly confining themselves to the hipster area, Thamel. This particular fellow's white face slowly materialized into recognizability, then astonishment, then further recognizability. My friend, J. Later we realized that we could have been in Kathmandu at the same time and never run into each other.
Has this happened to you? In an Irish pub in Paris I once bumped into an acquaintance met on a double-date in Japan - the girls had danced all night while we sat at the bar and drank a bottle of whiskey and talked philosophy, politics, and basketball. I talked with him in the Irish pub for about half an hour before I realized who he was - we both had new beards. I've run into a friend in the airport in Hong Kong as we both raced in opposite directions to catch our flights. I've crossed paths with an Italian friend in London who I knew only from Italy. Has this happened to you? Startling odds, after all, that make you wonder how many times you've simply come close but missed.
The friend in Nepal and I decided to trek together and I backed out of the trip with the Japanese anthropologist. We both had a few weeks of time to hike and decided instead to go west to the Annapurnas rather than east towards Everest. We took a bus to Pokhara. I remember the bus ride as about eight hours long and a constant precarious teetering over the edges of precipices. The trip is probably shorter, but memory is like that.
We stayed a day or two in Pokhara, then set off on foot. You can see the magical Machapuchare - The Fishtail - in the distance from Pokhara. It's a sacred peak; no climbing allowed. But we hadn't seen any of the other mountains (except for Everest above the clouds from the plane). Only those mountains they call "foothills" in the Himalaya.
I won't burden you with the otherwise wonderful details of trekking for three weeks straight. It's not easy, even though the Annapurna circuit came to be called the "apple pie circuit" because local villagers had picked up recipes from travelers and had included apple pie and chocolate cake on some of their menus for travelers. Other than this, food was almost exclusively dhal bhat: lentils, available vegetables, and rice with local variations depending on whether you're Thakali, Ghurka, etc. And tea, sometimes with rancid yak butter. The villages are all different. Time and extreme geographical conditions created ethnic pockets out of the Himalayas, so that a village three miles away as the crow flies might have an entirely different ethnicity. And then the wild geography - from subtropical to alpine climates, savage rivers of boulders and mad, rushing water. Temples and stupas and the occasional lonely monument to dead mountain climbers. Beautiful, beautiful people, some of the most beautiful and welcoming on the face of the planet....
And then the mountains! We had slogged through three days of rain and leeches to arrive at a village at about 10K feet. That evening, the clouds finally broke and the sun washed over the snows of the Annapurna range high above our heads. The great Dhaulagiri to the northwest guarded its mysterious shroud until the morning when it also succumbed to the sun and showed us one of the most dramatic visions I've ever seen....
The goal, let me get to the goal. The goal was the holy temple of Muktinath, one of the holiest in Hinduism. It is said that Brahma had visited the tiny village and had lit three fires: one on stone, one in the air, and one on water. The temple housed the flames. I liked the story, but doubted its truth.
We arrived in Muktinath after about ten days of hiking. The village rests on barren landscape at about 14,000 feet with the air filled with prayer flags. The sound is haunting - prayer flags that catch the wind and let loose their prayers into the ether. Across the valley and about a thousand meters down are green patches of rice fields.
The temple is another altitudinous walk up the mountainside. Ten steps and you have to take a break for oxygen. It doesn't help to smoke cigarettes, although a Ghurka man with us had no problem, of course, and he smoked more than I.
The temple is nestled near a mountain pass with a view that presides over the Kali Gandaki Valley. Mustang and Tibet are to the northeast.
Prayer wheels, as at most Nepalese temples, encircled the temple of Muktinath. The Ghurka friend ran with joy around the temple spinning all the wheels. Everything that lives, dies - the wheels spin and come to a slow stop.
Two old women crouching near the front door in dark burgundy Lama robes motioned to us. One of them revealed a large old key from underneath her robe. The key to the temple. She opened the door and nudged us inside. After the brightness of the sun on the snowy peaks, your eyes take a moment to adjust to darkness. The interior had a musty tranquility that slowly focused into a beautiful chamber of thankas, the Tibetan painted scrolls. One of the women gave us two oil candles to light and set afloat on a small pool. The other pressed red and orange tikas onto our foreheads. Would you like to see the flames, our Ghurka friend asked. I could hear a trickle of water coming from a shrine at the far side of the temple. There were three short curtains side by side. One of the women lifted one of the curtains. There was exposed rock, the side of the mountain, with a small flame bursting from it. The next curtain was raised. A trickle of water ran from the rock out of which another flame sprang. The third, we were told, the flame in air, had gone out many years ago.
Both J and I resisted explaining the flames to each other. Our native urge was to turn to explanations of natural gas seeping from the rock and so on. But why ruin the experience? We had been in Nepal long enough to simply allow the experience to be what it is and to revel in the joy of the moment, like running around the temple spinning prayer wheels that signify that all that lives dies. Our cameras didn't ruin the sanctity either; both of us found that we were out of film.
On the return down the mountain to the village, we came across a stream we had mostly ignored on the way up. The stream was lined with poplars said to have grown from the staffs left by early pilgrims on their way to Lhasa. The stream of water, it appeared, ran uphill. J and I were perplexed. J is a geophysicist. He explained that it would be possible for the flow from the mountain to push the water uphill over short distances. I countered that the stream in such a case would widen due also to gravitational pull. Yet, it remained the same width and depth in the places it appeared to move uphill. I thought it was a matter of perception. We had hiked through dramatically changing diagonal elevations so that the horizontal was no longer a baseline of perception. We were lightheaded from the altitude. We had just experienced the flames of Brahma.
Water can move uphill, it turns out, through a phenomenon called The Leidenfrost Effect. Thanks to Pruned for setting me off again on this little voyage.
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- troutsky said...
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- Murky Thoughts said...
Been there, done that.
- Murky Thoughts said...
i.e. (black humor--that was the phrase poisoning people's journeys of personal discovery back then and there)
- Murky Thoughts said...
Great photos BTW. I was very into photography myself while I was there. Had a little Minox I picked up in Malaysia.
- helmut said...
I shouldmention that the photos aren't mine. They were on my hard drive, downloaded long ago, and I no longer have the attribution. I'm hoping I'm not sued. My photos were better, actually, I think, but they're all prints and quickly deteriorating negatives.
- ae said...
Great travelogue, helmut! Nepal tops my list, w/ Cambodia a close second, of places I must visit as soon as possible. Thanks for these wonderful memories.
I've had a couple of serendipitous run-ins: a former teammate of mine outside of Carnegie Deli, a guy who'd been in my Psych class in the train depot in Amsterdam, and one of my favorite professors in London.
I never meet people I know when I'm traveling. Never.
I suspect the odds of this are much higher than meeting people. If you have something like ten people in a room (I forget the actual number, but it's like this), there's a high probability that two of them will have the same birthday.
BTW, good job!
The odds of not meeting people are probably lower than meeting someone you know.
Sorry. I should use the preview function.
nice travel story. the way i know it but that you never put on paper...
ps: you can photograph your prints with you digital camera. for web use it will be ok.
- lonesomepolecat said...
REspect and admiration just grows. While I and everyone I knew were subsistence farming and thumbing Snow Leopard some were DOING the dreams. Thanks for this.
- helmut said...
Thanks for the nice words, folks.
And go there some day, if you haven't already!
"Been there, done that." I was introduced to that phrase during the 80's in SE Asia. Everyone from down under made that comment, some in jest.
oops. The above comment is from mt. Been here and done that comment!
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Now that electronic music has become a major presence on the pop charts and the sports arenas of North America, the timing couldn't be better for the French godfathers of 21st Century rave to strap on their robot gear and ride their synthesizers down from the space station.
But Daft Punk's fourth studio album, "Random Access Memories" (Columbia), isn't a victory lap so much as a commentary on what's missing from the new golden age of electronic dance music.
Daft Punk founders Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have been talking smack about EDM lately for its lack of personality and distinctiveness. Not that their music was ever particularly original; Daft Punk's two finest albums, "Homework" (1997) and "Discovery" (2001), were essentially lovingly created tributes to the glory days of Chicago acid-house and Detroit techno.
But Daft Punk's feel-good hooks and the warmth underlying their machine-driven creations were undeniable. They invested the past with a futuristic glow – a feeling that took physical dimension when they staged their appearance at the Coachella festival in 2006 from inside a neon, three-dimensional pyramid. In many ways, that moment was a turning point for live electronic music in America, to the point where it's now a major industry.
And yet, an ongoing theme in the duo's music has been the struggle to find the soul amid the technology. It was right there in the title of their undercooked 2005 studio album, "Human After All," and it underpins their soundtrack for the 2010 sequel to a pioneering piece of sci-fi cinema, "Tron: Legacy." With "Random Access Memories," they immerse themselves in a time when the technology had not outrun the humanity, when the nexus of machines, studio craft and pop culture was still under construction. They jumble '70s disco, jazz fusion, progressive music and Tangerine Dream electronica with a side order of pop- and Broadway-manufactured cheese.
The guest list is a mile long, a collection of legends (Chic founder Nile Rodgers), celebrity eccentrics (songwriter Paul Williams), studio heavies (drummer John JR Robinson) and contemporary stars (the Neptunes' Pharrell Williams, the Strokes' Julian Casablancas, Animal Collective's Panda Bear). Live performance takes precedence over digital precision and editing. In many ways, it is the least forward-looking Daft Punk recording, but also the most ambitious – a concept album that plays like an alternative music history, with an emphasis on styles and sounds that don't usually fit into the Baby Boomer-dictated pop/rock canon.
The manifesto "Give Life to Music" opens the album with a bombastic, arena-rock flourish, then slides onto the dancefloor behind Nile Rodgers' guitar. What other rhythm guitarist sounds so instantly distinctive? Rodgers' instrument glides atop the bass and drums, shaping a melody line while dictating groove. Then when the vocoder-enhanced vocals drop away, the guitar becomes more tactile, percussive. When Rodgers locks into a hypnotic rhythm pocket with drummer John JR Robinson, it feels like it could and should go on forever.
Rodgers' guitar instantly stamps two more tracks: The addictive house-inspired single "Get Lucky" and "Lose Yourself to Dance," in which Pharrell Williams sings the hook like a robot while a vocodered, robot-like voice gets to have all the fun improvising a melody. Daft Punk expertly exploits the tension between human and machine, feeling and numbness, and turns it into a great dance track. Throughout the album, the robot vocal tracks sound more expressive than the human voices.
"Giorgio by Moroder" is exactly what it says, an homage to disco architect Giorgio Moroder. A two-minute monologue from the Italian producer describing how he stumbled upon "a sound of the future" ushers in a suite-like track that blends early disco; jazzy interplay from the era of Return to Forever; and classical sweep that echoes the duo's "Tron" orchestrations.
Even more audacious is "Touch," which sounds like Daft Punk's answer to '70s schlock epics such as "MacArthur Park" or an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical score. It's even got Paul Williams, the septuagenarian auteur behind hits for the Carpenters, Three Dog Night, Helen Reddy and Barbra Streisand. Williams plays a "tourist in a dream" amid a shifting array of musical backdrops – funk guitar, noodling synthesizers, disco kick drums, classical strings, drifting-asteroids ambiance.
The track centers an album unafraid of embracing the sentimental goo that makes some '70s and '80s music so off-putting to subsequent generations. But Bangalter and Homem-Christo don't play it as camp. In Williams they have found a persuasively bereft narrator, who comes off as sincere, vulnerable. "You've almost convinced me I'm real," Williams shakily concludes, but "I need something more."
In serving up the antidote to what they see as the coldness and assembly-line beats of dubstep, Daft Punk sometimes errs on the side of melodrama. The ballad "The Game of Love" drips syrup, and the neo-classical "Within" makes its existential questions sound almost winsome. "Beyond" searches for "a land beyond love" with an orchestrated pomp that only a dedicated Broadway fan could love. The feathery "Fragments of Time" makes the catchy blue-eyed soul of Hall and Oates sound heavyweight in comparison.
And yet, the emotional peaks offered by "Giorgio by Moroder," "Touch" and the Nile Rodgers tracks make the lengthy 74-minute ride worthwhile. The closing "Contact" shoots Daft Punk back into space, with a snippet of astronaut Eugene Cernan's voice from Apollo 17: "There's something out there," he says. Daft Punk has built a career on the concept of "out there." But "Random Access Memories" is more about inner space, their version of soul music for an android world.


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>> Thursday, December 31, 2009
The story behind the Nintendo-Philips-Sony triangle will always be a mystery, I will always wonder if Philips was the reason why Nintendo didn't continue on the SNES CD with Sony (because of Philips game patents thanks to their Magnavox acquisition) and how the SNES CD would have become the CD-i 2. Somewhere in between it all didn't happen, but the Nintendo games on CD-i are the only retail left-overs of this history. Nintendo and Sony were pretty far in the SNES CD prototype state of business as you can see in these pictures. With Philips I don't know if any prototypes were made, we've never seen them.
Interesting to read the Playstation was first a product between Sony (manufacturing), Nintendo (game copyrights) and Philips (CD and console patents): "At the end of 1992 Sony, Nintendo and Philips signed a deal whereby PlayStation would be able to run SNES CD-ROMs but left Nintendo with the sole rights to all its games. The version of PlayStation being developed at that time never made it into production."
Stories on the internet always tell you that both Sony and Philips went their own way after the Nintendo break-up: Sony developed Playstation and Philips the CD-i. That's a big mistake, CD-i was way older than SNES and Playstation. CD-i was developed by Philips AND Sony in the eighties. Sony developed their own CD-i player in 1992 but banned the format. My mystery conclusion would be that Sony stopped CD-i because of the SNES debacle between Sony and Philips with Nintendo. How about that? We've read before about initial similar file formats between Playstation and how CD-i was the forerunner of Playstation. Pictures source: Lost Levels


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The American team kept its footing at the Winter Olympics in Sochi on Wednesday thanks to its women snowboarders, after a disappointing loss from a speedskating legend, a subpar finish in the women's downhill and a hockey loss.
Here's a look at the day's highlights.
A kid beats the champs
The main story line heading into Wednesday's final in the women's snowboarding halfpipe was the battle among three former Olympic champions: American and 2002 champion Kelly Clark, her teammate and 2016 gold medalist Hannah Teter and Australia's 2010 winner Torah Bright.
But this tale had a surprise ending.
Kaitlyn Farrington, a 24-year-old American who was competing in her first Olympics and had no prior World Cup or X Games wins, edged them all.
Unlike her veteran rivals, Farrington did not make the cut in the qualifying rounds, and needed to prove herself in the semi-finals before making the medal round. Then, on her sport's biggest stage, she completed an airy, wobble-free run in the second run of the finals. She watched as each of her more accomplished competitors failed to top her.
Bright came in second, and Clark finished third.
Farrington's gold was the first for the U.S. since Sunday, when another woman snowboarder, Jamie Anderson, won the slopestyle competition.
America keeps pace
With its two-medal performance in the women's halfpipe, Team USA now has nine medals in Sochi. That puts the U.S. in fourth place in the medal race, with three fewer than medal leader Norway, whose haul includes four golds.
Canada is second, with 10 total medals, including four golds and four silvers. The Netherlands is a close third with 10 total, four of them gold and two silver.
The Americans' nine medals includes three golds, just more than fifth-place Russia, which has nine total medals and two golds.
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What happens if two Olympic skiers who are measured by the hundredths of a second end in a dead heat?
We found out Wednesday, when Switzerland's Dominique Gisin and Slovenia's Tina Maze shared identical times in the women's downhill.
Both finished in 1 minute, 41.57 seconds.
Both were given a gold medal.
That left no one with silver, and a bronze for third-place finisher Lara Gut of Switzerland.
The result was a surprising triumph for Gisin, who crashed in Vancouver and hadn't won an international race since 2010. Maze, meanwhile, is a two-time world champion.
The race was held in warm temperatures that softened the course as the event went on. American Julia Mancuso, who won bronze in the combined event (in which she led in the downhill portion), finished eighth.
Wednesday's tie for gold marked the first time two gold medals have ever been issued for the same event in Olympic Alpine skiing history. But there had been three ties for silver before, and one tie for bronze.
Shani's disappointment
Shani Davis became one of several highly touted returning American Olympic champions who have fallen short of the podium in Sochi.
Davis, 31, entered the 1000m speedskating finals as a favorite. He'd won gold in Vancouver and Turin and seemed poised to become the first male speedskater to win gold in the same event in three consecutive Olympics.
But Davis, seemingly slowed by age, finished eighth, more than seven-tenths of a second behind gold medal winner Stefan Groothuis of (where else?) the Netherlands, which has now won four gold medals in five speedskating events, according to the Associated Press. With Michel Mulder winning bronze, the Dutch have won 10 out of a possible 15 speedskating medal so far.
Denny Morrison of Canada won silver.
After crossing the finish line, Davis hung his head before smacking Groothuis on the back.
"I just had a misfortunate race," Davis told the AP. "I have to live with this the rest of my life."
His performance follows disappointing results from several other American veterans, including snowboarder Shaun White, downhill skier Bode Miller and moguls skier Hannah Kearney.
A taste of hockey final?
The United States and Canada are widely expected to end up facing each other in the gold medal final of the women's hockey tournament.
But first, they met in the preliminary round-robin on Wednesday, in a likely preview of things to come.
The Canadians won, 3-2, with a go-ahead goal in the second period that first appeared as if U.S. goalie Jesse Vetter had saved. But the puck slipped into the net as the referee's whistle blew, leading to a video review that confirmed the goal.
Now comes the medal round, with Canada as the top seed.
Canada has won gold in every Olympics since 2002. America has won once, in 1998.


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This study is the first to assess urban life for Prairie bats. Never before has a proper demographic comparison between urban and non-urban bat populations been performed anywhere.
Researchers predicted that urban bats would have an enhanced body condition, better reproductive rates and increased successful production of juveniles. But the city's tall structures and imported landscape offered an empty promise.
"I figured that if urbanization was going to benefit any bats anywhere, it was particularly likely to do so for little brown bats in the Prairies," says Coleman, who is currently teaching biology at the University of Calgary's Qatar campus.
"I think little brown bats are drawn to the city in large numbers, and then find themselves having to compete harder to find the resources they need, ultimately to their detriment," says Coleman.
The study looked at 1,600 little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) because they are the most prevalent in the region in and around Calgary. They also range over much of North America.
Studying bats in the urban environment is important for many reasons, says co-author Dr. Robert Barclay, biological sciences professor at the University of Calgary.
"The effects of urbanization on mammals are not well-studied compared to the effects on birds. Bats play very important roles in ecosystems, acting as primary predators of nocturnal insects, so knowing how they respond to various forms of habitat disturbance is critical," says Barclay.
"Urbanization is rapidly increasing so if we don't perform ecological studies in cities on the premise that they aren't true ecosystems, we're ignoring what is essentially the fastest-growing type of wildlife habitat."
The article: Influence of Urbanization on Demography of Little Brown Bats (Myotis lucifugus) in the Prairies of North America is by Dr. Joanna L. Coleman and Dr. Robert M. R. Barclay of the University of Calgary and is published in the on-line journal PLOS One: http://www.


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Far out toys is at 161 jackson st. suite #1 between fourth and fifth.
it is across the street from 7 bamboo.
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Just butting in here.I think the libertarianism that TL espouses, probably would have worked out fine if it was practiced from the outset, and it falls in line with what the founders envisioned, I believe.The problem is, that it wasn't. The government, particularly through the 20th century, pushed itself further and further into the business of the people, As a result, we have tens of millions of people that have no education, no skills, and are completely unable to feed, clothe and house themselves. They are dependent on government, not just for the little bit of money they get, but for everything about their lives.It's a shame too. These people have no handicaps, and yet the government has managed to strip them of all self respect, dignity, drive to do better.......................Freedom. Many of these people have no idea what freedom is. It has been redefined as a right to more handouts, free birth control and abortions. That's the entire list!Much like North Korea couldn't do an overnight shift to a system based on freedom, without the population crumbling under the weight of it due to it's unfamiliarity, the US has also reached a point, that a sudden shift to our founding principles, (that we never should have deviated from), would leave millions of of people not knowing what to do.As we saw in the aftermath of Katrina, and due to government social experimentation and tampering, people have even lost the basic human survival instinct. They sit and wait.If we started on reversing this today, it would take a generation to undo it. Ain't gonna happen though. Obama has even struck down Clinton's successful welfare to work program, and is working diligently to create millions more of these people.Had we stuck to the Ron Paul style of libertarianism from the beginning, we would have a self reliant, educated, common sense citizenry, and drug laws would not be necessary. But that's not the way it happened. A sudden change back to the way it always should have been, would be a disaster.
What a wonderful world that would be. No speed limits, no traffic laws.
No laws against any drugs or driving while on them. No laws against sex with minors of any age, as long as it was consensual.
You sure do have a lot of faith in human nature to always do the right thing. It's not something I share.
I have to disagree with the conclusion you have come to here.People respond to incentives. And we are highly adaptable.So yes under the incentives facing them it is rational to be a taker, rather than a self sufficient maker. And many people live that way. But they have the choice to.In a libertarian society the option would not exist. But hunger and needs of shelter and clothing do.So the incentives change and productive acts become "worth it." They become worth it because working and producing is better than starving- no matter how accustomed to being taken care of one may be.
If roads are privately owned then you agree to abide by the speed limits, etc that come with using that road. In that sense, law exists, but it is still tied to property rights. The owner of the road requires those who use it to respect his stipulations and failure to do so would be a property rights violation of the owner.Driving intoxicated and hitting some would be a property rights violation, and hence something that is in the bounds of a law limited to property rights enforcement.The sex with minors thing is tricky. Parents have the right to control the associations their children are involved in, but a child on their own, who takes care of themselves would be free to make their own decisions about sex.No, it is the opposite.I recognize that humans are flawed and therefore do not trust them to rule over others. Therefore I am an anarchist.And since humans are so flawed the law cannot be subject to their whim. It needs a clear and objective purpose to escape being the arbitrary whim of some politician. And that is protection of property rights.
I recognize that humans are flawed and therefore do not trust them to rule over others. Therefore I am an anarchist.
That's a very naive position.I don't like what the government has done any more than you do. But.............according to your philosophy, there would be nothing wrong with taking a third generation zoo animal and just turning it loose in the habitat that it's species had originally come from. Instinct would take over, and the animal would just "know" what needed to be done to survive.We both know that wouldn't happen, and I think the same can be said for the human species. Millions have never experienced self reliance, in any way, shape or form. To suddenly remove them from the government teat, would create widespread chaos. But maybe that's what you want.
The founders of the country also recognized that humans are flawed, and the government was never intended to rule over anyone.They also understood that laws were a necessary evil. And they went beyond simple property rights.So you have a basic disagreement with the founding of the country?
You're the one being naive here!Do you really think human action is so static? You forget how adaptable humans are. We survive in concentration camps, war zones, in prisons, alone in the woods, alone on a boat in the ocean...Humans survive. It is what we do.A zoo animal is not a human- it does not reason.Let's not down play the role of incentives in shaping behavior.Do you really think a welfare queen is going to sit on her duff and starve to death because the government checks stopped?Lets not be so naive as to downplay the incredible power of want and need.Many of us live like parasites because we can. Take away that choice and people will find a way to meet their needs through production and exchange. Otherwise they will starve and die.And the incentive to stay alive is much stronger than the incentive to be lazy.
People die while lost at sea or out in the wilderness all the time.
Maybe you are smoking pot.
They don't just adapt to the new surroundings and thrive.
Surviving in prison? Well...........yeah. For many, prison is not much different than the lives they were living. Of course they survive.
Your position is not defendable.
I really wish you were right though. It would make things a hell of a lot easier.http://urbantimes.co/2010/08/hurricane-katrina-pain-index-2010-orleans-years/hurricane-katrina-victims-2/
Good question, why not?I know that when Bayer was selling heroin it was a much safer substance.As an individualist and an anarchist I only support laws dealing with property rights violations.
Why not? That is your answer?You conveniently avoided mind altering drugs like lSD and Bathsalts.If were going to go down that road, shouldn't we legalize all drugs?
You neglect history, society deemed drugs to be harmful and wanted laws controlling them, that meant all drugs.Truth is, drugs are a scourge on a peaceful, productive society and society has the right to decide what it deems good, regardless of what you claim as a loss of freedom.Shouldn't I be allowed to walk naked with 100 dogs on a leash down main street? After all, I'm not harming anyone?
Sure they do.And many survive.Are you denying the human drive to survive? Are you denying the human ability to adapt?If so then how did we get here?Bravo. Take the yawn cowardly way out and go personal!You really suggest that humans living today are so used to receiving handouts that even the risk of starvation is not enough to get them off their butts and producing?Good luck defending that!And they adapt to the changing incentives facing them.Tell me- what do you know about human action and incentive structures?Oh no?I have done a good job thus far. What I have not seen is you defend yours.I am supposed to take it on your authority that humans are so changed from what they were that they are incapable of taking care of themselves.Nonsense on stilts.That is just an argument for preserving the status quo.Much of the victimization going on during Katrina was done by the police themselves.Which goes to the heart of what I am saying about the state.
Is that not what I said?
No, for it is a violation of property rights to walk down a road in such a fashion that is not yours.
And the history of drug laws was not about society wanting anything. It was about specific business interests wanting to limit competition and labor groups wanting to end competition from migrant workers.
The law is not the place to enforce your personal brand of morality or your preferences on what other people should do.It is about protecting life and property.
I agree with your views on weed, being that there are worse drugs available at present for legal consumption, so we might as well cut out the drug lords and make state money. However I dont believe people are capable of completely governing themselves. Anarchy+Greedy nature+lack of education and religions= Screwed... Evolutionary speaking, we just aren't there yet.Curious, are you a Zeitgeister?
I hate the status quo.Yes. I maintain that suddenly taking everyone that is living off the government, off the programs, would lead to a major increase in crime. Not a major increase in all of them getting jobs....................they have no skills, therefore, simply getting jobs is off the table.Arguing with you is pointless though, since I don't understand anarchism...................particularly as a solution to our current problems. It appears to be all over the map. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism


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1) FIRST they collected and cleaned the materials: Recycled jars (ours once held pureed carrots), glitter (or hole-punched paper), glycerin (optional) "to make the snow floaty," waterproof epoxy and an old toy that fits inside the jar.
2) NEXT they glued the toy to the underside of the jar's lid using the waterproof epoxy and set it aside to dry. A great green option is Eco Glue ("less than 1% VOCs, virtually no hazardous air pollutants, no animal derivatives, excellent water resistance, 100% recyclable packaging").
3) MOVING ON they added a couple pinches of glitter, filled the jar with water and squirted in a few droppers-full of glycerin (also, some suggest white vinegar or tea tree oil to prevent mold, but even without this ours never molded). It's best that the water inside the jar overflows when the toy is inserted to reduce the size of the air bubble that will show up. Keep a dish towel handy.
4) LASTLY, glue was placed around the threaded rim of the jar and the lid, with its affixed toy, and the lid was secured into place atop the jar. Flip the jar upside down and presto! you've got a 'brand new' snow globe.
My son still takes a moment to shake his snow globe in wonderment every now and then. Plus, there are other great DIY ideas for empty baby food jars such as etched spice jars and 'jaranimals'.


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Ron Rivera is doing like many coaches who are playing out the string, he's playing kids.
But the Panthers coach said he's doing it in preparation for coaching them next year.
Oh, Ron.
"It is about winning, don't get me wrong, because I intend to win or try to win every one of these games we play," Rivera said, via Joe Person of the Charlotte Observer. "But at the same time, we've got to be able to do it with these young guys. If we don't play these guys, we'll go into next season with the same questions.
"People say, 'Oh you're just getting them ready for the next coach.' Well I think I'm getting them ready for me. I could be wrong but I'm not going to worry about that. I'm worried about each game, the next four games, and going forward we'll see what happens."
Rivera said he hasn't talked to owner Jerry Richardson about that, however, since general manager Marty Hurney was fired. That's when Richardson told him he wanted to see them "trend upward."
The Panthers are 3-9 this year, giving Rivera a 9-19 record overall. His teams are 1-12 in games decided by a touchdown or less, after yesterday's loss to the Chiefs.
Watching Rivera lately, you can tell he spent a lot of time working for Andy Reid. There's a quiet realization of what's all but certain to happen to him in a month, but he's going down pushing all the buttons he knows how, and he's doing it with a measure of grace.


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In general, acupuncture allows for a safer operation, with less likelihood of complications, and a swifter post-operative recovery. The main problem is that pain relief may be inadequate and this is unacceptable within the context of Western health care.
One of the main criticisms of acupuncture anaesthesia is that 'it's alright for the Chinese, but won't work on Europeans'. Acupuncture anaesthesia has been used in a variety of European. centers, and the success and failure rate is much the same as in China. Acupuncture anaesthesia is a useful method of pain relief and could well be applicable to minor procedures, or post-perative pain relief, within the context of a Western medical system.


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DAMASCUS, Syria, July 21 (UPI) -- Supporters of Syrian rebels said 185 people were killed across the civil war-torn country Sunday, including 13 members of one family.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights said its casualty toll included 11 children and nine women.
The London group said 13 members of the Fatouh family burned to death in their home in the village of al-Bayda.
The group said 14 people were killed when shelling hit the main market in Areha of Idlib.
Ninety-six of the 185 people killed Sunday were in Damascus and surrounding countryside, the network said.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said his country is unlikely to send military aid to Syrian rebels because of the increasing presence of Muslim extremists.
In an interview with the BBC this weekend, Cameron conceded the rebellion in Syria was stalemated and "on the wrong trajectory," but his government's response would continue to be limited to non-lethal supplies.
"What we should be doing is working with international partners to help the millions of Syrians who want to have a free democratic Syria, who want to see that country have some form of success," Cameron said.
The prime minister's concerns were illustrated Sunday by an announcement from inside Syria that Kurdish rebels had captured a senior al-Qaida member.
The Kurdish People's Defense Units (YPG) posted on its Twitter account a photo of the captured terrorist identified as Abu Musab, the amir of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, (ISIS), Israel Radio and Arutz Sheva reported Sunday.
Musab was reportedly grabbed in an area of northeast Syria, where intense fighting between the Kurds and al-Qaida operatives has occurred in recent days, the radio said.
Concerns that radical Islamist groups held too much sway among the opposition forces has been cited as a reason for Western powers to ship in heavy weapons needed to counter the armor and air power of President Bashar Assad. Assad, who has been bolstered by aid from Iran, Russia and Hezbollah, has seemed to swing the momentum to his side.
But Cameron described the situation as a stalemate," It is a very depressing picture and it is a picture which is on the wrong trajectory," Cameron said.
He added, however, that London was still committed to helping the rebels oust Assad and establish a new government. "You do have problems with part of the opposition which is extreme, that we should have nothing to do with," he said. "But that is not a reason for pulling up the drawbridge, putting our head in the sand and doing nothing."
The Guardian said Cameron discounted speculation his wife Samantha, an ardent advocate for Syrian refugees stuck in camps in neighboring countries, was pressuring him to take a more-active approach to ending the conflict. He referred to the idea as "a total urban myth."


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Magriples received her MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1987. She trained at Yale-New Haven Hospital as an Ob/Gyn resident from 1987 to 1991, followed by a Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at YSM, which she completed in 1994. With over 24 years as a Maternal-Fetal Medicine specialist, she works alongside her colleagues to foster and support the department's comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach to maternal and fetal complications.
Dr. Magriples is interested in researching models for delivery of obstetric care, like the nationally recognized Centering Pregnancy Program. This program is an innovative model for providing group prenatal care that has been implemented at care sites around the United States since 1995. The program's format, offered to a small group of women of the same gestational age, allows expectant mothers to receive support from other women while gaining knowledge and skills related to pregnancy, childbirth and parenting.
As the health care industry continues to evolve and change, Dr. Magriples is looking for opportunities to make a difference at home and abroad. She is a member of the Global Health Committee for the Society of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, whose mission is to help pregnant women in resource-limited settings around the world.
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I've got a free story for you — a paranormal romance with a thrum of lust, a touch of magic, and an action-packed ending. I've never written anything this short before (3000 words), and the characters I chose to write about are not the usual vamps, shifters, and witches.
Homicide Detective Joe Brennan is sure he knows who's making the snuff videos that have recently surfaced online–his dreams point him toward the killer. But he needs proof that will hold up in court. When he asks for help with an undercover operation, he has no idea that the woman he lusts after will be his new partner.
Kallista Ophiades is a member of the Guard, the police force for the supernatural community. When Joe unknowingly targets a monster, Kalli persuades the Captain to include her, so she can determine whether the Guard should intervene. But when the operation goes south, Kalli must choose between protecting Joe and keeping her own dark secret.
Homicide Detective Joe Brennan watched the woman of his dreams float into the room. The Captain's secretary dressed like a librarian: calf-length skirts, tailored shirts buttoned to the neck, wavy black hair twisted into a knot and skewered with a pointed wooden stick. She spoke in prim, quiet tones, and she even wore those old-fashioned wire-rimmed librarian glasses.
But Kallista Ophiades didn't walk like a librarian. She moved with the sinuous grace of a belly dancer, the smallest shift of her hips enough to send the blood meant for his brain on a detour to his groin. He couldn't help remembering how she'd looked in his dreams, her hair writhing free over her shoulders as she rode him, her eyes gleaming with ecstasy, and her nails digging into his chest. He'd never seen her naked, but his subconscious insisted that he dream her with a tiny emerald snake tattoo coiled around her navel.
That's the only way I'll ever be with Kallista. In my dreams.
Oblivious to his distress, she crossed the room, nodding politely at each person she passed without breaking the demure eyes-down manner she maintained. In another woman, it would have seemed pretentious, but on her it came across as polite.
He waited next to her desk, file in hand, mentally rehearsing what he was going to say. When's the Captain due back? But it was impossible to focus on the words when his brain superimposed sexy dream-Kalli over the real Kalli. Every time he tried to talk to her, his thoughts evaporated, his mouth went dry, and he blurted out something stupid.
Like, "I need a date."
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Byam was a born wanderer. As a boy in Baker City, Oregon, he traveled with his grandfather's mule team; later, as a shepherd, he lived in a two-wheeled, covered donkey cart. After graduating with the class of 1916 from Jefferson High School in Portland, Oregon, Byam served in the Merchant Marine. Stanford University in California was next, where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in history in 1921.
As a businessman, Byam launched his own advertising agency, and became the publisher of several magazines.
One of his do-it-yourself periodicals, Popular Mechanics, included an article describing plans for construction of a travel trailer. After readers complained about the plans, Byam tried them himself and agreed they were flawed. He built his own model—the "Torpedo"—and published an article about the improved trailer which could be constructed from plywood for less than $100. Byam sold the plans for five dollars and continued building better versions—adding chemical toilets, ice boxes, gasoline stoves, and hand water pumps. He raised the ceiling to allow campers to stand inside, striving for a trailer, in Byam's words, that would be "always home wherever your wheels may stop." In 1931 Byam's RV company was born; the Airstream name was adopted three years later.
Airstream trailers—at this time, built with Masonite—were selling well when Byam again improved on the design in 1936. He introduced the "Airstream Clipper", similar to the Bowlus Road Chief, which incorporated aircraft construction methods that improved the strength-to-weight ratio of the trailer, minimized wind resistance, and maximized fuel efficiency. With its riveted aluminum body, the Clipper was the first of the iconic "silver bullet" style Airstream trailers, and marked the beginning of the widely recognized American brand.
Still popular today, the aerodynamic body style has been significantly revised only a few times in 80 years, upholding Byam's motto, "Let's not make changes, let's make only improvements."
Byam married his wife Stella in 1952 and together they traveled in their Airstream, stenciling their destinations one by one on the curbside front of the trailer as they toured the world. Byam lead caravans of Airstream enthusiasts around the globe, to Mexico, Central America, Canada, Cuba, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Airstream trailers have survived millions of miles over some of the roughest roads in the world, realizing Byam's dream as stated in his well known creed.
"In the heart of these words is an entire life's dream," he wrote. "To those of you who find in the promise of these words your promise. I bequeath this creed. . . my dream belongs to you."
- To place the great wide world at your doorstep for you who yearn to travel with all the comforts of home.
- To provide a more satisfying, meaningful way of travel that offers complete travel independence, wherever and whenever you choose.
- To keep alive and make real an enduring promise of high adventure and faraway lands, of rediscovering old places and new interests.
- To open a whole world of new experiences, a new dimension in enjoyment where travel, adventure and good fellowship are your constant companions.
- To encourage clubs and rallies that provide an endless source of friendships, travel fun, and personal expression.
- To lead caravans wherever the four winds blow, over twinkling boulevards, across trackless deserts, to the traveled and untraveled corners of the earth.
- To play some part in promoting international goodwill and understanding among the peoples of the world through person-to-person contact.
- To refine and perfect our product by continuous travel-testing over the highways and byways of the world.
- To strive endlessly to stir the venturesome spirit that moves you to follow a rainbow to its end, and thus make your travel dreams come true.
Byam died in 1962. The Airstream company, founded on Byam's technical and organizational skill, continues to flourish.
Learn more about Wally Byam at http://www.airstream.com/company/history/ and at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wally_Byam


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It's Rekorderlig Strawberry and Lime Cider. You will also be please to hear that I drank it from the bottle, and did not go in for this silly "ice and a pint glass" craze. In the UK it can be found HERE, and at any major supermarket from the looks of it. They also do some other funky flavours. Click the picture above to go to the official website (in English).
I also went out into central Londinium a couple of weeks ago with a couple of friends to see my Turkish friend, and we happened upon a nice little pub in the Chinatown/Soho area serving exclusively Samuel Smith brewery products. I sampled the Pure Brewed Lager and the Old Brewery Pale Ale. Very nice, with a lovely flavour to them, with both being very distinct from one another
black bart wrote:I think I've mentioned this before but I did enjoy a very nice drop of ale in Greenwich Village once...it was Fullers London Pride!
You found the delectable London Pride, the pinnacle of Chiswick brewing, in New York? Now I really have heard everything! New York peeps (that means you, Bacon and PK), get there now and taste it. This is a good example of a light English Bitter.
daftbeaker wrote:The UK people (apart from the awesome Roland that's tried it before) might be shocked to find Murkins can make lager with flavour
You remembered! It is a nice beer, but I only had the one pint. I tend to drift between different beers from pint to pint if the pub has a selection i've never seen before, but when I start to really feel it, I couldn't give a monkey's what i'm drinking.


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Long shot: Everson makes a visual poem
One thing I look forward to during the Virginia Film Festival is the chance to view edgy, experimental pieces that usually only screen in urban centers like Chicago or New York. But this year the arty offerings are few and far between. Two exceptions are Kevin Everson's new feature, Erie, and a group exhibition by Everson's art students at the former C-Ville office on the Downtown Mall.
Erie contains elements familiar to Everson fans: a focus on middle-class African-American labor and leisure, an ambient soundtrack, and indications of the filmmaking process, such as scratched ends. Nevertheless, it's a departure from the UVA art prof's previous features. Shot in northern Ohio and Buffalo, NY, the 81-minute black and white film is a series of single takes, lasting between 10 and 11 minutes–- the amount of time a film spool moves through a camera's magazine- that are unrelated narratively.
Everson says he's been thinking about one-take filmmaking for some time, but when he was in Europe last year he began to conceive of a piece that would string together disparate scenes, connected only by their subjects' focus on a task at hand. Alternating between static shots and ones involving action, interiors, and exteriors, Erie is a meditative visual poem.
Opening on workers putting up a Volkswagen billboard intended to appeal to African Americans, the film cuts briefly to Niagara Falls, and then settles into a prolonged shot of a young girl in a white shirt staring at a flickering white candle. The composition is beautiful, but as the minutes tick by, with next to nothing happening, the small things–- the twitch of the girl's mouth, a drip of wax, the sound of a dog barking–- become enormous.
And so it goes for the rest of the film, slow and ponderous. Which is not to say there aren't breathtaking moments. In one memorable shot, Everson's camera pulls back from a vocalist and pianist practicing a sentimental song on a tinny upright to follow a dancer krumping to music blasting from a CD player in another part of the warehouse-like room.
Erie screens on Thursday night, but 18 of Everson's University of Virginia students carry the filmic art torch through the weekend with a series of video installations at 106 E. Main Street. According to fourth-year student Vashti Harrison, the eighteen pieces "are made for people to walk in and of," and several are site-specific.
Erie, screens at 10pm on Thursday, November 5, at Regal 3 on the Downtown Mall. For more information, call 1-800-UVA-Fest. Everson's UVA art students' video installations are on view Friday and Saturday, 9am-10pm, at 106 E. Main St. (former office of C-Ville). 434-242-4211.


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It should work with any pencil or stylus and it runs Android 4.2. Saying it's a full 1080p resolution phone and leaving it there is an understatement, as Sony marketing machine claims that this is a Triluminos display powered by X-Reality mobile engine for ultimate big screen entertainment experience.
The phone is ultra slim, dust resistant and waterproof and comes with 16GB internal storage and micro SD support for additional storage. The 3000mAh battery sounds like a good idea and the phone comes with an 8-megapixel camera with HDR enabled Exmor RS sensor that should do just fine.
This is an LTE phone, the first major one to launch with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 processor clocked at 2.2GHz and Adreno 330 graphics. Until Tegra 4 phones appear the big Xperia will definitely be the fastest thing out there, and we still don't know whether Tegra 4 will be fast enough to make it run for its money.
However, looking at the wider picture Qualcomm wins due to HD voice and 4G LTE modem integrated on the Snapdragon 800 SoC and its brand new Krait 400 cores. The Xperia Z Ultra will globally launch in Q3 2013 with dates depending on the market. It looks the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 just got some serious competition and it was about time. You can get some additional details about Sony Xperia Z Ultra at the official website here.


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Red-carpet treatment: Sox screen WS movie
BOSTON -- Less than a month after winning the World Series, the Red Sox got the red-carpet treatment on Monday night at the Wang Theater.
The occasion was the premiere of the 2013 World Series film, which brings Boston's latest baseball championship to life with thrilling images and poignant sound that captured the drama of a special season.
BOSTON -- Less than a month after winning the World Series, the Red Sox got the red-carpet treatment on Monday night at the Wang Theater.
The occasion was the premiere of the 2013 World Series film, which brings Boston's latest baseball championship to life with thrilling images and poignant sound that captured the drama of a special season.
"I think this is the cherry on top," said Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks. "This is kind of finishing everything off, and then we can kind of turn the page and get ready for next year. It's been fun, especially being in Boston, going to the events and seeing the fans and just hearing guys say thank you for doing this for our city, and it's not congratulations. It's 'thank you.' That just shows how much it means to them."
With the frigid temperatures outside, it was a night the Red Sox and some of their fans could gather in front of the big screen and re-live the storied action.
"We haven't had a lot of time to reflect on it because you've got to start right up given how long the season went for us -- fortunately," said president/CEO Larry Lucchino. "But this night is a good night to reflect back on it."
And MLB Productions does a masterful job telling the story, which is narrated by actor and Red Sox fan Ben Affleck.
Some of the best stuff is the interaction between players. Early in the film during Spring Training, Dustin Pedroia says to Mike Napoli, "Do you think I'm mentally there after just knowing me for a few days?".
A prevalent theme in the early stage of the film is the tragedy that happened at the Boston Marathon, and how it helped to galvanize the Red Sox.
There are plenty of walk-off highlights throughout the regular season, and an in-depth look at all three rounds in the postseason.
Prior to Game 2 of the American League Championship Series, a batting practice conversation is captured in which David Ortiz tells a teammate that he swung at pitches in the previous game that he never swings at. And he added that everything would be different in the next game.
Then, Ortiz is shown swatting the game-tying grand slam with two outs in the eighth, which had the fans gathered at the Wang Theater cheering as if they had just seen it for the first time.
Wherever a player was having a conversation in Boston's 2013 postseason run, MLB Productions seemed to have a microphone close by. In Game 6 of the ALCS, there is Napoli telling David Ross that he'll kiss him if the slumping Shane Victorino hits a grand slam. And right after that, Victorino skied one over the Monster to end his slump and vault the Red Sox into the World Series.
And once the Fall Classic starts, the film leaves no stone unturned. From the initial missed call at second base in Game 1 to the obstruction controversy in Game 3 to Ortiz's memorable in-game pep talk to his teammates in Game 4 to the clinch party in Game 6, it is all captured in vivid detail.
There is a scene of Ross collecting his equipment bag by the dugout after Game 4 while saying to no one in particular, "I love these guys -- brothers for life."
And in Game 6, Victorino is telling first-base coach Arnie Beyeler how thrilled he is that his whole family could make it to Boston for the game. "Living the dream," howled Victorino.
Ross is one of the players who made it to Monday's premiere.
"I don't know if that ever sinks in -- everyone asks that question," Ross said. "I don't know. We've got a group-text going [with teammates]. In the middle of the night, everyone is texting and talking about everything. I don't know that it's settled in for anybody. We'll text once in awhile, 'can you believe what we did?' I don't have any words for it."
Ian Browne is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brownie Points, and follow him on Twitter @IanMBrowne.


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To Find a Great Mentor, Become the Ideal Apprentice
How can you develop a relationship with someone who's willing to give you quality advice? Tim Ferris says the answer is becoming an ideal apprentice.
How do you go about finding a great mentor?
Earlier this week, contributor Jessica Stillman explained why isn't always a good idea. So how then, can you develop a relationship with someone who's willing to give you quality advice?
Tim Ferris says the answer is . Over at his blog, he's running a six-part series from author Robert Greene about how to do just that.
In the first post of the series, Robert writes:
You must value learning above everything else. This will lead you to all of the right choices. You will opt for the situation that will give you the most opportunities to learn, particularly with hands-on work. You will choose a place that has people and mentors who can inspire and teach you. A job with mediocre pay has the added benefit of training you to get by with less— a valuable life skill.
If your apprenticeship is to be mostly on your own time, you will choose a place that pays the bills—perhaps one that keeps your mind sharp, but that also leaves you the time and mental space to do valuable work on your own. You must never disdain an apprenticeship with no pay. In fact, it is often the height of wisdom to find the perfect mentor and offer your services as an assistant for free. Happy to , such mentors will often divulge more than the usual trade secrets.
In the end, by valuing learning above all else, you will set the stage for your creative expansion, and the money will soon come to you.
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At the bottom of the post, you'll also find links to five more pieces on this topic, each focused on a tip that will help you succeed as an apprentice.
Do you think of yourself as an apprentice? What skill are you learning?