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Another Human 'unique trait' bites dust. It seems elephants can make self-portraits. Please see the video at the link below.
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Another Human 'unique trait' bites dust. It seems elephants can make self-portraits. Please see the video at the link below.
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Posted by Sandeep Gautam at 11:53 AM
There was an article on which I had wanted to comment earlier. the study by Chiu et al shows that in autistic individuals the middle cingulate cortex is hypofunctional during the self phase of the iterated Trust game, wherein one has to infer the mind of another, decide whether to trust him or her and accordingly decide what money to give to the trustee and what to keep for oneself.
Recent work using the multiround trust game has identified activations along human
cingulate cortex consistent with agent-specific response patterns generated during interpersonal exchange with another human. These patterns differentiate outcomes following revelation of the partner's decision (''not self'' or ''other'' response) from those following submission of one's own decision (''self'' response). Remarkably, the patterns are spatially complementary , and almost no manipulation perturbs them except one: the removal of the interactive partner . Removal of the social partner causes the cingulate response patterns to disappear even though the sensory, motor, and reward elements of the task remain intact. These results from the trust game are consistent with agent specific cingulate responses observed in a range of other experiments. Anterior and posterior cingulate activation occurs in response to the revelation of decisions of others in two-person games like the Ultimatum and Prisoner's Dilemma games. Furthermore, increased middle cingulate activation is commonly observed in response to one's own social decisions or emotions.
Our speculation is that this process of reputation management is impaired in autistic individuals, because it depends on the ability to read the minds of others. This hypothesis can be tested experimentally. If we are concerned with our reputation then our behavior will be strongly affected by whether or not an audience is present to observe our actions. Consider, for instance, another sharing game known as the dictator game. One player is given $100 and is allowed to share any amount he or she chooses with the other player. In this situation, the rational thing to do would be to give the other player no money at all, because the second player is powerless to respond. Even "dictators" will typically dole out a small proportion of the money, however. When there is an audience for the transaction, dictators give away even more money. Presumably, they do not want to have a reputation for meanness or for acting unfairly. If autistic people are not concerned with their own reputation, then their behaviour should not be affected by the presence of an audience.
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Posted by Sandeep Gautam at 5:46 PM
Greg Downey at the excellent Neuroanthroplogy blog comments on a recent article by Mary Caserta, on the relationship between parental stress and illness in the children and the child's immune response. What the research team found was that :
Family processes have a substantial impact on children's social and emotional well-being, but little is known about the effects of family stress on children's physical health. To begin to identify potential links between family stress and health in children, we examined associations between specific aspects of family psychosocial stress and the frequency of illnesses in children, measures of innate and adaptive immune function, and human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) reactivation
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Posted by Sandeep Gautam at 5:40 PM
There is a new article by John Horgan, in the Discover Magazine regarding the eternal question of whether aggressiveness is in our genes and inevitable or can be done away with and lead to peaceful human existence.
I was introduced to psychology by reading Eric Fromm's excellent treatise on the same titled The Anatomy of human destructivity, in which he passionately argues that the animals are not cruel or destructive; but that it is a uniquely human trait. that book is a classic and I recommend it whole heartedly to anyone who has interest in the matter.
The Discover magazine article in particular quotes too of my favorite scientists: Robert Sapolsky and Frans De walls and they are on the side of 'peaceful humans' . It also has discusses those hwo belive in a darker view of human nature.
Some excerpts follow:
Frans de Waal stands in a watchtower at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center north of Atlanta, talking about war. As three hulking male chimpanzees and a dozen females loll below him, the renowned primatologist rejects the idea that war stems from "some sort of blind aggressive drive." Observations of lethal fighting among chimpanzees, our close genetic relatives, have persuaded many people that war has deep biological roots. But de Waal says that primates, and especially humans, are "very calculating" and will abandon aggressive strategies that no longer serve their interests. "War is evitable," de Waal says, "if conditions are such that the costs of making war are higher than the benefits."Sphere: Related Content
De Waal acknowledges that "we have a tendency, and all the primates have a tendency, to be hostile to non–group members." But he and other experts insist that humans and their primate cousins are much less bellicose than the public has come to believe. Studies of monkeys, apes, and Homo sapiens offer ample hope that we can overcome our aggressive tendencies and greatly reduce or maybe even eliminate warfare.
Biologist Robert Sapolsky is a leading challenger of what he calls the "urban myth of inevitable aggression." At his Stanford University office, peering out from a tangle of gray-flecked hair and beard, he tells me that primate studies contradict simple biological theories of male belligerence—for example, those that blame the hormone testosterone. Aggression in primates may actually be the cause of elevated testosterone, rather than vice versa. Moreover, artificially increasing or decreasing testosterone levels within the normal range usually just reinforces previous patterns of aggression rather than dramatically transforming behavior; beta males may still be milquetoasts, and alphas still bullies. "Social conditioning can more than make up for the hormone," Sapolsky says.
De Waal suspects that environmental factors contribute to the bonobos' benign character; food is more abundant in their dense forest habitat than in the semi-open woodlands where chimpanzees live. Indeed, his experiments on captive primates have established the power of environmental factors. In one experiment, rhesus monkeys, which are ordinarily incorrigibly aggressive, grew up to be kinder and gentler when raised with mild-mannered stump-tailed monkeys.
De Waal has also reduced conflict among monkeys by increasing their interdependence and ensuring equal access to food. Applying these lessons to humans, de Waal sees promise in alliances, such as the European Union, that promote trade and travel and hence interdependence. "Foster economic ties," he says, "and the reason for warfare, which is usually resources, will probably dissipate."
Fry has also identified 74 "nonwarring cultures" that—while only a fraction of all known societies—nonetheless contradict the depiction of war as universal. His list includes nomadic hunter-gatherers such as the !Kung in Africa and Aborigines in Australia. These examples are crucial, Fry says, because our ancestors are thought to have lived as nomadic hunter-gatherers from the emergence of the Homo lineage just over 2 million years ago in Africa until the appearance of agriculture and permanent settlements about 12,000 years ago. That time span constitutes 99 percent of our history.
Lethal violence certainly occurred among those nomadic hunter-gatherers, Fry acknowledges, but for the most part it consisted not of genuine warfare but of fights between two men, often over a woman. These fights would sometimes precipitate feuds between friends and relatives of the initial antagonists, but members of the band had ways to avoid these feuds or cut them short. For example, Fry says, third parties might step between the rivals and say, "'Let's talk this out' or 'You guys wrestle, and the winner gets the woman.'"
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Posted by Sandeep Gautam at 6:45 PM
Some of you may be aware that I also perceive of me as a literary person and try my hand at writing poetry, short stories and novellas. I have recently started a new blog called The Fool's Quest that would document my quest of coming up with novel literary pieces on a daily basis.
I strongly suggest , that though it has nothing to do with Psychology, it is bound to be a good read, so hurry up and visit that site.
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There is an interesting article in Psychology Today regarding Magical Thinking and though one should read it in its entirety, I'll also post some snippets.
1. Anything can be sacred.
What makes something sacred is not its material makeup but its unique history. And whatever causes us to value essence over appearance becomes apparent at an early age. Psychologists Bruce Hood at Bristol University and Paul Bloom at Yale convinced kids ages 3 to 6 that they'd constructed a "copying machine." The kids were fine taking home a copy of a piece of precious metal produced by the machine, but not so with a clone of one of Queen Elizabeth II's spoons—they wanted the original.
2. Anything can be cursed.
Essences are not always good. In fact, people show stronger reactions to negative taint than to positive. Mother Teresa cannot fully neutralize the evil in a sweater worn by Hitler, a fact that fits the germ theory of moral contagion: A drop of sewage does more to a bucket of clean water than a drop of clean water does to a bucket of sewage. Traditional cleaning can't erase bad vibes either. Studies by Rozin and colleagues show that people have a strong aversion to wearing laundered clothes that have been worn by a murderer or even by someone who's lost a leg in an accident.3. Mind rules over matter.
Wishing is probably the most ubiquitous kind of magical spell around, the unreasonable expectation that your thoughts have force and energy to act on the world. Emily Pronin and colleagues at Princeton and Harvard convinced undergrads in a study that they had put voodoo curses on fellow subjects. While targeting their thoughts on the other students, hexers pushed pins into voodoo dolls and the "victims" feigned headaches. Some victims had been instructed to behave like jackasses during the study (the "Stupid People Shouldn't Breed" T-shirt was a nice touch), eliciting ill will from pin pushers. Those who dealt with the jerks felt much more responsible for the headaches than the control group did. If you think it, and it happens, then you did it, right? Pronin describes the results as a particular form of seeing causality in coincidence, where the "cause" is especially conspicuous because it's hard to miss what's going on in your own head.
4. Rituals bring good luck.
To witness the mindless repetition of actions with no proven causal effect, there's no better laboratory than the athletic field.
We use ritual acts most often when there is little cost to them, when an outcome is uncertain or beyond our control, and when the stakes are high—hence my communion with the fuselage. People who truly trust in their rituals exhibit a phenomenon known as "illusion of control," the belief that they have more influence over the world than they actually do. And it's not a bad delusion to have—a sense of control encourages people to work harder than they might otherwise. In fact, a fully accurate assessment of your powers, a state known as "depressive realism," haunts people with clinical depression, who in general show less magical thinking.
5. To name is to rule.
Just as thoughts and objects have power, so do names. Language's ability to dredge up associations acts as a spell over us. Piaget argued that children often confuse objects with their names, a phenomenon he labeled nominal realism. Rozin and colleagues have demonstrated nominal realism in adults. After watching sugar being poured into two glasses of water and then personally affixing a "sucrose" label to one and a "poison" label to the other, people much prefer to drink from the "sucrose" glass and will even shy away from one they label "not poison." (The subconscious doesn't process negatives.)
6. Karma's a bitch.
Belief in a just world puts our minds at ease: Even if things are beyond our control, they happen for a reason. The idea of arbitrary pain and suffering is just too much for many people to bear, and the need for moral order may help explain the popularity of religion; in fact, just-worlders are more religious than others. Faith in cosmic jurisprudence starts early. Harvard psychologists showed that kids ages 5 to 7 like a child who found $5 on the sidewalk more than one whose soccer game got rained out
7. The world is alive.
To believe that the universe is sympathetic to our wishes is to believe that it has a mind or a soul, however rudimentary. We often see inanimate objects as infused with a life force.Lindeman Marjaana, a psychologist at the University of Helsinki, defines magical thinking as treating the world as if it has mental properties (animism) or expecting the mind to exhibit the properties of the physical world. She found that people who literally endorse phrases such as, "Old furniture knows things about the past," or, "An evil thought is contaminated," also believe in things like feng shui (the idea that the arrangement of furniture can channel life energy) and astrology. They are also more likely to be religious and to believe in paranormal agents.
Who are WE to say the dreamers have it wrong? Carol Nemeroff and Paul Rozin point out that many magical beliefs have gained some element of scientific validity:
Posted by Sandeep Gautam at 11:29 AM
I touched on the sapir-whorf hypothesis and how Russians are better able to do better Categorical Perception (CP) of color, thanks to the fact that they have a richer color terms lexicon than English, last month.
I have also covered the research of P. Kay earlier regarding color terms and their evolution. Now a new PNAS paper by Kay et al shows that while the left hemisphere(LH) , which is involved in language, shows superior CP effect in adults, the reverse trend is shown in infants i.e.e the infants show a stronger CP of colors when the stimuli is presented to Left Visual field (LVF) and hence processed by RH.
Their hypothesis was that while the CP of colors in adults is mediated by language, the CP in infants is non-verbal and the cP in adults may or may not build on this childhood CP ability. The results go on to show that not only doers language affect the left hemisphere dominance on categorical perception of colors ; it does so by overriding an inborn RH dominance for the same task. thus, there is no doubt that the color term lexicon heavily influences how we categorize colors in the adulthood.
Here is their conclusion:
Evidence suggesting that color CP varies cross-linguistically, and that color CP is eliminated by verbal interference, has supported the hypothesis that color CP depends on access to lexical codes for color . However, the finding of color category effects in prelinguistic infants and toddlers has led others to argue that language cannot be the only origin of the effect . The current study finds evidence to support both positions. Color CP is found in 4- to 6-month-old infants, replicating previous infant studies. However, the absence of a category effect in the LH for infants, but the presence of a greater LH than RH category effect for adults, suggests that language-driven CP in adults may not build on prelinguistic CP, but that language instead imposes its categories on a LH that is not categorically prepartitioned. The current findings may therefore suggest a compromise between the two positions: there is a form of CP that is nonlinguistic and RH based (found in infancy) and a form of CP that is lexically influenced and biased to the LH (found in adulthood). Color CP is found for both infants and adults, but the contribution of the LH and RH to color CP appears to change across the life span.Sphere: Related Content
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posted on 20 March 2016
Did Yellen Just Cage The Bears?
by Lance Roberts, Clarity Financial
The last few weeks have certainly been interesting as we have watched Central Banks globally go "all in." From the G-20 meeting where an accord was apparently reached to both the ECB and Federal Reserve jumping on board to support ailing economies.
While I have maintained a cautious stance in portfolio allocations since May of last year, I have reiterated many times that interventions by Central Banks could change the shorter-term dynamic of the markets from bearish back to bullish. These past few weeks have seen exactly that occur.
The question that we must primarily try and answer this week is whether enough "technical repair" has been completed to warrant an increase in equity exposure in the portfolio model.
First, let's review the portfolio model performance as compared to the relative benchmark since last May when I first suggested reducing equities.
It is always interesting when I read the comments made on my strategy by others. The most common is:
Unfortunately, during the response/rebuttal process I discover numerous similarities between all of these individuals. They have generally only been investing post-financial crisis, have very little money and are generally "speculating" in some of the more dangerous of manners. During the next major market reversion, their arrogance will be turned into humility. It is unfortunate they will not listen to the advice of others who have lived through 30-years of market volatility and have already received their degree from USIM, or the "University of Stupid Investing Mistakes."
I have absolutely ZERO, none, nada, interest in chasing and index. For myself, and the clients that I work for, an index has absolutely no relation to specific goals or time frames. As I stated in "Benchmarking Is A Losing Bet:"
For myself, and those that I work for, I truly am investing for relatively long-term time frames of 5-20 years on average. This is because most people that have enough money saved up to actually warrant needing a professional manager are generally between the ages of 45-60 years of age, hence 5-20 year time frames before retirement.
Therefore, spending 5-years to get back to even following a major market reversion is not only unacceptable but devastating to the attainment of retirement objectives.
With this understanding, we can now look at how the portfolio model faired relative to its benchmark and the S&P 500 directly. (While March is not yet complete, I have updated performance through Thursday's close.)
(Disclaimer: The information provided below is for informational and educational purposes only. The following does not constitute a recommendation or solicitation and no warranties or representations are being made. Past performance is no guarantee of future results and use of this information is at ones on risk and peril.)
As you can see, the risk adjusted model has had substantially less volatility since the beginning of last year. Despite being primarily in cash and fixed income since last year, all that has been missed is roughly $500. Given the volatility since the beginning of this year, I am fairly certain that many would trade $500 for avoiding the plunges seen last summer and the beginning of this year. So, what did you really miss?
While the portfolios have been much more cautiously allocated over the last several months, the risk has been a break by the markets to the downside. As I examined in last week's missive, the fundamental, economic and technical backdrop is certainly NOT conducive for higher levels of long-term equity risk.
However, I have always balanced those arguments with a full understanding that massive, coordinated interventions by Central Banks could nullify the "bear case" in the short-term.
So, the question we must now answer, is whether the recent actions by the BOJ, ECB and the Federal Reserve have provided the markets with enough "fire power" to return the markets back to a bullish trend?
Let's start with a short-term (daily) view as their are some interesting observations.
I have added some notations to the chart I posted earlier this week. As I stated then, there is a lot going on in this chart.
However, if the "bulls" have indeed return to the market, as is being suggested by the mainstream media, we should see longer term measures of market momentum and relative strength turning more positive.
As you will notice, there has been virtually no improvement in longer-term indicators at this point that would suggest a more "bullish" optimism is prevailing in the markets.
At the very bottom of the chart above is the number of stocks trading ABOVE the 200-dma on the S&P 500. Currently, with the overall index trading well above the 200-dma, only 58.6% of stocks are currently doing the same. This suggests a rather narrow rally over the last month and explains the lack of momentum of the overall index.
Even on a shorter-term time frame the recent rally has failed to reverse the negative trend of the market which has been a hallmark of "broadening topping" process seen at the peaks of the last two markets.
While my "emotions" are currently screaming to start increasing equity allocations at this juncture, there are several reasons why my discipline is keeping me from doing so currently:
I am not oblivious to the fact that Central Banks have aligned to once again drag forward future consumption to support economic growth, increase inflationary pressures and support higher asset prices. That is their goal. However, the success of their endeavors to date, other than boosting asset prices, have been negligible at best.
This also means that while economic data will continue to drag, the efforts will likely postpone a dip into more "recessionary" waters this year and simply push it forward into next. Simply put, Central Banks are continuing to "rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic" rather than actually addressing the gaping holes in their respective economies. The belief by the Fed that the U.S. economy is "unsinkable" may eventually be their own undoing.
However, there are many that continue to monitor headline economic data as if it is gospel. There is a belief that government supported agencies are producing dependable economic data that can somehow be used to make investment policy decisions. Nothing could be further from the truth, which will only be made apparent next year when backward revisions reveal the errors in the seasonal adjustments of the data.
But it was Nevsky Capital that really brought this issue home. In a recent letter to their investors informing them of the closing of the firms fund, they stated:
I completely agree with Nevsky on this issue. The data is unreliable at best and manipulated at worst. For example, take a look at the chart below.
This chart CLEARLY shows that the number of "Births & Deaths" of businesses since the financial crisis have been on the decline. Yet, each month, when the market gets the jobs report, we see roughly 200k plus jobs created as shown in the chart below.
Included in those reports is an "ADJUSTMENT" by the Bureau of Economic Analysis to account for the number of new businesses (jobs) that were created during the reporting period.
The chart below shows the differential in employment gains since 2009 when removing the additions to the monthly employment number though the "Birth/Death" adjustment. Real employment gains would be roughly 4.43 million less if you actually accounted for the LOSS in jobs given the first chart above.
The "seasonal adjustment" problem runs through the entirety of economic data published by the various government agencies.
Is it intentional? Probably Not. Is it relevant? Absolutely.
Are you willing to bet your life savings on portfolio management strategies dependent on such data?
For all of these reasons, I remain cautious for now. That doesn't mean I will not change to a more bullish stance next week. However, I would prefer that the weight of evidence supports such a change before taking on additional portfolio risk.
One other point to think about.
If the economy is improving and inflationary pressures are on the rise, then why did the Federal Reserve just become MORE ACCOMMODATIVE with their monetary policy by reducing the number of rate hikes this year from 4 to 2? Furthermore, why did they just lower their economic forecasts....again?
Just something to think about.
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The National Security Agency has re-designated George Mason as a Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance Education. George Mason was one of the initial group of seven universities named as centers of excellence in 1999, and the designation has been renewed through 2005.
Lloyd Griffiths, dean of the School of Information Technology and Engineering, says, "I would like to offer my congratulations to Sushil Jajodia and his colleagues in the Department of Information and Software Engineering. I also appreciate the efforts of the increasing number of faculty and students throughout our school who are working in the areas of information security and infrastructure protection. I anticipate that we will continue to see significant growth of both educational programs and research in these important areas."
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Old age is not for sissies — and I'm a sissy
Published 7:00 pm, Saturday, April 24, 2010
"Old Age Is Not for Sissies," is the title of Art Linkletter's book written more than two decades ago. I was in my early 60s then and never gave a second thought about reading it.
But, now that I have really reached old age, I know that "Old Age Is Not for Sissies," and, I have a problem: I am a sissy, and, old age for sure challenges most of us to the very limits.
Mr. Linketter covers some of the "pitfalls" to look for in old age. And believe me, he sure left out a bunch — especially for the women!
For instance: (the following are my suggestions for the admitted aging):
•To dye or not to dye our hair, or whether to buy that pretty pantsuit you want but don't need. (I bought it.)
•It happens: Your darling daughter slowly turns into your mother. (Enough said).
•We must either admit our age or remain in denial. Decide which! (Eventually, it will be printed in our obituary.)
•Dust all your knick-knacks, the coffee table and top of the piano every six weeks, even if they don't need it, especially when company is expected. (For sure, they don't make great furniture polish like they used to.)
•Leave dirty dishes in the sink overnight — they will still be there in the morning. (And it's a great way to start the day.) Ha!
•Watch all the doctor's programs on TV. You will discover a medical term for every ache and symptom you have concerning your future aging. (Your friends will be delighted when, in detail and personalized, you share your newly-learned knowledge).
•Leave your living room furniture arrangement the same as 10 years ago. (That will positively date you.)
•Do not clean your crowded, cluttered clothes closet (too emotional) or give away that 10-year-old pink blouse (you'll need it the next week.)
•Fill to overflowing your garage with "stuff." (No one will see it except you and it will drive you nuts, and you must never leave your garage door open.)
•And the word "sale" does not mean you actually always have to buy! (Just browse!)
Linkletter's book focused on the really, really big things about aging, like: Scams, Abuse, Fraud, Wills, Finances, Surgery, Nursing Homes, Housing and Staying Healthy.
Now, if you are very, very slowly (get real) reaching old age, women, please read and consider the above suggestions. One of them could be just what you need to know!
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Old Friends: They talked often, but never told each other who they really were.
From "All My Meadows" by Patricia Penton Leimack
"Life is Like a Patchwork Quilt. Even if it doesn't have a pattern to it, and even if you don't like every square, when you look at it all together, it's a work of art.
"It is surely in old age that one recognizes the way the grays and blacks heighten the colors of the whole quilt."
"Have I Stayed Too Long at the Fair?"
(A shortened version of the lyrics written by Billy Barnes and included in an album, "Color Me Barbra" by Barbra Streisand)
I wanted the music to play on forever -
Have I stayed too long at the Fair?
I wanted the clown to be constantly clever -
Have I stayed too long at the Fair?
I bought me blue ribbons to tie up my hair -
But I couldn't find anyone to care.
The merry-go-round is beginning to slow now -
Have I stayed too long at the Fair?
I wanted to live in Carnival City with -
Laughter and fun everywhere.
I wanted my friends to be thrilled and witty -
I wanted somebody to care.
I bought ribbons all shinny and new -
But, now I've discovered they have faded pale blue.
The merry-go-round is beginning to taunt me -
Have I stayed too long at the Fair?
There is nothing to win and no one to want me -
Have I stayed too long at the Fair?
(What do you get from this? Is it about life?)
"It costs nothing to make a wish and sometimes they do come true!"
(Louise Hooper Harper is a Plainview freelance writer.)


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First surgery for Michael
12 hours ago
It's one of life's irrefutable laws...a house isn't a home without the pitter patter of little doggie paws!
That zoo looks like so much fun. I love the picture of Claire in her stroller. She is so cute.
Such cute pictures! I have got to go to the zoo soon, I'd forgotten how fun it is!
I somehow missed this post! I love all of your pictures, how did you talk Scott into getting in so many!?


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[Max Factory] 1/6 Morgon stars
Figure maker Max Factory unveiled Morgon from the Dark Stalkers series at their Won Hobby 9 event. She stans stunningly tall at 1/6 scale. Hopefully they will make Lilith also from the same series. She will be released later this year in July with an announced price tag.
More pictures inside.


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30 Rock Season 1 Quotes
That lady you European-kissed last night was actually a gentleman.Kenneth
Good lord! The worm ... that's so degrading. Are its origins German?Jack
The crab is getting aroused. Shut it down. Shut it down!Jack
Television on! Pornography!Tracy
Jack: Lemon, I would like to teach you something. I would like to be Michelle Pfeiffer to your angry black kid who learns that poetry is just another way to rap.
Liz: No, Jack. I don't want to learn about negotiation. I just want Josh to stay. The show needs him.
Jack: Lesson number one: you don't need anyone. Sure, Josh tests well with female viewers 12 to 24, which is important to advertisers because young women will buy just about anything.
These sunglasses have a chip in them that makes the lenses change color as my iPod loses power!Cerie
Liz: Wow, this is an... honor. I have a friend who is number four on Maxim's list of "The Sexiest Women in Comedy."
Jenna: Thanks. At first I was mad that Jessica Simpson was ahead of me, but then I saw The Dukes of Hazzard. Funny!
Remember that e-mail we got from those Nigerians who need our help getting that money out of Africa? We did it! I got the check today.Tracy
Liz: And by the way, what kind of a moron calls in sick and then comes to work to have a meeting?
Josh: I get an NBC discount here.
Liz: Idiot!
This ought to prove my mother wrong, saying Donaghy is Gaelic for failure. What the hell does she know, she's a Murphy; Bunch of mud farmers and sheep rapists.Jack
Jack: Steven's good, man, he's on partner track at Dewey and he's a Black.
Liz: A black!? That's offensive.
Jack: No, no. That's his name. Steven Black... good family. Remarkable people, the Blacks, musical, very athletic, not very good swimmers. Again I'm talking about the family. Black is African-American, though.
Liz: Well I don't care about that.
Ridikolus: What's your game?
Kenneth: Boggle.


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"Quiver (Part VII of X) - Hard Traveling Heroes": Right before the Demon is ready to turn Green Arrow into a pile of ash, the Spectre intervenes and teleports him out of Jason Blood's pentagram. Ollie now sees that Hal Jordan is the Spectre. Hal explains how he cloned Ollie from left
Appearing in "Quiver (Part VII of X) - Hard Traveling Heroes"
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- Deadman
- Oliver Queen (As a spirit)
- Phantom Stranger
- Spectre (Hal Jordan)
- None
Other Characters:
- Abraham Lincoln (As a spirit)
- An Angel
- Batman (Bruce Wayne) (Flashback only)
- Chris Farley (As a spirit)
- Flash (Barry Allen) (As a spirit)
- Mahatma Gandhi (As a spirit)
- Martin Luther King (As a spirit)
- Parallax (Flashback only)
- Robin (Jason Todd) (As a spirit)
- Superman (Flashback only)
- None
- None
Synopsis for "Quiver (Part VII of X) - Hard Traveling Heroes"
Right before the Demon is ready to turn Green Arrow into a pile of ash, the Spectre intervenes and teleports him out of Jason Blood's pentagram. Ollie now sees that Hal Jordan is the Spectre. Hal explains how he cloned Ollie from leftover DNA found on Superman's cape during the Final Night incident. He pledges to take Ollie to someone who can help explain the loss of memory that Ollie has been suffering from. The Spectre takes Green Arrow to the gates of Heaven and blusters past the gates' guardian, the Phantom Stranger. Beyond the gates of Paradise are the souls of various individuals who have died including, the Flash, Robin (Jason Todd), Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr. But none of these are the ones that Ollie is to meet. The Spectre takes Ollie across a field to meet the soul of the man who can best explain Ollie's situation to him – Oliver Queen himself!
- This issue is reprinted in the Green Arrow: Quiver trade paperback.
- Superman appears in a cameo flashback to Green Arrow (Volume 2) #101.
- Batman and Superman appear in a cameo flashback to Final Night #3.
- Parallax appears in a cameo flashback to Final Night #3.
- Deadman makes reference to someone named Kinison. This would be Sam Kinison, the stand-up comedian who died in an automobile accident in 1992.
- No trivia.
See Also
- Write your own review of this comic!
- Discuss Green Arrow Vol 3 7 on the forums
- Cover gallery for the Green Arrow series
- Images from Green Arrow Vol 3 7
Recommended Reading
- More Fun Comics #73-107
- Green Arrow (Volume 1)
- Green Arrow (Volume 2)
- Green Arrow (Volume 3)
- Green Arrow (Volume 4)
- Green Arrow (Volume 5)
- Green Arrow (Volume 6)
- Green Arrow and Black Canary
- Green Arrow: The Wonder Year
- Green Arrow: The Longbow Hunters
- Green Arrow: Year One
- Connor Hawke: Dragon's Blood
- Black Canary (Volume 1)
- Black Canary (Volume 2)
- Black Canary (Volume 3)
Links and References
- Green Arrow at Wikipedia.org
- Green Arrow Toonopedia
- Green Arrow at DCU Guide
- Green Arrow at Wold Newton Universe
- Green Arrow at TV Tropes
- Green Arrow at the DC Animated Universe Wikia
- Green Arrow at Adherents
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Beijing - Chinese doctors who examined the distended abdomen of an abandoned one-year-old girl found that she had a parasitic twin growing inside her, state radio and local websites said in reports seen on Wednesday.
Meng Ru's belly began to swell months after she was adopted by a childless couple in Luohe city in the central province of Henan, the reports said.
As her abdomen grew to the size of a small drum, superstitious neighbours began calling Meng Ru a "monster" and saying she was pregnant.
Her adoptive father, Kang Xi, who has been caring for her since she was abandoned, took the infant to a Luohe hospital, where scans showed the presence of the parasitic twin.
"The identical baby would become a threat to Meng Ru if not removed soon," a doctor at the hospital were quoted as saying.
Facing a bill of 10,000 yuan (1,500 dollars) for surgery, Kang appealed for financial help for medical treatment, the reports said.
The reports did not say if Kang had raised the money for Meng's treatment or when surgeons planned to operate.
China has reported at least one similar instance of the extremely rare phenomenon of a parasitic twin.
In 2005, doctors in China's Hunan province removed twin parasitic embryos from the abdomen of a baby boy, the official Xinhua news agency reported.(dpa)
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Ouellet Finds His Wings
The Red Wings have had their eye on Xavier Ouellet for a long time. So when they acquired an extra second round pick in the 2011 NHL draft it was only a matter of time before they called his name.
"Everytime I talked to people from Detroit they were always telling me they were really high on Ouelett," teammate Trevor Parkes said. "It's good to have another Montreal junior with the Red Wings."
The 6-foot, 174 pound defenseman was thrilled when he was selected by the Red Wings. Not only was he excited about the organization, but the fact that fellow Montreal Juniors teammates Trevor Parkes and Louis-Marc Aubry already have contracts with Detroit made a good situation better.
"Being drafted was the best day of my life for sure and the Red Wings are one of the best organizations in the league," he said. "It was a great experience and I have been talking with Parkes and Aubry a lot since then. They have also helped me since I got here."
The Bayonne, France native just finished his first NHL prospects tournament in Traverse City, MI. Ouellet, who scored a goal and finished a -1 through four games, spent much of the tournament paired with the Wings tournament captain, Brendan Smith on the top pairing.
"Smith is a real good player and he's talking a lot to me on the ice," Ouellet said. "They are talking about him to be the next player in the NHL so it's good for me to learn from him. He has experience so he's helping me a lot."
The 18 year-old defenseman has some work to do before he can be considered NHL ready including adding strength and muscle to his frame. Ouellet will also need to work on his overall defensive game when he returns to the Juniors, but the Red Wings like his raw package of skating and puck moving ability.
"He's a really skilled defenseman," Trevor Parkes said. "He's almost like a Brendan Smith kind of guy. He likes to get up in the rush and he likes to put points up and he's pretty responsible defensively too. He's an overall defenseman and he's going to be a really good player."


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On Easter weekend, 1886, Alois 'Grospop' Thurn opened up a stall at the Old Central Market and began selling old world style, processed items. When he immigrated to Columbus from Germany a few years before, he began working at a processing plant that scrapped items often used to make things back home. He took home certain things and made meals for his family, then his neighbors. In 1886, he made the leap to a full time purveyor of meats and processed items. His venture was quickly a success, as other immigrant families discovered the European flavors and styles he brought to market.
He worked out of his home, on South Front Street, but quickly outgrew it. In the 1890's he bought some property off of Greenlawn Avenue and built his first plant and a new home. The entrance to the old plant can still be seen today.
In 1958, with the new interstate encroaching, his son, Alois, along with his grandsons, Robert, Paul and Leo, began construction on a new plant and storeroom. This facility is still in use today. In 1965, the Thurn brothers moved out of the Central Market, 2 years before its demise. Since that time, 530 Greenlawn Avenue is the only place to buy Thurn's products.
In 1988, The 3 Thurn Brothers sold the business to Albert, Roberts's son. At this time, the competition had changed. Large commercial entities had been defining price and product for a number of years. Also, the European immigrants from the late 40's and 50's were getting older. In order to survive these lean times, Albert opted to process wild game. Thurn's Specialty Meats, now the name of Albert's company, quickly became highly regarded in hunting communities. Hunters appreciated the personalized service and flavorful sausages, much in the same way his great-grandfather's customers did.
After Greenlawn was completely rebuilt and a floodwall was constructed in the early 2000's, the retail business began to rebound. Food lovers from around the city began to seek out different offerings from the homogenized products on grocery shelves. Thurn's Specialty Meats fit the bill. Albert has never altered his product, some recipes dating back to the 1800's. Albert also brought in a few new items, like smoked fish and chicken wings.
Today, Albert's brother, Anton (a Professional Chef), and Alec Thurn, son of Albert, assist Albert during production. Albert is always available and enjoys 'talking meat' with the customers. You may even get a new recipe or wine pairing during your shopping experience.


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Putin was able to form an opinion about the younger Anglo-Saxon elite
Vladimir Putin meets with students of the British College Eton is significant not only because about it it became known only after the fact. It's not even in a symbolic gesture, indicating a supposedly beginners to improve Russian-British relations. The Russian President is clearly interested in the very phenomenon: a school for the British elite. And it is really worthy of attention.
That Vladimir Putin in the beginning of the twentieth of August he took a group of eleven iontsev, the students of the College wrote in a Facebook immediately after the meeting – but for the General public it was news only on Wednesday, after publication in the Daily Telegraph and the Sun. After that unusual meeting started writing other British, Russian and world press. Confirmed the conversation and the Kremlin.
"It is the Eaton became one of the main reasons that England became the United Kingdom"
"It was a private trip of the guys from Eton," – said Putin's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, adding that the one-hour interview was interesting and the President, and the guys". Confirmed Sands and history of the organization of the meeting, as set out by itonami. In March of this year at Eton were made by Bishop mark Tikhon (Shevkunov) – the Abbot of the Moscow Sretensky monastery, Executive Secretary of the Patriarchal Council for culture and member of the presidential Council for culture and the rector of the Sretensky theological Seminary. During his conversation with students talking about their planned trip to Russia and they asked Bishop Tikhon to assist their meeting with the President. The Bishop advised them to write a letter to Putin, and as Sands says, "this request of father Tikhon was transferred to the administration, and with the assistance of the administration of such communication with the President was secured.
In this case, as found by Bi-bi-si, the future participants of the voyage to Russia initially wanted to place it as the trip of the official delegation of Eton, but the College refused to do so. In the end, itonly came to private. One of the main organizers of the trip was student David Wei, a Chinese from Shanghai who told that the trip took him nine months: "It was a private visit, nobody from the top are not organized and are not sponsored by… Before the trip we decided not to tell anyone about her training."
The guys managed to keep it a secret until the moment you return home. Only a few days after arriving home, they published images taken in the Kremlin, on the page in Facebook. Photos where all 11 together with the President of Russia signed "the Boys Vlad." Wei signed the photo:
"Guys, we really could produce a deep impression on Putin, and he showed us his human face."
And another participant in the meeting of the Trenton Brycen wrote that they have held with Putin for two hours, adding that "in person he was small, but filled with a space."
When the news reached the British press, she began to seek on this trip, the hand of Moscow, and to talk about how – as did The Times – that it was a "personal secret mission itonce order to melt the ice in relations between East and West, together with President Putin". It is clear that in Russia the press was to treat the reception of itonce almost as part of a special operation of the Kremlin in establishing relations with great Britain. The more literally these days in Murmansk to celebrate the anniversary of the "North convoy" (the British supply route for lend-lease during the great Patriotic war) came the Queen's daughter Princess Anna, and recently in China to be held the first meeting with Putin as the new Prime Minister Theresa may.
But still it's just a coincidence – no matter how joking the English press over the fact that teenagers jump on and Mae, and a graduate of Eton, foreign Minister, Boris Johnson, having to meet with Putin before them. No, of course, Moscow is not against to demonstrate to London his desire to restore the almost frozen relationship, but not this prompted Putin to the meeting with pupils of Eton. Demonstrations in the spirit of "Samantha Smith – messenger of peace" (American schoolgirl who wrote to Andropov and came at his invitation to the USSR in 1983) is not needed.
The clue to Putin's meeting with itonami is much simpler: the President was really interesting to see those who trained British and globalist elite. Because Ethan is not just the most famous English school, this is the same "English" that is our main geopolitical enemy over the past centuries.
City (i.e. global Finance), Windsor (residence of the Queen), Whitehall and Downing street (government) – all of them filled with graduates of Eton. Of course, not only Eton – Eton is located near Windsor, is the most important tool for the formation of the British elite. For almost six centuries, from Eton, was released nearly two dozen Prime Ministers (including the penultimate Cameron), hundreds of members of Parliament, bishops, bankers, children of Prince Charles, William and Harry, also graduated from this school.
At Eton study a total of five years – from 13 to 18 and there are only 1,300 students, but these numbers are nothing to say. As the cost of training – 50 thousand dollars a year. In order to get into Eton, it's not enough to be just rich (most rich people are failing the threshold), you need to be a member of the correct family. And best of all, if this is family "old etonian", that is a College graduate. Of course, in recent years, Ethan is becoming more and more globalist in the 60s abolished the rule that there could only learn children of those who are British by birth, and now the share of "hereditary itonce" fell to one-fifth – but that does not change his caste nature. Just slightly changed the rules of admission into the caste. And so the methods of control used by the London in the world since then has changed.
Britain has not ruled territories and seas in the literal sense of the word (though literally, too – with the younger-older partner of the U.S.), but continues to run the finances, plans (geopolitical) and ideas (advocacy and media). Britain, however, is not a country, but the Anglo-Saxon elite, which carried out the first project "the British Empire", and now "the Atlantic globalization. And this elite is not an abstract set of families, but individuals and names. And correct education is the most important thing that you can't trust the parents, and only a very precise, almost military system.
This training system is called "private schools", among which are several elite colleges, led by Eaton. It is important not only knowledge, but also forming character, value system and attitude to life. Only then will a real, high-quality elite. Drilled, totally cynical, battle and knowing. Able to command and to obey, without understanding all the words, acting as competently trained and very clever dog.
Hereditary wealth here is not so important as the sense of their inclusion.
Thus is formed a caste. And what we call "Anglo-Saxon elite" is created here for centuries. Moreover, the presence of Eaton became one of the main reasons that England became a Kingdom, the world's biggest Empire, what it was 70 years ago, and most influential center of power, which it remains today. Cadres decide everything – and without such people there would be no British rule.
Because there would be no relations to other peoples as inferior, or theories of racial superiority, neither of placing China on the opium, or the world's first concentration camps (for Boers). All this was not created at Eton, but his graduates, who sincerely believed themselves the best in the world "have the right". All the "Hitler", scouts or American messianism – a pathetic derived from the main know-how of Anglo-Saxons: the system of education is ruthless to others "elite".
Frames forged in boarding school all day – there is a saying that Ethan stands on three B: beating, bulling, buggery (corporal punishment, hazing and sodomy). And though corporal punishment was abolished in the 70s, and foreigners at Eton, more and more, traditions are not only in the kind of uniform – black tailcoat.
The involvement of children of rich Indians, Chinese and Russians (which, however, some) have not capital of their parents – and to generate the proper frame, "agents of influence" in the global scale. So the children are selected from the right caste families. Queen Elizabeth can not assign to India the Viceroy – but in order to continue to have an impact on this civilization, it is necessary to take part in the education of its elite.
The fact that the Nouveau riche-Anglophiles from around the world seeking to send their offspring to Eton, understandable and easily explainable by the fact that they also launder their money through the city. How is that any intelligence Ethan is an invaluable resource. It is clear that it is the undivided territory of MI-6 and MI-5 – College, incidentally, was Ian Fleming, who was not only a writer. And Vladimir Putin is not only President – and he certainly remembers that a graduate of Eton was guy Burgess, a member of the "Cambridge five" who worked not only on MI-5, but also for Soviet intelligence.
It is clear that Putin was recruited by iontsev, only figuratively speaking, but his interest in Eton can be called professional, and presidential. Indeed, though the Anglo – Saxons- it is leaving the global elite, but now have (and long have) to deal with the representatives of this school. Not David Cameron or Boris Johnson – and in the face of the tradition of "education personnel." Called Eaton.


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Vital statistics: On average an adult aardvark can reach a height of 60cm, its tail measuring 50-65cm, and weighing 50-65kg. Its lifespan varies between 18 and 23 years.
Widespread in sub-Saharan Africa and not currently considered endangered, its location is influenced by the existence of termitaria and ant nests.
Description: A word picture of an aardvark conjures up a solitary, humpbacked, tough-skinned, bulky-bodied, nocturnal, insectivorous mammal which digs vast underground burrows - some large enough for a human to explore. Its most prominent features include long ears, a slim head that tapers to an elongated snout, a sticky tongue which measures up to 30cm when extended, powerful limbs with large claws and a long, strong tail.
Each attribute equips it eminently for its lifestyle - underground by day and foraging by night. Its acute hearing gives timely warning of approaching enemies - leopard, hyaena or wild dog - while its sense of smell is superbly developed to detect insect larvae buried as deep as 30cm in the earth. It can use its claws and tail in defence and the tough skin protects it from insect bites.
Diet: Termites are its preferred food, trapped by the sticky tongue once a termite mound has been breached - 50,000 can be consumed by an aardvark in one night's feasting. In lean times it will feed on fruit and other insects.
Burrows and Breeding: One offspring is produced annually in a permanent, spacious burrow. With its legs and claws adapted for rapid digging, the aardvark frequently creates other tunnels to act as escape routes from its enemies such as leopard and hyaena,(who also use these as shelters from time to time), while smaller mammals like jackal, warthog or porcupine adopt them as their homes.
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What does disgruntled mean?
Definitions for disgruntled
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Princeton's WordNet
disgruntled, dissatisfied(adj)
in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
Unhappy; dissatisfied
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of disgruntled in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of disgruntled in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
The world saw an African-American man in Staten Island die and people are confused, disgruntled and angry.
There will be a small faction of disgruntled conservative Republican who won't like it, but they ... they won't be the majority in a vote.
We're not doing this willy-nilly because we're a bunch of disgruntled soccer moms, this policy is harmful to our society, to our schools, to our teachers and to our children.
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Jarl Orel (the Grayhand) was an elderly frost giant, near to death. As of 1370 DR, his daughter, Gerti Orelsdottr, had taken over his reign.[1]
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Tarot Readings in Frankfort are performed by someone that is trained in how to read and interpret the symbolism of the Tarot Cards. Tarot Readers do not necessarily have to possess any psychic or supernatural gifts to perform Tarot Readings. It is more of a left-brain science (logical side of the brain) much like Astrology. I have found the best Tarot Readers are also initiates of the Golden Dawn Kabbalah*.
Having a Psychic Tarot Reading in Frankfort is fulfilling.
Standard Tarot decks are formed of 78 cards, divided in two sections: 22 Major Arcana cards and 56 Minor Arcana. The Major and Minor Arcana are easy to tell apart: The Major Arcana cards are individual figures named and numbered, such as The Fool, The Magician or The Judgement. On the other hand, you will recognise the Minor Arcana as traditional playing cards. It is divided in 4 suits (wands, cups, swords and pentacles) and each suit has 14 cards: 10 pips card, ranging from the Ace to the Ten, and 4 court cards, the King, the Queen, the Knight and the Page or, in some decks, Daughters.
The Major Arcana Deck
For example, the Ace of Pentacles stands for prosperity and the potential for riches, while the 10 of Pentacles shows that prosperity as a result, in the form of financial security and the potential to share and help others. The Court cards also represent different aspects or archetypes of an energy: From the childish attitude of the page, full of energy and influence to the energy of the Knight, the feminine power of the Queen, projected inside, and the masculine energy of the King, extroverted and there for everybody to see.
Present day Tarot Cards draw most of their symbolism from the Kabbalah. If you want a Tarot Reading, you will want to ask the Tarot Reader if they have knowledge of the Kabbalah as well.
There are pros and cons to both; It is a matter of personal preference really which is better.
*The Kabbalah incidentally is a form of Jewish Mysticism that is
believed to have originated from Moses. However, Mystical Kabbalah is non-religious; it ties in all the Gods and Goddesses of the world. I am referring to Kabbalah, from the Golden Dawn System of thought, often called "Mystical Kabbalah" today. Writer's such as: Dion Fortune, S.L. Macgregor Mathers, and Isreal Regardie disseminated the Mystical Kabbalah ideas through their early 1900 writings on the subject.
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The peace lily is a striking indoor plant with elegant dark green leaves that are often more than a foot long and huge fragrant white flowers, called spaches, on an off-white stalk or stem called a spadix. Native to Colombia and Venezuela, the peace lily is a tropical plant common in Latin American rainforests. In the U.S., it is hardy in U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zones 10-11 and grows up to 18 inches tall. The peace lily has strong symbolic significance.
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10 reasons why the Harry Potter series is the best
1. They didn't make eight wildly popular movies for no reason, you know.
2. Each book is as good as the next. Rowling's spellbinding writing style never ever dips.
3. Every story is full of adventure and mystery, mixes in tragedy, heats up with romance and squeezes out some comedy – a powerful potion of pure genius.
4. It opens up a whole new world. To me Harry Potter means 'more than a million original ideas that capture even the most unused imaginations'.
5. The books feature a lot of exciting words starting with the letter 'H': Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, Honeydukes, Hedwig, Harry!
6. Hagrid teaches kids the value of money – "The gold ones are Galleons. Seventeen silver Sickles to a Galleon and twenty-nine Knuts to a Sickle, it's easy enough."
7. Books about magic are bound to be magical, Muggles!
8. Even the author can't get enough! Rowling launched the virtual Harry Potter world pottermore.com as a thank you, to all her loyal fans.
9. The way the characters' stories, such as those of Professors Dumbledore and Snape, fit in with the plot, create a wonderfully shocking yet cathartic end to this global phenomenon.
10. Any book that makes its creator unbelievably rich has got to be good, right?


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By Alison van Diggelen, host of Fresh Dialogues
What's the biggest and most impactful exhibit at the new San Francisco Exploratorium, opening April 17th?
Get this: It's not the 330 year-old Douglas fir tree, sliced open to reveal stunning time markers, or the 20 foot tall "Tinkerers' Clock," powered by windshield wiper motors.
No. It's the entire Exploratorium structure itself, an audacious experiment in green building that aims to create the world's largest "net-zero" energy museum.
What's "net-zero," you ask? Simple, it's a building that creates as much energy as it consumes.
How it works
Peter Rumsey, CTO at Integral Group led the design of the building's net-zero components and explains to Fresh Dialogues how it all works in this video.
Net-zero energy features include:
Approx. 6,000 high efficiency solar panels;
A complex system that brings in 74,000 gallons of water per hour from San Francisco Bay to heat and cool the building via miles of floor-embedded pipes;
A rain-water catchment used for flushing toilets.
Rumsey may be an enthusiastic advocate for green building, but what gets him most excited is the idea that the San Francisco Exploratorium will inspire kids to think net-zero is the way of the future.
"They're going to say, 'Wow, that's one of the things we can do to solve this whole big climate change problem," says Rumsey. "We can design and build buildings that make their own energy and don't create a carbon problem.' As kids grow up and become leaders in society, they'll be the ones saying, 'we should just do that zero energy thing. I saw it when I was a kid…it was no big deal.'"
Despite much talk about the state of the art green building features, Rumsey says, "There's nothing cutting edge about the building…we've taken things that are 'off the shelf' and applied them in creative and innovative ways. We call it 'state of the shelf'."
Find out more…
See what's green in the Exploratorium (interactive floor plan)
Take a tour behind the scenes at the Exploratorium (video)
Listen to KQED's Exploratorium story by Molly Samuel
Read Paul Rogers's story in the San Jose Mercury News
Read more about net-zero buildings
Here's a map of some creative net-zero buildings worldwide
With thanks to the Exploratorium for sharing the many stunning images of the building and exhibits featured in our video.


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According to two newly released papers on the Closing the Gap Clearinghouse website, the most effective programs to promote social and emotional wellbeing in Indigenous people are those that are culturally competent and have Indigenous ownership and community support.
The subjects examined by the two papers are strategies and practices for promoting social and emotional wellbeing, and policies and programs for preventing suicide and suicidal behaviour.
It was also found that programs that encompassed and addressed issues of trauma, racism, poverty, and homelessness maximised their effect on Indigenous social and emotional wellbeing.
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It is hunting season and we have you covered in more ways than one!
This Bargain Thursday is a must for anyone who wants to stay warm outdoors, hunt a deer or duck or just likes to look good, for less.
Talk about blind luck. Tommy Foreman is seeing green in his new career making deer blinds. "Most unique thing, they're made out of metal. 28 gauge metal...last years."
The former Insurance adjustor says he finds the work relaxing. He loves to hunt and found that the blinds he made for himself were better than any store-bought hunting shelters. "The ones I have in Henderson, I built ten years ago and they're still there," says Foreman.
So Foreman figured there just might be a market for sturdy, metal duck blinds that last a long, long time. When he took them to a hunting show in August the orders starting pouring in. He says many hunters buy one and come back for more.
The best part? The price! The small one sells for $295; the biggest for $450. It is four by six and 6'2" high; that's about $200 less than a less-sturdy model sold by a chain store.
Need more than a blind? Avery Outdoors is the leading manufacturer of Waterfowl hunting gear and they have an outlet right here in Memphis.
Allen Hughes says, "We started out wanting an outlet for our overruns, discounts. We do have bargain bins for returns. It's all new. In addition to those we have regular products, ammo, guns, yeti coolers. Lot of bargains interspersed in there."
Check out the deals on duck decoys. You can find them here for as little as two dollars.
"It's a steady flow of decoys out of here," says Hughes.
Clothing to keep you warm and dry, even if you don't hunt or fish. Like Under Armour.
"A lot of clothes manufactured to our specifications that we don't sell anywhere else," says Hughes.
Lots of camouflage gear, Bows (last year's models discounted by more than $100 bucks), arrows (a dollar each), gun cases (normally $30-$45, here, two for $25).
There is so much that we literally can't show you everything. We can tell you that Avery Outdoors is worth a trip.
Here's what you need to know: Avery Outdoors is on Cumberland Street which is off Broad.
Their number is: 901-324-1500. Click here to go to their Facebook page.
Tommy Foreman sells his box deer blinds the old-fashioned way. Call him on his cell at 901-849-2850.
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"MOLINARI!" the ER nurse bellowed, jolting us out of our waiting room stupor. Tearing our eyes from hypnotic crime show reruns playing on the wall-mounted television, we scrambled to move our 12-year-old daughter, who'd been placed in a wheelchair to elevate her lacerated foot.
"So, what happened?" the nurse asked.
"It was the blender," I blurted, nervously.
"The blender?!" the nurse looked in horror at our daughter's foot, wrapped in a dishtowel.
"Well, no, her foot wasn't actually in the blender . . . it was on the floor . . . and the blender was in the freezer."
"In the freezer?" the nurse asked, confused.
"I . . . it was me . . .," I mumbled culpably, "I put the glass pitcher in the freezer. When my daughter opened the door, it fell out and cut her foot."
"Ah," the nurse seemed relieved to not be dealing with a frappèd foot, "let's take a quick look." As our daughter winced and whined, we carefully unraveled the dishtowel. "Hmmm . . . looks like you're gonna need a few stitches young lady."
The nurse fired questions at us – "full name, date of birth, address, phone number, insurance carrier, policy number" – while tapping away at her computer.
Then, after a pregnant pause, she looked intently at us and carefully enunciated, "Has your daughter ever had stitches before?
"No," I answered immediately.
My mind waffled and my eyes darted as I thought, "Should I tell her about that face plant she did into the side of the backyard playset? She didn't need stitches, but if I don't mention that, will she think I've got something to hide? Why is she asking this question anyway? Does she think we're abusive parents with a long history of suspicious ER visits? I guess the whole blender story does sound a bit suspect, and I was the one who put the blender in the freezer to begin with. I should've known it would slide off that bag of chicken tenders!?! It was my fault! I'm sure she's alerting the police right now! I think I hear sirens!"
"Sit tight in the waiting room. When the doctor is ready for you, we'll get you all fixed up." the nurse said with a smile.
We settled back into the waiting room, just in time to see Matlock render a withering cross examination. Stagnating under the unforgiving fluorescent lights for another hour, we reassured our daughter, analyzed the people around us, leafed through dog-eared magazines, and watched an episode of "Hill Street Blues."
Just as I thought cobwebs were forming, our name was called.
The x-ray technician, the billing rep, the nurse, the doctor – they all asked the same questions. First a battery of rapid-fire queries regarding tedious details were launched in robotic succession, followed by one carefully worded question delivered police-interrogation style.
I can't recall if the final question was "Has your daughter had stitches before?" or "Are you the abusive parent who negligently put the blender in the freezer sideways?" but I am certain that they had it out for me.
I prayed they wouldn't find out about our two older kids, who have had their share of emergency room visits. Three broken bones, two pulled elbows, and at least a dozen stitches; with such typical excuses — fell off the couch, fell off the playset, fell into the playset, fell down the stairs. It all sounded so textbook, I was sure that the police were on their way to haul me off to jail.
But finally, after 30 minutes of treatment and three hours of waiting, we were released. Feeling like some kind of middle-aged jailbird, I sheepishly wheeled my daughter back to the ER entrance.
Suddenly, "YOU'RE UNDER ARREST!" blared from the waiting room. I considered bolting, but I was still a little sore from that body sculpting class, and besides, I would need to pack my fiber pills and contour pillow before I could lead a life on the run. Just as I turned to face the wall and spread 'em, I noticed that the order had come from CHiPs Officer "Ponch" Poncherello on the wall-mounted TV, and I realized that I was free to go.
On our way home, while my daughter sipped a conciliatory Whataburger chocolate shake, I turned to her in an effort to relieve the still-fresh pang of guilt, "Lollipop, if I hadn't put that blender in the freezer sideways, none of this would've happened. I'm so sorry."
"It's OK, Mom," she said between sips, "it's not your fault. It was just an accident." Along with my heart and that chocolate shake, my mother's guilt finally melted away.
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The international probe into manipulation of a key financial benchmark intensified Monday with criminal charges lodged against three former Barclays employees.
Great Britain's Serious Fraud Office announced legal proceedings against Peter Charles Johnson, Jonathan James Mathew and Stylianos Contogoulas for actions allegedly tied to manipulation of the Libor rate between June 1, 2005 and Aug. 31, 2007.
Libor is the common shorthand for the London Interbank Offered Rate, the benchmark used to set rates on trillions of dollars of mortgages, car loans, student loans and some complex financial derivatives. Libor rates cover multiple currencies worldwide for varying time periods.
No court date has yet been set for the three ex-employees of the London-based international bank to enter court pleas.
The proceedings raise to at least six the number of former bank traders and other employees charged. Authorities in the U.S., Great Britain and elsewhere around the globe are probing evidence that employees of international banks rigged rates in Libor and similar benchmarks to favor their own trading positions.
Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Swiss banking giant UBS, Netherlands-based Rabobank and ICAP, the world's largest inter-dealer broker, collectively have been fined $3.6 billion by U.S., British and other regulators for Libor manipulation.
Evidence in the earlier cases showed bank traders from some international banks routinely used emails or instant messages to ask counterparts at other banks for help in pushing Libor rates up or down. The resulting changes helped benefit banks' trading positions, but allegedly skewed the rates borrowers were charged on mortgages, other loans or credit cards.
U.S. and international authorities are also investigating alleged manipulation of rate-setting for foreign exchange currency, precious metals, oil and other benchmarks.


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Jack White Already Has Enough Songs for a New Album
Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Artist News, Concerts / Tours, Rock, New Releases,
Jack White already has enough material for a follow-up to Blunderbuss. The former White Stripes man still has 12 as-yet-unfinished songs that didn't make it on to his debut solo offering and is already considering its follow up.
"We had enough for an album at one point, but I just kept going. I've got another 12 songs that I haven't finished yet," he said.
Jack is planning to play tracks from across his career and various bands when he performs live, but they may not be in the form fans expect: "There's songs that White Stripes never really played live, or Raconteurs never really got that into, or songs that I brought to the table in a band - songs like 'I Cut Like a Buffalo' - and now I can elaborate on them."
Additionally, Jack revealed he refuses to draw up a set list before shows and his backing musicians include one all-male and one all-female band because he doesn't want to "bore people."
"The easy thing to do would be to go and find four or five guys to play in just like the record and stand behind me. I just didn't want to bore myself to death and bore people with that jazz and it just to just be some nostalgia thing. If we're going to play a Dead Weather track, a Raconteurs track or a White Stripes song or whatever it is, it needs to be alive in the moment. It has to be something new to everybody on stage, it can't be some recreation of something from years ago. I don't wanna waste my time doing that."
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Last Thursday, ESDi Design School received, again, the first graduating class of the center. A student's reunion dinner who cursed their studies in ESDI, 20 years ago. As said in the reunion Mr. Antoni Garrell, General Director of the Foundation for ESDI ( FUNDIT ): "Now it is easy to bet on ESDI , then it was a project that began and it was not so ."
After a glass of cava and the initial hugs and greetings, Dr. Glòria Fernández welcomed attendees, accompanied by Mr Antoni Garrell , Director General and Mr. Ignasi González, Deputy Directors . Then Ignasi Gonzalez accompanied the attendees a visit tour around the school. The event ended with a standing dinner where graduates of the first class were able to talk, exchange views and catch up after years of not seeing.
More pictures in ESDi's Flickr.