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This is a must watch video, and be sure to stick around to the very end where Lord Monckton issues this challenge:
Al baby, if you really think that you want to raise the profile of this issue, then why don't you agree to debate with me on international television – the fees we'll earn apart from anything else would be enormous, and I know you'd love that because money seems to stick to you very rapidly – I want you to face me in a debate about global warming, and if you don't dare I want you to remain silent about subject forever, from now on. Are you a coward, or will you step up to the plate? Are you an arm-chair quarterback, or are you going to get suited up, and get onto that field?
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- Let's all walk, bike, swim, or paddle to Peru since Al Gore has pronounced his admiration for 'the growing eco-tourism that is flourishing in Peru'
- The solution to Al Gore's troubles? Karma Offsets!
- Vast right-wing conspiracy? 'There are a team of paid professionals who have spent the last 15 years sowing confusion and doubt about this…and they've been incredibly successful'
- Al Gore's lack of credentials touted as 'one of the arguments' he should be nominated to SCOTUS. Why not? He's no climate scientist either!

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Sometimes, the success or failure of your weight loss program depends more on your daily habits than on the food choices you make. The little things you do as part of your routine can affect how much food you eat and how much you move throughout the day. If your daily habits aren't healthy, you're not likely to lose weight in the first place and even if you do, the weight will probably come back.

There are (at least) five healthy habits that will help you lose weight. These are simple activities that are easy to incorporate into your daily routine. Pick one and try to practice it this week. If all goes well, pick another one. Try to master one skill at at time so you don't get overwhelmed.

Watch What You Drink

Start to monitor the calories in the drinks that you consume. There are seven drinks, in particular, that can have a big impact on your total caloric intake and on the type of food choices that you make each day. Your best bet is to drink water. You can even make flavored water at home to replace your high calorie sodas and sweetened teas.

Sleep Better

Believe it or not, the quality of your sleep can have an impact on the food choices you make during the day. It can also impact the number of calories you consume from soda or coffee drinks. Use these simple tips to sleep better so that you get a full night's rest and wake up energized for a full day of healthy activity and good eating.

Build a Balanced Exercise Program

If you completed last week's tasks, you've already begun to exercise every day. Now it's time to create a well-rounded workout routine with different types of physical activity. You'll learn how to build a body that is lean, strong and flexible. If you don't belong to a gym or need help finding exercise classes, consider using a fun and easy online workout to get the activity you need.

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You should also subscribe to healthy messages online and in social media. Researchers have found that daily reminders can have a big impact on weight loss success.

Remember that last week's tasks involved planning healthy meals and exercise. Continue to complete those activities as you move through this e-course and build a better body.


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Boulder County's commissioners today nixed plans for a Lyons to Boulder trail.
In a letter published today, the three-commissioner board said the trail is "not feasible at this time."
The decision follows 10 months of intensive planning by county staff, which had proposed the long-pondered, 13-mile recreational and commuter trail along the Boulder Feeder Canal between Lyons and Boulder.
The decision to suspend those plans is based on the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District's recently expressed reluctance to open property flanking its canal to recreational traffic.
Without the district's approval of a trail along the canal it owns, the trail would have been placed on roads between Boulder and Lyons.
"While existing roads and adjacent county open space properties located within the proposed trail corridor provide a physical means of traveling between the Town of Lyons and the Boulder Reservoir, such a trail would be far less appealing, more costly, and more environmentally destructive than using portions of the feeder canal which offer existing cleared stretches of land, sweeping views of the plains and mountains, and a continuous path from north to south," reads the commissioners' Sept. 18 letter.


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text: I have two gloriosa lily tubers planted in a terracotta pot in the greenhouse. They started sprouting nicely but I've noticed that some of the leaves are turning brown very quickly. I had the same problem last year. According to the instructions I received when I bought them, they need to be in as sunny a spot as possible (which they are), and they should only be watered when the compost has dried out completely. However I have read now that they should be kept moist and fed weekly. Can anybody tell me where I'm going wrong please?


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Nicole Kidman's 'Grace of Monaco' to open at Cannes
The Hollywood film which has been co-produced by Yash Raj Films will open at the 67th Cannes Film Festival
'Grace of Monaco', the film starring Nicole Kidman, which has been co-produced by Yash Raj Films, has been officially chosen to open the 67th Cannes Festival in May this year.
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According to the official website of the Cannes Film Festival, the world preview of the film will take place on May 14 in the official selection category, Out of Competition.
Helmed by French filmmaker Olivier Dahan, the biopic is based on the life of American actress and Princess of Monaco, Grace Kelly. The film centres around her life after she married Prince Rainier III in 1956. It was shot for 16 weeks in Monaco, south of France, Paris, Vintimille, Gand and Bruxelles.


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It was a good training week. I absolutely loved all of my workouts because I felt like I had something to work on besides just pounding out the miles and minutes. I hit the weights twice this week and am still sore. My run form is definitely improving, and I'm using my VFF's for all indoor runs. This week I did 6 miles in the VFF's, and the rest outside. My cadence during my outdoor run today was consistently at 23/15sec, which is almost to where I want to be. Here are the numbers:
Swim: 1h 32m 4050 yds
Bike: 1h 57m 45s 34.41 mi
Run: 1h 31m 51s 9.36 mi
Strength: 1h
Total: 6h 1m 35s
What has not been good this week is my nutrition. I have been pretty much surviving on sugar. Vegetables? What are vegetables? Fruit? Do the dried cranberries in the holiday chex mix I ate with a spoon for breakfast count? Ugghh...I have a love/hate relationship with confessions, that's for sure.
Here is my nutrition goal for the week: eat better than last week, but don't get down on myself for indulging and, under no circumstances, weigh myself. Even I should be able to do that!
Have a great week, and happy training!
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The Sunday Report
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I have been living solely off of sugar cookies. so good, so dangerously delicious.ReplyDelete
You've been stellar with your nutrition, I think you should enjoy your holiday sugar, you're really good at getting back on track.ReplyDelete
Nice job with your runs!!!
I got the cacao nibs in Rochester, they are so good and only have 2 calories per!
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From my "Don't forget to Salt the Decks" we have moved on to some interesting modifications, which maybe other designers/builders would consider. The actual boat in that article I sold to a local fisherman, and I am still using my original boat – now about 22 years old. It too, was built as per the article I wrote; flat panel fiberglass laid up on a Formica counter top.
The boat in the article was designed for sailing more than rowing or power. It was only rowed. I found its' sides too high for me to get into and out of the water conveniently. When you have been spearing fish and swimming for more than a couple of hours you would be surprised how tired you are – especially if you are 71 years old! A fisherman made me an offer that I couldn't refuse. I sold it to him for about 1/3 of the cost of materials. That is the way it is in the boating business sometimes.
My catamaran has two cross beams that extend beyond the outboard side of the cats hulls, and beyond the rowing attachments.
Note in the photos the crossbeams are used to put the boat up on its side. Good for a quick bail out, and good for storing in a small space. It sits on the beams, resting against a wall. Rain water can't collect in it. Animals don't seem to like to make themselves at home under it. "Under it" space is very small.
I have tried several times to get a way to row the boat. Trial an error came up with the present location. It needed to be wider than the boat, and higher than the sides. So, we used the extended beams to attach the longitudinal 1×4″ to attach a 6″x6″ block to get the right height. It works great for rowing.
The oars are 2×2 by about 8′ tipped with paddles of fiberglass – one layer of 17oz bi-axile fiberglass. We have only broken three oars so far. Any bigger, and they won't fit the oarlocks. We can't get oak, or cedar or those fancy woods, so we are going to be faced with a permanent fix of some kinda hybrid fiberglass, and/or steel wood oar, I guess. Other than that, we'll just keep making new oars out of rough pitch pine.
The ends of the boat are also a small detail. The bow has a 2×4″, treated wood that is great for an anchor line. It was built into place 20 years ago, and is still functional. Even treated, I had to kill termites trying to move in!
The gunwales were extended in the front, and the rear. Being one of the few pieces of wood on the boat, they rotted. When I replaced them, I extended them beyond the ends. The distance was long enough to get one hand around them. They make great lifting points for the boat. When getting it out of the water, or out of a tight storage area, two of us can lift the boat and carry it. Not really that hard. I suspect the boat weight empty is less than 150 pounds. The cart just doesn't do sand very well, so we always have to carry it a small distance to/from the road. The previous two photos show the gunwale extensions.
I also want to take note of what fiberglass does. It does not rot. I would leave the boat on the beach and it would fill with rain water. It even created a mosquito pond and when the neighbors complained, I had to go down more often and bail it out. It took four people to lift the boat and carry it the few yards to the beach. The present arrangement makes it impossible for rain to collect, and boat is MUCH lighter. Two of us can now pick it up. Pictured are Terry and John, friends of mine. Being the senior guy, I let them do the grunt work.
The cart was at first just two wheels mounted on a piece of wood. But, it kept flopping upside down when I didn't want it to. So the "T" handle was added. It keeps the cart from flipping when I don't want it too. I also provides an easy way to maneuver the cart under the boat. On person can lift the boat and push with the "T" with their feet and slide the cart under where he wants it. Using the stern, or bow gunwale extensions, he can then lift the boat and push it down the road. When not in use, we stick it back inside the van.
One wheel is new, the other one died, so I rounded a couple layers of ply, glued them together with some 1″ wood and made it a round wheel. I cut the tread off the old wheel, and screwed it on to the ply. No inner tube to inflate, and it actually seems like a good idea. It works, and that is the bottom line. Will do the same when the other tire dies – sun here is really rough on rubber and plastic.
My original, 20 year old, 2.5 hp engine died. I tried to take it completely apart and failed. Took it to a marina and they had it in complete pieces. It was pretty bad inside. Parts and shipping and customs was gonna cost more than a new engine. I couldn't see spending the money since we really don't go far. I eventually threw the engine away. Fortunately, I kept the lower half. I saw some youtube videos and next thing you know we took a weed eater apart and mounted it on the old outboard leg. It works. Not as fast. But, 25cc is not the same as 2.5 hp. If you try it, you need a weed eater with a clutch, and some kind of reduction gear, direct drive doesn't seem to work. I think it would work better yet with a smaller prop, but presently I don't have one.
Holding the engine is my friend Jay.
So now my spear fishing expeditions are easy. Drive down to where the boat is stored behind a locked gate. Drop it down on the trailer and get it out on the street. Sometimes we just carry it out in the street and then load it on the cart. Move it about the length of a football field to the launch area on a lightly used street. Pick it up and carry it to the water. Unload gear into boat. Park the van, and come back hours later and reverse the process.
Now if I can get my homemade spear gun to work as well.


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On June 6, 2006, Noami Halsey McClure left the downtown public library, hopped on her Trek hybrid bicycle and began pedaling westward on newly renovated Church Street.
The ride was smooth for the first few blocks. As she approached Ninth Avenue North, there didn't appear to be anything in view that would obstruct the trip.
Then McClure encountered a stormwater grate with openings parallel to the street. During Church Street's rehabilitation project, workers replaced grates with bike-friendly versions, whose openings are perpendicular to the street. At Ninth Avenue the renovation project stopped, but McClure didn't know it.
Traveling on the right shoulder of the street to avoid traffic, McClure's front tire unexpectedly dropped into one of the grate's openings. She immediately flipped head first over her handlebars. McClure's mouth, face, chest and stomach struck the pavement of Church Street.
McClure sustained severe injuries, including a lacerated liver, an infarcted spleen, traumatic pancreatitis and abrasions on her left arm, upper lip and left knee, according to a lawsuit she filed against Metro. Recognizing that the city was at fault, the Metro Council in February 2008 agreed to award McClure a $130,000 settlement.
"Given that parallel grates are a known hazard, and that Ms. McClure had ridden across at least two perpendicular grates before hitting the parallel grate, it is likely that a jury would assess a portion of the fault against the Metropolitan government," council attorney Jon Cooper opined at the time.
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Four years after McClure's accident, replacing tire-eating stormwater grates with bike-friendly versions is part of Metro's reinvigorated effort to make the city more accessible to cyclists.
Metro Water is creating a database of unfriendly grates, an evaluation that for the time being is concentrated only downtown. The database is 70 percent complete. The water department is coordinating with Metro Public Works to carry out a new citywide policy whereby bike-friendly stormwater grates are standard for all forthcoming street and repaving projects.
But to date, the transition isn't happening fast enough to prevent all accidents. Replacing hazardous grates with the perpendicular variety is occurring piecemeal — either in response to an accident, a complaint from a cyclist or during a larger road project. Accordingly, hazardous stormwater grates still exist, cyclists are still having accidents, and presumably, the city could be vulnerable to future lawsuits.
Last month, 28-year-old Cory Duclos, a Vanderbilt University graduate student, was riding his bicycle to school on Wedgewood Avenue near 12th Avenue when he ran into a parallel grate.
"My tire got stuck right in there," Duclos recalled. "I just flipped over. I think I mostly went onto the grass. I banged my eye up pretty good though, so there's a big cut over my eye. A couple of people stopped to help. One guy ended up taking me first to the student health center, and then from there they took me over to the ER."
Duclos said he also sustained some scrapes on his shoulders. Informed about the previous suit against Metro, Duclos said he would look into legal options to help pay for his medical expenses. He still hasn't received his medical bill.
Responding to an email sent by Duclos, Metro promptly replaced the storm grate that caused his accident. Still, Duclos said he's noticed the parallel stormwater grates elsewhere, especially in the city's inner core, where infrastructure is the oldest.
"Cycling in the downtown area is always kind of scary anyway," Duclos said. "To have those there, it kind of adds an extra difficulty in getting around the city. The hope would be that there wouldn't be anything like that. I'll admit that I should be watching for [the grates]. It's definitely something I'll keep my eye out for more than I did in the past."
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John Kennedy, deputy director of Metro Water, said before the city gets to the point of being able to "systemically go through and replace" the grates, his department must finish the inventory study, which is still 30 percent from completion.
"One of the things we're up against is that we really didn't have a good systematic inventory of these grates," Kennedy said. "We know where most of these grates are, but we didn't know how old they are or how they were oriented in the roadway. … We started documenting grates in the downtown Nashville area, trying to get a handle on how many are bike-friendly, how many are unfriendly."
Given the thousands of stormwater grates found throughout Davidson County, Kennedy said it would be speculative to say how many pose hazards to bicyclists. "I would say just in general terms, there's probably more unfriendly than there are friendly," adding that until recently the city had no uniform standard for stormwater grates.
Kennedy said the cost to replace grates varies. Asked if Metro plans to begin a wholesale replacement of grates after the database is complete, Kennedy said he would like to move in that direction, but the city must be strategic about it.
"We estimated that if we just said, 'OK, we're going to bite the bullet and start replacing all of these, and we're not going to stop until we're done,' then we'd be looking at millions of dollars in costs," Kennedy said. "We're trying to approach it systematically and where we can get the biggest bang for the buck."
More than previous mayors, Dean has made transforming Nashville into a more bike-able city a priority, even creating a new bicycle and pedestrian coordinator position in his office to lead the way. Dean recently launched a new bike-share program and set aside $3 million for new bikeways in his capital-spending plan.
Metro Councilman Jason Holleman, who's heard the stormwater grate issue raised by cyclists, said he would prefer the city to tackle it more aggressively, but he recognizes cost must be considered.
"If we're going to get serious about being a city that is friendly to bicyclists and pedestrians, it's an infrastructure issue we're going to have to address," Holleman said.
"Obviously, there's limited resources in Metro government, but I do think we need to look for ways to accelerate how we address this problem," he added. "I'd certainly rather spend money on grates and not on personal injury lawsuits."


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Markets tried to resolve the five-day range to the upside yesterday but lacked volume and momentum. Overall most indices are still hanging in well, some better than others. The 8- and 21-day moving averages have been playing catch up in some strong sectors and look poised to potentially move again.
Futures are up 3-4 handles headlines point to positive China Data and ECB statements.
S&P micro resistance is 1467. A 30-minute close above this level opens the door for a possible re-test of the 1474 highs. If we get a market close in the next few sessions above 1474, shorts could have some choices to make if they want to continue with their opinionated thesis. Support sits at 1451-1457, which has served as a nice floor to trade against as the market digested those New Year's gains.
Banks flashed some micro sell signals yesterday. If you didn't take off some size into the strength, the push-through failures we saw yesterday could have given you the cue to trim your size and clean up excess positions a bit. Overall, a lot of people are saying that yesterday was the high of the year in the banks. I disagree, but you need to navigate them strategically and trade around your positions.
Bank of America (BAC) did fall pretty hard through its 8-day MA around $11.90 but it's had a heck of a move. In my opinion you could try to buy some back at the 21-day around $11.33. I would treat the $11.05-11.33 level as a support zone. I did buy some back on the close after taking some sales into strength.
Goldman Sachs (GS) didn't flinch yesterday and still looks good. JP Morgan (JPM) had a bit of a push-through failure but there is no need to run for the hills. We need to just see if there is no bounce.
Tech continues to be mixed.
Apple (AAPL) was under pressure again yesterday as it's not showing any commitment to any type of bounce. Today will be interesting as CEO Tim Cook is in China and there are reports that he met with China Mobile. Let's see if it can actually hold a gap and be buyable after 15-30 minutes. Lately any gap up has been sold. Micro resistance is at $525, then the next resistance level is $532. Let's see if it can have any power today.
Amazon (AMZN) is consolidating at highs and looks good.
Google (GOOG) is also working higher and has a nice pattern. It could get in motion again above $740.
Intel (INTC) is showing some signs of life as a laggard trade.
Facebook (FB) has been a MONSTER. The stock has been a great vehicle for us since November and has started to play by many bullish technical rules. Using a tier system has been key. I would trim some if you haven't already into this up open rather than chase it higher, but that doesn't mean it's a short.
LinkedIn (LNKD) has been quiet but looks tight enough for a potential additional move. If it can clear $115.50-116.50 perhaps it could move better.
Autos look pretty good and can continue: Ford (NYSE:F), General Motors (GM) and Toyota (TM).
Ags have been acting better. Monsanto (MON) has been best-in-breed of late. CF Industries (CF) just started acting better. PotashCorp (POT) and Mosaic (MOS) also are seeing better inflows to start this year.
Inverse Bond ETF (TBT) is trying to protect its gap and 8-day moving average. I nibbled some back in the $65 area. Holding this could be very constructive for faster action.
Oil is up on the China news. The refiners (OIH) and Energy ETF (XLE) have mid-level consolidations. OIH needs to stay above 40 and then clear $40.67 to start getting attention from momentum guys, in my opinion.
There has been lots of nice rotation and action for those using some quick feet, or those just keeping them planted with a bit more patience.
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This is part of a roundtable on the work of Octavia Butler. The index to the roundtable is here.
If we count not only the unusually severe harms that anybody could endure, but also the quite routine ones of ordinary human life, then we find that matters are still worse for cheery procreators. It shows that they play Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun — aimed, of course, not at their own heads, but at those of their future offspring. – David Benatar, Better Never to Have Been, p. 92
Benatar's anti-natalism is not likely to capture the popular imagination any time, soon; probably never, I'd wager. What kind of person accepts that it would be for the best should humanity stop reproducing? But a few metaphysical defeatists do indeed take some solace in it, at least by discovering a comrade in bleakness who attempts rational arguments for our shared existential plight – justifications that aren't reducible to some mere psychological fracture. The psychologistic dismissals of pessimism are widespread, most recently and disappointingly exemplified by writer Nic Pizzolatto in his TV series, True Detective. Disappointing, because Pizzolatto clearly shares my love for the most ontologically downtrodden horror author working today, Thomas Ligotti. Nevertheless, after 7 hours of episodes that dismantle straight guy Marty Hart's ideas of family, hard work and law as delusional distractions which keep him from confronting the abysmal punchlines consistently delivered by pessimistic funny man Rust Cohle, and despite having the latter nearly quote Ligotti verbatim at times, Pizzolatto betrays all of this with a denouement that makes the show into little more than religious propaganda hidden in a blighted form. Rust has a metaphysical conversion in the finale after a near death visitation by his dead daughter and father: he begins to see little rays of hope peeking out of the darkness of the nighttime sky. Turns out it was the trauma of losing a child and of not having reconciled with his father – genetically, a future deadend and an unresolved past – that lead to those previously expressed dark thoughts, and not, say, facing the objective ramifications of the eternal perspective, or sub specie aeternitatis, which can only reveal an end to humanity, its concerns and all its artifacts. Rust and the audience need no longer worry about such ramifications with the hope of continuing as an immortal soul. Ligotti refers to such pessimistic flimflam as a "façade of ruins, a trompe l'oeil of bleakness." (Ligotti, p. 147)
Another shell game with hope is played out in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men where an inexplicable apocalyptic plague has resulted in universal infertility. Regarding anti-natalism, Peter Singer naïvely wonders, "If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required — we could party our way into extinction!" Instead, the film offers a more psychologically plausible scenario: With humanity facing its true endgame, the last generation behaves like a coyote chewing through its ensnared limb, only to realize that each of its limbs is equally trapped. There's no shared hedonistic spirit, where the world turns into one big Burning Man festival, rather the state (England) erects more barriers, whereby the more privileged, based on the same old fears of class and race, try desperately to reduce the possibilities of the less fortunate ruining whatever pleasures are left in the one thing everyone is forced to share, a moribund genetic fate. Shit never stops running down hill. What the film suggests is that thanatopobia is part of our psychological foundation. "To subdue our death anxiety, we have trumped up a world to deceive ourselves into believing that we will persist – if only symbolically – beyond the breakdown of our bodies." (Ligotti, p. 159) When we can no longer postpone reflecting on the nothingness of the final true death to some future progeny, we can no longer rely on the comforts of a symbolic immortality. The film suggests we would behave like caged animals. But, then, one of those rays of hope shows up in the form of a pregnant woman, suggesting the human race isn't finished yet. After which, the story becomes one of a formerly defeatist protagonist making sacrifices for the benefit of some future society that he hopes (with his re-discovered faith) will be better than the current one. The ending is ambivalent enough that the materially inclined need not feel betrayed like we were with True Detective, but it still gives the viewer an emotional escape hatch (unsurprising, I suppose, if you already knew that the book on which the movie was based is by a devout Anglican).
Likewise, thanatophobia – the maternal instinct being the relevant strain here – is the structuring motivation running through Octavia Butler's tale of survival at any cost, Xenogenesis (aka Lilith's Brood). After a nutwing contingent of ideologues wipes out most of the life on Earth with nuclear bombs, the few remaining humans are "rescued" by the Oankali, a parasitical species of date-raping colonialists with grotesque worm-like sensors all over their bodies who solve most of their problems with the evolved ability of genetic manipulation, a biologically inherited eugenics. Their means of survival is, like capitalism or the culture industry, to consume qua incorporation all the different beings and materials they find across the universe into their own genetic history, making the new more of the same.
What's particularly interesting about Butler's take on the alien invasion trope is that she focuses on a human collaborator, Lilith, and not the heroic figure of the resistance fighter. Not that there's much possibility for resistance once Lilith is awakened from her stasis, hundreds of years after the nuclear winter. The aliens have rebuilt much of the Earth's topography and restructured the humans to suit their expansionist goals, which amount to serving the Earth as food to their massive living spaceships and propagating a new strain of the Oankali species using the human gene pool as a reproduction machine. Use it all up and move on. The only two forms of rebellion left to the humans are bitching a lot among themselves and a noncompliance that will result in an eventual death that's not much more than long-form suicide. Lilith chooses the symbolic immortality of humanity by helping her fellow Terrans accept the idea of humanity becoming one more admixture to the collective genetic memory of the Oankali.
But I doubt Butler would agree with my negative description of the Oankali, since she rationalizes most of their oppressive behavior as the story progresses. However objectionable they may at first seem, they look much more like a perfectly harmonic anarchy of superheroes by the end of the series. Thus, what begins as the subjugation of humanity turns out to be its salvation. The Oankali understand each other, other living beings and the world around them on precognitive levels, genetically and materially. They don't need the muddying mediation of language, since they can objectively tell if no means yes. Humans might be cognitively confused, but the Oankali can see the essential truth underneath. Butler is clearly sympathetic to their collectivism, setting it up as a utopian vantage point, her sub specie aeternitatis, from which to critique what she considers humanity's defining problem, the human contradiction. That is, humans have a biological characteristic for being hierarchical, which is seen in many other animals, too, but it results in stuff like nuclear warfare when reinforced – rather than, as Jdahya explains, "guided" – by the other major human feature, intelligence. (p. 41, Xenogenesis)
There's a good bit of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's early pessimism in how the Oankali (and Butler, evidently) perceive humans. His version of our fall from grace: When humans were closest to our animalistic predecessors, as natural man, lacking reflection, we simply existed in the present, moment to moment, like all animals. Even though there was a natural hierarchy, some serving as food for others, all animals, including early man, remained in a satisfied state of blissful ignorance. Worms don't think about how awful their lives under the domination of birds; both simply do what they do. But once self-consciousness set in with the development of language, humans were capable of considering whether we're better off now than previously and of making plans. This is time consciousness, which meant that we began to think about what things were like and what they may be like in the future, providing us with the faculty of perfectibility. Perfectibility relies on a perpetual dissatisfaction with our present situation based on comparisons to our past and imagined future selves and to other humans. This alienation from the present is what led, on the one hand, to the development of, say, moral thought or imagining a better polity, and, on the other, to the fear of death, or "our subjugation to the opinion of others [that] paves the way for direct political subjugation." (p. 69, Dienstag, whose interpretation of Rousseau I follow here)
Rousseau mused about utopian arrangements that would help shelter modern man from time consciousness, where we might rediscover the authenticity of natural man, no longer feeling enslaved to the opinions of others. But, because we can't forget all the knowledge that's been acquired over our history, nor can we rid ourselves of temporality, he was highly doubtful that that we could ever return to primeval happiness. But aren't the Oankali just such a fantasy of an advanced civilization that lives in an animalistic present? Their genetic telepathy makes language otiose while giving them a complete awareness of everything around them. Because of that link, they exist in a natural collective state that is inherently cooperative and anti-competitive. They don't use tools, but they've plenty of organic technology, which is capable of the most advanced scientific feats, such as space travel. And because of their genetic memory across generations as well as a control of aging, they have no anxiety about death. Perfectibility is a matter of adapting to and merging with the surrounding organic forms – of tuning into their present environment, not being alienated from it.
Using the Oankali as an impossible fantasy for perfecting humanity seems to me at odds with the story's other major theme, moral responsibility for the subjugated. This is why the trilogy begins to lose ideological steam as Butler becomes increasingly interested in the alien culture itself (focusing on Lilith's brood and Oankali politics) in lieu of how the humans behave under its dominion. Making substantive points about collaboration becomes difficult when human survivors ultimately should be thanking Lilith for being their Moses to an eternal Oankali paradise. Consequently, I prefer the short story, "Bloodchild," which Butler wrote while doing research for the trilogy. It explores many of the same themes without the wish fulfilling distractions: The Tlic, an intelligent insect-reptile hybrid with scorpion tails bond with human boys early in their life as a way of preparing them to be symbiotic incubators for the alien species' vein-munching larvae. (Males are used as hosts, because females are needed to birth enough males to meet Tlic demand.) Humans have once again fucked up everything sometime in the past – this time, by making Earth into some slave-based dystopia. So some refugees found their way to the Tlic's planet, where the master-slave relation proved more agreeable than back home. As in Xenogenesis, the humans survived only through a diminishment of their humanity. However, there is no potential for perfectibility by becoming part of the Tlic's reproductive process. They have pretty much the same contradiction that we do.
It's a coming of age story in which the adolescent Gan is getting ready to have T'Gatoi, an important Tlic bureaucrat and longterm family friend, implant her larval eggs into his bloodstream. His mother, Lien, agreed to this long ago, his father was a host before him (he carried T'Gatoi), and Gan has been raised to accept it as his purpose. The family gets plenty of food and privileges through their relation with T'Gatoi. Gan only begins to question his fate after witnessing the way the little Tlic grubs, ready to be delivered, begin to feed on their host until they can be moved to the corpse of an indigenous beast. This bloody act of physically substituting one body for another helps him realize that his existence is reduced to being a host animal. He seriously considers suicide to prevent himself from being either a mere means for T'Gatoi or the living dead existence of his brother, Qui, who's resigned to wandering about the preserve on which they live, high on the narcotic egg juice that the Tlic supply to keep the humans living long and pacified lives. But if he doesn't serve as host, his sister Hoa will; in fact, she even wants to. To save his sister from such a fate, he recommits himself to the task. However, he doesn't explain it (in first person) as a mere sacrifice on his part, but as a personal desire: "[T'Gatoi:] 'But you came to me … to save Hoa.' [Gan:] 'Yes.' I leaned my forehead against her. She was cool velvet, deceptively soft. 'And to keep you for myself.'" (Loc 340) Despite Butler's insistence in the afterword (Loc 364) that this is a story about love, not slavery, the differential power involved makes her interpretation about as reasonable as a non-ideological romance between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson.
Similarly, when Lien shows signs of depression at having provided her children for Tlic reproduction, T'Gatoi responds by drugging her, using a sting of the Tlic's tail and insisting that she drink more egg juice. No matter that T'Gatoi and Lien grew up together, the friendship, just like all forms of love between the two species, is corrupt and not to be completely trusted, regardless of how either side might interpret the relation. The dominating to dominated class hierarchy won't allow anything more. Hardly limited to a slave economy, Butler makes a much better case against hierarchical discrepancies in this short story than she manages in the entire trilogy that followed. That's because without a utopian interpretation of the alien superiors here, subjugated choice (qua love) is potently problematized, and the effects of domination are critiqued.
Although "Bloodchild" is a perfectly miserable gem that encourages a properly depressive reaction, it still focuses, just like every other example discussed so far, on the will to survive through a high sacrificial cost of some sort (in the case of Gan's family, basic human dignity). When it comes to sowing the seeds for the future of humanity, our moral options, in fiction and for most people, are limited by a perverse optimism, which Ligotti (p. 154) summarizes as Frankenstein's Oath: "We, as licensed protectors of the species and members in good standing of the master-class of the race, by the power invested in us by those who wish to survive and reproduce, vow to enforce the fiction that life is worth having and worth living come hell or irreparable brain damage." As the aforementioned Benatar suggests, this Pollyannaism is justified by the low expectations of humans, sub specie humanitatis. We're quite good at adapting to suffering and, like Gan, accommodating oppressive beliefs as our own when we have so little real choice. As he puts it, "we would not take slaves' endorsement of their enslavement as a justification for their enslavement, particularly if we could point to some rationally questionable psychological phenomenon that explained the slaves' contentment." (p. 100, Benatar) He argues for another moral possibility, which should come as no surprise if you read the epigraph.
Regarding future-life cases 1 – i.e., the potential lives of people yet to be born and who are presently non-existent – Benatar makes the case for a fundamental asymmetry in how we evaluate whether it's good or bad to bring them into existence such that the moral view is that we never should. In one scenario, Lilith brings X into existence, in which case we would say that X experiencing pain is bad and X's experiencing pleasure is good. That's agreeable enough, I think, but the problem comes in when we consider what happens should Lilith choose to not bring X into existence. The absence of pain is good even without X to enjoy it. That is, independently of any pleasure, it's better to not have X than to have X in pain. However, pleasure doesn't work out in an equally symmetrical fashion. The absence of pleasure isn't bad unless X exists to be deprived of it. And since X doesn't exist in this scenario, there's nothing bad (but nothing good, either) about non-X not experiencing pleasure (since no one's missing anything). It would be neither better nor worse to not have X who will experience no pleasure than to have X will experience some pleasure. Because it's good to avoid bringing into the world whatever inevitable amount of suffering that will befall X by not having X, and nothing bad (nor good) would occur should Lilith not have X, she shouldn't have X, nor should she ever have an X or Y or Z. The same goes for all of us humans, as well as the Tlic, but probably not for the Oankali, since pain isn't really such a bad thing for them. Therefore, the collaborators in Xenogenesis and "Bloodchild" are not doing humanity any favors by doing whatever's necessary to survive. They're actually bringing unnecessary harm into the world, particularly since humanity continues only under the "thumb"/tentacle/tarsus of alien oppressors.
Benatar's argument isn't likely to convince the optimistic majority as it leads to some really uncomfortable positions, such as a pro-death view of abortion (women shouldn't just have a legal right to choose, but should always use that right to abort) and that we should let the species die out even in the absence of extraterrestrial domination. And it has received some stiff philosophical challenges. However, he does offer intuitive support for his asymmetry by showing how it provides a basis for other more commonly accepted asymmetries. For example, most people probably share the view that we have a duty to not bring babies into the world that we know will greatly suffer (such as a fetus that tests positive with an incurable degenerative disease), but not the inverse duty to bring happy people into the world (there's certainly nothing immoral about a kind and caring couple deciding to not have children). Benatar's asymmetry provides a possible reason: It's good not to have children with incurably painful diseases, but neither bad, nor good for children who don't exist to not experience happiness – i.e., the couple who decides to not have a child isn't depriving a non-entity of happiness. But, even if that doesn't sound plausible, the argument is refreshing just because it runs counter to the popular temptation to justify whatever moral position one has with a just-so story from evolutionary psychology. Could there be an ethical view less biologically adaptive than anti-natalism? If for no other reason, I appreciate the effort.
Showing sympathy for Benatar's conclusion is Joanna Russ' heroine, Elaine, in the relentlessly anti-utopian We Who Are About To …. With no hope of being rescued, she lets her fellow castaways know what she thinks about their plan to rebuild civilization on the planet where they've crashed:
All right, so you think you have the chance of a snowball in hell. Maybe you do. But I think that some kinds of survival are damned idiotic. Do you want your children to live in the Old Stone Age? Do you want them to forget how to read? Do you want to lose your teeth? Do you want your great-grandchildren to die at thirty? That's obscene. (p. 14)
Taking a poke at stories like "Bloodchild" where humans fleeing from Earth always manage to discover advanced alien civilizations on other planets, this new planet is a barely hospitable environment with no signs of mental life, civilized or otherwise. There are so few women and men that all the others are not going to allow Elaine (or anyone else) to opt out of reproduction. The central struggle in the book is, as Samuel Delany discusses in his introduction, whether quality of life or reproduction provides purpose to our existence. Insisting on a right to die, she's forced to kill all but two of the group, because they chose suicide. Elaine isn't just skeptical like Rousseau that we could revert back to the state of natural man, she has no desire to do such a thing, fearing what a return to a natural hierarchy would likely mean:
You must understand that the patriarchy is coming back, has returned (in fact) in two days. By no design. You must understand that I have no music, no books, no friends, no love. No civilization without industrialization! I'm very much afraid of death. But I must. I must. I must. Deliver me from the body of this. This body. This damned life. (p. 21)
Once alone, Elaine records her final thoughts into a recorder (the narrative conceit of the book) as she starves in a cave, waiting for the proper moment to use a poison capsule. In place of the thanatophobic maternal instinct or Stockholm syndrome as love or a utopian dream that justifies a suffering existence, this is a violent stand for human and, more specifically, female dignity.
1. Present-life cases involve the continuance of a life, the cessation of which involves a different threshold for suffering from the one regarding whether a life should never be started.
Benatar, David (2008), Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence. Oxford University Press.
Butler, Octavia (1996), Bloodchild and Other Stories. Open Road Integrated Media.
Butler, Octavia (1987, 1988, 1989), Xenogenesis. Guild America Books.
Dienstag, Joshua Foa (2006), Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit , Chapter 2. Princeton University Press.
Ligotti, Thomas (2010), "Sick to Death" in The Conspiracy against the Human Race, p. 147-167. Hippocampus Press.
Russ, Joanna (1976), We Who Are About To …. Wesleyan University Press.
Other Notes:
Children of Men poster is by Noah Hornstein.
Benatar diagram was borrowed from here, which also has a summary of the argument should mine not be sufficiently clear.
Finally, 'Loc' refers to the location in a an ebook edition I have of Bloodchild. This is different from the page numbers.


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I'll on my way to Hawaii for the week, so posting will probably be a bit lighter than normal. If anyone wants to submit a guest post, now would be an excellent time to do so.
As a conversation piece, there's this New York Times article on the new private high speed train service in Italy from Nuovo Trasporto Viaggiatori. I'm not at all enthused about the idea of competition in rail service, as I believe market forces and competition don't usually work out well in practice, especially for transportation. But it will be interesting to see how this plays out in Italy.


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The All-Ireland Football Championship begins in the Bronx
New York aiming to shock Leitrim into submission at Gaelic Park
It will never have the same aura as the old Yankee Stadium or host fabled concerts like the The Beatles scream-fest at Shea Stadium but unlike those other beloved sports shrines in the Bronx and Queens, at least Gaelic Park still exists.
Most regulars in the place laugh when they remember how the reality failed to match their expectations; its reputation and fame far exceeds its size. "One of the greatest let -downs any GAA person from Ireland is likely to experience," was Pat Spillane's recollection of his first visit.
A short walk from 242nd street, the very last stop on the One train, takes you down Broadway where on a mild spring evening groups of young men are playing pick-up basketball and games of handball against the wall of Van Cortlandt Park. You cross beneath the hood of the raised number one track and the most famous GAA ground on foreign soil announces itself with a sign that it almost jaunty in its simplicity: Gaelic Park. They should have Take It Or Leave It printed in brackets below.
"I've seen just about everything here," says Connie Molloy, who will manage New York when they play Leitrim in the first game of the 2013 All-Ireland championship tomorrow.
"Brilliant players and awful ructions, particularly in the 1980s. People coming in over the fence there behind us. Monaghan had a team in those years and . . . ah, it was scary stuff.
"The New York game had a reputation of being rough in those years. And they were. Unquestionably. I'm not sure why it was. The refereeing was that bit looser and I suppose it mattered to boys."
Bitterest nights
As he talks, Molloy scans the group of players going through warm-up drills as called out by Mickey Coleman, the team trainer. This season has been encouraging: unlike other years when the bitterest nights would whittle numbers down to 10, New York have had a panel of 36 to choose from.
For once, the management faced the novel dilemma of reducing the championship panel. This year's group is an accurate reflection of the Irish emigration pattern of the last years. Molloy flew out to Boston in the summer of 1981 to play football for a summer. He had been an influential player on an Ardara team which won the club's first county championship in 59 years. His name travelled. He stayed on until Christmas and then took a train to New York to visit his uncle.
"So you are heading home," his uncle said. "You have a few dollars saved. What will you do when you have that spent?"
And something made Molloy stay. He found the first months lonely, didn't even hear the radio commentary when his brother Anthony played on the first Donegal team to win an All-Ireland title at under-21 level the following autumn. But he was home to watch his brother lift the Sam Maguire 10 years later. And he has no regrets.
"You take your chances in life," he says. Now his son CJ, born here, will play for New York on Sunday. There are five New York-born players on the squad now, the most positive proof of the stubbornness of the city game here. The GAA has provided New York with an energetic youth officer, Simon Gillespie.
But to field teams and to exist, New York GAA is still overwhelmingly reliant on the waves of emigration.
Molloy was among the first of what he terms "the mass exodus" which descended on the high streets of Woodside and Woodlawn in the 1980s. David Byrne, the team psychologist, came to study in America in the 1990s. Many of the players came here after the abrupt cessation of work in Ireland in the last five years.
As with most people who wander through the gates of Gaelic Park, they are here more through accident or happenstance than design. As always, Gaelic football made the transition easier even if the New York experience remains very different.
"It's not easy," grins Rory Woods. For years, the Scotstown man was a constant presence on Séamus McEnaney's gallant Monaghan teams, a broad and intelligent half-forward with a scything left foot.
Just a handful of years ago, he played in a riveting All-Ireland quarter-final against Kerry. Last February, he found himself running around in the sharpest wind in an empty Gaelic Park. He could see the shadows moving in the lights of the high-rise apartments above him. It felt as if all of New York was hunkered indoors.
The great outdoors of 'Blaney or Clones are none too balmy in deepest winter but Woods concedes he was shocked by the ferocity of the weather in Riverdale.
"Never saw the like of it. We'd run squares and when you turned into that wind, it was like an alarm clock going off in your head. One night our warm-up was shovelling snow off the pitch there. And this other time I was standing behind one of the boys and I saw something on the back of his head. I said: 'What the f**k is that on your hair.' And he put his hand up and there were icicles."
Big struggle
The idea of training in a virtual Antarctica is apt when it comes to New York. As Molloy puts it: "The miles have always been between us and Ireland and always will."
The big struggle for New York is the oldest struggle: they don't get enough games. Mickey Coleman grew up listening to the voice of Mickey Harte.
He won two senior All-Ireland medals with Tyrone in 2003 and 2005 and went close at under-21 level. So for the brightest years of his football life he was the part of the inner sanctum of one of the most extraordinary Gaelic teams ever assembled. It is safe to say he knows the game.
"Well, we assume that we know what it is required for teams to be able to operate at intercounty level," Coleman says amicably.
"And we run this like any other intercounty team. But it is what it is. We have lads rushing here from the five boroughs and an hour of a journey from Long Island. Some nights we can't get on the pitch. The commitment has been fantastic, you know. Having the Irish American lads coming through has deepened our options.
"CJ Molloy has started for the past few years. Donnacha O'Dwyer, whose father is a Tipperary man, played full back for us. Shane and Conor Horgan started last year. But we have no opposition to mark ourselves against. We are grabbing in the dark and we know that we are going to need things to go right for us if we are to win the next day."
Coleman is from Ardboe and came through on teams along with the McGuigan boys and Gavin Devlin – his cousin and the current trainer of the Tyrone team. Like most GAA people, Coleman is keenly aware of the legacy of Gaelic Park, of the imperious and controversial reign of John Kerry O'Donnell, of the bizarre situations in the 1950s when immigration was so heavy that New York teams could actually compete with the finest football and hurling teams for league honours and of the roll-call of famous names who played here.
Gaelic Park is the only GAA ground that can claim to have hosted The Grateful Dead, Robert Kennedy and Christy Ring.
Connie Molloy often laughs when he recalls the composition of some of the teams he played on. "In 1986, we reached a local final and we had Anthony (Molloy) at midfield along with Jack O'Shea and Larry Tompkins in the forwards."
Full decade
And although Coleman was aware Frank McGuigan had spent a full decade in New York before returning home in 1984, he was surprised by how many people still remember him.
McGuigan's sabbatical in New York is legendary: he came out to the city in 1973 as part of an All-Star expedition after a supernova summer which yielded Tyrone an Ulster championship. He was at the bar in Gaelic Park on the afternoon the touring party was due to fly to Dublin. It may have been Sean Doherty from Dublin who advised him that it was time to go, that the plane was leaving.
"Let her leave," said McGuigan and that shaped the next 10 years of his life. Then McGuigan returned to Ireland and promptly delivered another Ulster title for Tyrone with one of the great individual displays in the 1984 provincial final.
"Everyone still asks: how's Frank," Coleman says.
"He is nearly more of a household name here than at home. I'd talk to boys about him and I gather he played the best football of his life here in Gaelic Park when Tyrone were waiting for him to come home. Even Connie, there. Connie said he never heard tell of Frank when he came here first and then he played a game against him and he sees Frank rising for this ball and saw the soles of his boots sailing above him."
The era of marquee players hanging around 272nd street has passed. Rory Woods is the only member of the current panel with significant championship experience and because he wrenched a muscle in his back a fortnight ago the Monaghan man will be watching from the sidelines tomorrow.
"All we can do is train hard," Woods says as he stands near the small green press box watching the team train.
"Mickey has come from a real professional set-up at home. And he is working with mainly club footballers here. Sometimes he gets frustrated. We should flood the defence early on and try and not to make any mistakes. Over the past few years against Sligo and Roscommon, we were leaving the middle wide open and the game was over after 10 minutes."
David Byrne was taken on as psychologist and his immediate task was to try and make the group of half-strangers that assembled in January believe they are a team.
"And to make them feel as if they belong in the All-Ireland. They have a bit of a swagger about them now," he says.
Glory days
But it is all guesswork. The league is over and New York have yet to play a game.
Tomorrow, Gaelic Park will resemble the glory days of the Kerry O'Donnell era: beers flowing, queues in front of the burger stands, the sun high, fierce ex-patriot pride, the band playing and always the One train rumbling past.
The championship game has become the big Irish day out in the Bronx and that puts pressure on the players. The Leitrim team, just a vague notion in the freezing nights of winter, will be there in front of them, strong and grim-faced and full of intent.
Nobody wants to be the team that loses to New York in the Connacht championship. It is often forgotten that the All-Ireland football championship begins in the Bronx. Sometimes New York GAA people wish more ceremony could be made of the fact. Maybe that will happen if they win a match.
"It's going to happen sometime," vows Connie Molloy in an accent still pure enough to belong to a Brian Friel play.
He has been three decades waiting and coaching and trying to make the game better here. He does it because he can't imagine not doing it. Next year will be the centenary of the GAA in New York. It has never claimed perfection. But despite everything, it – and Gaelic Park – is outlasting the odds.


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Have been doing some restoration on my 1976 AMF SLICKCRAFT (SS-206) over the last month or so. I have so far concentrated on replacing damaged/rotten wood. I first tackled some weak spots in the floor and everything went well. My next task is to address an area of wood rot in the transom. Damage appears to be contained to about a 12 inch radius. Went to a boat repair shop today to discuss costs and the best method of repairing transom weakness. During my conversation with the fiberglass repair guy, he brought up "fact" that asbestos was used as a filler in the construction of many boats in the 70's. Although I have been using a protective mask while doing the necessary grinding, cutting and sanding of the old fiberglass in my boat, the idea of generating an asbestos cloud around me and on me raises a concern. I ask another boat dealer if he had knowledge of the use of asbestos in fiberglass boats and he said in his forty years in the boat business he had never heard of such a thing. My question - Who is telling the truth???
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Filler? For what??I really doubt it, SBAKF. Glass fiber was cheaper.When they wanted to "thicken" the resin they usually used diatomaceous earth, or Cab-O-Sil. Does the same to resin that corn starch does to gravy.I never heard of using asbestos. Cab-O-Sil is a super-fine powder and shouldn't be breathed so they always had to wear masks when using it. Maybe the masks caused a misunderstanding.Once the resin had set, Cab-O-Sil offers no extra hazard, but you are smart to wear a mask when sanding or grinding.sigpic
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
They (at least one manufacturer) did use asbestos putty. An alert was posted on this board some years and if you search boats(asbestos) you will probably find it. The boat in that instance was a Glastron, '74 vintage. I got the plans from that original poster and the plans specify the use of asbestos putty in various locations to do things like fix the transom in place prior to mfgr's glassing. Same type of use on the stringers, floor, etc. if I recall correctly( but definately was used in the transom area). Be concerned when grinding out beads, demo of floor and transom and stringers. It is not in the fiberglass to the best of my knowledge. Good luck.edit update:I searched and didnt find it. It must have been lost.
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Morning all,Asbestosis or mesotheliosis is directly caused by the inhalation of asbestos into the lungs. The finer the particle, such as dust, the greater the danger. The ingestion of even tiny amounts can cause horrific problems 20 or 30 years down the track. It is not simply a case of wearing a mask when grinding. Here in Australia secondary contact with the dust has caused the lung condition. An example was a wife who washed her husbands clothing over a period of time (he was a worker in as asbestos mine). You need to wear a full disposable body suit, hood & mask with an outside air supply.This clothing must be bagged & disposed of after use. Do you have this gear?Now to the transom. If you think that it contains asbestos do not use power equipment. Do not use a hand saw. Hit the yellow pages & find a company licenced to deal with asbestos. Get them to remove the rotten section of transom. Overkill? No way. If in doubt, do not cut.I do not wish to be an alarmist but this stuff is deadly. Go to Google & type in asbestos & see what it can do.Regards,Peter
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
JB's correct about asbestos for filler. I know, for a fact, that up until 1970 the only filler Glastron used was talc and I can't imagine why they would change. Talc makes a far superior filler. A small amount of Cab-o-sil was used to make gelcoat repairs but no asbestos. I also know that in the early years, asbestos was used in the Corvette bodies.c/6Hooty
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
Thanks for the replies. But - I'm still wondering if my boat (1976 AMF SLICKCRAFT) was built using asbestos filler (or asbestos putty). Perhap the guy just mentioned the asbestos to justify charging 3 grand plus to replace my tansom. If there is someone from Holland, Michigan on the board - would you mind making a few calls to local boat repair shops to see if they have any knowledge of Slickcraft using asbestos in the construction of their boats in the 70's?
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sbakf, i'm doing a '67 slikker resto meself--do a search on "slickcraft" and you'll find my thread, w/ photos.i have closely followed JasonJ skanky beast project, imo, his advice is very very good (i'm using epoxy though, JJ likes poly)anyhoo--always wear a dust mask, partical mask, whatever ya call it when cutting, grinding or sanding glass/resin. ie--cutting out old floor,etc.i'll tell you, i went to work cutting my floor out w/o mask, great clowds a glass dust surroundin me. next day my lungs hurt bad--DO NOT do foolish deal like i did.btw, glass model makers here at work always wear mask--ifin ya get enough of them tiny glass fibers in lungs can make 'em bleed--perminant dammage--oh ya, don't know if leon slikker used asbestos in his boats--i did try to contact leon hiself to enquire on my slikker, was transfered to customer no service, left message--heard no more--leon and his kid now run pursuit boats-- web page"88"
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
You can always have the suspected asbestos tested.There are many companies that test &/or do asbestos abatement. Look under Asbestos Removal & Abatement in phone book. In the building trade asbestos was often used as a filler & binder in floor tile, wall compound & ceiling tile.
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
I found a link to the Classic glastron tips and hints page which has an asbestos warning. The warner was Jonathan Willis, who is the person that sent me copies of the plans he refers to. I just looked the plans up and they appear to be authentic, and even include a sign off block. The plans clearly specify the use of asbestos putty. This putty was not used as a body filler like bondo is, but as a positioning material. http://www.classicglastron.com/gl-tips-and-hints.html
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
Just to be clear Hooty, do you doubt that there are plans that specify the use of Asbestos putty as stated on the classic glastron tips and hints page? I know that in practice sometimes materials are substituted for those called out on the plans. Is that what you are saying? I hope so. I demoed my boat with a good mask, clothes and goggles. I suspect the problem with asbestos results from prolonged exposure anyway(I'm no expert here, so take that with a big gulp of salt).
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
I wrote the spec's and procedures for everything from adhesives to waxing molds. There was no putty or filled resin used in bonding the transom boards. They were bonded to the hulls with mat and p/e resin.After Glastron got involved with Carlson, they were building some boats on the left coast. I don't know what models. It's possible that group out there used asbestos but no asbestos was used in Austin. I read that posting on the Classicglastron b/b and I'd be interested in reviewing Mr. Willis assembly drawings about dates and place of mfg.c/6Hooty
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
I'd be interested in seein' 'um.email: email@example.com/6Hooty
Re: Asbestos in the fiberglass???
Abestos wasn't banned until the 80s so it is possible a 1976 boat could have used it. I doubt they would have used much in a trailer boat because the construction methods didn't need much, if any, resin thickening for the processes.The professional guys who remove asbestos (abatement) use Tyvek jumpsuits and respirators, not particle masks. They tape up everywhere so the stuff can't touch them. The Feds require notification for disposal of ALL asbestos materials.Hey, the fiberglass fibers aren't good for your health either so wear a good respirator when working with the stuff. Make sure the cartridges match the service to be cost effective. Particle masks are best used for non haz type materials.
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Wild Style was a breakthrough back in the day, when there were barely any actual hip-hop albums, let alone soundtracks. The 1983 film, about an ambitious young graffiti writer, was an early look at B-boy culture, showing DJs and MCs at work – Grand Wizard Theodore, Busy Bee Starski, Rammellzee and more. In the big scene, the Cold Crush Brothers have a rap battle with the Fantastic Freaks on the basketball court. None of the songs were hits, but it's an essential old-school document.


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So what would you have preferred instead? They walk in and pretend to guard the store. Then suddenly pull guns on everyone. Standoff, swat teams wins out. They retrieve whats inside the wall and then leave? You set up the scene for us. Curious how you wanted it to go down. Because that thing in the wall had to be retrieved by the terrorist and the one guy was on to it as we saw.
To me it basically went like this.
The CIA moved in on the store to search for anything suspicious. Nazir's group had vision on the store through the camera that we see the pseudo swat team carrying the case out of the store at the end of the scene.
They were likely sitting back, watching through the camera hoping the CIA didn't find the case and left so they didn't have to do anything. It wasn't there plan to attack anyone in that store.
Instead that guy Quinn started knocking on the wall the case was in. Whoever was watching the camera saw and let the emergency response team know so they can move in and take the case before the CIA could find it.
That attack was a drastic plan B measure to the Plan A of sitting back hoping the CIA didn't find the case and left.
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We begin a new feature this month where I look at some recently-published data visualizations and offer suggestions on how they can be improved.
I'll start with the MASIE Center's Mobile Pulse Survey results. For those of you that don't know, The MASIE Center is a Saratoga Springs, NY think tank focused on how organizations can support learning and knowledge within the workforce. They do great work.
So, why focus on this report? There are three reasons:
- The subject is survey data and as readers of this blog know I've done a lot of work in this area (see http://www.datarevelations.com/using-tableau-to-visualize-survey-data-part-1.html).
- The subject matter, mobile learning, is near and dear to me after my stint with the eLearning Guild.
- There's good stuff in the data, but the published visualizations make it difficult to understand what the data is trying to say.
Ah, Likert-Scale Questions
Consider this chart below that attempts to describe the results to the question "Current level of interest in providing the following learning elements on mobile devices."
This chart is a tough read. With the exception of the fourth item, "Access to the Web" which clearly has a really big "Strong Interest" bar, it's very difficult to determine which of the ten reasons are high on respondents' lists and which are low.
Consider instead how easy the chart below is to "grok" when we superimpose an average Likert score atop a divergent stacked bar chart.
With this rendering it's very easy to see that "Access to Corporate Databases and Intranets" is only slightly behind "Access to the Web". It's also trivial to sort the ten items by respondent sentiment.
Particularly surprising to me is the negative sentiment (e.g., no interest or low interest) towards accessing simulations. I would have expected there to be quite a bit more interest here. That fact was buried in the other chart.
Note: For those of you that want to see the exact values for particular items as well as just compare positive vs. negative sentiment, there is a fully-interactive version of this visualization at the end of this blog post.
Yes / No Questions
Here's another chart that attempts to show responses to which factors cause concern about Mobile Learning.
Why diamonds, and why two sets of them? Here's an alternative that I think is easier to understand and prioritize.
There's some great stuff in the Masie report, but the published charts are obfuscating rather than illuminating the data.
Here's the interactive version of the first chart. This would be WAY cooler if we could filter by industry or company size, but that data is not available to me.
Have fun.
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What if you dropped the "Access to" words from each header, made the chart area wider, and row height thinner? maybe something like: http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/MobileSurveyMakeover_0/jmexample
for me this makes it easy to all have about the same Moderate Interest, and I also feel like it highlights the bottom 3 more.
Great work Steve! I really like how you put the average on a circle. This does a good job of emphasizing the value while at the same time allowing comparison to the other circles and it makes the order clear.
Great work, but I'm one who doesn't like the averages. As Likert is ordinal data my feeling is that you shouldn't average it (to do this you need to know that strong interest is exactly twice the strength of feeling as moderate interest, which you don't).
Since I published my original post on the divergent stacked bar chart (what I called the Net Stacked Distribution) http://www.organizationview.com/net-stacked-distribution-a-better-way-to-visualize-likert-data we've done lots of usability tests on displays that incorporate them and found they're not universally understood. For users who are quite numerate they are really liked but many users don't understand them until explained. As always you need to know your audience.
The two that are most easily understood are either simple counts of positive or the net (count of positive – count of negative) – a calculation similar to the Net Promoter Score. My preference is the net.
On most client projects we're showing small multiples of questions split by some category (eg region) as bullet charts with the background bar showing the average excluding of the other categories.


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Maxx Mobiles has launched 11 Java Phones, 3 Android Phones and One Android tablet on the occasion of I-Day in India.
Come August 15, India's Independence Day and Maxx Mobiles will add more than a dozen of phones to its catalog. Among the 15 devices launch schedule for August 15, it includes one Android tablet, 3 Android Phones and other 11 featured phones.
Maxx Android Phones
The new latest addition to Maxx Android smartphones list is –
- Maxx AX5 Plus
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- Maxx AX50 – 5 inches display, 3G, Dual SIM, Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean OS, 5 mega pixel camera.(Price Rs 6262)
All the Maxx Android phones are priced in the range of Rs 3130 to Rs 6500.
Along with these phones, Maxx also launched an Android tablet dubbed as Tab722. While its pretty clear with the naming that tablet includes 7 inches touchscreen display with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS out of box and pricing details have been revealed regarding the tablet.
Included with this phone purchase is the special promotion offer. On Maxx Mobiles Facebook page you need to participate in a special game to win smart charger priced at Rs 350.
Other featured phone launched from Maxx includes MT280, MX426, MX425e, MX501, MX514, MX247, MX152T, MX153T, MX504, and MT350. All these phones are priced between Rs 1050 to Rs 2599.


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Atlantis, The Palm, lit up the sky with a show that exceeded all expectations. The mesmerizing show lasted for 10 minutes and was synchronized with songs such as Mariah Carey's Auld Sand Lyne and an orchestral selection by John Williams.
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A new Head of Government Affairs has been appointed by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry to spearhead its work with politicians and those in Government in both the UK and Europe.
01 Feb 2010 Posted in News Release By Press Office
Amanda Stuart, who is currently associate director at Insight Public Affairs, will take up her new role on February 4.
The ABPI is the trade association representing UK-based researchers and manufacturers of prescription-only medicines, and Amanda will play a key role in communicating industry-wide messages to politicians at Westminster and in Europe, as well as with civil servants and others connected to forming and implementing government policy.
"With a general election looming, I am looking forward to getting straight down to the business of talking to MPs, parliamentary candidates, researchers and others about the pharmaceutical industry's vital contribution to the health and wealth of the country," Amanda said.
"Whatever the result of the general election, it is crucial that the industry's voice is heard and its messages clearly understood. I relish the task."
Dr Richard Barker, Director General of the ABPI, said: "Amanda has a challenging role in challenging times, but I am confident she will play a vital part in making better understood the industry's role in researching, developing and manufacturing increasingly sophisticated medicines to improve people's health."
Amanda, aged 30, is co-founder of Women in Communications Inc, London which aims to support women in all areas of communication, including the promotion of female candidates. At Insight, she provided high-level advice to clients in politics and healthcare.
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An electronic photograph of Amanda Stuart is available by clicking here
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – Well-known Buffalo Businessman Carl Paladino could be key to keeping the Buffalo Bills in town.
Paladino says he has not had any serious discussions about joining an ownership group. However, he says he would be willing to work with the right group, if it meant keeping them in Buffalo.
"I think it's going to take a very wealthy person to be the general partner of whatever might be put together. You know, I've encouraged Mr. Trump, I've encouraged other people to get out there and do their thing. And I would very much do anything I can to help the community to keep the Bills in Buffalo."
Donald Trump has said he's very interested in buying the team, and that he'd keep the Bills in Buffalo.


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One of the easiest ferns to care for as a houseplant is the Birds Nest Fern or Asplenium Nidus. It is more likely to let you get away with a few mistakes than many other ferns. An added attraction is the leaflets that often fall from other ferns, creating quite a mess, are not present on Birds Nest Fern.
Light green fronds surround a fibrous nest, explaining the name Birds Nest Fern. The fronds are long and blade shaped with a dark midrib. Birds Nest Ferns can grow quite large and I seen specimens that were over 3 feet tall.
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Lower, older fronds should be the first to go, as they are replaced with new growth. Cut out any fronds as they begin to yellow or turn brown as this will help encourage new growth. Ferns can look unsightly if they are not kept well groomed. New plants often shed old foliage while acclimating to a new environment. If you have problems with new growth, check watering habits first. Over watering will often affect new growth.
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Please provide bright, indirect light for your Birds Nest Fern. A spot near a window with no afternoon sun would be perfect. Early morning sun is acceptable.
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