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Is it in principle valid to extend to concept of murder beyond just humans?
Among the worst of sins one can commit, is the murder of another human being. My question for the TED audience, is whether in principle, our United States Supreme Court could ever, in principle, extend the concept of murder to cover species beyond homo sapiens?
Certainly there are penalties for killing animals under certain circumstances, although our whole carnivorous culture is fraught with so much paradox there, you need to start differentiating between morals and ethics to make any sense of it. Or to put it more simply, it's OK to kill a cow but not a dog depending on what country you're in (or the other way around), or it's ok to kill to eat it, but not just because you don't want to take care of it any more, or just for sport (e.g. cock fighting or bull fights).
But whatever the circumstances with animals, our legal system does not consider that equivalent in any way to killing a human being. You are not going to be executed for killing a dog or a cow, but you could for killing another human.
The scope of this question goes way beyond the animal species we have on this planet. If we created an artificially intelligent, human-like mind - would it be murder to destroy that? If we discovered a tribe of neanderthals living peacefully somewhere (just a thought experiment), and then some human went and shot one of them dead just for sport - would we consider that murder? What about a half-breed neanderthal/human? What about an alien species we discover on the planet mars? Dolphins?
How far away from the human genetic tree do you need to get before it's no longer murder with the same penalties we hand out for murdering humans?
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Apr 26 2013: The "sin" of killing any living creature is completely cultural.
Anthropologists studying remaining tribal hunter gatherers found that these people boast about their killings and killing is put in high regard. In these cultures revenge murder is very common. Contrast that to civilized societies that condemn murder unless it is time of war and even then soldiers usually silent about what happened on the battlefield.
Kill our favorite pet and one get prosecuted. Kill a mouse and it is for the benefit of science. ..This is all culture at work.
Apr 26 2013: Hi Brian,
I agree with you. I think when I used with word 'sin' in the question I did a disservice to the intent of my question as I unintentionally through religious and moral overtones into the question.
Do you think murder should be against our cultural moral code? And if so, would you extend that to other species?
Apr 26 2013: Yes I believe murder should be against our cultural moral code. One of the few benefits of living in a state society is that authority of use of force lies only in the states control. The benefit is that we do not have to worry (too much) about cycles of revenge murder that made traditional people's lives so short. At the same time I acknowledge that the state sometimes is unfair the overall benefit of stifling violence is the greater good.
I like your question about when is it ok to kill a species because like other philosophical questions its hard to draw a line. Personally I would favor putting a moral code against killing other species. But that only leads to the question of what species and why..
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Darden Restaurants Chairman and CEO Clarence Otis Jr., left, looks on as first lady Michelle Obama announces in an Olive Garden in Hyattsville, Md., on Thursday, Sept. 15, that Darden and other restaurant companies will commit to cutting calories and sodium and offering healthier kids' menu choices. (BRIAN YAKLYVICH/CNN / September 18, 2011)
That's the outrageous claim that some are making after Darden announced more healthful options at those restaurants and its other chains.
Clarence Otis smiled for the cameras last week with First Lady Michelle Obama, who has campaigned against childhood obesity, as he unveiled Darden's plan to reduce calories and salt by 20 percent over the next 10 years.
Almost immediately, posts on the Facebook fan pages for Olive Garden and Red Lobster took on the vitriolic tone that is all too common in politics today.
"I LOVE Red Lobster, but if you follow the plan of Michelle Obama I will not be eating at your restaurant ever again," wrote one poster. "… I will not have my food choices dictated to me by food dictators like Michelle Obama."
"You should be ashamed," said another. "The government does not know best. Americans and the free markets do. My contribution to the free market economy of the USA will be to never eat at an Olive Garden restaurant again."
And they go on and on.
All of that over simple changes such as veggies instead of French fries as the automatic side item on the children's menu?
These changes are the result of the free market.
The idea that Darden suddenly changed its business model to cater to the whims of the White House is just silly.
Make no mistake, this Fortune 500 company that operates two $1 billion-brands (Olive Garden and Red Lobster) and is about to hit the $1 billion mark with a third (LongHorn Steakhouse) has profits on the top of its priority list.
For at least two decades, Darden has offered lighter menu items because that's what the market demanded. In 2003, long before Michelle Obama's call to trim fatty foods, Darden opened its first Seasons 52, a brand at which every menu item is less than 475 calories.
In 2004 Red Lobster introduced a "LightHouse Selections" menu that increased that brand's offering of more healthful fare.
At the time, a Raymond James analyst lauded the move because market demand was increasing.
"It's about time Red Lobster did this," said Bryan Elliott, a restaurant analyst at Raymond James & Associates Inc. ". . . I would be very surprised if the change doesn't have a significant impact on sales. Maybe not right away, but within a few months."
That sounds like the market at work to me.
Look closely and Darden's new commitment isn't so remarkable. It's pledging to cut calories and sodium by 20 percent over 10 years. That's an average decrease of about 2 percent a year — hardly a dramatic overhaul.
Darden executives say that the announcement was driven by market research along with the company's desire to support the First Lady's initiative.
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They had to know that — especially so close to an election year — there would be some blow back from a vocal group who would bristle at any affiliation with an unpopular president in a lousy economy.
It's not the kind of risk we see often from Darden, but my guess is it was a calculated one in which the good will the company will build with parents who want healthier options for themselves and their children will outweigh the bad.
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A Tepid Plea for Unspecified Change
Posted Jun 16, 2010 by Richard Heinberg
Last night's presidential speech on the Gulf oil spill had been pre-billed by the Washington Post as Barack Obama's "Jimmy Carter moment." But reading any of Carter's speeches (a good one to start with is that of April 18, 1977) side by side with last night's bromide is an invitation to nostalgia and bitter disappointment.
President Obama offered up one promising paragraph:
"For decades, we have known the days of cheap and easily accessible oil were numbered. For decades, we have talked and talked about the need to end America's century-long addiction to fossil fuels. And for decades, we have failed to act with the sense of urgency that this challenge requires. Time and again, the path forward has been blocked—not only by oil industry lobbyists, but also by a lack of political courage and candor."
It sounds for all the world as though the President is about to unleash a grand program on the scale of the New Deal—an energy Moon Shot, a rousing call-to-arms reminiscent of December 8, 1941. But this is what follows:
"So I am happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party—as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels. Some have suggested raising efficiency standards in our buildings like we did in our cars and trucks. Some believe we should set standards to ensure that more of our electricity comes from wind and solar power. Others wonder why the energy industry only spends a fraction of what the high-tech industry does on research and development—and want to rapidly boost our investments in such research and development. All of these approaches have merit, and deserve a fair hearing in the months ahead. But the one approach I will not accept is inaction. The one answer I will not settle for is the idea that this challenge is too big and too difficult to meet. You see, the same thing was said about our ability to produce enough planes and tanks in World War II. The same thing was said about our ability to harness the science and technology to land a man safely on the surface of the moon. And yet, time and again, we have refused to settle for the paltry limits of conventional wisdom. Instead, what has defined us as a nation since our founding is our capacity to shape our destiny—our determination to fight for the America we want for our children, even if we're unsure exactly what that looks like. Even if we don't yet know precisely how to get there, we know we'll get there."
Translation: "I don't have a clue what to do; but, if anyone else has some good ideas, I'm all ears."
Look: I want Obama to succeed; I want it earnestly, even desperately. And so I hate to be critical. It's true that we've all got to work together to solve our energy crisis, and that means rising above partisanship. But leadership is sorely needed here, and leaders must set definite goals.
Jimmy Carter at least had a plan. He proposed lofty objectives and investments: targeted reductions in oil imports, an energy security corporation, a solar bank. In contrast, Obama's strategy seems to be to avoid specifics while insisting that we Americans will somehow overcome our oil dependency because . . . well, because we're Americans. We've gotten through other scrapes throughout our history as a nation, so why not this one? "I demand action," the President seems to be saying, "but I'm unwilling to say what that action should be."
Yes, we Americans have risen to meet previous challenges. The problem is, we haven't been doing so well in dealing with the energy crisis, which has been going on for at least forty years—since 1970, when U.S. oil production peaked and began declining. Despite complaints, exhortations, and hand-wringing from both Democratic and Republican administrations, very little has actually been accomplished. America continues to import more oil, and to burn enormous amounts of coal and natural gas—and the monetary, geopolitical, and environmental prices we pay for these depleting fuels just keep escalating. Mr. Obama seems to say that now something has changed, but it would be nice to know what, and why, in a lot more detail.
The reality is that nothing significant has been done to deal with our energy crisis because tackling it will require fundamental changes to our economy—to our transport and food systems, even to our financial institutions. Until we are willing to honestly face the fact that an "American dream" based on ever increasing rates of consumption of non-renewable resources is a dead end, and that we will have to dramatically cut back on energy usage in order to make a transition away from fossil fuel dependency, all discussion about renewable energy, efficiency standards, and energy research is fairly pointless.
Call it the Carter Curse. Ever since the great peanut farmer-President scolded the American people about the need to reduce consumption in his famous series of cardigan-clad homilies, leaders have shied away both from telling the American people the truth about just how dire our energy dilemma really is, and from proposing any remedies powerful enough to make a difference. Instead we get only whimpers about our "addiction to oil" and timid suggestions to raise fuel economy standards another notch. It is assumed that if any President actually told it like it is—the way Carter did—he or she would suffer the same fate. Carter's plan, after all, was ignored by Congress and ridiculed by candidate Ronald Reagan, who trounced Carter in the 1980 election.
Maybe the Carter Curse is real. Perhaps straight talk about energy is political suicide. But if nobody at least tries—if no one has the courage to make specific proposals that are commensurate with the scale of the challenge that faces us—then the political survival of the current office holder is essentially irrelevant. If no one is willing to confront the Carter Curse head on, then in effect we face a failure of our political system that will also ensure a failure of our economic system, our food system, and our transport system.
I keep hoping that's not the case, but hope needs to be based on evidence from time to time, and I'm not seeing any.
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Macondo blowout
From: Tony Allwright, Jul 11, 2010 12:35 AM
My commentary on the set of three articles ....
+ "Deepwater Horizon - The Worst Case Scenario" ....
+ "Deepwater Horizon - The Best Case and Most Likely"....
+ "A Tepid Plea for Unspecified Change" ....
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How to procede, Mr. President
From: David N Hastings, Jul 2, 2010 01:19 PM
I do commend the President for reminding us that we are addicted to oil, and that fear, as well as intimidation by oil company lobbyists ( to say nothing of donations!) have made us entirely too slow in beginning to move from the age of oil into the 'renewables' age. But...
I believe that it is long past time that the American people were made aware of the likely results of continuation down our current path, doing business as usual and favoring the economy over the environment. I have read a lot, from many sources, about the changes that are coming (which have really already begun, actually), and I think that we all need to be told in cold, dispassionate terms, what these changes are likely to be, what the world is already headed toward, and what it can become if we don't start now to get away from fossil fuels.
I just finished Bill McKibben's new book, Eaarth. The first two chapters frankly scared me spitless. We have already made changes so that Earth is not the place we were born into, and we cannot return it to what it was then, either. All we can do is try our hardest to keep the damages as small as possible by getting away from using fossil fuels and by developing renewable sources of energy as quickly as possible. As Mr McKibben esentially says, there is no going back, and it's going to be a tough sled, but we can ease the ride and soften the landing.
This is the unequivocal message which the President must bring to the people. It will be difficult, and we will have to be prepared in advance to receive the full brunt of the situation. But it must be started now. We've already waited too long.
Mr. Obama's courage to open the door
From: Paul Shepherd, Jun 17, 2010 05:53 AM
Mr. Obama at least had enought courage to open the door on the coming energy crisis, America's oil dependency and the urgent need to start a transition away from oil and other fossil fuels.
He described the some aspects of the oil crisis pretty well. He was honest enought to admit that there are no easy answers and he doesn't know what to do but he is open to ideas. Mr. Obama talks about the months ahead but is a bit unclear what he means by the months ahead.
'All of these approaches have merit, and deserve a fair hearing in the months ahead. But the one approach I will not accept is inaction.'
How many months ahead? 6 months?
Mr. Obama has opened the door on this. Is this a window of opportunity for Post Carbon & Transition Town and other groups in the USA who care deeply about this to get a hearing (a fair hearing!) from the President and maybe get some sort of a government-led transition action plan going?
By the way, I'm not American, I'm British-born, living in Japan.
Not just non-renewables
From: Tony Weddle, Jun 16, 2010 10:46 PM
Great commentary, Richard. I just want to pick up on one point. The American dream (and that of the people of other nations) is based on increasing consumption of all resources, not just non-renewable resources. I raise that simply to intercept the potential thought (which I know you, yourself, don't entertain) that switching to renewables would enable continued wasteful and growing consumption. As you say in your five axioms of sustainability, consumption of any resource beyond its renewal rate is unsustainable. This applies equally to renewable and non-renwable resources.
RE Referendems
From: Michelle Laine, Jun 16, 2010 08:51 PM
Ed - I take it you never criticized Bush, then?
From: Ed Straker, Jun 16, 2010 08:48 PM
"where has the movement that got Obama in, gone? It was the people uniting together that was powerful."
A president's popularity is a referrendum on how americans feel about their status and the state of the nation. Even though the US isn't a monarchy, we look to the presidency as kind of an omnipotent position. We would never want to concede that some problems are really dilemmas that can't be solved, whether it be the economy or the BP spill. There is, instead, a constant barrage of "coulda shoulda wouldas".
So it's easy to fantasize that it would have been "morning in america" again if we hadn't passed the bailout package, or that somehow "Obama" could have plugged the well if he had done X, Y, or Z. But people simply do not think these scenarios through enough to know if they were reasonable scenarios. It's easier to cling to the idea that there was some hail-mary pass somewhere that was overlooked.
That's the way we are. We anoint our royalty and then proceed to tear them apart afterwards.
And you wonder why good people don't want to enter into politics...
Watching from afar
From: Carl, Jun 16, 2010 02:45 PM
Watching from afar in the South Pacific Ocean, where has the movement that got Obama in, gone?
It was the people uniting together that was powerful.
Jimmy Carter
From: LucAstro, Jun 16, 2010 01:43 PM
While Reagan easily won the 1980 presidential elections, it was in good part due to the humiliation the US suffered at the hands of the American hostage taking by Iranian activists. Carter in the end produced a deal with Iran to free the hostages; an agreement that Reagan signed and promulgated a few weeks after taking power (how ironic in a way). Humiliation is the easiest button to push to get a wild reaction from the other side. 9/11 was possibly the result of such humiliation on the part of the Saudis many decades earlier, according to Johan Galtung (see the Democracy Now interview of Tuesday 15th of June http://www.democracynow.org/2010/6/15/i_love_the_us_republic_and ).
Change we can believe in...
From: Tian Harter, Jun 16, 2010 01:36 PM
I've heard Obama's voice say "change we can believe in" so many times I feel like I'm walking across an Illinois quarter every time I hear him speak. We know what the changes we need are. One of them is we need to acknowledge that we have more courage than our politicians, and we can lead change from the grass roots.
BTW: Did you know that back in the late '70s in Arizona you could get a ticket for "wasting a finite resource" for going faster than 55 but not really speeding? I like how Obama said "Oil is a finite resource."
From: Leroy R Jagodinski, Jun 16, 2010 01:35 PM
I agree that leadership is needed so much but when leadership is over taken by greed we all are forsaken. By our Government and buy the People that we work for. And that is why I do not have a job now and so many others. I go to Church and see it but a lot of people that go to church do not see what the people that have taken over the churches are doing to make them wealthy and keep us that are working for them under their hierarchy. And that is the reason I go to My Church because the people there are just Gods people that just want to be and not to be used by the the Greedy.
Population Policy
From: Rebecca Redfield, Jun 16, 2010 09:30 AM
Robert is correct. While we ponder what might have been had we listened to Jimmy Carter on energy, we would do well to consider another missed opportunity. In 1970, Richard Nixon (a Republican president who, despite his tarnished record, left an surprisingly good legacy of environmental legislation) authorized what is known as the Rockefeller Commission on Population Growth and the American Future. Its report, made in 1972, can be read at http://www.population-security.org/10-CH2.html#2.1 and is another instance of American failure to act in a timely manner.
Most environmental groups now like to pretend population growth isn't as big a problem as consumption, while branding as racist any call to restrict immigration to the highest consuming nation. Had we implemented the recommendations of the Rockefeller Commission, we would have provided leadership and an example for the entire world, and we would not be on track, as we are now, to hit a population of nearly half a billion Americans by mid-century.
Powerful forces in this country and the world oppose halting population growth, let alone (through a fall in birth rates) allowing human population to fall to a level the planet can support at a reasonably decent standard of living. But policies to reverse population growth, though tough to implement, would be easier to establish than reducing consumption on a scale large enough to be meaningful. Years ago we might have done so, but so many Americans have been seduced by rhetoric about our "non-negotiable" way of life that I doubt we will reduce consumption before ecological, financial, and social collapse force the issue.
"We're Not Gonna Take It"
From: Ed Straker, Jun 16, 2010 08:22 AM
"Maybe the Carter Curse is real. Perhaps straight talk about energy is political suicide."
Of course it is. Look at the climate change debate, which has been out in the open for years. Do think Obama supporting climate legislation moves the dial on this issue? The PUBLIC won't embrace the issue. So the problem isn't political courage. The problem is the average person will not accept the message. It will be like the end of The Who's Tommy. The public embraces hope and change and then crucifies him on the accusation of a bait and switch:
We ain't gonna take you
Never did and never will
We're not gonna take you
We forsake you
Gonna rape you
Let's forget you better still.
Next Term
From: Joshua Nelson, Jun 16, 2010 08:16 AM
I hope that all this middle-of-the-road, non-specific leadership that Obama is exuding is just to keep working against the Bush era silently now until his second term when he can come out and say: "Okay, so let's seriously do this - no more oil by 2030, no more gas cars by 2020. 90% Renewable energy by 2030." We have the technology and the manpower to do it all, we just need the leadership (and the change in policy).
One can hope. The reality is, even if he's doing a lack-luster job, we have to re-elect him in 2012 or face a wack-job republican president that will likely be worse than Bush.
Great post! I love this blog!
the president's speech
From: Tracy Carpenter, Jun 16, 2010 07:53 AM
While it was not all that we could have hoped, it has given us a soapbox moment. Now might be the time to talk about beginning a Transition Town in your area. The subject is out there. There is a significant subset of every population who are wondering, what can I do? Seize it!
What about population?
From: Robert, Jun 16, 2010 07:45 AM
If talking about energy is political suicide, what about addressing the real elephant in the room and the most important factor in energy and resource consumption which is population growth? Here's a start, how about suggesting a halt or at the very least an extreme cut back in U.S. immigration numbers. The high level of immigration into the U.S. is the main reason for our population growth and increasing resource consumption. Let's start addressing the real problem, not our addiction to oil but our addiction to population growth.


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Worcester, MA - The Providence Bruins fell to the Worcester Sharks 3-0 Saturday evening at the DCU Center. The P-Bruins begin the Calder Cup Playoffs at the Dunkin' Donuts Center Wednesday, April 15 versus the Portland Pirates at 7:05 p.m.
After a scoreless opening period, Worcester took a 1-0 advantage at the 13:56 mark of the second period. Frazer McLaren tallied his seventh goal of the season, while T.J. Fox and Matt Jones recorded the assists. The Sharks went into the second intermission leading 2-0 after scoring a power play goal at the 19:57 mark. Derek Joslin netted his tenth goal of the season unassisted.
Worcester finished off the scoring at the 13:46 mark of the third period, while on the power play. Joslin scored his second goal of the game, with Ryan Vesce and Jason Demers getting the assists. The Sharks went on to the 3-0 victory.
Adam Courchaine stopped 29 of 32 shots for the P-Bruins, while Thomas Greiss made 23 saves for the Sharks. The P-Bruins were 0-for-6 on the power play and 3-for-5 on the penalty kill.
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Russia garners another favorable valuation call
Investors are taking notice of investment opportunities in the country.
It has been another volatile year for Russian stocks and the corresponding ETFs. The Market Vectors Russia ETF (RSX), the largest and oldest Russia-specific ETF, is up just 5% on the year, third among the four largest BRIC nations ETFs.
Amid falling oil prices and the negative impact from possibly another 12 years of Vladimir Putin's rule, the market looks cheap and some analysts and investors are taking notice.
In a recent blog post, iShares Global chief investment strategist Russ Koesterich said, "the most obvious attraction of this market is its low valuation."
As of September 30, RSX had a price-to-earnings ratio of 6.54 and a price-to-book ratio of 0.88, according to Market Vectors data. By comparison, the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index Fund (EEM) had a price-to-earnings ratio of 17.3 a price-to-book ratio of three as of September 28
"While most emerging markets look inexpensive compared to their history, Russia is an extreme case," wrote Koesterich. "In the past, Russian stocks have normally traded at a discount of around 30% to other emerging markets. Today, stocks in Russia trade at a 53% discount. Looking at price-to-book, the story is the same. The MICEX is currently trading at a 20% discount to its book value, one of the cheapest valuations in the world."
As many investors know, there is no such thing as free lunch in the financial markets. That means Russia's attractive valuations come with a caveat -- volatility. On a year-to-date basis, RSX and the rival iShares MSCI Russia Capped Index Fund (ERUS) have volatility rates of 29.2% and 28.5%, respectively. In the case of ERUS, that means the ETF has been 250 basis points more volatile than the next-most volatile major ETF tracking a BRIC nation, the WisdomTree India Earnings ETF (EPI).
For its part, RSX has been 550 basis points more volatile than the iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (EWZ).
A large reason for that volatility is Russia's heavy dependence on energy production as a drive of economic growth. That dependence is reflected in the sector weights of Russia ETFs. RSX had a 41.4% weight in energy names at the end of the second quarter. ERUS devotes 55% of its fund to the sector, while the SPDR S&P Russia ETF (RBL) allocates over half its weight to energy names.
Despite the lack of diversity in the sector, there are reasons to support a bull case for Russia and the aforementioned ETFs, including the ability of Russian companies to generate profits.
"Companies on the MICEX exchange, have a return-on-equity (ROE) of over 18%," wrote Koesterich. "This is in line with both Russia's long-term average as well as the average for other emerging markets. In fact, when you compare valuations with market profitability, Russia appears to be one of the more under-valued markets globally."
Russian inflation is also benign, having been more than cut in half since 2011. Plus, the country's balance sheet is sturdier than many of its developed market peers. As Koesterich notes, Russia "runs both a current account and budget surplus and has little to no any external debt."
RSX and ERUS are likely to remain the first stopping for investors looking for Russian exposure via ETFs, but they shouldn't overlook small-caps. The Market Vectors Russia Small-Cap ETF (RSXJ) features a diminutive-by-comparison 22.9% weight to the energy sector with its own compelling valuations. At the end of the second quarter, RSXJ had a price-to-earnings ratio of 3.66 with a price-to-book ratio of just 0.85, according to Market Vectors data.
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We're going to see these rumors until the Oilers sign Hemsky to another contract or trade him. The Blue Jackets are on a mission to save Scott Howson's job (I'm hoping Howson stays 25 years and wins 5 Stanley's in Columbus, and with every win dedicates the victory to his biggest supporter: Doug MacLean), and what with a skilled winger down (Huselius) many helpful people are making suggestions.
Howson no doubt has fond memories of 83 from his time in Our Town watching the sublime winger. The Oilers might listen to an offer that features and overpay which brings us to the major problem marrying these two teams to a deal: The Jackets don't have a lot to offer.
Howson dealt this year's first round pick in the deal for Jeff Carter, and he dealt 2007′s first rounder (Voracek) in the same trade. Ryan Johansen would certainly qualify as full value, but the Jackets aren't going to trade a franchise center for one year of Hemsky.
The Oilers could deal for young defenseman John Moore, a fleet defender sometimes compared to Jordan Leopold and probably a couple of years away from helping. The Oilers may also have interest in the Jackets 2013 1st rd pick because it could be a good one (despite improvements the Jackets have some problems in goal and on the blueline, or so it seems).
The Oilers sleep from mid-July through end August, so I don't think anything will happen. In fact I know it. Will not happen. No chance.
My opinion is that the Oilers should work extremely hard to sign the man. Since drafting him ten years ago, Ales Hemsky has been one of the few things we can count on over these (mostly) difficult seasons. It would be terrific to see him hang around long enough to enjoy the party.


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Shortly after, the 6-foot-3, 300-pound lineman picked up his first offer from UCLA. That momentum has continued, as Talamaivao earned two more offers from Washington and Colorado last week.
"I had been in contact with Washington a lot lately, and Colorado had been sending me some stuff. I hadn't talked with them since the Spring, when they came out to see me and the offensive line coach had offered me verbally, but last week their head coach, Jon Embree, came down and let me know it was official," he said.
Talamaivao is also receiving heavy interest from other programs around the country, including Notre Dame, Michigan, Arizona, Oregon, California, Stanford, and Arizona State; coaches from the latter four programs have all been by the high school.
"Oregon is probably recruiting me the hardest right now. I've been talking to Steve Greatwood, their offensive line coach. He actually came down to see me and told me he would be keeping an eye on me this season. He said he wants me to come down and take a visit, which I plan on doing," he said.
He will head to South Bend this weekend to check out the Irish and has also been staying in touch with his recruiter at UCLA, offensive line coach Adrian Klemm.
"I'm keeping tabs on UCLA. I'm going to check out a game, go say hi to the staff. I was supposed to go to the Nebraska game but something came up. I'll definitely go check out the crosstown rivalry, when UCLA plays USC," he said.
For now, however, no particular program is standing out to the talented player, who is just enjoying the process.
"Every school stands out to me at this point. No one school has a clear advantage over another; they are all great programs and I would love to be a part of any of them. Honestly, I just feel blessed. I never thought I would be at this level right now; it's a very humbling experience," he said.
In addition to handling his recruitment, Talamaivao is working to get better on the field and says he can see a big improvement from his sophomore to junior season.
"I've gotten up to speed on how the game should be played. Last year I played like a sophomore, I played like a young guy. I was just out there. Now I've really gotten a grasp for how the game should be played at my position, especially since I am trying to take it to a higher level.
"It's more of a mental thing for me, the way I have developed and learned how to play. I've graduated from the mindset of just being happy to be out there to now, where it's time to take care of business and go make things happen," he said.
He's also putting in the time to work hard to improve even further.
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In a phrase, they work. Not only do the workouts burn lots of calories, the after effect is a plus because your overall metabolism continues to be high for several hours once you have finished. Assuming you finish. In one study, participants burned an extra 770 calories for the 38 hours following their workout. The workout was rough – bench press, power cleans and parallel squats for 30 minutes. If you don't know what all of these exercises are, just know that they are very difficult.
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I ran this with a Pug this weekend and 75% of the group had never been before. We actually did it the opposite of what was suggested here and had all ranged and healers doing the running while the tank and melee stayed on the platform... After finishing it (8 wipes probably to get everyone trained on the run) and reading up on it... its clear, we did it a very silly way. However, everyone was pretty good at running by then so maybe it was for the best.


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Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
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-Jim Morrison and The Doors
Your knees buckle, you feel off-center, yet filled with joy. A sense of the 'anything is possible' comes over you. You're not yourself; nor do you want to be. You're in love. And, to keep this love affair afloat, you'll do anything…
Even move to another city or country.
Yet, in this case, it is, in fact, the city that is the culprit, the object of your affections. You are enamored–or at the very least interfacing and engaging on a deeper more intimate level–with a locale.
Without such a passion, one might argue, how else could one take such a bold step as to pack up one's things and move half-way across the world (or across the country)?
It takes blind faith, the promise of euphoria, and an object of great desire to drown out the voice of fear (that keeps one moored in one's home terrain) and kill the creature of habit (and safety).
And just like your first love is different from a second marriage, and a second marriage is different from a whirlwind holiday love affair, so 'city love' differs from place to place (and person to person). More detailed analogies and some true life experience can be of some help here.
New York…cue George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue…now that's a riveting, mile-a-minute, exciting metropolis to fall in love with. My love affair with New York was intense from the get-go. There was nothing that could keep us apart. I ate, breathed, slept (and often pulled all-nighters with) Manhattan. This was one fascinating, intellectually profound and culturally savvy partner.
But then, after living in the City That Never Sleeps for a few years, the bloom wore off the rose to reveal a crazy, thorned bitch of a city who like some psycho stalker was hell-bent on destroying me.
Manhattan, for me, was a city of young love–perhaps not first love (not nearly as naive and crushing) but an immature, passionate love with nowhere to go but into the pits of Hell.
So it was that after some time of enduring 'the Smell' (hot, humid garbage and pollution in the summertime), the constant noise (a loop of car alarms and ambulances) and weather (my 'love's' extreme mood swings), I said "enough" and ended the tempestuous and unhealthy relationship.
Amsterdam, with its storybook canals, crooked little houses and wood-worm eaten house boats was romantic in a spiritual way for me. Everything 'he' did seemed fated, written in some great book in the sky.
Nothing was real. All was mystique and wonder…a great way to exist…for a time. But as I grew up, I wanted something of the everyday and commonplace in my city relationship–a way to mix the simplicity of life (cornflakes) with the ethereal and mystical (ambrosia).
Los Angeles, on the other hand was like the buddy that high-fives you at a barbecue and gets you an ice cold beer on command–predictable, laidback, uncomplicated but a bit vacuous.
Like 'friends with benefits,' LA and I spent years (on and off as LA is always my base–even when I have brief stints abroad) in a Hotel California type relationship. I could check out any time I liked, but I never really did leave.
LA would occasionally deliver the 2 a.m. booty call–disrespectful and shallow. But Los Angeles was also always there when I needed the proverbial couch to crash on or someone to grab a coffee with and hang out.
These days, as it turns out, I'm looking for nothing less than 'the all' in my city love, a harmonious 'something of everything' relationship Holy Grail. My ideal possesses: the romance and magic, the reliable everyday buddy effect, and the riveting sexual attraction and cultural and intellectual stimulation.
I'm ready for a city I can realistically love–for better or worse, for richer or for poorer–that will love me back unconditionally, realistically but also view me as a gem.
As a result, I have been spending some time in London–a place that never intrigued me before (in fact, my birthplace). It wasn't ever exotic enough. It seemed to be a city of urban tests, grittiness, and depression despite its historic architecture and wit and witticisms.
But today, as an adult, I can finally appreciate a partner like London. Right away, I could see what would drive me nuts about the town: its spread-out nature, difficult public transport, smog and dirtiness, uptight citizens.
I could also see something magical: how the Gothic details on the molding of the townhouses came to life in the grey weather, the exciting driving cultural rhythm of this media capital.
My walks around the funny little mewses and roads–mad wind blowing through my hair, street life on fire, trickles of rain on my cheek–felt like an appreciative and adoring lover's touch.
London, in short, may be the whole enchilada…a real city, a human city–of heights of ecstasy, depths of despair…and, 'the laundry' so to speak. London, may well be 'The One.'


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Thanks, Maya. You are very nice.
I am so lame at Twitter. I only know how to post my status, but can't figure out how to respond to the 2 other people following.
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I just failed my DipABRSM. Well, I would have if I'd sat for one, because my idea of what constitutes an appropriate program note is, according the the ABRSM, seriously flawed.
For the uninitiated, the ABRSM is the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, a peak body that represents the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, Royal Northern College of Music and the Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Hallowed halls full of proper classical musicians, not like me at all.
From their website you may download this concise yet detailed (and rather dry) guide called Writing Programme Notes: A guide for diploma candidates by Nigel Scaife. That's Doctor Nigel Scaife, to you! From the brief bio on the ABRSM website, we can learn that he's a very scholarly gentleman who started a musical life in one of those sheltered cathedral chorister bubbles in Exeter and continued on to complete many a degree from an impressive list of institutions ranging from Dartington College of the Arts to the University of California to Oxford. There's those musician bio "lists" again (don't get me started on that!).
But I digress.
Clever clogs Dr. Scaife offers much excellent advice on how performers may properly research the music they are playing. He recommends the reading of both primary and secondary sources and a great deal of listening. Much of the advice he offers is very good, simple and concise, correct and useful. Working in this way, I could write a very scholarly and impressive dissertation upon a topic.
But it would be as boring as batshit.
"Informative and well-written programme notes will significantly enhance the listening experience of your audience", says Dr. Scaife. Enhance is the key word here. I wish he would practise what he preaches!! The entire article seems to be a lesson in how to preach to the converted, assuming a level of classical music knowledge on the part of the audience. Although classical musicians hate to admit this, that musically literate/educated audience is in sharp decline and we need to start reaching out to new audiences through the way that we communicate about our music.
The musically educated may find very informative this example cited in the article;
"The dirge-like theme of the Adagio is directly related to the ostinato motif of the first movement and is characterised by avoidance of accents on the main metric beat. This imbues the music with the quality of Czech speech-rhythms, a subject Janácek studied with great interest."
However, your average Joe who's interested in enjoying some classical music but hasn't had the benefit of an education in it, is going to look at all those technical terms and feel instantly out of their depth, unwelcome, alienated. Why not say something a little more like this, for instance:
"In this passage, Janacek really starts to get his long leather folk-dancing boots dirty. Czech folk music makes me want to dance in the aisles too."
Unfortunately, Dr Scaife and ivory tower classical music types just like him consider "picturesque descriptions of musical events… generally inappropriate to an understanding of the music". To back this up, he quotes from W. J. Turner's Facing the Music: Reflections of a Music Critic (Bell, 1933).
"The writers who describe symphonies as if they were sunsets or battles, or election conflicts between the good and evil parties in the Universe, are useless to everybody, and positively harmful to those who are seriously trying to understand the art of music."
"Positively harmful"?!? Strong words indeed, and words written in 1933. 1933!!! You'd think times would have changed since then, but the kind of picturesque descriptions I favour plus my constant use of the first person singular would get me a great big red FAIL stamp on my hypothetical ABRSM exam report. On the other hand, my concert audiences and the people who buy my albums speak a different story.
In the leadup to my last concert, I decided on a couple of little experiments. One of them was to ask my interweb tribe if I should play a solo improvisation for an encore, which met with an enthusiastic "Yes!" from respondents, and equally enthusiastic applause from those who witnessed the never-to-be-repeated event in person. The other experiment was I decided upon was not to write any traditional program notes at all. A couple of weeks before the gig, I created a Pinterest Board in lieu of notes.
I pinned all manner of things upon my online pinboard; pictures of the composers (Philip Glass and Yann Tiersen), video of Yann Tiersen performing on solo violin, a mashup of Philip Glass vs. Blondie, a scene from the Stephen Daldry film whose Philip Glass soundtrack I was performing, reviews and a making-of video about my first album. Things to listen to, things to watch, things to admire, and things to read at your own leisure which served to "enhance the listening experience of your audience". Hear your own words there, Dr. Scaife? I hope you do.
I did feel concerned that this would require too much effort on the part of the audience, but the feedback was overwhelmingly good. It not only provided the kind of information to which Dr Scaife refers in his research advice, but also the opportunity for the audience to experience some of that material more immediately and at their own leisure. Additionally, those unable to attend the concert could at least enjoy those materials and gain some insight into the music and realise that they'd want to attend my next concert. Aha! It works as advertising too *grin*
So, let's stop lecturing our audiences and use the technology we have at our disposal to bring the music alive for as many people as possible. Maybe in another hundred years the ABRSM will catch up.


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VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — An Oregon man is getting out of the Washington state liquor business after fees drove up his prices and consumers found cheaper booze in chain stores and across the state line.
Don Sidhu had $2.1 million in investor money that he spent on four former state-run liquor stores privatized when the state switched away from a state-operated liquor system this year.
Customers told Sidhu that they would buy their booze at Oregon's lower-priced, state-operated stores, The Vancouver Columbian reported.
Sidhu apologized to customers for the fees, which in some cases led to prices 22 percent higher than those in Oregon.
"They said, 'Don't be sorry, you're the one who's going to lose your business,'" said Sidhu, a Woodburn, Ore., resident who closed his stores in Kennewick and Kirkland and plans to shutter his remaining two stores in Vancouver some time next month.
Liquor sales in Oregon increased 9.4 percent in October 2012, compared to October 2011. At Oregon's 12 border stores, sales increased by 34 percent.
Compounding the problem is distributors, who in many cases charge smaller stores between 25 percent and 35 percent more than they charge volume discounters like Costco.
"In the old system, everybody in the state paid the same price, and now, if you're not close to a Costco or big box, you're paying a whole lot more for the same product," said John Guadnola of the Washington Beer & Wine Distributors Association. "It's so much cheaper to deliver a truckload to one place and have the customer break it up and deliver it out to the individual stores."
Sidhu isn't alone in facing a quick, devastating business failure in Washington's new free-market liquor sales environment.
Of the 167 former state-run liquor stores that Washington auctioned off, Sidhu estimates only 60 or 70 remain open.
He said he had a disadvantage in being a small store. The lack of volume discounts from distributors, competition from Oregon, and the loss of commercial sales that were a key profit center for the former state-run liquor stores have all contributed to the demise of the former state-run stores.
"I will keep my head high," he said, "and move forward."
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The Milwaukee Bucks Coaching Search: Taking their time and failing to inspire
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Thus far, it's difficult to say that the search for the next coach of the Milwaukee Bucks has been inspiring. It's been relatively thorough, due diligence has been done on big names. They've at least explored making a splash. But the pool of candidates so far? Which one has you excited?
Nate McMillan. Kelvin Sampson. J.B. Bickerstaff. Steve Clifford. Larry Drew. These are the candidates that we know have been interviewed. Additionally, the Bucks traveled to southern Illinois and had a chat with Jerry Sloan and while most accounts say the meeting was quite pleasant, he isn't interested in coaching the Milwaukee Bucks.
"He had a real nice meeting with them. They came to see him on his farm [in downstate Illinois]. They had a great meeting just in terms of liking each other. [Bucks general manager] John Hammond said, 'I wish I could have stayed and watched the game with him.' It's just not the right fit for Jerry, from Jerry's point of view. That's not a negative thing; that's just the reality."
"For Jerry to go to a place that's going to take years to build — and I'm not talking about Milwaukee, I'm talking about anywhere — that's just not right for him," Glass said, according to the newspaper. "They have to be able to compete. Jerry is a competitor, and he wants to compete and teach."
But really … he is talking about Milwaukee, isn't he?
Maybe the Bucks aren't officially rebuilding, but it's pretty obvious to everyone everywhere that this isn't a team that's anywhere near being very competitive. That's why Sloan wasn't interested, as nice as the folks in Milwaukee may be. That's why Milwaukee never got anywhere with Stan Van Gundy either. Proven, successful coaches – coaches with options – why would they be interested in Milwaukee? Sometimes I think everyone in the world understands the dire situation the Bucks are in, except for the Bucks.
The cap space is nice and Larry Sanders is good, but Milwaukee's a team in disarray. They have few pieces in place and even fewer obvious answers ahead of themselves this summer.
So without the ability to lure a name coach, what are the Bucks options? Well, one is hoping to get lucky with a veteran coach who hasn't been quite so successful. The Nate McMillans and Larry Drews of the world. It's easy to look at the records and both McMillan and Drew and point to the playoff appearances, the seasons over .500 and say those guys know what they are doing.
But in 10 full seasons with the Sonics and Blazers, McMillan got out of round one exactly once. In three with the Hawks, Drew got out once as well. McMillan's a defensive coach who didn't have very good defensive teams.
Drew? He doesn't have much of a reputation, aside from being unable to corral Josh Smith. It's hard to lay blame on Drew for failing to a task that's probably impossible. Like probably every other coach Smith has had, he didn't love the forward's shot-selection. But if the most important task he had in Atlanta was getting Josh Smith to another level of recognition with regard to how poor many of the shots he was taking were, then he failed at his most important task. Whether it's his fault or not, he's another guy who couldn't get his team past round one.
On the plus side, the looks at retreads alongside a couple of assistants seems to indicate that the Bucks are going to look everywhere for a coach, which is great. Milwaukee has to consider all of its options. But it's hard to be too excited at this point about the list they have put together.
As a fan of the relatively anonymous, hungry young assistant, I've yet to be satiated. After Sampson, the coach that apparently every organization in the league is seemingly contractually required to speak with this summer, Clifford has been the name that's excited me the most. He's spent years studying under the Van Gundys, learning how to communicate and drill defense.
Most importantly, he's yet to lead any unsatisfying, mediocre teams. Finding someone who hasn't done that, either out of lack of opportunity or due to immense skill, seems ideal to me. The last thing the Bucks need is another guy who has his sights set on round one. There's plenty of that going around already.
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Kareem or BUST! There is NO one that is better for a team rebuilding. Quit fooling yourselves into thinking your gonna get a more high profile coach than Jabbar at this point! Jabbar is HOLLYWOOD and will bring bluechippers here if he is coach, we NEED studs and not duds, Larry and ALL of our bigs will have better instruction with Jabbar at the helm,EONS better than Joe Wolf! Pair Jabbar with Sampson, and Cassell AND CALL IT A DAY!
How about we forget about finding the grizzled veteran and find somebody who's just right for the job? Here are the remaining coaches in the playoffs:
Lionel Hollins, Memphis: 55 years old when hired in 2009, 18-46 career record prior to then.
Gregg Popovich, San Antonio: 48 years old when hired in 1997, 0-0 career record prior to then.
Erick Spoelstra, Miami: 39 years old when hired in 2009, 0-0 career record prior to then.
Frank Vogel, Indiana: 37 years old when hired in 2011, 0-0 career record prior to then.
i think our best option at this point is Sampson
I will take anybody who can write up 2 or more offensive plays. They will already be better than those two garbage coaches we just recently had.
Do the Bucks even have a set of criteria against which to assess these potential coaches?
The longer it takes, the more it smells like indecision and lack of vision.
If Hammond had a vision, strategy and plan he'd have targeted a couple of guys and gone hard after them. This entire process reeks of failure.


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Finding an Angle in a Right Angled Triangle
You can find the Angle from Any Two Sides
We can find an unknown angle in a right-angled triangle, as long as we know the lengths of two of its sides.
A 5ft ladder leans against a wall as shown.
What is the angle between the ladder and the wall?
(Note: we also solve this on Solving Triangles by Reflection but now we solve it in a more general way.)
The answer is to use Sine, Cosine or Tangent!
But which one to use? We have a special phrase "SOHCAHTOA" to help us, and we use it like this:
Step 1: find the names of the two sides you know
Example: in our ladder example we know the length of:
- the side Opposite the angle "x" (2.5 ft)
- the long sloping side, called the "Hypotenuse" (5 ft)
Step 2: now use the first letters of those two sides (Opposite and Hypotenuse) and the phrase "SOHCAHTOA" to find which one of Sine, Cosine or Tangent to use:
Sine: sin(θ) = Opposite / Hypotenuse
Cosine: cos(θ) = Adjacent / Hypotenuse
Tangent: tan(θ) = Opposite / Adjacent
In our example that is Opposite and Hypotenuse, and that gives us "SOHcahtoa", which tells us we need to use Sine.
Step 3: Put our values into the Sine equation:
Sin (x) = Opposite / Hypotenuse = 2.5 / 5 = 0.5
Step 4: Now solve that equation!
sin (x) = 0.5
Next (trust me for the moment) we can re-arrange that into this:
x = sin-1 (0.5)
And then get our calculator, key in 0.5 and use the sin-1 button to get the answer:
x = 30°
What is sin-1 ?
But what is the meaning of sin-1 … ?
Well, the Sine function "sin" takes an angle and gives us the ratio "opposite/hypotenuse",
But sin-1 (called "inverse sine") goes the other way ...
... it takes the ratio "opposite/hypotenuse" and gives us an angle.
- Sine Function: sin(30°) = 0.5
- Inverse Sine Function: sin-1(0.5) = 30°
|On the calculator you would press one of the following (depending on your brand of calculator): either '2ndF sin' or 'shift sin'.
On your calculator, try using sin and sin-1 to see what results you get!
Also try cos and cos-1. And tan and tan-1. Go on, have a try now.
Step By Step
These are the four steps we need to follow:
- Step 1 Decide which two sides we know – out of Opposite, Adjacent and Hypotenuse.
- Step 2 Use SOHCAHTOA to decide which one of Sine, Cosine or Tangent to use in this question.
- Step 3 Use your calculator to calculate the fraction Opposite/Hypotenuse, Adjacent/Hypotenuse or Opposite/Adjacent (whichever is appropriate).
- Step 4 Find the angle from your calculator, using one of sin-1, cos-1 or tan-1
Let's look at a couple more examples:
Find the size of the angle of elevation
- Step 1 The two sides we know are Opposite (300) and Adjacent (400).
- Step 2 SOHCAHTOA tells us we must use Tangent.
- Step 3 Use your calculator to calculate Opposite/Adjacent = 300/400 = 0.75
- Step 4 Find the angle from your calculator using tan-1
Tan x° = opposite/adjacent = 300/400 = 0.75
tan-1 of 0.75 = 36.9° (correct to 1 decimal place)
Unless you're told otherwise, angles are usually rounded to one place of decimals.
Find the size of angle a°
- Step 1 The two sides we know are Adjacent (6,750) and Hypotenuse (8,100).
- Step 2 SOHCAHTOA tells us we must use Cosine.
- Step 3 Use your calculator to calculate Adjacent / Hypotenuse = 6,750/8,100 = 0.8333
- Step 4 Find the angle from your calculator using cos-1 of 0.8333:
cos a° = 6,750/8,100 = 0.8333


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It's difficult to watch a friend go through a break-up. There's nothing you can really do besides supply the tissues and listen as all of the previously adorable things about the ex in question are turned into itemized bits of evidence that prove he or she was always a terrible human being. But for many of us, the most difficult part of watching friends work their way through a break-ups is the rebound period. Khloé Kardashian may not be a personal friend of ours, but she's one Kardashian even Kardashian haters can't help but like, and it was truly sad to see her marriage with Lamar Odom come to an end.
Still, nothing has been more terrible than watching her rebound with the likes of French Montana. Who is French Montana? Exactly our point. And, more specifically, he's a rapper signed to Bad Boy. While he has made the occasionally catchy track, there's something horrible about him. Yes, that's a mean thing to say. But this is Khloé. And we just want what's best for her. With so many other rappers to choose from, we're not sure why Khloé went this route, but we humbly suggest that she date one of these five other more suitable rebound choices.