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Before the Giants crushing loss to the Washington Redskins on Monday night, the GMen HQ crew was able to toss around some questions with some of the Giants greats. One of those legends was 2006 Hall of Fame inductee, Harry Carson. Harry took some time to answer questions ranging from Bill Belichick to RGIII. The interview quickly turned into a relaxed conversation by the end of it all. Carson was joined by Lawrence Taylor and Mark Bavaro who also took time to answer some questions that will be released later this week.
Question: What was it like being coached by two of the best in Bill Parcells and Bill Belichick?
Carson: "It was good, maybe you should ask them how it was to coach guys like me and Lawrence Taylor", he said jokingly. "No, but they were great coaches and taught me a lot. They really made me become a better player and helped me realize a championship."
I also mentioned to him that Bill Belichick referred to him as the best linebacker he has ever coached. His response was "Well I'd have to agree with him on that, I'm a little biased."
Question: What was it like being a member of the Big Blue Wrecking Crew defense in the 1980s?
Carson: "We had a great group of guys. As a captain, the guys really did everything the coaches and I asked of them. We had a lot of fun playing the game during those years."
Question: I was at Metlife stadium when the Giants unveiled their own Ring of Honor. How did it feel to be a part of that ceremony?
Carson: "It was great. When you play the game for a team like the Giants, there is a lot of history and tradition. It's an honor to be the first class that they inducted."
Question: What was your proudest moment throughout your NFL career?
Carson: "The Super Bowl in 1986 when I went out as the lone captain for the coin toss."
Question: What was it like to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame?
Carson: "It was an honor to represent the Giants and my teammates in the Hall of Fame. It really meant a lot to me."
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Carson: "I've tried to be an advocate on behalf of those retired players that really don't have a voice, like I was as captain of the Giants."
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Carson: "There are a number of great players in the league. If I had to pick one, it would be Patrick Willis on the San Francisco 49ers. He is a very active inside linebacker, which I admire."
Question: What do you think of the Giants opposing quarterback tonight, Robert Griffin III?
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A Freudian Understanding of History:
The Development and Interactions
of the Minds of Groups
A new book by Joel Markowitz, M.D.
on the way the minds of groups have shaped history and the role of the Libido Theory
My goal is public awareness of Freudian theory. I present this book free of charge.
For more than 50 years, I've tried to bridge the gap between a psychodynamic perspective and the traditional mindset.
I WOULD appreciate your comments-- even if you read only part of this.
Joel Markowitz, M.D.
Im an 85 year old psychiatrist. Many people I know have found it of great value to understand themselves through Freudian-based psychoanalysis. Lets use those same principles toward understanding the nature of the groups in which we live -- that is: the minds of the English, French, German and other groups that have controlled-- and that still control-- the minds of people in those groups. Yes: groups-- such as nations-- have active minds. There were practical reasons that we avoided knowing that fact -- that we wanted to believe that groups were passive and mindless collections of people. To believe that we individuals were in charge. That individuals were the only human organisms. In fact, nations are giant, intelligent, continually active, highly experienced, and potentially immortal human organisms. And they think like we do. But their motivations are different from our motivations. And nations have always used us toward their purposes. Therein lies the problem. Now, for the first time, we now have the motivations-- and we have the tools-- to understand and to direct the groups we inhabit. There are good reasons for us to take control. ----------------------------------------------- How did this all come about? We are social animals; and like all social animals, we make two investments. We invest in our individual selves -- in satisfying our personal needs. And we also invest in our groups. Our personal concerns are separate from those of other people; they disperse in their effects. But our investments in group-thinking combine with those of other people to form powerful collective minds. Those group minds which have largely controlled our thinking. The minds of our groups have conditioned the thinking of our ancestors since pre-human times. Group mores have taught us how to behave, what to believe, what god to worship, what language to speak ... All ideas come, of course, from individuals. But its our group minds that tell us which ideas to accept and how to use them; and which ideas to attack or reject. We scatter our self-involved thoughts in dealing with individual issues. But the psychic energies we invest in group-mind influences are highly directed toward group purposes. The group voice broadcasts to us continuously-- through the media; through our legal and political directives; through our long-standing traditions; through our schools; and through our social and family interactions-- all of which have been programmed by collective influences. For four million years, the investment of prehumans and humans in the needs of their groups empowered those groups in their shaping our thinking and behavior. ----------------------------------------------- For much of history, it was practical for us to deny even that group minds existed. Our unquestioning and automatic obedience to group directives enhanced group effectiveness. It was, thereby, an evolutionary advantage to not know the extent to which groups ran things. As social animals that were dependent on group survival and success, it was practical that we sacrifice our individual prerogatives unquestioningly to satisfy the needs of our groups. Our survival as individuals depended largely on the survival of our groups. Our personal fortunes have depended largely on the military and other successes of our groups, from which we benefitted secondarily. It was, for most people, a workable partnership-- however costly it proved to be for some. And over most of history, group-mind decisions were, in fact, superior to the decisions of almost all of their individuals. Groups tend to be much wiser than individuals tended to be. They were far older and more experienced; and they also had continuous access to the vast fund of information which history provided. Which is primarily why we, like our prehuman ancestors, have intuitively obeyed the mores of our groups, and why weve permitted group-mind thinking to shape our thinking for so long a period of time. Its not misleading to see ourselves as complex cells living out brief existences in the bodies of potentially immortal giant organisms. They have projected their attitudes, values and personnas onto us. We have accepted those directives and personnas -- i.e., we are-- and behave as-- American, English, French, and other individuals have learned to behave-- and we are also in other ways tiny representatives of group self-representations. Our brains serve groups as very temporary elements in their brains -- which groups continually replace with new brains -- as we die and infants are born. -------------------------------------------- Now, for the first time, we can take control of that partnership. And, for the first time, we have the tools to take control. We can now know that, however much we have benefitted by the survival and successes of our groups, group thinking has always directed us to sacrifice our own interests (including our lives) in their pursuit of their projects. Group motivations have been very largely responsible for many tragedies. ------------------------------------------------ Let me present a recent example. History is primarily the story of the evolution of groups and of their interactions with other groups. When historians focus only on the influence of individuals, much of history cant be understood. John Keegan was among the eminent historians who admitted to that lack of understanding. He couldnt understand why World War I took place. He ended his book on that war* ------------------------------------------ * The First World War; Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.; 1998. (p. 426) --------------------------------------------- ... the First World war is a mystery. Its origins are mysterious. So is its course. Why did a prosperous continent, at the height of it success as a source and agent of global wealth and power and at one of the peaks of its intellectual and cultural achievement...? and: Why... did the combatants decide nevertheless to persist in their miitary effort ... [despite so much] pointless slaughter? [Emphasis: mine] ------------------------------------------------ Lets see how the motivations of group minds might enter into our understanding of those events. Following the Industrial Revolution, in 1914 many people realized that Europe was entering a Golden Age-- very likely the most-Golden Age that humans have ever known. Events and circumstances seemed uniquely positive and workable. Incomes had burgeoned beyond all precedent. Tourism flourished. Inventions followed one after another. Innumerable books were published. Endless new opportunities emerged. The benefits of education and literacy lifted the quality of European life to unprecedented heights. Those benefits to innumerable individuals were, of course, contingent on the continuation of peaceful commerce and communication among nations. Everyone knew that there was every reason to predict even further progress as long as Europes long peace continued. War was, therefore, unthinkable. Such was the perspective of individuals. But what was the thinking of Europes group minds? They cared little about such benefits to their individuals. Group minds dont enjoy what we enjoy. Nations dont enjoy sex, good food, literature, music, or a walk in the park on a nice day. In 1914 -- as in all other periods of history-- the personal pleasures and cultural enrichment of individuals bore little relationship to group-mind motivations. Groups care primarily about surviving; about competitive success; about dominance, about owning territory, about wealth, power and prestige. And war had been a highly-favored group device toward those goals. However expensive wars are to individuals, the alpha-male dominance of group minds has been fundamental to human evolution thus far. (As it is fundamental to the natural selection of wolf packs, lion prides, baboon troops and other higher mammals.) ----------------------------------------------- So: while groups think like we do (how else can any human organism think?), their physical differences from us lead to different-- sometimes antithetical-- motivations. Groups dont suffer age, illness or physical pain. They dont necessarily die-- although some group-minds have died. Knowing themselves to be potentially immortal, groups are more motivated to avoid death than we are. They care more about the natural selection that history imposes. The extinction of group minds-- of the Sumarians, Assyrians, Babylonians and many others-- such extinctions are less relevant to people than they are to groups. About material things, we say: we cant take them with us. But group-minds that survive can take things with them-- indefinitely. Which is why groups are more motivated to succeed materially than we are. ------------------------------------------- And group minds have always known that they were in control of their individuals. Relatively few individuals have resisted group-mind efforts to exploit them, which permits groups to readily sacrifice individuals. And since the late 19th Century, nationalism enabled groups to mobilize their entire population to serve group purposes. Moreover, especially in 1914, group minds were aware of their unprecedented military powers. Technology had given them the most-powerful-- and the most-exciting -- weapons that had ever existed. Among the many group-mind concerns: the German group ... resented its lack of colonies and envied England; Austria-Hungary worried about controlling its restless subgroups -- and worried also about Serbian and Romanian designs on its territory ... And in addition to their needs, all group minds feared the growing military power of their neighbors. Germany was then militarily superior to all other groups. But Germanys neighbors were arming rapidly; and they would soon have military parity with the German group. Britain worried about the growing power of Germanys more-modern fleet ... ------------------------------------- There were warnings that war was possible. In 1899, Tzar Nicholas II had convened an international conference to prevent war. He warned about the accelerating arms race... and that it will lead to the very catastrophe it seeks to avert. There was a response-- the Hague Conference-- which took place that year, and agreed to limit armaments. And until the war took place, there was much talk among diplomats-- and much thinking that the crisis could be talked out. But because those individuals were unaware of the overriding influence of group minds, events moved inexorably forward. Groups felt compelled to plan for the possibility of war. Partial mobilizations by some powers provoked the full mobilizations of others. Violent incidents were inevitable. Among them were the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. And some Austrian troops fired at some Serbian troops who had strayed too close to the border ... A remarkable number of frantic diplomatic decisions and counterdecisions to prevent war took place. But, as had been the case throughout history, the needs and fears of group minds made war inevitable. Russias full defensive mobilization provoked the German attack on Belgium-- to force passage into France in hope of a quick victory. ------------------------------------------ A later circumstance was even more indicative of group-mind control. The power of modern weapons caused enormous initial casualties and made the Western armies entrench. It then became evident that-- either victory would be impossible-- or that even a victor would not only suffer crippling losses, but would inherit a ruined Europe. There would be, at best, enormous human and material costs for little significant gain. Simple common sense suggested ending that costly stalemate with negotiations leading to peace. Yet negotiations were not made. So we must ask: why did the war then continue for four ruinous years? Why did those groups fight until their armies had been bled white; until 15 million people had died; until Europe was ruined; and until those nations were too drained, damaged and exhausted to continue fighting? And why did very much the same thing happen a generation later? Virtually all wars have been struggles between groups waged by group minds. Like wolves, lions, baboons and other higher mammals, groups have been committed to struggle for alpha-male dominance over other groups-- regardless of the costs to individuals. During World War I and II, those costs were particularly terrible, and were largely without benefit to either groups or their people. ----------------------------------- The Future What would the world have been like had we understood group-mind motivation in the early 1900s? Lets suppose that we thereby prevented those two great wars. Can we even begin to visualize the Golden Age that might have followed the Industrial Revolution and the early years of the 20th Century? I dont believe that we will have wars on even a much smaller scale in the 21st Century. We may have more police actions, which will solve problems far more economically. But we are already facing unprecedented problems, some of which seem, currently, to defy effective solutions. Some may turn out to be more dangerous than wars have been, and more difficult to solve. Thus far, humans have problem-solved entirely intuitively. Weve thought and functioned subjectively. Weve depended on our subjectively derived perspectives to understand reality. Thats one reason that our problem-solving, our social evolution, and our history have been so costly in lives and other destruction. Weve been flying blind. Weve accepted the costs as inevitable. Weve considered no alternative approach. Thats the situation of people who enter psychoanalysis. They had been functioning intuitively to the best of their ability. By enlisting psychodynamic understanding, they acknowledge that they had been doing something wrong; and that they dont know what the mistake has been. In effective therapy, mistakes are revealed and worked through. Realities become useful-- undestandings that were never considered and/or had been defended against. Unrecognized, dysfunctional patterns are confronted and (more or less) dismantled. The future is approached with clarity that is fortified by insights into the self and into others. The minds of groups now have access to even more-effective therapy. As self-analysis helps us take charge of ourselves, an understanding of our groups will help us take control of group-mind processes. We could begin that process today. We could direct the NIMH -- our National Institute of Mental Health -- to select and train a corps of psychodynamic experts to study the mind of this nation and other nations. We need a subgroup-mind to understand group minds. As analysts do with individuals, those specialists would study the deeper nature of collective thinking. they would reveal potential dangers as well as other important information. They would communicate with political leaders and institutions, and with the public through the media. Group minds are much easier to understand and to treat than are individual minds. A therapist- subgroup has immediate access to the groups entire history-- from the most-primitive origins of groups. Incomparably more is known about groups than we can ever learn about any individual. Experts will eventually delve into the ocean of historical evidence to understand every aspect group-thinking and functioning. They will examine details of earliest and subsequent group-mind development; group traumas and successes; the details of their thinking-- all have been reported on and documented by an army of talented observers, critics and writers. We know a great deal about the lives of their most-influential individuals. We can analyze group-literature and art for further clues ... Let me anticipate an intuitive resistance to the above: This is not mind-control! It is the opposite; it is the freeing of minds from neurotic limitations, distortions and obsolete patterns of control. ------------------------------ The therapy of group-minds has far more supports and other advantages than has the therapy of individuals. Group-minds will make far more-rapid and more-extensive progress. Because group-minds continuously replace their brain cells, their patterns are in continuous flux. Group-minds easily phase out obsolete forms of thinking (and some neurotic patterns) by the physical replacement of brain cells. Older people die; and infants bring new brains for group processes to program. ( For the first time, we can even intelligently influence that new programming.) Group-minds can even quickly remove entire dysfunctioning patterns of thinking surgically-- as the German group removed the Nazi subgroup. Group-mind therapy wont be troubled by circumstances that inhibit individual therapy-- which people people also use as resistances: financial worries; advanced age and illness; family trouble; changes in their job locations .... Our media will continuously broadcast new information about group thinking and functioning. Because group-minds observe each other; the comments of other groups will add to every groups self awareness. And: while a patient in therapy must share the focus of one therapist with many other patients, the group in therapy receives the full-time professional focus of an entire group of extremely competent therapists. Moreover, unlike the individual therapist, the therapist subgroup never dies. Its understandings may grow forever. It could enrich our understanding of the ocean of historical, artistic, literary and other ifnromation we have created and gathered. It could use our new understanding of that material to better understand the group-mind processes. It was those processes, after all, that gave rise to that great store of material. As the therapeutic subgroup itself matures, It could lead the larger group in early-mature understanding and functioning. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ That subgroup would be of immense benefit to individual therapists within the group; and that benefit would rebound to improve the thinking of the therapeutic subgroup, and of the group itself. Therapists have had no reliable way to connect with the collective mind they inhabit. Not only is psychodynamic thinking very young; not only does it have little experience in dealing with collective problems; not only does it speak a language that is alien to the collective language; but the collective mind has resisted learning information about itself. Like many individuals, it has defended against Freudian-based thinking. Many therapists have wanted to communicate to the collective mind. But how to reach it? How to overcome its resistance to Freudian-based thinking and communicate useful insights to it? No reliable bridge yet exists between the many individual therapists and the collective mind. Therapists preach largely to the choir-- to their own therapist subgroups, and their specialist journals. What about letters from psychodynamic specialists to the media-- e.g., to a Letters to the Editor column? Some have been written. They are rarely published-- not only because of resistance, but because editors are unfamiliar with psychodynamic ideas, and cant judge their validity or relevance. To have a letter accepted, a therapist must dilute it in content and reduced it in size to a degree which destroys much of its value. Many therapists have abandoned trying to communicate with the collective mind and have returned to communicating with the few people who seek-- and who can process-- this new type of thinking. The subgroup of the NIMH subgroup could represent that bridge between therapists and collective mind. That subgroup would be eager to receive contributions from therapists. And the existence of that subgroup would, in turn, motivate innumerable therapists to study and write about collective issues. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Psychosexual issues Do you know what I found most surprising about group minds? Its that theyve gone through the same stages we go through in our journey toward psychosexual maturity. Despite not being sexual. What IS psychosexual maturation? Its the journey traversed by our psychic energy-- our libido-- from its Oral Stage beginnings toward maturity. You may not realize this, but youre all -- at least somewhat-- familiar with aspects of Freuds Libido Theory. Snippets have percolated down into the public domain. Some people now speak of ones excessive orality, or of the anality of some meticulous person; or of the oedipal preoccupation of a particular man with his mother. Were-- collectively-- becoming familiar with our developmental stages. But people are largely unaware of the period were in today. Which is latent-oedipal development-- psychic preadolescence. And MOST people cant develop significantly beyond the stage that their groups experience. Which is why you and I are still largely preadolescent. Preadolescents repress their sexual fantasies and impulses; and they submit to parental authority-- and, similarly, Western groups were sexual repressed and submitted to hierarchical authority for two thousand years. Were just beginning to come out of that-- to experience the very beginnings of Early Mature development-- especially since the Youth Rebellion and the Sexual Revolution. But thats very recent. As therapists know, theres still a lot of sexual trouble from residual Christian Era-based sexual repression. ---------------------------------------- We suffer also from major self-image problems. The Christian Era directed us to actively abase the self in order to more effectively extol the Father. More fundamentally, we were to avoid oedipal excitement. Not just sexual pleasure, but the other component: all equivalents of pride. To feel the excitement of pride was to usurp Fathers role. To intrude on Fathers turf. Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that humbles himself shall be exalted. Matthew 24:12. For two millenia, self-words had to criticize, demean and denigrate the self: selfish; self-centered; self-serving ... The self was to be sacrificed. To be good, one had to be unself-conscious and unselfish ... The self-conscious person wasnt self-aware; he/she was in trouble. Increasingly today, the Early-Mature adult must know and accept himself. Were reversing the connotation of self-words. The newer self-words emphasize that we require self-acceptance; we must be self-aware; we must have self-respect; we must self-actualize ... Its so early in this Transition that few people go into analysis thus far for self-understanding. Many people still see self-analysis thats still seen as too self-indulgent. Education had once been the province of an elite few. Similarly, in time, people will consider analysis and self-analysis as necessary. ---------------------------------------------- What was most surprising to me is that group minds go through the same periods of psychosexual development that people go through-- despite their vast physical differences from us-- and the fact that groups arent even sexual. That theyre like us during the first two phases-- (the childlike) pre-oedipal and the (phallic) oedipal periods-- is not surprising. All other higher mammals competed toward alpha-male dominance; but when we were gatherer-scavenger-hunters, we couldnt afford to compete. Arboreal pre-humans had been small insectivores. They had been hunted by chimpanzees, hawks and eagles. Four million years ago, the forests receded, and our ancestors became terrestrial (as did the ancestors of baboons). But the situation of our ancestors was far more precarious than those of baboons. Prehumans were ill-equipped for terrestrial living. They were hunted by terrestrial predators; they were very slow runners; they lacked long canines; and they had fingernails (to grab insects) instead of claws. Their new diet of nuts, berries, rough fruit, and edible roots was difficult for them to digest. They must have been perpetually malnourished and frequently ill. To survive, they had to be cooperative, friendly, non-aggressive, sexually benign in their behavior, and otherwise pre-oedipally childlike. When we discovered agriculture, copper metallurgy and animal husbandry, we could afford to become pagans-- i.e., oedipal in our thinking and behavior -- competitively sexual and aggressive-- and to challenge father-surrogates toward alpha male dominance. We had arrived at the normal state of higher mammal development. That was the Pagan Era. The achievement of oedipal success had been the upper limit of psychosexual development of social mammals for millions of years. No higher mammal had ever developed beyond that phallic-pagan stage. Like other mammals, pagan cultures aspired to alpha male dominance. Dominant males had power, sexual possession of the most-desirable women, and wealth. Their self-esteem related to the extent to which they could increase those successes. Wars were undertaken almost automatically whenever military success seemed likely. Competitive-aggression and competitive sex led to rebellions assassinations, pillage and rape. A developmental cycle came into existence that made fundamental progress impossible. Conquests might be followed by the establishment of rich cultures. The primitive nature of oedipal-level thinking then led to little more than pleasure-seeking and waste. Then: more-primitive groups would attack and conquer those decadent, militarily weakened groups. The conquerors would impose their primitive cultures, sweeping away the advantages of the conquered group. Ruins of civilizations would be layered on top of ruins of prior civilizations. There was no fundamental progress. For thousands of years, that was the collective human condition. Nor was there any reason to expect it to be otherwise. Humans, like other higher mammals, are powerfully motivated primarily to compete for sex, power, prestige and wealth. The gods that the pagans worshipped were no less phallic-pagan in their motivations. And there was no reason to expect any change in such basic motivations. Which is why pagan philosophers viewed history as, fundamentally, the story of the rise and fall of states. They had no reason to believe otherwise. ...................... About 3500 years ago, a small Jewish group made a remarkable contribution to the human condition, complicated everything, and that set history on an entirely new course. Most important, it ended the non-progress of paganism. In fact, we owe this new way of thinking the continually escalating progress of the past two thousand years. The Jews worshipped a god that was not only different from prior gods, but a god that seemed motivated to destroy paganism. The new god criminalized the oedipal impulses and fantasies on which pagan thinking and behavior depended-- namely: the competitive-sexual and competitive-aggressive impulses and fantasies that are fundamental to the thinking and feelings of four year old boys during their oedipal period of development. The god was asexual. He could see into the conscious minds of his people! And he would punish people (and groups) severely if they were to consciously entertain those forbidden fantasies and feelings. So-- what to do with those normal fantasies-- which included the pride and excitement that every four year old child experiences? They had to be repressed. They had to be pushed down into the unconscious mind, where even the individual himself/herself couldnt see them. The fear that drove that regression was: If I can see them, the punishing Father can see them! Extreme punishment will follow! A very similar repression and sublimation takes place in children during their brief oedipal period. Oedipal fantasies and impulses cant be erased; but they can be repressed-- pushed down into their unconscious minds. They become latent-oedipal. Some are disguised and transformed-- unconsciously-- through sublimation into acceptable forms of expression. In the latent-oedipal groups of our Christian Era, wars were still waged-- but only under God. That is, they had to be justified. That was easiest to do in religious wars; but, of course, other justifications could also be contrived. Nevertheless, such justifications (however implausible) set up a new type of evolution. It will contribute to war being abandoned-- which will probably happen during this century. --------------------------------------- Sexual pleasure and pride were also proscribed. Future scholars will discuss how such deprivations could be inflicted on entire pagan groups for two thousand years. But once established, such injunctions and restrictions bore fruit that strengthened them further. The energies that were repressed in individuals were used by groups to their own benefit; and their individuals benefitted secondarily. Those energies were sublimated into inventions, into more-complex thinking, and into other advantages. The anticipation of an afterlife in which individual sacrifices were eternally rewarded became the most-powerful incentive to self-sacrifice of any anticipation humans have used. Groups that used such those sublimations consistently defeated, otherwise outcompeted, and almost invariably converted pagan groups. They took us out of pagan non-progress. They ended the automatic warfare of paganism; they took us out of pagan rebellions, assassinations, pillage and rape; out of conquests followed inevitably by decadence, defeat, and ruin. They created the progress we later enjoyed. We must appreciate the intuitive wisdom of those group-minds over those last two millenia. The costs to individuals were an extreme reduction in the quality of our sexual function, in much other excitement and pleasure, and in self-esteem. --------------------------------------- With regard to Freuds sexual emphasis: Freud considered sexual repression to have played a major role in neurosis and in the Human Condition. Christian Era repression was and is still powerful. Freuds sexual emphasis is still widely rejected. When I was a child, I remember an intelligent adult protesting Were not animals! In fact, we became the most-sexual of animals in order to survive. The brain and head of the human infant grew too large to travel through the birth canal; so all human infants are born three months prematurely. (Yes, YOU were all PRIMIS!) Mothers, burdened by the care of helpless primis, couldnt forage; and they became dependent on men to bring home food. So sex became our most-powerful pleasure. Natural selection favored the sexiest men-- those who were the most motivated sexually; and it favored also the prettiest, softist, roundist, most- hairless women-- and those who were most talented in seduction. Chimpanzee females havent had to evolve in any of those ways.
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Yep, the lil stragglers on the fringes of a forest help to blend it in better. Nice job.
Yep, the lil stragglers on the fringes of a forest help to blend it in better. Nice job.
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I'm incredibly new to this, but (as far as I know) I've followed these directions to the letter (twice) and have ended up not with the soft-edged fluffy looking trees in the tutorial, but hard-edged, almost crater like trees. Anyone know where I'm going wrong? :?:
Using Gimp for Mac OSX.
Hello there Solo, and welcome to the Guild! Hmm, let's see here. One thing I noticed right off the bat (though unrelated to your initial concern) was that it looks like the HSV Noise some how spread beyond the cloud shapes on the "Trees Copy" layer to the rest of the layer as well, hence the background is all grainy looking. Not sure why this is, unless GIMP interacts differently on Mac 0SX then it does on Windows XP. It's an easy fix though. If you add then apply the "Trees Outline" layer mask to this layer it should get rid of the Noise. OK, on to your question:
- Hard Edges: actually, this has always been an issue with this tut. I have not yet been able to figure out a way to isolate, and then bump map portions of a clouds layer without it ending up with hard edges. Which is why I opted to try and "cover up" the edges of the forests with individual trees (see the update on making individual trees).
- Fluffiness: I know that you said you followed the instructions exactly, but the clouds in the image you posted do look different, and I'm not altogether sure why this is. Did you by chance remember to select "Turbulent" (Step 1: 2.b.i.) when creating the Solid Noise layer? If you forget to select Turbulent the trees will look allot flatter. However if this is not the issue, let me know and I'll try to go through the tut step by step and see if I can figure out where things might have gone wrong.
Hi arsheesh, thanks for the quick reply! I had noticed the HSV noise as well and got it taken care of in some test forests I did this morning - the problem was that hitting "delete" on the Mac version of Gimp appears to do nothing. I saw the update after I posted for the harder edges and I'll give that a shot today. As to the fluffiness, whenever someone says they followed the directions to the letter you know they didn't. While the clouds were "turbulent", I noticed that in Step 1: 3.a I had moved the right arrow, not the left, to 85. This seems to have solved my problem! Thanks again for your help and for the tut, which when actually followed, works great.
Great, glad to here everything worked out OK. Let me know if you run into any other problems though.
I have been following some tutorials on here and including this mini-tut and some of Rob A's tutorials... All i want to say is thank you! I've recently been getting into map making to create game maps for a friends online rpg game. these tutorials have helped out immensely.
btw, first time poster =)
Welcome to the Guild Melkor! And thanks for the feedback; glad to here this little tut was of some help to you.
Arsheesh, thanks for this tutorial. I've run through it about - oh, three or four times to get a feel for it. I really like the results. Playing with the colors helps quite a bit. I was wondering if you have any suggestions for brush shape when adding the stragglers? I've been experimenting with the vine and galaxy brushes because the solid round and square brushes seemed to create a visible pattern as I added in the individual trees. Looking at your examples I like how well your individual trees follow the general shape your forests. Here's what I've been able to accomplish. This is just one section of my current WIP. Any suggestions?
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From To Be Close to You; Out now via Birdtapes and streaming in full at Bandcamp.
VIDEO: Dungeonesse | "Drive You Crazy"
Any song in which Jenn Wasner sings automatically assumes the character of her voice. The Baltimore native's silk-laden vocals have been featured generously over the last few years: everything from her own Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes projects to collaborations with Titus Andronicus and Sharon Van Etten, among others. Which is to say that pipes like hers are justifiably in high demand, resulting in a resume of material as unique as anyone working today. It shouldn't come as a surprise, then, that her latest work — along with fellow Baltimorean Jon Ehrens under the Dungeonesse moniker — is yet another venture into unforeseen stylistic territory.
The duo's self-titled album — out today — is an infectious foray into synth-driven pop and modernized R&B. It's especially striking given the earthy soundscapes of Wasner's prior work, yet she sounds so at home as a crooning diva that you'd have thought she'd been writing these types of songs for years. Of the album's many standouts, "Drive You Crazy" is especially infectious, with a rollicking electro-beat and whirling synthesizers that recall the kind of Balearic pop that's been dominating blog-waves in recent years. Yet, appropriately, it's Wasner's voice — and her modern pop-influenced vocal inflection — that carries the song into irresistible anthem territory.
From Dungeonesse; Out now via Secretly Canadian.
PREVIEW: Norman Music Festival (Day 2)
There are basically two paths you can take Friday at NMF: ear-splitting punk or trance-inducing electronica. I'll probably find myself running back and forth during sets, as there's no shortage of difficult decisions to make (a festival staple). Like Thursday, it's a day heavy on the local scene, though there are some intriguing national (and international) acts worthy of your time as well. I was able to narrow it down to 16, which was an accomplishment in and of itself. If you're able to catch all of these (and I'm going to try), I'll buy you a beer.
PREVIEW: Norman Music Festival (Day One)
Since its inaugural event in 2008, Norman Music Festival has been – for me, at least – the quaint little college town's rite of spring. Its downtown premises have hosted an endearing mix of old fogies and college-aged hipsters for six years running now, and the fest has grown from a single-day celebration to a three-day exposé of talent from the Sooner State and beyond, featuring such headlining acts as of Montreal, Dirty Projectors and The Walkmen. Even with a bevy of talented musicians each year, NMF's organizers somehow manage to keep this thing free (which means more money for booze — I mean, records and merch), so for that, let us rejoice.
We kick things off on Thursday again, and music-wise, it's pretty stacked. Almost all of the bands playing come from within the confines of Oklahoma, but there are some heavy-hitting locals – and even some under-the-radar bands on the verge of breaking out that are sure to please. So to make things a little easier, I've selected the acts I'm most looking forward to Thursday – a mock schedule of sorts – and compiled them into a chronological playlist for your reference/listening pleasure. You can check out the full lineup here and explore Thursday's NMF primer after the jump. Oh, and make sure to keep an eye out for Friday and Saturday's picks in the coming days as well. See you there, dudes and dudettes.
AUDIO: Mikal Cronin | "The Weight"
It's a shame – a damn shame, even – but for whatever reason, Mikal Cronin has been living in the shadow of his axe-shredding bandmate Ty Segall since the latter stormed onto the scene a couple years ago. While Segall has consistently and forcefully established himself as one of garage rock's most revered defenders, Cronin has quietly produced some of the most superbly crafted music within the genre. The two have their distinctions, sure: Segall's songs are relentlessly scuzzy, as he often buries his hooks deep beneath a barrage of feedback and distortion. Cronin, meanwhile, has such a knack for 60s bubblegum pop that his melodies often tame the guitar, rather than the other way around.
"Weight" is unabashedly melodic and absorbing, and finds Cronin singing about "the weight" from the perspective of an aging adolescent wearily lamenting the prospect of adulthood. But what makes this arguably his most compelling and infectious song to date is the way in which he playfully juxtaposes between fuzzy riffs and sugary power-pop – something he's done routinely in his prior work, but exceedingly well in this instance. If nothing else, "Weight" ought to serve as a warning to unsuspecting listeners: the man is a force in his own right.
From MCII; Out May 7th via Merge.
VIDEO: Phosphorescent | "Song for Zula"
The video for Phosphorescent's superbly lavish "Song for Zula" unfolds in a manner similar to that of the song itself: the camera, transfixed on an individual – in this case, a woman – glides at a placid, yet deliberate pace along its earthy foundation. Filmed in only a single elongated shot, we gradually come to realize this woman's struggle to be free from the chains that bound her, each strike of a rock emitting a vivid burst of light. And as the camera inches closer, the torment on her face becomes more apparent, the metaphor more discernible and the struggle more absorbing. This imagery, coupled with the words of Matthew Houck – who co-directed the video – suddenly makes phrases like "I saw love disfigure me" and "I could kill you with my bare hands if I was free" all the more affecting.
From Muchacho; Out now via Dead Oceans.
AUDIO: Caveman | "In the City"
Coco Beware, Caveman's mesmeric 2011 debut, was an exercise in slow-burning melodrama, each cut warping and warbling along through textured harmonic layers. Though, for the most part, the album was largely muted and understated, opting for hushed intricacy over big, sweeping choruses. "In the City" – the stellar lead single from the band's forthcoming self-titled follow-up – takes this notion and shoots it through a confetti cannon filled with molten platinum. From its opening notes, a towering synth assumes the forefront, serving as its bruised metallic backbone. Meanwhile, reverberating guitar noodles and a flurry of "oohs" and "ahhs" mount atop this synthetic glow, as singer Matthew Iwanusa yelps through discharge with relentlessly impassioned melody. It all amounts to a soul-churning, yet deeply enthralling listen. And in an album filled to the brim with standouts – many of which display a familiar, albeit more refined sense of muffled grandeur – "In the City" is perhaps the most distinguished output from a band of remarkable ability; one that refuses to rub it in, no matter how great the temptation.
From Caveman; Out April 2nd via Fat Possum. Stream the album in its entirety via NPR.
VIDEO: Sigur Rós | "Brennisteinn"
A couple months back, Sigur Rós hinted that their new material was more "aggressive" than anything they'd done. Granted, the glacial soundscapes that came to define the band in the early 2000s were hardly adrenaline-fueled, having routinely demonstrated a propensity for the dainty and fragile. It was part of what made them so great; Sigur Rós did (and still do) "pretty" better than anyone else. But it was the louder moments, the moments of brooding catharsis, that benefitted most from the more ambient passages (side two of ( ) comes to mind).
"Brennisteinn" is the band's answer to those who said Valtari — which I happened to love — was too quiet. The song is unabashedly sinister in its approach: a scuzzy bass stab warbles like a cog in an underlord's factory, while their signature bowed guitar adds layers of metallic sheen to emphasize the industrial flair. Yet despite its confrontational stature, there still resides beauty beneath all the chaos — and that's a good thing, because it just wouldn't feel right if it didn't.
From Kveikur; out June 17th via XL.


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South of Ataturk Square, and north of the pedestrianized shopping streets that greet you on passing through the Lokmaci Gate (that is the Ledra Street crossing from the south), is an area of busy traffic and impressive buildings.
You can't miss the Büyük Hamam (Great Baths) – it's a fine stone building that looks as if it has sunk into the ground (whereas, of course, it's the ground that has risen up from its original medieval level as successive layers of building have taken place). The baths were converted by the Ottomans from a Lusignan church, St George of the Latins, whose front portal is still the main entrance, and is approached down one of two flights of stone steps. Though it would be a particularly atmospheric place in which to bathe, it rarely seems to be open.
A minutes' walk east of the Büyük Hamam is the Kumarkilar Han, or "Gamblers' Inn". Also called "The inn for merchants using donkeys" and "the inn for travelling musicians" the Kumarkilar Han is now in a sad state of neglect. Built around 1700, with 44 of its original 56 rooms surviving, it is crying out for renovation; only the front Gothic archway and door – probably dating from an earlier building – are in a good state of repair. Take a look from the street (you can't get into the building), imagine what it would look like after renovation, then pass swiftly on to the Büyük Han down the street.
Büyük Han
Büyük Han
The Büyük Han (Great Inn) is a graceful and harmonious building which is somehow more affecting because it was built, not to glorify God or the power of princes, but as practical lodgings for traders and merchants. Appropriately, this is not a frozen-in-time relic, but a vibrant collection of shops, restaurants and small businesses that do its origins proud. It was built on the orders of the first Ottoman governor general of Cyprus, Mustafa Paşa, in 1572, just after the conquest. Used by the British as a prison, and later to house destitute families, it was sensitively restored between 1992 and 2002. The two-storey building consists of 68 rooms on two vaulted galleries looking onto a courtyard, and ten shops which open outwards to the street. In the centre of the courtyard a mesjid or miniature mosque stands on columns under which is a sadirvan or fountain, used for ritual ablutions. There are two entrance gates to the east (the main one) and west, and inside the courtyard stone stairways lead to the upper floor (once used for accommodation). The courtyard of the Büyük Han is an ideal place to sit in the shade, have a drink or a meal and, on Tuesday or Friday evenings, listen to live music.
A political landscape
A political landscape
From the Shacolas Tower in South Lefkosia or the Saray Hotel in North Lefkoşa (and indeed, from any other vantage point which has a clear view north) you can't help but see two enormous flags on the nearest south-facing hillside. One represents the TRNC (red crescent and star on a white background with red bar above and below) the other Turkey (white crescent and star on red background). The story behind them is rather dispiriting for those who would like to see the island reunited. Officially created to honour the great Turkish leader Ataturk (the slogan below the Turkish flag – "How happy is he who can say he is a Turk" – is attributed to him), the position of the flags seems to indicate that this explanation is disingenuous. A more believable version says that the Turks created the flags by painting boulders at night, turning them face down during the day then, on the eve of August 15, a national holiday in the Greek Cypriot calendar but also the anniversary of the 1974 Tochni massacre of Turkish Cypriots, turned them face up so that they could be seen in the south. In other words, a taunt or a memorial, depending on your point of view.


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Science, Straight Up
For the last few months, crowds of youthful, well-groomed New Yorkers have flocked to the American Museum of Natural History the first Wednesday of each month to hear lectures on Darwin and social media, the search for life in the universe and the biological basis for greed. An added enticement? Free admission, a DJ and a cash bar, which are part of the museum's bid to attract new visitors.
"They've been very successful," said public programs director Ellen Silberman, who said the first SciCafe event unexpectedly drew 300 visitors.
"It's a younger crowd," she said. "They enjoy having drinks available. It allows them to meet people in their field who may share their interests."
The upcoming March 3 event features Cornell Fuel Cell Institute director Héctor Abruña, who will discuss new technologies for energy generation and storage, including the development of high performance batteries and fuel cell technology.
Given concerns with fuel emissions and dependency on foreign oil, interest in the potential application of these technologies in the transportation sector is especially keen.
"A car, when it's all said and done, might be 25 percent efficient," Abruña said. "That means that you are throwing 75 percent of your fuel into heat. A fuel cell, because it is not a heat engine, is much more efficient. In principle, it can be over 90 percent efficient."
In August 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy announced the award of $377 million—the bulk of it funded through the Recovery Act—to 46 "Energy Frontier Research Centers" at universities, national laboratories, nonprofit organizations and private firms nationwide. Along with developing fuel cell technologies, there is also a strong push for the development of more efficient batteries.
"In batteries, people are looking for higher capacity materials so you can drive an electric car more than, let's say, 30 or 40 miles, and that they have fast charge rates so you can charge them in an hour as opposed to eight hours," Abruña said.
It is also a case of matching the technology to a particular need. For instance, in northern latitudes, fuel cells can be used in buildings to generate both heat and electricity.
"You use the heat generated by the fuel cell to heat the building itself," Abruña said. "There are lots of schemes being put forth depending on the application. It wouldn't make much sense to do that in Arizona, where it is already pretty toasty."
Scientists estimate that it will take 15 years to develop fuel cell technology in cars, and it is expected that by that time, battery powered cars will also have evolved.
The subject matter may not be quite as tantalizing as the SciCafe's Valentine's Day offering, "Why Humans Have Sex," with evolutionary psychologist David M. Buss. Nonetheless, the talk is sure to attract another large crowd of museumgoers eager to encounter new facts—and new faces.
"It's in the Hall of Planet Earth," Silberman said. "It's a really cool space with lots of rocks around. There's no better place to have a cocktail party."
March 3, American Museum of Natural History, enter at Rose Center on West 81st Street (betw. Central Park West and Columbus Avenue), 212-769-5100; 7 p.m., free with cash bar (must be 21+ with ID).
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For those of you who don't know, the NCAA holds its own versions of the three-point shooting and slam-dunk contest every year at the Final Four. Essentially, players from those teams not actually still playing in the tournament compete against each other to be called the Best Shooters and Dunkers Not Still Playing in The Tournament. As you can imagine, it's quite an honor.
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This post is dedicated to grrlcookery
And darkness-be-my-friend- for asking where I was/if I was okay. I probably wouldn't be posting this without those precious messages of support, so: with all sincerity, thank you.
It's been a while, I know. The last however many months have been busy (PhD upgrade - I passed), hard (landlady illegally tried to kick us out of our house, but of course we then had to move anyway - who wants to stay where they're so obviously not welcome?), and rough (health, money, stress).
I'm really trying to get back on top of things and have some semblance of routine and productivity in my life, but I don't want to make any promises about being back in full flow for now, because I've tried to get back into things before and just crashed myself again.
Here's hoping I update again tomorrow.
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I took a few days off because I need to buy more thread and needles, an because of our minor heat wave. I do not function well in heat.
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Soccer team owner Ersal Ozdemir made his pitch for an $87 million, state-financed stadium for the team to play to members of the House Ways and Means Committee.
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MONROE, La. (KNOE 8 News)- From Bambi to bad guys, according to Monroe Police locals have been using game camera's to catch home burglaries in progress and its been helping police crack the case on multiple burglaries.
"The latest case we made just this week on the Miller case was due in part to a game camera. We capture some of his surveillance videos and the victims were able to forward that information to us" says Johnson.
Game cameras can cost anywhere from 50 to over 200 dollars. But according to Bill Petrus with T.P. Outdoors they've had more and more people coming in to buy the hunting camera's.
"People are looking for new ways to catch the people, to come out and catch a simple burglary that's stealing gas under your car-port or a lawn mower or something like that. So people come in and buy the deer cameras" says Petrus.
The cheap cameras have proven to be more effective then high tech security cameras.
"We have an outside area where we have lawn mowers and stuff and sometimes we have a problem with thefts coming and trying to steal those and we have a security system and a camera system here but it doesn't cover all the areas so we have actually put some of these in places where they have been cutting the locks and cutting the fence and we have actually caught some guys " says Petrus.


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Don't know that I'd serve this to guests, but it was a great weeknight meal. I can't see how anyone would say it lacked flavor. Oh well, to each their own.
Rigatoni with Meaty Mushroom Bolognese
Photo: Brian Woodcock; Styling: Cindy Barr
A rich, meaty Bolognese can take hours on the stove, but this savory mushroom version is ready in just half an hour.
Yield: Serves 4
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Recipe Time
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Total: 30 Minutes
Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 414
- Fat: 14g
- Saturated fat: 5.6g
- Monounsaturated fat: 5.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.9g
- Protein: 23.9g
- Carbohydrate: 49.5g
- Fiber: 5.2g
- Cholesterol: 51mg
- Iron: 4.2mg
- Sodium: 550mg
- Calcium: 150mg
- 6 ounces uncooked rigatoni
- 8 ounces 90% lean ground sirloin
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2/3 cup (1/4-inch) diced carrot
- 1 medium red onion, chopped
- 1 (8-ounce) package presliced mushrooms
- 8 ounces zucchini, cut into 1/2-inch pieces
- 3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can unsalted diced tomatoes, undrained
- 3 tablespoons unsalted tomato paste
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 ounce Parmesan cheese, grated and divided (about 1/4 cup)
- 1. Cook pasta according to package directions, omitting salt and fat; drain. Keep warm.
- 2. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add beef; cook 2 minutes or until browned, stirring to crumble. Remove beef from pan; set beef aside.
- 3. Return pan to medium-high heat. Add oil; swirl to coat. Add carrot, onion, and mushrooms; sauté 5 minutes or just until tender. Stir in zucchini, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon black pepper, and garlic; cook 4 minutes or until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in beef; cook 1 minute. Add tomatoes, tomato paste, and crushed red pepper to pan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low; cover and simmer 8 minutes or until slightly thickened, stirring occasionally. Stir in cream; cook 1 minute. Remove pan from heat; stir in remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt, remaining 1/8 teaspoon black pepper, and 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese. Divide pasta among 4 bowls. Top each serving with 1 1/4 cups sauce; sprinkle evenly with remaining 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese.
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