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"I'm working with people from all over the world: the next generation of leaders. These people are brilliant, creative, living on the edge. We bring out what's amazing in each other," she exclaims.
Coming from the mouth of a 63-year old traveler who has conquered a powerful foe in the breast cancer she refused to succumb to, the words arrive with the same force, charisma, and boisterous tones of her pictures.
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Her photos, often described as painterly for their texture and masterful handling of color, reveal an architectural genius that transforms even a young girl's face into a construct of angled planes and patinated surfaces. Previewing an exhibit and upcoming September talk at San Francisco's Commonwealth Club, curator Lynn Curtis said she was attracted to Bellos' storytelling as much as to her artistry.
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I found it bland and wound up throwing lots of cilantro and sauce, lime in the middle from the start.nanyone have ideas?
Thai-Style Roasted Trout
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- Calories: 280
- Calories from fat: 39%
- Fat: 12.2g
- Saturated fat: 3.1g
- Monounsaturated fat: 3.9g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 4.1g
- Protein: 39.3g
- Carbohydrate: 1g
- Fiber: 0.1g
- Cholesterol: 117mg
- Iron: 0.7mg
- Sodium: 443mg
- Calcium: 150mg
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon fish sauce
- 2 teaspoons dark sesame oil
- 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper
- 4 (6-ounce) trout fillets
- Cooking spray
- 1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
- Lime slices (optional)
- Cilantro sprigs (optional)
- 1. Preheat oven to 450°.
- 2. Combine first 4 ingredients in a small bowl; stir well.
- 3. Arrange trout on a jelly-roll pan coated with cooking spray. Brush half of juice mixture inside of fish. Bake at 450° for 5 minutes. Brush remaining juice mixture over fish. Bake an additional 5 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork or until desired degree of doneness. Sprinkle with chopped cilantro; garnish with lime slices and cilantro sprigs, if desired.
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Pulse Emitter (USA) Metal Postcard Collects Best Of Last Decade On One Double Cd & Digital Release
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Pink Skull – Ambient Album On Metal Postcard Records ( LP Gatefold Sleeve)
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So.. we have a lot more info coming in for White Fang's crossing of the atlantic – fans are turning up everywhere – it's not just Liv Tyler backstage you know !
This past weekend they just played a Burger party at the Museum Of Contemporary Art in LA ( not that it stopped Kyle taking a side trip to somewhere with a big roller coaster and almost throwing up – see WF FB page for wonderful photo)
Anyway – where was I ? Oh yes their tour . Below are confirmed dates . We are working on more including An Instore at Rough Trade east and gigs in Liverpool and Bristol – the two English cities that we reckon will get this band 100%
Here's the cover to full time freaks – check it out at metal postcard band camp. And if you are a blog, music media and all that get in touch for a epk to review – audio.. piccies and all that shit
White Fang To Tour Europe March 2014
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Death to Ponies are a musical portmanteau – a combination of frenetic metal twosome Death to Giants and DJ-production duo Acid Pony Club – who make for one of the most entertaining live acts in the city at the moment. Together, the foursome produce part-improvised, synth-backed metal and rock tracks where each musician is encouraged to play around with their own parts and create something on the fly.
'We can genuinely say that each of our shows is different from the last,' says bassist Dennis Ming Nichols. 'It's like jazz music in some ways, in that there's a repetition of ideas and a framework that we'll go to, but we're not playing something that's been written as such.'
Death to Giants began when Nichols, also of Rainbow Danger Club, joined Moon Tyrant's Ivan Belcic to appear as Joy Division at Yuyintang's 2010 Halloween show. Jamming together during rehearsals led to the two forming their own side project. Nichols's work producing Rainbow Danger Club's album meant that Death to Giants didn't start playing shows until last summer, however.
When Laura Ingalls and Clement Pony of Acid Pony Club saw one of their early gigs, the pair immediately decided they wanted to join. 'I just thought it was the best shit ever,' says Ingalls. 'I just walked up to Nichols and said "I want to be in your band."' Death to Ponies debuted after just one rehearsal as part of Friend or Foe's album release last November.
'Clem's never been in a band before and this is the first one I've been in since I was 17,' says Ingalls. 'The DJ thing in Shanghai is getting so fucking annoying now that the opportunity to create something live is a great outlet.'
The idea of a creative outlet is something that rings true for all four musicians, with the sound significantly different from each of their other bands and projects. 'We just collided,' says Belcic. 'We all really enjoy the improvisational aspect of it right now – there's a kind of forced interaction on stage. But really, we're only just beginning.'
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Chocolate Soufflé
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Yield: Makes 2 servings
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Amount per serving
- Calcium: 195mg
- Calories: 683
- Calories from fat: 1%
- Carbohydrate: 71g
- Cholesterol: 371mg
- Fat: 41g
- Fiber: 3g
- Iron: 3mg
- Protein: 14mg
- Saturated fat: 23g
- Sodium: 200mg
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa
- 3 ounces semisweet or bittersweet chocolate
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 egg yolks
- 2 egg whites
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- Pinch salt
- Pinch cream of tartar
- Custard Sauce
- Heat oven to 375° F. Use 1 tablespoon of the butter to grease one 16-ounce or two 8-ounce ramekins. Coat the ramekins with the cocoa, tapping out the excess.
In a large bowl, over a pan of simmering water, melt the chocolate and remaining butter. Stir occasionally until smooth. Remove from heat and add the vanilla. Whisk in the yolks one at a time until smooth. Set aside.
In a clean bowl, beat the egg whites with the sugar, salt, and cream of tartar until stiff (but not dry) peaks form. Gently fold the egg-white mixture into the chocolate. Spoon into the ramekins. (The recipe can be made to this point up to 1 day ahead. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate.) Bake until puffed and set, 40 minutes for a 16-ounce soufflé, 20 minutes for two smaller ones. (If baked directly from the refrigerator, add 5 to 10 minutes.) Serve immediately with Custard Sauce.
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iHub By Mugethi Gitau / October 29, 2013
Nurturing an Army of Geek Girls
Guest blog by Wangechi Mwangi
Our high school outreach program first began at Precious Blood Riruta in the year 2011. We realized that there was a knowledge gap – high school girls simply did not know the opportunities that existed in the technology world, and we felt that as Akirachix we could something to fill this gap. 2 years down the line, we have established a strong bond with PB girls.
Using Linda Kamau's words, "PB feels like home. I love the girls at PB because in addition to being smart, they are so focused and determined". From 2011, Akirachix has had some significant impact with PB girls. We created and ran an IT club, helped birth and grow AZMA, an initiative of the PB girls, held a design bootcamp for the girls over their holidays, had girls from PB participate in Google Code Challenge (the first ever Africans to do that), ran a Girls in ICT day with girls from PB being the highest in attendance among others.
One of the biggest achievement however, is the eye-opening effect that we have had on a number of girls that as a result have chosen to pursue tech-related careers. Through them we are realizing our goal of building a strong force of women in technology.
We went to PB a couple of Fridays ago to meet with the IT club. We were pleased to see many new young faces of form 1s, 2s and 3s excited to learn and explore the world of tech! From the 2012 IT club, 3 students pursued Computer Studies at University of Nairobi while 6 students went to pursue BBIT and DBIT at Strathmore University. We plan to geek out with the girls during the December holidays in a 2 week bootcamp. This time, we will not be designing but instead coding!
We were very encouraged to see the girls very excited to hear that they would be creating apps. The most encouraging thing however was this one student that had this screen on her computer:
Even without any guidance, she already had Eclipise installed and was downloading the android sdk. Seems like ours will be a pretty smooth ride. The PB visits are held once every fortnight on Friday at 4pm.
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What are the season's hottest colors, and how do you properly incorporate them into your home?
My season's hottest colors are a deep turquoise peacock and gray. I love turquoise peacock. Right now, I'm working on a master bedroom of a young couple who are world travelers who have been everywhere, including Morocco. In their bedroom, they have a lot of oversized wood furniture. I'm doing a finish on the wall that is an Americanized plaster version of tadelakt — a Moroccan plaster technique. Grays are always hot. It's a cool color palette that's in right now.
This season is also about texture. Colors are very subjective to the person. It may not be practical to chose trendy colors. It's may be more practical to incorporate pieces: like a concrete flab table-top or a rustic wood frame. Incorporating textures and colors lends itself to a more personalized, complete space. It doesn't seem as contrived.
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I think it would be very cool to make a shatter combo which included deep freeze. Currently, it is possible to perform a sort of "extended shatter combo" with deep freeze taking the place of the ice lance at the end of the frost bolt, giving time for a second frostbolt AND an icelance, giving three spells benefiting from the +50% increased crit chance. This isn't useful in a raid setting as bosses are immune to deep freeze, and standard shatter combos (frostbolt with ice lance on second charge of "fingers of frost") are a dps loss once spellpower gets above the 1200-ish mark (due to the global cooldown preventing one from casting another frostbolt straight away and the lack of scaling with SP of ice lance).
I think a great mechanic would be to allow a "deep freeze" debuff (without the stun effect) to be placed on bossses (similar to the way the frostbolt debuff can be placed on bosses, but with an effectiveness of 0% - allowing torment the weak to be active) COMBINED with changing ice lance by either;
a) making it scale with spellpower the way frostbolt does (eg by modifying "empowered frostbolt" to "empowered frost" and having it affect ice lance as well) or;
b) removing ice lance from the global cooldown, allowing a frostmage to start casting the next frostbolt instantly.
I favour a, but this is possibly too great a buff for the class to be balanced in PvP. This could possibly be (at least partly) rectified by only allowing ice lance to scale when the target is "deep frozen". If a player gets deep frozen with their trinket on cooldown they are in deep trouble anyway, so an increase in the burst damage that such an unfortunate suffers would not be a huge decider in matches. I think the b option is even more likely to cause imbalance in PvP play.
This kind of modification would give frost magi a reason to pay attention to their screens, and introduce an element of skill into boss fights as frost, which currently only require one to press 1 repeatedly, occasionally refreshing ice shield if one is too lazy to move out of the way of the AoE.
Magician Bob said...
The problem with removing ice lance from the global cooldown is macros that look something like this:
/cast ice lance
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Except that a clutch fan on an SS-350 would much more likely to be original equipment on a HD cooling car.
If I saw a clutch fan on a standard cooling car - I would be more suspect to the originality.
My 69 SS-350 has HD cooling with an original 7 blade clutch fan. I believe it to be completely original to the car.
Kurt, remember you pointed that out to me when i first got my car - I did not originally believe a clutch fan was possible?
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As you may have noticed, the most popular viral videos at any given time are amazingly banal, annoying, and cliched pieces of waste. It almost seems as if the internet naturally gravitates towards the worst possible Youtube and Google video selections. So it stands to reason that if the terrible videos become popular, then the unpopular videos must be awesome! We here at Something Awful present to you AwfulVision™, our own patented service dedicated to showcasing a wide selection of unpopular videos that apparently must be good! Welcome to Web 3.9. Welcome to AwfulVision™!
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"The belief that the future will be much better than the past and present is known as the optimism bias. (…)
The bias also protects and inspires us: it keeps us moving forward rather than to the nearest high-rise ledge. Without optimism, our ancestors might never have ventured far from their tribes and we might all be cave dwellers, still huddled together and dreaming of light and heat.
To make progress, we need to be able to imagine alternative realities — better ones — and we need to believe that we can achieve them. (…)
A growing body of scientific evidence points to the conclusion that optimism may be hardwired by evolution into the human brain. (…)
Our brains aren't just stamped by the past. They are constantly being shaped by the future. (…)
Scientists who study memory proposed an intriguing answer: memories are susceptible to inaccuracies partly because the neural system responsible for remembering episodes from our past might not have evolved for memory alone. Rather, the core function of the memory system could in fact be to imagine the future (…) The system is not designed to perfectly replay past events. (…) It is designed to flexibly construct future scenarios in our minds. As a result, memory also ends up being a reconstructive process, and occasionally, details are deleted and others inserted."
— Tali Sharot, a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London, Optimism Bias: Human Brain May Be Hardwired for Hope, Time, June 6, 2011
Remembering the past to imagine the future
"A rapidly growing number of recent studies show that imagining the future depends on much of the same neural machinery that is needed for remembering the past. These findings have led to the concept of the prospective brain; an idea that a crucial function of the brain is to use stored information to imagine, simulate and predict possible future events. We suggest that processes such as memory can be productively re-conceptualized in light of this idea. (…)
Thoughts of past and future events are proposed to draw on similar information stored in episodic memory and rely on similar underlying processes, and episodic memory is proposed to support the construction of future events by extracting and recombining stored information into a simulation of a novel event. The hypothesis receives general support from findings of neural and cognitive overlap between thoughts of past and future events. (…)
— D. L. Schacter, D. Rose Addis & R. L. Buckner, Remembering the past to imagine the future: the prospective brain (pdf), Department of Psychology, Harvard University, and the Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital
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☞ The Brain Memories Are Crucial for Looking Into the Future
☞ How the brain stops time, Lapidarium
☞ K. K. Szpunar and K. B. McDermott, Episodic future thought and its relation to remembering: Evidence from ratings of subjective experience, Department of Psychology, Washington University
☞ Memory tag on Lapidarium notes
Existence: What is the self?
"Our sense of self is not an entity in its own right, but emerges from general purpose processes in the brain.
Seth Gillihan and Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia have proposed a view of the self that has three strands: the physical self (which arises from our sense of embodiment); the psychological self (which comprises our subjective point-of-view, our autobiographical memories and the ability to differentiate between self and others); and a higher level sense of agency, which attributes the actions of the physical self to the psychological self (Psychological Bulletin, vol 131, p 76)
We are now uncovering some of the brain processes underlying these strands. For instance, Olaf Blanke of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and colleagues have shown that the physical sense of self is centred on the temporo-parietal cortex. It integrates information from your senses to create a sense of embodiment, a feeling of being located in a particular body in a particular place. That feeling can be spectacularly disrupted if the temporo-parietal cortex receives contradictory inputs, causing it to generate out-of-body experiences (New Scientist, 10 October 2009, p 34). (…)
Within the brain, it seems, the self is both everywhere and nowhere. "If you make a list [for what's needed for a sense of self], there is hardly a brain region untouched," says cognitive philosopher Thomas Metzinger of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Metzinger interprets this as meaning the self is an illusion. We are, he says, fooled by our brains into believing that we are substantial and unchanging. (…)
Studies have shown that each time we recall an episode from our past, we remember the details differently, thus altering ourselves (Physics of Life Reviews, vol 7, p 88).
So the self, despite its seeming constancy and solidity, is constantly changing. We are not the same person we were a year ago and we will be different tomorrow or a year from now. And the only reason we believe otherwise is because the brain does such a stellar job of pulling the wool over our eyes."
— Anil Ananthaswamy, a consultant editor of New Scientist in London, Existence: What is the self?, New Scientist, 04 August 2011
Prof. Dr. Thomas Metzinger: Brain, bodily awareness, and the emergence of a conscious self
How does the brain construct the self? In a series of fascinating virtual reality experiments, Metzinger and his colleagues have attempted to create so-called "out-of-body experiences" in the lab, in order to explore these questions. As a philosopher, he offers a discussion of many of the latest results in robotics, neuroscience, dream and meditation research, and argues that the brain is much more powerful than we have ever imagined. He shows us, for example, that we now have the first machines that have developed an inner image of their own body — and actually use this model to create intelligent behavior.
In addition, studies exploring the connections between phantom limbs and the brain have shown us that even people born without arms or legs sometimes experience a sensation that they do in fact have limbs that are not there. Experiments like the "rubber-hand illusion" demonstrate how we can experience a fake hand as part of our self and even feel a sensation of touch on the phantom hand form the basis and testing ground for the idea that what we have called the "self" in the past is just the content of a transparent self-model in our brains.
Now, as new ways of manipulating the conscious mind-brain appear on the scene, it will soon become possible to alter our subjective reality in an unprecedented manner. The cultural consequences of this, Metzinger claims, may be immense: we will need a new approach to ethics, and we will be forced to think about ourselves in a fundamentally new way."
— Thomas Metzinger, German philosopher, Department of Philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and consciousness studies as an academic endeavour, talk at TEDxRheinMain, 2011
See also:
☞ "I" as linguistic construct Anattā (Pāli) or anātman (Sanskrit: अनात्मन्), Wiki
☞ Bruce Hood, The Self Illusion: How the Brain Creates Identity, May, 2012
A Record Of Life
A beautiful short animation made by Owen Gatley and Luke Jinks loosely based on the scientific recording of lifes great species and how this has given us clues that piece together, for us to discover the secrets of the evolution and diversity of life on Earth.
Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty
"There are many differences among the arts, but there are also universal, cross-cultural aesthetic pleasures and values. How can we explain this universality? (…) The experience of beauty is one component in a whole series of Darwinian adaptations. (…)
It's women who actually push history forward. Darwin himself, by the way, had no doubts that the peacock's tail was beautiful in the eyes of the peahen. He actually used that word. (…) We can say that the experience of beauty is one of the ways that evolution has of arousing and sustaining interest or fascination, even obsession, in order to encourage us toward making the most adaptive decisions for survival and reproduction. Beauty is nature's way of acting at a distance, so to speak. I mean, you can't expect to eat an adaptively beneficial landscape. It would hardly do to your baby or your lover. So evolution's trick is to make them beautiful, to have them exert a kind of magnetism to give you the pleasure of simply looking at them.
Consider briefly an important source of aesthetic pleasure, the magnetic pull of beautiful landscapes. People in very different cultures all over the world tend to like a particular kind of landscape, a landscape that just happens to be similar to the pleistocene savannas where we evolved. (…)
It's a kind of Hudson River school landscape featuring open spaces of low grasses interspersed with copses of trees. The trees, by the way, are often preferred if they fork near the ground, that is to say, if they're trees you could scramble up if you were in a tight fix. The landscape shows the presence of water directly in view, or evidence of water in a bluish distance, indications of animal or bird life as well as diverse greenery and finally — get this — a path or a road, perhaps a riverbank or a shoreline, that extends into the distance, almost inviting you to follow it. This landscape type is regarded as beautiful, even by people in countries that don't have it. The ideal savanna landscape is one of the clearest examples where human beings everywhere find beauty in similar visual experience.
The artistic beauty
But, someone might argue, that's natural beauty. How about artistic beauty? Isn't that exhaustively cultural? No, I don't think it is. And once again, I'd like to look back to prehistory to say something about it. It is widely assumed that the earliest human artworks are the stupendously skillful cave paintings that we all know from Lascaux and Chauvet. Chauvet caves are about 32,000 years old, along with a few small, realistic sculptures of women and animals from the same period. But artistic and decorative skills are actually much older than that.
Beautiful shell necklaces that look like something you'd see at an arts and crafts fair, as well as ochre body paint, have been found from around 100,000 years ago. But the most intriguing prehistoric artifacts are older even than this. I have in mind the so-called Acheulian hand axes. The oldest stone tools are choppers from the Olduvai Gorge in East Africa. They go back about two and a half million years. These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in, what are to our eyes, an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.
These Acheulian hand axes — they're named after St. Acheul in France, where finds were made in 19th century — have been unearthed in their thousands, scattered across Asia, Europe and Africa, almost everywhere Homo erectus and Homo ergaster roamed. Now, the sheer numbers of these hand axes shows that they can't have been made for butchering animals. And the plot really thickens when you realize that, unlike other pleistocene tools, the hand axes often exhibit no evidence of wear on their delicate blade edges. And some, in any event, are too big to use for butchery. Their symmetry, their attractive materials and, above all, their meticulous workmanship are simply quite beautiful to our eyes, even today.
So what were these ancient — I mean, they're ancient, they're foreign, but they're at the same time somehow familiar. What were these artifacts for? The best available answer is that they were literally the earliest known works of art, practical tools transformed into captivating aesthetic objects, contemplated both for their elegant shape and their virtuoso craftsmanship. Hand axes mark an evolutionary advance in human history — tools fashioned to function as what Darwinians call fitness signals — that is to say, displays that are performances like the peacock's tail, except that, unlike hair and feathers, the hand axes are consciously cleverly crafted. Competently made hand axes indicated desirable personal qualities — intelligence, fine motor control, planning ability, conscientiousness and sometimes access to rare materials. Over tens of thousands of generations, such skills increased the status of those who displayed them and gained a reproductive advantage over the less capable. You know, it's an old line, but it has been shown to work — "Why don't you come up to my cave, so I can show you my hand axes."
Except, of course, what's interesting about this is that we can't be sure how that idea was conveyed, because the Homo erectus that made these objects did not have language. It's hard to grasp, but it's an incredible fact. This object was made by a hominid ancestor — Homo erectus or Homo ergaster — between 50 and 100,000 years before language. Stretching over a million years, the hand axe tradition is the longest artistic tradition in human and proto-human history. By the end of the hand axe epic, Homo sapiens — as they were then called, finally — were doubtless finding new ways to amuse and amaze each other by, who knows, telling jokes, storytelling, dancing, or hairstyling.
Yes, hairstyling — I insist on that. For us moderns, virtuoso technique is used to create imaginary worlds in fiction and in movies, to express intense emotions with music, painting and dance. But still, one fundamental trait of the ancestral personality persists in our aesthetic cravings: the beauty we find in skilled performances. From Lascaux to the Louvre to Carnegie Hall, human beings have a permanent innate taste for virtuoso displays in the arts. We find beauty in something done well. So the next time you pass a jewelry shop window displaying a beautifully cut teardrop-shaped stone, don't be so sure it's just your culture telling you that that sparkling jewel is beautiful. Your distant ancestors loved that shape and found beauty in the skill needed to make it, even before they could put their love into words.
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? No, it's deep in our minds. It's a gift, handed down from the intelligent skills and rich emotional lives of our most ancient ancestors. Our powerful reaction to images, to the expression of emotion in art, to the beauty of music, to the night sky, will be with us and our descendants for as long as the human race exists."
— Denis Dutton, academic, web entrepreneur. He was a professor of philosophy at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, (1944-2010), Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty, TED.com, Feb 2010 (transcript)
See also:
☞ The Science of Art. A Neurological Theory of Aesthetic Experience
☞ Beauty is in the medial orbitofrontal cortex of the beholder, study finds
Dean Buonomano on 'Brain Bugs' - Cognitive Flaws That 'Shape Our Lives'
"Simply put, our brain is inherently well suited for some tasks, but ill suited for others. Unfortunately, the brain's weaknesses include recognizing which tasks are which, so for the most part we remain ignorantly blissful of the extent to which our lives are governed by the brain's bugs."
"Like a parent that carefully filters the information her child is exposed to, the brain edits and censors much of the information it feeds to the conscious mind. In the same fashion that your brain likely edited out the extra "the" from the previous sentence, we are generally blissfully unaware of the arbitrary and irrational factors that govern our decisions and behaviors."
— Dean Buonomano, Brain Bugs. How the brain's flaws shape our lives, W.W. Norton, 2011
Memory errors
"One type of memory error that we make, a memory bug, is really a product of the fact that in human memory, there's no distinct process or distinction between storage and retrieval.
So when a computer or a DVD writes something down, it has one laser that's used to store the memory, and it has another laser to retrieve the memory, and those are very distinct processes.
Now, in human memory, the distinction between storage and retrieval is not very clear. (…)
This should be seen as a consequence of the fact that memory is written down as we experience it. It's being continuously updated. And the synapses that undergo changes in strength - so as you alluded to earlier, one of the ways the brain writes does information is by making new synapses, making new connections or strengthening new ones or weakening old ones.
And that process uses these synapses that get strengthened, but the retrieval also uses those same synapses. So that can strengthen that pathway. (…)
The perception of time
When we think of the perception of time, most people think of the subjective sense of time: How long have they been listening to this program, how long are they stuck in traffic? And the brain seems to have multiple different mechanisms, and that's one thing that we've learned about how the brain tells time is that unlike the clocks on our wrist that can be used to tell a few milliseconds or months and years, the brain has very fundamentally different mechanisms for telling very short periods of time and very long periods of time.
And that's a consequence of the evolutionary process, that it came up with redundant solutions and different solutions depending upon the adaptive needs of different animals.
And it turns out that we don't seem to have a very precise clock. Time is very much distorted when we are anticipating what's about to happen, when we're nervous, when we're stressed and when we have high-adrenaline moments. Our internal clock is not that accurate. (…)
We are living in a time and place we didn't evolve to live in
"And humans suffer some of the same consequences of living in a time and place we didn't evolve to live in. (…) And by peering into the brain, we can learn a lot about whywe are good at some things and why we are not very good at others."
"The brain is an incomprehensibly complex biological computer, responsible for every action we have taken and every decision, thought, and feeling we've ever had. This is probably a concept that most people do not find comforting. Indeed, the fact that the mind emerges from the brain is something not all brains have come to accept. But our reticence to acknowledge that our humanity derives solely from the physical brain should not come as a surprise. The brain was not designed to understand itself anymore than a calculator was designed to surf the Web."— Dean Buonomano, Brain Bugs. How the brain's flaws shape our lives, W.W. Norton, 2011
Our neuro-operating system, if you will, the set of rules were endowed in our genes that provide instructions on how to build the brain, what it should come preloaded with, the innate biases we should have, and most animals have innate biases to fear predator with big sharp teeth and to fear poisonous spiders and poisonous snakes. Because those innate fears increase survival. And you don't want to have to learn to fear snakes because you might not have a second chance. So we still carry that genetic baggage within our neuro-operating system.
It's safe to say that it's outdated. We currently live in a world in which in the United States, probably few people a year die or suffer severe consequences due to snake bites. But every year 44,000 people die of car accidents. So in the same way that evolution did not prepare say skunks to cope with the dangers of automobiles, evolution did not prepare humans to face the dangers of many of the things that surround us in our modern life, including automobiles, or an excess fluid for example of that we deal with problems due to obesity and too much cholesterol are all things that now have very dramatic effects on our lives, and we weren't prepared for those things by the evolutionary process. (…)
A lots of our decisions are the product of two different systems interacting within the brain. And very loosely speaking, you can think of one of these as the automatic system, which is very unconscious and associative and emotional; and people can think of this as intuition. And then we have the reflective system, which is effortful, requires knowledge and careful deliberation. And people can get a quick feel for these two systems in operation with the following examples. The old trick question: what do cows drink? The part of your brain that just thought of milk was the automatic system. And then the reflective system comes in and says wait a minute. That's wrong. The answer is water.
Similarly, if I asked: I'm going to throw four coins up in the air what's the probability that two of them will be heads and two of them will be tail? Now, part of the brain that's just thinking of well, it sounds like it should be 50 percent, because I said half the coins tails, half the coins heads. That's again basically the automatic system. It would take the reflective system, some serious reflection, to work out the math and come up with an answer of six-sixteenths.
Now, in most cases we reach happy balances between both of these systems. And clearly, when we are understanding each other's speech and making rapid decisions, the automatic system provides great balance as to what the proper answer is. But when we need to engage our reflective system and ask questions, such as the probability question that I just asked, sometimes we are misled because we trust the automatic system too much and the reflective system doesn't really get through in some situations. And this can lead us, in the case for example, of the temporal discounting situation where I asked if you want $100 today or $120 in the future. So the automatic system, which is biased by immediate gratification, might get the edge in that situation."
— Dean Buonomano, professor in the departments of neurobiology and psychology at the University of California at Los Angeles and an investigator at UCLA's Brain Research Institute, 'Brain Bugs': Cognitive Flaws That 'Shape Our Lives', NPR, July 14, 2011
See also:
☞ A risk-perception: What You Don't Know Can Kill You
☞ David Eagleman on how we constructs reality, time perception, and The Secret Lives of the Brain
☞ Iain McGilchrist on The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
☞ Daniel Kahneman on the riddle of experience vs. memory
☞ Daniel Kahneman: The Marvels and the Flaws of Intuitive Thinking
☞ Timothy D. Wilson on The Social Psychological Narrative: 'It's not the objective environment that influences people, but their constructs of the world'
☞ Mind & Brain tag on Lapidarium
What Is Reality?
"What we call reality," [physicist] John Archibald Wheeler wrote coyly, "arises in the last analysis from the posing of yes-no questions." He added: "All things physical are information-theoretic in origin, and this is a participatory universe." The whole universe is thus seen as a computer—a cosmic information-processing machine." — James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood, Pantheon, 2011
"Reality is an intelligent conversation with the universe." - cited in What Is Reality?, BBC Horizon documentary, 2011
The illusion of reality | BBC
"Professor Jim Al-Khalili explores how studying the atom forced us to rethink the nature of reality itself. He discovers that there might be parallel universes in which different versions of us exist, finds out that empty space isn't empty at all, and investigates the differences in our perception of the world in the universe and the reality." — BBC Four, 2010
What Is Reality? | BBC Horizon
"There is a strange and mysterious world that surrounds us, a world largely hidden from our senses. The quest to explain the true nature of reality is one of the great scientific detective stories.
Clues have been pieced together from deep within the atom, from the event horizon of black holes, and from the far reaches of the cosmos. It may be that that we are part of a cosmic hologram, projected from the edge of the universe. Or that we exist in an infinity of parallel worlds. Your reality may never look quite the same again." — BBC Horizon, 2011 (Full playlist)
[This note will be gradually expanded…]
See also:
☞ CERN, The Large Hadron Collider
☞ Fermilab - Scientists at Fermilab carry out research in high-energy physics to answer the questions: What is the universe made of? How does it work? Where did it come from?
☞ Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics, Quantum Information, Universitat Wien
☞ Realism, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
☞ Objectivity, IEP
☞ Phenomenology Online - Materials discussing and exemplifying phenomenological research
☞ Facts, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
☞ Consensus reality, Wiki
☞ The Relativity of Truth - a brief résumé, Lapidarium


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Nightfly's TV Week in Review 9/25/11 - Doctor Who, Parks and Recreation, and more!
- Written by Nightfly on Tuesday, October 04 2011 and posted in Features
Nightfly lists his preferred picks from the previous week of primetime programming.
TV Week in Review (week of 9/25/11)
With most Fall shows now up and running this past week really delivered some incredible TV. I really didn't have an easy time selecting these lists. Congrats go to the CW (taking 3 of 7 Scripted 1hr slots), CBS (earning 3 of 7 Outstanding Sitcoms spots), The History Channel (only net to slot twice in the Reality Shows section, plus a fifth consecutive appearance for Ancient Aliens), and Nickelodeon (taking 3 of the 5 Favorite Teen Shows spots) for earning domination in their various categories. Doctor Who lays claim to this week's Top of List again (second week in-a-row) due to its fantastic season finale, as does Star Wars: The Clone Wars again in its Teen category. This column features the series premieres of Terra Nova & Hart of Dixie, a third consecutive appearance of Ringer, and the return of Nikita for the first time this season.
Tonight make sure to catch the 2hr season finale of Warehouse 13 and the sure-to-be outrageous season premiere of House.
Thanks to my brother I've finally gotten hip to the fun of GetGlue. It temporarily cost me some Klout but I eventually figured it out and now I'll be sharing limited time and favorite of mine stickers offered by GetGlue. And now without further ado, unto my personal favorite picks from last week...
* Warning: videos below may contain spoilers and/or mature content not suitable for all ages *
7. Ringer - "If You Ever Want a French Lesson" (CW)
6. Hart of Dixie - "Pilot" (CW)
5. Nikita - "Falling Ash" (CW)
4. Strike Back - "Episode 7" (MAX)
3. Glee - "I Am Unicorn" (FOX)
2. Terra Nova - "Genesis" (FOX)
The Shannon Family in "Genesis"
* Watch the Terra Nova music video by Michelle Branch here.
1. Doctor Who - "The Wedding of River Song" (BBC-America)
Alex Kingston, Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in "The Wedding of River Song"
Guest Star of the Week: Alex Kingston on Doctor Who (BBC-America)
Alex Kingston as Melody Pond (a.k.a. River Song) in "The Wedding of River Song"
* Favorite Teen Shows *
5. Victorious - "Tori Tortures Teacher" (nick)
Eric Lange as Mr. Sikowitz for Victorious
4. Supah Ninjas - "DJ Elephant Head" (nick)
Ryan Higa guest stars as "DJ Elephant Head"
3. iCarly - "iQ" (nick)
2. The Simpsons - "The Falcon and the D'Ohman" (FOX)
Kiefer Sutherland guests in "The Falcon and the D'Ohman"
1. Star Wars: The Clone Wars - "Shadow Warrior" (TOON)
Rish Loo in "Shadow Warrior"
Webisode of the Week: The Guild (S5, Ep.10) - "Strategy Timez"
Runner-Up: Sting: 25 Years - Webisode 4
* Note: Bandwagon will release its first season finale webisode this Wednesday (10/5). Till then, enjoy a teaser preview for it here.
"Someone Like You" by Adele {released 9/29 via VEVO}
"Who You Are" by Jessie J {released 9/29 via VEVO}
Honorable Mention: "Polka Face" by 'Weird Al' Yankovic {released 9/26 via VEVO}
others videos released last week;
"5 O'Clock" by T-Pain (feat. Lily Allen & Wiz Khalifa) {released 9/27 via VEVO}
"Can't Say Goodbye" by Josh Gracin {released 9/30 via CMT}
"Daddy's Little Girl" by J. Cole [TV-MA: Explicit Sexual Language] {released 9/27 via VEVO}
"Do To Me" by Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue {released 9/28 via VEVO}
"Dreamer" by Elizaveta {released 9/27 via VEVO}
"Good Good Night" by Roscoe Dash {released 9/30 via VEVO}
"Heart's All Gone" by blink-182 {released 9/28 via VEVO}
"I Like How It Feels" by Enrique Iglesias (feat. The WAV.s and Pitbull) {released 9/30 via VEVO}
"Mr. Know It All" by Kelly Clarkson {released 9/26 via VEVO}
"Soaking Up The Sun" by Alyssa Bernal {released 9/27 via VEVO}
"Somebody's Chelsea" by Reba McEntire {released 9/26 via CMT}
"Stay" by Tyrese {released 9/27 via VEVO}
"This Little Girl" by Cady Groves {released 9/26 via VEVO}
* If you're into GetGlue you can get a sticker for watching the Kelly Clarkson video listed above here.
* There are lots musical stickers to get from GG, here are a couple that may not be around much longer. Beyoncé's "Run The World (Girls)" & Sarah Bareilles' "King of Anything."
Trivia Question of the Week: Versatile actress Odette Annable makes her debut as Dr. Jessica Adams tonight on the season premiere of House. Can you name the last FOX series Odette was a cast member on? [answered]
Current Medal Standing:
~ Previous week's answer: 2 Broke Girls (Winner: avengingtitan)
* Outstanding Sitcoms *
7. 2 Broke Girls - "And the Break-Up Scene" (CBS)
Follow 2 Broke Girls on Twitter.
6. How I Met Your Mother - "The Ducky Tie" (CBS)
Follow HIMYM on Twitter.
5. Happy Endings - "Blax, Snake, Home" (ABC)
Follow Happy Endings on Twitter.
4. The Big Bang Theory - "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation" (CBS)
Melissa Rauch & Simon Helberg in "The Pulled Groin Extrapolation"
3. New Girl - "Kryptonite" (FOX)
Jake Johnson, Zooey Deschanel & Max Greenfield
2. Whitney - "First Date" (NBC)
Follow Whitney Cummings & Zoe Lister-Jones on Twitter.
1. Parks and Recreation - "Ron & Tammy" (NBC)
5. Top Shot - "Ramp It Up" (History)
4. Top Chef: Just Desserts - "Sabotage" (Bravo)
Ad-Rock & Gail Simmons in "Sabotage"
(Photo Credit: Trae Patton/Bravo)
3. American Chopper: Sr. vs. Jr. - "Senior Reaches Out" (DSC)
2. Dark Matters: Twisted But True - "Grams, Missing Cosmonauts, Sound of Death" (Sci)
1. Ancient Aliens - "Aliens and Evil Places" (History)
Follow Ancient Aliens on Twitter.
So, this week I watched fifty full hours of primetime programming to compile this column; thirty-one hours spent just on scripted dramas alone. NCIS: L.A., the season finales of Haven & Alphas, and the season premieres of Boardwalk Empire, Desperate Housewives, and CSI: Miami all barely missed my main Scripted List. iCarly, The Office, Two and a Half Men, the season premiere of The Simpsons, and the series premiere of How to Be a Gentleman almost made my Sitcoms List, while, A.N.T. Farm, Good Luck Charlie, and Shake It Up came closest to ranking on my Favorite Teen Shows list. Believe it not, I viewed few enough reality shows this week that I only watched three that didn't earn slots in my column; Project Runway, Quirky, and Unleashed by Garo.
Guest stars impressing me this week got sorta complicated as a good number of the best appear to be taking supporting roles on their respective shows and my Guest Star of the Week honor is primarily reserved for walk-ons. But those waters are often murky in the TV world these days. That said, these praiseworthy guests all came really close to snagging this week's honor; John Pyper-Ferguson (on Fringe), Kathleen Munroe (on Alphas), Julie McNiven (on Nikita), Emily Bergl (on Hawaii Five-O), and Kiefer Sutherland (on an unusually violent episode of The Simpsons).
For this week's movie clips I decided to feature a flick I've seemingly been waiting for my whole life. I was born a handful of years after Rock'em Sock'em Robots hit the market but I honestly can't remember my childhood without that fun 'action' game being around. Fortysomething years later, enter Real Steel (in theaters this Friday 10/7).
And any longtime reader of mine knows I'll never stop crushing on Katherine Heigl. A trailer for her next movie One For The Money (scheduled for a January 2012 release) hit the web this past week and it looks like one I'll especially like. Check it out (below).
Before I close this column out I promised you all some GetGlue links. Watch the trailers for these films and you'll get glue; Ghostbusters, Immortals, Dirty Girl, Melancholia, Trespass (starring Cage & Kidman), Three Musketeers, and X-Men First Class & Thor on Blu-Ray. And a special for the twihards click here to get a couple stickers for Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Pt.1. For TV, here are some stickers for upcoming premieres of Enlightened (HBO), Last Man Standing (ABC), Bored to Death (HBO) and one for House's premiere tonight.
I don't think I'll have as many GetGlue links to share next week but I'll try to include sticker links in each week's column going forward. I still haven't got my first physical pack yet; I have no idea what I'm gonna put 'em on. Any suggestions? Where do you 'proudly share' your GetGlue rewards?
That's all folks. Oh yeah, before I go, I mentioned a possible announcement in my previous column... well, since I've now officially published my first Q&A for them, I'm happy to share the news that I've been welcomed onto the writing staff of TV Over Mind; one of my all-time favorite TV websites. My Week in Review column will continue being published here at The Outhouse (along with other stuff) but from now on you can also read my contributions to TVOM if you'd like. Here's one published today for Warehouse 13's 2hr. season finale tonight. Thanks to all of you who've been with me as I've practiced the craft of writing here. Wherever my future may take me I'll always be grateful and loyal to you who've supported me up till now. Have a great week, Be Well & Happy Viewing!
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Strange DNA
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How Big is Your Genome
Strange DNA Facts
This video discusses some strange facts about DNA, genes, genetics and the human genome.
How large is the human genome?
How does the human genome compare to a PlayStation 3.
Is there such a thing as a gay gene?
How are the different human races different genetically?
Are mental disorders causes by genetics?
How large is the human genome compared to a mouse or a grain of rice?
Crystal is graduated from Texas A&M University w/ a degree in agricultural leadership and development with an emphasis on genetics and bio-chemistry. She is currently a professional model.
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16 comments
Ayahuasquero April 4, 2010 6:32:16 PM CEST
And she has the most squeaky, grating and obnoxious voice. If I had to listen to her voice for any length of time, I would go crazy. She also uses the word nuclei as if it were in the singluar. Hmmmmm..
Ayahuasquero April 4, 2010 6:29:21 PM CEST
The message is somewhat muddled by Miss Genius's rather ample cleavage. Couldn't she have worn something more conservative, which would have put the focus on her message as opposed to her measurements? I think she is actually a Hooter's cocktail server reading a prompter. Stupid little c**t.
Ancientfossil April 4, 2010 3:43:06 PM CEST
Now this is what I love about education!
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Before & After: A Reorganized Dining Room
It's amazing how quickly the desire to make everything perfect can cause my spring cleaning and organizing to grind to a halt. Case in point: my paralysis over finding dining room storage solutions and a light fixture have lead me to let the room languish with a crowded yet empty-looking layout for almost a year. But lately I've come to realize that I'm actually happier with the results of a room when I don't over-think it and just make the most of what I already have.
The white shelf felt like it cut off the flow of the room and the parsons table in the corner — which doubles as a desk and a buffet for dinner parties — was a constant source of ire. Its awkward placement in the corner meant frequent bruised hips and unspoken permission to let clutter pile up. Moving the desk to the middle of the room makes it feel more like it belongs in the space and it's prominent placement forces us to contain the mess of cords and papers (a deep vintage crate does the job nicely).
Are the results perfect? Absolutely not. Art still needs to go on the walls, the light fixture still needs to be picked out, shelves need to be bought … but for now the space is a million times more comfortable and doesn't cause me to cringe whenever I look at it. A lamp, a plant, and a few pieces of art (all relocated from other parts of the house) give the room a little bit of personality — and serve as a vital reminder that progress can really only be achieved in baby steps.
• Vintage painted camp sign from Etsy seller Artful Vintage
• Vintage crate from Etsy seller tippleandsnack
• Bourgie Table Lamp from DWR
• Desk chair from IKEA (we painted it yellow)
• Print by Ed Templeton, available from Arkitip
• Red dining room Holz chairs from DWR, no longer available
(Images: Sarah Rainwater)
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New layout is a big improvement. I would add a taller tree or sculptural art in the far left hand corner and call it a day! BTW love the red Hoffman chairs.
Wow, it is amazing what a little shifting around can do. Love the blue wall. I, for one, don't notice that anything is missing. ;)
Better I guess, but still not a cohesive look.
This room needs a bigger table, imo. Suggest: a long rectangular table with a drawer in one end. You can use that as a desk - keep the one yellow chair to demark the work area/table head and hang two pendants along the spine of the table. Turn the awesome white shelves and hang them on the wall lengthways - you don't have so many books that stacking them is impractical and you can use it as a sideboard type thing if you hang it low.
Maybe I'm still relatively new to home design, but I'm impressed with the significant change some rearranging can do!
@bostontom, your are too new to design i guess, because this cheap rearanging does nothing to help the room.
Cyb! Hey, dude -- what a gift you're here to _school_ us. Best that bostontom learns early individual opinions are not allowed.
where did you get that white bookshelf from? i want it!
@Cyb, it clearly states that this an interim solution, working with what was already to hand, not a finished room. And the rearranging visibly does help the space, even if it would benefit from further work.
I certainly don't see the need to slag off another poster's comments. If you disagree there is a way to do it constructively.
Thanks for the comments. The room certainly still needs work, but instead of remaining a jumbled up mess, at least it's livable, which is more important than perfection (for the time being).
@rossweiner, the bookshelf was from the now-defunct Hold Everything, sadly no longer available
I have been searching high and low for a slim rectangular table like yours! Where is it from (if you even remember)? Silly question, but what are the dimentions??
Cute space nonetheless! With tons of potential. I am also at the infancy of my 'home decoration' so I know what you are going through! Since money is tight, I am relying on small purchases and tons of rearranging.
Good luck!
The table was actually my parents' from the 70s! But, check out West Elm's parsons console for a similarly-sized option: http://www.westelm.com/products/f790/?pkey=x|4|1||6|parsons||0&cm_src=SCH
Thanks Sarah! The West Elm table is the perfect dimension!!! But a bit out of my price range!!! :(
Have you checked out the Domino's book? Domino: The Book of Decorating? Really neat book with tons of suggestions!


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The Most Massive and Brightest Star in the Milky Way?
This past spring, astronomers were able to detect a star in formation–a protostar–that appears to be one of the brightest and massive found in our galaxy thanks to data detected with the ALMA radio telescope, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile's Andes Range. The study focused on the observation of a giant molecular cloud known as G331.5-0.1, which is located in the Norma spiral arm, in the Milky Way, some 24,000 light years from Earth. "In the center of the molecular cloud we had discovered carbon emissions of speeds up to 100 km/s (360,000 km/h), but we didn't know how it was created" said Guido Garay, with the University of Chile and member of the research team.
"They are the main source of heavy elements and ultraviolet radiation, affecting the formation process of stars and planets, as well as the physical, chemical and morphological structure of galaxies," said the principal author of the study, Manuel Merello, a doctoral student at theUniversity of Texas who holds a master's degree from the University of Chile. However, Merello added, "It's difficult to observe the 'birth' and early phases of this type of star, so being able to do this with ALMA helps us better understand the interaction between the radiation and wind generated by these kinds of objects with the interstellar medium that surrounds them in the very early stages."
Using a tracer (to track the emission of silicon monoxide, SiO), the astronomers were able to observe collisions between the jet of gas ejected between the object and its environment, revealing the existence of a very massive, bright star in formation, which ejected jets of gas that were highly collimated (that is, in a very narrow cone).
The astronomers also found a second, lower-speed molecular structure with spherical symmetry. "It's like a shell," said Garay. The results of this study show that two types of stellar wind appear in the formation process of this star: a highly collimated one that generates the jet and another spherically symmetrical one that produces the shell, which is something never been seen before.
"Thanks to the high sensitivity and angular resolution of ALMA, scientists are now able to study the characteristics of formation of high mass protostars in a detail that could never have been done before," said Lars Nyman, ALMA Head of Science Operations and member of the research team.
The research findings are presented in the article "ALMA observations of the massive molecular outflow G331.512−0.103," published in the Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 774, of September 1, 2013.
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A Movie A Day: DILLINGER (1945)
You talk too much, you use a gun too much and now you're thinking too much!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today's installment of A Movie A Day.
[For those now joining us, A Movie A Day is my attempt at filling in gaps in my film knowledge. My DVD collection is thousands strong, many of them films I haven't seen yet, but picked up as I scoured used DVD stores. Each day I'll pull a previously unseen film from my collection or from my DVR and discuss it here. Each movie will have some sort of connection to the one before it, be it cast or crew member.]
Today we follow Elisha Cook Jr. over to the 1945 Gangster Noir DILLINGER, the film that introduced Lawrence Tierney to the world in the title role… or at least that's what the poster says. We've already had an earlier movie featuring Tierney on this list, the Val Lewton produced flick THE GHOST SHIP from 1943. There are a few uncredited performances and smaller roles prior to this film, but I can see why the producers wanted to sell a big new star smashing onto the scene.
Tierney eats this role up. He's stoney, mean-lookin'… definitely not someone to fuck with as a few decidedly unlucky bastards find out during the 70 minute runtime of this flick.
I'm sure most of you know the John Dillinger story by now… there have been a ton of movies made about the man. Prior to this film I had seen John Millius' 1973 DILLINGER starring Warren Oates in the lead role.
Even if you don't remember the details I'm sure most of you guys remember he was the one betrayed by his goil, wearing a red dress at the movie theater.
Directed by Max Nosseck and featuring some very pretty black and white noir photography by Jackson Rose the movie zips by. There is no drag. There can't be, the damn thing's barely over an hour long! And they cram as much of Dillinger's life as they can into this time, starting with his first hasty not well thought out robbery of $7.20 that gets him picked up by the coppers and thrown in jail.
While there he ends up bunked with Edmund Lowe playing a mastermind robber named Specs. At first Dillinger puts up a tough guy routine, but then he learns just how revered Specs is and cozies up to him and his gang, including the great Elisha Cook Jr.
Dillinger has a shorter sentence than the others, so he promises he'll come up with a plan to spring them when he's out and low and behold he's good to his word. Of course, it's not long before he's leading the group, taking it away from Specs. Specs was a little more cautious, but Dillinger is more brutal.
He goes out of his way to kill some motherfuckers in this movie. One of my absolute favorite moments is when he returns to the bar he was in at the beginning of the movie… he was told his credit was no good and insulted by the waiter, causing him to go out and haphazardly rob a little convenience store, which gets him nabbed.
So after a few dozen bloody robberies, Dillinger returns to this bar, orders beers, tips the waiter really well, asks him to sit… and then tortures him for a little bit, reminding the poor bastard of who he was. Just as it's dawning on the nitwit, Tierney smashes his mug and jams it in the dude's face!
It's Hayes Code era, so you don't see it, but even the implication is horrendous, sold completely by Tierney. I believe wholeheartedly that Tierney would stab some drip in the face with a broken mug of beer, no question.
The flick was nominated for best screenplay (Philip Yordan, who also wrote previous AMAD HOUDINI and is the front for tomorrow's BATTLE OF THE BULGE) but lost to Richard Schweizer for MARIE-LOUISE.
Final Thoughts: This isn't the best film in the Film Noir v.2 box set or even the best Lawrence Tierney film in the set (that'd be BORN TO KILL), but it's a fast-paced, very entertaining thrillride of a film… God, if the movie wasn't 63 years old you'd think I was gunning for a quote on the poster… But it's true. Lawrence Tierney is outstanding (and frightening) as Dillinger and his supporting cast are all up to the task of keeping this one going full steam ahead. I had a lot of fun with this movie.
The schedule for the next few days is:
Sunday, September 28th: BATTLE OF THE BULGE (1965)
Monday, September 29th: DAISY KENYON (1947)
Tuesday, September 30th: LAURA (1944)
Wednesday, October 1st – Friday, October 31st: H-MAD! Horror Movie A Day! Check out the list here!
I've added a couple more titles to the list of potential Horror Movie A Day titles and have even more on order.
Tomorrow we follow writer Philip Yordan some 20 years into the future where he's credited with the screenplay of WW2 epic BATTLE OF THE BULGE. I say credited because his name is on there as a front for blacklisted writer Bernard Gordon. Looking forward to this one… has a helluva cast… Robert Ryan and Robert Shaw in the same movie? How could the camera record film with both of these guys on the screen at the same time? I would have figured the old timey equipment would have been overloaded with the sheer amount of awesome it was being asked to process…
Previous Movies:
June 2nd: Harper
June 3rd: The Drowning Pool
June 4th: Papillon
June 5th: Gun Crazy
June 6th: Never So Few
June 7th: A Hole In The Head
June 8th: Some Came Running
June 9th: Rio Bravo
June 10th: Point Blank
June 11th: Pocket Money
June 12th: Cool Hand Luke
June 13th: The Asphalt Jungle
June 14th: Clash By Night
June 15th: Scarlet Street
June 16th: Killer Bait (aka Too Late For Tears)
June 17th: Robinson Crusoe On Mars
June 18th: City For Conquest
June 19th: San Quentin
June 20th: 42nd Street
June 21st: Dames
June 22nd: Gold Diggers of 1935
June 23rd: Murder, My Sweet
June 24th: Born To Kill
June 25th: The Sound of Music
June 26th: Torn Curtain
June 27th: The Left Handed Gun
June 28th: Caligula
June 29th: The Elephant Man
June 30th: The Good Father
July 1st: Shock Treatment
July 2nd: Flashback
July 3rd: Klute
July 4th: On Golden Pond
July 5th: The Cowboys
July 6th: The Alamo
July 7th: Sands of Iwo Jima
July 8th: Wake of the Red Witch
July 9th: D.O.A.
July 10th: Shadow of A Doubt
July 11th: The Matchmaker
July 12th: The Black Hole
July 13th: Vengeance Is Mine
July 14th: Strange Invaders
July 15th: Sleuth
July 16th: Frenzy
July 17th: Kingdom of Heaven: The Director's Cut
July 18th: Cadillac Man
July 19th: The Sure Thing
July 20th: Moving Violations
July 21st: Meatballs
July 22nd: Cast a Giant Shadow
July 23rd: Out of the Past
July 24th: The Big Steal
July 25th: Where Danger Lives
July 26th: Crossfire
July 27th: Ricco, The Mean Machine
July 28th: In Harm's Way
July 29th: Firecreek
July 30th: The Cheyenne Social Club
July 31st: The Man Who Knew Too Much
August 1st: The Spirit of St. Louis
August 2nd: Von Ryan's Express
August 3rd: Can-Can
August 4th: Desperate Characters
August 5th: The Possession of Joel Delaney
August 6th: Quackser Fortune Has A Cousin In The Bronx
August 7th: Start the Revolution Without Me
August 8th: Hell Is A City
August 9th: The Pied Piper
August 10th: Partners
August 11th: Barry Lyndon
August 12th: The Skull
August 13th: The Hellfire Club
August 14th: Blood of the Vampire
August 15th: Terror of the Tongs
August 16th: Pirates of Blood River
August 17th: The Devil-Ship Pirates
August 18th: Jess Franco's Count Dracula
August 19th: Dracula A.D. 1972
August 20th: The Stranglers of Bombay
August 21st: Man, Woman & Child
August 22nd: The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane
August 23rd: The Young Philadelphians
August 24th: The Rack
August 25th: Until They Sail
August 26th: Somebody Up There Likes Me
August 27th: The Set-Up
August 28th: The Devil & Daniel Webster
August 29th: Cat People
August 30th: The Curse of the Cat People
August 31st: The 7th Victim
September 1st: The Ghost Ship
September 2nd: Isle of the Dead
September 3rd: Bedlam
September 4th: Black Sabbath
September 5th: Black Sunday
September 6th: Twitch of the Death Nerve
September 7th: Tragic Ceremony
September 8th: Lisa & The Devil
September 9th: Baron Blood
September 10th: A Shot In The Dark
September 11th: The Pink Panther
September 12th: The Return of the Pink Panther
September 13th: The Pink Panther Strikes Again
September 14th: Revenge of the Pink Panther
September 15th: Trail of the Pink Panther
September 16th: The Real Glory
September 17th: The Winning of Barbara Worth
September 18th: The Cowboy and the Lady
September 19th: Dakota
September 20th: Red River
September 21st: Terminal Station
September 22nd: The Search
September 23rd: Act of Violence
September 24th: Houdini
September 25th: Money From Home
September 26th: Papa's Delicate Condition
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Sept. 27, 2008, 10:04 p.m. CST
by odo19
I did a double take when I saw that it was Lawrence Tierney as Dillinger. He was really good looking once.
Sept. 27, 2008, 10:19 p.m. CST
Lawrence TIerney
by Continentalop
See "Devil Thumbs a Ride" if you want to see Lawrence Tierney at his worst (and by that I mean his best).
Sept. 28, 2008, 12:08 a.m. CST
movie review dude
by crazybubba
you need to do more gangster noir flicks, forget all that other stuff. I'm gonna check this one out asap.
Sept. 28, 2008, 12:19 a.m. CST
Wish this was longer
by MediaNerd
I haven't seen this one in a bit, but I remember really liking it and wishing it had just a bit more run time, felt a bit too compact.

 I agree Michael Mann's take on it with J Depp should be intriguing.
Sept. 28, 2008, 12:29 a.m. CST
He started the list with a Newman movie
by Jubba
and he plans it out in advance, not on a day-to-day basis...
Sept. 28, 2008, 3:26 a.m. CST
I'm pretty sure Quint has seen this film
by HEADGEEK
at my house on 16mm.
Sept. 28, 2008, 7:45 a.m. CST
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
Check the archives, he did a few about a month or two ago.
Sept. 28, 2008, 7:46 a.m. CST
Don't bother Quint today
by Grammaton Cleric Binks
He needs to rest up to catch nearly three hours of ass kicking in Battle of the Bulge.
Sept. 28, 2008, 9:57 a.m. CST
by Paul Bucciarelli
it's on the same shelf as the bucket that the Kentucky Fried Rat came in. What a doofus.
Sept. 28, 2008, 10:09 a.m. CST
Can't wait until Quint gets to Laura.
by rbatty024
It's a great early noir. Supposedly it heavily influenced Twin Peaks.
Sept. 28, 2008, 12:13 p.m. CST
don brodka
by welbrick
he plays that security guard in the episode where bart steals the video game. the commentary track talks about what a mean sonavabitch tierney was. very amusing.
Sept. 28, 2008, 2:34 p.m. CST
by Quint
Have I? If I did I have no memory of it. Those 16mm parties were a long, long time ago, though. It'd be cool to break out some 16 again. I have a few prints I haven't watched yet... a scope print of CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN starring Franco Nero and Martin Balsam being the one I'm the most interested in...
Sept. 28, 2008, 5:07 p.m. CST
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by TELF
Sept. 28, 2008, 8:54 p.m. CST
Tirney sold mean, because he was a mean drunk ass....
by BadMrWonka
I do enjoy his performance in Dillinger, but I think a lot of the time he's just playing a slightly meaner version of himself in real life. there are hundreds of stories of him drunkenly assaulting people, making ridiculously strange requests, threatening to stab Jerry Seinfeld...I mean seriously...
Nicholson's role in The Shining is entertaining, but it's not much of a stretch, is it? Same with Tierney, I think.
Sept. 28, 2008, 11:36 p.m. CST
Lawrence Tierney Was Mean On-Screen and Off-Screen
by Red Dawn Don
Lawrence Tierney Was Mean On-Screen and Off-Screen. Go over to WIKI to read some of his antics, such as pulling a kitchen knife on Jerry Seinfeld. I never knew that actor SCOTT BRADY was his brother. I liked SB's acting years ago
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The third of today's Sigma lenses is the 10-20mm f43.5 EX DC HSM. It is available in the five active 35mm mounts, specifically Canon, Nikon, Alpha, K-mount and Sigma. Since this is a DC lens, when mounted on a DSLR, it will have the 35mm-equivalent of roughly 15-30mm. Yes, a wide zoom even for "DX" :)
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Some people don't expect a tip in certain circumstances. I never took a tip if I leveled my blacksmithing, for example. Absent some sort of initial conversation yes he probably should have assumed that he should tip you something for your efforts, but ideally you have that conversation in advance. In all honesty, the miscommunication between you and your customer is nearly as much your fault as his, IMO. It's not hard when you get that initial pst to say "ok, your mats plus xg tip, meet me at anvil" Then everyone is on the same page.


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This sucks so bad.
The doctor gave me eye drops because I'm showing signs of pink eye; and she gave me a prescription for antibiotics to be filled in a few days if I don't feel better.
FML. I'm going back to sleep.
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Hey guys, I posted a trompe a few weeks ago of a sword piece I did, this is the 2nd one, I made a few adjustments to the actual gun reference I had, this was a lot of fun to do, my friend suggested putting a fantasy twist to it, so I took his advice and decided to add a dragon mouth to the end of the barrel of the gun along with adding some scales to it as it transitions into the flintlock.
Either way, I've got a few more ideas like this that I've got in mind, the next one which is an armor piece is already started on my easel, I'll be sure to post it up when it's done and ready!
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amazing work, now do a 3d model
This is great! Such a wonderful design! Well done.
Hey Eric-
This is a cool idea and looking really good. Looking forward to seeing the others you are coming up with. Perhaps for the next in this series have the weapon resting on a more elaborate BG? Some rocks, or decorative cloth?
Really just a suggestion to get your brain gears going- nothing else. I do like the simple BG's as well. Keep up the good work!
Coyote- thanks for the comment, haha, why a 3d model?
Jane- thank you for the compliment
Scott- I agree! in fact, as I move into making more of these, I do think the BGs can be more elaborate, i'll definitely need to play that up in some of my other work too. The next piece actually has a kind of structured wall behind it, and i'll be playing more with light, I think you'll enjoy it, so I hope to hear your thoughts once it's up! Thanks again man
Eric Braddock
Good job, I think having a more complex background is a great idea for the next piece.
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When you pick up the brand new 2011-12 Nashville Predators Media Guide and go to the roster of organizational players to do a little research on defenseman Scott Ford, you quickly find that he is not listed.
Further research shows that he is signed to a one-way AHL contract with the Milwaukee Admirals, yet he was one of the 55 players invited to the Predators pre-season camp.
Ford was born in Fort St. John, British Columbia on Christmas Eve, 1979, making him the second oldest player participating in camp, behind only Jerred Smithson.
On the surface, it could appear that the 6'3″, 216 pounder is in camp as some of "Crash Davis-type" (Bull Durham) player who's primary job it is to help a young "Nuke LaLoossh" AKA the many young defensemen, as a quasi-coach.
That's not the case at all.
Ford explains, "I wouldn't say (I'm) a coach or have a coaching perspective because I'm still wanting to learn. I'm getting to the rink and working hard and trying to push the younger guys as much as they push me. It's been a good situation but the ultimate goal is to play in the National Hockey League."
Ford was undrafted as a junior player at Merritt in the BCHL and went on to play four years at Brown University. Since that time he has played 447 regular season games as a pro but is yet to set foot on NHL ice for a single regular season game.
His last three years have been with the Milwaukee Admirals, the Predators' AHL affiliate. Last season, he set career highs with 80 games, penalty minutes (164), and a +10 (+-) rating. He also played 13 Calder Cup Playoff games.
Entering his eight season as a pro, the goal remains constant. "My ultimate goal is to play in the NHL here in Nashville. It's my fourth year here and I've played mostly in Milwaukee in a development situation there, but the ultimate goal is the NHL."
Being in camp with the top defensive pairing, several others with NHL experience, and a bunch of high draft pick prospects, is not intimidating to the long time pro. "Being an older guy is OK once and a while. It's good to have some youthful exuberance around you. It really pushes you hard."
"The younger guys look up to you a little bit and if you are able to help them learn then all the better. Both of you are professionals and that's what you can do each and every day. They definitely push you hard to get better and get some youth back in your own game."
Further into the conversation, Ford became more reflective about the past three seasons in Milwaukee with all the top prospects. "It's kind of a mentorship ideology down there. If I can help these young guys improve and become professional both on and off the ice then that feels good to me too."
The only admission of age came late in our discussion. "When you get kind of old and it's getting to the twilight of your career it's always nice to pass on what you have learned and a lot of the little things to the younger guys and hopefully they can prosper and take it and make the best career possible."
Don't ever give up Scott. Always remember, "The ultimate goal is to play in the National Hockey League."
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The collision happened at approximately 2:35 p.m., said Fire Capt. Gabriel Huerta of Fire Station 150, which handled the incident.
"L.A. County Fire responded with six units on a three-car pile-up," Huerta said. "With two people trapped, we had a total of four patient -- three were transported to area hospitals."
The fourth person, a child, was airlifted to Childrens Hospital, he added.
"We had to shut the freeway down. We shut it down at the last niunute as the bird was coming down," Huerta said.
"We had two (that required advanced life support, one was transported with basic life support," Huerta added.
There was a fire engine and a hazmat unit from Station 150, as well as light force units and two additional squads that provided medical assistance, including Air Squad 19.
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Choose from hundreds of Live Christmas Trees in York at the Dawnay Farm Christmas Tree Forest
Get this Christmas off to an enchanting start with a trip to Dawnay Farm's forest of living Christmas Trees near York. Children always remember their first trip here to choose their own perfect Christmas Tree to take home and decorate, and generations later many now bring children of their own and even their grandchildren to choose Christmas Trees at Dawnay Farm like they did.
The Best Loved Christmas Trees York Can Offer
All our Christmas Trees are home-grown and hand pruned and cared for all year, so that you're guaranteed to find only full, fresh and healthy Christmas Trees here that will look and smell fantastic throughout the entire Christmas season.
* '4-12' trees available, different varieties
* lots of friendly, helpfult staff to cut down your tree, wrap it and put it in your car at no extra cost.
Wellies Required!
Come along to order your tree, table centre , mantle-piece arrangement, swags and wreaths. Be the first to see our beautiful new range of Christmas decorations.
Please note that much of the wood is like rough pasture and care must be taken when walking and sensible foot wear is essential.
9' traditional Christmas trees on special offer at £35. SOLD OUT
Dawnay Farm is easy to find – only 1 mile from Easingwold, near the Lund Gallery. Follow the signs on Easingwold by-pass, which skirts the west side of Easingwold, just 12 miles from York.
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