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Are You "ALL IN?" Taking The Leap: #61 Save Your Marriage Podcast
Yep. I did it. I jumped right out of a perfectly good plane! The attorney said he had no idea WHY someone would do that!
A little explanation: for years, my son said he wanted to skydive when he turned 18.
That was years ago.
Last week, he turned 18 (what happened to those years??).
Time to follow through.
My wife spent a great deal of time and effort for us to be able to take the leap on his 18th birthday. But the weather had other plans. A rainy, yucky day canceled the jump. . . .
Until the next day. A beautiful, sunny, cool fall day.
We drove out into the middle of nowhere. And we jumped.
The pre-recorded disclaimer by the attorney said it all. He stated, and I quote, "I have no idea why someone would choose to jump out of a perfectly good plane. But you have chosen to."
We did.
The ride up was no big deal. I kept rehearsing what needed to happen.
But that one moment, precariously balanced on the wing, staring down 10,000 feet to the ground, I had a thought, "What am I doing?" Then, I recommitted, and we jumped.
And since I am writing this, we also landed.
That jump made me think about one thing: there has to be that time when you fully commit to something. That moment when there is no turning back. There is only going forward, leaping into the unknown and hoping for the best.
Working on your marriage requires that leap!
Sometimes, we get so caught up in becoming an expert in some new pursuit that we forget to jump.
If you want to save your marriage, you do need to gather some basic information and begin to create your strategy. (If you need help with that, grab my Save The Marriage System.)
But then, at some point, you have to commit and leap.
You can't keep planning. You have to get started.
Once you get started, you can work on fine-tuning your plan, learn more, and continue progressing.
Take a listen to my podcast, and if you are ready for some coaching "on the way down," drop me an email! Email me here.
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5 Myths of Connection: #60 Save Your Marriage Podcast
"What happened?," Julie asked me. "We were so in love! We got married, and everything was perfect. I just thought it would be easy from there!"
Then, Julie began to tell me a story about growing careers, a big social life, passionate pursuit of hobbies, and then children. Three. All within 5 years.
One day, when the youngest had just started school, Julie's husband dressed for work, dimpled his tie, turned toward Julie and said, "I'm not happy, you are not happy. This is not working." Then, he left.
Julie was shocked that he was so matter-of-fact. Could he really drop that emotional grenade and head to work, acting as if nothing happened? Julie reeled through the day, lost in her painful thoughts. Hadn't they been in love at one point? Wasn't this supposed to be "happily ever after?"
Then, Julie saw flashes. Times when each chose something else — a hobby, an activity, friends, work, children, even the iPhone, over spending time with each other. Julie realized they had stopped kissing goodnight, stopped holding hands at church, and stopped telling each other about their days.
Oh, Julie had known this. But she kept telling herself, "When the kids are older. . . ," "When he gets that promotion. . . ," "When the triathlon is over. . . ," "When summer/fall/winter/spring comes. . . ." She just knew they could reconnect then.
But after each new stage of life, they just continued on the well-worn path of disconnection.
Julie and her husband had drained their battery of connection. Sure, it was well-charged when they married. But they kept draining it over the years, neither noticing the battery was nearing being drained. Then one day, Julie's husband spoke a truth they both knew: they were disconnected. In fact, they were so disconnected that he could say the words and go to work. He might have know Julie would be caught off-guard. But he was disconnected enough that he didn't care.
Connection is like your cellphone battery. It may carry you through a day or so. But the more you drain the batter, the longer it will take to recharge. Keep draining it, and at some point, it will simply shut down.
Let's look at the 5 myths of connection in this week's podcast. See if you are falling into the myths — and headed for trouble.
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7 Stages of Disconnection — Where Are You?: #59
Is your marriage feeling disconnected?
Connection is the nourishment of every marriage. If you break the connection, you starve the relationship.
So why are so many marriages connection-starved?
Most people don't realize how important the connection is. So, life gets in the way: careers, friends, hobbies, interests, children. Over time, the distractions build up.
Until one day, you realize that either you do not feel the warmth toward your spouse or your spouse does not feel the warmth toward you.
By then, you may already be a couple of stages into the disconnection spiral. And you may have never seen it coming!
Just a couple of days ago, "Sue" told me she thought the relationship would take care of itself. She thought she and her husband built the connection during their dating days.
"Somehow," she told me, "I thought the marriage would just roll along. We would be happy and all would be good. I forgot to reach out to him. He stopped reaching out to me. Now, there is a huge, cold divide between us in bed. I don't even know how to move forward. I am beginning to think he doesn't even like me anymore. And I have lost all respect."
Take a look at the graphic to the right.
You will notice that Sue has identified 2 stages in the process of disconnection: dislike and disrespect.
Where is YOUR relationship?
In today's podcast, I explore the very typical (but very tragic) pattern of disconnection — a process that takes many marriages right to the brink of divorce and separation.
If you know the stages, you can understand the process. And the process is reversible. The earlier you start, the easier the process. The deeper the hurt and the lower the stage, the more difficult the recovery process.
Are you ready to reconnect? Please grab my Save The Marriage System RIGHT HERE.
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Is It Emotional Infidelity?: #58 Save Your Marriage Podcast
When is it emotional infidelity? What are the signs of emotional affairs?
These are common questions I hear when I speak with people.
Why is it so hard to define this?
One simple reason: it is a gray area of connection. A physical affair is much more clearly defined. A physical boundary has been violated. So, while there may be some difference of opinion on what constitutes an affair, it is clear when it becomes physical.
Not so with emotional infidelity. In almost every case, it starts innocently enough. . . so innocently that the involved parties continue to proclaim that nothing is wrong, no boundary has been violated, and there is no problem with the relationship.
Yet emotional affairs DO threaten marriages. Emotional infidelity sucks the limited emotional resources a person has, leaving the marriage floundering without connection. The emotional pain for the spouse who is losing the connection to someone else can be as extreme as if there was a physical affair.
Unfortunately, this often falls outside of the understanding of the spouse involved in the emotional relationship. He or she will often continue to justify, argue, and refuse to acknowledge anything is wrong. . . until everything falls apart and the truth is overwhelmingly evident.
In this podcast, I take a look at emotional infidelity and give some guidelines to help distinguish "just a friend" from a relationship that has crossed the line.
Listen below and let me know what you think in the comments area further down.
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The "Rocket Fuel" of Infidelity: #57 Save Your Marriage Podcast
When "Janie" came to see me, she was lost. She could not understand HOW her husband could be so wrapped up in his affair. "Doug" was discovered at a lunchtime rendezvous with his mistress of 6 months. A friend saw them sneaking into a motel room, and quickly called Janie.
Doug was ashamed, swore he would break it off, claiming it had only happened a couple of times. While Janie didn't really care how often they had met, Janie also didn't believe him. Doug had been distant for some time. In fact, his distancing was at about the same time he began texting and chatting with the other woman. Janie knew something was wrong; she just couldn't imagine Doug would cheat.
In fact, few would have believed it. Doug was always at his kids' games, was in church every week, and was a civic leader. He was also deeply involved in a very unhealthy relationship — one he seem completely unable to break from.
"What is driving him? Why is he acting this way?" Janie pleaded.
Affairs seem to burn so hotly. It can baffle the people involved and the spouses hurt by the relationship. And it can be a fire that is tough to squelch and hard to escape.
Do not confuse the heat for love.
Rarely is love hatched in the midst of dishonesty and deceit.
Janie told me she just didn't get it. The other woman was less attractive, more needy, less successful, and just did not match up with what Doug proclaimed he wanted in life. Yet there they were, deeply involved and proclaiming the "truth" of their relationship.
I pointed out one thing I want to point out to you: affairs are not about the other person. The other person is an object, a projection of lots of other things. But it is really not so much about that other person.
Very frequently, after the affair is ended, the cheating spouse says to me, "I have no idea what I was thinking. I don't even LIKE that other person."
Unfortunately, it can take time to get to that level of disconnect.
In this week's podcast, I want to share with you the mixture that creates the "rocket fuel" of the intense feelings involved in an affair.
Take a listen and let me know what you think!
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How To Recover From An Affair — Free Resources
Has your marriage been disrupted by an affair? You are not alone.
Statistics on infidelity are a bit difficult to come by. Estimates range from 30% to 60% of marriages have some episode of infidelity during the marriage. That is a large span, from a minority to a majority of relationships. One study found 22% of men and 14% of women admit to cheating in their marriage.
Let's be clear: statistics don't matter. What matters is what happens in YOUR marriage. Just know that if infidelity is or has been a part of your marriage, you are not alone.
But infidelity does not have to end a marriage. In fact, many couples find it possible to not only recover their relationship, but actually build a stronger marriage after the affair. An affair can become a "wake up call" that things need to drastically change.
Are you wanting to save your marriage after infidelity? I have prepared several resources to help you.
CLICK HERE to learn what to do if your spouse had an affair.
CLICK HERE to learn what to do if you had an affair.
CLICK HERE to learn about what fuels an affair.
CLICK HERE to learn why sex is such an issue in marriage.
CLICK HERE to learn how to forgive and move forward.
CLICK HERE if you are ready to save your marriage.
What's YOUR Model of Marriage?: #56 Save Your Marriage Podcast
Mental models. We all have them. It can help us make sense of the world. . . and keep us stuck. Every mental model is really a shortcut in understanding reality.
A mental model is simply a way we understand something. Politics are a mental model. Each political view has a certain viewpoint on many topics and issues. But given the wide array of political views, it would appear that each viewpoint has shortcomings — information that is missing or ignored.
The same is true throughout our lives. Every mental model we have gives us both strengths and weaknesses. And we rarely examine why those models are there, or where they come from.
Take, for example, your model of marriage. Where did YOUR understanding of marriage come from? Mostly likely, it has a great deal to do with the marriage you saw as you were growing up.
Many of us grew up with the "tough it out" or "screw it, I'm out" models of marriage. The lessons learned by watching these two models can keep us stuck and limit our possibility for change in marriage.
Are you ready to make a shift in your mental model? Allow me to offer yet another model. I think you will find my model has more potential than either of the other two models.
In this week's podcast, I cover the 3 models and give you help in making the shift. Let me know what model you had growing up, and how you are changing it now. Just leave a comment in the area below.
If you are ready for a new model, but are not quite sure how to get there, please grab my Save The Marriage System RIGHT HERE.
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When Personalities Clash: #55 Save Your Marriage Podcast
Sometimes, we think we are just who we are, unique and special. We like to believe we are just, well, "normal."
I remember when I first took a personality test years ago. It was the Myers Briggs Personality Indicator (MBTI). I answered a bunch of questions and received a four-letter designation (not to be confused with 4 letter words that have been used to describe me!).
What amazed me was how accurate the description was for that particular type (1 of 16). The designation helped me think about how I processed the world.
There is one problem, though. That particular profile has lots of moving parts, making it a bit complicated for the typical person who is trying to figure out how your personality and your spouse's personality makes your marriage more or less difficult.
Today, I want to offer a much simpler approach. This approach, the Personality Matrix, has only 4 different types. And you don't even need a test to tell you where you fall. When you hear my descriptions in the audio (below), you will quickly locate your primary type. You will also quickly assess your spouse's type.
You will also discover your greatest strengths and weaknesses — and how to escape your vulnerabilities.
More than that, I will share with you how to speak to your spouse's type, so that you both feel more understood — and more capable of navigating the stuck points of your personality.
I invite you to leave a comment below, with the type you discovered and how you are going to make a shift away from your natural weakness.
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3 Things YOU Can Do RIGHT NOW To Save Your Marriage: #54
The email started the same way as many others. "Bob" was impatient. He wanted results. . . and he wanted them now!
His opening line said it all: "Tell me what I can do right now! Don't tell me about some plan for the next 3 months. I want to know what I can do RIGHT NOW!"
I can tell yo what Bob was looking for: some trick, technique, or tip that he could do without any effort. He wanted something quick and easy — something that required no energy or real effort on his part.
Results. That was what he wanted. But really, what he wanted was "results without effort." We all get tempted by that.
I will tell you what I told Bob: there are some things you can do, and you can start doing them right now, this instant. But they aren't little tricks. They aren't manipulation.
Instead, they are ways you can approach your marriage and your life, making an instant shift, that could create incredible change.
IF you were to do all 3 things I suggest in my audio, I guarantee your life will radically change for the better — and so will your marriage!
These shifts are simple and direct. And they mostly require you to make an internal shift. You don't have to know any "secret language pattern," or understand any "sneaky brainwashing tricks."
In fact, all 3 things I suggest you do only takes you to a place of MORE authenticity.
Bob contacted me a couple of months later. He told me that when I first responded, he was "ticked off" (cleaned up version), and thought about sending me a searing email.
The next day, he decided he had nothing really to lose. He was out of ideas. Every other technique had backfired, so he thought he might just want to give my ideas a try.
Bob took on all 3 items I describe in the podcast. It took a little time to get unhooked from his automatic actions. But what he noticed right off was the shift within him.
He responded differently, interacted differently, and carried himself differently.
His wife took note. His life took a turn. How about you?
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Are You An 'Askhole' With Your Spouse?: #53 Save Your Marriage Podcast
Quick question: are you an A-hole with your spouse? Oops, I meant "AskHole."
Are you familiar with the term? It describes someone that asks a question, but is a jerk with the answer that is given.
Just observationally, I see couples do this in 6 ways. One or the other asks a question, gets an answer, then disregards the answer. In fact, sometimes the answer ends up being a weapon.
Do you do that? Do you ask a question and then misuse the response?
Discover the 6 ways you could be an "ask-hole," and then learn how to do it differently.
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Considering the enormous challenges of conducting research in clinical settings, the randomized trials highlighted in the previous section are quite rigorous. They are a powerful source of information for improving drug treatment. But as designed they cannot provide robust estimates of the absolute magnitude and range of treatment effects for various types of clients (especially voluntary versus coerced clients), which are needed for use in cost-effectiveness comparisons, benefit-cost analyses, and simulation modeling of the potential benefits of scaling up or expanding the current treatment system.
The inferential benefits of randomization to experimental condition are well known; see Cook and Campbell (1979) for a comprehensive listing of threats to validity that are reduced or eliminated by randomization. (Note that design limitations create vulnerability to biased inference; they do not guarantee that biased inferences will occur. Whether any bias actually resulted is an empirical question.)
Here, we emphasize the various processes that can differentially bias selection into, or attrition out of, the treatment and control conditions of the study. When other factors are confounded with the treatment variations under study—e.g., addiction severity, motivation to change, life stresses and resources—it is not possible to directly estimate treatment effects by simply examining the difference between mean outcomes in each condition.
Many of these selection biases result from the causal forces that bring clients into treatment. The net directional effect of such biasing processes is rarely clear. Consider a nonexperimental study in which treatment clients are compared with a demographically matched sample of drug users not in treatment. On one hand, one might expect that those who seek and stick with treatment might be more motivated to give up their drug use (see DiClemente, 1999). On the other hand, many if not most clients are in drug treatment not because they voluntarily chose to be, but because they were either formally or informally coerced by a court, law enforcement agency, employer, spouse, or family member. For example, in the 1997 TEDS study, 34.9 percent of all admissions were referred by the criminal justice system (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 1999: Table 3.4). (We briefly examine the literature on coerced treatment below.)
Moreover, at least in the case of tobacco smoking, there is some evidence that smoking cessation clinics disproportionately see the hardest cases—those who were unable to quit smoking on their own (Schachter, 1982). Some selection biases involve client or setting characteristics that


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This location is in Dayton. Nearby parks include Singing Spring Recreation Center, Cox Arborteum and Munger Road Park.
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The closest grocery stores are Kroger, Independent Reliv Distributor and Lobo Ranch.
Nearby restaurants include Rally's, Marco's Pizza and Cassano's Inc.
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Wolcott Keepers House had a busy clean up day
Friends of the Keeper's House and Boy Scout Troop 331 installed new carpet in the Museum/Gift Shop, washed windows, picked up pine cones and tree limbs in the yard, and mulched the flower beds on clean-up day last Saturday. They also cleaned the inside of the House, preparing it for a fresh coat of paint.
Members of Scout Troop 331 assisting were Gilbert Marez, Nolan Johnson, Nate Borgio and leaders Curt Laubner and Ray Johnson. Keeper's House friends participating were Phil Edwards, Sally Heximer, Rich Vedell, Nel Adcock, Suzy Dunham Wittenmyer, Rich Norgard, Jim Blm, Pat O'Keefe, Dick Taylor, and Bill and Sharon Coder.
The summer season for the Benjamin Wolcott Keeper's House, restored 1820's home of the Marblehead Lighthouse's first keeper, starts on Tuesday, June 10. Hours are 1-5 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday and every Saturday from June 14, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The house is located 2 1/2 miles southwest of the Marblehead Lighthouse at 9999 East Bayshore Road. Phone 419-798- 9339 or check keepers.house for more information.


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Definition of enamelwork in English:
enamelworkSyllabification: e·nam·el·work
Pronunciation: /iˈnaməlˌwərk /
The craft of inlaying or decorating metal objects with enamel.
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- Icon painting, manuscript illumination, church wall painting, and a variety of decorative arts - goldsmithing, niello and enamelwork, ceramic and glassware - thrived under the hegemonic patronage of Church and court.
- The museum is home to more than 5,800 timepieces and 7,000 pieces of enamelwork and jewelry from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.
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Do to the pink fletching conversation that's still going on, I thought I'd do a poll of who actually uses or would use pink fletching.
Do to the pink fletching conversation that's still going on, I thought I'd do a poll of who actually uses or would use pink fletching.
2011 Martin Firecat 400/NAP Apache Dropaway/Truglo Xtreme Sight/Custom 8" Stabilizer/Victory V6 Arrows
2007 Martin Jaguar /Trophy Taker Dropaway/Extreme Sight/Custom 21" Stabilizer/Victory V6 Arrows
Bow String Depot, Custom String Builders email us @ firstname.lastname@example.com
Now thats FUNNY. Roflmao!!
2013 PANTERA w/ cloaked cams, PINK Meta peep, PINK/BROWN BSD strings, PINK/BROWN BowJax, Truglo Range Rover Pendulum Site, Shockwave Stabilizer
2012 Onza III w/cloaked cams, Meta peep, Truglo Micro Brite, Shockwave Stabilizer
2010 G5 Quest Primal
True-Fire Hardcore and Winn Free Flight releases
Maxima's tipped w/ RAGE broadheads (some w/ PINK fletching)
Nope. Only exception would be if a family member had breast cancer
2014 Lithium :: 2007 Cheetah :: Jaguar Take-down
REAL AVID Field Staff / Bucks and Beards Scents Field Staff
I've used Pink Vanes, Fobs and pink arrows. I use it because it's one of the easier colors to pick up in the brush.
usually i use 1 purple and 2 white feathers but will use pink if i run short of purple, as i have pink nocks.
X2 Simon Only color that isn't naturally occuring in the woods.
2008 Moab 70# The deer killing bow
2008/12 Firecat 60#--- 2010 Warthog 70#
2009 Warthog 70#---2009-10-12? Warthog Frankenbow with Nitrous B
2010 Strother SR-71 65# & 2012 Strother Rush 65#
2012 Strother SX Rush 60# & 2011 Strother Infinity 70#
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Steam's listing for the PC version of GTA 5 has gone live. The game was greeted by Steam users in the traditional fashion: with trolling.
GTA 5's upcoming PS4, Xbox One and PC versions will enhance the visuals of last-gen editions. A new comparison video shows just how big the upgrade will be.
Sony confirmed at their E3 2014 press conference tonight that GTA 5 is coming to the PS4. Rockstar followed up on that announcement with a trailer confirming Xbox One and PC versions as well.
The crew that tried to fly airplanes through the "D" in GTA Online's Vinewood sign is back with another video. This time, they tried to sky-dive through the sign.
Rockstar Games has a new game for new-generation consoles coming out within the next year. There's only one good guess at what this project could be: the PS4 and Xbox One version of Grand Theft Auto 5.
GTA Online's next major DLC pack, the High Life Update, finally has a release date. Rockstar Games announced today that the add-on will arrive next week on PS3 and Xbox 360.
While waiting for GTA Online to add cooperative heists, players have been making their own. This latest video is a real doozy.
Rockstar Games has clarified some details on the upcoming High Life Update for GTA Online. The free update will provide some much-needed changes for players' safehouses.
GTA Online players can once again create custom multiplayer jobs. Rockstar has restored the featured a day after deactivating it.
If you're having trouble accessing the GTA Online Content Creator, you're not alone. Rockstar has deactivated the feature in order to stop a game-breaking bug.
Today Rockstar Games issued a warning to GTA 5 players. The studio advised players to change the passwords for their Rockstar Social Club accounts.
Whether or not this is legit remains to be seen, but the links seem to work and I came a nostril's hair close to putting down 299.90 lei for the pre-order of GTA V on the PS4. So I'm going to guess that this is potentially legit.
Gone In 60 Seconds is a mostly terrible movie but it does have some nice stunt driving. A group of GTA 5 players decided to reenact one of the best stunts within Los Santos.
One of the most iconic locations in the world of GTA 5 is the Vinewood sign that looms over the city of Los Santos. As it turns out, you can fly a plane through the sign. It's not easy, though.
Leave it to modders to take matters into their own hands. If Rockstar won't deliver GTA V to PC, then the modders will... and technically they have.
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Originally posted 10/28/2008 08:55AM
She may be the most photographed woman in the world. But even Angelina Jolie can fly under the radar.
The actress – who recently returned from a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan – made a surprise appearance at Monday night's Hollywood Film Festival Awards Gala, where she payed tribute to director Clint Eastwood.
In fact, Jolie's appearance was so unexpected, the A-list crowd gasped audibly when she was introduced.
The mother-of-six took time out of her busy schedule to present Eastwood – who helmed her most recent move, The Changeling – with the director of the year award.
"There are some people in this business that are icons, and we often wonder if, when we meet them, they'll live up to what we imagine them to be," she told the audience. "And Clint Eastwood in person is even better."
Originally posted 10/05/2008 03:00PM
He's won Oscars and ridden to the top of the box-office charts – so Clint Eastwood knows his movies. And his stars.
Of Angelina Jolie – the leading lady in his latest directorial effort, the period drama Changeling – Eastwood, 78, says: "I've always admired her talent. She's somewhat hampered sometimes by having this gorgeous face, the most gorgeous face on the planet. She's on covers and all that stuff.
"But," Eastwood told veteran movie journalist Lillian Ross at a Saturday Q&A sponsored by the New Yorker magazine at the Directors Guild of America, "she is a great talent, and it would be easy to overlook that, except after seeing this you realize that she is this great, talented person."
Originally posted 12/14/2006 02:00PM
For Brad Pitt, Will Smith, Clint Eastwood, Meryl Streep, Sacha Baron Cohen and the other Golden Globe nominees, Thursday morning's news might have come before dawn, but it didn't take long for the reality to set in.
Originally posted 01/31/2005 08:00AM
Clint Eastwood solidified his chances to take home the Best Director Oscar on Feb. 27 by being named the Directors Guild of America's filmmaker of the year on Saturday, for the stark boxing drama Million Dollar Baby.
Originally posted 08/13/2004 08:00AM
This must have made Clint Eastwood's day: the 74-year-old Oscar-winning director and actor has settled a libel suit against the writer of an unauthorized biography who claimed Eastwood had abused his former wife, Maggie Eastwood, the Associated Press reports.
Originally posted 03/31/2004 01:00PM
SERENADED: Guests at the tiny Truckee, Calif., eatery Moody's Bistro and Lounge received a special treat Monday night when Paul McCartney took the stage and sang a few numbers for their supper, Reuters reports. McCartney, who was vacationing in the area with wife Heather Mills, joined a jazz trio already onstage to perform a few tunes, including "Don't Get Around Much Anymore," a co-owner for the restaurant said. McCartney had visited the establishment the previous year.
Originally posted 02/10/2004 01:00PM
It was power lunching without the pressure on Monday, as more than 100 Academy Award nominees gathered at a Beverly Hills hotel for a pre-Oscar lunch designed to break the tension of the annual awards show.
Originally posted 01/15/2004 11:15AM
Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and the rest of Clint Eastwood's heavyweight "Mystic River" ensemble joined a surprising critical favorite, "The Station Agent," as the top movie nominee for the 10th annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, announced Thursday morning by Mark Harmon and Andie MacDowell from West Hollywood.
Originally posted 01/06/2004 01:00PM
The Directors Guild of America announced its five nominees for the union's 56th annual award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement on Tuesday, yet another sign that the Oscar nominations are just around the corner. (Those babies get named Jan. 27.)
Originally posted 12/26/2002 01:00AM
Clint Eastwood, 72, filed a $10 million libel suit on Christmas Eve against the author, Patrick McGilligan, and St. Martin's Press for publishing a harshly critical biography of him, "Clint: The Life and Legend," reports the San Francisco Chronicle.
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what up! My name's Chris and I made this account to share my love for cars and sometimes random things that just seem too cool not to mention.
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So sorry for taking a break from tumblr everyone. Just been busy with my finals and some other stuff. But im good and got some good news. Me and my fiance are planning on taking a trip to japan next year. Will definitely keep you all up on that and have plenty of pics to show. Now the year wait begins.


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Key Herbaceous Plants and Key Pathogens/Diseases
Selecting annuals and perennials for placement in the landscape as well as monitoring them for diseases and planning appropriate disease management strategies can be simplified if the key plants are known and if the key pathogens on those plants can be identified. KEY PLANTS are ones that frequently have diseases and should be monitored on a regular basis. In some locations, key plants should not be used if the amount of maintenance work required for the site looks well at all times must be minimized. KEY PATHOGENS/DISEASES (in bold) are those that frequently occur on the plants. The other pathogens listed sometimes occur. If conditions at the planting site tend to favor the key diseases, the key plant should not be established there.
Botrytis, Powdery mildew, Pythium, Impatiens necrotic spot virus, foliar nematode
Centaurea (cornflower)
Aster yellows, Crown and stem rot, Downy mildew, Powdery mildew, Rust, White rust
Bacterial leaf spot, Botrytis flower blight, Fungal leaf spot, Powdery mildew, Pythium root rot
Leaf spot, Powdery mildew, Root rot, Rust, Wilt, Tomato ringspot virus
Convallaria (Lily of the Valley)
Leaf spots, Foliar nematode, Rust, Southern blight
Echinacea (coneflower)
Aster yellows, Bacterial leaf spot, Botrytis stem rot, Cercospora leaf spot, Foliar nematode, Fungal leaf spot (Cercospora, Septoria), Leaf mottling (viruses), Septoria leaf spot, White smut
Geranium (Geranium and Pelargonium)
Alternaria leaf spot, Bacterial blight, Botrytis blight, Edema, Fasciation, Pythium root rot, Rust, Viruses
Hemerocallis (daylily)
Leaf spot (Colletotrichum), Leaf streak or red leaf streak (Aureobasidium), Rhizoctonia crown rot, Rust
Hollyhock (Alcea)
Anthracnose, Crown rot (Phytophthora)
Anthracnose, Bacterial soft rot, Foliar nematode, Fusarium root and crown rot, Hosta virus X, Petiole rot
Botrytis blight, Cercospora leaf spot, Powdery mildew, Virescence (phytoplasma), Viruses
Bacterial leaf blight, Bulb nematode, Crown rot, Fungal leaf spot,Ink spot, Rhixome rot, Soft rot, Viruses
Monarda (bee-balm)
Fungal leaf spots, Powdery mildew, Stem rot, Viruses
Pansy and other Viola
Anthracnose, Cercosopra leaf spot, Fusarium wilt, Rust, Pythium root rot, Scab, Thieloviopsis root rot
Bacterial blight, Botrytis blight, Crown gall, Leaf blotch or measles, Powdery mildew, Root rot, Stem rot, Verticillium wilt, Viruses
Aster yellows, Botrytis blight, Charcoal rot, Crown gall, Cowny mildew, Foliar nematode, Root rot, Rust, Viruses, Wilt
Aster yellows, Bacterial leaf spot, Downy mildew, Fungal leaf spots, Powdery mildew, Rust, Stem rot, Verticillium wilt, Viruses
Anthracnose, Bacterial soft rot, Fungal leaf spots, Gray mold, Powdery mildew, Root rot, Rust, Stem rot (Colletotrichum), Viruses
Basal rot, Fire (Botrytis), Pythium root rot, Stem and bulb nematode, Viruses
Botrytis blight, Powdery mildew, Pythium root rot
Bacterial soft spot, Crown rot, Fungal leaf spots, Rust
Aster yellows, Alternaria leaf spot, Bacterial leaf spot, Powdery mildew
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THE CLOSER YOU GET (4) by Kristi Gold: When Cammie Carson takes over as driver of country star Brett Taylor's tour bus, she's convinced she'll be able to do her job without falling victim to the country star's legendary charisma. But when one of the band members gets sick and Cammie takes over as a backup singer, Brett is determined to never let his sexy driver go. Unfortunately, his own past with an ex who walked out on him and took their young daughter leaves him unable to trust until it's almost too late. In this heartwarming, lively story about the human ability to get over past hurts and love again, Gold does an excellent job of portraying her characters' emotions, and her depiction of the life of an on-the-road country singer is spot-on.
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2800-3068 Western Avenue has a Walk Score of 28 out of 100. This location is a Car-Dependent neighborhood so most errands require a car.
This location is in Eau Claire. Nearby parks include Davey Playground, Locust Lane Playground and Locust Lane Playground.
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So I just finished the Sanzen Sekai Yuugi demo and oh my goddddd suddenly I'm hyped up over it again where I was beginning to lose hope after it kept getting delayed.The characters, especially Tomoe, are charming, the music is pretty nice, I like the art/coloring style and the glimpses it gave us of the plot intrigues me because ahhhh this is the action/sci-fi otome game I never knew I wanted IT ALL FELT PRETTY NITRO PLUS-Y COMPLETE WITH THE FUN BLOODSHED. (okay so the bloodshed might be a downside for some but it's a plus for me because a heroine who has no qualms about murder is something I've always wanted.) The demo ended just as it was getting interested, and the short scenarios for the three guys left me craving for more, which is unfortunate because this means it'll be a sad sad long wait until December… late December at that which means it'll take my proxy forever to ship.
THAT SAID if you can read Japanese and want a sassy, action girl heroine with a soft spot for cakes along with a futuristic sci-fi plot with bloody fights that isn't afraid to literally kill off the heroine if you choose the wrong choice, then I'd totally recommend you try this demo and let yourself be charmed into being excited for this game with me because so far, the only points that makes me :T towards the game is the long wait and the UI.
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Storm Lover Kai furoku cards from B's Log September 2012
Storm Lover Kai furoku cards from B's Log Oktober 2012
SOUYA CUTIE PIE NJASKLFBASJFLBASJ and Shiina you perfect creature come to me ffffffffff <3
seishun hajimemashita! - the twins
Preview? I guess. I wasn't sure which blog to put this on, since it's not very good quality and messy and.. yeah. Sorry for the quality, I couldn't really be bothered with individual pages lately, it's too time-consuming, so have it all mashed together! I only selected various pages, so it's not everything either, since I don't know which people preferred to see.
Unfortunately, the quality gets worse with each page because it gets harder to hold down the magazine orz;;; Also, late, yeah.
Oh, and a trans. treat for amnesia fans inside ;u;
Image and text heavy!
The teacher routes: Spending days as lovers.
yes good
SENSEI プッ(※థэథ)∵.*.∵
oh Souya bb
Bloody Call ~unENDing~
BlueMoon Otome Game; release: May 31st
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English Detective Mysteria
Karin Entertainment otome game; Release: 2012
The Sherlock Holmes otome game! Even more character addition. Miss Hudson, your butler, and Holmes and Lupin Snr !
Kamigami no Asobi
Broccoli otome game; Release: unannounced
—-Collaboration with artist, Kazuki Yone, a game that tells of the "Unfortunate Love" between Gods and Humans; a co-existence that has never happened. Gods exists to be worshiped by humans in return for loving them. And at present the weakening bond between humans and Gods is drastic. So, one young girl is sent and ordered to teach these problem Gods about what is "Human" and "Love".
Apollon Agana Belea: (The Blonde) The Sun God from Greek mythology.
Totsuka Tsukito: (Purple) The Moon God from Japanese mythology.
Mythologies 3 and 4 will be Norse and Egyptian respectively! The setting is within a school and the theme is——- "LOVE IS PAIN"!
new illustrations of charas..Kanato creeped me out.. o__o;
"It's always difficult for me to explain what an otome game is, when I'm asked. Saying you play as a girl and try to find a boyfriend sounds kind of lame and shallow. It's much, much more."
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OTL yesyesYES THIS. My Japanese teacher asked last quarter and I didn't know how to explain it to her (and in Japanese no less ndsjkandjskada)
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Few sculptors of the nineteenth century were as well known during their lifetimes as Moses Ezekiel, though he is little-known today. The first Jewish cadet at VMI, he fought in the battle of New Market in 1864. Encouraged by Robert E. Lee to pursue his artistic calling, Ezekiel studied in Europe and became the first American to win the coveted Prix de Rome. Keith Gibson will draw on his biography of Ezekiel to bring to life this luminary of nineteenth-century art. Colonel Gibson is executive director of museum programs and architectural historian at the Virginia Military Institute.(Introduction by Robert F. Strohm)


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There are no words for the horror of Rotherham.
More than 1,400 young girls have been raped and brutally exploited in the northern England town of roughly 250,000 over the past 16 years, while nearly everyone in authority did all he or she could to look the other way.
An independent investigation released last week says: "It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered. They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated."
In other words, the local government tolerated sexual violence on a vast scale. Why? In part, because the criminals who committed these sickening acts were Muslims from the local Pakistani community, and noticing their depravity was considered insensitive at best, racist at worst.
The British home secretary says "institutionalized political correctness" contributed to the abandonment of hundreds of girls to their tormentors. Imagine something out of the nightmarish world of Stieg Larsson, brought to life and abetted by the muddle-headed cowardice of people who fear the disapproval of the diversity police.
In Rotherham, multiculturalism triumphed over not just feminism, but over the law, over basic human decency, and over civilization itself.
VA scandal exposes greedy socialism || Glenn Reynolds (USA Today)
So Secretary Eric Shinseki is now ex-secretary Shinseki, and cleaning up the Department of Veterans Affairs' health care mess will now be someone else's job. But there's a good chance that no matter who is in charge, the cleanup will be, basically, impossible. That's because the VA is government health care….
Now that the VA has erupted in scandals involving phony wait lists, and people dying because of treatment delays, an audit reveals a "systemic lack of integrity" in the system. According to the auditors, "Information indicates that in some cases, pressures were placed on schedulers to utilize inappropriate practices in order to make waiting times appear more favorable."
In other words, they cooked the books. And what's more, they did it to ensure bigger "performance bonuses." The performance may have been fake, but the bonuses were real. (One whistle-blower compared the operation to a "crime syndicate.")
And that captures an important point. People sometimes think that government or "nonprofit" operations will be run more honestly than for-profit businesses because the businesses operate on the basis of "greed." But, in fact, greed is a human characteristic that is present in any organization made up of humans. It's all about incentives.
And, ironically, a for-profit medical system might actually offer employees less room for greed than a government system. That's because VA patients were stuck with the VA. If wait times were long, they just had to wait, or do without care. In a free-market system, a provider whose wait times were too long would lose business, and even if the employees faked up the wait-time numbers, that loss of business would show up on the bottom line. That would lead top managers to act, or lose their jobs.
In the VA system, however, the losses didn't show up on the bottom line because, well, there isn't one. Instead, the losses were diffused among the many patients who went without care — visible to them, but not to the people who ran the agency, who relied on the cooked-books numbers from their bonus-seeking underlings.
And, contrary to what Klein suggests, that's the problem with socialism. The absence of a bottom line doesn't reduce greed and self-dealing — it removes a constraint on greed and self-dealing. And when that happens, ordinary people pay the price. Keep that in mind, when people suggest that free-market systems are somehow morally inferior to socialism.
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The Limits of Big Data: A Review of Social Physics || Alex Pentland, MIT Technology Review
In 1969, Playboy published a long, freewheeling interview with Marshall McLuhan in which the media theorist and sixties icon sketched a portrait of the future that was at once seductive and repellent. Noting the ability of digital computers to analyze data and communicate messages, he predicted that the machines eventually would be deployed to fine-tune society's workings. "The computer can be used to direct a network of global thermostats to pattern life in ways that will optimize human awareness," he said. "Already, it's technologically feasible to employ the computer to program societies in beneficial ways." He acknowledged that such centralized control raised the specter of "brainwashing, or far worse," but he stressed that "the programming of societies could actually be conducted quite constructively and humanistically."
The interview appeared when computers were used mainly for arcane scientific and industrial number-crunching. To most readers at the time, McLuhan's words must have sounded far-fetched, if not nutty. Now they seem prophetic. With smartphones ubiquitous, Facebook inescapable, and wearable computers like Google Glass emerging, society is gaining a digital sensing system. People's location and behavior are being tracked as they go through their days, and the resulting information is being transmitted instantaneously to vast server farms. Once we write the algorithms needed to parse all that "big data," many sociologists and statisticians believe, we'll be rewarded with a much deeper understanding of what makes society tick….
Deciphering people's behavior is only the first step. What really excites Pentland is the prospect of using digital media and related tools to change people's behavior, to motivate groups and individuals to act in more productive and responsible ways. If people react predictably to social influences, then governments and businesses can use computers to develop and deliver carefully tailored incentives, such as messages of praise or small cash payments, to "tune" the flows of influence in a group and thereby modify the habits of its members. Beyond improving the efficiency of transit and health-care systems, Pentland suggests, group-based incentive programs can make communities more harmonious and creative. "Our main insight," he reports, "is that by targeting [an] individual's peers, peer pressure can amplify the desired effect of a reward on the target individual." Computers become, as McLuhan envisioned, civic thermostats. They not only register society's state but bring it into line with some prescribed ideal. Both the tracking and the maintenance of the social order are automated….
Even if we assume that the privacy issues can be resolved, the idea of what Pentland calls a "data-driven society" remains problematic. Social physics is a variation on the theory of behavioralism that found favor in McLuhan's day, and it suffers from the same limitations that doomed its predecessor. Defining social relations as a pattern of stimulus and response makes the math easier, but it ignores the deep, structural sources of social ills. Pentland may be right that our behavior is determined largely by social norms and the influences of our peers, but what he fails to see is that those norms and influences are themselves shaped by history, politics, and economics, not to mention power and prejudice…. Politics is messy because society is messy, not the other way around…. What big data can't account for is what's most unpredictable, and most interesting, about us.
" At all costs try to avoid granting yourself the status of the victim. Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty. A pointed finger is a victim's logo — the opposite of the V-sign and a synonym for surrender. No matter how abominable your condition may be, try not to blame anything or anybody: history, the state, superiors, race, parents, the phase of the moon, childhood, toilet training, etc. The menu is vast and tedious, and this vastness and tedium alone should be offensive enough to set one's intelligence against choosing from it. The moment that you place blame somewhere, you undermine your resolve to change anything; it could be argued even that that blame-thirsty finger oscillates as wildly as it does because the resolve was never great enough in the first place. After all, a victim status is not without its sweetness. It commands compassion, confers distinction, and whole nations and continents bask in the murk of mental discounts advertised as the victim's conscience. There is an entire victim-culture, ranging from private counselors to international loans. The professed goal of this network notwithstanding, its net result is that of lowering one's expectations from the threshold, so that a measly advantage could be perceived or billed as a major breakthrough. Of course, this is therapeutic and, given the scarcity of the world's resources, perhaps even hygienic, so for want of a better identity, one may embrace it — but try to resist it. However abundant and irrefutable is the evidence that you are on the losing side, negate it as long as you have your wits about you, as long as your lips can utter "No." On the whole, try to respect life not only for its amenities but for its hardships, too. They are a part of the game, and what's good about a hardship is that it is not a deception. Whenever you are in trouble, in some scrape, on the verge of despair or in despair, remember: that's life speaking to you in the only language it knows well. In other words, try to be a little masochistic: without a touch of masochism, the meaning of life is not complete. If this is of any help, try to remember that human dignity is an absolute, not a piecemeal notion, that it is inconsistent with special pleading, that it derives its poise from denying the obvious. Should you find this argument a bit on the heady side, think at least that by considering yourself a victim you but enlarge the vacuum of irresponsibility that demons or demagogues love so much to fill, since a paralyzed will is no dainty for angels. "
On December 18, 1988, twenty-five years after his writing had been denounced as "anti-Soviet" in his native Russia and mere months after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an all-embracing authorship, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity," prolific poet and essayist Joseph Brodsky took the podium at Ann Arbor and addressed the graduating class at the University of Michigan with one of the most beautiful and timeless commencement speeches ever given, offering six invaluable pieces of wisdom on good-personhood and the meaning of life. (via brain pickings)
Why Does Music Give Us Chills? || Mental Floss
When your playlist strikes all the right chords, your body can go on a physiological joyride. Your heart rate increases. Your pupils dilate. Your body temperature rises. Blood redirects to your legs. Your cerebellum—mission control for body movement—becomes more active. Your brain flushes with dopamine and a tingly chill whisks down your back.
About 50 percent of people get chills when listening to music. Research shows that's because music stimulates an ancient reward pathway in the brain, encouraging dopamine to flood the striatum—a part of the forebrain activated by addiction, reward, and motivation. Music, it seems, may affect our brains the same way that sex, gambling, and potato chips do.
Strangely, those dopamine levels can peak several seconds before the song's special moment. That's because your brain is a good listener—it's constantly predicting what's going to happen next. (Evolutionarily speaking, it's a handy habit to have. Making good predictions is essential for survival.)
But music is tricky. It can be unpredictable, teasing our brains and keeping those dopamine triggers guessing. And that's where the chills may come in. Because when you finally hear that long awaited chord, the striatum sighs with dopamine-soaked satisfaction and—BAM—you get the chills. The greater the build-up, the greater the chill.
Obama's tardy epiphany about government's flaws || George Will (Washington Post)
"We've got, for example, 16 different agencies that have some responsibility to help businesses, large and small, in all kinds of ways, whether it's helping to finance them, helping them to export. . . . So, we've proposed, let's consolidate a bunch of that stuff. The challenge we've got is that that requires a law to pass. And, frankly, there are a lot of members of Congress who are chairmen of a particular committee. And they don't want necessarily consolidations where they would lose jurisdiction over certain aspects of certain policies."
The dawn is coming up like thunder as Obama notices the sociology of government. He shows no sign, however, of drawing appropriate lessons from it.
Big government is indeed big, and like another big creature, the sauropod dinosaur, government has a primitive nervous system: The fact of an injury to the tail could take nearly a minute to be communicated to the sauropod brain.
Obama, of whose vast erudition we have been assured, seems unfamiliar with Mancur Olson 's seminal "The Rise and Decline of Nations," which explains how free societies become sclerotic. Their governments become encrusted with interest groups that preserve, like a fly in amber, an increasingly stultifying status quo. This impedes dynamism by protecting arrangements that have worked well for those powerful enough to put the arrangements in place. This blocks upward mobility for those less wired to power.
Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis — how incentives influence behavior — to government. It shows how elected officials and bureaucrats pursue personal aggrandizement as much as people do in the private sector. In the public sector's profit motive, profit is measured by power rather than money.
Obama's tardy epiphanies do not temper his enthusiasm for giving sauropod government ever-deeper penetration into society. He thinks this serves equality. Actually, big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government.
The day before Obama shared with MSNBC his conclusion that big government defends its irrationalities but is insufficiently big, his speech du jour deplored today's increasing inequality and distrust of government. He seems oblivious to the mutual causations at work.
Of course Americans distrust one another more as more and more factions fight one another for preferential treatment by government. Of course government becomes drained of dignity, and becomes corrosive of social cohesion, as it becomes a bigger dispenser of inequality through benefits to those sufficiently clever and connected to work its levers.
Obama correctly says that not only do we "tend to trust our institutions less," we also "tend to trust each other less." Of course there are parallel increases in distrust: Government's dignity diminishes as government grows to serve factions of those sophisticated at manipulating its allocation of preferences. Social solidarity is a casualty of government grown big because it recognizes no limits to its dispensing of favors.
… Suppose there were not 16 government agencies "to help businesses, large and small, in all kinds of ways." Suppose there were none. Such barnacles on big government institutionalize the scramble for government favors; these agencies are a standing incitement to bend public power for private advantage. Hence they increase distrust of government, diminish social solidarity and aggravate the most indefensible inequality — that driven by government dispensations.
Obama's solution to the problem of the 16 is to "consolidate" them, replacing 16 small subtractions from good governance with one big one. Progressives consider this progress.
Oldest Javelins Predate Modern Humans, Raise Questions on Evolution || National Geographic
The oldest known stone-tipped projectiles have been discovered in Ethiopia. The javelins are roughly 280,000 years old and predate the earliest known fossils of our species, Homo sapiens, by about 80,000 years.
These javelins are some 200,000 years older than previous examples of similar weapons, suggesting that modern humans and their extinct relatives had the know-how to create these sorts of complex thrown projectiles much earlier than often thought.
Scientists investigated stone tools unearthed at the Gademotta Formation on the flanks of an ancient, large collapsed volcanic crater in central Ethiopia's Rift Valley….
"We were only interested in testing the hypothesis that these tools were definitely used to tip spears," Sahle said. "The eureka came much later as we did the analysis and found out that the features we were dealing with were the result of throwing impact, not thrusting."
When pointed artifacts are used as weapons, V-shaped fractures, called fracture wings, can form at the moment of impact; the apexes mark where the cracks started. Past experiments in materials such as obsidian have shown that the narrower the V-shapes of fracture wings, the higher the speed of the fracturing that created them.
The researchers discovered that the fracture wings seen in a dozen of these obsidian points suggest that the fracture cracking sped faster than 1,820 miles an hour (2,930 kilometers an hour). In experiments with thrusting spears, that's the maximum velocity seen in fracturing. And some of these artifacts apparently developed fractures after impact at speeds of up to 3,345 miles an hour (5,385 kilometers an hour), close to the maximum velocity seen with fracturing in thrown spears.
A number of these artifacts are among the oldest at the site, suggesting that javelins were used as early as 279,000 years ago. Such weapons are considered signs of complex behavior and were pivotal to the spread of modern humans.
"The implication is that certain behavioral traits that are considered complex and mostly only the domains of anatomically modern humans—such as the capacity to make and use projectiles—were not only incorporated into the technological repertoire of the African early Homo sapiens, but also had earlier roots and were present in populations ancestral to Homo sapiens," Sahle said.
The Most Boring Article You'll Read Today || National Geographic
According to an article published in the journal Motivation and Emotion, there are five types of boredom—which is one more than the research team expected to identify. The boredom varieties range from a calm and pleasant experience to something more like depression….
Indifferent boredom: This is a pleasant form of boredom, said Goetz, giving as an example a student who has had a really long day. "You go to a class, you are tired, and the class is boring. However, the boredom is experienced as rather relaxing and even positive. It is still boredom, but you like being bored." Another example? Zoning out on the couch in front of a marathon of trashy reality TV.
Calibrating boredom: Do you let your thoughts wander? If you are open to new ideas but don't feel any motivation to actually get up and do something, that's calibrating boredom. "It is like daydreaming," said Goetz, "but not actively searching for new actions."
Social Connection Makes a Better Brain || The Atlantic
One of the most exciting findings to emerge from neuroscience in recent years underlines the brain's inherently social nature. When neuroscientists monitor what's going on in someone's brain, they are typically interested in what happens in it when people are involved in an active task, like doing a math problem or reaching for a ball. But neuroscientists have looked more closely at what the brain does during non-active moments, when we're chilling out and the brain is at rest. Every time we are not engaged in an active task—like when we take a break between two math problems—the brain falls into a neural configuration called the "default network." When you have down time, even if it's just for a second, this brain system comes on automatically.
What's remarkable about the default network, according to Lieberman's research, is that it looks almost identical to another brain configuration—the one used for social thinking or "making sense of other people and ourselves," as he writes: "The default network directs us to think about other people's minds—their thoughts, feelings, and goals." Whenever it has a free moment, the human brain has an automatic reflex to go social. Why would the brain, which forms only 2 percent of our body weight but consumes 20 percent of its energy, use its limited resources on social thinking, rather than conserving its energy by relaxing?
"Evolution has made a bet," Lieberman tells me, "that the best thing for our brain to do in any spare moment is to get ready for what comes next in social terms."
Evolution only makes bets if there are payoffs—and when it comes to being social, there are many benefits. Having strong social bonds is as good for you as quitting smoking. Connecting with other people, even in the most basic ways, also makes you happier—especially when you know they need your help.
Pathological Altruism || Wall Street Journal
Oakley defines pathological altruism as "altruism in which attempts to promote the welfare of others instead result in unanticipated harm." A crucial qualification is that while the altruistic actor fails to anticipate the harm, "an external observer would conclude [that it] was reasonably foreseeable." Thus, she explains, if you offer to help a friend move, then accidentally break an expensive item, your altruism probably isn't pathological; whereas if your brother is addicted to painkillers and you help him obtain them, it is.
As the latter example suggests, the idea of "codependency" is a subset of pathological altruism. "Feelings of empathic caring . . . appear to lie at the core of . . . codependent behavior," Oakley notes. People in codependent relationships genuinely care for each other, but that empathy leads them to do destructive things.
Yet according to Oakley, "the vital topic of codependency has received almost no hard-science research focus, leaving 'research' to those with limited or no scientific research qualifications." That is to say, it is largely the domain of pop psychology. "It is reasonable to wonder if the lack of scientific research involving codependency may relate to the fact that there is a strong academic bias against studying possible negative outcomes of empathy."
"We're from the Government and We're Here to Help," Schoolyard Edition || Cato @ Liberty
In an epic case of unintended consequences, government-mandated anti-bullying programs are actually increasing bullying by teaching kids how to bully, according to a new study published in the Journal of Criminology:
The study concluded that students at schools with anti-bullying programs might actually be more likely to become a victim of bullying. It also found that students at schools with no bullying programs were less likely to become victims.
The results were stunning for Jeong [the author]. "Usually people expect an anti-bullying program to have some impact—some positive impact."
The student videos used in many campaigns show examples of bullying and how to intervene. But Jeong says they may actually teach students different bullying techniques—and even educate about new ways to bully through social media and texting.
The New Asylums: Jails Swell With Mentally Ill || Wall Street Journal
America's lockups are its new asylums. After scores of state mental institutions were closed beginning in the 1970s, few alternatives materialized. Many of the afflicted wound up on the streets, where, untreated, they became more vulnerable to joblessness, drug abuse and crime.
The country's three biggest jail systems—Cook County, in Illinois; Los Angeles County; and New York City—are on the front lines. With more than 11,000 prisoners under treatment on any given day, they represent by far the largest mental-health treatment facilities in the country. By comparison, the three largest state-run mental hospitals have a combined 4,000 beds.
Put another way, the number of mentally ill prisoners the three facilities handle daily is equal to 28% of all beds in the nation's 213 state psychiatric hospitals, according to the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors Research Institute Inc.
"In every city and state I have visited, the jails have become the de facto mental institutions," says Esteban Gonzalez, president of the American Jail Association, an organization for jail employees.
Correctional systems define mental illness differently. Generally, the term is used to describe prisoners who require medication for serious issues ranging from major depressive disorders to schizophrenia and bipolar disorders. Also included are inmates with diagnoses that warrant overnight stays in a mental hospital or who demonstrate serious functional impairment.
To get a snapshot of how the U.S. is grappling with such an explosive societal issue, The Wall Street Journal surveyed all 50 states about issues of mental health within their prison populations. Of the 22 states that provided detailed responses, their mental-health patient ratios ranged from one in 10 inmates to one in two. Inmates in all 23 responding states account for 55% of the prisoners in the U.S. under state jurisdiction….
The picture echoes the past. Two centuries ago, reformers were disturbed to find large numbers of the mentally ill in jails, paving the way for the development of state-run institutions. In the 1950s and 1960s, complaints about abuses, advances in medication and a push to give the patients more independence led to another change, this time toward community settings. The weaknesses of that concept—a lack of facilities, barriers created by privacy laws and tightened local and state funding—has brought the picture full circle.
"Society was horrified to warehouse people in state hospitals, but we have no problem with warehousing them in jails and prisons," says Thomas Dart, sheriff of Cook County.
The Military Epidemics That Aren't || Thomas Donnelly (WSJ)
Then there are the supposedly high rates of suicide, post-traumatic stress and sexual aggression, all of which tempt one to regard the military itself as a dehumanizing institution in need of therapeutic intervention.
Soldiers, in this view, are no longer seen as models of self-control, courage and patriotism. Instead they are victims and should be treated as patients. Yet the links between combat, the military and mental health are more complex than the war-as-disease construct allows.
Begin with suicides by servicemen and women, which have increased in recent years—but by dozens of deaths, not in the epidemic fashion that news coverage sometimes seems to suggest. That said, the 349 military suicides in 2012 did exceed the 295 deaths of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. The question is: why?
A major study published this month in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that factors such as substance abuse, depression, financial and relationship problems accounted for the rise in soldier suicides—in other words, the same factors that influence civilians to take their own lives. "The findings from this study," the authors concluded, "are not consistent with the assumption that specific deployment-related characteristics, such as length of deployment, number of deployments, or combat experiences, are directly associated with increased suicide risk."
Nor does the rate of military suicides differ significantly from suicides in the general population….
Combat stress is a complex phenomenon. But research has confirmed what military commanders have long known: It is possible to identify those who are most prone to stress problems, and that has more to do with nonmilitary issues—again, substance abuse, money and family problems are the culprits—than with the experience of combat or deployment to a war zone.
Compared with other countries, the United States diagnoses PTSD cases at improbably high rates….
[T]he numbers bandied about to show an epidemic of sexual violence in the U.S. military are questionable. In May, Capt. Lindsay Rodman, a judge advocate stationed at U.S. Marine Headquarters in Arlington, Va., reported on this page, for example, that the number of military sexual assaults frequently cited in Congress and elsewhere are based on a badly distorted interpretation of a Defense Department survey. In recent months the American public has often heard that 26,000 service members were sexually assaulted last year. But that statistic comes from an unscientific poll and refers to "unwanted sexual contact," including touching the buttocks or even attempted touching.
Moreover, as Gail Heriot, a law professor at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, wrote recently in the Weekly Standard, "there is no evidence that the military has a higher rate of sexual assault than, say, colleges and universities. Indeed, what paltry evidence there is suggests the opposite."
… [W]ar demands unflinching discipline, courage and loyalty in the presence of our deepest animal passions, and in that sense it is anything but dehumanizing. By regarding soldiers, sometimes condescendingly, as victims and patients, we are in danger of foisting our own, very civilian and very modern, therapeutic pathologies on people who don't need them and whose ability to do their jobs—that is, keep us safe—is likely to be diminished.
Where Does Identity Come From? || Scientific American
Imagine we rewound the tape of your life. Your diplomas are pulled off of walls, unframed, and returned. Your children grow smaller, and then vanish. Soon, you too become smaller. Your adult teeth retract, your baby teeth return, and your traits and foibles start to slip away. Once language goes, you are not so much you as potential you. We keep rewinding still, until we're halving and halving a colony of cells, finally arriving at that amazing singularity: the cell that will become you.
The question, of course, is what happens when we press "play" again. Are your talents, traits, and insecurities so deeply embedded in your genes that they're basically inevitable? Or could things go rather differently with just a few tiny nudges? In other words, how much of your fate do you allot to your genes, versus your surroundings, versus chance? This is navel gazing that matters.
In the absence of a time rewinder, the next best experiment is to do what Julia Freund and her colleagues did in a simple, yet remarkable recent study. These investigators placed genetically identical individuals (mice in this case) in a common environment, and asked whether systematic behavioral differences could still develop between them. An answer of "Yes" would mean that there are sources of behavioral variability – "individuality," if you will – that aren't accounted for by the combination of genes and common environment.
Why You Like What You Like || Smithsonian Magazine
A key distinction to make is "tastes" versus "flavors." In terms of taste—the perceptions of salty, sweet, savory, bitter, sour—humans essentially have the same innate preference the world round. John Prescott notes in his book Taste Matters, "The sweet taste of sucrose in water…is optimally pleasant at around 10-12 per cent by weight (approximately the same as is found in many ripe fruits), regardless of whether you are from Japan, Taiwan or Australia."
But we do not eat tastes, we eat flavors, and what makes us like flavors, says Small, is "flavor nutrient conditioning." The upside of this process, she says, "is that we can learn to like the foods that are available to us, and avoid particular foods rather than entire classes of nutrients." Such learning involves a complex chain of activity in the brain, all oriented around understanding what Small calls "flavor objects." "Our brain and our behavior are geared toward learning about the object—strawberry, for example—rather than its various components. Did this food make me sick? Did this food give me energy? You learn preferences based on the entire flavor object." Coffee, for example, is just as bitter the 1,000th time we drink it as the first, but, Small notes, "it becomes coffee. The brain has learned that coffee is not a potentially harmful signal."
In recently presented work, Small is trying to understand, neurologically, how physiological factors can influence the way we eat: "When does the moment kick in where you like it?" Experimental subjects are exposed to novel flavors that have no calories; over a few weeks, one of the flavors has caloric (but tasteless) maltodextrin added. The "post-oral signal" coming from the gut—which is happily converting the maltodextrin into glucose—can, she suggests, alter the response to a flavor. "These post-ingestive signals are getting into the reward circuits" of the brain, "altering the way reward circuits process the flavor, and doing that quite independently of liking," she says. In short, our liking grows without our quite knowing why.


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a) I think my dog is secretly trying to kill me. She leaves multiple tennis balls lying around the house
b) I just heard a weird electronic like gps voice talking faintly in the bedroom. Hallucinating? Maybec) Why is it 5am?
Its been forever tumblr. At work… listening to music and contemplating life. Got into an argument with a long time friend for no reason. Cranky. Tired. Finishing my drink. Thinking about the past in broad strokes.
The present is a funny thing.


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Good vittles (baked beans, brisket and the like from Home Plate), good booze (Fighting Cock Bourbon and Brooklyn, Saranac and Dead Guy beers from Dxcel) and endless unintentional comedy (a mechanical bull to toss patrons about) — a slow clap to the Beijing Hilton for its Zeta Rodeo last weekend. The event drew a crowd modest in size, though high in spirit, which surprised me given the number of people who said they intended to go and inspired me to get there early for a seat. Go figure. Some highlights:
- The "Brokeback" bull ride by a pair of patrons that ended with one of them getting thrown off and almost "gored" (see above). True, that horn is a rubber, but still…
- Second place: When Brandon Hess of Dxcel spanked the bull with a cowboy hat. I have no idea what that action is meant to symbolize. It must be an Iowa thing.
- The fiery baked beans (rmb10) from Home Plate. I couldn't stop eating them. Three heaping bowls. Pity the people who had to sit within six rows of me on a flight the next morning. The pulled pork sandwich (rmb35) was tasty, too.
- The Brooklyn Lager (rmb40) and Fighting Cock Bourbon (rmb40). The first is a flavorsome brew that ranks among my favorites in Beijing, the second provides a high-octane kick at 51 percent alcohol. Both help wash down the food.
- The patience of emcee Anny "Tex" An when dealing requests to double-ride the bull or to ride it backwards.
Overall, a fun night, and I hope the Hilton makes this a regular event.


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How about one about rolling through every attack?
I really want to do this one, but I can't find a good screengrab of this, and after trying for about an hour, I can't seem to capture the right frame. Does anyone happen to have, or would be willing to try to get a screenshot of themselves rolling through an attack?