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Metabolic Typing and Paleo
Based on Dr. Weston Prices work, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and their Effects and the subsequent book by William Wolcott and Trish Fahey, The Metabolic Typing Diet, this would suggest that although the Neolithic diet has not been around as long as the Paleolithic diet, it would appear that sufficient adaptations and genomic expressions have been made that consumption of some grains and dairy have a positive effect for certain people. The Paleo Diet seems to conflict with the diets of even continental neighbors like the African Masai and Bantu tribes who eat vastly different diets but both are considered very healthy and without Western diseases. The Masai tribe thrives on cattle milk and blood; no grains, vegetables or fruits. The Bantu tribe is a very low fat diet, like what is advocated today because of their nonexistent coronary artery disease (Live Longer Now by Nathan Pritkin). Although I am fascinated by the successes noted by individuals like Professor De Vany while on a Paleo diet, what are your thoughts for athletes who wish to peak perform? Is a Paleo diet right for everyone and am I just missing the boat on this? Is Metabolic Typing just out of date science or worse yet, junk science?
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Great Questions! Lets look at this piece-by-piece.
Dr. Prices book is an excellent resource that details some vastly different nutritional approaches which confer dramatically improved health on the various indigenous peoples as compared to westernized diets. We can see an illustration of this with 3 different peoples today: Okinawans (almost Zone proportions- 40/30/30 loads of seafood and veggies. Most of their carbs come from nutrient dense tubers) Sardinians- (very high fat intake in the form of olive oil, moderate grass-fed protein sources, loads of veggies, and some grains) and people from the high Andes regions (high carb intake from a wide variety of potatoes and legumes, moderate at best protein and fat intake from small game and dairy). Now ALL of these people show markedly reduced rates of Westernized diseases and this is most likely due to an almost complete lack of refined foods, however the Andeans are quite short as compared to both the Okinawans and Sardinians and this squares with what Dr. Price found in his travels. Here is an excerpt from his site and a link to the whole text:
Africa also afforded Dr. Price the opportunity to compare primitive groups composed largely of meat eaters, with those that were mostly vegetarian. The Masai of Tankanika, Chewya of Kenya, Muhima of Uganda, Watusi of Ruanda and the Neurs tribes on the western side of the Nile in the Sudan were all cattle-keeping people. Their diets consisted largely of milk, blood and meat, supplemented in some cases with fish and with small amounts of grains, fruits and vegetables. Rich in animal fats, these diets provided large amounts of the fat-soluble vitamins Price discovered to be so necessary for proper development of the physical body and freedom from disease. The Neurs especially valued the livers of animals, considered so sacred "that it may not be touched by human hands. . . It is eaten both raw and cooked."2
These tribes were noted for their fine physiques and great heightin some groups the women averaged over 6 feet tall, and many men reached almost seven feet. Examinations of their teeth revealed very few caries, usually less than 0.5%. Nowhere in his travels had Price yet found groups that had no cavities at all, yet among the cattle-herding tribes of Africa, Dr. Price found six tribes that were completely free of dental decay. Furthermore, all members of these tribes exhibited straight, uncrowded teeth.
Largely vegetarian Bantu tribes such as the Kikuyu and Wakamba were agriculturists. Their diet consisted of sweet potatoes, corn, beans, bananas, millet and Kafir corn or sorghum. They were less robust than their meat-eating neighbors, and tended to be dominated by them. Price found that vegetarian groups had some tooth decayusually around 5% or 6% of all teeth, still small numbers compared to Whites living off store-bought foods. Even among these largely vegetarian tribes, however, dental occlusions were rare, as were degenerative diseases.
Many investigators have mistakenly claimed that Bantu groups consumed no animal products at all. Some tribes kept a few cattle and goats which supplied both milk and meat; they ate small animals such as frogs; and they put a high value on insect food. "The natives of Africa know that certain insects are very rich in special food values at certain seasons, also that their eggs are valuable foods. A fly that hatches in enormous quantities in Lake Victoria is gathered and used fresh and dried for storage. They also use ant eggs and ants."3 Other insects, such as bees, wasps, beetles, butterflies, moths, cricket, dragon flies and termites are sought out and consumed with relish by tribes throughout Africa.4 These insects are rich in the fat soluble factors found in blood, organ meats, fish and butterfat. It is significant that the vegetarian groups practiced the feeding of special foods during gestation and lactation. Apparently carnivorous groups found no need to supplement the diet, as it was already rich in the factors needed for reproduction and optimum growth.
The link to the full text is here:
I made a few key points bold. If you notice Dr. Price observed much better health among both the agriculturalists and pastoralists as compared to the white settlers who consumed a highly refined diet, however the pastoralists, who consumed much larger amounts of fat and protein, were much taller and robust than their agriculturalist neighbors. It is important to note that the Bantu were absolutely NOT adverse to eating meat (or insects for that matter) but rather had adopted an economic strategy that forced the consumption of lower quality grains and legumes. This high consumption of grains and legumes is partly to blame for the Bantus diminished stature due to a high intake of antinutrients in the form of phytates that made dietary mineral sources unavailable for bone growth. This is despite a fairly sophisticated system of fermentation and processing that reduced much of the phytates in the Bantu food. This is a classic demarcation between Paleolithic and Neolithic peoples. Namely height and bone/dental formation in Paleolithic peoples being far superior to that of agriculturalists.
As an aside: Nathan Pritikin completely misrepresented the Bantu diet and ended up committing suicide when his ultra low fat diet failed to cure his cancer. Plenty to be learned form that story.
Regarding the Masai:
Atherosclerosis does not always lead to frank cardiac disease. A number of factors, besides the progression of atheromas, including the propensity of plaque to rupture and repair,(9) thrombogenesis, and vasospasm,(10) are necessary for the development of cardiac disease. According to Kinsella,(11) "clinical manifestation of ischemic heart disease is low compared with the prevalence of coronary atheroma," and Atrens(12) states, "death from cardiovascular causes may occur with minimal atherosclerosis and even extensive atherosclerosis may not become clinically apparent, let alone result in fatality." For example, the Masai have advanced atherosclerosis without significant symptoms or increased coronary mortality.(13)
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So although the pastoralists like the Masai have markedly better health than agriculturalists like the Bantu, they do suffer some adverse health consequences due to a diet that contains novel foodstuffs. It is important to note that the dairy the Masai consumed was grass-fed, not conventional grain fed. Grass-fed dairy has remarkably high levels of n-3 fatty acids, alpha lipoic acid, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), carotenoids, vitamin E and associated tocopherols and tocotrienols. Conventional dairy has essentially none of these items and is a source of concentrated grain lectins that can be highly problematic with regards to gut irritation and autoimmunity. Unless one has access to grass-fed dairy (which has some health concerns) one is reduced to consuming highly problematic conventional dairy.
To recap my main points with this first piece:
1-Eating non-refined foods is healthier than refined foods.
2-Hunter gatherers are healthier than pastoralists who are healthier than agriculturalists.
I want to talk next about metabolic typing and then wrap things up with some observations related to gene variations and nutrient quality as an indicator of a preferred diet.
Metabolic Typing (MT) is a process where-by an individuals optimum ratio of protein, carbohydrate and fat intake is determined. The macronutrients can get apportioned as such:
General Macronutrient Proportions for Each Metabolic Type
Carb Type: 25% Protein / 15% Fat / 60% Carbohydrate
Mixed Type: 30% Protein / 20% Fat / 50% Carbohydrate
Protein Type: 40% Protein / 30% Fat / 30% Carbohydrate
One point to make is that MT is similar to the Zone in that it is concerned first with nutrient portions and second with nutrient quality. My friend, Ido Portal recommends MT and so does Charles Poliquin. They tend however to recommend Paleo foods within the context of MT as this ensures higher nutrient density and removes the most allergenic foods. This process is nothing unique. Barry Sears in Mastering the Zone has a flow chart for Optimizing Your Hormonal Carburetor. Mauro Di Pasquale has a flow chart for optimizing performance and recovery:
. John Berardi offers a similar system for determining ones best air fuel ratio. One Commonality of all these recommendations is that the ratios will fluctuate from time to time in accordance with activity level and other factors. Robert Lee notes in his book !Kung San: Men Women and Work in a Foraging Society that the !Kung diet varies form as much as 90% of calories coming form animal products at certain times of the year to as little as 10% at other times. TS Wiley and Bent Formby, authors of Lights Out: Sleep Sugar and Survival recommend cycling periods of higher and lower carbohydrate consumption based on the time of the year. The take home message from all this?
1-There is no one Paleo diet with regards to macronutrient ratios. There are some trends and there are certainly some foods that are NOT representative of what our ancestors evolved to eat.
2-ALL of the Hunter-gatherers experienced variability from season to season and obviously form location to location.
3- Metabolic Typing and all of the other sophisticated nutrition approaches mentioned above recognize that there is variability from individual to individual, even variability for that individual from time to time. Nothing about this is at odds with what we know about our ancestors (people are different) or their nutritional situation (things change).
This segues nicely into the question of genetic variability. A powerful point is made by the information in the book African Exodus by Christopher stringer. Now no one would spend a moment debating what a Chimpanzee diet should consist of, right? The interesting thing is that there is GREATER genetic variation among a family group of 60 chimps than the TOTALITY of humanity. The chimp family line is remarkably old and highly varied. Genetic variation implies a potential to adapt yet it is quite clear what the eating and dietary practices of chimps include (it is clear for humans as well, but less broadly known hence this Q & A). Human beings despite loads of outward differences are stunningly similar compared to most other organisms. Our ancestors were pinched down to only a few thousand individuals about 100,000 years ago and we have accrued little genetic variety in that time. Now humans ARE opportunistic omnivores and some adaptation has occurred (some populations can tolerate lactose better than others) but the interesting point to make is that the location of greatest change is the area where the germ line is oldest, Africa. Specifically the !Kung People. Wherever agriculture has been established the longest, people show some adaptations towards that end. As was made clear previously however, agriculturalists are NOT healthy in comparison to HGs or even pastoralists. If you happen to be of northern European or Native American origin you are faced with a few decades to perhaps a few thousand years to adapt to a completely new lifeway. We see this reflected in the earlier and more ubiquitous disease of affluence in these populations.
Key Points:
1-Humans have very little genetic variation in comparison to other organisms.
2-Little genetic variation indicates adaptation to a specific lifeway.
My final point involves food quality and really could have been the first and only point to be made. Grains, legumes and dairy are completely inferior to meats, vegetables, fruits nuts and seeds. Loren Cordain illustrates this point in this paper:
In simple terms if one consumes large amounts of grains, legumes and dairy not only are they subjecting themselves to high glycemic, insulin and toxic lectin load one is by default displacing the MOST nutritious food possible.
As to peak athletic performance a Paleo diet is advocated by: Charles Poliquin (US Olympic Track team strength coach) and Joe Friel (Us Olympic Triathlon team coach). Put as much or as little stock in those facts as you like but I think the nutrient density issue is an open and shut case for any endeavor. Regardless of the amounts or ratios of foods consumed, if one chooses lean meats, veggies, fruit nuts and seeds one will be optimizing intake of vitamins, minerals and a slew of phyto-nutrients. A paleo diet need not be low or high carb. As mentioned previously there are some guidelines but what a paleo diet is mainly about is QUALITY of food.
Thank you for the excellent question
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Friday, June 22, 2007
The Spouse of a Trader: What Makes Marriage Work
Much has been written about trader personality and what it takes to succeed in markets. I can't say I've encountered any serious discussion of the psychology of the trader's spouse. And yet, my work with professional traders suggests that trading can take a meaningful toll on spouses and marriages.
The fundamental challenge, I believe, is that traders are rewarded for sound decision making under conditions of risk and uncertainty. These very conditions ensure that traders do not have regular, predictable earnings streams. When I was teaching full time in Syracuse, I had a fixed salary and a tenured position with the medical school. While Margie and I certainly dealt with other challenges, money was not one of them. We had fine employee benefits, two secure incomes (she was a tenured teacher at the time), and very reasonable living expenses.
The trader at a professional firm (investment bank, hedge fund) will typically have a base salary, but most of potential earnings will come from performance. Because these firms are often located in such high living cost locales as Manhattan and suburban Connecticut, the base salary is not perceived as adequate total compensation. Many proprietary trading firms have no such salary structure at all. At best, they offer a "draw" against future profits that must be repaid eventually. Too, the proprietary firm may very well not offer full benefits to its traders, as they are customers of the firm (the prop shop acts as their broker), not employees.
It's when the trader is self-employed and independent that we find little financial security whatsoever. There are no benefits and no income guarantees. The risk and uncertainty in markets create risk and uncertainty for family income. Very, very often it is the spouse--concerned about children and home--who suffers from this uncertainty. The trader may thrive in such an ambiguous environment; the spouse/significant other often does not.
Research tells us that the absence of perceived control over outcomes is one of the most crucial mediating conditions of psychological stress. The spouse of a trader has no control over markets, trading results, or monthly income. I've generally found--even with traders who have had careers spanning decades--that their income levels are cyclical: there are lean years along with good ones. All too often, couples make financial decisions during the flush times, only to experience pressure when market trends and volatility shift.
Yet another challenge faced by the trader spouse is that one of the qualities that makes for trading success--the ability to absorb oneself in markets--is also a quality that can pull the trader away from family involvement. The trader may come home to relax, zone out, and then prepare for the next day; the spouse may be looking for interaction, help at home, and involvement with the children. Many traders describe trading in terms of pursuing a dream. Too often, while one partner is pursuing the dream, the other is getting by from day to day keeping up a home, making ends meet, and providing a stable income. Rarely does the trader realize that the spouse may desire a different dream: one based more on the factors that initially produced the marriage vows.
One of the most common problems I hear from married traders is that bringing trading stresses home creates problems with the spouse. It creates problems precisely because the absorption in those problems prevents the trader from fully participating as a partner and parent. Over time, that can only lead to conflict and resentment. It is in such a situation that spouses then find it difficult to be supportive of their partner's challenges. Many times I've heard that traders dread coming home after a losing day, fearing recriminations from a stressed-out and undergratified partner.
I asked Margie for her view on the most important quality of a trader spouse and she immediately responded: "resilience". By that, she meant the ability to ride bad times with good and maintain some emotional distance--and even a sense of humor--through the challenging times.
And yet, I believe there is much traders can do to promote the resilience of their partners. Two principles that make marriage work in general are especially crucial to the well-being of the trader spouse:
1) Take Responsibility For Your Partner's Well-Being - Where I've seen the marriages of traders work out very well, it's been because the trader has gone the extra yard to ensure that the spouse has a career or other outlets for involvement and expression. The trader has picked up the slack at home, enabling the spouse to also participate in fulfilling activities. The trader has also made particular efforts to not bring trading pressures home and to ensure that there is enough "rainy day" capital at home to weather lean market conditions. In turn, the spouse has sustained the self-sufficiency to allow the trader to have time at home to engage in research or just unwind from a tough day. When the marriages have worked out, the trading career has been a partnership, not just the trader's job.
2) Find The Best In Your Partner - Psychologist John Gottman has found that four patterns of communication predict divorce with 91% accuracy: criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling. Successful couples view their past positively and view each other's character with admiration. Unsuccessful couples attribute problems to flaws in the spouse's personality and character. They see the worst in each other. To a successful couple, a flaw may be a lovable quirk; for the couple headed toward divorce, it is an insurmountable gap. Among the keys to marital success mentioned by Gottman is the ability to create shared meaning. The spouse is not going to be a trader in most cases; nor will the spouse necessarily have an interest in markets. It is crucial to have a shared sphere of interest and activity that continually yields fresh experiences of intimacy. These shared interests will also enable each member of the couple to direct perceive the best in each other.
I did not learn these things from my graduate training as a psychologist. No, I learned them by observing Margie, who is easily as good as being a mother and spouse as I am at being a trading psychologist. This post is for her and all she's done to sustain close to a quarter century of happiness through many personal and joint ups and downs. When we had our wedding rings engraved, we chose the phrase "Perpetual Passion".
It's a formula for success in love as at work.
A Dozen Reflections on Life and Markets
What Trading Teaches Us About Life
8 comments:
- MIsstrade said...
Flowers and nice words occasionally aren't a bad idea either. Great writing, I just sent it to my spouse. Fantastic prose.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Thanks Misstrade,
I think the key is making a partner feel special. And flowers and nice words do a fine job of that!
- amaranth said...
Dr. Brett,
We don't always appreciate the treasures we have right in front of us, our children and spouse, in our pursuit and passion of the trading game.
Its good to step back and be thankful for the blessing of our family, for their support and love.
You are a blessed man with those fine children and spouse !
Thanks for all you do to share your time with us !
- Dinosaur Trader said...
Thanks for that post. Really a great topic and one that is underexamined.
- Kevin said...
Brett, I spent 15 years in the pits and would have been happy to finish my career yelling and screaming. Unfortunately, they moved my cheese by moving the volume to the screen. My unsuccessful attempts to transition to electronic trading were financially crushing and extremely stressful on my marriage. In retrospect, I was guilty of the things you talked about in this post.
I've been out of the markets for several years now, but I'm starting to get "the itch" again. (You can take the trader out of the markets, but you can never take the markets out of the trader!)
The increased volumes of screen trading combined with the CME-CBOT merger has resulted in certain conditions that lead me to believe they've moved my cheese all the way back. The other day I had a good conversation with a potential backer, another professional trader. Today I'm putting my plan on paper to advance the discussions.
My wife has trepidations about this potential career move, but she also understands I am far more passionate about trading than anything else I could be doing to earn a living. I printed out your article for her and told her I now understand the mistakes I made in the past and the things I need to do in the future.
She's still skeptical (I'll need to "walk the walk, not just talk the talk" before that changes), but I believe you've given me a blueprint for trader/spouse success. Thank you, awesome post.
- Brett Steenbarger, Ph.D. said...
Thanks for the note, Kevin; best of luck to you and your wife--
- tippet said...
One aspect of our life as a trader which I very rarely hear mentioned is how lonely and isolating it can be ...in the pits the social interaction was a huge part of the experience ...as a screen trader working from ones home office that disappears...as much as I'm fortunate enough to be a part of a very small tight group of online traders that have managed to trade together for years that experience still doesnt make up for the lack of physical social contact. The unconscious needs we place on our families to fill that void end up putting additional pressure on our marriage... just something to keep in perspective...
- Gustavo's Trades said...
Fantastic post Brett! Thank you!
A week ago I decided to re-balance my life, I was dedicating too much time to trading and not enough time to myself (health) and my family. I now have a clear plan and way to balance things out.
You are also Righ on the spot when you say that success in trading is a PARTNERSHIP! The spouse must be part of it,
Life balance must be present and must be constantly "checked" and measured against. Very much like we check our trading performance.
Take care!

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Would be nice if the coupon would work on multiples.
get 2 bulbs for the price of 50 incandescent. most people will save more money by just turning lights off when they aren't needed.
I've seen Edison subsidized CFLs at Bed Bath & Beyond at 4 for 99 cents. At 25 cents each for CFLs, these aren't very savings oriented, however, these totally possess the cool factor, so I'm gonna check the CC to see how much room I've got left. I'd like to try one of each, but if I can only get 2 of one, I guess I'll got with the standard 300, since it's a little more efficient, brighter, and has a higher CRI rating.
Edit: Wait, now I see it, I can order two of each. Too bad I don't have the funds!
this looks cool BUT REMEMBER: the light output is less than HALF of a regular 60watt lightbulb. that's NOT BRIGHT.
(they rate their 300 Flame at 360 lumen, a 60watt incandescent should be 800+)
You get the two-for-one equivalent price if you buy a five-pack as well, as normal pricing. I wasn't able to make the coupon work with anything else in the basket. Would have purchased, but I'll wait.
well i placed two separate orders. ordered 4 bulbs for the price of 2.
Unfortunately they didn't accept Paypal from what I saw, so by the time I had to manually type in all my information and go find the credit card, my urge to impulse buy had completely left me.
People here may compare these to CFLs so let me set straight the BIGGEST advantage of these LED light bulbs... they are dimmable. The majority of CFLs do not work at all with dimmers. You can buy special CFLs that do this but they are much more expensive. I would say even these won't work as well as an LED on a dimmer. Although someone else can chime in on that.
My kitchen area has (I believe) 8 incandescent light bulbs on a dimmer. When they are all on its like an old school plasma (480 watts) being on. If I had 8 LEDs on the dimmer I could be at 48 watts total.
Stupid government banning incandescents. We could've had high efficiency incandescent lighting.
@harmonicminor: How many of the "800+" lumens from an incandescent 60W bulb are within the infrared portion of the spectrum? Most.
WOW, It got really expensive to save money
The Flame version seems like a good lamp for accent lighting or outdoor lighting. At low brightness, you really need warm light. The whiter the light, the brighter it needs to be to look right.
It's hard to find an efficient, warm (< 2700K) LED or CF to replace long life 25W or 40W incandescent lamps. Litetronics sells a 2250K CFL which costs $12 that's about it.
And these have no mercury - unlike current CFLs
I bought two regular ones and two 'flame' color ones with the coupon. I'm very excited to try them out. I've been looking at dimmable LEDs in stores for weeks now, and I've never seen a deal like this.
The website claims that if you register your bulbs with them, the warranty extends to 5 years, and you get a 20% off coupon for next time. I don't know if I'll buy more until I see how they actually look and work in my dimmable sockets, but even just to be able to try LEDs in my house, it's awesome. Four bulbs for $49... I had to grab them!
I purchased 2 of these last year when they were posted, and was very excited. Unfortunately they are still in the boxes, as when I installed them in my office, the 6 Watt variety, there was not enough light to function. They are, like their predecessors, really dim, and I ended up buying standard bulbs from Target to light my office.
I love how they are claiming to be eco friendly when recent reports revealed that led bulbs contain significant amounts of lead and arsenic. http://content.usatoday.com/communities/greenhouse/post/2011/02/led-lights-lead-arsenic-toxics-/1
Intriguing deal, but I've never been one to pay the early adopter tax.
I'll wait for these to perform better and become more affordable.
Sweet, I have been looking for stylish lightbulbs...I'm tired of staring at my unsightly ones :\
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So, this is like replacing a 60 watt incandescent bulb with one about 25 watts.
You know, you'll save a lot of carbon dioxides if you do that, too.
You have to go by the lumen count, and here's a hint: if you have to LOOK for the lumen count, it ain't good. Many CFL's do show the lumen rating and I've found you can pretty much trust that if they say they are 60 watt equivalent, it's about that. These said they replaced 35-60 watt bulbs and are rated 300 lumens. That sounds like they are pushing the numbers a bit much. Call me when they hitting 800 or 1200 lumens and I'll check the price then.
I can't fathom how anyone could call two lightbulbs for $25 a deal. I understand they probably normally go for much more than this, but why are you guys willing to pay so much for these?
@starbelliedboy: these bulbs have come up in the past -- here was some info I put together back then:
These bulbs have the same lighting as some 40w incandescent bulbs that walmart.com has on their site. The inc bulbs only have a 1000 hour lifespan, so you would need 35 of them to get the same life expectancy. They run $2.88/4 bulbs. You would need about 9 packs to get the same life expectancy, so you're already running $25.92.
Then you have to factor in the expense for each bulb. The LED would consume 210 Kilowatt hours over it's life expectancy, but the incandescent would consume 1400 KWHs.
KWHs run about $.10 where I live, so the total expense to run would be $21 vs $140.
That means the LED's would cost a total of $33.48 over the lifetime of each bulb vs about $165 for the incandescents.
Basically, these bulbs WILL save you money as long as they last as long as they're supposed to, and you're willing to have less light than you do now.
Also, it's important to remember that MOST residential light fixtures are only rated at 60w MAX. It says it right on the fixture. Someone had put a 100w lightbulb into the fixture of my office when we bought our house and it had caused the wiring insulation to melt and nearly set the house on fire. SO -- if you're only using 60W bulbs like you're supposed to, then 40W bulbs aren't so much of a step down.
The hype over CFLs which is not mentioned is they contain mercury and need to disposed of properly and imagine if YOU break one?? These LED globes contain no mercury which makes it worth the price of admission.
Another company capitalizing off people's misplaced compassion. :|
@capguncowboy: It seems that it's a race between a car and a man on a bicycle. The bicycle may be more "fuel efficient", but you're stuck with a max speed of 25mph and a max distance of ~75miles (depending on how athletic the guy is.)
Here's a fun fact for ya:
Joseph Swan invented the light bulb.
@capguncowboy: If you want to get that technical, then you also need to figure in how much you use a particular light. Most lamps/lights I have are used less than a hour a day and actually most are used less than an hour a week. I might have 4 or 5 lights that are on for more than an hour a day. To reach the theoretical lifespan at a rate of 5 hours a day, it would take roughly nineteen years. More than likely someone will come up with another technology or an improved technology in the next few years that will render these obsolete even though they will still have 15 years of life left.
@inches: It's mentioned all the time. In an exaggerated panicky way, no less. People do break them and it doesn't require a Hazmat suit or anything.
Now, the need to provide easy and convenient locations for CFL disposal is very real. Frankly, I have a drawer with 3 or 4 sitting in it, waiting for whenever I actually get my butt down to hazardous waste recycling.
On the other hand, I've got an ancient HVAC thermostat in there too with a bulb in it that contains about 1000% percent more mercury than a CFL, so I've got more to drag to hazardous waste than some light bulbs.
I bought 2 the last time and I like them. I put them in spots that get the most use. They are instant on vs warm up time for CFLs. I just bought 2 more.
I wonder what kind of LEDs are in there? If it has 50 or so small white LEDs they won't last very long before they get dim, sometimes just a couple of months if they are on a lot of the time. Also, since they tend to be in series the whole thing will go out if just one LED burns out, like a string of Christmas tree lights. The best LED lights are made of 1-4 large LEDs instead of lots of small ones and they last longer. The more expensive LEDs from Japan tend to last longer than cheap ones from China too.
CRAP offer.
Coupon does NOT work!
@pjdai You have to add TWO LED light bulbs to your cart THEN apply the promo code.
@sunnylea0: Most Lowe's, Home Depot, and Ikea stores take CFLs for recycling. Though it may be just as easy for you to get to the haz waste site.
i love LED lights. thye are HARD to find but i will pick 1 or 2 up from wal-mart about every other time i go there. they are not always in stock and some stores don't sell them... but they are $4 each
@tshrack: I don't believe I knew that, which is very cool (although you've depressed me, because I live in a sad, Ikea-less land).
However, I do still have to get rid of that stupid million-year old thermostat.
I prefer incandescent (:
About two years ago I bought 6 LED light bulbs for around $65. They were not this brand - so my experiences may not completely apply. However - my wife would not let me use them anywhere. They were extremely dim and produced a "smoky" light that she compared to a dive bar. On a cost-per-lumen basis, I've found that CFL's currently are the best deal, especially now that most are instant-on. Dimmer functionality is lacking in CFLs, but I'm not a fan of dimmers anyway.
One thing I found the LED bulbs useful for: nightlights. You can actually sleep with these things on. I keep one on in my home office 24-7 so nobody walks into anything in the middle of the night while walking through. One note: my bulbs get dim very quickly - so even though they're rated for a long life, my first LED bulb only lasted 9 months before it was too dim to use.
I'll wait until the technology matures a few more years before buying again.
Looked around for reviews as I've heard there is a big difference between brands, the link below said these are rather underpowered for what the manufacturer claims:
Here's a more detailed review which draws the same conclusion:
One key thing to note from one of those reviews (that doesn't seem to be mentioned in the product description):
"like most LEDs, the Pharox 300 LED only projects light at 180 degrees"
So good for a ceiling fixture or a desk lamp, not good for a table lamp.
the coupon isn't working anymore?
The Pharox Flame 300 is good for outdoor lighting. I bought it to replace an old CFL yellow bug-light on my front porch. I like that the LED reaches full brightness immediately and is immune to cold weather, unlike the CFL. I will have to wait until summer to see how invisible it is to insects, but I'm optimistic since the orange LED appears to be longer wavelength than the yellow CFL capsule.
For indoor lighting, though, the Pharox Flame 300 is actually too bright. The orange light does not look natural at full brightness. It only looks natural when I turned the dimmer all the way down.
That's one thing you always need to be aware of with LED/CFL lighting. High CT, bluish cool white light looks best only when there's TONS of light, and looks wrong when dim. On the other hand, low CT, orange-yellow warm white light looks best only when very dim. With incandescent lighting this balances itself out automatically, but with CFL/LED you have to be careful.
just got these and put them in and I gotta tell you they are great. we'll see how long they last and what the coned bill looks like, but they are brighter, and look much much better than the CFLS I had in there...
Good deal, already got mine in the mail and EXTREMELY please with them. Unfortunately, the coupon code is now expired.


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A woman was arrested after she crashed into a power pole Saturday night, knocking live power lines down to the street below, police said.
Leah Berlanger, 26, was driving her 2006 Mazda 6 north on Sherwood Drive when she lost control and struck a power pole near Calle Cebu about 6:47 p.m. Saturday, according to police.
The pole was sheared off, causing live wires to fall onto Sherwood Drive.
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Behind "Christian" is the provider Interhome, which cooperates with regional holiday home providers, and here inserted the retailer Wimdu. The settlement through Interhome was basically no problem, apart from misstatement handing over the keys. Here, a period called by 16-19 clock. A call in DanCenter in Lökken revealed then that one makes there already by 17 clock close up shop. Surprise if you believe that you are currently well in time at 18:30 clock!
The house has about 1500 € tasted this week (month's rent ie € 6000!). But then you get the following benefits:
1. cots as in the army: 90 cm, worn out, squeaking springs. At my last school trip in a hostel, the beds were besser.Für such a price I expect in every room, a king-size bed with an adequate mattress.
2. In the Terms and Conditions Charges are asserted (in DKK). Converted 32 cents per kWh of electricity and 7.5 € per m3 water. With Wimdu no information is given to it! Well - petty home at such a rent, but at about 40 kWh per week, which does not make much out of - one thinks. Is a nachdringlich told Locally, one must IMMEDIATELY note the current count. Aha -gerne. Arrived is a also clear why: All Heizernergie: pool, jacuzzi (lukewarm), space heating is provided via power. Agbesehen that the radiators are barely able to keep the house warm adequately, but you eat power ohen end. We have all radiators issued immediately and eingkauft for 80 € wood and the house heated Üner the oven. Despite that, we had a current account after a week of 320 € !!!! If you have the heaters would have used, you would probably (estimate!) Come to 500 €.
Accept in their apartment / house utilities 1200-2000 € per month? Of course not. But with tourists to do it, yes.
House in Denmark? These terms never again!
Hinter "Christian" steht der Anbieter interhome, der mit regionalen Ferienhaus-Anbietern zusammenarbeitet und hier beim retailer WIMDU inseriert. Die Abwicklung über interhome war grundsätzlich unproblematisch, abgesehen von falschen Angaben zur Schlüsselübergabe. Hier wird ein Zeitraum genannt von 16-19 Uhr. Ein Anruf im DANCenter in Lökken ergab dann, dass man dort bereits um 17 Uhr den Laden dicht macht. Überraschung, wenn Sie glauben, dass Sie um 18:30 Uhr noch gut in der Zeit liegen!
Das Haus hat in dieser Woche ca. 1500 € gekostet (Monatsmiete also 6000 €!). Dafür bekommt man dann folgende Leistungen:
1. Feldbetten wie bei der Bundeswehr: 90 cm, durchgelegen, Federn quietschen. Bei meiner letzten Klassenfahrt in einer Jugendherberge waren die Betten besser.Für einen solchen Preis erwarte ich in jedem Raum ein KingSize-Doppelbett mit einer adäquaten Matratze.
2. In den Vertragsbedingungen werden Nebenkosten geltend gemacht (in DKK). Umgerechnet 32 Cent pro KWh Strom und 7,5 € pro m3 Wasser. Bei Wimdu werden gar keine Angaben dazu gemacht! Na gut - kleinlich bei einer solchen Miete, aber bei ca. 40 KWh pro Woche zuhause, macht das nicht viel aus - denkt man. Vor Ort wird einem nachdringlich gesagt, man müsse SOFORT den Stromzählerstand notieren. Aha -gerne. Angekommen wird einem auch deutlich warum: Sämtliche Heizernergie: Pool, Jacuzzi (lauwarm), Raumheizung wird über Strom bereit gestellt. Agbesehen davon, dass die Heizkörper kaum in der Lage sind, das Haus adäquat zu erwärmen, fressen Sie aber Strom ohen Ende. Wir haben alle Heizkörper sofort ausgestellt und für 80 € Holz eingkauft und das Haus üner den Ofen geheizt. Trotzdessen hatten wir eine Stromrechnung nach einer Woche von ca. 320 € !!!! Wenn man auch noch die Heizungen benutzt hätte, wäre man wahrscheinlich (Schätzung!) auf 500 € gekommen.
Akzeptieren Sie in ihrer Wohnung/Haus Nebenkosten von 1200 bis 2000 € im Monat? Natürlich nicht. Aber mit Touristen kann man das ja machen.
Haus in Dänemark? Zu diesen Konditionen NIE wieder!
An accommodation beneath contempt . Dirty , leaky shower stall , broken lamps and contacts that did not work . Wifi only worked if you sat out in the yard . We had ants in the kitchen and bathroom.
Fee for cleaning, towels and sheets.
To pay for cleaning when the apartment was so dirty known very irritant . Smaller service oriented staff made it known not worthwhile to go and complain. Would never recommend this accommodation !
Very nice, pieceful and relaxing house.
We really enjoyed the large rooms and terasses outdoor. It is great to have realy furniture inside and outside.
The house is big and especially with a great view but:
- There're no curtains or shutters on the windows
- The sheets are minimal (and not optional)
- The house was quite dirty despite the payment for the cleaning
- The manager of the property accused me to stole one (1) pillowcase the day after we left. The pillowcase has been obviously found after a while, it was left behind during the collecting.
I've enjoyed my stay in Stintino for the sea, the nature, the landscape, but, for a short stay of 4 days, too many thing that didn't work out with the house.
Nice place and great pool. BUT too expensive! Bad kitchenequipments. Expensive sheets and towels. Not value with the money!
My boyfriend and I stayed here for 6 nights and it was absolutely wonderful! Exactly what you see in pictures, except there isn't actually a balcony. Just a glass door with railings right behind it. The area was by far our favourite in Barcelona. Truly unique and enjoyable to just walk around at any time of the day. The stairs are a frightening first impression, 57 in a small spiral staircase, but still definitely worth the mission. But yes, pack light!
Thank you Maria for your kind hospitality, suggestions and being readily available for anything we needed.
I definitely recommend :)
Very disappointed at the standard of the apartment and the arrival and departure procedure! This apartment was let through Wimdu by Interhome. I will never book anything let by Interhome again. Having made the booking and paid for it we were totally unaware until one week before departure that bed linen and towels were not included and an extra charge was levied (Euro 28 for sheets and 12 for towels). When I challenged Interhome on non disclosure of information they told me it was in the small print: having trawled though every last word I found it in tiny print under Cancellation Policy! Again I challenged Interhome about deliberately placing this important piece of information where nobody will think to look. It should be clearly displayed on the webpage under Amenities where a note can be posted in the relevant area for all to see.
Arrival procedure - what a nonsense. Having paid for the sheets you have to collect them in person from the office. We made it by the skin of our teeth before the office closed for the weekend. Because our flight was delayed we arrived in Chamonix later than expected and had the office been closed we would have had no sheets at all! They are bulky to carry and I have photos of my husband looking like Santa Clause with a big white sack over his shoulder. It's the height of nonsense to expect arrivals to lug luggage and carry this bulky bad around Chamonix. On departure we had to return the sheets to the office again in said bag!
End cleaning - the previous tenant had presumably paid therefore we expected a clean apartment. The hard surfaces were clean but the living room carpet was disgusting with stains and grime and dirty black marks (photographed). It needs either professionally deep cleaned or dumped. Personally I would replace it. My bed sheet had a dirty brown mark on it (photographed) and the "white" patio furniture was grey with grime. I don't think it had been cleaned in years. Before I would set as much as a mug on it I scrubbed it with the dish scrubber (which I then couldn't use on the dishes!). Again we have photographic evidence. The best feature of the apartment is the wonderful view of Mont Blanc from the balcony. I don't know who is employed to clean this apartment but they could do with a lesson or two. I will never use Interhome again and I recommend that you steer clear of it too. I've used Wimdu many times and always been satisfied but not on this occasion.
Nice clean well equipped apartment. Very friendly hoists. Would recommend to all my friends.
The Oasis is a wonderful and great accomodation. The house is surrounded by Lemon trees and offers a great view to the sea. It is well equipped, clean and very comfortable for Groups/families up to ten. Highly recommanded.
The place shown on the pictures has an open swimming pool. However if you 're in to reading all the small letters in the massive paper work of Inter Home you Will Read That the pool is open from the 15th of June. What à dissapointment for my daughter. Furthermore we had to pay for the bedlinen on top of the cleaning which was counted pro person. And of course because it was cold we had to pay for the heating although in the living room was no heating system, only in the bath and bedroom. The owners were. Ice although when people arrive in the middle of the night due to their flight it would be nice if there would be something to drink. The garden is large and nice decorated so I think in summer when the pool is open it will be a paradise. For myself I think it is deceive that Wimdu puts this booking through a link connecting to another website. In this way you pay a lot more and you don,'t get what is shown on the pictures. I will never book in this manner again because in the end you pay a lot more.
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Whether it's the brilliant blue wings of a butterfly, the scarlet feathers of a tanager, or the stripes of a zebra, animals display color in vastly different ways and for different reasons. Combining dramatic specimens with video presentations, computer interactives, hands-on activities, and a stunning display of live dart frogs, The Language of Color will help visitors understand the nature of color and pattern, how different animals "see" it, and how animal color and its perception have co-evolved to produce the complex and diverse palette of colors we see in the world today. The exhibit features a wide array of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, mollusks, and insect specimens that illustrate colors used to camouflage, startle predators, mimic other animals, attract a mate, or intimidate a rival.
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The Earliest Names
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The majority of European surnames or family names come from geographical locations or terms, occupations, relationships, or an individual's unique characteristics or physical appearance.
After the Normans had dominated England for several decades, William decided to document the population he had come to control. From this early census report came the Domesday Book, which is one of the earliest records we have of names and naming trends.
As could be expected, thanks to the Norman tradition, the names that were listed showed a reliance on a small group of names for each gender, as well as a strong preference for specific names within each group. Most of society at the time relied on a select list of 20 names for each gender, with Henry, John, Thomas, Richard, Robert, and William accounting for four fifths of the male population; Agnes, Alice, Cicely, Elizabeth, Helen, Isabel, Joan, Matilda, and Margaret accounting for the majority of the women.
In the generations following William's arrival, Norman names continued to replace the English, with Alice, Margery, Maud, Muriel, Olive, and Emma finding favor for girls; William, Richard, Robert, Henry, Hugh, and Ralph became popular for boys.
Onward Christian Names
Alphabet Soup
A Christian name refers to the name given at baptism. In the early Christian Church, the Christian name was added to a person's original name. The terms "first name" or "given name" are often used when referring to Jewish or other non-Christian names.
The next major change in naming would be driven by the Christian Church nearly a century after William came to England. The church had long urged parents to select names of saints or martyrs for their children, believing that using such names would place the bearers under their namesake's protection. However, such advice was largely ignored until the thirteenth century, when the spread of Christianity lead to many converts taking new Christian names when they were baptized.
Saint names—Peter, John, James, Anthony, Paul, and others—began being used in greater frequency for boys. For girls, Mary, Anne, Elizabeth, and Catherine became popular.
More on: Choosing a Name
Excerpted from The Complete Idiot's Guide to Baby Names © 1999 by Sonia Weiss. All rights reserved including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. Used by arrangement with Alpha Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Peace be with you, brother. I wish you all the best. Keep me in your prayers.
Same Bro. Been reading some good Coptic material by the way, the early desert fathers . WOW, that country Egypt produced such Holy men.
Again: if I have offended any of you my Brothers in anything, I take back what I said and give my Apologies (unless it was a Dogma of the Church, but even then if my tone was unjustifiably harsh or cruel or negligent may I have rephrased the matter or refrained from speaking on the issue).
Christ's headship over the Church is not enough; plan hiring an assassin.
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Book your room at Ritz Acapulco Hotel de Playa All Inclusive
Get an overview of this hotelDelightful beach resort with a sauna
Nestled on the beach, this Zona Dorada resort is 0.1 mi (0.2 km) from Amazing World and 2.5 mi (4 km) from La Quebrada Cliffs. Papagayo Beach and Plaza Bahia are also within 10 minutes.
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At Ritz Acapulco Hotel de Playa All Inclusive, relax by an outdoor pool or hit the beach where you can enjoy kayaking.
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All 240 rooms offer free WiFi, balconies, and sofa beds. Satellite TV and safes are among the other amenities available to guests.Would you like to give us feedback? Share it! Opens in a new window
Ritz Acapulco Hotel de Playa All InclusiveAv. Costera Miguel Aleman 159 Acapulco GRO 39670
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This resort is all-inclusive. Onsite food and beverages are included in the room price (some restrictions may apply).
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Gratuities and taxes are included.
Food and beverages
- All meals, snacks, and local beverages included
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Let $a,b,c,m \in \mathbb{Z}$, is it always the case that $$a((b+c) \text{ mod } q) \text{ mod } q = (ab \text{ mod } q + ac \text{ mod } q) \text{ mod } q$$
Yes. When doing modular arithmetic you can take the modulus as often or seldom as you want to before you reach the final result, as long as you only do addition, subtraction and multiplication, and always end with a modulus. So your equation is equivalent to $a(b+c)\equiv ab+ac \pmod q$.
The formal justification for this is that when you're doing computations in $\mathbb Z/q\mathbb Z$, you can use any representative for each residue class you want for each operation, and the "mod $q$" just exchanges one representative for another for the same class. Only the final "mod $q$" is important; it ensures that if you have the same residue class on both sides, you will get the same representatives.
Note that the result can be shown by brute force, so to speak, without any group theory.
Let $n = a((b+c) \text{ mod } q) \text{ mod } q$; then $a((b+c) \text{ mod } q) = n + dq$ for some integer $d$. Similarly, $b+c = (b+c) \text{ mod } q + eq$ for some integer $e$, so $$\begin{align*}a(b+c) &= a[(b+c)\text{ mod }q+eq]\\ &=n+(d+ae)q. \end{align*}$$
Now let $m = (ab \text{ mod } q + ac \text{ mod } q) \text{ mod } q$. Then $ab \text{ mod } q + ac \text{ mod } q = m + fq$ for some integer $f$. Similarly, $ab = ab \text{ mod } q +gq$ and $ac = ac \text{ mod } q +hq$ for some integers $g$ and $h$, so $$\begin{align*}ab+ac &= (ab \text{ mod }q+gq)+(ac \text{ mod }q + hq)\\ &=(ab \text{ mod }q + ac \text{ mod }q) + (g+h)q\\ &=m+(f+g+h)q. \end{align*}$$
Then $$\begin{align*}n-m &= [a(b+c)-(d+ae)q] - [ab+ac-(f+g+h)q]\\ &=[a(b+c)-(ab+ac)]-[(d+ae)q-(f+g+h)q]\\ &=(f+g+h-d-ae)q, \end{align*}$$ so $q \mid (n-m)$. But $0 \le m,n < q$ by the definition of the mod function, so $\vert n-m\vert < q$, and we must have $n-m=0$, i.e., $n=m$.
HINT $\quad \rm\begin{align} x\ -\ y\ q\ \ mod\ q\ \ &=\ \ \rm x\ \ mod\ q\quad\ \ for\ all\ integers\ x,\:y \\ \rm \Rightarrow\quad a\ (b + c\ -\ n\:q)\: \ mod\ q\ \ &=\rm\ \ (ab\ -\ j\ q\ +\ ac\ -\ k\:q)\:\ mod\ q \\ \rm \Rightarrow\quad a\ (b + c\ mod\ q)\: \ mod\ q\ \ &=\rm\ \ (ab\ mod\ q\ +\ ac\ mod\ q)\:\ mod\ q \end{align}$
since both sides equal $\rm\:\ ab+ac\ \ mod\ q\:\ $ by the first identity. Notice that we have invoked above three times the basic identity $\rm\: m\ mod\ q\ =\ m - i\ q\ $ for some integer $\rm\:i\:.\:$
If you have knowledge of congruence arithmetic then you may find it of interest to reformulate the above using such. This will yield a much more conceptual view of the essence of the matter.
All the normal distributive, commutative and associative laws of $\mathbb{Z}$ are preserved modulo any $q$; this can be seen as how the factor ring $\text{ }\mathbb{Z}_q$ "inherits" the nice arithmetical properties of the base ring $\mathbb{Z}$.


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Richard Scarry's Best Agenda-Driven Review Ever
Leave it to the Wall Street Journal to take the fun out of the busy world of Richard Scarry.
This weekend's WSJ Books section features an essay by Meghan Cox Gurdon on the work of the children's-book author and illustrator Richard Scarry, prompted by the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever (and a new anniversary edition of same). There are moments in the essay where Gurdon captures some of what makes Scarry's work so charming and appealing all these years later. But for the most part, the world I know well from Scarry's books – having studied them diligently as a child, and now again as a parent – is not recognizable from Gurdon's culture-warrish, politicized perspective.
Scarry, Gurdon writes, "made adulthood seem industrious and purposeful, an inviting realm to which children must naturally aspire." (She also says this stood him in contrast to most children's authors, a claim that doesn't ring true to me, but the terms are so broad it's impossible to really evaluate what she's trying to say.) Is it true that Scarry's world depicts adulthood as a realm of industry and purpose? To me, the line between childhood and adulthood in Scarry's books has always seemed rather blurry. The characters are all anthropomorphized animals, for one thing. There are some family units, with "Mother Pig" and "Father Pig" and so forth, and there are scenes of schoolchildren and kids on a playground that are easy enough for human kids to identify with. But the animals Scarry drew pursuing their various vocations, who seem to be the "adults" Gurdon is thinking of, the ones "engaged in productive work," are goofy and not especially mature (they drive vehicles that look like pickles or crayons or jack-o-lanterns), and they are constantly making a mess of their pursuits (the firefighters, a troop of pigs who wear old-timey military helmets and colanders on their heads, are so bumbling it's a wonder every thatch-roofed Tudor cottage in Busy Town hasn't burned to the ground by now). And what about Lowly Worm – is he a kid or an adult? Why exactly does he live in Huckle Cat's house?
"There are no inactive creatures in Scarry's eventful tableaux," Gurdon claims, "let alone portrayals of indolence or torpor." Well, let's see. When I open my son's copy of Richard Scarry's Best Little Word Book Ever to the second spread, I see a cross-section of Huckle Cat's house. The cats "are always busy doing things around the house," the text explains. But it goes on: "Lowly is in bed because he is still tired. Sleep tight, Lowly."
Still, as I have mentioned, Lowly Worm is a perplexing figure; perhaps he is the Shakespearean Fool of Busy Town, whose defiance of convention is a necessary release for an otherwise rigid society. There's still the "tired traveler" on page 37 of Cars and Trucks and Things That Go, snoozing against a construction fence, his bindle by his side. He's pretty inactive. He may even be indolent. Or, you could look closely at the previous spread of that same book, pages 34 and 35 of the current edition, which happens to be the very spread the WSJ used to illustrate Gurdon's review. There in the top right corner, above the cars that have been crushed by a steamroller, the construction vehicles paving a road, and of course the mice riding in their "cheese car," is a bear taking a nap beneath a tree – labeled, in whimsical Scarry fashion, "a sleepy bear dozer."
So, what Scarry depicted was less an adult world and more a world of animals doing people things. And sometimes those animals were not productive; sometimes they were even downright torpid. That's because Richard Scarry wasn't trying to depict a worker's paradise in his books. He wasn't turning out capitalist (or Marxist?) propaganda. He was trying to entertain children.
Much of Gurdon's review focuses on comparing the newest edition of Best Word Book Ever and the original, published in 1963. This analysis is of great interest to me, and I am only sorry that it too is forced into a cramped culture-war frame. Gurdon writes that twenty-one pages have been omitted, including ones cataloging varieties of birds, houses, musical instruments, and flowers. I didn't know this, and I'm sorry for it. But she also shakes her head at the loss of "courtly little authorial observations and depictions acceptable in the Mad Men era that today would irritate feminists." Oh my. Are we really still talking about "feminists" as if the word denoted some small but strident interest group, instead of, you know, most people? One of Gurdon's examples: "The 'handsome pilot' and 'pretty stewardess' who used to work on the passenger jet have been dryly replaced by a 'pilot' and 'flight attendant.'" Well, you say "courtly," I say "needlessly patronizing."
Listing the many pages that have disappeared, Gurdon complains that "the world as it appears in the 2013 relaunch is narrower in scope and confined to categories already familiar to most little children." It does not seem to have occurred to her that the other changes she disdains – like replacing "pretty stewardess" with "flight attendant" – might make Scarry's world broader in scope and less confining in its categories. Is it a bad thing for the industrious work of a pilot to seem as "inviting" to a little girl in 2013 as it did to a boy in 1963? Gurdon does not come out and say so, but she makes sure to leave you plenty of room to think so. "One may be sympathetic or not to the editorial urge to modernize…. The original is more striking and delightful, whatever you may think of its traditional gender depictions or the retrograde inclusion of 'Indian' and 'Squaw.'" It's an odd place for a reviewer to decline to venture an opinion.
Gurdon also implies that these changes are all the work of meddling editors who "have tweaked Scarry's labels and small bits of text to remove traditionalist presumptions and install a more egalitarian, 'enlightened' view." But was all this done over Scarry's objections? She doesn't say. Scarry died in 1994, and he worked right up to the end. Isn't it possible he initiated some of these changes, or at least happily agreed to them? Was it not Scarry himself who drew that "(female) judge" figure Gurdon takes note of, the one that now appears in place of the "(male) soldier" on the "When You Grow Up" spread? Did he grumble about hypersensitive feminists as he did so? Or did he think removing the now-outdated gender roles from his books would help and not harm them? Maybe he was glad to put Father Pig in the kitchen washing dishes or beating eggs. Maybe he got a happy little kick out of drawing a bunny pilot in a skirt instead of pants.
I don't even know what to make of this example Gurdon gives: "A small bear in the original book 'comes promptly when he is called to breakfast,' whereas the same bear in the new edition 'goes to the kitchen to eat his breakfast,' uncommanded by his parents." What "enlightened" sensibility is that change supposed to be catering to? Even a feminist like me is very pro-obedient children. I am also very, very familiar with the bear in question (his name is Kenny), having read and reread his itemized breakfast menu with my son several thousand times, including once this morning. And I would like to point out that Kenny Bear's parents are not depicted anywhere on those pages. So perhaps—and I know this isn't a fun explanation, but stay with me here—perhaps an editor, or even Scarry himself, decided that "when he is called" was too obtuse, given that no one but Kenny appears in the illustration. Maybe, in other words, there's an explanation that has nothing to do with creeping political correctness, and is just about editors, you know, editing. An editor's job is to make sure that the author is communicating clearly with his audience. Similarly, modernizing gender roles is not just a sop to feminists; it's a way of making sure the books stay timeless, so kids today experience Best Word Book Ever as a book about a world something like our own, but more fun, instead of as a book about a world that resembles our own fifty years in the past.
Gurdon quotes Richard Scarry's son, nicknamed "Huck," explaining that his father's "drawings are so fun and funny because he had fun creating them." Yes! Fun and funny is exactly what Scarry's books are. If you set out to write a review essay about them and you find you have made them sound tendentious and medicinal, you may want to (as Ayn Rand would say) check your premises.
One more oddity: Gurdon writes that Huck Scarry "has perpetuated his father's legacy by completing unfinished manuscripts as well as producing Richard Scarry-style books of his own," and she welcomes the prospect of a new book about Lowly Worm based on some leftover drawings of Scarry's, because (get your eyerolling muscles ready): "In our sedentary, touch-screen era, young children surely need the industrious and purposeful animal role models of Richard Scarry's busy world more than ever."
Has she seen any of these "Scarry-style books"? The ones I've come across are a much bigger threat to the author's legacy than expurgated editions of his classic works. My son had a "Richard Scarry" counting book that was clearly cobbled together from existing doodles and drawings, with no attention to intelligibility or design. Every page was a mess—not a rich collage of chaos like Scarry specialized in, but a low-quality imitation that, on closer inspection, was made up of the same image copied-and-pasted over and over. The "nine speedboats" the reader was invited to count were photocopies of each other, scattered haphazardly around the page. I couldn't wait to get rid of it. Thanks to Huck Scarry et al., you have to look very carefully to make sure what you're buying is authentic Richard Scarry and not some cheap cash-in on his good name.
I still do go out of my way to find the real thing, because I have fond memories of poring over Best Word Book Ever and all the rest when I was young, and I love being able to revisit Busy Town with my boys. Bowdlerized or not, Scarry's work is still fun and funny, and it's a very inviting escape from the world of adulthood.
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Oh God, wait until Gurdon gets a hold of all those Laura Numeroff books and spins it into a piece on entitlement and the welfare state. If you give a hack 1500 words, she's going to want 500 more.
Actually, one entertaining/horrifying thing to do is to read 1 star reviews of classic or otherwise really good children's novels on Amazon: communism, the feminization of the American Male, the gay agenda, etc., etc. All of these anxieties make frequent appearances.
Actually, they frequently read like the comments section on Catholic blogs.
Speaking of Amazon, there are many old and, by today's standards, politically incorrect children's books available (free) for Kindle. (If you don't have a Kindle, you can read them on your computer, tablet, phone, etc. with Kindle's free reading apps.)
Just three examples:
Angela Brazil's English school stories for girls.
Booth Tarkington's Penrod books.
Peck's Bad Boy.
This reminds me of a list of fake dissertation/thesis titles I once came up with, a lot of which involved fairy tales (I think I posted some of these several years ago in a comment). Here are a few:
"Let Down Your Hair": Rapunzel and Female Complicity in the Exploitation of the Follicle
Kiss as Bodily Knowing: Constructing a Gnostic Awakening in the Narrativization of Sleeping Beauty
The Anxiety of Nudity and Vulnerability of Empire in "The Emperor's New Clothes": A Queer Studies Perspective
Our Vegetables, Ourselves: Jack's Beanstalk as Marxist Liberation
Finding the Bed That's Just Right: Misogyny and the Rhetoric of Prostitution in "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall": Snow White and the Crisis of Reflection in Cold War Germany
"A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes": Cinderella as Freudian Psychologist
"Whistle While You Work": The Repression of Revolution in Disney's Snow White -- A Marxist Critique
"Flipping Your Fins You Don't Get Too Far": Darwinian Perspectives on Ariel's Evolution in The Little Mermaid
"I Can Show You the World": Tourism as Seduction in Disney's Aladdin
Don't let the critic drive the bus.
Mollie, thanks for rekindling some pleasant memories. My kids keep growing on us, and I haven't had the pleasure (for adults, a semi-secret one) of reading a Richard Scarry book with my kids for some years now. Gotta love Lowly. That he wore one shoe makes perfect sense, but why the Robin Hood hat?
It takes a bit of a genius to create magic that children spontaneously get and package it up in a book. Scarry had the knack. Even though his artwork wasn't of the spring-into-life variety, his illustrations really are full of the chaos and commotion that marks childhood.
The children's section of our pretty-good local library seems well-stocked with rather lifeless children's books with dreary child-psychology content - one very popular theme seems to be books written to help a child cope when mommy has another baby. Perhaps that genre would be a riper target for this essayist.
AbeBooks.com has one copy of the 1963 edition of The Best Word Book Ever:
More free stuff for Kindle:
Bobbsey Twins books.
Tom Brown's Schooldays.
Wonderful. But these titles would be even funnier if they didn't unfortunately sound quite so much like the real titles you find on any academic listserv asking for contributions to scholarly conferences around the world. The line between parody and unwitting self-parody is getting pretty narrow and hard to distinguish.


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