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Asperger's Syndrome Symptoms
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An individual's symptoms and level of functioning can range from mild to severe. An individual may have all or only some of the described characteristics. They may exhibit more problems in unstructured social settings or new situations that involve social problem-solving skills. Social problems
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Motor skill delays in some individuals with Asperger's syndrome
People with Asperger's syndrome can have other associated psychiatric conditions or may show behaviors that are typical for other conditions. Some common associated conditions include the following (but these are not always present in everyone with Asperger's):
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While half of their community reconnected to the grid in 2011, Dancing Rabbit is net positive — producing more energy than it consumes. And there are plans to install a medium-size wind turbine within the next couple of years.
At Abundance EcoVillage near Fairfield, IA, real estate developer Amy Greenfield shares a Bergey 10 kW wind turbine and 7 kW solar array with 13 neighbors.
This type of system currently costs around $170,000. With that cost shared among many, the investment would pay off in 10 to 16 years in avoided energy bills.
"My home looks much like the typical American home," said Greenfield. But "it uses about 90% less electricity than the average household in the surrounding area. I would never know I was living off the grid if it weren't for the wind turbine spinning behind my house."
Living on-grid — Oakland, CA
Off-grid isn't for everyone. The first step towards greener living isn't putting up photovoltaic panels, it's changing personal behaviors.
Dan Antonioli knows this well. Twelve years ago he founded his two-house 611 EcoVillage, an on-grid household in Oakland, CA that embraces green behaviors suited to its centralized urban environment: public and human-powered transportation, hang drying, farmers' markets and shared space.
"Energy can be seen not just from kilowatt hours and therms, it also has to be seen in all of the other ways it's consumed. Because we share, we save."
Antonioli, who works in the field of energy upgrading old buildings, is also renovating the rooms in the 100-year-old buildings, one at a time.
"You insulate, you tighten the building envelope, you seal the ducts and the heating system — you do these simple things, and lo and behold, all of a sudden, people are feeling comfortable in their homes, and they're spending less money on their energy bills."
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November 11, 2010 at 6pm to November 30, 2010 at 11pm – Spain The Association of Dance Professionals of Catalonia is once again hosting the DANSACAT awards. The winer will be decided through the web www.dansacat.org were everyone can vote. TRANS http://associac… Organized by Susana Amarante Duarte | Type: vote
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I once asked a potential client how much he paid for the last book he purchased. His response was $25. I then asked him if he read it. His answer was yes. I then asked if he read his cargo policy and he said no. I pointed out that he paid $25,000 for this policy, which contained less than 5 percent of the words in the novel, so why hadn't he read it? His reply was "it was too difficult to understand."
There are millions of people out there who just don't read manuals, no matter what they're for.
Any buyer of a motor truck cargo or warehouseman's legal-liability insurance policy who does not take the time to read it will, at some point, generally after a major loss, regret not having done so.
All states regulate the sale of insurance. State insurance "departments" control policy language and pricing of most insurance policies. However, not all insurance is subject to the same degree of regulatory control, with one exception being Marine Insurance, both ocean and inland.
Motor truck cargo and warehouseman's legal liability are classified as commercial inland marine (CIM) and both policy forms are "free of rate and form filing." Inland marine underwriters are free to write their own terms and conditions (generally referred to collectively as "proprietary coverage forms") and to charge what the market will bear.
Think of them this way; the essential difference between outerwear and clothing is that outerwear comes "ready-to-wear" while clothing, to fit right and look good, requires the services of a tailor. Motor truck cargo and warehouseman's legal-liability insurance policies require the services of a "tailor," in this case an insurance agent or broker, to "custom-fit" it to properly cover the buyer's exposures.
This can be good or bad. Meaning that the insured literally gets what he pays for with these policies. The good news is that whatever coverage an insured needs can usually be supplied, albeit for a price. Conversely, whatever coverage the underwriter wants removed, can also be removed. This freedom means motor truck cargo and warehouseman's legal-liability insurance policies, while preprinted by the insurance companies for their convenience, are at least theoretically, modifiable and therefore more susceptible to errors in "tailoring."
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Actually, I did have a good time at homecoming last weekend, but I think my first instincts were right: I should probably have skipped the 10-year thing.
That's not to say I disliked seeing people, but it was too many people in too little space for my liking. I also saw pretty much everybody who came that I cared to see both before and after, anyway.
So, it was nice seeing everybody! But I'll probably pass on the 15- and 20-year gatherings in favor of doing something other than moping around in a room that is too warm and too loud.
(Oh, you think I'm kidding about the lamp? Nope.)
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1. The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, by J.R.R. Tolkien
2. The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, by Douglas Adams
3. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card
4. The Dune Chronicles, by Frank Herbert
5. A Song Of Ice And Fire Series, by George R. R. Martin
6. 1984, by George Orwell
7. Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
8. The Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov (Only two of three, though)
9. Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
10. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
11. The Princess Bride, by William Goldman
12. The Wheel Of Time Series, by Robert Jordan (Excepting New Spring and the last three volumes)
13. Animal Farm, by George Orwell
14. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
15. Watchmen, by Alan Moore
16. I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov
17. Stranger In A Strange Land, by Robert Heinlein
18. The Kingkiller Chronicles, by Patrick Rothfuss
19. Slaughterhouse-Five, by Kurt Vonnegut
20. Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
21. Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, by Philip K. Dick
22. The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
23. The Dark Tower Series, by Stephen King
24. 2001: A Space Odyssey, by Arthur C. Clarke
25. The Stand, by Stephen King
26. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
27. The Martian Chronicles, by Ray Bradbury
28. Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
29. The Sandman Series, by Neil Gaiman
30. A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
31. Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein
32. Watership Down, by Richard Adams
33. Dragonflight, by Anne McCaffrey
34. The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
35. A Canticle For Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller
36. The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells
37. 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, by Jules Verne
38. Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keys
39. The War Of The Worlds, by H.G. Wells
40. The Chronicles Of Amber, by Roger Zelazny
41. The Belgariad, by David Eddings
42. The Mists Of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley
43. The Mistborn Series, by Brandon Sanderson
44. Ringworld, by Larry Niven
45. The Left Hand Of Darkness, by Ursula K. LeGuin
46. The Silmarillion, by J.R.R. Tolkien
47. The Once And Future King, by T.H. White
48. Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
49. Childhood's End, by Arthur C. Clarke
50. Contact, by Carl Sagan
51. The Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
52. Stardust, by Neil Gaiman
53. Cryptonomicon, by Neal Stephenson
54. World War Z, by Max Brooks (Overrated.)
55. The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle
56. The Forever War, by Joe Haldeman
57. Small Gods, by Terry Pratchett
58. The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant, The Unbeliever, by Stephen R. Donaldson
59. The Vorkosigan Saga, by Lois McMaster Bujold
60. Going Postal, by Terry Pratchett
61. The Mote In God's Eye, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
62. The Sword Of Truth, by Terry Goodkind
63. The Road, by Cormac McCarthy
64. Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
65. I Am Legend, by Richard Matheson
66. The Riftwar Saga, by Raymond E. Feist
67. The Shannara Trilogy, by Terry Brooks
68. The Conan The Barbarian Series, by R.E. Howard
69. The Farseer Trilogy, by Robin Hobb
70. The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
71. The Way Of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson
72. A Journey To The Center Of The Earth, by Jules Verne
73. The Legend Of Drizzt Series, by R.A. Salvatore
74. Old Man's War, by John Scalzi
75. The Diamond Age, by Neil Stephenson
76. Rendezvous With Rama, by Arthur C. Clarke
77. The Kushiel's Legacy Series, by Jacqueline Carey
78. The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. LeGuin
79. Something Wicked This Way Comes, by Ray Bradbury
80. Wicked, by Gregory Maguire
81. The Malazan Book Of The Fallen Series, by Steven Erikson
82. The Eyre Affair, by Jasper Fforde
83. The Culture Series, by Iain M. Banks
84. The Crystal Cave, by Mary Stewart
85. Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
86. The Codex Alera Series, by Jim Butcher
87. The Book Of The New Sun, by Gene Wolfe
88. The Thrawn Trilogy, by Timothy Zahn
89. The Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldan
90. The Elric Saga, by Michael Moorcock
91. The Illustrated Man, by Ray Bradbury
92. Sunshine, by Robin McKinley
93. A Fire Upon The Deep, by Vernor Vinge
94. The Caves Of Steel, by Isaac Asimov
95. The Mars Trilogy, by Kim Stanley Robinson
96. Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle
97. Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
98. Perdido Street Station, by China Mieville
99. The Xanth Series, by Piers Anthony
100. The Space Trilogy, by C.S. Lewis
32 out of 100. Not giving myself credit for Verne, or Wells, which entries I've read, but only greatly abridged. Nor for one or two others I've only read excerpts of. Anathem I've got but haven't managed to sit down and read, yet.
Honestly, I found World War Z a bit tiresome. I didn't care for the format, but I also wasn't particularly persuaded by Brooks' ... interesting grasp of firearms. That aside, it's okay.
I think The Road is also fairly overrated, and I'm not sure it really qualifies for a list of science fiction. It sure was damned depressing, though.
Regarding the Foundation trilogy, I gave up early in Second Foundation. I think I was still in middle school at the time, so other than being bored, I couldn't tell you why.
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May be finally getting that ACR, though.
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Especially when the thing you were actually in there to fix was two lines of code that disappeared when the same developer deleted them a couple months ago0.
Especially when I spent 4 hours last week cleaning up a big check-in he put together.
I'm pretty sure the bulk of this problem is caused by the communications problems that arise when part of your development staff isn't in the same room, especially when it isn't on the same continent, in the same timezone, or in the same hemisphere. But, I don't really care about the why.
So, it's fortunate I didn't have a lot going on this morning.
0. This release has gone on forever, it seems like.
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I also got to shoot a suppressed Glock 17. I'm pretty sure it was one of the 4th generation models, so that may have something to do with it, but I found the Glock less ergonomically awful than expected. Not half bad, in fact.
I had a blast, honestly, but I think if I go back, it may be as a paying customer and only one day (if they do a two-day thing again). And with more money. Fastest way to turn money into noise, indeed. Only, without so much noise.
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text: The Orichalcos Saga continues, in Legendary Collection 4: Joeys World, the latest evolution in the hugely popular Legendary Collection series. Continuing our retro journey through the original, classic, Yu-Gi-Oh! anime series, Legendary Collection 4 contains almost 300 cards drawn from the Duelist Kingdom, Battle City, and Waking the Dragons storylines.Included are 3 brand new cards per box: Joeys own Blue Flame Swordsman, Mai Valentines Harpie Lady Phoenix Formation, and Marik Ishtars Card of Last Will(note: due to its insane power level, Card of Last Will is not allowed in tournament play, and is included solely as a Collectors item and for casual play).Legendary Collection 4s Mega Pack set contains almost 300 cards used by Joey, Mai, Marik, and Rex Raptor, plus other popular cards from the classic era. This Mega Pack set is designed so that foil cards are easier to collect, while assembling an entire set of the Common cards will pose more of a challenge!Each Legendary Collection 4: Joeys World contains:5 Mega Packs, 3 Promo Cards, 6 Tokens, and 1 Game Board


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Remcom Previews New Release of EM Simulation Software at European Microwave Week, Booth #1113
New release of XFdtd® will feature cross-platform functionality and powerful advanced features.
October 20, 2008 -- State College, PA
Remcom announces the upcoming release of XFdtd, its multi-purpose electromagnetic simulation software, at the European Microwave Week Exhibition, October 28 - 30, in The Netherlands. XFdtd Release 7.0, which is scheduled to be available in early 2009, will be previewed in Remcom's booth, #1113. Technical product engineers will be available to demonstrate the new software's capabilities to conference attendees.
The next version of XFdtd was designed to increase the productivity of the user with a more intuitive interface and a number of ground-breaking new features. User interface refinements will simplify the learning curve for new users, while experienced users will be able to undertake even more challenging problems with the program's advanced meshing, parameterization, and scripting. These and several other new features are designed to add speed and flexibility, making XFdtd a more accessible and productive tool in terms of what has been available in the market thus far.
Selected features of the new release that will be previewed include:
• Cross-platform user interface
• Improved parameterization sweeps including advanced scripting capability
• Simplified, fast, accurate meshing for complex objects
• Editing of imported CAD files
• Improved modeling
• Sophisticated scripting enabling a range of functionality from macros to extensive customization
XFdtd is a full wave 3D electromagnetic solver based on the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method. XFdtd leads the industry with important features such as fast meshing algorithm, mesh preview before calculation, and the power to solve extremely large and complex projects. In addition, acceleration is available via computer clusters or GPU hardware. Applications include microwave, RF, antennas, scattering, biological EM (including MRI and handheld devices), photonics, packaging, EMC, and electromagnetic behavior of specialized materials. Visit Remcom's website for more information on XFdtd and Remcom's entire suite of electromagnetic simulation tools.


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Test Driving The World's Fastest Golf Cart
Last week Tesla asked me if I'd like to take the new Tesla Roadster Sport for a day to see what I thought. This is the newer Tesla Roadster that shaves 2/10 of a second off the 0-60 time, and the car is a couple of inches bigger than the original (making it possible for me to fit my 6'4 frame into it comfortably).
I agreed immediately. The only rules were that only I could drive it (some nonsense about insurance), and I had to have it back by 6 pm. I did return the vehicle on time, but as you can see from the video just about everyone from the office and most of my friends came by to take it for a spin, too.
I've been in a Tesla before but this is the first time I've driven one. With no gears and a silent motor, the experience is like driving a golf cart. At least it would be if golf carts could hit 100 mph on the freeway on-ramp and hug the road like it was glued there.
Thanks Tesla. Sorry about that scratch in the bumper.
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Specifications | |
Model: | 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport |
Vehicle Style: | 2-seat, open-top, rear-drive sports car |
Price: | Base Price: $121,000 (car we drove: $155,850) |
Motor: | 375 volt AC induction air-cooled electric motor with variable frequency drive |
Power: | 288 HP (215kW) @ 4,400-5,800 rpm |
Torque: | 295 ft/lb (400 Nm) @ 0-5,100 rpm |
Transmission: | Single speed fixed gear with electrically-actuated parking lock mechanism and mechanical lubrication pump |
Suspension: | Four-wheel independent. Upper and lower unequal length wishbones. Co-axial coil spring/adjustable telescopic damper. Adjustable sway bar. |
Brakes: | Hydraulically operated. Tandem master cylinder with vacuum servo and anti-lock braking system. Front and rear ventilated disc. Cable operated self adjusting hand brake on rear calipers. |
Performance: | 0-60: 3.7 seconds Top Speed: 125 mph (electronically limited) |
Dimensions: | Wheelbase: 92.6 inches Length: 155.4 inches Width: 72.9 inches Height: 44.35 inches Weight: 2723 pounds |
Battery: | Custom microprocessor-controlled lithium-ion battery with 6,831 individual cells |
Battery Consumption: | 29 kW-hr/100 mi city; 32 kW-hr/100 mi highway |
Expected Battery Life: | Seven years or 100,000 miles |
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Disney will release two limited edition MagicBands for the final weekends of Star Wars Weekends - the first time that a printed design MagicBand will be sold.
There will be a green retail MagicBand with Yoda's image and a red retail MagicBand with Darth Vader's image - note that they match the color of their respective light sabers.
The bands will be limited to an edition size of 2500 each, packaged in a decorative Star Wars Weekends box.
As with all retail MagicBands, you will need to link the band to an existing My Disney Experience account at the time of purchase. The Star Wars bands cost $29.95 plus tax, the regular MagicBands retail at $12.95 plus tax.
Since the rollout of the MagicBands, it has been expected that a whole host of retail opportunities will be launched around the bands, providing a new revenue stream for Disney on top of the existing MagicBand snap-on accessories. Expect to see more and more characters and attraction specific bands over the coming months.


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Two thumbs up! The critics agree that Meadowbrook Run is a block buster hit! Their apartments offer air conditioning, lots of space, 24 hour maintenance and a Community Center. Conveniently located near the Metro, major highways & great schools. Walk to entertainment and recreation, a public pool and tennis center. It's just a great place to live.
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VICKSBURG— Authorities say a Vicksburg woman armed with a copy of a Girl Scouts cookie order form allegedly bilked $1,000 from customers who thought they had placed legitimate orders.
Warren County Sheriff Martin Pace says 37-year-old Paula Lynn Kelly is charged with grand larceny. Pace says Kelly took the false orders and pocketed the cash.
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A database as a method of raising typological questions about poetic form
Fabb, Nigel and Versace, Stefano (2011) A database as a method of raising typological questions about poetic form. In: Proceedings of conference on language documentation & linguistic theory 3. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, pp. 289-296. ISBN 9780728603981
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For many languages, there are 'verbal arts' (written, spoken or sung), which involve additional regulation of language and other kinds of structure. Certain kinds of regulation are cross‐linguistically common, including division of a text into lines and sub‐ and super‐line structure (verse), counting and rhythmic organization of syllables or similar units (metre), repetition‐with‐variation at the word or higher syntactic level (parallelism), repetition of parts of syllables (alliteration or rhyme), control over the placement of word boundaries (caesura and bridge rules), etc. There are no general typologies relating to these poetic forms (at most, there are partial surveys, usually in the form of histories). What might a general typology for a very large number of poetic (including song) traditions from around the world tell linguists? We would understand how widespread certain language‐based poetic forms are, and whether related forms are generally historically‐culturally linked. We could ask in what ways forms can combine (e.g., kinds of rhyme with kinds of metre), what combinations are not found (Jakobson argued that metre and parallelism were almost never found together), and, when forms do co‐occur, whether they interact with one another or are best understood as entirely independent constraints on the text. With a sufficiently wide range of data we would be able to test hypotheses about how forms differ (e.g., the possibility that alliteration is always local, whereas rhyme can be non‐local). We can also correlate poetic forms with linguistic forms, particularly in the phonology, to test the 'development hypothesis' according to which linguistic accounts of poetry assume that the specific forms in a given poetry arise from phonological and other forms specific to its language (such that a poetry is matched to, or determined by the language). We discuss our construction of a (publicly available) prototype database for a number of poetic traditions in a sample set of languages: English, Old Hittite, Italian, Maltese, Khalkha Mongolian, Somali, and Bora. The database is structured as a set of questions, which can be addressed to any poetic tradition; we discuss how the questions are formulated, and how they help us make new discoveries. We look at how the structure of the database itself, and the questions it encourages us to ask, can lead us to new ways of thinking about poetic form, and its relation to language. We show this by looking at the specific case of Tswana and how the database‐procedure makes possible to discover a metrical form which was previously unsuspected for the languages of the sub‐Saharan area (cf. Greenberg 1960). Because the database includes any kind of language‐based regularity in poetry, it enables a more holistic account of the connection between poetic form and linguistic form, as well as of the relations between poetic forms, than has previously been available. The construction of a database, as an empirical methodology in the investigation of poetries in a wide variety of languages, thus raises new theoretical and typological questions about the data.
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Keywords: | database, method, typological questions, poetic form, raising, English |
Subjects: | Language and Literature > English |
Department: | Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English |
Depositing user: | Pure Administrator |
Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2011 16:46 |
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Take Action Against Uganda's "Kill the Gays" Bill
Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill is still in play, and its connection to American Evangelical leaders has become clearer. Scott Lively, who is profiled on GLAAD's CAP page, led an "anti-homosexuality" conference in Kampala, Uganda in 2009. He is now taking credit for much of the bill in an article published on World Net Daily. At the time of the conference, Lively was heavily criticized by the international community for meeting directly with Ugandan government officials and pushing for what has become known as the "Kill the Gays" bill.


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MASON CITY, Iowa – More than 58,000 meals have been served in a seven county area.
The Community Kitchen of North Iowa has been serving their community for 31 years, and while that it a major accomplishment all on its own, they're especially proud of the work they accomplished in 2013.
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – If ever there was a trip that could be described as a "grind," this was it.
The Angels trudged away from Tropicana Field on Sunday with a 7-5 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays, winning the series and splitting the six-game trip that started in Baltimore.
The final game, which allowed the Angels to take a series against a team that had won eight of its previous nine, looked like it would be easy for the Angels when they scored five runs in the first inning.
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Weaver had the stage set for an easy victory when his teammates scored five runs before he threw his first pitch. But Weaver struggled with his stuff – four walks – and the Rays chipped away to score a couple runs and get him out after six.
The Angels, whose bullpen had been impenetrable for most of the past few weeks, then needed three pitchers – Jason Grilli, Kevin Jepsen and Joe Smith – and 47 pitches to get through the seventh, with the Rays scoring three times to make it a two-run game.
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Friday, July 30, 2010
How Star Wars destroyed my faith in God
OK, it's actually a little more complicated than that. First of all, it wasn't Star Wars per se, it was actually the prequel trilogy. (Wouldn't you know it?) And it wasn't the prequel trilogy per se either, it was Star Wars fans talking about the prequel trilogy. And it wasn't my faith in God per se, it was my faith in apologetics. But losing my faith in apologetics was a big step towards losing my faith in God.
So, Star Wars fans talking about the prequel trilogy destroyed my faith in apologetics, which contributed to me losing my faith in God.
Are you with me so far?
Apologetics, if you're not familiar with the term, refers to "the discipline of defending a position (usually religious) through the systematic use of reason." Since I was Mormon, the specific branch in which I engaged was Mormon apologetics, "the systematic defense of Mormonism against its critics."
As I've mentioned before, I was engaged in apologetics on the internet for awhile. For about five years, from 2000 to 2005, I went at it 'most every day on internet forums. I knew the arguments backwards and forwards; I used the ones that I thought worked, tweaked some of the weaker ones to make them a little stronger, and came up with a few of my own too.
I wasn't trying to convince or convert anyone though. It's just that with the internet, there was so much information available. It was easy to discover that the "official story" -- the orthodox story -- was sometimes not true, at least not true in a simple, straightforward way. But maybe lot of things were true -- maybe -- "from a certain point of view," as a wise man once said.
To me, apologetics was a way of trying to get at that "certain point of view." Essentially, it was just a matter of trying to create enough intellectual space for belief. Once that room was created, then belief, through "the Spirit" or whatever could, possibly, take root and flourish. That's how it was working for me.
So that was an important part of my life and faith for five years or more. But Mormon forums weren't the only ones I frequented on the internet. Among the others was a certain Star Wars forum. I was less active there, visiting only a couple of times a week and not posting every time I visited.
Anyway, after the last of the prequel movies, Revenge of the Sith, came out, some of the regulars on that forum engaged in a conversation that I found quite bizarre. They attempted to reconcile all the contradictions between the original trilogy and the prequels.
A couple of examples I can remember off the top of my head are Leia saying to Obi-Wan (in the tape she hid in R2-D2) in A New Hope that he had "served her father in the Clone Wars" when her foster father was just one of thousands of senators (and her secret biological father was Obi-Wan's apprentice), and Leia telling Luke in Return of the Jedi that she had a few vague memories of her mother even though Padmé died just after giving birth to them.
And these people on the forums were saying things like "The Jedi were working against the Chancellor on the side of the Galactic Senate, so in that sense they were serving the Senate, and Leia's father was a senator..." and "Maybe Leia had Force memories of her mother, like the Force gave her those memories even though she was too young to remember in the ordinary way."
Those explanations make a certain kind of sense, but on another level, they are, of course, silly. The real reason Leia said those things is because George Lucas doesn't have a fanboy's dedication to "canon," so he just made stuff up as he went along. Obi-Wan had "served Leia's father" because in the first movie, Lucas hadn't thought through the politics yet, and Leia was a princess and Obi-Wan was a Jedi knight. Who is the father of a princess? A king. Who does a knight serve? A king. As originally conceived, Obi-wan the knight had served Princess Leia's father, a king. Q.E.D. Later, Lucas simply changed everything, as is his right.
And I don't think "Force memory" is even a canon "Force power." It's just something somebody on a forum pulled out of their butt to try to make sense of a change in the story. Lucas changed the story because he decided it was better for Padmé to die in childbirth (of a broken heart, FFS -- let's all pause here for a collective eye roll) than to live for three or four years afterward.
So I was both amused and bemused by their efforts at reconciling the trilogies, by their rather desperate reaches for consistency in the series. I couldn't see the point when there was such a simple, obvious explanation in every case. And I decided to tell the perpetrators so. I started writing a post telling them they were nucking futs.
I was going to tell them that they were taking a bunch of fictional BS and treating it as if it were real, and the reason there were so many contradictions was because it was made up as it went along, and there were simple, easy explanations for everything they were twisting and turning and wrenching to fit into a preconceived narrative, and only a fool could believe any of the things they were saying when the obvious answer (IT'S A MADE-UP STORY!) is staring them in the face, and the whole endeavor is pointless and stupid, and -- Oh. Shit.
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I've been a part of these sorts of discussions regarding Star Trek. Trek is even more elaborate and complex, with tons of inconsistencies to explain away!
But it was my impression that most of the "apologists" were just having fun, and grasped that the real reason why there were so many inconsistencies is because the people writing it don't care as much as the fans do about making everything consistent. ;)Also, maybe Leia was mistaken. Maybe she had a nurse or aunt she was really close as a very small child, and -- since her adopted dad didn't like to talk about her mom -- she didn't realize that that wasn't her mom (and that, in fact, her mom had died earlier than that).
Oh, and he was secretly king-in-exile (from some bloodline that had been deposed by the republic a few generations earlier), and he was secretly commanding the Jedi forces during the Clone Wars. But only people in the inner circle -- like Leia and Obi Wan -- knew about it!
;)Yeah, while I was writing the post, I realized that I had taken what they were doing way too literally. Of course, they didn't actually believe the stuff they were making up; they were just having fun. I doubt that realizing that at the time would have lessened the shock of recognition, though.
Oh, and one of the "apologists" also argued that Leia was mistaken, and her memories weren't really of Padmé. :D- Anonymous8/02/2010 10:59 AM
What do I think? I think you made a great connection. But I still feel sad that we will be in the hated minority at least through our lifetime.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous8/02/2010 12:09 PM
Dude, Princess Leia was the daughter of the former Queen of Naboo, Padme Amidala.
ReplyDelete Dude, Princess Leia was the daughter of the former Queen of Naboo, Padme Amidala.
Which isn't relevant, since Leia was adopted by the Organas in order to conceal her identity from Vader and the Emperor. If people everywhere in the galaxy are calling her Princess because they know her mother was the former Queen of Naboo, Padme Amidala, then that's a pretty shitty ruse.
Your example only goes to prove the point that Lucas had no idea what he was doing. "Leia was a princess, right? We know her dad was Anakin and he wasn't a king, so her mom must have been a queen! A democractically elected, minor-aged queen! Episode One in the BAG. Wait, what? Oh right, she grew up with an adopted family. Alright forget it. She'll just be a senator or some bullshit. Whatever. Anyway, cha-CHING!"That was hilarious! I loved the way you drove us into what really happened and how... It was funny and it got me thinking. Brilliant analogy.
I specially liked the end. I could almost imagine your thoughts and face while you were "making fun" of them and just realizing you were one of them.
Fiction, Religion, all the same.
I could totally relate to you on that!Nick,
I really enjoyed your article. It's interesting that you brought up episodes like "Who Mourns for Adonis." Back in my Mormon apologist days, someone told me (with some justification, I think) that the Mormon God as I described him sounded more like a "really smart alien" than a "God."I love the "oh shit" moment. As I listen to myself talk, and then suddenly realize what I am saying. And then everything changes, unless I stop listening to myself... Which I have found many apologetics do. They just don't listen to what they are saying...
(This is not related to the church, but I just really wanna share it. A friend of mine left an abusive relationship. His daughter said, "Calling mom emotionally abusive is just too harsh. Besides if she was emotionally abusive, you'd have some screwed up children."
Then in the SAME conversation, she went on to talk about how her brother is really awkward and rude to people. And he is just wierd. Then she talked about how she hated how emotionally abusive her sister and brother-in-law are to each other and to their kids. Then she talked about selfish her other sister is. Never thinks about anyone but herself and is always really rude. And this girl, is married a drug addict. He nearly died from a drug overdose, but she really loves him, so she's gonna stay with him.
So, I've come to the conclusion that people just don't pay attention to the words that come out of their mouths...)So, I just found this. It's awesome. And my husband is a huge SW fan, so I sent it to him as well.
I think most people, if they go and study other religions closely, even if they're looking for flaws, will find exactly the same problems in their own religion. And they'll either recognize that, or they'll ignore it. It's astonishing to listen to Mormons complain about Catholicism, or vice versa. I kind of stand there with my jaw hanging to the floor thinking I must be in some parallel universe or something ...Thanks Carla. I kind of knew that -- I was pretty used to arguing with fundie Protestants who constantly said things that applied at least equally well to their own beliefs -- but I never realized the absurdity of the whole exercise until I saw it applied to something that was obviously 100 percent fictional.
ReplyDeleteIf George Lucas wants to harmonize the trilogies, he should take a page from G4 and show us what Obi Wan was really saying:
http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/comedy/62871/star-wars-vi-return-of-the-jedi-extended-scene.htmlDude, what a great awesome analogy. I can give so many reasons for my atheism, but it is difficult to articulate why I am so confident in that particular conclusion. Why, for instance, even though I feel very strongly about issues such as health care, etc., it is not hard to imagine that I could be wrong; whereas when it comes to atheism, I'm not really worried, it just seems plainly obvious. Yeah, this is a great analogy.
ReplyDeleteI'm certainly with you on your general point here about religion and atheism, but I'm somewhat more sympathetic to the online retconners you scoffed at than you are. Obviously they had a certain level of commitment to making the Star Wars series into a coherent and whole narrative—and that is extremely difficult indeed. But c'mon: it's not crazy, "nucking futs," or only important or believable to "a fool."
I'm a moderate fan of the original trilogy, and I agree in large part with the (extremely long) negative reviews from Red Letter Media, which concluded that the prequels were simply awful. Hells, yes, there are ridiculous contradictions within the broader saga—but the two you identify seem to me really penny-ante.
Kenobi did serve the Senate, which included Leia's adopted father, in the Clone Wars (which were against the Separatists, not—overtly—the Chancellor). In that context I don't think it's terribly odd for Leia, in Episode IV, to use that phrase: it both communicates respect for Kenobi's service and explains who she is, connecting her to him. I don't see how it's so much of a stretch for her character to use that description.
Then, given our shared focus on religion, I'm not sure why you don't find the obvious explanation for Leia's Episode VI statement worthwhile: she's simply wrong. For many of the same reasons that religious folks believe what they believe, Leia thinks she has memories that she really doesn't. What's the slightest bit implausible about that?
If you want an irreconcilable contradiction in Star Wars, surely you don't have to go beyond 1980 to find the biggest and most blatant one, the very issue that forced Lucas and Kenobi, a few years later, to come up with that ridiculous "different points of view" line you quoted.
Come on:
A young Jedi Knight named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Emperor hunt down and destroy the Jedi Knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.
Ba-boom: the Great Contradiction.
Lucas simply abandoned what that line actually says less than four years later. ...And then he had to bring Kenobi back in Episode VI in a silly attempt to explain how the above and Vader's "I am your father" can both be true. Obviously, they can't.
That retcon was ridiculous and absurd (and central to the whole series' plot, of course)—though now it's thirty years old. Accepting that but revolting at your interlocutors' explanations for the two issues you list seems to me like straining at a gnat while swallowing a camel.
Well, at least the camel isn't Mormonism. Kudos, there.I didn't necessarily pick the two worst cases, just two I happened to remember. And I don't care that much about most of the contradictions in the movies. I love the first three anyway (and I even like some parts of the second three).
The arguments those fans made weren't silly in the sense of making no sense at all. The point of apologetics, after all, is that arguments have to make a certain amount of sense on some level, and those arguments did. What bothered me about them is that we know what actually happened.
Probably every contradiction in the series comes from the same two sources: Lucas changed the story as he went along and sometimes he simply didn't think things through very well (as Dorkman points out with the whole Queen-Princess thing).
So the whole thing seemed pointless to me. In the real world, we already know why Princess Leia said those things; we don't need to make up reasons that fit inside the story. It doesn't matter if they're more or less plausible; they aren't what actually happened. I would actually have been much more interested in a discussion of why Lucas made the changes and mistakes he made rather than in how we could best pretend they didn't exist.
And then I noticed how closely what they were doing with the Star Wars saga paralleled what I and many others were doing with Mormonism. We were trying to reconcile things inside a story when there were much more plausible explanations in the real world. And that was a shock to me.Was this forum stardestroyer.net by any chance? Or was it some other small corner of the internet where people actually care about the technical details of Star Wars canon?
I've known Star Wars fans who are the reverse of what you are talking about here: they strive to prove that the Star Wars movies make sense and are consistent with each other, but they have no patience with mental backflips to reconcile the contradictions in the Bible and other scripture. (To be fair, they never actually say the Star Wars stories are true.)
At any rate, thanks for this post -- gave me some things to think about regarding both theism and my Star Wars-obsessed internet acquaintances.- Axiom2/18/2011 10:00 PM
Nice story, thanks. I lost my faith via an analogy too!
There was a pretty hard-core cult at my college -- the International Church of Christ (sounds normal, right?) -- with whom I spent time arguing about how destructive their recruiting tactics were. They dominate and shame people into "accepting Christ", and it seemed obviously wrong.
But I couldn't come up with a good reason. If they were really saving souls for all eternity, isn't a bit of sternness justified? After all, the person being saved will still have AN ETERNITY OF BLISS even though the initiation was a little rough going, with the alternative being AN ETERNITY OF TORTURE.
I couldn't make a clear distinction between the kinder, gentler Christianity practiced by my family and the militant one practiced by these guys. All the beliefs were basically the same -- the cult was just more serious about actually believing them, and they took their beliefs to their logical conclusion.
When it finally sunk in that the difference was in quantity, not quality, I finally let go of my beliefs. Nice one Kuri and congratulations belatedly.
Can I just say here that despite being a fan, I don't go on Star Wars forums, but the word that annoyed me the most in any of the movies, cartoons and TV shows was "younglings". The repeated use of this word caused me more distress than when I found out about (and watched as much as I could bear of) the Holiday Special.- Baura1/03/2012 9:41 PM
Being older than you my introduction to apologetics was in the letters section of the SUPERMAN comics back in the late '50s. Kids would write in with a "gotcha" when they found some discrepency between something in a recent issue and some issue a year or two ago. The editors would always find some way to resolve the discrepency.
It's a sign of the times that this attitude toward escapist fiction has, in later generations, become the obsession of a large portion of the adult population. - Anonymous7/03/2012 1:48 AM
I'm quite impressed by your article and it might look too simple to compare God's stories or the Bible to Star Wars, but it makes sense. At the end Gods and Religion discussions are pointless arguments about a subject nobody can probe and everybody says they have the one and only true. Trying to explain the inconsistences in star wars is exactly as pointles as trying to explain the contradictions in the Bible and the only difference is that while nobody believes that never actually existed a Princess Leia or a Sith brotherhood or whatever, many people are convinced that the Bible stories as real facts even though the same stories about an universal flood and angels living amongst men etc were told centuries before the bible was even conceibed. The difference between star wars and the bible is just faith. It is at the same time useless and trascendent. But your logic is a wonderful example of how dogmatic concepts are so easily thorn appart when you start just THINKING. I still think there is something higher than us, but i really dont think that we are just legos in the game of a sick, cruel, spoiled and bipolar god (which is the bible's description of god).
ReplyDelete Sorry to add something tangential to such an old post, but I was just thinking about this the other day, since my kids have taken a strong interest in Star Wars recently.
I remember -- way back when Return of the Jedi first came out -- thinking that Leia's claim of remembering her biological mother didn't make any sense.
It's bad enough that they "hid" Luke by having him be raised as "nephew" by Vader's brother or sister on Vader's home planet. But he's sufficiently estranged from his family and his family is sufficiently obscure that one can believe that nobody in the galaxy would tip off Vader to Luke's existence.
However, if Leia was raised by her biological mother until the age of maybe four...? The only way that would work would be if her mother went into hiding as well. So she goes and marries the king of Alderan? Yeah, that's a great hiding place. Vader would never suspect the existence of his super-secret daughter if she's being raised as princess of Alderan by his ex, who's (assumedly) serving as queen...Well, the whole thing was made up and changed as Lucas went along, so some pieces just don't fit that well. Luke and Leia obviously weren't siblings in the first movie. Leia's parents were a hereditary king and queen, not a Jedi and a former democratically-elected underage queen. Darth Vader really did kill Luke's father. Oh, and "Darth" was Mr. Vader's first name, not a traditional Sith title.
That's not to say that many of the changes (especially turning it into a family saga) weren't big improvements. But they were changes. And like I said, I find it more interesting to discuss why the changes were made than to try to find ways to pretend they didn't happen. (And I suppose I approach Mormonism in a similar way now: I'm interested in how it came to be what it is, not in trying to show how it can be "true.")- Anonymous10/11/2012 9:03 AM
Socratic self-examination is a powerful tool to help one analyze their rationality and cogency of ones own beliefs. It was the catalyst for my de-conversion as well.
ReplyDelete - Anonymous11/24/2012 6:24 AM
I'm not sure that anyone here has really read or understood the "scriptures". If they had, then the comment "They follow their beliefs to a natural conclusion." wouldn't have been made.
I defy you to show me a place in the Bible that says we should be militant in recruiting people into the faith. In fact, I defy you to show me any place in the bible that says we need to recruit anybody. It says "Go therefore and make disciples of every nation", and for those who don't really read for understanding, that does not mean "go therefore and make every nation a disciple" it means, go seek them. Find out whoever they are (or will be) and make them a disciple of Christ. That understanding carries the weight that not everybody is going to be a disciple. Therefore, my "logical conclusion" as a believer is that I don't have to worry so much. If I truly believed that God was all powerful, then I should take comfort in the fact that I know he doesn't "need" me. If he really wanted recruits, he could do it himself, better and faster.
People are in love with power, and religion often becomes a giant power struggle for some dumb reason. Christianity calls us to cast off our old selves; the selves that crave power and things of this world.
Ephesians 4:22 - "You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;"
I'm not apologizing for the bible here, because using a quote to make the bible seem true is circular logic. But that brings me to my other point. Using logic to try and support something that obviously outside of logic is pretty stupid. I realize that it's kind of the way our culture has developed, but that's a very western heavy mindset. Similar to the way the British thought when they conquered a big chunk of the world under an assumption we know as "manifest destiny". Read some Native American literature and tell me if their system of beliefs or way of life seemed "logical".
My "natural conclusion" here is that you would say it wasn't, and in which case you would be inadvertently supporting a slow genocide because of your belief that "logic" is the king of everything.
One thing that I've noticed about atheists is that their reasons for not believing are scattered and completely different. - Anonymous11/24/2012 6:26 AM
Ranging from the most ridiculous: "Jesus is fake" (There are at least 27 books, some written by different authors, that prove his existence)
to the most understandable: "I just don't feel it inside my heart". (Understandable, at least to me, because that is why I DO believe. It's a feeling that I have)
What would make me think that atheism is bullcrap is that people sit around "high-fiving" themselves over how they got "deconverted" or why they don't believe. No matter what the reason is.
"Bro, I ate a really gnarly turkey sub earlier and now my stomach hurts. God's not real!"
"Yeah bro, totally!"
In all of my travels, I've never seen one atheist say to another atheist "Hey man, atheism is the way... but I think you should rethink your reason for being atheist. That wasn't very logical".
Which is exactly what Kuri should have said to Axiom.
As I've explained earlier, that's not God's fault, that's that fault of people's misinterpretations of written word. And last time I checked, that wasn't go out and change your life worthy... unless we're going to begin not speaking because someone misinterpreted a theme in "Catcher in the Rye" during English Class.
This Star Wars thing is stupid. I fail to see the connection, and one might argue the reality of your Mormonism (which is a crazy faith in itself, that deserves more examination) wasn't as strong as you make it out to be.
You haven't provided any "evidence" that is so stacked against God existing, and you can't. There is just as much evidence on either side of the field, and it all comes down to how you feel in your heart.
All that being said, I harbor no hate for anyone here, and in fact I love you, and I care for you, and I wish you the best. I would take a bullet for anyone here because I think everyone deserves the right to life and the opportunity to discover who they are and ponder existence. In many ways, I respect a good atheist opinion more than a ridiculous Christian opinion; but they are my brothers and sisters and I feel a need to defend them a little against what I perceive to be ignorance.
It's probably useless to respond to me, because I am not coming back to check. Not out of fear, but because I got here by StumbleUpon.
Although the strangest thing one might say about my commentary is that it uses the very thing it denounces. Hypocritical? Yes, maybe a little bit. But I think we all are. Well, I didn't see much point in answering that guy, because if he isn't interested in actually having a conversation, why bother? Plus, I thought his arguments were too trite and easily rebutted to be worth answering in detail in the first place.
As for the title, my personal story is specific to Mormonism, but people who belong(ed) to other faiths have also told me that it resonates with them as well. And while it didn't instantly destroy my belief in God or even in Mormonism, it did deeply undermine my belief in both.- Anonymous6/16/2013 8:43 AM
Star Wars is a MOVIE / We live in reality. Why do people look for reality in a devised fantasy. It would be better if there were no movies so those who are easily influenced by imagination were able to use their own perception; the same people who might find God an imagined being. I find that most of those people have no problem believing in the "Devil", but do have a hard time with God. I plan to move on and ask God's help with my life here and in the next world.
ReplyDelete Why do people look for reality in a devised fantasy.
You're the one who believes in God. You tell me.
I find that most of those people have no problem believing in the "Devil", but do have a hard time with God.
I've never met nor even heard of anyone who believes in the existence of a devil but not the existence of a god.


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ELDRITCH! ... and beyond
As many of you already know, what with your brain continuously pulsating through your ears and BOTH your eyes squirming back into you skull, the first volume of ELDRITCH! has been completed. We've been overjoyed with the amount of sacrifices you pinkish things gave Eldritch! this year. THANK YOUS to everyone who stuck by us, the pain you suffered is greatly appreciated. For the curious - we are working on creating a print version through SLG Publishing. Something real nice that you can put next to your copy of the Necronomicon. More on that later.
As for what horrors await me now, here's a hint...
Now if you'll excuse me I have to go sharpen my pumpkin carving tools.
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AGCO Australia hosts the Next Generation of Agriculture Leaders
As innovation in precision farming becomes increasingly important to Australian and New Zealand farming practices, the latest innovations in guidance technology are vital in any young graduate's university curriculum.
With Fuse Technologies at the forefront of this innovation, AGCO Australia recently played host to a group of Bachelor of Business (Agribusiness) students from Geelong's Marcus Oldham College.
Students were taken through a detailed information session by Advanced Technologies Product Manager Jeremy Duniam, followed by a question and answer session and a chance to take a closer look at some of the other exciting AGCO products.
Accompanying the students, Senior Lecturer Des Umbers said that it was vital graduates are exposed to advancements in on and off farm technologies to prepare them for best practice farming methods.
"Agribusiness courses can't afford to have students graduate without an understanding of the latest technologies and innovations. It will help them in the future if they intend to work at large corporate farms or their own operations as well as help the older generation of farmers adapt," says Des Umbers
Attending the visit was Marcus Oldham student Alex Baum already has a strong interest in precision farming. His family operates an 18,000 acre property in Western Australia and applies no-till "tram lining" to help reduce input costs and make fertiliser application more efficient.
"I am passionate about precision farming, it is really important on the farm as we try to save on inputs where we can. We need to add significant amounts of fertilizer – reducing those costs with efficient application is really important," says Alex Baum.
AGCO Broad Acre manager Fergal Meehan was impressed by the quality of the student group and their positive attitude, seeing a bright future for the next generation of farm managers, contractors and consultants.
"It is great to see such an enthusiastic group embarking on a career in agriculture keen to learn about exciting advancements in precision farming. It was also a great opportunity for AGCO to showcase our industry leading technology to the next generation of agriculture leaders," says Fergal Meehan.
AGCO Brands Win Big at SIMA 2015
This year's SIMA Paris International Agri Business Show was a triumph for AGCO's core brands. Massey Ferguson debuted two new tractors and showcased the MF 5610 tractor that journeyed to the South Pole. Challenger's MT775E was the winner of the "Machine of the Year XXL" award. The new Fendt 300 Vario was named "Machine of the Year" in the category for tractors below 150 hp. And the new Valtra T Series won the "Machine of the Year" award in the 180–280 hp category.
SIMA is one of the largest indoor agricultural industry shows in the world. This year, the event focused on a theme of "Innovation First!" and brought together 1,700 companies from 42 countries with an emphasis on three key topics: people and territories, equipment and crops.
AGCO embraced innovations in communication by sharing this year's SIMA experience through social media. Those who weren't able to attend the show could follow the #AGCO25 hashtag on Twitter and Instagram, and additional news and videos can be found on the company's social media portal created specifically for the event.
AGCO, now in its 25th year as a global leader in the agriculture industry, had a powerful presence at SIMA as an exhibitor. The company is living the "Innovation First!" concept through its cutting-edge Fuse™ Technologies — a platform that brings together machines, technology products, support, training and dealer services to ensure that farmers' operations are optimized, coordinated and seamlessly connected through all phases of the crop cycle.
AGCO Celebrates 25 Years of History, Hundreds of Years of Experience
AGCO commenced celebrating its 25th year this week at the SIMA Paris International Agri-Business Show, where visitors learned not only about the company's past achievements, but also the principles that will help shape the equipment industry for the next 25 years.
"As a company focused entirely on agriculture, and as a global business selling and supporting products in more than 140 countries, we're acutely aware of our responsibility to help farmers everywhere meet the productivity challenges of the future," said Gary L. Collar, senior vice president, general manager of Asia Pacific.
AGCO is deliberately evolving from being a provider of machines and structures to being a provider of total solutions. Total farming solutions that provide more productivity, efficiency and analytical insight are achieved by using the power of modern technology to create networks in systems that in the past were collections of separate components.
"We plan to be the best in the industry at helping farmers meet the food needs of a growing population," said Dr. Rob Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Europe, Africa and Middle East. "Increased grain production is a very large part of this. Also very important is the long-lasting and widespread shift toward more protein-heavy diets containing more meat, milk and eggs."
AGCO is uniquely equipped to serve the world's farmers. AGCO can plant and harvest grains with its well-known tractors, harvesters and implements. And AGCO can help preserve and protect the grain worldwide in GSI storage and handling systems. AGCO products also assist in the harvest of hay, forages and other livestock feed crops necessary to produce the additional meat, milk and eggs global consumers are demanding. And through GSI, AGCO provides the feeding, watering and livestock production systems needed to produce the desired protein much more efficiently.
During its first 25 years, AGCO was not content to compete primarily in the most developed markets and, therefore, has become an aggressive leader in emerging markets.
For additional coverage on AGCO's presence at SIMA, please visit sima.agcocorp.com.
AGCO Joins National Technician Accreditation Scheme
AGCO is pleased to announce that technicians employed by dealerships handling one or more of its four principal machinery brands within the United Kingdom and Ireland will be able to register on a nationally-recognised technician accreditation scheme developed and backed by the AEA and IAgrE, with support from BAGMA.
Known as the Landbased Technician Accreditation scheme (LTA), the programme has become available to all AGCO dealer technicians following independent assessment and accreditation of the training and facilities provided by AGCO to technicians supporting its Challenger, Fendt, Massey Ferguson and Valtra farm machinery brands.
The move to have AGCO's training programmes recognised at a national level, accredited to the same standards of other leading farm machinery manufacturers and suppliers, was spearheaded by Freddie Pullan, Manager, Technical Training UK and Ireland for AGCO Ltd.
"The LTA Scheme provides a clear and accepted means of benchmarking, monitoring and assessing the competence of technicians employed nationwide within the landbased sector," commented Mr Pullan. "AGCO was keen to ensure that the training it provides to technicians employed by Challenger, Fendt, Massey Ferguson and Valtra dealers matched this standard, providing a clear and documented career path for AGCO apprentices and technicians wishing to progress within the agricultural engineering industry."
In consultation with scheme administrator, IAgrE, AGCO's training programmes were scrutinised and fine-tuned to ensure that they satisfied the accreditation criteria laid down by the LTA scheme. Independent assessment was carried out on behalf of IAgrE by consultant, David Kershner, with accreditation centre approval being granted to AGCO, taking effect in September 2014.
Agricultural engineers employed by AGCO dealers are now able to follow a nationally-recognised four-tier progression from apprentice (LTA1) through to master technician (LTA4), passing through technician (LTA2) and advanced technician (LTA3) tiers as they progress.
Upward movement from one tier to the next involves satisfactory completion of a range of general and product-specific training courses across a number of different categories, as laid down by the LTA scheme. All technicians attaining LTA3 standard become eligible for IAgrE membership and Engineering Technician (Eng Tech) registration, on payment of an annual fee.
"AGCO is committed to supporting an initiative which provides encouragement and recognition for dealers and technicians who voluntarily commit to continual professional development." commented Mr Pullan. "We believe that the Landbased Technician Accreditation scheme will bring sustained improved efficiencies within dealers' service departments and further boost customers' perceptions and confidence in technicians working on their tractors and other farm machines,"
"We are delighted that AGCO has joined the LTA scheme," commented Alastair Taylor, chief executive of the Institution of Agricultural Engineers (IAgrE). "The move will give service engineering technicians employed across the AGCO network the opportunity to gain professional recognition nationwide for their important work.
"We very much look forward to welcoming AGCO's first LTA3 technicians as members of IAgrE as well as handling their registration as Engineering Technicians with the Engineering Council. It is only right and proper that skilled technicians performing such important work are recognised as professionals. We believe that AGCO customers will reap the benefit of having their farm machinery serviced by technicians who are at the top of their game."
AGCO Dealer Bryant Tractors Celebrates 35 Years of Service in New Zealand's Northland Region
From the Auckland Harbour Bridge to the northern-most tip of the New Zealand, AGCO dealer Bryant Tractors has proudly served the Northland Farming industry for 35 years.
From humble beginnings employing just four people, the locally owned Whangarei business owned and operated by Murray Bale and Keith Martin is the largest independent agricultural dealership in New Zealand's Northland region.
Celebrating their success and thanking their loyal and large customer base, the Bryant Tractor team invited over 320 guests to a function at Whangarei's Toll stadium.
Guests enjoyed a buffet dinner, live entertainment and listened to the inspirational story of New Zealand Paralympic champion swimmer, Cameron Leslie.
The spacious facilities of the Northlands Rugby Union home ground also allowed Bryant tractors to display a large range of the latest AGCO products which guest were able mill around while catching up over a social drink or two.
Congratulating the Bryant Tractors team for their long history of service, Guest Speaker AGCO NZ Manager Peter Scott outlined AGCO's Vision of the Future and an overview of the NZ tractor market.
Commenting after the event, Peter said "Bryant Tractors has been a fixture in the local agricultural industry for a generation, consistently providing the Northland region with professional service and support and offering a range of AGCO products that meet the demands of modern farming practices in New Zealand."
Attending the event customers Ian and Coleen Taylor took the opportunity to pass on their best wishes to Murray and Bryant tractors staff.
"We thoroughly enjoyed seeing all the machinery Bryant Tractors had on display, it is amazing what a change there has been even in our lifetime! We were very interested to hear the story of AGCO, its impressive results, with such rapid growth throughout the world. We look forward to seeing what is coming off the production line next," Ian and Coleen Taylor said.
Murray and Keith thanked their customers and made special mention of past and current staff who have contributed to the success of Bryant Tractors including co-founder Bill Bryant.
AGCO congratulates Bryant Tractors for 35 years of dedicated professional service and looks forward continuing a successful partnership in the vibrant New Zealand agricultural industry.


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