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Mars One wants to land four astronauts on the Red Planet in 2023, and it's come up with a creative way to fund this ambitious undertaking.
The Netherlands-based nonprofit plans to stage a global reality-TV event that follows the colonization effort from astronaut selection through the settlers' first years on the Red Planet. Mars One thinks revenues from broadcasting rights and sponsorships will cover most of the one-way mission's estimated $6 billion cost.
The cameras will be turned on soon. Mars One released its basic astronaut requirements earlier this month — you must be at least 18 years old, intelligent, in good mental and physical health and committed to the project — and the televised astronaut-selection process will kick off later this year, officials say.
SPACE.com recently caught up via email with Mars One co-founder and general director Bas Lansdorp. Lansdorp talked about Mars One's business model, the major challenges facing the project and its long-term goals, which include landing new crews on the Red Planet every two years after the first pioneers touch down. [Mars One: 'Big Brother' on Mars? (Video)]
SPACE.com: How did you come up with the idea to fund a Mars colonization effort by staging a global media event?
Bas Lansdorp: It was triggered when I saw the revenue figures of the International Olympic Committee. When my co-founder Arno Wielders and I saw these numbers, we contacted Paul Römer, a well known Dutch media expert, and discussed the media value of putting humans on Mars. After that we talked to many different experts in the field, all of whom are convinced the media value is far greater than the cost associated with our mission to Mars.
SPACE.com: How long do you think people will continue to watch this effort? A few years? A few decades?
Lansdorp: The Mars One mission is of far greater effort and consequence than simply planting a flag. This is Earth's mission and it involves people from all over the world.
Anyone over 18 years of age can soon apply to be one of the first astronauts. After Mars One experts exclude unsuitable candidates, we will solicit the audience's help in democratically electing Earths first ambassadors to a new planet — the most important election in the history of our species.
The audience will remain engaged during the training of the elected candidates and will participate in their lives as they travel to and land on Mars through live telecasts and bi-directional communication. The astronauts, who are granted this incredible opportunity by the audience vote, will remain interactive with their supporters on Earth, sharing as much as possible what it is like to live on Mars.
Every year, new candidates for the Mars mission will be elected and every two years new crew members will arrive to Mars. Humanity will have become a multi-planetary species.
This is a story that people will follow for decades.
SPACE.com: What would you say to people skeptical that this business model can work?
Lansdorp: I would say: "Would you not watch humans walk on Mars?"
SPACE.com: How big a colony do you hope to eventually create on Mars?
Lansdorp: I would hope that at some point the colony is large enough to become self sustaining — but this will take many, many decades. Fortunately, Mars One will not be the only one working toward this goal. Several ventures, private and public, will play their roles in bringing humanity to a new planet. [The Boldest Mars Missions in History]
To answer your question: I hope Mars One will establish a settlement of four people on Mars. The first group will be the hardest to accomplish, both from the technical and the financial point of view. I am convinced that once this first crew of four is there, many, many will follow.
SPACE.com: What is the biggest challenge Mars One will have to overcome to be successful?
Lansdorp: A human mission to Mars is one of the most ambitious projects that one could imagine. Three major challenges. In the short term: financing the funding gap between expenditures on the hardware and revenues from the the media event. In the medium term: successfully passing through phases where things do not go as planned — which there will be in a project of this magnitude.
In the long term: finding and training a crew that can successfully perform the first three years of the mission, between departure on Earth and the landing of the second crew.
SPACE.com: Have you already heard from a lot of people interested in becoming Mars One astronauts?
Lansdorp: In the first seven months after we announced our plan in June 2012, we received about 1,000 emails from people interested to go. In the last week we received another 1,000 emails and over 30,000 people subscribed to a mailing list that updates them on any news on the selection procedure.
SPACE.com: What would it mean to humanity if Mars One is successful in creating a Red Planet colony?
Lansdorp: I believe that it will truly change the outlook of our entire species. If humanity can send humans to Mars, is there anything that we cannot do?
I hope that the international approach of Mars One will bring the people of this planet a little closer together at a time when there is so much conflict and suffering. The Mars One mission will demonstrate how a diverse team of people from various backgrounds and countries can train for and then go on a challenging mission together. This endeavor will increase awareness of both cultural differences and similarities and with that, respect for who we are.
And if on Mars we do find life — that would change our entire perspective on the universe.
SPACE.com: Do you have any interest in going to Mars yourself?
Lansdorp: Yes, and 15 years ago I started my idea for Mars One because I wanted to go to Mars. But 15 years ago I was 20 years old. Now I have a wonderful girlfriend. I doubt she would ever leave Earth for Mars. But we'll see?!
I will certainly experience a strong mix of jealousy and joy when the first four people leave Earth on humanity's greatest expedition yet.
Follow SPACE.com senior writer Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall or SPACE.com @Spacedotcom. We're also on Facebook and Google+.

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e4rat stands for e4 'reduced access time' and is a project by Andreas Rid and Gundolf Kiefer. The the e4rat range of tools are comprised of e4rat-collect, e4rat-realloc and e4rat-preload.
Current version is 0.2.1
If you look at a classical bootchart you will notice that neither disk nor CPU are utilized fully during the boot process. e4rat changes this to make full use of both disk and CPU during boot process and thus reduce boot time drastically. It consists of three stages:
- e4rat-collect - collect files for a specified time (default 120 seconds but this can be adjusted)
- e4rat-realloc - reallocate files
- e4rat-preload - preload them
Who benefits, who doesn't
e4rat has proven to be extremely effective for typical single user set-ups which boot straight into X, perhaps even with a number of programs open. If you have a server set-up and boot only into the CLI your boot time decrease may not be as drastic. SSD drives do not benefit because there are no moving parts and thus (almost) no disk latency.
The following might have been valid for version 0.20. We are now at version 0.21 - please report findings for the latest version.
Caveat emptor: the current version of e4rat (0.20) will severely damage any partition that has been converted to ext4. This is likely because existing files are not converted to use extents, and e4rat has no built-in mechanism to detect this condition. Before using e4rat you should backup the affected partitions, reformat them as ext4 and then restore the backups. Given the current status and the nature of the program, it's a smart move to backup the system before attempting reallocation anyway.
e4rat is available in the AUR: Vorlage:Package AUR
Getting it to work
Now for the nitty-gritty:
To have e4rat collect a list of files you will need to append the following to your kernel line in your /boot/grub/menu.lst (grub legacy) or /boot/grub/grub.cfg (grub2) file:
This will only have to be done once so you may prefer to append this command on the grub command line itself.
Upon booting e4rat-collect will watch your system for a default of 120 seconds. So if you boot, log into X, open your favourite browser and email client all within 2 minutes, every one of those activities is logged. To change the default of 120 seconds edit /etc/e4rat.conf. To manually stop e4rat-collect type:
e4rat-collect -k
pkill e4rat-collect
Upon successful boot and after having waited the allotted time you should see the following file: /var/lib/e4rat/startup.log
Do not forget to remove the e4rat-collect command from your menu.lst or grub.cfg file (not necessary if you inserted it on the grub command line).
For the reallocation process change to init 1
sudo init 1
Log in as root and run:
e4rat-realloc /var/lib/e4rat/startup.log
This can take a while depending on how many files you have your startup.log file.
Append the following permanently to your kernel line in your /boot/grub/menu.lst (grub legacy) or /boot/grub/grub.cfg (grub2) file:
Reboot and enjoy.
e4rat with different init system
e4rat-collect defaults to replacing itself with /sbin/init upon completion. If you need to specify another PID 1, such as /bin/systemd, you can change this in /etc/e4rat.conf by setting the init parameter and uncommenting the line.
Note: this hasn't worked for and is still in development - any suggestions welcome
You will see a noticeable improvement but nothing can beat a nice Bootchart. Have it run before and after e4rat installation and gawk at the difference.
bootchart 0.9-9
This version automatically stops logging as soon as ?dm comes up. Supposedly the following overrides that and continues logging but it doesn't work for me:
To continue logging adjust your /etc/bootchartd.conf as follows:
To stop it manually type:
~# bootchartd stop
To run both e4rat-preload and bootchart append the following to your grub kernel line:
init=/sbin/bootchartd bootchart_init=/sbin/e4rat-preload
The /etc/bootchartd.conf of bootchart2 is set up differently and the line
EXIT_PROC="kdm_greet xterm konsole gnome-terminal metacity mutter compiz ldm icewm-session enlightenment"
can be adjusted or left empty for logging to be stopped manually.
While the above works, I have not managed to get bootchart2 to play along with e4rat-preload on the kernel line.
Tips and Tricks
If things don't work you may want to try the following.
startup.log is not created
- comment out auditd from your rc.conf
- check the following for any hints
dmesg | grep e4rat
- try to increase verbosity and loglevel to 31 in your e4rat.conf
e4rat erroneously reports an ext2 files system
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Gabby Giffords' Shooter Will Plead Guilty
We've spent so much time focused on James Holmes and the Aurora shooting that we haven't heard much about Jared Lee Loughner, the last psychopath who opened fire on a crowd.
While the details are unclear, Loughner will apparently be pleading guilty on Tuesday, changing the not guilty plea that was entered last year on his behalf. This may allow him to avoid the death penalty by accepting a prison sentence.
Psychiatric experts now believe Loughner is competent to stand trial, and that he understands the 49 charges against him. Although you can't judge a man by his crazy-eyed mugshot, Loughner's rampage and subsequent behavior reflected serious psychosis. He is currently being forcibly medicated to treat his schizophrenia and delusions.
In January 2011, Loughner opened fire into a crowd at one of then-Representative Gabby Giffords' "Congress on Your Corner" events. He killed six people and wounded 13 others. Giffords, who was shot through the head, is still recovering.
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It was difficult for me to narrow this list down as I saw so many great animated shorts this year. Thanks to computer technology democratising animation production and the rise in animation courses at Japanese post-secondary institutions, there has been an explosion of new talent making waves in Japan.
Two trends in Japan that are apparent in my list are the growing numbers of women directing animation and overseas students coming to Japan to study and work. Women have long played an important role in animation as inbetweeners, writers, and film producers, but it is only in recent years that women have started to outnumber men in animation schools. Geidai (Tokyo University of the Arts) reports women outnumbering men in the two cohorts currently underway in their graduate programme. The minimal aesthetic of Yoriko Mizushiri has been a festival favourite in recent years and her latest film Snow Hut has been just as well received as Futon (2012, read review). Mari Miyazawa, of e-obento has brought her kawaii food aesthetic to stop motion animation in her delightful films Decorations and Twins in the Bakery.
Japanese animation schools have also been attracting students from overseas, particularly from China and South Korea. These young people grew up with Japanese animation on television and at the movies and see Japan as the ideal place to develop their skills as artists. Names to watch include Yangtong Zhu, Yewon Kim, and Hakhyun Kim.
The Portrait Studio (寫眞館, 2013)
Takashi Nakamura
Legend of the Forest, Part 2 (森の伝説 第二楽章, 2014)
Macoto Tezka
My Milk Cup Cow (コップの中の子牛, 2014)
Yangtong Zhu
こうこう | koukou from takashi ohashi on Vimeo.
Kou Kou (こうこう, 2013)
Takashi Ohashi
Waiter from Ryoji Yamada on Vimeo.
Waiter (2013)
Ryōji Yamada
00:08 (2014)
Yūtarō Kubo
Everyday Sins (日々の罪悪, 2014)
Yewon Kim
Fireworks * Beads (2013)
Masamu Hashimoto
Hakhyun Kim
It's Time for Supper (夜ごはんの時刻, 2013)
Saki Muramoto
Nara Arts Festival CM (奈良県大芸術祭プロモーション映像, 2014)
Snow Hut (かまくら, 2013)
Yoriko Mizushiri
The Hyuga episode of Kojiki (古事記 日向篇, 2013)
Kōji Yamamura
Rhizome (リゾーム, 2013)
Masahiro Ohsuka
Blue Eyes - in Harbor Tale – (2014)
Yuichi Ito
celebration and chorale from nakauchiyukie on Vimeo.
Celebration and Chorale (祝典とコラール, 2013)
Yukie Nakauchi
Decorations (デコレーションズ, 2014)
Mari Miyazawa
A Reflection of One's Mind (2014)
Kōhei Nakaya
Digital (2013)
Osamu Sakai
Poker from CaRTe bLaNChe on Vimeo.
Poker (2014)
Mirai Mizue and Yukie Nakauchi
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CORVALLIS, Ore. – Wayne Tinkle, who coached the past eight seasons at Montana, was hired as Oregon State's new head coach Monday night.
Tinkle took the Grizzlies to the NCAA tournament three times in his tenure with the team. Montana finished below .500 only once during that span.
The 48-year-old replaces Craig Robinson, brother-in-law of President Barack Obama, after he was fired earlier this month following six seasons with the Beavers where he failed to make the NCAA tournament. The once-proud Beavers have not been to the NCAA tournament since 1990.
Tinkle went 158-91 with the Grizzlies, compiling the second-most victories in school history. The only slight on his resume at Montana was an inability to get an NCAA tournament victory, something the Grizzlies have not had since beating Nevada in the first round in 2006.
"I met with Coach Tinkle for several hours last week and came away very impressed with him. His success on the basketball court as a coach and player is well documented, but even more so, I was impressed with his demeanor, family and philosophy," Oregon State athletic director Bob De Carolis said in a statement Monday night.
The Beavers are expected to introduce Tinkle at a news conference in Corvallis on Wednesday.
Montana has a history of producing successful coaches, including Jud Heathcote, Mike Montgomery and Larry Krystkowiak. Heathcote went from Montana to Michigan State; Montgomery went to Stanford; and Krystkowiak left Montana for the NBA before ending up at Utah and starting to turnaround the Utes program last season.
Tinkle was an assistant under Krystkowiak and often draws comparisons to him.
Robinson was unexpectedly fired May 5, a little more than a month De Carolis announced that Michelle Obama's older brother would return for a seventh season as basketball coach.
Robinson went 94-105 overall — and 39-69 in the Pac-12 — with Oregon State after spending two seasons as Brown's head coach. The Beavers made the postseason four times under Robinson but all were appearances in the lower-tier College Basketball Invitational.
Oregon State went 16-16 this past season, including 8-10 in the Pac-12, and was bounced in the first round of the CBI by Radford.
Former UCLA coach Ben Howland and former Trail Blazer Damon Stoudamire were both rumored to be candidates for the job.
Tinkle will face a challenge with the Beavers roster decimated by graduation and transfers. Oregon State has no returning starters in 2014-15 after Eric Moreland declared early for the NBA draft, Hallice Cooke decided to transfer and Challe Barton left to play professionally overseas. Leading scorer Roberto Nelson, Devon Collier and Angus Brandt were seniors last season and won't be back, either.
Cooke announced on Monday that he will play at Iowa State.
Tinkle, who played at forward for the Grizzlies during his college career, is Oregon State's 21st men's basketball coach.
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UPDATE: Apr. 6, 2011 – Local news video spotlighting One Day Without Shoes at our Global Ministry Center.
Apr. 5, 2011 – Many children in developing countries grow up barefoot. Whether at play, doing chores or going to school, these children are vulnerable.
- A leading cause of disease in developing countries is soil-transmitted diseases, which can penetrate the skin through bare feet. Wearing shoes can help prevent these diseases and the long-term physical and cognitive harm they cause.
- Wearing shoes also prevents feet from getting cuts and sores. Not only are these injuries painful, they also are dangerous when wounds become infected.
- Many times children can't attend school barefoot because shoes are a required part of their uniform. If they don't have shoes, they don't go to school. If they don't receive an education, they don't have the opportunity to realize their potential.
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I'd like to encourage you to join us tomorrow in TOMS' annual event — One Day Without Shoes — to raise awareness of the impact a pair of shoes can have on a child's life.
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"There seems to be a lingering expectation that art should provide consolation – the consolation that terrible things are only happening far away, or that artists unreservedly condemn such things."
What follows here is an interview with Steve Baker about his new book, Artist Animal, in Minnesota's Posthumanities series (further details about the book at end). Interview first published in Italian in Artribune. Questions by Leonardo Caffo and Vincenzo Santarcangelo.
|Sanna Kannisto, Chlorophanes spiza. 2010.
1. First of all, something very banal: why is it interesting for us to analyze the role of animals and their representations in the history of art?
In February 2013 a major exhibition called Ice Age Art: Arrival of the Modern Mind opens at the British Museum in London. It will show artifacts made between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago, and previews suggest that the majority of the objects and images depict animals – horses, bison, reindeer, mammoths, and so on. It includes the extraordinary "Lion man" of Hohlenstein Stadel, which would apparently have taken around four hundred hours to carve from a mammoth tusk. If images of real animals and invented hybrid creatures are regarded as having such prominence in the emergence of the modern imagination, it's hardly surprising that contemporary artists are still fascinated by the cultural leverage of animal imagery, and by its potential to astonish and unsettle.
2. Would you explain to us, briefly, the fundamental themes of your book Artist Animal?
The book presents artworks from the first decade of the twenty-first century by a small selection of contemporary artists from America, Europe, and Australasia who engage directly with questions of animal life – artists whose concern is with the nature and the quality of actual animal life, or with the human experience of actual animal lives. For the most part their art treats animals as creatures who actively share the more-than-human world with humans, rather than as mere symbols or metaphors for aspects of the so-called human condition. My key concern was to articulate the "voice" of these artists, and to show how they think and how they work. If you're a philosopher or a sociologist, for example, you may not know much about those things, even if you've seen the finished artworks. Most chapters in the book therefore draw on substantial first-hand interviews with the artists in order to present evidence of how contemporary art can make a vital and distinctive contribution to the wider cultural understanding of animal life, and to offer insight into animal imagery that might otherwise sometimes seem willfully controversial or obscure. Many people seem to view contemporary animal art with great mistrust, and my aim has been to explain the necessary connection of creativity and trust in both the making and the understanding of these artworks.
3. Many think that art and ethics have nothing in common. Personally I don't think so. In your latest book Artist Animal you seem to agree with me, suggesting that ethics and art are far from separate. What correlations are there between animal ethics and representations of animality in art?
I'm troubled by the way that "ethics" is so widely used as a proscriptive and judgmental term. When I interview artists, I never ask them directly about their "ethical" stances, no matter how controversial their work may appear to be. What I try to do instead is to draw out information about what I'd describe as the integrity of their art practice, which is about their working methods and their approach to materials as well as the animal subject-matter of their work. In that sense I'm broadly in sympathy with Iris Murdoch's approach (in her book The Sovereignty of Good), which "does not contrast art and morals, but shows them to be two aspects of a single struggle." I like her observation that "aesthetic situations are not so much analogies of morals as cases of morals. Virtue … in the artist … is a selfless attention to nature." You ask what correlations there are between animal ethics and animal representations in art. I don't think there are any fixed or necessary correlations of that sort. Several of the artists I interviewed spoke of needing to rethink their experience and their expectations in each new encounter with a living (or even a dead) animal. That seems to me to be exactly the kind of "attention to nature" that Murdoch had in mind.
4. In your book you quote Carol Gigliotti, a writer and activist who is critical of those who try to defend irresponsible artworks by claiming that art is the last frontier of radical thought. You make the point that art has the same potential as other disciplines but that it "employs different tools for thinking." We are aware of the condition of nonhuman animals today, exploited and slaughtered for various reasons. To what extent do you think a reflection on art can help with this issue?
I've just started reading Cary Wolfe's new book, Before the Law, in which he makes the succinct observation that "the distinction 'human/animal' is a discursive resource, not a zoological designation." The artists I discuss in Artist Animal offer some telling examples of this. Whether or not they see themselves as animal advocates or activists, their work shows no great interest in maintaining conventional hierarchies or boundaries. Without resorting to rather simplistic ideas of hybridity, they find all manner of ways to suggest or to present the porousness of the human/nonhuman distinction and the pointlessness of drawing that distinction too sharply. This doesn't have to be done in a heavy-handed way. Angela Singer, an artist who uses recycled taxidermy to make challenging work that nevertheless expresses her commitment to animal rights, puts it this way: "Work that seeks to persuade viewers to take a specific form of action can be quite awful. … Trying too hard to show the issue you're addressing can lead to dull passionless art of little interest to anyone except those concerned with the same issues. For me the best art is difficult to 'read'."
5. What happens when artists and animals meet in the realm of contemporary art? For example, what are, in your opinion, the limits within which an animal can be "used" by an artist?
That first question is the subject of the whole book. But to answer your second question, there are no limits to what can be done to an animal by an artist, whether through thoughtlessness or, occasionally, through cruelty. In terms of where artists choose to set their limits, there are some genuinely complex cases where the artist is clearly working with seriousness, awareness, and a sense of integrity, but where I'm personally uncomfortable with some of their decisions and actions. My approach has generally been to report in detail on these works and on the artist's account of them, and to leave my readers to draw their own conclusions. There is no single "correct" limit. Even among the artists I discuss who share a direct commitment to animal rights, there are strikingly different views about whether, for example, the inclusion of animal bodies or animal materials in an artwork should be regarded as grossly disrespectful or as the very basis of the work's compelling power.
|Angela Singer, Dripsy Dropsy. 2006.
6. Don't Trust Me (2008), a work by the French-Algerian artist Adel Abdessemed, has recently been at the center of violent polemics, both when it was exposed at the San Francisco Art Institute (the museum staff received death threats), and in 2009 when the Foundation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin dedicated a personal exhibition to the artist. The work consists of six videos projected in continuous loop of a brutal practice that is still common in Mexican slaughterhouses: a pig, a horse, a goat, a lamb, a roe deer, and a sheep are dragged out of the slaughterhouse and killed with a hammer blow on the head that leaves them between life and death for long and painful seconds of agony. Animal rights associations protest every time against the exhibition of such works. What do you think of such events? And, in the end, which side are you on?
Rather like an anthropologist, I think that what I can most usefully do is to report on what I find, and to try not to distort it or to pass judgment on it. I don't see it as my job to "take sides," or simply to condemn particular works of art. For a writer, that's too easy, and too self-congratulatory. Don't Trust Me is mentioned in my book, but only in the context of an American legal case where it was cited as an important example of contemporary artists not being obliged to explain or to justify the provocative imagery they present to the public. Is it not legitimate for an artist (whether or not we're talking specifically about Abdessemed) to make a work that simply presents the stark evidence that these things are still happening? There seems to be a lingering expectation that art should provide consolation – the consolation that terrible things are only happening far away, or that artists unreservedly condemn such things. For reasons that should not be too difficult to understand, contemporary art that engages with questions of animal life is not primarily concerned with making people feel good about themselves.
|Mary Britton Clouse, Cecilia. 2008.
7. One final question. Here we truly ask you to dare with your answer: can art, in the function and parameters you describe, contribute to saving "animals" also by helping humans think of their own "animality"?
If, as I suggested earlier, artists can present distinctive and unexpected ways to configure the relation of humans and other animals, that can certainly contribute in its own modest way to broader cultural challenges to anthropocentrism. But this will be a long, slow process. And the effects of art are not easily quantifiable: Félix Guattari aptly describes the work of art as "an activity of unframing, of rupturing sense."
But contemporary artworks that move in this direction are not quite the same as the "strategic images for animal rights" that I explored twenty years ago in the final chapter of my first book, Picturing the Beast (a chapter recently translated into Italian in the journal Liberazioni). Those were campaigning images that were sufficiently imaginative to resist easy recuperation into popular culture's clichéd and deeply anthropocentric view of animals. Contemporary art in this area is engaged in a slower and perhaps more difficult game. Describing art that she admires, the artist and activist Sue Coe has stated that "the most political art is the art of ambiguity." And to me, one of the most fascinating things to emerge from my interviews with the artists discussed in Artist Animal was the widely-shared recognition of the importance of not quite knowing what they were doing at some crucial stage in the production of their work. There was a vital space for confusion, messiness, ambiguity and "not-knowing" in their purposeful engagement with nonhuman life. This stands in striking contrast to the view expressed recently by one philosopher that it is the responsibility of moral philosophy to offer a "consistent" and "coherent" perspective on animal issues.
To borrow Foucault's words from a slightly different context, what these artists offer instead are images, experiences and structures "within which we both recognize and lose ourselves." So to return to your question, yes, I think works of art can contribute to human recognition of the continuities and inclusiveness of animal life. But there are no guarantees that such recognition will lead in any direct way to a different or better treatment of nonhuman animals. At its best, what art does offer is a stubborn refusal to be indifferent to animals and to their place in contemporary life.
Steve Baker is emeritus professor of art history at the University of Central Lancashire. He is author of Artist Animal, The Postmodern Animal, Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation, and, with the Animal Studies Group, Killing Animals.
"(Artist Animal) is a tremendous contribution to both contemporary art criticism and the emerging field of animal studies. I can think of no scholar better poised to offer innovative insight into how artists think about and work with animals than Steve Baker. With sensitivity and a rigorous ethnographer's eye, Baker investigates the complex attitudes and approaches artists employ when engaging the animal subject. What makes this beautiful book so successful is Baker's deep understanding of the nuance, intricacy, and contradictions in how artists work today." —Mark Dion


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The surname Brittle was first found in Hereford where they held a family seat as Lords of the Manor. After the Battle of Hastings in 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, having prevailed over King Harold, granted most of Britain to his many victorious Barons. It was not uncommon to find a Baron, or a Bishop, with 60 or more Lordships scattered throughout the country. These he gave to his sons, nephews and other junior lines of his family and they became known as under-tenants. They adopted the Norman system of surnames which identified the under-tenant with his holdings so as to distinguish him from the senior stem of the family. After many rebellious wars between his Barons, Duke William, commissioned a census of all England to determine in 1086, settling once and for all, who held which land. He called the census the Domesday Book, [1] indicating that those holders registered would hold the land until the end of time. Hence, conjecturally, the surname is descended from the tenant of many lands and domains who was recorded in the Domesday Book census of 1086. The family is descended from Roger de Breteuil, son of William FitzOsbern, a great Norman Earl. Roger became Earl of Hereford sometime before the Conquest, rebelled against Duke William in 1075, lost his lands, and died in prison. Nevertheless, his kin continued to hold domains in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Salop.
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AMY GOODMAN: Juan, before we move on with our first segment, you have an interesting column in the New York Daily News today about the Treasury Department approving huge paydays for execs from firms that actually received TARP bailout money.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yeah, you know, I was shocked that this got very little attention earlier this week when the inspector general for the TARP program released his audit. The audit showed that as many as 49 executives at a handful of firms that received the biggest bailouts received from $5 million and up in compensation, approved by the special master that the Treasury Department appointed, Kenneth Feinberg, to review executive compensation. And we're talking about the firms that got the largest payouts, including AIG, General Motors, the largest bailouts. And AIG was by far the worst. In fact, Feinberg told the auditors that that company represented 80 percent of his headaches over the past few years.
The most interesting part of the audit, though, I thought, was that Feinberg reported that the Treasury Department and officials at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York were regularly pressuring him to increase the pay of these bailed-out firms. Now, understand, AIG was 90 percent owned by the federal government, after receiving $180 billion in bailouts. It is still 70 percent owned by the taxpayers. And yet the CEO of AIG, Robert Benmosche, received $10.5 million in '09, $10.5 million in '10, and $10.5 million in 2011, including $3 million in cash every year, even though Congress and President Obama had said they were going to limit executive pay to $500,000 a year. And the one—
AMY GOODMAN: CEO of Allied Financial, you quote?
JUAN GONZALEZ: Yes, at one point, the CEO of Allied Financial complained that one of his executives was being reduced from a million to $500,000 a year, and he said that that executive would be made cash poor, because he had a couple of kids in private school, and he wouldn't be able to meet his monthly bills on a salary of only $500,000 a year. And these are the kinds of abuses that have taxpayers furious. Here are people, millions of people, losing their homes, losing their jobs, and these executives, who have received federal money, bailouts, are demanding these enormous salaries—and getting them—despite the limits that were supposed to be placed by the Treasury Department on employee compensation.
AMY GOODMAN: Now, of course, Tim Geithner is Treasury Secretary, was head of the Federal Reserve in New York.
JUAN GONZALEZ: Right, and it was his assistants who were pressuring Feinberg to increase the pay, because they were warning that if these executives left the companies, that the government would not be able to get paid back its money. Of course, the audit found that 85 percent of the executives, the top executives at these companies, the top 25 at each of the companies, that was there in 2009 when the bailout started, was still there. In other words, very few of them actually left, despite the caps on pay.


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The words of Oliver Cromwell on dismissing the Rump Parliament in April 1653 seem particularly apt, especially given that some of the disasters which have befallen recently have precedents which date back to about this time. The long years of executive contempt for the primacy of Parliament and the tendency of party hierarchies to populate the House with their creatures have at last come home to roost.
The disgraceful scandals surrounding expenses in the Commons and cash for amendments in the Lords notwithstanding, the rot was already well and truly established. Twelve years of a government with a larger majority than was healthy have meant a substantial reduction in the influence of our elected representatives in the House of Commons and an increase in that of authoritarian ministers, shadowy civil servants, policy wonks, party hacks, Fleet Street editors, think tankers, and quangocrats. Supine backbenchers have voted the line on a series of utterly reprehensible laws, seemingly designed solely to hedge our existence around with endlessly-increasing strictures and regulations, pausing only occasionally when attacks of contagious conscience cause them to oppose government policy when it finally becomes so vile as to become impossible even for the most compliant and venal apparatchiks to support.
Having constantly failed to curb the government on issues such as Iraq, curtailment of civil liberties, and a host of others, MPs suddenly wonder why they are held in contempt – not only by the electorate whose interests they have so manifestly failed to serve, but by the government whose path they clear and whose excesses they accommodate. It is this contempt which has led to the recent catastrophes for the primacy of Parliament.
First came the arrest of Damian Green and the abject failure of the Speaker to stand up for rights for which Parliament had long fought. Whether or not Green should have been arrested is entirely immaterial; the fact remains that for the first time since 1642, an MP was arrested (or at least sought) for actions which were largely political. The fact that the Speaker put up so little resistance was a grave dereliction of duty, and it compares very badly with the words of his predecessor, William Lenthall, who, confronted by the King, who asked where five members of the Commons might be found so that they could be arrested, is famously quoted as having said:
May it please your Majesty, I have neither eyes to see nor tongue to speak in this place but as the House is pleased to direct me, whose servant I am here.
This assertion of Parliamentary sovereignty has held such sway ever since that that was the last time a monarch even entered the Commons chamber, yet now, the vital rights of our elected representatives are nibbled away because the government is embarrassed, and the Speaker fails to prevent it. This is an unconscionable level of backsliding, as it suggests once more executive primacy over Parliament, as an MP's official correspondence was seized by a load of politically naïve woodentops sent on a fishing expedition by spiteful ministers and officials.
The nadir of Parliamentary influence, however, has come with the twin scandals of MPs being caught claiming outrageous expenses funded by the taxpayer, and the much more serious matter of two Lords being recommended to be suspended for six months for allegedly agreeing to take money to propose amendments to legislation – the first suspension from the Lords since 1642. This clearly shows that not only is Parliament held in contempt by the government, but even Parliamentarians hold it in contempt. After all, it's hardly respectful to claim dubious expenses, and to take money to try to influence legislation should really be regarded as nothing less than criminal. Is it any wonder, therefore, that the stock of politicians has never been lower? Nor that many of the historical precedents cited date back to the worst period of civil conflict this country has ever had.
Sweeping changes are urgently needed to ensure that, gravely imperfect as it is, the Parliamentary system is safeguarded so as to avoid the rise of untrammelled executive power. Single Transferable Vote-style PR is a must for a start; thus we can better reflect the views of the electorate whilst making sure that we don't introduce a disastrous party list system. Larger constituencies are also needed, as well as shorter Parliamentary terms, so as to ensure that MPs do not become too comfortable and complacent. Parliament should probably also look into reforming MPs' housing so that instead of paying through the nose for second homes, Parliament itself buys up houses in London and rents them to MPs who need them – if nothing else, I suspect that this would lead to a lot of MPs suddenly discovering that their constituencies are commutable after all. More short-term, the situation in the current Parliament is insupportable, and in my view, a general election should be called as soon as all expenses claims are published, so that the public can pass its verdict on the activities of people who are, in the final analysis, our employees. So the words of Cromwell, last used to evict Neville Chamberlain in 1940, once again, are apt:
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Abdominal MRI scan
An abdominal magnetic resonance imaging scan is an imaging test that uses powerful magnets and radio waves. The waves create pictures of the inside of the belly area. It does not use radiation (x-rays).
Single magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images are called slices. The images can be stored on a computer, viewed on a monitor, or scanned to a disc. One exam produces dozens or sometimes hundreds of images.
Alternative Names
Nuclear magnetic resonance - abdomen; NMR - abdomen; Magnetic resonance imaging - abdomen; MRI of the abdomen
How the Test is Performed
You may be asked to wear a hospital gown or clothing without metal zippers or snaps (such as sweatpants and a t-shirt). Certain types of metal can cause blurry images.
You will lie on a narrow table. The table slides into a large tunnel-shaped scanner.
Some exams require a special dye (contrast). Most of the time, the dye is given during the test through a vein (IV) in your hand or forearm. The dye helps the radiologist see certain areas more clearly.
During the MRI, the person who operates the machine will watch you from another room. The test lasts about 30 to 60 minutes, but it may take longer.
How to Prepare for the Test
You may be asked not to eat or drink anything for 4 to 6 hours before the scan.
Tell your health care provider if you are afraid of close spaces (have claustrophobia). You may be given a medicine to help you feel sleepy and less anxious. Your provider may also suggest an open MRI, in which the machine is not as close to your body.
Before the test, tell your provider if you have:
- Artificial heart valves
- Brain aneurysm clips
- Heart defibrillator or pacemaker
- Inner ear (cochlear) implants
- Kidney disease or dialysis (you may not be able to receive contrast)
- Recently placed artificial joints
- Certain types of vascular
- Worked with sheet metal in the past (you may need tests to check for metal pieces in your eyes)
Because the MRI contains strong magnets, metal objects are not allowed into the room with the MRI scanner. Avoid carrying items such as:
- Pocketknives, pens, and eyeglasses
- Watches, credit cards, jewelry, and hearing aids
- Hairpins, metal zippers, pins, and similar items
- Removable dental implants
How the Test will Feel
An MRI exam causes no pain. You may get medicine to relax you if you have a problem lying still or are very nervous. Moving too much can blur MRI images and cause errors.
The table may be hard or cold, but you can ask for a blanket or pillow. The machine makes loud thumping and humming noises when turned on. You can wear ear plugs to help reduce the noise.
An intercom in the room allows you to speak to someone at any time. Some MRIs have televisions and special headphones to help you pass time.
There is no recovery time, unless you were given a medicine to help you relax. After an MRI scan, you can go back to your normal diet, activity, and medicines.
Why the Test is Performed
An abdominal MRI provides detailed pictures of the belly area from many views. It is often used to clarify findings from earlier x-rays or
This test may be used to look at:
- Blood flow in the abdomen
- Blood vessels in the abdomen
- The cause of abdominal pain or swelling
- The cause of abnormal blood test results, such as liver or kidney problems
- Lymph nodes in the abdomen
- Masses in the liver, kidneys, adrenals, pancreas, or spleen
MRI can distinguish tumors from normal tissues. This can help the doctor know more about the tumor such as size, severity, and spread. This is called staging.
In some cases it can give better information about masses in the abdomen than CT.
What Abnormal Results Mean
An abnormal result may be due to:
- Abdominal aortic aneurysm
Abscess Canceror tumors that involves the adrenal glands, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, kidneys, ureters, intestines Enlarged spleenor liver
- Gallbladder or
bileduct problems Hemangiomas Hydronephrosis(kidney swelling from the backflow of urine)
- Kidney infection
- Kidney damage or diseases
- Kidney stones
- Enlarged lymph nodes
Obstructed vena cava
- Portal vein obstruction (liver)
- Blockage or narrowing of the arteries that supply the kidneys
Renal vein thrombosis
- Kidney or liver
transplant rejection Cirrhosis of the liver
- Spread of cancers that began outside the belly
MRI does not use ionizing radiation. No side effects from the magnetic fields and radio waves have been reported.
The most common type of contrast (dye) used is gadolinium. It is very safe. Allergic reactions are rare but can occur. If you have a history of severe allergic reactions to other medicines you should notify your doctor. In addition, gadolinium can be harmful to people with kidney problems who need dialysis. Tell your provider before the test if you have kidney problems.
The strong magnetic fields created during an MRI can cause heart pacemakers and other implants not to work as well. The magnets can also cause a piece of metal inside your body to move or shift.
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Some work could qualify for federal funds, but it's not yet clear who will provide the rest.
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Cauldron Cakes for Halloween or Harry Potter Parties
Dip the bottoms into melted chocolate (I used Enjoy Life chocolate chips) and place onto parchment paper to set. Place 4 chips on the sheet so when you sent them down it will make it look like cauldron feet. Sometimes those extra chips melt but that just means more chocolate.
Core out the center of the cupcakes with a spoon or one of those cool corers.
Fill the hole with icing and let it spill out the top. (I used Whole Foods)
Make the handles by melting chocolate (I used Enjoy Life chocolate chips), put it into a plastic baggie and snip the corner to make a piping bag. Draw the handles onto parchment paper and let them harden. I like the freezer for the fast set. Gently push the handles into the cupcake.
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TALLAHASSEE — Florida lawmakers have filed their first bills of the season.
Most of the proposals are familiar: a ban on texting while driving, a requirement that parasailing operators carry insurance and a "foreign law" bill criticized by opponents as being anti-Islamic.
Sen. Nancy Detert, R-Venice, said she will keep sponsoring the texting-while-driving measure until it passes. It nearly survived the Senate last year, but former House Speaker Dean Cannon, R-Winter Park, blocked the measure in his chamber, calling it a potential infringement on personal liberty that would be difficult to enforce.
Under Detert's latest proposal, SB 52, law enforcement officers could tack on a $30 texting fine for a driver who is stopped for another violation. The penalty would not apply to drivers reading a navigational device or traffic safety information, the proposal states.
Detert pitched the measure as "common sense" middle ground. Some lawmakers oppose all new government oversight, while others think the law should go further — banning the use of all electronic devices while driving, Detert said.
"We should put it before members and let them vote on it. And whatever they decide, so be it," said Detert, adding that she thinks the bill stands a better chance with Rep. Will Weatherford, R-Wesley Chapel, who is the current speaker.
Weatherford has been publicly impartial on the issue, saying the state needs to balance driver protection with individual rights. He plans to allow lawmakers to hash it out in committee, spokesman Ryan Duffy said. Rep. Doug Holder, R-Sarasota, is sponsoring the proposal in the House.
None of the bills filed so far address unemployment, foreclosures or health care, which lawmakers often tout as the most important issues facing the state.
A "foreign law" bill filed is bound to stir controversy in 2013, as it did it 2012.
SB 58, sponsored by Sen. Alan Hays, R-Umatilla, would make sure Florida law trumps foreign law in marriage, divorce and custody cases. Hays says the proposal doesn't target a particular group, although he spurred protests from clergy of several faiths in 2012 by delivering anti-Islamic brochures to fellow senators days before a scheduled vote.
The proposal passed the House but stalled in the Senate.
A bill to regulate parasailing companies is also on the horizon after languishing last year under pressure from lobbyists.
Sen. Maria Sachs, D-Boca Raton, filed SB 64 to require parasailing businesses to use sturdy equipment, carry insurance, offer a safety briefing to passengers and not operate in bad weather. The bill is named the White-Miskell Act after Amber White and Kathleen Miskell, who died while parasailing in South Florida.
"We need to encourage the industry, to promote it and protect it, and these operators know the best way to do that is protect the people" Sachs said.
Parasailing is virtually unregulated in Florida (and almost everywhere else), with the state's 120 companies required only to have a boat license. Parasailing accidents have caused at least four deaths in Florida within the past two years, something most beachgoers don't realize as they're strapped into a harness to careen hundreds of feet over the water.
Lawmakers also have filed bills to make sure citizens have the opportunity to testify before government boards or committees take action (SB 50) and to ensure that men and women have equal rights (SB 54). Lawmakers also have filed 19 claims bills, in which victims or their families are seeking damages for an injury or death caused by government employees.
House and Senate committees will begin meeting next month. The 60-day lawmaking session is scheduled to convene March 5.
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