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Southeast Aviation Expo Article in GA News
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Southeast Aviation Expo ticket holders will receive a discount to play golf at Crosswinds Par-3 Golf Club (http://crosswinds-golf.com/) during Friday and Saturday: $11.00 – 9 holes; $17 – 18 holes ($8.50 / $14.00 if over 50 or under 16 years of age) Rental clubs available: $3.00 / $5.00 golf balls $1.00. Regardless of your golf skills – or non-skills- for less than $20, you can tour one of the nation's unique golf courses and have a great time on a September evening in the Carolinas. ...read more
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The Cirrus Owners Pilots Association Southern Region will make a weekend event out of the Southeast Aviation Expo September 27-28 at the Greenville Downtown Airport. COPA members are invited to an education session from 11 am – Noon on "ForeFlight Ins and Outs" with Jason Miller, cofounder of ForeFlight. (all attendees are welcome to attend.) COPA members will have a private lunch sponsored by the association with an education session "Advanced Engine Management for Cirrus Aircraft" presented by Continental Motors. For information on other COPA activities please email...read more
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Five sessions at the SEAE will be eligible for WINGS – Pilot Proficiency Program credit. See: http://www.faasafety.gov/SPANS/event_details.aspx?eid=51725&caller=%2FSPANS%2Fevents%2FEventList.aspx%3Fstatecd%3DSC The Southeast Aviation Expo will be held on September 26-27 at the Greenville Downtown...read more
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In a dry large skillet, toast ancho peppers on both sides for about 2 minutes or until they crackle and just turn color, turning once halfway through cooking. (Be careful not to burn them; it will make the mole bitter.) Place anchos in a small bowl; cover with boiling water and let stand for 30 minutes to rehydrate. Drain, discarding water. Remove seeds; set anchos aside.
Heat oil in the same large skillet over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; sauté for about 5 minutes or until onion is tender. Stir in sunflower kernels, cinnamon, cumin seeds, and allspice; cook and stir for 3 to 4 minutes more or until mixture is very fragrant. Transfer mixture to a blender or food processor.
Add 1 1/2 cups broth, bread, tomato, chipotles and ancho peppers to the blender or food processor. Cover and blend or process until smooth, adding more broth if needed to thin the mixture.
Transfer the mixture to a large saucepan. Stir in the remaining broth, chocolate and 2 teaspoons sugar. Bring to a boil; reduce heat. Simmer, uncovered, for about 30 minutes or until desired consistency. Season to taste with salt, black pepper and additional sugar. Cover to keep warm.
Meanwhile, season meat with salt and black pepper. Arrange hot coals around a drip pan in a charcoal grill. Test for medium-high heat above pan. Place meat on the grill rack over the pan. Cover and grill for 30 to 35 minutes or until internal temperature registers 155°F on an instant-read thermometer. (For a gas grill, preheat grill. Reduce heat to medium-high. Adjust for indirect cooking. Grill as above.) Remove meat from grill. Cover with foil and let stand for 15 minutes. The temperature of the meat after standing should be 160°F. Slice into 1/2-inch slices.
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Weekend miscellany:
Lockheed is branding itself as a supporter of the troops.
The Weekly Standard says that Nov. 28 is "cyber Monday, the day on which people who couldn't find what they wanted in the stores, and people who don't have high-speed Internet access at home, but do at the office, log on to let their fingers do the walking. Only the Scroogiest of bosses objects, especially at a time when the unemployment rate is low and the labor market increasingly tight."
Delta has said a pilot strike would be "murder-suicide," and "industry analysts say they may be right on the mark."


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Although the recovery from the recession has been very slow, it's relatively steady, pointed out John Larkin, Stifel Nicolaus managing partner. In fact, he said, when you look at headwinds such as the financial situation in the Eurozone, China's slowing economy, the tinderbox in the Middle East, and high unemployment and regulatory burdens here in the U.S., he said, you could say the slow grown is actually impressive.
Larkin pointed to charts tracking retail sector growth, manufacturing and inventories to indicate that the economy is largely moving sideways. For instance, the August manufacturing numbers came out Tuesday from the Institute of Supply Managers with an index of 49.6 - anything below 50 indicates contraction. "It's the third straight month of contraction after a fairly long-range period of expansion as we climbed out of the recessionary trough," Larkin said. "These readings are not terrible distressing, but nonetheless, it's additional evidence suggesting the economy's moving sideways."
Bright Spots
On the brighter side, there has been some recovery in the housing market - although Larkin points out that "the arithmetic can be misleading." We've seen a 74% rise in new home sales after falling 80% off the peak, but the way percentages work, "we still have a long way to go."
Nevertheless, it's helping the flatbed sector. "Given the amount of flatbed capacity that has found its way out of the market, even this small mount of rebound has tightened up supply and demand in the flatbed truckload sector," Larkin said.
Dave Ross notes that strength in some sectors, such as tank trucks (which have benefited from the hydraulic fracturing boom), flatbed and reefers, are inflating volume trends somewhat.
"We think the year-over-year increase on tonnage is a little misleading," he said. "There's a lot of strength in fracking, where you have lots of short haul heavy moves," driving up those tonnage numbers. Van trailers, which have been a weaker segment, are also more likely to haul lightweight loads such as potato chips, skewing the American Trucking Associations' tonnage numbers.
Fuel prices and capacity constraints such as increased regulation may be reversing the trend we've seen since trucking deregulation in 1980 of ever-more-efficient logistics. When you look at logistics costs as a percentage of GDP, there has been a fairly stead trend downward since 1980, with a dip in the 2002-2004 time frame of the last economic downturn.
"We spent 16.2% of every GDP dollar on transportation and logistics at the time of deregulation," Larkin explained. "That bottomed out in the 8% range, but the last couple of years have seen the trend reverse a bit, and I think as we run into capacity constraints and deal with increased federal regulation, you may see that trend continue."
Of course, that will mean higher rates for carriers, though the situation is somewhat different for truckload and less-than-truckload.
Speaking about a "laundry list of alphabet-soup regulations" being imposed on the trucking industry, Larkin said, "The net effect of all of these is to either reduce the number of drivers approved to operate Class 8 trucks or to reduce the productivity of those safe drivers. Over the next five years or so as all these regulations are implemented, you have potential to lose 10%, some say as much as 15% of the capacity of the industry."
Piling on top of that trends is the fact that large carriers are diversifying away from the traditional longhaul truckload market, Larkin said, because it's too cylical, too seasonal, too driver-intensive and too capital-intensive. "That just exacerbates the tightness of supply and demand in the marketplace," he said.
A number of large shippers, seeing the writing on the wall, "are adopting what we call Core Carrier Concept Part II: Working with the biggest, most sophisticated, most well-capitalized large carriers to lock in capacity" against the day all those regulations and/or a faster-recovering economy result in a capacity shortage.
As a result, Stifel Nicolaus expects about a 1% to 3% rate increase through the rest of the year, both contract and dedicated. Looking ahead, if we see continues 1% to 2% GDP growth, rate increases will likely continue in that vein. If GDP grows a more typical 2% to 3%, those rate increases could be in the mid to upper single digits in the 2013-2014 time period.
While truckload is more driven by retail and consumer spending, less-than-truckload is heavily driven by manufacturing, said David Ross, TITL HERE.
Although the LTL industry is more consolidated than truckload and more consolidated than it's ever been, with the top five carriers representing more than 55% of the market, they still need prices to increase in order to significantly improve their margins, Ross explained.
The firm is forecasting rate increases for 2013, excluding fuel surcharges, to be up 3% to 5% year over year. Tightness in truckload could benefit LTL pricing as less-than-truckload carriers pick up the slack.
The LTL market is also seeing some diversification, although not to the extent of truckload, with LTL carriers partnering with international shipping company logistics units to offer seamless international less-than-container-load and less-than-truckload service. In addition, some have diversified into more asset-light segments, such as the recent purchase of Panther Expedited Services by ABF parent company Arkansas Best.
"LTL's been losing share to truckload and parcel for years, but we think most of that is done, and more likely they're going to gain a little share back, especially with the tightness on the truckload side," he said.
You can't talk about LTL without talking about the struggles of YRC, the second largest overall player and the largest unionized LTL. "They have had a lot of struggles the last few years and are still trying to come up with a sustainable business model," Ross said, predicting that YRC Freight, the old Yellow/Roadway, is the most in jeopardy.
"We're watching this closely; any further consolidation of YRC could help tighten supply and demand in the overall industry."


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Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:
The Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said,
"He who spends a pair in the way of Allah
will be called from the gates of Jannah: `
O slave of Allah! This gate is better for you'
and one who is constant in Salat (prayer),
will be called from the Gate of Salat;
and whoever is eager in fighting in the Cause of Allah,
will be called from the Gate of Jihad;
and who is regular in observing Saum
will be called from Ar-Raiyan Gate.
The one who is generous in charity will be called
from the Gate of Charity."
Abu Bakr (May Allah be pleased with him) said:
"O Messenger of Allah (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam)!
May my mother and father be sacrificed for you!
Those who are called from these gates will stand in need of nothing.
Will anybody be called from all of those gates?"
He (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) replied,
"Yes, and I hope that you will be one of them."
[Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Commentary: "Pair" means two; in other channels of transmission, it has been explained thus: "They asked him, `Pair of what?' He (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam) said, `A pair of horses, cows or camels'." "Pair" in this Hadith, however, can be all-inclusive; i.e., fasting two days or performing two prayers, etc. This Hadith also mentions special distinction of Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (May Allah be pleased with him) and the esteem in which he was held by the Prophet (Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam). It also transpires from this Hadith that one can praise such a person right on his face about whom one does not fear that it will make him proud. This Hadith has also an inducement for giving in Sadaqah two instead of a single item.
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Hell's Bells is the sequel to John Connolly's first Samuel Johnson novel, The Gates. Set in the English town of Biddlecombe, the story picks up fifteen months after the events of the first novel, in which the demonic Mrs Abernathy's invasion of Earth was was thwarted by 11-year-old Samuel Johnson, his dog, Boswell, and an un-demonic demon named Nurd.
Life in Biddlecombe is slowly returning to normal for Samuel and his friends. However, Mrs Abernathy has not forgotten her defeat at the hands of the boy and longs for revenge. When the scientists in Sweden turn on the Large Hadron Collider once more, it gives Mrs Abernathy the power she needs to drag Samuel into hell, so she can make him suffer before presenting him to the Great Malevolence in order to win back her place as his second-in-command. However, things don't go to plan, and she finds herself contending with two police officers, four rowdy dwarves and Nurd's loyalty to Samuel.
Hell's Bells is aimed at young teenagers, with its easy-to-read, casual prose, though it would appeal to many adults as well. Some of the scenes and imagery created here are so utterly ridiculous (in a good way) that you can't help but snort a bit with laughter when you read them. There are quite a few footnotes scattered throughout the book, amusing little asides on history, science or life in general. Some readers might find them annoying, as they can distract the reader from the flow of the story a little – indeed, I've seen them used poorly in other books – but I think they work well enough here, especially as they are often educational and quite funny. This is really the only complaint I had about the book, and that's probably because footnotes remind me too much of academic papers, which are Evil.
The descriptions give you a real sense of how the world looks; particularly in hell, which has variety to its landscape as opposed to the typical "lots of pits full of fire" approach. The protagonists are likeable – I particularly enjoyed the close bond of friendship between Samuel and his dog – and even the evil characters have depth to their personalities.
And really, any story that includes a troupe of alcoholic dwarves can only be hilarious.
It looks like the series will continue, but (as far as I can tell), there's no way of knowing when the next Samuel Johnson book will come out, or how many more there will be; Connolly's next book, Charlie Parker mystery The Burning Soul, is due out in September, I believe.
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|12 December 2005
aka sagi_13portfolio
in a moat, USA
Originally Posted by Stahlberg: Obviously it's the climate.
Hm.. this is one interesting point. I had never considered climate to be a factor really.... cool idea.
I grew up in Peru and there everyone is very touchy , we greet people with a kiss and hug, we dance, we celebrate by being together.. when I moved to the USA I felt sort of weird because when I meet people they would give me weird looks for hugging them and giving them a huge smack in the cheek ... lol I now know better not to do that to people not even my close friends. The funny thing is that I have grown so accostumed to this idea of "personal space" that when I am around other hispanic friends it takes me a moment to adjust to them greeting me with kisses and hugs.... its a weird feeling
Another note, I have had the opportunity to travel a lot and I noticed something pretty interesting. I have gone to Cuba and Brazil. the people there did not have much money at all, many under the poverty line... the kids would run around some barefoot playing with simple toys like a ball or even just kicking around a plastic bag. To overpriviledged eyes one would consider these kids desparate and this story a tragedy.. but the amazing thing is that these kids where HAPPY. They ran, they played, and laughed. They used their imagination to turn a plastic bag a great toy. It really makes me think twice when I see a child in a store kicking and screaming because he wants the newest $300 dollar toy
Whether you think you can or you can't, you probably right.
|12 December 2005
Robert Ellison
Creative Director
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Two interesting points, InesD & Josh.
I am an artist who early embraced a tradition using such contemporary (and not so contemporary)as models Jackson pollock, Alberto Giacometti, Camus, Jenet, Francis Bacon, Bukowsky, Wm. Burroughs,rimbaud, baudilair van Gogh etc.as well as the films by artists portraying similar content (such as Bergman, et al).
The concept of art as a tormented struggle in a chaotic void with no end result other than more struggle and chaos is one that it has been difficult to overcome.
I am still more drawn to literature in which perversity, dark themes, bitterness and cynicism ( Paul Theroux Don Delillo for example) are present. This for the same reasons you give Josh,( realism and unsentimentally) vs "the feel good factor").
However, as the years have passed, I find myself drawn as well to romantic themes, especially in movies (Bridges of Madison County, Sleepless in seattle, Knotting Hill).
For myself it is less about sentimentality than it is about the discovery of love between people. In a world in which love is one of the often spoken of ideals but is greatly lacking in much we encounter (business, careers, the striving for success).
Ines, having lived for extended periods in latin countries I too share your observations. This closeness is seen in no greater way than in these cultures reverence for and inclusion of the elderly in a vital sharing of life in the family. So unlike the trend in the United States to shuffle the old folks off to the nursing home, where, more often than not they end up drugged out, drooling on their shoes for the remainder of their "golden years".
The ability to find joy in simple non commercialized life is one of the benefits of poverty, especially in third world, tropical countries where the stress of climate and the relative availability of food free from the tree, or the sea, and the lessened demands of utility bills and overstuffed homes leave more time to find joy in life itself, unencumbered by possessions.
This material sickness is very overwhelming in The united States, where vastly overweight people with houses and garages overstuffed with things, find their greatest joy in the malls, buying or lusting after even more things.
The disparity, as I'm sure you have encountered, is even more apparent when these same people, from wherever they come, are seen in foreign environments as tourists.
Unfortunately, the same conspiratorial elements I spoke of earlier, (this time in the form of advertising agencies, industry etc, and, in many cases, ourselves, through the use these elements make of our talent to make their products impossible to resist) have a vested interest in luring us away from simplicity, (in the Henry David Thoreau model).
To them our only purpose for existence is to purchase their generally unnecessary products.
Unfortunately, they seem to be succeeding. The world at large is lusting after what they offer, or being torn apart by the jehaidist (?sp) or crusader mentalities who are in conflict now.
My point here, is these are only more elements in my already long list of examples of why warm human contact is so difficult.
|12 December 2005
grr arghportfolio
note here not more not here no more
United Kingdom
...I'm not a very sociable person (outside the internet). If I'm destracted from painting for too long I get cranky. Or the whole time I'm hanging with friends I can't concentrate lol. This isn't all the time, sometimes I'm so fed up with my work all I want to do is get out of the house.
My friends are quite 'huggy', usually when we say hi or bye. Sometimes I'm ok with this if I'm that one doing the hugging but I can get a bit unncomfortable with it sometimes. But I must say overall I do like hugging, it does cheer me up if I'm in a bad mood.
My friends also often ask me if I'm ok a lot, 'apprantly' I often look moody. This is annoying, there are times when I am really happy and they say this. I must have something wrong with my face lol.
I agree with cutural influence.
Bringing up religion. I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses and have found that when we meet up at meetings, there is such love. People throughout the congregation hugging and showing affection. I haven't been a Jehovah's Witness long, and I find it a little difficult to show affection back, because I'm not used to it. It's strange because there is such affection at the meetings and yet when you go back to the outside world you can see the difference immediatly. There isn't much affection between people here in the UK. Especially amongst strangers.
|12 December 2005
grr arghportfolio
note here not more not here no more
United Kingdom
Originally Posted by roberte: Someone just sent me this. Somehow I know it has something to do with all of what we speak of.
"If I could give you anything, I would give you a candle that burns as brightly as the light within you, the light you are...I would tell you to keep it burning, no matter what. I would say don't let the well-intentioned extinguish it. Don't let the mean-spirited blow it out. Don't let your light flicker and fade because of everyday challenges and concerns. The world is large, and no one can illuminate it alone, but it is amazing how a single candle, burning brightly, can light so many others."
- Author Unknown
This is beautiful wish I could recognise the who the Author is.
|12 December 2005
A random guy
Hernando Salles Rosa
Forgotten Hope Mod
Porto Alegre, Brazil
Originally Posted by roberte: The ability to find joy in simple non commercialized life is one of the benefits of poverty, especially in third world, tropical countries where the stress of climate and the relative availability of food free from the tree, or the sea, and the lessened demands of utility bills and overstuffed homes leave more time to find joy in life itself, unencumbered by possessions.
I think there's a lot of supositions here. Living in a poor tropical country doesnt mean where not bounded to money, work and all the rest. A poor people here will have a low-payed job (really low payed), and will probably have to do miracles with it to survive the whole mont, but just getting food from the nature, for example, isnt something you find unless on some really isolated places. I can tell that at least for Brasil and some other south american countries. Against the common belief, we do not live in the jungle, nor have lunch besides the sea by toasting the fish we just caught... I do not know a country (maybe there are some in Africa ? Just a guess) that doesnt live under the paradigms of money, buying, consumism, etc, etc. So, the diference doesnt come from there. Of course, not being able to pay for a expensive toy makes kids play with things we do not imagine, but kids have the most incredible minds, they will find joy in almost everything.
My point is... Its not about not being in the system. We're all in the system, from Norway to Brazil. But its rather about going out in the spring(as it is right now) and seeing red flowers that feel more red than full saturated red. Its about seeing people on the streets, being able to touch then, to talk to then, to get a orange from the tree in your garden, to walk with only shorts, a shirt and sandals, to feel the warm sunlight upon your face. I enjoy cold, but the sub-tropical cold in which i live (winter means 5ºC for a few days and a little hotter days). Its also about seeing four complete seasons, the flowers in the spring, the drain plants in the summer, the falling leafs in the autumn, the nude branches in the winter. Its all about being more in touch with people, with nature, and maybe with ourselves.
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Robert Ellison
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Excellent points. Perhaps I overstated myself. Much of my time was spent in less developed areas as I preferred them to the types of commercialized interactions which city life might more commonly demand.
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Primo_itch I did not mean to make a generalised comment on Brazil, sorry I made it sound like I was and I hope it didnt offend you... Just know that I am also talking about Peru where is where I was born and raised. There was a lot of poverty there too. A lot. When I said that the children were happy I did not mean that their life was easy. I would never say that poverty comes with benefits. We have it so good, with all our commodities... poor people may not have to worry about their cable bill... but they have to worry about where the next meal is coming from. Now that is something to worry about. It is actually hell to have no money, no opportunity and no hope for a future... it is a real tradegy that the developing countries have to suffer ... my observation was that even in this horrible situation I was always amazed that so many children could find the joy of life in simple things. That to me is beautiful.
When I was little I was fortunate that my family was well off. Then as fate will have it we lost everything... Having to really struggle financially in my teens was perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me. If I had never experienced what it was not to have I could have turned up to be a spoiled snob. bleh... To have experienced hard times really gave me a backbone and an appreciation for what is important. To me there is nothing more boring than talking about brand name of clothes...., whats the hottest fashions, or what is "in", phew that makes my brain bleed.
roberte Yeah family is a very important part of the hispanic culture. I grew up with my grandmother in the house. So did most of the people I knew. People are raised with the idea that family comes first. We are also taught that we respect our elders and we do hold their opinions and experiences in high regard. I think it might be the collective mentality of having to pull everyone together to make a family work and be succesful. Perhaps the culture of only what is new is good, extreme individualism and personal space alienates the family and older people.
I am no sociologist and I only speak out of personal experience and opinion. I do not intend to offend anyone in any way because I dont like making people feel uphappy or worse angry.
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Hernando Salles Rosa
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InesD, i havent take your comentarys, neither Roberte comentarys as offenses, by no means. I understand what both of you want to say, and i agree with you. I'm just trying to explain that, unlikely some people think, 3rd world countries are not "cavemen civilizations" I do really think that not having a lot of money (what was my situation when i was younger, right now i'm by no means rich, but i'm well enough to have a good computer and a nice apartment) makes people see the world with other eyes. When a kid has no money to go to the next shop and buy a RC car, he'll probably make a nice toy out of pieces of wood or some metal cans, and have fun not only playing with it, but also creating it. I think that's why, not generalizing please, that poor people is usualy taken as more creative, more capable of improvisation, because life has teached them to have those skills since young.
But, hell, we're changing the subject of the topic, so i'll stop here
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|12 December 2005
Robert Ellison
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on the contrary, Primo, all of what we are talking about is related to the topic.
There are so many influences that result in the issues raised at the beginning of this topic, issues of connection between human beings being not the least. Issues of what these influences result in, as in your example of how the lack of easy money makes people more creative.
Sometimes the lack of human relationships, closeness, love, is a tremendous stimulus to creativity, which, as a result, fosters the expansion of human awareness far beyond that of the artist themselves. It's as if, when we toss the pebble in the water, the resulting ripple encompasses the entire world. That is possible for any of us, if not on a global, then on a more personal scale. Sometimes that requires separation, alienation, closing down of external connection in order to connect to what is within.
As an example. Recently I have begun to become obsessively focused on learning computer animation to the point that nearly all my waking hours are spent in front of the computer, struggling. It leaves very little time for anything or anyone else but, I have all these ideas weaving a web in my m ind relating to what I can do when I finally understand it.
Have you ever felt that your life was changed as a result of a film you saw, or a book you read?
Perhaps this obsession, in the short term, closes me off to the world but perhaps also, as a result, I create a film that completely changes the definition of the media or expresses something in a completely transcending, inspirational was and thus, connects in a real, vital manner with people in ways beyond my imagining.
I'm sure there others among you who have felt similarly and know that some of the participants in this thread have even done what I speak of.
In spite of the seperation that exists through our using this forum as a means of connecting instead of being there I think that in the larger sense, we are togather, touching and being touched.
|12 December 2005
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Hernando Salles Rosa
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Porto Alegre, Brazil
Originally Posted by roberte: Have you ever felt that your life was changed as a result of a film you saw, or a book you read?
This is why i am here. I think that theres nothing that can make my life more worth living than making people, even just one person, feel what i have felt while seeing some special movie or hearing to one or two special songs. If i manage to make some persons feel what i have felt, change the world they see the way some of this stuff changed the way i see world. If i can bring the joy and beauty that art brough to me to the persons around me, i think i will be helping the world to become a better place and will have given my life a meaning.
Back on the topic :
Even thought i think that poverty (which, in a geographical way, is linked to tropical countries ) may help criativity, i can only say that the medium wont make an artist. It may and will reflect his art, but an poor people may not have any criativity as like a very rich may have an lovecraftian mind. What counts most are the life experiences. A traumatized children have a lot more chances of becoming a more dark artist, but may, also, through his art, exteriorize his needs for love, peace, or whatever was his trauma related. What the hell i'm trying to say with my goddamned poor english is that while the ambient, the culture (includes here the touching-or-not-touching thing) will help molding the artist profile immensely, but its more about what the persons try to says with his art that will dictate how it looks like.
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabris, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.
|12 December 2005
Veera Luhtala
Helsinki, Finland
Originally Posted by Kanga: i wasn't making fun, i just truely enjoyed that one liner!
Ah, well I didn't intend to sound all miffed, but I see my comment could be read that way as well. Lost in translation :P
|12 December 2005
Ali Shakarchi
Originally Posted by Stahlberg: Of course it's a cultural thing, what else would it be, genetic?!
Oh, you can't dismiss this. There is a lot of evidence out there that genetics are part of it. ...Culture is a human product after all.
The extents to which cultural contact and behaviour is affected by climate is undeniable, however climate, and throughout millions of years has greatly altered and shaped our inherited gene structures, which in turn changed our social behaviour and cultural values.
On top of that, people who live in metropolitan areas, regardless of the climate surrounding them, tend to be more protective and cold. Culture is very dynamic and broad term.
Architecture, fashion, lifestyles, are products of local cultures, well at least in the past.
With today's globalized culture, it's becoming harder to distiguish people's cultural background, unless you meet them in person.
I also think that art is greatly influenced by culture, yet it's hard to believe that the explosively passionate Beethoven is German, or remarkably romantic Sheakspeare is British, or the highly athiestic poet/philosopher Khayyam is Persian. For those people, they crossed cultural boundaries, universalized their products beyond all prejudices and inherited social values.
Interesting topic, I wish I have more time to participate more. Cheers
|12 December 2005
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Roberte, I'm having a big problem with your elaborations. They all seem to be based on the conjecture of us humans leaving ourselves at the whim of any outside influence. Blindly giving into an instinct and never accumulating more than is presented on the 'silver platter'.
If one were to be so bombarded by commercials or news for instance and aware of it, it would be relativated quite simply. And the news items, if not brought to attention, would simply be happening in far worse degrees. In the past they have. Take the inquisition for instance, or the Dark Ages.
A great conspiracy doesn't exist behind the simple mechanism of supply and demand, it simpyl exists due to several circumstances. whether the onne or the other uses it is irrelevant. This process isn't new either just because of us humans, natural symbioses is a far better example of it than our economics.
Human society is simply going through another phase of its growth. With the arrival of mass media and other door opening technologies in recent years there is bound to be confusion. But, the same things that have always been happening are simply shifting over into some other medium. The change is smiply a lot faster right now.
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Quote: There is a lot of evidence out there that genetics are part of it.
What evidence?
Yes different populations have small differences in their average outward appearance. But raise a child in a different culture from its own and it will speak and behave indistinguishably similar to what is expected in that culture.
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|12 December 2005
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I've seen small but noticeable differences in behavior that seem alike to my own 'quirks' in children who were adopted but seem to have similar genetics. I'm convinced that some races have different internal methods of dealing with the environment, this is imho a good example of natural selection, makes perfect sense to me actually.
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