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(1844–1897), Victorian explorer of central Asia. In May 1873, Ney Elias and Henry Stanley won the Royal Geographical Society's gold Founder's Medal. Stanley received it for finding David Livingstone in Africa, and Elias for making an exploration of more than 4,500 miles (7,500 kilometers) from Peking through western Mongolia and across Siberia. Then, both men were equally celebrated; now, while Stanley remains celebrated, the name of Elias has all but disappeared, largely because he left no published accounts other than newspaper articles.
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Historical Connections: Ecology and Classification
Lesson 5 of 7
Objective: SWBAT to trace the schemes of classification by investigating the work of ecologist Robert Whittaker.
Big Idea: Use close reading and discussion strategies to help your students connect the classification kingdoms throughout history!
I use this brief chapter from the book Doing Biology by Joel B. Hagen to provide a broader historical context to our discussion about ecology and classification. Whittaker's work in connecting how organisms obtained nutrition and how that could be used to create a usable classification scheme is an interesting read that connects many different topics of study we have worked together on this year. I also like that it brings in a secondary text that allows us to practice close reading skills together. Many teachers choose to skip this type of lesson but I have found that my students retain and connect the many fields of biology in a much more substantive way and I attribute that in part to the work we do together to make those links explicit and to give them time to have conversations about them. You may have noticed that I include secondary text source lessons as part of each of our units in this biology class and although it does require more class time together to work through the material we are studying, the cumulative impact of this type of time and attention to reading comprehension, vocabulary building, and collaborative and individual reading strategies has been powerful as I measure their assessment writing skills and observe the complex nature of student driven projects I have received this year.
I also like this Whittaker story because it can flow into a bigger conversation about the many other ways to classify organisms and why you might choose one classification scheme over another, the idea that accuracy is only one piece of the puzzle and that whatever scheme you choose has to be functional/usable and match the goals of the area of study in question. Another secondary theme I like to bring up with students if they don't come to it on their own is that this is yet another story about a scientist working outside of his chosen field in a way that brought new perspective and insight that led to a lasting shift in thinking by scientists in that field. Watson and Crick are two other scientists that worked outside of their fields of expertise to create the most influential DNA discovery of their time! I believe it is always important to demonstrate to students how each one of us can contribute to discussions of big ideas from our own unique perspective in ways that can significantly impact our community understanding of those ideas. I have also used readings from this book to support student research projects about Lynn Margolis' endosymbiotic theory among others.
1. Tell students that today you will be investigating the history of how we classify living things. Pass out the Doing Biology reading and the Robert Whittaker and the Classification of Kingdoms guiding questions document.
2. Announce to students that they will be working with a partner to read, annotate, discuss, and answer the questions about the ways in which classification of organisms shifted over time.
- Note: See this previous close reading annotation student work sample document to show some of the ways that students might annotate their reading for understanding. On page two of this document, you will find the annotation strategy tips sheet my students and I have been using throughout the school year.
3. Ask students to group themselves with a reading partner and find a place in the room to get settled. Assist any students that seem lost or unsure about partner choices.
- Note: At this point in the school year, this is typically not an issue as students have a clear sense of who they work well with and who they would be able to have meaningful conversations with in order to learn about the material.
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2. Allow students time and a quiet space so that they can read, annotate, and reflect upon their chosen article.
- Note: For support, students have the option of reading on their own or with a partner. For specific groups, we may read out loud together or the group may choose to lead that activity on their own without my facilitation. Our classroom is large and has two side office spaces and an outdoor space with multiple benches to allow for this additional support. Depending upon your set up, you may want to move to the library or another space to allow for multiple student groupings and interventions.
- To support students with their annotations, I always have post it notes, highlighters, and other classroom supplies available for students to use. I often put on classical music while they are reading and annotating and I allow students to work together, alone, or with me in various areas of the classroom as needed.
- For a more in depth look at annotation strategies, check out this example resource.
3. I do not collect student annotation notes; my philosophy is that those are for them to have and refer to as needed. The assessment piece for me is their guiding questions document, which they create with their partner and turn into me for grading later on in the week.
1. Ask students to get into groups of four (two pairs of reading partners) and consider the following prompts:
What sticks out to in this reading you as interesting or important?
What ideas need further review or clarification?
Do you agree that an ecology based classification system is the best one to use or is there another way you think we should be organizing living things in categories?
2. Use the spokesperson protocol to share out group responses.
3. Draw out a summary diagram of our tree of life. See my whiteboard drawing for ideas. Students will be very interested to see how it has shifted, not only from the 2-6 kingdom classification scheme they read about in their article, but also in our newer understanding of the relationship between archeabacteria, (eu)bacteria, and all of the eukaryotes. This step really helps students link together their prior knowledge to this newer exploration of classification, taxonomy, and phylogeny.
- Note: The discussions my students and I have had revolve around the comparison between what scientists used to think about our phylogenic/taxonomic family tree over time versus our newer understanding of how life has evolved across geologic time. Students will ask what changed our ideas and the answer, as is often the case, is related to technological breakthroughs. As we create better tools for examining structures, we can compare them more accurately and completely and that is what happened here to show us the strong connections between our most ancient organisms, the archaebacteria and all modern eukaryotes.
4. Address any clarifying questions before the period ends. Remind students of their guiding questions document deadline.
- Note: See the guiding questions document answer key for support with guiding questions responses. Typically, students will want to hear you briefly address/discuss the way that the classification framework shifted (plants and animals-->bacteria, plants, animals, fungus-->addition of protists-->break up of monera into eubacteria and archaebacteria). Discussing the protist kingdom is important! The idea that it is the only kingdom that is joined more by what things are not rather than what they are (none of its members quite fit into the other eukaryotic kingdom frameworks based on ecology or structure), the dividing line between prokaryotic monera and eukaryotic everything else, and the break up of the monera kingdom into two distinct types of bacteria is key to their broader understanding of classification and ecology. These conversations can start during this session as students complete their reading and can continue when they turn in their joint work later in the week.


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The evolution of portable music players dates back to 1979, when Sony created the first Walkman. The name of the device alone might elicit memories of your first cassette purchase or a former workout routine. After all, according to Time, the number of people who said they walked for exercise increased by 30 percent between 1987 and 1997.
Walkman players now seem ancient by almost any standard; the last cassette version we could find was made in 2003. Sony carried the franchise into portable CD and MP3 players, but eventually Apple and other phone manufacturers took over the market. Fast-forward to 2014, and there is now a whole generation of kids who have no recollection of or association with the term.
That leads us to a video uploaded on Sunday by the Fine Brothers. Benny and Rafi Fine are known on YouTube for their "Kids React" series. They film children reacting to pop culture and news items both past and present. Some of the most popular clips include kids offering opinions on "Gangnam Style," gay marriage, and Rebecca Black's song "Friday."
The Fine Brothers' latest video features kids reacting to a Sony Walkman, of the cassette player variety. Children are simply dumbfounded by the device. Most begin by asking, "What is this?" when it is handed to them. With a little assistance, they figure out the Walkman's purpose and how to operate it. Ultimately, they remain unimpressed.
"I could not imagine living in your guys' days with this," 9-year-old Shannon concluded. Earlier in the video he wondered, "What do I do, press play?"
"I feel bad for the people that lived in the '90s," another 9-year-old, named Krischelle, said. She initially thought the Walkman was a phone until she held it and asked, "What is this thing?"
"Kids React to Walkmans (Portable Cassette Players)" already has more than a million views. It also probably has a few millennials feeling old, and thankful that they do not have to skip to the next track by holding down the fast-forward button.


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Facing increased pressure to improve their data security, a growing number of small and midsize banks are looking for outside help.
Some have outsourced the entire job of information security management. Others have created new positions in-house to oversee data security, but are shifting much of the compliance tasks to systems hosted by vendors.
Whatever lengths they go to, more companies will consider outsourcing, observers say, as auditors and regulators step up their efforts to ensure that banks of all sizes are safeguarding financial data.
At small banks, the chief information officers have typically been responsible for making sure the networks and systems are all working properly and for ensuring that the technology and data is well protected.
But Ratna Ray, the chief information officer at the $1.6 billion-asset Rockville Bank in Connecticut, said the growing pressure to tune up security has also made her workload heavier.
"One person can only do so much," she said.
Ray say that, because Rockville Bank already outsources much of its data processing — Jack Henry & Associates Inc., for instance, hosts its core processing — there wasn't enough work to justify hiring someone dedicated to overseeing data security issues.
"This is not a full-time position," she said.
Instead, following the recommendations of examiners and her own belief that the info security function required an independent position, Ray last year hired a local consultant the bank had worked with in the past, John DeMauro, as a part-time nonstaff information security adviser.
DeMauro had the right combination of skills — a knowledge of risk management and security, as well as bank technology — that Rockville Bank needed, Ray said.
DeMauro's services go beyond monitoring data logs and risk assessment to include reviewing the bank's policy and procedures, even employee training, Ray said. "The FDIC was actually impressed. They said, 'That's a very good process you have. You're really getting your money's worth.' "
DeMauro calls himself an "outsourced information security officer," and said he has a dozen clients. He launched his own business, Practical Security Solutions LLC, in February.
"A lot of these smaller banks are struggling in developing their information security programs," DeMauro said, noting that regulators have progressively tightened their security requirements over the years, starting with the nation's largest banks. "Eventually that pushed down to the smaller banks as well."
Regulators have generally supported the outsourced approach, DeMauro said. "So long as the skill set is appropriate and the contracts are well designed, they have no issue with it."
Other banks are keeping the information security job in-house but are using automated tools developed by vendors to monitor compliance.
Wayne J. Leiss, a vice president at Union Savings Bank, a $1.8 billion-asset thrift in Danbury, Conn., moved into a new position in January, as its information security officer.
"Regulators are looking for a dedicated security person. It's a new position we're fleshing out here," Leiss said. "It's been an internal recommendation from our accountants and auditors to put in place for a couple of years."
Union Savings had been an early user of Perimeter Internetworking Corp. for data security, so Leiss was willing to take the meeting when Andy Greenawalt, a former chief technology officer at Perimeter, came to talk about his start-up company, Continuity Engine, Leiss said.
Greenawalt, the founder and chief executive of Continuity Engine, said his work on the operational issues of data security exposed him to the intricacies of regulatory compliance.
"We grew an appreciation of how complicated it was," he said. So far, his company, founded in 2008, has developed four dozen individual modules that community banks can use, for issues as diverse as managing human resources policies and IT change controls.
"There's nothing sexy about this," Greenawalt said. The vendor's hosted service lets bankers make assignments for specific work items, set review periods and maintain audit trails of what they have done — "not the delivery of it, just the management of the policies and procedures," Greenawalt said.
Such an approach can help bankers address the concerns of auditors and regulators, he said. "Showing the document is only so interesting," he said. Regulators also want to know, "Did you do what you were supposed to do?"
Leiss said Union Savings began testing Continuity Engine's preconfigured modules, called ActionPacks, last week and it was too early to talk about results.
Rodney Nelsestuen, the senior research director of the cross-industry practice at TowerGroup of Needham, Mass., an independent research group owned by MasterCard Inc., said the pressure for banks of all sizes to shore up their data security will only intensify.
As larger banks manage data security more tightly, regulators likely will increasingly encourage smaller institutions to do the same, Nelsestuen said. "I think you're going to see more emphasis on internal controls, separation of duties and discipline around those things."
Even the smallest banks are beginning to feel the pressure.
Desiree Erickson, the IT/security officer at the $131 million-asset Sound Banking Co. in Morehead City, N.C., calls herself "your hands-on help desk" who handles all of the technology needs for the bank's 30 employees.
She said examiners have suggested that the bank delegate some of her functions to another person, a move that would improve oversight of its data management policies.
But the bank has countered that it is too small to hire someone to take on these tasks. "With the size we are right now, we have the ability to say the cost is not feasible for us, especially in the current environment," Erickson said.
Michael Menefee, the president of the Raleigh consulting company Wirehead Security LLC, said community bankers are taking more notice of data security issues, especially in the light of high-profile breaches, such as the theft of payment card information from the processor Heartland Payment Systems Inc. His started his company in January and provides services to Sound Bank.
The Heartland breach was disclosed in January and "was very visible to" community bank executives, he said.
"They had to bear the cost of that third party's breach," Menefee said. "What has changed is that they're getting more serious about security itself and not just the compliance aspect of it."
Menefee said that he has not yet seen greater pressure from regulators on community banks, but that he believes they need to ratchet up their security efforts.
"It's something smaller rural banks and credit unions are going to have a difficult time doing," he said. "It's a really big step I think the banking industry needs to take."


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It's not exactly earth-shattering news that exercise is essential for shedding pounds. Along with proper nutrition and a calorie-moderated diet, regular activity is a critical piece of the weight-loss equation—but how much? If you feel like the gym has become your second home, or if you're spending more hours walking, running or doing fitness videos than hanging out with your family, you might be overdoing it. Conversely, if your daily exercise consists of a 15-minute stroll around the block, you might need to ramp up your efforts to see real results.
Fortunately, the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has provided some scientific guidance so you don't have to rely on guesswork.
Exercise Guidelines for Overall Health
In 2011, the ACSM released some general recommendations for how much exercise is needed to reap overall health and cardiovascular benefits. According to these guidelines, adults should engage in at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per week. Broken down to 20 minutes per day, that might not sound like much—and for obese adults who are trying to lose weight, it may not be enough.
Take care to focus on the types of exercise you're doing in addition to the quantity. The ACSM recommends a diversified routine that includes the following four disciplines:
Exercise Guidelines for Weight LossIf you're trying to lose weight, you most likely need more than the general recommended amount of 150 weekly minutes of exercise—but how much more? The ACSM released updated guidelines for weight loss and prevention of weight regain. For overweight and obese individuals, 250+ minutes per week of moderate-intensity physical activity will be more effective in reducing weight and keeping it off. Strength training is also highly recommended to increase fat-burning muscle and improve overall health.
What do you think? Does 50 minutes of exercise, five days a week seem like a lot to you, or is that in line with what you're already doing? What amount of daily exercise has given you the best results?
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I think most overweight people will look at 50 minutes of daily exercise & say forget it! I took the find 10 challenge (10 minutes of exercise a day) and I started losing weight. I was monitoring what I ate & tried to make better decisions, but correct eating was hard for me. I still lost weight, though. Every little bit helps! Report
Great info! Thanks! Report
It always seems I need more than I'm doing, no matter how much I do. Report
If the eating is not controlled, there won't be any weight loss and could even be a weight gain. Report
I am a male 68 and have been lifting weight for over 50 years. I am muscular and in very good health, result of my 4 times/weekly gym (360 min.) and high protein/low carb diet. Fitness was also my highest priority and I look forward to every minute of my progressive workout. This article only provided a general guideline. 150 min. a week of rigorous exercise should be a minimum (walking around the block wouldn't count). An over weight person should be doing more than 400 min. instead of just 250 min, or as much as one could. Regardless, all exercise should be progressive (lift heavier, run faster or longer) and one should have a goal and a diet plan. Otherwise it would be just going thru the motions. Report
if I focus on just weight loss, I start missing the point. I am working toward being healthy in all areas of my life. Yes weight loss is part of it, but the primary goal is to live a healthy life! Report
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Great guidelines! I wish this worked for me. I find that I have to keep increasing my exercise to see weight loss because my body gets used to what I am already doing and then I don't lose anything. I am finding that 180 min. of hard running, 120 min. of toning a and 240 min. of light walking a week (every week) isn't enough for me to lose weight. I do watch what I am eating too. Report
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Before I made exercise a daily non negotiable feature these guidelines sounded like a lot. Now? I do more than this on a regular basis. Get my strength and balance in with 2-3 barre classes each week. Report
I feel nutrition is extrremely important and has to go in tandem w/exercise. You can't outexercise your fork!
The guidelines in this articls are what I follow, and it's important to remember that focusing on overall health vs. weight loss is critical. If we focus on our health, the rest follows.
And at my age, functionality is another key focus! I want to remain independent! Both proper nutrition and exercise work together to help me maintain that.
There seems to be confusion regarding someone's post on here, who thinks you have to work out '14 days a week'. I think they misunderstood something, but I am unable to respond to them privately and see where the confusion lies. I hope they figure it out. Report
Well, as I spark, I continue to learn about my bodies needs. I've always 'tried' to get in shape, but it's been a journey learning how to do that, failing and adjusting. After getting my food plan established and working out 30 minutes a day, I wasn't seeing results in the numbers on the scale. So I've been working on adjusting my cardio to 60 minutes at a time. (or split). I think I'm seeing results that way. I hope so! I can't afford to GAIN more, that's for sure. Report
At 56, I try to do an average of at least one hour per day, about 500-600 minutes most weeks. Having a desk cycle means I can pedal while relaxing and not really notice the time fly by. I also do weights for 2-3 hours a week. Seems like a lot, but soon goes..... Report
So I'm supposed to exercise 14 days a week? How about a realistic guide for a 6 day a week program with the 7th day off for rest? Report
Im 65 years old....golf 4 times a week, weights twice a week, abs and stretches twice a week, yoga twice a week, walk 3 times a week, bike once a week. There is no way I could do all that you suggest. Im considered active for my age group. Report
Great insight into what is needed and how to attain it! Report
Some great insight. Report
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I appreciated the information and links in this article--thanks so much! Report
Thanks for showing this. It is really important to do exercise everyday. www.exbackbook.com Report
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Losing weight is more about changing behaviors which changes your health ... which then changes your weight.
It's all intertwined. You can't not exercise away a unsupportive diet. But you also can not diet away an inactive lifestyle. Report
If your focus is on losing weight, then exercise might not be a part of your day. However, if your focus is on your overall health? It will be. This article has been updated since it was first written. I respect that it now discusses functional fitness, mobility and balance. Big picture for me...fitness and nutrition have to be besties. One without the other means I am not doing what needs to be done to optimize my health. Each of us get to determine how to make any of this work for us...there is no one size fits all kind of deal here. Moving beats sitting, something beats nothing. If you only have 20 minutes in your day to workout and you treat your body to exercise?! Nothing but mad respect for doing all you can within your constraints...which is a key component in being able to maintain a healthier lifestyle. Report
Interesting read, thank you for sharing. The 150 minute number sounds high at first to me. Then I checked my Spark Fitness Journals and I've been doing more than that now for a while and didn't realize how much the numbers had added up. I'm hardly a fitness nut, and did not start at 150 plus minutes. I had to slowly build. Almost 2 years ago when I got going all I could do was 10 minutes on a stationary bike. I think the point is to challenge yourself to be healthy and break out of the exercise comfort zone now and then. Report
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Exercising my critical thinking muscles today.
Nothing in this article ACTUALLY SAYS that exercise is responsible for weight loss. There are a lot of presumptions ("It's not exactly earth-shattering news that exercise is essential for shedding pounds.") but no facts.
Even the article in the link can't bring itself to say that exercise leads to much more than "modest" weight loss (and what do they consider "modest"? 5% of body weight?):
"Greater amounts of physical activity are likely to be needed to achieve weight loss..."
"150-250 minutes/week of moderate-intensity physical activity is associated with prevention of weight gain. More than 150 minutes/week of moderate-intensity physical activity is associated with modest weight loss."
"150-250 minutes/week of moderate-intensity physical activity provides only modest weight loss. Greater amounts (ie. greater than 250) provide clinically significant weight loss."
The best they can come up with is this:
"There is some evidence that more than 250 minutes/week of moderate-intensity physical activity will prevent weight re-gain."
And finally, this gem, with no references to back it up:
"Energy/diet restriction combined with physical activity will increase weight loss as compared to diet alone."
If they are not comfortable stating anything with any degree of conviction or backing documentation, then you know they're fudging.
The truth is that we need exercise to be healthy, but most weight loss or gain will be accomplished in the grocery store, the pantry, and the restaurant, not the gym. Report
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The best exercise a person can do to lose weight is to fill in the nutrition tracker while staying within your calorie range.
Formal exercise is NOT NECESSARY to lose weight, HOWEVER, it is necessary for cardiovascular health.
Some folks say no exercise is required to lose weight. Well, I think it depends a lot on the individual. In my case, I tried dieting alone...it didnt work. I tried exercise alone...no good. Then I tried both, but in conjunction with training for a goal. That worked. For me, just plain exercise doesn't do it. I have to be training. That means "progressing" towards something. I can't just go out and jog the same time or distance at the same pace every day and expect results. (If you always do what you always did, you'll always get what you always got). So, I have to mix it up. Go faster one day, go longer another day, improve a little each week or each month. Better, stronger, faster. Add healthy eating to the mix...not so much a huge calorie deficit, but a deficit none the less. More like taking a look at the calorie requirement at my target or goal weight and fitness level, and reducing just a little off of that level, instead of trying for some massive calorie deficit number. I figured that learning how to maintain would be just as important as losing the weight and gaining the fitness in the first place, so I picked numbers that would not over tax my metabolism in the first place, and from which I could boost just a few calories and be fine...kind of like learning to live an eating pattern. That of course means that the weight loss will be quicker at first but will then slow to almost an imperceptible crawl. All of that said, I kind of got a little off program with a running injury in Q4 of last year, that still bothers me. I'm slowly re-habbing that. But worse, I had so many family get-togethers that i didnt stick to the eating plan as well as I should have. Together, all of that has meant that I maintained most of my weight loss over the past year, within 3-4 pounds, but I did not take off that last 8-10 that I wanted to take off. So now, with those extra 3-4 and the 10 or so I wanted to lose, I've re-set my goal and I'm working diligently to achieve it. Same program...train, and eat healthy for the most part. In 2-3 months, I'll be there. Report
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Welcome to Really Really Short Reviews were the name is long and the reviews are short! Because sometimes short is that much sweeter. (Also, because I'm really lazy!) And there might be quotes too (lots and lots)! (Because everyone loves quotes, right?)
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks (March 1st 2016)
Paperback: 320 pages
Series: The Heirs' Club of Scoundrels Trilogy #3
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Rating: 3.5 of 5 stars
A stubborn nobleman and a willful young woman are at the heart of bestselling author Amelia Grey's newest love story.
Can An Improper Proposal
Adam Greyhawke is through with marriage. After losing his wife at a young age, he's more interested in carousing and gambling at the Heirs' Club than taking another trip to the altar. When his obligations as the Earl of Greyhawke thrust him into the heart of Society, he dreads the boredom that only a ballroom can inspire in a roguish scoundrel. That is, until he meets a bewitching young woman who captures his curiosity—and reminds him just how delicious desire can be.
Lead To True And Lasting Passion?
Miss Katharine Wright is accustomed to men interested only in her generous dowry. Adam's attraction is far more powerful—he tests her wits and her courage at every turn, until she finds herself longing to fulfill an everlasting passion she never imagined was possible. But the breathtakingly handsome nobleman is as stubborn as he is scandalous, and Katharine must be the one to convince him that real love is worth any risk…
So I'm a little unsure why this is called Wedding Night with the Earl (since this doesn't really happen until waaaaay later) but it was a very cute, fluffy read.
It would be the best thing for both of them if he turned away so they wouldn't meet. Now. But Adam still had just enough rogue in him not to want to do what was right but to do what he wanted.
I really like both Adam and Katherine. Adam is a bit of a brooding hero, determined never to marry again since the death of his wife during childbirth. Despite her bad leg, Katherine is a strong and brave heroine (expect for her fear dancing). I like that they bring out the best in each other, that Adam pushes Katherine out of her comfort zone and Katherine makes Adam face his fears.
There's a bit of an instant attraction but they're so sweet together you can't help but want them to have their happily ever after.
Also. Adam talking to his dog is adorbs. And Adam's little ward. So cute, the lot of them.
The whole book is just pure cuddly sweetness and with very minimal angst.
Dropping his coat and hat to the floor, he moved in close to her. "I want to kiss you," he said huskily and with more feeling than he thought he was capable of.
"I want you to," she answered breathlessly.
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|Our vision is to see all of our world's inhabitants governing ourselves with an open, accessible and understandable global system which has as its bottom line the common good, and which we define and operate ourselves by effectively utilising and allocating our common expertise and resource.
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This site is a MediaWiki and was set up in 2005 primarily as a collaboration platform for the Organic Design platform network project. This project consisted of a lot of different aspects covering a wide range of concepts that are listed in the site's glossary. The project itself never really got traction and in 2011, my wife and I (Aran, who initially set up the project and maintains the server and site) moved to Brazil, and the project was put on hold. Now five years later in Brazil I've started writing about the project to clarify its ideas in order to try and get it moving again.
The first writing is a short paper called Trustless Mutual Credit which talks about what's wrong with our current monetary mechanism and how trustless systems could be combined with community currency methods to create a better form of money. See the writing page for up to date information.
A lot of the content created for the project is really useful learning material such as lists of documentaries and books and research about all sorts of concepts such as maths, law, agorism, health and crypto-currencies. And over the years the site has become a repository for much more than just the project, it has been used for documenting all my procedures for my programming and server administration work, as our personal blog and for just about anything.
Following is a detailed map of the site's content. The trees you see below are Araucárias which are a very important part of the culture of Serra Gaúcha, the highlands of southern Brazil, where we live.


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Solar storms 'to wreak havoc around the world'
Massive solar storms could have 'devastating effects' on human technology and cause a global Hurricane Katrina-style disaster when they hit a peak in two years' time, leading experts have said.
The storms are a growing threat to worldwide infrastructures like satellite communications, navigation systems, and electrical transmission equipment, says Kathryn Sullivan, US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration assistant secretary.
Solar storms are caused by massive explosions on the sun, and release particles that can destroy computer circuits.
A massive eruption of the sun would send waves of radiation and charged particles to Earth, damaging the satellite systems used for synchronising computers, airline navigation and phone networks.
If the storm is powerful enough it could even crash stock markets and cause power cuts that last weeks or months, experts told the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
The explosions release waves of X rays and ultraviolet radiation that smash into the Earth's atmosphere within minutes, disrupting radio signals and damaging the electronics of satellites.
They are followed 10 to 20 minutes later by a burst of energetic particles that cause even more havoc with satellites - and then 15 to 30 hours later by supercharged plasma, which collides with Earth's magnetic field.
According to the Daily Mail, Dr Sullivan, a former NASA astronaut, told a UN weather conference in Geneva that 'it is not a question of if, but really a matter of when a major solar event could hit our planet'.
And she's not the only scientist warning of the threats of solar storms.
In February, astronomers warned that we are more vulnerable now than ever before - and that the planet should prepare for a global Hurricane Katrina-style disaster.
The chances of a disruption from space are getting stronger because the sun is entering the most active period of its 11 to 12-year natural cycle.
The supercharged plasma create the aurora - or Northern Lights - and can induce electrical currents in power lines and cables.
The last solar maximum occurred in 2001.
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How to Invest in Lead
Lead, which carries the symbol Pb, is a soft and malleable metal that has a gray color once exposed to air and silver color when melted into a liquid. In certain forms and quantities, lead can lead to blood disorders or poisoning, especially in animals.Unlike most metals, lead has a poor electrical conductivity rating despite being ductile although the product is malleable. Additionally, lead is probably best known for being the resistant to radiation thanks to its heavy density which prevents gamma rays from getting through.
Lead is extremely resistant to corrosion, a physical property that makes the metal ideal for handling corrosive liquids and multiple applications in construction. In addition to its uses in roof shingles and other aspects of construction (such as lead pipes), lead is used in batteries, ammunition, and weights. Because of its high density and atomic number lead can also be an effective shield against radiation, which accounts for its use in medical vests.
Investors seeking greater exposure to lead have limited options. Investors can obtain exposure by buying futures contracts on the LME and while physical exposure is theoretically possible, the low value/density ratio of lead makes it impractical. In terms of equities, the field is also limited since a number of companies extract the metal but do so in conjunction with a variety of other products, making pure-play exposure difficult to achieve. However, there are a number of ETPs that investors can use to achieve exposure to the metal including broad industrial metal basket funds and a lead ETN that only targets lead futures for investment, giving investors targeted exposure to the metal.
Ways to Invest in Lead
There are 2 ways to invest in Lead: ETFs and Futures. Click on the tabs below to learn more about each alternative.
What are Lead ETFs?
Lead exposure is included in a number of broad-based industrial metals ETPs, such as the PowerShares DB Base Metals (DBB) and iPath Dow Jones-UBS Industrial Metals ETN (JJM). There is also a pure play ETP option available for those seeking targeted exposure to lead; the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Lead ETN (LD) is linked to an index that consists of lead futures contracts.
LD will not necessarily move in lock step with spot lead prices, as the underlying assets are futures contracts and not the physical metal. In addition, investors should be aware of the structure and potential ramifications; because LD is an ETN, investors are exposed to the credit risk of the issuing institution.
What are Lead Futures?
Lead futures are traded on the London Metal Exchange (LME), where prices are quoted in U.S. dollars and cents per metric ton. LME lead futures are traded in lot sizes of 25 tonnes, which is the equivalent of approximately 55,000 pounds.
Lead must be ingots of 99.97% purity (minimum) conforming to BS EN 12659:1999. The contract code for LME lead futures is PB. Clearable currencies include U.S. dollar, yen, sterling, and euro.
Additional lead futures resources:
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- Full details of LME lead futures: PDF
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Turner International APAC appoints Shitiz Jain as Sr VP - Finance
MUMBAI: Turner International is looking at tightening its bottom line and in pursuit of doing so has roped in Shitiz Jain, who takes up the role of senior VP Finance effective 17 March 2014.
This executive new hire was announced today by Turner Broadcasting System International EVP & CFO Ray Hutton and Turner International Asia Pacific president Ricky Ow.
Jain was most recently with Discovery Networks Asia Pacific as chief financial officer and head of corporate services. He will be responsible to lead Turner?s financial growth planning and assisting regional management to maximise financial results across the full portfolio of Turner?s kids, news and general entertainment brands, and businesses in the region.
Commenting on the hire Hutton says: ?Shitiz has more than 20 years of international financial management experience which we?re delighted to harness for this critical role within one of Turner?s most important regional operations. His track record in delivering growth and his evident commercial acumen and leadership skills, make him an ideal fit with Turner?s growth philosophy.?
Jain will have a range of responsibilities which includes forecasting, budgeting and long range planning, defining and managing the achievement of goals, and providing financial analysis and counsel to all business heads. In this newly created role, he will develop a finance team that will be strategically aligned with the needs of the business. In addition, he will offer strategic and financial modelling support at both the Turner and Time Warner executive management level.
Supporting Hutton?s views Ow says: ?Turner in Asia Pacific has ambitious growth targets which require robust financial support and I know Shitiz will serve as a key advisor for me in this regard. Shitiz?s strong CFO background and expertise in overseeing businesses across the Asia Pacific region will be undoubted assets for us as we take our business to the next level.?
Jain joins Turner in Hong Kong after nearly 15 years at Discovery in India and Singapore, where his success in forging strong client relationships and creating new revenue opportunities, drove strong revenue and EBITDA growth. Prior to joining Discovery Networks, Jain served in a variety of financial, operating and strategic roles with Cargill Foods, Fujitsu ICIM and Phoenix Industries.


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|You'd think a crime of fiction would be a bad novel, but no. Canadian prosecutors threw make up effects artist Rémy Couture in jail and seized his computers and other personal property after seeing his website http://www.innerdepravity.com/. The site was a fictional serial killer's diary, consisting of--what else?--gory pictures displaying Mr. Couture's talents. Bottom line? It was all fake. It was presented as fiction. No one was hurt, unless you count the pain and suffering involved in peeling off a latex appliance. No harm no foul, and yet Couture is facing charges of "Corruption of Morals" and is court ordered to not administer his website. What century is this, anyway?
A petition drive has sprung up to persuade authorities to drop the charges. Enraged observers can sign the online petition here. There is also a Facebook group dedicated to his cause. All the gory details of Couture's story can be read at what is left of his website, http://www.innerdepravity.com/. Hopefully he will beat this ridiculous rap and be able to return to corrupting the morals of his audience as soon as possible. Interested onlookers should also look up what's left of his other site at http://www.remyfx.com/


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(TSN) Tyson Foods Focuses on Innovation
The global meat processor, Tyson Foods Inc. (TSN) has announced that they will focus on innovation as an important part of their growth strategy and they have an aggressive product launch scheduled ahead in fiscal 2013.
Management drew the investors' attention to the three pillars of the company's growth strategy, namely, accelerate, innovate and cultivate.
Tyson expects to achieve top line sales growth of 3% to 4% every year. Value added sales are expected to grow 6% to 8%, while international sales are expected to increase 12% to 16% during ?. The company also aims to maintain a bottom line growth of 10% every year.
International growth has also been given great importance. The company expects to grow its business in China, Mexico and India. Moreover, Tyson is foraying into Mexican food business with its strategic acquisition of Don Julio. This is particularly encouraging as Mexican food is gaining popularity in the U.S. processed food industry.
Tyson has many product launches in the pipeline for fiscal 2013. Its focus is mainly on hand-held, on-the-go items. The company plans to enhance its portfolio with whole-grain items and bolder flavors in this line. In the gluten-free line of items, Tyson plans to add gluten-free nuggets and other gluten-free breaded items.
Tyson has also launched NatureRaised Farms brand of chicken which are free from antibiotics. The series of new launches come at a time when the clients of Tyson, which comprise mainly of Quick Service Restaurants, mid-scale restaurants, big box retailers and club stores, small grocery chains, distributors, convenience stores, the military and schools, will be interested in new product launches amid a weakening consumer demand.
On May 6, 2013, Tyson delivered its fiscal 2013 first-quarter adjusted earnings (excluding impairment charges and currency translation gains) of 36 cents per share, missing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 46 cents by 21.7%. Quarterly earnings also slipped significantly by 18.2% over the prior-year quarter earnings of 44 cents.
Profits declined due to margin compression in the Chicken segment due to higher feed cost, lower sales in the Beef segment as consumers opted for low-fat chicken and meat products, as well as a supply-demand imbalance in the Pork segment during the quarter. Net sales declined 1.2% to $8.4 billion in the quarter.
Tyson lowered its fiscal 2013 earnings guidance. For fiscal 2013, the company expects sales to increase to approximately $34.5 billion compared to $35.0 billion as anticipated previously. The lowering of guidance was due to the expected price increases caused by the decrease in domestic availability of protein and rising raw material costs.
Tyson currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Other favorable stocks in the retail and wholesale sector that are worth considering include Sanderson Farms Inc (SAFM) and Hormel Foods (HRL), holding a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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Income Tax Department invites response to the RFP floated for selection of MSP for setting up, operating and maintenance of CPC (TDS) for processing of TDS statements.
Overview of scope of work for Managed Service Provider (MSP)
The following outlines the broad areas of scope of work for MSP and the later sections highlight the detailed scope of work in each of the following areas:
i. Detailed IT Strategy for the CPC (TDS) Project
ii. Software Design, Development/Procurement/Customization, and Installation, Data Migration and Training & Documentation for Services/Functions. Any future requirements like change in IT Acts/Rules (including Direct Tax Code, which is likely to come into force in 2012) or any modification in TIN Application etc. will also need to be taken into account at the time of designing the Software.
iii. Assessment, Installation of IT Hardware and Management of Data Centre , Disaster Recovery Center (DRC) and Call Center
iv. Assessment, Procurement and Installation of IT Infrastructure
v. Establishment and Maintenance of Central Processing Center (CPC)
vi. Operations and Maintenance of Application Software
vii. Operations & Maintenance of IT Infrastructure
viii. Provision, deployment and supervision of personnel
ix. Dispatch and Receipt of Correspondence to and from the Deductors and Others
x. Storage and Retrieval of Records
xi. Processing of TDS/TCS statements including 24G Statements by identification & rectification of Defaults (short payment, short deduction and late payment) and PAN errors through automation &persuasion with Deductor. Also reconciliation to be done between figures reported through OLTAS, 24 G Statements, TCS / TDS statements etc.
xii. Design & Execution of Training & Communication Strategy
xiii. Obtain relevant Certifications and adherence to respective Industry Standards
xiv. Additional Overreaching Requirements of the Solution
Date and Event
NOTICE inviting Response to RFP for Selection of Managed Service Provider (MSP) for creating & operating Centralized Processing Center (CPC) to process TDS Statements for Income Tax Department
Income Tax Department (ITD) intends to engage a Managed Service Provider (MSP) to assess the requirements and thereafter develop, operationalize and eventually manage a Central Processing Center for TDS. This Center would be set-up to process TDS Statements and to identify the Defaults (namely Non-payment, Short Payment, Short Deduction, Late Payment and other defaults under various provisions of Direct Tax Act) and PAN Errors etc. and develop a mechanism to rectify the defaults / errors through intelligent technological aids and by persuading with the Deductors
Detailed Scope of work has been included in the RFP document. Desired features of the solution is also detailed in the RFP document.
1. The Pre-Qualification criteria for the bidder have been mentioned in the RFP document and need to be adhered to in order to be considered.
2. Considering the wide variety of skills and resources needed to implement the said Project, a group of Companies are allowed to come together and bid for this project as a consortium. The details of consortium approach is available in the RFP document.
RFP document
The RFP document can be obtained from Sh. Rajneesh Batra, AD(Systems) at A.R.A Centre, Ground Floor,E-2, Jhandewalan Extension, New Delhi during the working hours by paying a non-refundable fee of INR 10,000 (INR Ten Thousand only) in the form of a crossed demand draft of only Nationalised/Scheduled Banks drawn in favour of "The Accounts Officer, Zonal Accounts Office, Central Board of Direct Taxes, New Delhi" and payable at New Delhi and executing a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) as per format. The format of NDA is available for free download in "Tender" section at www.incometaxindia.gov.in
Contact Details
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ARA Centre, E-2, Jhandewalan
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Tel No. +91 0120-2770110,2770042
Fax : +91 0120-2770060, 2770842
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Pre-bid Conference: 15/07/2011
Last date for Submission of Bids: 12/08/2011 at 14:00 hrs
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|Selection of Managed Service Provider (MSP) for creating & operating Centralized Processing Center (CPC) to process TDS Statements for Income Tax Department
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|28th June, 2011
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|The Bid document can be obtained from Sh. Rajneesh Batra, AD(Systems) at A.R.A Centre, Ground Floor,E-2, Jhandewalan Extension, New Delhi by paying INR 10,000/- (non-refundable) ) in the form of a crossed demand draft of only Nationalised/Scheduled Banks in favor of "The Accounts Officer, Zonal Accounts Office, Central Board of Direct Taxes" and payable at New Delhi. The bid document will be available on all working days during office hours till 4.00 PM on or before 11th August 2011.
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|Opening of Pre-qualification bids
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|Opening of Technical bids
|1500 hours on 17th August, 2011
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text: Fearing Muse Air may sink into bankruptcy before a proposed merger can be approved by regulators, Southwest Airlines has acknowledged that it may abandon by the end of the week plans to buy the carrier. The Department of Transportation, which must approve the merger, is unlikely to act on the request by Friday, increasing the possibility that Muse will go bankrupt before Southwest takes it over, said Washington attorney Paul Seligson. Muse Air shareholders are scheduled to meet Thursday to vote on the proposed merger. Continental Airlines has asked the Department of Transportation to delay approval of the merger, claiming it would provide Southwest-Muse with a monopoly on traffic out of Dallas` Love Field. Muse faces $7.1 million in debt payments before the end of June--money the regional carrier reportedly does not have, and to delay a cash infusion by Southwest could force Muse into bankruptcy, Seligson said.


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While a relatively small number of visitors are using the search function on websites, conversion rates through site search are up to 50% higher than the average.
This is the verdict of a Screen Pages study into 39 of its clients' websites, using Google Analytics data. The stats cover almost 3m site visits over a three month period.
Other studies have put site search usage at higher levels, 30% according to this one from Fastsearch but, as the Screen Pages study covers small branded niche retailers and not comparison engines or large sites like Amazon, this may explain the lower figure of 5.4%.
Some site search stats from the study:
- The search box is used by an average of 5.4% of all visitors to these websites. For four of the retailers in the sample, more than 20% of visitors used the search function.
- Use of the search box results in an average conversion ratio of 2.4%, against an average of 1.7%. That's an improvement of close to 50% when visitors use site search.
- A third of the sample showed a doubling of conversion rates where customers used the search box.
- Visitors use this function more on sites that provide guided search, i.e. a range of options for narrowing down product searches.
The difference in site search usage was also down to the characteristics of websites. One site with a strong brand was Joules Clothing, which is also easy to navigate.
The search box is also relatively small, and placed on the left of the page rather than the top centre, so this may also be a factor:
An example of a site with high search usage is WesleyOwen, which is partly born of necessity, as the site has a large range of products (50,000 +) on offer:
Key takeaways from the study:
- The importance of a usable site search function; especially for retailers stocking large and undifferentiated product ranges.
- Site search results pages are important for conversion rates, especially the ability to filter and sort search results.
- The value of analysing user data and optimising for popular searches. The terms entered into the search box offer a useful insight into the minds of your visitors.
- The particular importance of the search box for retailers using catalogues. A number of sites in the study used catalogues to generate traffic, with means site search needs to be optimised for product codes.
While this study may portray lower site search usage than a broader survey on online retailers might, it illustrates the fact that the vast majority of online shoppers prefer not to use site search.
Entering a term into the search box requires more cognitive effort than using link navigation, meaning an effective information architecture and a usable website that is easy to browse is all important.
Related articles:
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I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I dont know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.
"A third of the sample showed a doubling of conversion rates" - what does this mean? Did another third of the sample show a halving of conversion rates?!
Having access to the underlying data, Neil, I can say that visitors using search convert much better (partly because the tool is good, but partly they are more committed to finding (as opposed to browsing)). One third of the sample had a doubling of conversion (ie 4% from 2%) where search was used - per Google Analytics.
15% show increases of betwen 50-100% (ie 2 to 3+), 26% showed increases of 1-50% and 18% of the sample should hide their search box (ie worse than site average).
Hope that helps.
Is there a more up to date report on the benefits to an ecommerce site of a good site search function?
For me, it really depends on the tool itself. Visitors tend to go directly to site search tools to maximize their time especially if they are busy however, if that tool can't provide information, they will easily leave the site and will go back to search engines to search again. That's how it works.


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Signs that China's economy might be slowing down weighed on commodity prices on Tuesday, which in turn had a dampening effect on equity markets.
Here are the closing numbers
Dow — 13170.19 -0.52% -68.94
Nasdaq — 3074.15 -0.14% -4.17
The price of crude oil fell US$2.48 US to US$105.61 a barrel, and gold closed at US$1,647.00 an ounce, a loss of US$20.30.
"Gold and oil are both down as the market turned cautious on China," Stewart Hall, senior currency strategist with RBC Dominion Securities, wrote in a note to clients. "A soft landing scenario remains the most likely outcome for China and in that there is no change. What has appeared to change is the market's appreciation of the deceleration in growth that a soft landing scenario entails and the reduced demand that comes with it."
China raised fuel prices Tuesday for the second time in less than six weeks, the country's automobile sales may miss forecasts this year, an official said, and there are reports that its steel production is slowing, all of which add up to a slowdown in the country's economy.
"There will be some sort of slowdown coming out of China and the Asian economies," Tim Price, money manager at PFP Group LLP in London, told Bloomberg. "It can definitely take the heat out of the commodities markets."
The drop in crude oil prices on Tuesday notwithstanding, the retail price of gasoline is approaching 2008 levels, says BMO Capital Markets deputy chief economist Douglas Porter.
"This has quietly morphed into arguably being the biggest threat to the growth outlook, as the European crisis has subsided. Note that while the chart suggests an incredibly tight correlation between Canadian and U.S. prices, the U.S. has a much wider range — and its prices are up 178% in the past decade, versus a 94% rise in Canada. The strong Canadian dollar has helped."
The Canadian dollar fell 44 basis points to $1.0083 on Tuesday.
In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average slipped 68.94 points, or 0.52%, to 13,170.19, while the Nasdaq composite index dipped 4.17 points, or 0.14%, to 3,074.15.
Canada's junior Venture exchange fell 28.08 points, or 1.76%, to 1,570.70.
In corporate news on Tuesday, Glencore International ended speculation about its intentions toward Viterra Inc. by announcing it had agreed to buy Canada's biggest grain handler in a deal worth $6.1 billion — the purchase price of $16.25 a share a 48% premium over the closing price in Toronto on March 8, the day before Viterra announced it had received expressions of interest. Viterra shares closed Tuesday at $15.91, a drop of 0.38%.
Here's the news investors were watching today:
Glencore to buy Viterra for $6.1-billion
Toronto high-rise condo sales slide 59% from last year
Canada's bank job gains buoy profit as U.S. lenders cut
Long mortgage amortizations, low interest rates put borrowers at risk: BMO
- Iceland central bank announces interest rate decision
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- Leading indicators (Feb): Economists expect 0.6% rise
- Saskatchewan budget
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- Existing home sales (Feb): Economists expect 0.9% rise
- General Mills Inc. Q3 earnings: Analysts expect 56 cents a share


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The Last Temptation of Dylan
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About an hour into Bob Dylan: No Direction Home, Joan Baez—in an interview that will be edited by your PBS station—recalls an invincible young Dylan imagining what they'll be saying about him in the future: "A bunch of years from now, all these assholes are going to be writing about all this shit I write, and I don't know where the fuck it comes from and I don't know what the fuck it's about, and they're going to write about what it's about." Here we are. This documentary comes complete with a Starbucks tie-in, an Apple logo, and a celebrity director's credit. That director is Martin Scorsese, who has surely coveted access to this footage—donated by D.A. Pennebaker, Murray Lerner, and others—having already shot Dylan as the pièce de résistance to his documentary about The Band, The Last Waltz. But before you get too excited about this crossroads meeting, viewer, beware: This project was co-produced by Dylan's manager Jeff Rosen. Scorsese was brought in well after Rosen had already conducted the interviews and approved the material. What will all these assholes be saying about Dylan? In this "Martin Scorsese Picture," whatever the Dylan people want.
We'll take it gratefully, of course. No Direction Home is framed by footage from a 1966 European tour in which Dylan was hounded by the folkie furies for plugging in with the Hawks, who later became The Band. (This footage is from Pennebaker's never-released and seldom-seen Eat the Document.)As the documentary opens, we see Dylan performing the classic rock warhorse "Like a Rolling Stone." The record had already been a No. 2 single, but it was still a rock 'n' roll Rite of Spring, too raw for the purists in 1966. You know you are in the hands of an auteur and not just a random PBS hack when, midverse, just when Dylan is about to snarl more adenoidal invective to Miss Lonely, Scorsese cuts to a frigid, silent Minnesota wilderness. The scene conveys a visceral feeling of Dylan defiantly inventing himself, not out of Abe and Beatty Zimmerman's middle-class Jewish home, but out of bleak nothingness, filled only by a wafting, distant radio playing Bill Monroe's "Drifting Too Far From the Shore."*Dylan, sounding like a crotchety Grandpa, recalls that the winters were "rightly cold" and that he "didn't have the clothes you have now. It was so cold, you couldn't be bad."
Young Bobby Zimmerman was bad enough, though, stealing folk records from a collector friend in the name of being "a musical expeditionary." In the documentary, we get only hints of the artful thievery that Dylan specialized in and profited from. "Blowin' in the Wind," for example, was lifted from the Negro spiritual "No More Auction Block," and Dylan's musical expeditions continue—on his most recent album, he was accused of lifting passages from an obscure Japanese novel. "Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal." T.S. Eliot said that. "Don't steal, don't lift." Bob Dylan said that. He did indeed steal and lift, but only in the service of an art that was all his. No Direction Home doesn't spell out this aesthetic, but in a 1964 clip, Dylan provides an answer of sorts to his critics. Steve Allen asks Dylan if he sings his own material or other people's. He replies: "They're all mine, now."
For 225 minutes, Dylan is all ours now, at least what he lets us see. Even though Scorsese does his share of sepia scanning, we are not, thank God, in PBS purgatory, with a portentous narrator telling you what to think. We are jerked back and forth between the lapsed bar mitzvah boy of '61 to the bleary-eyed near rock 'n' roll suicide of '66. We witness him singing "I'm not weary" in a '66 performance of "Mr. Tambourine Man," but he looks weary as hell. Has any 25-year-old ever been so jaded?
To narrate selected details from this journey from the Iron Range to Greenwich Village to Rock Star Babylon, we get generous, attention-span respecting clips of Dylan performances and reminiscences from carefully selected talking heads. We see John Jacob Niles—a silver-haired kook with an autoharp and a scary falsetto—singing a traditional line that would later kick off Dylan's "It Ain't Me, Babe." We sit in Manhattan's White Horse Tavern with Liam Clancy, an insufferably melodramatic Irish folkie perched in front of a pint of ale that does not seem like his first of the night. We sip tea with boho chicks extraordinaire Maria Muldaur and Suze Rotolo, delighting in their brushes with fame. We are in a gray room with Allen Ginsberg, who looks like he's on his way to Desolation Row. (Ginsberg died in '97, by the way, demonstrating how long this project has been cooking.) Ginsberg gets choked up remembering his first listening of "Hard Rain," not because he was moved, but because he felt, with more than a little narcissism, that "the torch had been passed."
In the documentary, "Hard Rain" also becomes the soundtrack to JFK's assassination, interrupted by the sound of Jack Ruby's gun. But here is one place where the movie takes a dodge: We see Dylan accepting an award from the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee shortly after Nov. 22, 1963. Scorsese reads portions of Dylan's speech aloud—sounding nothing like Dylan, but a lot like the psycho he played in Taxi Driver—but he leaves out the kicker, when Dylan tells the stunned crowd that he identified with Lee Harvey Oswald. This incident is no secret—it's in every Dylan biography, including Robert Shelton's authorized one—but apparently PBS (or Apple or Starbucks) were apprehensive about a hero quite that transgressive.
The whitewashing doesn't end with that moment: Where, in this rock 'n' roll biopic, are the sex and drugs? The only mention of these essential Dylanesque tropes comes from the lewd, crude, and dangerous Peter Yarrow (usually seen on PBS in telethons with his partners in crime Paul and Mary), who wistfully recalls, "Everyone wanted to get high with Bobby. Everyone wanted to sleep with Bobby." Where's that documentary? In production on the E! Entertainment Television? Never mind: The footage tells us everything we need to know. Scorsese has one of his finest moments when he presents the creation of "Like a Rolling Stone," a song overexposed on classic rock radio and gratuitously pawed by Greil Marcus in his overwrought book about it. Scorsese kicks new life into this classic when he ingeniously plays it over scenes from Dylan's 1965 screen test for Andy Warhol. We see Dylan the Icon at his pop-culture zenith, his bloodshot eyes staring into that lens like a mug shot, as if to say, "What was it you wanted?" or maybe just, "Look out, kid."
This ending would have made a perfect crucifixion narrative for Scorsese if Dylan had gotten more mangled up in that motorcycle crash that ends this madness in the summer of '66—a crash that may or may not have been all that it was cracked up to be. Dylan was certainly on a perilous course back then, and Pennebaker's camera was whirling every minute. We see Dylan propping himself in front of a piano with a pre-rehab Johnny Cash fumbling for the lyrics to "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry." More powerful is Dylan singing "Visions of Johanna" like he really has been "up past the dawn," ready to keel over any minute, belting out tormented brilliance with every syllable. It was clear that Dylan, reaching the height of his powers, was smarting from all the boos and jeers and "voice of a generation" crap he still complains about. In the most legendary moment of that tour—captured on the CD Live 1966—some bloke from the audience trying to initiate a folkie pogrom called him "Judas!" But he survived all of that, only to profit from the martyrdom today. Dylan may have finally reached the last temptation, cross-promoting himself with a Starbucks latte and a Victoria's Secret Angel bra, a marketing triumph that would have made his wheeler-dealer manager Albert Grossman proud: Call it Pimp My Dylan.
As this documentary reminds us why Dylan hid from the spotlight in those dizzy days of '66, we have to wonder why he's taking charge of it now. With the first volume of his memoirs out and a stack of future retrospective projects in the works, why is the usually publicity-shy Dylan suddenly grunting and mumbling to Ed Bradley on 60 Minutes and talking about himself, usually his least favorite subject? Dylan has been giving thrilling performances these days, but they also seem like poignant, moribund gasps. He's now reading from lyric sheets and switched from guitar from piano, and it's inevitable that he can't be going down the highway forever. While his fans are fascinated by the sublime, wheezing wreck Dylan has become, the most poignant and perceptive talking head in No Direction Home is the eerily preserved Baez. She was too prim for Dylan's rock 'n' roll lifestyle of '65, but here she is singing a version of "Love Is Just a Four Letter Word" with her vocal chops intact. She stole that song from Dylan back then, and 40 years later, with this haunting performance, she steals No Direction Home from him, too, not a bad revenge for being publicly jilted in Don't Look Back. She still obviously has it bad for the guy, and this movie seduces us into understanding why. "I don't know what he thought about," Baez says. "I only know what he gave us."
* Correction, September 27, 2005: This article originally and incorrectly identified the mother of Bob Dylan as Ethel. Her name is Beatty. Click here to return to the corrected sentence.