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Written on: 13/06/2001 by Sean Clarke. (1 review written)
Good Points
Very quick to get started, easy to use with or without the pop-up screen. There are so many options, you can customise this camera to your hearts desire. The PC interface is excellent either from a browser or a file explorer. An excellent package all round.
Bad Points
Rearrange the order of the delete menu, put the 'delete all' option at the hardest to get to place.
It was a bit of a struggle to get the PC web browser interface to work. Windows 2000 and IIS just aren't compatible with this. Amateur PC users may have difficulty.
When taking shots with the flash, the screen can go black for a few seconds whilst it recharges the flash.
General Comments
The Ricoh RDC-i500 is an excellent and easy to use digital camera. It might not look as 'camera-like' as others but the range of features it has and the performance more than make up for it.
There are so many options to customise how you wish to use the camera, it must cater for almost everyone's needs.
The thumbnail review is excellent, especially if you have been using the auto-bracket or multi shot modes, good for comparison of many photos and it helps to manage your shots.
The PC interface is great once you get it working. I think that the less experienced PC user may have difficultly, though they might not be using Windows 2000 with IIS 5. You need to shut IIS down to get the interface to work. Another method of interface would be useful instead of trying to be clever :-)
This is my first digital camera and I am very impressed with the overall facilities, quality and ease of use of the whole package.
Written on: 29/07/2001
I read this review after purchaing the same model from Duty Free on my way out of Oz for a three week trip. I made the purchasing decision casually, mainly based on my faith in the Ricoh name, and the sex appeal of the camera itself. I have had no regrets. This camera has been expensive to buy, but has performed magnificently - image handling is a strong suit, so is portability and ruggedness. The PC interface worked first time for me (on Win98) and compared to my first digital camera, a Kodak DC260, this is a delight to operate, booting up in two seconds (Kodak took 7 secs!) and closing down even faster. A real sharp shooter... but I'll advise users to select the 1024 x 768 "fine" mode to shoot in - lower rez's produce too much pixelation on the finished product.
Written on: 01/06/2003
Very useful review. In fact, I just bought an i700 on Internet but I am still waiting for. Very impatient to see by myself and then add a review here.
Written on: 19/08/2001
I travel frequently to the UK and would like to purchase this camera in London during my next visit. Could someone tell me where to find it at the best price? Also, does anyone know the current duty-free price? The i500 is not available in the US...imagine that!
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A siren whines, and its volume suddenly overwhelms all other sounds on the ravaged battleground. Soldiers peek out from between layers of sandbags. Some stick to the camouflage netting on the edges of the field, cautious, yet daring to hope that the keening noise means a ceasefire. They're out of ammo. Finally, the call comes over the loudspeaker—"Reload!"—and they rush forward, snatching up handfuls of bright orange darts and popping them back into their plastic weapons. Once the siren goes silent, the fighting will begin anew, and the indoor arena will once again become a flurry of foam projectiles and laughter.
This scenario is a typical open play session at the Tag Zone, where an armory of Nerf guns ensures safe yet thrilling competitions. Every battle follows the rules of one of four team-based games: squad vs. squad, capture the flag, protect the leader, or "the prison." Youngsters ages 6 and up launch and dodge the soft missiles in an indoor arena dappled with padded obstacles. Field #1 is set in a apocalyptic urban setting, whereas Field #2 stacks sandbags and barrels around 1,900 square feet of military-themed space. To encourage teamwork and fair play, a referee is always on hand to oversees each bout.
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Taxes on Cook Inlet oil and gas facilities provide much-needed revenue to state and municipal governments, but each has specific purview over different parts of that infrastructure.
The state taxes production, exploration and pipeline facilities and provides a portion of that revenue to the borough. Its jurisdiction ends where pipelines meet on-shore refineries. This year, state assessments on oil-patch facilities were cut for two reasons, said Randall Hoffbeck, a state petroleum property assessor.
First, Forest Oil's Cook Inlet oil exploration effort has proved less successful than anticipated. Since production began in January, the company is delivering only a tenth of the 20,000 barrels a day it had expected, which has affected the market value of its property, Hoffbeck said.
The other reason is simply that "the Cook Inlet oil regime is old," he said. Reserves are being depleted and values are coming down.
"Nothing is reversing that trend at this time," he said.
Recent exploration and development of inlet natural gas reserves require far less in terms of capital investment, and therefore, property values are smaller. Gas development can't replace what's being lost in the oil field, Hoffbeck said.
"Gas finds have put it on a glide path rather than a crash path," he said.
As for the infrastructure taxed by the borough, the fundamental dynamics are the same. When resources are less available, property values fall, because those values are largely determined by answering one simple question. What would someone pay for the infrastructure assets?
To figure that out, the borough has historically turned to experts. For instance, since 2002, an Anchorage firm, D.A. Platt & Associates, has helped assess on-shore facilities, including the ConocoPhillips plant, the Agrium fertilizer-ammonia plant, the Tesoro refinery and Tesoro's products pipeline to Anchorage. The borough itself assesses BP's gas-to-liquids plant. Generally speaking, the pertinent information gets plugged into a formula designed to generate an assessed value. But it is not as simple as determining the value of a house in a subdivision based on surrounding property values.
"I don't want to say it's subjective," Holt said, "because you have to look at a lot of varying factors costs of building, obsolescence and the like."
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When it comes to beer, a lot of ingredients hog the spotlight. Hops? A-list ingredient. Coffee? As important an adjunct in beer as it is in daily life. Heck, even water, hops, and malted barley get their day in the sun.
But what most casual drinkers forget is that without yeast — the funny little living (technically) fungus that's responsible for all alcohol — we wouldn't even have beer.
See, beer needs to be fermented to, well, exist. During the fermentation process, the yeast transforms sugar into alcohol and expels carbon dioxide, giving beer the buzz and bubbles we all love. If brewers didn't have yeast, all we'd have would be sad little pots of damp cereal and sugar water.
But despite its necessity, yeast's role in fermentation wasn't even completely understood until 1857 when Louis Pasteur proved that yeast was responsible for fermentation. Before then, beer came about more or less by accident. Many in ancient history even thought the drink was miraculous since it was safer to consume than water and was created without human interference.
So what does yeast actually do?
Well, to the average beer drinker, the flavors and colors may be all that discerns one beer from another, but yeast is what distinguishes ales from lagers (See Understanding Beer: Lagers, Ales, and Acronyms). There are two types of yeast: top-fermenting and bottom-fermenting. Top-fermenting yeasts require temperatures between the mid 60s to low 70s and produce ales. By contrast, bottom-fermenting yeasts must ferment in temperatures in the low to mid 50s and yield lagers.
Most breweries purchase their ale and lager yeasts, but some will take a gamble on a batch of beer and allow it to spontaneously ferment. Instead of containing the hoppy sugar water known as "wort" in a closed fermentation tank, the brewers will actually expose the vulnerable liquid to wild yeast by leaving barrels of unfinished beer just kind of hanging out in the open air. There, wild yeasts and bacteria that are floating in the air can begin fermentation spontaneously. This process, while unpredictable, can produce a more tart and sour flavor (or it can produce something so bad that it's better used to clear your drains).
Like other ingredients, yeast can — and will — affect aroma and taste. Wild yeasts can create a tart, almost yogurt-y tartness in beer. And then take the average hefeweizen.
The second most important thing you can do with a beer is smell it (behind, of course, drinking it), and when you smell a hefeweizen, most people will detect scents of banana, clove or bubblegum. Yes, brewers do sometimes add various fruits, nuts, or other ingredients to their beer to alter aroma or taste, but that is not the case for most hefeweizens.
That bubblegum smell? It's from the yeast. During the fermentation of a hef, compounds known as "esters" form after the yeast reacts with the wort. These esters are what cause hefeweizens to have notes of banana, clove or bubblegum without any of those ingredients having been added to the beer itself.
Man, ancient brewers were right to believe in the divinity of beer.
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Magnificently crafted from exotic imported mahogany, this Empire style desk was created during the Second Empire in a revival of the epoch created by Napoleon Bonaparte. The leather top is augmented by pull-out side surfaces also upholstered in leather. The simple architecture of the bureau plat below has been lavished with over a half-dozen different bronze oromolu mounts recalling the classicism of ancient Greece, Rome & Egypt. What's more, the ornamentation encircles the entire desk, making this suitable for placement anywhere in the room. Multiple drawers ensure superb functionality and in fact make this an ideal choice for the 21st century office or study!
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The Winnipeg Jets said their goodbyes Friday after missing the playoffs again.
Coach Claude Noel said he thinks they could have made the playoffs last season and this season.
Captain Andrew Ladd says he expects changes to the team. But no one knows what those might be.
Noel says he was pleased in the growth of many young players such as Evander Kane.
The Jets were eliminated Thursday night when both Ottawa and the New York Rangers won and then Winnipeg sealed the deal by losing to Montreal.


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JT writes:
I have a snide comment about Layard's thinking. If extensive government intervention in personal income is so desirable, why is practically everyone I know who works in gov't & non-profit (work environments with more equality) so much less happy than people who work in the for-profit world? Just an empirical observation.
I don't like how he is not controlling for other causes behind the decline in women's happiness.
Posted March 19, 2003 9:46 AM
Jim Glass writes:
This was a Robbins Lecture? They used to be good stuff, what happened?
"People in the West have got no happier in the last 50 years. They have become much richer, they work much less, they have longer holidays, they travel more, they live longer, and they are healthier. But they are no happier."
Hmm, average world life expectancy is up 50% over 50 years, so I'd imagine the average life has 50% more happiness in it. But I guess that's not how he's counting. How *is* he counting?
Even in the advanced countries, it's up about 15%. And the rates of debilitating disease in old age are *way* down -- senior years are much healthier. He's not "happy" about that for himself, if you ask him? I bet he is. ;-)
"This shocking fact should be the starting point for much of our social science."
Well, of psychology maybe, but surely not economics.
And what's "shocking" about it? It's *old* psychology 101. Literally, that was the only psych course I took in college mumble years ago, and I still learned from it that happiness doesn't correlate with income or wealth.
More recently, there's a lot of research that says people have their own individual "set points" for happiness that they always return to in the long run, come what may, good or ill. E.g.:, my first Google hit on the subject...
Happiness or subjective well-being (SWB) ... varies from time to time about an average value that is characteristic of the individual.
My colleague, Auke Tellegen, and I have measured SWB on hundreds of pairs of middle-aged twins .... [and] obtained estimates of average SWB by repeating these measurements after intervals ranging from 4 to 10 years ... the heritability of the set-point or mean happiness level is about 80%...
Psychologists David Myers, at Hope College, and Ed and Carol Diener at the University of Illinois have been studying SWB for years with remarkable results. They find first that SWB is essentially unrelated to socioeconomic status, to income, to level of education, to gender or to race...
The Illinois researchers have shown that the effects on current SWB of both positive and negative life events are largely gone after just 3 months and undetectable after 6 months.
A happiness reading on a victim of a spinal injury -- or on a winner in the lottery -- taken a year after the event, is likely to give about the same value obtained before the event...
So it is really true, money doesn't buy happiness by the very nature of things. Top economists don't know this???
Which gets us to a basic point: Economics is about *welfare*, not happiness. Rising income correlates *very* strongly with reduced child mortality, longer life, and healthier life, even in the richest societies.
Isn't that enough? Why should it be about "happiness"? Only an ivory tower academic could forget totally the *welfare* benefit of income -- which is literally life and death, even in rich countries -- and say income policies should be directed by "happiness" objectives.
Beyond that, his survey logic is abysmal. E.g.: He says East Germans report being less happy now than they were under communism, in spite of being richer now, because they compare themselves to even richer West Germans. Fine. Now ask East Germans if they would be more or less happy than they are now if they had to go back to their former lives under communism. I know enough former East Germans to tell you their answer -- "less! less! and thank God such nightmares cannot come true!" Conclusion: If the East Germans had to go back to their former lives they would be less happy than in their former lives. And if they returned to their former state when they were happier than they are now they would be less happy than they are now.
The trick is "happiness" has no objective meaning but many subjective ones, and he's conflating them all for his purposes.
Is *he* "happier" now in his day-to-day affairs than he would be if his life expectancy was 15% shorter? No. Is he "happy" that his life expectancy has gone up 15%? You bet!
"Happiness" is something to be defined and studied by psychologists. It's not relevant to economics and it is dangerous to bring it into economics. People have tried in the past, back to the utilitarians, with "not happy" results.
"Another case is women, whose pay and opportunities have improved considerably relative to men, but their level of happiness has not. Indeed in the US women's happiness has fallen relative to men's, perhaps because they compare themselves more specifically with men than they used to, and are therefore more aware of the gaps that still exist."
He's building a lot on that "perhaps". Perhaps women's happiness has fallen relative to men's (if it has) not because they are now "more aware" of the smaller wage gap that still exists -- note how patronizing this is, women would have had to have been pretty stupid to be "less aware" of a much larger wage gap in the old days -- but because, e.g., increasing income is associated with greater job responsibilities that cut into family life.
Yet obviously women prefer the higher income to extra family time because nothing's easier than giving up a job for more family time, even if the higher income they prefer to happiness makes them less happy. Though you should be happy to take something you prefer to happiness. Ouch ... Leave it to the psychologists.
"I ratchet up my standards, this reduces the enjoyment I get from any given standard of living"
So if it really is the ratcheting up of his standards that reduces his enjoyment, he should reduce his standards. Simple.
".. in an efficient economy, there will be substantial levels of corrective taxation."
Efficient as to what: welfare or happiness? How does he propose to increase "efficiency" of happiness? By taxing everybody to ratchet down their living standards? He can't even *define* happiness.
Moreover, "corrective taxation" will never be near enough to deliver happiness. That will take more much general legislation enacted by the enlightened political powers. And we've had some very bad experiences in the last 100 years with regimes that claimed to legislating happiness for all, peoples' utopias. This is not only a stupid idea but a dangerous one to bring into political economics.
A Robbins lecture is favoring the legislation of happiness as policy! The rude natives of sci.econ on usenet have a Dumbassy award they give out periodically to particularly deserving postings. If this was there, it could be the first Robbins lecture to win one!
Sorry to run on at such length but this one really teed me off.
Posted March 20, 2003 7:38 PM
kevin quinn writes:
Jim Glass is write to champion objective rather than subjective measures of well-being. But he is dead wrong in thinking that that is what economics is about! The First and Second Welfare Theorems claim, in effect, that free markets lead to outcomes that cannot be improved on by making somebody or bodies happier without making someone else less happy (happiness is preference satisfaction, period). Layard is right to say - as Robert Frank has been saying for a much longer time - the pursuit of status etc destroy these welfare theorems. I am working right now on a paper that argues that Smith - despite the perception that he fathered the First Welfare Theorem - a) had an objective theory of well-being and b)knew all about the phenomena Frank and Layard talk about, but praised emulation, the pursuit of status,etc. because, despite the negative impact they had on happiness, they raised well-being in an objective sense. So, back to the future-
Kevin Quinn
Posted August 1, 2003 10:44 AM
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Once upon a time good employees updated their job skills and advanced to the next career level with the regularity of Mario questing for Princess Peach.
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Have you noticed a definite blue and yellow theme lately? .... All will soon be revealed!
Definitely a card for Pixie's snippets! Loads of offcuts here. The tiny circles are from the Owl Builder punch. A couple of the yellow patterns are from the Pennant Parade stamps and the houndstooth background is from the Posy Punch stamp set.
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Discussion in 'General Gallery' started by Michaelaw, Mar 11, 2008.
what a bizarre composition!!!! awesome!
Looks like the duck checked out what was left of his party the night before, lol. Cool to see the detail in the sand, from the footprints to gradient of wet to really wet sand.
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Minimum Number of Trips
Date: 07/01/2001 at 15:58:54 From: B. Hastings Subject: Minimum number of trips puzzle Hello, The problem is that of a fully laden lorry that can carry fuel and supplies for a trip into the desert of up to 400 miles. The base camp on the edge of the desert has an unlimited amount of fuel and supplies. By setting up strategic supply dumps along the proposed route, it is possible to travel more than 200 miles into the desert and return. How many trips would be needed to penetrate 600 miles and back? (Note: return required.) My son is in Year 8 in the UK, and is 13 years old. He used trial and error, and found a very acceptable answer. I enjoy puzzles, and felt sure there must be a formula, with the distance between supply dumps as a variable, to calculate the minimum number of journeys and/or the minimum distance travelled (i.e. fuel consumption). Starting at the most distant point, there must be a relation between the distance between successive supply dumps and the amount of fuel to be dumped there using a geometric series. When I had solved the basic puzzle, I intended to extend the solution to a variable lorry capacity and a variable end point, but I couldn't even solve the initial problem. I look forward your reply with anticipation. Barbara Hastings.
Date: 07/02/2001 at 16:33:55 From: Doctor Jaffee Subject: Re: Minimum number of trips puzzle Hi Barbara, Let's assume that 1 pound of fuel and supplies is required to travel 1 mile. I found a solution that required a total of 11,800 pounds of fuel and supplies. I am curious how my solution compares with your son's. My solution was based on the premise that the lorry driver needs to deposit 800 pounds of supplies and fuel at the 400-mile marker. From there the driver could travel 200 miles to the edge of the desert, then back 200 miles where there would stil be 400 pounds of fuel and supplies waiting. This would be sufficient to get him home. So, if he started at the base camp with 11,800 pounds, he could load the lorry, drive 100 miles, deposit 200 pounds of fuel and supplies, then drive back to base camp. He would then repeat this process until 5900 pounds of fuel and supplies were deposited, at which time it would become his new base. Then, starting from his new base he would load the lorry, drive 100 miles deposit 200 pounds of fuel and supplies and return to base. He would repeat this process until a total of 3000 pounds of fuel and supplies were deposited and his new base camp would now be established at the 200-mile marker. He would then follow the same procedure and deposit 1500 pounds of fuel and supplies at the 300-mile marker and finally deposit 800 pounds of fuel and supplies at the 400-mile marker. Now, establishing a formula is challenging. If the capacity of the lorry is x pounds of fuel and supplies, then you need to deposit x pounds at a distance of x miles from the end of the trip. However, in this case twice as much was required because of the looping nature of the trip; that is, the lorry went from the 400 miles marker to the end, then looped back to the 400-mile marker in one trip. So, however many pounds of fuel and supplies are required at that last marker, approximately twice as much is required at the previous stop. That's where the complication is. In the problem your son solved, 400 pounds of fuel and supplies is the capacity of the lorry. At alternate stops 100 pounds less than twice the amount required at the next stop must be accumulated. If the capacity of the lorry were 500 pounds, it would work very differently. There may be a generalized formula that will solve all problems of this nature, but personally I think it is easier to work it out logically and systematically as I have done, and as I expect your son did. I've enjoyed working on this problem; I found it quite fascinating. I hope my response has been helpful, and please write back if your son's solution is significantly different from mine, or if you want to discuss it some more. - Doctor Jaffee, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
Date: 07/22/2001 at 13:14:49 From: B. Hastings Subject: Re: Minimum number of trips puzzle Hi, Dr Jaffee, My son's solution was similar to yours. Assuming 1 unit of fuel and supplies per mile, he started from the idea that he needed 400 units at the 400-mile mark to reach the 600-mile point and return to the 400-mile supply dump. He then said that he needed to make 3 round trips from the 300-mile dump to the 400-mile dump, depositing 200 units per trip - since only making two trips would leave him stranded at the 400-mile point. To enable him to make three trips from 300 to 400, he said he needed to make seven trips from 200 to 300, fifteen trips from 100 to 200, and 32 trips from Base to 100. This would ensure enough extra units at each supply dump to get him home. His total consumption was therefore 12200 units. I thought this was a good solution, particularly for a 13-year-old. His teacher said the solution required only eleven trips, but he could not remember how she did it. I think I have found a way that only takes 6400 units and 30 trips. If the lorry makes 15 round trips from base to 100 miles depositing half its load each trip, there will be 3000 units at the 100-mile point. The lorry sets out for the 16th time from the base, and arrives at the 100-mile point 3/4 full. The total at the 100 m.pt. is now 3300. The lorry then makes 7 round trips to the 200 m.pt. using 1400 units, depositing 1400 units and having 500 left at the 100 m. pt. It fills up so there are now only 100 units left at the 100 m.pt., and sets out for the 8th time from the 100 m.pt.. At the 200 m.pt.,the lorry is 3/4 full, so the total at the 200 m.pt. is now 1700 units. The lorry makes 3 round trips to the 300 m.pt. using 600 units, depositing 600 units at the 300 m.pt. and leaving 500 at the 200 m.pt. The lorry fills up so there are now only 100 units left at the 200 m.pt. and sets out for the 4th time from the 200 m.pt. At the 300 m.pt. the lorry is 3/4 full, so the total at the 300 m.pt. is now 900 units. The lorry makes 1 round trip to the 400 m.pt. using 200 units, depositing 200 units at the 400 m.pt. and leaving 500 at the 300 m.pt. The lorry fills up so there are now only 100 units left at the 300 m.pt. The lorry sets out for the 2nd time to the 400 m.pt., and is still 3/4 full when it reaches it. It takes on 100 units, completes its trip to the 600 m.pt. and back, and is empty when it gets back to the 400 m.pt. It takes on 100 units and drives back to the 300 m.pt.. It takes on the 100 units left there, and drives to the 200 m.pt.. It takes on the 100 units left there, and drives back to the 100 m.pt., takes on 100 units and drives back to base. I tried to work with supply dumps at different distances, but couldn't find a better answer. Since my solution uses exactly half the total of yours, either I have made an elementary error or I have saved fuel by not transporting the fuel necessary for the journey home to the 400 mile point. All the supply dumps are empty at the end of my trip. I'm glad you found this problem as intriguing as I did. I have always enjoyed puzzles. I think that you are probably right in saying that trial and error is the best way to solve problems like this. I just wondered whether my son's teacher was introducing a new topic by letting the children tackle a puzzle, and then explaining how it should be approached, but apparently not. I hope your colleagues enjoyed this problem. Thank you for your help. Barbara Hastings.
Date: 07/26/2001 at 20:14:45 From: Doctor Jaffee Subject: Re: Minimum number of trips puzzle Hi Barbara, Bravo! Your solution was very efficient; I went through it step by step and it solved the problem and used just a little more than half of the resources required in my solution. Reading your solution gave me a fresh perspective on solving problems of this nature. I'm glad I was able to help you and I appreciate the new insights you have provided for me. - Doctor Jaffee, The Math Forum http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
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So who is going to be there for us now? Frederick Brennan Karl not only understood the word �service,� he made it his mantra. It would be like a tattoo on his arm from his war years in savage combat across Europe to the political wars of state politics. It would motivate him in later years when he could have retired, but instead he stepped in to take on one crisis after another. One afternoon we were sitting in one of his favorite restaurants, Mise en Place, and he was eating a bowl of creamy soup. �They make great soup here,� he said. �I don�t know what they put in it, but it all works. That�s the secret.� At the time I didn�t know soup had any secrets, but I suppose it could describe this seemingly simple but very complex man who was so important to so many levels of government. He brought in his own secret ingredients of integrity and a determination.
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of that dwindling greatest generation raised with that word �service� as the key to living in this country. Like so many, he had that legacy of always working. He was an usher at a movie theater while still in high school back in his native Daytona Beach. Karl went on to the University of Florida and earned a bachelor�s degree. But the year was 1942 and America was at war. Karl knew that was where he belonged. I have a draft of a book he was planning to release later this year. It�s called �Python Tales,� and it is full of memories of his life as a tank commander in World War II. The fact that Fred Karl, suffering with a laundry list of maladies including Parkinson�s and diabetes, would even undertake writing a book shows something of his character. But it also happens to be a good read and takes you across Europe from the Battle of the Bulge to Berlin. You learn how he earned his Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart. I think one of his greatest disappointments in later years was his inability to find his tank �Daytona Beach,� which disappeared into the graveyards of military machines.
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Karl went back to school and received a law degree from Stetson University College of Law. I asked him once when he first got the itch to run for public office. He said he never really did like campaigning or politics, but the challenges of a particular office were what got him interested. I�m not sure that was entirely correct. His first state office came in 1956, when he was elected to the Florida House. In 1968 he moved to the Florida Senate after running unsuccessfully to become governor. In 1977 he became a justice of the Florida Supreme Court. But those are only titles and not the story of a man who took on a state still struggling to move into the 20th century. He fought against racial injustice and he took on the so-called pork choppers of the Florida Panhandle who controlled the Legislature. Then when he retired � he didn�t. In 1994 Tampa General Hospital was in danger of shutting down. Karl was called in and is credited with not just turning it around but installing an ethic that has made TGH one of the best hospitals in the South. He pulled the same magic when Hillsborough County needed a new county attorney. He was hired again by the Tampa-Hillsborough County Expressway Authority to clean up their act. And when Pam Iorio became Tampa�s mayor, her very first act was to bring in Karl to put her team together. Fred could make things work. You suspect if the president had the foresight to call Fred Karl up to Washington for some advice, there would have been no fiscal cliffs and we wouldn�t be cowering behind closed doors waiting for whatever sequester means. Fred Karl was about service to all of us, and for that we need to take a moment to remember him.
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For a murder mystery dinner, the host needs some clues
Tuesday, October 26, 2010; 12:19 PM
When friends invited us to a murder mystery dinner this past summer, I thought of a few other things I'd rather do: have dental surgery, clean out the garage, go dancing with my mother.
"Oh, come on," my partner, Michael, entreated. "It'll be fun!"
Easy for him to say. The hosts had suggested he wear a costume consisting of a black T-shirt and pants and a pair of sunglasses; my assignment was lederhosen with suspenders, mountain boots and a felt hat with a feather.
What happened next caught us both off guard: I had a ball. So much so that on the way home I hatched a scheme for us to host just such a party of our own. Although the concept works fine any time of the year, a cool fall night seemed perfect, and around Halloween, people would be in the mood for costumes.
But it wouldn't be without pitfalls. From an entertaining standpoint, I'd need to finesse the timing of the meal's courses around the characters, who would need to reveal scripted clues vital to the game's momentum. As a host, I'd have dual responsibilities as a cook and a suspect. The easy solution would be to relegate the meal to the back burner, but that would make me a suspect cook.
To begin, I had to choose a game. Several companies offer boxed sets online in the $20-to-$30 range. The kits generally include host instructions, character booklets for six to 10 players, clues, invitations and name tags, as well as decorating tips and menu suggestions.
I narrowed the field by searching for food-centric games and quickly settled on Murder at Mardi Gras. It takes place at a Garden District mansion masquerade ball, where guests have to determine who strangled Pierre DuPre with a string of antique Mardi Gras beads. One of the suspects, Cayenne Pepper, was DuPre's chef, about to hit the big time with his own cooking show, "Turn Up the Heat."
The role of a lifetime! Once the crime scene was set, everything started to fall into place. I'd fill the house with purple, gold and green Mardi Gras tchotchkes, design a New Orleans-style menu, buy some zydeco CDs and round out the guest list with some chums from the Crescent City. As it turned out, half of the diners that night were New Orleanians (one of them a pastry chef, to boot), so the pressure was on to create a menu that would meet exacting standards.
When the kit arrived, I saw that the party planner guide instructed me not to read any of the character booklets, but that presented a problem. For me, entertaining well is all about reducing variables as much as possible. If it turned out I was the murderer, I'd have to be less involved in the kitchen, and I had to know. The instructions also did not detail the number of segments in the game, so how could I structure the meal and plan its timing? Given the choice between breaking the rules and sacrificing praise for my meal, the decision was obvious: Peek. I leafed through my booklet just far enough to determine the number of chapters (four) and whether I was the murderer. (I spoiled that part of the mystery for myself, but not for anyone else.)
I started with lots of hors d'oeuvres and served them in the living room, allowing plenty of time for invitees to explain their characters and share clues through Chapter 1.
In addition to a full bar, Michael offered New Orleans cocktails such as a French 75 (gin, lemon juice, simple syrup and champagne) and an Obituary (gin, dry vermouth and Herbsaint, an anise-flavored liqueur made in New Orleans). I was the only taker for the Obituary, probably a tactical error, considering how strong it was.
When planning the menu, I'd kept in mind that two of the guests don't eat meat or poultry. For nibbles, I made some Southern staples: pimento cheese with celery, herb-crusted toasted pecans and, because there was some puff pastry in the freezer to use up, cheese straws I fashioned into small palmiers.


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Ray's cinematic debut, Pather Panchali, won eleven international prizes including Best Human Document at Cannes. Compeleted in 1955, Pather Panchali is a milestone of humanist filmmaking and changed the course of Bengali and Indian cinema. Along with Aparajito and Apur Sansar, Pather Panchali forms the Apu trilogy -- Ray's magnum opus.
Ray was a prolific filmmaker and during his lifetime directed thirty seven films, comprising of features, documentaries and short stories. Due to Ray's level of involvement in every aspect of filmmaking, his films demonstrate a level of personal expression rarely experienced in cinema. He was responsible for scripting, casting, directing, scoring, operating the camera, working closely on art direction and editing, even designing his own credit titles and publicity material. Apart from being a film-maker, he was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, graphic designer and film critic.
Ray received many major film and movie awards in his illustrious career, including an Academy Award for lifetime achievement in 1991 shortly before his death in Kolkata.
From the beginning of his career as a filmmaker, Satyajit Ray was interested in finding ways to reveal the mind and thoughts of his characters. Because the range of his sympathy was wide, he has been accused of softening the presence of evil in his cinematic world. But a director who aims to represent the currents and cross-currents of feeling within people is likely to disclose to viewers the humanness even in reprehensible figures. In any case, from the first films of his early period, Ray devised strategies for rendering inner lives; he simplified the surface action of the film so that the viewer's attention travels to (1) the reaction of people to one another, or to their environments, (2) the mood expressed by natural scenery or objects, and (3) music as a clue to the state of mind of a character. In the Apu Trilogy the camera often stays with one of two characters after the other character exits the frame to see their silent response. Or else, after some significant event in the narrative, Ray presents correlatives of that event in the natural world. When the impoverished wife in Pather Panchali receives a postcard bearing happy news from her husband, the scene dissolves to water skates dancing on a pond. As for music, in his films Ray commissioned compositions from India's best classical musicians—Ravi Shankar, Vilayat Khan, Ali Akbar Khan— but after Teen Kanya composed his own music and progressed towards quieter indication through music of the emotional experience of his characters.
Ray's work can be divided into three periods on the basis of his cinematic practice: the early period, 1955–66, from Pather Panchali through Nayak; the middle period, 1969–1977, from Googy Gyne Bagha Byne through Shatranj Ke Khilari; and the final period, from Joy Baba Felunath and through his final film Agantuk, in 1991. The early period is characterized by thoroughgoing realism: the mise-enscène are rendered in deep focus; long takes and slow camera movements prevail. The editing is subtle, following shifts of narrative interest and cutting on action in the Hollywood style. Ray's emphasis in the early period on capturing reality is obvious in Kanchanjangha, in which 100 minutes in the lives of characters are rendered in 100 minutes of film time. The Apu Trilogy, Parash Pather, Jalsaghar, and Devi all exemplify what Ray had learned from Hollywood's studio era, from Renoir's mise-en-scène, and from the use of classical music in Indian cinema. Charulata affords the archetypal example of Ray's early style, with the decor, the music, the long takes, the activation of various planes of depth within a composition, and the reaction shots all contributing significantly to a representation of the lonely wife's inner conflicts. The power of Ray's early films comes from his ability to suggest deep feeling by arranging the surface elements of his films unemphatically.
Ray's middle period is characterized by increasing complexity of style; to his skills at understatement Ray adds a sharp use of montage. The difference in effect between an early film and a middle film becomes apparent if one compares the early Mahanagar with the middle Jana Aranya, both films pertaining to life in Calcutta. In Mahanagar, the protagonist chooses to resign her job in order to protest the unjust dismissal of a colleague. The film affirms the rightness of her decision. In the closing sequence, the protagonist looks up at the tall towers of Calcutta and says to her husband so that we believe her, ''What a big city! Full of jobs! There must be something somewhere for one of us!'' Ten years later, in Jana Aranya, it is clear that there are no jobs and that there is precious little room to worry about niceties of justice and injustice. The darkness running under the pleasant facade of many of the middle films seems to derive from the turn in Indian politics after the death of Nehru. Within Bengal, many ardent young people joined a Maoist movement to destroy existing institutions, and more were themselves destroyed by a ruthless police force. Across India, politicians abandoned Nehru's commitment to a socialist democracy in favor of a scramble for personal power. In Seemabaddha or Aranyer Din Ratri Ray's editing is sharp but not startling. In Shatranj Ke Khilari, on the other hand, Ray's irony is barely restrained: he cuts from the blue haze of a Nawab's music room to a gambling scene in the city. In harsh daylight, commoners lay bets on fighting rams, as intent on their gambling as the Nawab was on his music. Audiences in India who responded warmly to Ray's early films have sometimes been troubled by the complexity of his middle films.
A film like Shatranj Ke Khilari was expected by many viewers to reconstruct the splendors of Moghul India as the early Jalsaghar had reconstructed the sensitivity of Bengali feudal landlords and Charulata he decency of upper class Victorian Bengal. What the audience found instead was a stern examination of the sources of Indian decadence. According to Ray, the British seemed less to blame for their role than the Indians who demeaned themselves by colluding with the British or by ignoring the public good and plunging into private pleasures. Ray's point of view in Shatranj was not popular with distributors and so his first Hindi film was denied fair exhibition in many cities in India. Ray's concluding style, most evident in the short features Pikoo and Sadgati, pays less attention than earlier to building a stable geography and a firm time scheme. The exposition of characters and situations is swift: the effect is of great concision. In Pikoo, a young boy is sent outside to sketch flowers so that his mother and her lover can pursue their affair indoors. The lover has brought along a drawing pad and colored pens to divert the boy. The boy has twelve colored pens in his packet with which he must represent on paper the wealth of colors in nature. In a key scene (lasting ten seconds) the boy looks at a flower, then down at his packet for a matching color. Through that action of the boy's looking to match the world with his means, Ray suggests the striving in his own work to render the depth and range of human experience. In focussing on inner lives and on human relations as the ground of social and political systems, Ray continued the humanist tradition of Rabindranath Tagore. Ray studied at Santiniketan, the university founded by Tagore, and was close to the poet during his last years. Ray once acknowledged his debt in a lyrical documentary about Tagore, and through the Tagore stories on which he based his films Teen Kanya, Charulata, and Ghare Bahire. As the poet Tagore was his example, Ray has become an example to important younger filmmakers (such as Shyam Benegal, M. S. Sathyu, G. Aravindan), who have learned from him how to reveal in small domestic situations the working of larger political and cultural forces.
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Nearby where the Republican National Convention is taking place in Cleveland, Ohio, a massive billboard has gone up depicting kissing caricatures of the presidential nominee Donald Trump and the U.S. Senator for Texas Ted Cruz. Both Republicans will be speaking at the RNC next week.
Planting Peace sponsored the billboard, which states the simple message: "Love Trumps Hate. End Homophobia."
The organization's blog states that they wish to see a change in the anti-LGBT platform for which the GOP is known.
They wrote in a message to the GOP,
"When children are dying because of negative messages, it's time to change the message. Planting Peace calls for the immediate change in the Republican Party platform with regard to our LGBT family and LGBT rights. Never again shall a negative, hateful message be uttered in the name of 'religious freedom.'"
In a strong gesture to spread a positive message against homophobia, the image on the Cleveland billboard recalls the viral street art image of Trump kissing Vladimir Putin in Lithuania.
The message from Planting Peace is a powerful one against the Republican Party, considering Trump has chosen the notoriously anti-gay campaigner Mike Pence as his vice president.
Photo credit: Twitter, @RevSistahGirl


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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Gun Shop Owners With Backing Of Former County Sheriff Come Up Short
Feb. 29, 2012 | Residents in Ashland were just 54 feet from having a gun and ammunition shop approved for their area. The Alameda County Board of Supervisors Tuesday overturned a ruling last December by a local zoning board that would have allowed Valley Guns & Ammo to move into the unincorporeated area.
The board cited county surveyors who measured the distance between the proposed gun shop was within the the 500 feet accepted boundary from a residential zoning district. Despite the measurement, the West County Board of Zoning and Adjustments approved the plan late last year. The nearby San Lorenzo Village Homeowners Association quickly appealed the decision.
Three Central Valley businessmen had planned to open the shop at 488 Lewelling Boulevard near Hesperian Boulevard. They came to the board Tuesday afternoon armed with the support of local law enforcement, including testimony from former Alameda County Sheriff Charlie Plummer.
Steve Nobriga, one of the prospective owners, told the board his business has the support of over 200 active and retire police officers. "I'm frustrated," he said. "I think it's good thing for us and the community."
William Burns, an attorney for Valley Guns & Ammo, said without the shop, "people will resort to transferring firearms at garage sells and flea markets."
Art Wydler, the president of the San Lorenzo Village Homeowners Association, said the group had no intention of blocking the gun business from the area if it met all zoning requirements, but that wasn't the case, he said. "It does not meet the 500 feet rule," Wydler said. "Our objection is the county granting a variance based on a decision we don't believe are legitimate reasons."
Wydler also charged the zoning board with focusing too narrowly on glowing testimony, by Plummer and others, for the character of the prospective owners over the county's own measurements. "Its up to the the board of supervisors to listen to your own staff or someone with outside influences," said Wydler.
Aside from bureaucratic talk of zoning and measurements, the issue also elicited pointed concern by local residents who fear more guns in their neighborhoods. "Why a gun shop? Why not something else?" asked Roy Terry, a youth advocate working in the area.
"I don't like the idea of people buying guns and driving around my community," added a San Lorenzo resident.
Lamont Thompson, another youth advocate, questioned the local roots of the prospective owners and wonders what message it conveys to young people when a gun shop and medical marijuana dispensary could be located between two high schools.
"Most of the people that came up in favor of the gun store don't even live in this community," said Thompson. "If we're complaining about our society and we have a gun store and a weed shop down the street, what does that say? Take that business somewhere else because we've got out own problems and we don't need no gun store adding to the problem."
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- AnonymousFebruary 29, 2012 at 9:53 PM
You are such a retarded Portagee son of bitch. You complain about gun shops, but don't say jack shit about the pot clubs. Go screw yourself you asshole. Ever hear of the 2nd Amendment? It doesn't guarantee some loser the right to smoke a joint.ReplyDelete
You equally sad Azorean half-breed. I didn't say anything about guns or pot or you living at home with your parents. The guy said it and there were more people at that meeting saying things to the same effect than wanting a gun shop in Ashland.ReplyDelete
In the meantime, I have a bag of malasadas right here for you. Don't mind that they're filled with tacks.
- AnonymousMarch 1, 2012 at 7:57 PM
i live in san lorenzo and was waiting for the shop to open so i could buy a gun. there are lots of gun owners living in san lorenzo. my nieghbor said he has 12 pistols and goes target shooting all the time. guns are not the problem people are the problem. we need protection from these bad people. my friend just 2 days ago had two guys climb in her bathroom window and rob the house while she hid in her bedroom. if she had a gun she would have shot them or at least chased them away. legal guns are great. you have to be checked out before you buy them. the bad people can buy them on the streets.ReplyDelete
Dam missed the meeting, was on my way to the GOP Convention to apprehend a fugitive. Ask your self this question? Would you put a sign in front of your Home "this home is a gun free home."ReplyDelete
I ask all activists & Legislatures that believe the guns are the problem to spend an hour with a range master and learn. All it is is education and we seem to stress education here so much lets educate.


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In today's podcast, we get a tantalizing taste of words in the wild, from the jungles to the prairie.
Reporter Ari Daniel Shapiro tells us about Klaus Zuberbuhler's work in the Tai Forest of West Africa. When Klaus first came to the forest, he hit a wall of sound. But he slowly started making sense of that sonic chaos by scaring a particular monkey called the Diana Monkey. Turns out, the Diana Monkey is making more than just noise. Then we jump from the jungle to the prairie, where Con Slobodchikoff has discovered what he calls a grammar of color, shapes, and sizes embedded in prairie dog chirps. His discovery leaves Jad and Robert wondering whether we could ever understand the language of a different species. Back in the jungle, Klaus is wondering the same thing, and tells us about one day when the cacophony of monkey calls distilled into a life-saving warning.
I was just thinking, what if the leopard knew the monkey word for leopard? That would explain why when he heard a bunch of recordings yelling "leopard!" he came running: to defend his territory. I mean it would be cool if we could prove cross species communication, right?
woooowwwwwwwwww so cool
hahahahahaaha jk hahahahahahhaha
u fell for it
Is there any possibility that the monkeys weren't announcing the presence of a leopard, but actually telling other monkeys that there was a predator on the ground (as opposed to in the air like the eagle)? That predator was the man. So not that Klaus became the 11th primate in the forest but actually a new form of predator/danger that needed to be "announced".
I am a sound researcher and develop experiences at the intersection of resonance and reverberation for people. This for me was a profound segment and especially at the end when Klaus had his experience of being part of and embedded in the whole situation.
This topic needs an hour!
This makes you wonder if, like so many other things that were once thought to be a unique human invention, language is actually something that gradually evolved through countless different species.
We love to try and pinpoint one thing that separates humans from animals, when in reality it seems there are a large number of things that distinguish us, but they are different in degree, rather than in kind.
I think the monkeys were making the alert call for leopard to scare the man and to get back at him for blaring predator animal noises at them!
Prarie Dogs aren't "rodent-like animals"; they are rodents!
Disagree with those that think that the monkeys were calling "danger on the ground" when the researcher was passing. If so, why didn't they call it when he was walking through the forest at any other time?
as far as monkey ruckus and bird whacky, they help guide you as long as you look out for the BIG ASS SNAKE that they are all talking about.
How could that professor *know* that the animals were referring to yellow/blue/big/small? I am a bit disappointed because you guys normally are very quick at picking up such things. (love your podcasts anyway!!)
Just listened to this today, and have been wondering about the social chatter between prairie dogs. Have concluded that they are FourSquare checkins.
While that podcast was interesting, it was relatively shallow. The realm of animal communication supercedes variegated alarm calls. Any natural ecosystem is packed with thousands of different calls and signals that are means of communication. For example, if you go to Central Park during the Spring and you will hear dozens of species of birds making mating calls, territorial calls, locational calls, warning calls etc. Notice that if you walk into a forest - everything becomes completely silent at worst or filled with sharp bird calls at best. Bird language is only one other form of animal communication but it does not only function within the species of birds in the area. Local prey (deer, rabbits, groundhog etc.) and predators (foxes and coyotes) use the language of the birds to navigate safely through their environments. Animal language is essential to survival in any natural ecosystem and this podcast would be more valuable in my opinion if it addressed the timelessness and evolutionary aspects of animal language.
BRILLIANT! :) Thanks guys! That was seriously awesome!
brilliant show here, some of it seems like you talking out your arses, but this segment was highly entertaining!
good for you radiolabsters
I greatly enjoyed this show. I'd love to see a follow up on the people of places like the Tai Forest and their understanding of the language of the animals. I am guessing that cultures that live among animals like the monkeys of the Tai Forest understand the language since it would help them out so much.
Would you like some whine with those "chee"s?
I thought that it was fascinating that animals can communicate using specific diolouge and that humans can understand and interact with them through a set language
It surprised me that Jad and Rob couldn't hear the difference between the prairie dogs' chirps, since they sounded different to me. Of course, it helped that the three calls were played side by side. If I were really in the wild, the sounds would be more diverse and I probably wouldn't have noticed any difference.
Still, this makes me think that distinguishing between animal calls is easier than we thought. You only need somebody who's good at hearing differences in sounds, like a musician, or even a young child who's just learning to speak.
One of my new favorite episodes! The story of the scientist being tracked by the jungle cat gave me goose bumps. Thanks for another fantastic show!
Next time you are in Boston, go to the Museum of Science & to the exhibit in the basement called A Bird's World. Here's what you can learn: "Birds naturally detect predators. Their sounds and movements indicate hidden predators lurking around them all the time. Here, you can learn how to interpret the bird language you hear being chirped just outside your window at home." This isn't exactly a new exhibit. However, anyone interested in having the experience of trying to understand the sounds of animals in the woods would probably enjoy a visit to this exhibit.
I knew it, I KNEW IT!
Dr. Doolittle was right after all.
For all those of you who are acting all "Ho hum, big deal, I knew it all along," well, fyi, scientists (and just about everyone else) have been denying that animals can communicate and have feelings, memories & thoughts as long as I can remember - which is a heck of a long time - so personally, I am totally thrilled to realize some of them (scientists) have come so far. And this is a step in educating the general public. Bravo! We've got so much to learn...
Take the case of Alex the Parrot. It is clear that some animals can acquire language skills and even coin new words and phrases. I suppose it wouldn't be too outrageous to claim that they have a similar system in use.
A very interesting episode. But I'm curious as to why anyone would be surprised that animals have working communications/vocabulary and that different species would understand each others calls. It seems like casual observation and a little bit of thinking would make it obvious that animals have to communicate about their world and that all the different species around them would be well aware of warning calls from anyother group.
What a fascinating report! Thank you for sharing it with us.
I have three prairie dogs and they are fascinating. Their language - unbelievable. Really.
When the researcher was listiening to the monkeys track the leopard following him, it totally reminded me of the adventrues of Jim Corbett hunting leopeards in India. Extremely cool book: "Man-Eating Leopard of Rudrapranag" by Jim Corbett
When I was listening to that episode, my cat started freaking out when they played the monkey alert noise. Maybe he can understand them too!
This podcast blew my mind this morning. It was like having one of my biggest childhood fantasy affirmed. I grew up in tennessee and spent a ton of time visiting my grand parents alone on thier farm. I was just a kid alone with his imagination and some horses, pigs and cows (chickens are jerks so I avoided them). I am on the train this morning and I almost cried. Animals can talk . . . kinda . . . or at least they might. Keep up the good work guys. You continue to make me look at our world with wonder & awe.
This podcast episode absolutely blew me away. Very very cool!
An interesting and related article has been published on the BBC's website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9149000/9149950.stm
This is the best podcast I have ever heard, period. Thank you so much!!!
Well, you've done it again! I always download this show thinking I'll get to hear some nice little scientific factoids, and I'm always forced to re-evaluate the way I look at the world and be a little bit more thoughtful of the beings that I share the planet with. Thanks a lot guys! Way to be the nerdy TAL! x(
For a while now I've wondered if animals' languages are universal. For instance, if you move to another region or country with your cat, will it understand meows of cats native to that area? I've tried Googling this question before to no avail.
This was an amazing clip! I would love to hear a follow up with a speaker named Jon Young, he has spent most of his life deciphering the language of birds (look up advanced bird language CD's). I would also agree with Tatiana that the people of the Tai forest must have known this. There are even older books such as "Jungle Lore" by Jim Corbett who talk about this phenomenon. I am glad the scientist are catching up!
Interesting and compelling, as always. I was right there with the scientist tuning in with the wild and becoming a primate. But it left me feeling really sad, because you guys framed it as though it was a revolutionary leap to make - to tune in to the sounds and their meanings. I would bet my left foot that the people native to the Tai forest already knew what that scientist learned, and that they'd shrug and rattle off eleven or a hundred other obvious-to-them cues from the jungle that let them know what's happening. It's just common sense that if you live in an environment you learn its languages.
I agree with Andrew Tyra.
Also, if folks are more interested in exploring what Henry Beston called "other nations" please read the book When Elephants Weep. it is an excellent look at animals and their similarities to us.
also, there is a great TED talk out on bonobo communication... google it.
this was a great piece, thanks radiolab!
I agree that it's possible that something got lost in translation or the message was misinterpreted but it seems that Zuberbuhler's experience was such that he would be able to differentiate those distinct types of calls. It seems likely that the researchers were accustomed to hearing the call that meant 'human' as they heard it daily. The call for 'leopard' however, was "rare" and "striking." If the calls were more general ("danger on the ground!"), then it would seem that there would be little distinction between the various types of calls.
Matt's comment echoes exactly what occurred to me while listening to that segment. I think the monkeys were associating him with the sound of the leopard, and therefore warning each other (and everyone else) that he was nearby. It just sounded to him like they were calling "LEOPARD!"
Communication among animals isn't "language"--at least not necessarily. Language requires discrete combinatoriality among the elements that compose an utterance. Simply having an alarm call that other conspecifics interpret *as if* it's a word does not make it a word. Anyone claiming they've found "animal language" needs to read this article first: Kako, E. (1999). "Elements of syntax in the systems of three language-trained animals". Animal Learning & Behavior 27: 1–14.
Who's to say that the chimp call means "leopard" specifically? It could just as well mean "danger on the ground". I think that researcher's experience makes a good story, but odds are HE was the danger to which the chimps were alerting eachother.
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