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BY CLI MoCA. I /ES^^ANGSTON " Avnvtt^iT'TT^ ^ ----^ _
_--?--A M DijjRSON, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. O??TOI?KI? ia iuor V - :
IF you would know the latest fads in Neck
wear, visit us. They are all on show
here. The predominating feature non
cern? the Silks-scarcely anything hut
Stripes. Stripes of all widths and run
ning in every direction. All the various
shaped Scarfs are smaller than formerly
hide less of the shirt bosom. New lines
just in. Prices 25c. and 50c.
You want a Stylish Hat, of course. You want
want one that' will not wear "rusty" if
sometimes it doesn't get in out of the wet
soon enough. That takes quality. You
don't want every little dent in your Derby
to leave a mark. The right kind of Hat
will spring back, in shape. That takes
quality, too. Our Hats are, full of these
good qualities. Prices from 25c. up to
$2.75, and at every price between. A few
of those 93c. Hats, that were $1.25, still
Remember, we sell for Cash, and Cash only ; but we save
cu money on every purchase.
D [\ Cl/<S?C % rv.
I), lr. L> T and a LU,
rvVar with Spain ?
Johnnie, Get Your? Gun !
Looks like Uncle Sam expects to have a fight, and England wants to be
b big side and help us. Just so in tbe me?cauti!e world. Competitors
?what a hustling business
und try to fall in line by imitating, but they can't keep pace with
[Ii PRICES. We are selling Qoods ?or less than a great many merchants
for theirs. Our trade is impioving daily. People are learning that we
|k ti? what wc say.
it lively, and keeps us busy. When you want
?have I hem ?nd prices to suit you. Too much cheaper than anybody else
?lk about ir. Just arriving a big line of Lndie?' Oxfords, all styles and
Re sure and see us on Shoes. Money laved , fdr you. We have a
ndid line ?f
Percales. Dimities, White Goods, Ste.
fand see them. Extremely low prices will make you buy.
Ladies* and ChiluWs HOSE I Oe. Hose for 5c. pair. PLAID
RSTED3 worth 12Jc. for 4 i c. yard.
Always (eel at home with us. We are always glad to sec vou.
?te Pencils, 5 liead Pencils, 25 Envelopes, 25 Nf-dles, Man's Collar,
er Ring. Tablet Writing Paper, 200 Matches, Thimble, 24 Sheets Note
fr-am! thousands of other useful articles. Come and trade at
?ave a choice Sud ?elect Stock of
r'AMILY and FANCY GROCERIES, .
,Dg of almost everything you may need to eat. Our Goods are fresh,
P?gbt for cash, and will be sold as low as the lowest. Please give me
clerc purchasing your Groceries.
inking all for pa;* favors anil soliciting a continuance of the eame
We are yours to please,
hawson D. Melton has been up
pointed United States Marshal.
- It is predicted that ex-Senator
Irby and ex-Governor Kvans will go ?
to thc Legislature from their respec- j
tive counties at the next election.
- Col. \V. ll. Robertson, colored,
of Charleston, has tendered Adjutant
J.Gary Watts the services of eight
thousand able-bodied colored troops
for service in case of war with .Spain.
- By order of thc managers thc
Horse Traders' Association will meet
at Central, S. C., on every Saturday
in each month. Pc there if you want
to trade, swap or give away.-Picken*
- Kev. .John <i. Williams, of Barn
well, one of thc best known Baptist
ministers in the State, has been
stricken with paralysis in one side
and in his face, and is in a critical
- There is a farmer in Inion
county, and a good farmer, too, who
has never used matches or kerosene
oil. He reads by the traditional pine
knot and ' carries" fire from Christ
mas to Christmas.
- Thc Prohibition executive eom
mittee of this State has called a State
convention to meet in Columbia April
14th, 1898, to nominate a State ticket.
The county conventions are called to
meet on April 4th.
- Dispenser Harrison, at liruuson
S. C., has been found short ?700 in
his accounts, due to "criminal care
lessness." Sutdi crooked careless
ness should be straightened out by
thc strong arm of the law.
- Wednesday night a freight train
on the Southern road passed through
Greenville carrying four huge coast
defence guns. The guns were about
15 feet long and were on two flat cars.
They were bound for <?a'.veston Tex.
- Messrs. George Summers and
George Williams, of Augusta, and
Charlie and Francis Fishbourne, of
Columbia, are preparing to start in a
few days for Omaha, Nebraska, in
tending to make the entire distance
on their wheels, a cross country jaunt
of 1.100 miles.
- Clemson College bas money to
burn. Thc treasurer has received
$50,000 this season from the fertilizer
tag lax. At the meeting of the trus
tees recently it was decided to appro
priate $12,500 of their surplus to the
erection of a textile mill. Work will
begin on the building at an early day.
- Late Monday night Charles
Anderson, colored, was waylaid and
robbed on Gadsden street near Sydney
Par1:, in Columbia. He was knocked
down by a blow 'rom behind, his
hands and feet tied, and a rope tied
around his neck. He was robbed of
$11.15, which belonged to a church
society, of which he was treasurer.
- The State Board of Control last
week purchased the Robertson ware
house near thc Union Depot in Co
lumbia for $13,000. They will make
repairs and move the State dispensary
stock into it as soon as possible. Thc
State will save much by this purchase
in the way of rents and drayagc. All
loading and unloading of cars will bc
done from the platforms of the ware
house, thus saving the frequent hand
ling of goods.
- A beautiful sight was seen in the
streets yesterday. Two old Confede
rate veterans who in 1801 marched out
under the leadership of Col. Joseph
Walker, of the then new Confederate
army on the coast, met in thc public
square for the first time since they
were on the eoast, ft period of 37 years.
One remained in Holcomb Legion, the
other transferring to Hampton Legion.
Their swapping of anecdotes and ex
periences was interesting and touching
and some of their conversation would
make good reading matter.-Spartan
burg Herald.
- Under the new law regarding
supervisors of registration, a question
has arisen in some of the counties
which ia also of interest to all thc
others. It is as to what length ol
time thc former boards of supervisor
get paid for, and when thc pay of thc
new boards commence. Comptrollci
General Derham, who has received i
number of inquiries along this linc
takes thc position that the tenure ol
office of the old boards expired thc
first of the year, that being the begin
ning of the fiscal as well as the calen
dar year. Consequently, he says
j they get no pay for scrvioes renderec
; in 1898 unless they are able to obtaic
j remuneration from thc boards josi
coming in. In some counties thc
personnel of the boards is practical)}
j unchanged and in such, counties i
j will not be difficult to arrange tin
; matter.
--o- * -
- The claim is made that May Elroy
of Junction City, Kan., In the heavies
j girl of her age in the world. Sbe in onl.-i
I 0 years old, and weighs 2S9 pounds. .Sui
j is five feet, nine Inches tali, *?d measure
i live feet nround the waist. H jr mothe
j weighs ICS pounds.
Ile Elect ri Iles nu Audience of Two
Special to thc Stute.
.DUE WEST, March 11.-Borrowing
thc words of President Grier, pf Krs
kine College, ' This is Biyan Day at
Due West." Never before has this
j little town, nestling in thc hills of
? the Piedmont, been in such a flurry of
? excitement as it has been all day.
j Every one you meet is nervous and
noisy. It' the temperate character of
; thc placo wme not so well known one
j would not hesitate to make affidavit
I before a magistrate that all were in
: cbriatcd. As thc town is situated on
i the "straight and narrow road to
; heaven." according to Senator Mc
! Laurin, one is forced tn look for
. another cause ol' the excitement. The
display of bunting and flags .shows
that the town is cn fete and the num
erous pictures of William J. Bryan
give the clue to the mystery, lt is
his expected arrival that has setevcry
thing topsy-turvy and causes even the
sleepy waiter at the hotel here to
treat you with more than his usual
But, speaking seriously. Due West's
excitement was pardonable. She had
by persistent effort got thc incompara
ble leader of the Democratic party to
speak there when larger towns in the
State might have, had they shown
only one-half her zeal. For two hours
tViey listened to the cause of bimetal
ism championed by a man -whose
reputation as an orator is world-wide.
It was a great day for Due West and a
memorable one to those who went
Thc Hon. William Jennings Bryan
from his brief citizenship in many
States has necessarily come to bc a
cosmopolitan. He has learned the
value of the adage, "when iu Borne
do as Borne does." He showqd this
in his first speech which he made in
South Carolina. It was at Greenwood
this morning. He was speaking to
4.000 people whose church-like
silence was in striking contrast to the
noisy acclaims which had greeted him
as he made his way from the train to
the stand on the public so narr- Ti._?
was illustrating a point by one of
those apt anecdotes with which his
speeches abound. It was an old story,
but it took on fresh interest when told
hy him. It was about a medical stu
dent who stood an examination while
in an enebriate condition. "The stu
dent went into a saloon, oras I should
say. into a dispensary," said Mr.
Bryan. An outburst of laughter
greeted this reference to South Caro
lina's peculiar liquor law. A raising
of his hand restored silence so sud
denly that it was startling. He then
finished the anecdote, which better
conveyed his meaning than would an
hour's dissertation by some learned
Were I asked what most impressed
me in Mr. Bryan's speech at Green
wood I should unhesitatingly answer
the striking epigrams. They were
doubly distilled truths worded so that
one could not forget them. They
stuck to the memory like burrs to a
sheep's wc 1.
What, for instance, could better il
lustrate the policy of thc party in
power thau this: "The Republicans
are treating the people for overloaded
stomachs when hunger is the matter;"
or this: "The dollars arc getting fat
and the people thin."
lt weald bc folly to attempt to re
produce Mr. Bryan's speech. It
would lose much served out in cold
type. Only when heard in the full,
resonant voice of Mr. Bryan is one
able to assimilate the facts which he
lets fall in every sentence.
The subject was free silver. A dry.
subject at best, and one under which
an audience soon grows restive. Not
so with the good folk from and about
Greenwood. They were there to hear
and they listened. Not a word es
caped them. Cheers frequentlj* in
terrupted the speaker. A mention of
16 to 1 brought forth a fervent
"amen!'' from an old fellow, and the
crowd yelled.
Thc 15 minutes were soon up. It
seemed but as many seconds. There
were clamors of "More, more." A
firm no and that magic raising of thc
hand and the crowd lapsed into si
From the stand Mr. Bryan walked
to thc door of the depot waiting room.
His course through thc throng conld
bc marked as the wake of a ship at
sea. Standing in the doorway of the
depot Mr. Bryan held an informal re
ception. A stream of men and wo
men passed by aud each one was
given a warm grasp of the hand. Ten
minutes of this and the leader of the
free silver hosts was on the rear plat
form, hat in hand, bowing his faro
well td tho cheer?n.u people.
Mr. Bryan went from Greenwood t<>
Dounalds on thc special train which
carno up from Columbia.
Senator McLaurin, who ?crved for
two term? in thc House with Mr. livy- :
an. introduced to him Governor Kller
bc and thc Columbia contingent cou
sistine of Col. \V. A. Neal. Col. Knox
Livingston, Jl. B. Cooper, J. 1?. Ila
/.olden, Louis Appclt, M. A. Malone
ami others. Ile talked pleasantly to
these and other gentlemen.
On thc run t<> Donnalds I attempted
to interview him.
"'What effect w?>ul? a war with
Spain have on the next . lection'.'" I
"I cannot discuss hypothetical
nuestions," he answered. "I would
bc a fool to do so/'
All further efforts to get him te talk
failed. He could not bc " drawn out'
for he knows every "trick of tin
When regrets were expressed ti? him
that he could not speak in a more cen
tral place, such as Columbia, he an
'"Yes, I should like to speak to as
many people in this State as possible,
hut 1 was not invited to Columbia. I,
of course, could not write to anyone
there proposing such a thing. lie
sides," he added. "I have been cor
responding with the people ut Due
West for some time. They had in
vited me to speak there in .June, hut
after getting in thc South I fourni it
would suit mc helter now. so arrange
ments for to-day were made."'
Donnalds, which is four tidies from
Due West was reached half an hour
late. The people had congregated at
the depot. * "There he is," yelled an
excited man. as Mr. Bryan stepped
from the train, and a mighty shout
rent thc air.
"1 would have known him anywhere
from his resemblance to his picture,''
remarked an oin lady who was staring
at him through her steel-bowed spec
tacles from a point of vantage on the
depot platform.
Thc other people were satisfied to
gaze in open-eyed wonder aud admira
tion at thc man who three years hence
may bc the next President of these
United States.
A carriage decorated with hunting
and United States flags and drawn by
two handsome black horses awaited
Mr. Bryan. He was escorted to it bj
Congressman Latimer. Senator lie
Laurin and Governor Kllcrlc occu
pied the other two seats. Thc starl
was made and carriages and wagoo;
fell in behind and formed a proc?s
On thc outskirts of thc town tht
party was met by a cavalcade of !>(
horsemen, wearing blue sashes anc
carrying small United States flags
At the head rode Dr." Widern an, who
in a cocked hat with a black plume
and a drawn sword in Land, lookec
something like a knight errant. Tht
cavalcade formed an advance guard.
An Dm- West was neared the horse
men set up a terrific cheering whicl
was answered by echoing shouts fron
the townsfolk. The carriage in whicl
Mr. Bryan was riding had its toj
raised but he had tho driver to lowe
it that, he might be seen by all.
The first group to greet the forme:
presidential candidate were the youni
women of thc Female College. The.i
were lined up. a miniature flag in eacl
hat. and chanted a rhyme, the oui:
distinguishable word of which w=:
Bryan. Due West is not a larg?
place, but eTcry citizen, woman aiu
child, were oat to do "honor to the dis
tinguished guest.
Mr. Bryan and Governor Kllcrbi
were driven to the home of Professo
Pressley, where they were entertained
Senator McLaurin was a guest of Mr
Galloway. Visitors from other sec
tiens sought accommodations at tin
Due to the delayed traiu und ollie
causes tho exercises did not begin fo
an hour and a half af ter the appointa
time. To pay thc expenses inciden
to getting Mr. Bryan thc committct
on arrangements had fixed a fee o
admission of f>0 cents to tkc col legi
chapel, where thc speaking was totak<
place. Thc exercises were to begin a
3 o'clock. Before that time thc larg<
chapel began to fill with people. A!
the seats were taken by the appointe!
hour. There wus nothing to do but ti
wait. The 2,000 or more persons win
filled the chapel displayed remarkabh
With no hand nor speakers to kee]
them in a good humor they waite?
without a word of complaint. Ahou
4 o'clock distinguished visitors bcgai
to arrive and occupy the reserved seat
on thc rostrum. The appearance o
Senator McLaurin with several Con
grcssmen brought forth a demonstra
tion. Notables kept arriving un ti
nearly all tho chairs were taken. Th
fellowing were those occupying seats
on the rostrum . Senator and Mrs. Mc
laurin. Congressman and Mrs. Lent'/,
ol Ohio Congressman and Mrs.
Shorewaiter, of Pennsylvania Con
gressman Norton, td' South Carolina
Speaker Trank U. ti.iry. ol' t!i< House
ol Kepresootatives: Mrs. 15 II. Till
man and daughter. J. A. ?Johnson, ol'
Washington: President Hart/.og. cf
Clemson College; Cel. \Y. A. Neal.
Col. Knox Livingston, Capt. and Mrs.
A. 15. Byrd, d' Belton: Messrs.
Cooper. Hn/clden and Appell.
"Cuelo George P. Tillman was one
i of the last to arrive. As soon as the
'andiene,' caught sight of him they
hurst into yells. Without heeding
?the applause ho -upped forward and
'kissed Mrs. P. ?. Tillman. This
brought I'-ot h aniilher volley of cheers.
lt was 1.1.") o'clock when Mr. Bryan
accompanied by (iovernor Ellerbc.
! Congressman batiincr and President
Mirier, of Erskine College, came upon
i the rostrum fruin a rear dour. His
? appearance was the signal for a splen
did ovation. Every one of thc'J,DUO
or more persons in thc hall took a long
breath and then emitted it in a burst
of jrcllis and cheers. Time and again
they gave vent to their feelings.
President Grier stood rapping vig
! orously on thc floor with his cane. Ho
J rapped patiently until his call to or
der was heard and heeded. 'This i>
: Bryan's day in Erskine College,'' was
his first announcement. This set tlx
awdien...-..' wild again, but they stoppet)
? to hear what was (.? follow. Then
1 were many familiar faces herc, lu
' said, but among them ho noted severa!
; distinguished visitors who had left
i their duties to pay tribute to "a mar
I whoso name and fame grows brightei
by public inspection."
? He then announced lin t a short ia
! troductory speech would bo made hy
i <?nc who hud received thc highes)
honor in the gift of the people: a fear
less, honest and conscientious man
Governor Ellerbc.
Gov. Ellerbc said though thousand!
of miles from his home, thc distill
guished visitor needed no introduc
lion, for his name was already !
household word throughout the State
The fearless fight of Mr. Bryan t<
emancipate thc people hud won tin
admiration of all, but none more thai
South Carolinians. After coutinuint
j along this line for sonic time, Gov
J ernor Ellcrbe introduced Mr. Bryan
The audience broke into cheers a
the mention of Mr. Bryan's na nc. A
he came forward thc applause was re
doubled. Then un example of th
wonderful magnetism of thc man
which has been noted so frequentl;
before, occurred. It seemed as i
nothing could stop the yelling crowd
yet the mere raising of his bani
hushed all.
Mr. Bryan explained at the oiitse
I of his speech why 1" ?? . 1 "re now in
I stead of dunc. I anya gla
j to speak to student.-, ho said, for h
? was one who believed that student
I exerted mon* than the average influ
! once in this country. After s peak in
j of how this influence could be use
: for the benefit of all, Mr. I ?ryan sai
I that the first desire nf a young ma
j should bc to be right, if a niau wer
right he should not force hi* ideas o
any cue against their will, for trut
from however low a source would pr?
The underlying principle, the four
dation of our government, said he, i
the declaration that all men arc ?qua
j The same, he said, was true of our rt
ligion. This fundamental principle
he thought, should be applied to a!
questions, lie illustrated by adaptin
it to taxation. From this he applie
! his fundamental rule to thc morie
question and showed how our presen
system kept all men from being cquai
Mr. Bryan thsn went into an cs
j haustive discussion of the silver quat
i tion. His speech lasted two hours
i lt was so clear that one could not bu
follow him with pleasure. Thc eli
j max was reached when with clenche
hand thrust suddenly above !.is head
[ his body leaning forward, he es
; claimed: "'I don't claim to be mor
patriotic than any one else, but, in
j friends, 1 am opposed lo allowing
. handful of financiers of England t
1 meet behind closed doors and. pledg
I ing themselves to scerccy, shape th
destiny of 70,000,000 of free people.
The crTe?t wa.- electrical. H
; seemed even then to hold thc final
, oiers in his clenched hand and abou
to burl them from the people. Th
repeated use of the word "cheers
: could not occur moro frequently in th
published speech of some modest Cot
gressman for circulation among hi
j constituents than it does in this r<
port, but the cases arc quite difieren
I lu thc former instance the Congres:
man sits down and marks in cheer
where he thinks it should appea
here the people were carried away k
. the eloquence of the orator and pi
thc cheers in tit frequent interval.-?
Mr. Bryan's speech here, as at
Greenwood, abounded with epigram*.
"A dollar which rises in purchasing
power is just as dishonest as a dollar
that fall- in. purchasing power." he
saiii. *'A gold dollar is a balloon dol
lar! said he, "because it ri?cs he
youd til?' reach pf tin- people and is
hard to seo.'
When, Mr Bryan eoueludcd, Sena
tor McLaurin was called on. Ho
made a very brief speech."
t hie of the most pleasing incidents
of thc day was the presentation of a
mammoth bunch of calla lillies to Mr.
Bryan hy the senior class of hue
West l'ema!,' College; Misses Brock,
Bunn and Galloway, tile committee to
make lin- presentation, appeared lie
fore the rostrum. Congressman Lori tr.
acted as spokesman oil their behalf.
Ile made appropriate remarks lo thc
occasion and handed the lilies to Mr.
Mr. Bryan aptly remarked in return
ing thanks that the Howers selected
combined the white and yellow in the
ratio of Bi to 1.
The people swarmed up on the r<>s
truiu to get an opportunity to shake
hands. This lasted for some time.
Mr. Bryan and the Congressional
party were entertained to-night by the
faculty ol' the College. The Congress
men spoke to the voting ladies of the
Mr. Bryan ?eave- this morning for
Athens, Gu., and tho Congressional
party returns t?> Washington.
Many more people would have at
tended the speaking from adjacent
towns had they uot feared that they
would he unable to gel transportation
from Hominids to hue West. As it
was evcr\ farmer hitched up hi*
teams and hundreds could have been
carried easily.
Will (iront Britain Oller l s Ber Neel !
LONDON. March 1?J.-Mr. Ronald
Munroe Ferguson, Liberal, asked the
parliamentary secretary for the for
eign ollice, Mr. Curzon, in the House
of ('ominous to-day, whether there ia
any truth in the reports that commu
nications on thc Cuban question have
been exchanged between the British
ambassador at Washington, Sir Julian
I'aunccfnte, and the government of
the United States.
Mr. Curzon said that no commuui
cations had been exchanged.
Hon. Hubert Valentine Duncombe,
Conservative, gave notice that he
would ask Mr. Curzon whether, with
the view of recognizing the identity of
the interests of all Knglish-spcaking
peoples her majesty's government will
consider the advisability of placing
thc services of thc British fleet ut the
disposal of the United Slati'-s, tn the
event of complications between the
United States and any foreign power.
The question, however, was not put.
Relative to thc withdrawal of his
question, Mr. Duncombe said: "Af
ter consultation with my friends. L
decided that the exact form of thc
question made it inopportune to put
it. lt was framed owing to the wide
ly held opinion in the House of Com
mons that it is high time tko foreign
powers should he told in unmistaka
ble terms that, any blow struck at
either great Britain or the United
States was equally a blow ut the.
other. I was profoundly couviuced of
this to-day. Many more members
than I supposed would do so came to
me in order to say they heartily en
dorsed my question. I am convinced
the government would have desired to
answer my proposed question affirma
tively and would have done so had it
not involved other considerations, be
sides expressing what I believe the
present government sincerely holds
that in the face of foreign complica
tions the interests in thc future of
Great Britain and thc United States
are inseparably intertwined. To
days expression and endorsement we
wili eventuate so soon as wc can
frame the question in the exact terms
which clearly express thc feeling of
the House of Commons-that any
trouble threatening the United States
will bc shared by Great Britain."
Other members of the Rouse o'
('Ominous who were interviewed ot?,
the same subject all spoke in a simi
lar strain.
The New York correspondent of the
Da il y Telegraph says:
* 1 have it on thc highest, authority
that, a triple alliance between Great
Britain, the United State? and Japan
i? pending."
.m . tm
t. 1). Tillman in to a Finish.
A ix JU STA, March ll).-There was a
rumor here to-day to the effect that
Col. Geo. D. Tillman had changed his
mind, and would not be a candidate
for Governor of South Carolina. Mr.
Tillman was seen to-night on the sub
ject and said : "I am astonished at
such a report. Whatever fault or
failings I may have, fickleness is not
one of them. I am in the race to the
finish, and I entertain no doubt of my
election."-Special lo ?Vete* nial 6\?w
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Originally posted on The Fantasy Fix | Last updated 3/5/13
A sharp eye will reveal a possible sleeper heading into the 2013 MLB Season: Baltimore's Jake Arrieta. Looking at his peripherals, (8.0 K/9, 3.5 BB/9, 1.1 HR/9, 15% HR/FB, .330 BABIP, and 58% strand rate) it's easy to cast off Arrieta as another Ricky Nolasco. If someone wanted to make that argument, it would be tough to disagree since Arrieta has failed to reach his xFIP or xERA (FanGraphs and Baseball HQ metrics respectfully) in each of his past two seasons. However, Arrieta's loss of a starting gig last year seems to have come without merit. After looking through his Brooks Baseball player card, it is apparent that his trouble pitch right now seems to be his slider. Arrieta's slider had a HR/(FB+LD)% increase of 14% over last season, which is a big culprit for his HR troubles. In 2011, his BA/Slugging/Isolated Power/TAv – True Average slash on the slider was .217/.325/.108/.217! In 2012, that slash line was an incredibly ugly .273/.655/.382/.315!!! The seeds for improvement with Arrieta
PLAYERS: Jake Arrieta, Ricky Nolasco
TEAMS: Baltimore Orioles, Miami Marlins
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Involved are 25 after-school students from the district's farm skills and ag entrepreneur classes.
Since August, they've had a hand in the plans and designs of the two corn mazes located on three acres of the school farm, according to instructor Ryan Costa.
"I've already been through both corn mazes 12 times," said Marnea Acosta on Thursday.
The Manteca High student and East Union High's Jennifer Roberts were designated group leaders, respectively, of the farm skills and ag entrepreneurs classes.
They opened last week to sparse attendance.
Acosta and Roberts, however, are hoping to see a turnaround in the coming weeks.
"We did pretty well with our pumpkin sales," said Acosta.
The corn maze is designed specifically for youngsters age 10 and under – included is a scavenger hunt, with those kids finding all eight items in the maze earning a prize – and pumpkin patch are accessible via the district office complex parking lot at 2271 W. Louise Ave., and is open every Friday (1:30 p.m. through dusk) and Saturday (9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) for the exception of Halloween throughout this month.
Cost is $3 for youngsters age 2 and older. Those year-old and younger will be admitted free.
Pumpkins of all sizes along with decorative pieces such as wheat bundles, mini pumpkins and ornamental gourds are among the items available for sale.
Youngsters can also enjoy face painting along with arts and crafts, petting zoo, and pumpkin carving and tattooing.
Costa noted that students, for their efforts, are paid after all the bills are taken care up front, with a portion of the proceeds going to the MUST Foundation.
"We've been doing the corn maze here for the past four years," he said.
The corn maze will remain intact for AgVenture. The field trip for area third-grade students is scheduled for Nov. 4.
After that, the corn from the maze will be picked and hauled off by a local dairyman and used specifically for cattle feed, Costa said.
Next month, the farm project students will begin work on their vegetable subscription service, using the area of the school farm just east of the corn maze.
Other endeavors scheduled for the school year include the pheasant and rabbit tree projects.
For more information, call the district office at (209) 825-3200 or log on to the MUSD website, www.mantecausd.net.


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"[On Earth], man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars, and so on — while all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons."Many scientists, writers, and laypeople consider cetaceans (dolphins, whales, and porpoises) to be very intelligent almost, or even equally, as intelligent and self-aware as human beings. But we can't talk to them, so we can't be sure. This trope is for dolphins and whales that quite clearly demonstrate their human-level intelligence by talking to non-cetaceans, communicating via telepathy, using magic or technology, piloting spaceships, or other activities generally beyond merely-clever animals. Often, telekinesis is used to make up for dolphins' lack of hands to manipulate their environment. Sapient cetaceans may demonstrate obvious sentience because of genetic engineering or magical phlebotinum, or human-level intelligence and the skills to prove it may just be natural traits of cetaceans in the setting. For dolphins in particular, this may sometimes overlap with Friendly, Playful Dolphin, or Heroic Dolphin, or both, but not always. Compare Uplifted Animal, which often includes (and may artificially induce) this trope. Note that examples of Animal Talk, or stories taking place in a World of Funny Animals, don't count. Even then, however, whales and dolphins are likely to be portrayed as smarter on average than other species or as The Smart Guy in an ensemble cast.
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Anime and Manga
- Damekko_Dōbutsu has a sentient orca that cannot swim and uses a life preserver.
- In the 1960 Astro Boy a sentient race of dolphin people threaten war on humanity if they keep developing on their land.
- A well-known arc of Gundam X has the Mysterious Waif actually talk to dolphins, presumably with her Psychic Powers. The arc also includes a white dolphin, which seems to be psychic itself.
- The main heroes of Cyborg 009 named their ship 'The Dolphin'; in the manga, genetically and cybernetically enhanced dolphins were a pretty common enemy, used by Black Ghost as underwater scouts, soldiers, and assassins.
- Mars Daybreak showcases Poipoider, a dolphin who spends much of his time in a suit of power armor wielding heavy weapons.
- Zettai Karen Children has the appearance of Lieutenant Ikyuugo, a dolphin with precognitive powers, whom The Children affectionately call "old man".
- In Mahou Sensei Negima!, dolphin-men are one of the many denizens found in the Magic World. One of them works as a trucker who pilots an airship.
- The final episode of GunBuster shows an Orca amongst a ship's crew.
- Goku encounters such a dolphin during his second trip to the ocean in Dragon Ball while searching for Master Roshi.
- Digimon - Dolphmon possesses advanced intelligence, but its form of thought is too complex for a normal person to understand.
- The Five-Tails from Naruto
- "Seiketsu no Haguruma" had a literal blue-blooded Gadgeteer Genius prince (whose inventions were, unbeknownst to him, being used by his father to eradicate the remaining red-blooded refugees) possess a dolphin that was not only intelligent (if crabby) but could also fly in the air.
Comic Books
- The Sonic the Comic has some comic strips based on the Ecco the Dolphin series explicitly portray Ecco as a very clever and resourceful dolphin, even to the point of tricking a jellyfish and a polar bear into attacking each other instead of him, and of course involve him discussing subjects like alien invasions with other creatures and even talking crystals. See also the Ecco entry in the video game section.
- Alan Moore's The Ballad of Halo Jones has sapient Dolphins.
- 52 has a sapient space dolphin in Lobo's entourage.
- "The Forty Year Old Hippie" made an apparatus to talk with whales and used it on a Greenpeace-style mission...but only ended up antagonizing a whale with a 'survival of the fittest' attitude who resented the hippie's patronizing.
- In an Animal Man story set in 2029, the Green Lantern Corps has passed over human candidates and chosen a blue whale as the lantern for Earth's sector. He has a uniform, and his ring is a crest embedded in his belly.
- In mythology involving the Amazon River dolphin seems to portray them as similar to the The Fair Folk; they are said to shapeshift into beautiful people in order to seduce humans, whisk them away and can curse people with lifelong nightmares.
- In Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, an alien probe is sent to Earth to re-establish relations between an alien race and humpback whales. Seems they didn't know that in the meantime human civilization had risen and caused the extinction of humpbacks sometime before 2286. In the movie, it's left to the viewer's imagination what the whales and the probe are actually saying, but the novelization makes it more explicit. See Live-Action TV for other Trek examples.
- In Johnny Mnemonic, the protagonist spends most of the movie trying to find a way to get a whole lot of computer data out of his mind before the stress of having all that stuff in there fries his brain. Other people seem to only be able to come up with crude methods leading to his likely death, but he eventually does find someone who saves him - a genetically modified super-smart dolphin, originally created by the military for submarine warfare.
- In Sounding by Hank Searls, whales from different species hold philosophical discussions on what humans might be thinking. They conclude we only make sense to ourselves.
- The Dragonriders of Pern features sentient dolphins, who were genetically uplifted by the ancestors of the Pernese humans.
- In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, humans are actually only the third most intelligent creatures on Earth. The first is mice. But then, they are hyper-intelligent pan-dimensional beings who are actually running the Earth, which is a giant computer program, and the second is explicitly stated to be dolphins (who aren't in disguise and are still ahead of humans), and who knew about the impending destruction of Earth long before the humans themselves knew about it. The dolphins tried to warn them, but when the humans didn't understand, they left the planet quietly by their own means. Their last message is "so long and thanks for all the fish", and this all becomes important in the book So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish. At the end of it, it's all but stated outright that the Dolphins were responsible for restoring Earth.
- The movie even gave the dolphins a musical number as an opener, complete with a beautiful view of them shooting into the skies like rockets.
- Dinotopia - Although every creature in and around the island of Dinotopia is at least intelligent enough to communicate with humans, dolphins were the first to interact with humans.
- Star Trek Expanded Universe:
- The Diane Duane Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Dark Mirror involves an alien race that's essentially dolphins IN SPACE! (They're not related to the whales IN SPACE from Star Trek IV.) One dolphin is a supporting character, which held the rank of commander in Starfleet. At one point, Riker whistles a specific sequence of notes to get its attention, implying he can speak (or at least swear) in Dolphin.
- The Star Trek The Next Generation: Technical Manual notes that the Cetacean tanks on board contain the dolphin and whale navigational specialists. This is pretty much a shout out to Gunbuster, where cybernetically enhanced dolphins form the main navigational computer of the Eltreum.
- In Probe, a sort-of sequel novel to Star Trek IV, the Cetacean probe is traced back to its homeworld— inhabited by a race of super-dolphins. They had telekinetic powers, what the internal dialog of the Probe calls 'The Voice'. It is stated that they had range and power enough to protect their planet from invasion by a civilization strongly implied to be the Borg. They were not, however, able to prevent these would-be invaders from rendering their star unable to sustain life on their world, so they built ships and, like the humanoids that had dwelt on the land, fled from the known universe. (These humanoids are also implied to have fled from the Borg, but while there are indications they fled a threat and deliberately left false clues to their destination(s) as part of a system of prepared trapsnote , there are no specific descriptions of what the threat was.) Ultimately the Enterprise crew and a Romulan musician (as super-dolphins, the Probe-builders' language is musical in nature) team up to copy the telekinetic "Voice" via tractor beams and communicate with the Probe.
- Duane's Young Wizards book series also features Cetacean wizards (the Trek novel contains a Shout-Out to them). Of course, pretty much everyone and everything with more brains than a sponge has Wizarding potential in this setting.
- In David Brin's Uplift series, dolphins and chimpanzees were uplifted to human-level sapience, and have colonized other planets alongside their human patrons. Because dolphins evolved in a truly 3D environment they're crackerjack spaceship pilots.
- They were already rather intelligent before uplift, they and the larger whales sharing a unique way of thinking referred to as the "Whale Dream". And whale songs are treasured by many alien races.
- Brin's recent novel Existence features a "tribe" of dolphins who show unusual intelligence, catching fish using a net, having a language that they manage to teach to a humans, etc. It's eventually discovered that they were uplifted
- Larry Niven's Known Space 'verse establishes that dolphins were recognized as sapient beings in the late 20th century. Not long after they sue us for our whaling practices in a suit that literally takes hundreds of years to get through the court system (the dolphins enjoy it too much to let it resolve).
- The 1986 computer novel Portal: A Dataspace Retrieval gets downright philosophical:
Man does not take time to think things over, to sing about them completely. Too much like a monkey, they say. That's the problem with having hands, they say. Always trying to put them on things, move them around, turn them over.
I could build them a ship, I tell them, and they chitter and click but do not assent. I tell them man has left behind vast tubes of air, filled with the plants and life of earth, floating in space. They find this interesting, but silly. They will think about it, they tell me. Perhaps in a hundred years or so they will have an answer. They've been around for thirty million years, and are in no hurry. They tell me they haven't finished exploring the oceans yet.
- In the Illuminatus! trilogy, dolphins aid the Discordians in their underwater expeditions.
- In The Probability Broach novel and its sequels' backstory, several animals were discovered sapient and intelligent but devoid of speech, dolphins among them. The problem was easily solved with a special artifact. We even see a Dolphin scientist working in his tank.
- The Scar by China Miéville has sapient dolphins aiding the security forces of the floating pirate settlement of Armada, as well as a small mention of sapient whales. Inverting typical presentations the main dolphin character is a sadist named Bastard John, while the whales are all extremely stupid dupes of the book's primary antagonists.
- Animorphs:
- Cassie has a minor crisis because she's not sure if it's right to take a dolphin's DNA or control its mind; one of their rules is that the Animorphs never morph a sapient creature without its permission, or unless it's an urgent emergency. Whether or not they're truly sapient is never quite settled, (although whales just barely are, according to the Drode), but they are capable of a kind of telepathic communication with whales ("great ones;" the dolphins are the "little ones.") Cassie firmly believes they have souls, and everyone loves the dolphin morph because they're so happy and carefree.
- Orcas are also implied to be fully sentient, to the point where in the place of the usual instincts that the team have to overcome, they seem to have a fully-functioning mind which is aware about the fact that it is indeed a morph.
- Also in Animorphs, at least one whale is confirmed to be sentient: the Drode must spare its life for this reason.
- One story in Tales from Innsmouth (Cthulhu Mythos compilation) has the Dolphins as allies of the Deep Ones.
- In the Hyperion Cantos there is mention of intelligent telepathic dolphins. Unfortunately they were hunted nearly to extinction because it was discovered they were sentient.
- Alan Dean Foster's works:
- Subverted in the Spellsinger series: in a world where every species of mammal or bird is intelligent, dolphins are essentially a bunch of slackers, whose only interest in land-goers is the chance to swap dirty jokes.
- His Humanx Commonwealth series plays this one straight, with Earth's cetaceans being given their own ocean-covered world to inhabit as reparations for centuries of hunting and pollution. The baleen whales are more slow-witted, the dolphins more involved with humans, and the sperm whales are aloof but brilliant with Psychic Powers.
- In the Greatwinter Trilogy by Sean McMullen, scientists reconstruct ancient cetacean DNA and create three members of the species who turn out to be telepathic/smarter than humans.
- This concept gets a Take That! in The Polity novel The Skinner. The narrator notes that eventually people were able to accurately measure the intelligence of animals, and found that despite longstanding stereotype, dolphins and whales were actually pretty dumb. Instead, the novel has a swarm of wasps who form a Hive Mind / living computer of equal or greater than human intelligence.
- In the 1981 book Megalodon by Robin Brown, the protagonist scientist has developed the Janus device, a computer/vocoder/translator which enables him to teach two dolphins (nicknamed Doris and Macho) and a killer whale (Morgan) a rudimentary language (their own language is sophisticated enough to communicate three-dimensional sonar images — it's converting that into a language simple enough to be translated that's the problem).
- The 1967 novel A Sentient Animal by Robert Merle is about a scientist who successfully teaches human languages to dolphins, resulting (to his dismay) in the latter being used as living weapons by the US military.
- In Piers Anthony's stories about a human dentist abducted by aliens to serve as their on-ship oral hygiene practitioner (Prosthro Plus), the intrepid orthodontist is called upon to do some filings for a life-form on a wholly aquatic planet, who turns out to be the son of a whale-like species who are planetary rulers and who can therefore pay the fabulous costs of tons of gold used to restore the cavity-laden rotten teeth. After several days of work with JCB's to excavate the rot and a portable blast furnace to melt the gold for the fillings - all done inside the creature's mouth as it really is that large - the dentist asks what caused catastrophic rot in the first place, learning that over-indulgent parents had allowed too many sweeties and not imposed a good enough teeth-cleaning regime...
- John Ringo's Council Wars series has Delphinos: Humans who have used advanced genetic engineering to turn themselves into dolphins and have lost all sense of their own humanity as a result.
- Arthur C. Clarke once penned a short novel about the discovery of cetacean intelligence.
- In Sergey Volnov's Army of the Sun, someone thought it was a good idea to uplift not only whales but also sharks (despite the latter being a fish and not a mammal). Oh yeah, and they also have incredible Psychic Powers. Interestingly, the only intelligent shark in the novel is pretty peaceful and bears humans no ill will and is a mentor to a young intelligent orca. For reference, orca's kill sharks for sport.
- In The Dresden Files novel Small Favor, dolphins turn out to not only be intelligent, but smart enough to recognize that Harry is a good guy and the squad of Fallen Angels lurking nearby are the bad guys and thus warn Harry that he's walking into an ambush.
- In the Hell's Gate series the Cetaceans of Sharona have been established as having intelligence at or near human levels. Some humans are able to telepathically talk to them and they act as ambassadors trading human services (such as medical treatment) for the Cetaceans' help with things like fishing and finding oyster beds.
- Betty Ballantine's The Secret Oceans features intelligent dolphin-like creatures which are dubbed Cetasapiens.
- The Glove of Darth Vader mentions the Whaladons, a species of sapient whales native to the Mon Calamari homeworld. The Empire legalized their hunting, but the New Republic put a stop to it.
- Appears occasionally in the Revelation Space universe. Dolphins are used as pilots for surface-to-space shuttles after the Melding Plague destroys most of the advanced technology, including the automated shuttles of the past. The Generation Ship that Chasm City partly takes place on has a tank of sapient dolphins, but their cooped up surroundings (barely larger than a home's pool) has caused them to become psychotic.
- William Gibson's short story "Johnny Mnemonic" features Jones, a drug-addicted cyborg dolphin who communicates through a panel of christmas lights and lives in an amusement park after being retired from the Navy. He uses his SQUID implant to help Johnny extract the stolen Yakuza data in his head in exchange for a shot of good shit.
- The Rings of Saturn features an uplifted dolphin as a telepathic Drill Sergeant Nasty.
- The Causal Angel has mentions of cetamorphs, uplifted dolphins who live in giant water tank ships in the Asteroid Belt.
- The Cephallonians in Isaac's Universe, a series of anthologies from several authors inspired by Isaac Asimov.
- Wet Goddess portrays the cetaceans as completely sapient, while keeping the Real Life setting plausible. (the story is based on real events).
- Peter Macey's Stationary Orbit twists on this when ET signals of presumed exo-planetary origin are revealed to be from a nearby (the research institution's) dolphin school park.
- In the Venus Trap by Kurt Mahr, of the PerryRhodan series; In an escape by sea, Son Okura establishes telepathic contact with seal-like creatures that guide him, Rhodan, and John Marshall eventually to safety of the shore.
- The Death Gate Cycle: The dolphins and whales who inhabit Chelestra, the world of water, are sapient, capable of speech and allied with the mensch who live there, helping them by ferrying messages through and exploring the global ocean where the mensch cannot go. The whales don't show up much on-page, while the dolphins are shameless and enthusiastic gossips.
Live-Action Television
- In seaQuest DSV, Ensign Darwin is a dolphin crew member of the titular submarine. He can speak passable english thanks to a translator device hooked to the ships computer, and is considered an honorary ensign in the Navy.
- A few episodes involve them telling Darwin what to do, such as "playing" with automated submarine drones, causing them to crash into each other.
- In Star Trek: The Next Generation it's suggested that there are cetaceans aboard the Enterprise-D. In some expanded universe material, the cetatians are aboard as navigation experts.
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home: see Film.
- One of the Xindi races in Star Trek: Enterprise was a cetacean species whose speech was similar to the songs sung by whales. They are slow to come to any decision, but highly intelligent and their warships are by far the most powerful.
- Parodied during a skit in the MST3K episode "Devilfish". Mike and the bots make the mistake of talking disparagingly about dolphins—only to have a "Dolphin Mothership" show up and start attacking them. It takes some serious kissing up in order to get them to leave. (Later on Mike and the bots start talking smack about electricians, only to discover that they have a mutual protection pact with the dolphins. Whoops.)
- In the candid camera show The Jamie Kennedy Experiment one victim is actually convinced that a dolphin can speak using a robotic-sounding translator. The dolphin asks to make a cellphone call to his girlfriend in another tank. It's really well-done, enough so that the mark actually accepts this, until the dolphin starts talking about their secret plans to overthrow the world, losing much of its credibility.
- One episode of The Upright Citizens Brigade included a sketch at a town hall meeting where one concerned mother (played by Amy Poehler) wanted the issue of dolphin-centric questions on the SATs addressed. She reads several examples of questions involving detailed knowledge of marine life and species and argues that it wasn't fair to human children. Eventually they bring in a dolphin in a tank with a dolphin-to-human translator device, and he proceeds to insult all of them with some really filthy smack talk.
- The hidden-camera bit they did while the credits played for that episode had Amy Poehler (in character) bringing this up and reading similar sample questions at an actual town's town hall meeting, much to their confusion.
New Media
- The Onion parodied this with the article "Dolphins Evolve Opposable Thumbs: 'Oh, Shit,' Says Humanity". The article is then filled with stories of the Dolphins' incredibly rapid technology development, and marine biologists committing suicide or preparing to serve the Dolphin overlords.
- Dolphins were one the earliest animal species to be uplifted, or 'provolved' to sentience in Orion's Arm. They are quite common, living on water worlds and habitats all over the terragen sphere.
- There are also several genetically recreated and provolved whales on Old Earth, known as "Gaian whales".
Newspaper Comics
- The Far Side takes a few jabs at dolphins; the ones that immediately spring to mind is the dolphin whose husband is missing (dolphin cop: "We're going to let you go back to your canning in a minute...") and the dolphins who are trying to communicate with scientists (on blackboard: Komo-esstass; say hablah es-pan-yoll).
- In another one, a scientist tries to record whale song. The whale starts singing "Louie, Louie" into the mic.
- Most translations of this one for foreign audiences use "Singing In The Rain" instead.
- In another one, a scientist tries to record whale song. The whale starts singing "Louie, Louie" into the mic.
- One comic by Don Martin had a scientist making a device that translated dolphin speech, and tested it on the dolphin present in the lab. Only he hears what the dolphin says, but immediately turns around and embarrassedly zips his fly.
- One series of Dilbert strips had him trapped miles from shore while dolphins taunted him for hours ("Let's ask the humming fish to do the Jaws theme song..."). They also steal his swimming trunks.
- As in the movie, Johnny Mnemonic has James, a military-trained cyborg-enhanced dolphin, who appears next to the left ramp.
- Season two of Old Harry's Game reveals that dolphins are the only non-human species that have sufficient understanding of their actions to be damned. Episode 2 features the most evil dolphin who ever lived, Chuckles.
Tabletop Games
- Classic Traveller. Issue 6 of the Journal of the Travellers' Aid Society had an article on dolphins genetically engineered to have higher intelligence, up to 13 (with the human average being 7). Some of them can learn human languages.
- The seventh Rifts World Book Rifts Underseas actually allows you to have a Dolphin, Orca, or even a Humpback Whale as a player character. They even have Powered Armor designed for Dolphins and Orcas to use. There are also the Pneuma-Biforms, Cetaceans mutated by an Eldritch Abomination to be slaves, and have the ability to switch between Human and Cetacean forms. This allows a player to be a Dolphin or Whale, but also participate in land-based adventures as well (as long as they keep a large water tank handy).
- The Transhuman Space setting for GURPS plays with this, as described in the deep-sea sourcebook Under Pressure. On the one hand there are "Cetanists"; "Ghosts" and AIs who believe in the intelligence and spirituality of whales and dolphins, and express this by wearing dolphin bioshells (biological bodies that can run an AI or Ghost) and joining a pod. On the other hand, there are actual dolphins; who are certainly bright enough that translator software works, but are also bullies, mildly sociopathic and, in short, wild animals. And on the third hand there are Doolittles and Delphi; dolphins who've been uplifted, but who often have the same "personality disorders" (by human standards) as their wild kin. They also find Cetanists a bit disturbing. And then there's Coak, a Delphi who wishes he was a normal dolphin to the extent that he now runs an anti-uplift terrorist organisation.
- In Blue Rose, you can play a sapient, telepathic dolphin PC, or play a human who has one as a Bond Creature.
- One early RPG inspired by Niven's Known Space novels had omitted rules for dolphin characters, but an article in Dragon corrected that, introducing such necessities as water-filled space suits and strap-on robotic arms.
- Some editions of Dungeons & Dragons have depicted dolphins as sentient Good-aligned creatures with their own patron goddess.
- Eclipse Phase has uplifted cetaceans, though they're not featured in the core rulebook (appearing in the Panopticon supplement) as few of them made it off earth before the Fall (especially the large baleen whales). Many who escaped as infomorphs had to resleeve in human morphs or the Suryas adapted to the sun.
- In Hc Svnt Dracones dolphins were officially recognized as sapient by many governments, though that meant little more than protection from fishing in most cases. But there was some controversy about using them in the Vector project as none of the other species they were splicing with human genes had their own cultures and societies. But, after Earth was sterilized in the Terra Firma/Corptown war they went with it anyways, and Vectorized dolphins are a common sight in the oceans of terraformed Mars, Venus, and Europa.
- Paul Zindel's play Let Me Hear You Whisper features a dolphin in a lab that learns to talk out of its blowhole. However, at first it only talks to the cleaning lady.
Video Games
- Ecco the Dolphin: Aside from Ecco discussing subjects like alien invasions and lost families with other creatures, including those of other species, the series also involves solving notoriously challenging puzzles when playing as Ecco.
- In Aero Fighters 2, Spanky is a dolphin who pilots a frickin' YF-23 fighter jet. He calls himself "the world's first dolphin pilot" and fries over jungles.
- He's back as a semi-hidden character in Aero Fighters Assault, this time flying an X-29 armed with Frickin' Laser Beams.
- Sword of the Stars does this; the Liir are a race of starfaring telepathic cetaceans.
- The young Liir look more like dolphins, while the Elders look like whales (only much bigger). The Liir keep growing as they age and have a, theoretically, unlimited lifespan. However, at a certain age, the Square/Cube Law goes into effect, and the Elder is crushed by its own weight. Unless, of course, they enslave the Liir race and force them to build a massive spacesuit that it can use to survive indefinitely.
- Critical Depth - The Cephalopod race had intended for dolphins to rule the earth. In one ending they are dismayed to find humans have taken over after millions of years, and vow to fix the situation.
- A dolphin is one of the crew members in Zombie Wars. He wears a suit of power armor to get around on land, push buttons, and wield assault rifles.
- Eco Quest: The Search for Cetus features a number of ocean creatures that are able to communicate with the human protagonist. The first one he meets is an injured dolphin named Delphineus.
- Blip the Porpoise from Insaniquarium is highly intelligent and possesses powerful psychic powers. He is notably able to tell which fishes are hungry, how much life aliens have during a battle and precisely predict the area at which aliens will appear.
- Jett Rocket has Rudolpho, an old friend of Jett's. He's a be-helmeted space dolphin. He just is. But he's cool.
- Blue Planet has uplifted dolphins and whales. Given that the planet the game is set on is almost completely covered in water, it's pretty much a given that they'd be there.
- X-Universe: According to the X-Encyclopedia, one of the planets in the Kingdom of Boron has a native species of sapient whales.
Web Comics
- Whaleocalypse stars a sapient whale.
- In UNA Frontiers, one of the main characters is Cyberna, an AI built in a (mostly) dolphin shape to act as a human/dolphin interface. Having spent time with them in their own element, she has few illusions about their actual nature, but she is capable of teaching them "civilized manners" just the same.
- Dolphins in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja are not only intelligent, they also remember. And can apparently use firearms.
- Hugey P. in Skin Horse is a whale gangster rapper. Amusingly, his record label is run by a Weirdness Censor-equipped hippy, who thinks Killa Whale Drive-By is a regular whale song CD.
Web Original
- Mortasheen has Dolfury and the vampire narwhal Narwight, which happens to be one of the smarter Vampires in the setting.
Western Animation
- The Simpsons: in a Treehouse of Horror episode dolphins invade the land and take over. They can speak English.
Snorky: [in high pitched voice] Snorky ... talk ... man ... [clears throat and reverts to deep male voice] I'm sorry, let me start over. Eons ago, dolphins lived on the land. Then your ancestors drove us into the sea, where we suffered for millions of years. I, King Snorky, hereby banish all humans to the sea!
- In Rankin/Bass Productions' Rudolph's Shiny New Year, Rudolph enlists the help of a friendly, talking whale to help him go from place to place looking for the Baby New Year.
- Tiny Toon Adventures had occasional appearances by Orson Whales, who had the same voice as Brain.
- Mr. Krabs daughter Pearl from SpongeBob SquarePants is a talking whale and she lives the life of a human teenager. The dolphin king in SpongeBob is a sentient dolphin that warns bikini bottom about the threat of volcanoes.
- American Dad! reveals the CIA has a program that trains dolphins to help on missions and in turn they teach humans to speak dolphin, which Steve has picked up after years of being brought to the lab by Stan. Stan believes this is neat, but Steve complains that all dolphins ever talk about is fish. Later in the episode, this ability comes in handy for Steve, as he asks dolphins to save him, but in the end he just ends up getting pissed off because the dolphins won't shut up about mackerel.
- Mister Smarty Smarts from Spliced is an evil Dolphin/Chimpanzee mutant.
- Dr. Blowhole, archenemy of The Penguins of Madagascar, is an Evil Genius bent on having his revenge on humanity for the humiliation he has suffered jumping through flaming hoops on Coney Island. Definitely not friendly or heroic.
- The final segment of Make Mine Music, "The Whale Who Wanted To Sing At the Met", is about a whale who was able to sing opera - in three different voices! - and whose big wish is to perform on the New York Metropolitan Opera. Unfortunately, he is killed by a misguided opera empresario who thought he was rescuing opera singers in the whale's belly.
- The Tick: "The Tick vs Nevada" featured a dolphin who, like Blowhole, wanted to conquer mankind rather than amuse it.
- The number of Talking Animals that have appeared on Family Guy increases with Billy Finn (voiced by Ricky Gervais), the dolphin that lives with the Griffins in "Be Careful What You Fish For".
- A Robot Chicken sketch shows that dolphins were able to send one of their own to the moon, he just didn't survive the trip.
Dolphin Scientist: Not so f***ing smart now, are we? I am going ba-aaa-ck to the sea!
- Referenced, but not shown in Squidbillies. When a group of sapient, deep-fried birds takes over Dan Halen's factorynote , Dan Halen comments on their intelligence. The bird's leader thanks him, noting that while they aren't as smart as dolphins, they do work their asses off.
Real Life
- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) apparently believes this trope to be Truth in Television, given that they sued Sea World for allegedly enslaving orcas by making them do animal shows without pay.
- On a less lunatic note, many marine biologists believe cetaceans (especially dolphins) may well be sapient because they share the same neural density (evidence by their extreme amounts of cerebral folds, just like a human's), brain structure and brain-to-body ratio as humans. The difficulty of establishing communications between our species has made the testing of this theory difficult.
- Different orca pods are known to have different communicative and behavioral patterns; pretty much what is called "culture" when talking about human populations.
- Scientists have discovered dolphins use lower-pitched, slower sounds when they're interacting with humans, which suggests that they have realized we can't physically hear the range of sounds they use to interact with each other.
- As mentioned above, dolphins may well be sapient, though due to fundamental limitations of their body and their environment, it's unlikely that they can ever form a civilization as humanity would recognize it, let alone develop technology.
- "NOC" was a Beluga whale who made human-like vocalisations. He'd love to imitate people, and issue commands to the divers, confusing them as to who was telling them to surface, until they soon realised it was the whale.
- One scientist, John C. Lilly, attempted to put this to the test by having a volunteer woman, Margaret, raise an infant dolphin, Peter, like a human child, in hopes of teaching it to speak English. The two lived in a partially flooded house, and at first the attempts to raise the dolphin were going well. But then Peter got older and decided he didn't want a mom anymore, he wanted a mate. He began harassing her for sex, and eventually Margaret began to oblige him with handjobs. However, little progress on teaching speech had been made, and after a last-ditch attempt involving both subjects taking LSD, the experiment was canceled.
- Humpback whales in a given area tend to sing songs similar to one another, but distinct from the songs of humpbacks on a different migration route. In at least one case, a few males became lost and accidentally wound up with whales from another region. They later returned to where they came from and, having picked up new songs during their journey, suddenly began getting more attention from females. This displays hints of different cultures amongst whales, and demonstrates that they may have an appreciation for new and "exotic" music.
- The 1970 album Songs of the Humpback Whale was the first album released to the public featuring nothing but sounds of singing whales. At the time many people had thought whales were mute, but the record actually showed them to be majestic and magnificent creatures whose vocal sounds are an amazing and wonderful listening experience. It also helped people to realize that these intelligent creatures ought to be protected from hunters, thus inspiring the "Save The Whales" movement.
...So long, and thanks for all the tropes!


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Why Olivier Giroud's Poor Form Could Prove Costly for ArsenalDecember 24, 2013
Arsenal's draw with Chelsea last night was creditable if a little underwhelming. However, had Olivier Giroud taken the Gunners' most presentable opportunity, Arsene Wenger and his team could easily have been celebrating a win and a place as undisputed leaders of the Premier League table.
With the game delicately poised at 0-0, a clipped pass from Aaron Ramsey found Giroud free inside the penalty area. With time and space to take the ball down, Giroud set himself before unleashing a volley off his preferred left foot towards goal.
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Arsenal fans were disappointed to see the chance go begging, but they can't have been surprised. Giroud's form has been in decline for some time now.
The Frenchman is now without a goal in each of his last six games. What's more, he's only scored in one of his last 11 Arsenal appearances.
Since his headed goal to clinch victory at Crystal Palace, Giroud has just two strikes to his name. They came in the home victory against Southampton, and both were gifted to him by the opposition. The first was a tap-in after robbing Artur Boruc of the ball yards from this own goal; the second was a penalty. Goals don't come any easier than that.
At the start of the season, Giroud was on fire. His early form appeared to vindicate Arsene Wenger's controversial decision not to sign a centre-forward.
However, the strain of being Arsenal's only real option up top is perhaps beginning to take a toll. Giroud is drained of both stamina and confidence. As well as the chance against Chelsea, he also missed a couple of glaring opportunities during Arsenal's defeat to Manchester City at the Etihad.
It's bad timing for Arsenal. In Alvaro Negredo, Romelu Lukaku and Luis Suarez, many of the Gunners' have strikers who are hitting their stride. Giroud, meanwhile, appears to be stumbling.
The Christmas period will be vital for Arsenal's title hopes. They face a series of winnable games, and need someone to step forward to put these lesser teams to the sword.
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Skip to comments.Global Warming To Bring Colder/Warmer Winters
Posted on 02/09/2013 11:02:47 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
By Paul Homewood
It seems that every time we get some snow, another scientist is wheeled out to explain that, no matter how cold it gets, it is all down to global warming.
In the last week or so, we have had the International Arctic Research Centre announcing a study by three Chinese scientists, Weakened cyclones, intensified anticyclones and recent extreme cold winter weather events in Eurasia , with the headline Climate change brings colder winters to Europe and Asia. Then, we had WWF Russia blaming the blizzards in Russia on global warming.
But lets, for one moment, remind ourselves of some of the scientists who have said the exact opposite.
UK Met Office
As recently as 2011, Julia Slingo and her team published an extremely thorough paper, Climate: Observations, projections and impacts. Running to some 153 pages, it looked at recent trends and future projections, both for the UK and the rest of the world. It made the following points:-
Severe winter weather affected Western and Central Europe throughout the first three weeks of December 2010, with the UK experiencing the coldest December for more than 100 years. This extreme cold weather was due to advection of cold arctic air associated with a strongly negative Arctic Oscillation.
The UK experienced two spells of severe winter weather with very low temperatures and significant snowfalls. The first of these spells lasted for two weeks from 25th November and saw persistent easterly or north-easterly winds bring bitterly cold air from northern Europe and Siberia. This spell of snow and freezing temperatures occurred unusually early in the winter, with the most significant and widespread snowfalls experienced in late November and early December since late November 1965. a second spell of severe weather began on 16th December as very cold Arctic air pushed down across the UK from the north.
The distributions of the December-January-February (DJF) mean regional temperature in recent years in the presence and absence of anthropogenic forcings are shown in Figure 7. Analyses with both models suggest that human influences on the climate have shifted the distributions to higher temperatures. The winter of 2010/11 is cold, as shown in Figure 7, as it lies near the cold tail of the seasonal temperature distribution for the climate influenced by anthropogenic forcings (distributions plotted in red). It is considerably warmer than the winter of 1962/63, which is the coldest since 1900 in the CRUTEM3 dataset. In the absence of human influences (green distributions), the season lies near the central sector of the temperature distribution and would therefore be an average season.
So, to summarise, the Met Office believed that winters have been getting warmer, and that the winter of 2010/11 was caused by a natural event, the Arctic Oscillation, and, but for human influences, would actually have been a fairly average winter. (According to NOAA, similar conditions existed during the even colder winter in the UK of 1962/63).
Dr Myles Allen, and a few more!
In 2009, Dr Myles Allen, head of the Climate Dynamics group at Department of Physics, University of Oxford told the Daily Telegraph, during another spell of bad snow Even though this is quite a cold winter by recent standards it is still perfectly consistent with predictions for global warming. If it wasnt for global warming this cold snap would happen much more regularly. What is interesting is that we are now surprised by this kind of weather. I doubt we would have been in the 1950s because it was much more common.
The report goes on to say a study by the Met Office which went back 350 years shows that such extreme weather now only occurs every 20 years. Back in the pre-industrial days of Charles Dickens, it was a much more regular occurrence hitting the country on average every five years or so.
This winter seems so bad precisely because it is now so unusual. In contrast the deep freezes of 1946-47 and 1962-63 were much colder 5.3 F (2.97C) and 7.9 F (4.37C) cooler than the long-term norm.
And with global warming we can expect another 1962-63 winter only once every 1,100 years, compared with every 183 years before 1850.
Meanwhile Dave Britton, a meteorologist and climate scientist at the Met Office, said: Even with global warming you cannot rule out we will have a cold winter every so often. It sometimes rains in the Sahara but it is still a desert.
Even Bob Ward, PR man for the warmist Grantham Foundation, keen to stop people thinking that cold winters did not mean global warming had stopped, said Just as the wet summer of 2007 or recent heat waves cannot be attributed to global warming nor can this cold snap
Dont forget NCAR & NOAA!
Over in the US, they were just as keen to keep on message. An article in Phys.Org, Experts: Cold snap doesnt disprove global warming, which was published in January 2010, had this to say:-
Whatever happened to global warming? Such weather doesnt seem to fit with warnings from scientists that the Earth is warming because of greenhouse gases. But experts say the cold snap doesnt disprove global warming at all its just a blip in the long-term heating trend.
Its part of natural variability, said Gerald Meehl, a senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. With global warming, he said, well still have record cold temperatures. Well just have fewer of them.
Deke Arndt of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., noted that 2009 will rank among the 10 warmest years for Earth since 1880. Scientists say man-made climate change does have the potential to cause more frequent and more severe weather extremes, such as heat waves, storms, floods, droughts and even cold spells. But experts interviewed by The Associated Press did not connect the current frigid blast to climate change.
So what is going on? We basically have seen just a big outbreak of Arctic air over populated areas of the Northern Hemisphere, Arndt said. The Arctic air has really turned itself loose on us.
In the atmosphere, large rivers of air travel roughly west to east around the globe between the Arctic and the tropics. This air flow acts like a fence to keep Arctic air confined. But recently, this air flow has become bent into a pronounced zigzag pattern, meandering north and south. If you live in a place where it brings air up from the south, you get warm weather. In fact, record highs were reported this week in Washington state and Alaska.
But in the eastern United States, like some other unlucky parts of the globe, Arctic air is swooping down from the north. And thats how you get a temperature of 3 degrees in Beijing, a reading of minus-42 in mainland Norway, and 18 inches of snow in parts of Britain, where a member of Parliament who said the snow clearly indicates a cooling trend was jeered by colleagues.
The zigzag pattern arises naturally from time to time, but it is not clear why its so strong right now, said Michelle LHeureux, a meteorologist at the Climate Prediction Center of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
It seems to me that these these theories, that global warming will lead to colder winters, need to pass three tests before they can even cross the starting line:-
1) Explain how winters were as colder, or colder, and as snowy or snowier, in earlier periods such as the 1960s and 70s, when the NH was cooling, and Arctic ice expanding.
2) Explain how winters grew milder in the 1990s and early 2000s, at a time when the earth was warming, and Arctic ice was declining.
3) Prove what was wrong with earlier models that predicted milder winters.
Until these tests are passed, the theories really dont get off the ground.
Looking more closely at the Chinese study, mentioned above, by Zhang, Lu and Guan, their abstract states:-
Extreme cold winter weather events over Eurasia have occurred more frequently in recent years in spite of a warming global climate. To gain further insight into this regional mismatch with the global mean warming trend, we analyzed winter cyclone and anticyclone activities, and their interplay with the regional atmospheric circulation pattern characterized by the semi-permanent Siberian high. We found a persistent weakening of both cyclones and anticyclones between the 1990s and early 2000s, and a pronounced intensification of anticyclone activity afterwards. It is suggested that this intensified anticyclone activity drives the substantially strengthening and northwestward shifting/expanding Siberian high, and explains the decreased midlatitude Eurasian surface air temperature and the increased frequency of cold weather events. The weakened tropospheric midlatitude westerlies in the context of the intensified anticyclones would reduce the eastward propagation speed of Rossby waves, favoring persistence and further intensification of surface anticyclone systems.
Their methodology also tells us that the data used is from 1979-2012.
What they are saying then is that, in the 1990s, conditions changed to a weakened state of cyclones and anticyclones, and therefore milder winters. In the last few years, it has changed back to a strengthened state. Although they have not analysed data back, at least, to the 1960s, (which seems an amazing omission, that hugely undermines their work), the implication is clear, that recent conditions have returned to close to the ones that existed prior to 1990.
But none of that stops Zhang from saying Decreased sea-ice cover favours further extension of warm air into the central Arctic Ocean. When this warm air propagates to the lower-latitude Eurasian continent, it gets cooled due to radiative heat loss. Anticyclones accordingly form or intensify.
Before going on to say We need to evaluate whether climate models can realistically capture weather-scale physical processes, which, translated, means Please send us some more grant money.
I have heard that Boston is having a Blizzard....It must be the Warm Gulf Stream....
"Science" is becoming the new one world religion. All who doubt are mocked and demonized.
Climate change brings colder winters to Europe and Asia
I believe this headline is entirely correct. Yes. Seasonal climate changes can indeed bring colder temperatures.
I got frostbite in the sauna the other day when I turned up the heat. So all this makes perfect sense to me.
Hereon the west coast, it is the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (ENSO) that occurs every 20-40 years. It is why we have booming salmon runs right now and 2 feet of snow and 20 degrees outside in N. CA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_decadal_oscillation
I predict that any time it's not warmer it will be colder!
If its a cold winter - it's humans.
If its a hot summer - it's humans.
If hurricanes - it's humans.
If it's super storms - it's humans.
If ice storms, tornadoes, droughts, rain deluges, etc - it's humans.
Next it will be earthquakes. Watch. These so-called scientists WILL make some connection.
Interesting that recent research and findings are actually starting to prove the Sun has more influence over our climate than any of our puny human causes. Uh, remember that big bright thing in the sky that actually gives this rock its life and that everyone knows that affects our weather patterns. Yet, the so-called journalists and socialist busybodies haven't bothered to report those recent findings in mass. Agendas are agendas.
As long lasted as this stupid "global warming" thing has been, I believe it will go down in history as another failed pseudo-science like the scares of the 1970's "Population Bomb" and "Ice Age" and "Ozone Depletion" and the "Alcar Apple Scare", and that there is no natural difference between boys and girls according to Time or Newsweek.
That was one that made me laugh the loudest, since I raised a boy and girl. Later, they said, gosh, there are differences between boys and girls. What a surprise!
The reason they finally figured it out was because of a number of experiments with children. They would put a number of toddler boys and girls behind a short wall with their mothers on the other side. They found that the boys would try to reach/climb over the wall, while the girls sat and cried.
It showed that boys were more aggressive and girls were more passive. Not saying either is better - just noting the difference. Took years for all the expert sociologists to find out what every parent already knew.
The above aside, everyone likes to claim empirical science is exact. I've seen otherwise in my 63 years. No one knows what tomorrow will bring that will change such empirical evidence. Even physics changes by the decade. Think quantum physics compared to Newton's basic laws. Or think about the world's beliefs before Copernicus?
To make it simple, before Columbus, the academics of the time thought there was an end to the World where you would fall off. Columbus, Magellen, and others proved that we live on a globe, not a flat plane. Yes, I remember my junior high history.
Yet, climatologists now KNOW exactly that climate change is due to mankind carbon emissions? Pfft.
Many uneducated people thought this, but academics throughout the Middle Ages were perfectly well aware that the world is round.
Thank you marsh2. I've been stating this for some time. Same reason we have lulls in hurricanes here in Fl. You can't rationalize with folks watching the Kardashians for current events though.
My concern right now is that the global warming is going to melt all the snow I shoveled yesterday.
The Bible describes a flat earth, and in the Classical period Greek astronomers and mathematicians argued for variously a flat, rectangular and spherical earth. Ptolemy chose a spherical earth, based on evidence, and there was little doubt in West that the earth was round after about 200 AD.
Clearly there is some "forcing" of global warming by human activity, but it is not at all clear how large the effect is or if, on net, it is beneficial or harmful. I think the correct answers are probably "quite small" and "on the whole, beneficial".
I generally agree, though the "flat earth" described by the Bible is more than a little ambiguous. There are also passages that can be translated as referencing a spherical earth.
Anywho, for the most part any Bible references are poetical, certainly not intended as a scientific treatise. We use expressions all the time that imply a flat earth (the ends of the earth, for instance) without implying we believe it really is flat.
Global Warming must be an extremely robust theory. ALL weather events are proof of it.
Bullsh*t CYA.
CNN Anchor Blames Asteroid on Global Warming
i didn't know it was possible to be that stooopid and still breath without mechanical assistance...
Just commenting on historical cosmology. No educated person in the west in 1492 believed the earth was flat.
2008: You see the warm winter proves Global warming is true just like our computer models predicted
2009: The Cool Winter is weather not climate
2010: The Cold Winter is weather not climate
2011: You see the record cold winter proves Global warming is causing global cooling just like our computer models predicted
2012: You see the warm winter proves Global warming is true just like our computer models predicted
2013: You see those warm days in January proves Global warming is warming the earth and the record cold and snow in February proves Global warming is causing global cooling both just like our computer models predicted
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