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In 1556, the Emperor Charles V abdicated, celebrated his own funeral and retired to the monastery of San Jeronimo at Yuste. His son Philip II is now on the throne of Spain. To seal the peace between France and Spain after a long war, Philip marries Elisabeth of Valois, the daughter of Henry II, the French King, who has long been betrothed to his son Don Carlo.ACT IScene 1The cloister of the Yuste monasteryA Monk prays before the gates of the tomb of Charles V. Carlo starts at the sound of the voice — is this his grandfather, the Emperor? Carlo's friend Rodrigo, the Marquis of Posa, joins him, and advises him to conquer his sorrow caused by losing his bride by a noble enterprise — that of freeing Flanders. The two vow to live and die together. Scene 2Outside the Yuste monastery gatesOutside the monastery, which no woman but the Queen may enter, her ladies while away the time with the song Princess Eboli sings. The Queen enters, followed by Posa, who brings Elisabeth a letter from her mother and, under cover of the letter, a note from Carlo. While Eboli and Posa chat about the latest Paris fashions, Elisabeth reads the note, which tells her to trust Posa. In two broad strophes, Posa urges Elisabeth grant Carlo an interview, while Eboli (in asides) reveals her love for Carlo, and her hope that he loves her. Dismissing her ladies, Elisabeth consents to Posa's request. Carlo, at first controlled, asks Elisabeth to obtain the King's permission that he should leave for Flanders, but then his emotions overcome him and he falls to the ground in a swoon. On recovering, he clasps Elisabeth in his arms, defying the world. But she exclaims, "Then smite your father. Come stained with his murder, to lead your mother to the altar." Carlo runs off in despair. Philip enters, angry to find the Queen unattended. Coldly he orders the lady-in-waiting who should have been with her to return to France. Elisabeth consoles her. The company leaves, but Philip orders Posa to remain: has he no favour to ask for? "Nothing for me," replies the Marquis, "but for others"; and, invited to speak freely, he describes the terror and destruction being wrought in Flanders. "At this bloody price," says Philip, "I have paid for the peace of the world." "The peace of a graveyard," Posa replies: one word from Philip could change the world and set people free. The King, struck by Posa's fearless honesty, confides to him his suspicions about his wife and his son, and appoints him his personal counsellor, but bids him beware the Grand Inquisitor. ACT IIScene 1The Queen's gardensCarlo enters, reading a note of midnight assignation which he believes has come from Elisabeth. When Eboli (who wrote the note) enters, masked, Carlo mistakes her for Elisabeth, and pours out his love. Too late, the mistake is revealed, and Eboli guesses his secret. Posa enters and tries to silence her, but in a tense trio she bids them beware the fury of a woman scorned. Posa asks Carlo to entrust to him any incriminating papers he may be carrying, and after a moment's hesitation — can he trust the King's new favourite? — Carlo does so. Scene 2A large square before the Basilica of Nuestra Señora de AtochaThe people gather to acclaim their King. Monks escort some Inquisition victims across the square; a splendid auto da fe, or public burning of heretics, is among the attractions of the day. Philip appears from the church and swears solemnly to serve God with fire and the sword. Suddenly a group of men cast themselves at his feet, and Carlo, who has led them there, announces that they are deputies from Flanders. The Flemings break into an eloquent plea for their country. Philip orders them to be taken away. All — except the monks — urge him to show mercy. At the close of the huge ensemble, Carlo asks his father to send him to Flanders as regent, and when Philip refuses, draws his sword on the King. No one dares to disarm him, until Posa steps forward. The King rewards Posa by making him a Duke, and the festive chorus is resumed. ACT IIIScene 1The King's studyPhilip is alone in his study and reflects gloomily on his loveless, careworn life. The Grand Inquisitor is announced. Philip doubts whether he will be forgiven if he condemns his son to death; the Inquisitor demands that Posa should be handed over to the Inquisition. Philip refuses. The Inquisitor declares that Philip himself is in danger of being summoned before the Inquisition and leaves. Elisabeth rushes in, distressed that her jewel casket has been stolen. Philip, who has it, opens it and draws out a portrait of Carlo. Elisabeth reminds him that she was once betrothed to the Prince, but he calls her an adulterous wife. She swoons. Eboli and Posa enter, and in a quartet Philip curses his unworthy suspicions, Eboli expresses her regret (for it was she who stole the casket), Posa decides that the time has come for him to take action, and Elisabeth, reviving, laments her unhappy life in this friendless country. The two women are left alone. Eboli confesses that, drive by jealousy, she denounced Elisabeth to the King. At Eboli's further confession, that she has been Philip's mistress, Elisabeth tells her to choose, the following day, between exile and the veil, and leaves. Eboli curses the gift of fatal beauty that has caused her ruin. Her thoughts turn to Carlo, and she resolves to save him during the one day this is left to her. Scene 2Don Carlo's prisonPosa comes to bid Carlo farewell; he is marked for death, since Carlo's incriminating papers have been found on him — but Carlo can go free, to save Flanders. A shot is fired, and Posa falls. Quickly he explains that Elisabeth awaits Carlo at the Yuste cloister; he dies content, since by his death he secures the happy future of Spain. Philip enters, to return to Carlo his sword. A warning bell rings out; a crowd storms the prison, demanding the Prince. The tumult is quelled by the Grand Inquisitor, who orders the sacrilegious mob to fall on its knees before the King. ACT IVThe Cloister at YusteElisabeth invokes the spirit of the Emperor Charles: may he carry her prayers to the Eternal Throne. Carlo enters and declares that he is done with dreaming; now he will save Flanders. The two take a solemn farewell, hoping to meet in a better world: "And for ever! Farewell!" Philip and the Inquisitor have overheard them; the King delivers his son to the Inquisition. The gates of the Emperor's tomb open, and the Monk steps forth. He enfolds Carlo in his mantle and leads him into the cloister, recognized as Charles V by everyone present on stage.
Don Carlos is an opera composed by Giuseppe Verdi to a French language libretto by Camille du Locle and Joseph Mery, based on the dramatic play Don Carlos, Infant von Spanien (Don Carlos, Infante of Spain) by Friedrich Schiller. When performed in Italian, the opera is called Don Carlo. The story is based on conflicts in the life of Carlos, Prince of Asturias (1545–1568), after his betrothed Elisabeth of Valois was married instead to his father Philip II of Spain as part of the peace treaty ending the Italian War of 1551–1559 between the Houses of Habsburg and Valois. It was commissioned and produced by the Theвtre Imperial de l'Opera (Paris Opera) and premiered at the company's theatre, the Salle Le Peletier, on 11 March 1867.
Over the following twenty years, cuts and additions were made to the opera, resulting in a number of versions being available to directors and conductors. No other Verdi opera exists in so many versions. At its full length (including the ballet and the cuts made before the first performance), it contains about four hours of music and is Verdi's longest opera.
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I recently toured the LBJ Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Upon reflection, my wife and I both felt it represented a much slanted view of that time in history. Later that evening we held a holiday party with many of our Texas friends and the subject of the shining shrine to LBJ arose.
One friend in particular stated, "What a great president he turned out to be."
My wife immediately took umbrage with his statement. "That's certainly not how I remember him. I thought the whole display was political propaganda."
I wasn't as harsh in my assessment. I felt it was simply LBJ's version of the truth. Of course he would pick and choose the things that put his presidency in the best light. What the visit to the library did for me was to pique my interest in the other presidents of our country, especially little known facts and quirks about them.
I found that I had some things in common with several of them. Like me, John Quincy Adams had a passion for skinny-dipping. He was well known for his early morning dips in the Potomac River.
One night at a wedding reception at the Moose Lake Golf Course, my neighbor's out-of-town daughter idled over to me and whispered in my ear, "Are you still skinny-dipping in Sand Lake?"
Unlike President Adams, who had no concerns of privacy, I had no idea I could be observed through the lightly brush-covered lake.
One of the very rare things I had in common with President Nixon was our passion for playing poker. While serving in the Navy, Nixon had the best poker player on ship teach him the intricacies of the sport. Nixon soon became a card shark and later used poker earnings to finance his first political campaign.
President Warren Harding also shared Nixon's passion for poker, but he was apparently no card shark. To the contrary, Harding once lost the entire White House china collection in one hand of poker.
James Garfield was our only ambidextrous president. That's not so unusual in itself, but what is extraordinary is the fact that he could simultaneously write a sentence in Latin with one hand and in Greek with the other.
I discovered one on my favorite presidential quirks, not in the LBJ library, but at the movie theater one evening while watching "The Butler." During the movie, an obscene scene came on the screen. LBJ was sitting on the "golden throne" with his pants to his knees and a telephone in hand. It was widely known among White House staffers that our shameless president would have people follow him to the bathroom to continue conversations.
Last, but not least, this presidential oddity involved not one, but two of our country's leaders, Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. Although this widely-known tale has circulated ever since shortly after Kennedy was assassinated, I'll relate it one more time.
Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846; Kennedy in 1946. Lincoln was elected president in 1861; Kennedy in 1961.
Both lost a child while living in the White House.
Both presidents were shot on a Friday. Both were shot in the back of the head.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson. Like the two presidents, their successors were also born exactly 100 years apart. Andrew Johnson was born in 1808 while Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908.
Lincoln was shot in the Ford Theater. Kennedy was shot in a Ford Lincoln.
Both assassins were known by their three full names; John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald.
Booth ran from a theater and was caught in a warehouse. Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Lastly, Booth and Oswald were both assassinated before they came to trial.
The fact that any of this is actually newsworthy at all is only because the stories are about people who once were the president of the United States.

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In 1992, Dionisio Ortiz --a young New Yorker of Puerto Rican descent-- arrived on the island to work at the Puerto Rico Medical Center as Assistant Director of Information. He had never stepped foot in the facilities, as the job interview had taken place over the phone.
"When I went to the Information Systems Department I noticed they had one of those old IBM Mainframes," Dionisio says with a laugh. "I had only seen them in books."
The hospital had an approved $2 million budget to update all information systems, including migration of trauma, industrial, emergency and radiology records, among others. Four years later, Johnson & Johnson executives took notice of the young man's expertise and made him an offer he couldn't resist. For the next five years, Dio --as his friends and family call him-- worked from home for the company as an International Information Technology Consultant for the Caribbean and Latin-American regions.
"The experience opened my eyes and I said to myself, 'I can do this on my own'," the entrepreneur says. "I then said to my wife, 'all I need are studies in Business Administration', and that encouraged me to go back to school.
Dio, who already had degrees in Architecture and Computer Sciences from the City College of New York, enrolled in the University of the Sacred Heart in Santurce and obtained additional credits in Business Administration. In October 2001, with the full support of his wife, he founded Corporate Development Solutions Inc., dedicated to the implementation of high-tech communications systems.
The company's first test was several months prior to 9/11, when CDS was hired to renovate American Airlines' analog network to a completely new digital wide area network, and to reinstall all electrical infrastructure and telecommunications transparent to day-to-day flight operations in Puerto Rico, St. Croix and St. Thomas. Later, the Caribbean division of Lloyd Electrical Company selected CDS as a subcontractor for the Department of Homeland Security during the implementation of new security system measures at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport and at U.S. Virgin Islands airports.
"This jumpstarted us like you wouldn't believe," Dionisio says. "It was the trampoline that got us going. About 750 companies were hired nationwide to do the work. Only 11 made the deadline, and we were one of them."
In 2005, CCLD Technologies & PS Splicing subcontracted CDS for Bellsouth, to support the outside telecommunications plant rebuilding efforts required after hurricane Katrina pummeled New Orleans, and once again hired CDS to rebuild Bellsouth's telecommunications infrastructure in Florida after hurricane Wilma - the first time a Puerto Rican-based company was asked to mobilize state-side for this type of work.
Several years later, at a Government Contracting Matchmaking event the U.S. Small Business Administration's Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands district office cosponsored with the Puerto Rico Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors, Dio learned all about the SBA's 8(a) Business Development program, which provides eligible socially and economically disadvantaged firms with growth opportunities through federal contracts. Dio immediately began the application process, obtaining certification in 2009.
"After you're accepted into the program, it really does open a lot of doors," he says. "The 8(a) program was the vehicle for me to get in the game."
Today, with more than 35 years of experience, Dio has raised the bar in the Caribbean region by providing highly sophisticated Information Technology infrastructure installation and solution services for such federal agencies as Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, U.S. Customs & Border Protection, U.S. Air National Guard and the Disaster Recovery Division of the U.S. Armed Forces.
The entrepreneur attributes great part of the company's success to a very dedicated support staff among which he counts Senior Project Manager Mario Figueroa, Senior Account Executive Janice Luciano, Account Executive Edna Miranda, and Inspector Carmen Saráchaga.
"Without their contributions, we would not be where we are today; they are an integral part of our success story," Dio declares.
Flexibility and careful understanding of customer needs have enabled the company to provide its services and expertise in various markets including the public sector, and in the fields of Communications, Hospitality, Construction, and Healthcare, as well as the Airline industry. With a growing reputation of excellence in workmanship and positive results, CDS has completed numerous projects not only in Puerto Rico, but also throughout the Caribbean at locations including St. Vincent's, Grenada, Canounan Island, Mexico, St. Thomas and St. Croix.
"There have been times when we've had to say 'thank-you, but not right now' because we've had too much work," says Dio. "We're a little conservative that way. You shouldn't bite off more than you can chew. Don't Burn your bridges, so they'll call you back."
With 30 employees and annual sales of nearly $1.3 million, CDS has succeeded in establishing a serious presence in the Caribbean region as the number one provider that diversified companies can reach out to when in need of secure Information Technology systems.
"My greatest satisfaction is putting people to work and helping provide for their families," the businessman concludes.
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A Manual of Acarology
In the thirty years since the second edition of A Manual of Acarology was published, acarologists have discovered a multitude of new mite taxa, made major modifications in acarine classification, and profoundly altered their understanding of this vast group, inspiring new and innovative approaches to resolving many basic and applied acarological problems. Now, this completely revised and updated reference, the most comprehensive and recent in the discipline, is available to researchers, teachers, students, and plant and animal scientists wishing to explore the complex and often astonishing world of mites. The third edition remains primarily taxonomic in approach, but it also provides detailed information on subjects that include phylogeny, biology, morphology, systematics, ecology, and behavior. The editors discuss collection and rearing techniques in detail, along with specimen preparation and methods of preservation. Taxonomic diagnoses for the 124 presently recognized superfamilies of Acari are included in their appropriate systematic chapters, and feeding habits, host range, and distribution of member families and representative species are discussed under each superfamilial heading. The authors complement their text with keys to families (with the Ixodida keyed to genus), a bibliography comprising more than 4,000 entries, and a detailed index. More than 1,330 labeled line drawings and scanning electron micrographs illustrate the text. Unlike previous editions, the third is the product of a team effort by ten authors whose contributions have been amalgamated into a seamless text. In addition to the editors, the contributors are V. M. Behan-Pelletier, D. R. Cook, M. S. Harvey, J. E. Keirans, E. E. Lindquist, R. A. Norton, B. M. OConnor, and I. M. Smith, all leading experts in their areas of acarology.
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Angela Hurtado, 68, was crossing the street at Grand Avenue and 69th Place just after 11 a.m when she was hit by a 2002 Mitsubishi Montero driven by Abel Tinoco of Queens.
Tinoco was headed north on 69th Place when he made an illegal left turn onto Grand Avenue. Only right turns are permitted at the intersection, and the traffic light clearly has a green right turn signal indicating the restriction.
Hurtado was taken to Elmhurst Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Tinoco, 28, remained on the scene and was arrested. He was charged with driving without a license.
In the wake of Saturday fatal accident, Communities of Maspeth and Elmhurst Together (COMET) president Roe Daraio announced that the civic association would be forming a new committee to address traffic issues in the area.
Daraio said nine volunteers have already come forward to sit on the committee, and the civic has reached out to Councilwoman Elizabeth Crowley's office and the 104th Precinct.
"We have a million issues here, so having some direction on what we should focus on first would be nice," she said.
The 104th Precinct last week and on Sunday was issuing summons to law-breaking drivers on Grand Avenue, but Daraio said that was just a "band-aid" solution.
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West Brom have announced they have exercised one-year options on captain Chris Brunt and fellow midfielder Graham Dorrans, while defenders Steven Reid and Liam Ridgewell are part of a group of players confirmed as departing.
The summer changes for Albion, who finished the campaign just three points above the Premier League relegation zone in 17th place, earlier this week parted company with head coach Pepe Mel by mutual consent.
And on Friday, the Baggies released two statements relating to the playing staff.
The first said the options on Brunt and Dorrans have been exercised, and that the club remain in talks with full-back Billy Jones, who is out of contract in June.
West Brom director of football administration Richard Garlick said: "Chris and Graham have given the club long and valued service and played big parts in getting the team over the line last season.
"We have had ongoing discussions with Billy's representatives about a new contract since last October, when we offered him a new long-term deal with substantially improved terms.
"Talks are continuing but they have proved fruitless and so far as Billy has yet to put pen to paper.''
The second statement revealed that out-of-contract duo Reid and midfielder Zoltan Gera have not been offered new deals and that West Brom have decided not to exercise their one-year option on Ridgewell.
It also said Albion have triggered a break clause in defender Diego Lugano's contract and decided against taking up their one-year option on midfielder Scott Allan.
Finally, it confirmed that five loan signings -- Scott Sinclair (from Manchester City), Morgan Amalfitano (Marseille), Matej Vydra (Udinese), Thievy Bifouma (Espanyol) and Goran Popov (Dynamo Kiev) -- have all returned to their parent clubs.
Garlick said: "Zoltan and Steven have been terrific professionals during their many years with us. They have been a real credit to the football club, both on and off the field.
"We know that Zoltan is looking to find another club while Steven, who is keen to carry on playing but is also doing his coaching badges, is considering his options.
"Liam has made a key contribution during the past two and a half years, which we thank him for. He has been a popular member of the dressing room and we wish him well as he looks for a new club.
"I would also like to thank Diego and our five loan signings for their efforts over the past 12 months.
"Scott Allan has found it difficult to break into the first team since arriving two and a half years ago and we wish him well in his future career.''


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 22 diseños de 7 diseñadores freelance.
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If you will be entering, please let me know asap so I have a rough idea of who's entering and whether or not there are more entries coming in (in case of closing the contest earlier).
If you're not comfortable doing css, you can still win but $100 less for me to get somebody else to code it. Also poor css coding will not be accepted so if you're not comfortable using it, please don't.
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We're launching a new blog banner exchange program and we need a design for the website. We looked at other banner exchange websites and the best one we found was from gamecetera.com . We are looking for something similar but with a "blog" like feeling rather than arcade.
There should also be a "Directory" of blogs option. There should be the following links "Home, join now, members area, rules, contact us, directory" and I usually prefer them to be on top of the page. (Maybe as tabs)
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If you have any questions at all or the description is too ambiguous, please let me know and I will be more than happy to update it. This bid is for the main page + 5 more pages (those 5 extra pages will have at least 80% of the main page design incorporated into it, just a slightly different content area)
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Wednesday's Lotto draw will have an estimated £7 million jackpot after no tickets matched Saturday's top prize.
The winning numbers were 34, 41, 38, 24, 18, 49 and the bonus number was 26.
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When Karen Traviss announced on her blog last week that Star Wars 501st: Imperial Commando #2 would be her last "Star Wars" book, many fans were shocked. So far, Traviss has written 11 Star Wars books including 3 Clone Wars novels, 3 "Legacy of the Force" series novels, 3 Republic Commando novels, and a Boba Fett e-novella that proved to many Fett fans everywhere that our favorite bounty hunter was still very much alive and kicking.
Besides her writing, her most predominant work within the Star Wars universe has been about the fictional culture of the Mandalorians. To Fett fans, we know the Mandalorians as the group of mercenaries lead by Jaster Mereel that rescued a young Jango Fett from the evil Vizsla on Concord Dawn. Karen, working with colleagues and fans alike, has not only detailed the training of Jango Fett's clone warriors on Kamino under Kal Skirata, but also continued the story of Boba Fett and his shattered family during the second Galactic Civil War. Throughout her works, Karen has even developed a working spoken language called mando'a. The language, which can be viewed in spreadsheet form on her website, is used by countless "fandalorians" throughout the world.
This news about Karen, known to fans as KT or Ka'buir in mando'a, is the topic of much debate among many Mando fans, where speculation about her departure because of canon issues is taking center stage.
Sue Rostoni, Executive Editor and Fiction & Comic Editor at Lucas Licensing, had this to say on her blog:
"I just read Karen's blog -- and can't reply to the posts because it's Saturday and I don't have the whole story. Still, I knew there were issues with the Boba Fett title, so I imagine it will be canceled. This doesn't mean that you won't be reading about Boba Fett -- He's a major character.
The new chronological issues that the animated series have brought up: Leland is working on mitigating the impact on old and new fiction, but until the TV series is completely finished, he won't know the extent of what he has to work with. None of this is new information --
I like Karen's writing, too. She's a very strong and passionate author."
TheForce.Net later reported that continuity issues appeared between KT's original work and new information about the "Clone Wars" animated series released with a new visual guide book to the show.
According to Karen:
"The canon is beyond my control, because that's the very nature of tie-in work. But that still left me with some personal choices I had to make. I could try to make the retcons. Or I could switch to different SW books that weren't affected by these changes. Or I could decide to call it a day - I had a great run, but I had an increasing amount of non-SW work to get on with that was more important to my business."
She continued the following day by adding:
"I've had a good innings and it was time to step aside and let someone else have some fun. Like I've said to quite a few fans who've mailed me today, I'm just a tie-in writer - I'm not an employee and I don't own the copyright. I was just hired to write a few books within a much bigger story from time to time, that's all. Star Wars was running for nearly 30 years before I showed up there, and it'll probably still be being going 30 years after I'm dead. I'm replaceable and I'm not special. There are a hundred who could take my place tomorrow. I'm genuinely amazed and taken aback by the volume of e-mails I've had and the lovely things fans have said in them. I really didn't know people felt that strongly about me, and it's been genuinely moving to find out that they do. SW fans are good people. My life is far richer for knowing you all."
What happens next for Mandalorians is yet unknown. Traviss was scheduled to write a new stand-alone Boba Fett novel next year, but that has apparently been canceled. Who will pick up the Mando-torch and run with it next? If Season 2 of "Clone Wars" and the upcoming issues of Star Wars: Legacy comics are any indication, Mandalorians aren't going anywhere. If anything, we are just getting started.
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Safety Experts Say 'Raw Water' Trend Is a Very Bad Idea
Is drinking "raw water" a great way to get beneficial minerals and microbes removed by filtration—or do people who pay $15 a gallon for untreated water have more money than sense?
The subject has been hotly debated since a New York Times story last week looked at people—many of them wealthy Silicon Valley residents—who are "[getting] off the water grid." Some collect water from springs themselves; some buy from companies like Live Water, which charges almost $40 for a 2.5 gallon jug and $15 for refills; and others have installed expensive systems to collect water from the air.
One big fan is Doug Evans, who says he lived on Live Water for 10 days after his Juicero company, which sold a much-mocked $700 juicer, collapsed a few months ago. "I'm extreme about health, I know, but I'm not alone with this," he told the Times.
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Day 1 of the Formula Kite South and Middle American Championships saw ideal racing conditions with winds averaging 16 knots in crystal blue caribbean waters.
4 races were completed for both men and women with Riccardo Leccese (ITA) taking all wins in the mens fleet and Katja Roose (NED) having an almost perfect score with 3 out of 4 wins.
Best South/Middle American Sailors are Beth Lygoe (LCA) in 4th position and Wilson Veloso (BRA) in 5th position.
Standings after 4 races:
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3. Julien Kerneur (FRA) 11 pts
1. Katja Roose (NED) 6 pts
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AGUILAR HERNANDEZ, Idalberto; LOURO BERNAL, Isabel y PERERA MILIAN, Leidis Sandra. Implementation of the Prevention and Control Program of Suicidal Behaviours in Nueva Paz municipality. Rev Cubana Salud Pública [online]. 2012, vol.38, n.1, pp.74-83. ISSN 0864-3466.
Introduction: suicide is one of the 10 first causes of death worldwide. The World Health Organization estimates that at least one thousand and one hundred ten (1 110) people commit suicide every day and other hundreds of thousands attempted suicide, regardless of geography, culture, religion and race, and this organization also alerts to the increase of suicidal rates as a growing trend in the young population. Objective: to assess the implementation of the program of prevention and control of suicidal behavior in Nueva Paz municipality in 2010. Methods: cross-sectional and descriptive study. A group of 65 health workers administered questionnaires, interviews, observational guides and knowledge exploration guides about the Program. Criteria, indicators and standards for the evaluation of structure, process and outcome variables were set. Results: suicide was the 7th cause of death in the municipality and the attempted suicides had an incidence on the females and on the 60 years and over group and on the 10-19 years-old group. Neither the community center of mental health nor the mental health teams worked properly. Training activities on the program were not carried out and the knowledge for its implementation was really poor. The compulsory notification disease cards lacked good quality and the flow of information was inadequate. The classification of patients was deficient due to low quality of the first doctor's consultation, the non compliance with inter-consultation schedules and the irregular visits paid to the patients' houses Conclusions: the problems found in the structure and in the process led to the negative evaluation of the implementation of the program of suicidal behavior prevention and control in Nueva Paz municipality.
Palabras clave : National Program of Prevention and Control of suicidal behavior; primary health care.


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The issue:
Ten years ago, same-sex marriage was legal nowhere in the United States. It's now allowed in nine states, with several more in the pipeline, yet many other states seem unlikely to follow suit unless forced by Congress or the Supreme Court.
It seems like a recipe for long-term conflict, but President Barack Obama and other Democratic Party leaders are now firmly ensconced in the ranks of gay-marriage supporters, and national opinion polls suggest that's now the prevailing view among the public.
The campaign promise:
"It is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married." - Obama in May 2012, ending his drawn-out "evolving" on gay marriage, which he had previously opposed.
The prospects:
Since his re-election, Obama's stance has become more emphatic, notably with a passage in his inaugural address placing the push for marriage equality in the same context as the civil rights crusades of blacks and women.
"Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law, for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well," Obama said.
More recently, the Obama administration argued on behalf of same-sex marriage in two cases before the Supreme Court.
In one case, the administration argued that a section of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional because it denies legally married same-sex couples many federal benefits that are available to married heterosexual couples.
In the other case, Obama's team urged the Supreme Court to overturn California's voter-approved same-sex marriage ban and look skeptically at similar bans in other states. The argument fell short of an outright appeal for immediate legalization of gay marriage nationwide, but it was the first time a president had asked the high court to expand the right of gays and lesbians to wed.
Rulings are expected in June, and there are multiple possible outcomes.
It seems unlikely the court will order gay marriage to be legalized in all 50 states, but there's a good chance it could strike down the contested section of the Defense of Marriage Act. That would have tangible benefits for married gays: Federal recognition of their unions would impact estate taxes, health insurance for spouses of federal workers, Social Security survivor benefits and many other matters.
And it would amount to arguably the biggest victory ever for the gay-rights movement in the U.S.
Regardless of how the court rules, gay-rights activists generally feel Obama has kept his pledge from December 2008 to be a "fierce advocate" for their causes by supporting gay marriage and enabling gays to serve openly in the armed forces.
Their remaining issues with Obama have dwindled to only a few. They'd hoped for selection of the first openly gay Cabinet member and they've been urging Obama to issue an executive order barring federal contractors from anti-gay discrimination in the workplace.
Republicans, meanwhile, seem increasingly divided and uncertain in regard to the marriage debate. Rob Portman of Ohio and Mark Kirk of Illinois recently became the first GOP senators to endorse same-sex marriage, and a supportive brief was filed with the Supreme Court by dozens of other Republican VIPs, including several former governors.
However, most currently serving Republican leaders remain opposed - in line with the party's platform and the views of religious conservatives who have clout in many GOP primaries.


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There is a dogged battle in the race for L.A. city attorney. The defending incumbent, Carmen Trutanich, is facing ambitious challengers. Mike Feuer, former state assemblyman and past L.A. City Council member, has raised nearly $1 million to aggressively take on Trutanich as a known quantity.
Also funding a tough campaign is Greg Smith. The private attorney has a formidable war chest of several hundred thousand dollars. He's using some of it to fund TV ads - the only campaign to do so. It's all in an effort to be the city's number one attorney: counsel to the mayor and city leadership; defender in court cases and prosecutor of misdemeanors.
What kind of city attorney do Angelenos need? How can he balance the interests of citizens with the interests of city leadership? What's your question for the candidates?
Carmen Trutanich, Incumbent City Attorney for Los Angeles
Mike Feuer, Candidate for City Attorney of Los Angeles; Former State Assemblyman; Former L.A. City Council member
Greg Smith, Candidate for City Attorney of Los Angeles; Attorney in private practice


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It was in Ancient Greece during the fifth century BC that rhetoric—the art of public speaking—began to be taught in the ancient cities of Athens and Syracuse as the need arose for citizens to argue effectively and persuade their fellows in the jury courts and political assemblies. Rhetoric was also used on ceremonial occasions such as funeral orations. The study of rhetoric involved the use of different types of arguments. The appeal to reason involved the use of logic, and Aristotle was the first to formalize this discipline.
In general, the aim in formal logic is to draw valid conclusions through valid reasoning, so that if our premises are true, and the form of our argument correct, we can develop a cogent argument and arrive at a further truth.
Rhetoricians also employed nonlogical types of arguments such as the ethical appeal (for example, "so-and-so is a worthy man and we ought to do what he says") and, of course, the appeal to emotions. Rhetoricians knew people could be easily persuaded to accept an argument or point of view if one made a passionate appeal to their fears, or their anger, or their love of country.
But how can one win an argument when his or her opponent has the stronger case? Or in modern parlance, how can we spin this?
This is precisely where fallacies come into play, and some of the most effective examples simply involve trying to change the subject (see main story).
It is informal fallacies—the oldest tricks in the book, so to speak—that are most relevant to our times. For if we lose our ability to engage in honest debate, we risk much. Honest debate is crucial to democracy. Without it, America could change from a democratic republic with an educated citizenry engaging in public debate on matters of civic importance to a sort of oligarchy akin to the Russia of the '90s where the moneyed few rule the rest.
Here are a few classic examples:
Argumentum ad baculum (appeal to the club): This type of argument is known as the appeal to force. An example given in Irving Copi's Introduction to Logic tells of an exchange at Yalta towards the end of World War II. Winston Churchill brought up the Pope's view of taking such-and-such course of action and Josef Stalin reportedly replied, "And how many divisions did you say the Pope had available for duty?" The ad baculum, like any threat, can be quite subtle. Recall Dick Cheney's remark during the 2004 election campaign that another devastating terror attack would be more likely if John Kerry were elected president.
Argumentum ad hominem ("take it to the man"): This is a very popular diversionary tactic whereby one attacks the person instead of his or her argument. Again, think of Kerry and how his service in Vietnam was turned against him in the fall of 2004. President Bush himself was a victim of this ploy when his opponents pointed to his service record in the Texas Air National Guard as disqualifying him as a capable Commander-in-Chief.
Argumentum ad populum (appeal to the people): In Classical Rhetoric, Edward P.J. Corbett gives some examples of the appeal to mass sentiment. "Honorific terms—Americanism, patriotism, motherhood, rugged individualism—are used to stir up a favorable emotional climate; pejorative terms—socialism, godlessness, radical, reactionary—are used to arouse hostile reactions." This is a tried-and-true diversionary tactic that takes many forms. "The sanctity of private property rights" comes to mind.
Red Herring: This fallacy derives its name from a procedure used to train hounds for hunting, notes Patrick J. Hurley in his A Concise Introduction to Logic. A bag of red herrings is dragged across the trace to try to throw the dogs off the trail. Similarly, the odor of any number of extraneous issues can be introduced to change the subject rather than attempt to refute a strong argument.
Straw Man: Hurley's definition of this fallacy is apt: "The 'straw man' fallacy is committed when the arguer misinterprets an opponent's argument for the purpose of more easily attacking it, demolishes the misinterpreted argument, and then proceeds to conclude that the opponent's real argument has been demolished."


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(Phoenix, Ariz. - July 13, 2005) Attorney General Terry Goddard today commended a preliminary settlement of $29 million in a national class-action lawsuit against Toyobo Co., the Japanese textile manufacturer that provided Zylon fiber for bullet-proof vests suspected of being defective.
The settlement affects all law enforcement officers and agencies that purchased Ultima, Ultimax and TriFlex bullet-proof vests from Second Chance Body Armor, Inc. The settlement does not resolve claims against Second Chance, including a consumer fraud action filed by the Arizona Attorney General's Office last year. Second Chance is now in Chapter 11 bankruptcy and attempting to sell its assets.
"Although $29 million may not fully reimburse buyers of the Zylon vests, it will provide at least some compensation," Goddard said. "We will continue to pursue our claim against Second Chance, but given the company's uncertain financial status, it's hard to know how much money it will be able to pay."
The Arizona suit against Second Chance alleges that it defrauded customers by failing to disclose that the Zylon fibers in its vests may not provide the warranted level of protection.
Last month, Goddard urged all state law enforcement officers to replace Second Chance Zylon vests, which have been worn by many officers across Arizona. The warning followed an announcement by Second Chance that its Zylon vests had the "potential for serious personal injury or death." That announcement confirmed what the Attorney General's Office had been saying for the past 18 months. More than 150,000 of the vests have been sold nationally.
Goddard is sending a notice to all state law enforcement agencies that outlines the preliminary settlement.


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Software for Manufacturing
Software Allows Fabricator to Boost Cost-Estimating Speed by 70 Percent
When Landoll Corp., Marysville, KS, looked to streamline its cost-estimating process by investing in new software (in 2007), little did it know that the returns would be as significant as they have been. Since that time, the company has experienced a 70-percent decrease in turnaround time on estimates, as well as reaping the benefits of more accurate quotations. The software of choice: Costimator, from MTI Systems, Inc. West Springfield, MA.
Landoll designs and fabricates a varied product line of light and heavy equipment for the transportation, material-handling and agricultural industries. Describing its new estimating software, manufacturing engineering supervisor Alan Koch says: "Even when the end user has minimal computer experience or limited manufacturing knowledge, he can use the program. Our cost estimators work in a time-sensitive and highly competitive manufacturing environment. We find that with Costimator, they can produce consistently accurate estimates regardless of their manufacturing experience."
Because Landoll produces such a range of products for an eclectic set of customers, its estimating software must be all-inclusive and flexible in order to yield accurate job quotes and process plans for an array of machining, fabricating and assembly jobs. Says engineer Scott Padgett: "Because we have to quote such a wide spectrum of jobs, we need an all-encompassing program that can help us meet those needs—and do it quickly. We get a consistent flow of requests-for-quotes into our department, and with Costimator, we can tweak a lot of our existing cost-models to meet our needs. The models that come with the system are easy to modify, and creating new ones is a very straight-forward process."MTI Systems, Inc.: 800/644-4318; www.mtisystems.com
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September 2. Today, some philosophy. Chuck, who visited the land this past weekend, is what I would call a techno-animist. This whole subject is hard to explain in English, because of trap words like "soul" and "consciousness", but I'll start with the eeevil philosopher Rene Descartes. Descartes believed that if you torture a dog, its howls of pain are no different from a bell ringing on a machine. I hope we all agree that he was insane, but he was at least making an attempt to answer a hard question: where do we draw the line between people and not-people, subject and object, player character and non-player character?
At one extreme, you have solipsists, narcissists, and psychopaths, who would say, "I alone am the subject, and everyone else is an object." Expand that consciousness a little bit, and you get tribalism, which remains very popular to this day. A 21st century tribalist would say that if my country does an airstrike in another country and kills some civilians, that's an unfortunate necessity, but if another country does an airstrike in my country and kills some civilians, that's an unspeakable abomination. Descartes was actually more enlightened than this, because he put all humans in his home tribe. But if you don't want to make an alarm clock out of a hammer falling on a dog, then you have to go farther.
So where do you draw the line? The short answer is that there is no good place. It's just a vast grey area all the way down. Colonies of bacteria behave like brains. Crystals grow, heal, and duplicate themselves. Quantum physicists have now proven that if we have free will, then so do electrons. This brings us all the way to the other extreme: that the entire universe and everything in it is a person, a subject, a player character.
This is the essence of animism, our oldest and newest philosophy of mind. But many nature-loving animists don't follow it to its conclusion: if a rock is a person, then so is a brick, a bottle, a bicycle, a cell phone. Three years ago when Patricia visited my land, she felt that it was angry from all the abuse it had suffered under humans. Chuck told me that he once had the same feeling -- at a landfill! And that he sensed a feeling of great joy in a new car showroom. Manufactured items want to be bought and kept and loved by us, and they feel great confusion and rage when we just throw them out.
Of course, this opens up all kinds of questions that are hard to ask from our mechanistic, objective culture: Can we be wrong about the feelings of discarded cell phones? What is the relation between the identity humans project on a thing, and the identity native to that thing? How does a rock feel about being carved into a statue? Does a cloud know, or care, when you see it as a face? If no human is observing a chair, does it really dissolve into quantum probability waves? In what sense is it still being observed by dust mites, or by itself?
The best way I can get a handle on these questions is to ask: what would the answer be in a dream? But this leads to an even harder question: who is the dreamer? My best guess is this: that you, your toenail, the grain of sand under your toenail, and the subatomic particles in that grain of sand, are all characters in a dream by a dreamer much too strange for us to imagine.
A couple comments, reaching the same practical conclusion on different paths. Aaron writes:
This is really a debate about how much we should limit our love. When I put it like that it quickly becomes clear that asking the question is the opposite of a loving act. It is an attempt to set intellectual rules that allow us to withdraw love.
In practice it's a bit different because I find myself limiting my love often. Surely though it's better to admit that we ran out of love today rather than rationalising our behaviour by creating out-groups.
And from another reader:
On one hand, I would consider myself a "reductionist" and that things are fundamentally mechanistic, objective, etc.... but I will be so happy to rescue an insect washed up along the water. I'll help a sea star that doesn't have a proper brain. I'll wish I could be more helpful to jellyfish that are hardly anything at all. And I hate to see a tree harmed for no reason, or a rock harmed for no reason, because everything deserves to be what it is and what it will become, even if it doesn't have anything to think or feel with.
September 10. Pigeon transfers data faster than the internet. This is supposed to show how slow the South African internet is, but I'm thinking it would be a good way to transfer data in a possible future where we still have computers but can't use the internet, either because the infrastructure has been destroyed, or because it's too tightly controlled. This raises other questions: What data, exactly, would we be sending? And what would it enable us to do that we couldn't do with telephones or the mail?
September 11. Nobody has asked me for advice on how to write a successful blog, but I want to give it anyway. First, some general advice for writers: 1) Fewer words. 2) Practice empathy with your audience. Another way to say this is, you can only be a good singer by listening to the voice coming out of your mouth, not to the voice in your head. 3) From comedian Bill Hicks: Be yourself, because nobody else can be you, so you have supply and demand covered.
There is a special rule for blogs or anything else where you're trying to hold an audience over time: it's like feeding a fire. The fire is the attention of your readers, and your writing is the wood. Of course you need clean dry wood and not soggy dirty wood. But also, if you go too long without throwing wood on, or if you throw too much on at once, the fire will go out. If you're going to post infrequently, do it on a strict schedule, like the Archdruid or Postsecret.
September 21. In this reddit comment, a visitor to North Korea discovers that all the farmers have mysterious huts on stilts... which turn out to be machine gun nests to stop people from stealing food!
Now, at first, this might seem like a Mad Max scenario, and you might imagine, in a few years, protecting your own homestead with a gun tower. But this is North Korea, one of the most tightly controlled societies in history. Every one of those gunners is completely subservient to the state, because if they weren't, they would be immediately taken out. And they are shooting at people who are trying to be independent.
When you think about it, the same thing would happen in a hard crash. The "zombie apocalypse" would be a brief transitional stage, if it happened at all. Soon you would be facing powerful gangs or paramilitary groups, and you would have to submit to them or be killed -- and after years of civil war, the winning gang would declare itself the government. Now, at any stage in this process, you could be relatively free by staying on the fringes of the system. But people on the fringes are not allowed to show weapons, even in self-defense -- which explains what happened to the Black Panthers and the Branch Davidians and MOVE.
Americans who talk about "the right to bear arms" are confused because they haven't thought it through. Do they desire the bearing of arms by crowds of Mexican immigrants, or poor black people, or anarchists? Do they want to see "the tree of liberty refreshed with the blood of tyrants" by weapons held by those groups? Of course not. They want the right to bear arms, and the right to overthrow the government, only for their own culture. They think they're oppressed, but the fact that you can bring a gun to an Obama speech, when you couldn't even wear a critical t-shirt to a Bush speech, proves that right wingers are near the center of power.
But what if that changes? Dmitry Orlov wrote about this a few days ago: Caution, White People. He went to one of the tea-bagger protests and noticed that not only was everyone white, almost everyone was middle-aged or older, out of shape, and out of touch. And now they're angry because American demographics are changing, and their once-dominant culture is becoming a fringe culture.
They're actually right that Obama is coming for their guns -- but it's nothing personal. It's just part of the logic of control that fringe cultures are not allowed to bear arms, because guns are tools of control. If you live by it, you die by it.
September 25. In the forums (page 3 of this thread), and also over email, I've been asked how we can face terrible facts and still go through life feeling good. My answer was to make peace with the worst that can happen, and retain confidence in our ability, or the ability of other life, to navigate those events, to find a way through, even if we cannot see it yet. Now, I admit that I'm leaning on metaphysics. I think biological life on Earth is just a tiny part of a vast and possibly infinite universe packed with life beyond our understanding. But even if this world is all there is, and it's doomed, we can still appreciate it and enjoy every moment of our lives. There's a great line in the film The Wild Bunch, after one of the characters puts up a great fight and finally dies, and another guy says, admiringly, "He played his string out all the way to the end."
October 2. Ian sends this very good article on PTSD, and this 2005 essay on Ecological Collapse, Trauma Theory and Permaculture. I'm thinking that trauma theory fills a big gap in our understanding of why people and societies do harmful things. Wilhelm Reich called it the emotional plague, and some Reich followers have even blamed the whole age of Empire on the trauma from the climate disaster that created the Sahara. I wouldn't go that far, but the first article does have a fascinating section, "Secondary Victims", about how PTSD can be passed to new generations that did not experience the initial traumatic event.
I've also noticed that people who have suffered trauma, and not come to terms with it, are intensely envious and even hostile toward people who have suffered less trauma, and they seek to drag everyone else down in a psychological version of the crab mentality. This is why everyone hates hippies, and it's probably a big factor in genocides.
Trauma theory could also explain why violent revolutions always fail. Even if you replace a bad system with a better system, if you use violence, you are replacing a less traumatized with a more traumatized population.
October 9. The future is already here, just not widely distributed yet. Here's an article about rural India and their word Jugaad:
Many of our friends, when we asked them about it, said that the concept is best illustrated by a common rural sight that people actually refer to as "a jugaad": a homemade vehicle made by cobbling together a wooden cart with the kind of diesel water pump farmers use for irrigation.
The variety of solutions to seemingly intractable problems we saw supported this patriotic esteem: motorcycles chopped in half and welded to carts to create centaur goods haulers. The way families would fit mother, father, and three kids onto a single scooter. The clever repurposing of used water bottles as cooking oil containers. Rope spun from discarded foil packets.
October 12. Charles Eisenstein has a new essay on ritual. His basic idea is both obvious and shocking: when you are aware of a ritual as a ritual, when you say, "we are now going to do this ritual", your ritual is dead. A living ritual is not experienced as a ritual, but as a part of a way of life. My favorite bit is when he goes to a sweat lodge ceremony, and the only part that feels authentic is the signing of the legal waiver -- because that's the only part that's integrated into the world we actually live in.
Later he tries to think of a ritual of the next age, and comes up with sorting your garbage for composting and recycling:
In the old story, unless you are doing it to avoid a fine, this is quite irrational. What benefit is there to you if the landfill is a few inches lower? ... In any event, the juggernaut of destruction rolls on.
But in the coming dominant paradigm, sorting your garbage is an act of respect for a living planet. I would add: as the ongoing collapse continues, we will no longer be able to rely on city garbage collection, or cheap mass-produced items and food. So it's going to become more and more practical to sort our garbage, to re-use bottles and jars and plastic bags, to recycle junk mail as worm bedding or wood stove kindling, and to turn kitchen scraps into compost or pig food.
October 14-16. According to this article about the athletic superiority of primitive humans, your typical aboriginal village had a guy who could run on wet mud almost as fast as Usain Bolt runs on a track. So how did we lose that? I think the change is almost all environmental, and most of us have massive untapped potential. If you want to go farther out, here's a post from Edge of Grace, The Extraordinary Physical Abilities of the Mongols, and a Fortean Times article on feral kids.
Another question is: what skills have we gained that our ancestors didn't have? Certainly we're better at navigating our particular environment: driving, living in dense cities, working long hours at stressful jobs, and staring at screens all day. According to this thoughtful history of silent reading, just 2000 years ago nobody could read without moving their lips. Also we're surrounded by so many harmful temptations that we've had to learn exceptional restraint. And contrary to popular myth, I think we're much better at mind-body healing: we're swimming in toxins and radiation, we eat terribly, and yet we're at least as healthy as primitive people of the same age.
The conventional explanation is sanitation and medical technology, but I've drunk from mountain streams, eaten from dumpsters, and haven't been to a doctor in years. I think Leonard Sagan figured it out in his book The Health of Nations, where he analyzes a bunch of societies and discovers that health and lifespan correlate with cultural environment, rather than physical environment. That leads into fringe psychology, like Lloyd deMause's argument that kids have been raised better and better throughout history, or Teilhard de Chardin's concept of the Noosphere.
I like to think we could reverse aging and regrow limbs if we lived in a culture where those abilities were considered normal. But backing off a bit, could we just be as athletic as our ancestors? David sends this article about a radical fitness system called MovNat:
Le Corre, in fact, could be one of the best living examples of what our bodies were originally designed to do. "Versatility was the key to survival, because early humans had to be ready for anything at any time," says E. Paul Zehr, a kinesiology professor at the University of Victoria and the author of Becoming Batman. "If your daily life is hunting and being hunted, at a moment's notice you might have to sprint, jog, throw a spear, scramble up a tree, hunker down, and dig. The specialization we enjoy today, be it as a marathoner or a tennis player -- even a triathlete -- is a luxury of modern society. It doesn't have great survival value for Homo sapiens in the wild."
There's also some good stuff about how physical training should feel like play, not work. It reminds me of an experiment where a professional basketball player got tired out trying to mimic the movements of a kid playing. This is not because kids have superhuman stamina -- it's because actions that are playful and spontaneous give you human stamina, and also human strength and creativity, while actions that are contrived and forced make you subhuman.
October 19. In this world I constantly find myself being dragged along with increasing complexity that I didn't ask for and don't like. The latest example is that Gmail has removed my ability to write all emails in plain text by default. I sent them a comment about it, but I know this is a losing battle. It will be thousands of years before humans learn the skill of decreasing the complexity of large systems while keeping them stable. What I'm really asking is not for Gmail to go back to plain text, but for Gmail to add yet another layer of complexity that enables some of us to opt out of increasing complexity. It's kind of like asking for a runaway train to add another car so I can sit farther back. The more realistic strategy is to store up a bunch of pens and paper to use after the tech system destroys itself. Related: the Hipster PDA.
October 21. Today I saw this fascinating link about the possibility that The large hadron collider is sabotaging itself from the future. When I went to submit it to reddit, I saw that it had already been submitted multiple times. The strange thing was, the conspiracy subreddit loved it, even though it has nothing to do with conspiracy, while the science subreddit didn't like it much, even though the speculation came from serious physicists.
This is why I didn't make a career out of science: because I sensed that the culture of science is no longer about exploring and having fun, but about protecting your reputation and credibility. You know, there is nothing in the scientific method that says the burden of proof should be on anomalies, or that the dominant theory should get the benefit of the doubt. Those rules come from the conservatism that science has fallen into. I prefer to slant it the other way, give the fringe theory the benefit of the doubt, and assume that every anomaly, unless explained away with full evidence, offers a doorway to something we don't understand yet.
But I will overrule this habit if there are high practical stakes, as with climate change. If one theory says we have to be very careful or something terrible will happen, and the other theory says fuck it, we can do whatever we want, I'll go with caution. You don't wait for proof you're going to crash before putting your seat belt on.
October 29. Continuing on the culture of science, one of my favorite anomalies is that miners have occasionally reported breaking open a rock and seeing a frog crawl out. Now, if you see the dominant model of reality as a fortress holding off chaos, and you find a crack in the wall, you will quickly patch it. In this case you'll say that the miner saw it wrong or that the frog crawled into a geode and survived on bugs. But if you see the dominant model as a prison, and you find a crack, you will stick a wedge in and hammer it. As Charles Fort said, "When we come upon assurances that a mystery has been solved, we go on investigating."
But here's an explanation for frogs in rocks that would require only a small expansion of the wall: Researchers have just found that hydrogen sulfide puts animals into suspended animation. And other researchers have found that several mass extinctions have been caused by hydrogen sulfide gas from anoxic oceans. So maybe those frogs were preserved by hydrogen sulfide in an anoxic extinction, buried in ash or sediment which turned to stone, and revived by oxygen after tens of millions of years. I'm trying to compromise here -- I'd actually prefer to go much weirder.
October 30. Wind powered factories: the history and future of industrial windmills:
In the 1930s and 1940s, decades after steam engines had made wind power obsolete, Dutch researchers obstinately kept improving the traditional windmill. The results were spectacular, and there is no doubt that today an army of ecogeeks could improve them even further. Would it make sense to revive the industrial windmill and again convert kinetic energy directly into mechanical energy?
The best advantage of all-mechanical windmills is that the energy can't be centralized. With electricity-generating windmills, it's possible for a central authority to suck up all the power and dispense it selectively to the obedient. Because that's not possible with mechanical windmills, they are allied to a more decentralized society.
November 4. Yesterday we had an election, and the big show was in upstate New York. In a district that has not elected a Democrat since 1872, local Republican leaders chose Dede Scozzafava, a mainstream conservative by local standards -- but because she's a liberal on cultural issues (by 1950's standards), the national Republican base was furious, and they recruited a clueless far-righty to run against her with the Conservative party. Under attack from almost everyone in her own party, Scozzafava dropped out of the race and endorsed the Democrat. The result could not have been worse for Republicans: their guy lost, but just barely. Now they will run far-right challengers against moderate Republicans everywhere, and drive a wedge through the party.
But it doesn't look good for the Democrats either, because they're in power now and the economy is still collapsing. I'm sure Obama will win a second term, because the Republicans are a wreck and he's a brilliant campaigner. The great opportunity and danger comes in 2016. By then, with eight more years of old people dying and young people turning 18, the nation will be solidly socially "liberal", and also more fiscally liberal as the middle class stops identifying as potentially rich and starts identifying as poor. A lefty populist will make a strong run at the presidency, and if he's assassinated, or if he wins and is corrupted by power, America explodes. Right now I'm looking at Alan Grayson, but I expect more people like him will appear.
November 9. Dennis Kucinich explains why he voted No on the health care bill, and I pretty much agree. If the Senate passes this thing, I may have to start begging donations or put ads on this site to pay the insurance mandate, which would be a head tax, the most regressive of all taxes, enforced by the government and paid to private businesses. A head tax with private beneficiaries is the most fiscally right wing policy imaginable, and yet the "liberals" are behind it while a third of the population screams that it's socialist. This is getting so depressing I can barely stand to watch, and yet I have to watch to continue adapting. It's like being trapped in an insane asylum that's on fire.
November 17. Thoughtful essay on intellectual property, If you believe in IP, how do you teach others? My position is that property is theft, and intellectual property is theft on stilts. Now Harvard and the University of Texas are actually prohibiting students from sharing what they learn in class. If you take this to its logical conclusion, you can pay for an education, go on to use what you've learned in a job, and if you didn't get the professor's explicit permission to use it, you can go to prison.
The article doesn't stop there, but goes on to explore Ayn Rand's obsession with intellectual property. It never occurred to me that Rand had two distinct ideologies which totally contradict each other. One is basically Nietzsche, or Harrison Bergeron: the exceptional individual, wild and free, weighted down by the mediocrity of the average. The other is Ebenezer Scrooge. Rand's genius was to use the former as a front for the latter: because we are strong and independent and creative, we should never have to give anything to the lazy idiots. She was personally so miserly that she sent Nathaniel Branden to prevent her followers "from using the word Objectivist, to prevent them from using quotes from John Galt, to prevent them even from advertising lectures on the topic by students of her ideas." And "she ended up feeling robbed and looted by everyone who was influenced by her."
When you think about it, the most exceptional people should be the most generous. If you're truly confident in your ability to create things of value, you don't mind losing everything, because you can just make more.
November 19. Especially good Archdruid post, How Relocalization Worked. Greer explains how the Medieval guild system was necessary in a local economy: a skilled blacksmith would get most of his business from stuff that anyone could do, but if unskilled blacksmiths were allowed to compete with him, he would be driven out of business, and then there wouldn't be anyone to do skilled work. There was also an unintended benefit of price fixing: if craftsmen couldn't compete in price, they had to compete in quality and innovation. Ironically, this led to so much innovation that we now have a high-tech global economy where price competition has driven quality into the gutter.
Also, Greer links to this exceptional piece by Ugo Bardi on the fall of Rome. Bardi concludes that the best thing for the Romans to do, if they had understood their situation, would have been to go voluntarily into the Middle Ages, to decentralize, demilitarize, and regrow forests, through reform instead of through catastrophe.
November 23. I'm struggling to put together some thoughts about what you could call epistemological collapse, the veering away of human perception from what we need to see to what we want to see. More and more, people are starting with what they want to believe, and then going out and finding the facts to support it. Of course we've been doing this for thousands of years, but the internet makes it much easier. It is now so easy to move information, that the majority of information-moving is being done by people who can only do things that are easy. More and more of the content of TV and the inernet is derived from simply feeding back what the audience wants. This is killing open-minded investigation, but the strange thing is that it's also killing propaganda. The idiots are no longer being told what to think -- now they are telling each other what to think, and they might think anything, or do anything. Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.