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American writer and literary critic, Edgar Allan Poe passed away on this day in 1849, at the age of 40. The cause of death remains a mystery, with delirium tremens, heart disease, epilepsy, syphilis, meningeal inflammation, cholera and rabies all mooted as potential culprits to his demise.
The only thing historians are pretty certain about is that he didn't pass away due of all of those causes; as championed by maverick literary historian Emo Klutz.
In his controversial paper chronicling Poe's death, called 'The Seven Causes', Klutz theorises that a drunk, foaming at the mouth, syphilis and cholera ridden Poe had a heart attack during an epileptic fit, that caused neurological complications, which subsequently resulted in his untimely death.
Reactions to Klutz's theory from his peers included "Unlikely!", "That would be very unlucky!", to "He's talking out of his arse!"
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The information provided above is only a generalized description of school traffic congestion. You should use these basic facts to help develop a more specific understanding of your local problem. Analyzing the local problem carefully will help you design a more effective response strategy.
The following groups have an interest in the school traffic-congestion problem and should be considered for the contribution they might make to gathering information about the problem and responding to it.
This guide is written for police, not because they are the biggest stakeholders in solving traffic congestion problems, but because they are often one of the first to be called when traffic congestion develops around schools. Police are more likely to be contacted only after tensions have developed among residents, school staff, and parents over who is responsible for the congestion. Police therefore are in a unique position to serve as mediator between these groups, helping them to seek common ground in developing and implementing effective solutions and ultimately making their jobs easier by reducing the number of calls for service generated by congestion, and the traffic violations and traffic safety issues that often accompany it.
When it comes to both understanding the underlying source of the congestion problem and developing responses to it, parents may be the single most important stakeholder you identify. This is because parents' decisions to drive their children to school, their concern for their children's safety, and their regard for existing traffic rules can tremendously affect the problem.
While research indicates that most school traffic problems occur around elementary and middle schools, in cases where congestion is around high schools, students are significant stakeholders given that their driving and parking habits are likely contributing to the problem. Student input in lower-grade schools is equally important, and can become critical if a response strategy includes encouraging children to walk or bike to school.
School staff often experience the aggravation of school traffic congestion in equal measure to parents. Some staff may be inconvenienced by congestion in their own commutes to and from the school. Others, such as the principal and school administrators, bear the brunt of complaints by parents and local residents. Given that most congestion occurs in and around school property, the child safety concerns associated with traffic congestion become the school's responsibility, as well.
Residents living near schools with congestion problems are very much affected by the problem, and may also be contributing to it. Imagine being late for work and pulling out of your driveway, only to realize that school traffic is at its peak and it will take another 10 minutes just to travel a tenth of a mile. Residents may become so frustrated by repeated complaints to the school or local police with no sign of resolution in sight, that they deliberately ignore signs prohibiting street parking or making streets one-way during drop-off and pick-up times, further contributing to the congestion problem.
In some areas, school traffic congestion is caused or exacerbated by commuters whose routes take them past the school or those who use residential roads around schools as shortcuts to reduce travel time, despite the congestion they may encounter around schools.
Your local transportation and planning department is also a critical partner in understanding and addressing the problem of school traffic congestion. This agency can change or add traffic signs, create one-way streets, and change the traffic-light timing to increase traffic flow and reduce congestion around the school.
In cases in which congestion occurs around schools that have busing, the bus companies are an important partner in developing responses to the problem. For example, if buses are perceived as contributing to the congestion problem, the school may determine that the best approach is to stagger bus drop-off and pick-up times and/or schedule those times so that they do not coincide with parental drop-off and pick-up times.
Formal entities such as PTAs can conduct surveys of their membership to better understand the nature of the problem, to enlist their participation and support in developing and implementing responses, and to aid in administering surveys designed to assess the response's impact.
School architects and landscapers may need to be enlisted to better understand possible and feasible changes to school property, as well as to aid in drafting plans to reduce congestion. In addition, while most of the literature on school traffic congestion pertains to schools already existing when a traffic problem emerges, it is important to note that school architects can play a critical role in designing out traffic problems before new schools are erected.
In some cases, schools are located near retailers or businesses that generate their own traffic or that suffer from school-generated traffic. These businesses represent another important stakeholder group in understanding and addressing the traffic congestion problem.
The following are some critical questions you should ask in analyzing your particular problem of school traffic congestion, even if the answers are not always readily available. Your answers to these and other questions will help you choose the most appropriate set of responses later on.
Incident data will enable you to measure the level and type of traffic congestion problem occurring around the school(s) affected by congestion. To answer these questions, it is useful first to learn whether the school system and/or police department has a mechanism for recording traffic congestion complaints. In some cases, police calls-for-service data may provide the necessary details to extract this information. In the case of school-generated data, however, the school system is likely to document only traffic safety issues, such as crashes involving the injury or death of a child. It is likely, therefore, that the police officer assigned to the school (or the patrol area in which the school is located) is the best source of incident data. The questions to ask to obtain incident data include the following:
A useful means to assist in answering these questions about setting is to conduct field observations at and around the school at different times of day and days of week to find out where most traffic is coming from, where people park, and where pedestrian pathways and flows are located.§ Such observations may also reveal whether any nonschool commuter traffic cutting through the school area is contributing to the problem.
§ You can find a useful resource to guide such field observations in a document produced by the National Highway Safety Transportation Board that provides advice to those conducting pedestrian and bicycle crash analyses. See http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/people/injury/pedbimot/ped/pbcatjan01/index.html.
In most growing school systems, school assignment is reevaluated each year. As a result, even if your particular problem is congestion around an individual school, the problem must be considered in light of the larger school system context. This includes identifying and anticipating any significant changes, including the following:
These questions underscore the importance of understanding that any efforts to address school congestion problems must be considered in light of the larger system, and that congestion issues and your responses' effectiveness must be reassessed and may need to be amended each year.
When studying the issue in your local jurisdiction, it may be useful to conduct a survey of parents to learn how often they drive their children to school, their openness to other forms of transportation, and their perceptions of the incidence and severity of the congestion problem. In analyzing the problem, a survey of parents can shed light on why they take their children by car, including the following response categories:
If the chosen response to the problem is to reduce parental driving, such a survey can help in developing a response that speaks to parents' motivations and concerns. Conducting a similar survey after implementing your response will also assist in your assessment of whether the response was effective (see "Measuring Your Effectiveness" below).
Other important questions to pose to parent drivers include the following:
A "windshield survey" posing similar questions to parents and other commuters stuck in congestion around schools may also be fruitful.
§ For guidelines on appropriate signs, see the Federal Highway Administration's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices at http://mutcd.fhwa.dot.gov/Caltrans Traffic Manual.
Once you have gathered information on street patterns, traffic flows, and signs, a useful means of integrating all this information in a way that leads to potential solutions is to map the locations of these factors, either by hand or through the use of Geographic Information System software. Such mapping can be useful to understand the flows and nature of congestion within the larger context of the surrounding area.
At this point in the process, you should begin to develop a list of possible responses designed to address the underlying cause of your school traffic problem. It is often useful to survey parents, teachers, staff, and even students to obtain their feedback on which of the proposed interventions they like best. While the popularity of the response should not be the only criterion for its selection, if you have identified an array of equally effective responses, it is only logical to implement the one that most people will support, particularly because their compliance is critical to the intervention's success. Such a survey not only serves to narrow down the list of possible interventions, but also will help to justify the response ultimately implemented.
Measurement allows you to determine to what degree your efforts have succeeded, and suggests how you might modify your responses if they are not producing the intended results. You should take measures of your problem before you implement responses, to determine how serious the problem is, and after you implement them, to determine whether they have been effective. You should take all measures in both the target area and the surrounding area.(For more detailed guidance on measuring effectiveness, see the companion guide to this series, Assessing Responses to Problems.)
The following are potentially useful measures of the effectiveness of responses to school traffic congestion:
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My friend Tally at FlaPolitics is asking people to email all the traditional state media political journalists and urge them to do two things: 1) Ask Charlie Crist if he supports a Palin presidential campaign in 2012 and 2) Ask Sarah Palin if, considering the importance of winning Florida in a presidential election, she would consider Crist as a VP choice.
Although he is asking that to stir up trouble, I actually wonder if this will actually be the GOP answer to Obama in 2012. Obama will be much more formidable than he was now: they won't be able to throw the inexperience factor at him, nor will they be able to stir up fears that he's "risky" since he would have run the country for 4 years. (Even doing a half-assed job, which he won't, would be a severe improvement).
But I think it's likely. The GOP is screaming about returning to their "roots", (i.e. right-wing extremism), and there is no one more right-wing extremist than Palin. Besides, she may be able to convince the party elders that she can claim the coveted "turn". Bob Dole was selected to go against Clinton in 1996, even though there were stronger candidates, because it was his "turn". He performed well ("proved himself") against Bush in 1988, lost but then became a big-Bush backer. It was his turn. McCain did the same thing--he performed well against Bush (w) in 2000, lost but then became a bigger-Bush backer.
I don't think Palin did well before she lost, but to hear right-wing pundits like Bay Buchannan and others, it was McCain who blew if for Palin. Palin "excited" her base and drew thousands. She should be the GOP leader, the argument goes. (And for once, I totally agree.)
The problem is that they keep trying to give her the torch, like they did with the GOP governor's conference speech, but she keeps fumbling. Having a moron is not a disqualifier (see W), they just need someone in the number #2 position to run the show. My idea is that the GOP will pick Palin in 2012, and Charlie Crist as the veep. Palin would be the extremist idiot in the top slot. As they learned from McCain, the GOP stays home unless there's an extremist on the top of the ticket. However, they need a semi-competent person to run things--and Charlie can fit that bill. His moderate persona, the thinking will go, should be enough to draw in others.
This isn't my thinking, mind you. Anything with Palin on it will fail miserably. And Charlie Crist is probably too smart to join a ticket like that. But he may realize that the GOP will NEVER allow him to be on the top of the ticket--a closet-gay Republican simply won't be asked to lead the party. Plus, he's way too moderate. He can't win the top of the ticket--he may figure this is the only shot he has.
Better hurry up and speculate, folks, only 1436 days to the next election!!
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- Anonymous10:28 PM, November 30, 2008
I would hate to be in the GOP position. Palin would win the primary but get creamed in the election. Jindal or Crist might have a shot, but would never win the primary.ReplyDelete
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This particular HAHN blog is more of an opinionated blog than a theory. I just want you to keep that in mind while reading through this.
One of the most climatic points in Season 2 involved Jeffery finally having sex for the first time; with a female!
Setup on a blind date by Veronica, Jeffery meets Melissa who is practically a younger version of his mother. They both drink a lot during the date, but for different reasons…
Jeffery was highly uncomfortable being on a date with a woman because he is gay. Not to mention the fact that she was a blabbermouth so he "had" to drink in order to cope. Melissa was once in a sorority and she had been known to drink too much and even tells Jeffery that she can get a little crazy when drunk.
After the date, they both go to Jeffery's apartment even though he really didn't want Melissa to come up because both had been drinking and he wanted them to be responsible. However, Melissa wasn't having it and she literally forced herself on him which resulted in drunken sex.
Most fans are quick to label Melissa as a rapist for what she did to poor Jeffery. In my opinion, I'm one of the people who say that Jeffery could have, should have and would have stopped ANY of this from happening if he had been honest with Melissa. He was more concerned with keeping her from finding out that he was gay. True he had been drinking, but he was sober enough to keep her from "raping" him.
Comparing what happened to Jeffery with what happened between Professor Cannon and Amanda really isn't fair. Amanda was belittled and insulted before she was physically abused by Cannon. Melissa was doing the same to Jeffery (in a way) with her saying that it was time that he became that type of guy after he said that he wasn't the kind of guy to have sex with someone he just met. Not to mention her turning on porn with his laptop (the guy must not have a password the way she easily opened up his computer and turned it on…) in order to help him get in the mood.
I did feel bad for the guy since he was only able to "get it up" for a couple of seconds because as he told Landon "I was thinking about another guy" (obviously Wyatt). In any case, if he didn't want to tell Melissa that he was gay then he could have at least overpowered his drunk date (not physically beat her or anything but at least held her off) to the point of them not having sex.
Even Melissa said "Queer eye for a straight guy" after seeing how nicely decorated Jeffery's apartment was. That was just a small hint to who he truly was but she did not notice it. I do wonder if she will ever know the truth about him…
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Let's start with something with which you're already familiar: magazine articles. You probably know of lots of popular magazines like Time, Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, and Vogue to name a few. But have you ever thought about what the articles in these magazines have in common?
- Articles discuss topics of general interest and are intended to inform as well as entertain.
- They are usually written by journalists or professional writers. These journalists usually don't have a PhD or other advanced degree in the area that they're writing about. You wouldn't need a graduate degree to write about the Yankees' latest winning streak anyway, right?
- Before they're published, articles are reviewed by the editorial staff of the magazine, who also probably don't have advanced degrees in the field. They mainly review articles for style and format.
- The articles are intended to be read by the general public – anyone can pick up one of these magazines at the supermarket or bookstore.
- Since they're intended for anyone to read, the language they use is easily understandable and contains commonly used vocabulary.
- Most of these articles have glossy photographs or other illustrations, and the magazines where they're published usually have lots of advertisements.
- Articles generally don't cite sources or include a bibliography at the end.
Scholarly Articles
Scholarly journals are different from popular magazines. Some examples of titles of scholarly journals include the Journal of African Cultural Studies or the Journal of Child Psychotherapy. You wouldn't see these in the checkout line. Now that you're familiar with some of the characteristics of popular articles, we can compare them to scholarly articles:
- Scholarly articles present the authors' original research, like a study that they conducted. The authors publish the article to share their findings with other scholars and researchers.
- These articles are written by scholars in that field, and their credentials or academic degrees are usually provided (PhDs, affiliated universities, etc.).
- Most (but not all) scholarly articles are peer-reviewed. Before they are published, articles are reviewed by peers who are also experts in the field. These other experts review the content. This review process, with many sets of expert eyes reading the article before it's published, helps to ensure the credibility of the information presented.
- Scholarly articles are intended for an audience of other scholars or experts in the field. This group includes faculty, researchers, and students.
- Articles often include lots of technical language or terminology that is specific to the field, so the writer assumes that the reader has some background knowledge about the subject.
- Rather than photographs, you'll often see lots of charts and graphs that present data the authors have collected during their research.
- Articles always include a reference list or bibliography of sources the author consulted, and all quotations and facts within the article are cited.
Both popular and scholarly articles can be important sources of information in your research. Now when your instructors ask you to use scholarly sources, you know what they're talking about.
Written by: Kristin White.
Kristin White is a librarian at Ashford University. She attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she earned her master's degree in library science. She also holds a bachelor's degree in economics from UCLA. Her interests include reading (mostly literary and historical fiction), classical music (she plays clarinet in several community orchestras), and keeping her two cats from tearing through the window screens to chase birds. She became a librarian because she believes it's important to be able to find and use information effectively, whether it's for a research paper in a course or for making decisions in our everyday lives. She loves helping people understand and navigate the vast world of information that we live in today.


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Monday, December 05, 2005
Paul Campos on materialism
3 comments:
- Lippard said...
As I see it, most supernaturalists believe everything naturalists believe, plus a lot more. In my view, there's no leap of faith involved to being a naturalist.
- December 05, 2005 2:04 PM
- Victor Reppert said...
Jim: How so. If supernaturalists believe everything naturalists believe, why is there a diagreement between the two?
- December 05, 2005 2:13 PM
Paul is completely wrong that materialists must make a leap of faith to conclude that pedophillia is wrong. Nor does one have treat morallity as an illusion.
Evolutionary theory provides adequate reasoning for this, although I don't think it constitutes "proof." For example, pedophillia, and virtually all sex crimes create an unhealthy environment. Sexually transmitted diseases become rampant, and many of those that are infected are no longer able to reproduce. That's before we even start to mention the related social affects, and how those can affect reproductive viability. Therefore, it's easy to conclude that this behavior is quite evil without ever resorting to faith.
As for his assertion that art, and free will must be treated as an illusion. That's a complete non-sequitor. Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder, there is no objective measure of such a thing and it's intellectually dishonest to imply there is. And free will is an issue that not even religious conservatives have figured out to any satisfaction. It's ludicrous of Paul to even mention it.
- January 04, 2006 1:11 PM


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The United States decided this week to put a black female abolitionist on their new $20 bill, replacing Andrew Jackson, the seventh president who was accused of keeping slaves.
The decision to honour Harriet Tubman got me thinking about Brazil and who we look up to here – or down to, as we flip through bank notes.
Brazil has in the past been much more egalitarian than the US, putting more women and more minorities (including indigenous people) on their notes. Over the years, composers and scientists, novelists and poets have been among those adorning the country's paper money. (See this great slideshow for more.)
Brazil hasn't had real people on its bank notes since 1994 when it introduced the real as its seventh currency in 27 years.
The Central Bank didn't know how long the currency would last and so rather than subject historical figures to a short and ignominious stint in people's pockets, they put generic Greek God like figures on the 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 real notes.
The Brazilian currency is robust and shows no signs of going the same way as the cruzado, the cruzado novo, the rei, the conto, the cruzeiro or the cruzeiro real., the currencies that preceded them.
So is it time to start honouring real Brazilians again on bank notes? Maybe now, in the midst of a financial crisis, is not the best time to implement such a costly change. But it's time to at least begin a debate on the issue.
Off the top of my head, I suggest André Rebouças, Pelé, Ayrton Senna, Joaquim Nabuco, Orlando Villas Boas and Tom Jobim as possible new honorees. Suggestions?
On the same day the United States Senate reported on the horrific deeds performed by its agents – torture and rape first on a scandalous list – a Brazilian deputy stood up in Congress and gave a speech.
Jair Bolsonaro is a popular right-wing demagogue who wants a return to the days of Brazil's military dictatorship.
Wednesday is World Human Rights Day but Bolsonaro doesn't think much of human rights, or any other rights for that matter. He had a message for the country's Human Rights Secretary, Maria de Rosario.
"I said I wouldn't even rape you," he said in reference to comments he said he made a few days ago, "because you don't deserve it."
No one can argue that Bolsonaro's words came a surprise. He said exactly the same thing in 2003. "I won't rape you because you don't deserve to be raped," he told her in the hallways of Brazil's Congress, before pushing her away from him when she complained.
Members of Congress have parliamentary immunity in Brazil and can say what they like without fear of prosecution. Bolsonaro has already said his kids grew up in an educated family and so have no chance of being gay or of dating blacks.
He is a hateful man who perhaps more than any other person exemplifies the backward side of Brazil that is still a huge and tragically worrying presence in this great nation.
Brazil's problem however, is not just people like Bolsonaro. It's the macho culture where such comments are laughed off. It's the political system that turns a blind eye to such vicious attacks.
Most of all it's that not enough ordinary people care. His comments will cause little more than a ripple outside the chattering classes.
The only way Brazil will rid itself of misogynist, homophobic and racist figures like Bolsonaro is by isolating them and ridiculing them. For future generations, only education will work, but that's too late for the 59-year old Bolsonaro.
Frighteningly, it is already too late for many of the country's voters.
In October, Jair Bolsonaro was reelected to a sixth successive term in Rio de Janeiro. He got 464,572 votes, more than 100,000 more than any other Congressional candidate in the state.
The 1994 World Cup was strange for many reasons. It was the first without Scotland for 20 years. (Seems strange nowadays, but true back then.) And I was living in Haiti. (Which was strange. Period.)
Living in Haiti was always exciting but it was never easy. Normally we got about eight hours of electricity a day, from around midnight to 8am.
For the months leading up to the World Cup they rationed electricity even further. The Haitian military ruled the country and they knew you couldn't mess with the World Cup. They wanted to make sure all the games would be on live. If they weren't, they knew all hell could break loose.
In the weeks and months before the tournament kicked off we got three or four hours of electricity a week, and you never knew when that would be.
I usually knew when the electricity was back by the sound of the fridge motor starting up, or the overhead fan whirling. My roommate and I had bought a car battery and that recharged enough to give us juice to keep our computers running and the odd bit of music if we were lucky. (Bonnie Raitt's Luck Of The Draw was the album I most recall playing on my old boom box.)
The World Cup, when it started, was like nothing I'd ever experienced. Haitians love football and they usually support Brazil, Argentina and the Africa sides. (More than 90 % of Haitians are black.)
When Brazil won, thousands of people took to the streets to celebrate. The military government had banned any large gatherings but they turned a blind eye to this one. People shot their guns in the air to celebrate. The brave ones held their hands in the air, fingers splayed in the No. 5. That was ostensibly for Brazil's 5th World Cup win. But it was also a show of support for Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the deposed president who was No. 5 on the ballot papers four years previously.
With a US invasion looming – American troops would arrive two months later – I wasn't paying full attention to the football. After all, Scotland weren't there so there was no one to cheer for and neither were England so there was no one to cheer against.
But I do remember one sunny Sunday sitting on the balcony of the famous Oloffson hotel (pictured above), the hotel made famous in Graham Greene's novel The Comedians. I was having lunch with the Venezuelan ambassador and all of a sudden a big roar erupted from the favelas aroundabout. She was freaked (unexpected noise usually meant violence in Haiti) but I knew it was football.
This had just happened:
I went to see a few games of football in Haiti but the standard was pretty low, and I was used to watching Hibs. So when I think of Haitian football, I think of the 1974 World Cup and Emanuel Sanon.
It's the celebrations that get me every time.
Brazil is known as the country of football.
But it's not, at least not according to this interesting study of attendances by Brazil's Pluri sports consultancy.
An average of 14,897 people go to watch first division matches in Brazil. That puts Brazil in 13th place on the world table, behind countries like the United States, Japan and China.
Germany is first, with an average attendance of 45,083; England is second with 34,604 and Spain is third with 28,400. More people went to see games in the English and German second divisions than the Brasileirao.
The reasons are varied and have to do with the high ticket prices charged in Brazil, run-down facilities and insecurity in and around stadiums, and the large number of games shown on television.
The top 14 is here. (Country followed by total fans and average attendance)
1 Germany 13,795,286 45,083
2 England 13,149,676 34,604
3 Spain 10,791,927 28,400
4 México 3,877,500 25,343
5 Italy 8,330,161 21,921
7 The Netherlands 5,954,191 19,458
8 France 7,167,940 18,863
9 England (Second Division) 9,969,699 17,899
10 China 4,242,026 17,675
11 Germany (Second Division) 5,266,941 17,212
12 Japan 2,204,074 16,572
13 Brazil 5,660,987 14,897
14 Scotland 3,163,154 13,873
Brazil and the US signed a defence deal yesterday.
The deal, which this Christian Science Monitor story says is the first between the two nations since 1977, opens the door to more interchange on research and development, logistics support, education and training, as well as making it easier to buy and sell defense products and services.
Although the ramifications of the deal are not yet clear, it behooves Brazil to form closer defence ties with the US.
In doing so, Brazil creates a link with the US that counterbalances some of the wackier things it has been doing in foreign policy field, such as cozying up to Iran and needlessly getting involved in Honduras.
And not only is the US the world's biggest producer of weapons and armoury, it is also a valuable ally. As Fernando Arbache, a lecturer in anti-terrorism at Brazil's Naval Headquarters told me in an interview: "With this accord Brazil is aligning itself strategically with the US, like the European nations have done with NATO."
It's a sensible bit of pragmatism on Lula's part.
Following on from my post the other day about the US and Brazil and the topic of sex, I wrote more on the subject today for the Christian Science Monitor's Global blog.
Everyone loves to read about sex and people's views on it, right?
Here's 500 more words on how the two countries are so alike and yet so different. It could really be a book. But this is plenty for now. More on sex another another time.
A documentary about the Simpsons round the world travels aired on Fox Sunday night to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Springfield's best-known family. (There's a link to the show here but it's only accessible from the US.)
I worked helping producer Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me fame to set up interviews and arrange locations in Rio. His company called me after seeing this piece I wrote in Time magazine about the truth and fiction behind the Simpsons controversial visit to Brazil in 2002.
On that trip, the Simpsons saw monkeys roaming the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Homer was kidnapped and Bart was eaten by a snake. Irony is a foreign language in Brazil and the country went crazy. (More here on Brazilians over sensitivity to criticism.)
Which made writing a piece vindicating some of the more outlandish tales all the more pleasurable. I had been planning to write something on Rio's natural zoo for years, after repeatedly seeing pictures in the Rio papers of snakes, alligators, spiders and monkeys being rescued from pools and homes and roads. That Simpsons episode gave me the impetus to start gathering string.
Cariocas' reaction to the episode shocked me and I was heartened to hear those in the know say Bart was not wrong. As I write in my Time story:
Firefighter Colonel Wanius Amorim remembers the Simpsons every time he catches a monkey in someone's front room, drags an alligator from a back porch or gingerly lifts a snake from the street. For the commander of a Rio fire station nestled in the middle of the world's biggest inner-city forest, saving wild animals is all in a day's work.
"Bart was right," Amorim says with a smile. "When foreigners say it, we get upset, but here in Rio we see alligators, sloths, snakes and monkeys all the time. To me, it's something positive, it shows that the city is alive and vibrant, that nature has survived the arrival of 6 or 7 million people."
I look forward to seeing Spurlock's documentary soon. I believe he even visits Scotland. A wise man indeed.
The Sean Goldman case reached its denouement on Thursday, when the boy was handed over to his father at the US Consulate in Rio de Janeiro.
I got a lucky scooplet yesterday and was first to report that the case was essentially over. The lawyer for the Brazilian step family called round journalists to announce they would no longer be appealing the Supreme Court decision, and were essentially giving up their claim to the boy.
I must have been at the top of his To Call list and so Time was the first to get the story online (according to my reading of the timings on Google news.)
Sometimes we get lucky, whether it be getting a call first, receiving an important email before anyone else, or just being in the right place at the right time. On those occasions, it doesn't matter how much leg work you've put in (and I only really started on this story last week).
It's unfair and when you're not the beneficiary it's very, very annoying. But as my good old dad always said, It's better to be lucky than good.
The Wall Street Journal has a piece today on the United States' waning influence in Latin America. There's nothing much new in it but there was one particularly interesting quote from Moisés Naím, the editor of Foreign Affairs magazine.
Talking of Lula's meeting with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and of Brazil's role in Honduras, Naím said: "The world was hoping that it would become a responsible global player and stakeholder, but instead Brazil is behaving like an immature developing country with a chip on its shoulder."
Brazil might have a chip on its shoulder (see my previous post about how Brazilians are thin-skinned). But it cannot be blamed for developing its own foreign policy. What's more, if the US was smart, it'd be working behind the scenes with Brazil to help engage the Irans and Venezuelas of the world.
As one academic told me last week, "Brazil is perhaps the least disliked nation in the world." Because of football, samba, and images of sun-kissed beaches and beautiful women, everyone loves Brazil. Brazil can use that influence.
The question that Naím should be asking is, What is Lula saying to the likes of Ahmadinejad and Chavez behind closed doors? And what is Obama telling Lula when they talk on the phone?
As the US gets weaker, it is having more and more trouble making smaller countries fall into line. As Brazil gets stronger, the US should be more diligent in courting it as a credible and helpful ally.


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The Falkland Islands, off the coast of Argentina, are the focus of a new production push, but sovereignty and price concerns could put a crimp in plans, as Robert Perkins explains in this week's Oilgram News column, New Frontier.
New drilling off the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic got underway this month marking the start of a highly-anticipated push to find more oil off the disputed archipelago.
The Falkland Islands, a UK self-governing territory over which Argentina claims sovereignty, has seen no drilling in its waters since a multi-well campaign in 2010 turned up the island's only commercial oil find, the Sea Lion oilfield in the North Falkland Basin.
But with just a handful exploration wells to date, the explorers are keen for more and a new shared rig has started to drill.
Defying long-running political controversy and now low oil prices, Premier Oil and Noble Energy are leading a six well drilling campaign off the remote islands this year. Over 1.4 billion boe is being targeted under the program over the coming months.
Premier and partners Rockhopper began drilling the Zebedee prospect on March 6 near the proven Sea Lion fan play.
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The well is targeting about 281 million barrels of oil equivalent with chances of success ranging from 10%-50% across multiple zones. It is expected to complete within 30 days.
Zebedee is the first of four well programs in the Northern Basin aimed at significantly boosting the reserves of the Sea Lion field complex, currently pegged at around 400 million barrels. During the drilling campaign, the rig will go off to the much deeper southern and eastern Falkland Basins to test two bigger prospects for Noble and Falkland Oil and Gas (FOGL).
Noble Energy's initial operated prospect has been named Humpback and forms one of a group of targets in the area believed to hold combined gross resources of 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent.
Each well on the license will cost around $50 million to drill, the partners have estimated. The rig, Ocean Rig's Eirik Raude, is estimated to be charging day rates of around $635,000.
With benefit of new seismic and previous well data, some are more upbeat over prospects for the latest drilling. And the prize could be substantial. The islands have offered generous terms to attract explorers to the remote waters. The local Falkland Islands Government is planning to collect just a 9% royalty on oil production in addition to a 26% corporation tax.
But major hurdles remain.
Investors have been wary of all but large oil finds in the remote region given the logistical and political challenges associated with any future Falklands development.
In 2012, FOGL saw its stock halve in value after its highly-anticipated Scotia prospect found only gas shows.
Argentina has also stepped up its diplomatic offensive over the islands in recent years in a bid to put the sovereignty dispute firmly back on the international political agenda. With legal threats from Buenos Aires over oil companies and individuals involved in exploration in the Falklands, producers either working or planning to work in Argentina will likely stay away.
In the meantime, Premier Oil is battling the specter of low oil prices and still buoyant offshore costs to turn the Sea Lion find into the island's maiden oil producer.
But the Sea Lion project was suffering from price-related push backs even before the oil price slide from mid-2014.
Last August, Premier was planning to develop the two northern blocks covering Sea Lion with a tension leg platform to recover around 300 million barrels.
But the tumbling oil prices forced a rapid rethink on the project in late 2014 and the company settled on a scaled-back, phased development to save cash.
"In August of last year … things were looking very rosy," Premier's Operations Director Neil Hawkings told investors last month. "In November of 2014, we said 'no, enough of that,' we need to downscale this development and we changed the development plan," he said.
Premier scrapped plans for a tension-leg platform in favor of an FPSO to produce Sea Lion's waxy crude. At the time, it expected the costs of first oil being around $1.8 billion, split roughly half between the subsea kit and the installation of the FPSO and half drilling costs.
But Premier hopes to lock in lower costs as the oil price slump has seen a rapid slide a industry costs, particularly for offshore drilling. It now expects save a further 25% savings on drilling costs for the project by the end of the year.
Despite targeting more cost savings, Premier is still taking a big gamble on the remote project, which could face serious delays if oil price remain around $50/b into next year.
In mid-January, when Brent was trading around $47/b, Premier's CEO Tony Durrant said that the company would simply hold off approving Sea Lion "below $50."
Project sanction on Sea Lion is scheduled for the first half of 2016 but first oil won't flow until at least 2019. When it does, the FPSO will see production plateau at 50,000-60,000 b/d.
Until then, the Falklands' 3,000 inhabitants will have to wait a little longer for their pot of gold from the Antarctic outpost.
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I feel like I've discussed my growing love and appreciation for minimal artwork ad nauseam these days. But I can't stress enough how much every part of me longs to be surrounded by large-scale, super-simple artwork. My days of loving tiny gathered-artwork collections seem long behind me (though I'm sure they'll return in a few years), and now all I can do is swoon over huge paintings and photographs. At the top of my list are these amazing prints on newsprint by Phillip Low. Each limited edition (100 were printed) features a subtle color palette and feels like a warm summer day to me. I loved hanging prisms in my window growing up, and the way these prints depict the light shining on the glass is gorgeous. Each piece is available right here for $45 to $65, if you want one for your walls. These would also look beautiful in a row under a glass-top table or desk. They'd be a sweet way to add detail without going overboard. xo, grace
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We recently went to a Crab Fest at a local restaurant.
We didn't plan it this way, but we developed a slow, sweet crustaceous-y, cocktail-y buzz on the restaurant's patio — sometimes basking in the warmth of the full sun, sometimes in the refreshing shade of an umbrella, and finally in the combined glow of candles, neon, and Christmas lights overhead — over the course of ten hours.
It was, in a word, "epic."
(You can peep the full gallery from the event on TheDeliciousLife.)
We had so much fun that we want to do it again, but this East Coast-style CrabFest is a once-a-year event, something of a novelty because we are, well, we live in Los Angeles.
So we have to do it ourselves.
It was our first time, so we thought there was some magic recipe for the "seasoning" on the crabs. Then someone told us that it's just "Old Bay."
The rest doesn't take much — throw newspaper across a table, grab a few mallets and most importantly chill some beer. We're guessing that the hardest part of the whole thing is sourcing the crabs, but we're happy to do it with whatever type of crabs are available to us here on the West coast.
Actually, the hardest part (for us CrabFest n00bs, that is), is opening the crab and getting at the pockets of perfectly sweet crabmeat inside. We have a pictorial How-To below. It ends, of course, the way we did. Sit next to a native and let him "show you how it's done."
How to Open a Steamed Blue Crab
In the pictures above, from left to right:
1. Say "hello" to your little friend.
2. Turn him over to get at the "apron" (the underbelly). This is a boy crab! (No really, it is.)
3. Slide a fork or knife under and pull down that little (I mean "huge," honey, huge!) thing.
4. Lift up the body like you're raising the hood of a tiny crustacean car.
5. Pull off the body (and toss the empty shell)
6. Split the body
7. Pull the halves apart
8. Scrape of the gills (the feather-looking things)
9. Pick out the meat from inside the halves of the body. (Or just pretend like you just don't know how and have someone else do it and feed you :D)
Steamed Blue Crabs
from Old Bay
Steamed Blue Crabs Ingredients
1 dozen live blue crabs
½ cup Old Bay Seasoning
Steamed Blue Crabs Directions:
In a pot with a raised rack (minimum of 2 inches high), add equal quantities of water and vinegar to just below level of rack. Bring to a boil.
Carefully layer crabs on rack; sprinkle each layer with Old Bay. Cover and steam 20 to 30 minutes depending on size of crabs or until crabs turn red.


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A Vernon judge expressed empathy for a man with a traumatic history who committed a "bizarre" offense on Halloween of 2011, the same night Taylor Van Diest was killed.
Daniel Donald Hobbs of Vernon was charged with assaulting a man with a bat, and causing him bodily harm.
"The facts are relatively bizarre," provincial court judge Mayland McKimm said.
Before going out, Hobbs suited himself up in protective clothing, mimicking the hero Superman costume and carried a bat. McKimm said witnesses saw him confront his victim on the street. He confronted a man and accused him of being a Satan-worshipper. Hobbs struck him over the head with the bat, but that wasn't the end of it.
"(The victim) was a highly-trained fighter, most likely a member of the military or a security group who had substantial skills in self defense," McKimm said.
The man quickly kicked Hobbs to the ground. The supposed military man did not show up to the trial, nor did he show any interest in it, McKimm said. Hobbs testified he'd received worse beatings from others.
A pre-sentence report on Hobbs shows a past wrought with physical and emotional abuse. He has suffered from depression since he was 20, McKimm said. In his past, Hobbs was kidnapped by his own father, after which he spent some time at the mental health ward at Vernon Jubilee Hospital. Hobbs was admitted to the hospital multiple times. During one visit, he expressed fear that he and his girlfriend would be harmed by the "Armstrong murderer."
McKimm believed Hobbs' actions arose entirely out of his mental health issues and was reassured by the accused's willingness to have his condition monitored. Hobbs is conflicted over his medication. It provides stability but he dislikes the side effects.
"One can only be sympathetic to someone with those struggles," McKimm said.
Hobbs was given a suspended sentence and put on a two-year probation order.
"If you maintain your health, society will be protected," McKimm said.
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Fukushima Evacuee: Many kids in region with symptoms of health damage — Abnormal changes began to occur on my son; Stomatitis, eczema, fever, epistaxis
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December 10th, 2012
Title: Letters From Mothers Evacuating With Their Children #1
Source: OCHABERIKAI ("A group of mothers evacuating with their children from Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster")
[…] I presumed that Koriyama [60 kilometers from Fukushima Daiichi] was not seriously damaged, for it was not designated for evacuation-needed area.
I was presuming if it were in a dangerous situation, the government would do something.
Without knowing anything, I was in the long line to get water and foods for life in water failure due to the earthquake and food scarcity even at supermarket.
Abnormal changes began to occur on my oldest son, a pupil. Stomatitis, eczema, fever, epistaxis, and so on. I didn't know at that time, but those are the very initial symptoms of health damage that people around Chernobyl after the NP-plant accident
Those symptoms are occurring on not only my son but also many children living in Fukushima and broadly Tohoku, Kanto region. […]
Minister Edano's words "It doesn't influence our health immediately." means "It does someday." […]
Even if it doesn't influence our health immediately, we will be damaged in our health in the near future after being radiated for a long time. It has already turned out. […]


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The UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES CIRCLE OF ENTREPRENEURS (UPCE) seeks the development and enhancement of the entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial skills of the students in the University. Considered as one of the best and the biggest organization in the college and the university, we serve as the impetus for the emergence of a new consciousness in the graduates of the University, of the role they will play as builders of the national economy through their establishment of small and medium scale business enterprises.
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Past projects also includes the biggest chase in the metro, Mad Manila Chase; the 2010 best and well-sponsored UP fair night, YesThursday which bridges the gap between the now and the generation that was through music; and the Answer Cancer which is a three-month campaign with the goal of increasing cancer awareness and helping cancer patients in Philippine Children's Medical Center (PCMC).
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Artist: Foy Vance
Published: 2006-05-08
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These days, taking five minutes to set up a MySpace page can land an artist a record deal. Being featured in a motion picture can help your band change the lives of moviegoers everywhere. And certainly, having your song set the mood for a poignant scene in
Grey's Anatomy
can make North America take note and listen.
From the reaches of his home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, singer-songwriter Foy Vance did just that, worming his way into the hearts of viewers of America's favourite primetime dramedy. Since then, cries for the immediate release of his song "Gabriel and the Vagabond" have permeated the internet.
But while America has had its first taste of Vance (he also played SXSW in March) the musician is currently far away from these lands. Speaking to Soul Shine from a "shifty hotel" in Antwerp, Belgium on his final dates supporting Bonnie Raitt on her UK and European tour, Vance revealed that won't always be the case.
"I think you guys are a lot more open to songwriters, to artistsóto a singer being an artist and that being their chosen form of expression," he said. "I really think that's where music like mine is really welcomed. I think in British culture, there's a whole, 'What's hip and what's slick?' And I know that's pretty universal, but it seems to be less the case with America and Canada."
For now though, Vance is concentrating on the United Kingdom. His second EP,
Watermelon Oranges
, is about to drop, and excitement abounds. "With other records I've released, if I've been slightly unsure if it's a good representation of what I'm about, then I get nervous. But I feel like this is quite representative of what's happening, so I think if people don't like it then they don't like me, and that's fair enough."
Armed with a deep, bluesy voice and an acoustic guitar, Vance's very best asset could well be his ability to write deeply personal lyrics. Extremely articulate and well-spoken, it was the passing of his father seven years ago that caused the songwriting floodgates to burst open.
"I sat down that day and within 10 minutes, andóexcuse the expressionó almost vomited the song ["Cryin' In The Night"] out. It just came out. It wasn't like giving birth; it was a bit more horrific than that. That sort of gushing hasn't stopped since then.
"I've always felt since that day I've almost been accosted by songs. But I've learned how to tamper it a bit more, and it's a bit more like giving birth now. It's a bit more of a pleasant experience now that I know how to deal with the flow of it."
A musician in the truest sense, Vance takes his art quite seriously, and views it as just that: art. In fact, all Foy Vance really cares about is his music, none of that fame and fortune stuff. And with Vance, you get the sense that he's one of those rare musicians that isn't lying through his teeth on that front.
"What this is about for me is making something happen in a roomóthat's what it's always about. That's what it's about in theatre, that's what it's about when you hang a painting, when people walk in an exhibition space. You're trying to create something in that room."
"I take the music from the first note to the last note, I take it very seriously. Not that everything I sing is really sombre and serious, but it's very poignant for me. It's as poignant an experience for me as I hope it is for the listener when I'm doing it.
Believing that everyone, (even you), has at least one good song in them, Vance acknowledges the higher power of the form. "I kind of get caught up in a world, and the music creates thatóI'm not suggesting that I create that. I think music is this thing that happens and either you click into it or you don't."
But before you go off thinking Foy Vance is some beret-wearing pretentious artiste, take a moment to check out his
MySpace blog
. Full of tales from the road (including the tragic destruction of his guitar on Ryanair), Vance takes the time to connect on a more human level.
"I think [the blog] just gives the whole thing a bit of realism, and a sense that I'm not any different than anyone else just because I'm an artist," he explains. "So I guess what I'm trying to say is that [music] is so intense, that I feel it's important to let people to know that I'm not up my own arse!"
Along with music, Vance has an interest in film, and recently shot a series of short films to keep his "Toilet Tour" alive (yes, it's just what it sounds like). "I picked certain songs to play in certain toilets around Belfast that have some sort of relevance to me," he said of the side-project. "It's going to be a webcast for five nights on the countdown to the release of the EP [
Watermelon Oranges
And never fear: those desperate calls for "Gabriel and the Vagabond" haven't gone unheard by Vance. He informed Soul Shine that the track will be on iTunes promptly (although North American fans will most likely have to shop from the UK store), where his first EP
Live Sessions and the Birth of the Toilet Tour
is also available.
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I hate theory.. But being at startup, I need to know this!
Android applications are written in the Java language. The compiled Java code with necessary files required by the application is bundled into an Android package (.apk file). Bundling is done by the android package aapt. All the compiled code in a .apk will be called as 'application', which will be redistributed and downloaded inside the phones.
Every application runs in its own Linux process. Android takes care of starting and shutting down the applications.
Each process has its own virtual machine (VM), so application code runs in isolation from the code of all other applications.
Each application is assigned a unique Linux user ID. Permissions are set so that the application's files are visible only to that user and application only.
Application terminologies.
An activity presents a visual user interface for one focused task the user can do. An application can consist of one or more activities. One of the activities in the application will be marked as first, moving from one to another is performed by current activity start the next activity.
Service – it doesnt have a UI, but runs in the background for to do certain continuous tasks.
A broadcast receiver is a component that receives and reacts to broadcast announcements. Many broadcasts originate in system code — for example, announcements that the timezone has changed, that the battery is low, that a picture has been taken, or that the user changed a language preference. Applications can also initiate broadcasts — for example, to let other applications know that some data has been downloaded to the device and is available for them to use.
A content provider makes a specific set of the application's data available to other applications. The data can be stored in the file system, in an SQLite database, or in any other manner that makes sense
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