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23 March, 2009
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So, how do you feel about activist auditor generals, Prime Minister? MAR 23, 2009 12:47P.M. Because this could get interesting: Auditor General Sheila Fraser says the government should be prepared to defend its rationale for changing any rules or processes and spell out who is accountable in its race to get stimulus money out the door. As her office prepares for a audit into the expected spending frenzy of the next two [...]
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Selfridges’ Kaleidoscopic windows MAR 23, 2009 12:46P.M.
Design: Emily Forgot
Design: Emily Forgot Apparently inspired by the cut-and-paste aesthetic of the sadly defunct Amelia’s magazine and the illustrations of Alan Aldridge, Selfridges’ inhouse design team unveiled the store’s colourful new windows earlier this month. The windows also received a makeover from illustrator Emily Forgot and RCA student Matthew Plummer Fernandez, whose previous Selfridges installation we featured, here…
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student, Matthew Plummer Fernandez, while The Duke Street and Oxford Street windows were were designed in-house by the 3D creative team’s concept maganer Sarah McCullough and graphic visualiser Michael Ryley.
Design: Emily Forgot
Design: Emily Forgot
Design: Emily Forgot The windows on the store’s Orchard Street side were designed by illustrator (and CR March cover designer) Emily Forgot. The large corner window that meets Oxford Street was designed by RCA
Design: Emily Forgot
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“Being the pioneers of creative window display I was incredibly excited to be asked to develop four windows,” says Emily Forgot. “After talking through with them their exciting concept for Oxford Street, I took on board their kaleidoscopic infuences, added a dash of the surreal, and Zoot Allure was born.”
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley Plummer Fernandez’ installation, Fourfootfalls, presents a landscape of white poles of varying lengths. The ceiling of the window houses four drip devices, which are linked to sensors on the window glass. Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
Depending on the amount of movement outside on the street, the drip devices release measured quantities of coloured ink that drip onto the series of fabric-wrapped poles, dying the fabric. Over the course of the installation the colour of the landscape will change as the poles become more saturated with ink.
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
Design: Matthew Plummer Fernandez
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
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Design: Matthew Plummer Fernandez
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
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be very busy at work, so I need to make sure that I have that I’m in check and that I’m feeling well (I’m starting to feel sick again) for the next couple of weeks. On the bright side, I got a call for more information last week on my resumer for my dream job. I guess we’ll wait and see what happens with that. At least I know, that they know, that I exist.
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Call Me, Irresponsible…
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
MAR 23, 2009 11:00A.M.
You and your friends go to the local bar to watch some hockey and drink some beer. You each have a couple and are having fun, laughing, cheering for your winning team. Suddenly the bar staff comes over, demands your car keys and tells you they have called a taxi and you have to leave. You are escorted off the premises. Crazy? Not if the Ontario Liquor License Act enforcers have anything to say about it. They want to hold bar owners and bar staff responsible for your drinking. • Bar owners and staff can and have been charged if they have intoxicated people on the premises whether or not they served you the alcohol that made you intoxicated.
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
• They’re not allowed to sell alcoholic beverages to anyone who appears to be intoxicated.
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• They are responsible if you hurt yourself while under the influence of alcohol on their premises or after you leave their premises - even if you were already drunk before you got there.
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• They are responsible for making sure you get home safely after you’ve been to their establishment.
I’m looking at this blank screen to “add new post” and I feel lost, I don’t know where to start. I have so much to tell you, but feel that I if I wrote it all down, it would look like it just splat all over this post and come out very confusing.
“Intoxication” is a completely objective term, legally. There are, of course times when it’s obvious, but not always. I know plenty of quiet drunks who have enough experience that they can appear just a bit tipsy while completely blotto.
The Cole’s Notes of my weekend was that it was really fun. We tired going somewhere on Friday night that we’ve never gone to before and had a blast. Actually, I’m a little sorry that we didn’t stay longer. We also got a chance to catch up, do some laundry, watch some movies and spend time with friends that we haven’t seen in a while.
In a very high profile case, earlier this year, 3 employees and all 13 company officers and directors of the Port Carling, Ontario Lake Joseph Golf Club were charged with permitting drunkenness on the premises and for serving alcohol to someone who was intoxicated. Four young people left the place following an afternoon of golf and drinking. They got into a car, drove too fast, lost control, ran off the road into a tree and flipped the car into Lake Joseph. Three of them, including the
I am also feeling that I’m very behind on everything, home, work, crafting. I don’t feel like I have control on things that I want to do or have to do. I need to get my stuff organized. This week month, is going to
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driver ended up dead.
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Tim Mulcahy, the father of the driver, thinks the laws are ass-backwards. He thinks the focus should be on making driving laws tougher. For one thing, he found out after the fact that his son had already amassed several speeding tickets in the past. As a fairly new driver, why wasn’t his license suspended?
MAR 23, 2009 11:00A.M. Typeworkshop: (via mitt)
Mulcahy has also petitioned the provincial government to change the rules to state that only a blood alcohol level of zero is permitted while driving — especially for new drivers. He would also like to see it be more difficult and time consuming to get and keep a driver’s license in the first place. This isn’t a radical idea. For much of the world outside of North America it is far more difficult and costly to get and maintain a driver’s license.
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All these wishy-washy terms like “drunkenness, intoxication and acceptable blood alcohol levels” obviously aren’t working.[1] And, pointing fingers at everyone but the idiots who insist on endangering their own lives and the lives of others by drinking and driving is very politically correct, but totally inane.
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Logo design books contest MAR 23, 2009 09:18A.M. Logo design books contest
Suncor closes in on deal to buy Petro-Canada MAR 23, 2009 06:00A.M.
Are we going to charge the corner shop owner for selling cigarettes to a pregnant woman? McDonald’s for selling 2 Big Macs to the grossly obese guy? Axe for selling that hideous cologne that makes teenage boys targets for being pitched into the closest body of water?
$15 billion takeover would create Canada’s largest energy company
Perhaps we need to stop being so silly about our alcohol laws and get a little less silly about our driving laws. And maybe, just maybe, start making people a little more responsible for their own actions.
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International Talk Like William Shatner Day Has Come And Gone, But Its Spirit Lives On Inside Us
_______________________ [1] In 2006, in the US there were 13,470 fatalities in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver (BAC of .08 or higher). 16,005 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-related motor vehicle traffic crashes (BAC of .01 or higher). These numbers are very similar to statistics from 10 years ago — the ad campaigns don’t seem to be working. Canadian statistics are proportionally similar. Compare this to the approximately 10,000 alcohol-related traffic fatalities per year for the entire European Union.
MAR 23, 2009 05:29A.M. Canadian voice actor/comedian/impressionist Maurice LaMarche didn’t give us much advance notice in declaring March 22 to be “International Talk Like William Shatner Day,” but his instructional video will help us get ready for the… next… InternationaltalklikeWilliam… Shatner Day. You know, when I first heard LaMarche and others doing their Shatner
Tagged: bars, blood alcohol, drinking, drinking and driving, driving, Lake Joseph Golf Club, personal responsiblity
impressions in cartoons, I didn’t know [...]
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Hosted by terrorists?
March’s party-preference polls
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An organization in Ottawa’s bad books wined and dined Canadian
Microscopically different from February’s!
politicians
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“The Swedish state is not prepared to own car factories”
GallowayWatch: Calling all constitutional lawyers, armchair or otherwise …
MAR 23, 2009 03:28A.M. Too bad, Saab. How can Sweden just let an industrial pillar go like that? That’s a complex question. The decision, like every decision any government anywhere makes these days, will strike many as wrongheaded. I’m not sure how much of Sweden’s employment is
MAR 23, 2009 04:25A.M. Hot off the CP newswire: Organizers are to announce Monday they will file an emergency injunction in Ontario federal court on Tuesday seeking to overturn Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s entry ban on the outspoken politician I confess; I’m really not sure exactly how this is going to work, since neither Citizenship and Immigration nor Jason
attributable to Saab; it may well be lower than the fraction of [...]
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Kenney are [...]
Die! Die, Bad Robots! Die! MAR 23, 2009 03:19A.M. MACLEANS.CA
Afghanistan/Pakistan: Death from above 2009
I’m not really equipped to evaluate the finale of Battlestar Galactica. (Because I haven’t kept up with all the developments this season, and this is a finale that obviously rewards viewers who have followed every episode — or punishes them, depending on how you reacted to it.) But..
MAR 23, 2009 04:15A.M.
(and don’t read further if you’re anti-spoiler) [...]
U.S. military has massively expanded use of remote-piloted drone attacks within Pakistan since last autumn, and especially since Obama’s inauguration. Problem: Some analysts say drone attacks are really, really bad counterinsurgency, because they leave the innocent with the guilty to die in the rubble, and grief and anger are an excellent recruiting tool for
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extremism. That [...]
MAR 23, 2009 02:58A.M.
Tackling Iran Some thoughts from Les Gelb: I think there’s no chance of forcing or persuading Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program. The issue is can we forestall their developing and deploying nuclear weapons, and I think we can. We can’t stop a peaceful program. We’ve already conceded such programs for North Korea, for heaven’s sake. We’ve been prepared to give them two lightwater reactors that can produce weapons-grade material. And we’ve rewarded India and Pakistan for going nuclear. Plus, Israel is a nuclear power. In my book I stress that it’s futile to set unattainable goals,
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though politics and ideology push Washington in that direction time and again. So, let’s begin the process of negotiations with Iran. It will be hard, long, and painful. But here’s my guess: Iran as a society is more middle class and more prone to democracy than any other country in that part of the world. Within ten years, Iran will be our closest ally in the region.
This was dinned into me too as a young European. I knew what America was, and how it was different: whatever criticisms you could have, America didn’t torture. No one can say that any longer. If you want to know why I remain incensed at Dick Cheney, this should help.
That’s my guess too. Getting to that without provoking an apocalypse will be the hard, long painful part. THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN
The Paradox Of Netanyahu MAR 23, 2009 01:34A.M. WARREN KINSELLA Carlo Strenger in Haaretz:
W@AL: THE BORDER CROSSING
Netanyahu is seemingly cosmopolitan. He grew up in the United States; he speaks excellent English and seems to know the world. In reality, though, he is locked into a worldview that is strikingly devoid of differentiation. Together with Avigdor Lieberman, he believes that Israel is the West’s representative in the Middle East, but seems to have no clue that the West has largely washed its hands of Israel, because of its behavior. Behind his sophistication lies a worldview that is insular, suspicious and devoid of complexity.
MAR 23, 2009 02:36A.M. How long was the line-up at the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Fort Erie? Let's put it this way: our team of W@AL professionals had time to plan, shoot, edit and post this documentary filmlet to the Interweeb. Whilst in line, the whole time. Methinks it was a long Winter. Lots of folks headed South, this Spring Break, eh?
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The Price Of Torture
The View From Your Recession
MAR 23, 2009 01:47A.M.
MAR 23, 2009 01:34A.M. Michael Yon makes an important point about how deeply American decency was understood in Europe and elsewhere in the wake of the Greatest Generation: Before I lived in Germany and Poland for about six years, the Army taught me German and some Polish. And so there were countless conversations with older Germans and Poles, and I heard earfuls of stories. The older Germans were very respectful toward our “Greatest Generation,” but pretty much hated the Russians because of their brutality. The theme nearly always drifted to the very humane treatment we afforded German prisoners, while the Russians killed them off. We even had German prisoners working on farms, and after the war, many Germans returned and married American women! But the Poles didn’t like the Germans or the Russians because of the very same reasons. They had been mistreated, but the Poles have great respect for America because we treated them well. Americans are extremely welcome in Poland, but that place sure is cold.
A reader writes:
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Last September, with $10k in the bank, I quit my stressfulbut-profitable paralegal job, moved out of my parents’ house in Connecticut (the poor half) for the third time and got an apartment in New Hampshire, to be closer to my girlfriend. I spent three months being mostly unemployed, tutoring a few kids for $15 a week, and sending out resumes for office positions. I even got a few interviews, but nothing panned out. For Christmas, I got a seasonal retail job, where I still am today, at federal minimum wage and 20 hours a week.
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New England Ruins MAR 23, 2009 01:17A.M.
My savings are gone. Of all the things I lost in this not-toosmart move, I miss my health coverage the most; my year-old eyeglasses are pretty much useless, and since running out of Lipitor in October, I get weekly angina attacks. I’m 28, by the way. And my girlfriend? She’s still living with her not-quite-ex, since they can’t afford court fees to divorce after two years of nominal separation, and they can’t sell the house either. She’s worried about her job (marketing) because advertising is the first thing to go when corporations have to cut costs; she’s got seniority, but that also means she makes the most per hour, and they can hire a kid out of college for almost nothing compared to what she makes.
Rob Dobi goes in search of decay: Even as a child I questioned the significance of abandoned buildings and the stories they could tell by simply walking through them and seeing what is left, or more importantly, what isn’t.
Her transgendered wife loses jobs regularly, and we know it’s because she’s transitioned and still definitely not passable, but what can you do when legislators keep quoting the Bible instead of the Constitution? Their daughter will be going to college in two years, hopefully on soccer scholarships, but who knows? Right now, they’ve taken on new car payments so she’ll be able to drive herself to practice if Mama gets the opportunity to work overtime. We’re talking about me moving in with them once my lease is up; the almost-ex is resistant, but it’s not like the McMansion doesn’t have enough room... especially once I sell all my books, spare computers and shoes.
More images here.
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Visualizing The Abyss
All that said, I’m actually feeling pretty good still. I’m good at a lot of things, I’m using my “downtime” to learn new skills (anyone need a Drupal programmer?) and brush up old ones (I’ll crochet you a sweater!), and I’m not nearly as spoiled as a lot of my peers. I’m thinking about taking my tutoring to the extreme and offering “catch up/get ahead” summer school in a few months, if nothing else turns up before then. And I may finally lose that last stubborn 25 pounds by doing all my cooking at home! I am still looking forward to having enough money for a huge wedding in a few years, and if we’re really lucky I’ll be able to have it in NH instead of Massachusetts.
MAR 23, 2009 12:32A.M. The graphic artists have been having a field day explaining the credit crunch.
(Photo from Cluster Balloon via Environmental Graffiti.)
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I Read Twittering Dead People
What’s Up With Nebraska?
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I kid you not. Among them: Susan Sontag and Goethe:
Lee Sigelman peruses a new CDC study on cell-phone only households:
See you opposite the Young Vic. I’ll be eating fish in the window. You might as well bring along the costumes.
No surprise that DC tops the list (with 25.4%), but take a gander at the states that follow close behind: Oklahoma (25.1%), Utah (23.9%), Nebraska (22.4%), and a bunch of other, er, unlikely-seeming places. For a full listing, scroll down to Table I in the Report or click on the “Behind the Numbers” link below.
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I’m just not seeing a forest in all these trees. Any ideas about what might account for the substantial interstate variability?
Should We Wait To Regulate? MAR 23, 2009 12:15A.M.
From the comments section:
Mark Thoma has a different view than Richard Posner:
“Cell phone only” at the state level is correlated negatively with age (r=-0.25) and median income (r=-0.45) and positively associated with levels of interstate migration (r=0.22) and percent renters (r=0.1). Utah is young, Oklahoma is poor, DC has lots of renters. Don’t know what’s up with Nebraska.
...it’s possible that regulation will go overboard in response to the crisis, there are powerful interests that will resist regulatory changes that limit their opportunities to make money (and Nobel prize winning economists willing to back them up), so my worry is that regulation will not go far enough, particularly with people like Kashyap and Mishkin arguing that we should wait for recovery before making any big regulatory changes to the financial sector. They may be right that now is not the time to change regulations because it could create additional destabilizing uncertainty in financial markets, and that waiting will give us time to see how the crisis plays out and to consider the regulatory moves carefully. But as we wait, passions will fade, defenses will mount, the media will respond to the those opposed to regulation by making it a he said, she said issue that fogs things up and confuses the public as well as politicians, and by the time it is all over there’s every chance that legislation will pass that is nothing but a facade with no real teeth that can change the behaviors that go us into this mess.
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“Sullivan Group Think” MAR 22, 2009 10:18P.M. Scott Payne understands what the Dish is trying to do, and I’m grateful for his kind words. But I should say I regret nothing about my blogging about Sarah Palin last year and would do it again - with feeling - if such a duplicitous farce of an apparatchik were to be advanced as a possible leader for the US in the future. None of the crucial factual evidence for her constant fabulisms was ever provided and the MSM, as uninterested in the truth as they are eager for their own reputations, curled up into a little ball of deference. As for my use of the term Christianist, here’s my defense of the word, from 2006:
I don’t see new regulation of such creations as credit defaulty swaps as some kind of slap at capitalism. I see it as an effort to save capitalism.
... let me suggest that we take back the word Christian while giving the religious right a new adjective: Christianist. Christianity, in this view, is simply a faith. Christianism is an ideology, politics, an ism. The distinction between Christian and Christianist echoes the distinction we make between Muslim and Islamist. Muslims are those who follow Islam. Islamists are those who want to wield Islam as a political force and conflate state and mosque. Not all Islamists are violent. Only a tiny few are terrorists. And I should underline that the term Christianist is in no way designed to label
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people on the religious right as favoring any violence at all. I mean merely by the term Christianist the view that religious faith is so important that it must also have a precise political agenda. It is the belief that religion dictates politics and that politics should dictate the laws for everyone, Christian and non-Christian alike.
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The Kindness Of Strangers MAR 22, 2009 08:46P.M. Schneier says to believe in the kindness of strangers. His thesis:
This noxious corruption of religion is still at large. Gingrich, for example, sees it as a lynchpin for the future of the Republican coalition. And it has clearly helped delegitimize Christianity in the eyes of many who might otherwise be tempted to look at the Gospels in a more open-minded fashion. The damage these fanatics and reactionaries have done to actual faith - let alone a rational politics - is incalculable, and I’m damned if I will allow them to use the word “Christian” to describe their agenda. It isn’t.
When I was growing up, children were commonly taught: “don’t talk to strangers.” Strangers might be bad, we were told, so it’s prudent to steer clear of them. And yet most people are honest, kind, and generous, especially when someone asks them for help. If a small child is in trouble, the smartest thing he can do is find a nice-looking stranger and talk to him. These two pieces of advice may seem to contradict each other, but they don’t. The difference is that in the second instance, the child is choosing which stranger to talk to. Given that the overwhelming majority of people will help, the child is likely to get help if he chooses a random stranger. But if a stranger comes up to a child and talks to him or her, it’s not a random choice. It’s more likely, although still unlikely, that the stranger is up to no good.
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Mental Health Break MAR 22, 2009 09:20P.M.
As a species, we tend help each other, and a surprising amount of our security and safety comes from the kindness of strangers. During disasters: floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, bridge collapses. In times of personal tragedy. And even in normal times.
Children greet a new birth:
Little D Hatching Out of the Egg from Class 1-208 on Vimeo.
If you’re sitting in a café working on your laptop and need to get up for a minute, ask the person sitting next to you to watch your stuff. He’s very unlikely to steal anything. Or, if you’re nervous about that, ask the three people sitting around you. Those three people don’t know each other, and will not only watch your stuff, but they’ll also watch each other to make sure no one steals anything.
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When Jesus Rode Disonaurs MAR 22, 2009 09:02P.M.
Again, this works because you’re selecting the people. If three people walk up to you in the café and offer to watch your computer while you go to the bathroom, don’t take them up on that offer. Your odds of getting three honest people are much lower.
A coloring book for evangelical children.
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Salt & Peppers cars
f4 problem MAR 22, 2009 08:45P.M.
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Healing The World
When I installed the latest service pack, Atlas co-opted the use of the function keys. I assume this is so that it can sync up with the f4 software. But this means that I can no longer use other software, like DSS Player, unless I switch windows. (DSS is set up so that it has universal access to the function keys, so that I could fast-forward/rewind/play/stop when I’m using Atlas.) Is there a way to disable Atlas’s use of the function keys or at least to re-map them so that DSS Player can regain control?
MAR 22, 2009 07:41P.M. A reader writes: Last night I did something the likes of which I haven’t done for a long time and went to one of those parish Lenten evenings that was no doubt much like thousands of others around the country. We were asked after an hour of reflection together to split into small groups. In my group of four (two women and two men put together by chance) we were to share with each other about carrying the fruits of the Eucharist to others in need. It was suggested that we frame our thinking in classic Ignatian terms of “what I have done, what I am doing, and what I will do.” I can’t tell you how moving it was to hear these three who, as is often the case in large Catholic parishes, were complete strangers to me, speak honestly and directly about their very different lives and aspirations.
Alternatively, is there a way for me to roll back to a previous service pack, so that I can regain this functionality? Thanks, Andrew
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Salt & Peppers cars MAR 22, 2009 08:24P.M.
The other guy was one of those healthy-looking mature men who looked and sounded typical of the gray-haired man you might see in a TV commercial — which made it all the more striking as he spoke very simply of his extraordinary “second career” working with people at risk of becoming homeless. He then mentioned the other folks in his life to whom he has responsibilities. Among these he listed “my husband.” Nobody blinked an eye, and the focus stayed on the subject at hand. It’s impossible not to be struck by the wide implications of this sort of thing. The world is always saved one soul at a time.
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NASCAR Christianity
The Animal Gulag
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Seriously.
Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman discuss the politics of animal antibiotics: Over the past several years, each of us have toured numerous industrial-style animal operations, and they were not pretty. We saw pigs confined in metal buildings living on hard, slatted floors and fed daily rations that include such unsavory ingredients as bone meal, blood meal, and drugs, including antibiotics. Stepping into these buildings, we were immediately enveloped by the stench of rotting eggs. The pigs spend 24 hours of every day in crowded conditions standing over their own liquefied manure, bathing in the odor of decaying feces and continually breathing its fumes.
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Pugcocks And Boxikeets MAR 22, 2009 07:03P.M.
One day in the future, generations may well look back at our treatment of farm animals and wonder just how barbaric we were.
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Much To Digest MAR 22, 2009 06:16P.M.
Emily Valentine wonders about how we treat animals:
Terrence Henry explores how cheap eats are fairing in the recession:
In my work I wish to discuss how attitudes to wearing animals and birds parts have changed. Is this just because of fashion, or has society become more caring of animals? I wish to stimulate the viewer with the uncomfortable nature of the feather, to question our callousness treatment of animals and birds, and ask how we sub-consciously classify animals – pet or pest, valued or worthless, beautiful or plain and why.
...are we looking at a future with more bistro-esque street carts, hidden restaurants, and bargain gastronomy? Will restaurant critics’ best-of lists need to include a place that doesn’t even have a listed address? And could you end up having the best meal of your life in some dude’s living room, with mismatched silverware and uneven tables? From what I’ve seen so far, the answer is yes.
Her process: Over the last ten years I have developed my own technique and style using feathers from road kill, cat kill and dead pets. Recently I have moved into a new source of feathers. I have been trapping and killing the registered pest, the Indian Mynah bird. The above picture is a “Budgie Beagle.” More images here. (Hat tip: Cool Hunting)
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formal logic courses in my studies, and did astoundingly well in both. So when we got to the logic portion of this philosophy class, things between me and Steve (the guy who sat next to me) began to get silly.
A Whole Lotto Living MAR 22, 2009 05:43P.M.
Aside from things like deriving equations for pi and writing it out to 101 digits from memory, there was evidence that I was indeed paying a minuscule amount of attention to the subject matter...
Winning big has consequences: A new working paper from Bénédicte Apouey and Andrew E. Clark finds that lottery winners are happier, but that their physical health declines. The researchers find that a “positive income shock” from a lottery “leads to better mental health two to three years later.” But they also find that lottery winnings “lead to worse lifestyles” — in particular, more smoking and more social drinking.
Do deaf people hear sound arguments? If an argument takes place in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, is it still sound? Then I got to the doodling:
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Illogical Unviersity Doodles MAR 22, 2009 05:41P.M. I’m clearing out my old university notes, and I’ve came across some doodles which I feel compelled to share. While a recent study suggests that doodling can help memory, these doodles were mostly to occupy my mind while bored in class. This first one depicts the “Velotone”, which I drew in Cognitive Psychology class (with a professor who was otherwise really fun and interesting!):
The rest are all from a philosophy course. I had already taken two other
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Some of it was even on-topic!
On the next page, Steve and I started to pass notes back and forth. I think he was trying to write with his left hand: Steve: THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL STUPID! (EXCEPT FOR THAT GUY WITH THE BEARD) Me: That guy is particularly stupid. Evidently people didn’t understand these really simple logical principles, as evidenced by my note “He’s [the professor] making this way too complex.” I even had the foresight to predict that “eventually, he will start saying stuff we don’t understand, and we’ll completely miss it.” (My subsequent test scores proved otherwise, luckily) Then I got to more doodling, and the creative juices started flowing. Here is an illustration of those juices, as well as the exclamation “Fart-in-ahat!” (Making use of the equals-sign-three technique of illustrating wind, which I got from watching Art Attack years ago)
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STIMULATE THIS MAR 22, 2009 05:32P.M.
I snapped this shot in the waiting area of my return flight to Buffalo. I thought about buying it, but I have a problem with sexual innuendo on T-shirts, as well as PDAs (public displays of affection, but that's a psychosis for dissection on another day). Like Canada, the U.S. has gone crazy for stimulus. With the exception of some Republicans, everyone is on the stimulus bandwagon in America, if what I have observed over the past week or so is any indication. I remain Stimulus-Skeptical, however. Here are the questions that I, Joe Voter, need answered first: On the next page was another doozy:
1. Are the same reckless capitalists who got us in this mess being relied upon to determine where the “stimulus” is spent?
All straight lines are phallic. Therefore, geometry is full of phallacies!
2. Are the same dumb politicians (mainly the G.O.P. down here, and the Reformatories back home) who were recklessly indifferent to the excesses of capitalism being relied upon to determine how the “stimulus” is spent?
Here’s a tip for when you’re bored: grab a black pen and draw a line that crosses itself before meeting up with the end. Then fill in the alternating segments. If this doesn’t occupy you enough, when you’re done, rotate the page to look at it from different angles to see if you can pick out anything. Here’s a bear doing a somersault:
3. Why are we trusting the fools who got us into this mess to get us out? 4. What is their plan if the stimulus plan doesn't work? 5. What is their plan for when the stimulus money runs out, because it will? 6. Is anybody else as nervous as me? (Then again, I always worry before flights. I think air travel is unnatural unless you are a bird.) Anyhow. The most telling thing about those 'STIMULATE THIS' Tshirts? They've been marked down.
Eventually, he got into stuff that I didn’t already know, and my doodles turned into notes. I will leave you to ponder the logical implications of the statement “if this is boring, then I will not say so.”
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Is Psychiatry A Form Of Religion?
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Vaughan says, “no”:
On Friday, GC and I went to the Raw Sugar Cafe for Board Game Night. We were meeting Woodsy and the Fourth Dwarf. It was only when we got there that we learned the event had been organized by the Young and Active Adults of Ottawa. According to the Young and Active Adults, a young adult is between 25 and 40 years of age. (”This will be our last year then,” said GC as we slipped past the raised eyebrows.)
As identified by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer, the single common feature of all religious is a preoccupation with unseen sentient beings, of which psychiatry says nothing. In fact, mainstream psychiatry remains firmly materialist usually re-explaining experiences that many people attribute to spirits, forces or unseen influences as biological dysfunction. So, in the most fundamental sense, the practice of psychiatry is typically contra-religious.
We claimed a table, ordered some Beau’s beer and butterscotch-banana cake, and set about refamiliarizing ourselves with the rules of our games while waiting for Woodsy and 4D. Active young adults kept coming in, gaping at our board games, and asking us if we were part of the board game event. Some of them even tried to sit at our table. We had to spell it out for them that we were actually sluggish middle-aged adults waiting for others of our kind.
You could argue that this is ‘replacing’ religion through colonising the spiritual sphere of explanation, but this makes it no more a religion than physics or evolutionary biology.
When Woodsy and 4D arrived, we immediately launched into a rousing game of Mousetrap. 4D was in charge of understanding and enforcing the rules and making sure nobody got any cheese to which they were not entitled. Cheese is an important commodity in the end-game, and somehow 4D ended up with a great big pile of it. But Woodsy, despite her meager collection of cheese, was both brave and lucky, and she took out GC and 4D in one swell foop.
Two words: Sigmund Freud.
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN But the game wasn’t over yet! No! I rounded the corner like a virtually cheeseless dark horse and sprung my diabolically clever trap on Woodsy. Here, see for yourself:
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Next we played Clue. I got to pick my character first, since I won Mousetrap. I chose Colonel Mustard, which made 4D grumble a little bit, which made me even happier that I’d chosen Colonel Mustard. GC was in charge of the rule book this time, so the rules weren’t enforced quite as strictly as they had been under 4D.
Nashville, Tennessee, 1.08 pm
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Literary Evolution MAR 22, 2009 04:09P.M. A study from a few months ago investigates how novels affect social cohesion: Boehm and Carroll believe novels have the same effect as the cautionary tales told in older societies. “Just as huntergatherers talk of cheating and bullying as a way of staying keyed to the goal that the bad guys must not win, novels key us to the same issues,” says Boehm. “They have a function that continues to contribute to the quality and structure of group life.” “Maybe storytelling - from TV to folk tales - actually serves some specific evolutionary function,” says Gottschall. “They’re not just by-products of evolutionary adaptation.”
4D Cleans Up in Clue Woodsy and I both realized simultaneously, about half-way through the game, that it would have been smart to keep more detailed notes about the information we had been gleaning all along. But it was too late. GC and 4D had both kept voluminous cross-referenced notes written in secret code with Venn diagrams and probability models. All I knew for sure was that the atrocity had not taken place in the kitchen, when 4D suddenly announced it had been committed by Miss Scarlet with the lead pipe in the billiards room! And he was right!
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Conservatism As Water
I’d like to do this again. Is anybody else interested in coming to an Ageless Games Night, somewhere, sometime?
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MPs get close with statue: Genies coming to Ottawa MAR 22, 2009 04:16P.M. As part of the lead up to the Genie Awards in Ottawa on April 4, Susan Smith of Bluesky Strategy Group has been schlepping a giant Genie statue all over the Hill and getting folks to pose with it. There was a even a special screening in the Speaker Peter Milliken’s dining room of clips [...] Via Dreher, Stewart Lundy talks of the nature of things and the lost art of living: Conservatism is “formless” like water: it takes the shape of its conditions, but always remains the same. This is why Russell Kirk calls conservatism the “negation of ideology” in The
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Politics of Prudence. It is precisely the formlessness of conservatism which gives it its vitality. Left alone, the spirit of conservatism is essentially what T.S. Eliot calls the “stillness between two waves of the sea” in “Little Gidding” of his Four Quartets. Conservatism is both like water and the stillness between the waves—the waves are not the water acting, but being acted upon; stillness is the default state of conservatism:
combined effects of climate change and poor land-use practices, fully a third of the country is at risk of desertification. Meanwhile, the island of Cyprus has become so parched that in the summer of 2008, with its reservoir levels at just 7 percent, it was forced to start shipping in water from Greece. (Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky)
Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always— A condition of complete simplicity
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Getting PTSD Right
Like the Greek concept of kairos—acting in the right way, for the right reasons, at the right moment—this sort of waiting is simply careful conservatism. Conservatism is responsive, reactionary, reserved. Conservatism waits. Perhaps this is why conservatism is most needed in the modern age of mobility. Being careful, and above all patient is crucial to doing something right. Realizing that one does not know the best way of doing anything guarantees not that one will find the best way, but that one might not find the worst way. The same principle applies to knowledge: conservatism (hopefully) does not pretend to know the definitive way, but rather professes the virtue of ignorance with the quiet hope of finding knowledge.
MAR 22, 2009 02:04P.M. Jonah Lehrer recommends David Dobbs’ article on PTSD diagnosis: Needless to say, this is a very controversial, delicate subject. On the one hand, it’s essential that the stigma of PTSD is removed, so that soldiers and patients don’t deny a real, medical condition. And yet, it’s also crucial that PTSD doesn’t become a catch-all condition, which leads to the neglect of other mental illnesses, such as depression or anxiety disorders. Over at his blog, David features links to many of his sources. And see Vaughan for even more.
Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
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Elizabeth Kolbert worries:
Among the many useful features A6 also has a few “useless” but nonetheless interesting features. Most of these are a bit hidden, so it is less likely you stumble across them by chance. The feature presented here - three dimensional images created from Google Earth views - might not be used by anyone as it requires the ability to look cross-eyed.
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Quantifying the effects of global warming on rainfall patterns is challenging. Rain is what scientists call a “noisy” phenomenon, meaning that there is a great deal of natural variability from year to year. Experts say that it may not be until the middle of this century that some long-term changes in precipitation emerge from the background clatter of yearto-year fluctuations. But others are already discernible. Between 1925 and 1999, the area between 40 and 70 degrees north latitude grew rainier, while the area between zero and 30 degrees north grew drier. In keeping with this broad trend, northern Europe seems to be growing wetter, while the southern part of the continent grows more arid. The Spanish Environment Ministry has estimated that, owing to the
1. Start ATLAS.ti, open or create a new Google Earth PD. 2. Position to a location with significant terrain or other 3-D information. 3. Unless already switched on, select 3-D buildings in the GE layers 4. Create a GE Snapshot but hold down the Ctrl key at the same time. You will notice a series of small horizontal movements and you will be prompted for a file name and location. If you have an application assigned to JPG files it will open and display the newly created image
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composed of a left and right eye view on the scene. Note: This will NOT create a new image PD. Note the red calibration points at the bottom of the 3-D image. They help to correctly view the image cross-eyed. Well, that is what you need to do: Look at the image with your eye “beams” crossing so that your left eye looks at the right image and vice-versa. Try to “create” 3 images from the two views above. Or, try to create 3 red points and look at the middle one. Now lift your eyes to look at the image itself. It may need a bit of training but it’s worth it. Instructions to view x-eyed can be found here: http://www.3dexpo.com/crosseye.htm Disclaimer: Of course, such practices are at your own risk. If you have problems with your eyes you may need to consult your doctor before .... Nice weekend - Thomas
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So, how do you feel about activist auditor generals, Prime Minister? MAR 23, 2009 12:47P.M. Because this could get interesting: Auditor General Sheila Fraser says the government should be prepared to defend its rationale for changing any rules or processes and spell out who is accountable in its race to get stimulus money out the door. As her office prepares for a audit into the expected spending frenzy of the next two [...]
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Design: Emily Forgot Apparently inspired by the cut-and-paste aesthetic of the sadly defunct Amelia’s magazine and the illustrations of Alan Aldridge, Selfridges’ inhouse design team unveiled the store’s colourful new windows earlier this month. The windows also received a makeover from illustrator Emily Forgot and RCA student Matthew Plummer Fernandez, whose previous Selfridges installation we featured, here…
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student, Matthew Plummer Fernandez, while The Duke Street and Oxford Street windows were were designed in-house by the 3D creative team’s concept maganer Sarah McCullough and graphic visualiser Michael Ryley.
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Design: Emily Forgot The windows on the store’s Orchard Street side were designed by illustrator (and CR March cover designer) Emily Forgot. The large corner window that meets Oxford Street was designed by RCA
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“Being the pioneers of creative window display I was incredibly excited to be asked to develop four windows,” says Emily Forgot. “After talking through with them their exciting concept for Oxford Street, I took on board their kaleidoscopic infuences, added a dash of the surreal, and Zoot Allure was born.”
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley Plummer Fernandez’ installation, Fourfootfalls, presents a landscape of white poles of varying lengths. The ceiling of the window houses four drip devices, which are linked to sensors on the window glass. Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
Depending on the amount of movement outside on the street, the drip devices release measured quantities of coloured ink that drip onto the series of fabric-wrapped poles, dying the fabric. Over the course of the installation the colour of the landscape will change as the poles become more saturated with ink.
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Design: Matthew Plummer Fernandez
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be very busy at work, so I need to make sure that I have that I’m in check and that I’m feeling well (I’m starting to feel sick again) for the next couple of weeks. On the bright side, I got a call for more information last week on my resumer for my dream job. I guess we’ll wait and see what happens with that. At least I know, that they know, that I exist.
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Call Me, Irresponsible…
Design: Sarah McCullough and Michael Ryley
MAR 23, 2009 11:00A.M.
You and your friends go to the local bar to watch some hockey and drink some beer. You each have a couple and are having fun, laughing, cheering for your winning team. Suddenly the bar staff comes over, demands your car keys and tells you they have called a taxi and you have to leave. You are escorted off the premises. Crazy? Not if the Ontario Liquor License Act enforcers have anything to say about it. They want to hold bar owners and bar staff responsible for your drinking. • Bar owners and staff can and have been charged if they have intoxicated people on the premises whether or not they served you the alcohol that made you intoxicated.
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• They’re not allowed to sell alcoholic beverages to anyone who appears to be intoxicated.
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• They are responsible if you hurt yourself while under the influence of alcohol on their premises or after you leave their premises - even if you were already drunk before you got there.
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• They are responsible for making sure you get home safely after you’ve been to their establishment.
I’m looking at this blank screen to “add new post” and I feel lost, I don’t know where to start. I have so much to tell you, but feel that I if I wrote it all down, it would look like it just splat all over this post and come out very confusing.
“Intoxication” is a completely objective term, legally. There are, of course times when it’s obvious, but not always. I know plenty of quiet drunks who have enough experience that they can appear just a bit tipsy while completely blotto.
The Cole’s Notes of my weekend was that it was really fun. We tired going somewhere on Friday night that we’ve never gone to before and had a blast. Actually, I’m a little sorry that we didn’t stay longer. We also got a chance to catch up, do some laundry, watch some movies and spend time with friends that we haven’t seen in a while.
In a very high profile case, earlier this year, 3 employees and all 13 company officers and directors of the Port Carling, Ontario Lake Joseph Golf Club were charged with permitting drunkenness on the premises and for serving alcohol to someone who was intoxicated. Four young people left the place following an afternoon of golf and drinking. They got into a car, drove too fast, lost control, ran off the road into a tree and flipped the car into Lake Joseph. Three of them, including the
I am also feeling that I’m very behind on everything, home, work, crafting. I don’t feel like I have control on things that I want to do or have to do. I need to get my stuff organized. This week month, is going to
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driver ended up dead.
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Tim Mulcahy, the father of the driver, thinks the laws are ass-backwards. He thinks the focus should be on making driving laws tougher. For one thing, he found out after the fact that his son had already amassed several speeding tickets in the past. As a fairly new driver, why wasn’t his license suspended?
MAR 23, 2009 11:00A.M. Typeworkshop: (via mitt)
Mulcahy has also petitioned the provincial government to change the rules to state that only a blood alcohol level of zero is permitted while driving — especially for new drivers. He would also like to see it be more difficult and time consuming to get and keep a driver’s license in the first place. This isn’t a radical idea. For much of the world outside of North America it is far more difficult and costly to get and maintain a driver’s license.
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All these wishy-washy terms like “drunkenness, intoxication and acceptable blood alcohol levels” obviously aren’t working.[1] And, pointing fingers at everyone but the idiots who insist on endangering their own lives and the lives of others by drinking and driving is very politically correct, but totally inane.
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Suncor closes in on deal to buy Petro-Canada MAR 23, 2009 06:00A.M.
Are we going to charge the corner shop owner for selling cigarettes to a pregnant woman? McDonald’s for selling 2 Big Macs to the grossly obese guy? Axe for selling that hideous cologne that makes teenage boys targets for being pitched into the closest body of water?
$15 billion takeover would create Canada’s largest energy company
Perhaps we need to stop being so silly about our alcohol laws and get a little less silly about our driving laws. And maybe, just maybe, start making people a little more responsible for their own actions.
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International Talk Like William Shatner Day Has Come And Gone, But Its Spirit Lives On Inside Us
_______________________ [1] In 2006, in the US there were 13,470 fatalities in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver (BAC of .08 or higher). 16,005 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-related motor vehicle traffic crashes (BAC of .01 or higher). These numbers are very similar to statistics from 10 years ago — the ad campaigns don’t seem to be working. Canadian statistics are proportionally similar. Compare this to the approximately 10,000 alcohol-related traffic fatalities per year for the entire European Union.
MAR 23, 2009 05:29A.M. Canadian voice actor/comedian/impressionist Maurice LaMarche didn’t give us much advance notice in declaring March 22 to be “International Talk Like William Shatner Day,” but his instructional video will help us get ready for the… next… InternationaltalklikeWilliam… Shatner Day. You know, when I first heard LaMarche and others doing their Shatner
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An organization in Ottawa’s bad books wined and dined Canadian
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“The Swedish state is not prepared to own car factories”
GallowayWatch: Calling all constitutional lawyers, armchair or otherwise …
MAR 23, 2009 03:28A.M. Too bad, Saab. How can Sweden just let an industrial pillar go like that? That’s a complex question. The decision, like every decision any government anywhere makes these days, will strike many as wrongheaded. I’m not sure how much of Sweden’s employment is
MAR 23, 2009 04:25A.M. Hot off the CP newswire: Organizers are to announce Monday they will file an emergency injunction in Ontario federal court on Tuesday seeking to overturn Citizenship and Immigration Canada’s entry ban on the outspoken politician I confess; I’m really not sure exactly how this is going to work, since neither Citizenship and Immigration nor Jason
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Afghanistan/Pakistan: Death from above 2009
I’m not really equipped to evaluate the finale of Battlestar Galactica. (Because I haven’t kept up with all the developments this season, and this is a finale that obviously rewards viewers who have followed every episode — or punishes them, depending on how you reacted to it.) But..
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(and don’t read further if you’re anti-spoiler) [...]
U.S. military has massively expanded use of remote-piloted drone attacks within Pakistan since last autumn, and especially since Obama’s inauguration. Problem: Some analysts say drone attacks are really, really bad counterinsurgency, because they leave the innocent with the guilty to die in the rubble, and grief and anger are an excellent recruiting tool for
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Tackling Iran Some thoughts from Les Gelb: I think there’s no chance of forcing or persuading Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program. The issue is can we forestall their developing and deploying nuclear weapons, and I think we can. We can’t stop a peaceful program. We’ve already conceded such programs for North Korea, for heaven’s sake. We’ve been prepared to give them two lightwater reactors that can produce weapons-grade material. And we’ve rewarded India and Pakistan for going nuclear. Plus, Israel is a nuclear power. In my book I stress that it’s futile to set unattainable goals,
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though politics and ideology push Washington in that direction time and again. So, let’s begin the process of negotiations with Iran. It will be hard, long, and painful. But here’s my guess: Iran as a society is more middle class and more prone to democracy than any other country in that part of the world. Within ten years, Iran will be our closest ally in the region.
This was dinned into me too as a young European. I knew what America was, and how it was different: whatever criticisms you could have, America didn’t torture. No one can say that any longer. If you want to know why I remain incensed at Dick Cheney, this should help.
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The Paradox Of Netanyahu MAR 23, 2009 01:34A.M. WARREN KINSELLA Carlo Strenger in Haaretz:
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Netanyahu is seemingly cosmopolitan. He grew up in the United States; he speaks excellent English and seems to know the world. In reality, though, he is locked into a worldview that is strikingly devoid of differentiation. Together with Avigdor Lieberman, he believes that Israel is the West’s representative in the Middle East, but seems to have no clue that the West has largely washed its hands of Israel, because of its behavior. Behind his sophistication lies a worldview that is insular, suspicious and devoid of complexity.
MAR 23, 2009 02:36A.M. How long was the line-up at the Peace Bridge between Buffalo and Fort Erie? Let's put it this way: our team of W@AL professionals had time to plan, shoot, edit and post this documentary filmlet to the Interweeb. Whilst in line, the whole time. Methinks it was a long Winter. Lots of folks headed South, this Spring Break, eh?
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The Price Of Torture
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MAR 23, 2009 01:34A.M. Michael Yon makes an important point about how deeply American decency was understood in Europe and elsewhere in the wake of the Greatest Generation: Before I lived in Germany and Poland for about six years, the Army taught me German and some Polish. And so there were countless conversations with older Germans and Poles, and I heard earfuls of stories. The older Germans were very respectful toward our “Greatest Generation,” but pretty much hated the Russians because of their brutality. The theme nearly always drifted to the very humane treatment we afforded German prisoners, while the Russians killed them off. We even had German prisoners working on farms, and after the war, many Germans returned and married American women! But the Poles didn’t like the Germans or the Russians because of the very same reasons. They had been mistreated, but the Poles have great respect for America because we treated them well. Americans are extremely welcome in Poland, but that place sure is cold.
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Last September, with $10k in the bank, I quit my stressfulbut-profitable paralegal job, moved out of my parents’ house in Connecticut (the poor half) for the third time and got an apartment in New Hampshire, to be closer to my girlfriend. I spent three months being mostly unemployed, tutoring a few kids for $15 a week, and sending out resumes for office positions. I even got a few interviews, but nothing panned out. For Christmas, I got a seasonal retail job, where I still am today, at federal minimum wage and 20 hours a week.
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New England Ruins MAR 23, 2009 01:17A.M.
My savings are gone. Of all the things I lost in this not-toosmart move, I miss my health coverage the most; my year-old eyeglasses are pretty much useless, and since running out of Lipitor in October, I get weekly angina attacks. I’m 28, by the way. And my girlfriend? She’s still living with her not-quite-ex, since they can’t afford court fees to divorce after two years of nominal separation, and they can’t sell the house either. She’s worried about her job (marketing) because advertising is the first thing to go when corporations have to cut costs; she’s got seniority, but that also means she makes the most per hour, and they can hire a kid out of college for almost nothing compared to what she makes.
Rob Dobi goes in search of decay: Even as a child I questioned the significance of abandoned buildings and the stories they could tell by simply walking through them and seeing what is left, or more importantly, what isn’t.
Her transgendered wife loses jobs regularly, and we know it’s because she’s transitioned and still definitely not passable, but what can you do when legislators keep quoting the Bible instead of the Constitution? Their daughter will be going to college in two years, hopefully on soccer scholarships, but who knows? Right now, they’ve taken on new car payments so she’ll be able to drive herself to practice if Mama gets the opportunity to work overtime. We’re talking about me moving in with them once my lease is up; the almost-ex is resistant, but it’s not like the McMansion doesn’t have enough room... especially once I sell all my books, spare computers and shoes.
More images here.
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Visualizing The Abyss
All that said, I’m actually feeling pretty good still. I’m good at a lot of things, I’m using my “downtime” to learn new skills (anyone need a Drupal programmer?) and brush up old ones (I’ll crochet you a sweater!), and I’m not nearly as spoiled as a lot of my peers. I’m thinking about taking my tutoring to the extreme and offering “catch up/get ahead” summer school in a few months, if nothing else turns up before then. And I may finally lose that last stubborn 25 pounds by doing all my cooking at home! I am still looking forward to having enough money for a huge wedding in a few years, and if we’re really lucky I’ll be able to have it in NH instead of Massachusetts.
MAR 23, 2009 12:32A.M. The graphic artists have been having a field day explaining the credit crunch.
(Photo from Cluster Balloon via Environmental Graffiti.)
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I Read Twittering Dead People
What’s Up With Nebraska?
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I kid you not. Among them: Susan Sontag and Goethe:
Lee Sigelman peruses a new CDC study on cell-phone only households:
See you opposite the Young Vic. I’ll be eating fish in the window. You might as well bring along the costumes.
No surprise that DC tops the list (with 25.4%), but take a gander at the states that follow close behind: Oklahoma (25.1%), Utah (23.9%), Nebraska (22.4%), and a bunch of other, er, unlikely-seeming places. For a full listing, scroll down to Table I in the Report or click on the “Behind the Numbers” link below.
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I’m just not seeing a forest in all these trees. Any ideas about what might account for the substantial interstate variability?
Should We Wait To Regulate? MAR 23, 2009 12:15A.M.
From the comments section:
Mark Thoma has a different view than Richard Posner:
“Cell phone only” at the state level is correlated negatively with age (r=-0.25) and median income (r=-0.45) and positively associated with levels of interstate migration (r=0.22) and percent renters (r=0.1). Utah is young, Oklahoma is poor, DC has lots of renters. Don’t know what’s up with Nebraska.
...it’s possible that regulation will go overboard in response to the crisis, there are powerful interests that will resist regulatory changes that limit their opportunities to make money (and Nobel prize winning economists willing to back them up), so my worry is that regulation will not go far enough, particularly with people like Kashyap and Mishkin arguing that we should wait for recovery before making any big regulatory changes to the financial sector. They may be right that now is not the time to change regulations because it could create additional destabilizing uncertainty in financial markets, and that waiting will give us time to see how the crisis plays out and to consider the regulatory moves carefully. But as we wait, passions will fade, defenses will mount, the media will respond to the those opposed to regulation by making it a he said, she said issue that fogs things up and confuses the public as well as politicians, and by the time it is all over there’s every chance that legislation will pass that is nothing but a facade with no real teeth that can change the behaviors that go us into this mess.
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“Sullivan Group Think” MAR 22, 2009 10:18P.M. Scott Payne understands what the Dish is trying to do, and I’m grateful for his kind words. But I should say I regret nothing about my blogging about Sarah Palin last year and would do it again - with feeling - if such a duplicitous farce of an apparatchik were to be advanced as a possible leader for the US in the future. None of the crucial factual evidence for her constant fabulisms was ever provided and the MSM, as uninterested in the truth as they are eager for their own reputations, curled up into a little ball of deference. As for my use of the term Christianist, here’s my defense of the word, from 2006:
I don’t see new regulation of such creations as credit defaulty swaps as some kind of slap at capitalism. I see it as an effort to save capitalism.
... let me suggest that we take back the word Christian while giving the religious right a new adjective: Christianist. Christianity, in this view, is simply a faith. Christianism is an ideology, politics, an ism. The distinction between Christian and Christianist echoes the distinction we make between Muslim and Islamist. Muslims are those who follow Islam. Islamists are those who want to wield Islam as a political force and conflate state and mosque. Not all Islamists are violent. Only a tiny few are terrorists. And I should underline that the term Christianist is in no way designed to label
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people on the religious right as favoring any violence at all. I mean merely by the term Christianist the view that religious faith is so important that it must also have a precise political agenda. It is the belief that religion dictates politics and that politics should dictate the laws for everyone, Christian and non-Christian alike.
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The Kindness Of Strangers MAR 22, 2009 08:46P.M. Schneier says to believe in the kindness of strangers. His thesis:
This noxious corruption of religion is still at large. Gingrich, for example, sees it as a lynchpin for the future of the Republican coalition. And it has clearly helped delegitimize Christianity in the eyes of many who might otherwise be tempted to look at the Gospels in a more open-minded fashion. The damage these fanatics and reactionaries have done to actual faith - let alone a rational politics - is incalculable, and I’m damned if I will allow them to use the word “Christian” to describe their agenda. It isn’t.
When I was growing up, children were commonly taught: “don’t talk to strangers.” Strangers might be bad, we were told, so it’s prudent to steer clear of them. And yet most people are honest, kind, and generous, especially when someone asks them for help. If a small child is in trouble, the smartest thing he can do is find a nice-looking stranger and talk to him. These two pieces of advice may seem to contradict each other, but they don’t. The difference is that in the second instance, the child is choosing which stranger to talk to. Given that the overwhelming majority of people will help, the child is likely to get help if he chooses a random stranger. But if a stranger comes up to a child and talks to him or her, it’s not a random choice. It’s more likely, although still unlikely, that the stranger is up to no good.
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Mental Health Break MAR 22, 2009 09:20P.M.
As a species, we tend help each other, and a surprising amount of our security and safety comes from the kindness of strangers. During disasters: floods, earthquakes, hurricanes, bridge collapses. In times of personal tragedy. And even in normal times.
Children greet a new birth:
Little D Hatching Out of the Egg from Class 1-208 on Vimeo.
If you’re sitting in a café working on your laptop and need to get up for a minute, ask the person sitting next to you to watch your stuff. He’s very unlikely to steal anything. Or, if you’re nervous about that, ask the three people sitting around you. Those three people don’t know each other, and will not only watch your stuff, but they’ll also watch each other to make sure no one steals anything.
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When Jesus Rode Disonaurs MAR 22, 2009 09:02P.M.
Again, this works because you’re selecting the people. If three people walk up to you in the café and offer to watch your computer while you go to the bathroom, don’t take them up on that offer. Your odds of getting three honest people are much lower.
A coloring book for evangelical children.
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Salt & Peppers cars
f4 problem MAR 22, 2009 08:45P.M.
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Healing The World
When I installed the latest service pack, Atlas co-opted the use of the function keys. I assume this is so that it can sync up with the f4 software. But this means that I can no longer use other software, like DSS Player, unless I switch windows. (DSS is set up so that it has universal access to the function keys, so that I could fast-forward/rewind/play/stop when I’m using Atlas.) Is there a way to disable Atlas’s use of the function keys or at least to re-map them so that DSS Player can regain control?
MAR 22, 2009 07:41P.M. A reader writes: Last night I did something the likes of which I haven’t done for a long time and went to one of those parish Lenten evenings that was no doubt much like thousands of others around the country. We were asked after an hour of reflection together to split into small groups. In my group of four (two women and two men put together by chance) we were to share with each other about carrying the fruits of the Eucharist to others in need. It was suggested that we frame our thinking in classic Ignatian terms of “what I have done, what I am doing, and what I will do.” I can’t tell you how moving it was to hear these three who, as is often the case in large Catholic parishes, were complete strangers to me, speak honestly and directly about their very different lives and aspirations.
Alternatively, is there a way for me to roll back to a previous service pack, so that I can regain this functionality? Thanks, Andrew
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Salt & Peppers cars MAR 22, 2009 08:24P.M.
The other guy was one of those healthy-looking mature men who looked and sounded typical of the gray-haired man you might see in a TV commercial — which made it all the more striking as he spoke very simply of his extraordinary “second career” working with people at risk of becoming homeless. He then mentioned the other folks in his life to whom he has responsibilities. Among these he listed “my husband.” Nobody blinked an eye, and the focus stayed on the subject at hand. It’s impossible not to be struck by the wide implications of this sort of thing. The world is always saved one soul at a time.
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NASCAR Christianity
The Animal Gulag
MAR 22, 2009 07:09P.M.
MAR 22, 2009 06:39P.M.
Seriously.
Bill Niman and Nicolette Hahn Niman discuss the politics of animal antibiotics: Over the past several years, each of us have toured numerous industrial-style animal operations, and they were not pretty. We saw pigs confined in metal buildings living on hard, slatted floors and fed daily rations that include such unsavory ingredients as bone meal, blood meal, and drugs, including antibiotics. Stepping into these buildings, we were immediately enveloped by the stench of rotting eggs. The pigs spend 24 hours of every day in crowded conditions standing over their own liquefied manure, bathing in the odor of decaying feces and continually breathing its fumes.
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Pugcocks And Boxikeets MAR 22, 2009 07:03P.M.
One day in the future, generations may well look back at our treatment of farm animals and wonder just how barbaric we were.
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Much To Digest MAR 22, 2009 06:16P.M.
Emily Valentine wonders about how we treat animals:
Terrence Henry explores how cheap eats are fairing in the recession:
In my work I wish to discuss how attitudes to wearing animals and birds parts have changed. Is this just because of fashion, or has society become more caring of animals? I wish to stimulate the viewer with the uncomfortable nature of the feather, to question our callousness treatment of animals and birds, and ask how we sub-consciously classify animals – pet or pest, valued or worthless, beautiful or plain and why.
...are we looking at a future with more bistro-esque street carts, hidden restaurants, and bargain gastronomy? Will restaurant critics’ best-of lists need to include a place that doesn’t even have a listed address? And could you end up having the best meal of your life in some dude’s living room, with mismatched silverware and uneven tables? From what I’ve seen so far, the answer is yes.
Her process: Over the last ten years I have developed my own technique and style using feathers from road kill, cat kill and dead pets. Recently I have moved into a new source of feathers. I have been trapping and killing the registered pest, the Indian Mynah bird. The above picture is a “Budgie Beagle.” More images here. (Hat tip: Cool Hunting)
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formal logic courses in my studies, and did astoundingly well in both. So when we got to the logic portion of this philosophy class, things between me and Steve (the guy who sat next to me) began to get silly.
A Whole Lotto Living MAR 22, 2009 05:43P.M.
Aside from things like deriving equations for pi and writing it out to 101 digits from memory, there was evidence that I was indeed paying a minuscule amount of attention to the subject matter...
Winning big has consequences: A new working paper from Bénédicte Apouey and Andrew E. Clark finds that lottery winners are happier, but that their physical health declines. The researchers find that a “positive income shock” from a lottery “leads to better mental health two to three years later.” But they also find that lottery winnings “lead to worse lifestyles” — in particular, more smoking and more social drinking.
Do deaf people hear sound arguments? If an argument takes place in a forest and nobody is there to hear it, is it still sound? Then I got to the doodling:
BLOGAWA
Illogical Unviersity Doodles MAR 22, 2009 05:41P.M. I’m clearing out my old university notes, and I’ve came across some doodles which I feel compelled to share. While a recent study suggests that doodling can help memory, these doodles were mostly to occupy my mind while bored in class. This first one depicts the “Velotone”, which I drew in Cognitive Psychology class (with a professor who was otherwise really fun and interesting!):
The rest are all from a philosophy course. I had already taken two other
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Some of it was even on-topic!
On the next page, Steve and I started to pass notes back and forth. I think he was trying to write with his left hand: Steve: THESE PEOPLE ARE ALL STUPID! (EXCEPT FOR THAT GUY WITH THE BEARD) Me: That guy is particularly stupid. Evidently people didn’t understand these really simple logical principles, as evidenced by my note “He’s [the professor] making this way too complex.” I even had the foresight to predict that “eventually, he will start saying stuff we don’t understand, and we’ll completely miss it.” (My subsequent test scores proved otherwise, luckily) Then I got to more doodling, and the creative juices started flowing. Here is an illustration of those juices, as well as the exclamation “Fart-in-ahat!” (Making use of the equals-sign-three technique of illustrating wind, which I got from watching Art Attack years ago)
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WARREN KINSELLA
STIMULATE THIS MAR 22, 2009 05:32P.M.
I snapped this shot in the waiting area of my return flight to Buffalo. I thought about buying it, but I have a problem with sexual innuendo on T-shirts, as well as PDAs (public displays of affection, but that's a psychosis for dissection on another day). Like Canada, the U.S. has gone crazy for stimulus. With the exception of some Republicans, everyone is on the stimulus bandwagon in America, if what I have observed over the past week or so is any indication. I remain Stimulus-Skeptical, however. Here are the questions that I, Joe Voter, need answered first: On the next page was another doozy:
1. Are the same reckless capitalists who got us in this mess being relied upon to determine where the “stimulus” is spent?
All straight lines are phallic. Therefore, geometry is full of phallacies!
2. Are the same dumb politicians (mainly the G.O.P. down here, and the Reformatories back home) who were recklessly indifferent to the excesses of capitalism being relied upon to determine how the “stimulus” is spent?
Here’s a tip for when you’re bored: grab a black pen and draw a line that crosses itself before meeting up with the end. Then fill in the alternating segments. If this doesn’t occupy you enough, when you’re done, rotate the page to look at it from different angles to see if you can pick out anything. Here’s a bear doing a somersault:
3. Why are we trusting the fools who got us into this mess to get us out? 4. What is their plan if the stimulus plan doesn't work? 5. What is their plan for when the stimulus money runs out, because it will? 6. Is anybody else as nervous as me? (Then again, I always worry before flights. I think air travel is unnatural unless you are a bird.) Anyhow. The most telling thing about those 'STIMULATE THIS' Tshirts? They've been marked down.
Eventually, he got into stuff that I didn’t already know, and my doodles turned into notes. I will leave you to ponder the logical implications of the statement “if this is boring, then I will not say so.”
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Is Psychiatry A Form Of Religion?
BLOGAWA
Infiltrating the youth crowd
MAR 22, 2009 04:43P.M.
MAR 22, 2009 04:32P.M.
Vaughan says, “no”:
On Friday, GC and I went to the Raw Sugar Cafe for Board Game Night. We were meeting Woodsy and the Fourth Dwarf. It was only when we got there that we learned the event had been organized by the Young and Active Adults of Ottawa. According to the Young and Active Adults, a young adult is between 25 and 40 years of age. (”This will be our last year then,” said GC as we slipped past the raised eyebrows.)
As identified by cognitive anthropologist Pascal Boyer, the single common feature of all religious is a preoccupation with unseen sentient beings, of which psychiatry says nothing. In fact, mainstream psychiatry remains firmly materialist usually re-explaining experiences that many people attribute to spirits, forces or unseen influences as biological dysfunction. So, in the most fundamental sense, the practice of psychiatry is typically contra-religious.
We claimed a table, ordered some Beau’s beer and butterscotch-banana cake, and set about refamiliarizing ourselves with the rules of our games while waiting for Woodsy and 4D. Active young adults kept coming in, gaping at our board games, and asking us if we were part of the board game event. Some of them even tried to sit at our table. We had to spell it out for them that we were actually sluggish middle-aged adults waiting for others of our kind.
You could argue that this is ‘replacing’ religion through colonising the spiritual sphere of explanation, but this makes it no more a religion than physics or evolutionary biology.
When Woodsy and 4D arrived, we immediately launched into a rousing game of Mousetrap. 4D was in charge of understanding and enforcing the rules and making sure nobody got any cheese to which they were not entitled. Cheese is an important commodity in the end-game, and somehow 4D ended up with a great big pile of it. But Woodsy, despite her meager collection of cheese, was both brave and lucky, and she took out GC and 4D in one swell foop.
Two words: Sigmund Freud.
THE DAILY DISH | BY ANDREW SULLIVAN But the game wasn’t over yet! No! I rounded the corner like a virtually cheeseless dark horse and sprung my diabolically clever trap on Woodsy. Here, see for yourself:
The View From Your Window MAR 22, 2009 04:33P.M.
Next we played Clue. I got to pick my character first, since I won Mousetrap. I chose Colonel Mustard, which made 4D grumble a little bit, which made me even happier that I’d chosen Colonel Mustard. GC was in charge of the rule book this time, so the rules weren’t enforced quite as strictly as they had been under 4D.
Nashville, Tennessee, 1.08 pm
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Literary Evolution MAR 22, 2009 04:09P.M. A study from a few months ago investigates how novels affect social cohesion: Boehm and Carroll believe novels have the same effect as the cautionary tales told in older societies. “Just as huntergatherers talk of cheating and bullying as a way of staying keyed to the goal that the bad guys must not win, novels key us to the same issues,” says Boehm. “They have a function that continues to contribute to the quality and structure of group life.” “Maybe storytelling - from TV to folk tales - actually serves some specific evolutionary function,” says Gottschall. “They’re not just by-products of evolutionary adaptation.”
4D Cleans Up in Clue Woodsy and I both realized simultaneously, about half-way through the game, that it would have been smart to keep more detailed notes about the information we had been gleaning all along. But it was too late. GC and 4D had both kept voluminous cross-referenced notes written in secret code with Venn diagrams and probability models. All I knew for sure was that the atrocity had not taken place in the kitchen, when 4D suddenly announced it had been committed by Miss Scarlet with the lead pipe in the billiards room! And he was right!
(hat tip: 3QD)
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Conservatism As Water
I’d like to do this again. Is anybody else interested in coming to an Ageless Games Night, somewhere, sometime?
MAR 22, 2009 02:57P.M.
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MPs get close with statue: Genies coming to Ottawa MAR 22, 2009 04:16P.M. As part of the lead up to the Genie Awards in Ottawa on April 4, Susan Smith of Bluesky Strategy Group has been schlepping a giant Genie statue all over the Hill and getting folks to pose with it. There was a even a special screening in the Speaker Peter Milliken’s dining room of clips [...] Via Dreher, Stewart Lundy talks of the nature of things and the lost art of living: Conservatism is “formless” like water: it takes the shape of its conditions, but always remains the same. This is why Russell Kirk calls conservatism the “negation of ideology” in The
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Politics of Prudence. It is precisely the formlessness of conservatism which gives it its vitality. Left alone, the spirit of conservatism is essentially what T.S. Eliot calls the “stillness between two waves of the sea” in “Little Gidding” of his Four Quartets. Conservatism is both like water and the stillness between the waves—the waves are not the water acting, but being acted upon; stillness is the default state of conservatism:
combined effects of climate change and poor land-use practices, fully a third of the country is at risk of desertification. Meanwhile, the island of Cyprus has become so parched that in the summer of 2008, with its reservoir levels at just 7 percent, it was forced to start shipping in water from Greece. (Hat tip: Paul Kedrosky)
Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. Quick now, here, now, always— A condition of complete simplicity
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Getting PTSD Right
Like the Greek concept of kairos—acting in the right way, for the right reasons, at the right moment—this sort of waiting is simply careful conservatism. Conservatism is responsive, reactionary, reserved. Conservatism waits. Perhaps this is why conservatism is most needed in the modern age of mobility. Being careful, and above all patient is crucial to doing something right. Realizing that one does not know the best way of doing anything guarantees not that one will find the best way, but that one might not find the worst way. The same principle applies to knowledge: conservatism (hopefully) does not pretend to know the definitive way, but rather professes the virtue of ignorance with the quiet hope of finding knowledge.
MAR 22, 2009 02:04P.M. Jonah Lehrer recommends David Dobbs’ article on PTSD diagnosis: Needless to say, this is a very controversial, delicate subject. On the one hand, it’s essential that the stigma of PTSD is removed, so that soldiers and patients don’t deny a real, medical condition. And yet, it’s also crucial that PTSD doesn’t become a catch-all condition, which leads to the neglect of other mental illnesses, such as depression or anxiety disorders. Over at his blog, David features links to many of his sources. And see Vaughan for even more.
Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.
ATLAS.TI FORUM
Praying For Rain
Just for fun: create 3-D images with A6
MAR 22, 2009 02:05P.M.
MAR 22, 2009 02:02P.M.
Elizabeth Kolbert worries:
Among the many useful features A6 also has a few “useless” but nonetheless interesting features. Most of these are a bit hidden, so it is less likely you stumble across them by chance. The feature presented here - three dimensional images created from Google Earth views - might not be used by anyone as it requires the ability to look cross-eyed.
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Quantifying the effects of global warming on rainfall patterns is challenging. Rain is what scientists call a “noisy” phenomenon, meaning that there is a great deal of natural variability from year to year. Experts say that it may not be until the middle of this century that some long-term changes in precipitation emerge from the background clatter of yearto-year fluctuations. But others are already discernible. Between 1925 and 1999, the area between 40 and 70 degrees north latitude grew rainier, while the area between zero and 30 degrees north grew drier. In keeping with this broad trend, northern Europe seems to be growing wetter, while the southern part of the continent grows more arid. The Spanish Environment Ministry has estimated that, owing to the
1. Start ATLAS.ti, open or create a new Google Earth PD. 2. Position to a location with significant terrain or other 3-D information. 3. Unless already switched on, select 3-D buildings in the GE layers 4. Create a GE Snapshot but hold down the Ctrl key at the same time. You will notice a series of small horizontal movements and you will be prompted for a file name and location. If you have an application assigned to JPG files it will open and display the newly created image
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composed of a left and right eye view on the scene. Note: This will NOT create a new image PD. Note the red calibration points at the bottom of the 3-D image. They help to correctly view the image cross-eyed. Well, that is what you need to do: Look at the image with your eye “beams” crossing so that your left eye looks at the right image and vice-versa. Try to “create” 3 images from the two views above. Or, try to create 3 red points and look at the middle one. Now lift your eyes to look at the image itself. It may need a bit of training but it’s worth it. Instructions to view x-eyed can be found here: http://www.3dexpo.com/crosseye.htm Disclaimer: Of course, such practices are at your own risk. If you have problems with your eyes you may need to consult your doctor before .... Nice weekend - Thomas
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