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Posted on Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011 3:52PM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Morgan Meis
David John Thomas liked to drink alone. Author Paul Ferris illustrated the point in his biography Dylan Thomas with a portrait of David John alone in a corner table at his local Welsh pub, the Bush. He describes David John Thomas as "a clever, disappointed man". A young colleague, wrote Ferris, remembered once buying a pint for D.J. (as he was called), who accepted, and then chose to drink it in silence, at his table, alone. Pub regulars called the sulking presence who often spent his evenings there "The Professor." As a boy, D.J. was a promising student. He had received a scholarship to study English at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth where he graduated with first-class honors. Like many promising students of English, D.J. had dreams of being a poet. Instead, he became a grammar school teacher. He watched in anger and shame as colleagues of clearly inferior worth gained appointments to higher university positions while he remained where he was. D.J. was often ill, and wondered why he had no visitors. He cultivated a devastating schoolmaster's sarcasm that shielded his fragile pride. Students of Schoolmaster Thomas remember an unforgiving tyrant who cursed stupid boys and dirty boys. But he made Shakespeare come alive and became known for getting his boys into Oxford and Cambridge. D.J.'s great passion for English literature was available for any boy willing to receive it. To his son Dylan, however, the clever, disappointed father gave his entire dream of a poet's life.
more from Stefany Anne Golberg at The Smart Set here.
Reason evolved to win arguments
Posted on Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011 8:59AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by S. Abbas Raza
Patricia Cohen in the New York Times:
For centuries thinkers have assumed that the uniquely human capacity for reasoning has existed to let people reach beyond mere perception and reflex in the search for truth. Rationality allowed a solitary thinker to blaze a path to philosophical, moral and scientific enlightenment.
Now some researchers are suggesting that reason evolved for a completely different purpose: to win arguments. Rationality, by this yardstick (and irrationality too, but we'll get to that) is nothing more or less than a servant of the hard-wired compulsion to triumph in the debating arena. According to this view, bias, lack of logic and other supposed flaws that pollute the stream of reason are instead social adaptations that enable one group to persuade (and defeat) another. Certitude works, however sharply it may depart from the truth.
The idea, labeled the argumentative theory of reasoning, is the brainchild of French cognitive social scientists, and it has stirred excited discussion (and appalled dissent) among philosophers, political scientists, educators and psychologists, some of whom say it offers profound insight into the way people think and behave. The Journal of Behavioral and Brain Sciences devoted its April issue to debates over the theory, with participants challenging everything from the definition of reason to the origins of verbal communication.
"Reasoning doesn't have this function of helping us to get better beliefs and make better decisions," said Hugo Mercier, who is a co-author of the journal article, with Dan Sperber. "It was a purely social phenomenon. It evolved to help us convince others and to be careful when others try to convince us." Truth and accuracy were beside the point.
More here. [Photo shows Dan Sperber.]
The recent discovery of really, really big viruses is changing views about the nature of viruses and the history of life
James L. Van Etten in American Scientist:
The common view of viruses, mostly true, is of tiny burglars that sneak into cells, grab the biosynthetic controls and compel the cell to make huge numbers of progeny that break out of the cell and keep the replication cycle going. Viruses are supposed to be diminutive even compared to cells that are just a micrometer (1,000 nanometers) in diameter. They are supposed to travel light, making do with just a few well-adapted genes.
In 1992, a new microorganism was isolated from a power-plant cooling tower in Bradford, England, where Timothy Robotham, a microbiologist at Leeds Public Health Laboratory, was seeking the causative agent of a local pneumonia outbreak. His search led to the warm waters of the cooling tower, a known reservoir for bacterial pathogens in the Legionella genus, which are the cause of the pneumonialike Legionnaire's disease. Particles present in the sample were mistakenly identified as bacteria. Gram positive and visible under the microscope as pathogens within the particle-gobbling amoeba Acanthamoeba polyphaga, the entities surprisingly did not generate any product from the gene-amplifying polymerase chain reaction technique using universal bacterial primers.
Eleven years later, in 2003, the mystery organism received a new identity and a new name, Acanthamoeba polyphaga Mimivirus, for microbe-mimicking virus. Mimivirus is the largest virus ever discovered.
Skywalkers at the Prague Skydive Arena
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Aid to Pakistan: Advocacy or Analysis?
Anjum Altaf in The South Asian Idea:
Beyond Bullets and Bombs is the title of the latest report on aid to Pakistan from the Center for Global Development in Washington, DC. In light of the increasingly anti-Pakistan sentiment in the U.S., the report, addressed to decision and policy makers in Washington, takes on the brief to make the best possible case for the continuation of aid. Hence the subtitle: Fixing the U.S. Approach to Development in Pakistan. The report is a revealing illustration of advocacy over analysis; a more open examination would have begun by questioning the impacts of U.S. aid to Pakistan, before deciding if the total benefits of "fixing" it exceeded the total cost to both sides.
It is to the report's credit that it is forthright and includes all the relevant pieces of information, but the way it uses that information is determined by the choice it makes. What is highlighted or slighted is entirely a function of the case that is to be advocated, and all the evidence in the report could be interpreted quite differently in order to support quite different conclusions.
The point of departure, based on a review of the history of development assistance to Pakistan, is an uncontested matter of fact: "Since 1960, all OECD and multilateral creditors have given an inflation-adjusted total of over $100 billion in development assistance to Pakistan." The report goes on to note that there is precious little to show for this assistance, mentions all the problems of the moment, and concludes: "None of these problems—in the power, education, and water sectors, or on the fiscal front—will be resolved unless Pakistan's political institutions and leaders can tackle them head on."
It would seem that the obvious question to ask would be, have Pakistan's political institutions and leaders decided, now or ever, to tackle these problems head on?
Of Course I Take Pictures of My Penis and Send Them to People
John Kenney in The New Yorker:
And I'm not alone in history.
Teddy Roosevelt, for instance, was a big fan of photographing his penis, and would pose for hours at a time. In Paris, in the twenties, it was all the rage. Hemingway's little-known short story "Look at This Photo of My Penis" attests to it. Stalin often adorned his dacha with framed eight-by-tens, coyly saying to visitors, "Boy-oh-boy, is that a lovely penis, or what?" (The wrong answer proved costly).
Go back further, of course, and you'll find the drawings. Jefferson was a madman for it, often sending John Adams dozens of sketches of his penis in a single day. Adams is said to have enjoyed them with his wife, Abigail, who was herself a fan of penis portraiture. Even further back, we find that Michelangelo, Raphael, and Titian all made frequent charcoal sketches of their penises, giving them as gifts (a common practice in Florence to this day). And then there are the famous cave drawings at Lascaux, France, purported to be more than seventeen thousand years old, where one sees dozens of penis portraits, crudely drawn, but a statement in their own right: a plea, as if to say, one cave man to another, "My name is Dave. This is my penis. Let us be friends."
When bad people write great books
Posted on Tuesday, Jun 14, 2011 6:43AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Azra Raza
From Salon:
A reader, prompted by last week's commentary on whether great books can make you a better person, wrote in to ask a related question. Her favorite author is Charles Dickens; his books have been beacons for her. While she'd like to know more about him, she recalls reading long ago that Dickens behaved badly in his personal life. Should she investigate further, even though she worries that this will lead her to "doubt the impression I always had of Dickens: that he was a kind, sensitive soul who had suffered as a child"? As if hell-bent on providing further illustration of this dilemma, Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul played the provocateur last week by announcing that he is a better writer than any woman who has ever lived. He offered a variety of reasons for this state of affairs, none of them worth repeating. While his remarks lacked intellectual content, his antics did inspire some thoughtful responses, many of which have pointed out that talented artists can be reprehensible people.
If Dickens sometimes behaved badly, Naipaul is unquestionably a bad man, notorious for his floridly abusive relationships and bigoted ideas. Does this diminish his work? Naipaul's fiction is not to everyone's taste, but the grace of his prose and the power of his early books, especially "A Bend in the River," is hard to deny; I admired much of that novel even as I gritted my teeth over its blinkered depiction of Africans. "A House for Mr. Biswas" is a veritable touchstone for New Yorker critic James Wood, a tough crowd if there ever was one. For myself, I ended up feeling that Naipaul's prejudices (less glaring in his earlier books, but still evident and clearly fueled by cultural insecurity) bar him from the sort of insight that renders a novelist truly wise as opposed to merely smart. Other writers make for more ambiguous cases. T.S. Eliot was an anti-Semite, Virginia Woolf a snob and Ezra Pound a flaming fascist, but I'm not ready to shrug off "The Waste Land," "To the Lighthouse" or "The Cantos."
From Hitler to Mother Teresa: 6 Degrees of Empathy
Dr. Baron-Cohen, a professor of developmental psychology at the University of Cambridge and director of the university's Autism Research Center, proposes that evil is more scientifically defined as an absence of empathy, exacerbated by negative environmental factors (usually parental, sometimes societal) and a genetic component. When these three exist in tandem they result in what he calls a Zero-Negative personality. Zero-Negative takes at least three forms (and possibly more), borrowing from terms used in psychiatry: Zero Type P (psychopathology), Zero Type B (borderline disorder) and Zero Type N (narcissism).
Whereas psychiatry groups these three loosely under the term "personality disorders," Dr. Baron-Cohen proposes that they all share the characteristic of zero degrees of empathy. (His "empathy quotient" scale is available in the book or online, with an instant numerical score that is translated into degrees of empathy from zero to six, or super empathy.) Viewing these disorders in terms of empathy "has very different treatment implications," he maintains. Psychopaths aside, people with low degrees of empathy can be taught empathy, as is done in schools concerned about bullying, and treated with standard psychiatric approaches.
3QD Science Prize 2011 Finalists
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 7:22AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by S. Abbas Raza
The editors of 3QD have made their decision. The twenty semifinalists have been winnowed down to six, and three wildcard entries added. Thanks again to all the participants.
Once again, Carla Goller has provided a "trophy" logo that our finalists may choose to display on their own blogs. And if you like our site, please do add us to your blogroll!
So, here it is, the final list that I am sending to Lisa Randall, who will select the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prize winners: (in alphabetical order by blog name here)
Cosmic Variance: The Fine Structure Constant is Probably Constant
Dr. Carin Bondar: Sacrifice on the Serengeti
Empirical Zeal: Blind Fish in Dark Caves Shed Light on the Evolution of Sleep
Highly Allochthonous: Levees and the Illusion of Flood Control
Laelaps: The Pelican's Beak – Success and Evolutionary Stasis
Oh, For the Love of Science: Prehistoric Clues Provide Insight into Climate's Future Impact on Oceans
Opinionator: Morals Without God?
Scientific American Guest Blog: Serotonin and Sexual Preference: Is It Really That Simple?
Starts With A Bang: Where Is Everybody?
We'll announce the three winners on or around June 21, 2011.
P.S. The editors of 3QD will not be making any comments on our deliberations, or the process by which we made our decision, other than to simply say that we picked what we thought were the best posts out of the semifinalists, and added three others which we also liked.
Errol Morris on Wittgenstein, or someone like him in certain respects
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:50AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Dave Maier
by Dave Maier
A few months ago, on the New York Times Opinionator blog, filmmaker Errol Morris posted a remarkable five-part series of articles, which dealt with a wide range of fascinating topics, all in search of an understanding of a traumatic incident in his past. This is a time-honored literary exercise, and Morris is a knowledgeable and skilled writer. Yet not everyone was pleased with his efforts, and some harsh words were exchanged in the ether before all became quiet once again.
Not one to let sleeping dogs lie, but also in the hope that tempers have cooled enough for us to take a sober look at the matter, I would like today, for what it is worth (and if you find it worthless, your money will be cheerfully refunded) to throw in my own two cents.
Perhaps you remember the story. As he tells it, in 1972 Morris was a graduate student at Princeton studying with Thomas Kuhn. During a heated discussion, Kuhn, a chain-smoker, threw an ashtray at Morris, missing his target but searing an unforgettable image into the young man's soul: "I see the arc, the trajectory. As if the ashtray were its own separate solar system. With orbiting planets (butts), asteroids and interstellar gas (ash)." Below this description, Morris provides for the reader a specially reenacted photograph (photo credit: Errol Morris).
What concerns me in this fantastic apologia cum vendetta is not the terrible wrong that was done to Morris (which included not simply the threat of bodily harm, but also ejection from the graduate program), but the rather more boring issue of the philosophical corners Morris necessarily – and unnecessarily – cuts in telling his story.
Just be glad this isn't a five-part series.
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Try not to wreck the place on your way out
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:45AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Jeff Strabone
by Jeff Strabone
It used to be the case that the earth took little notice of the rise and fall of empires and republics. Fields were burned, livestock slaughtered, wells polluted, but sooner or later life returned. That is not necessarily the case anymore, as recent eco-catastrophes in the Gulf of Mexico and Japan remind us. But those were accidents, right? Roll the dice on enough high-risk energy projects around the world and eventually something will go wrong. We can at least say that no one who planned the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant counted on polluting the Gulf or irradiating northern Japan. I cannot say the same for the energy-extraction process known as hydraulic fracturing, or 'fracking' for short.
Fracking offers us the one-two punch of both ecological and republican destruction at the same time. With its left, it poisons drinking water and appears to cause earthquakes. And with its right, it lands a knockout blow against government regulation, the disinterested rule of law, and that old chestnut from the U.S. Constitution, promoting the general welfare. In the case of fracking, both government and industry know the earth-shattering toxicity of its effects, yet both continue to act as partners in spreading the practice across the country. It is one thing to say that the republic is standing on shaky ground. It is quite another to mean it literally.
MR. NOBODY: How Children Use Metaphor to Get to Sleep, Cope, Grieve and Grow
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:40AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Kate Fincke
By Kate Fincke
Over the years I have asked many children how they get to sleep at night. I collect these stories. More often than not, when the children find out about my collection, they ask me to tell them all the stories I know. Secreted in the telling is a point: all children must find a way to put themselves to sleep. While parents may put them to bed, the children alone must drift off. As adults we know that insomnia is commonplace, and we do what we can to fend it off. Children, however, often rail at the realization that despite bedtime stories, snacks, lullabies or back rubs, they are, in the end, on their own. They are frequently bewildered that we cannot make them sleep. Even if adults offer suggestions (the famous sheep counting, or prayers or reading), children must actively choose to invest themselves in the strategy. Often they rebel, refusing all suggestions, insisting they have tried them all, and they just don't work.
Their recalcitrance lies in the alone-ness of sleep, the isolation, and the self-reliance. The solution lies in turning away from whomever is tucking them in — away from the hope that they can be accompanied across the threshold of sleep—and turning toward their own creativity. I believe, in the end, that drifting off is a solitary creative act.
Toddlers, we know, cannot be given their security blankets; they create them. And for a time, the security blanket soothes and will ferry the child from sleepiness to sleep. As children mature, however, the blanket no longer suffices, and the life of the mind takes over, opening the door to both imagined fears and imagined remedies. At night children commit themselves to the power of imagination. Eight-year-olds find themselves believing in monsters that during daylight hours are ridiculed. In my profession, help often comes in the form of stories —sometimes stories that are made up on the spot by child and therapist together. So when the kids ask to hear my collection of sleep stories, it often goes something like this:
I knew a boy once who was afraid of burglars at night. He was particularly worried about his window — a natural entry point for bad guys. So when he went to bed, he had his mother tuck him in extra tight so no one could get at him. Then he had her line up his twelve polar bears all around him with the biggest one at his feet and all the rest facing in, watching over him.
Once settled, he began to boot-up his imaginary computer with all sorts of burglar-catching paraphernalia. It grew to be a vastly intricate computer, loaded with invisibility functions and burglar-seeking missiles. As I understand it, he would lose himself in the details of his programming and fall off to sleep.
However, once a night, he would wake up to pee. To insure his safety, he had to run to the bathroom as fast as he could while stopping to hop twice on each hall rug. If he hopped right, sleep was guaranteed. If not—worry. If worry, then the laborious computer programming began all over again.
Writing for Machines
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:35AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by James McGirk
by James McGirk
Writers are anxious about the Internet and all things electronic, as we worry these newfangled ways of entertaining ourselves might someday obviate our own work. The solution, perhaps, lies in understanding and adapting to this new medium. Consuming enough that we can master its complexities and render appealingly intelligent confections for our readers. But who are these readers? Are they different online than they are in print? Some of them aren't even human. There is a new form of reader browsing the Internet. For this is no longer just the age of mechanical reproduction; we now have to contend with mechanical readers as well.
William Gibson, who coined the term "cyberspace" imagined it as a mass consensual hallucination, rendered as a cityscape, the prominence of each shape on the horizon an index of how much data was passing through a single point; a point which in 1982 a reader might have thought of as a mainframe computer, and what today, nearly thirty years later, we might identify as an html address or site. On Gibson's Internet Google would glow the brightest, soar the highest; be an Empire State Building to the Internet's Manhattan. Most users don't look at the Internet by volume, however, they read it pane by pane, navigating from bookmarks or through searches, feeding keywords into an 'engine,' a series of algorithms, to retrieve lists of linked addresses to the information they seek. These lists are customized to the user, the results tweaked by the user's location and previous searches. The more searches you make, the more information about yourself you reveal, the more customized the experience becomes.
From a content provider's point of view (as opposed to a more passive content user's point of view) an ideal Internet browser might render something close to Gibson's landscape of crystalline data sculptures, were there a way to capture such information in real time. But commercial users would rather see traffic than the mere through-output of bits and bytes. Who consumes what information, when and why is much more important to commerce than mere bandwidth. Though online sales have grown to become big business, the Internet remains a popularity contest. The real currency of the online world is attention. Being able to read the flow of attention online would mean mastering it, and reaping the ad money that comes along with that attention. But instead of trying to follow where everyone is going all at once, content providers are instead attempting to clone their readers' minds.
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:30AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Sughra Raza
David Reed. #575 detail.
Oil and alkyd on polyester.
More here and here.
The Folding of Bodies, Ours and Others
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:25AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by ryan sayre
by Ryan Sayre
Cigarette smoke, which fills a surprisingly large number of establishments in Japan even today, is air folded many times over. Air folded into the folds of the lungs and folded back into the room with a curl. Smoke escapes from noses, mouths, and from ashtrays and it hangs in the room, giving density to common space. It folds the room into our bodies and affixes us to each other. In its ubiquity, smoke in Japan is nothing other than visible air and air, in turn, nothing other than invisible cigarette smoke, reaching into the folds of bodies and pulling them closer to one another.
To sit seza, (正座) is to sit with one's legs folded under the thighs. As the Chinese character suggests, it is to sit "correctly" (正). Despite all my studies in German, I can't say I ever learned the word or phrase to express "to have one's legs fall asleep." In learning the Japanese language, which necessarily involves learning the Japanese uses of the body, the word shibireru and the concept it indexes find one early on in one's studies. While the official Japanese dictionary defines shibireru as "losing sensation in part of, or in the entire body" or "to lose one's freedom of movement," the sheer intensity and presence of pain brought on by 'correct' sitting in Japan quickly makes suspect any notion that shibireru operates under the sign of lack or loss. When a train goes into a dark tunnel, rather than robbing us of our vision, the panes of glass on either side of the lighted train car throw us back the dull reflected image of ourself straining to look outside. Perception is not lost but moved inward. Shibireru, I think, works on a similar perspectival shift. It is true that other than an intense non-localized dull pain, when our legs "fall asleep" we can't feel from them quite as we normally do. But this changes nothing of the fact that when we place our hands upon our thighs, however foreign or uncanny a feeling it may be, we can feel the two warm wedges of flesh and know them to be our own. Shibireru is not sensation's full departure but its distortion. It folds us tightly into the creases that hold apart self and other, feeling-person and felt-person.
I read somewhere, I no longer remember where, that the reason we can't tickle ourselves is that when someone else's fingers run across our bodies we suffer a stimulation overload as a result of not being able to distinguish between where we end and where the other begins. Insofar as this is true, and insofar as we agree that one can't tickle oneself, is it then not reasonable to say that while Descartes might have proved the self's existence through an experiment of thought – I think therefore I am, the very existence of the other is proved undoubtably every time we are tickled by an Other? "tu me chatouilles donc tu es" "you tickle me therefore you are!" Maybe it is the bliss felt over the Other's proved existence every time we participate in the testing out of this little formula that accounts for why getting fixed in the folds between self and other should result in uncontrollable laughter rather than utter terror.
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Listening to History
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:20AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Hasan Altaf
by Hasan Altaf
If I were to describe David Lester's The Listener (Arbeiter Ring, 2011) as "a graphic novel about the Holocaust," the immediate correlation drawn would be with Maus, by Art Spiegelman, an urtext of both the genre and the subject. The comparison would be unfair, and a disservice to Lester's work; the description is correct only in the most general sense. Th e shadow of Maus is irrelevant – artistically, thematically and structurally, The Listener is completely different, and stronger for it.
The Listener avoids both the historical-memoir structure found in works like Maus (or Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis) and the more familiar parts of the Nazi-era narrative. Instead, it tells the story of a Canadian sculptor named Louise, who leaves for Europe after a Cambodian genocide survivor, inspired by her work, falls to his death in an attempt to hang a political banner. (She picks up her hate mail with startling regularity from various places on the continent.) On her wanderings, she encounters an old German couple, journalists and members of the German National People's Party (DNVP) in the 1930s, whose story of mishandled elections in a small German state and a crucial vote that enabled the Nazi rise to power fill in the latter half of the book.
This strategy provides both opportunities and pitfalls. It is an unconventional and refreshing take on a difficult topic, and the connection between the two stories is real and important: They share a language, a focus on the relationship of politics to art and of both to truth, and there is throughout the book a yearning for something like absolution. When we see Rudolph and Marie find theirs – through telling their story to Louise and, through her, to us – it is as beautiful a moment as Lester shows it and Louise imagines it.
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:15AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Jen Paton
by Jen Paton
The man disguised as Mirza Abdullah, better known as Richard Francis Burton, was overcome when he glimpsed Mecca for the first time. Burton spent years perfecting his language, his dress, his mannerisms, his very way of moving, to go undetected into a city forbidden to outsiders. And when he finally saw this city, he felt himself drawn admiringly inwards, rather than outwards: "It was as if the poetical legends of the Arab spoke truth, and that the waving wings of angels, not the sweet breeze of morning, were agitating and swelling the black covering of the shrine. But, to confess the humbling truth, theirs was the high feeling of religious enthusiasm, mine was the ecstasy of pride."
In January 2011 two modern-day Westerners in disguise sought to insinuate themselves into "the Orient", or at least its virtual space. An American man and his wife posed as a lesbian blogger living through a heady time of revolution. They took the name of Amina Arraf, named her blog "Gay Girl in Damascus," and began chronicling the life of a completely imaginary Syrian-American woman, returned to her father's homeland to "be a part of the change that is coming."
Back in January, as the Middle East shook, "Amina" wrote she had to do something "bold and visible", and that was writing a blog as an out woman in Demascus, under her real name, with "my photo." Her writing was compelling, and she was bold. When Amina's cousin came online last week to post that she had been detained, her readers, some of whom felt themselves friends, sounded the alarm.
And then, masks began to come off. The publicity surrounding her detention led to Newsnight's report last week that the photographs on Amina's blog were actually of Londoner Jelena Lecic, who had no connection to Syria. This cued the furious investigation of Andy Carvin of NPR (whose account is here), the Electronic Intifada, other news organizations, and a fleet of increasingly furious, and betrayed, Twitterati, to track down Tom MacMaster, a graduate student in medieval studies at Edinburgh, and his wife, Britta Froelicher, an expert in Middle Eastern studies and Syrian economics. Late last night, MacMaster posted a confession on Amina's blog, which was titled an "apology" but was anything but. MacMaster wrote that " I do not believe that I have harmed anyone — I feel that I have created an important voice for issues that I feel strongly about."
Some Accounting For Taste (Food, Faith & Syncretism in the Deccan)
Posted on Monday, Jun 13, 2011 12:10AM Friday, December 8, 2017 by Gautam Pemmaraju
by Gautam Pemmaraju
One fairly nondescript morning a few years ago I found myself headed to Barkas in the old city of Hyderabad to meet my friend, Saleh Ahmed bin Abdat, the Public Relations Officer (PRO) of Al-Jamaitul Yemenia bil Hind, which administers affairs related the migrant community of Yemen, particularly the Hadramaut province of Southern Yemen. As part of an ongoing project, I have been speaking to members of the community for several years now. Barkas, close to the scorpion-shaped Falaknuma Palace, is a corruption of the English word barracks, for it was here that cadre of the Irregular Arab Forces of the princely ruler of Hyderabad, the Nizam, were housed. It was 7 AM and we were scheduled for a shoot with Sheikh Ba'wazir Ba'shaiba, a 76-year-old local resident, who had recently returned from his first ever trip to the land of his ancestors. The septuagenarian, as part of the last ruling Nizam Mir Osman Ali Khan's personal staff, had tended to the erstwhile autocrat of the independent state of Hyderabad till his dying breath. The Sheikh was a Khanazad – one of the many wards adopted by the Nizam to keep him company in his palace at King Kothi. We were late to arrive and consequently missed what was to be a delicious start to the day – a saucerful of Harees, the Turkish/Arabic originator of the more popular Haleem, a thickish, pulpy stew (or porridge) of wheat, goat meat or lamb, and spices.
In his foreword to Lila Zaouali's Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World, Charles Perry points to the oldest surviving Arabic cookbook, Kitab al-tabikh, compiled in the 10th century by the scribe Ibn Sayyar al-Warraq. The Nabataeans, as the Aramaic-speaking Christians of Iraq and Syria were known, he informs us, contributed significantly to the Arab repertoire of dishes (and terms used to describe them). Perry points out that the pioneering scribe Ibn Sayyar devotes an entire chapter to stews called nabatiyyat, and it is here we see a mention of Harisa, a Nabataean dish: "whole grain stewed with meat until done, and then beaten to a smooth, savory paste." Interestingly, in this illuminating foreword, Perry also mentions that there is no proscription against meat at all in Islam and 'this surely explains why meatless dishes were called muzawwaj ("counterfeit")'.
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Oscar Hijuelos returns to Havana and finds a family of strangers
Posted on Sunday, Jun 12, 2011 11:06PM Friday, December 8, 2017 by S. Abbas Raza
Oscar Hijuelos in Newsweek:
The city of Havana in the late 1940s, with its romantic ambience, its splendid sea-worn architecture, and its wall-to-wall music, was at the heart of my best-known novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Though I had only passed through the city as a boy in 1955, I based much of my novel's portraiture of Havana on both the music I listened to as a youngster and the stories I had heard about it from the Cuban old-timers who would come to our apartment in Manhattan.
I can remember the colossal excitement that erupted in our little kitchen on New Year's Eve 1958, when the Spanish-language radio announced that the forces of Fidel Castro were on the verge of entering that city. Toasts were made all around. Little did we know that Fidel's revolution and the American embargo that resulted would bring an end to an epoch when Cubans like my folks, who had immigrated to the United States in the 1940s, could legally travel to the capital of their patria. No, during those years of the Cold War, Havana, like the rest of Cuba, became an abstraction, a forbidden city that seemed to vanish from our reach.
Nico Muhly's tale of Two Boys: don't expect Facebook – the Opera
Tom Service in The Guardian:
ENO's viral video advertising Nico Muhly's new opera is a kick-ass three minutes of social networking lampooning. However, it's got zippity-squat to do with the work itself. Far from questioning "how odd your online life is", Two Boys is a human drama of obsession, love, fantasy, identity and detective work. It's also not really about "what could go wrong" online. This is a bit of a euphemism for being induced to masturbate on-cam for someone you think is a hot chick but who turns out to be a teenage boy, and then be forced through months of psychological manipulation to stab them.
The point is, the drama of Two Boys will be, or should be, profound and tragic, rather than merely critiquing the trivialities of friend-inculcation on Facebook, as the viral video, produced in collaboration with flyer-merchants Don't Panic and starring Jolyon Rubinstein, makes out. At least that's how it seemed to me watching rehearsals for the piece, looking at the score, and talking to the composer himself.
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was a postwar Japanese exhibition of contemporary art and design that was held on the eighth floor gallery of the Matsuya Department Store in Ginza, Tokyo, from November 11–16, 1966. It was organised by the multidisciplinary group Environment Society (Enbairamento no Kai) to promoted the marriage of art and technology.

The exhibition's subtitle was "Synthesized Exhibition of Painting + Sculpture + Photo + Design + Architecture + Music," indicating its goal of erasing conventional distinctions between fine and applied arts, and it was instrumental in introducing the terms "Intermedia" and "Environment Art" (kankyō geijutsu) to Japan. It featured 38 participants from a range of creative disciplines, including artists, architects, designers, and art critics. A related performance concert took place on November 14, 1966 at the Sōgetsu Art Center (SAC) (Japanese: アートセンター) in Tokyo. The show encompassed architecture, environment art, installation art, visual art, and design.

Exhibition concept
Environment Society formed around the goal of challenging institutional art structures by working collaboratively while abandoning traditional genre distinctions. This goal is made clear in the text outlining their objectives for From Space to Environment in the Bijutsu Techō issue that served as a quasi-catalogue for the exhibition. Specifically, they state:It seems that various artistic genres today are going through a phase of intense self-destruction. There is no need to do anything further if it suffices to remain comfortably ensconced in existing arts, techniques, or dogma, pandering to conventional notions of art held by viewers and audiences...Instead, must we not focus on the chaotic site where each genre, tending toward radical self-destruction, necessarily intermingles and collides with others?One further goal was to activate the position of the viewer in relation to the artwork. The statement of objectives described this as forcing active involvement:in the space that the work generates, as it engulfs them and demands participation. In other words, the static, harmonious relationship between the viewer and the work of art has been broken, and the notion of the site has shifted from a conventional "space" toward a dynamic and chaotic "environment" that includes the viewers and the artworks.

Exhibition description and notable works
From Space to Environment was imagined as an explicitly interdisciplinary exhibition and thus included participants from a range of creative disciplines. In total thirty-eight artists participated in the show (see list of exhibited artists below), but the core group leading the exhibition were visual artist Katsuhiro Yamaguchi, architect Arata Isozaki, designers  and Shin'ya Izumi, art critics Shūzō Takiguchi, , and . Artists participated with a range of paintings, sculptures, installations, posters, and performances, that emphasized interaction between the viewer and the art as well as between the works themselves.

Overall the exhibition design attempted to minimize architectural structures, such as walls, between artworks so that the works would visually interact with each other. However the exhibition was divided into a lit section and a darkened corridor that featured more self-contained works. Notable works in the exhibition included Takamatsu Jirō's Chairs and Table in Perspective (遠近法の椅子とテーブル, 1966), a sculptural set of chairs and table overlaid with a grid that are formed in extreme forced perspective, with the chairs near the front of the sculpture literally larger than those at the back; Arata Isozaki's boldly-colored sculptural maquette for Fukuoka Sōgo Bank (建築空間(福岡相互銀行大分支店), 1966) suspended on the wall; a site-specific installation on the wall of Ay-O's Finger Boxes (フィンガー・ボックス, 1963–66), which invite viewers to insert their fingers to experience different tactile sensations; photographer Shōmei Tōmatsu's No. 24 (1966), an installation that invited viewers to place their feet on footprints to stand within an off-kilter enclosing white space; and Yamaguchi's Port (港, 1966), a set of larger-than-human sized colored transparent acrylic J-shapes and cubes, positioned in different arrangements with lights inside that was shown again at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1967. A number of works included mobile elements, such as industrial designer Hiroshi Tomura's spiral-shaped mobile sculptures made out of thin plastic that hung from the ceiling, Shintarō Tanaka's delicately balanced arching Heart Mobile (ハートのモビール, 1966), Takamichi Itō's noise-making viewer-rotated cylinders, and a display of sliding posters, that viewers could manipulate, by designers Kazumasa Nagai, Ikkō Tanaka, and Tadanori Yokoo. Other works featured reflective surfaces, such as designer Awazu's stainless water basin that reflected the surrounding sculptures and visitors against text characters inside the basin, Shin'ya Izumi's sculpture of stacked glass bottles, and 's Compose (1966), a set of reflective acrylic concave half-spheres set into boxes at eye level.

Recent critical positioning of the show

Realized in November 1966, a little over one year after the announcement that Osaka would host the Expo 70 and including a number of artists and designers who would become involved in pavilions for the expo in Osaka, this exhibition is widely considered to mark the start of artistic preparations for Expo 70. However, it also occurred a mere five months after the Primary Structures exhibition in New York, and the Bijutsu Techō issue devoted to covering the exhibition included images from Primary Structures, so the use of industrial materials and fabrication processes, color and space, and larger-than-human scale sculptural elements and environments have also been understood as a response and challenge to the emerging movement of Minimalism in the US.

While From Space to Environment is generally recognized as a landmark exhibition in postwar Japanese art, its exact meaning and implications are still under debate. In a seminal analysis of the politics of Expo 70 that reads the exposition as a consolidation of authoritarian political, economic, and cultural power and a revival of wartime rhetoric, art critic Noi Sawaragi positions the concept of environment (kankyō) espoused in From Space to Environment as a crucial step in the move toward Expo 70's totalizing artistic vision. Sawaragi argues that this totalizing vision, allied with what he characterizes as an optimistic view of the possibilities of artistic collaborations with technology, uncritically and unwittingly sets the stage for avant-garde art to disempower visitors in an overwhelming spectacle that serves to legitimize an increasingly authoritarian state. Art historian Midori Yoshimoto challenges this reading by analyzing a number of artworks in the exhibition from the standpoint of their focus on interactivity and performativity, and by further surveying the critical responses at the time to reveal a consistent recognition of the desire to interact that these works evoked. She argues that this approach, combined with the focus on American precedents in Environment Society's own positioning of the exhibition, favor an understanding of their goals as rooted in an international artistic dialogue that looked to precedents set by Pop Art and Fluxus, resonating with contemporaneous movements like Op Art and kinetic art. Architectural historian Yasutaka Tsuji further critiques Sawaragi's argument by comparing the Japan Design Committee's (JDC) understanding of technology with that of Environment Society, inspired by the historical fact that From Space to Environment and the JDC's annual Good Design exhibition were held concurrently on the eight floor of the Matsuya Department Store in Ginza. Tsuji understands the JDC's view of technology and industrial mass production as positivist, focused on the benefits it can bring to daily life, but points out that in contrast, Environment Society's approach to technology is more ambivalent, with interactivity in relation to technology foregrounded in order to give the visitor agency against the pre-designated uses of technology. Art historian Ken Yoshida, who considers the exhibition within Isozaki's larger oeuvre, reads the exhibition as a decentering of human perception through the way in which the surface effects of the often reflective and printed materials used in many of the works tend not to reveal their material reality, emphasizing "the disjunction of perception and matter." Yoshida thus reads the show as concerned with a negotiation of competing symbolic and physical perceptions of urban space, and aligned with a politics that seeks to destabilize identity rather than dictating an authorized perspective or identity on viewers.

List of exhibited artists
This list is based on the exhibition plan published in the Bijutsu Techō issue that served as a quasi-catalogue for From Space to Environment.
 アイオー or 靉嘔 AY-O (1931)
 秋山 邦春, Kuniharu Akiyama (1931–1962)
 粟津 潔, Kiyoshi Awazu (1929–2009)
 泉 真也,  (1929)
 磯崎 新, Arata Isozaki (1931)
 一柳 慧, Toshi Ichiyanagi (1933)
 伊藤 隆道, Takamichi Itō (1939)
 伊原 道夫, Michio Ihara (1928)
 今井 祝雄, Norio Imai (1946)
 榎本 建規, Takemi Enomoto  (1935)
 大辻 清司, Kiyoshi Ōtsuji (1923)
 勝井 三雄, Mitsuo Katsui (1931)
 聽濤 襄治, Jōji Kikunami (1923)
 木村 恒久, Tsunehisa Kimura (1928–2008)
 小橋 泰秀, Yasuhide Kobashi (1931–2003)
 坂本 正治, Masaharu Sakamoto (1938)
 高松 次郎, Jiro Takamatsu (1936–1998)
 滝口 修造, Shūzō Takiguchi, (1903–1979)
 多田 美波, Minami Tada (1924–2014)
 田中 一光, Ikko Tanaka, (1930–2002)
 田中 信太郎, Shintaro Tanaka (1940)
 田中 不二,  Fuji Tanaka (1930)
 東野 芳明, Yoshiki Tonogai (1930–2005)
 東松 照明, Shōmei Tōmatsu (1930)
 戸村 浩, Hiroshi Tomura (1938)
 永井 一正, Kazumasa Nagai (1929)
 中原 祐介, Yūsuke Nakahara (1931)
 奈良原 一高,  Ikkō Narahara (1931–2020)
 原 広司, Hiroshi Hara (1936)
 福田 繁雄, Shigeo Fukuda (1932–2009)
 松田 豊, Yutaka Matsuda (1942–1998)
 三木 冨雄, Tomio Miki (1938–1978)
 宮脇 愛子, Aiko Miyawaki, (1929–2014)
 山口 勝弘, Katsuhiro Yamaguchi (1928)
 横尾 忠則, Tadanori Yokoo (1936)
 横須賀 功光, Noriaki Yokosuka (1937–2003)
 吉村 益信, Masunobu Yoshimura (1932–2011)

References

Art exhibitions in Japan
Contemporary art exhibitions

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No clear way up. Photo: Mateo della Bordella
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Approaching Bhagirathi. Frame from the expedition video
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Bhagirhati IV route, by Matteo Della Bordella
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Conditions improved as they scaled the area of the rockslide, but the fragile rock and verticality that had pushed them back four years ago were still there. The first pitch was aided by a vein of granite and the last glimmers of daylight. The second had to be completed in the dark. Nearing the summit, they found some final pitches covered in snow, and Della Bordella strapped on the only pair of crampons they had taken up and led the climb. His mates then jumared up.
Joyously, they reached the summit of Bhagirathi IV in the dark. Photo: Matteo Della Bordella
At 11pm, after 20 non-stop hours, they reached the summit and rested for a couple of hours before descending the moderate east side of the mountain. They gave the 800m-long route (7b, 2 pitches A0) the poetic name of Cavalli bardati che fanno tremare la terra (Translation: harnessed horses that make the earth tremble).
You can watch it all for yourself on the expedition video:
The dramatic scenery of the Garhwal's Gangotri glacier and spires, the iron will of these never-surrendering climbers and the classical beauty of this diretissima were all embodied in this wonderfully bold expedition. It seems almost a throwback to the golden age of mountaineering.
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This is commendable and marvelous Kudos to the whole team
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Sisterhood of the Dove explores the life of Mary Magdalene, or Miriyam as she called in this book.
While seated in a temple dedicated to the Goddess Isis in Ephesus, Turkey; Miriyam's youngest daughter Rachel tells the 400+ initiates who have come to enter the Sisterhood and accept the Dove into their hearts, of her mother's life.
Rachel shares of Miriyam's childhood; her joys of her sacred union and travels with Jesus, or Yeshua as he is called in this book; her love of her mother-in-law Mary and the Goddess teachings; her deep grief at the loss of her beloved; and her commitment to honor the Goddess, build a temple, create various secret societies, up to her choice of death in her late 60s.
Miriyam's life is intricately connected with a soul group of 22 who incarnated to raise the consciousness of humankind by offering the opportunity to live in the absence of fear, jealousy, power, and control; by offering humanity the key to freedom and liberation.
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"One of the greatest teachings Miriyam received from Yeshua was taught through Sarah's behavior. When Sarah was about a festival old, she crawled away and out of Miriyam's sight. Miriyam became frantic over her disappearance and went for Yeshua.
"At that point, Miriyam retorted, 'Why do I have all these people following me around when I want my privacy?' He laughed and walked away.
"After Yeshua had walked away, Miriyam knew, 'There is nothing I can control. There is nothing I should want to control. I need only fall into the arms of the Goddess and trust.' As she surrendered to this knowing, a dark cloud came up and out from the base of her spine through her heart. Miriyam physically saw gray smoke emerge from her body and leave her being. She felt different after that. She looked into one of her shiny, metal plates and saw that she had changed.
"It was during the next sun that Yeshua looked at Miriyam with his beautiful smile and gave her the most tender hug. Miriyam wept in his arms while he caressed her head. He never told her he was proud of her, in words, but he radiated it and she felt it to the depths of her being.
Rachel stood beside the sacred ceremonial pool located in the center of the temple; her eyes followed the pillar in its center up to the large, flawlessly polished, black stone, which lay upon an altar atop the pillar. One of the purposes of the stone was to capture the light from Sirius as it shone. The water in the pool absorbed the newly stored energy in the stone. Each would drink of the Goddess and her unconditional love during the initiation. The entire pool and the altar area had seven thin, tightly woven fabrics in the colors of the rainbow, brought from the Far East, and placed over it to maintain the cleanliness of the liquid.
The sacred liquid had several uses of which two were: ceremonial purification and water for drinking. The water in the pool, refreshed by the sisters each new and full moon, was fed into the temple from the river, which lay a short distance outside the Gateway of the West.
As Rachel drank, she looked at each of the eight enormous arches, four of which were called gateways. Each arch had a unique symbol carved into its center, which reflected the qualities taught within the Sisterhood. Starting with the Eastern Gateway and moving clockwise around the temple, the first arch held the symbols of the dove and the rose. The dove was for the Holy Spirit, which represented absolute healing of the physical, emotional, and mental natures of human beings. The rose was a symbol of openness and surrender. Sisters were asked to model their behavior after the rose, opening themselves to the Holy Spirit as the rose opened itself to the sun. The second arch held the sun, the moon, and the stars. The sun symbolized the active, masculine principle within the universe, the moon symbolized the receptive, feminine principle within the universe, and the stars were present to remind the sisters that they were each an integral part of the grand tapestry of the Goddess. The third arch, the Gateway of the South, held the symbols of wheat and fruit. These were for prosperity, bounty, and nourishment, and were reminders to all that the Garden was their true provider. The fourth arch held the symbol of the olive branch, which stood for everlasting peace. The fifth arch, the Gateway of the West, held the sign of the six-pointed star. This symbol was formed by two interlocking, equilateral triangles facing in opposite directions. The triangle with its point facing downward symbolized the higher self entering human form. The triangle with its point facing upward symbolized the lower self ascending. As the lower rises and the upper descends, they form what is called a six-pointed star with the true heart of a human being at the center of the star. The sixth arch held the symbol of the chalice, the vessel that receives the spirit. When the human being, man or woman, embraces his or her inner Goddess he or she, in essence, becomes a chalice full of the eternal spirit. The seventh arch, the Gateway of the North, held the symbol of the ankh. The ankh is the symbol of the Goddess Isis and the key to eternal life. Lastly, the eighth arch held the sign of the Vesica Pisces. The Vesica Pisces, with its two perfectly interlocking rings, stood for perfect love and sacred union within the human form.
A dove landed upon Rachel's shoulder, interrupting her thoughts of appreciation for the labor of love her mother, grandmother, and countless others had put into the creation of the temple.
Soon the now silent temple would yield to the sounds of joy, laughter, storytelling, and celebration. Rachel walked to her seat and awaited her sisters. She sat bundled up, as it was a chilly evening.
Early in March 1987, Maitreya met world-renown psychic and spiritual teacher Shoshana/Ortalia Rogers, an encounter that sent him on a new spiritual path, one that would take him from Toronto, Ontario, CAN to Brooklyn, New York, USA, then on to Los Angeles, California, USA and finally on to Kansas City, Kansas, USA to pursue his metaphysical career and assist in the building of a spiritual community.
Along the way he was ordained as a minister with the Universal Brotherhood Movement, Inc.
Maitreya currently serves as a channel, psychic, healer, metaphysical teacher, ionCleanse practitioner, and leader of sacred global healing journeys throughout the world.


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The System analyst will ensure service excellence is achieved according to our commitment to the BT user community in supporting our highly secure R&D platform . This position will ensure support continuity for HC business in APAC region as well as critical joint experiment support. Due to the nature of the application we support and security recommendation, production operations can only be managed by internal workforces.
•Plans, installs and maintains highly complex systems.
•Evaluates new applications and identifies systems requirements.
•Evaluates new IT developments and evolving business requirements, and recommends appropriate systems alternatives and/or enhancements to current systems.
•Prepares communications and makes presentations on system enhancements and/or alternatives. Evaluates, optimizes, harmonizes and standardizes existing systems.
•Create and update system documentation. Monitors quality standards and ensures failure-free operation. Considers compatibility of different systems.
•Solves a range of straightforward problems through knowledge and technical experience in own discipline with a moderate level of guidance.
•Analyzes factual information and possible solutions and makes independent judgments, decisions and recommendations.
•Understands how the team integrates with other teams in order to achieve overall objectives of the area and builds knowledge of the organization, processes, customers and key business drivers.
•Good technical knowledge in core technologies and platforms such as Java, Citrix, Windows, Linux, Scripting, Java, XML, HTML, Oracle SQL & PL/SQL and different Web/ Application server IIS, APACHE/Tomcat etc.


Member A rotates continuously, while B rotates 90 degrees at a time.
We'd like to compute the maximum torque required, assuming b has moent of inertia I.
We can set the numeric value of θ in the variable panel, and look at the numeric reaction torque to get our maximal value (or we could have read off the graph above).


DENVER (AP) — Facing his first predicament as a head coach, Brian Shaw suspended one of his players and sat down the rest of the Denver Nuggets for a lengthy chat Thursday.
He hopes his message got through and possibly serves as a turning point in the season. The Nuggets are trying to snap out of an eight-game slump, their longest in nearly a decade.
"Didn't anticipate for (the meeting) to last as long as it did, but however long it needs to take to flush everything out and figure out what's going on with our team, we decided to take that time today," Shaw said. "It's been a long morning after a long night of watching the game over and just playing everything back in your mind and trying to find a solution for where we are."
One of the biggest moves of the day was Denver suspending veteran point guard Andre Miller for two games for "conduct detrimental to the team."
Miller was upset after not playing in a 114-102 loss to the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night. It was the first "Did not play - coach's decision" of Miller's 15-year career.
Asked how his meeting with Miller went, Shaw said he hasn't talked to him yet. Shaw didn't elaborate on why Miller was suspended but there were reports that Miller voiced his displeasure with Shaw over his lack of playing time.
"It just came to a boiling point. We made a decision and we're moving forward," Shaw said.
Miller's suspension begins Friday against the Memphis Grizzlies. He also will not travel for a game Sunday in Los Angeles against the Lakers.
"We will have a conversation before he comes back with the team," Shaw said. "That'll happen when it happens."
In the meantime, Shaw met for several hours with the rest of his squad as the Nuggets try to get back on track.
"Everybody got their feelings out. Everybody said what needed to be said," point guard Ty Lawson said. "Hopefully everybody can take that to heart and change so we can start getting wins. It's always healthy to get things out and get everything in the open. Hopefully, this will be a turning point for the rest of the season."
Shaw is hoping for the same thing.
"I've been on championship teams that while you were winning you had these kinds of meetings to air everything out," Shaw explained. "It happens and it's a part of what goes on in our business and a family. These things happen.
"There was a lot of things people wanted to get off their chest."
Miller was a favorite of former coach George Karl, who was ousted after winning a franchise-best 57 games last season only to be bounced from the first round of the playoffs for a fourth straight time.
The transition from Karl's up-tempo style to the system Shaw wants to run hasn't been all that smooth. This season could be filled with growing pains, which has been hard for the fans to digest.
The Nuggets drew some boos after losing their fifth straight game at Pepsi Center on Wednesday. They were a franchise-best 38-3 at home last season.
Shaw said the takeaway from the meeting was the importance of "hard work and effort."
"If we bring that every night and we ended up losing every game, we can still live with ourselves because we know we gave it everything we had," Shaw said. "To this point, at different stages in the games, we haven't been doing that, so that's why we are where we are."


Me, holding it level, Fiji -- 2003.
Me and my sleepy girlfriend S., Hawaii -- 2003.
Me and my mom, Australia -- 2001.
Me and my dad, Fiji -- 2003.
My neighborhood in Hawaii from 2000 to 2010.
My best friend B., Germany -- 2000.
Me, senior year of high school, Abu Dhabi -- 1996.
Me, sans hair, Michigan -- 1995.
Me, with friends of high-school summers, Michigan -- 1995.
Me, with cruising friends, Cyprus -- 1990.
Me, washing my first and only car -- 1982.


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for the past couple months I have wanted to make a low CG chassis, and decided to get the CRD off the shelf and back in the shop. my 2014 welds looked like crap, thankfully i'm half ok now So I cut off the old cradle and redid one, kinda lightweight but wide enough for the battery to fit in it aswell.
I admire your persistence and I think both chassis, despite any cons, look darn good. I hope to make a similar attempt someday. Keep up the good work!
As a Wheely King guy myself I am totally in for the ride. A tip on your 4 links. Ideally you want them parallel and the same length top and bottom. I think your geometry on the links is what's causing the yoke to rise so much under compression.
Great video and job on the build! R/C looks so much cooler in slow-mo.
Thanks!, right now i'm tore between painting it Blue and running a SUD body, or Black, lol. Goal is to use it in a Mud Truck comp, then put clod sized tires on and run with the big boys. Also might try and semi lock the front diff, and for Clod tires, i'm thinking of Jconcepts rims, and either Renegades, or PL Destroyers?
so, uh slight change of plan, Got JC renegades and Tribune wheels, and I have a GD body, so I thought it would be a great idea to build a GD7 replica , After a test run with the CRD I decided it weighted to much for the poor trans and diffs, so grabbed the stock sideplates and painted them green and slapped them on.


SEOUL, South Korea - South Korea has rejected a proposal from the communist North to work together against the United States and told Pyongyang to stop saber-rattling. South Korea Unification Minister Jeong Se-hyun also said Thursday that the North's leadership "should not attempt to test the limit of the patience of the international community." Jeong, whose ministry handles inter-Korean affairs, said his government will use upcoming inter-Korean Cabinet-level talks to urge North Korea to stop efforts to restart its nuclear facilities. The meetings, which are the highest channels of dialogue between the two sides, will provide the first opportunity for South Korea to directly raise the nuclear issue with the North. "The nuclear issue is a matter that affects the destiny of our people," Jeong said. "Therefore, we should actively search for a solution that can make all parties - South and North Korea and related countries - the winner." Also Thursday, South Korea claimed critical Chinese support in its drive to speed diplomacy to end the crisis. South Korean Deputy Foreign Minister Lee Tae-sik and Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi agreed in Beijing that their countries would try "to resolve North Korea's nuclear issue peacefully through dialogue," a senior South Korean Foreign Ministry official said. "The two sides will work to prevent the situation from further aggravating," said Shin Jung-seung, director of the ministry's Asia-Pacific affairs section. The U.S. State Department said senior U.S., South Korean and Japanese officials would meet next Monday and Tuesday in Washington to coordinate policy on North Korea. U.S. Assistant Secretary of State James Kelly was to head to South Korea and other Asian nations afterward for further talks, spokesman Richard Boucher said. At the United Nations, diplomats said Beijing wanted to deal privately with the situation through diplomatic channels rather than bringing it to the Security Council where Chinese diplomats could wind up - because of the long-standing alliance with the North - publicly defending Pyongyang. Seoul has also acknowledged the desire of South Koreans for their government to assume a larger role in determining the outcome of the dangerous standoff and vowed to lead the campaign to damp down the confrontation with the isolated, Stalinist North. "We must mobilize all our diplomatic resources to find a peaceful solution to the problem that is directly connected to our nation's stability and prosperity," said South Korean Foreign Minister Choi Sung-hong. U.S. President George W. Bush, however, sharply rebuked North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Thursday, saying he has "no heart for somebody who starves his folks," though he remains confident in a peaceful solution to the nuclear standoff. In early December, North Korea alarmed the world by deciding to reactivate its plutonium-based nuclear program. It since has removed monitoring seals and cameras from its nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, expelled U.N. inspectors who visually monitored those facilities and signaled it may quit the global nuclear arms control treaty. While Washington has vowed to use diplomacy, the North suspects Washington eventually will use military force. And North Korea's state media said the country would not bend to U.S. pressure. "If the U.S. tries to settle the issue with (North Korea) by force, (North Korea) has no idea of avoiding it," said the North's government newspaper, Minju Joson, in a report carried on the North's foreign news outlet, Korean Central News Agency. It said the North's army was strong and ready to fight. The North, sensing opportunity in widespread anti-American sentiment in South Korea, also urged the South on Wednesday to back its confrontation with the United States. This emphasis on "cooperation" with South Korea comes at a time when Seoul is criticizing a possible U.S. plan to use economic sanctions to force North Korea to abandon its suspected nuclear weapons program. North Korea's overtures also are driven by economic needs, experts said. South Korea, under President Kim Dae-jung's "sunshine" policy of engaging the North, has launched a series of unfinished inter-Korean projects, including a cross-border rail link and tourist and industrial parks, that would bring the impoverished North badly needed investment. 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