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The House of Wisdom
How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilization
By: Jonathan Lyons
Narrated by: Jay Snyder
Ibn Khaldun
An Intellectual Biography
By: Robert Irwin
Narrated by: John Telfer
Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world - a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he should be, and his ideas are widely misunderstood. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Robert Irwin provides an engaging and authoritative account of Ibn Khaldun's extraordinary life, times, writings, and ideas.
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By Moh 3aly on 01-02-19
Lost Enlightenment
Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
By: S. Frederick Starr
Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects.
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By Julia on 11-10-13
The Language of God
A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
By: Francis S. Collins
Narrated by: Francis S. Collins
Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, is one of the world's leading scientists, yet he is also a man of unshakable faith in God and scripture. Dr. Collins has resolved the dilemma that haunts everyone who believes in God and respects science. Faith in God and faith in science can be harmonious, not separately but together, combined into one worldview. For Collins, science does not conflict with the Bible, science enhances it.
For those on the fence
By Stephen on 10-07-06
A History of the Arab Peoples
By: Albert Hourani
Narrated by: Nadia May
Despite the turmoil of Arab nationalism and fundamentalism, Middle Eastern wars, and oil crises, the history of the Arab world has been little known and poorly understood in the West. One reason may be that, for more than half a century, there has been no up-to-date single volume work that chronicles the story of Arab civilization - until now.
Daunting quantity of information!
By Tim on 07-09-05
In God's Path
The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
By: Robert G. Hoyland
Narrated by: Peter Ganim
In just over a hundred years - from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750 - the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far flung as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its greatest expansion, and it was claimed for the Arabs in roughly half the time.
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By SAMA on 01-22-15
The Silk Roads
A New History of the World
By: Peter Frankopan
Narrated by: Laurence Kennedy
It was on the Silk Roads that East and West first encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas, cultures, and religions, and it was the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the emergence of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols, the transmission of the Black Death, the struggles of the Great Game, and the fall of Communism - the fate of the West has always been inextricably linked to the East.
What Really Makes the World Go Round
By Mom in Santa Fe on 07-29-16
The Foundations of Western Civilization
By: Thomas F. X. Noble, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Thomas F. X. Noble
What is Western Civilization? According to Professor Noble, it is "much more than human and political geography," encompassing myriad forms of political and institutional structures - from monarchies to participatory republics - and its own traditions of political discourse. It involves choices about who gets to participate in any given society and the ways in which societies have resolved the tension between individual self-interest and the common good.
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By Tommy D'Angelo on 03-05-17
A Peace to End All Peace
The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East
By: David Fromkin
Narrated by: David de Vries
The Middle East has long been a region of rival religions, ideologies, nationalisms, and ambitions. All of these conflicts are rooted in the region's political inheritance: the arrangements, unities, and divisions imposed by the Allies after the First World War. Author David Fromkin reveals how and why the Allies drew lines on an empty map that remade the geography and politics of the Middle East. Focusing on the formative years of 1914 to 1922, when all seemed possible, he delivers in this sweeping and magisterial book the definitive account of this defining time.
Still A Great Book On The Topic
By IRP on 02-03-19
How to Hide an Empire
A History of the Greater United States
By: Daniel Immerwahr
Narrated by: Luis Moreno
We are familiar with maps that outline all 50 states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire", exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories - the islands, atolls, and archipelagos - this country has governed and inhabited? In How to Hide an Empire, author Daniel Immerwahr tells the fascinating story of the United States outside the United States. In crackling, fast-paced prose, he reveals forgotten episodes that cast American history in a new light.
Important US history that is little told
By Pete on 03-12-19
After the Prophet
The Epic Story of the Shia-Sunni Split in Islam
By: Lesley Hazleton
Narrated by: Lesley Hazleton
Even as Muhammad lay dying, the battle over who would take control of the new Islamic nation had begun, sparking a succession crisis marked by power grabs, assassination, political intrigue, and passionate faith. Soon Islam was embroiled in civil war, pitting its founder's controversial wife, Aisha, against his son-in-law, Ali, and shattering Muhammad's ideal of unity.
Simply Fantastic
By Norman Lasca on 11-02-16
The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise
Muslims, Christians, and Jews Under Islamic Rule in Medieval Spain
By: Dario Fernandez Morera
Scholars, journalists, and politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain - "al-Andalus" - as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: It is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity", Fernández-Morera sets the record straight.
Courageous book
Islamic Philosophy: Bolinda Beginner Guides
By: Majid Fakhry
Narrated by: Raad Rawi
A comprehensive examination of the struggle to reconcile philosophy and Islam. From the introduction of Greek Philosophy into the Muslim world in the eighth century, right through to modern times, Majid Fakhry charts the evolution and interaction of philosophy, theology, and mysticism in the Islamic context. Highlighting key individuals, movements, concepts, and writings, Fakhry also explores the conflicts and controversies between anti- and pro-philosophical parties.
Beautifully written, nicely narrated, dense
By Cressida on 01-08-14
Theories of Knowledge: How to Think About What You Know
By: Joseph H. Shieber, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Joseph H. Shieber
Delve into the exciting field of "epistemology", the philosophical term for our inquiry into knowledge: what it is, the ways we acquire it, and how we justify our beliefs as knowledge. Taught by acclaimed Professor Joseph H. Shieber of Lafayette College, these 24 mind-bending lectures take you from ancient philosophers to contemporary neurobiologists, and from wide-ranging social networks to the deepest recesses of your own brain.
Great topic, but hard to keep up
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By: Morris Bishop
Narrated by: Michael Page
In this indispensable volume, one of America's ranking scholars combines a life's work of research and teaching with the art of lively narration. Both authoritative and beautifully told, The Middle Ages is the full story of the thousand years between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance - a time that saw the rise of kings and emperors, the flowering of knighthood, the development of Europe, the increasing power of the Catholic Church, and the advent of the middle class.
"It's All left to the imagination."
By Dave Miller on 09-22-17
By: Edward Said
This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism. Said is best known for describing and critiquing "Orientalism", which he perceived as a constellation of false assumptions underlying Western attitudes toward the East. In Orientalism Said claimed a "subtle and persistent Eurocentric prejudice against Arabo-Islamic peoples and their culture."
We're lucky to have this on audio
By Delano on 02-27-13
The Story of Philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers
By: Will Durant
Narrated by: Grover Gardner
Durant lucidly describes the philosophical systems of such world-famous "monarchs of the mind" as Plato, Aristotle, Francis Bacon, Spinoza, Kant, Voltaire, and Nietzsche. Along with their ideas, he offers their flesh-and-blood biographies, placing their thoughts within their own time and place and elucidating their influence on our modern intellectual heritage. This book is packed with wisdom and wit.
AN ALL TIME FAVORITE
The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
By: Thomas Asbridge
The Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge - a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (Joan Acocella, The New Yorker) - covers the years 1095 to 1291 in this big, ambitious, listenable account of one of the most fascinating periods in history.
Learned more from this than in the past 60 years.
By T. Anderson on 09-24-16
Renaissance: The Transformation of the West
By: Jennifer McNabb, The Great Courses
Narrated by: Jennifer McNabb
While it's easy to get caught up - and, rightfully so - in the art of the Renaissance, you cannot have a full, rounded understanding of just how important these centuries were without digging beneath the surface, without investigating the period in terms of its politics, its spirituality, its philosophies, its economics, and its societies. Do just that with these 48 lectures that consider the European Renaissance from all sides, that disturb traditional understandings, that tip sacred cows, and that enlarges our understanding of how the Renaissance revolutionized the Western world.
Fantastic Course!
By Beth Carlson on 08-21-18
Here is the remarkable story of how medieval Arab scholars made dazzling advances in science and philosophy, and of the itinerant Europeans who brought this knowledge back to the West. For centuries following the fall of Rome, Western Europe was a benighted backwater, a world of subsistence farming, minimal literacy, and violent conflict. Meanwhile, Arab culture was thriving, dazzling those Europeans fortunate enough to catch even a glimpse of the scientific advances coming from Baghdad, Antioch, or the cities of Persia, Central Asia, and Muslim Spain. There, philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers were steadily advancing the frontiers of knowledge and revitalizing the works of Plato and Aristotle.
In the royal library of Baghdad, known as the House of Wisdom, an army of scholars worked at the behest of the Abbasid caliphs. At a time when the best book collections in Europe held several dozen volumes, the House of Wisdom boasted as many as 400,000. Even while their countrymen waged bloody Crusades against Muslims, a handful of intrepid Christian scholars, thirsty for knowledge, traveled to Arab lands and returned with priceless jewels of science, medicine, and philosophy that laid the foundation for the Renaissance.
In this brilliant, evocative book, Lyons shows just how much Western culture owes to the glories of medieval Arab civilization, and reveals the untold story of how Europe drank from the well of Muslim learning.
©2008 Jonathan Lyons (P)2010 Audible, Inc.
"Sophisticated and thoughtful... In The House of Wisdom, [Lyons] shapes his narrative around the travels of the little-known but extraordinary Adelard of Bath, an English monk who traveled to the East in the early 12th century.... Mr. Lyons's narrative is vivid and elegant." ( Wall Street Journal)
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I read/listened to this book at roughly the same time as God Is Not Great. In the latter, Christopher Hitchens ruminates about the disparaging influences of all religions including Islam. The House of Wisdom does not posit to argue to the contrary as some reviewers would have us believe. The book is about, and perhaps sometimes incompletely, the influence of Arab and Muslim (not always the same people) thought, discovery and invention on the West prior to the Renaissance. Such influences included advances in most fields of intellectual endeavor: astronomy, mathematics, physics, engineering, navigation, geography, medicine, architecture, chemistry and finance to mention only some. Possibly because of my Catholic education, I don't remember so much about these Middle Eastern contributions and how some of an important, historically lost people of that area transformed Western Civilization . Maybe because they were never taught. If like me you would like to learn more, here is that opportunity.
For me, this was not an easy read/listen. Lyons was a former Reuters reporter in the Middle East for over 20 years. I expected something more accessible from a reporter. Instead, I found an intellectual paragon writing of people, places, times and events as alien to me as any subject could be. How valid all of it is I do not know. But it does seem well-researched and Jonathan Lyons does not seem to be an author with an agenda other than that of enlightening his readers. The book was for me a lot like Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World, a book that I enjoyed even more. If this is a subject and time that interests you and particularly if you are a fan of history, I don't think that you will be disappointed.
Mario La Femina
It repeats over and over the same concepts. Looks more as a collection of other books data, than a book itself. Not worthy.
8 of 14 people found this review helpful
Jan D. Leslie
salem,nh usa
Finally giving credit where it is due
An honest retelling of history. Rather that the Euro-centric versiin most of us were raised on.
Sarah Irene
You will be glad you read it.
Extremely eye-opening. A wealth of important history of which most Americans are completely unaware. I'm so glad I read (listened to) it.
Misleading and disappointing
As a person with an interest in Arabia i bought this book hoping to learn something about the Arab people and their contribution to science and culture . Instead you get to listen to a badly written and poorly read narrative, which has little of substance and seems to be poorly veiled religious propaganda. Sadly for this reason it probably confirms the stereo type rather than its intended purpose of opening the eyes of the world to the contribution of the region to modern science and culture and in this they have done the Arab world an injustice
Kafka's Crow
Simply superb
That is the type of history I enjoy the most. It shows how the whole of humanity has worked together for the betterment of society. It shows what unites us all and shows a better way to work together in future by looking at our mutual past.
Tomi Strömberg
Good book, bad reading
Comprehensive on the subject and really interesting. too bad that The narrator the sounds like a robot.


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Home buy student essay Sociolinguistics dialect and language
Sociolinguistics dialect and language
Thus, we can say that the linguistic varieties A and B are two independent languages if the native speakers of A are not able to comprehend the native speakers of B and vice versa. Native speakers normally comprehend the dialects of their mother tongue.
But in the scientific sense, the world is buzzing with a cacophony of qualitatively equal 'dialects,' often shading into one another like colors and often mixing, tooall demonstrating how magnificently complicated human speech can be.
This is the case with many macrolanguages such as the Oluluyia varieties spoken in Western Kenya see next page for a discussion.
But in fact, there is no objective difference between the two: Any attempt you make to impose that kind of order on reality falls apart in the face of real evidence. An example is Norwegian, Danish and Swedish in northern Europe. A Practical Solution In practice, a combination of mutual intelligibility, history, cultural self-identification, and political factors is used to determine which speech varieties are languages and which speech varieties are Sociolinguistics, Unit 2: Languages and Dialects Steve Nicolle dialects.
We have seen that for most of our informants, the effort to escape identification as a New Yorker by one's own speech provides a motivating force for phonological shifts and changes. Or put another way, speech varieties that are different languages according to the linguistic criterion of mutual intelligibility may be considered dialects of a single language according to historical, social, and political criteria.
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Nonetheless, as David Crystal explains below, "Everyone speaks a dialect. Accordingly, British English is one language which includes different local varieties dialects. Malila [mgq], spoken in southern Tanzania, population 65, The upside-down e is pronounced a lot like the oo in foot. Related Papers. The truth is that the boundaries between colors are a human invention, and have historically been determined on a cultural basis, rather than a physical one. A language, then, is indeed a dialect with an army and a navy; or, more to the point, a language is a dialect that got put up in the shop window. Dialect comes from the Greek, "speech. If A and C are different languages, then AB and BC are also different languages, but this means that B is a dialect of two different languages at the same time, which is impossible!
Unfortunately, since language is so deeply intertwined with human culture, politics, and society, it is unlikely that we will ever come to a universal agreement over what a language is and is not and what a dialect is and is not.
The word dialect is assigned to languages for two principal reasons: linguistic and sociopolitical. Similarly, which words have changed over time?
A Czech and a Slovak can usually converse.
Relationship between language and society in sociolinguistics
In popular usage, a language is written in addition to being spoken, while a dialect is just spoken. Cambridge University Press, On Dialect in Writing "Do not attempt to use dialect [when writing] unless you are a devoted student of the tongue you hope to reproduce. In any case, it is key to remember that regardless of which label a language or dialect bears, it is in no way inferior to any other variety of spoken language. Is there some kind of technical distinction, the way there is between a quasar and a pulsar, or between a rabbit and a hare? Likewise, German used in Germany or Austria is one language with different regional varieties. Malila [mgq], spoken in southern Tanzania, population 65, A Czech and a Slovak can usually converse. I recall an exquisite exchange I once caught between a man Nathan Lane could easily play, wearing an ascot and a long scarf and rather plummy of expression, and a man Sacha Baron Cohen would be cast as, straight-backed, earnest, and a little wary. An example is Norwegian, Danish and Swedish in northern Europe.
Conclusion Now you know what a dialect is! The Two Definitions of Dialect Now that we understand that languages and dialects are just arbitrary groupings of world languages, we can examine the two different definitions of the term dialect.
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The Right to Know Law is Pennsylvania's open records law. It requires government agencies in PA to provide access to and copies of public records to the public. School districts are considered local agencies of the Commonwealth and are thus subject to Act 3 of 2008. The Law contains 30 categories of records that are exempt from the disclosure under the Law, including records that, if disclosed, would threaten homeland security or a person's personal security, criminal investigative records, medical records, and certain personnel records. Educational records that are not public records include unpublished lecture notes, unpublished manuscripts, research materials, academic transcripts, and exams and scoring keys.
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The District shall not require an explanation of the reason for the request or the intended use of the requested record, unless otherwise required by law. The District shall not limit the number of records requested.


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A team of researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology are working to develop a new diagnostic test to quickly identify bacterial and viral infections, a tool that can be very benefical to doctors as it can help ensure that the right treatments are prescribed to their patients.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 20% to 50% of all antibiotics prescribed in hospitals in the United States are either unnecessarily given to patients with viral or other infections, or inappropriate to the type of bacterial infection. Through antibiotic stewardship, health care providers aim to reduce the amount of unnecessary antibiotics prescribed, and ensure that patients receive the right treatment for their infections—both of these goals are key to minimizing the problem of antibiotic-resistant superbugs. At least 2 million illnesses and 23,000 deaths occur in the United States each year due to antibiotic resistance. To reduce that toll and make sure patients get the right medications, doctors need new tools to rapidly and accurately diagnose infections.
At this year's World Economic Forum Annual Meeting, public health officials from around the world called for improved diagnostics to help address the problem of superbugs around the world. To that end, in the United Kingdom the National Health Service recently launched a new initiative offering a rapid diagnostic test at pharmacies for individuals with sore throats. Now, in a recent announcement, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, report that they are working on a test that can quickly differentiate if an infection is bacterial or viral.
To address that problem, Dr. Libera and his team have been developing a new detection technology based on gel-tethered DNA and RNA detection probes. The test works by using RNA extracted from drops of blood sampled from a patient, which is then sprinkled onto tiny dots of a specially designed microgel on a glass microscope slide. DNA in the microgel, known as molecular beacons, act as tags for a specific bacterium or virus and glow when they come in contact with matching RNA. The test features a new microgel with DNA probes that function better than earlier iterations of similar technology.


Clerk of district court appointment compensation assistants filing fees teleconferencing.
(1) Each district court of appeal shall appoint a clerk who shall be paid an annual salary to be determined in accordance with s. 25.382.
(2) The clerk is authorized to employ such deputies and clerical assistants as may be necessary. Their number and compensation shall be approved by the court, and paid from the annual appropriation for the district courts of appeal.
(3)(a) The clerk, upon the filing of a certified copy of a notice of appeal or petition, shall charge and collect a filing fee of $300 for each case docketed, and service charges as provided in s. 28.24 for copying, certifying or furnishing opinions, records, papers or other instruments and for other services. The State of Florida or its agencies, when appearing as appellant or petitioner, is exempt from the filing fee required in this subsection. From each attorney appearance pro hac vice, the clerk shall collect a fee of $100 for deposit as provided in this section.
(4) The opinions of the district court of appeal shall not be recorded, but the original as filed shall be preserved with the record in each case.
(5) The clerk is authorized immediately after a case is disposed of, to supply the judge who tried the case and from whose order, judgment, or decree, appeal or other review is taken, a copy of all opinions, orders, or judgments filed in such case. Copies of opinions, orders, and decrees shall be furnished in all cases to each attorney of record and for publication in Florida reports to the authorized publisher without charge, and copies furnished to other law book publishers at one-half the regular statutory fee.
(6) The clerk of each district court of appeal is required to deposit all fees collected in the State Treasury to the credit of the General Revenue Fund, except that $50 of each $300 filing fee collected shall be deposited into the State Courts Revenue Trust Fund to fund court operations as authorized in the General Appropriations Act. The clerk shall retain an accounting of each such remittance.
(7) The clerk of the district court of appeal is authorized to collect a fee from the parties to an appeal reflecting the actual cost of conducting the proceeding through teleconferencing where the parties have requested that an oral argument or mediation be conducted through teleconferencing. The fee collected for this purpose shall be used to offset the expenses associated with scheduling the teleconference and shall be deposited in the State Courts Revenue Trust Fund.
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Living in the arctic part of Norway is also living under the Northern Light. My passion for photography has got me into taking a lot of panoramic displays.
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Behind the Biggest Bitcoin Heist in History: Inside the Implosion of Mt. Gox
Mt. Gox was once the biggest exchange for the virtual currency. Then half a billion dollars' worth went missing. Emails give important clues to what happened.
Jake Adelstein
Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky
Updated Apr. 13, 2017 3:54PM ET / Published May. 19, 2016 1:00AM ET
Photo Illustration by Brigette Supernova/The Daily Beast
TOKYO — When Mark Karpeles, the CEO of what was once the world's largest Bitcoin exchange, said that the company had gone bankrupt because 800,000 bitcoins (worth nearly half a billion dollars at the time) had been hacked, he wasn't exactly lying. He wasn't exactly telling the whole truth, either, but there was an intriguing element of fact.
At least 80,000 had been hacked before Karpeles even took over the company, and that initial cyber theft began a spiral of trouble that may have led directly to the firm's financial collapse.
This week The Daily Beast obtained internal emails, contracts,, and other documents related to the implosion of Karpeles's company, Mt. Gox. Along with information provided by a former employee who handled accounting for the firm, the documents reveal previously unreported details about how Mt. Gox failed, and why.
According to Karpeles's lawyer, Nobuyasu Ogata, one of the emails has been submitted to the court as evidence by the prosecution to demonstrate that Karpeles was not forthcoming with his customers. But the same email can be used to argue for his innocence on other charges.
Mt. Gox, which was once the world's largest exchange for the decentralized virtual currency, filed for bankruptcy protection in February 2014, when it was reported that 850,000 bitcoins, worth $450 million at the time, had disappeared or been stolen by hackers. Mt. Gox said it also lost $27 million in cash.
Originally, the company had been created as a platform for trading playing cards. Pokémon probably is the most familiar version in the West, but these were for Magic: The Gathering, a game that was popular among kids who gave up on any hope of being "cool" at high school; a dungeons and dragons sort of card game for obsessive fans.
The company we're writing about here was called Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange, which is where Mt. Gox derived its unusual name. But in a very short time, it left the original nerds far behind as bitcoins came in and cards went out. And then, a whole lot of bitcoins went missing.
To date, 650,000 bitcoins, currently worth $292 million, remain unaccounted for, and Karpeles is facing several criminal charges—but none of them deal directly with the absent virtual currency.
In November of last year, Japanese prosecutors finally finished bringing criminal charges against Karpeles after re-arresting him again and again in hopes that he would confess to every crime they thought he might have committed.
It should be noted here that one of the reasons Japan's prosecutors have a 99 percent conviction rate is that a suspect can be held up to 23 days after an arrest, without having a lawyer present during daily interrogations. If the suspect is denied bail, the police and the prosecutors have even longer to question the suspect. Eventually most people do confess to the charges against them—guilty or not.
When the prosecutors concluded their investigation into Karpeles in November, he was indicted for improper use of electronic funds and embezzling a total of over 300,000,000 yen ($2.7 million) of customer funds.
At this point in time, Karpeles's lawyers would only say that Karpeles had made no confession to the police and that Karpeles is only guilty of sloppy accounting, mixing personal accounts and corporate accounts, not embezzlement.
Yet the documents obtained by The Daily Beast, which included correspondence between Mark Karpeles and the original founder of Mt. Gox, Jed McCaleb, suggest that Mt. Gox was plagued by problems from its earliest days, before Karpeles had even taken over the company. The Daily Beast was given internal documents including emails by a former consultant to Mt. Gox and then verified them with Karpeles's lawyer, former employees, and sources in law enforcement.
Jed McCaleb first approached Mark about selling him Mt. Gox in January of 2011. In an email dated Jan. 18 that year, McCaleb wrote to his acquaintance Karpeles:
Please keep all this confidential I don't want to start a panic and I'm not sure I'll do it yet but I'm thinking I might try to sell mtgox. I just have these other projects I would like to devote more time to. Would you be interested? It could be very little up front and just a payout based on revenue or something. There is also an investment group that wants to fund mtgox. Probably around $158k. So you could most likely take it over with some cash.
Jed.
Karpeles had become interested in Bitcoin in late 2010 and saw the Mt. Gox platform as the perfect place to set up a Bitcoin exchange. In the early days of the currency, changing fiat money (real money) into bitcoins was an arduous task.
Karpeles agreed to purchase the company from McCaleb and by Feb. 3, 2011, he had signed an agreement with McCaleb to buy the firm, under some very unusual terms.
The seller (McCaleb) wrote into the contract that "the Seller is uncertain if mt.gox.com is compliant or not with any applicable U.S. code or statute, or law of any country." And it included an article of indemnification: "The buyer agrees to indemnify Seller against any legal action that is taken against Buyer or Seller with regards to mtgox.com or anything acquired under this agreement."
Shortly after the handover, Karpeles became aware that Mt.Gox had already been hacked at least once and was missing a substantial number of bitcoins—a total of 80,000 to be precise.
The following email on April 28, 2011, which reportedly has been submitted into evidence by both sides in the trial, was probably the beginning of Mark Karpeles's nightmare:
From: Jed McCaleb <jed@mtgox.com>
To: Mark Karpeles <admin@mtgox.com>
I can't tell how big an issue it will be to be short 80k BTC (*80,000 bitcoin) if the price goes to $100 or something. That is quite a bit to owe at that point but mtgox should have made a ton of BTC (Bitcoin) getting to there. There is also still the fact that the BTC (Bitcoin) balance will probably never fall below 80k. So maybe you don't really need to worry about it.
There are 3 solutions I have thought of:
- Slowly buy more BTC with the USD that Gox Bot has. Hopefully you would fill up the loss before the price got out of hand.
- Buy a big chunk of BTC (really just moving the BTC debt to the USD side) If BTC goes up this is a huge win. Problem is there isn't enough BTC for sale on mtgox. Maybe you could find someone on the forum to do it.
- Get those crystal island people to invest・They have 200+ BTC so they could fill in the gap.
Maybe you could just mine it?
The Daily Beast has been trying to reach Jed McCaleb for several weeks both through his email accounts and social media accounts but he has not responded.
Kim Nilsson, a computer security expert at WizSec who has been analyzing the case for over two years, says, "Assuming the emails are genuine considering the timing, both Mark and Jed were aware of some 80,000 BTC that seem to have already been missing before the large June 2011 hack, and Jed was suggesting possible approaches to recovering from it." The question then remains: did either of them put these plans into action—for example creating a trading bot (a software application that runs automated tasks) to cover the loss.
That is still an unresolved mystery.
In April 2011, 80,000 bitcoins were worth approximately $62,400.
Maybe Karpeles figured he could make it back up as he went along. But luck was not on his side. As he would try to fill the hole, the price of bitcoins kept rising. By June 2, 2011, the value for the missing BTC had jumped to over $800,000.
Unfortunately for Karpeles, he had signed a non-disclosure agreement that left him unable to discuss the loss, and he faced the Sisyphean task of recovering the missing bitcoins on his own—a problem that became greater by the day and sometimes by the hour as the value of bitcoins skyrocketed.
In June of 2011, Mt. Gox was hacked once again. Investigators at the time believed that hackers might have gained access to Jed McCaleb's administrator account, which was still active.
Karpeles's reaction to the hack was to move the majority of the bitcoins off-line into what is called "cold storage" and place them in safety deposit boxes dispersed through various banks in Tokyo. He only left enough online to make sure transactions could be carried out. But having moved the bitcoins off, Karpeles neglected to reconcile the amounts of cold storage with other customer accounts. Karpeles became increasingly paranoid about hackers—almost obsessive.
An individual who worked at Mt. Gox handling accounting told The Daily Beast, on condition we not identify him by name because of his role in the investigation, "Mt. Gox was not an investment company, according to my opinion. It was like a pachinko parlor gift exchange." (Pachinko is a Japanese variant of pinball with a payoff.)
The man in charge of accounting says he urged Karpeles to reconcile the BTC (Bitcoin) balance, the on-line balance, and the fiat (cash) balance several times but was spurned.
"I told him, 'I want to know where are the bitcoins, and we need to reconcile,' and Mark replied, 'mendokusai' [it's a pain in the ass]. He said it was too difficult and too risky, because to reconcile the balance, you need to put the bitcoins from the cold storage onto a hot wallet, and there is the risk that it could be hacked, so he didn't want to do it."
A "hot wallet" refers to bitcoins online—a situation that makes them more vulnerable to cyber predators.
Karpeles insisted that bitcoins in a cold-wallet, sometimes printed out on sheets of paper, were much more secure. He thought it was difficult to know how much each "cold wallet" is worth until you put the BTC back on-line—or make notations on the paper wallets when creating them.
The virtual money was becoming makeshift paper money, and there were masses of it.
The accounts manager understood what Karpeles's concerns were from a cyber security perspective but still felt that not reconciling the accounts was dangerous.
"I didn't think it was reasonable not to reconcile, but I thought it's his company, he's the CEO, so I said okay."
Former employees of Karpeles say that he might have made it all work. They claim rogue U.S. government agents seized $5 million of Mt. Gox funds in summer 2013 in retaliation for Karpeles's refusal to cooperate with them. This seizure supposedly cut into the firm's operating reserves, which may have been the beginning of the end, at least according to the former Mt. Gox accountant.
In the meantime, Karpeles voluntarily assisted U.S. authorities in their investigation of the online black market Silk Road, evidently hoping that would buy him some sort of immunity.
"The first time I got the signal that the bitcoins were missing, it was when Mark told me, sometime in early February [2014]," said the accountant. "He called me in his office, and he said, 'There is a chance that Mt. Gox might have to file for bankruptcy.' And he asked me to go to the law firm Baker & McKenzie the next day to discuss with them."
The accountant recalls that Karpeles was eerily calm at the time—but that Mark was always that way. "He was like a more stoic version of the Cheshire Cat. He was always smiling. He could probably tell you, 'Oh, the entire office is on fire and we'd better leave before we burn to death' and it would be the same expression."
The Japanese courts will determine if Karpeles has committed criminal acts, but the latest revelations would make anyone ask: Is he a con-man, a victim, a fall-guy, or all of the above?
One thing seems clear—Karpeles bought a company already missing tens of thousands of bitcoins.
Did the thief who took them take hundreds of thousands—worth hundreds of millions of dollars—more? Someone did, in the heist of the century, and to solve it, the police need to make a case that depends on more than coercion and confession.


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I spent last weekend in Washington DC in order to attend the Women's March on Washington. My sister who lives in Park City, Utah, met me there and we stayed with my daughter and her fiancé who live in DC only blocks from the march's gathering point. The Saturday event was unquestionably one of the most profoundly moving experiences of my life. The speakers weren't focused solely on "women's issues." Many causes were represented, and people from all walks of life came together to show the world how much we care about the direction in which our country is moving. I was heartened and uplifted by the peaceful joining of our voices for freedom, justice and equality.
On Sunday, when I boarded my flight back to Florida, I remained inspired and uplifted by my experience of the previous day. Unfortunately, the weather didn't match my sunny mood. We were told almost immediately we'd be waiting on the tarmac until the pilot received word that the storms around the Tampa airport had subsided. Among the last people to board our flight was an attractive young family. The mother was black, the father white, and the two small children seemed a perfect combination of both. The seating assignments were broken up so that the father and the youngest son were sitting in the row in front of me, the mother was seated by the window in the row behind me, and the older boy, who appeared to be about eight, took the window seat next to mine.
The wait on the ground seemed interminable, and I noticed that the boy had no book, no bag, no electronic device, nothing to keep him occupied. Nevertheless he was quiet and well behaved. I busied myself by reading and reflecting on the weekend.
After we were cleared for takeoff and our plane became airborne, the pilot announced it was too turbulent for the flight attendants to perform their usual beverage service, and the seatbelt sign would remain on throughout the flight. I began to feel terribly sorry for the young man next to me, and rummaged through my bag looking for something that might interest him. At a loss, I pulled out my cell phone. I didn't want to seem overly forward, so I began to play a game on the phone. He watched over my shoulder for a few minutes. Then I asked, "Do you know how to play this game?" He shook his head. "It's pretty easy," I said, "and it shows you moves if you can't find one. Do you want to try?"
"No thank you," he told me. Then he peeked his head around the seat and whispered something to his mom. When he turned back he was beaming. "She says it's okay," he announced, so I gave him my phone and explained some of the game's basics to him.
For the next two and a half hours the young man happily mastered every entertainment app on my phone. I was truly impressed with his abilities and his sweet disposition. His joy at reaching new game levels was contagious.
Once we landed in Tampa, he handed the phone back to me and thanked me profusely. As we taxied to our gate I asked if he lived in Florida, and he nodded. "We were in Washington for the Inauguration," said, and proudly pulled his red "Make America Great Again" hat from his jacket pocket. This came as a surprise to me considering the racial make-up of his family, the fact that his parents had taught him excellent manners, and my observation that they policed his free time activities—not things I considered attributes of the normal Trump supporter.
"I have to ask you something," he said, "are you a Trumper or a Hillary Clinton supporter?"
"I'm a Hillary Clinton supporter," I told him, "but that doesn't mean we can't be friends, right?"
"Right!" he said, and we shook hands.
As we were deplaning, the boy's father expressed his appreciation to me and asked if his son had thanked me also. I assured him he did. The boy said, "Dad, she's a Hillary Clinton supporter, but she said we can still be friends."
The father laughed. "That's right we're all on the same team, son. We want the country to be safe, secure, and prosperous. We just disagree on how to go about achieving that, but we all still hope for the best."
I was impressed with the graciousness, intelligence, and embodiment of diversity of this little family, which left me even more bewildered as to why the parents would embrace our new president so heartily. The last election had shaken me to my core. It wasn't only the caliber of man who was elected; it's what the people who supported him had to overcome in order to cast their vote for him. The death of civility in the political process was regrettable, but dangerous behaviors like joking about sexual assault, mocking the disabled, and spreading false news were absolutely disqualifying in my view. The basic tenets of human decency appeared to be no longer valued by large swaths of the American people, and I longed to know why.
Within my struggle to understand why this seemingly intelligent couple with strong family values would vote for such a man, there came a glimmer of hope. My belief is that many of those who voted for Trump did so out of a overriding desire for positive change and in spite of his abhorrent behavior. While I still consider it a calamitous decision to ignore what a person does in favor of what he says he'll do, it's my deepest hope that if and when the promised positive change does not materialize, those Americans who still cherish the values of honesty, integrity, fairness will hold this president directly accountable and vote their conscience in our next election.
In the meantime, I continue to desire only the best for our country, which is why I will also continue to raise my voice in an effort to protect our inalienable rights to truth, freedom of expression, justice, and equality. That's #whyimarch.
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My name is Lydia Grumke. I am a senior at Lafayette County C-1 and have been a Girl Scout since kindergarten. In Girl Scouts, the highest award you can earn is the Gold Award. This is equivalent to the Boy Scouts' Eagle Scout Award. Less than 6% of eligible Girl Scouts successfully earn the Gold Award.
For my Gold Award, I took on the project of renovating the tennis court at McCord's Park. There was a lot of manual labor put into this project. The court was power washed. I replaced the chain-linked fence with a net. The backboard was extended another four feet and all repainted. Concrete was poured between the court and the backboard. I also designed an educational how-to-play the game sign to hang up to teach people how to play tennis. The court lines were fading, so I repainted them. This became a more detailed project than I had originally thought, but I am very proud of the final product.
There are many people that I need to thank. Without them, this project would have never gotten done. Tom Rinne donated a lot toward the concrete project. I am very thankful for his donation. Delbert and Gary Goetz, local volunteer fire-fighters, were able to use the fire truck tanks to have a water source since there is none at the park to power wash the courts. I spoke at the local Rotary Club about my project and the Girl Scout organization as a whole. They provided me with a donation to help me fund my project. The sign was made at Centsible Signs in Higginsville and was paid for in part by the business. ACE Hardware donated some lumber for the backboard. My church family at Salem UCC made up a majority of my funds.
I also need to thank the Higginsville Parks and Recreation for its donations and support. Thank you to Coach Stoner for his guidance and support throughout this project. Finally, thank you to anyone and everyone who funded this project. I really, truly appreciate the support. I hope the court will be used and appreciated for many years to come.


I've always advocated attending workshops and conferences, especially for the up-and-coming writer, one who's still honing their craft. But, as Jeff Strand noted when talking to our local FWA chapter, it's also good for another reason, even for a seasoned writer. It's about meeting people. Just as in most businesses, it's not what you know, it's who you know.
With that in mind, I'm coming up with several ideas for workshops for 2013. First, I have to complete the setup for FWA based on the workshop I ran this past summer called: SWISH – Story Workshop in Summer's Heat. Yeah, I like acronyms. This one was about structure, and I'll take the comments I received and focus on the strongest parts of it to craft both a lecture-style workshop (1 hour) and an all-day affair (6 hours).
Well, two reasons. One, next year is set up a little differently, so if you want to pick and choose what you want to run (say, in a church bulletin), you are free to do so; and two, in addition to the reflections, I've added a short essay for each one that delves into a topic of belief that the reflection is based on along with several questions (from 2 – 6) that you can use to delve into your own faith beliefs more deeply. The ebook is available here. It's free to borrow for Amazon Prime members, at least for the next 70+ days.
I hope that you've made progress in your writing this year, and that this holiday season, in whatever fashion you celebrate it (if you do), finds you spreading the joy of your own happiness with others.


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Like Colenso, Leonard Cockayne came to New Zealand as a young man. He was born at Norton Lees, Derbyshire, where as a child he became interested in plants. He not only pressed flowers to make specimens but was also a keen gardener. From school he went to Wesley College, Sheffield, and then to Owen's College, Manchester, and studied chemistry, botany, and zoology as a preparation towards taking a degree in medicine. But he did not complete his medical course.
He left England in 1879, stayed in Australia for some months teaching, and then moved on to New Zealand, arriving here the following year. He was on the staff of the Tokomairiro District High School from 1881 to 1885. He then moved to Christchurch and established a garden near New Brighton. He bought a piece of land, about four acres, and in the next twelve years, doing everything except the rough digging himself, stocked it with native and exotic plants. These were carefully labelled and their growth and leaf changes watched and recorded. He exchanged plants and seeds with gardeners and botanists all over the world, receiving every year the seeds of several hundred species and sending away even more.
Then, when he was over forty, and had this sure foundation of knowledge of plants and their habits, he began to study intensively the native New Zealand flora. For the next thirty-six years he was carrying out field investigations and publishing the results of his studies.
on the summit of Arthur Pass taking notes on the effects of two fires which had destroyed large areas of the vegetation there, one seven years before and the other some time earlier. Arthur Pass is on the dividing line between two very different types of forest. On the Westland side is a mixed rain forest without beech. There is a luxuriant growth of many kinds of trees and an abundance of undergrowth, largely ferns. On the Canterbury side the forest trees are almost entirely mountain beech, the few other kinds including the mountain toatoa. Cockayne set himself the task of finding out what species the scrub had contained before the fires took place and in what order and quantity the species reappeared in the burnt-out area. He found that shrubs which appeared quickly and in large numbers included tauhinu (Cassinia vauvilliersii), box-leaved koromiko (Hebe buxifolia), Coprosma parviflora, Aristotelia fruticosa, and Hebe vernicosa—all species now well known as plants which soon occupy cleared scrubland. Cockayne also noticed that some kinds, such as Celmisia armstrongii and the mountain flax, became more abundant than formerly, and that one species of tree, Dracophyllum traversii, was completely killed out by fire.
Cockayne made good use of his garden, and in some cases the gardens of his friends, for growing the seeds of native plants. He carefully described and illustrated with his own drawings a considerable number of seedlings of New Zealand plants, and published three papers on them in the Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. Many interesting facts came out of his studies. For instance, he found that, in one of the whipcord koromikos, Hebe armstrongii, which in the adult stage has small thick closely compacted leaves like those of a cypress, the first leaves of the seedlings are quite unlike those of the adult shrub: they are flat like ordinary leaves, and variously lobed. Succeeding leaves are narrow and without lobes, and these are followed by the small overlapping leaves of the mature plant. Such a life history he explained by assuming that the whipcord koromikos have arisen from plants with ordinary flat leaves, living in a moist climate, by a gradual reduction of the leaves in the course of a change to a dry, cold climate (as a means of protecting the plants from loss of water). These plants have retained their small leaves because they still live under the dry, cold conditions of mountain climates.
types of places where they were found; and indoors, sorting, classifying, and deciding the relationship of each plant to the region where it grows.
Next Cockayne explored the basin of the Waimakiriri river, from the Canterbury Plains to the mountain tops, collecting specimens. As a result he was able to define botanically four regions—lowland, lower mountain, subalpine, and alpine. In each of these regions he made a list of the plant formations—forest, scrub, meadow, swamp, sand-dune, and so on—but in most cases he published the name of only the dominant species in each formation.
Then he decided to go to the Chatham Islands to study the plant formations, the forms of the plants under the varied conditions existing there, and the changes brought about by human settlement. This sparsely settled group of islands had been visited as far back as 1840 by Dieffenbach,* who made a small collection of plants there, and again in 1863, when H. H. Travers made a considerable collection of plants;** but little else about its botany was known before Cockayne spent six weeks there in 1901. He was helped a great deal by Mr F. A. D. Cox, an ardent plant collector who lived there.
* Dr Ernst Dieffenbach was surgeon and naturalist to the New Zealand Company 1839–40.
** These were described by Baron Mueller in The Vegetation of the Chatham Islands (1864).
The outlying islands of New Zealand which Cheeseman and Cockayne explored botanically.
shrub with purple flowers (Olearea semidentata), a small shrubby grass-tree(Dracophyllum paludosum), and various other plants. The forest growing on this tableland is itself boggy and it is especially characterized by the presence of a daisy tree with yellow flowers(Senecio huntii) and a broad-leaved grass-tree (Dracophyllum arboreum).On the lowlands the common trees are the karaka and a koromiko (Hebe gigantea), the only true tree in that genus. Cockayne points out that according to geological evidence the Chatham Islands were once joined to the main islands of New Zealand; it would be then that they received their plants.
Two years later, in the middle of winter, Cockayne, in his enthusiasm for studying the plant formations of country almost botanically unknown, set out for the Southern (Subantarctic) Islands on the Government steamer Hinemoa. The ship had to spend several days at Port Pegasus, Stewart Island, waiting for favourable weather, and owing to heavy seas no one could land on page 25 the Snares; but landings were made on the Auckland, Campbell, Antipodes, and Bounty Islands. Despite the weather, Cockayne was able to collect samples of the plant covering on each of these islands, and thus was able to write a fairly complete account. He added to his and our knowledge of the vegetation of these bleak islands when he visited them again at the end of 1907.
Cockayne found that the plants of the subantarctic islands belong chiefly to species that are also found on the main islands of New Zealand. There are, however, some very remarkable kinds not found elsewhere.Pleurophyllum is a genus consisting of three species of daisies found only in the Southern Islands. The plants are two feet or more tall and bear upright racemes of large flowerheads with purple petals, though in two of the species the petals are inconspicuous. The Snares taipari(Olearia lyallii), also found on the Auckland Islands, is a small tree with large serrated leaves, pure white underneath. There are two species of plants belonging to the carrot family(Anisotome latifolia, A. antipoda), which have large divided leaves two feet long and flowering stems twice this height. Then there are plants belonging to the Aralia family, with very large kidney-shaped leaves, Stilbocarpa robusta on the Snares and S. polaris on the other islands.The Maori name for plants of this genus is ponui.Lastly may be mentioned a blue-flowered koromiko(Hebe benthami), and a mountain daisy(Celmisia vernicosa) with a rosette of hard shining leaves.
* Report on a Botanical Survey of Kapiti Island, 1907.
Next Cockayne published an account of the coastal vegetation of New Zealand. He then made for the Government a series of botanical surveys on the reserves and parks of Kapiti Island, Waipoua Kauri Forest, Tongariro National Park, and Stewart Island, and on sand-dune vegetation. These were issued by the Lands and Survey Department as Parliamentary Papers in 1907, 1908, and 1909, and were comprehensive reports, illustrated with photographs, on the vegetation. They contain some of Cockayne's best botanical work, and, indeed, formed models for other botanists.
Cockayne soon began to publish books, both popular and technical, on the plants of New Zealand. His first venture was New Zealand Plants and their Story, which appeared in 1910. Second and third editions, much enlarged, have since been published. This book gave a clear and vivid account of botanical exploration, of the plant formations, of naturalized plants, and of cultivated plants.
But Cockayne was at this time working on a much larger and more technical book, which he called The Vegetation of New Zealand. It described the plant formations of the main island and of the outlying islands. The first part is arranged under the headings 'Vegetation of the Sea Coast', 'Vegetation of the Lowlands', and 'Vegetation of the High Mountains', and under each heading are included descriptions of the most important plants and of the plant formations. Other chapters deal with botanical exploration, the effect of settlement, botanical districts, and the relationships of the flora with those of other countries. The manuscript of this important work was ready about 1914, but printing was held up by the first world war and the book did not appear until 1921. It was printed in Germany and formed one of a series called Die Vegetation der Erde. A second and much enlarged edition of The Vegetation of New Zealand appeared in 1928.
Cockayne's fertile mind led him along many new lines of investigation. This is particularly well shown in a paper** on the evolution of plants in New Zealand. In this he illustrated such subjects as variation in form, response to the conditions of the surroundings (such as climate and soil), crossing of species, the different forms of seedling leaves, and the distribution of species within New Zealand.
* See Post-Primary School Bulletin Vol. 3 No. 4 Sand-Dune Plants.
level has lost its original covering of tussock grassland by overgrazing by sheep, by burning,* and especially by swarms of rabbits eating the plants and burrowing in the ground. In some places there is very little vegetation other than cushion plants called scabweed (Raoulia). Cockayne was to find out whether these areas could be restored. First he had to discover which plants sheep prefer. He noted that they greedily eat soft-leaved grasses, which include the introduced kinds, but avoid hard-leaved species, which include some of the native tussock grasses.
Cockayne carried out experiments in two ways, firstly by spelling, that is by fencing out the sheep and rabbits to see whether the vegetation would recover by itself, and secondly, by fencing as before and by sowing the seeds of various grasses and other fodder plants. The experiments were carried out for a few years only, but showed that spelling alone resulted in the recovery of certain plants in favourable areas. Sowing, however, produced better results though only in favourable situations. Cockayne could not carry out the experiments long enough to make a thorough test of regrassing. His investigations were completed in 1920. Since then a great deal of work has been done on grasslands in New Zealand by officers of the Department of Agriculture.
* Though fresh tender growth springs up after burning, sheep and rabbits eat this so avidly that they quickly destroy this new covering.
page 30 in the shape of their leaves, are intermediate between their probable parents, which are found growing with them; they are almost always found in places where both parents are still, or recently have been, present.
Cockayne's contributions to forestry were notable. He made a special study of beech forests, and wrote a monograph about them. This was issued in 1926 and 1928 in two parts, one on the ecology and the other on various economic aspects such as milling, fire protection, and value of beech timber. Cockayne, with Esmond Atkinson, published a paper on the wild hybrids of the beeches, and, with E. P. Turner, an illustrated book on The Trees of New Zealand. Lastly, his gardening experience with native plants was condensed in a small book The Cultivation of New Zealand Plants published in 1923.
He introduced to New Zealand the study of seedlings and the changes which they go through before reaching the adult form.
His investigation of the vegetation of Arthur Pass after burning was the first study made in New Zealand on the succession of plant formations in a given area.
He introduced to New Zealand the study of the relations of plants to their surroundings (ecology).
He discovered the fact that hybridization is common among the native plants of New Zealand.
His report on sand-dunes gave an account of the conditions of plant life in these areas, and pointed out that the dunes page 31 could be arrested and reclaimed by planting trees, especially pines.
He made a comprehensive study of the over-grazed areas of Central Otago and published much useful information on the subject.
He wrote on the ecology of beech forests and discussed the practical bearing of this on their management.
He studied the distribution of the native plants within New Zealand, and published maps of the botanical districts which he defined.
These achievements made a contribution to New Zealand botany that has had a permanent and ever-widening influence on the study and teaching of the subject. Up to his time practically all the published work on the New Zealand flora had been on plant classification, but Cockayne broke new ground in several directions. It is this which gives such great importance to his work. It has, indeed, resulted in notable advances in several fields of study, particularly in ecology.
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During his numerous journeys Cockayne made a fairly large collection of dried [gap — reason: unclear] he used for comparison when he found something that [gap — reason: unclear] to him to be unusual. This collection has been added to the herbaria of the Auckland Museum and the Dominion Museum.
High honours came to him for his scientific work. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1912; and he was awarded four medals: the Hector and Hutton medals of the New Zealand Institute, the Darwin medal of the Royal Society of London, and the Mueller medal of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science.
Cockayne's name is commemorated in a genus of New Zealand grasses, Cockaynea, containing two species. Nine species of New Zaland plants also bear his name. Among these are a koromiko (Hebe cockayniana), an eyebright (Euphrasia cockayniana), a mountain daisy (Celmisia cockayniana), and the mountain Astelia (A. cockaynei).


My name is Ken, I'm from Sussex County as well. Heard about the forum from another and am glad to see we have something for Jersey riders.
Looking to get some more riding together with fellow riders from NJ. Its a shame this state is cracking down more and more on our hobby, so I'd like to do whatever I can do to preserve it.
Glad to see you joined as well. I'm down for riding whenever/anywhere you want to.
Welcome to the club!!! Have you ever raced any motocross????
Nah I haven't. I wanted to back in the day but injured myself (separated shoulder and dislocated knee) and actually became a little gun shy from it (afraid to injure myself to where I'm not fit for work).
Would I though? Yeah, I'd give it a shot, even though I haven't had much saddle time due to or since college. I'm sure getting involved in it would help me learn more to become a better rider.
welcome to the club. mx rules.
Wildwood is a safe way to ease in to mx.
Welcome to GSATVR. It's always nice to see, when someone is still holding on to a 250r. How is it running for you? Wildwood is definitely the way to test the waters of MX. I've done three of them, myself & can't wait to start racing more.
Sounds good, I'd like to give it a shot, plus I have family down near there so be easy finding a place to stay too. As for the 250R, she is stripped down right now. I got it for a killer deal that I'll never find again, but she needs a little attention. After I send the frame out for some powdercoat and other parts, I'm going to reassemble it since I pretty much have everything lined up and ready. Should be up and riding by late spring early summer.


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Discussion in 'Android Hacks and Help' started by surfbuckeyesbc, Jul 8, 2010.
Hey guys! I followed the link below and tried to see if I could get Ubuntu running through VNC on my Droid, as this guy was able to do on his N1. I know that the phones have differences, and unfortunately, I got to the "bootubuntu" part before it said it couldn't load, that my device was busy.
I am assuming that it just isn't working on the Droid, as the dev himself said it wasn't working on the Evo, but I was wondering if any of you wonderful Devs here at the forum have tried to do something similar on Droid. This would be awesome and HUGE geek points. Fingers crossed! Let me know if I can assist in anyway.
I know there used to be a post on the old Alldroid on how to install Debian on your DROID, but sadly all of that content is gone. It didn't mention Ubuntu, but it should be possible. I know it was supposedly a pretty finicky process, for one thing you had to have a minimum of ext2 enabled in your kernel or loaded as a module. I will search around and see if I can find an archived copy.
I am also interested in a Moto Droid version of it. I got interested after reading this site: http://nexusonehacks.net/nexus-one-hacks/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-your-nexus-oneandroid/. I also tried this Nexus One version and it doesn't work on the Droid (It's probably not supposed to anyway). I attached the output that shows all the error messages.
I don't understand any of that. For what it's worth, I found this while searching around for a way to make it work: http://www.droidforums.net/forum/droid-development/46838-debian-instructions-missing.html which lead to Debian fully working on the Motorola Droid! Included is an ext2.ko module for those of us running stock kernels that lack ext2fs support. (I will provide support in comments.) : Android which lead to Google Translate.
I also boot ubuntu with chevys kernel so your in luck.
and rename it update.zip and flash it.
How in the hell would it be limited to the nexus one anyway?
Debian, ubuntu, etc in chroot will work on any android phone providing the kernel has the ex2 module.
Thanks for all the help! I will try it. But first, I have Bugless Beast v0.4 froyo. I have no clue what kernel I have. Can I just flash chevy's kernel from Rom Manager on top of what I have? I'm making a backup just in case before I try it.
can someone put together some instructions on how to do this, from beginning to end?
I went ahead and installed the ext2 module by using the update.zip file (renamed from ext2.zip). On my current kernel. I tried running the ubuntu install script. The output looked the same. Ran bootubuntu and its output was the same as before too.
Then I flashed chevy1's 1ghz LV kernel and tried to install and boot ubuntu again. That didn't work either. I did not wipe cache and data when flashing the kernel.
Should I just go ahead and install simply stunning 4.4? Would that make a difference?
I don't have an ext2 partition on my SD card. Is that what I overlooked? Dammit, lol. I'm going to keep trying.
If i'm installing via CW, i can just install from SD and not rename update.zip correct? And its my thoughts that this is an extension file that goes on TOP of your existing chevy kernel, is that also correct assumption? And then one we get to bootubuntu, we just follow the rest of the video's steps to be able to boot on the go without being adb-ed in?


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Why call it "Pindify"?
By Elizabeth Jarrard
Why did we call our platform Pindify you ask? We derived the name Pindify from the word pindi. In Hinduism, pindi are shrines that pay homage to the divine feminine Goddess Shakti. These shrines are traditionally stone stacks or tree stumps that remind those who worship Shakti of her powerful creative influence in their lives. The worshipers leave cards, gifts, and trinkets to Shakti in return for her guidance and blessing. At Pindify, we hope to be a guide to help others on the path to finding their artistic callings in a way that can support their livelihood.
Photo: Daryl Baird @idahobaird
Along our life journey, Shakti leaves signs as evidence of her presence to guide us and help us fulfill our creative potentials. Spring is a great time for rebirth. For redefining yourself. In many cultures around the world, springtime is a time to honor the creative forces of fertility and creative energy.
Winter is often a time of introspection. In many traditional mythologies around the world, during the winter, we go inside for shelter to seek cover from the storms of life. This is a time of introspection and reflection. For preserving resources and energy. In the springtime, when the sun begins to shine warmer and the snow begins to melt, we get to stretch our legs and are finally called to creative action once again. To emerge from the winter and begin the adventures that the spring beckons us to participate in. To participate in life. Many springtime festivals honor Shakti at this time of year as her creative influence can be felt when we are inspired by the promises of warm sunshine.
Here we highlight several traditions that honor springtime and the archetypal and mythological forces that remind us to give way to our "creative energies" this time of year.
Goddess Shakti
India is one of the most religiously diverse nations on earth and has over 1.4 billion people who practice a myriad of different religions-Hinduism being the predominant religion of this nation. The Goddess Shakti has her own festival, along with many others around the year.
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Songkran (Thailand)
Thailand has several predominant spiritual and religions traditions, but the festival celebrated in the spring has its roots in Buddhist tradition. According to the zodiac calendar, Songkran is celebrated around the first part of April as watery Pisces gives way to fiery Aries.
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Believed to be one of the oldest religious traditions in the world, Zoroastrianism which is practiced predominantly in what is now modern Iran, celebrates the spring festival Nowruz at the time of the spring equinox. This festival involves the rituals of spring cleaning and table setting for family gatherings and sowing wheat seeds for future harvest.
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Pagan
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Many of the pagan customs associated with the celebration of Spring eventually came to be absorbed within Christianity, as symbols of the resurrection of Jesus. But originally, many of the customs were pagan, believed to be named after the goddess of Spring, otherwise known as Ostara, Austra, and Eastre. One of the most revered aspects of Ostara for both ancient and modern observers is a spirit of renewal. The Easter egg is one such symbolic remnant of this very old tradition.
Native American Indian (Indigenous Peoples)
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The Lakota people of the North American midwest for instance, maintain ancient tribal ceremonies that at the vernal equinox, welcome new life and send old souls to rest in the center of the Milky Way galaxy before they continue on their spiritual journey. Another tradition of the southwest is of the Spider Grandmother- a tradition of the Hopi people. Spider Grandmother is a maternal creative force that protects humanity from their own destructive nature.
We hope to provide a creative community at Pindify. The coming of spring may just be the time to lay old things to rest and begin a renewed practice of honoring your creative callings and beckon you to new, greener pastures.
Pindify.
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All meals will be provided by the Southwestern Research Center.
The Chiricahua Mountains comprise the largest "Sky Island" range in southeastern Arizona and we will explore them while based at the Southwestern Research Station of the American Museum of Natural History near Portal, Arizona. Our guide will be John Yerger of Adventure Birding Company whose home base is Portal. The Chiricahua Mountains have the strongest affiliation with biota of the Chihuahuan Desert and the Sierra Madre Occidental, primarily Mexican biomes. En route we'll visit a true desert oasis at Willcox Twin Lakes, where waterfowl and waders will add variety to the list, and interesting songbirds can be found as well. We'll explore a huge diversity of habitats within short driving distance of Portal, AZ. Our lowest elevation at 4,000' starts off with semi-arid Chihuahuan grassland, moving dramatically into montane riparian and Madrean pine-oak woodland at 5,000', climbing up to 8,500' in a spruce-fir forest more typical of the Rocky Mountains. A side trip into pinyon-juniper woodland reminiscent of the Great Basin will add several species not easily found elsewhere in southern Arizona. Finally, an optional outing after sunset will introduce us to a wholly different aspect of this region: a nocturnal bird array that is unsurpassed anywhere else in the U.S.
Scaled Quail, Golden Eagle, Zone-tailed Hawk, Whiskered Screech-Owl, Northern (Mountain) Pygmy-Owl, White-throated Swift, Rivoli's Hummingbird, Blue-throated Hummingbird, Acorn Woodpecker, Arizona Woodpecker, Hammond's Flycatcher, Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Cassin's Kingbird, Hutton's Vireo, Plumbeous Vireo, Steller's Jay, Woodhouse's Scrub-Jay, Mexican Jay, Chihuahuan Raven, Common Raven, Bridled Titmouse, Canyon Wren, Curve-billed Thrasher, Crissal Thrasher, Lucy's Warbler, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Painted Redstart, Yellow-eyed Junco, Canyon Towhee, Spotted Towhee, Pyrrhuloxia, Hooded Oriole, Scott's Oriole. Other possibilities are Red-faced warbler, Mexican Chickadee and Elegant Trogon.
Intermediate level. Will involve walking on relatively level trails, although rocky/rooted in places. Bring a water bottle and hat, wear sunscreen, and shoes/boots that are appropriate for hiking trails. Around 2 miles walking each day.
Housing will be provided at the Southwestern Research Station near Portal, Arizona in simple, double-occupancy dorm rooms.


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Home Analysis Can Bitcoin ETNs Unlock Mass Adoption?
Can Bitcoin ETNs Unlock Mass Adoption?
With most bitcoin ETF proposals out of the picture and the SEC on forced hiatus, the institutional adoption of BTC and other cryptocurrencies has been put on hold.
But why is that the case? Back in January 2017, the launch of bitcoin futures by Cboe (Chicago Board of Exchanges) and CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange), seemed to promise quick institutional cash-inflow and, subsequently, skyrocketing crypto prices.
Leaving aside all the denied and recently withdrawn crypto ETF initiatives, it may help to take a closer look and ask why these long-awaited avenues of institutional adoption are still empty.
The currently-available futures products offered by the Cboe and the CME are not particularly popular, and Cboe Chairman Edward Tilly seems to know why.
Futures are semi-symbiotic investment vehicles, he explained, which tend to thrive in the presence of ETNs. ETNs give small-time, retail investors an attractive and accessible path into a market, and through their presence, they offer major investors the chance to effectively hedge their trades.
Since a traditional crypto market-tracking index does not currently exist, there are no crypto ETNs available either. Thus, Wall Street investors are left without a hedging opportunity, which turns BTC futures into much less attractive propositions for them.
What is a bitcoin ETN and how does it compare to an ETF?
An Exchange Traded Note is similar to an Exchange Traded Fund, though there are a few key differences between the two.
ETFs actually hold the assets they track. ETNs on the other hand do not. Thus, when investing in an ETN, one effectively purchases an unsecured debt note, from an issuing entity called the underwriter.
ETNs pay based on the performance of the asset that they track, but there are a number of other factors which impact payout, like the credit-rating of the issuing entity. In extreme cases, like if an underwriter goes belly-up, ETN investors will default.
Such notes can be bought, sold and held to maturity, like other investment vehicles. They feature much more efficient asset-tracking than ETFs (because they do not actively track) and they usually invite more favorable tax treatment over the long run (as they realize long-term capital gains).
While the purchase of ETNs is simpler and more accessible for retail investors, and they are generally more efficient than ETFs, they are also less known and – due to their bond-like nature – more difficult to understand than stock-like ETFs.
Bitcoin ETNs have been available in Europe, but impact still weak.
Sweden's XBT Provider AB has been offering two Bitcoin-based ETNs (Bitcoin Tracker One and Bitcoin Tracker EUR) since 2015 and 2017, respectively. But the actual impact of these products on institutional adoption and retail trading has thus far been disappointing. Indeed, most mom-and-pop investors do not even know about the existence of these crypto investment options, much less the fact that US investors can also trade them, through global brokerages.
The properly publicized launch of a similar product in the US might trigger a very different reaction on the part of retail investors, and that could be the spark needed to breathe new life into futures. It could even usher bitcoin ETFs onto the institutional trading scene as well.
The author is invested in digital assets, including Bitcoin, which is mentioned in this article.
James started writing when he came to Hyannis, MA in 1998. Back then the internet was quite a different beast, mostly the realm of geeks and the "refuge" of those with an extreme affinity for innovation. In 2001, he moved to Scottsdale, AZ, where he worked with an SEO company. In 2007, he moved to Romania where he currently resides. 2010 saw him dip a toe into the - then very niche - cryptocurrency vertical, a move which turned into a love affair that rages on to this day.