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Masterful "English Patient'
I have by now read countless reviews of Michael Ondaatje's disturbing novel, "The English Patient," and the usual slew of pre-release commentaries on writer-director Anthony Minghella's adaptation of the book into film. Each reviewer unswervingly avers that "The English Patient" is about . . . something or other.
What I enjoyed most about the novel and now Minghella's magnificent cinematic version is that the themes within are so complex, so indistinct, so layered and so multiple that I would never presume to report what the film - or book - is about. I can only recount its ingredients; in it are small, poetic essays on love, passion, loyalty, patriotism, imperialism, war, cynicism, art, history, racism, loss and courage. To elucidate further than that, I fear, would be folly.
Minghella imposes harmony in what ought to have been confusing leaps in chronology and a scattered weave of separate narratives about unrelated characters - all set against an array of complicated military, archaeological and marital maneuvers. Never mind the audacity in adapting a book whose chief figure spends half the story in bed dying of severe burns.
Minghella compresses all this material into a 161-minute movie that has the scope and beauty of "Lawrence of Arabia" (with the help of sensuous photography by John Seale) and the passion, romance and sweetness of
"Children of Paradise." How he achieves this is also unfathomable. All that can be safely said is that Minghella is an artist and he has painted himself a masterpiece.
No doubt with the advice and assistance of Berkeley producer Saul Zaentz ( "The Unbearable Lightness of Being," "Amadeus" ), Minghella assembled a flawless cast. Most of the time the acting is so good you scarcely notice it. Ralph Fiennes is the title figure, Count Almasy, a Hungarian archaeologist devoted to mapping the Sahara for the British government in the years before World War II. When the film begins at the end of the war, he is suffering from burns over most of his body.
As we learn from the flashbacks, Almasy, devoted to his work, was perhaps blinded by the desert sun and the physical and spiritual remoteness that comes of working in the sand. He had ignored the coming world turmoil until it was nearly too late. The war forced him to declare his fealty, and he decided in favor of personal over nationalistic loyalty.
A fiery airplane accident has melted Almasy's face down to a barely expressive mask. Fiennes overcomes what could be a terrible obstacle to acting - being encased in a burn
"outfit" - and achieves a Ben Kingsley's "Gandhi" kind of restraint. It is 1945 and he is being cared for in an abandoned Tuscan monastery by Hana (the luminous Juliette Binoche), a young French-Canadian nurse and damaged soul who has lost everyone close to her to war. She withdraws from the world by giving up the living to care exclusively for her doomed charge, mistakenly referred to as the "English patient." She forms a strange, loving attachment to him.
Almasy's memory is sketchy since the accident but as he recalls small incidents, the film gracefully furls into flashbacks where his brain retrieves lost pieces of his past. Slowly, we watch the dour and work-oriented Almasy (here Fiennes looks like the young Marcel Duchamp) alter into a passion-driven slave to his love for Katharine (Kristin Scott Thomas), the wife of a member of his expedition.
Back in the present day, Hana's retreat to the Tuscan monastery with her patient is intruded on by the war. Caravaggio (Willem Dafoe), a Canadian soldier with ulterior motives, arrives to remind Hana and her patient of the outside world. Kip (Naveen Andrews), a Sikh bomb disposal expert with the British army, comes through to disarm the minefields and bombs left behind by Axis troops. His competence and gentleness entice Hana back into the world. Their affair, which seemed extraneous in the book, is given clarity in the film.
Minghella is a master of detail. In an emotional scene when Almasy and Katharine decide they can't go on together, she takes her leave from the unhappy Count and promptly walks into a pole. Minghella is one of the few directors around who would put this in a movie without looking for a cheap laugh. Here are Katharine and Almasy drowning in the masochistic pleasure that sometimes comes of crying over a lost relationship; the pain reminds them how good it is to be alive, to live life intensely. But by walking Katharine into a pole, Minghella bonks us back into reality. Stop feeling sorry for yourselves, he seems to be saying. There's nothing noble in suffering.
Minghella solves the problem of turning a good book into a good movie by altering the book enough to leave behind its literary merits and transform them into cinematic ones. So he recreated the book's mood by inventing events Ondaatje didn't need to write about.
If this movie is about one specific thing it is probably about the mystery of love. How odd that two strangers should meet and suddenly find that they are incomplete without each other. Minghella has added wonderful love scenes between Katharine and Almasy. And to convey some sense of the joy Kip shares with Hana, Minghella concocted a romantic scene in which Kip shows Hana the frescoes he's found in an old chapel. This enlightened sensibility suffuses the film.
Zaentz loved Minghella's first film, the 1991 "Truly, Madly, Deeply," and announced then that he wanted to work with the director. Minghella brought "The English Patient" to Zaentz and thus was born a visually lush, emotionally involving, morally intriguing movie with no American stars (Dafoe's part is small) shot in North Africa and Italy made for a bargain-basement (by Hollywood epic standards) $31 million. It was money well spent.
Movie Review "The English Patient'
* CAST Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Willem Dafoe
* DIRECTOR Anthony Minghella
* WRITER Minghella from the novel by Michael Ondaatje
* THEATERS Kabuki, Northpoint


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The Royal Commission for AlUla announced that Seera Group, the region's leading provider of travel and tourism services, has been appointed as the key Destination Management Company (DMC) for the second season of 'Winter at Tantora', a timeless festival in AlUla, a cultural and historical destination that is home to Saudia Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage site.
Set in the natural beauty of AlUla, last year's inaugural Winter at Tantora was a success, welcoming high-profile guests from around the world and hosting 37,000 visitors from 72 countries. The second edition of the festival will be held from December 19, 2019, to March 7, 2020, offering additional weekends for visitors to enjoy cultural programming, equine events and celebrity performances by some of the world's greatest musicians.
Seera Group will highlight the destination through its dedicated campaign to promote Winter at Tantora, which is expected to welcome over 40,000 people through the weekend programmes. The Royal Commission for AlUla aims to attract two million visitors to AlUla by 2035.
Amr AlMadani, Chief Executive Officer at the Royal Commission for AlUla, said, "This partnership will provide an opportunity for us to share AlUla's spectacular treasures, including Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO heritage site, Hegra, with guests from around the world."
Abdullah Aldawood, CEO of Seera Group, said, "Choosing us as a DMC for the event underlines our competencies in offering tailored solutions for international and Saudi-based visitors – covering all aspects of their journey. In addition to working with our global offices and affiliates, we will promote Winter at Tantora through our outlets at all key airports in the Kingdom."


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Jennifer Lawrence spiced things up at the "Mockingjay: Part 2" premiere in New York on Wednesday night by chugging Bourbon whiskey during a Q&A with MTV.
Though the shot glass barely smudged her burgundy lipstick, Lawrence, 25, seemed raring to go as she made her way down the red carpet in a black custom-made Schiaparelli gown, teasing hints of cleavage and her taut tummy.
While the Oscar winner is getting ready to bid the "Hunger Games" goodbye, she's also gearing up for a press tour for two other buzz-worthy flicks, "Joy" and "Passengers," co-starring Chris Pratt. And while Lawrence typically maintains a professional attitude on set, she admitted to using a bit of liquid courage to film her first sex scene with the "Jurassic World" hunk.
"I got really, really drunk," Lawrence told the Hollywood Reporter of the "bizarre experience." "But then that led to more anxiety when I got home because I was like, 'What have I done? I don't know.' And he was married. And it was going to be my first time kissing a married man, and guilt is the worst feeling in your stomach."
"And I knew it was my job, but I couldn't tell my stomach that. So I called my mom, and I was like, 'Will you tell me it's OK?' It was just very vulnerable," she continued. "And you don't know what's too much. You want to do it real, you want everything to be real, but then … That was the most vulnerable I've ever been."


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The leader of an atheist group behind banners displayed in Fort Worth says she's not concerned that the message may upset people.
The yellow banners, which read "In No God We Trust," are meant to promote an event Metroplex Atheists is holding later this month. Courtney Stewart, 29, the group's president, said she knows the meeting may also draw people who are angry about the banners.
"The point of this entire campaign is to bring attention to this issue and give a voice to a minority viewpoint," she said. "The more people that show up, positive or negative, it's part of creating that conversation."
Fort Worth Mayor Betsy Price tweeted out her dislike of the message Tuesday after the city received complaints.
"I was appalled when I saw the banners currently being displayed downtown, as I do not support or agree with the message," Price said on Twitter. "We must respect freedom of speech. As we approach the Fourth of July, we must remember that many Americans have fought and died for the freedoms we cherish today."
The banners advertise an "educational seminar" about amending the nation's motto to E Pluribus Unum, a Latin phrase meaning "out of many, one."
"'In God We Trust' painted America as a Christian nation, which is incorrect," Stewart said. "The point of the banner is to argue against this false rhetoric that is divisive and dangerous, that calls non-religious people un-American and people who fall outside the Christian narrative un-American."
In a written statement Tuesday, the city said Metroplex Atheists followed the rules to display the banners.
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There was no such thing as a sophomore slump for Dallas' Logan Paczewski.
After winning the event as a freshman, Paczewski put on an even more dominant performance in this year's Tryba Preseason Tournament at Fox Hill. He birdied seven holes and shot 7-under 64, winning the individual title and helping the Mountaineers to the team championship.
For his efforts, Paczewski was named the first Citizens' Voice Athlete of the Week for the fall sports season.
Q: Even after winning last year, did you expect to play as well as you did in this tournament?
A: I had pretty high expectations for myself, because I was really feeling it the past couple weeks that my game was really good. I finally got my putter to work for me, so my mentality was birdie the par 5s and make four other birdies on the course and make no mistakes.
Q: So your putting was key?
A: Yeah, I made three putts in the first six holes that were 15 feet or over.
Q: When you get in a rhythm like that early, does that make the rest of the round seem easier?
A: Yeah. When I get the putter going, then I feel confident and feel like it's going to be a great round. I really struggled toward the beginning of summer, but then I kind of found it late in the summer when I started stressing about it and had to practice a lot more. Right when high school golf started, I started playing really well.
Q: What does a win like that do for your personal expectations?
A: It sets the bar definitely high, reaching 7 under par in the first tournament. I'm obviously not going to be seven under every time I play. I'm just going to learn from it and be happy and move on and try to shoot the lowest number I could every match I have.
Q: You improved your score so much this year, how low can you go your next Tryba?
A: I mean I can't really hit any more greens than I did. Maybe one year, I'll really bring the putter and try to break 60. We do play from pretty short distance, so it's definitely possible.
Hometown: Dallas
Age: 15
Family: Mother, Jen; father, Eric; brother, Zach
Favorite school subject: Math
Favorite athlete: Tiger Woods
Favorite place to eat: Gerry's Pizzeria
Prematch routine: I just listen to music, before every match, every tournament I play.
Favorite club in his bag: Putter
If Logan won the lottery, he would ... buy Irem Country Club.
Favorite app on his phone: Snapchat
One word that best describes Logan is ... outgoing.
Logan's favorite non-golf hobby is ... skiing.
In a movie about his life, Logan would be played by ... Adam Sandler.
Logan's favorite thing about golf is ... getting to play with his friends on the team.


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I received a regular email from Lama Yeshe Wisdom Archive (LYWA). The email outlined a 5 year plan that the LYWA is implementing to bring Dharma beyond the boundaries of English language and other barriers. I'm ecstatic to see that they are undertaking such good work in spreading the Dharma. It's really a great opportunity to contribute to the happiness of all sentient beings by supporting their project. I find their 5 year plan (click to view) is quite detail and well thought out but it will need plenty of resources, sacrifices and hard work to make it work. I thought it'll good to share the message here so many others will get to contribute too. You may find out more from their website: www.lamayeshe.com. Here's the email content.
Dear Colin,
Last month we sent out the following message, and I thank most sincerely those who responded. For those who did not, as 2008 draws to a close, please kindly consider this important initiative for making much more Dharma available to all.
Here at the Archive we are on the brink of being able to make many, many more teachings available. But we need your help. Here's what happened:
Direct Advice from Rinpoche to LYWA
Last year I received a strong written admonition from our precious guru, Lama Zopa Rinpoche, that we quickly publish more teachings from the FPMT lineage, basically Lama Yeshe's and his own (although Rinpoche was typically a bit low key on his own teachings). Some of the points Rinpoche made were:It is definitely a big loss that more material is not being published; this is a big loss in regards to the activities of the whole organization. Every day this doesn't happen it is a big loss for the organization.
The main activity of the FPMT organization is to be able to benefit sentient beings and it is through the teachings and advice that this is done. This is the main way to benefit others.
We need to change the old view of how to publish the teachings. We need to think differently about how to do it so things don't get held up, stuck. I can ask people to help; we need to think differently so material is made available quickly: all the talks, all the teachings from so many years.
All that is available needs to be published now; we need to start thinking differently quickly. Otherwise it is a great loss, and we need to publish in different languages. If it gets stuck in English, then it gets stuck in all the languages.
Please remember this is the major benefit of the organization. This is how the organization can benefit sentient beings, through the teachings and advices.
Naturally, this shook me up a bit and I started to think of new ways of doing things. What it really came down to was that we could no longer rely on volunteers to record, transcribe and edit but would have to pay, or at least support, people to do these various tasks.
5 Year Plan: Publishing the FPMT Lineage
So I came up with a five-year plan for doing this. It would cost $1 million. That seemed a little unrealistic, but it was the best I could do, and I presented this plan at a meeting at FPMT International Office, where we were discussing how to better include Lama Yeshe's and Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings in FPMT education programs.
Then, a month or so later, out of the blue, I was contacted by a benefactor wanting to help the Archive achieve its objectives. I showed her our plan and, amazingly, she offered a matching grant of $500,000. In other words, she would match each dollar we raised with a dollar of her own, up to a million. She suggested we go out to the FPMT to find matching funds.
Details of our plan may be found on our website. (click to view)
Progress so far:
We have engaged Ven. Kunsang to travel with Rinpoche to record all Rinpoche's teachings and send them to us immediately.
We have hired a full time transcriber, as our efforts to hire part-time sangha (as outlined in the plan) were not successful.
We have hired a managing editor to supervise and participate in the editing of all of Rinpoche's lam-rim (and probably other) teachings.
We have launched a new website which enables us to post teachings more quickly and makes them easier to find.
We have received a wonderful pledge of $50,000 a year for three years from Vajrayana Institute, Sydney.
What We Now Need
We need to raise $350,000 to match the rest of the grant so that we can hire another four editors for five years. Each dollar you give will become two; $100 becomes $200; $1,000 become $2,000, and so on. Donate to this project on our website, or send a check to the address below.
Thank you so much. By working together we can accomplish Rinpoche's advice, when he says, "The main activity of the FPMT organization is to be able to benefit sentient beings and it is through the teachings and advice that this is done. This is the main way to benefit others."
Please do not hesitate to contact me for more information.
Much love
Nick Ribush
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These cookies are rather unassuming in appearance but they make up for it in flavor. They taste intensely of almond and toasted coconut and have a delicate melt-in-your texture that is irresistible.
The unique flavor and crumbly texture of polvorones come from an unusual first step: toasting the dry ingredients in the oven before mixing them into the dough. Even the flour is toasted, which eliminates any moisture gives the cookies an almost sandy texture. In this case, toasted coconut is added to the mix.
The dough is a bit tricky to work with due to its "crumbliness", but it's worth the effort.
- 1 cup almond meal
- 2 cups all all-purpose flour
- 1 cup sweetened dried shredded coconut
- 2 sticks butter (softened)
- 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar
- Pinch of salt (or to taste)
- 1/2 teaspoon coconut flavoring
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- Garnish: extra powdered sugar for dusting cookies
Steps to Make It
Gather the ingredients.
Preheat the oven to 250 degrees (F). Spread the almond meal and the 2 cups of flour onto a rimmed baking sheet. Toast the almond meal and the flour for 20-30 minutes, or until almond meal is fragrant and very lightly browned.
Remove toasted mixture from the oven and transfer to a bowl to set aside to cool. Spread the coconut on the baking sheet and return to the oven. Toast the coconut until lightly browned, stirring often. Remove from the oven and let cool. Once it's cool, process the toasted coconut in a food processor until it is very finely ground.
Place the softened butter in the bowl of a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment. Add the powdered sugar. Starting on a low speed, beat the butter and sugar together until light and creamy. Add the salt, the vanilla, and the coconut flavoring and mix well. Add the toasted dry ingredients (flour, almond meal, and coconut) and mix well. The mixture should be very crumbly, but it should clump together easily when squeezed in your hand.
Wrap dough in plastic wrap and chill for 30 min to an hour. Roll the dough out on a lightly floured surface to about 1/3 inch thickness. If the dough is too crumbly, lightly dampen your hands and knead the dough briefly. Cut the dough into cookies - either squares or circles - and place them on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 12-14 minutes, or until golden brown. Sprinkle cookies with powdered sugar while still warm.
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Pacific Palisades, Calif. — A 2,000 foot-long ocean clean-up system left San Francisco last September with high expectations. The plan was to begin cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a giant floating mass twice the size of Texas.
But on Thursday, after months at sea, 24-year-old Dutch inventor Boyan Slat said there are some major setbacks. The pipe cracked, and a 60-foot section of it has detached.
Just before the launch, Slat took CBS News out on the water, and he had some reservations. At the time, the device floated freely with the currents, forming a "U" shape to corral the trash. A skirt about 10 feet deep was supposed to catch the plastic, but that also didn't go as planned.
"The system isn't able to retain the plastic well, so once it's caught we also sometimes see it floating out again," Slat said.
It picked up 4,500 pounds of trash, which is not nearly enough, according to some critics.
"You will have more plastics there next week and the week after, so the real answer is to not consume so many plastics," said Robert Reed, spokesman for Recology.
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With Congress in the midst of a 60-day period to review the Iran nuclear deal, two Democratic U.S. senators from Maryland—Ben Cardin and Barbara Mikulski—remain undecided about the agreement.
While it is expected that virtually all 54 Republicans in the Senate will vote against the Iran deal, 67 anti-deal votes are needed to override President Barack Obama's veto of a possible Congressional rejection of the pact. The only two Senate Democrats who have publicly come out against the agreement so far are Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) and Robert Menendez (N.J.).
Asked where Cardin stands on the deal, and whether or not his decision will be affected by the recent report that the U.N.'s nuclear watchdog made a side agreement with Iran that allows the Islamic Republic to carry out its own inspections at the Parchin nuclear site, Cardin spokesperson Sue Walitsky said the senator "continues to review all aspects of the agreement to determine what decision he'll make."
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Why many retirees are too scared to spend
Many wealthy retirees who benefited from the booming economy in recent years remain frugal out of fear that they will outlive their savings, according to an article from Bloomberg. However, this should not be the case, especially for those who have saved more than enough to secure their retirement. "They keep denying themselves today for fear of what could happen tomorrow," an expert says.
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Couples who consider filing for divorce after the age of 55 will be better off opting for a legal separation if being divorced could mean losing health care coverage, according to an article from Forbes. "If many people understood the long-term care and health insurance consequences, they might decide instead to get a separation agreement or give up on the divorce. If you don't have health insurance and you have a serious accident or illness, financially you are done," says an attorney.
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Workers who need to dip into their 401(k) savings to recover from a financial setback should consider the consequences before making a decision, according to an article from CNBC. For example, they can take out a loan without taxes, provided they meet the requirements, while withdrawals will be subject to 20% withholding taxes and a 10% penalty if they are below the age of 59 1/2. A hardship distribution is another option, but it could boost their gross income and trigger more taxes.
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In a society that seems to glorify violence in everything from music to movies and video games to television shows, the idea of enrolling your child in martial arts training classes might like an tacit endorsement of violent behavior. While martial arts-centered action films seem to be filled to the brim with violent behavior and gory injuries, you may be surprised to learn that martial arts' training is actually very save and extremely beneficial to kids. Like so many other things that Hollywood doesn't always get right, martial arts isn't quite the brutal, vicious pastime that it's portrayed as. In fact, here are 10 of the many reasons why you may want to consider martial arts training for your kids...
One of the central tenets of martial arts at 3T is an absolute focus on self-discipline. Today's kids are so accustomed to receiving instant gratification that lessons in self-restraint and discipline aren't always easy to come by. Kids with a martial arts background, however, are continually reminded of how essential self-discipline is.
Kids who don't always thrive in highly social environments or team sports may find it easier to get to know people and make new friends when they're in a room filled with peers who share a common interest. The kids on the playground may not always have much common ground, but devotees to the martial arts are able to get to know one another through shared pursuits. Partner-driven drills engage kids by pairing them together to build skills.
Limiting screen time is a great idea when it comes to getting kids off the couch and encouraging them to be more active, but it only goes so far. Enrolling an inactive child in a physically demanding pastime not only discourages the sedentary lifestyle they are used to, but also gives them an enjoyable activity that inspires them to keep moving and become fit and healthy.
Our colored belts system signify the wearer's degree of skill. This allows a student to learn to value of short and longer term goals in their pursuit of a black belt. It teaches the goal-setting process and emphasizes the formula for success: Success = Effort over Time. When your child strives toward each new belt, they learning valuable lessons about setting and reaching his goals and about overcoming the obstacles they will inevitably encounter along the way. This teaches has the added benefit of teaching them personal accountability along the way.
Confidence comes with competence and actual achievement. Your child's self-esteem level will gain a boost every time they master a new move or earn a new belt. Kids who struggle with a low sense of self-worth or who act out negatively to gain attention will usually become more confident as their martial arts training progresses and they are rewarded for positive behaviors and achievements.
At 3T Karate in Swansea we place a high emphasis on the value of respect. A child who doesn't learn respect when they are young does not become a teenager or young adult who suddenly becomes respectful. Today's kid culture doesn't always include respect for authority, adults or those in advanced positions. Our 3T Karate classes emphasis lessons in respect and over time your child will learn to respect authority, respect their peers, and most importantly, respect themselves.
We encourage and teach our students many forms of alternative methods of conflict avoidance that don't require violence. Once a child has gained respect for themselves and confidence in their abilities they are much more capable of enacting a peaceful, non-violent response to conflict. We emphasize awareness and respect as the first lines of self-defense in any situation and teach students the ABCs of Conflict Avoidance and the 5 Rules Of Personal Safety. Physical responses to conflict are taught only as a last resort where no other options are available and a student feels they are physically in danger of being hurt or injured.
In order to master the skills they are being taught and advance through the belt ranks, your child will have to exercise superior listening skills both at home and in the martial arts studio. Your child will learn the 5 Listening Skills we teach our students and will be required to use them at home, at school and at the dojo in order to advance in rank. Learning and applying these skills in class helps them to learn and apply them in other areas of their life.
Whether they are breaking boards to get a new belt or working in a practice setting to master a new skill, there are few things that your child does in his martial arts classes that will be done on his own. Working together to learn new things and accomplish goals is an important life lesson for kids to learn, and instruction in the martial arts can help your child learn that lesson.
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Reading around the Globe
Welcome to Reading Around the Globe, a series here on Reader Voracious Blog geared at fostering a culture of understanding in the bookish community about access to books in various countries around the world. Each post in the series highlights a full interview with one international reader. You can read more about this series and catch up on previous interviews on the master post.
- What is your name? Suraj Kumar
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- Where do you live? India. Northern part of India, to be a bit specific.
- Do you find that there is a culture of reading where you live? If not, tell us a bit how you came to be one! There's very little of reading culture in the part where I live. The people in the southern part of our country are superior to us in this aspect. They have a good…
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Wetlands can help to minimize or even remediate environmental problems by providing habitat for a rich variety of plants and animals in spite of their relatively small representation across the landscape (Wetland Stewardship Partnership 2010b). Unfortunately, our wetlands have little to absolutely no information available (especially smaller unappreciated wetlands), and this lack of knowledge can lead to the degradation and/or loss of these important ecosystems. The New Beginnings Benevolent Society (NBBS) collaborate with project partners every year on a number of project surrounding the development of the wetland ponds, riparian planting and educational programs.
The Okanagan Basin Water Board are assisting The New Beginnings Benevolent Society in raising awareness of the role of small wetlands in BC by offering hands-on, interactive, on-site wetland education to youth who will have the opportunity to become Watershed Ambassadors and promote wetland conservation. Ecological literacy needs to begin close to home, encouraging learners, especially youth, to understand how conserving wetlands can mitigate the impact of climate change. The Secwepemc community have voiced concerns over the effects of climate change on culturally important native plants at the Shuswap Lake/Salmon River Delta. Soapberry, Huckleberry and Saskatoon all ripen at the same time, making it difficult to utilize the berries before they spoil. There are fewer tules (broad leaf bulrush) growing in the area. Ethnobotanists working at the delta report the survival rate of green willow and red osier dogwood live stakes is 25% less year over year and that Invasive species are overtaking second and third year riparian planting.
It is difficult to find any wetlands close to human/agricultural/forestry activities that haven't been either drained or taken over by aggressive/invasive plants. References suggest that greater than 95% of the original wetland surface areas in the Okanagan Valley have been destroyed by road construction and urban development in the valley. One extensive cattail marsh wetland that disappeared was at the north end of Vernon, as part of the BX Creek drainage — where the sprawling malls/parking lots and residential developments are located.
Through our cultural ecological outreach program we are studying enclosed ecosystems – the physical, chemical, and climatic environment, and the processes that control the dynamics of the system. We want to improve biodiversity by creating and conserving a habitat that will provide long-term protection to plants and wildlife. We hope to establish a duck colony and we have attracted many amphibians and a wide variety of birds. We are planting over one hundred traditional native plants into the wetland area and starting in 2017, youth have the opportunity to participate in hands on workshops that will include both Secwepemc traditional ecological knowledge and modern science. A contribution from the Public Conservation Assistance Fund will enable participants to construct birdhouses and bat boxes, help with riparian planting, and assist in the development of a climate change monitoring program with a consulting biologist. Youth are creating interpretive signs for the plants with the assistance of a traditional ecological knowledge expert, an ethnobotanist and volunteers from the local community.
Wetland Program Objectives:
- Phytoremediation through transplanting bulrushes and cattails into the wetland
- Riparian planting of native species, including green willow, red osier and cottonwood
- Creating an interpretive trail with traditional native shrubs, plants and trees, with signage that includes Secwepemc names and traditional uses
- Climate change monitoring of carbon sequestration and other indicators
- Attract habitat mosquito predators through the construction of bat boxes and swallow boxes
- Provide a wetland habitat that attracts a healthy amphibian population
- Add the wetland location to the BC Map
Plans are underway to add the constructed wetland in Spallumcheen and a small wetland at the Shuswap Lake/Salmon River Delta to the BC map. Smaller wetlands are highly productive for a diversity of species as well as flood control and water filtration capacities. Development and threats to wetland across BC signify the importance of mapping small wetlands and securing the information online. As users of the environment, we need to know what ecosystems are in our backyards to help determine conservation mandates as development continues at a rapid increase. (Community Mapping Network).
Carbon Sequestration
As with all strategies to reduce atmospheric carbon, terrestrial carbon sequestration has many economic, social and ecological trade offs. But done well, climate change mitigation as well as other benefits can be achieved. For example, converting marginal farmlands to forests or wetlands may increase carbon sequestration, enhance wildlife habitat and water quality.
Riparian planting
Riparian planting and management is the restoration, enhancement and the construction of wetlands, rivers or streams inside a property. It plays an important part because it stabilizes the land in many ways. Some of the benefits of riparian planting include:
- Protects riparian systems from livestock. It acts as a deterrent from any cattle that could destroy or pollute its waterways.
- Filters the water. Riparian plants help clean the water running through the property.
- Prevents erosion. It minimizes erosion problems, especially if you plant native trees, it helps strengthen the land.
- Filters pollution. Riparians systems can carry pollutants along the way, plants help filter out most of these pollutants.
- Moderates water flow. Using a riparian system moderates flow of water in your property, which helps prevent flooding.
- Riparians also moderate water temperature. Improved water condition allows fishes and other water creatures to thrive.
- They also provide food to aquatic insects and fishes.
Riparian planting not only helps boost the look of the land, it also sustains it. Aside from the aesthetic benefit, it has environmental and developmental benefits as well. Many subdivision owners use wetlands for their wastewater treatment management system. They use wetlands to control the effects of livestock productions or some damages from septic tanks.
Steps that we need to do with riparian planting.
- First fencing, particularly with the riparian margin. This will protect the riparian area, as well as the plants and other creature living in that area.
- Establish the appropriate vegetation for the wetland. as these plants not only help improve the look of the wetland but also provides the soil added nutrients to support the growth of other native plants.
- After planting the native plants, we will be sure to have a maintenance plan in place. The wetland will have constant monitoring to ensure that the plants and the environment around it are thriving.
- We also have to minimize any adverse effect on the pond area, especially around the margin. This means minimizing or avoiding any development around the area or keeping livestock away from the margins during planting.
- Install protective measures or any controlling system for us to manage the wetland. This may mean asking for support from our local government for added protections, especially if our riparian area supports protected animal and/or plant species.


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A stunning 1957 Ferrari 335 Sport Scaglietti recently achieved the world record price for a car at auction, selling for just under a staggering £25 million at the Artcurial Motorcars Retromobile 2016 sale. It was bought by an international collector after a tense bidding battle.
Illustrious History
The car left the workshops at the start of 1957, fitted at that time with a 3.8-litre V12 Tipo 140 engine (315 S) producing around 360 bhp. In March of that year it was entered by Scuderia Ferrari for the Sebring 12 Hours, driven by Peter Collins and Maurice Trintignant, and finished sixth. However, the Italians were really waiting for the Mille Miglia in May, when the best teams and the most experienced drivers would go head to head over 1 600 km of roads, without any break. Ferrari lined up four cars including chassis 0674 that was given to Wolfgang von Trips, who finished second behind the Piero Taruffi's Ferrari. On being returned to the factory, its engine size was increased to 4.1-litres, therefore becoming a 335S. With close to 400 bhp under its belt, the car could reach 300 km/h.
For the 24 Heures du Mans, the car was given to Mike Hawthorn (who would become Formula 1 champion in 1958) and Luigi Musso. Hawthorn took the lead in front of the Maserati and Jaguars and set the first lap record in the history of the Le Mans 24 Hours of over 200 km/h (203.015 km/h average speed) but unfortunately the car retired in the fifth hour with mechanical problems.
This stunning Ferrari then finished fourth in the Swedish Grand Prix, and second in the Venezuela Grand Prix on 3 November (still with team of Hawthorn-Musso), helping Ferrari to win the World Constructors' Title in 1957.
In January 1958 it was sold to Luigi Chinetti, the Ferrari importer based in New York.
On 24 February of that year, with Masten Gregory and Stirling Moss at the wheel, the car won the Cuba Grand Prix. During the 1958 season, it participated successfully in various American races driven by Gaston Andrey and Lance Reventlow (creator of the famous Scarab), before being sold to Robert N. Dusek in 1960, an architect living in Pennsylvania.
Following this American adventure, the car was brought to France in 1970. The American architect sold it to Pierre Bardinon, the astute collector who over the years assembled some fifty factory Ferrari comprising the most successful and iconic models in the history of the marque. Based near Aubusson, his collection is considered to be one of the most important, in terms of Ferrari. Kept as part Pierre Bardinon's private collection for over 40 years, the car has been used and maintained regularly and is presented in excellent condition.


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I heard the voice of an angel
I filled my media player with some chill out podcasts, and began to work...
The first intro begins, I hear the unmistakable sounds of DavesLounge. It's an old show from the beginning of the year which I must have missed. The the first song begins to play...
I have to stop, sit back and listen. The first few barres, sounding Beatles-ish belies what is to follow. It's no hyperbole when I describe the voice of Leigh Nash as angelic. Dave rarely gets it wrong, but man, did he get this one right! He mentions that Leigh was the vocalist for Six Pence None The Richer, and the songs are available at www.emusic.com. I'm there, and at Kalahari.net, yes they have the album in stock. Add to the wishlist quickly ... now back to work ... wait I think this needs to be shared, quick blog it ... ok, now back to work ...!!
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The Russian Meteor
On the morning of the 15th February 2013 while the world was eagerly awaiting the arrival and subsequent departure of the asteroid 2012 DA14 later on that day, a meteor estimated to be around ten tons and measuring around three metres in diameter, (although estimates do vary) entered the Earth's atmosphere, hurtling towards the ground at 33,000mph.
The Russian Academy of Science initially estimated that the meteor exploded between 18 and 32 miles above the earth's surface and this released several kilotons of energy, the resulting blast sent meteorites across Central Russia and parts of Kazakhstan. The area that suffered most of the damage was the city of Chelyabinsk. The shockwave from the fireball, caused by the object breaking the sound barrier, injured an estimated 1,200 people – most of whom had gone out to look at the meteor streak across the sky – blew out countless windows and reportedly some fragments destroyed a zinc factory. Thanks to the now famous 'Russian dash cams' that most motorists in Russia seem to have, we have been able to see this meteor in a way that we never have before.
From its initial entry into the Earth's atmosphere to its fiery descent lighting up the morning sky like a second sun and the subsequent trail it left across the sky, there are various angles at which it can be viewed and, more importantly, studied. Interest in this incident is thanks, in part, to the fact that it occurred over a built-up area as opposed to a similar, albeit much larger event such as the Tunguska Event in 1908. A large meteor or comet is thought to have exploded between 5 and 10 km above Earth's surface and the resulting air burst generated a blast with the approximate force of 10 – 15 megatons of TNT. Luckily, this incident happened over a sparsely populated area of Siberia and although there was only one death caused by it, the most damage was done to approximately 80 million trees in the region which were flattened by the blast.
Of course, in this day and age when something like this occurs inevitably conspiracy theories are never far behind even though it only happened a matter weeks ago, the Russian meteor incident is no exception, in fact the first theories began to circulate on the internet – of course – and twitter was the place for all the latest news. Channel 4 even produced a documentary on it.
One of the first theories that I came across was that the meteor was a smaller version of what was to come later that day with Asteroid DA14. This theory was quickly shot down however when some people began to do calculations on the size, speed and trajectory of the object and realised that it came from a totally different direction than the path DA14 was on and therefore was in no way related to the asteroid that was due to come with 17,000 miles of our planet. So in the end this just happened to be a happy coincidence, although admittedly as coincidences go it was a pretty big one!
Coincidences aside, there have naturally been quite a few conspiracy theories that have popped up online over the past few weeks since the meteor strike. Let's look at my four favourite Russian meteor conspiracy theories currently being debated on the World Wide Web.
1. The Weapons Test theory
There are three different versions of this particular theory. Some folk believe that Russia had given North Korea its permission to test out a missile over its air space. While it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that one government would allow another to test missiles in its backyard, I believe that it is highly unlikely that the Russian Government was allowed to take place where it did due to the fact that the incident occurred over a somewhat densely populated area, or at least an area that is more densely populated than some other regions in Russia where a test such as this could have taken place. Although if you are to believe one time baseball legend, Jose Canseco, there is no doubt about the North Korean link, if you 'do the math' that is. He posted this to his Twitter account: 'No way was that a meteor in Russia today…North Korea, do the math. We have lots of enemies, don't underestimate them…'
The second version concerns the theory that the Russian military actually used an advanced air defence system in order to blow the meteor out of the sky. This is actually what RT.com was reporting in the first hour after the incident occurred, then after that it wasn't mentioned again. Strange. The main problem with this theory is that conservative estimates say that the meteor would have been travelling at approximately 33,000mph when it hit the upper atmosphere. Given that even the most advanced missiles in development now are only capable of travelling at a maximum speed of up to 3,800mph so again I believe this theory to be unlikely also.
The third theory under the weapons test heading comes direct from a Russian politician Mr Vladimir Zhirinovsky (left). Mr Zhirinovsky claims that the 'meteor' was actually a failed weapons test by the United States. He is quoted as saying: 'Those were not meteorites; it was Americans testing their new weapons.'
He even went on to claim that US Secretary of State John Kerry had tried to contact his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov earlier in the week to warn him about what was to happen but Mr Lavrov was on holiday and never received the message. Are these the rantings of a mad man or a noble politician trying to get the truth out to the people? Ill let you make your own mind up on that one dear reader.
2. The Alien Invasion Theory
There is a small section of the internet that believes the meteor was precursor to an oncoming alien invasion. I think this theory has its roots in watching films like Transformers, War of the Worlds, even Superman! Although as a bit of an add on to this, there are those that think the meteor was a way for an Alien race to deliver a space virus to infect and eventually wipe out mankind. Although, so far no extraordinary reports have come from Russian doctors or hospitals suggesting a rise in the number of patients presenting with strange symptoms, although I suppose we won't know what these symptoms are until its too late. *cough cough*
All joking aside, I think this one is a bit over the top. The only real connection between the Russian meteor and potential extra terrestrial life is that they both come from space.
3. The Mayan Apocalypse Part 2: Maya Hard With a Vengeance*
It seems like every year we get an end of the world prediction from some crackpot who has read the bible backwards or interpreted lyrics from a Led Zeppelin song wrong, 'Doomsday' events are becoming more frequent than Christmas. But in 2012 we had The Big One. The Grand Daddy of Armageddons, forget Harold Camping or Nostradamus. This was it. People were packing their bags and heading for a mountain in France, some chose to spend what they believed was their last day on Earth actually at the Mayan temples of Central America. Some of us just carried on as normal hoping for the best. Then it came. Well, actually it didn't.
The 21st December 2012 will go down as possibly the biggest anti-climax in history. It was the apocalyptic version of the end of Lost. You wait 13 long Baktuns and what do you get at the end of it? Nothing. Until now that is. Some theorists believe that the 21st December was just a marker in history and that the Mayan texts had been interpreted wrong. They believe that after the 21st December 2012 there will be a marked increase in the number of natural disasters which will mark the End. Again. The Russian meteor is one such event. Although given that it wasn't really that much of a disaster – compared to others such as tsunamis and earthquake – the logic, crazy as it is anyway, doesn't exactly make sense.
Regardless of what you personally believe about the end of the world, whether it's earthquakes, tsunamis, the Book of Revelations or Tesco running out of two cases of Carlsberg for the price of one on St Paddy's Weekend, it seems that we Humans have a morbid curiousity when it comes to the obliteration of Planet Earth. THE END IS NIGH! And will be nigh for another while to come.
*Apologies, I know that was terrible.
4. UFO interception
The last theory I will take a look at and quite frankly this one is my favourite. A UFO interception of the object. It has long been said that there are a certain group of malevolent alien beings that monitor the Earth and their sole reason for being here is to protect us Humans – they probably think we're ungrateful! – from threats such as other alien races who seek to rule us, earthly threats such as nuclear war, there are even reports of UFOs being seen in the vicinity of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station during the devastating disaster that occurred there when one of the four nuclear reactors exploded. It is thought that the UFO was responsible for averting an even bigger disaster by halting a total nuclear meltdown at the power station. Eyewitnesses claim that the craft hovered in place for six hours and it is said that hundreds of people saw it. An eyewitness said what he and other saw: 'a ball of fire and it was flying slowly in the sky… it was about 6 or 8 metres in diameter… we saw two rays of crimson light stretching towards the fourth unit… the event lasted for about three minutes, the lights of the object went out and it flew away in a north western direction…'
It has been speculated that the UFO helped to bring the level of radiation down at least four fold and in doing so, averted a disaster that could have wiped half of Europe from the face of the earth.
Could this same group of protective Alien beings be responsible for what some are claiming happened to the Russian meteor? It has been speculated (above) that a UFO intercepted the meteor and succeeded in breaking it up so that the damage sustained on the ground would be minimal. This theory has emerged after analysis of the footage seemed to show a small object speeding towards the meteor and colliding with it seconds before it began to break up in the upper atmosphere. To back these claims up there were also reports of UFO activity in the same area as where the meteor came down, with reports increasing every day. Eyewitnesses said they seen these UFOs appearing in the sky, disappearing and coming back again.
Could these sightings have been test runs for what was to come on the morning of Friday 15th February 2013? We will probably never know, but as the say in mother Russia…
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Twenty cent coins aren't anything special, then. So, when in my local supermarket the cashier handed me one, it should have dropped into my purse unnoticed. Only this one was shiny, a blikvanger as they say in Dutch, it was eye-catching. It interested me because here in Holland, any new coin usually means one of the newly minted Dutch coins with the head of the new king, Willem Alexander. He's been maltreated by having his head divided to tell us who he is, but I doubt if it would make any difference to him. After all, he's Dutch, and whilst a nice enough guy and all that, I'm pretty sure he's as dim as the rest of them.


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Title: Major S6
English: Major S6
Synonyms: Major 6th Season
Japanese: メジャー 第6シリーズ
Type: Tv
Total: 25
Status: Completed
Aired: Apr 3, 2010 to Sep 25, 2010
Premiered: Spring 2010
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Sports
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
Summary: The sixth season begins after the "Baseball World Cup" has ended. Gorou regained his passion for baseball in Japan thanks to his friends, and left to join the Hornets baseball team in preparation to the new season. When he arrives in America he starts to celebrate his role as a Major League pitcher at last! Gorou's family and friends gathers in groups in Japan to watch Gorou's debut in the Major League. However, Gorou's debut is the beginning of a line of surprising happenings, that has an outcome no one expected...


text: 1980s hitmaker Gary Numan joined Beck during his headlining set at Riot Fest in Chicago on Saturday for a performance of Numan's biggest hit, "Cars." It was the second time Numan had done the song that day, as he'd played his own set earlier. You can check out the duet on YouTube.


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vs. Michigan State * Notre Dame Stadium * Notre Dame, Indiana * September 17, 2016
- Notre Dame fell to 48-29-1 all-time against Michigan State, including a 29-14 mark at home. The Irish are now 244-128-16 all-time against members of the Big Ten Conference.
- Notre Dame fell to 142-60-4 all-time in the month of September, including a 76-25-1 mark at Notre Dame Stadium.
- Saturday's game was the 251st straight sellout at Notre Dame Stadium. Notre Dame has played in front of a sellout crowd in 300 of its last 301 home games with the exception of a 1973 Thanksgiving Day game against Air Force.
- Notre Dame's opening scoring drive covered 91 yards in 10 plays, taking 4:24 off the game clock. It was the longest Irish scoring drive of 2016, and the seventh scoring march of 75 or more yards thus far this season. Notre Dame scored the final 21 points over the closing 17:40 of the game.
- QB DeShone Kizer rushed for his third touchdown of 2016 with a 14-yard scoring run in the first quarter. Kizer added a three-yard touchdown scamper in the fourth quarter as part of his third career game with multiple rushing scores.
- Kizer has scored a rushing touchdown in each of his last five games, and in eight of his last nine games overall dating back to a win over Temple in 2015.
- Kizer has thrown a touchdown pass in 14 of his 16 career games played after connecting on two scoring tosses in the second half, part of a career-high 344 yards through the air.
- Sophomore RB Josh Adams surpassed the 1,000-yard career rushing mark with a four-yard carry in the first quarter. Adams is the fastest Notre Dame running back to reach the milestone (16th career game) since Darius Walker accomplished the feat in his 14th Irish game in 2005.
- Adams was selected to wear the uniform number one on Saturday. The honor will be awarded weekly to the player who best represents the ideals of the program on and off of the field.
- WR Equanimeous St. Brown hauled in his second explosive catch (45 or more yards) in as many games with a 48-yard reception in the first quarter. St. Brown covered 49 yards on a catch for the final play of the first quarter against Nevada.
- St. Brown hauled in his third touchdown of the season on a 15-yard fade route to the corner of the end zone in the third quarter.
- WR Torii Hunter Jr. added a career-long reception of his own in the third quarter. Kizer found Hunter down the sideline for a 47-yard gain during Notre Dame's scoring drive. Hunter finished with a career-high 95 yards on five receptions.
- WR Chase Claypool covered 33 yards on his second career reception. The catch was Notre Dame's first official offensive play of the fourth quarter.
- S Devin Studstill made his first career interception on a tipped pass by LB Daelin Hayes in the second quarter.
- DL Jerry Tillery logged his first two official tackles for loss in 2016 with a pair of stops behind the line of scrimmage in the first half.
- P Tyler Newsome connected on his longest career punt, pinning Michigan State inside the 10 with a 71-yard kick in the second quarter. It was the longest Notre Dame punt since a Hunter Smith attempt covered 79 yards against Arizona State in 1998.


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Murray Gell-Mann's 'totalitarian principle' is the modern version of Plato's plenitudeEven the title suggests that there was a priority dispute involving the recently deceased Murray Gell-Mann and Plato who lived 2 millenniums earlier. But was there a dispute?
The principle of plenitude is a bit strengthened "Platonist" principle about the existence of mathematical structures. Aside from many other claims, Plato is celebrated for the idea that all the structures in mathematics should be considered as "really existing", although outside the physical world. However, Kragh attributes a stronger statement to Plato, namely that these ideal structures are all realized in Nature. That's very interesting and I am not sure whether I would believe it or agree with it.
Whether it's true also depends on the definition of the "ideal mathematical structures". If you define one as "being so great that even Nature couldn't resist and had to use it", then all ideal structures are tautologically included in reality – by definition. ;-) Is there a definition of an ideal structure that isn't just some "subjective arts" and that could make the question whether Plato's principle of plenitude is true meaningful?
I am not sure.
At any rate, Kragh and Siegfried say that Gell-Mann just mildly generalized Plato when he formulated the totalitarian principle in 1956: everything that is not forbidden is mandatory. Siegfried says that Gell-Mann's paper was just about the strong nuclear force but the principle was the same as Plato's plenitude, anyway.
I am afraid that I mostly disagree with both assertions. Gell-Mann focused on the strong force in a paper but he surely meant the principle to be more general – applicable in similar but not identical questions all over fundamental physics. The point of the totalitarian principle is that there may be laws and general principles such as symmetries and these may prohibit some behavior (e.g. the violation of the charge conservation), like the totalitarian society bans e.g. speech about the evils of Islam. So when they're assumed to be banned, they're non-existent.
But if there is no ban, it is not only true that the effect may exist or not. It must exist. If something is not banned, it's unavoidable that someone does it. In totalitarian societies, it's a rule. If you're not banned from praising the Nazis, the communist party, or the progressives, of course you have to do so. If you could choose, you would have some freedom and the freedom is always dangerous for an idealized totalitarian society.
Gell-Mann's principle is really a predecessor of our thinking about naturalness in the technical sense and has a similar explanation. By "something" that is either forbidden or mandatory, he mostly meant effects – some interactions – and whether they exist or not is determined by the coefficients in front of these interactions, typically in the equations of motion or the Lagrangian. Gell-Mann's point was that if there is no principle that may be used to neatly prove that the coefficients have to be zero (a proof assuming a consistency, locality, symmetry, absence of ghosts etc.), then the coefficients must be nonzero!
Technical naturalness strengthens it by saying that "the coefficients must even be of order one" in some appropriate units. We expect this to be true by Bayesian inference. If there are no principles that would force the coefficients to be zero, very close to zero, or very special in some other way, then the coefficients will almost certainly not be zero, near zero, or very near some very special values! It's just infinitely unlikely for the numbers to have special properties.
(A big possible defect of any such argument is that "there is no principle" isn't quite the same as "we don't know of any such principle now". We may only be certain enough about the latter but not the former because we keep on discovering various principles.)
The argument is probabilistic, not "rigorous", but it's damn rational, anyway. Every good modern theoretical physicist understands that Gell-Mann's totalitarian principle or naturalness isn't just some random hypothesis uncorrelated with the truth – which is equally true or untrue as its negation. It's a statement that is "partially or softly proven" and a statement that has been successful in certain cases (many cases). We can't really ignore it. A theoretical physicist undoubtedly needs to use some general guides of this kind. Some of the physicists find naturalness or Gell-Mann's principle very important, some find it less important – but they have "something else that is conceptual" if they are doing some non-mechanical, deep enough things, at all.
There is surely some very general similarity between Platonism and Gell-Mann's principle. (The latter is also called "the anarchic principle" because it is really the "anarchy" that also underlies the totalitarian societies that makes the assorted things unavoidable. The contradiction between "anarchy" and "totalitarianism" – which may sometimes be considered opposite to each other – is just an illusion, both in politics and in physics. "Imposing" anarchy on the society is only possible through totalitarianism – most of the free and at least slightly rational people just don't want to turn their environment into complete chaos! Free people generally create lots of structures that protect them from mess and chaos. Complete chaos deserving to be called anarchy is, like a complete equality, a totally unnatural and undesirable state of the human society which is why it may only be achieved through totalitarianism.)
But there is also a big difference between Plato's and Gell-Mann's statements. First of all, Gell-Mann was talking about "terms in the Lagrangian" – which is a rough but pretty good description of what he claimed. It is not quite accurate but it's almost accurate and surely way more accurate a description of Gell-Mann's intended principle than if we describe it as "the same what Plato said". Plato wasn't talking about the existence of terms in the Lagrangian but "existence of mathematical structures" as wholes. These are rather different things.
Well, yes, in some perspectives, they are closely related. For example, there may be processes mediated by magnetic monopoles, e.g. proton decay. Processes that depend on magnetic monopoles are expected to exist through Gell-Mann's logic. On the other hand, the existence of these processes also needs a nice mathematical structure, the solitonic solution for the magnetic monopole, to exist mathematically as well as in the real world which is Plato's domain.
Whether Plato's and Gell-Mann's statements are closely related depends on the degree of one's general, unified thinking; as well as his resolution. Both of them are "virtues" of a theoretical physicist. A good theoretical physicist wants to be able to unify things – and therefore see ways or examples of situations in which Plato's and Gell-Mann's statements were related if not equivalent. On the other hand, a good theoretical physicist must still preserve a good and sharp resolution – and see that these things are unequivalent, different, or very different in some important aspects or in most situations or in general.
Even if Gell-Mann were building on the shoulders of a giant named Plato, what he added was of course nontrivial – partly because no physicist in the 1950s would have the insane idea to evolve physics according to the words assigned to a 2,000-years-old dude statue. ;-) Gell-Mann surely deserves a lot of credit for that principle and it's just damn stupid to give all the credit to Plato because Plato just accidentally made some similarly sounding statements but he knew nothing about particle physics so even if the words are positively correlated with the truth, it's a coincidence – a broken clock is right twice a day.
I also want to address the following statement by Siegfried and/or Kragh:
In spite of such fruitful results from applying the totalitarian principle, it remains a mere guideline for scientific pursuits, not a guarantee of success.Well, yes and no. Yes... because it's just some vague probabilistic argument if not a philosophical recommendation or strategy how to think and those may be equally right and wrong in physics. The agreement of the predictions with experiments measures the success – and it's surely not clear whether some far-reaching extrapolation of Plato's comments will lead to an agreement between the theory and experiment.
On the other hand: No... At least in Gell-Mann's form, the statement isn't just some random guess or an unbacked hypothesis. It is backed by a partly provable, albeit vague and statistical, reasoning. Also, it's a misunderstanding that "something completely different, the agreement between the theory and experiment, is what exclusively determines the success of physical theories."
Why is it a misunderstanding? It's a misunderstanding because the agreement with principles such as Gell-Mann's principle is also a measurement of a term contributing to the success of (more detailed) scientific hypotheses or theories or models. In fact, this statement doesn't even contradict the extreme principle that "all success in science boils down to the empirical tests". Why is there no real contradiction? Because Gell-Mann's totalitarian principle is largely an essence extracted from many observations, too! So it's surely considered an advantage for a new physical theory to agree with this generalized pattern. For a less controversial example, it's an advantage for a new theory to agree with the postulates of special relativity – even before we discuss the question whether the particular potential violation of the postulates has been ruled out by actual experiments.
Physics – and, to a lesser extent, other natural sciences – always deals with some kind of generalization and extrapolation. The theory that just extrapolates the known laws and patterns further is always the "simpler one" according to some Occam's razor logic, and it's a reason why we may want to view such "straightforward extrapolations" to be the default null hypotheses to be trusted and tested, until we find some problem with them. And the general assumption that Gell-Mann's principle works is an example of a law that good physicists expect to keep on being true in some sense.
They may stop holding but then it's a paradigm shift, some new addition – or replacement laws – must be substituted, and when they're substituted, it's already a non-minimal choice that makes the theory more contrived according to Occam's criteria.
My point is that when we evaluate two theories or models that "otherwise" agree with the empirical data to a similar extent, it's totally healthy to prefer the theory that is aligned with naturalness or Gell-Mann's principle or perhaps some other similar principles and their variations – simply because these principles are also some lessons extracted from many experiments, observations, and calculations and thinking applied on them! So a theory's being more natural simply is making a theory more likely to be true, and looking for theories that are more likely to be true is the definition of success in theoretical physics.
In particular, theoretical physics and natural science never "quite prove that some theory is totally and precisely true". It's really not possible. We only look for theories and statements etc. that are not sharply excluded, that are more true or more accurate than others, that are capable of surviving for a longer time, and that may do so more naturally, with less fine-tuning etc. These are the criteria to rate theories and all of them boil down to some thinking plus empirical evidence which is why the statement that the "determination of the success is completely independent from the agreement with Gell-Mann's principle or naturalness or similar principles" is simply wrong.
Such a statement is just an expression of the fact that the speaker wants to ban any thinking, extrapolation, or generalization in physics – and imagine that physics is just stamp-collecting, like all the other sciences and "sciences". But as Lord Rutherford has emphasized, physics isn't just stamp-collecting (which is what all the other sciences were according to the Sir) and the identification of principles – sometimes even philosophers' principles – that sound much more general and far-reaching than statements about "very particular experiments" is a top reason why physics is harder and deeper than (almost?) all other sciences. That's why the ability of physics to work with similar far-reaching principles – and to evaluate them, filter them, and refine them – is a vital and almost defining trait of physics. The ability to discuss previously "unimaginably metaphysically deep and almost religious – and increasingly deep" questions is a reason why the most intelligent people are actually attracted to physics. Some questions in religions etc. are wrong or meaningless but others aren't quite meaningless and physics is actually capable of making choices.
As cosmologist Michael Turner has said, physics depends on the fine balance between hot and speculative philosophical ideas (on one side) and the cold boring data (on the other side). When this balance breaks down, physics degenerates either to philosophy or botany, respectively. All the people who claim that "the criteria of success in physics don't depend on things like the agreement with Gell-Mann-like principles" are implicitly assuming that physics is like botany (something that always discusses just some very isolated facts) or they want physics to be degraded to another part of botany. I will never allow such a thing to happen.
And that's the memo.


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We know that this is disappointing for the children and for parents but the wet and muddy conditions are unlikely to improve by the morning - even if the rain keeps off tonight.
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Tax experts and economists have recommended that Sri Lanka be positioned as an investment destination with the right macroeconomic fundamentals, political stability and policy consistency, in addition to the prevailing practice of providing tax concessions and relief to businesses.
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Korean American actor Justin Chon, who is best known as an actor in The Twilight Sage series, is producing and directing a film about the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Gook, which is the film Chon wrote, produced, directed, as well as acted in, directly addresses the 1992 riots. Plot of the film is as follows:
GOOK is a dramedy about Eli and Daniel, two Korean American brothers, who own a struggling shoe store and their unique and unlikely friendship with Kamilla, an 11 year old African American girl. The film opens with Eli scoring a stash of fresh sneakers as his golden ticket to get out of debt and fix his biggest problem: keeping his dad's shoe store open. Against her brother Keith's warnings, Kamilla ditches school again to help out at the shoe store, her mother's former workplace. Everything is going as planned until Kamilla accidentally reveals a gifted pair of expensive sneakers to Keith. Keith realizes Kamilla has been going to the shoe store. Out of anger towards Eli and Daniel he uses this opportunity as revenge and plans to steal all the shoes. Eli must make the ultimate decision for the future of the store and the people he loves. With the chaos of the LA Riots moving towards them, the trio is forced to defend their store against Keith while contemplating the future of their own personal dreams and the true meaning of family.
Justin Chon, who experienced the LA riots at age ten, still remembers how his father's shoe store in Paramount, CA was looted.
"Although I was too young to fully understand everything that was happening, the events from that day had a significant impact on me," said Chon.
"Even though 25 years have passed since the tragic event, racial conflicts of the same nature are recurring in this society," said Chon explaining how he came to produce the film. "It tells the story that needs to be told right at this moment."
The film is now in the post-production phase and its Kickstarter project to raise the $30,000 budget for editing and marketing is only about $1,000 away from meeting its goal.
Original article by Kyung-min Lee
Translated and edited by Heewon Kim


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