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In one of the many gaming related e-mails that fill my inbox, there was an interesting little article regarding hardware sales for January. According to the numbers for that month the Wii alone sold about the equivalent to that of PS3, Xbox 360, and PSP combined. Then when you factor in the Nintendo DS their numbers for hardware almost double and that's not even delving into all the software that goes along with it. So apparently even in this harsh economy and a supposed demand for more "mature" gaming, Nintendo still manages to pull out on top.
Now since I don't own a Wii or DS myself and haven't really had a major itch to get either, this leaves me to wonder why are these systems outstandingly more appealing than their competitors?
Any thoughts?
- RedLynk
I cant say that this is the whole answer to your inquiry, but I know for a fact that according to the marketing numbers, it is a BIG reason, but basically it revolves around the "interactive" side of Nintendos Wii.
The Wii, since day 1, has been marketed as the "get off ur butt and have some family fun" system. Parents are always against (or in a large majority of households, mostly against) kids sitting on a couch staring aimlessly into a tube with a controller in hand, or sitting in a chair plugging away at a keyboard. With the Wii, not only can kids have fun playing the games that they are used to through the Wii shop, (mario, and anything else from older Nintendo systems) but parents can join along and have what it considered bonding time with their children, up off the couch moving around.
Beyond that, the games arent necessarily the hardest thing ever played on a gaming system, making it easier for ppl of all ages to have fun. With the way the economy is these days, and the label or "board games are boring" by most children, parents have moved up with the times and bought a gaming system that everyone can enjoy without having to spend a fortune.
Im not saying that it takes away from the whole "do something productive rather than gaming" that most parents will hold strong to, but it does provide a happy medium for most parents, not only allowing them to save money on other venues of entertainments, but also providing bonding time with kids of all ages.
To me, this is what is reflected in the sales numbers, and Nintendo has done a fantastic job to market the Wii in this fashion.
I second Kaimera's idea. I have seen first-hand how the Wii can draw in the traditionally non-gaming crowd.
My sister's boyfriend (hopefully fiance soon. C'mon Steve! Ask her already!) picked up a Wii sometime around Thanksgiving. My sister has never been very big into gaming, and in fact has been vocally against the majority of the pastime. I remember when her boyfriend was expressing interest in getting a Wii she was very much against the idea. Fast forward to today, and in about a week or so Jez and I are going down to their house for an evening of dinner and Wii Sports. And I fully expect to have my ass handed to me by my "non-gaming" little sister. And I will love every minute of it, because she is starting to understand why this is something that I care about so much.
That being said, I do wish that more "hardcore" (i.e. non mini-game collections) games would be released for the Wii. I know another Zelda is in the works, and there's also a new Klonoa on the way, but still. The last games I played on our Wii was Super Paper Mario and Okami. I grew up playing Nintendo games and this dearth of classic gaming franchises is disenchanting, to say the least. All the same, Nintendo deserves their success, if for nothing more than to shut up all of those Sony and Microsoft fanboys. I despise fanboys.
I think it's also because the Wii and DS are "cheap". It's also small and takes up less room by the television. And most of the Wii and DS buyers don't buy a lot of games. So the Wii and DS with there low prices are more attrective for those buyers.
I have to agree with what kaimera said. It was a combination of marketing, word of mouth, and pricing which has put Nintendo at the top for this generation.
Also, technically, the 360 Arcade is "cheaper" (before all the necessary add-ons) than the Wii now, though that still hasn't really put a dent in the Wii's sales. I think it also boils down to each systems "image." People percieve the Wii as "simple" and find the PS3 and 360 are needlessly complicated without offering the same fun factor (or at least that's how the adults I know seem to see it).
EDIT: I also forgot to mention the SKU system that both the PS3 and 360 have in place. Since there is more than one "type" of the system, people probably see the more expensive model as "the" system or are intimidated by the choice. The Wii is just one item; there is no more expensive version of it.
PS: My thoughts are really jumbled today. xD *goes back to playing Mass Effect*
most of what's been said before is true in the factors that's putting the Wii ahead. But another factor is also game content for both the Casual or the hardcore.
Alot of the more hardcore audience doesn't like the kinds of games the Wii tends to have, however alot also go with it as their second console, as it does have more games, even marked towards hardcore player, than the PS3 and 360 do exclusive from each other. Having a PS3 or 360 as your primary console and a Wii as your second will in general give you the most games. Or as Nintendo put it just before release, if you're everyone's second console, you're first overall.
As Joker would say "Why so serious?"
teh rabb1t will be showing his age by saying these words, but gaming has changed a lot over it's life span. Back in the day when it was young and arcade and the Atari were king games were light, fun, fast. You could play for minutes or hours, it was totally up to you. Recently, particularly since MMOGs started appearing back in '99, they have gotten more and more "serious". They require a higher time investment to feel like you accomplished anything. They require higher knowledge of the game to be 'good at it', higher skill in order to even play it. Only very recently have the serious console makers realized this and started putting old school arcade style games on their download networks.
As people have mentioned, the Wii is really a return to the origins of gaming - being fun and not so serious. (Though they do realize they need 'more serious games' to attract the hardcore crowd, and games are starting to launch which do just that.) We haven't seen this many games targeting being fun like this in at least 15 years. (Since roughly the Playstation 1, as they started getting longer and more serious when the PS2 came out.) It's like the industry forgot the main reason for playing games was to have fun and started to add on more and more layers of 'stuff' which weren't necessarily fun for everyone.
Granted, not every Wii game is fun for everyone, but in a game to game comparison it will be far more fun to a much higher number of people than the traditional 'serious' console or PC game. Also, as mentioned, the way you control the game, via Wiimote instead of a traditional game pad, requires a different kind of physical dexterity which far more people can do.
That, coupled with the fact that it's a ton cheaper than the other systems, doesn't require a high def HDTV or reciever/sound system to get the full enjoyment out of the system (which further reduces the overall 'investment cost'), and you've got mass appeal.
As to numbers; it's been dominating ever since launch. It's never slowed down and it's been producing over a million copies per month and it's been in shortage this whole time due to the high demand.
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Now, why is the DS king of hand-helds (and often outsells actual consoles), that I can't really answer. I'd only guess that world wide there is a high demand for on the go gaming and the DS has been a solid product for quite a long time. That coupled with a steady stream of known titles (such as the Pokemon series, etc.) mixed with a steady stream of unknown titles, and people's interest never really wanes.
While things like the PSP offer 'more', like MP3 and video playback, are those things that a gamer on the go really wants or needs? I know around here it certainly isn't as most people's phones do far more and do it far better. It isn't something necessary for the hand held device.
As to the PSP's other abilities, my iPhone does everything my PSP does (minus the intricate games) and does them better. Video playback is better, music quality is higher, the internet is faster, so I don't really need the PSP for those. That just leaves the games. There have been a few great games for the PSP (Crisis Core and Chains of Olympus spring readily to mind) but the ratio of good games on the PSP to good games on the DS is seriously out of whack. For me, in the end, it always comes down to games and that is why I feel the DS is beating the pants off of everybody in sales.
While I will agree that the Nintendo systems are outselling everyone else, I don't agree that they are better than the competition. All the casual gamers that they are drawing in with their ease of use and low selling price don't realize that a good chunk of the games that they buy aren't all that decent of titles. I'm not fanboy raving for the other systems, but they aren't subject to shovelware put out by developers trying to keep the casual gamers hooked on Wii/DS(come on, playing games based on cheerleading, REALLY??). Even some of the "hardcore" games that have come out for Wii have been subject to some sloppy control schemes.
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Right now we are making fresh handmade Mozzarella for various large supermarkets such as Shop-rite. I set up usually right near the deli or cheese department and make the fresh Mozzarella right in front of the customers. Most people have no idea how Mozzarella is made and the majority have never had the opportunity to taste it fresh.
On average I make over 200 lbs. per day and most of the time it goes as fast as I can make it. Once I give them a taste of the fresh and still warm cheese they are hooked for life!
On average I make over 200 lbs. per day and most of the time it goes as fast as I can make it. Once I give them a taste of the fresh and still warm cheese they are hooked for life!
We asked Keith to give us an idea of what he actually does at the store. He used his cell phone to take the following great pictures, showing us exactly how he does it:
A block of curd ready to be sliced into small pieces using a curd cutter (also know as a mandolin or guitar because of the guitar type strings).
Hot tap water is added to warm the cool pieces of curd. We then drain the water and add very hot water usually between 170F - 180F. To prevent the loss of too much butterfat, we do not pour the water directly on the curd.
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Had Tom Graney of St. Joe Beach known what two men identifying themselves as investigators were inquiring about in early summer he would have told them to "buzz off."
The State Attorney's Office opened an investigation earlier this year into allegations that the Political Action Committee Citizens Improving Gulf County had attempted to extort County Commissioner Warren Yeager from a re-election campaign with allegations including complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics.
That investigation went public Thursday morning during a meeting of the Board of County Commissioners when Port St. Joe resident Christine McElroy said she had cooperated in the investigation and Commission chair Bill Williams stated several times that he had worn a wire during the investigation.
McElroy was waved to the podium by commissioners during the public comment portion of the meeting and immediately began to discuss the investigation and actions by the PAC.
The allegations of "blackmail" as Williams termed it during the Commission meeting, and "extortion" as it was called in an Oct. 16 letter from State Attorney Glenn Hess, apparently originated with a conversation Graney had with Williams in the spring before Williams decided not to seek re-election to the District 3 seat.
Graney's is the only name mentioned in Hess's letter which closed the case, which was subsequently reopened following Thursday's meeting, according to Public Information Officer David Angier.
Angier reported Friday morning that the file was closed and submitted a letter dated Oct. 16 from Hess to Florida Department of Law Enforcement agent Matthew Herring telling him to close the file. He said staff was trying to locate the file.
By early Friday afternoon, Angier reported back that the investigation was in fact back open based upon information received since Thursday's meeting.
Angier said no one else with the State Attorney's Office could comment on the investigation.
Hess' letter states that while "allegations of extortion pertaining to Gulf County Commissioner Warren Yeager establishes probable cause," the entire case rested with statements made by Graney to the two investigators, one whom identified himself as Herring. Graney said he did not recall the name of the other investigator and they did not offer business cards.
The investigators came to Graney's house, asked to speak to him and over 45 minutes asked him a series of questions about what he knew about the PAC. Graney freely obliged, he said.
In his letter, Hess noted that no other witnesses – several other people were contacted and declined to answer questions as is their right, Hess wrote – came forward to verify Graney's statements about the PAC.
As Graney was the only witness to the allegations that Citizens Improving Gulf County had attempted to extort Yeager from the race for the District 5 seat, Hess said the charges could not be sustained beyond a reasonable doubt.
"A prosecutor's responsibility is to charge crimes when the facts can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt," Hess wrote to Herring. "In this instance the question is whether there is a crime or just dirty politics; reasonable people could well differ."
Graney believes he is the source of the allegations and believed they stemmed from a conversation he had with Williams concerning campaign strategy. Graney believes Williams recorded the conversation without his knowledge.
Williams acknowledged "wearing a wire" several times during Thursday's meeting of the BOCC, calling the investigation one involving "blackmail."
He could not be reached for comment on Friday.
Graney said his name shows up because he was one person who talked to investigators.
He told investigators that in the spring he had given Williams an idea of the political landscape as the campaign season heated up and talked strategy.
Graney - who is not a member of the PAC, says he does not know their membership but has worked with PAC president Jim Garth in the past - said the questions investigators asked when they visited weeks later quickly provided an idea that the conversation with Williams was not confidential.
He told investigators what he had told Williams from what he had learned from Garth; that the PAC would be campaigning against incumbents and the PAC believed it had sufficient ammunition to unseat them.
Graney said all he told investigators was what he had been told by Garth and had later relayed to Williams.
"I just wanted to let (Williams) know what was out there," Graney said. "That is what I told the investigators. They said that could be interpreted as a threat. I said I don't think so and I was sure Williams and Yeager didn't see it as a threat."
From Graney investigators contacted a number of other individuals, though McElroy is the only other person known to have spoken to investigators, acknowledging she had met with investigators several times.
Graney said he offered investigators a sit down with he and Garth and offered to get Garth on the phone while the investigators were in his house. They declined and the meeting among the four of them never happened. The investigators asked Graney to wear a wire during a conversation with Garth which he refused, Graney said.
The investigation then "died" Graney said for a time before coming back to life shortly after the August primary.
Graney said had he known from the outset the intent of the investigators visit he would have cut it short.
"If I had any idea what they were talking about I would have told them to buzz off," Graney said. "I got myself bush-whacked by Williams. This thing was a comedy routine. It was Keystone Kops. This is silliness."
Graney said he would like to know if Williams was authorized by the State Attorney to record their conversation. If not, he said, he believes it is illegal for an individual to record any conversation without the other person's knowledge.
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Elon Musk Wins National Space Society Robert A. Heinlein Award (Washington DC – February 18, 2014) The National Space Society takes great pleasure in announcing that its 2014 Robert A. Heinlein Memorial Award has been won by acclaimed space entrepreneur Elon Musk, the Chief Designer and CTO of SpaceX.
In the last decade, SpaceX, under the leadership of Elon Musk, has been moving directly toward accomplishing goals that many of us in NSS think are of utmost importance, such as forcing a drastic reduction in launch costs by doing the very hard task which no one else in the world has been willing and able to tackle: working to create a family of commercially successful and reusable rocket boosters and reusable spacecraft.
The National Space Society's prestigious Robert A Heinlein Memorial Award will be presented to Elon Musk at the 2014 International Space Development Conference (ISDC). The conference will be held at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. The ISDC will run from May 14-18, 2014. The imaginations of our visionaries of the last 100 years will not be fulfilled until affordable, large scale and high mass operations can take place in Earth orbit and beyond. SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft is reusable and SpaceX is making great progress towards a reusable rocket, the key development that would make such operations possible.
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Hawthorne-based rocket company SpaceX was a big step closer to competing for lucrative U.S. Air Force launches after the military branchs review of one of the companys launches.
The Space and Missile Systems Center, the Air Forces El Segundo-based purchasing arm for rocket launches, said late Tuesday that a SpaceX launch of a Falcon 9 v1.1 on Sept. 29 of last year will count toward the companys certification to carry Air Force payloads.
The company officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp. must perform at least three successful flights of a common launch vehicle as part of the certification process.
SpaceX must also pass a number of technical reviews, audits and independent verification, as well as validation of the rockets ground systems and manufacturing processes, the Air Force said.
As part of the certification process, the SMC is also assessing two other SpaceX launches, on Dec. 3 of last year and Jan. 6 of this year.
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The wait continues.
The release of the final environmental impact statement by the Federal Aviation Administration that would help determine whether SpaceX could build a rocket launch pad in Cameron County has been pushed back again.
Officials said the final environmental assessment will be released to the public in April. The final report was scheduled to be released at the end of winter and had previously been expected in late 2013.
FAA spokesman Hank Price said the preliminary report is being reviewed by the cooperating agencies. After the draft has been finalized, it will be published to the public by April, it is hoped, Price said.
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Because ULA sees NASA & USAF sales as "commercial," even though everyone else knows better. There is also that the govt. has to give ULA a flat out $1 Billion subsidy over and above launch costs to "guarantee" the service. Moving launches to SpaceX would save the US a lot more than that $1 Billion subsidy.
Also, be prepared for a series of news items involving SpaceX. Can't say more yet.
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May put a dent in the contract market. I for 1 hate 24 month contracts and will look at buying one of these outright and have a rolling contract sim only.
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So after a brief moment in the spotlight, it appears that Ben Carson will not be this week's Savior of the Republican Party after all. But his quick rise and fall raise an interesting question: Why are some people incredibly smart when it comes to some topics, and incredibly stupid when it comes to others?
To bring you up to speed, Carson is a noted neurosurgeon who, among other things, was the first to successfully separate conjoined twins joined at the head. He's also extremely politically conservative (and African-American), which made him a popular, though by no means nationally famous, figure in some conservative circles. Then in February, he gave a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, in which he took the occasion to sharply criticize President Obama (who was sitting right there) and advocate for a flat tax, which as everyone knows is pleasing unto the Lord. The Wall Street Journal then ran an editorial titled "Ben Carson for President," and he was off to the races, making media appearances, appearing at CPAC, and obviously seriously considering a run for the White House. Until he went on Hannity and said no one should undermine traditional marriage, "be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality," a comment that the PC police took issue with. And now it turns out that in addition to his anti-gay views, Carson also believes that the world is 6,000 years old, and evolution is just some crazy idea for which there's no more evidence than there is for the biblical story of creation.
It's this last part that I find particularly interesting. Elitist that I am, I tend to think of young-earth creationists as poorly educated, backwoods folk. This isn't a matter of religious belief versus lack of belief, either. The Catholic Church, which is run by some fellows who are pretty serious about their religion, says that evolution is perfectly compatible with the biblical creation story, properly understood. I really don't understand how one could make it through college and med school (with all those science prerequisites!) and sustain those beliefs. After exposure to not just the discoveries of science but to scientific thinking and methods themselves, you have to go through some incredible mental gymnastics to believe that it's all just a lie. There have been other prominent Republican politicians who have advocated intelligent design (Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum did last year), but if you're going for the top job, young-earth creationism is an entirely different level.
And that's not all. Carson also seems to be something of a biblical literalist, also a belief system no person with an IQ higher than that of a turnip could reasonably hold to, unless he were also willing to advocate the stoning of rebellious children, the death penalty for working on the sabbath, and all the juicy polygamy, genocide, slavery, and rape that make the Old Testament such a page-turner. But maybe his views on those things are more nuanced than they appear.
We all have subjects we know nothing about, and things we struggle to understand. For instance, I'm pretty handy around the house when it comes to mechanical systems or anything that is made of wood, but I find electricity baffling. Circuits, ohms, volts, watts— for some reason I find it kind of confusing, as evidenced by that time I shorted out half the house trying to install a simple light switch. That being said, I wouldn't assert that it's all phony mumbo-jumbo, and trained electricians are nothing but a bunch of con artists. There are people who are insightful at understanding literature but terrible at understanding physics, or vice-versa. What's so jarring about Carson is that his area of accomplishment is a scientific one, yet he seems incapable of thinking rationally when his religious beliefs touch on areas his scientific mind ought to help him understand.
It's Carson's venomous views on gay people, and not his crazy views about geology and biology, that will keep him from becoming the mainstream figure some had hoped. But I suspect he'll do just fine, finding a Palin-esque niche on the right to occupy. It may not be the White House, but it's a pretty good gig.
Tue, 2013-04-02 11:25
2 points.
(1) Carson's field of accomplishment is not "a scientific one." He is not a researcher: he is a surgeon, a super-high-class carpenter. Immense skills are required, but they don't translate.
(2) It is characteristic of individuals successful in one field, especially a competitive and hierarchical one, to imagine that they are generically capable of doing & understanding anything. But 'intelligence' and 'skill' (more generally) fall into a myriad of special components, and reality is unkind to delusions of this sort.
Sat, 2013-04-06 00:54
hquain has it right. I've witnessed so very many examples over the years. Curiously, often people who display extraordinary skills in fields like surgery, engineering, etc. Disciplines with defined functional rules (yes, I know, there is art in those examples) are completely lost when it comes to grasping complex intellectual concepts that lack hard and fast rules.
Tue, 2013-04-16 20:30
If Mr. Waldman finds Dr. Carson's views disconcerting, we clearly need to take Mr. Waldman's views to task as well. Of course, the left loves to belittle the intelligence of prominent conservative in order to diminish the credibility of the right as a whole. Old but successful tactic. If the author is providing a straight-faced critique of the doctor by noting that "Carson also seems to be something of a biblical literalist, also a belief system no person with an IQ higher than that of a turnip could reasonably hold to, unless he were also willing to advocate the stoning of rebellious children, the death penalty for working on the sabbath, and all the juicy polygamy, genocide, slavery, and rape that make the Old Testament such a page-turner," then it's time to call him to task on his biblical illiteracy. Context still counts for something in public universities; it always has in biblical hermeneutics, the study of how to interprete the Bible. To take these culture-specific events, mores, rules, restrictions and ceremonial laws and contend that biblical literalists must logical advocate for them is nothing more than an ignorant meme that seems to replicate among the left. Jesus declared that he did not come to invalidate or do away with the law but to fulfill it. His concept of love - for God, for neighbor, for self - would transcend many of the old rules as He established his new "kingdom of God." To contend that advocacy for these evils would somehow follow in a Christian belief system is to demonstrate that you only have enough knowledge of the Bible to be dangerous. If distortion of a particular faith's tenets is the aim of Mr. Waldman here we can also add the adjective "bigoted."
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Yes, indeed. In addition to them, many atheists and agnostics think they can interpret the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven by merely reading a Bible.
But listen, who gave them their understanding? A Bible thumping preacher? Their own conceit?
"And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?
He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand." Jesus in Matthew Chapter 13.
Sun, 2013-11-03 22:27
Ah, religious thinking.
"All truth and wisdom is contained in my sacred text, which says A"
"But your sacred text appears not to say A, it says B"
"That's because you don't understand it the right way, the words don't mean what you think, you 'seeing see not, and hearing hear not.'"
Often, the same critique applies to American constitutional lawyers.
Sat, 2013-04-27 03:51
"Something of a literalist?" Seems a phrase with no meaning.
I see no reason why our personal ideas of dignity need to be validated by society or the State. Whether I fired you for being Catholic or gay or a serial killer or a torturer of puppies, so long as I am not imposing my standards on decisions to be made by others, they are my decisions and I defy any law to tell me to give a hoot. I am aware that the Sate can reward or punish but I do not believe that it should ever do either of those things just to make people feel that their own beliefs are being validated or supported.
If I did not have to contend with the ludicrous argument that right or reason supports the rights of Gays (as opposed to the opinions of Gays, which are in my view as valid and as irrelevant as the opinions of the rest of us), I might take the other side and blast the good surgeon.
Sun, 2013-11-03 22:36
There is a term for people who feel that their "personal ideas of dignity need [not] be validated by society." It's "sociopath".
The peculiar notion of some on the American libertarian Right that values are some entirely private individual creation is one of the greatest misunderstandings of morality and society that I know. "…so long as I am not imposing my standards on decision to be made by others" is not a viable foundation for human survival. When the first East African plains apes became more intensely social, and thrived because of it, we all had certain choices made for us: we are social and communicative animals, intensely so, which means that every act and decision every individual makes is founded -- both pre-consciously and consciously -- on the values of others. This does not mean we need passively accept our particular group's values: we may challenge them, invert them, seek to change them…but what we are constitutionally incapable of doing (unless we are sociopaths) is to exist as though our group's values had no effect on us.
It's interesting that the linkswarm has directed both hyper-libertarians and Biblical literalists here to defend the good Dr. Carson.
Sat, 2013-05-04 19:40
the further western civilization gets away from religious theology, the more free we can be to create and prosper-providing that political correctness isn't ultimately successful at destroying free speech and our rights to criticise religion-especially deathcults like islam-which beats out christianity in stupidity, slavery and misogyny.
how else does one account for the fact that western culture leapfrogged from horsecarts to spacecraft within 3 centuries only after the reformation?
i'm certain that the good doctor performs surgery by electric lighting instead of candlelight and utilizes surgical instruments instead of faithhealing upon his patients. his patients don't go to him to hear his religious views.
Tue, 2013-07-23 10:47
I agree with most of the commenters here! For all the hoopla regarding Dr. Carson on Foxnews and considering the relatively thought provoking speech at the prayer breakfast that made him famous I have ultimately been disappointed and severely unimpressed with Dr Carson. NOT just because I disagree fervently with his political outlook and most of his cultural critiques, but also due to the fact that he just DOES NOT come across as having more than a 'few fingers' on the topics of the day, far from the firm 'grasp' necessary to be an effective pundit on tv shows about politics IMO. He seems to be on the Hannity show a few times a week but The people at Foxnews obviously refrain from putting him opposite other guests with conflicting views; Id imagine this is due to the sound drudging he takes whenever thats the case! Sometimes his lack of knowledge on a specific subject is amplified by his unwillingness to cede any ground when very good points are made, I have seen him countless times reiterate a position proven to be logically inconsistent which only serves to shine a light more intensely on his faulty logic in the first place, as opposed to accepting an opposing point as valid, albeit incorrect and then amending your argument to fit the context! IDK this is a rather long winded way to say that I have been unimpressed with the guy! ;-)
Sun, 2013-07-28 08:41
Scientists of today are some of the stupidest people on earth. I used to work in a sawmill in northwestern Montana. Today there are no sawmills in northwestern Montana. There are people on welfare. The county where I worked in a sawmill has the highest percentage of people collecting social security of any county in the United States. The reason why there are no more sawmills there is because scientists testified in federal court that unless sawmills were shut down, all the spotted owls would be gone. Without the sawmills, the number of spotted owls continued to decline. Then it was decided that the reason they were disappearing was because a larger owl from the east was moving into spotted owl territory, so now Fish and Game people are shooting the larger owl because scientists decided that was the way to save the spotted owl now. So what are the trees used for now?
They are used for 500,000 acre forest fires to prove there is global warming and burn up some firefighters once in a while so people can get all emotional about it. About half of the trees in Arizona have burned since 2000. They burned up a fire crew from the state prison in the Dude fire in the 1980's. It was mentioned several times on the news. Then last month they burned up a hotshot crew on the Yarnell fire because the scientific fire bosses put them where they would get burned up. There was a difference between the fire crew burned up on the Dude fire and the one burned up on the Yarnell fire. The ones burned up on the Yarnell fire were heroes, but the ones burned up on the Dude fire were not.
But mathematics is where scientists of today are really stupid. Here are the correct equations for relativity.
Here are the equations scientists use.
Scientists discarded the correct equations in 1887 and have used the incorrect ones since that time. There is no way to even discuss these obvious mistakes with scientists because they are paid trillions of dollars in money borrowed on national credit to do things wrong.
Sun, 2013-11-03 22:41
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And the transit of Venus data was faked…and that pretty light over Hiroshima and Nagasaki was just an illusion paid for with all those trillions, I guess.
The progression from policy choices and critiques of government policy (which is indeed sometimes wrongheaded) to wild fantasies liking unrelated things (no spotted owl protection in Arizona, and not much logging, either!) to outright reality denialism (relativity in physics is a fraud), illustrated all in one post.
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Nice choice of phone, you're gonna love it. I have the S3 and it's an awesome phone. One comment though, not sure if AT&T is different, but the Verizon branded S3 has the dual core with 2 GB RAM, I just checked to make sure after i saw your comment lol.
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If you love custom roms, don't pick Samsung. They still haven't released the source code of Exynos 4 processor found in S3 and Note 2 which is creating a big havoc in terms of getting stable custom roms, camera, hardware gpu acceleration etc.
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im sure the note 2 is a good piece of hardware, but i see hardly any reason for that pen input. it just feels awkward and does not feel natural. i had the note 1 and i had to sell it. i mean what do you really do with that pen input? are there really that nice real life scenarios where you need it? i dont know ...
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The Note 2 and S3 have their open source files available for a long time... That's not Samsung's fault if devs can't make good use of it.
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That's correct but it was only for ICS. with JB, things have changed a lot. Anyway why not hear it from the devs themselves than i arguing?
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Yeah, thanks for the link.
I know Entropy from XDA... He hates Samsung. Actually, that is some kind of pressure he is putting over Samsung (as usual) but the CM team is actually very spoiled and I can bet that they're pretty jealous of Samsung's improvement over their own software. There are many, many features that Samsung is not obliged to open (those are Samsung's sales advantage) and Entropy HATES that. Also, I had CM9 on my Note 1 and there was a bug with SMS messages even on supposedly stable CM9, where sometimes SMS was not being delivered and there was no way of knowing that. Also Samsung had nothing to do with that. But they (he) refused to fix it because it was not priority. Well... Samsung would never let that happen.
I'm not a fanboy on any of those sides. I just want my phone working with all the features that are available to it, and it is me the one who has to judge what feature is priority.
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A gifted forward donning the No. 9 shirt in Triton blue and gold, Jones helped usher in the Division II era at UCSD as it won back-to-back national crowns in 2000 and 2001 immediately after moving from Division III. She punctuated her freshman season by assisting on the game-winner with just 15 seconds left in regulation to edge Northern Kentucky, 2-1, in the 2000 championship game in Miami Shores, Fla. Jones followed that moment up by tallying the title-clinching goal in the 78th minute of a 2-0 victory over Christian Brothers at Triton Soccer Stadium and being named the 2001 NCAA tournament's Most Outstanding Offensive Player. From 2000-03, Jones' teams went 75-10-2 (.874), earning four consecutive CCAA banners and NCAA postseason berths and advancing to the national semifinals on three occasions.
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Areas of expertiseTopical: Environment; Conservation; Development; Race and Racism; Social Theory; Environmental History; Tourism; Gender. Area: Belize; Caribbean; U.S.-Mexico Borderlands; Central Texas
Dr. Johnson is a cultural anthropologist who specializes in environmental anthropology, race and gender. She focuses her research on Belize's Afro-Caribbean populations. Currently, she is working on a book manuscript, Creole SocioNatures: Nature, Community and Identity in Belize on nature, community and identity in rural Belizean Creole communities. She has also published on the intersections of race and environment in the history of Belize, and has projects underway on ecotourism; gender and development; garbage; and hunting and migration. She has conducted an interdisciplinary faculty-student collaborative project on environmental justice in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, and a project with Southwestern student Kimberly Griffin (Env Studies '10) on a social and environmental history of the San Gabriel River in Central Texas.
She is especially interested in bringing critical analysis of systems of privilege and oppression to the examination of the intersections of the human with non-human--from analyses of the meanings of place and landscape to relationships between human and non-human animals. The contexts that attract her attention are those in which people and other things are moving--sites of tourism, international biodiversity conservation, toxicity, emigration, immigration, and transnational and trans-place networks, to name a few.
She is passionate about teaching, and regularly teaches Introduction to Anthropology, Theory in Anthropology, Global Environmental Justice, Race, Class and Gender in the Caribbean and the Anthropology Senior Research Seminar. She also leads a Paideia group under the theme "Place" and regularly teaches a First Year Seminar "Race and Racism in a "Post-Racial" Age". She is committed to doing all that she can to promote social justice in her communities, and is a long term member of, and previously served for many years as Co-Chair of Southwestern's Diversity Enrichment Committee. She is also consistently involved with the Environmental Studies committee.
Ph.D., University of Michigan 1998
B.A., Williams College 1984
Associate Professor of Anthropology
Southwestern University
August 01, 2004 - present
Chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Southwestern University
August 01, 2005 - August 01, 2010
Assistant Professor of Anthropoogy
Southwestern University
August 01, 1998 - July 01, 2004
Teaching Philosophy
Previous Courses
Race, Class and Gender in the Caribbean;
Theory in Anthropology;
Senior Seminar
Summer 2013. Four week research trip to Lemonal and Crooked Tree, Belize.
From 1990 to 2011--Long term ethnographic and historical research on the rural Belizean Creole communities of the Belize River Valley, and Crooked Tree Lagoon areas, including a residence in Crooked Tree and nearby communities between February 1993 and February 1996. Last visit, December 2009. Since 1996, ethnographic research conducted among the diaspora of these communities in the U.S. (primarily Texas and Chicago)
Summer 2009--Conducted historical research on the San Gabriel River in Williamson County, focusing on environmental and social changes as they manifest themselves in people's relationship to the River
2002 - 2003-- Conducted ethnographic research, supervised undergraduate anthropological research, and participated in an interdisciplinary team on questions of environmental justice and the meaning of landscapes on the U.S.-Mexico border at Matamoros, Mexico.
Environment in James Carrier and Deborah Gewertz (eds.). Handbook of Sociocultural Anthropology. London: Berg Publishers. 2013.
(with Emily Niemeyer) Ambivalent Landscapes: Environmental Justice in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Human Ecology: An Interdisciplinary Journal 36 (3): 371-382. 2008.
Racing Nature and Naturalizing Race: Rethinking the Nature of Creole and Garifuna Communities Belizean Studies, Special Issue: Colonialism and Nature in Belize (ed Joel Wainwright) 27(2/November): 43-56. 2005.
The Making of Race and Place in Nineteenth-Century British Honduras, Environmental History 8(4): 598-617. 2003
Seminars & Presentations
Invited and Sponsored Participant, Center for Race and Ethnicity conference Race, Place and Nature, part of Rutgers' Sawyer Seminar on Race, Place and Space in the Americas, Rutgers University. "Racing Nature in Belize" March 7-8, 2013
Co-organizer, Panel "Social Assemblages and the Pursuit of Nature in the Global Resource Economy," American Anthropological Association 112th Annual Meeting, November 14-18, 2012, San Francisco,
""Hunters, Ecotourists and Hicatee: Creolizing Socionature in Belize," for Panel "Social Assemblages and the Pursuit of Nature in the Global Resource Economy," American Anthropological Association 112th Annual Meeting, November 14-18, 2012, San Francisco.
"Creolized Natures in Belize" 37th Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference, May 28-June 1, 2012, Le Gosier, Guadeloupe.
"Circulating Nature, Producing Belizean Creole Identity" for panel "Belize: Continuity and Change" American Anthropological Association 110th Meeting, November 17-21, 2010. New Orleans, Louisiana.
Honors & Awards
Joe S. Mundy Award for Exemplary Service, 2009
Southwestern University Senior Teaching Award, 2006.
Fulbright Grant for dissertation research in Belize, 1993-1994
Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship, for dissertation research in Belize, January 1993 - October 1994.
Inter-American Foundation Field Research Doctoral Fellowship, for dissertation research in Belize, January 1993 - October 1994.


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- Title
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- Thomas Hirschhorn
- Date
- 2001
- Dimensions
- sheet 12.25 × 17.5 × inches
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- paper, plastic, tape, magazine prints, ink
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- in black ink on reverse "Thomas Hirschhorn"; in black ink on reverse "Blue Serie (Junior Thesis, Senior Thesis)"
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- a collage of magazine images, overdrawn with ballpoint pen and wrapped with transparent plastic. Created in response or immediately following the terrorist action in New York on 9/11/01
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