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Cognitive liberty is the concept that an individual has absolute sovereignty over their state of consciousness as long as it does not infringe on the rights of another. This includes the use of meditation, prayer, and psychoactive drugs, as well as the right to not be force-fed any psychoactive drug against one's will.
Currently, cognitive liberty is not a very much respected philosophy in American politics. Most psychoactive drugs like cannabis, psilocybin mushrooms, LSD, and mescaline are considered illegal to possess and consume. Similarly, we see young children all throughout the nation being force-fed certain psychoactive drugs (the "good kinds") in name of "normal thinking" and "normal behavior."
As a libertarian, I feel cognitive liberty is a necessary component to any free society. I have written numerous times about my disdain for the War On Drugs and specifically the failure that is marijuana prohibition.
I am also against our tendency as a society to administer psychoactive drugs so carelessly and with so little respect for the free choice of young people and the mentally ill. It is an awful thing to offer a drug to any person without appropriately informing them on what the drug is supposed to do or how it might make them feel. We should also explain to children very clearly that they have a choice whether or not to continue taking the drug if they don't like its effects. It often happens where a child's personal interest is put secondary or even overlooked completely.
Let it be known that I do think there are cases where someone needs to be given a drug against their will (maybe if they are unconscious or completely delusional and incoherent). But these situations are limited, and I think it is safe to say that society and government has overstepped its boundaries on more than a couple fronts when it comes to this issue.
Who really has the authority to tell a conscious and thinking being what they can and cannot put into their body or how they should experience reality? I don't consider it justified for any free society to draw such arbitrary distinctions between what is "good" or "bad" for an individual if that individual is exercising their own rational free choice. People have different values and interests in life – this is the same dimension of diversity that characterizes all of nature and what has made evolution possible.
The act of consuming drugs is a victimless crime, and it does not justify people getting locked up in prison or having a criminal record that inhibits them from ever getting a good job or building a bright future. Drugs have been present in every society known to man and it is time we respect their place in the structure of our humanity. It is one thing to advise others against the use of certain drugs, and it is another to try to banish their existence or ignore it entirely.
I am perfectly comfortable acknowledging the fact that some drugs have negative consequences while still promoting the freedom for others to use these same drugs. For one thing, negative consequences are a part of all decisions we make – it does not mean we sacrifice our freedom to make those decisions. To borrow from something I wrote in a recent article about government spending,
"Just because half of American marriages end in a divorce doesn't mean we want the government to make decisions on who we should marry. Life is filled with mistakes; it is how we learn, and it is a part of freedom."
If you really want to help those who are dependent on drugs – or if you really want to make a long lasting change in any individual's behavior – then you need to appeal to that person's reason. You can not rule a rationally thinking person by force. And yes, even a drug addict has his or her own mode of rational thought in accordance with their own values and interests.
When people value something strong enough, they find a way to go against government restrictions in order to satisfy that want. This is why prohibition always leads to a black market for goods that society finds valuable.
When will people recognize that others value these drugs? When will we learn to tolerate these differences? If we really want to make a positive change than we need to re-think freedom and re-think the way we influence others if we want to continue living in a free society. If we don't accept the notion of cognitive liberty, if we sacrifice those fundamental principles of self-ownership and freedom of thought, then in what ways are we really free anymore?
To learn more please visit The Center For Cognitive Liberty & Ethics, which includes notable members like visionary artist Alex Grey, libertarian psychiatrist Thomas Szasz, and psychedelic researcher Ralph Metzner (who used to work with Timothy Leary).
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SilverStone Fortress FT02: True Classics Never Go Out of Styleby Dustin Sklavos on August 15, 2011 12:00 AM EST
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Conclusion: A Classic That Needs a Little Love
The real grudge match here winds up being between the SilverStone Fortress FT02 and the Thermaltake Level 10 GT. In most metrics the Level 10 GT is a slightly better performer, but it's also a newer case, and depending on your perspective, it may not be the most aesthetically pleasing enclosure you can buy. The FT02 is, at least in my opinion, something I'd be much happier having under my desk and indeed I made exactly that choice.
What makes the FT02 so interesting is the same thing that makes all of SilverStone's cases interesting: it really isn't for just a random smattering of high performance parts, a one-size-fits-all jack-of-all-trades like many more standard ATX cases (which admittedly the Level 10 GT is a gussied up version of) are. I moved my main system from the Corsair Graphite 600T to the FT02 and saw a massive improvement in thermal performance at a very minor cost of acoustics, but my system has the benefit of a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ with a push/pull fan configuration installed on the 130-watt processor. What the graphs also don't show is just how slowly graphics card temperatures climb under stress in the FT02: the limiting factor with a GPU cooler, assuming you use the recommended blower-style ones, is going to be just how fast the cooler can pull heat off of the GPU itself. Airflow is not an issue here. If you choose your components and cooling with the FT02's design in mind, odds are good it's going to perform exceptionally well.
That said, SilverStone's design is already a little long in the tooth by technology standards, and there are some rough edges that a revision could do a lot to fix. The FT02 is in dire need of an eighth expansion slot as well as increased clearance between the expansion slots and the 5.25" bays, and what they may want to do is attempt side-mounted optical drive bays similar to some of Lian-Li's designs. I'd like to see more ports available in the top port cluster, too: SilverStone cases tend to be too spartan with connectivity, and right now my only USB 2.0 port that isn't covered by the top panel is connected to a janky card reader. More space behind the motherboard tray could never hurt, and in the process better mounts for 2.5" SSDs would be appreciated. Finally, a slightly better support system for the power supply other than a strap and a chintzy plastic foot would be steps forward. There are ways to refine this case, even if they mean making it a bit bigger.
And then there's the pricetag. At $250 we're hanging out squarely in the middle of Premiumville, and I'll be candid: you can get close to this level of performance for much cheaper. What you'll have more trouble getting are the aesthetic, the overall level of quality in the design and build, and the combination of silence and performance. I'm a big enough fan of the FT02 that I'd still recommend it over SilverStone's own RV03 as well as the Thermaltake Level 10 GT, so long as the end user is willing to work with the design to get the best results. This is not a water-cooling case by any stretch of the imagination, but while it's not the best air-cooling case either, it's awful close and remains one of the best-looking and most functional.
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veselinbg - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkHi everyone! This is my first post and would like to say that I really like Anandtech.com, guys you're great!
So right on the subject - I think that there is some general issue with testing methodology or accuracy of temperature measurements.
OK, let see what are the temperatures reported by the SSD:
Stock speed/ IDLE
FT02 33 C (low fan)
Stock speed/Load
FT02 35 C (low fan)
RV03 31 C Reply
veselinbg - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkDifference 4 C, both Idle and Load.
How is this even possible?! It's a HUGE difference for the same piece of hardware and same conditions (same ambient temperature, same mount method)?!
Again, the SSD was mounted in a way, that airflow inside the case doesn't affect it's temperature. This statement is more true for RV03 then FT02, because RV03 doesn't have a 180 mm fan under hard drive bay. So for FT02 still there is a little chance to "catch" some of the airflow from third fan. But in thermal diagrams we can see that the SSD in RV03 is cooler then in FT02
So I have to conclude that the ambient temperature was NOT the same when both cases are reviewed. Which means that all other thermal results (CPU, GPU, chipset etc.) are not relevant.
Please, let me know what do you think. Reply
Uritziel - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkI'm not sure if I'm understanding you correctly; however, I think the answer you're looking for is that the SSD in the RV03 is mounted behind the mobo, where it receives a fair amount of air flow due to one of the fans being offset. Reply
veselinbg - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkNo, I want to say that in both cases Raven03 and Fortress02, the SSD was mounted under the motherboard tray and the airflow created by the fans affects it's temperature very little, if any.
In FT02 a little amount of air is possible to reach the SSD, hence the SSD should be more cooler in FT02, then in RV03. But the thermal readings shows exactly the opposite results, which means that something is wrong.
I intentionally choose to compare the thermal results of two Silversone's cases, because they are using same mounting method for SSD's. Reply
Uritziel - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkWhile both cases can mount the SSD behind the mobo, it seems to me the similarity stops there. The RV03 has an air channel back there. The fans actually extend behind the mobo, and the air can continue past the SSD to exit via venting holes in the top.
I'm not as familiar with the FT02, but looking at the top-down view in the gallery here, there seems to be no air channel behind the mobo. The fans don't appear to actually extend behind the mobo, and I see no venting at the top either. Also, does the FT02 also use the newer "air penetrator" fans (or whatever they're called) that the RV03 uses?
I just recently put my RV03 build together, so I'm trying to help you make sense of the thermal discrepancy since Dustin hasn't responded to you yet. Reply
veselinbg - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkI make my conclusions only by using images from the gallery.
Please take a look here:
Please show me where is that air channel?
As I can see there is a metal folded plate which "hide" the SSD from airflow. Reply
banthracis - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkIt's stated that ambient varies from 71F to 74F so it's not a constant. If fact, unless the room is temperature controlled, I'd also assume the variance is greater as as these systems increase ambient over time.
It would be much better IMO to measure delta's like bit-tech or normalize the data like HardOCP does, rather than simply give the temperature. Reply
veselinbg - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkYes, I agree with you that thermal results as delta is more accurate.
And I suspect that that big difference in SSD's temperature comes from different ambient temperature. Reply
don_k - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkJust to point out that a 4C difference on an SSD is simply down to ambient temperature or positioning of the SSD and even then, it does not matter.
It's an SSD. It uses just a few W of power, it's not going to get hot in the first place.
Worry about gpu/cpu deltas, not SSD temps. Reply
banthracis - Monday, August 15, 2011 - linkThe point he's trying to make, is that if the SSD's should have been the same temp, yet are 4C off, then does this mean there was a 4C ambient temp difference?
If so, that makes all the thermal tests results invalid for comparison, not just the SSD ones.
So basically, vs the RV02 for ex, the FT02 could temps should be 4c lower than what's on those graphs, a significant difference considering how close temps are. Reply


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Posted by Roy "Phantom" Kwan at 15 June 2011 05:42
VT Gaming has announced their new StarCraft 2 team, Team Reign. Along with new recruits SLush and KiWiKaKi, Team Reign will be residing in a new pro team house in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Gaia, Greek Goddess
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Goddess Bless! - Divine Affirmations, Prayers and Blessings: By Sirona Knight. Red Wheel/Weiser, 2003. 192 pages. ISBN: 1590030028. Neo-pagan.
The Goddess Companion: Daily Meditations on the Feminine Spirit. By Patricia Monaghan. Llewellyn Publications, 2000. 398 pages. ISBN: 1567184634. Neo-pagan.
The Goddess in World Mythology. Paintings by Sandra M. Stanton.
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The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth. By Monica Sjoo. Haper San Francisco, 2nd Edition, 1987. 528 pages. ISBN: 0062507915.
The Great Goddess: Reverence of the Divine Feminine from the Paleolithic to the Present. By Jean Markale. Inner Traditions Intl. Ltd., 2000. 256 pages. ISBN: 0892817151.
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Hindu Goddesses: Visions of the Divine Feminine in the Hindu Religious Tradition. By David R. Kinsley. University of California Press, 1988. Reprint Edition. 281 pages. ISBN: 0520063392.
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Inanna. By Diane Wolkstein. Perennial, 1983. 256 pages. ISBN: 0060908548.
Inanna - Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Sumer, Iraq, Persia, Babylon
Inanna, Sumeria: The Goddess Inanna
Inanna, Sumeria: Goddess of Love and War
Inanna, Sumeria: Inninsagurra - A Hymn to the Goddess Inanna by the en-Priestess Enheduanna.
Inanna, Sumeria - Google Search
Invoke the Goddess: Visualizations of Hindu, Greek and Egyptian Deities. By Kala Trobe. St. Paul, Minnesota, Llewellyn Pubs., 2000. Index, bibliography, 207 pages. ISBN: 1567184316. VSCL.
Isis, Egypt
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Isis, Egypt: The Temple of Aset
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The Language of the Goddess. By Maria Alseikaite Gimbutas. Harper Collins, 1995. ISBN: 0062504185.
The Living Goddesses. By Marija Gimbutas. Edited by Miriam Robbins Dexter. University of California Press, 2001. 306 pages. ISBN: 0520229150.
Meditation: Links, Bibliography, Quotations, Resources, Notes
The Myth of the Goddess: Evolution of an Image. By Anne Baring and Jules Cashford. Arkana Reprint Edition, 1993. 800 pages. ISBN: 0140192921.
The Path of the Priestess: A Guidebook for Awakening the Divine Feminine. By Sharron Rose. Inner Traditions Intl. Ltd., 2003. 304 pages. ISBN: 0892819642.
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Sakti Sadhana: Steps to Samadhi: A Translation of the Tripura Rahasya. By Pandit Rajmani Tigunait. Himalayan Institute Press, 1996. 196 pages. ISBN: 0893891401.
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Shakti, Hindu Goddess: Muslims and Shakti (The Goddess)
Shakti, Hindu Goddess: Goddess Worhsip - Tantric
Shakti, Hindu Goddess: Sakti - The Mother Goddess. By Dr. Manoshi Bhattacharya.
Sculpture - The Goddess House
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. Rituals, invocations, exercises, and magic. By Starhawk. 10th Anniversary Edition, Revised and updated. Bibliography, index, 288 pages. ISBN: 0062508148. VSCL.
The Spirit of Gardening
Tantric Visions of the Divine Feminine: The Ten Mahavidyas. By David R. Kinsley. University of California Press, 1997. 289 pages.
Tantric Yoga
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Following up on testimony before the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said it is backing off from tougher security rules for general aviation that were first proposed in October 2008.
TSA general aviation manager Brian Delauter revealed on National Public Radio (NPR) early last month that the agency now plans to collaborate more with industry on GA security measures. He told NPR that the TSA will "substantially" increase the weight of airplanes covered by a revised security plan coming out this fall.
In early December, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano testified before the Senate panel that the Large Aircraft Security Program (LASP) would undergo a makeover before it is released as a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) "before the end of 2010."
The controversial LASP was greeted with frustration and ridicule when it was made public. Under the original version, all operators of Part 91 aircraft with an mtow of more than 12,500 pounds would be required to create a TSA-approved security program, put all flight crew through FBI criminal-history background checks, compare all passengers against the TSA's watch lists and impose new restrictions on carriage of certain items in the cabin.
In 2008 the TSA said that as security on airlines gets better, terrorists might see private airplanes as easier targets. So the agency proposed tighter security rules for general aviation. In addition to requiring all passengers to be checked against terrorist watch lists, the rule would mandate costly new security programs for about 300 small airports.
Although the GA industry sent regulators thousands of complaints, arguing that the risk from terrorism is small, the DHS fears a nuclear device being brought into the U.S. via GA, small boats and over-land smuggling. But Napolitano told lawmakers that the SNPRM will incorporate the input from GA stakeholders that she claimed DHS had sought throughout the rulemaking process. "We're going to be 10 times more successful in partnership than…being combative back and forth to each other," Delauter told NPR.
TSA officials said the revised plan will "significantly reduce" the number of U.S.-registered GA aircraft subjected to tougher rules. And instead of requiring that all passengers on private aircraft be vetted against terrorist watch lists, in many cases it could be left to the pilot's discretion.
But Delauter said there is still a risk, even if there is no specific threat. This month, the TSA will convene a new general aviation advisory panel with industry representatives aimed at managing that risk.
UK Security Proposal
Meanwhile, business aviation interests are keeping watch on a proposal from the UK's Department for Transport that would establish new, binding and mandatory aviation security standards for all airports not used exclusively by the military.
Although unrelated to the Christmas attempt to bomb an airliner in the U.S., the standards would apply mandates to airports serving aircraft with an mtow
of between 33,000 pounds and 99,000 pounds for the carriage of employees and other passengers or goods as an aid to the conduct of company business.
Unless airports develop alternate measures, business aircraft would be subject to full airline-like security measures. Unlike the U.S. approach to security, which places security requirements on the aircraft operator, the UK approach appears to burden airports with security measures.
The proposal seeks comments by March 3, and NBAA is working with the British Business and General Aviation Association and the European Business Aviation Association to respond to the proposal. ͮ


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New Children's Sunshine Home website goes live
We are delighted to say that we have just launched the newest version of the Children's Sunshine Home website. The site is packed full of functionality – online shop, online donations, sponsorship pages – and lots of information about the organisation and what they are doing – events, news, how to get involved etc.
Earlier this year the Children's Sunshine Home and Laura Lynn House joined forces to build Ireland's first children's hospice. The aim is to provide families and children with life limiting illnesses with support, care and friendship. Currently the Children's Sunshine Home are in the middle of building this hospice and there is detailed information and pictures on the site.
We have really enjoyed working on this project with the team in the Children's Sunshine Home. The work that the organisation does for sick kids and their families is incredible and I would encourage you to find out more about what they do and get involved if you can.


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Holton football coach Brooks Barta had a plan to stop the vaunted pass attack of Mulvane and quarterback Ty Redington.
All it involved was playing smart and never letting Mulvane get comfortable.
"We knew that if we set in one thing they would pick us apart and figure out what we are doing," Barta said. "We have a really intelligent group of kids. We probably changed our coverage eight or nine times during the game just to give them some different looks."
The plan worked so well that Holton (13-0) cruised past Mulvane (11-2) in the Class 4A semifinals, 28-6.
Holton will play Eudora for the 4A state title next Saturday in Salina.
"We got beat by a better football team tonight," Mulvane coach Dave Fennewald said. "Tonight they were better than the Mulvane Wildcats. First quarter I thought was huge — they are jumping on that 14-point lead like that."
Mulvane entered the contest having shutout its last two opponents, and three of its last four. But Holton proved to be too physical for the Mulvane defense early on.
Holton, known for its grind-it-out, physical rushing attack, was just that. The Holton offense marched 54 yards in 12 plays on its first possession, the first 11 plays being runs.
The drive ended when Holton quarterback Jaxon Wright threw one of his two passes in the game, this one a 19-yard touchdown pass to tight end Tyler Burdiek.
The rest of the night Mulvane saw a heavy dose of Holton running backs Cameron Karn and Chase Wilson, which combined for 195 rushing yards.
"Our line… they played tremendous," Karn said. "They opened up some holes for us and we just executed really well tonight."
Karn led the way with 124 yards on 25 carries with two touchdowns, and even had an interception late in the fourth quarter.
"Cameron (Karn) has probably played the five best games of his career in the last five weeks. I think he would give credit to the guys in front of him," Barta said. "He really put his shoulder pads down and ran the ball up in there hard."
Mulvane was held to 55 yards on the ground, and didn't score until late in the fourth quarter. Redington threw for 156 yards, but most of that came on the final possession.
"Their front four really dominated the game. They would drop seven into coverage and we were just unable to run the ball against that front four," Fennewald said. "When you can drop seven into coverage and still stop the run, it's pretty hard to throw and complete passes."
Any season-ending loss is emotional, but this especially struck home for Fennewald. This senior class is among the winningest in school history, and includes Fennewald's son, Kolby, a defensive back.
"It's awfully hard, especially when you have a son in that class. It's been awfully emotional for him," Fennewald said. "They are a great bunch and I love them to death. They are going to be a hard bunch to replace. A great, great bunch of kids."
H—Burdiek 19 pass from Wright (Hampton kick)
H—Karn 19 run (Hampton kick)
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NEW YORK (Nov. 15)
The Committee for Jewish Survival claimed today that it had gathered 50,000 signatures on a petition for the ouster of the three Mizrachi (National Religious Party) ministers from the Israeli government. The Orthodox group, based in this city, has been conducting a campaign against the ministers–Yosef Burg, Zerach Warhaftig and Michael Hazani–for their failure to pass an amendment to the Law of Return which would stipulate that all conversions must be in accordance with halacha–religious law.
The petition calls on the NRP Executive to replace the ministers "with people who will adhere to the rulings of the Rabbonim and to demand the immediate resignation of their ministers until the 'Who is a Jew?' law is amended to read 'giyur kehalacha.'" Until then, the petition says, "Let it be known that the Mizrachi ministers do not represent even one Orthodox Jew."
The Committee said the petition was not aimed at the Mizrachi movement but only against the three ministers, particularly Burg, who as Minister of Interior is in charge of registering the population "and is the one who registered non-Jews as Jews." The Committee said the signatures on the petition were from Orthodox Jews "from all walks of life" and from all parts of the U.S.


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TV favourite Brian Cox has travelled the globe exploring the origins of
His new series Wonders Of Life, which starts on BBC2 on January 27,
explores the ancient links between every species on Earth.
Writing on Day 2 of an exclusive Sun series, he shows how the biology of
eyes reveals fascinating connections.
THIS eight-week old lion shares a lot in common with me — because we share a
common origin.
The first mammals appeared on Earth around 225million years ago, practically
the blink of an eye in our planet's 4.8 billion (4.8 thousand million) year
Complex animals appeared around 550 million years ago.
Before that, for more than 3,000 million years, Earth was dominated by much
simpler living things.
There are many ways that modern biologists can trace the story of the
evolution of complicated organisms, such as human beings and lions.
One of the most interesting is to follow the development of a single trait
— the classic example is the eye.
Eyes are extremely complicated, and it would seem at first glance that many of
the eyes in nature have very little in common.
The mantis shrimp has some of the most sophisticated eyes, with capabilities
that far exceed our own.
We have binocular vision, we view the world from slightly different angles as
a result of the wide spacing of our eyes, and this allows us to estimate the
distance to an object.
The mantis shrimp has compound eyes, each made up of thousands of individual
lenses, all pointing in slightly different directions. This allows each eye
to form three images from slightly different perspectives, giving it
trinocular vision and extremely accurate depth perception.
Mantis shrimps also have an extraordinarily intricate colour vision system –
humans have three-colour vision, they have 12-colour.
The reason they need such precise colour vision is not fully understood but it
is thought the ability to identify colours in the fast-changing light and
shade of the ocean helps them communicate with each other using their
brightly coloured bodies.
The evolution of sensory organs as complex as mantis shrimps' eyes, fine-tuned
with such precision to their needs, may seem difficult to explain.
In fact, startling similarities between our eyes and the mantis shrimp's
betray our common evolutionary past.
Human eyes have two types of light-sensitive cells — rods and cones.
The rods are more sensitive but only allow us to see in black and white. We
also possess three types of cones, giving us our colour vision.
All of these cells work in the same way. They use a pigment, related to
vitamin A, attached to a molecule known as an opsin.
The whole family of very similar molecules is often referred to as rhodopsin.
So in our eyes everything starts with rhodopsin.
Light enters the eye through the lens and is absorbed by rhodopsin molecules.
This causes a change in the molecules themselves, which causes an electrical
signal to be whisked off to the brain.
Then, in a slow process, the rhodopsin molecules are rebuilt, ready for the
detection of more light.
This is why it takes a while to recover from being "blinded" by a bright light
at night. It can take up to 20minutes for enough rhodopsin to be reformed to
give us back our night vision.
Here is the remarkable thing, the smoking gun that allows us to begin to
unravel the story of the evolution of vision — rhodopsin is universal.
Every eye in every animal on the planet uses rhodopsin, or closely related
molecules. This suggests a very ancient origin indeed, because there are
eyes on our planet that have arisen quite separately from each other,
separated by great swathes of evolutionary time.
To find the common ancestor of mantis shrimps and us we must go back at least
540 million years, yet we share the same basic visual machinery based on
But where did it all begin? What was our common ancestor? This resembles a
detective story, and we're led to a bizarre conclusion — rhodopsin may have
appeared on Earth a long time before animals.
In fact, there is now evidence molecules similar to rhodopsin, the basis of
all vision, first evolved in a group of organisms called cyanobacteria,
which appeared on Earth over 2.5 billion (thousand million) years ago. It's
a wonderful thought that we owe our view of the world to such ancient
If this theory is correct, you are seeing the world around you using
technology borrowed from bacteria.
If this wasn't an amazing enough thought, the story of the evolution of vision
has one last sting in its tail. The story begins with one of the most alien
animals on the planet — the octopus.
The octopus is a strange and wonderful thing. Part of the mollusc family, it
is a cousin of the slugs and snails in your garden.
With no internal skeleton, and an almost entirely soft body apart from its
beak, the octopus might appear anatomically bland, but this couldn't be
further from the truth.
Three hearts pump blue, copper-rich blood around its body, and it is so
flexible it can fit through tiny holes, as long as its eyeballs will pass
through — a useful trick when fleeing from a predatory moray eel.
As well as ejecting ink clouds to confuse predators, it is among nature's best
mimics, able to change shape and colour to disappear into the background.
Despite its bizarre appearance, the octopus is one of the most intelligent
animals on the planet.
Its brain is the size of a parrot's but two-thirds of its neurons are not
located in its brain, but in its arms, which contain "intelligence" to carry
out tasks on their own.
The octopus has a distributed intelligence totally different to our own
because it evolved completely independently, making it the closest thing to
an alien intelligence on our planet.
We do share something with the alien octopus, however.
Despite being separated by 600million years of evolution, we both have complex
eyes with lenses and light receptors based on rhodopsin and both use around
a third of our brains to process all the visual information our eyes
We are also both intelligent — so are these two things linked?
Could it be that the evolutionary advantage conferred by an efficient visual
sense is so powerful that costly increases in the sophistication of the
brain are selected over the millennia?
Some scientists think this may be so, and if so, then we have the demands of
our sophisticated eyes, and our other senses, to thank for our intelligence
and curiosity.
Today, by building telescopes and microscopes, our intelligence has allowed us
to probe worlds that would have remained forever beyond our grasp.
They have also allowed us to discover how our ability to sense the world
emerged from the oceans of ancient Earth.
This is one of the great achievements of modern science.
We now understand we share the underlying mechanisms of touch, taste, vision and
hearing with every living thing that possesses these abilities, from the
simplest bacterium cell to the alien octopus.
This allowed us to learn how our senses evolved. The story of the evolution of
the eye in particular, in all its fine detail, is one of the jewels in the
crown of the scientific method.
It connects us, we humans who can so often feel disconnected from the natural
world, directly to a web spanning all the great kingdoms of life and back
over 2 billion years to the earliest living things.
And that is truly wonderful.
– THE accompanying book to Wonders Of Life, written by Brian Cox and Andrew
Cohen, will be published next Thursday and costs £25.


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For technical reasons we installed the BW program files on a Novell NetWare server. In this configuration, BW needs about 2 minutes to start which is quite long if you have to wait for it ...
With a network packet sniffer we found that BW reads its configuration (mainly *.DBU, *.DBX and BOOKS.BNA) in one-byte-packets. This is no problem on a local hard drive with its caching mechanisms but on a network this generates a lot of overhead and causes this bad behaviour at startup even with very good network and server components.
Is there any chance for an improvement?
Thanks in advance,
Andreas Tranquillini
University of Innsbruck, Central IT Services


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LP - Thomas Comerford - II - A few years ago Kaspar Hauser front man Thomas Comerford began writing relatively quiet solo material to occupy his time during lulls in the groups schedule. He just released his second consecutive solo album II (Strange Weather) and hes clearly found a sweet spot unencumbered by a rock band. Thats not to say Comerfords solo material is stripped-down- on the new record he leads a five-piece with guests including Kent Lambert (Roommate) and Sam Wagster (Cairo Gang) and the results are far more ambitious and elegant than Kaspar Hausers scrappy tunes. The arrangements dont call attention to themselves thoughthey exist to support Comerfords soulful baritone croon which swerves confidently through the songs. The album feels like a time capsule from an alternate past as though a band of 70s Nashville malcontents had learned to harness the beauty of David Bowie in his prime. This isnt classic rock but it feels like something classic indeed. Peter Margasak Chicago Reader - Strange Weather 043C201406
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Like a lot of festival goers we had always joked around saying "wouldn't it be nice to put on our own 'perfect' festival with our favourite line up". It was only after having been to a small and intimate festival in 2005 that Simon thought to himself that we can actually make this happen and put on our own quality festival. Simon teamed up with his friend Sofia, and the kind of festival they set out to create was one where:
You won't get all the over hyped bands headlining
Most bands play longer sets than usual
You can eat a range of quality food
You can drink a range of quality beers
The staff and security care about everyone and show respect
The crowd will be there for the MUSIC
We take pride in being an independent festival.
The idea with the End of the Road Festival was to organise an intimate festival with our favourite artists and to create a festival with a friendly and relaxed feel.
The Larmer Tree Gardens (North Dorset/Wiltshire borders, UK) is the perfect venue to create this kind of atmosphere - where music-loving, open minded and chilled out people get together in the beautiful countryside whilst parrots and peacocks wander around!
This is the kind of festival where the ENTIRE line-up is the headliner in itself!
End of the Road festival takes a lot of pride in all the 'little things' that make a great festival, such as good food (organic and local where possible), good beer, caring and well-mannered staff, good site decorations, hygiene etc.
We encourage band participation in all areas of the festival, and some acts will be invited to dj, present workshops and many other things besides. The festival has the kind of atmosphere which encourages collaboration and 'special' events - in previous years we've seen acts such as I'm from Barcelona, Ed Harcourt, Josh Ritter, Herman Dune, Frida Hyvonen and Darrren Hayman all playing surprise sets in and around the festival site, as well as a few unexpected collaborations (thank you Ryan Adams who picked up the drum sticks for Jolie Holland's set, and the Brakes/Seapower/Soft Parade boys).
As one of the festival organisers is Swedish, there will also be a slight Scandinavian touch to the festival with the old Viking game Kubb that all festival goers are welcome to try out, as well as a Scandinavian showcase of up and coming Nordic talent.
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Nevada Cattle Battle "Far From Over"
Tempers are a little cooler right now after a cattle dispute in Nevada.
The Bureau of Land Management says Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy's cattle were grazing illegally on federal lands.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid says the issue is far from over.
"Well, it's not over. We can't have an American people that violate the law and just walk away from it, so it's not over."
Armed militia groups sided with Bundy when federal authorities showed up.
They were trying to round up Bundy's cattle.
Things nearly got violent between ranchers and law enforcement.
Bundy has asked local sheriff's deputies to take his side.
The standoff shut down a nearby highway.


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WASHINGTON — The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 9.8 percent in September, the highest level since June 1983, as employers cut far more jobs than expected.
The unemployment rate rose from 9.7 percent in August, matching expectations.
The report shows that the worst recession since the 1930s is still inflicting widespread pain and underscores one of the biggest threats to the nascent economic recovery: that consumers, worried about job losses and stagnant wages, will restrain spending.
Florida's unemployment rate for September will be reported Oct. 16 by the Agency for Workforce Innovation. The state's jobless rate was 10.7 percent in August, down from July's revised 10.8, state officials reported last month. Florida was one of just 16 states to post a decrease for August.
Most analysts expect the economy to continue to improve, but at a slow, uneven pace. Government stimulus efforts, such as the Cash for Clunkers auto rebates, likely boosted the economy in the July-September quarter, but economists worry that growth will slow once the impact of such programs fades.
"Consumers … are going to struggle to increase their income," said Brian Fabbri, North American chief economist for BNP Paribas. "If they're struggling, they're not consuming. That just takes some of the legs out of recovery."
The Labor Department said 571,000 of the unemployed dropped out of the work force last month, presumably out of frustration over the lack of jobs. That sent the participation rate, or the percentage of the population either working or looking for work, to a 23-year low.
Persistent joblessness could pose political problems for President Barack Obama, who pushed through an ambitious $787 billion stimulus package in February intended to "save or create" 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010.
Republicans note that job losses have continued despite the stimulus. "Wasteful government spending is not the solution to what ails this economy," said Indiana Rep. Mike Pence, chairman of the House Republican caucus.


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Mai-Kai Vintage Chairs for Sale (Hukilau Peeps & Tikiphiles, Take Note!)
Settle in and sip a Zombie
You already know that the legendary Mai-Kai Polynesian Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale is the place to go when you want to get sloshed on exotic concoctions, watch a fire dancer, or entertain out-of-towners. Well, it's also the place to decorate your apartment!
The landmark venue has been trying to sell off some vintage, tiki-inspired chairs since about a year ago, when the general manager decided it was time to upgrade.
Pia Dahlquist, director of sales & marketing -- who has been at the Mai-Kai for 20 years and whose favorite pick from the famous cocktail menu is the Mutiny -- says that
she hopes to make some sales this weekend, when tourists flock to town for the annual tiki convention the Hukilau.
The chairs cost $40 to $105 (a bargain, considering that a menu alone is going for $79.99 on eBay!) and there are plenty left, says Dahlquist. "The problem is that they're a little but costly to ship, although I have found a great shipper." Interested parties should call 954-563-3272.
Round out your decorations with some trinkets from the gift shop.
More details about the chairs are here.
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Jakob Ryan Graber-Reischl, 20, Lennox, S.D., was charged Oct. 15 with one felony count of second degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim between the ages of 13 and 15, plus two felony counts of third degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim between the ages of 13 and 15.
On Oct. 13, Morrison County deputies were dispatched to a residence to investigate a sexual assault accusation.
The officer's investigation revealed that Graber-Reischl was a guest at a residence where the victim lived. It was reported he came into the victim's room, awoke the person and when she turned over, Graber-Reischl began kissing the victim.
When the victim said "No," and tried to fight, Graber-Reischl allegedly forced her to perform a sexual act.
When finished, Graber-Reischl allegedly said, "Shush."
Graber-Reischl is more than 48 months older than the victim.
If convicted, Graber-Reischl faces a maximum penalty of 25 years in prison and/or a $35,000 fine.


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The coalition in the Senate to take a one year break from earmarking has gained the support of Senator Bob Corker (R-TN). The Hill reported yesterday that Senator Corker has withdrawn all of his earmark requests for this year. Other Senators should follow the leadership of Senator Corker and conservatives should applaud him for pulling out of the "fundamentally flawed" earmarking process.
The Hill's Blog Briefing Room reports
"I realize I am one junior senator in the minority, but given our country's fiscal condition, I could not in good conscience keep my name next to any earmark requests this year," Corker said in a statement. "It is not necessarily the overall cost of federal earmarks, which represents a very small portion of the overall budget, that poses a problem; it's the process, which is fundamentally flawed and lacks oversight."
The Hill reported that Corker had $330 million in requests. Clearly, this number will not impact the estimated $12.8 trillionin debt our nation is passing on to future generations, but it is an important first step in showing a commitment to attacking Congressional overspending. Corker joins Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Tom Coburn (R-OK), and Jim DeMint (R-SC) in the lonely fight against earmarking.
I wrote in Human Events a few weeks ago:
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has stated repeatedly that there are three parties in Washington: the Republicans; the Democrats; and the Appropriators. In the Senate, the appropriators are winning. They killed an attempt by Sen. Jim Demint (R-S.C.) to ban earmarks for a year. At least 68 Senators supported earmarking, even as our nation carries a $12.6 trillion debt.
The House Republicans have taken a temporary earmark moratorium and House Democrats have sworn off earmarks for profit making enterprises. Yet for some unknown reaon, Senate Republicans have not voted to take an earmark moratorium. Clearly there is resistance from the Appropriations Party (a bipartisan effort) to block and slow walk reform.
This week, the Senate has debated a multi-billion dollar temporary extension of unemployment benefits. Thanks to the efforts and courageous leadership of Senator Jim Bunning (R-KY) and Coburn, Congress has been forced to confront pay-as-you-go rules (PAYGO). PAYGO forces Congress to make cuts before engaging in new spending. Democrats have sought to waive PAYGO rules for the new bill that includes an extension of unemployment benefits, extends some other programs temporarily to the tune of tens of billions of your tax dollars. Bunning and Coburn have objected to this new spending until Democrats find waste in other programs to use as spending reduction offsets.
Earmark reform and PAYGO have brought fiscal discipline into focus over the past few months. Senators Corker, Bunning, Coburn and DeMint have lead the fight to rid the budget of earmarking and to force Congress to abide by PAYGO rules. Conservatives should watch members to see which ones will stand up and lead in the fight to protect taxpayer dollars.


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Enforcers of Ohio's new smoking ban have heard about 200 complaints a day accusing business of allowing people to light up or leaving out ashtrays.
The complaints, which have been mostly against bars, have been coming into the Ohio Department of Health's toll-free hot line since May 3, when the ban started against smoking a most public indoor locations. In a little over three weeks, the state received 4,251 complaints, Health Department spokesman Bret Atkins said.
Most complaints were about businesses where smoking has continued, but some calls reported "no smoking" signs were not displayed properly.
Summit County Health Commissioner Gene Nixon warned that a complaint does not prove a violation occurred.
"This is a completely unverified list," he said of the 220 complaints in the county, including 164 from Akron.
Health Department spokesman Kristopher Weiss said he thinks compliance is generally going well.
Once a complaint has been lodged, the state Health Department notifies county authorities, who send a written notice with the details of the allegation.
Businesses have 30 days to comply and risk fines ranging from $100 for a second violation to $2,500 for five or more infractions. No fines have been assessed yet because the enforcement is less than 30 days old.
"If they're basically snubbing their noses at us and continue to allow smoking, that's when the fines begin," said Terry Tuttle, the Summit County Health Department's director of environmental services.
In Allen County in northwest Ohio, some warnings have been sent out and some investigations have started, said Bill Kelly, the Health Department's environmental director.
He believes most places want to comply with the ban and will end up following the law, he said.
Charlotte Parsons, health commissioner in neighboring Auglaize County, said her office has received multiple complaints against some locations.
"We have a few holdouts that have been reluctant to confront patrons and ask them to stop smoking," she said.
Voters approved the smoking ban in November, but enforcement didn't begin until May to give officials a chance to finalize the rules and outline a complaint and punishment procedure. In the interim, state health officials received more than 17,000 reports alleging violations.


text: Hello, In AA's original "The Negative", there are several examples where he used Amidol + water bath to bring up the low-values in a negative, and control the overall contrast. I have also seen prints by E. Weston where the shadows are open, detailed, and 'glowing', whereas Brett's prints form Edwards' negatives have jet-black, and featureless shadows. AA goes on to say that the technique doesn't work well with modern (circa 70s) emulsions. The question is how does one get that effect with modern (FP4+/Tri-X/Delta) films? I'd like to avoid Pyro-based solutions because of the staining variable (i'm doing mainly 6x6cm for b&w these days, which has to be enlarged), but am open to suggestions. Thanks.


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lol nothing Nisio does surprises me these days, smh @ the latest Hitagi info from the newest bake novel lol.
Also like _kurusu_ said top 5 bitches. (Or 6th if Naruto counts, whateva still good).
Naruto (Cover, Lead Color)
One Piece
Kuroko no Basket
Beelzebub (Color)
Medaka Box
Succeed (Oneshot color)
Inumaru Dashi
Enigma (Color)
Sket Dance
Nurarihyon no Mago
Light Wing
And 23 pages for Issue 50.
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Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
I would also expect a Medaka Box anime to be announced not long after the Kumagawa arc is finished... its sales are not that far off from Beezlebub and Sket Dsnce the two latest JUMP mangas to get an anime and it would be a great way to push the manga sales even more.
Zaregoto and Medaka Box for late 2011/early 2012... believe!
|2010-11-02, 12:35
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I'll end it before April.
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For the next chapter :
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|2010-11-02, 16:09
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Final Elysium
Join Date: Jun 2008
Finally broke into the top 5. Very great job this week and I think its time to start heating up that crow for several people as we move forward.
Westlo would know better than me whether Zaregoto is showing signs of being animated or not.
|2010-11-02, 16:24
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|2010-11-02, 17:42
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|2010-11-02, 22:36
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I can help but wonder about the entirety of what Misogi and Zenkichi's connection with Aijimi is.
"Someone once said One's life is Plus-Minus-Zero"
My guess is that Aijimi was the Plus who once said that.
If this whole deal with Aijimi comes up in the future (which it probably will). I hope to see Zenkichi and Misogi throw down again. And maybe we'll learn about what happened between Misogi and Aijimi in Middle School. Hopefully that'll shed some light on where Zenkichi stands on the Abnormal listing.
|2010-11-08, 01:55
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Lets be reality
Join Date: May 2007
OTOH maybe Nisio won't allow an anime unless all of it is guarantee to be animated (I'm kinda hoping the Umineko creator had that clause...) and at 9 volumes filled mostly with dialogue (riveting though it is) it may be a hard sell to otaku to be profitable. Andrew Cunningham of Eastern Standard Blog which reviews a lot of light novels and stuff thinks it's impossible to animate Zaregoto for some reason... I'll try and find that post when I asked him...
Also Bakemonogatari definitely had Otaku appeal, it's kinda like Narita's Baccano! and Durrara!!, the former is considering the better light novel series but the later has otaku and fangirl appeal and has fared far better in anime. So while Baccano will probably never get another animated project DRR is going to have quite a few sequels...
No idea why Katanagatari got one before Zaregoto though.. seems to be Nisio's worst received series...
|2010-11-08, 05:05
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Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Age: 28
Is it alright to use the current discussion to spout off about Nishio's works/anime? I read the spoilers in this thread, but don't check out raws or early translations, so I've got nothing to contribute on that end of the discussion. Anyway though, I picked up the two Zaregoto novels Del Rey did fairly recently, and with that and how Medaka's just been getting awesomer and awesomer recently, I think I've finally been converted into a genuine Nishio fan, so I kinda wanted to talk about his stuff I guess.
Then to start off maybe with Bakemonogatari, which I watched because I am far and away pretty much solely a Shaft fanboy in terms of anime; however ultimately I felt like that series was 99% otaku pandering (though I can certainly appreciate that on some level: hot damn Nadeko hnnnngh etc.), while the conflict/plot basically revolved around "dangerously sexy fox lady (err...high school student rather) comes onto loser nice guy". As a result, its dramatic/emotional shallowness versus its connection to my favourite studio is kinda conflicting for me. As a core plot/concept I actually kinda feel like it is the worst of Nishio's series which, aside from offering me the chance to (sometimes uncomfortably) be pandered to, is mainly only notable to me because of the gorgeous animation Shaft seems to pour into it.
Then there's Katanagatari, which is turning out to be an awesome OVA series maybe because it has the benefit of getting to trim the fat from the mass produced novels. The animation is average to amazing in utilizing Take's artstyle so I guess that's probably why Whitefox would be getting Zaregoto, it delivers on fanservice in a smutty way almost as deliciously as Bakemonogatari does, and more importantly than that it provides dramatic tension on a basic level much more effectively 'cause the series is essentially a tragedy, in contrast to the 'help everybody'/pseudo-harem nature of Bake. The original material/adaptation though is still kinda rough around the edges in a few places so it hadn't really made me a fan beyond the context of that one project.
Zaregoto was kinda mind-blowing though. Damn impressive series, as much for the convoluted mysteries which seem to be the main feature of each novel as for the fascinating themes/characterization which tie into them. However entertaining the read, though, and perhaps this just jumped out at me more because I read the first book after the second one, it quickly became somewhat obvious how this was Nishio's first book/series with bullshit unresearched ideas like how the supposed most advanced operating system in the world required 'terabytes' of RAM to operate and his presumptuous Afterword talk about 'genius'. So while the Zaregoto novels contain some pretty interesting intellectual exercises with its tendency for characters which are 'absolute existences', it does come off as a bit arrogant.
In that sense, Medaka Box is actually probably my favourite Nishio series/work/adaptation right now (out of the four that I am aware of being available in English?), because while it did start off with a dumb/unrealistic/devoid-of-dramatic-tension premise i.e. 'amazing perfect girl wants to make the entire world happy' it has quickly turned into a similar playground for clashes of absolute personalities, except this time, the events/personalities are intentionally ridiculous/hilariously absurd as opposed to managing to be unintentionally absurd in a failed attempt at being impressive (the aforementioned terabytes of RAM thing). Zaregoto will no doubt prove to be the more complex/interesting/emotionally gripping work once more of the novels come out but for now I am simply loving Medaka for its absurdity and audacity. The idea of anime adaptations for either of them is an exciting prospect (though they could well both turn out to be mediocre, but with the awesome source material, who cares?) as well. >.> Well yeah, I guess I just wanted to get some Nishio fan-gushing out.
Good stuff folks. Oh, I guess the other reason I wanted to type this up was to encourage people to check out the other stuff as well, it's all pretty awesome.
|2010-11-08, 08:06
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The Shermain
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: NY
Age: 38
I've only seen two pieces of Nishio works. I've read this and I've watched the Bakemonogatari anime. For me, Bakemonogatari is leagues above Medaka Box. I find it funnier (to me, it's more naturally funny instead of feeling forced), I like the characters more, as they seem to be more fleshed out and developed, and I think I just like the premise more. Plus, Senjougahara has quickly become my favorite Tsundere of all time. I also think I like how, while it has it's absurd things, it's over all more serious in tone and doesn't completely destroy my suspension of disbelief every chapter like MB does.
But, everyone has different tastes, even among works of the same author.
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Actress Nicole Kidman has revealed her shock and heartache when her husband of 10 years, Tom Cruise, announced he was leaving her.
"I thought our life together was perfect," Kidman told DuJour magazine.
The 45-year-old Australian star said she pleaded with Cruise to stay but he refused.
'It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system."
Not only was it a shock, but there was no explanation beyond "Nic knows why," the article continues.
In the interview with the magazine, Kidman says her and Cruise lived "in a bubble, just the two of us" and when they split, it was very difficult.
Kidman married the Hollywood superstar in 1990 when she was just 23, and said she was "totally smitten" and "would have gone to the ends of the earth for him."
Since then she has matured greatly and says that since her marriage to country music singer, Keith Urban, and birth of her two daughters, she is the happiest she has ever been.


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Four St. Kate's students from Africa gathered in a room at the campus student center to talk about this decidedly American holiday.
Ramatoulie Jallow is from Gambia, Aba Reindorf is from Ghana, Maureen Kirimi is from Kenya and Joanne Kabajungu is from Uganda.
Two of the students are working on degrees in the medical field, and two are pursuing studies in business and finance.
They're set to celebrate this American Thanksgiving Day in different ways. Reindorf and Jallow are going to visit their extended families in the U.S. Kirimi and Kabajunga are spending time with host families in the Twin Cites.
And while a big Turkey dinner with all the trimmings may be a different experience for them, a celebration to offer thanks is not.
Thanksgiving reminds Aba Reindorf of Farmer's Day, a holiday in her native Kenya.
"We don't have a specific food that we eat, but it's supposed to celebrate the farmers who are the main workers in Ghana," Reindor said. "It's like a potluck where people bring different kinds of food. All the men are going to buy the food the night before, and the women wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning and cook until 10 o'clock. Then people start trickling in at noon and stay until 12 o'clock at night."
For Reindorf and these three young women from Africa, the thought of setting aside one day a year, to really concentrate on giving thanks, seems a bit odd.
Ramatoulie Jallow said in her country, giving thanks is something you do everyday.
"In Gambia you're taught to always show gratitude for whatever anyone ever does for you," Jallow said. "So basically it's something we do every single day of our lives."
Maureen Kirimi agreed.
"With the Thanksgiving holiday I think ... this is a good thing," Kirimi said. "People have decided to make this one a holiday and say thank you. But at home I feel like we do that all the time."
Joanne Kabajungu said in Uganda, there's no particular day set aside for Thanksgiving.
"Sometimes these things come up randomly, say a friend has bought a new car," Kabajungu said. "You get together and celebrate that, and then you go away, there's nothing like Thanksgiving Day."
But the students admit their American Thanksgivings are actually so similar to family celebrations back home, that it can make them a bit homesick. But in the end, they do their best to enjoy the celebration, even though they're not home.
Maureen Kirimi said sometimes at an American Thanksgiving celebration she feels alone, even though she's in a crowded room.
"Even if you're in the moment for 10 minutes or 20 minutes ... you're engaging and talking having that connection, you immediately have a quick flashback," Kirimi said. "It would be great if I was there with them. That's when you also appreciate the people you have there with you."
Joanne Kabajungu is going to spend Thanksgiving with her host family in the Twin Cities, a celebration that reminds her of home.
"My host mom is one of the best cooks ever, so we are going to have the traditional American turkey dinner," she said. "I cook with her, it reminds me a bit of my mom. It's really neat."
Ramatoulie Jallow is flying to Atlanta to visit her aunt and younger sister, which also reminds her of home.
"Because they're all from Gambia as well," Jallow said. "So we cook our own traditional foods that I don't get to see at college that much. And I get to speak my own native language.
"For me I really look forward to those holidays where I get to spend time with extended family. I'm reminded of my own nuclear family," Jallow said. "It's always nice to be surrounded by people who are from the same culture or who understand you."
The four international students said after they graduate from St. Kate's they want to someday return to Africa to use what they've learned to help their countries. And they all said what they'll take from their American Thanksgivings is a new appreciation of celebrations with their own families.


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UNOFFICIAL Observer, the man who wrote "The New Dealers," discusses the racial complexion of the able lawyers in Washington, most of them students of Prof. Felix Frankfurter, who are contributing their intelligence, training and learning to the New Deal. There are now, he informs us, between seventy-five and one hundred young lawyers in Washington who studied under Frankfurter at the Harvard Law School, not all of them necessarily Jews, nor all necessarily recommended by him. Mr. Observer continues:
The fact that so many liberal lawyers are Jews has succeeded in giving an accidentally Semitic cast of countenance to the legal front of the New Deal, which has produced ominous mutterings in the political hinterland and which in part precipitated the quarrel between Peek and Tug well in the Department of Agriculture, Peek having raised the racial issue by the assertion that visiting farmers and business men from the West and South complained about the Jewish lawyers they had to deal with.
"Although the Peek blow-off was insignificant, Frank [Jerome Frank, Chicago liberal lawyer], having been so scrupulous in that regard that only three of four of his staff of a hundred attorneys in the A.A.A. [Agriculture Adjustment Administration] were members of that gifted international race, the fact is that Roosevelt is making use of Jewish brains exactly where and how they should be used. He is using them not because they are Jewish but because they are brains. The Jewish contribution to the New Deal is, therefore, precisely that specialized intelligence which makes other races fear them when they are treated as a separate community. For Roosevelt has discovered what the English have known since the day of Disraeli, that the Jew is a . . . superb partner in any bold enterprise."
One of the things to bear in mind about many of the men who are at the right and the left of President Roosevelt in his efforts to organize these United States on the lines of the New Deal is that they are not there because they are Jews and they are not there only because they are brains, but, partly and in many cases for the most part, because they helped Roosevelt win the nomination for President and they helped him win the election. Felix Frankfurter, for example, has the power in the Administration which he has because he worked for Roosevelt among the liberals, when all the liberals were being divided among the candidacies of Al Smith, Newton Baker, Governor Ritchie and others.
One of the reasons why Bernard Baruch is listed among "Fallen Angels" is this book, and in the Roosevelt line-up, or set-up, is that he was not loyal to Roosevelt during the pre-convention campaign and also, this on the word of Observer, that he has no real understanding of or sympathy with the Roosevelt program. We are informed that every president from Wilson on has consulted Baruch.
Observer regards Roosevelt's failure to use Baruch as one of the greatest wastes of brains and energy and skill in the United States. But the fact is Baruch is regarded as only a hitch-hiker on the New Deal wagon.
"He has an intuitive mind, but behind that and his tremendous pose of authority, there lurks what used to be known in the Hoover period as an inferiority complex. He wants so terribly to be known as something more than a speculator. He bas studied orthodox economics and finance in an effort to make up for his lack of a thorough formal education, and, like many self-educated men, has an all but Biblical aspect for what he has taught himself."
Ernst Toller, in his autobiography, "I Was a German," has stated the puzzlement of the German Jew in the face of the present crisis in Germany with such succinctness, with such force and with such poetry that I am taking the liberty of quoting those paragraphs in full, as something in the nature of an index to the hundreds of similar expressions that have come from those Jews in Germany who had believed themselves assimilated.
"I thought of my own childhood, of my misery when the other children shouted 'Dirty Jew!' at me, of my childish appeal to the picture of Christ, of my terrible joy when I realized that nobody would recognize me for a Jew; of the first day of the war and my passionate longing to prove that I was a real German by offering my life to my country; of my writing form the Front to the authorities to say that they could strike my name from the list of the Jewish community. Had it all been for nothing? Had it all been wrong? Did I not love Germany with all my heart? Had I not stood in the rich beauty of the Mediterranean landscape and longed for the austere pine-woods, for the beauty of the still, secret lakes of North Germany? And was not the German language my language, the language in which I felt and thought and spoke a part of my very being?
"But was I not also a Jew? A member of that great race that for centuries had been persecuted, harried, martyrized and slain; whose prophets had called the world righteousness, had exalted the wretched and oppressed, then and for all time, a race who had never bowed their heads to their persecutors, who had preferred death and dishonor. I had denied my own mother and I was ashamed. It is an indictment of society at large that a child should have thus been driven to deception.
"But was I an alien because of all this? Is blood to be the only test? Does nothing else count at all? I was born and brought up in Germany; I had breathed the air of Germany and its spirit had molded mine; as a German writer I had helped to preserve the purity of the German language. How much of me was German, how much Jewish? I could not have said.
"All over Europe an infuriated nationalism and ridiculous pride was raging–must I too participate in the madness of this epoch? Wasn't it just this madness that had made me turn Socialist?–my belief that Socialism would eliminate not only class hatreds but also national hatreds?
"The words, 'I am proud to be a German' or 'I am proud to be a Jew,' sounded ineffably stupid to me. As well say, 'I am proud to have brown eyes.'
"Must I then join the ranks of the bigoted and glorify my Jewish blood now, not my German? Pride and love are not the same thing, and if I were asked where I belonged I should answer that a Jewish mother had borne me, that Germany had nourished me, Europe had informed me, my home was the earth, and the world my fatherland.


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Guardian Media, which owns The Guardian and Observer newspapers, is offering 180p a share, a 29% premium on Friday's 139.5p closing price.
Paul Myners, chairman of Guardian Media, said the bid will give Jazz FM the economies of scale it needs to compete effectively in the UK radio industry.
Guardian Media already owns 18.5% of Jazz FM and said it had struck an agreement with US media group Clear Channel International, which owns 30.9% of the station.
"This, together with Guardian Media's excellent track record of managing radio stations, will benefit the business and its employees. The offer gives Jazz FM shareholders full and fair value, liquidity and certainty. We have made contact with the board of Jazz FM and are seeking their recommendation of the offer," Myners said.
The 12-year-old radio station broadcasts jazz, blues and soul music in London and the North-West. In 2001, it made a pre-tax profit of £134,000.
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