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Anything that looks like a miniature, happy Chewbacca just has to be awesome—and sloths do not disappoint. From tooth to poo pellet, the creatures of Order Pilosa, Suborder Folivora are as strange and fascinating as they are adorable.
1. They don't actually sleep all that much
It is true that sloths are very still for most of the day. But that's more about self-defense than laziness. The sloth mission statement can be summed up as, essentially, "Avoid being eaten by eagles." Seriously, it's a problem.
"There's no real defense against something that's willing to dive bomb a tree, flip upside down and grab you off a vine," said Donald E. Moore, Ph.D., associate director of animal care at Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington, D.C. "You're really better off if they just don't see you."
To that end, sloths have picked up a couple of useful adaptations. First, they're covered in a unique sort of fur that's an ideal breeding ground for algae. Second, they're able to spend most daylight hours immobile and, when they do move, it's usually very, very slowly. The result: From the air, sloths look more like green vegetation than tasty, meaty eagle snack.
So how do we know they aren't sleeping that whole time? Research. In fact, brown-throated three-toed sloths were the first animal species to have its sleeping habits studied in the wild, said Bryson Voirin, a doctoral student with the Max Planck Institute.
In 2008, Voirin was part of a team that found some wild sloths only sleep a little more than nine hours a day. To do the study, the researchers had to catch sloths, then implant electrodes just below the skin of the animals' scalps. A tiny hard drive—epoxied to each sloth's head like a hat—recorded brainwaves associated with sleep and wake cycles. The animals were also outfitted with standard radio collars. For two weeks, the sloths lived as naturally as one can with a hard drive glued to one's head. Then, the researchers picked the sloths back up, took out the electrodes and detached the electronics. The recorded brainwave data offered the sort of insight on when subjects were sleeping and when they were awake that Santa Claus only wishes he could access.
2. They're smart--and fast
Just because sloths usually move slowly, doesn't mean they're physically limited to a snail's pace. Donald Moore has first-hand experience with just how fast these creatures can go, when they really want.
One female took a dislike to me. I'm one of the only sloth biologists who's been bitten," he said. "They can use their big claws and slash out. But what she did was run at me, upside down along a vine, as fast as a cat would run along the floor. She grabbed me and pulled my hand to her mouth and then bit. It all happened very quickly."
Luckily for Moore, most of the sloths he's worked with have liked him. Some even took to grooming him. His experiences demonstrate how sloths really can tell individual humans apart from one another, and have individual personalities themselves. Social interaction isn't the only way sloths show their intelligence.
"There was a researcher in the 1930s and '40s who did vine- and rope-based maze testing with sloths and showed that they have the same level of cognitive function as a cat in a maze on the ground," Moore said.
3. Most of them can't survive in zoos
There are six species of sloths—four species of three-toed sloths and two of the two-toed variety. Of those, only the two-toed species are frequently found in zoos. It comes down to an issue of movement and diet. In the wild, two-toed sloths move more than 40 meters a day through the treetops, said Moore. Three-toed sloths move much less.
The result: Two-toers have a more varied diet—enjoying everything from lettuce, to boiled yams, to grapes. (They really, really love grapes.)
Meanwhile, other sloths eat almost nothing but parts of the Cecropia tree. Such picky eaters aren't easy animals for zoos to take care of, but it has been done. The Dallas World Aquarium, for instance, has the only three-toed sloth on display in the United States. They make it work, Moore said, because that particular three-toed sloth is very comfortable with humans—and because there are Cecropia trees in the parking lot.
"The keepers were able to take them out once a day, before the zoo opened, and let them eat from the trees in planters," he said.
4. They're in a league of their their own
Sloths evolved in South America and, for most of their existence, that continent wasn't connected to any others. They're very old—their family tree, which also includes anteaters and armadillos, diverged from the rest of the mammals some 75-80 million years ago, when South America was still joined to Africa. They're also pretty strange.
"Even the animals they're most closely related to, anteaters and armadillos, are as different from sloths as whales are from bats," Moore said.
Among the many sloth oddities is a very slow metabolism. They have the lowest body temperature of any mammal, Moore said, and they only use the bathroom once a week. That last bit has the added benefit of protecting them from predators, because their regular bathroom break is the only time sloths leave the trees. Even weirder, their digestive system is similar to a cow's, with a specialized, multi-chambered stomach that allows them to fully process leaves.
"When dogs eat leaves, they come out relatively whole. When sloths eat leaves, they come out as little pellets at the end of the week," Moore said.
Their teeth are also on the funky side. Sloths have no incisors, and no canines. Instead, they have what are called caniniform molars—conical teeth that look like triangles in cross section. From his personal experience, Moore can vouch for the fact that every side of that triangle is razor sharp.
Even the way sloths store fat is unique. Most mammals have fat deposits tucked around their bodies. Sloths, however, don't seem to, according to Moore. He's never seen an obese sloth and, in autopsies, the only place he's ever found any sign of a fat deposit is on the pads of their feet.
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59 Responses to "Four fun facts about sloths"
sky says:
My favourite sloth fact (from Perth Museum's display): sloths can swim breaststroke and backstroke, depending on which way they fall into the water.
Depending on which way they fall into the water!
The same display also informs me that sloths (or perhaps the particular kind of sloth on display) are useless on a flat surface, and can only pull themselves along with their toes.
nehpetsE says:
Tom Hale,I promise you, i quick image search will reveal pics many animals(in addition to sloths and missionaries) having sex "missionary style"
Anonymous says:
Sloths are the most awesome animals on the planet!
Anonymous says:
Sloths have an interesting cousin too: armadillos. Those who want to know more can check out my book at http://dillos.us
Anonymous says:
hee… now that I've been reading up & watching tons of videos on sloths for the last 20 minutes (!)… here's a funny alpha roméo commercial with the main character being a cute sloth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA_OEmf1mdo
Anonymous says:
SLOTHS ARE AWESOME!!! Ice Age explains Sid the sloth as an average speed animals.
Muloka says:
Photosynthetic Sloths of Amazonia
Kaz says:
is it just mean, or do sloths freak anyone else out? I mean, the slowness.. the long arms and long claws… I know they're just waiting for their chance to spring at me and rip my throat out…
nehpetsE says:
In evolutionary terms, it makes sense that a remarkably slow metabolism would be an alternate solution to storing fat.
I also wonder how if the low body temperature could be a factor in how it metabolizes dietary fat.
ie Human core temperature is above the melting point of butter, but do humans assimilate fats which have a melting point of 110 degrees Fahrenheit?
nehpetsE says:
Has NASA ever experimented on sloths?
I NEED to know how an animal with its entire circulatory system designed to function upside down reacts physically to prolonged living at zero Gs.
EricIndiana says:
How do you know so much about sloths? They seem like wonderful creatures. It sounds like the one who bit the researcher did it was a warning – actually reaching out, grabbing his arm & biting him seems like the way a human would do it.
Terry Karney says:
nephetsE: Beef fat (tallow) has a melting point of 104-114F
Leaf Lard has a melting point of 109-118F
Suet (the hard fat around the kidneys: usually of cattle) has a melting point of 113-122F
Sheep fat melts at 113-130F.
Suet congeals at 99-104F.
The harder fats are harer to digest, because the breakdown requires digestive acids to do the work, but they are digestible (though it helps to have them in conjunction with other food which slow the process and do keep them in the got for a longer period of time.
nehpetsE says:
Your response is exactly why i love Boingboing
ill lich says:
I always thought the slowness was due in part to their diet, which either didn't give them enough energy, or in some cases had natural toxins that slowed down their metabolism.
Anonymous says:
"tiny hard drive—epoxied to each sloth's head like a hat"
Anonymous says:
I remember seeing sloths way up the Amazon River……and actually 'petting' one in Manaus (in captivity). They are amazing creatures and have fascinated me ever since.
Nylund says:
The sloth in Dallas that they mention is completely out in the open, not in a cage or anything. One could touch it quite easily (I don't know the official policy on touching though) Those claws were enough for me to keep my hands away from it though!
I highly recommend going to the Dallas World Aquarium if you're ever in Dallas. Now I want to stake out the parking lot.
Ghede says:
Hmm. I remember reading about a species of sloth with genitalia in pairs. Like an electrical socket. I can't find mention of it again. Was it BS, or am I just not finding that specific species of sloth on wikipedia?
Anonymous says:
Oh, Sloths and their fur-algae. That got me marked down on a paper in 3rd grade. We had to pick a rain forest animal to research and write about. I picked sloths. I did a fuck ton of research, at least for a 10 year old. I wrote about the algae on their fur that protected them from predators because that was SO COOL.
My idiot teacher thought I made it up, and marked me down for it.
The next months National Geographic? Yeah, it had a story about THAT EXACT FACT. Which I then brought in and threw on her desk. I totally served her.
She never did mark me back up for that. Bitch.
Moriarty says:
They use bathrooms?!?
Anonymous says:
LOL. Such a nice comment.
mister-o says:
no, only 'the' bathroom
Anonymous says:
water rises 50′ in rainy season….sloths swim underwater ,eating for long periods.
nobody looked in that season, only after scuba and video has it been seen.
and they're fast!
Anonymous says:
This is a poem I just learned(I'm in 5th grade).
The Sloth by Bobbi Katz
A living cradle in my tree,
It's usually snoozle time for me.
A bag of fur with hooks for toes,
That's the way a sloth's life goes.
I nibble on a leaf or two,
It's such slow work to chew and chew.
My eyes spy a slice of sky,
The wind sings me a lullaby.
Softly my eyes close and then,
I drift off to sleep again.
Let the monkeys leap and run,
My lifestyle's not for everyone.
I'm not as lazy as I seem,
I have so many dreams to dream,
So very many dreams to dream.
Halloween Jack says:
I knew that those claws weren't just for show.
RainyRat says:
I can't remember where I read it, but my favourite sloth fact is that when the babies are learning to climb, they'll occasionally mistake their own limbs for bits of tree, grab onto them and plummet groundwards.
stosh machek says:
i learned when playing paintball how remarkably hard to see you can be if you just sit still
Jerril says:
It gets even better if you grow your own ghillie suit :D Which is what sloth's algae-stained shaggy mess is, really.
complex says:
One of my fond Bio-class memories is the rapturous look on a professor's face as he recounted the privilege of being present for an extremely rare sloth dump.
I remember him as saying that this species of sloth (whatever species that was) only took a dump once a year, but that's probably my memory's exaggeration. But I know he was very happy to have been there for it. Probably an important sample-collection event.
Lobster says:
Of course they didn't sleep well with a chip on their skull and a whirring hard drive glued to their head!
Anonymous says:
so, this is extremely disturbing to hear that scientists are epoxying hard drives to the sloths! that is wack and i feel that this is actually against what a true, earthen scientist is. /i heard there is this kind of shit happening to puffins in the Arctic regions.
Anonymous says:
Come on. It's awesome and cute at the same time, chill out. Beetles live on sloths – I don't think a tiny hard drive will give them much grief.
Come to think of it, SSDs would be better.
Anonymous says:
"he's ever found any sign of a fat deposit is on the pads of their feet."
Ah yes, as with most mammals,
The best meat is on the feet.
nemofazer says:
One of Douglas Adams' favourite facts (and by extension, one of mine):
Young sloths will sometimes try to grab their own limbs mistaking them for tree branches, and fall out.
From the Salmon of Doubt.
nemofazer says:
Sorry rainyrat, only just noticed you remembered the same fact. So here's another. According to David Attenborough, they will slowly climb down a tree to defecate on the forest floor, then climb back up. No one's quite sure why.
phlavor says:
My canoe tour guide in Costa Rica seemed pretty certain that they bury their poo to prevent getting smelled out and eaten by jaguars.
Anonymous says:
Maybe the sloth realize that it is more polite to have people step in it that to have it drop from above and never figure out where it came from?
EMJ says:
Three less fun sloth facts:
The maned sloth is an endangered species.
The majority of sloth deaths in Costa Rica are due to contact with electrical lines and poachers.
"Sloths as pets"
Felton says:
So unfair that they're one of the seven deadly sins.
SamSam says:
I know, and such a boring deadly sin too. Stay away from Wraths and Lusts, though — those creatures can really do some damage to you…
Felton says:
Heheh! Not to mention pride, which must be a lion.
semiotix says:
Regarding the anecdote above, I think I could handle being a sloth researcher who got attacked by a sloth. But I don't think I could handle being the sloth researcher who got attacked by a sloth and then had to tell the EMT, "It all happened so fast!"
voivoed says:
I'm from Brazil and I've always been told that sloths can really mess you up with those claws.
When I was a kid, a relative of mine lived right by some woods and there was this one sloth that used to come down from the trees and walk around on the ground around the development. It was pretty friendly but I always kept a safe distance. Those claws were wicked-looking. :-|
Anonymous says:
AWWE IM AT SCHOOL HAHA DOIN A REPORT ON SLOTHS LOL:)(: I JUST ♥ "~SLOTHS~"…♥<3
teknocholer says:
I could climb the very highest Himalayas,
Be among the greatest ever tennis players,
Win at chess or marry a Princess or
Study hard and be an eminent professor.
I could be a millionaire, play the clarinet,
Travel everywhere,
Learn to cook, catch a crook,
Win a war then write a book about it.
I could paint a Mona Lisa,
I could be another Caesar.
Compose an oratorio that was sublime.
The door's not shut on my genius but
I just don't have the time!
Flanders & Swann: "The Sloth" from "The Bestiary of Flanders and Swann"
al91206 says:
Not a "fun" fact: Most of them can't survive in zoos.
Just wondering how many sloths had to die to figure that one out?
PaulR says:
They have "conical teeth that look like triangles in cross section". Like Ferengi teeth?
Anonymous says:
I've read that due to their slow metabolism sloths can remain submerged for long periods of time, when caught in rivers during floods for instance. I believe it was something on the order of 10-20 minutes straight.
charlesj says:
Great, a pretext to share my only sloth joke:
A sloth is making his way through the forest when he is attacked by a gang of snails. After fighting them off, he goes to the police station to report the assault. The policeman asks him to describe the attackers, and he replies: "I didn't see much, it all happened so fast."
MacSmiley says:
*** The photo on this page is credited by flickrfavorites to Kewlwallpapers.com **
Here's the 1600×1200 version with the watermark in the upper left corner:
Of course, who knows where Kewlwallpapers.com got the image.
Suburbancowboy says:
More fun facts about sloths:
They sleep 18 hours, but they always party 24.
Hunt in packs and they eat algae off their fur.
Got 3 toes, but they'll pound 3000 Bud Lights.
noah django says:
I was going to mention that they hire dogs to burn down hospitals, but I see you've already cited my source.
So odd that I looked up this sketch again only a few days ago. Hivemind.
Dave Bullock (eecue) says:
Love the SNL skit, so awesome. Was just about to post it.
Anonymous says:
YES!! Love the SNL skit – I hadn't seen that. So great, thank you.
Anonymous says:
and they can be debauched: http://evesalexandria.typepad.com/eves_alexandria/2008/06/jack-you-have-d.html
AsteriskCGY says:
Woah, an eagle can flip upside down to grab prey?
leeson says:
my wife is from the jungles of la moskitia in central america and had a sloth for a pet. She said, and her father confirmed, that they spend "a part of their life living in water and when they come out they look and smell horrible. They turn completely green." To her it was a kind of metamorphosis. I didn't believe her at all but apparently they don't mind the water?
Cactaur says:
Morbid curiosity, but after reading I had to check youtube. In this case the eagle went sideways rather than upside down.
Tom Hale says:
I know I've read somewhere that sloths are the only animal other than man that has sex face to face – has this been mentioned?


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Elaine Blaisdell
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KEYSER, W.Va. — During the Mineral County Development Authority meeting on Tuesday, Chad Lindsay, president of the Mineral County Firefighters Association, requested a space in the Fort Ashby Industrial Park for a burn building to train firefighters.
Dave Boden, authority president, said the use of building would bring people into the park, would be good for economic development and it would put the park "on the map."
"I think from our perspective, that's a big plus that we should not undersell," said Boden. "I hope you are busy and other counties know and use it."
Lindsay indicated a burn building was imperative to the training of firefighters.
"The better equipped, the better training and the more efficient we make our firemen, the better chance we have of saving your house," said Lindsay. "We need this to make our firemen superior trained so they can do their job."
The building, which would simulate conditions in a structure fire, would likely be located on 3.1 acres in the park.
"The lot they are interested in the industrial park is a subprime lot. It's not ideal for commercial development," said Jerry Whisner, authority member.
Several authority members spoke in favor of Lindsay's request.
"One good thing about this from an economic standpoint, from a business standpoint, we will have fire companies coming in from all over the area. They will be stopping at the restaurants in the area," said Whisner. "To me it sounds like a win-win situation."
The authority and Lindsay were in agreement that the park is in a central location for the firefighters.
"We like that spot for the simple fact that it's a central location for everybody that wants to use it," said Lindsay. "We are trying to use the lot to save ourselves some money."
Currently, Allegany County is paid to do the pump testing on Mineral County's fire trucks and the facility would allow the testing to be done in-house, according to Lindsay.
Lindsay is proposing that the building would likely be made of concrete with the possibility of expansion in five years. Lindsay estimates that the structure can be built for $150,000 with the aid of grants.
The Keyser Industrial Park was suggested as a possible location for the burn building but for some it was too far to travel for training.
"We have a lot entities interested in this if we put it in the Fort Ashby end," said Lindsay.
Mona Ridder, MCDA executive director, indicated that she spoke with Chris Liller, who is a tennant in the park, and he voiced concerns about smoke and frequency in which the building would be used. Lindsay indicated that fog machines are used to create smoke.
"There is not a bunch of smoke, we aren't burning wood," said Lindsay. "It's illegal to burn manmade products, so we don't do that. You don't see real smoke anymore unless there is a house burning."
The building would be located on the lower portion of the lot and would be obstructed from view of other areas in the park, according to Whisner.
The association will be liable for the insurance associated with the building, according to Lindsay.
Terry Liller, authority member, said the only downside he saw to the request was the potential for the public to misunderstand the purpose of the burn building.
"It might mean we have to explain the nature of it to someone who is coming in," said Liller.
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Bids for the demolition of the former Horace Mann Grade School are expected to be sought.
The school was deeded to the city for $1, by District 80 Schools in 2002, after the consolidation into the Primary Center, J.L. Buford Intermediate Center and Casey Middle School. For a short time, the facility was used as a community center, was a meeting place for the Young Marines and has been used as a storage facility for the city.
Concerns with black mold forced the city to close the facility in 2009. Last year, an environmental report indicated not only black mold in the building, but friable asbestos as well.
Friable asbestos, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, is asbestos that is more easily released into the air and required specific abatement during demolition.
Funds for the demolition have been earmarked from the $36 million bond issue that was approved by the city council in September 2012. Last month, a surplus auction of city items was held in Woodlawn, with many of the items coming from the Horace Mann building, which has been emptied of items which were stored there.
According to City Manager Ron Neibert, District 80 has also been contacted to find out if there are any items the district would like salvaged from the property as historical mementos prior to demolition.
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Jessica Simpson, pregnant for what seems like forever, has been very quiet about her actual due date. Surely it will be this month. Already commentators are commenting on the comments. But is the horror at Jess's size really worry for her and the baby—or is it just horror at any celebrity who dares to let her weight get out of control? Maybe it's a bit of both. One source wrote, and Slate reports, "I mean, someone needs to step in and control these cravings before she and her unborn child end up dying, or worse yet, influencing other women into thinking they're allowed to be overweight while pregnant. It might as well be the tabloid media. So, let the hunger shames begin!" That's telling it straight, if not over the top. Influencing other women is worse than dying?
Gossip is swirling, but the facts are few. All most people have to go on is pictures, which indicate Jessica Simpson has gained a lot of weight. Thirty pounds? That's within normal 25-35 lb guidelines. Forty pounds? That might be pushing it. And her doctor might be telling her the reported menu from the shower—with corn dogs and all the trimmings—might not have been the best choice. Buttered Pop Tarts seem to be a favorite, too. Buttered?
Meanwhile, an ob/gyn doctor got into the act, quoted by another tab, suggesting that 1200 calories was a normal food intake for a pregnant woman. When horrified fact checkers contacted her, she retracted the statement. She had meant, she said, 1200 calories extra per day—for a total around 3000. Jessica Simpson, the doctor predicted, looks well past that.
Excessive weight gain during pregnancy can cause serious problems, but there is nothing fans can do but wish Jessica Simpson and her baby girl the best of luck.
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Rensselaer built a seven point first half lead and held on to defeat Middlebury 62-55 at Robison Gym, this afternoon. The Panthers struggled from the floor, shooting just .306 on the afternoon.
After falling behind, 2-0, the Red Hawks scored the next six points, and never trailed again. Leading by as many as nine points, Rensselaer took a 32-25 lead in halftime.
A pair of Missy Jackman free-throws with 11:31 remaining in the game gave the Red Hawks their largest lead of the game at 49-36.
The Panthers cut the Rensselaer lead to 54-48 with 8:04 to play on an Emily Johnson lay-up. Tory Lyons pushed the Red Hawks advantage to 10 points with just under two minutes to go.
Lyons led all scorers with 18 points, while grabbing eight rebounds. Jackman added 15 points, six boards and three assists, while Elizabeth Barker recorded 15 points and 14 rebounds.
Katie Fisher paced Middlebury with 16 points. She was followed by Johnson and Lani Young, who had 13 points apiece.


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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- In Alabama's two losses in the last two years, the Crimson Tide struggled with dual-threat quarterbacks who were able to improvise and make plays when receivers were covered down field.
Jordan Jefferson came in for Jarrett Lee in 2011 when LSU knocked off Alabama in Bryant-Denny Stadium. Jefferson was able to keep plays alive and moved the chains with timely scrammbles.
Last season, Johnny Manziel lit up the Tide in the first quarter and made them pay if players took bad angles.
In the eyes of Tide coach Nick Saban, Virginia Tech quarterback Logan Thomas is the type of quarterback with the ability to beat a team with his arm and legs.
"Logan Thomas is an exceptionally talented quarterback who is really capable of taking over a game as a passer or a runner," Saban said. "He's a big guy who's very athletic."
Thomas, a senior, exploded onto the scene in 2011 as a sophomore. He led the Hokies to an 11-3 record and a trip to the Sugar Bowl. Thomas accounted for 30 total touchdowns, 19 passing and 11 rushing. He completed 60 percent of his passes and had scouts raving about his potential at the NFL level.
But as Thomas regressed in 2012, so did the Hokies. Thomas completed just 51 percent of his throws and the Hokies limped to a 7-6 record, its worst in 20 years. In an interview with WJOX, Thomas said he pressed too much during his junior season and tried to make every play instead of relying on his teammates.
Still, Saban has seen what Thomas can do and isn't overlooking the 6-foot-6, 260 pound from Lynchburg, Va.
"He's shown he has the capability of being an outstanding player in terms of making great throws as well as an ability to run the ball," Saban said. "He's a really big guys who has a really strong arm and is a really strong runner. So, we see him as one of the big challenges for our defense. All we look at is a guy's history to show what he's capable of. If he's not going to play well that's going to be something that we have to contribute to by how we play.
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Defensive end Ed Stinson noted that while Thomas is a bigger quarterback, he's confident he could bring him down. Stinson said it will take everyone knowing their assignments to stop Thomas and the Hokie offense.
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Last Thursday night, Bill Haslam and Mike McWherter appeared onstage at the University of Tennessee for the second of three planned gubernatorial debates. Optimistic types might have hoped for a serious and pointed discussion of the challenges facing the state in coming years, with competing ideas and well-thought-out critiques of each other's plans. Or, alternatively, for a talent show, with each candidate showcasing some of their little-known abilities. It would have been pleasant to discover that McWherter is a fine baritone, or that Haslam can recite the entire Rime of the Ancient Mariner. As it turned out, there was some attempted magic—both candidates tried to make difficult questions disappear, and there were promises of economic rabbits to be pulled from job-creating hats (or was it the other way 'round?)—but the prestidigitation on display was mostly of the finger-pointing variety.
What follows is, if not quite a transcript of the event, a faithful record of sorts.
MODERATOR: Hello and welcome to tonight's debate between two men whose names you know mostly because of their fathers. One of them gets to be governor, and we're all pretty sure it's the Republican one because it's their turn this year, but it is important to maintain the appearance of a functioning democracy. So we have assembled a panel of experts to ask them questions. We have also invited questions from a bunch of non-experts, which we will play for you on a very large video screen, for no particular reason except that, you know, it's kind of cool. Plus we're donating an hour of airtime to this thing, and God knows we need to give people more to look at than these guys. Kidding, I'm kidding. Not really, but I am. Not.
Anyway, let's start with some opening statements. First we go to the awkward moon-faced guy with the stiff-limbed posture and, I'm sorry, but I have to say it, the pocky skin that is not being done any favors by these lights.
MIKE McWHERTER: Speaking of opening statements, I would like a certain someone running for governor to be a little more open about his financial statements. What's he hiding in there? TARP money? Roman Polanski? All I'm saying is, it could be anything. Also, I would like to mention my one idea, which I will be repeating over and over again: tax breaks for job creation.
MODERATOR: Okay, and now over to the fellow with the gee-whillikers grin and the rhetorical style that, hometown folks can't help but notice, has become increasingly slick and "politician"-like over the course of this campaign.
BILL HASLAM: Problems. Tennessee has problems. We need to be serious about them. And elect people who are serious about solving the problems, which are serious. We need serious solutions to our problems.
QUESTION: What about unemployment in rural areas?
BH: Yes. That is one of our problems. That we need a solution to.
MM: Tax breaks for job creation.
QUESTION: Isn't it awesome that we keep electing rich guys who don't even need a salary? That saves, like, 1/10,000th of 1 percent of the state budget right there.
MM: It is awesome to be rich. But we should not discriminate against people who are not rich. It's okay to lend yourself a million bucks to scare other people out of the race, but that doesn't mean those other people wouldn't be good governors if only they had a million dollars.
BH: True. Public office should be open to anyone who can afford to go up against a guy with a personal fortune of undisclosed but clearly vast dimensions.
QUESTION: What about this McWherter ad linking Pilot Oil to Hugo Chavez?
MM: Look, I'm not saying Bill Haslam is a left-wing Latin American strongman. I'm just saying, let's look at their pictures close together, maybe while you have the sound down or you're not paying much attention.
BH: Jeez, Hugo Chavez is the least of it. We buy oil from all kinds of terrible people. Really awful. You should just see them. Yeah. But. Tennessee has serious problems.
QUESTION: How are you going to cut the budget and not screw over higher education?
BH: Oh, higher education is totally getting screwed.
MM: We need to sell more lottery tickets. And not go to college so much.
QUESTION: What about OBAMACARE!?!
MM: Whatever Phil Bredesen said about it. And what Bob Corker said, too.
BH: Whatever Lamar Alexander said about it.
QUESTION: Why don't we have more movies filming here?
BH: I love movies. But we don't need to spend a bunch of money just to bring Keira Knightley here.
MM: I would definitely spend money to bring Keira Knightley here.
QUESTION: Because Tennessee teachers are not already poorly paid enough, should we take away teacher tenure?
MM: I know I don't actually act like a "Democrat," per se, most of the time. But c'mon. Tenure? We keep tenure.
BH: This is one of those issues people talk about, yes.
QUESTION: What about West Tennessee?
BH: It sure is flat. When you to sell your state to developers, it's great to have lots of product in your bucket. I want to sell that great, flat product. In my bucket.
MM: My state senator is from West Tennessee.
QUESTION: Can we have passenger trains?
MM: I love trains. You love trains. We all love trains! But, no.
BH: Choo-choo! Yeah, no.
QUESTION: Do you like Mike McWherter's one idea, about tax breaks for job creation?
BH: Not so much.
MM: Of course! It's my one idea!
QUESTION: Will you drop the sales tax on food?
BH: Nope. If we're not gonna tax rich folks' income—and we're not, I guarantee you—then we gotta tax poor folks' groceries. Sorry.
MM: I'm going to pretend that I would think about doing this, even though we all know nobody's really going to.
QUESTION: Can we really make the University of Tennessee a top 25 research university?
MM: I am very concerned about the large-animal vet program. Think of our giraffes!
BH: Oh yeah. Sure. I mean, if you can do it with less money than you're getting now. Because like I said, higher education is probably screwed.
QUESTION: Can we have medical marijuana?
BH: Shut up you hippie.
MM: There are lots of other drugs that can deliver the same relief. If you know what I mean.
QUESTION: Should there be a new Department of Aging?
MM: Tennessee has a lot of old people. My dad, for example. Sorry, Dad, but you're really old.
BH: My dad rode his bike here. Hi, Dad!
QUESTION: Could you both say some inspiring things about America being a nation of immigrants but also sort of talk tough about illegal immigration, without promising anything specific?
BH: Sure!
MM: Happy to.
QUESTION: Are you guys just pawns for your fathers?
MM: Like I said, Dad's really old. I mean, really. Can barely feed himself these days.
BH: Dad has only asked me for one thing during my time as mayor. And I said, "No." Do you know what a kick I got out of that?
QUESTION: What about tort reform?
MM: Let's not cut off victims' legs. I mean, rights. Let's not cut off victims' rights.
BH: But if they cut off the wrong leg, you know, they do great things with prosthetics these days.
MODERATOR: Time for closing comments.
MM: Tax cuts for job creation. And what's in those financial statements, hmmmm? Vote for me.
BH: Tennessee has problems. Serious problems. And those problems will get even worse if we decide to pack up Pilot and take it somewhere else. So watch it, bub. Vote for me.
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A few days ago as I made my way through the last of this reading period's poetry submissions, I thought a bit about what in the thousands of poems I'd been privileged to read this season might entice me to reread a work. There are so many things: a haunting image, a clever turn of phrase, a combination of sounds that beckons me to then repeat a line aloud, a brilliant yet subtle revelation imparted. But sometimes, many times, it's simply the identification with the personal experience. Such is the case with poems from Steve Myers and Sarah Kennedy in our summer issue.
Steve Myers's "Our 'In' at Paballelo," set in South Africa, opens:
As Mrs. Nosizwe's "distinguished guests,"
we had an "in" at the vigil for the young man
dead of cancer, or so they said—everyone
there knew the real reason…
I thought about my brother Kevin, who in 1989 died of AIDS, here in America, where, at the time, fear and prejudice often made it impossible to die of the disease; instead he asked that we tell people it was cancer. Everyone close to him knew the real reason.
But this was only what initially drew me to Myers's poem. Once past those first lines and immediate associations, I was led by the assured hand of a gifted writer into more unfamiliar territory. Becoming part of the group of American students in the poem, we enter "the flatland / beyond the shack-and-scrabble township" where "the sun plummeted toward the horizon / as if rushing to get the day done" so as to escape the death that is "Everywhere," the papers proclaim. Unable to distinguish if people are "speaking in Afrikaans, / or what we took for Setswana, or Xhosa," the students are uncertain of the language around them just as we are uncertain of the language of pain and loss both within and outside of ourselves.
Inside a room is a mother who has lost her son and who offers her chair to "the only black student" in the group, which he turns down and insists she sit in. Upon leaving the vigil, the local driver scolds the group for their insensitivity to the ceremony and culture but more so to the woman's grief, could they not "see the mother's chair / was the only gift she had left to offer," had they "never met / a woman weeping for her dead?" It's a beautifully rendered poem about the universality of grief and, always, our failure, willing or unwilling, to comprehend what others are attempting to communicate in those moments.
Likewise, but on a much lighter note, I felt an immediate connection with Sarah Kennedy's "Swarm," a seven-stanza meditation on ladybugs, having once awoken also to find my apartment "invaded by / the thousands." However, Kennedy's poem takes the subject beyond my own amazed then annoyed experience. She presents a visual and aural landscape of "furred windows" and the "boat of a body floating / in the evening wine, wafting in the waves / made by the vain scoops of my silver spoon." The poem moves from the mock-solemn incantation, "My enemy, my enemy, I was / in a habit… / to say a prayer," to the darkly humorous resignation, "But I vacuum / up hundreds of you now, millions, alive / or not, I don't discriminate." Ultimately, no matter how loftily they may be described or eternized in verse, the bugs must go.
Both Steve Myers and Sarah Kennedy have previously appeared in The Southern Review, but additionally, as always, we have many writers in this issue who are new to our pages. Some of those writers have accepted our invitation to contribute to our audio gallery here on the website. Included here are Kimberly Grey, Richie Hofmann, Jared Harel, Steve Kistulentz, and Phillip B. Williams. I hope you will take the opportunity to enjoy some of the best emerging voices in poetry read their works from our summer issue.


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After 13 seasons as an inside linebacker in the NFL, all of them with the Bears, Brian Urlacher decided to call it quits on Wednesday. During those years Urlacher became one of the most respected defensive players in the league and put himself on the same Hall of Fame level as fellow retiree Ray Lewis.
Urlacher made an obvious impact on fellow players, analysts and even teams throughout the NFL. That impact was seen in several Tweets supporting Urlacher and his decision to call it quits.
Congrats to @burlacher54 on an incredible career. Welcome to retirement. I'll save you a spot on on my weekend softball team. Beers on me.— Scott Fujita (@sfujita55) May 22, 2013
Congrats on 13 years of greatness Big Guy! Thank you for everything.— J.T.3. (@TheRealJT3) May 22, 2013
Salute to Brian Urlacher. Helluva career. One of the best ever at the LB position in my opinion.— Duane Brown (@DuaneBrown76) May 22, 2013
Said it before & I'll keep saying it! "BrianUrlacher greatest LB'er in #Bears history." I say it w/ no disrespect to Butkus or Singletary.— james miller (@15miller) May 22, 2013
Sad to see one of the best teammates and mentors ive had retire today.. @burlacher54 Was an honor to go to war with!!! Hall of Famer!!!— Jason McKie (@Jmack37) May 22, 2013
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Congrats to the great @burlacher54 on an outstanding career. Always enjoyed watching u play. Class act & great player. #Respect #HOF bound— Jason Taylor (@JasonTaylor) May 22, 2013
I like it Brain! 13 & done!!— Warren Sapp (@WarrenSapp) May 22, 2013
You were who we thought you were.Congrats.RT @burlacher54: It was an honor to play my entire career for the @chicagobears.— Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) May 22, 2013
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Colon health cleanse is one of the most overlooked aspects of overall health. Many people don't realize that healthy digestive tract is important into weight control, steady metabolism and general well-being. The body fights the effects of stress everyday. Stress releases chemicals in the body that can negatively affect the digestive system in several ways. […]
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Finding the right diet is hard, as it's all about balancing results against health. You don't want to go too crazy, with a diet that's really unhealthy as it puts a strain on your body. The same is true about making sure that you see positive results so that you're encouraged to keep going.
What Is Naturopathy?
Naturopathy is actually a health care industry in line with the usage of all-natural items rather than prescription medicines to deal with illnesses. Herbal remedies, fruit and vegetables which are natural in nature and readied devoid of additives or chemical dyes. Sunlight, clean air and 100 % pure water are utilized to bolster the body's capability to protect itself. It eliminates not naturally made ingredients which are considered as being the origin of numerous illnesses.
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Fatigue is perhaps the most common complaint designed to a household medical practitioner. Sadly, health related conditions has an acutely limited capability to regard this ailment as a result of lack of appropriate supplies. Most of the time fatigue is a problem that starts with a badly functioning colon, whereby it might be simpler to seek alternative medicine for a successful treatment. However, before beginning your alternative treatments you ought to check with your doctor anyway to rule out the possibilities of every other medical troubles being the cause of your symptoms. A poorly functioning thyroid is also considered a typical reason behind fatigue.
Cleansing And Detoxification Ideas For Everyone
Cleansing and detoxification can be achieved in many different ways. The body can become overcome by many health concerns due to the build up of toxins and finding ways in which to deal with this will help to overcome issues of this kind. There are a number of approaches that you can take in this regard.
Quick Trim Diet Marketed Particularly With The Help Of The Kardashian Sisters
These days people are looking for ways to lose weight, and easy ways to do it. One of them is by using weight loss supplements with their workouts. There are several out on the market today but a popular one is called the Quick Trim Diet marketed specifically by the Kardashian sisters. Quick Trim claims to give workouts a small push. What consumers really want to know is if they work.
Deciding Whether or not to Use Pills, Powders Or Go through A Colon Cleanse Treatment
A great number of are trying to get far more healthier, and not merely about shedding pounds but in addition concerning becoming better on the inside also. Most will try to consume extra water and many will make sure they take a multi vitamin, as well as decreasing unhealthy fats, and over eating. Nonetheless sometimes even after doing this we could still sense that some thing isn't quite proper in our tummy's or more noticeable within our stools.
Natural Colon Cleansing
Today just a thought of getting an enema to cleanse the colon is enough to turn off the majority of people on the subject of colon cleansing. You have to know that today colon cleansing can be performed in a natural way. Below there are several things for you to get started so that you can enjoy the advantages of natural colon cleanse.
The Inside Story On The Quick Trim Diet Marketed By Kim And Khloe Kardashian
Welcome to the new diet solution, the Quick Trim Diet marketed specifically by the Kardashian sisters, Kim and Khloe. Not familiar with the Kardashians or their reality TV show, Keeping up with the Kardashians? Unheard of, considering Kim Kardashian is a paparazzi favourite. The questions are then what does the Quick Trim Diet system do and will it work for you the way it has for the Kardashian sisters?
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Blue Raiders Score 5-1 Victory Over UT Martin
MT picks up second win of seasonFebruary 23, 2008 · David Powell
The Blue Raiders came into the game looking for their second victory of the season after going 0-4 in the Crimson Classic last Saturday.
Vander Lugt (1-4) got the start and the win for the Blue Raiders. The sophomore gave up one run and scattered seven hits, while striking out a season-high six batters in a well-pitched complete game.
Skyhawk starter Paij Lintz (1-2) picked up the loss. The righty gave up five runs on five hits, while striking out one and walking one in 3.1 innings of action.
Lacie Endrizzi gave up three hits in the 2.2 innings of scoreless relief for UT Martin.
Middle Tennessee opened the 2nd inning with two back-to-back singles by Corrie Abel and Whitney Darlington Senior Katie Mielke doubled to deep left field, driving in Abel and giving the Blue Raiders a 1-0 lead. A Whittney Padgett sacrifice fly made it 2-0 before Justine Cerda nailed and RBI single through the left side, driving in Mielke and putting the Blue Raiders firmly in the lead 3-0.
The Blue Raiders increased their lead to 5-0 in the 4th inning. Whittney Padgett crushed a single through the left side, driving in Mielke and Darlington.
UT Martin pulled a run back in the top of the 6th inning when designated player Laurie Lindow hit an RBI single to right field, scoring Megan Williams and cutting the Blue Raiders lead to 5-1.
The Blue Raiders take on Belmont in the second game of the Middle Tennessee Classic at 5 PM.
Follow the Blue Raiders on Twitter @MTAthletics for continued updates.
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Mallorredus with Fennel Seeds and Fresh Tomatoes
Recipe courtesy of Mario Batali
Recipe Courtesy of Mario Batali
- Molto Mario
- Total Time:
- 30 min
- Prep:
- 10 min
- Cook:
- 20 min
- Yield:
- 4 servings
- 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 4 scallions, thinly sliced
- 4 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 2 pounds tomatoes, chopped into 1/2-inch dice
- 1 tablespoon fennel seeds
- 1 tablespoon hot chili flakes
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 recipe mallorredus pasta
- 1/2 cup freshly grated crontese cheese
Bring 6 quarts water to boil and add 2 tablespoons salt.
In a 12 to 14-inch saute pan, heat oil until smoking. Add scallions and garlic and saute 1 minute, until light golden brown. Add tomatoes, fennel seeds, chili flakes, salt and toss until tomatoes begin to break down, about 7 to 8 minutes.
Meanwhile, cook pasta until tender but firm, about 6 to 8 minutes. Drain and toss in pan with tomatoes. Toss until well coated and sprinkle heavily with cheese. Serve immediately.
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Michael Charles Tobias, Contributor
I write about all things ecological - economics, biology, ethics
Environmentalism is, by definition, given to skepticism, dismay, political cynicism and the seemingly endless endeavors to guide human nature along a path more sustainable than that currently on display worldwide.
Yet, in India, the second most populated nation on earth, with her inordinate share of ecological turmoil and over 1.241 billion people, there exists an ancient, indigenous community of vegetarians, the Todas, whose lifestyle and footprint suggests a true window on what humanity – at its best – is capable of.
I'm referring to a community, in 2013, that is ethically vegetarian, non-violent; that may well be the most sustainably-committed community in human history. The Sistine Chapel of pure living; a "Maria Vespers" of the moral and geographical compass. A group of denizens who, if you are tracking ecological success stories, are front-page news.
Moreover, at the core of some of this community's habitat remains the last remaining "wilderness" in all of India; unexplored by most. This region – the inner Nilgiris – hosts the last best hope for India's wild tigers and one of three remaining wild populations of Asian elephants. Moreover, it is a botanical collective of astonishing dimensions in which – depending on the precise season, and day (or night) – are a vast number of endemic species known particularly well by one man – Dr. Tarun Chhabra.
Thanks to this remarkable ecologist, a practicing dentist by profession, and brilliant ethnobotanist, Dr. Tarun Chhabra, I have had the privilege over the course of many years, of spending time with this community: the Todas, on numerous occasions. In 1992, Dr. Chhabra and colleagues set about to preserve the Toda heritage, which was facing increasing pressure – demographic, toxicological, economic, genetic, cultural, legal – all those bedeviling challenges that can exponentially accumulate in the name of modernity and India's increasingly palpable habitat fragmentation. Indeed, the Toda heartland was the same Western Upper Nilgiris aggregate of ecosystems that were also being threatened. Urgent measures were needed to save what was left of this habitat that is unique in all of Asia. Dr. Chhabra and colleagues established a non-profit Trust "EBR" which stands for the Edhkwehlynawd Botanical Refuge to help rally support for the Toda who dwell within the core biological area of India's first recognized biodiversity hotspot and UNESCO biological World Heritage Site.
What endows this community with such a unique place in the bio-cultural context of southern India, and – for that matter- the whole world – is not merely the fact that they are one of the only vegetarian tribal groups left on Earth (while surrounded by meat-eating communities); or the computable realization that their ecological footprint, by even today's economically-much marginalized rural Indian standards, is statistically zero.
What is utterly amazing about the Todas is their true biological sustainability. They magnificently integrate their own culture and rich biodiversity; a markedly restrained humanity, shy ethos, distinctly pan-Asian reclusiveness, and poetic landscape revery inherent in the tools of personal and community existence. This defines ecosystem person-hood. In the case of the Todas, it would appear to derive, at least in part, from their explicitly animist cultural rituals, traditions, beliefs, and worldview. This Renaissance-ecological orientation is a powerful argument in favor of the possibilities of the human species, after all. For thousands of years the Todas have worshipped a rare species of (now endangered) Asian river buffalo and have practiced non-violence with rare, consistent vigilance. Even their so-called "noyim," a form of conflict-resolution, is so subtle that to be present at such a gathering (as I have been) you would never know a problem was even being resolved. Toda crises are not fought out at the last second, like fiscal-cliffs in Washington, although the stakes – if you are a Toda – are no less critical.
It must be professed that the Todas argue for one of the most advanced lessons on Earth in reference to how human beings can harmoniously engage in what Voltaire summarized in his novel, Candide (1759) when he suggested, in the end, that we simply cultivate our gardens. Remarkably, the Todas are not even that inflictive upon nature. Trans-montane ritually nomadic pastoralists, they restrain from nearly all traditional agricultural exploitation (not unlike the majority of India's Jain communities – except that the Toda hamlets are to be found in rural, even wilderness areas, not in the urban environments, where most Jain communities are located.)
In 1873, a British ethnographer, W. E. Marshall, visited the Todas and wrote of them that they were, in essence, a total ethnographic anomaly, or anachronism; that they engaged in no hunting, no meat eating; no violent sports, no violence whatsoever. Marshall wondered, therefore, whether he had not come upon "the tracks of an aboriginal reign of conscience?" and asked, "Was man originally created virtuous as well as very simple?" His famed riposte to his own culturally-condemned conjectural inanity was that "in this absence of vigorous qualities; in the disregard of gain and thrift; as well as in their [the Todas'] ultra domesticity, we have the attributes of a primeval race."
That "primeval race" – that ultimate "reign of conscience" remains true to form in southern India; a bio-cultural Eden about which the human 21st century needs urgently to take notice.
I asked my friend, Dr. Chhabra – who lives just a few miles away from one of several Toda hamlets, about this wonderful and unique community of Todas today; their beliefs (herewith simplified, to be sure); and the threats to their livelihood. Toda environmentalism offers a rare window on human possibilities and optimism. Its anodynes and rudiments have tested the arc of time, whilst at least 22 other known human civilizations have risen, and fallen, as chronicled by such historians as the late Arnold Toynbee and Clarence Glacken.
Michael Tobias: Dr. Chhabra, what makes the Todas so globally unique, certainly from a ecological point of view?
Tarun Chhabra: I would attribute it to a combination of the following factors: The Todas live at the heart of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve – in the highlands where they have traditionally been strictly pastoral people, with no history of farming. Much of their entire worldview revolves around an endemic breed of buffalo. They rely on the buffalo for the mainstay of their economic livelihood, derived from dairy products – sacred milk and butter
Michael Tobias: Of course, then, they are not vegan, but, as I have witnessed, they treat those buffalo like dignitaries, royalty.
Tarun Chhabra: That, and the fact the Todas are generally vegetarian folk with apparently no history of hunting. Moreover, their traditional architecture has been celebrated. The Head of Architecture at MIT is bringing out a book on "First Societies and their Architecture" where he is including the Toda structures. Moreover, their language has been reported to have the most complex phonetic system in India. Most importantly, the Todas have managed to adopt a manner of sustainable living and have kept their own population low over the centuries.
Michael Tobias: Zero population growth in India is certainly uncharacteristic, notwithstanding an inspired array of family planning luminaries and legislation throughout the nation. But India's Democracy, as you well know, has not managed, ultimately, to come to grips with a demographic speeding train, most saliently in those EAG (Empowered Action Group) states where the TFR, or Total Fertility Rates are still as high as 3.9, such as is the case within the States of Bihar, or Rajasthan. To come upon a community of replacement fertility trends, and one with sovereign, historic staying power, is miraculous.
Tarun Chhabra: Even today, the orthodox Toda community number just over 1400 persons.
The Toda community are indeed a miracle. Bringing miracles to scale can be difficult but perhaps the rest of India will be able to join the Toda in having small families when we stop pretending that family planning is some medical procedure to treat a phantom disease and instead empower communties to make their own choices about contraception and safe abortion. The secret in UP and Bihar is to train the rural medical practiotioners ( and their wives) to take over a large part of family planning work
I am heartened to know about such a paradise on earth, as well as hope for exact coordinates for an afterlife, (as long as one could be a Toda, of course – :). The fact that this community is so rare on our planet is the disheartening part. But bringing this story to us is a brilliant idea. I have shared it with friends.
Not the most obvious story to appear in Forbes. Congratulations to the publishers and authors. To me the underlying message is that sustainability is not so much what we do, but the attitude with which we approach life. Great food for thought. The article reminds me of a Cree saying: "Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money."
mysterious proud gentle people,used to come around to the house,one of their camps was 2 miles away.they would move away with buffaloe to pastures new grazing .my dad was manager of tea estate we are going back to 1950,i was 10. they would come around in small groups,trying to sell you gee butter like used for cooking made from buffalo milk,jagaree molasses made in bite sized pyramids,or they would fortune tell members of the family,they needed the money to buy essentials from the market .they kept very much to themselves,any gesture made to go away they would turn and walk away without fuss.brought us kids hand full jungle berries same size and shape of a large grape,colour of a tomato ,known as jumlums.people said they desends of alexander the great when he invaded india clothes worn mainly cream with a odd vertical stripe similar to ancient greeks/romans. I remember one man complaing about pain in arms and shoulder,dad was no medic, after head scrathing he came up electric shock would be the answer, so taking away the ignition lead off his motor bike he got the man to put each finger into plug cap while dad kicked the motor over,bloke walked away happy us kids would wander into their camps when they moved away,all that was left were huts in the shape of cones ,very small opening, two feet off the ground to stop snakes and animals crawing in.we did not much of them 6 or 7 times a year.they had a way of commucating with each other without speaking.i think they would lip read. area worth preserving home to me.


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I have encountered a similar problem about iPhone backup before.
1.Copy all pictures from your current NTFS formatted drive C:\Documents\Pictures to F:\Pictures (or to a directory of your choice)
2.Open iTunes and select the new folder that you want to use to sync photos to your iPhone – F:\Pictures
3.Sync your iPhone and everything should work smoothly.
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Celebrate the 40th anniversary of this timeless classic with a special edition featuring a new foreword by the author and a message that is as relevant today as when it was first published.
Since the late 1940s, Ray Bradbury has been revered for his works of science fiction and fantasy. With more than 4 million copies in print, Fahrenheit 451 -- originally published in 1953 -- remains his most acclaimed work:
"One of the most brilliant overall jobs of social satire."
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"Frightening in its implications...Mr. Bradbury's account of this insane world, which bears many alarming resemblances to our own, is fascinating."
The New York Times
Fahrenheit 451 is the temperature at which book paper burns. Fahrenheit 451 is a short novel set in the (perhaps near) future when "firemen" burn books forbidden by the totalitarian "brave new world" regime. The hero, according to Mr. Bradbury, is "a book burner who suddenly discovers that books are flesh and blood ideas and cry out silently when put to the torch."
Today, when libraries and schools are still "burning" certain books, Fahrenheit 451 is a work of even greater impact and timeliness.
Guy Montag is a book-burning fireman undergoing a crisis of faith. His wife spends all day with her television "family," imploring Montag to work harder so that they can afford a fourth TV wall. Their dull, empty life sharply contrasts with that of his next-door neighbor Clarisse, a young girl thrilled by the ideas in books, and more interested in what she can see in the world around her than in the mindless chatter of the tube. When Clarisse disappears mysteriously, Montag is moved to make some changes, and starts hiding books in his home. Eventually, his wife turns him in, and he must answer the call to burn his secret cache of books. After fleeing to avoid arrest, Montag winds up joining an outlaw band of scholars who keep the contents of books in their heads, waiting for the time society will once again need the wisdom of literature.
Bradbury--the author of more than 500 short stories, novels, plays, and poems, including The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man--is the winner of many awards, including the Grand Master Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America. Readers ages 13 to 93 will be swept up in the harrowing suspense of Fahrenheit 451, and no doubt will join the hordes of Bradbury fans worldwide. --Neil Roseman
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Ann Coulter Is Desperate for More Attention from You
Ann Coulter used to make me angry. Then she made me laugh. Now she just makes me yawn.
The Daily Caller recently published a list of ten "shocking" things in Ann Coulter's book Demonic (Ed note: Demonic!) that will (supposedly) drive liberals crazy.
Most of them are predicated on the assumption that the reader is ignorant (or in denial) that the Republican Party usurped the Democrats' Dixiecratic voting bloc several decades ago ("The GOP has always been the party supporting civil rights, not the Democratic Party"). Others are weird exercises in pretzel logic ("Democrats are anti-science"). Some seem kind of like the ramblings of a schizophrenic ("Liberals are not a part of the American tradition").
Have you been driven crazy yet?
If not, this one might help. It's the one they save for last, and that's because it's definitely the best. And by "best," I mean "Ann Coulter is obviously a very sad person who is desperate for attention"…
"But more important, abortion clinic violence should not be filed under 'Political Violence' at all. It should be filed under 'Things Liberals Won't Let Americans Vote On.'… When there is no legal process for pro-lifers to pursue to outlaw abortion — unlike every policy liberals violently protest — some pro-lifers will inevitably respond to lawlessness with lawlessness," Coulter writes. "In the first few years after [Planned Parenthood v. Casey], about six more people were killed in attacks on abortion clinics. Most of the abortionists were shot or, depending upon your point of view, had a procedure performed on them with a rifle."
¨There were no more constitutional options left to fight judicial tyranny on the little matter of mass murder,¨ she concludes. ¨Thus, abortion clinic violence is more akin to the Tiananmen Square protests in Communist China than any liberal riot in America. Want to stop violence at abortion clinics? Repeal Roe and let Americans vote.¨
Sigh. So, now it's come to this? Coming out as a apologist for domestic terrorism? (You know, joking about the murder of innocent people isn't normal, but on media attention withdrawal it is!) All this just in the hopes that you'll please pay her a little bit more attention. Get mad at her! Call her stupid! Call her names! Say whatever you want, just please please please don't forget about her.
Look, here's a blog post. That should hold her over for a few minutes.
(via Little Green Footballs)
Tags: Abortion, Ann Coulter, Books, Conservatives, Democrats, Liberals, Republicans, Roe v. Wade, Terrorism
Congressional Battle Over Health Care Reform to Be Rebooted as Supreme Court Battle Over Health Care Reform
Oh, good! I was hoping that this circus wasn't over yet…
Justice Stephen Breyer predicted Thursday that the Supreme Court will one day pass judgment on this year's health care overhaul.
Breyer told a congressional panel that the massive health care law, like most major federal legislation, is a good candidate for high court review.
More than a dozen Republican attorneys general in several states are determined to challenge the law in federal court, arguing that its requirement that Americans get health insurance is unconstitutional.
This will be stressful, but there is a silver-lining. It will be nice to get a definitive decision on this issue and just move on as a country with no hard feelings or sustained, embittered, decades-long social battles.
Just like with Roe v. Wade.
Tags: Abortion, Health Care, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court
Daily Show and Colbert Report on Souter's Retirement
As you've no doubt "heard" by now, President Obama "used" the word "empathy" in his press conference about "replacing" outgoing Supreme Court Justice David Souter. And we all "know" that "empathy" is a "code word" for "activist judge." Well, "President" Obama isn't the only "one" who can use "code words," if you "know" "what" "I" "mean," "and" "I" "think" "you" "do."
More from The Daily Show and Stephen Colbert's take can be seen after the jump.
The Daily Show and Colbert Report air Monday through Thursday starting at 11pm / 10c.
Tags: Aasif Mandvi, Abortion, Barack Obama, David Souter, Jon Stewart, Roe v. Wade, Stephen Colbert, Supreme Court, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Video
Happy Abortion Day, Everyone!
Today, on the 36th Anniversary of the Supreme Court's historic Roe v. Wade decision, that everybody go out tonight and have an unwanted pregnancy.
Our new president may be too busy gutting every last vestige of the Bush administration to join us, but he did take the time to offer the following statement…
On the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, we are reminded that this decision not only protects women's health and reproductive freedom, but stands for a broader principle: that government should not intrude on our most private family matters. I remain committed to protecting a woman's right to choose.
While this is a sensitive and often divisive issue, no matter what our views, we are united in our determination to prevent unintended pregnancies, reduce the need for abortion, and support women and families in the choices they make. To accomplish these goals, we must work to find common ground to expand access to affordable contraception, accurate health information, and preventative services.
On this anniversary, we must also recommit ourselves more broadly to ensuring that our daughters have the same rights and opportunities as our sons: the chance to attain a world-class education; to have fulfilling careers in any industry; to be treated fairly and paid equally for their work; and to have no limits on their dreams. That is what I want for women everywhere.
As a side note, have you ever stopped to consider how silly the term "pro-life" is?
Okay, if Roe v. Wade stated that all pregant women had to get abortions, then, yes, people opposed to it — which would be almost everybody — would be appropriately labeled as "pro-life." And people supporting it would be "anti-life."
But that's not what Roe v. Wade states. It states that a woman should have the right to choose to terminate her pregnancy for whatever reason she sees fit up until the point that it is "potentially able to live outside the mother's womb, albeit with artificial aid. Viability is usually placed at about seven months (28 weeks) but may occur earlier, even at 24 weeks."
In that sense, supporters of Roe v. Wade are correctly identified as "pro-choice."
And people who oppose it — i.e. do not believe that women should be allowed that choice — should be identified as "anti-choice."
How the one side ever managed to get everybody to go along with their nonsense "pro-life" name is ridiculous. And how Republicans — who almost uniformly could be considered "anti-choice" — are still ever allowed to pretend that they're the protectors of personal freedoms without getting laughed out of the room is even ridiculouser.
Tags: Barack Obama, Roe v. Wade, Supreme Court
Sarah Palin Has Heard of a Supreme Court Case
Here's the good news: Sarah Palin has actually heard of — and presumably understands — that there was once a Supreme Court case filed as Roe vs. Wade, as evidenced by an as-yet un-aired portion of her nightmare interview with Katie Couric. That's something, right?
The bad news is that's the only Supreme Court case she's heard of…
The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.
After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.
Jeeze. I'll bet she fumbled around verbally in an adorably funny and folksy way like she always does…
There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.
That's kind of way worse.
Tags: Katie Couric, Roe v. Wade, Sarah Palin, Supreme Court