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Arashiyama and Sagano Morning Walking Tour
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Stroll through rural bamboo groves and visit mountain temples outside Kyoto on this morning walking tour of the Sagano and Arashiyama districts. You'll experience the tranquil beauty of Japan's rural temples and gardens, and experience Japanese life outside the big cities.
Your morning walk begins at Sagano, northwest of the Kyoto Basin, with a stroll through the verdant Sagano Bamboo Grove surrounded by mountains in the greater area of Arashiyama.
Then it's on to Jojakkoji Temple, spectacularly located halfway up a mountain. Jojakkoji was the final home of Empress Dowager Kenrei-mon-in, a principal character in the Tale of the Heike, one of the most important works of classical Japanese literature. It is said to have been built as a nunnery, and has a history reaching back to the 6th century. The temple's principal treasure is a statue of the Jizo and a pagoda surrounded by Japanese maples.
Next you'll visit Tenryuji Temple, one of the head temples of the Rinzai Zen School and established in 1339 by Takauji, the first shogun of the Ashikaga Shogunate. The temple is famous for its landscaped garden, which unlike the temple buildings has survived in its original form.
Finally, you'll take a walk over Togetsukyo Bridge (Crossing Moon Bridge). The present bridge was rebuilt in 1934 using steel but faithfully copying the structure of the original bridge.
What's included
- Hotel pickup (from selected kyoto hotels only) by motorcoach
- 4-hour walking tour
- Admission fees
- English-speaking guide
- Tax
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- Food and beverages
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Then came a cold and blustery fall day, the skies were darkened and the winds swirled throughout the land. The reviewing stands were filled to over flowing with crowds of frenzied on lookers. It was difficult to see what was taking place through the dust and debris flying in the air. But yet all in attendance cheered and screamed and ate all that they could and laughed among themselves. Suddenly two hours past the rising of the sun in midday sky the clouds began to part. The massive clouds of dust seemed to clear and a quietness never before felt in the Land of Darkness could be felt. People closed their eyes, covered their mouths and ears as they gazed upon the carnage that years of battles in this war they really cared nothing about could be seen. DEATH was all about the land, where it was once green now it was scared and torn by the ravages of the war. Ones they had known for years were among the slaughtered and dismembered bodies that lay for the scavengers to feast upon. But not to worry, they were safe in the stands and had others to talk to and while the time away.
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There at the west end to the amazement of all, laid both the Black Knight his charge and the Old Knight. Pages ran to the scene to see what was and signaled to all that both were dead. The crowd demanded the helmet of the Black Knight be removed so they could see who this valiant warrior of so many battles and years was. However his face was so deformed and twisted and hair all in knots that no one could tell who he was or where came from. The Old Knights page removed his face plate to reveal his master, instead of a face a spiral plume of bluish white smoke ascended to the heavens. As is raced upward a great sound could be heard and then a burst of silver, gold and white flakes fell towards the earth. All could hear the words clearly, I Am Free, finally. The flakes fell across the entire battle field and all that laid there was consumed as if it never was.
All looked to where the Black Knight and his companion had laid upon the field. A twisting wind blew across the spot and there where they had lain was written: My Name Was Alzheimer's. The crowd now knew what they had not done, but one lone soul sacrificed their life to do.
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Army National Guard Wishek, ND, 58495
12N Horizontal Construction Engineers Job ID : 598302 Job Views : 123 Location: WISHEK, North Dakota, United States ZIP Code: 58495 Job Category: Engineer Posted: 11.17.2014 Job Description Airfields. Roads. Dams. Buildings. Name the project, and the Army National Guard builds it. And to do it, they need to move tons of earth, debris, and building materials. That's where the Horizontal Con...
Sammons Trucking Wishek, ND, 58495
Lease Purchase Our lease purchase program is straight forward and one of the most successful out there. You pay off the truck you get the title. At Sammons the only way we succeed is if you succeed. We have the resources to support you, as long as you have the determination. We do not require a down payment or any upfront costs to get into our lease purchase program. We do require our contractors...
Sammons Trucking Wishek, ND, 58495
Owner Operators-Regular Fleet Our Owner Operators enjoy the freedom or picking their own loads and running their business the way they see fit, without the burden of doing everything alone. We support our owner operators 110% with friendly and efficient office staff. We do require our contractors to run Rand McNally electronic logs. Here at Sammons Trucking, we take great pride in the slogan "Sa...
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49127132430461420412014-11-26T14:43:14.335-06:00TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee")"Things You Wouldn't Know If We Didn't Blog Intermittently."Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-78651170662225557892014-11-23T09:48:00.000-06:002014-11-23T09:48:15.920-06:00Return of the Weekend Linkdump

Gotta do this. Otherwise the links accumulate and multiply like coathangers in the closet.

Video of massive numbers of mullets (fish, not hairdos) becoming prey during their annual migration.

An introduction to the Paraguayan "Archives of Terror," which "listed 50,000 people murdered, 30,000 people disappeared and 400,000 people imprisoned."

In the United States, this year was "a record year for costume-buying, with more Americans than ever shelling out for children's costumes ($1.1 billion), adult costumes ($1.4 billion) and costumes for pets ($350 million)."

Video of people annoying a giant anaconda. The participants have been fined by local authorities, but the video does show the impressive size of the snake.

Halloween pranks by television weathermen. See what happens when you stand in front of a green screen wearing a green-background skeleton costume, or if you just wrap a green cloth around your head.

Time-lapse video of the night sky captures the explosion of a bolide.

Apparently it's a thing now to create tattoos on horses by gluing glitter on the haunches.

Bergli Books (Switzerland) will publish a book exposing the "Asian Timber Mafia" that is devastating the rainforests of Borneo.

How to make the perfect grilled cheese sandwich.

Scary dashcam video - this one in the United States, not Russia. A man driving at night encounters traffic cones set up as a roadblock. Not done by the police...

Why you can't outrun a grizzly bear. This video taken from a vehicle on level ground, but I've seen other videos documenting their incredible speed while running up a steep mountainside.

A massive resource for anyone interested in clothing of the Elizabethan era. Links for everything from underwear to hats. Worth bookmarking.

An interesting commentary on Vladimir Putin's recent speech at the Russian equivalent of the west's Davos summit. "A Russian commentator named Dmitry Orlov... said of Putin's contribution, "This is probably the most important political speech since Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech of March 5, 1946."" "This is the speech not of some kind of nostalgic empire builder — Putin dismisses the charge persuasively — but of a man genuinely afraid that the planet is close to tipping into some version of primitive disorder. Absent less adversarial international relations, we reach a moment of immense peril."

Scientists offer a biologic/physiologic basis for people's perceptions of the existence of "ghosts."

"A dying grandmother was granted a final wish of seeing her favourite horse one last time - after the animal was brought to visit her in her hospital bed."

Ethnic plastic surgery - "procedures outsiders generally view as deracinating processes, sharpening the stereotypically flat noses of Asians, blacks, and Latinos while flattening the stereotypically sharp noses of Arabs and Jews."

Hacks for air travelers.

An informed Reddit thread discussing whether (or to what extent) the recent Rosetta mission has changed our understanding of comets.

An incredibly massive and detailed reading list of history books.

"After becoming frustrated with the superficial standards his female co-workers were held to in regards to the way they dress, Karl embarked on an experiment to test these standards on himself. He wore the same blue suit every day. First for a week, then for a month, then for a year... no one has noticed; no one gives a shit."

How to get YouTube videos to play back as HTML5.

A woman had "musicogenic seizures" which were triggered by the sound of a specific voice.

Obamacare premiums will rise next year. This graph puts that in perspective.

A website offers links to 73,000 private webcams whose owners have not secured them with passwords. You can peek at the warehouse floor. Or the baby's crib.

A mother decries the names of some modern cosmetics: "More than once I've been in the gruesome position of having to discuss with my daughter the benefits of 'Orgasm' over 'Super Orgasm', or deliberating over palettes labelled F Bomb, Bang and Spunk. Having to ask the shop assistant for one of them takes the conversation to another level altogether."

The lady in this photo -

- does not know what the internet is, but she does understand what a "get well" wish is, and would like to thank everyone ("Who ARE all these people???") for their kind comments.

Top photo found at Reddit/imgur; sadly, today the cheese will stand alone, because the Vikings as a team are in no shape to compete with them.

Thumbnail embeds via an entertaining collection of business signs at 22 Words.Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-68870262581004394232014-11-16T10:14:00.002-06:002014-11-16T12:14:32.481-06:00I'm shutting down TYWKIWDBINot permanently, but for an indefinite time period, probably extending through the holiday season.

On Tuesday, shortly after I wrote that last post, I received a phone call informing me that my 95-year-old mother had fallen and injured herself. Evaluation at the University Hospital here confirmed that she fractured her humerus when she landed on her elbow, driving the shaft into the head at an angle. She is now stable in an assisted living facility, but this combined with her dementia results in a variety of medical and social needs that require my attention.

I may pop back here every now and then to do a linkdump as a mental health break for myself, but I just can't justify spending hours per day blogging as I have in recent years.

Bye for now...Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-29571353092579215912014-11-11T10:51:00.004-06:002014-11-11T11:02:23.187-06:00"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have uncovered another "vampire grave" dating to the first half of the 13th century:

"The skeleton, thought to be of a man aged between 40 and 50, had a heavy piece of ploughshare – an iron rod, used in a plough – hammered through its chest. The left leg below the knee had also been removed and left beside the skeleton."
"A Raleigh County [West Virginia] man pleaded guilty Thursday to repeatedly faking compliant water quality standards for coal companies, in a case that raises questions about the self-reporting system state and federal regulators use as a central tool to judge if the mining industry is following pollution limits." Apparently self-reporting of compliance with environmental standards is unreliable??? I am shocked, shocked...

Casebook: Jack the Ripper claims to be "the world's largest public repository of Ripper-related information."

This Reddit thread will link you to a complete scan of the first issue of Action Comics (the first Superman comic).

The BBC has a lengthy and well-written article on the history of lead intoxication in humans.

A video from 1947 explains why you should consider a career as a librarian.

One reader of TYWKIWDBI emailed me to report that the right sidebar was "vibrating" while he was viewing the blog. I had not heard of such a problem before, but I located a webpage discussing this as an occasional problem related to the presence of the "followers" (I've retitled it "like-minded people") gadget in the sidebar. This defect is experienced by users of Chrome browsers at certain zoom levels.

Is Crossfit a cult?

Ars Technica has a review of OSX 10.10 Yosemite.

A man who developed a deep venous thrombosis and a variety of complications from it explains why you should consider working at a standing desk or at least stop sitting at your desk for hours at a time.

Deformutilation offers three galleries of photos of a Tibetan sky burial. Part I focuses on the "body breakers" who chop up corpses: "Hatchets and cleavers are used to make precise cuts in the flesh, which is then carved into chunks of 'meat'. The internal organs are then cut into pieces, the bones are smashed and then mixed with tsampa, roasted barley flour. This pulverized bone mixture is then scattered on the ground the birds descending to eat their meal..." Part II is here. And Part III. This donation of human flesh to the vultures is considered virtuous because it saves the lives of small animals that the vultures might otherwise capture for food." I shouldn't need to warn you that the images are graphic.

You can use an apple corer to create "polka-dot pumpkins." Clever. We may try this next year. This and other ideas at Homes and Hues.

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of a sphinyx from underneath sand dunes in California.

Because the UK does not offer assisted suicide, an elderly woman successfully starved herself to death. "The former maths teacher, 86, did not have a terminal illness, but suffered a range of conditions that made her life uncomfortable including chronic back pain and fainting episodes."

Archaeologists have found evidence of a human campgrounds at an elevation of 14,700 feet (4,480 meters) in the Peruvian Andes, dating to about 12,400 years B.P.

The "Giant Rock" in the Mojave Desert is quite interesting.

In 1876 it "rained flesh" in Kentucky:

For several minutes, Crouch and her husband Allen watched as pieces of fresh, raw meat, some "delicate shreds as light as a snowflake" and others "a solid lump three inches square" fell from the sky. Mrs. Crouch said she was "impressed with the conviction that it was either a miracle or a warning." The Crouchs' cat, less concerned about meaning of the meat than his masters, "immediately gorged himself with the public breakfast so unexpectedly tendered to him." When it was over, the "Kentucky meat shower," as it came to be known, left an area of the farmyard 100 yards long and 50 wide strewn with flesh. "Particles of meat" were found "sticking to the fences and scattered over the ground."
It was real, and not a prank. A logical explanation is provided at Mental Floss.

The Telegraph offers a gallery of terrible real-estate-for-sale photographs, including this toilet-in-the-kitchen:

Top photo via Picdit.

The title quote comes from H. G. Wells' Outline of History (1920).
Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-27104662117300942092014-11-10T12:08:00.002-06:002014-11-10T12:08:17.738-06:00The "drinkable book"
YouTube link.

From the outside, "The Drinkable Book" looks like a normal book. It's about an inch or two thick, with 20 pages. But these pages do a lot more than convey information. Each page also serves as a water filter, a valuable tool for preventing waterborne illness in the developing world...

The pages are about a millimeter thick and contain silver nanoparticles. The silver can rid the water of harmful microbes, but has very little effect on humans... To use the book, you rip one of the pages in half, slide it into the filter box (which doubles as a cover for the book) and pour contaminated water through. After a few minutes, the [bacterial count] is reduced by 99.9 percent and is comparable to U.S. tap water...

The books cost just a few dollars to make; each piece of filter paper costs about 10 cents. The filters can last a couple of weeks, even up to a month. So the entire books could provide the tools to filter clean water for about a year.
Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-3516817695327084712014-11-10T11:46:00.000-06:002014-11-10T11:46:05.779-06:00Card manipulation
YouTube link.

Not card tricks - just (literally) manipulation of the cards by people you wouldn't want to play poker with.

Via Neatorama. Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-62333358483623049902014-11-10T11:42:00.004-06:002014-11-10T11:42:57.511-06:00Black members of Congress

Found at The Washington Post.Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-52270861850365638592014-11-10T11:39:00.000-06:002014-11-10T11:39:48.529-06:00The "salmon cannon"
YouTube link.

This week John Oliver presented a rather funny send-up of the "salmon cannon." I think the original deserves to be appreciated in its own right.Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-30408148078129996592014-11-10T11:25:00.000-06:002014-11-10T11:25:08.975-06:00The downnside of terraformingConsider this scenario:

A large number of humans have been prenatally genetically modified to live and work in a nonterrestrial location (they require subzero temperatures for comfort, need a different atmospheric gaseous composition, etc). Then the planet they were destined to live on is vaporized by a supernova; there is no equivalent alternate planet in the known universe.

Now they need another location, so all of them are transported to a partially-suitable planet which will then be terraformed to their requirements. This will require thousands of years, during which they will enter cryo-sleep, waking in groups at intervals for habitat maintenance until the external world is suitably modified.

So far, so good. But now suppose that after the terraforming machines have been going for a few centuries a cohort of colonists awakens to discover that their new planet, thought on preliminary survey to contain only primitive plants and beasts, is actually host to what appears to be a sentient creature. And that sentient race is obviously being forced to adapt to climate change at a rate exponentially faster than normal planetary evolution.

Are the humans ethically justified in continuing to terraform the new planet to their own needs if the process entails the genocide of the aboriginal inhabitants?
The story is The Keys to December, an 8,700-word (you can read it in an hour) novelette by Roger Zelazny, an acclaimed science-fiction author (Hugo Award x6, Nebula x3). I first encountered this story a decade ago in the compilation The Doors of his Face, the Lamps of his Mouth (Simon and Schuster, 2001).

A brief review is here, along with the names of several other books that include it that might be available from your library if Doors of his Face is not. If you insist on reading it online, the fulltext is here (in a somewhat awkward font).Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-8737909672119431362014-11-10T10:51:00.002-06:002014-11-10T10:53:26.709-06:00What constitutes proper subject matter for postage stamps?

A couple weeks ago the Washington Post made note of some turmoil in the stamp collecting community regarding the selection of images to be used on forthcoming commemorative stamps in the United States:

As the U.S. Postal Service prepares to issue a stamp featuring Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer next week, a postal expert whose 12-year term on the Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee ended earlier this year pleads with his former colleagues to resist the temptation to choose new stamp images "with the same profit motives as Big Macs, Slurpees, jeans or neighborhood tattoo parlors."..

This airing of dirty laundry in the small but passionate stamp community... draws another fault line in an ongoing debate over whether the cash-poor Postal Service should pursue commercial stamp subjects to lure new collectors and revenue at the expense of more enduring cultural images...

The friction came to a head last fall, when the stamp panel grew concerned about how the Postal Service's marketing staff was pushing pop culture that culminated with the release of stamps honoring Harry Potter...

"That said, while continuing to commemorate historic events and individuals, it is critically important that we offer subjects to interest younger generations and topical collectors into stamp collecting, such as Harry Potter, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and, most recently, Batman," Saunder said.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer debuts at the National Postal Museum on Nov. 6.
I remember the Harry Potter stamp points of argument, which included not only the commercialization of philately, but also the "promotion" and "glorification" of witchcraft. Then there was the controversy six years ago when a politically-correct stamp design took the cigarette away from Bette Davis.

I find it interesting that the current controversy over U.S. stamp designs follows by several months the apparently not-very-controversial issuance in Finland of postage stamps commemorating the artwork of "Tom of Finland," whose subject matter [see top image] is of a genre that would set off a firestorm of complaint in this country. The Finnish stamps are available for purchase in the U.S., but of course not valid for postage here.

Last year the postal service in Finland issued a set of four stamps picturing the "prettiest outhouses in Finland." Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-58906057010687635782014-11-10T10:30:00.000-06:002014-11-10T10:30:34.179-06:00Luxembourg tax shelters exposedFrom The Guardian:

An unprecedented international investigation into tax deals struck with Luxembourg has uncovered the multi-billion dollar tax secrets of some of the world's largest multinational corporations.

A cache of almost 28,000 pages of leaked tax agreements, returns and other sensitive papers relating to over 1,000 businesses paints a damning picture of an EU state which is quietly rubber-stamping tax avoidance on an industrial scale.

 The documents show that major companies — including drugs group Shire, City trading firm Icap and vacuum cleaner firm Dyson, who are headquartered in the UK or Ireland — have used complex webs of internal loans and interest payments which have slashed the companies' tax bills. These arrangements, signed off by the Grand Duchy, are perfectly legal.

 The documents also show how some 340 companies from around the world arranged specially-designed corporate structures with the Luxembourg authorities. The businesses include corporations such as Pepsi, Ikea, Accenture, Burberry, Procter & Gamble, Heinz, JP Morgan and FedEx. Leaked papers relating to the Coach handbag firm, drugs group Abbott Laboratories, Amazon, Deutsche Bank and Australian financial group Macquarie are also included.
Lots of details at the link. Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-11397149343278638342014-11-10T10:26:00.001-06:002014-11-10T10:26:31.130-06:00American plutocracy

A new paper by Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, Berkeley, and Gabriel Zucman of the London School of Economics suggests that, in America at least, inequality in wealth is approaching record levels...

The top 0.1% (consisting of 160,000 families worth $73m on average) hold 22% of America's wealth, just shy of the 1929 peak—and almost the same share as the bottom 90% of the population.
From The Economist, where the chart is interactive. The phenomenon is discussed in greater detail in another article there:

Because the bottom half of all families almost always has no net wealth, the share of wealth held by the bottom 90% is an effective measure of "middle class" wealth, or that held by those from the 50th to the 90th percentile...

The 16,000 families making up the richest 0.01%, with an average net worth of $371m, now control 11.2% of total wealth—back to the 1916 share, which is the highest on record...
Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-82387814347636375222014-11-10T10:05:00.001-06:002014-11-10T10:14:13.193-06:00How the 0.1% spend their money
YouTube link.

Sotheby's expects the bidding for this "supercomplication" watch to reach $17,000,000.

A video at the Wall Street Journal, which I can't embed, attempts to explain why this watch is worth that much money. It doesn't address the question of why a person should spend this amount of money on a watch rather than, for example, improving the world in some meaningful way.Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-3231521587902001342014-11-07T10:19:00.001-06:002014-11-07T10:19:27.837-06:00Photos by Gordon Parks

Parks' resulting work appeared in a 26-photo spread in [Life] magazine. "The Restraints: Open and Hidden" stood out among photography of the era because it used color photos to document the day-to-day impact of Jim Crow segregation on an otherwise anonymous extended family, the Thorntons, rather than focusing on the heroes and flash points of the Civil Rights Movement. When part of the family was kicked out of its Shady Grove, Ala., home and run out of town as a repercussion, Life magazine donated $25,000 to help the family relocate. By capturing the quiet dignity and humanity of Southern blacks, the series highlighted the inadequacies of the separate but equal doctrine at a time when the country was consciously grappling with race.
Both photos credit Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta and Arnika Dawkins Gallery. © The Gordon Parks Foundation, via Creative Loafing where there are more photos and comments Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-25883141101258946572014-11-07T10:11:00.002-06:002014-11-07T10:11:20.263-06:0017th century witchmarks

As reported in the International Business Times:

Witch markings dating to the 17th Century have been uncovered by archaeologists at a stately home in Kent and are believed to have been created to protect King James following the gunpowder plot of 1605.

 Experts working at Knole house discovered the witchmarks in a room built to accommodate royalty. They had been hidden for centuries in beams and joists below the floorboards and on a fireplace in the Upper King's Room...

The witchmarks, or apotropaic marks, are carved intersecting lines and symbols believed to form a "demon trap" to ward off evil and prevent demonic possession. The marks include chequerboard and mesh designs, as well as interlocking V-shapes on the beams and joists – a symbol that stands for Virgo Virginum that invokes the protection of Mary the Mother of God.
Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-60756530978373476902014-11-07T10:07:00.000-06:002014-11-07T10:07:10.180-06:00Interesting things about chickensExcerpts from an article in the November issues of Harper's:

Before World War I, the majority of eggs came from people keeping a few chickens in their backyards in the suburbs. Today, barns of 150,000 hens are run by 1.5 men on average (one full-time worker in a single barn, another split between two barns...

In nature chickens live in smallish groups in overlapping territories. They have complicated cliques and can recognize more than a hundred other chicken faces, even after months of separation. They recognize human faces too...

Their eyes are especially ingenious. Human eyes work together and focus on one location, but chickens' eyes work separately and have multiple objects of focus. A hen can look at a morsel on the ground with one eye and scan the area for predators with the other...

There are in fact no federal regulations regarding the treatment of animals on farms. We've heard of the Animal Welfare Act, but it turns out to exempt all animals on farms. There are only two federal protections that do apply to farm animals — one for slaughter and one for transportation. The USDA exempts chickens from both.
Much more information at the article, including informed commentary on the ethics and practical necessities of egg production. Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-8367473996870231292014-11-07T09:56:00.002-06:002014-11-07T09:59:12.651-06:00Relevant demographics of the mid-term electionsTwo graphs from a Washington Post article. The first shows the age of people who voted in the last ten mid-term elections:

The second shows that this trend of an older populace will continue for our lifetimes:

A major question is what percent of each cohort will vote in future elections? And how will the priorities and biases of age cohorts be different (or not) in future elections?

Addendum: From The Dish, a graph showing that voter turnout in this most recent midterm election was the lowest in thirty years.

Those who didn't vote this week are invited not to comment on this post.Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-79081226808629607612014-11-07T09:48:00.004-06:002014-11-07T09:48:47.877-06:00So you think you know a lot about music?For the final exam in this course: "Define, compare, and contrast five of the following musical genres. Be specific."

Canterbury scene
rock gaucho
Lithumania
vegan straight edge
 technical death metal
black sludge
 filthstep
 deep orgcore
 fourth world
grave wave
 fidget house
 shiver pop
 contemporary post-bop
 Nintendocore
 full on
 fingerstyle
deathgrind
 quiet storm

Selected from a longer list at Harper's, which in turn was selected from "a list of 1,266 musical genres compiled by Glenn McDonald, creator of everynoise.com, which seeks to produce a comprehensive music-classification system." Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-4284692193285501112014-11-07T09:44:00.001-06:002014-11-07T17:25:18.097-06:00Long-neck beer

Posted at Reddit, where there is a photo of another one that formed in a mini-fridge:

Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-71145745205492594722014-11-07T09:38:00.003-06:002014-11-07T09:38:49.570-06:00Fake bomb detectors

Last year The Guardian carried a story about a UK businessman who sold fake bomb detectors to the Iraqis:

A jury at the Old Bailey found Jim McCormick, 57, from near Taunton, Somerset, guilty on three counts of fraud over a scam that included the sale of £55m of devices based on a novelty golfball finder to Iraq. They were installed at checkpoints in Baghdad through which car bombs and suicide bombers passed, killing hundreds of civilians...

He claimed they could detect explosives at long range, deep underground, through lead-lined rooms and multiple buildings. In fact, the handheld devices were useless. Their antennae, which purported to detect explosives, and in other cases narcotics, were not connected to anything, they had no power source and one of the devices was simply the golfball finder with a different sticker on it...

A former colleague of McCormick told the BBC he saw him set up accounts in false names for 15 Iraqi officials. He said they "don't care if people live or die"; the only thing they care about is "how much am I going to get back – cashback"....
A prison sentence is in my view an inadequate punishment for a crime of this nature; something more medieval should have been considered.

It was with great disappointment, therefore, that I read in Harper's last month that the fake bomb detectors are still being used in Iraq:

Today, as our cab arrived at Kut, Iraqi soldiers at the checkpoint wore U.S. tricolor desert camouflage, the same my unit had been issued for the invasion. It was as if the hidden army of Saddam had reappeared wearing our uniforms. They walked carefully along our cab with a fake bomb detector, purchased from a crooked British contractor who resold $20 American novelty golf-ball locators for $27,000 each. Corrupt Iraqi officials bought $40 million worth of them. The soldier stared intently at the indicator light, three years after their sale had been banned, a keeper of the lie. "Everyone knows it does nothing," the passenger in the front seat said.
What a totally screwed-up country.

Photo credit: SWNS.com Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-57719268279568377572014-11-06T10:30:00.003-06:002014-11-06T10:34:31.566-06:00The hands of Jane Seymour

This is a detail from a 1536 portrait of Jane Seymour by Hans Holbein. Posted not for the hands per se, but rather to marvel at the exquisite detail the painter (or his assistants) incorporated into the depiction of the fabric. How is that even possible with a brush - a single bristle? or did painters use pen and ink to render some parts of their designs?

Via Large Size Paintings.Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-18005106205005594662014-11-06T10:21:00.001-06:002014-11-06T10:21:32.714-06:00A critique of corporate health-care plansFrom an op-ed piece in the StarTribune:

Honeywell International, founded in Minnesota, recently implemented a plan to reduce health care costs and promote healthy living for employees.

Sounds good so far.

But the company went a step further by penalizing workers financially if they and their spouses refused to agree to a biometric testing.

That's a harmless enough sounding concept. But what it means is you let medical providers for the company draw blood to check for health problems, such as diabetes. It means they would also would test you, and your spouse, for blood pressure, HDL, total cholesterol and glucose.

Oh, and they'd need your height and weight, and that of your spouse. And while they're at it, let's run a tape measure around your waistline to see how you are doing with that diet.

Failure to agree to the tests brings a hefty price, up to $4,000 per family in penalties and lost company contributions.

More details at the link. Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-78198113707856382942014-11-06T10:17:00.002-06:002014-11-06T10:17:36.243-06:00A different perspective on the night sky
YouTube link.

The time-lapse images of the night sky have been "stabilized" to show the stars in fixed positions and the earth rotating (not vice-versa, as our earth-based bias would suggest).

Via Reddit, where the thread includes brief comments on the lasers emitted from the observatories ("Basically, they use the laser to create an artificial star in the upper atmosphere. They then monitor its shape (which gets distorted due to turbulence in the atmosphere) and use that to correct the shape of the telescope's secondary mirror.")Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-76973674545652280282014-11-06T10:08:00.001-06:002014-11-06T10:08:12.128-06:00"Side stitches"
The stitch, an exercise-induced pain in the side, is a medical mystery. Many physicians call it a spasm of the diaphragm. Others say it is akin to the headache—a symptom with a multitude of potential causes. The world's perhaps most-published authority on the stitch, Australian scientist Darren Morton, disputes both of those theories, calling it an irritation of the parietal peritoneum, the outer lining of the abdomen.

Whatever it is, Dr. Morton's research shows that the stitch afflicts about one in five participants in a typical distance race... For some it will be debilitating, reducing them to a walk. For others it will be a pace-slowing nuisance...

Though it can feel life-threatening, the stitch doesn't cause death or injury, sports-medicine specialists say. Unlike a sprain, torn ligament or bone fracture, the stitch doesn't require rest or recovery. For many, the stitch is fleeting, often vanishing as training increases. Most never seek medical treatment for it...

Defined by Merriam-Webster as "a local sharp and sudden pain especially in the side," stitch isn't a new word. "Tonight thou shalt have cramps, side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up," says Prospero in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest." In a first-century mention of the stitch, Pliny the Elder recommended treating it with "the urine of a she-goat, injected into the ears,"...

A 2000 study of his on prevalence by sport found that within the previous year the stitch had stricken 75% of swimmers, 69% of runners, 62% of horse riders, 47% of basketball players and 32% of cyclists.
If I had to bet, I would favor stitches being caused by diaphragmatic spasm induced by respiratory alkalosis. But that's just a guess.Minnesotastanhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-2062405749503559262014-11-06T10:02:00.000-06:002014-11-06T10:02:18.531-06:00American sweater (1895)

Nice. Found at Vintage Blog.Minnesotastanhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-19610286973891681432014-11-06T09:58:00.000-06:002014-11-06T09:58:46.868-06:00America functions as an oligarchy, not as a democracy
Who really matters in our democracy — the general public, or wealthy elites? That's the topic of a new study by political scientists Martin Gilens of Princeton and Benjamin Page of Northwestern. The study's been getting lots of attention, because the authors conclude, basically, that the US is a corrupt oligarchy where ordinary voters barely matter...
The Vox link discusses these conclusions in some detail. This graph shows the probability of a policy being adopted by the U.S. vs the percentage of the general population that agrees with the policy:

And this one shows the approval probability vs the preferences of the economic elite and special interest groups:

The study is here. This from their Abstract:

Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence. The results provide substantial support for theories of Economic-Elite Domination and for theories of Biased Pluralism, but not for theories of Majoritarian Electoral Democracy or Majoritarian Pluralism.
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Young patients back in beds after fire forces evacuation of Children's Hospital
Young patients evacuated overnight from Children's Hospital were back in their beds within hours at 8 a.m. this morning.
The hospital was evacuated, including babies and sick children in intensive care, as a precaution after a fire sent smoke into children's wards at Health Sciences Centre.
None of the 92 children moved, nor staff and the many parents on hand, reported any injuries. The only injury was to a firefighter.
The cause of the blaze has not been determined.
"We were very fortunate. The fire department were able to contain the fire to the construction site. We had a lot of smoke inhalation into Children's Hospital which was the cause for the evacuation. Some cleanup is required but very little damage to Children's Hospital," Children's COO Dana Erickson said today.
Even some of the surgeries that Children's Hospital initially cancelled are going ahead as scheduled. And the kids? They were pretty much all back in their beds by 8 a.m., Erickson said.
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The site of the fire meanwhile is another story.
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In recent days, former Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) director Yuval Diskin
has been remarkably and aggressively outspoken. Comparing them to the biblical
prophet Zachariah, he declared Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defense
Minister Ehud Barak to be guided by "messianic" impulses. He said the two were
lying about the projected effectiveness of an Israeli strike on Iran, arguing
instead that such an attack would only speed up Iran's push for nuclear weapons.
Noting "I know what's going on in this field up close," Diskin accused the
present government of being insincere when claiming to be interested in reaching
a peace deal with the Palestinians.Controversy continued on Sunday at
The Jerusalem Post Conference in New York City when former Mossad chief Meir
Dagan sparred with Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan over Diskin's
comments.Understandably, Diskin's criticism – essentially a reiteration
of a line taken publicly by Dagan after he stepped down as head of the Mossad
last summer – has shaken up the political establishment.Two seasoned
military commanders and counterterrorism experts with impeccable credentials,
privy to Israel's most guarded secrets, have taken upon themselves to fight the
predominant narrative put forward by the government vis-à-vis Iran and the
Palestinians.Both Dagan and Diskin, like any other serious leader
interested in having an impact, are political animals. They understand the
impact of their words. But it would be disingenuous to blame these two of acting
solely in the name of narrow interests considering that during the long years in
which they held their respective official positions, Diskin and Dagan remained
out of the limelight and devoted themselves exclusively to defending their
country.With their long years of service behind them, the two apparently
feel morally impelled to speak out against what they perceive to be existential
dangers.Unfortunately, instead of addressing the substance of Diskin's
and Dagan's legitimate criticisms, the prime minister and the defense minister
have attempted to rebuff them with personal jabs. Diskin is said to be motivated
by bitterness for being passed over for the position he wanted, the head of the
Mossad. Diskin and Dagan have been attacked by sources close to the prime
minister for behaving "irresponsibly."BUT PERHAPS the most distasteful
and undemocratic response to Diskin's and Dagan's outspokenness has been a
legislative initiative that, if passed, would severely restrict the open debate
and criticism that characterizes Israeli political discourse.Dubbed the
"Dagan Law," the legislative initiative would prevent former security officials
from making public comments on matters related to their field of expertise
without authorization from the Defense Ministry. First drafted last year, the
bill has garnered new interest in the aftermath of Diskin's comments. MKs such
as Miri Regev (Kadima), who drafted the original bill, and Danny Danon (Likud),
among others, are pushing to get the Dagan Law passed. They claim to be out to
defend Israel from the potential danger caused by irresponsible comments made by
the likes of Dagan and Diskin.But in actuality, stifling the free
exchange of ideas and criticism among those most qualified to express these
ideas and criticism is the real danger to Israel's security.After all,
it was precisely the lack of independent thinking in the military establishment
that created a collective misconception and led to Israel's unpreparedness for
the Yom Kippur War. Indeed, what makes robustly democratic, open societies so
much stronger than their autocratic counterparts is their ability to exercise
self-criticism, learn from mistakes and choose leaders in light of conclusions
reached through open debate. If Dagan and Diskin, based on their deep
familiarity with our military capabilities and high-level decision-making
process, believe that it would be unwise for Israel to single-handedly attack
Iran or that not enough is being done to advance peace with the Palestinians,
not only should they have the right to say so; they have a moral
obligation.If critics of Dagan and Diskin think the two have given away
national secrets, then they should call for them to be tried for espionage in
accordance with the law. And if they think Dagan's and Diskin's analyses are
wrong, then they should explain why. But the attempt to use legislation to
silence men with many merits and priceless experience is unfair, undemocratic
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