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Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - last day
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Pengwin Adélie yng nghasgliadau'r Amgueddfa. Pengwin Adélie yw'r unig bengwin Antarctig arall o'r iawn ryw. Mae tua hanner maint y Pengwin Ymerodrol ac yn pwyso rhwng 4 a 6 kg. Ymddengys bod newid hinsawdd yn y Penrhyn Antarctig yn effeithio ar Bengwiniaid Adélie. Dim ond pan fo digonedd o bacrew yn y môr y gall Pengwin Adélie ffynnu. Wrth i'r penrhyn gynhesu mae llai o bacrew ar gael ganol haf ac mae'r Pengwiniaid yn symud ymhellach i'r de i aros gyda'r pacrew
This morning I presented my last talk to the Fisheries Department which was about the methods of collecting and identifying polychaetes. It seemed to go down reasonably well and then I handed back my key and left for the last time.
My samples are now officially with the Post Office hopefully to be on their way back to the UK shortly. As for me my journey back starts at 5am tomorrow morning. It will already be daylight then and will be the last time I see daylight at that time of the morning for a few months to come. Arrival back in the UK is likely to be a bit of a shock for me I think as there is currently around 8 or 9 hours less daylight there each day than here and the weather is now decidedly wetter and colder. Shortest day is fast approaching in the UK with longest day due here next week. Ah well.
Several weeks ago I pointed out that my challenge would be to still be finding new animals on Day 28. By my calculations that would actually be today so I failed there as there has been no new sampling since Friday which was Day 25. However, as I did have a new worm that day, from my final site, I think that's pretty good going!
My sampling here has gone well and I'm really pleased with the variety of animals I have been able to collect. I'm looking forward to being able to spend some time looking at them in more detail in the New Year. I've enjoyed my time here and had an amazing opportunity to visit a place and see things that many others won't get a chance to and I appreciate how lucky I've been.
I know that some of the people I've meet here have also been reading this blog and I'd like to take the opportunity to thank everyone involved for all of the help I've had getting out here and during my stay, from loaning me cars to get around to coming out on the shores with me or taking me diving to get more samples. This trip wouldn't have been nearly as successful without all of your help.
The Shallow Marine Surveys Group, whose survey work I piggy-backed to go diving, do a fantastic job out here with their dive surveys, mostly as volunteers with a few grants to help with costs and the Fisheries Department allowed me free run of their lab at all hours.
Not least of course I must thank the Shackleton Scholarship Fund and National Museum Wales who have funded and supported this visit.
Thank you all!
Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - day 26-28
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My directions turned out to be accurate and easy to follow and I arrived at Teal Creek in plenty of time for the tide. The biggest problem I had was deciding where to stop along the creek. At the time I arrived the tide still had a way to go out so it was difficult to know how much ground would be uncovered. I made my decision and walked out into the small inlet off the creek (photo 1). The area was very soft but the depth of the mud varied and I didn't venture too far into deeper areas, wary of getting stuck. As I dug around I was surprised to find the same new ragworm that I had found at Sand Bay the previous day, having not found it at any site before and now two in a row. There were also many of the bamboo worms that seem to dominate the shores here.
I left the creek shortly before actual low tide in order to give myself time to get over to Camilla Creek where low tide would be in just over 2 hours time. The tide hadn't gone down much for a while so I didn't think I would be missing anything new being uncovered. As I drove out past the previous choices I had had for stopping in the area I realised that the earlier bays had much larger areas of mud flat exposed and I thought maybe I had made a mistake in my choice of sampling site. However, on reflection, the water had retreated to the far side of the creek from these bays and that would have left me with no access to water across the mud which is essential during the collecting, so I probably did make the right choice after all.
Camilla Creek was reached fairly quickly with some expanses of mud flat already exposed. It was a much larger, wider creek (photo 2) than Teal but the shore itself seemed more gravelly leading down to it. I quickly realised that although the approach was easier, the mud itself was softer and deeper and probably not to be ventured too far into without additional company for safety and better sampling gear than what now felt like a very short pair of wellies. After extricating myself from the mud I skirted around the edge of the water level in the small bay sampling different spots and finding quite a variety of different mud, sand and hard areas to try.
Eventually it was time to leave for the journey back. This time I kept the window tightly shut and arrived back slightly less dusty than the previous night. There was at least one new worm for my list from the samples in the form of another different paddleworm (photo 3).
Saturday saw the last of the formaldehyde to alcohol changing where possible. The later samples would all have to stay in formaldehyde though as they needed to stay in that fluid for at least a few days to make sure they were properly 'fixed' before being moved to alcohol. That will now be done after both I and they arrive back in Cardiff. This was then followed by several hours of painstakingly sealing and taping around the lid of each pot and then sealing them into bags in order to reduce the risk of any fluid leakage during transport. As there were around 200 pots to do this took a while! The photo shows all of the pots at various stages of packing.
This morning (Sunday) saw a few more hours of sealing and packing until I had 7 boxes of packed samples ready for posting tomorrow (I can't bring them back on the plane with me sadly).
There had been plans to do a last shore dive locally this afternoon but unfortunately the wind has scuppered our plans, blowing strongly all day. As it would have been a shallow site with entry off the shore, the windy conditions would have made getting in and out of the water difficult, conditions underwater uncomfortable and visibility poor, so an obvious decision was made. Still disappointing though as everyone had told me what a lovely dive it was going to be!
Tomorrow's plan includes my final talk at the Fisheries Department in the morning followed by getting those parcels on their way and then getting my own packing started. Only one more day left here!
Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - day 25
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Wow, what a glorious day! It's a bank holiday here but unlike most in the UK, a bank holiday with fantastic weather. The temperature is 18degC, that may not sound that high but it feels very warm and the burn factor is quite high. It's been strange driving along listening to the radio reporting the weather in the UK which I hear is particularly bad right now. I am very thankful for being where I am!
This morning's sampling site was Sand Bay, near Port Harriet, about a half hour drive out of Stanley. The bay opens out quickly to a wide area of sand (photo 1). The sand varies quite widely across the bay from very coarse to fine, sometimes with gravel or rocks and in other places just sand. The animals themselves also seemed to change accordingly so it was worth dotting my sampling sites around the bay.
Although at first this bay didn't seem that much different to several of the other sites I've been to, a couple of the samples turned up some very different animals.
The most interesting was in a patch of the 'solid' sand, no stones but with some layers of old plant material as you dug down. Burrowing into those layers were a different sort of ragworm to any of those I've seen in any of my other samples, with striking red and white colours along its body (photo 2). I spent a while collecting several of these as they were obviously a different species to those I already had.
There was also a different type of paddleworm, the longest yet (photo 3), from one of the other sample spots. I only found one of these though.
By the time the tide turned, I had a large collection of pots from the different sites around the bay and a few animals that I already knew would be new to my list. As I wanted to get some photos of the ragworm with its colours I decided to go back into Stanley to the Fisheries lab rather than head straight out towards Darwin. I wasn't that far away and it was worth the time. After a quick photo session I then got back on the road again, back out past where I had already been that morning and on to Darwin which would be nearly a 2 hour drive.
As it was such a warm and dry day I had the window open slightly but wasn't prepared for just how much dust was created driving along the gravel roads. It was only when I arrived here at Darwin that I realised that the car, both inside as well as out, and myself, were coated in the dust.
I have been given instructions on how to get to the two creeks I want to sample tomorrow and hopefully they will also provide some interesting finds to end the week.
Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - day 24
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Back out to the shore this morning with Freya for company once again. We were only going a short distance outside of Stanley to an inlet called Mullet Creek (photo 1). This was a stream flowing down towards a sea inlet surrounded by coarse gravelly sand at the higher end, changing to a medium sand further down towards the sea. It was surprisingly less soft than I expected but still had a similar fauna to the site I sampled up at Mount Kent that had been much softer. It wasn't quite as far down to the sea as it had been at Mount Kent, where I never even got close to finding where the sea had gone to).
I collected more of the Boccardia species (photo 2) that I thought might be different to the first one I had found which burrows into hard places such as the calcareous algae. These are very small and require a long time spent kneeling on the sand teasing them out of the surface layers (photo 3). There were also more paraonids, including more whole specimens, which is always good to find as opposed to small pieces!
The sea did still go out a long way as the inlet was very shallow. We were still heading down it when we came up to a fence that came part way out into the inlet. This was a minefield warning fence and so that was the end of our journey down the inlet. We still managed 6 separate sampling spots spaced out ranging from what would be 'high shore' to what was virtually 'low shore' so we didn't do badly.
The sun didn't come out for most of our sampling which kept it a little cool but also meant we were less likely to burn. It did come out as soon as we were finished though to warm us up.
A few hours back at the lab going through the samples and then a bit more formaldehyde to alcohol changing finished off the day.
The next couple of days will be quite busy. I'll be sampling at Port Harriet tomorrow morning, a little further out from Stanley than I went today and then from there I'm heading west to Darwin for the night. Darwin is a couple of hours away on a narrow strip of land that connects the two sections of East Falkland, one northeast the other southwest, together. With sea on both sides but from completely different sides of the island, I'll be able to sample two sites on Friday morning which have tides nearly two and a half hours apart. I'll then head back to Stanley where I can sort the samples out in the evening. That will then be the last of the shore sampling!
Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - day 23
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With the tides being so poor at the moment I decided to forego this morning's tide in favour of organisation for the rest of the week and of what I have done so far. That's my excuse anyway and I'm sticking to it.
One job that needed to get started was to transfer my large number of samples from formaldehyde to alcohol. Formaldehyde is great for 'fixing' the specimens initially but is not good for long-term preservation and vice versa for alcohol. Also, formaldehyde is an acidic solution and this is very bad for those animals that build calcium-based tubes as it starts to dissolve the tubes making them weak and difficult to observe. The formaldehyde has to be poured out of the pots (through a sieve so as not lose those precious worms) and then replaced with water for a short time to help remove salt crystals from the seawater before being moved to 70-80% ethanol. I managed to get through the first two weeks samples before stopping.
Other mundane activities that needed doing including getting some cash out. Not as simple as it sounds as not a single ATM exists on these islands! A trip to the one and only bank is required to be supplied with Falkland Islands pounds.
Then the excitement of picking up my next car, not borrowed this time but hired for a few days. This time I have the luxury of a Mitsubishi Shogun to drive around. A bit bigger than the landrovers but surprisingly not as nice to drive although electric windows are always appreciated. Of course, being a Japanese car this means that every time I want to indicate a turn I now turn the windscreen wipers on instead followed by muttered curses as I indicate late and then try and turn the wipers off. And yes, I did do this every single time today. Hopefully tomorrow I may remember which side they are on and then undoubtedly I'll do the same in my own car when I next get back in it. It also came with that Falkland Islands signature feature, a large crack in the windscreen. This might have been disconcerting at the start of the trip but since I haven't seen a single car windscreen here without a similar crack, you have to accept it as a fact of life that comes with driving over loose gravel roads all the time.
Mobility reinstated I went back to the Fisheries department for more land ownership investigations and permission requesting for the next few days localities. So a quiet day compared to most of the others and sadly nothing that generated exciting photos for me to post. Instead I have added a couple more wormy pictures from earlier days for your enjoyment and a gratuitous picture of a crab because I like it.
Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - day 22
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My first public talk (photo 1) is now out of the way. Quite a relief actually. It was meant to be a 'community talk' so a general introduction to who I was and why I was there really. Having it towards the end of my visit also meant that I was able to include more interest in the form of a map showing where I had been sampling as well as photographs of some of the animals I have collected. Adding all of these at the last minute does not lower your stress levels. It did add a bit more relevance though than using some of the stock photos I have of UK animals which was what I had in there first of all.
It wasn't a large audience but I am not the most natural or confident of speakers and the addition of Falkland Islands TV filming the talk did not bolster my confidence any. Feedback was good though and comments included being pleasantly surprised at how interesting it actually was. Always good to hear!
I have another to do at the Fisheries department next Monday which will be to a more scientific audience and therefore a bit more technical about the worms themselves. Hopefully that will be considered surprisingly interesting too.
I was on my second borrowed car this morning which enabled me to get out for the morning tide. I had wanted to go back out to the shore by the Lady Elizabeth, not far away, as the last time I had gone down only just before low tide and had not had much time to sample and then of course found lots of interesting animals. Unfortunately today was a neap tide that stayed about half a metre higher than when I had been there previously. As this shore shelves very gently, this meant that the sand bars I particularly wanted to get out to remained stubbornly underwater. I still managed a little digging through the few inches of water to get some animals and also did more on the high shore than I had previously but it still felt disappointing.
On the way back I also decided to stop by the marina which had a patch of sandy mud that looked interesting. However, the nearby sign that declared the area believed to be free of mines but that one might get washed ashore from elsewhere put me off digging. Can't imagine why. Instead I went across to the other bank of the inlet which was rocky (nowhere for stuff to wash ashore) and dragged in some shallow Macrocystis kelp to look at the holdfast (photo 2). I had a brief thought that it might have attached itself to a landmine that was being washed ashore but luckily this was not the case and I spent 10 minutes pulling it apart and shoving it in a bucket which it only just fitted into (it was only a baby holdfast in comparison to those offshore). I did wonder how exactly I was going to deal with this monster back at the lab as holdfasts require a lot of time painstakingly going through each piece to pick off the animals. These structures are a habitat feature of their own with a large community of animals generally associated with them that makes it essential to sample them. The answer came in the form of 6 very large pots which the holdfast was duly separated and pushed into for a later date. That is probably going to be at least a week's work on its own!
The samples from the Lady Elizabeth turned out to be more successful than expected when I found several specimens of Spiophanes (photo 3), a worm I had only had a badly mashed glimpse of before, so this was very pleasing.
All in all another successful day. I have hired a car from tomorrow for a few days which will get me around to my last few shore visits and then hopefully I will get the chance for a bit more diving at the weekend. Still finding new stuff though so there must still be lots more out there to find!
Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - weekend dive report
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Yes it was a good sign! The weather this weekend has been what every diver dreams of, light if any wind, flat seas and warm. Do I dare complain that the risk of sunburn was too high having already fallen foul of the strong rays here several times? No, just don't forget the suncream!
5am was a very early wake up call on Friday but I don't think anyone regretted it. We headed over to Egg Harbour which, as I am used to now, required a long drive on gravel followed by an off-road track, when one was available, or a general 'it's over that way' decision on driving over unmarked territory. This time however, we were towing a RIB as well, not something you normally contemplate off-road! To be fair though, this RIB is on a double-axled trailer with tyres the same size as the cars. It too seemed to bump happily along and over the rough ground although even the four wheel drive needed help once on a steep slope (photo 1).
We were staying at Egg Harbour house (photo 2), a strange sight as you approach it sitting on its own on the hillside with absolutely no other sign of civilisation around it. Still, it was very comfortable, with its own jenny and water pump for amenities and peat burning aga to keep us warm in the evening.
But what about the diving I hear you ask? The diving was all virgin territory as this area was unsurveyed and new to all there. I'll admit that the life was not as prolific as at Cochon Island, however the kelp was also not as thick and the bottom was very light. Although the visibility was similar to before, the light made everything seem clearer (photo 3). Most of the dives were on rocky seabeds with the rocks of varying sizes across the sites, some easy to turnover in my hunt for worms some not so. Sometimes turning over a rock produced a surprise, as much for me as undoubtedly for the stunned octopus that stubbornly clung to the rock as it guarded its eggs (photo 4)! Starfish of many different sizes and shapes abound but the pretty picture award went to this whelk (photo 5).
As for the worms there were many different ones for me to collect. I was particularly happy to find this pectinarid (photo 6), a group I had not collected here up to this point. There were several to be found on the dive lying on the seabed which on this dive had lots of sandy sediment between the rocks. This animal builds a very neat cone-shaped and slightly curved shell, shown in the photograph with the animal next to it. On another dive was a different sort of paddleworm to the one I collected around Cochon with very nice colours (photo 7).
As for the other wildlife, we had a brief visit by some Commerson's dolphins as we arrived at the launching site on Friday afternoon and then on Saturday we had some friendly and some not so friendly sealions (photo 8). The photo also shows just how flat and almost glassy the water was by then. I unfortunately had the not so friendly ones. They were very curious at first although you don't notice them so much when you're head down in the sand and rocks, just the occasional flicker in the light as shapes pass above your head. Then you get the nudge. Then you feel something on your head and look up to find a whiskered face in yours. It was when the jaws started nibbling and more around my head that I became concerned particularly as it combined with a bit more force behind it! It was nearly time to come up though and I was happy to do so.
I was also able to do some shore sampling between dives at a couple of sites which kept me busy and all added to a very productive weekend. I was not the only busy one though as all the surveyors had their own reporting sheets to fill in between dives (photo 9). Again, more new sites completed for the team here.
A long drive back Sunday afternoon felt like a shame to all there, with the good weather still persisting. Long may it last (or at least for another week please).
Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - day 18
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This was an odd 'in between' kind of day. With no car to get around I was very limited in my options of what to do. I got a lift over to the Fisheries department this morning and spent a few hours putting notes together of the animals I've found so far and the sites I've been to. I also managed to put names to some of species by going through relevant papers I had.
Eventually I put together what pots and chemicals I needed to take with me on this weekend's dive survey and walked back into Stanley. This was actually very pleasant as the weather at that point was warm and sunny and the wind seemed to be dropping off. On my way I passed a Night Heron (photo 1) at the water's edge, the first I have seen not sitting still on a nest. Apparently they are generally most active at night, hence the name! All very tranquil.
The low tide was late afternoon today and rather than waste it without a car, I decided to sample a different site along the edge of Stanley. This similarly involved a nice walk along the water's edge deciding which spot to dig up. By this point, the usual strong wind had become a gentle breeze and the water was unusually still, it all made a nice change.
Stanley is a long, stretched out town, so walking along the front takes a while. There's not a great deal of change along the shore but I picked a spot just short of the wreck of the Jhelum (photo 2), an old wooden sailing ship condemned and left to rot all the way back in 1871!
This site was slightly different to the one we first sampled over two weeks ago. The stones embedded in a coarse sand were covered underneath in the tubes of the same terebellid worm we found on day 1. Although these worms were the same, there were lots of others in the sand to pick out as well and I am hopeful that some of these may be different. Again, being car-less meant no going back to the lab to look at my catch under the microscope. I had to content myself with sorting them out in the flat instead.
Plans are underway to hire a car next week to get me mobile again for my last week of sampling which will be great. As for tomorrow, we are leaving at 6am for Egg Harbour on the edge of Falkland Sound between East Falkland, where I am now, and the other main island, West Falkland, where we will be diving for the next few days. Hopefully, the still evening is a good sign of the weather we will get.
Polychaete research in the Falklands by Teresa Darbyshire - day 17
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I'm halfway through my trip. Two weeks from now, at the time I'm writing this, I should be back in my own bed. It's a strange thought.
My intention to do another pre-breakfast orca vigil this morning failed as I woke to to the sound of wind and rain at 5.30. I wasn't that dedicated and so went back to sleep. Still, after breakfast, with a couple of hours before my flight back, I headed out with a last hope. As I reached the beach I thought I saw a black fin in the water….no it was five! I spent the next hour and a half happily watching a pod of orcas patrolling outside the sheltered pool that the seal pups play in (photo 1). The occasional squall blew through leaving me very damp and the strong wind made standing up difficult but it was worth staying. My camera's not good enough to get really good shots from the distance I was at but I did what I could. Sadly, I didn't get to see any seal-munching though, ah well.
The flight back was bumpy and the landing was my first experience of approaching a runway sideways but ended smoothly. The flight also afforded good views of the islands from the air (photo 2) The afternoon was spent editing two talks I am due to give here, one to a general public audience and one, slightly more technical, to the staff at the Fisheries department. Now that I have had a couple of weeks here and have some photographs of the worms I have been collecting, I was able to add a bit more local relevance to the presentations.
Sadly, the night before I went diving last week, the owner of the car I was borrowing returned and retrieved it. I now have to work on finding an alternative in order to do more shore sampling. Still ,we are off on a new dive survey on Friday morning and I have plenty to do at the lab tomorrow to keep me going until then.
Not much to report today so I thought I might add a few words on life out here for those who are interested.
Before I flew out, several friends voiced doubt and some concern about the availability of various supplies out here. In some cases you might have thought I was flying out to a third world country! Just in case though I was careful to pack some essentials. A small jar of marmite and some chocolate. Well, let's face it, toiletries were bound to be available. I am happy to report however, that supply levels are good and marmite, the rating standard, is indeed available. Even my Green & Blacks milk chocolate can be replaced.
Groceries are generally quite expensive. However, as the two main supermarket brands stocked are Sainsbury and Waitrose it's difficult to judge how much of the expense is the brand and how much the shipping!
Fresh fruit and vegetables are expensive and not available in a large variety but frozen and tinned varieties are easy to stock up on. Fresh meat is mostly beef or mutton of varying cuts and both are cheap, very good quality and very tasty. In terms of other kinds of non-food supplies its difficult to know what's available. From what I've heard though most are bought via Amazon!
People are all very friendly and in that typical island style, everyone knows everyone and where they live. If you need to know where someone lives or their phone number, if you ask someone on the street then they will probably know!
As mentioned before, 99% of all cars on the road are 4x4s and most of these are landrovers. Speed limit is 25mph around town and 40mph everywhere else for very good reasons. It's only around Stanley that smooth roads exist. Outside of town, roads are just gravel and only go to the main settlements. Beyond that there are just tracks that require the 4x4. I've heard several stories of accidents and none are between cars, all involve coming off the road. I won't be speeding anywhere! Fingers crossed I'll get some transport sorted though so I can trundle off somewhere new soon.
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Carlsen in TIME and the art of good journalism
Yesterday TIME featured a short interview with the new world's new number 1 Magnus Carlsen. Despite the fact that there were only ten questions with relatively short answers, I liked it so much that it got me thinking about chess journalism in general. Why can't interviews with chess players always be this sharp?
The main reason why I thought the interview was so good is that it's got something for everyone: both complete chess ignorants, casual chess enthusiasts and hardcore chess fans can probably relate to it. The first few questions could, I guss, be called rather obvious to dyed-in-the-wool chess lovers but that would be a wrong interpretation. In fact, it's not so easy to ask personal questions to chess players that are still relevant to their chess profession.
All too often, personal questions to chess pros are of the type 'What's your favourite colour' or 'Do you get a lot of attention from girls?'. Well, I'm sorry, but I couldn't care less! On the other hand, it is interesting (at least to me) to realize Carlsen, too, gets a lot of 'stupid' questions all the time - just like the rest of us chess amateurs - and it's good to hear he deals with them in a sensible way. Next time someone asks me how many moves I can think ahead, I, too, may answer that it's the evaluation that counts most.
Actually, a good interview is made not only by the journalist but also by the person being interviewed, and Carlsen does a fine job in TIME. He clearly had to be very brief in his answers, but he still manages to mention a few relevant things, such as the complexity of chess intuition and the fact that he isn't afraid computers will kill human imagination in chess. This last point, especially, is worth thinking about. Nigel Short apparently fears computers will take away the mystery of chess - this argument is reminiscent of Keats' famous complaint about natural philosophy (i.e. science) in his poem Lamia (1819):
Philosophy will clip an angel's wings,
Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine—
Unweave a rainbow...
This complaint inspired the biologist Richard Dawkins to write an entire book called Unweaving the Rainbow, in which he argued that the more we understand of nature, the more - not less - we should be amazed and awed by it. Magnus Carlsen seems to hold the same opinion when he says he's not afraid computers will 'leave no room for imagination'. And he's quite right, in my view. The more computers show us how wrong we were before, the more fascinating our little game will surely become.
Equally insightful are his answer to the question whether he sees chess as a combat or as an art (this question should be asked more often to chess players anyway - it tells a lot about how they think about their work) and his explanation - or more accurately: his lack of explanation - for why there are so few women in super-grandmaster chess. He dismisses pseudo-pschygology and even refutes it with an example from his own experience. Finally, he admits not being obsessed by chess - and all this in a Q & A of just ten questions. I'm impressed. Why can't all chess journalism be like that? And why can't all chess players answer so clearly to chess questions? Let's hope in 2010 we'll see more of it.
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5 years 3 days ago
I like Arne Moll because he is not afraid to take the road less traveled. :) He starts thinking when everybody else stops thinking.
Then again, maybe he was just being disingenuously sarcastic, you never know. ;)
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Howard Goldowsky
5 years 3 days ago
It's about time we stop placing NIC on a pedestal. It's about time we realize how poorly the supposedly best chess magazine actually does journalism. (Besides lame questions like "What is your favorite color?" NIC's English grammar and punctuation are horrible. Good work, Arne. -Howard
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After their 25th anniversary issue and their Fischer tribute issue, it's hard not to put New in Chess on a pedestal , even if some small parts like 'Just Checking' may miss the mark. Is there a comparable chess magazine in the world?
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5 years 2 days ago
I do respect Howard Goldowsky and his committment to journalism, but I will say that NIC has a good presentation and some decent game coverage. The journalism is a bit uneven... some classic, some a bit cheesy. However, I have learned over the years that the approach to journalism is very different in chess. I have met almost all of the chess journalists and photographers and have learned from all. However, I have also learned that chess has a unique element that requires a different style.
We have seen so many non-chess journalists get it wrong so often that many chess-journalists may over-compensate to undo the damage done by these articles. I do believe we have enough diversity of styles in the chess world of journalist to reach a critical mass and to capture the essence of news and events. TIME's article didn't break any ground, but I do appreciate the way Carlsen addressed the questions. A few years back, Carlsen gave terrible interviews with long pauses, jumbled phrases and laconic answers. He has now matured and this article put him in a good light.
I did cringe at the "how many moves..." question and the idea that a chess player is 40,000 times smarter merely because he's good at chess. Carlsen answers this questions in classic fashion.
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5 years 1 day ago
@P.Doggers. Criticizing cliché chess questions in a TIME magazine interview is a bit strange. They do not target only "chess readers". NIC has no excuse for asking them time and again, yet they do. That is worth criticizing. Sure enough, time is needed (no pun intended) to get a good interview, but if you are a chess journalist and feel like you didn't get enough time, then maybe it's not worth publishing at all?
BTW. NIC is, imho, the best chess magazine out there. Still, it has room for improvement when it comes to journalistic quality.
@Clifford:I seriously don't believe this strategy is necessary. These people (the chess elite) are far from being close to someone like Tiger Woods. They are in many ways in need of attention for sponsorships etc. Woods can pretty much play golf and have NIKE do his promoting - not a situation ANY chess player is even remotely familiar with (not since Kasparov, anyway).
If you can't leave out the "whats your favourite colour?"-questions bc you are afraid to upset the delicate genius (G. Costanza), then maybe interviews should be done by someone else.
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5 years 1 day ago
Hey! Just imagine: The comments seccion of the "Computer Skeptic" column remained closed!
Who'd guess that? ;-)
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5 years 7 hours ago
Well, it's a pity there remains unanswered a most mistaken, unfair, prejudiced, misleading and (why not use your idea?) "pedantic" comment!
And a pity you remain satisfied with such situations. I use to accept I'm wrong, but not you :-(
The first decade
after 2000 years, I repeat: AFTER 2000 years
(accepted as well counted, even if they weren't),
is concluded AFTER 10 more years have passed.
BTW, be careful! One of this days you'll be surfing Wikipedia to tell which side is your left! :-)
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Michael X Tractor
5 years 3 days ago
"Why can't interviews with chess players always be this sharp?"
Perhaps because to most of the dumbed-down morons who inhabit the chess world, a "journalist" is a man whose entire ability consists in knowing which end of a video camera to stick up some GM's backside, moments after he has finished his game. No names, no pack drill, and all that.
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Funny, I thought it was OK, but I was't impressed that much - for that too many cliche subjects. And the obligatory 'How many moves ahead can you calculate on the chess board?' - pffffff.
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True, Peter, but its Time, not New in Chess, and even in NIC they ask stuff like whats your favorite color...
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@Nonationalism Only in the special Q&A column on the last page - not in the regular interviews.
@Michael X Tractor It's hard not to take that one personally. All I can say it that I'm often as unprepared for a good interview as the player, and more importantly, it takes a lot to get everything right - sound, light, camera, et cetera. I often feel this is too much to concentrate on and at the same time ask decent questions. In that sense it's not a fair comparison, this TIME piece with a brief video interview. The TIME journo wasn't watching the last phase of a game, until the result was shown on the DGT screen, to rush to the corridor with camera and mic, hoping to catch the player, who often already has his coat on and is close to the exit door. No, he could comfortably sit down with Carlsen and probably had at least an hour to get everything right. A better comparison would be my interview with Shirov - that was much better than average because we had enough time.
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Well this was a QA too, no? By the way, Peter you do a fine job. Keep up the good work!
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Yes, both this TIME piece and the last-page interviews in NIC are meant to be short Q&A's. So I guess my point is: only if TIME had dedicated a few pages to Carlsen we could have seen how good their journalism really is...
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Agreed, though writing a nice QA can also be a sign of good journalism. Or should be, at least.
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5 years 3 days ago
While were dealing with media coverage of chess - here's an article from yesterdays NY times
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Uhm... debating gender differences in mind sports is NOT "pseudo-psychology". There are lots of interesting differences in the male and female brain, let alone the hormonal system. Spatial processing, Risk Seeking Behavior and Operant Conditioning in Competitive Settings are fields which are highly relevant in chess and while there is no final conclusion whether men have an edge in any of them, it would be way too simple to dismiss the idea a priori.
That said, I do believe that the sociological factors are outweighing the psychological ones by far. To my mind, the most important reason for the predominance of male grandmasters is men's greater focus - or disposition to strive for expertise in a single field of knowledge while neglecting the rest. This may be my subjective nonempirical opinion, but I credit it with greater plausibility than "maternal instincts"...
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Padraig Hogan
5 years 3 days ago
"it would be way too simple to dismiss the idea a priori"
Way too simple? Actually it is the EXACT OPPOSITE.
It would be way too complicated to try to give the ideas any credence at all. You'd be talking about the most negligable factors of all.
Unless you have the locations of practically every atom in the brain or at least have some extremely good experiments that prove that females are more likely to move in a certain way in a certain position (and I am extremely doubtful you would find that), you have NOTHING.
Give me something! And if you have nothing, you have pseudoscience and pseudointellectualism and pseudotheories.
Umm.. debating it is absolutely pseudopsychology because guess what? It's ALL MADE UP BECAUSE YOU HAVEN'T ANYTHING TO PROVE IT WHATSOEVER. THAT'S what a simplistic mind does.
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5 years 3 days ago
Here is how not to do interviews:
As you can see, chess journalism is not in that bad a shape :)
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Anyone has christmas leftovers for me? I'm gonna go feed the troll...
I will ignore your request to provide a complete map for the male/female brain or prediction of male/female moves. Unfortunately, the brain is not perfectly mapped (yet) and as far as I know, mind-reading is still in development, too. I only have feeble stabs at the elusive truth, like:
Mehta et al, 2008 (http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=2008-06135-011&CF...): Testosterone (male sexual hormone) increases the chance that a behaviour that has previously been successful in establishing dominance is repeated. This learning effect could or could not help in chess but it IS something to explore further.
Voyer et al, 1995 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7724690): Unfortunately, the most recent meta-analysis is not peer-reviewed yet, so you have to do with this one. Their extent is debatable but the existence of sex differences in spatial ability is not.
Harris & Jenkins, 2006 (http://journal.sjdm.org/jdm06016.pdf): I don't know if risk assessment or risk seeking is any help in chess (or aggressive chess even) - but the connection between risk seeking and sex is pretty clear.
Of course it is not clear at all whether these results have anything to do with chess - probably because psychologists have yet to determine any factor that predicts chess performance. Also, it is unlikely that a lot of variance will be attributed to a single factor (as I have already stated in my last post). But I find it highly appalling that hypotheses are labelled "pseudoscience" just because there is no conclusive evidence in either direction yet. Mr. Moll (who I trust to be highly competent apart from that) even states that an anecdote could "refute" a hypothesis. This is NOT how science works. If you don't like a hypothesis, then you can state just that. But unless you can refute it with scientific evidence or put up a theory that explains the situation better, you will have to accept its existence. I'll be glad to continue the debate as long as you provide either.
Your move.
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Sorry for the inconvenience: Apparently, two of the links above don't work. This is the route to the abstracts:
For Voyer et al: http://psycnet.apa.org/index.cfm?fa=buy.optionToBuy&id=1995-20087-001&CF...
For Harris & Jenkins: http://journal.sjdm.org/06016/jdm06016.htm
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@ Howard Goldowsky, I should clarify that I have absolutely nothing against NIC and that this column was not directed against them at all. I think they produce excellent products and that their long interviews are usually of a good standard, if perhaps sometimes a bit uncritical. That said, questions such as 'what's your favourite movie' are not my cup of tea.
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Howard Goldowsky
5 years 2 days ago
Chess-wise, NIC is great. But as an example of good journalism, there is something to be desired. This is my point. As journalism goes, TIME is standard fare, so Arne pointed out how much below even average magazines, from a journalistic point of view, NIC is.
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Have you considered that New in Chess might not be so good chess-wise if it were stronger journalistically? If NiC had asked the really hard questions of Kasparov or Topalov, or even just expose and condemn bad behaviour by top players, they probably wouldn't get annotated games or columns from them in future. So there is a trade-off, and NiC have chosen to have outstanding chess content rather than hard-hitting interviews. It's a valid choice.
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You're probably right, Clifford. Still, you can ask yourself: does Nature makes such choices, too? The New York Times? Are professional chess players really such touchy personalities that each time a confronting question is asked, they refuse further contact? That's hardly a compliment for the profession.
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The elite in the chess world are a much smaller group than the top scientists or the world of the NYT. Compare, perhaps, the golf world, where no golf journal was willing to break the Tiger Woods story , even though the allegations against Woods were known but ignored. Or the media group that withheld the Woods story in exchange for an exclusive cover story and interview.
What NiC is doing - going soft on the big stars to ensure access in the future - is not so unusual in the celebrity world. Stars may also demand to see and sometimes veto interviews with them before publication. It's not 'ideal' journalism to agree, but it happens all the time.
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5 years 2 days ago
"It's too hard to predict the future, but right now I don't see myself going mad."
Mags got a great sense of humor!
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5 years 2 days ago
I want see a match between Super gm like Carslen, Anand, Topalov or Ivantchuk against rybka or other chess engine. Then we could see Carslens real imagination:)
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Closing the comments on "computer skeptic" article after answering my comment in that way (and by the way, with a question!) really has some coherence to it!
You're becoming more and more uncapable of 1. reasoning and 2. considering others, in certain domains!
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Don't jump to conclusions, Castro; I have absolutely no idea why the comments are closed to that post. As you no doubt know, closing comments is not our policy so I don't understand how you can think we're doing it now. Peter will solve it I'm sure.
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Forgive me, indeed I jumped into that conclusion, it's really an incredible coincidence someone else (how many are you guys??) did that closing, and in such short time after your comment!
As for the policy of closing, I don't know it exactely, certainly it happens no so often, but I've seen it once or twice.
As for "jumping into conclusions" in general: We're human, everyone of us do it once and a while, but maybe you should pay a special attention on that! :-)
A decade is ANY period of 10 years (of course). The problem is you mentioned "The first decade".
Well, enough off-topic here!
And again, forgive my rushed judgement on closing threads.
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5 years 1 day ago
I think Carlsen did well.
At last some positive publicity about top chess in a non-chess top magazine, I can´t remember the last time this happened.
I also liked to read the "Psychology of Chess"-essay (link given in the interview) from september 1972, really a TIME-document!
Comparison with the 10 Q&A "interviews" in New in Chess (which I don't like at all) looks completely off the mark to me, considering the difference in target audiences. And in a Dutch magazine a "nosey" column can't be that much of a surprise, when you look at the amount of Dutch magazines and tv-programs (exported to the whole world), based on the "need to nose" into other people's personal lives :).
Off topic: Congratulations to New in Chess magazine for its Silver Jubilee (25 years), it´s a great magazine and over the years I had the pleasure to send several letters to Magazine and Yearbook as an enthusiastic reader/amateur.
Only one of them was a letter of disapproval (not so bad as an average...): it was about the ignominious article about the Israeli chess master / specialist intelligent bomb manufacturer Yaacov Bleiman (NIC 2005/2) by Yochanan Afek.
I'm still waiting for the article about an Arab terrorist chess master!
But I suppose this kind of bias is also typically Dutch...(this is a cynical remark, I know, especially coming from a Dutchman...).
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As said, Castro, it's a technical issue.
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What a typical reaction! Avoiding to answer to the point. :-)
Your heroe must be your heroe because he must be adressing you directely. Recognise it, know yourself, like Socrates said.
I could be wrong on that, and you just needed to wake up, but you trying to call me pedant on this, assures that it must more than a bad dream or simple mistake from you.
A simple auto-test is try to really answer to the matter. Then you'll be sure.
And please, don't worry about me, I'm (in some sense, humbly) here, waiting for that non-avoidance try, in good spirit ;-)
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I've already answered your point by noting there's more than one way to look at the issue, and yours is a minority view by far (see Wikipedia and Reddit).
A pedant, by the way, is someone who tries to make a minor point with a big goal: not because it being wrong is a bad thing in itself (it isn't by any standard), but to show how clever he is himself. Go figure.
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Yeah, go figure!
Then. what should be called to someone who thinks that my goal is to show I'm clever!
Fantasy and simple defensive-ofensive childish strategy comes to help! Very non-pedantic hahahah!
As for "minor point", that's not the case (BTW, your left is oposed to your right), unless one does not stand any reason (like you and your heroe, on this matter), and instead of accepting it, just seek refuge on making poor humor and labeling the issue as "minor point". It's a strategy. But childhood stayed back then, you know?
And indeed there is NO more ways of looking at it. Just DIFFERENT issues.
If you say "The Sixties", everyone can accept it to be a decade running from 1960 to 1969.
If you say more people comemorated the millenium on January 1, 2000, everyone can believe you. (Also there were times most people thought Earth was flat).
But there's no way arround the arguments and the very nature of the time counting calendar, and it's awfully misleading and ignorant trying to support our (understandable) confusion to the very end, which is only possible by means of demagogy and false acusations of pedantism in particular.
It deserves a good advice: "Back to school!!"
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You really don't get it, do you? You really don't seem to realize that when you so lightly say 'the very nature of the time counting calendar', it's really a very fuzzy concept you're referring to.
How do you count years? There are two ways to do it: by ordinal numbering or by cardinal numbering. Since you're so quick to send me back to school, I assume you're aware of these concepts. Very well, your definition of millennia and decennia consists of using ordinal numbering, and mine of cardinal numbering. This is all very elementary. How to decide which is the 'correct' one, suppose you would want to?
One way is to look at the ancient way of doing this, and then, by reasoning the ancients used terms such as 1 A.D. etc., you may say that this is the 'right' way - of course, this is only the 'old' way. Now, nobody uses this method of counting anymore, but instead uses '1973' and so on - i.e. the cardinal way of counting. This is also reflected in current scientific practise, such as the astronomical year. In fact, the ISO 8601 standard of recording time assumes this practice (with a year 0), so this is really the preferred way nowadays.
Of course you have a point that the original Gregorian calendar doesn't use a year 0 but starts counting at year 1 (1 A.D.), thus creating the confusion in the first place. However, what's the logical behind this, except a historical one? I found a nice analogy from Arthur C. Clarke who said: "If the scale on your grocer's weighing machine began at 1 instead of 0, would you be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea?" What's the 'reason' you claim to exist behind this?
Anyway, all this beside the point because intuitively, there's no discussion as to when the millennia and the decades should start. This is of course when the 9 becomes a 0 because psychologically this change is much more dramatic than from 0 to 1.
Still, even when you disregard this psychological argument (and this is the reason why discussing this point at all should be called 'pedantic') you still have a lot to explain. But to tell you the truth your arguments don't really interest me since I know them already. On second thoughts, I would define a pedant as someone who makes a point in order to look smart AND thinks his listeners are not aware of the complexity of the issue.
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Nothing like inserting a "But to tell you the truth your arguments don't really interest me" somewhere. It does put a lot of bad argumentation together, in some psycological way!
You know, indeed I'm aware of all that kind of complexity in processes (and about the calendar too, stay calm).
So, I'm going to answer you, even if you say that you DISREGARD and that you KNOW. If indeed you wouldn't disregard, please verify (and tell us) exactely which of the below you really know:
1. To begin with, NO, you didn't even try to answer before;
2. NO, you didn't begin all the issue (on the column "Computer Skeptic") by being any ponderous about the remark I made, just tried to ridicularise strait away, not to mention "any" reason I could have, and not to mention that OF COURSE you wouldn't allow any "there's more than one way to look at the issue", as you claimed after.
3. My formation is on Mathematics, so again you go very wrong thinking I could be confused about ordinals and cardinals, on the calendar. My greatest love on Maths lyes precisely on the foundations of it.
4. Our calendar is not a "fuzzy concept", Arne, unless we want it to be.
You say "your definition of millennia and decennia consists of using ordinal numbering, and mine of cardinal numbering". This is wrong! You don't obtain different results in years, millenia, decenia, whatever years related, by means of thinking which order something comes, or how many time periods are we counting.
5. Of course any counting of units that includes 0 as an unit yelds 10 units when we gether 0 to 9. And a dozen is yeld at 11, of course. But as I said (on my VERY first post on this) (and you couldn't do more than confirm!), for the calendar that is only posible with a modern and artificial time counting system. (BTW, Next time someone asks your age, or at what age one should comemorate two decenia, don't answer rushily! :-) )
6. There is no such thing as an "old way" (in which, you imply, 1973 would mean something strange), and a "modern way" (in which "1973" means 1973). That's pure fantasy! 1973 means the 1973th year, whatever turns you try! This is the ordinal view, as well as the cardinal view! 1973 is the year coming after 1972, and there are 1973 years completed when 1974 begins.
That is as "modern" as could be, because we're talking about THIS counting system, NOT some other created just for certain goals.
Sure, maybe the counting was somewhere in the past slightly confused, and Jesus really was born some years later or earlier, but the thing the calendar is to is to mark how many time passed since his birth. Pedantic is otherwise.
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7. The "Gregorian Calendar" was not "the original"! What a confusion!
The Gregorian operation just dealt with the accuracy of it, nothing else (and dealt very engeniously, BTW). It has NOTHING to do with what we're talking here. The meaning of the (this) calendar stayed as before (and will remain forever, no matter what confusions are tried. It's COUNTING time. THAT is "the logic of it".
8. "...the astronomical year. In fact, the ISO 8601 standard of recording time assumes this practice (with a year 0)"
In fact, as I said, that is done with certain specific scientific goals. That is not meant to substitute any "old" system! BTW, I repeat, our calendar is not "old" in that sense. What makes sense to MARK is (decimal) portions of time PASSED over certain event.
0, as an unit (also then being imposible to consider in the past), can nothing but deny that concept! (It can serve other noble concepts, but those are as strange to this as it would be strange to count your own first year of existence as "zero").
9. Of course I'm not an "Arthur C. Clarke", but this brilliant man made the CLASSIC MISTAKE. (a most basic one, I must say, but human isn't perfect) In fact, I'm glad you brought that here! His analogy is good to refute him!
The "scale on your grocer's weighing machine", as your thermometer, as your velocimeter (and so on) begin at (or have) zero but AS A MARK, AS AN INSTANT, NOT AS AN UNIT, because otherwise you couldn't "be happy when he claimed he'd sold you 10 kg of tea"! That's because! Having zero as an unit would precisely falsify the thing we wanted to be less falsified! The counting, the real measure.
10. "This is of course when the 9 becomes a 0 because psychologically this change is much more dramatic than from 0 to 1."
This is the ONLY apreciatable argument! That and the number of believers, maybe!
But I'm sure everyone will agree (after some time pondering, maybe?) that this one argument has one fatal defect. It is profoundly anti-scientific. It's, as I said, a very understandable confusion and refuge, similar to that of the people afraid to get into a car, or satisfied with the Earth being flat. There are contextes where (and people for whom) this notions can even be useful, and reasuring some basic PSYCOLOGICAL situations.
If they want that, let them have it! I never said that religion should be banned!
One thing is for sure: Passing that fear and ignorance wall, even they would benefit!
11. Ok, and what a releaf! By your definition, I'm really not that pedant, not even by your (anounced, but for others!) standards!
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Well, Castro, what can I say? The entire world is wrong and Castro is right. Mathematics is apparently the only way to approach this problem. Of course, it remains a possibility that there's more to life than mathematics, and that, for instance, the concepts of ordinal and cardinal numbering can also refer to linguistics...
Not to be a bad sport, but I've had enough, it's impossible to reason with someone who insists on formality beyond all reasonable excuses.
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Hehe I'm somewhat aware of linguistics too. Bad luck, Arne!
No, not the entire world is wrong (and Castro is right). And sometimes Castro is wrong, and sometimes (if that's the case) he even ask for forgiveness!
So you see, only with religious or fanatic faith your image of ME (of course! Who else?) being pedantic and know-it-all hardly stands.
And yes, people begin to have a handful of your bad excuses (bad sport, until it ceases): My bad english, my formality, my previsibility, my being lonely saying something, my unreasonability... All mine!
Well, keep everything as you which, then. (Though allowing others to speak has some risks on that rotten peace).
Better wishes for the 2010th year!
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@Moll and Castro. What happened here? I can't read your posts because they are very long and seem to be about... narcissism and... calendars? Quick summary pls?
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Sorry, no quick summary available :-) (unless if you'd stick to your sugestion: narcissism and... calendars.)
Anyway, I'd strongly the full version.
For better and for (not much) worse, it's all in comments sectoins, and almost all in off-topic mode.
Part 1 (Intro): The two last comments on Arne's "Computer Skeptic No More" (no need to reed the column itself for this purpose);
Part 2: Arne+Castro comments on this very Arne's article (beggining with "Castro on December 27th, 2009 9:42 pm");
Appendix (incredible bonus track): Sumit Balan, Castro and Amos comments (1+2+1) on the "Grischuk & Galliamova Champions" article.
I know, one hardly wants to go such a way, but believe me, it worths to do all that reading!
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Christmas pie
By Mary Cadogan
Cooking timePrep: 30 mins Cook: 1 hr, 15 mins Plus cooling
Skill levelModerately easy
ServingsCuts into 10-12 slices
Combine a few key Christmas flavours here to make a pie that both children and adults will adore
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- Freezable
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 488
- protein
- 23g
- carbs
- 39g
- fat
- 28g
- saturates
- 12g
- fibre
- 2g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 1.4g
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- knob butter
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 500g sausagemeat or skinned sausages
- grated zest of 1 lemon
- 100g fresh white breadcrumbs
- 85g ready-to-eat dried apricots, chopped
- 50g chestnuts, canned or vacuum-packed, chopped
- 2 tsp chopped fresh or 1tsp dried thyme
- 100g cranberries, fresh or frozen
- 500g boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 500g pack ready-made shortcrust pastry
- beaten egg, to glaze
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- Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5. Heat 1 tbsp oil and the butter in a frying pan, then add the onion and fry for 5 mins until softened. Cool slightly. Tip the sausagemeat, lemon zest, breadcrumbs, apricots, chestnuts and thyme into a bowl. Add the onion and cranberries, and mix everything together with your hands, adding plenty of pepper and a little salt.
- Cut each chicken breast into three fillets lengthwise and season all over with salt and pepper. Heat the remaining oil in the frying pan, and fry the chicken fillets quickly until browned, about 6-8 mins.
- Roll out two-thirds of the pastry to line a 20-23cm springform or deep loose-based tart tin. Press in half the sausage mix and spread to level. Then add the chicken pieces in one layer and cover with the rest of the sausage. Press down lightly.
- Roll out the remaining pastry. Brush the edges of the pastry with beaten egg and cover with the pastry lid. Pinch the edges to seal, then trim. Brush the top of the pie with egg, then roll out the trimmings to make holly leaf shapes and berries. Decorate the pie and brush again with egg.
- Set the tin on a baking sheet and bake for 50-60 mins, then cool in the tin for 15 mins. Remove and leave to cool completely. Serve with a winter salad and pickles.
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OUTSTANDING!!!! What an amazing pie, I can't rave about it enough!!! I followed the recipe with the exception of using chicken thigh pieces rather than breast and I covered dried cranberries with a little port and put them in the microwave for a minute or two and cooled. I will make again and again and again and I wouldn't change a thing!!!
Delicious alternative to the traditional pork pie at Christmas. Used mini fillets of chicken breast and left them whole. Added dried cranberries but would use fresh next time as there was enough sweetness with the apricots The filling was the exact quantity for my 24 cm diam x 6 cm deep fluted loose-bottomed flan tin resulting in a perfectly formed pie.
This was my 2nd christmas with this pie on the buffet table....and the 5th time i have made it. I love it...and so does everyone i know.
But, my pastry (store bought) never holds....after the first cut it all goes downhill and my pie looks less like a pie and more like a opps-i-dropped-it-on-the-way-in mess. Is there a quick jelly recipie i can use to help with this?
Lost count of the number of times I have made this, we call it Boxing day pie. Just made two for my son's 18th party as he loves it so much. I used the chicken fillets which were on offer, so I poached them before adding to the pie. The family all commented that these were the best ever pies, the poaching kept the chicken lovely and moist.
Just delicious. Made it for the first time for Christmas 2012. It was a great cut and come again dish to fill the hollow legs of the younger generation. The last crumbs disappeared at 1am along with some homemade chutney.
Will definitely become a regular Christmas time buffet menu feature and I will try freezing it next time having read the positive comments.
This is my second year of making this pie and the only thing I changed from last year was to add more chicken, I use 4 chicken breasts instead of 3 to make sure that there is a full layer of chicken. This pie is a real winner and a great recipe even though there is a lot to get through for 2 people ! I tend to give some to friends if they pop round for a coffee.
This pie has become a family favourite, and I have now passed it on to my son who plans to make for his friends at St Andrews Uni before he comes back home for Christmas. I will have to make sure that mine is better than his!
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A - It seems like a simple enough question - is pre-marital sex always a sin? The answers to that question given by Catholics might shock you. Here is a snip from an article on these results from Msgr. Charles Pope:
In 1972, 39% of adult Catholics responded that premarital sex was "always wrong." Among Catholics attending Mass at least once a week, 54% responded as such that year. In the most recent survey, conducted in 2008, only 14% of Catholics responded that premarital sex is "always wrong." Among Catholics attending Mass at least once a week, 30% responded as such.I agree, we have a lot of work to do. But, I am not shocked by the numbers. I see the results of such numbers all the time.
In other words, more than 70% of Church-going Catholics do not hold or agree to the teaching the Church and Scripture that premarital sex (fornication) is always wrong. Among Catholics who do not go to Mass the number is even higher at 86%.
I knew it was bad, I did not know it was this bad. We have a lot of work to do.
Yes, it is always a sin. Why? Because it is a selfish, unloving, use of another human being and a misuse of our sexuality.
Pre-marital sex is selfish:
It is never about the other person. If it was, then we wouldn't be risking the other person's health, getting someone pregnant while not married, spreading disease, emotional welfare, spiritual state-of-being, and future marriage. It is all about me and only me, whenever pre-marital sex happens. Yes, there might be strong feelings, friendship, etc. But, the act itself is never about true unselfish love (see the next point).
Pre-marital sex is unloving:
Love = "choosing what is best for the other, despite the cost to myself" and could be summed up in one word = "gift". We are called to love others by being a selfless gift for them. Thus, when we choose something that is about me and is not good for the other, then it is not love. Pre-marital sex, by definition, can NEVER be a loving act.
Pre-marital sex is use of another human being:
John Paul II said using another person as a means to an end (in this case your pleasure) and not as an end unto themselves is the opposite of love. It is reducing a human being to an object. Not treating them as a child of God.
Pre-marital sex is a misuse of our sexuality:
Why do we have these desires in the first place? It isn't just to bring us pleasure. It is to be open to new life (procreation) and to bring a married man and woman together (unitive). These two ends are the purpose of marriage. Pleasure is a by-product of sex. A good by-product, but when it replaces one or both of the real purposes - it degrades the act and we are back at selfishness.
Sex is a gift from God and like any gift can be used for good or bad. It is also a meant to be a beautiful act between a man and wife - in the context of marriage. Sex is something intimate and wonderful. But, just like anything good, it can be twisted to be bad. This is what happens with pre-marital sexual acts. While it may "feel" like love, we would never risk another person's future, virginity, pregnancy, disease, soul, broken heart, etc. if we loved them.
Another way to re-phrase the question might be to ask "where is the line between sin and not sinning?" Well, (for some things) it depends on each individual. While all sexual activity (not just intercourse) outside of marriage is sinful, lust is as well. This is the deeper issue. Lust isn't just a passing sexual thought about another person. It is when we grab hold of that thought and use it for our own pleasure.
When we have a control of what is going on in our hearts and minds, then we will easily see where the line is drawn and will do all we can to avoid even approaching it. We want to try and change our hearts, not just our actions.
I know there are many Catholics who struggle with their sexuality and controlling their desires, but it is worth it. Here is the reason - you can't give what isn't your own. If you don't have self-control, you can't give yourself away fully. This means you can't really love another person by being a gift to them. We can either be in control of our desires or allow them to control us.
Chastity is the virtue that allows us to give ourselves to another…remember the definition of love as "gift". To give everything means we are free of selfishness in our love and chastity frees us of selfishness in our sexual desires. Therefore chastity = sexual freedom! Unfortunately this understanding of chastity is not known well. Most people think that it means just not having sex. It is not a negative thing - it is a positive thing.
Sex should be saved for marriage, where intimacy (of all kinds) is supposed to be. Unfortunately in today's world, we give our sexuality, our emotions, our bodies, and our lives to people we our not married to. We have lost the depth to what a intimacy really means. We end up deadening our sensitivity to it and putting present and future relationships at risk.
To put it another way, I have never met a person who saved sex (of any kind) for marriage and regretted it, but I have met thousands who didn't keep themselves pure and now do. You will never regret purity. Never. But, you will always regret impurity, eventually.
Living a life that is empty of regrets is a full and good life.


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