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This week I am going to try and answer several questions and give shorter answers. These questions are from several readers and cover a variety of subjects.
If anyone has a question, you can forward them to email@example.com and I will try and use it for a future article or answer you directly.
Q. What is the original translation for the word "word" in the New Testament and what does it mean to "spread the word?"
A. The word in Hebrew is "davar" and Greek is "logos" and I won't get into the mystical meanings of both but it basically means to teach the concepts behind what the word means.
Both Testaments are written from a Jewish mindset so that is where I would start to get the meaning of the words being used, and then there are cultural meanings and idioms.
To understand the Bible you must study it in its original setting, from a Jewish rather than Gentile mindset, keeping in mind its historical and cultural settings.
To "spread the word of God" we must know what God means by the words He used.
Anyone can tell me what God said, but not everyone can tell me what He means, there's a difference.
Q. Some people believe that Islam is the religion of the false messiah that is prophesied in the end times.
Can you refute this belief or are they correct?
A. Islam is going to play a role, but it is not the religion of the false messiah.
The false messiah will claim to be "Jesus" and try to deceive believers.
Yeshua said that if it were possible, the very elect could be deceived, but of course they won't, which tells me that whatever is being taught will resemble the truth, but it isn't Islam.
No true believer would even be remotely deceived by Islam.
It isn't even close, but if anything, the false messiah would claim to be Mohammed, not Jesus anyway.
The religion of the false messiah will be a form of apostate Christianity that promotes idols, Islam hates idols.
The false messiah will have an image of himself in the Temple, and sit as God.
Islam would not even allow a Temple to stand.
There are many more differences.
However, I do believe that Islam will be the religion behind the Kings of the East.
Islam and Christianity have fought before and they will oppose each other again in the Tribulation.
Q. Should we consider extra-biblical sources as equal to the 66 canonical books of the Bible, or should we trust those who put it together and only consider the books as we have today as Scripture.
A. I believe we can trust beyond a reasonable doubt that what have in our Bibles is accurate. There was a certain criteria used when considering these books and you can go and study what those were and God can use anyone to preserve what He wants.
One of the biggest areas that differentiates the canonical books from the others is the area of prophecy. Other books, when examined, just don't measure up and as time goes by more and more prophecy is revealed in the books we have, and the others seem rather amateurish in comparison. I think people need to master the books we have before they worry about all the other books they may feel were "left out" of the Bible, but that's my opinion.
Q. What does Paul mean when he says that he will be "all things to all men" in 1 Cor 9.22?
A. Paul is teaching the Corinthians how to relate to others who are different. He said he would accommodate customs and practices that did not violate the Torah. He says he will be as "without the Law (Gentile) to those without the Law(Gentile), though not being without the Law himself" meaning he would be like a Gentile but still observe the commandments as they apply (1 Cor 19.21). Paul was not going to compromise truth for the sake of unity either.
Q. What is gossip and how do we handle it?
A. Gossip, by definition, is small talk often involving personal or sensational rumors. We handle it by not listening to it and then spreading it further. Another thing we can do is to verify a story for ourselves. If you hear something, go to the person it is about and find out for yourself, from the person being talked about. But, spreading talk about anyone without verification is gossip, and it doesn't have to be bad.
Sometimes we need to warn others about someone who is damaging others, or is dangerous and Paul warns others to stay away from certain individuals and even names them, but that is totally different then gossip. For the most part, you'll know it when you see it.
Q. If Jesus fulfilled the feasts of Passover, Unleavened Bread, First fruits and Pentecost, why do we still celebrate them?
A. Well, the main reason is God told us to, and we know first century believers did, and these festivals will be celebrated in the Messianic Kingdom, with Yeshua Himself celebrating them. Another reason is these festivals fulfilled prophecy in the first coming of Yeshua. He was crucified on Passover, buried on Unleavened Bread, resurrected on First Fruits and sent the Holy Spirit on Pentecost.
Now, even the most ignorant of men can see that if these festivals were prophetic of Messiah's first coming, the remaining 3 fall festivals of the Day of the Awakening shofar blast (Yom Teruah) or Rosh ha Shanah, the day of Atonement (Yom Kippur) and the feast of Tabernacles (Sukkot) will play a major role in prophecy concerning the second coming of Yeshua. The same people who question this also celebrate birthdays, even their own and are often disappointed when people forget. Why celebrate a birthday, after all its fulfilled, right? And anniversaries. You married men who are reading this want to tell your wife that anniversaries will not be celebrated anymore because it has been fulfilled? Well, if we celebrate these things as a remembrance of something significant, how much more should we be celebrating the things of God and what He has done for us in the past.
Q. Are the Bible Codes real, and should we place any validity in the prophecies that are contained in them
A. The Codes are real but they are not to be used for telling the future because certain events may seem to be pointing a certain way in the Codes, but it really doesn't mean that it will play out the way we expect. There is not enough information in them to predict things and you don't know what to tell the computer to look for to begin with. But, I believe the Codes are a sign for believers.
The Codes tell me that there is an infinite mind behind the written words, that our days are determined before there is even one of them (Psalm 139) and this was determined before the world was (Eph 1.4). But, I don't need them ,either because I can have confidence in the Bible I have today, the books contained in them and the words used in Hebrew and Greek. I can trust what it says. The Bible Codes were not meant to be read that way. God has been explicit enough in what He has written already and the codes were there in the first century but they weren't needed to see that Yeshua fulfilled prophecy. Yeshua went to the written Law and Prophets, not any Torah code, to prove who He was.


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During the morning we will give you a briefing on the trip, whale behaviour and swimming with the whales while we start our search for the Humpbacks. Depending on the course of the day, we will have lunch at anchor on our spacious boat "Moana", which will allow you to snorkel at one of Ha'apai's wonderful coral reefs, or on the beach on one of the many islands. The afternoon will be spent looking for more whales before we make our way back home around 3-4pm.
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We are only visitors in their realm and their welfare is one of our primary concerns, so we always adopt a precautionary approach during our encounters. If the whales show signs of being disturbed, we cease contact and continue our search for whales that are more tuned in to interacting with us.
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Democrats claimed victories last night in two hotly contested races for Maryland congressional seats that have long been in Republican hands.
C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger of Baltimore County and Christopher Van Hollen Jr. of Montgomery County won in contests that attracted the attention of both national parties.
Incumbents easily won re-election to the state's six other seats in the House of Representatives.
In the 2nd District, Ruppersberger, 56, the Baltimore County executive, defeated former Rep. Helen Delich Bentley, 78, reversing two decades of Republican victories in the mostly Democratic district centered on the county's east side.
Ruppersberger waded through a throng of supporters last night in a confetti-filled ballroom at the Towson Sheraton while the theme from Rocky played in the background.
"Helen was a great, great public servant," Ruppersberger said. "She was tenacious, and I think it's important that we acknowledge that she ran a great race. But we won the race."
Bentley, jabbing at Democrats to the last, conceded defeat about 11 p.m., saying that even in a losing effort, her campaign may have provided a boost to Republican Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. - who gave up the congressional seat to run for governor.
"It appears our efforts in Parris Glendening's new 2nd District have fallen short," she said to a cheering crowd at the American Legion post in Towson. "But we have provided a solid backbone for Ehrlich's campaign."
In suburban Washington's 8th District, Van Hollen, 43, a state senator, defeated Republican Rep. Constance A. Morella, 71, a popular eight-term incumbent.
"I am just so very fortunate," said Morella in conceding. "I've had the opportunity to move the issues that affect all of us. For all of this, I thank all of you. I will always remember all of you in my heart."
Van Hollen waited for Morella's concession, then entered the ballroom at a Silver Spring country club with his wife and two young children as a band played James Brown's "I Feel Good."
"This is not a vote against Connie Morella," he said. "It's a vote for change in the district and change in leadership."
President Bush was among those who called to offer regrets to Morella, the only condolence call he made in the election, the White House said.
The two Maryland districts were viewed by both national parties as swing seats in the battle for control of the House, where Republicans began the evening with a 223-208 advantage. The parties sent in money and political stars, including Bush and his wife, Laura, and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady.
The results allowed Maryland Democrats to break the 4-4 tie between the parties in the state's congressional delegation. The split is now 6-2.
The Democrats used redistricting, the remapping of congressional districts that follows every census, to improve the party's prospects in both districts by adding precincts with heavy concentrations of Democratic voters.
Ruppersberger is only the second Baltimore County executive to be elected to higher office; Spiro T. Agnew, who became governor and vice president, was the first.
When his plans for a gubernatorial bid faded last fall, Ruppersberger let it be known that he would be interested in running for Congress, provided that Governor Glendening could draw him a sufficiently Democratic district.
In the campaign, Bentley, who had held the seat for 10 years until giving it up to run for governor in 1994, emphasized her advocacy for the Port of Baltimore and her record of constituent service. She also stressed the Republican leadership's promise that her seniority and seat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee would be restored if she were elected.
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To quote Samuel Beckett's letter to Thomas MacGreevy (25th March 1936), I have been reading wildly all over the place. Time's Flow Stemmed is a notebook of my wild readings.
As soon as I figured out that letters could be made into words I became an avid reader. Sometimes I annotate my books, at other times use notebooks to record aspects of my reading that I wish to preserve. Times Flow Stemmed is an extension of that phrase-hunting or what Beckett called the demon of note-snatching. This blog is a complement to several full notebooks containing notes taken from the books I am reading.
In fiction I have a proclivity for novels that engage with modernism, often in translation, mostly economical, austere fiction that doesn't seek resolution. My nonfictional reading covers literary criticism, philosophy, critical theory, and sociology, with an aesthetic compulsion that lures me to artist's (including photographer's) monographs. I haunt galleries as though they were second homes, spending hours with the paintings that I love.
There are writers that I read toward completion. My list of favourite authors is recast as I discover new authors and outgrow others.
At the moment, these are my old chestnuts: Dante Alighieri, J. G. Ballard, Samuel Beckett, Jane Bennett, John Berger, Thomas Bernhard, Roberto Calasso, Anne Carson, Hélène Cixous, J.M. Coetzee, Simon Critchley, Roger Deakin, Jenny Diski, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Marguerite Duras, Geoff Dyer, Pierre Hadot, Peter Handke, Homer, Michel Houellebecq, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Søren Kierkegaard, László Krasznahorkai, Clarice Lispector, Friedrich Nietzsche, Atiq Rahimi, Susan Sontag, Christa Wolf, Virginia Woolf, Kate Zambreno.
Though this blog is mostly concerned with literature, occasionally writing about other passions such as paintings, film noir, music, and travel is unavoidable. This blog, like all blogs, is a reflection of its creator.
When I began this blog back in 2009 I adopted Wislawa Szymborska's words as a manifesto of sorts:
At first I thought I'd be writing real reviews, that is, in each case I'd describe the nature of the book in hand, place it in some larger context, then give the reader to understand it was better than some and worse than others. But I soon realized that I couldn't write reviews and didn't even want to. That basically I am and wish to remain a reader, an amateur, and a fan, unburdened by the weight of ceaseless evaluation. Sometimes the book itself is my main subject; at other times it's just a pretext for spinning out various looses associations.
The purpose of Time's Flow Stemmed is to spin out these loose associations based on what I'm reading and to participate in a conversation about literature, philosophy and critical theory. I am always pleased to have the opportunity to converse on Twitter, LibraryThing, but my favourite are your comments here on Time's Flow Stemmed. I'd be thrilled if you comment on my posts, ask questions, object, carry on the conversation. Or feel free to send me an email at timesflowstemmed AT gmail DOT com.
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A conversation with David Winters at 3:AM magazine (February 2012): 'Modernism Then and Now'.
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I have accepted a couple of publisher-provided books before and can't say I like the pressure (admittedly self-imposed) to read and review them. It is rare that I find enough reading time, and I want to be able to drift from book to book as the mood grabs me. I admire any author able to write a whole book and wish them all success.


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09:37 am EST @ October 02nd, 2012
Terraria, the 2D Minecraft look-alike, is on its way to consoles and here's the trailer announcing it: VIDEO: 567005.mp4
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07:58 am EST @ September 14th, 2012
Yesterday, Nintendo officially revealed the release date and the price tags (for several regions) for their new piece of gaming hardware. Initial prices are going to be locked at $299 for the Basic set and $349 for the Premium set, whereas, according to analyst Michael Pachter, Nintendo is surely to reduce the price next year...
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05:59 am EST @ September 13th, 2012
Nintendo just confirmed that they are going to launch their next-gen console, the Wii U, on December 8, 2012 in Japan. The console is going to be on offer in two sets: the Premium Set for 31,500 yen ($405) and the Basic Set for 26,250 yen ($338)...
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07:47 am EST @ September 11th, 2012
CVG has the word about Microsoft's next technology that's supposedly being developed for the next Xbox console. This new gaming tech denotes a breakthrough device, currently referred to as the "environmental display," which was designed to project 360-degree game worlds across all four walls of a room utilizing advanced projection tech...
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02:04 am EST @ August 10th, 2012
In the United States, the total revenue from retail games, consoles and accessories contracted by %20 during July - that's according to data gathered by NPD. Word is that sales of game goods at retail generated $548 million; down from the $686 million made during the same period the year before...
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07:40 am EST @ July 05th, 2012
Word is spreading that Sony Computer Entertainment has what's being described as the plans for a new PS3 model. Reportedly, the new model has been submitted to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Sony supposedly offered a new model to the FCC for testing, to provide an upgrade from the present 3000 series (via NeoGAF)...
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06:24 am EST @ January 25th, 2012
Tired of next-generation console news? No problem. Here's some more. IGN reports that Microsoft will be launching a successor to the Xbox 360 pretty soon. Not only that, but according to the news story, the next-gen Xbox console will be powered by a 2011 Radeon 6000 series GPU, as opposed to the latest 7k series...
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07:07 am EST @ January 13th, 2012
MS is certainly happy. They're happy because the Xbox 360 was the best-selling console during 2011 in the U.S., effectively outselling competitors with over 2.7 million units shifted, reports NPD Group. "The strong December capped an impressive year during which Xbox 360 was the fastest-growing console...
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02:53 am EST @ January 11th, 2012
Following waves of reports about Blizzard's Diablo 3 making it to consoles, it seems that the development studio finally made a semi-official confirmation. The news originates from Blizzard Community Manager Micah Whiple's Twitter feed...
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05:28 am EST @ December 15th, 2011
Microsoft may be looking to launch their next generation Xbox console a bit sooner than you think. In fact, the industry veteran could release the new gaming product during 2013, according to a report from CNET. They've mentioned this having received a tip from a source from within Microsoft's Xbox team...
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02:10 am EST @ August 19th, 2011
Even though Blizzard Entertainment didn't make any official announcements that Diablo 3 is coming to consoles, there have been various indications, all of which point towards the action RPG making it to the Xbox 360 and PS3. During the Gamescom 2011 lead designer Josh Mosqueira stated that they are "very, very serious about bringing the Diablo 3 experience to the console...
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05:08 am EST @ July 07th, 2011
Nothing. There's absolutely nothing to play. Nothing. My God, and all we have to look forward is Call of Juarez: The Cartel. Okay, it may be a good game (the last one was - though I still prefer the Western setting). Anyway, after CoJ, we must wait another bloody month for Deus Ex: Human Revolution...
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06:08 am EST @ April 01st, 2011
And here we go. The PlayStation 3 is reportedly outselling the Xbox 360 worldwide. After seeing the European sales and US sales, we now have a report from Strategy Analytics, suggesting that the global installed base of Sony's gaming system reached 43...
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05:59 am EST @ April 01st, 2011
Well, I never. While the PS3 is apparently outperforming the 360 across Europe sales wise, in the United States Microsoft's console is kicking the PS3's backside. Oh and one other, trifling point, the Nintendo Wii is still kicking everybody's ass after all these years...
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04:14 am EST @ April 01st, 2011
According to recently gathered sales data, the console market in Europe is about 153 million units in size. The numbers apply to the period as of December 2010 and the Wii is in the lead (as you'd normally expect), but the PS3 is slightly ahead of Xbox 360. Here's how the numbers break down: Wii - 24.9 million units PS3 - 14.7 million units Xbox 360 - 13.7 million units DS - 46 million units PSP - 14.8 million units
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Drones for Peace: UAVs that Take Pictures, Not Lives
July 17th, 2012
We hear more and more about military drones that spy or even conduct attacks, but a company called Rotary Robotics knows that Unmanned Aerial Vehicles or UAVs can be used for peaceful purposes too. The company is working on bringing affordable drones to the masses. So you can spy on your neighbors and attack them with water bombs.
Rotary Robotics calls their project Drones for Peace. The company has entered the MassChallenge program – a competition for startups and entrepreneurs – to boost the project's progress. As for the drones themselves, they won't be as high tech as the ones used by the military (nor should they be). The goal is to create $100 drones that are meant to take pictures from the air. To further reduce the costs, these drones won't be controllable. Instead, users will tell the drone where or what to take a picture of via a smartphone app. Once the drone is launched, it determines its movements on its own, goes to the right spot, takes the picture and goes back. So scratch the water bomb attacks.
There are already alternatives for sale like the Parrot AR.Drone, but a $100 drone will be a game changer. Rotary Robotics hopes that their cheap drones will help enhance activism and citizen journalism, as well as help people do their jobs and of course have fun. Unfortunately, once they see this, thieves and perverts will also no doubt be eager to take their lows to new heights.
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I have been flying drones for the past 4 months or so. It takes a good deal of technical knowledge and practice to assemble a drone and fly it.
The imagery from this perspective can be quite unique, I look forward to seeing where "flying" cameras will go as technology processes.
Here are some videos I have made with my drone:
Thanks a lot for your information. Yes you are right that thieves and perverts may use these technology for there bad purpose. It should be only peoples benefit not other that.


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If you're a fan of talk radio, then you'll want to check out DSMA Live, an online radio show by people with diabetes, for people with diabetes.
Diabetes Social Media Advocacy (DSMA) promotes all forms of social media in an effort to educate and connect people who have diabetes. As part of this mission, the group conducts live, hour-long radio shows for people with diabetes and for parents of children with diabetes. Shows are available in both English and Spanish.
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The month of January is already over and, accordingly, so is the Month of Apple Bugs(MoAB). As promised, one advisory was released every day of the month,in some cases addressing numerous vulnerabilities in an application.Unlike the Month of Browser Bugs and Month of Kernel Bugs, this time we saw the interesting twist of a parallel group starting a Month of Apple Fixes.This group was responsible for the release of unofficial run-timepatches for the majority of the issues disclosed, with the exception ofthose affecting the kernel.
The classes of vulnerabilities discovered during the MoAB coveredpretty much the whole gamut, including stack and heap corruption,format strings, integer handling, generic design flaws, resourceexhaustion, and other denial of service issues. Moreover, a wide rangeof associated vectors were covered, including remote code execution,client-side code execution, local privilege escalation, and local andremote kernel flaws.
As far as remote kernel flaws go, MOAB-31-01-2007has yet to be released, but is anxiously anticipated by myself andlikely many in the industry. The information available suggests that itmay be the first publicly available remote kernel exploit for the Appleplatform. These have been developed privately in the past and detailsof the exploitation techniques have also remained private.
There has been some public criticism of the MoAB findings, claimingthat they are not related to Apple or they are simply bugs. But Ithink, overall, the month demonstrated a lot of interesting and/orcritical issues that showed that there is more work that needs to bedone in securing the platform, especially in regards to the user model.The following is a small diagram illustrating how many issues affectedApple applications specifically versus those affecting otherapplications or multiple vendors.
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How many times have you heard this story. The hunter walks to his tree stand before daylight on a cold November morning. He sees a few deer, but nothing close enough for a shot. But he knows there is a big buck in the area, so he hangs in there till noon. It�s cold and he is tired and hungry so he departs and doesn�t return to that stand until the following evening.
Knowing that deer have great noses, he notes the wind and enters the stand on a different path than the one he took the morning before. With great anticipation he settles in for the wait. An hour before dark he hears a deer walking in the leaves. It is a dandy buck and headed right for him.
Just out of range, the buck stops, and puts his nose to the ground. He doesn�t blow out of there, but just turns and quickly walks away. The wind was perfect, yet the deer never got closer than sixty or seventy yards. The hunter grudgingly gets down from the stand and walks to the spot where the deer turned away. He discovers that the buck had just intersected the trail he�d walked in on the day before. Whoa. A deer�s nose knows.
There have been estimates that a deer can smell as much as 10,000 times better than we can. Others say it is less than that, but what really matters, and what every hunter knows, is that they can definitely smell better than we can. By a long shot.
Deer use their nose to survive. Their sense of smell is the major way deer detect predators, find food, and it helps them �talk� to other deer during breeding season. They use their nose at scrapes, overhanging limbs, at buck rubs, and around does to help them cue to what is happening before and during the rut. In essence, a deer survives by its nose and they rely on their sense of smell for everything.
We will never fully understand how a deer uses its sense of smell, but there is new research on how mice and humans process odors and it may give us some real clues as to how deer smell as well. Knowing how deer use their highly tuned sense of smell will show you why it is so important to stay as scent free as possible. If you aren�t sure about this, then read on. What follows should convince you that being able to detect your odor is something that deer can do extremely well.
In 2004 two researchers got the Nobel Prize in Physiology for their work on how humans detect odors. What they learned was most interesting. Humans have a small patch of odor receptor cells inside the nose. (This gets a bit complex, but don�t go away). These odor receptor cells make proteins that allow the detection of different odors. What determines the proteins that these cells make? Genes. Genes code these proteins, so the ability for all mammals including humans and deer, to smell, is tied to genes. Each protein in each odor receptor cell can allow mice to smell between one and three different odors. Since mice have at least 1000 of these genes, they can potentially smell as many as 3,000 different odors.
Humans have only 300 of these genes, meaning they can smell as many as 900 odors. We don�t know how many genes deer have, but they definitely have way more than we do. One would guess that deer have at least 500 proteins and the genes to create them, and if each allows them to smell between one and three odors, they could potentially smell 1,500 different odors.
Though that is important, the next finding by these scientists is the kicker. These different odor receptor cells take in various odors, send that information to the brain where patterns are formed.
Here is what the scientific research report quoted on this formation of patterns by inhaling different odors, �we (meaning humans)can consciously experience the smell of a lilac flower in the spring and recall this olfactory memory at other times.� �A unique odor can trigger distinct memories....�
So, �a unique odor can trigger distinct memories.� Let�s put this in deer language. We have odors coming into the deer�s nose, hitting the receptor cells that have these proteins created by genes that allow odors to go to the brain. There the deer forms patterns based on everything that was going on when it smelled a certain odor or odors. Now how does this all work to a deer�s advantage?
Let�s say a deer walks into an alfalfa field. Of course the deer sees the field, and it smells the alfalfa. That deer has been to the field many times before, so there is a pattern already in the brain that says, �I see the field and I smell alfalfa, so it is time to chow down.� Odors create patterns and these patterns determine where a deer will eat. If the deer walks in a certain direction and smells an odor that is part of a pattern created a month before, then that tells him to continue in that direction and he/she will find food. It might be alfalfa, it might be acorns, it might be brassica. The pattern was created and the deer reacts.
What if a buck runs into a dog and that dog chases him? The deer smelled the dog and then gets chased, and that is now a pattern in the deer�s brain. Next time he smells a dog, he will run away. If he is a young buck, then he might stand around a few seconds after seeing the second dog, and he may then get chased. Aha, the pattern is reinforced, so the third time he sees a dog, he is gone. Someone once told me that a buck isn�t all that smart, he just has great reaction time. True, and he is reacting to learned patterns in the brain tied to odors.
This whole pattern thing works the same when deer have encounters with hunters. What odors might a deer get around a human? Cigarettes, perspiration, clothes, gasoline, after shave, you name it. If a deer encounters those odors while living in a state park where there is no hunting, then it may not form a negative pattern. In fact, the deer may form a neutral pattern. Nothing bad happened when he smelled those odors, so the deer �became accustomed� to the presence of humans. The odors are part of a pattern that did not result in anything negative for the deer, so they do not react. In essence they became relatively tame.
But if there is a negative human encounter, associated with perspiration odor, or cigarette odor, or any human odor, that deer forms a pattern. The older the deer, the more reinforcement he/she got, so the reaction may well be instant.
Let�s go back to the buck that smelled the hunters boots or shoes on the trail he took to the tree stand. Apparently that buck had an earlier negative encounter with a human. He got the odor, something negative happened, and a pattern was formed. That pattern was there when he got a whiff of humans, so he left in a hurry.
So, all human-related odors are stored away in a deer�s brain and the patterns generated by odors are there as long as that deer lives. If deer are around farms, people, with no negative encounters (i.e. no dogs chase them, no hunters, etc.), then the patterns they store won�t result in flight. However, in most deer country, those human-related odors are negative for the deer, and they react by fleeing.
Deer will lick their noses all the time, especially bucks during the rut, because odor particles stick to a deer�s nose better when it is wet. So wet weather may also enhance the ability of a deer to recognize an odor. I love to bowhunt on mornings when there is a mist in the air. But be aware that a deer�s sense of smell may well be enhanced at such a time.
We�ve just learned that deer smell better than we thought, and we now know that they put things that happen to them, plus the odors, into patterns that determine their behavior. The question then is what can we do about it? The answer is simple. Reduce your odor any way possible. There are all kinds of products out there that can help reduce odor; scent-free soaps, deodorants, scent-reducing clothes, scent-reducing sprays, etc. You can also keep your odors from clothing by keeping them clean, placing them in scent-proof bags or containers, putting your hunting clothes on outside, and do not get overheated while going to your stand.
Why is it that the best chance to take a big buck is often the first time you sit in a new stand? Odor. Reusing a stand means more odor in the area. Let�s say you sat a stand three evenings in a row. If an older buck comes in downwind, and gets your odor, you may never see him. Many of our best hunters will tell you that controlling scent and watching the wind is critical. This is especially true for bowhunters who have to get close to harvest a deer.
A guide I hunted with in Montana many years ago told me that deer are not smart, they just have great reaction time. I never fully understood that until I found the above research. That reaction time is all about odor and patterns formed in reaction to odors. Deer can react to those patterns in milliseconds. The older the deer, the more those patterns are reinforced and the better the reaction time.
The bottom line here is that you need to take all the steps possible to eliminate your odor, because a buck�s nose knows.
........"This is a chapter of Dr. Samuel's book, Whitetail Advantage, published here with permission of published with permission of Krause Publications, 700 East State Steet, Iowa WI 54990. Copies available at most national bookstore chains such as Barnes and Noble, or at www.knowhunting.com.
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We have several new fuel cell technologies that will be described below. Our private enterprise system is not exploiting these new technologies why invest money for a bigger payday later on when you can do nothing and keep collecting money now seems to be the big three car makers attitude.
Since Private Enterprise or Capitalism is inherently lazy the Tucker car, the way the big three ignored fuel injection, fought against air bags, hybrid cars, GM killing the electric car all come to mind of examples of just the big three car makers being lazy since they won't do the job Government must step in now.
Because we can't afford not to be the first to have large scale production of fuel cell cars when oil prices are sky high and likely to go even higher in the future. Imagine if Japan or the EU begins large scale production of Fuel cell cars before we do just how many automotive jobs would be lost?
First Government must test all the new cheaper non-platinum catalysts for fuel cells and see what is cheapest, provides the most power, the longest fuel cell life and is easiest to manufacture.
Second we need to set a government standard for fuel cells so economies of scale can be realized. No more having independent parts makers make parts for a GM car then have to shut down and retool to make the same part just a different size for Ford and then do the same thing for Chrysler, Toyota etc. If all new cars are using fuel cells then the size can be standardized and adjusted only for the size of the car.
Third we need hydrogen refueling stations and plants to separate hydrogen from water.
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Fuel Cells cost too much you say?
Albuquerque's Verge Fund is betting $1 million on a new catalyst for hydrogen fuel cells that could cut production costs by ten fold or more.
Pajarito's technology is based on breakthroughs at the University of New Mexico, Michigan State University and Los Alamos National Laboratories. All three have developed non-platinum catalysts that include polymer and metals, such as iron and cobalt, to initiate the chemical reactions that make hydrogen fuel cells work
If production costs get just as low as the cost of current car engines then the cost of making fuel cell cars should not be a problem.
But what about the cost of Fuel also hydrogen has storage issues ( you can't compress enough hydrogen to fit in your gas tank to drive far). Not a problem! Hydrnol is a molecule that when added to hydrogen makes hydrogen inert in your gas tank and lets you compress hydrogen more! Hydrnol is also
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To build a business model for line haul, coast-to-coast, zero emission big rig trucking — there are three major obstacles to overcome. Hydrnol is the solution to two of those obstacles."
The first obstacle is getting a meaningful amount of hydrogen on board the truck. Current commercially viable technologies limit that amount to approximately 40 KG of compressed hydrogen, which effectively limits the range to a maximum of 400 miles in drayage applications. Hydrnol solves this problem by allowing Vision's trucks to carry 110 KG of hydrogen in an easy to handle liquid format, thereby providing up to 1,100 miles in drayage application or a 650 mile range at highway speeds.
Since Hydrnol is an easy-to-handle liquid, an infrastructure roll-out utilizing existing fueling equipment is very straightforward. Installing Hydrnol storage and dispensing infrastructure at an existing truck stop is estimated at $200,000 to $300,000 per station. Therefore, a 300 station, nationwide Hydrnol infrastructure rollout, accessing 13.2% of the U.S. transportation fuel marketplace can be completed for less than $100 million.
Water provides an ideal source of pure hydrogen — abundant and free of harmful greenhouse gas byproducts. The electrolysis of water, or splitting water (H2O) into oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2), requires external electricity and an efficient catalyst to break chemical bonds while shifting around protons and electrons. To justify the effort, the amount of energy put into the reaction must be as small as possible while still exceeding the minimum required by thermodynamics, a figure associated with what is called overpotential.
The new catalyst performs nearly as well as platinum, achieving electrocatalytic activity and stability unmatched by any other non-noble metal compounds. "The production process is both simple and scalable," Muckerman said, "making nickel-molybdenum-nitride appropriate for wide industrial applications."
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We can use wind power like the Germans do to store hydrogen to run fuel cells. We can build the new cheaper non-platinum fuel cells and do what the Germans are doing now cheaper. When you factor in the costs of pollution on health. The cost of global warming and the cost of our wars for oil then Hydrogen Fuel cells are much cheaper than oil. Current estimates on the costs of fuel cells do not factor in these costs.
In a groundbreaking article to be released this month in the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Dr. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, details the economic, health and environmental costs associated with each stage in the life cycle of coal — extraction, transportation, processing, and combustion. These costs, between a third to over half a trillion dollars annually, are directly passed on to the public.
1/3 of a trillion dollars a year is a lot of money with fuel cells the only by product is water, clean water if millions of American cars start emitting clean water from their tailpipes places with lots of rain like Portland OR will get even rainer. Places like Death Valley will stop being deserts if there is a major road near by. Plants will grow better and millions will live longer lives thus making funding of Social Security a bigger issue next election.
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Sometimes opportunities arise that we just can't pass up. When hearing about Hearten Haiti and Kings Organization in Port-Au-Prince Haiti we knew the opportunity to share what this organization was doing with everyone was one we couldn't pass on. Haiti made the news big time when the earthquake hit in 2010, and since has become a popular destination for mission work. What alot of people don't know is the issues and problem of Haiti existed long before the earthquake ever hit, and getting a country repaired and people back in their homes is just one step in a long process.
The Morket's and King's organization have been at work in Haiti trying to move the country past it's 3rd world problems by establishing a hospital, orphanage and a school. It is quite the establishment to see as you are rolling through Port-Au-Prince as their are few and far between like it.
I flew down there with just my camera and tripod to see what kind of story I could tell.
Yes there are tent cities, crumbled buildings and roads in disrepair but alot of these things are getting fixed. What continues to be the issue for Haiti can be found in Dr. Morket's interview. Among the population their is still a lack of understanding about pregnancy and proper maternity care. Even if a mother makes it past child-birth she may not know the proper vaccines for her child. Then as the child grows and becomes educated their is a slim chance of that child receiving a job or enough pay to support him or herself. It's a tireless cycle.
So what do you do…you begin to build an oasis of hope. You build a hospital and encourage women to come to become educated. You build a school that teaches children basic education and trades and can train nurses for your hospital. You create an orphanage to care for those that have no one to care for them. Most of all you trust in God, because without Him this oasis can't exist.
So that's what this video is about, to share the needs of King's Organization, a place that is trying to build up the future of Haiti. If you are interested in knowing more about the organization feel free to check out the Hearten Haiti website. Hearten Haiti is the link that exists between the U.S. and King's Organization. It is crucial to funding, supporting and raising awarness about King's Organization and the needs that exist.
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Intentuous is so much more than just weddings as you have probably noticed from our site. We work with small businesses, entrepenuers, non-profits, churches, etc. We felt that we were really not giving our wedding clients the experience they deserved when coming to the Intentuous website or there was some confusion about who we were or what we do. No more! Through the Veil is here! We are here to make your wedding day an unforgettable experience. To make that walk down the aisle like no other, and all the little details come to life through the beauty of cinema. Check out the new site and see for yourself throughtheveil.tv.
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The January jobs report is out and it seems pretty strong, at least superficially. The unemployment rate fell to 8.3 percent from 8.5 percent, the lowest rate since February 2009. And the economy added 243,000 jobs, the most since April 2011.
But does anyone believe an "official" unemployment rate of 8.3 percent really gives an accurate picture of the U.S. labor market? Even though the unemployment rate fell, so did the labor force participation rate (as more Americans became discouraged and gave up looking for work). Here's what that means:
1. If the size of the U.S. labor force as a share of the total population was the same as it was when Barack Obama took office—65.7 percent then vs. 63.7 percent today—the U-3 unemployment rate would be 11.0 percent.
2. But let's not go all the way back to January 2009. In January 2011, the unemployment rate was 9.1 percent with a participation rate of 64.2 percent. If that were the participation rate today, the unemployment rate would be 8.9 percent, instead of 8.3 percent. As an analysis from Hamilton Place Strategies concludes, "Most of the shift of the past year is due not to the improvement in the labor market, but the continued drop in participation in the labor force."
3. Now, to be fair, some of the decline in the participation rate is aging Baby Boomers dropping out of the labor force. But taking that into account still doesn't get us very far, as HPS notes:
Demographic projections expect that participation rate to be at 65.3 percent. If that full participation rate is the goal, our economy is "missing" 3.8 million workers, up from the 3.4 million we noted in the white paper. The unemployment rate in that context has not budged at 10.4 percent.
4. Then there's the broader, U-6 measure of unemployment which includes the discouraged plus part-timers who wish they had full time work. That unemployment rate is still a sky-high 15.1 percent.
5. If the participation rate does level off at its current rate, according to HPS, the economy would need to generate 231,000 jobs per month to get below 8 percent unemployment by Election Day. If the participation rate continues its downward slide, however, that number would be much lower—perhaps as low as 131,000 jobs a month (see below chart). But such a decline wouldn't necessarily be good news.
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One of the most accurate election forecasting models doesn't even look at the unemployment rate. It looks at per person GDP growth, which correlates with income growth. If you plug a 2 percent GDP forecast for 2012 into the model of Yale's Ray Fair, the algorithm predicts a close election, but still an Obama defeat with the incumbent president getting just 47.8 percent of the two-party vote.
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It is hard to get into the spirit of Fall when you live in Florida. Our Fall does not really show itself until Christmas, and even then it has its humid moments. This weekend we embraced the Fall for what … Continue readingPosted in Life, Photography, Weekend Tagged Fall, Florida, pumpkin patch
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Monday, February 13, 2012
Unpleasant Characters
I'm currently reading The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas, an Australian book that provoked quite a bit of controversy a couple of years ago, not surprisingly, as it centers around someone slapping another person's child at a backyard BBQ. Although I find the issues it raises about Australian culture and parenting interesting, I have nearly thrown the book in the bin (and seriously, I'm not sure I even want to bother reading the rest of the book) because of the repellent nature of the characters.
What makes this strange, for me at least, is that it is the very unpleasantness of these characters that has made the story less rather than more compelling. This is in complete contrast to the previous two books I have read - The Ghost Road by Pat Barker (about shell shocked WW1 soldiers including the poet Wilfred Owen and a character, Billy Prior, who is unsympathetic for most of the book) and A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin - which has a number of pretty unlikeable characters.
So what makes an unsympathetic character nonetheless compelling? Why is it that in some books, you might dislike, even loathe, a character, but still find the book intriguing - while in others, that same visceral reaction makes you want to hurl the book at the nearest wall and be done with it?
Although I am not the sort of writer who subscribes to the notion that you have to have a sympathetic main character, I do believe that there must be some redeeming feature, flaw or level of humour that ensures a reader isn't alienated by an unlikeable character. In the case of The Slap I've found some characters so distasteful that I simply don't want to spend any more time inside their heads. In the case of the other books (which are as unlike each other as it is possible - one, historical the other total fantasy) the world and the characters that inhabited it were flawed but intriguing. They hadn't crossed the line to become either dull or intolerable.
But how, when you are writing a novel, do you avoid falling into this trap? None of us want to read books about one-dimensional goodies or baddies, but neither do we want to hang-out with boring or repellent three-dimensional characters either.
This got me thinking about how to write 'unpleasant' characters, knowing of course, that there are no rules - only pitfalls to avoid. For me, these include alienating a reader, failing to provide any redeeming feature for a character, or 'telling' the reader to such an extent that the reader does not believes the character to be realistic. For me (and I am in the minority as most reviewers loved The Slap) the characters themselves impeded the story. I didn't want to delve into their minds, not because it was an unpleasant place to be, but because it was unpleasant to the point of being dull. It turned me off what I might otherwise have been interested in reading. I had no sympathy. I had no compelling reason to find out what happened to them.
So how do you think writers should tackle the subject of unpleasant and unsympathetic characters? Who do you think does this successfully and why?
In many ways, tone can be as important as characterization. In Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim, the protagonist is likeable because of the humor brought to his predicament as well as the tone of the book. Perhaps in The Slap I simply didn't like the 'voice' brought to bear for the characters - too strident, too boorish, to misogynistic perhaps. That probably says as much about me as it does about the book...but still how do you feel about reading books about characters you find morally (or otherwise) repugnant?
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- FL WylieFebruary 13, 2012 at 12:13 AM
I know exactly what you mean. I enjoyed reading Lawrence Sanders, but could never finish those featuring his Timothy Cone character. Just too unpleasant to spend time with.ReplyDelete
Does the question lie in the fact that we, as authors, have a huge responsibility to make our antagonists real people, with as many dimensions and motivations as our protagonists?ReplyDelete
I mean that, even Hannibal Lechter lost a baby sister which set him on his horrible track. Doesn't excuse his behavior, but lends to credibility.
Good questions, Clare.
Very interesting question, Clare. I can only think of a couple of times where I've been unable to finish a book because of a character, and both times the character in question was a pederast. The authors in question just went a bit too far into his head for me to continue reading. It almost seemed as if they were rolling around in the muck of his mind and enjoying it. Otherwise, I have a fairly strong stomach.ReplyDelete
I've been racking my brain and I can't think of a book I've read that features an unpleasant character as the lead. A character like that would have to be off-the-charts amazing to draw and maintain my interest.ReplyDelete
GREAT post, Clare. When I read DEEP END OF THE OCEAN, the mother of the missing child really annoyed me. She was completely distracted about getting to her school reunion and neglected her child long enough for the boy to be abducted. What follows is a dysfunctional family spiraling down a dark rabbit hole. Eventually she comes out on the other side as someone to be pitied and the subplot of the further neglected older brother sucked me in, but that book reminded me that not every character has to be completely likeable from the start so they have a journey of growth by the end.ReplyDelete
I was on a YA panel last Friday when another author mentioned that readers in the YA world (and maybe beyond) are harder on female protags. They accept bad boys and are much more tolerant of unacceptable male behavior than a female with issues. I found that interesting.
Excellent question, Clare. In my workshops I distinguish between positive and negative Leads, and the anti-hero. The negative Lead is as you suggest, someone who is "unpleasant." But why? Because he or she is doing things we don't approve of as a community.ReplyDelete
So why read about such a character?
1. Hope of redemption. Scrooge. The thing one must do is show, early on, the capacity for change. We see Scrooge's emotion at seeing his childhood. We see Scarlett's brass at the barbecue, etc.
2. Desire for "just desserts." We may read in the hope the character "gets what's coming to him." That "redeems" the conscience of the community. It helps to have minor characters we care about who are potential victims.
3. Power. We are drawn in by those who have power which we might like to have, thinking we could do better with it. Hud Bannon has power over women, etc. Parker in the Richard Stark novels has criminal power (and we hope he "wins" because he's opposing crumbs who are worse than he is).
Jordan, that is interesting. I think in YA there is definitely more acceptance of bad boys than bad girls...and I doubt an unpleasant lead female would go down well (and by that I mean unsympathetic) . Jim, these points are really spot on. I do think the power of redemption draws us in as well as the possibility of someone getting their just deserts. In the slap I fear no one gets either! I do think unpleasant but powerful characters intrigue us - like a peek into another world. In this book the characters are just suburban and so that makes them dull...no evil Donald Trump types:) Paula, i do think having a three dimensional character with some justification (of sorts) in the past helps though letter was a fascinating character nonetheless (despite the ice factor)! Joe, count me out on on those stories!ReplyDelete


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