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Sunday, September 23, 2014: We're going out of town for the next three days, so I won't be able to update this site until Wednesday night. Wednesday, March 5, 2014: What I wrote below on Wednesday, December 11, 2013, is still relevant. The difference in the risk of death and morbid disease between someone who's unable to find time to exercise, and who eats a traditional Western diet (pizza, lasagna, mashed potatoes and gravy, ham, wheat bread, English peas, margarine, Cokes, etc.) and someone who engages in daily, vigorous aerobic and non-aerobic exercise and who eats a Mediterranean or similar diet is awesome! The question then becomes: what do these super-health habits do for longevity? It's hard to imagine them adding 20 years to the lifespan of someone who, without exercising or eating a super-healthy diet would live to 95. That would make them last to 115, and there are precious few 115-year-olds. Another way to estimate the gain afforded by uncommonly healthy health practices is to use the life expectancy for the average 75-year-old. For a man born in 1920 who will be 95 next year, the average life expectancy is 2.84 years. The average life expectancy of a man born in 1940 who will be 75 next year is 10.18 years. This would give our hyper-healthy 95-year-old male an average life expectancy of 105 compared to about 98 if he hadn't taken such good care of himself. (Note that our super-healthy nonagenarian may enjoy many more years of excellent health and vitality than the typical 95-year-old.) Which is the better metric: adding 20 years to his life expectancy or adding 10 years to his life expectancy? I don't know. This may be a question that will have to be answered the hard way by waiting to see how long super-healthy people will live. It might be worth mentioning that the 20-year-or-so disparity between the "health nuts" and the average couch potato doesn't seem to diminish with advancing age. Dr. Thomas Perls has noted that beyond the age of 90, genes seem to play an increasingly important role in determining the longevity of the "oldest old". Still, Jeanne Calment's mother died at 86, her father at 93, and her older brother at 97. I suspect that her consumption of red wine (at a time when red wine would have had significant levels of resveratrol), of two pounds of chocolate a week, and of stone-pressed olive oil might have played a role in her extraordinary longevity (122 years). About 70% of all super-centenarians die of transthyretin-related amyloidosis caused by misfolding of the transfer-thyroxin-retinol protein in the circulatory system. A drug, tafamidis, has been approved in Europe to treat transthyretin-related amyloidosis, but it's not yet accepted in the United States. There's hope that this disease may be conquered. Wednesday, January 22, 2014: Ms. Chloe Pearson, with Consumer Health Labs, has graciously provided four heart health articles that may be of interest to readers interested in heart health: 1/22/2014: Heart Health Procedures Covered by Medicare Part B 1/22/2014: 10 Myths About Heart Disease 1/22/2014: Heart Failure Resource Library 1/22/2014: Find an Experienced Cardiologist Thursday, December 12, 2013: I've run out of time again tonight, but you might enjoy reading Nuts about Nuts. It might also be mentioned that in talking about delaying aging for 15, 20, or 25 years, we're discussing delaying cancer, heart disease, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Type 2 diabetes, and osteoporosis... consummations devoutly to be wished. And this is where anti-aging technology stands on December13, 2013, with the outlook improving daily. Wednesday, December 11, 2013: It looks as though health-and-fitness devotees who engage in aerobic exercise for 30-or-more minutes a day, along with resistance training, nutrition-oriented diets, stress reduction (viz.: meditation), and appropriate supplements (e. g., omega-3 oils, vitamin D, coenzyme Q-10, etc.) have aging biomarkers that are 20-or-more years lower than the average, sedentary, somewhat-overweight individual who eats a conventional Western diet. Since life spans become more and more dependent upon longevity genes the older someone gets, it remains to be seen whether these 20-or-more-year, healthy-living aging biomarker offsets are reflected in actual life span increases. Sunday, November 17, 2013: Getting Rich Slowly Wednesday, November 6, 2013: Five Interesting Articles. Monday, October 28, 2013: The Great American Income Gap Wednesday, October 23, 2013: More about federal finances. Thursday, October 17, 2013: Hyperventilating about characterizations of the U. S. Federal debt. Here's a link to a previous discussion of this topic. Tuesday, October 15, 2013: Some personal experiences with U. S. Federal programs (updated).. Friday, October 4, 2013: A couple of articles about the government shutdown. Thursday, October 3, 2013: We're living in interesting times. Tuesday, October 1, 2013: There may be light at the end of the tunnel. Monday, September 30, 2013: Whew! Saturday, September 28, 2013: More of the same. Thursday, September 26, 2013: Another day at the hospital. My wife is doing well, but isn't enjoying it much. Tuesday, September 24, 2013: "Tomorrow", now "today", has been what you'd expect: a day spent at the hospital. Although the operation went as well as operations can, my wife may feel worse before she feels better as the spinal block wears off and soreness sets in. We'll see what the morrow brings. Monday, September 23, 2013: I'm still not done with my latest update (an answer to David Moenning's question, "Are we entering a new secular bull market?) The answer is, I believe, that we're more apt to enter a secular bear market than we are a secular bull market. The price-to-earnings ratio on the S&P 500 is at a level typical of market tops. But there's more to it than that, and that's what my lengthy write-up will be about. I mentioned last Tuesday that my wife was having knee surgery that day. But she took a generous bite of ham before she remembered that she wasn't supposed to eat anything before surgery. Later, after she was on the operating-room gurney, she told the staff what she's done. They immediately released for another day, and that day will be tomorrow. So I don't know what my schedule will be tomorrow and the rest of the week. The model portfolio fell further on Monday along with the rest of the markets, (It's up 2.47% tonight.) Thursday, September 19, 2013: My apologies for last night's missing updates. My web-hosting service decided to take a break at midnight last night. In addition to that, I wasn't happy with what I had prepared to post. I was having a brainstorm, and it took until tonight to finish up the material. Tuesday, September 17, 2013: I've added a model portfolio and some fantasies about secular bull markets and about where the markets might possibly go from here (or maybe not (:-)) under Today's Investment Commentary (see below). Important! Monday, September 16, 2013: Beginning tonight, I'm going to make a sea change in this website. Over the past few years, my attention has, in self-defense, turned toward anti-aging strategies. As a consequence, my investing activities have been put on autopilot. I've harvested and posted daily investment news headlines in lieu of investment ideas, strategies, and results. This news-gathering function has taken so much time each day that there hasn't been time left for more creative activities. Like what? Well, several times over the past few years, I've set up model stock portfolios that have done phenomenally well. Unfortunately, I've never had the courage of my convictions to actually invest money in them, but if I had, I (and you) could have profited handsomely. In the arena of anti-aging strategies, there's also interesting news. This website desperately needs updating and repairs. I also hope to have time for this. Sunday, September 15, 2013: The trailing P/E ratio on the S&P 500 is still only 18-to-1, so the S&P 500 is no more overpriced now than it was last April. NEW!! Sunday, April 7, 2013: As an update to what I wrote last November, the trailing P/E ratio on the S&P 500 is around 18. (It's long-term average has been about 15.) Its normal upper limit is 20-to-25, so it's fully priced but not yet overpriced. It would have to drop to 10 or below to constitute a secular (super-) bear market bottom. Here's a chart that gives a decent picture of the S&P 500's history from four years after its inception in 1871 until the chart's 2005 closing date. I'm working on an update to this topic of secular bull markets and secular bear markets, but I'm not quite through with it yet. Tuesday, November 27, 2012: Here's a first and second installment in a discussion of some investment options. Sunday, November 25, 2012: On the basis of new information, I'm going to have to change some of the material I posted on Friday (below). I'm going to change the peak P/E (Price-to-Earnings) ratio in 1999 from 38:1 to 34:1. Further, the S&P 500 index has only now deflated to the top of its normal range. If the past can be used to guide the present, we could be typically looking at another 16 years--2028--before the S&P 500 falls to a secular bear market bottom, and then begins to re-inflate! During this entire period, "buy-and-hold" is a money-losing strategy. There's one domestic mutual fund that has returned more than 15% a year over the past 10 years: the Fidelity Leveraged Company Stock Fund. This was a favorite of mine in 2007, and I had some money invested in it, but it was hit so hard by the 2008 downturn that I cashed out of it. It's a wild ride (it's a Morningstar three-star fund), but it's done better than most domestic funds. However...(1) most of its gains were made during its early years when the markets were rebounding from the 2002-2003 bear market, and (2) U. S. market indices are now near the seasonably favorable tops of their ranges, poised to decline sometime in the next six months. A better measure of their prowess is their five-year history which is measure from the top of the 2007 bull market. On the other hand, our previous four-year market cycles have been predicated upon the Fed's manipulation of credit markets in order to fight either inflation or unemployment, and this time, the Fed's hands are tied, so maybe we won't have typical post-election market declines. Fortunately, there are alternative strategies that ought to work... emerging market mutual funds, commodity funds, real estate funds, the AAII stock screen portfolios, and the TopStock market timing service, to name a few. These have their pros and cons. Friday, November 23, 2012: I'm getting ready to revamp this website in ways that I hope will offer more personal benefit than what I've been posting in the past. Like what? Well, over the past year-and-a-half, I've been investigating exotic, "bleeding-edge" anti-aging therapies. Some examples are Life Code's "Stem Cell 100", TA Sciences' TA (Telomerase Activator)-65, buckyballs in olive oil, the Life Extension Foundation's "Calorie Restriction Mimetic", modest calorie restriction, PQQ (PyroloQuinoline Quinone) and other esoterica. Are they working? That's hard to tell, but maybe so. A related topic is health maintenance. Another is investment and the economy. Right now, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite are lower than they were 13 years ago in 1999. But in 1999, the S&P 500 hit a P/E ratio of 38:1... quite a bit higher than it had ever been throughout its previous history. Similarly, the Nasdaq topped out at 5,500 compared to its current readings of around 3000. Over the past 13 years, the markets have been working off this once-in-two-centuries excess. The P/E ratio for the S&P 500 is currently around 16:1... reasonable but not cheap. In the meantime, we're ostensibly in a secular bear market that's due to end in the 2016-2018 time frame at P/E ratios substantially lower than they are now. I'm working on writing this up, but it may take a little while.. In a lighter note, with Christmas vacation only four weeks away, here's a site that offers vacation packages for Disneyworld: Flying Elephant Vacations. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) has stock screens (portfolios) that promise extraordinary long-term returns. I had thought about recommending this as a viable investment strategy, but the markets have been so chaotic that I haven't followed up on this. Here's a discussion of some of the AAII stock screen performance claims. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday, I wrote this discussion of two current views of intelligence. Sunday, I probed others' experiences with the dual n-back program, as well as running it for myself. Big News! There have been three major announcements in the field of aging remediation in the past couple of days. Switching now to more frivolous topics, this business of "brain boosting" seems to me to have repercussions well beyond "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the smartest one of all?" This would seem to me to be of importance to everyone who plans to grow old--to age-related cognitive decline, and to the avoidance of Alzheimer's Disease, not only for ourselves but also for those we love. This is game-changing. (1) My own personal story (Updated) (2) Preliminary impressions in re my personal "brain-boosting" experiment (Sunday Update) (3) The Flynn Effect and Age-Related Cognitive Decline (4) Brain Boosting: Quo Vadis, Dominie? (5) The first example of one of these lists is a set of 153 cancer prevention news articles dealing with the relationship between food, herbs, etc., and cancer. It may be found here. (6) A general listing and discussion of some putatively beneficial nutritional foods, spices, and supplements is given here. Entire books have been written regarding each of the items set forth in this list. I plan to expand upon this material, but this gives a skeletal outline of foods, and food-derived extracts that I try to consume. (What's needed most is a presentation of what these "nutriceuticals" have done for some of us and might do for you.) There should be a lot happening on this website over the next few days and weeks, given time to report on these topics.
2013-10-7: (Monday Night): Today's Investment Commentary
Links to Daily Investments Interpretations (Individual Dates) - (Corrected) First-Half, 2012 Second-Half, 2011 First-Half, 2011 Second-Half, 2010 First-Half, 2010 Second-Half, 2009 First-Half, 2009 Second-Half, 2008 First-Half, 2008 Daily Investment Interpretations_Archive January 1, 2011 to July 30, 2011 July 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011 January 1, 2011 to July 30, 2011 July 1, 2010 to December 31, 2010 January 1, 2010 to July 30, 2010 July 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009 January 1, 2009 to June 30, 2009 July 1, 2008, to December 31, 2008 May 7, 2008, to June 30, 2008
2009-1-6 Update: Given the traumatic market losses of the past three months coupled with the threat of a deflationary spiral leading us into another Great Depression, should we still realistically be thinking about recouping losses in the stock market? I don't have a good answer to that question for either of us yet. This current stock market bounce may be just another bull market rally within an ongoing bear market. There are certainly plenty who think so. My Cabot China and Emerging Markets Newsletter's China indicator, after flashing a cautious, limited "Buy" signal, has turned negative again, leaving its investors with 10% "Hold" positions in two stocks. (After buying FXI per the newsletter's advice, I sold it at a loss.) China might decouple from other world markets as the country refocuses its attention upon its internal consumers. But that's still an open question. Caution is still the watchword. I'm still hopeful that we can double our money or better from here (or from a little above where we are now) over the next two or three years. On the other hand, I don't want to lead anyone down the primrose path to further losses. Cash is still king. Given the grave concerns about our current economic crisis, I'm going to try to address, as best I can, some problems and concerns that we might be sharing about this subject. I want to reiterate: even if you've lost half your retirement nest-egg, don't despair. There are (I think) reasonably conservative ways to recoup your losses within two or three years even if the markets don't fully recover for a decade or more (see the sidebar in Today's Investment Commentary). 11/12/2008: The stunning implications of the fact that we're, perhaps, in a super-bear market are only now penetrating my skull. A Buy-and-Hold Strategy Applied from the Start to the Finish of a Super-Bear Market (e. g. 2000 to 2018, Assuming That This Concept Is Valid) Would Typically Lead to 60% to 65% Losses Over the 17-18-Year Period After Correcting for Inflation and Adding in Dividends! Over the course of a (typical?) 17-to-18-year long super-bear market, the value of an S&P 500 index fund, after correcting for inflation and adding in dividends, typically drops to 1/3rd of its value from the beginning to the end of the 16-year secular (super-) bear market period. In talking about a "typical" super-cycle, I need to mention that these super-cycles are inferred from the chart pattern of the S&P 500 from 1871 to the present. Over that time span, there have been 3 super-cycles and, it would appear, part of a fourth, from 2000 to the present time... if, in fact, these super-cycles are real enough to have predictive value. But no two of these super-cycles have been just alike. ("History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes."?) You might take a look at the above-linked chart displaying the S&P 500 from 1871 to 1997 and see what you think. Where We Stand Right Now, and Where We Might Go from Here: So far, money invested in an S&P500 index fund in March, 2000, has fallen by now, after correcting for inflation and adding in dividends, to about ½ of what it was worth in March, 2000. However, because the S&P 500 was overpriced by... 65%?... in March, 2000 (by far the most overpriced it's ever been), then if we are in a super-bear market, this money in 2018 should be worth about 40% what it is now. In other words, money invested in a buy-and-hold S&P 500 index fund in March, 2000, should be worth, in 2018, only about 1/5th what it was when it was invested in 2000! A Buy-and-Hold Strategy During a Super-Bull Market Yields Dramatic Gains (b) All of the long-term gains registered by buy-and-hold investors occur within super-bull markets, and they're sufficient to overpower the fall of the price of equities, in real value, to 1/3rd of their previous highs, plus the average 6.8% a year that Dr. Jeremy Siegel has found for the long term average rate of return of the U. S. stock market from 1802 through 2004. But... We're in Uncharted Territory Because we're in uncharted territory, experiencing the first deflation since the Great Depression, the markets could go lower than usual, although we might expect them to return to their hypothetical trend lines by 2018 (no guarantees, of course). These Speculative Predictions and Interpretations Apply Only the the U. S. Stock Market These predictions, if they unfold as they have in the past, apply only to the U. S. stock market. I have no data concerning non-U. S. markets (although non-U. S. markets have a habit of moving more-or-less in lock-step with the U. S. stock market). I'm particularly hopeful that the Chinese and Indian stock markets may decouple from the U. S. market over the coming years. 11/9/2008: Over the weekend, I've re-examined the subject of super-bull markets and super-bear markets, and I don't like what I've found. Of course, there's nothing that says things have to work out this way, but the numbers are suggesting a super-bear market bottom in 2018 that would be 55% to 65% below where the popular indices stand today even if our current malaise turns out to be a standard, garden-variety recession, with a cyclical bull market starting up again in 2009 or 2010. A buy-and-hold strategy in most mutual funds in such a scenario would be a disaster, although there may be a few funds that can outperform the market sufficiently that you'd come out well ahead even if the blue-chip index funds lose 2/3rds of their purchasing power. The above-linked write-up will explain. 11/2/2008 Important (Second) Update: This "recession" is categorically different in cause and consequences than any of the normal recessions we've experienced over the past 60 years. Unlike all the other recessions since World War II, this recession (Depression?) is deflationary, driven by a credit crisis, rather than a result of the Federal Reserve Board's overshooting its mark in its efforts to slow the economy in order to rein in inflation. This may be "The Perfect Storm". 6/7/2008: As many of us are probably aware, there are now techniques that seem to subtract 15 or more years off our biological ages. It will be decades before such results can be verified through large-scale, long-term studies, but some of us are availing ourselves of these "bleeding edge" stratagems, with dramatic improvements in such ponderable parameters as blood lipid profiles, fasting glucose, insulin sensitivity levels, and related health measures. Along with living longer (and, in fact, these disease reductions are prerequisites to living better longer) are techniques for putatively reducing the risks of cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and Type 2 diabetes. Again, there are no guarantees. It will take decades of large-scale, long-term, placebo-controlled studies to validate the various pilot studies that have been conducted to date... studies that are concerned with special nutritional and supplement interventions that don't involve patentable drugs. Still there's compelling evidence that some of these maneuvers really do work. For example, four years ago, I was going to my dermatologist every three months to have actinic keratoses--sunlight-induced, pre-cancerous lesions--frozen off the top of my head. After I began drinking green tea four years ago, these lesions disappeared and have never returned--in keeping with numerous studies showing that green tea fights skin cancer. Other members of the Calorie Restriction Society have had a similar experience. This is certainly anecdotal, but nevertheless, this is what's happened. Another example of startling discoveries that, to my knowledge, haven't made it into widespread public distribution is Harvard Medical School researcher Dr. Norman Hollenberg's discovery that the Kuna Indians, who live on a relatively isolated group of islands off the Caribbean coast of Panama, have 1/10th (that's 10%!) the age-adjusted rates of heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, Alzheimer's disease, and cancer as their North American counterparts. (See this for diabetes.) The key to this seems to lie in their drinking 3 to 5 cups a day of "raw" hot chocolate (chocolate that hasn't been roasted, or extracted with alkali). (The crucial ingredient seems to be epicatechin.). These dramatic reductions in degenerative diseases aren't attributable to genetic inbreeding, because Kuna Indians who move to the mainland and adopt mainland diets suffer the same ills that plague the rest of us. (You can buy this unprocessed cocoa at outlets like iHerb.) Because this is more potent than resveratrol, I'm wondering what effect this would has upon aging and life expectancies. In the meantime, here's an article about aging interventions that I wrote in 2006 but never published. 5/6/2008: I Goof Up: Last fall, on the 21st of September (see below), I declaimed that "My personal guess is that the stock market is going to recover from its deep, steep dip and climb higher (with some ups and downs) for the remainder of the year. I'm also speculating", quoth I, "that we won't go into a recession before 2009, after the 2008 presidential election." Boy, was I wrong! Actually, the stock market continued to rise to new heights, peaking on October 11th. But then it did the unthinkable: it immediately plummeted to new lows--like two tornadoes howling down the same path. Having lost all of my own August-to-October ill-gotten gains and a bit more besides, I'm going to try prognosticating again, along with some ideas about investments. (This will be changing rapidly over the next few days, so you may want to check back again.) Amber is now 20 months old and turning into a little girl. We bought her an outdoor playhouse, and have turned the cardboard box in which it was packed into an indoor playhouse. Here's Amber sitting on her throne, with two of her dolls in attendance. Tommie and I have been busy almost beyond description. We spend several hours a day playing with her. We're spoiling Amber wonderfully. Amber has caught every virus that has found its way into Huntsville, and after years of freedom from colds and other viruses, Tommie and I are now catching everything Amber gets. But we're gradually, gradually getting more time. And Amber will only be these ages once. 4/29/2008: The Day the Earth Stood Still For the past few days, the media have been saturated ad nauseum with Barack Obama and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, feeding the crowds bread and circuses. In the meantime, what may be one of the most important happenings in human history has passed as unnoticed by the world as the birth of the Son of Man in the hills of Judea two millennia ago. There have been several momentous milestones in human development... the taming of fire, the evolution of language, the development of writing, the appearance of craftsman and specialization in the early river-valley city-states... that have transformed what it means to be human. Today, came announcements of what I believe may possibly lead to the next millennial-class transformation in human development. Two psychologists, Susanne Jäggi and Martin Buschkuehl in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bern, have discovered a training technique that appears to significantly elevate fluid intelligence. Further, the technique shows a more-or-less linear dose-response relationship over a period of 8 12, 17, and 19 days (with 25 minutes of training per day). More... 12-9-2007: As you can see, there's been a slight change in our title page--a hyacinth in our December. 9-21-2007: The last few months have been hectic, to put it mildly. Someone has to be with Amber around the clock, for four 44-hour shifts a week. Most of the time, Tommie and I are both engaged with her. Although we've tried to baby-proof our kitchen-family room, someone needs to be in attendance whenever she's awake, to make sure that she doesn't chew through lamp cords or climb up on the coffee table. During her all-too-brief naps, we either catch up on sleep ourselves, or service the infrastructure that supports her. She had her first birthday on August 28th, and is taking steps by herself and saying a few words. It has its rewards, though. I sing to Amber and walk her to sleep most nights, since that seems to work well. I'll forever cherish that little head snuggling into my shoulder as she heaves sighs and drifts off to sleep. It's rare and precious in this life that, as adults, we get this kind of unconditional closeness with another human being. We perform double handsprings in this life to earn others' approval. With a baby or a small child, it comes copiously and with no strings attached. It doesn't last forever, although the closeness of parent and child can remain for a lifetime. We've enrolled Amber in a playschool, which she seems to relish. This is giving us some discretionary time for the first time since last December. In the meantime, I've found myself drifting back to posting the science news on a daily basis. My plans to update the archives have come to naught, as I race from pillar to post, scrambling to keep up with all my obligations. One other time-consuming activity that has eaten whatever bits and pieces of time I've been able to muster is investment in the stock market. I'm not interested in making money to buy anything for myself. I'd like to make enough money quickly enough that I could give some away in ways that I think might be particularly effective. Of course, optimizing one's investment strategy is always beneficial. There's a lot I'd like to write about this that I think might be of interest. Maybe I'll have time in the next few weeks to present this. In the meantime, here are a few ideas. My personal guess is that the stock market is going to recover from its deep, steep dip and climb higher (with some ups and downs) for the remainder of the year. I'm also speculating that we won't go into a recession before 2009, after the 2008 presidential election. According to the Stock Trader's Almanac 2007 which analyzes 173 years of data stretching back to Andrew Jackson's presidency, the third year (e. g., 2007) after a presidential election is the best year for the stock market (up 10.6% on average), followed by the fourth year (2008) which is still upward-trending (up 6.7%). The first year (2009) is often a flat or down year (up 1.6% on average), bottoming during the second year (2010) and then starting up again (up 3.7% on average). Some investments that look good to me right now may found here. 4-9-2007: On Monday, August 28th, 2006, our oldest daughter, Lisa, delivered her first and last child: a baby girl. On the morning of Sunday, December 3rd, 2006, Lisa died quietly in her sleep, leaving Tommie Jean and me to rear her three-month-old infant. Since then, it's been a wildly busy time. Because of this development, I've to modified the website, changing it to provide news archives in various areas of interest rather than a daily posting of 120-130 science news items. I'll still be scanning the same news, but I'll be saving only items that seem worthy of archiving. Also, as time permits, I'll generate lists of links to specific archives, such as "Cancer: Food and Herbs". There is a wealth of potentially life-saving information in these Science News articles, and archiving it in specific lists should make this information much more accessible than it is now. The first example of these new lists is the list for "Alzheimers Disease" 11-1-2006: Michael McKay has written to say, "In your page http://www.geocities.com/rnseitz/Definition_of_IQ.html you start analyzing a Wal-Mart crowd. Your results are already skewed. The lower IQ people are less likely to be able to get to Wal-Mart in the first place." I think that's a good point. I hadn't thought of that. Offhand, I'd imagine that it might not make too much difference until the IQ gets well below average, but I don't know. I'd also think that in an adult population, IQ may not be that good a measure of someone's practical ability to cope. IQ tests purport to measure certain kinds of mental abilities having to do with pattern recognition and the potential to learn.. On the other hand, I would imagine that age-related cognitive decline (for example) could lead to serious degradation in the ability to do well on an IQ test without necessarily impairing someone's ability to drive, or to negotiate a shopping mall. Lack of sleep could slow someone down on IQ-testing-type activities without implying a lack of innate capabilities under more favorable circumstances. It's always possible to get an uncharacteristically low score on an IQ test. And there certainly are mental gifts that don't show up well in school or on timed IQ tests. (For example, untreated ADHD can probably interfere with IQ test performance.) It seems to me that we all do amazingly well driving every day. Driving under the influence can lead to accidents as can reckless or emotional driving and errors in judgment, but otherwise, I think we drive exceedingly reliably. 6-24-2006: Here's a 2006 Computer Technology Update. Beginning today, June 19th, I'm cutting back somewhat on the content of the daily web pages. New panels of "Calvin and Hobbes" are no longer available for download, and I'll have to drop them. Also, I'm closing the "Words-of-the-Day" in order to save time that I urgently need for other purposes. In return, I'll be posting a number of what I think might be important "essays", that I think you might want to catch. I've written these and published them in "Gift of Fire" but haven't gotten around to posting them here. Reducing the amount of material in the Science News pages hasn't reduced the amount of time it takes to prepare the website. I either have to cut back or shut down the science news service altogether. It takes too much time. I'm going to try retrenching like this and see if that solves the problem. Here is an article I published in the March issue of "Gift of Fire" reviewing recent articles and books that discuss psychopaths.
9/15/2008: Videos: (Note that it takes a little while to download these videos, during which time the screen is blank.) 9/15/2008:: Amber Eating Macaroni 9/15/2008: Amber and Mommy on the Garden Bench


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Fans currently playing inFamous: Second Son should drop by Sucker Punch Productions' web site, as they are giving away the Second Son Fan Kit for free.
"We have been absolutely thrilled to see and hear the response to the launch of Second Son via Twitter, Facebook and/or forums. We've seen some amazing #PS4share and Easter egg screen shots... keep them coming," said the developer. "As a thank you to you all, we've collected some Second Son assets into a kit and posted on our web site for all to use."
The Second Son Fan Kit contains renders and wallpapers of the main characters of the game, artwork that even includes Delsin's tattoo, Delson's beanie, DUP signage, and 2D cutscene artwork, to name a few, and a ringtone for every major smartphone format.
It's a pretty sweet thank you to fans, and you can get it in the link above. What are your thoughts on inFamous: Second Son so far?
PS Store updates: New games coming in
Sony's PlayStation Blog has another update on the PS Store as new games become up for grabs or open for preorders, starting with preorders for PS4 and PS3 versions Child of Light ($14.99).
Four PS4 games have also just entered the PS Store. Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn is free to download, while the addictive King Oddball is out for $6.99. There's Strike Suit Zero: Director's Cut, a futuristic game, which you can get for $19.99.
LEGO The Hobbit, an interactive game that features and follows the adventures of Bilbio Baggins the Hobbit of the novel and movie can be yours for $59.99 on the PS4, $29.99 on the PS Vita and $49.99 on the PS3. Another PS3 game debuting on the PS Store is Sonic Unleashed for $19.99, which is an adventure game that's backed by an all-new engine that renders 3D environments.
For demos, you can check out King Oddball on the PS4 as well as Jojo's Bizarre Adventure All-Star Battle on the PS3. PlayStation Plus also features the awaited Stealth Inc.: A Clone in the Dark.
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The advent of virtual reality in gaming has already come in the sense that events like the E3 won't seem to be complete without news of a virtual reality game being showcased here and there--and indie developer nDreams has just announced that it will be debuting a VR project at the E3 2014.
VRFocus reports that this is a major project, and it will also be the first time that the game will be seen by the public.
"Lots of work going on ready for E3. It's going to be the most important show in our history, when we'll show off our first major VR game," said the developer in a tweet on their official nDreams Twitter as quoted by VRFocus.
There are any details revealed, though the developer has been working on projects for both the PS4's Project Morpheus and the Oculus Rift headset. This can mean that the game may be coming to the PS4 and PC, as there have been no concrete mention yet of whether or not the Xbox One will go for the Oculus Rift or if it is making its own VR head gear.
Given that Oculus Rift is compatible with current and next-gen platforms, it can mean that the Xbox One is not yet out of the picture when it comes to virtual reality.
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Another Side Of 'Feminist Victory' May 31, 2013
By Kay S. Hymowitz
As predictably as summer humidity arrives in D.C., so the media remind us that the days of Ozzie and Harriet are gone and traditional gender roles are passed.
The latest example of this perennial favorite came Wednesday. "Nearly 40% of Mothers are Now the Family Breadwinners, Report Says" was the Washington Posts headline. The Atlantic went with: "The American Family Is Leaning In to Working Moms More Than Ever."
Actually, the report in question, by the Pew Research Center, is far from the feminist victory that at least some played it up to be. On the contrary. Its a reminder of something most of the media hates to admit: The feminist revolution has had winners and losers.
Lets start by unpacking that 40 percent figure. Youd never guess from the triumphant headlines that almost two-thirds of those family breadwinners are single mothers.
That is, these mothers are not "the top earners," as "The Week" put it; they are the only earners. Only 37 percent of the 40 percent of "breadwinning women" are married mothers who are making more than their husbands.
And in many of those cases, womens progress came about not because they were leaning in, but because their husbands lost their jobs. All in all, married couples continue to be pretty traditional when it comes to breadwinning; in only 25 percent of married couples with children under 18 - 15 percent of all households with children - are women the primary earner. Not exactly what the headlines suggested, is it?
The Pew report describes a large economic and cultural disparity between breadwinning wives and single mothers that also defies the happy headlines. Single mothers are disproportionately black and Latino.
Very few - only 18 percent - are college educated. Their median household income is $23,000; thats compared to $57,100 for all married couples with children. A growing percentage of single moms, particularly those with less education, are "never married," as opposed to divorced or separated.
Though its outside the purview of the Pew report, other studies have shown that never-married mothers tend to get less financial and caretaking help from their childrens fathers than previously married mothers.
The growing marriage and disadvantage gap between educated and well-off women on the one hand, and less educated and financially challenged on the other is not news. Scholars and the occasional reporter have been warning of the trend for years.
But for the most part, the media, wedded to a narrative of untarnished feminist progress, prefers to ignore those women for whom sexual and economic freedom has not meant a husband who changes diapers and a law career.
"Employment and gender roles in the United States continue to shift away from the Leave It to Beaver model. Murphy Brown is winning," the Atlantic cheered. It speaks volumes that the articles vision of a single mother is a sit-com character who is a television news star.
Even more egregious in its denial of the two classes of post-feminist motherhood was the Washington Posts article on the "sweeping change in traditional gender roles and family life over a few short decades." (Actually, the Pew report traces changes over five decades - a half century - but that sounds less progressive.)
The reporter interviewed a Georgetown Law Center employee whose husband takes care of the kids while he starts his own business, the owner of a recruiting firm married to a massage therapist, and one single mother: a 42-year-old divorced Ph.D. who works on Capitol Hill.
Not a sign of the never-married women breadwinners who, say, clean the recruiters office or drive her kids school bus.
The gender revolution has sent women to the office and men to the nursery; ironically, it has also given us a large class of struggling single mothers. "We showed our kids that anyone can be a nurturer or go out and be a primary breadwinner," says one woman quoted in the Post story. "Your gender doesnt matter."
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A little link-dump, I'm sure you don't all follow me on Twitter or read Digital Crumble. I stumbled upon a few really interesting articles lately (or less lately). Here they are. (Don't have sufficient energy to comment, but not doing perfect should never be an excuse for not doing at all! Oh, and of course 90% of the time I don't have the faintest idea how I found them — thanks to all the people I follow on Twitter, Facebook, G+, and the random encounters of hanging out online.)
- Our kids' glorious new age of distraction
- Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
- I was wrong about veganism. Let them eat meat – but farm it properly
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- The If-Then Solution: No willpower? No problem. [warning 03.2013: link redirect to pr0n site, hope it'll be fixed soon!]
- Don't Touch That Dial! A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook.
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I think it is easier to start this weave on a flat surface, and not pick it up until the chain is stable. Another tip, which was discovered by lorraine, is to wrap the beginning piece of Inverted Round with tape to hold the rings in place and allow you to pick it up as you weave. You can also start with a longer chain of inverted round, which will make the weave more stable to start, or use Captive Inverted Round.
Blue rings are the new rings in each step, purple rings are those that the blue rings pass through, and green rings are pre-existing.
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To continue from here, see Step Two and on.
Once the chain is stable, you can flip it over as you weave, and then the steps will not vary so much. Also, you can take off the first few rings to remove the Inverted Round.
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Busy Labor Day for Caledonia, Wisconsin Firefighters
Labor Day, September 5, 2005 kept Caledonia, Wisconsin Firefighters busy as they responded to two working fires located within blocks of each other, one in the morning and the second at night.
At approximately 8:50 am, a full assignment of Caledonia Engines 222, 221, Truck 253, Rescue 233, Car 241, 242, 247, Mt. Pleasant Engine 123 and Car 141 were dispatched to a report of a confirmed house fire at 5336 Douglas Ave. on the town's east side.
Engine 222, located within blocks of the residence, quickly arrived on scene and reported smoke showing from a two story dwelling. An interior attack was initiated and it was confirmed all residents had evacuated the dwelling. A ground ladder as well as Truck 253's aerial were placed to the roof and one crew cut a ventilation hole.
The house fire, which originated in a bedroom, was brought under control within an hour.
Extensive overhaul was required as a result of the fire, prompting a mutual aid call for Racine Engine 1 and a BLS Rescue Squad from the Oak Creek Fire Department for assistance.
The Racine Fire Bells Rehab 65 was also called to the scene and provided rehab services.
No one was injured, however one cat was killed as a result of the blaze. An estimated $40,000 in damage occurred as a result of the fire.
Fire crews had cleared the scene by noon.
At approximately 10:40 p.m., the tones went off again and Caledonia Engines 222, 221, Truck 253, Car 241, and Mt. Pleasant Rescue 133 were all dispatched to a report of a storage locker on fire at Douglas and Ellis Ave., just blocks south of the previous fire.
As fire rigs were responding, dispatch updated responding companies reporting that four storage lockers were fully involved.
Engine 222 arrived moments later and reported heavy fire showing from both sides of a multi-unit storage locker building.
First alarm companies began setting up hand lines, Engine 221's deck gun, as well as Truck 253's aerial and began attacking the fire. Command then requested additional companies to help battle the blaze due to both the extent of fire and the need for relay pumping because the fire building was located in the rear of the storage locker complex, far from most street hydrants.
Racine Quint 8, Mt. Pleasant Engine 122 and Car 141, an Oak Creek Engine and Command Car, Caledonia Rescue 231, Command Staff and Recall Personnel, as well as the Racine Fire Bells Rehab 65 responded to the fire.
WE Energies was also requested to the scene because live wires were down, preventing firefighters from accessing certain parts of the building. Ultimately, two aerials, one deck-gun monitor, and several hand lines were used to bring the fire under control.
No one was injured at the fire which caused over $100,000 in property damage. Although both fires were located in close proximity to each other, the fires were unrelated.


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From superhero-type heroics on the field to winning the Heisman Trophy to making his personal life public to the world over social media, it seems that "Johnny Football" can not do any wrong these days.
That is, unless, you are caught flashing a "Hook 'Em Horns" sign at a concert in Austin, Texas ... you know ... the home of the Texas Longhorns.
Cameras caught Manziel throwing up double "Hook 'Em Horns" signs during a concert for rap artist Wale at Emo's East in Austin on Thursday night.
Manziel has been spending time with Wale this last week during his tours run through Texas. Manziel posted a video of the two playing basketball on his Twitter account earlier in the week during a stop in Dallas.
But, there's a big difference between videos of you playing basketball and pictures of the quarterback of Texas A&M throwing up the hand sign of their hated rival.
Manziel has stated before that he grew up a fan of the Texas Longhorns and that his dream was to one day play quarterback for UT.
Manziel is no stranger to controversial pictures popping up on the internet, such as the pictures of him holding a bottle of champagne at a Cotton Bowl after party, despite being underage, or holding a handful of cash at an Oklahoma Casino...but, at least in Texas, the hand sign picture might be the most difficult to explain, especially to diehard Aggie fans.
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We've watched this video 10 times already and it still blows our minds. In what I can only call an excellent example of why programming is (or at least can be) an artistic pursuit, Developer Scott Garner has created a still life painting that isn't so still.
The piece utilizes Unity 3D (a game development tool), motion sensors and a basic C application to recreate gravity. So if you tilt the painting, the items in the piece magically tumble over — like it's right out of the Harry Potter series.
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On the hardware side is a custom-framed television connected to a rotating mount from Ergomart. Attached to the back of the television is a spatial sensor from Phidgets, makers of fine USB sensors.
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Khirbet Qeiyafa
Coordinates: 31°41′47″N 34°57′26″E / 31.69639°N 34.95722°E
Khirbet Qeiyafa | |
Western gate
Alternate name | Elah fortress |
Coordinates | 31°41′47″N 34°57′27″E / 31.6963°N 34.9575°E |
History | |
Founded | 10th-century BCE |
Periods | Iron Age, Hellenistic |
Site notes | |
Excavation dates | 2007 – |
Archaeologists | Yosef Garfinkel, Saar Ganor |
Condition | ruin |
Website | Khirbet Qeiyafa Archaeological Project |
Khirbet Qeiyafa (Elah Fortress) is the site of an ancient city overlooking the Elah Valley.[1] The ruins of the fortress were uncovered in 2007,[2] near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, 20 miles (32 km) from Jerusalem.[3] It covers nearly 6 acres (2.4 ha) and is encircled by a 700-meter-long (2,300 ft) city wall constructed of stones weighing up to eight tons each.[4] A number of archaeologists have claimed that it might be the biblical city of Sha'arayim or Neta'im[5] and that it might contain the ruins of King David's palace.[6][7] Others are sceptical, and suggest it might represent either a Judahite or Canaanite fortress, doubting whether it was a Jewish settlement at all.[8]
The meaning of the Arabic name of the site, Khirbet Qeiyafa, is uncertain. Scholars suggest it may mean "the place with a wide view."[9] The modern Hebrew name, Elah Fortress, derives from the location of the site on the northern bank of Nahal Elah, one of six brooks that flow from the Judean mountains to the coastal plain.[9]
The Elah Fortress lies just inside a north-south ridge of hills separating Philistia and Gath to the west from Judea to the east. The ridge also includes the site currently identified as Tel Azekah.[10] Past this ridge is a series of connecting valleys between two parallel groups of hills. Tel Sokho lies on the southern ridge with Tel Adullam behind it. The Elah Fortress is situated on the northern ridge, overlooking several valleys with a clear view of the Judean Mountains. Behind it to the northeast is Tel Yarmut. From the topography, archaeologists believe this was the location of the cities of Adullam, Sokho, Azekah and Yarmut cited in Joshua 15:35.[10] These valleys formed the border between Philistia and Judea.
Site and excavation history[edit]
The site of Khirbet Qeiyafa was surveyed in the 1860s by Victor Guérin who reported the presence of a village on the hilltop. In 1875, British surveyors noted only stone heaps. In 1932, Dimitri Baramki, reported the site to hold a 35 square metres (380 sq ft) watchtower associated with Khirbet Quleidiya (Horvat Qolad), 200 metres (660 ft) east.[9] The site was mostly neglected in the 20th century and not mentioned by leading scholars.[2] Yehuda Dagan conducted more intense surveys in the 1990s and documented the visible remains.[9] The site raised curiosity in 2005 when Saar Ganor discovered impressive Iron Age structures under the remnants.[2]
Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa began in 2007, directed by Yosef Garfinkel of the Hebrew University and Saar Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Authority, and continued in 2008.[11] Nearly 600 square metres (6,500 sq ft) of an Iron Age IIA city were unearthed. Based on pottery styles and two burned olive pits tested for carbon-14 at Oxford University, Garfinkel and Ganor have dated the site to 1050–970 BC,[2] although Israel Finkelstein contends evidence points to habitation between 1050 and 915 BC.[12]
The initial excavation by Ganor and Garfinklel took place from August 12 to 26, 2007 on behalf of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology. In their preliminary report at the annual ASOR conference on November 15, they presented a theory that the site was the Biblical Azekah, which until then had been exclusively associated with Tell Zakariya.[13] In 2008, after the discovery of a second gate, they identified the site as the biblical Sha'arayim ("two gates" in Hebrew).[2]
Releasing the preliminary dig reports for the 2010 and 2011 digging seasons at Khirbet Qeiyafa, the Israel Antiquities Authority stated: "The excavations at Khirbat Qeiyafa clearly reveal an urban society that existed in Judah already in the late eleventh century BCE. It can no longer be argued that the Kingdom of Judah developed only in the late eighth century BCE or at some other later date."[14]
Discoveries at Khirbet Qeiyafa are significant to the debate about the veracity of the biblical account of the United Monarchy at the beginning of Iron Age II. As no archaeological finds were found that could corroborate claims of the existence of a magnificent biblical kingdom, various scholars have advanced the opinion that the kingdom was no more than a small tribal entity. Garfinkel, who said in 2010 that the debate could not "be answered by the Qeiyafa excavations", is of the opinion that "what is clear, however, is that the kingdom of Judah existed already as a centrally organized state in the tenth century B.C.E".[15][16][17] In addition to Garfinkel's theory there are two other hypotheses: one, supported by Nadav Na'aman and Ido Koch holds the ruins to be Canaanite, based on strong similarities with the nearby Canaanite excavations at Beit Shemesh. The third hypothesis, advanced by Israel Finkelstein and Alexander Fantalkin, maintains that the site shows affiliations with a North Israelite entity.[8]
In 2010, Gershon Galil of the University of Haifa identified Khirbet Qeiyafa as the "Neta'im" of 1 Chronicles 4:23, due to its proximity to Khirbet Ğudrayathe (biblical Gederah). The inhabitants of both cities were said to be "potters" and "in the King's service", a description that is consistent with the archeological discoveries at that site.[18]
Yehuda Dagan of the Israel Antiquities Authority also disagrees with the identification as Sha'arayim. Dagan believes the ancient Philistine retreat route after their defeat in the battle at the Valley of Elah (1 Samuel 17:52), more likely identifies Sha'arayim with the remains of Khirbet esh-Shari'a. Dagan proposes that Khirbet Qeiyafa be identified with biblical Adithaim (Joshua 15:36).[9]
The fortifications at Khirbet Qeiyafa predate those of contemporary Lachish, Beersheba, Arad, and Timnah. All these sites have yielded pottery dated to early Iron Age II. The parallel valley to the north, mentioned in Samuel I, runs from the Philistine city of Ekron to Tel Beit Shemesh. The city gate of the Elah Fortress faces west with a path down to the road leading to the sea, and was thus named "Gath Gate" or "Sea Gate." The 23-dunam (5.7-acre) site is surrounded by a casement wall and fortifications.[16] The top layer of the fortress shows that the fortifications were renewed in the Hellenistic period.[10]
Garfinkel suggests that it was a Judean city with 500–600 inhabitants during the reign of David and Solomon.[16][19][20] Based on pottery finds at Qeiyafa and Gath, archaeologists believe the sites belonged to two distinct ethnic groups. "The finds have not yet established who the residents were," says Aren Maeir, a Bar Ilan University archaeologist digging at Gath. "It will become more clear if, for example, evidence of the local diet is found. Excavations have shown that Philistines ate dogs and pigs, while Israelites did not. The nature of the ceramic shards found at the site suggest residents might have been neither Israelites nor Philistines but members of a third, forgotten people."[21] Evidence that the city was not Philistine comes from the private houses that abut the city wall, an arrangement that was not used in Philistine cities.[22] There is also evidence of equipment for baking flat bread and hundreds of bones from goats, cattle, sheep, and fish. Significantly, no pig bones have been uncovered, suggesting that the city was not Philistine.[22][23] Nadav Na'aman of Tel Aviv University nevertheless associates it with Philistine Gath, citing the necessity for further excavations as well as evidence from Bet Shemesh whose inhabitants also avoided eating pork, yet were associated with Ekron.[24] Na'aman proposed identification with the Philistine city of Gob.[24]
Yigal Levin has proposed that the ma'gal (מעגל) or "circular camp" of the Israelites which is mentioned in the story of David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17:20) was described this way because it fitted the circular shape of the nearby Khirbet Qeiyafa.[25] Levin argues that the story of David and Goliath is set decades before Khirbet Qeiyafa was built and so the reference to Israel's encampment at the ma'gal probably does "not represent any particular historical event at all". But when the story was composed centuries later, the round structure of Khirbet Qeiyafa "would still have been visible and known to the author of 1 Samuel 17", who "guessed its function, and worked it into his story".[25]
Archaeological finds[edit]
The site consists of a lower city of about 10 hectares and an upper city of about 3 hectares (7.4 acres) surrounded by a massive defensive wall ranging from 2–4 metres (6 ft 7 in–13 ft 1 in) tall. The walls are built in the same manner as the walls of Hazor and Gezer, formed by a casemate (a pair of walls with a chamber in between).[22] At the center of the upper city is a large rectangular enclosure with spacious rooms on the south, equivalent to similar enclosures found at royal cities such as Samaria, Lachish, and Ramat Rachel. On the southern slope, outside the city, there are Iron Age rock-cut tombs.
The site, according to Garfinkel, has "a town plan characteristic of the Kingdom of Judah that is also known from other sites, e.g., Beit Shemesh, Tell en-Nasbeh, Tell Beit Mirsim and Beersheba. A casemate wall was built at all of these sites and the city's houses next to it incorporated the casemates as one of the dwelling's rooms. This model is not known from any Canaanite, Philistine or Kingdom of Israel site."[26]
The site is massively fortified, "including the use of stones that weigh up to eight tons apiece."[26]
"500 jar handles bearing a single finger print, or sometimes two or three, were found. Marking jar handles is characteristic of the Kingdom of Judah and it seems this practice has already begun in the early Iron Age IIA."<[26]
Area "A" extended 5x5 metres and consists of two major layers: Hellenistic above, and Iron Age II below. Area "B" contains four squares, about 2.5 metres deep from top-soil to bedrock, and also features both Hellenistic and Iron Age layers.[27] Surveys on the surface have also revealed sherds from the early and middle Bronze Ages, as well as from the Persian, Roman, Byzantine, early Islamic, Mameluke and Ottoman periods.[9]
The Hellenistic/upper portion of the wall was built with small rocks atop the Iron-II lower portion, consisting of big boulders in a casemate design. Part of a structure identified as a city gate was uncovered, and some of the rocks where the wall meets this gate are estimated to weigh 3 to 5 tons.[27] The lower phase was built of especially large stones, 1–3 meters long, and the heaviest of them weigh 3–5 tons. Atop these stones is a thin wall, c. 1.5 meters thick; small and medium size fieldstones were used in its construction. These two fortification phases rise to a height of 2–3 meters and standout at a distance, evidence of the great effort that was invested in fortifying the place.[27]
Khirbet Qeiyafa inscription[edit]
A 15-by-16.5-centimetre (5.9 in × 6.5 in) ostracon, a trapezoid-shaped potsherd with five lines of text,[28] was discovered during excavations at the site in 2008.[28]
Although the writing on the ostracon is poorly preserved and difficult to read, Émile Puech of the École Biblique et Archéologique Française proposed that it be read:
- 1 Do not oppress, and serve God … despoiled him/her
- 2 The judge and the widow wept; he had the power
- 3 over the resident alien and the child, he eliminated them together
- 4 The men and the chiefs/officers have established a king
- 5 He marked 60 [?] servants among the communities/habitations/generations
and understood the ostracon as a locally written copy of a message from the capital informing a local official of the ascent of Saul to the throne.[29] Puech considered the language to be Canaanite or Hebrew without Philistine influence.[30]
Gershon Galil of Haifa University proposed the following translation:
- 1 you shall not do [it], but worship (the god) [El]
- 2 Judge the sla[ve] and the wid[ow] / Judge the orph[an]
- 3 [and] the stranger. [Pl]ead for the infant / plead for the po[or and]
- 4 the widow. Rehabilitate [the poor] at the hands of the king
- 5 Protect the po[or and] the slave / [supp]ort the stranger.[28]
On January 10, 2010, the University of Haifa issued a press release stating that the text was a social statement relating to slaves, widows and orphans. According to this interpretation, the text "uses verbs that were characteristic of Hebrew, such as asah ("did") and `avad ("worked"), which were rarely used in other regional languages. Particular words that appear in the text, such as almanah ("widow") are specific to Hebrew and are written differently in other local languages. The content itself, it is argued, was also unfamiliar to all the cultures in the region besides that of Hebrew society. It was further maintained that the present inscription yielded social elements similar to those found in the biblical prophecies markedly different from those current in by other cultures that write of the glorification of the gods and taking care of their physical needs."[28][31] Gershon Galil claims that the language of inscription is Hebrew and that 8 out of 18 words written on inscription are exclusively biblical. He also claimed that 30 major archeological scholars do support this thesis.[32]
Other readings are possible, however, and the official excavation report presented many possible reconstructions of the letters without attempting a translation.[33] The inscription is written left to right in a script which is probably Early Alphabetic/Proto Phoenician,[33][34] though Christopher Rollston and Demsky consider that it might be written vertically.[34] Early Alphabetic differs from old Hebrew script and its immediate ancestor.[34] Rollston also disputes the claim that the language is Hebrew, arguing that the words alleged to be indicative of Hebrew either appear in other languages or don't actually appear in the inscription.[34]
Millard believes the language of the inscription is Hebrew, Canaanite, Phoenician or Moabite and it most likely consists of a list of names written by someone unused to writing.[35] Hebrew University archaeologist Amihai Mazar said the inscription was very important, as it is the longest Proto-Canaanite text ever found.[36]
In 2010, the ostracon was placed on display in the Iron Age gallery of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.[31]
Khirbet Qeiyafa shrines[edit]
In May 2012 archeologists announced the discovery of three large rooms that were likely used as cultic shrines. While the Canaanites and Philistine practiced their cults in separate temples and shrines, they did not have separate rooms within the buildings dedicated only to religious rituals. This may suggest that the rooms did not belong to these two cultures. According to Garfinkel the decorations of cultic rooms lack any human figurines. He suggested "that the population of Khirbet Qeiyafa observed at least two biblical bans, on pork and on graven images, and thus practiced a different cult than that of the Canaanites or the Philistines,"[37] Also, three smaller portable shrines were discovered. The smaller shrines are boxes shaped with different decorations showing impressive architectonic and decorative styles. Garfinkel suggested the existence of a biblical parallel regarding the existence of such shrines (Samuel,2:6). One of the shrines is decorated with two pillars and a lion. According to Garfinkel, the style and the decoration of these cultic objects are very similar to the Biblical description of some features of Solomon's Temple.[38]
King David's Palace[edit]
On July 18, 2013, the Israel Antiquities Authority issued a press release about the discovery of a structure believed to be King David's palace in the Judean Shephelah.[7] The archaeological team uncovered two large buildings dated to the tenth century B.C.E., one a large palatial structure and the other a pillared store room with hundreds of stamped storage vessels. The claim that the larger structure may be one of King David's palaces led to significant media coverage, while skeptics accused the archaeologists of sensationalism.[39] Aren Maeir, an archaeologist at Bar Ilan University, pointed out that existence of King David's monarchy is still unproven and some scholars believe the buildings could be Philistine or Canaanite.[40][41] The massive structure located on a hill in the center of the city was decorated with alabaster imported from Egypt. On one side it offered a view of the two city gates, Ashdod and the Mediterranean, and on the other, the Elah Valley. During the Byzantine era, a wealthy farmer built a home on the site, cutting the palace in two.[42]
See also[edit]
- ^ Rabinovitch, Ari (October 30, 2008). "Archaeologists report finding oldest Hebrew text". Reuters. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ a b c d e Garfinkel, Yosef; Ganor, Saar (2008). "Khirbet Qeiyafa: Sha'arayim" (PDF). The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 8. ISSN 1203-1542. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ Catling, Chris (January 6, 2009). "Elah city-fortress, Khirbet Qeiyafa". Current World Archaeology (33): 8. Retrieved November 16, 2011.
- ^ Kalman, Matthew (October 31, 2008). "'Proof' David slew Goliath found as Israeli archaeologists unearth 'oldest ever Hebrew text'". Daily Mail. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ "Khirbet Qeiyafa Identified as Biblical 'Neta'im'". Science Daily. Retrieved March 26, 2011.
- ^ "Have Archaeologists Found King David's Palace?". Bible Gateway. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
- ^ a b "King David's Palace at Khirbet Qeiyafa?". Bible History Daily. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
- ^ a b Julia Fridman, 'Crying King David: Are the ruins found in Israel really his palace? ,' at Haaretz, 26 August 2013."Not all agree that the ruins found in Khirbet Qeiyafa are of the biblical town Shaarayim, let alone the palace of ancient Israel's most famous king."
- ^ a b c d e f Dagan, Yehuda (2009). "Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Judean Shephelah: Some Considerations" (PDF). Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 36: 68–81.
- ^ a b c Selavan, Barnea Levi (August 2008). "Elah Fortress – A short history of the site". Foundation Stone. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ "Khirbet Qeiyafa Archaeological Project". Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ Finkelstein, Israel; Piasetzky, Eli (June 2010). "Khirbet Qeiyafa: Absolute Chronology" (PDF). Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 37 (1): 84–88. doi:10.1179/033443510x12632070179621. Retrieved 18 March 2011.
- ^ "ASOR 2007 Conference abstracts" (PDF). Boston University. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
- ^ "Israel Antiquities Authority". Hadashot-esi.org.il. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Archaeology: What an Ancient Hebrew Note Might Mean", Govier, Gordon, Christianity Today 1/18/2010
- ^ a b c Shtull, Asaf (21 July 1993). "The Keys to the Kingdom, Haaretz". Haaretz. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
- ^ Garfinkel, Yosef (May–June 2011). "The Birth & Death of Biblical Minimalism". Biblical Archaeology Review 37 (03).
- ^ "Khirbet Qeiyafa identified as biblical "Neta'im"". University of Haifa. March 4, 2010. Retrieved July 14, 2011.
- ^ Ethan Bronner (2008-10-29). "Find of Ancient City Could Alter Notions of Biblical David". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-05.
- ^ "Have Israeli archaeologists found world's oldest Hebrew inscription?". Haaretz. Associated Press. October 30, 2008. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ Friedman, Matti (October 30, 2008). "Israeli Archaeologists Find Ancient Text". AOL news. Associated Press.
- ^ a b c Draper, Robert (December 2010). "David and Solomon". National Geographic. Retrieved 2011-07-14.
- ^ Garfinkel, Yosef (2010). "Khirbet Qeiyafa after Four Seasons of Excavations" (PDF). Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ a b Na'aman, Nadav (2008). "In search of the ancient name of Khirbet Qeiyafa". The Journal of Hebrew Scriptures. ISSN 1203-1542. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ a b Levin, Yigal (2012). "The Identification of Khirbet Qeiyafa: A New Suggestion". Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Retrieved November 7, 2012.
- ^ a b c Garfinkel, Yossi; Sa'ar Ganor and Michael Hasel (19 April 2012). "Horvat Qeiyafa: The Fortification of the Border of the Kingdom of Judah". Hadashot Arkheologiyot – Excavations and Surveys in Israel (HA-ESI) 124. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
- ^ a b c Garfinkel, Yossi; Ganor, Sa'ar. "Horvat Qeiyafa: The Fortification of the Border of the Kingdom of Judah". Israel Antiquities Authority. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Most ancient Hebrew biblical inscription deciphered". University of Haifa. January 10, 2010. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ Leval, Gerard (2012). "Ancient Inscription Refers to Birth of Israelite Monarchy." Biblical Archaeology Review. May/June 2012, 41-43, 70.
- ^ Émile Puech (2010). "l'ostracon de Khirbet Qeyafa et les débuts de la royauté en Israël". Revue Biblique 117 (2): 162–184.
On a affaire au premier document de quelque longueur, en langue cananéenne ou hébraïque, bien daté et de quelque importance pour l'histoire de la langue, de l'orthographe et pour l'histoire en général, sans une quelconque influence philistine.
- ^ a b "Qeiyafa Ostracon Chronicle". Khirbet Qeiyafa Archaeological Project. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ "The keys to the kingdom". Haaretz.com. 6 May 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ a b Misgav, Haggai; Garfinkel, Yosef; Ganor, Saar (2009). "The Ostracon". In Garfinkel, Yosef and Ganor, Saar. Khirbet Qeiyafa, Vol. 1: Excavation Report 2007–2008. Jerusalem. pp. 243–257. ISBN 978-965-221-077-7. Cited in Rollston, Christopher (June 2011). "The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon: Methodological Musings and Caveats". Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 38 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1179/033443511x12931017059387.
- ^ a b c d Rollston, Christopher (June 2011). "The Khirbet Qeiyafa Ostracon: Methodological Musings and Caveats". Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University 38 (1): 67–82. doi:10.1179/033443511x12931017059387.
- ^ Alan Millard (2011). "The ostracon from the days of David found at Khirbet Qeiyafa". Tyndale Bulletin 62 (1): 1–14.
- ^ "'Oldest Hebrew script' is found". BBC News. October 30, 2008. Retrieved November 5, 2011.
- ^ "Archaeologist finds first evidence of cult in Judah at time of King David". Phys.org. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "Earliest Evidence of Biblical Cult Discovered". DNews. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
- ^ "3,000-year-old palace in Israel linked to biblical King David." NBC News, July 19, 2013. Retrieved July 23, 2013.
- ^ Schultz, Colin (July 22, 2013). "Archaeologists Just Found the Biblical King David's Palace. Maybe.". Smithsonian Institution. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- ^ Kumar, Anugarh (July 22, 2013). "Archaeologists Claim Discovery of King David's Palace". Christian Post. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
- ^ A King's View of Khirbet Qeiyafa, Jerusalem Post
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Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco has a brother named Mike Flacco who's a minor leaguer in the Orioles' farm system.
But as our friends over at ProFootballTalk noted today, Mike Flacco wants to switch sports:
The younger Flacco, who is 26, doesn't want to play baseball at all anymore and is training in New Jersey to make the leap to the NFL. He hasn't played football since high school, but has added 30 pounds of muscle to his 6-5 frame in hopes of interesting a team in his services as a tight end. … The last name should be enough to get him at least a chance to show what he can do as teams put together their 90-men rosters over the next few months. He'll have to earn anything more than that on his own merit and it's definitely a long shot that the 2013 NFL season will kick off with two Flaccos on the field.
Mike Flacco was a 31st-round draft pick in 2009 and has hit just .253 with a .378 slugging percentage in four seasons as a first baseman spent almost entirely in rookie-ball and Single-A, meaning his chances of reaching the big leagues were more or less equal to chances of playing in the NFL. So why not, basically.
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Go for it! You're not really losing a baseball career, because you hardly had one in the first place.
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Stranger things have happened.
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I hear Joe Flacco wants to be am elite pitcher
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Past Tour Dates for Brownbird Rudy Relic
Brownbird Rudy Relic Tour Dates 2013
date city state venue 07/11/2013 Fayetteville NC Black Cat Lounge 07/10/2013 Beaufort NC Hannah's Haus 07/09/2013 Carrboro NC The Station at Southern Rail 07/03/2013 Weaverville NC Jack of Hearts 07/02/2013 Knoxville TN Preservation Pub 06/30/2013 Durham NC Fullsteam Brewery 06/27/2013 Richmond VA Balliceaux 06/25/2013 Pittsburgh PA The Rock Room 06/23/2013 Kent OH Checkers-N-Trophies 06/22/2013 Canton OH Buzzbin Art & Music Shop 06/21/2013 Jamestown NY Mojo's 05/17/2013 Kingston NY Rondout Music Lounge 05/16/2013 New Haven CT Cafe Nine Brownbird Rudy Relic Tour Dates 2012
date city state venue 09/29/2012 New York NY Mercury Lounge


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