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by Phil Camill in Global Change: Intersection of Nature and Culture
Right up there with climate change, biodiversity conservation is one of the most challenging issues at the intersection of nature and culture. Part of this challenge arises because of genuine differences in how people value other species.
In an interesting forthcoming article in Conservation Biology, Chris Sandbrook and colleagues at Cambridge University argue that these value [...]... Read more »
SANDBROOK, C., SCALES, I., VIRA, B., & ADAMS, W. (2010) Value Plurality among Conservation Professionals. Conservation Biology. DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2010.01592.x
by Michelle Ziegler in Contagions
Amid the chaos of a mass grave of plague victims, the 2006-2007 summer project team from the Archeoclub of Venice got a surprise. Among the dead they found evidence of belief in the undead, fear of the vampire. So how do you stop the undead from feasting on the corpses in the mass grave? The [...]... Read more »
Nuzzolese E, & Borrini M. (2010) Forensic Approach to an Archaeological Casework of "Vampire" Skeletal Remains in Venice: Odontological and Anthropological Prospectus*. Journal of forensic sciences. PMID: 20707834
by Benno Hansen in Ecowar
How does rebel access to natural resources affect conflict? "How". Not "if". That is the question investigated by Päivi Lujala of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, recently published in the Journal of Peace Research.
Or rather: Where previous research has either suggested a link or sought to explain it by an indirect effect through resource abundance tending to corrupt weak ... Read more »
Lujala, P. (2010) The spoils of nature: Armed civil conflict and rebel access to natural resources. Journal of Peace Research, 47(1), 15-28. DOI: 10.1177/0022343309350015
by Eric Michael Johnson in The Primate Diaries in Exile
The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by Barbara J. King:Since animals, including humans, are merely ambulatory vehicles for their selfish genes, according to the dominant framework, it would be to one's benefit to care for a niece or cousin that lost their mother but not for a stranger of which there was no genetic relation. This is because any genes that promoted such altruism towards unrelated individuals would end up losing out by using up resources that didn't perpetuate themselves. However, these "altruistic genes" would be passed on and thrive if they were helping a kin member with similar genetic makeup. In the currency of reproductive fitness, nepotism pays.However, a study in the journal Primates by Cristiane Cäsar and Robert John Young report on a case of adoption among a wild group of black-fronted titi monkeys (Callicebus nigrifrons) from the rainforests of Brazil.Read the rest of the post here and stay tuned for the next entry in The Primate Diaries in Exile tour.Reference:Cäsar, C., & Young, R. (2007). A case of adoption in a wild group of black-fronted titi monkeys (Callicebus nigrifrons) Primates, 49 (2), 146-148 DOI: 10.1007/s10329-007-0066-x... Read more »
Cäsar, C., & Young, R. (2007) A case of adoption in a wild group of black-fronted titi monkeys (Callicebus nigrifrons). Primates, 49(2), 146-148. DOI: 10.1007/s10329-007-0066-x
by Razib Khan in Gene Expression
The past ten years has obviously been very active in the area of human genomics, but in the domain of South Asian genetic relationships in a world wide context it has seen veritable revolutions and counter-revolutions. The final outlines are still to be determined. In the mid-1990s the conventional wisdom was that South Asians were [...]... Read more »
Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Mait Metspalu, Ying Choi, Reedik Mägi, Irene Gallego Romero, Pedro Soares, Mannis van Oven, Doron M. Behar, Siiri Rootsi, Georgi Hudjashov.... (2010) Population Genetic Structure in Indian Austroasiatic speakers: The Role of Landscape Barriers and Sex-specific Admixture. Mol Biol Evol. info:/10.1093/molbev/msq288
by gregdowney in Neuroanthropology
Did cooking make us human by providing the foundation for the rapid growth of the human brain during evolution? If so, what does this tell us about the diet that we should be eating, and can we turn back the culinary clock to an evolutionarily ideal diet? A number of provocations over the last couple of weeks have me thinking about evolution and diet, especially what our teeth and guts tell us about how our ancestors got their food.
I did a post on this a while back at Neuroanthropology.net, putting up my slides for the then-current version of my 'brain and diet' lecture from 'Human evolution and diversity,' but I'm also thinking about food and evolution because I just watched Nestlé food scientist, Heribert Watzke's TED talk, The Brain in Your Gut. Watzke combines two intriguing subjects: the enteric nervous system, or your gut's 'second brain,' and the evolution of diet. I'll deal with the diet, gastro-intestinal system and teeth today, and the enteric nervous system another day because it's a great subject itself (if you can't wait, check out Scientific American).
This piece is going to ramble a bit, as it will also include some thoughts on the subject of diet and brain evolution sparked by multiple conversations: with Prof. Marlene Zuk (of the University of California Riverside), with Paul Mason (about Terrence Deacon's article that he and Daniel wrote about), and following my annual lecture on human brain evolution as well as conversations today with a documentary crew from SBS. So let's begin the meander with Dr. Watzke's opening bit on why he thinks humans should be classified as 'coctivors,' that is, animals that eat cooked food, rather than 'omnivores.'
Although I generally liked the talk, I was struck by some things that didn't ring quite right, including Dr. Watzke's opening bit about teeth (from the online transcript):
So everyone of you turns to their neighbor please. Turn and face your neighbors. Please, also on the balcony. Smile. Smile. Open the mouths. Smile, friendly. (Laughter) Do you — Do you see any Canine teeth? (Laughter) Count Dracula teeth in the mouths of your neighbors? Of course not. Because our dental anatomy is actually made, not for tearing down raw meat from bones or chewing fibrous leaves for hours. It is made for a diet which is soft, mushy, which is reduced in fibers, which is very easily chewable and digestible. Sounds like fast food, doesn't it.
Okay, let's not be pedantic about it, because we know that humans, in fact, do have canines. Watzke's point is that we don't have extended canines, long fangs that we find in most carnivorous mammals or in our primate relatives like chimps or gorillas.
The problem is that the absence of projecting canines in humans is a bit more interesting than just, 'eat plants=less canine development.' In fact, gorillas are completely vegetarian, and the males, especially, have massive canines; chimpanzees eat a very small amount of animal protein (something like 2% of their caloric intake), and they too have formidable canines. Our cousins don't have extended canines because they need them for eating – rather, all evidence suggests that they need big fangs for fighting, especially intraspecies brawling among the males in order to reproduce.
Teeth of human (left), Ar. ramidus (middle), and chimpanzee (right), all males.
The case of chimpanzee canines is especially intriguing because, with the remains of Ardipithecus ramidus now more extensively discussed, a species potentially close to the last common ancestor of humans and chimps, we know very old hominids didn't have pronounced canines. If the remains are indicative of our common ancestor with chimpanzees (and there's no guarantee of that), then it's not so much human canine shrinkage alone that's the recent evolutionary development but also the re-development of chimpanzee canines, probably due to sexual competition.
Even with all the possible points of disagreement, the basic point is that human teeth are quite small, likely due both to shifts in our patterns of reproduction and sexual selection and to changes in our diet. Over the last few million years, our ancestors seemed to have gotten more and more of their calories out of meat, one argument goes, at the same time that our ancestors' teeth were getting less and less capable of processing food of all sorts (or, for that matter, being effectively used as a weapon).
Hungrier and hungrier, with weaker jaws and smaller teeth
As I always remind my students in my lecture on human brain evolution, if big brains are so great, why doesn't every animal have one? The answer is that big brains also pose certain challenges for an organism (or, if you prefer, 'mo' neurons, mo' problums').
The first and most obvious is that brains are hungry organs, devouring energy very fast and relentlessly, especially as they grow. The statistic that we frequently throw around is that the brain constitutes 2% of human body mass and consumes 25% of the energy used by the body; or, to put it another way, brain tissue consumes nine times as many calories as muscle at rest. So, if evolution is going to grow the brain, an organism is going to have to come up with a lot of energy – a smaller brain means that an animal both can eat less and be more likely to survive calorie drought.
But hominin brain growth also presents a few other problems, which sometimes get underestimated in accounts of our species' distinctiveness. For example, natural selection had to solve a problem of excess heat, especially if big-brained hominids were going to do things that their big brains should tell them are ill advised, like run around in the hot sun. As your brain chews up energy, it generates heat, and the brain can overheat, a serious problem with sunstroke. The good news is that somewhere along the line our hominin ancestors picked up a number of adaptations that made them very good at shedding heat, from a low-fur epidermis and facility to produce copious sweat to a system of veins that run from the brain, shunting away heat (for a much more extensive discussion, see Sharma, ed. 2007, or the work of anthropologist Dean Falk, including her 1990 article in BBS laying out the 'radiator theory').
Not only is our brain hungry and hot; our enlarged cranium also poses some distinctive challenges for our mothers, especially as bipedalism has narrowed her birth canal by slowly making the pelvis more and more basket shape (bringing the hips under our centre of gravity). The 'obstetrical dilemma,' the narrowing of the birth canal at the same time that the human brain was enlarging, led to a bit of a brain-birth canal logjam, if you'll pardon the groan-worthy pun (see Rosenberg and Trevathan 1995).
Although frequently presented as a significant constraint on brain growth (and I'm sure all mother... Read more »
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by Dan Bailey in Smells Like Science
In the 1990's archaeologists uncovered a grave in Connecticut dating from the mid-1800's that provided the first physical evidence of a historical belief in vampires in New England.... Read more »
Sledzik, P., & Bellantoni, N. (1994) Bioarcheological and biocultural evidence for the New England vampire folk belief. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 94(2), 269-274. DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330940210
Where did anthropoid primates come from? This question has not been an easy one to answer. Since the early days of paleontology various experts have proposed a slew of scenarios for the origins of the primate group which today contains monkeys and apes (including us), with different experts favoring various combination of places, times, and [...]... Read more »
Bajpai, S., Kay, R., Williams, B., Das, D., Kapur, V., & Tiwari, B. (2008) The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105(32), 11093-11098. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0804159105
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by Krystal D'Costa in Anthropology in Practice
The eye sees all, and can possibly warn
of danger in Trinidadian folklore.
Credit: Wikipedia
Trinidadians have a rich collection of superstitions, many of which found their way to the island via colonialism. These beliefs reflect the ways ideas and explanations have been blended here—and elsewhere—in the face of globalization. There is one, however, that I have grown up with that seems unique to Trinidadians. It concerns an involuntary eye spasm known colloquially as when your eye "jumps." The superstition has multiple parts and meanings depending on which eye is affected:If your right eye jumps, you are going to hear good news. If your left eye jumps, you are going to hear bad news (Roberts 1927: 161).
If your right eye jumps, someone is speaking well of you. If your left eye jumps, someone is saying bad things about you.* (If you think of the name of people you know, when you name the right person—who is speaking badly about you—your eye will stop jumping) (Robert 1927: 161)
If your right eye jumps, you'll see someone you haven't seen in a long time.
If your left eye jumps, a loved one/friend is doing something behind your back.
If your left eye jumps, a love one/friend may be in trouble.
*There seems to be some confusion with this particular version of the superstition since I have also seen/heard it reverse (i.e., right eye = someone speaking ill of you). It is included here in the parallel form to match the other suggestions.
There are additional variations to this theme, but all emphasize the dichotomy between the left and right eye in relation to bad versus good events. The eye has long figured in superstitious lore—for example, the idea of the "evil eye" may date to 600 BC, and since this only marks documented reference to the belief, it may in fact be older than that. As a source of vision, awareness, and knowledge, it is no surprise that beliefs relating to the eye tend to suggest a forewarning.
Superstitions are often met with a certain degree of scorn. Rational folks are often quick to dismiss them. But still they lurk in the background until the opportunity arrives when they can suggest a potential "What if?" Historically, when discussing superstitions scholars (e.g., Matthews 1945; Roberts 1927) have categorized them as "primitive" beliefs of "simple" people, and overlooked the insights they may offer on the way people view the world. While many superstitions have religious or supernatural undertones, many others offer interesting observations on life in a particular location. And if you dig deep enough, there are sometimes suggestive details that can explain why some superstitions persist.
For example, in a collection of West Indian beliefs and superstitions Basil Matthews (1945) discusses the Caniteel in Trinidad: a particular hour on a particular day between July 15th and August 15th during which any plants planted will fail to grow (141). No one knows for sure when the day or the hour actually occurs. What they do know is that generally what happens is that during this period worms eat the heart of the plant. Trinidadian farmers view this period as a bad time. Many avoid planting on July 15th, and then plant on alternate days hoping to avoid the Caniteel. Some avoid planting altogether during this period. The farmers have connected a real event (the activity of the worms) with a superstition (don't plant, this period is bad).
The same may be the case for eye jumping. The phenomena is largely harmless, but appears to be poorly understood by science. It is officially classified as benign essential blepharospasm (BEB), a phenomenon that can be disruptive in severe cases causing functional blindness:The condition is progressive with the early symptoms being irritation and discomfort in the eyelids causing an increase in the blink rate, which can progress over time to frequent, forceful involuntary and uncontrollable closure of the eyelids (Kowal et. al. 1998: 123).The condition is idiographic, but researchers believe that it may be linked in part to fatigue, stress, eyestrain, and/or caffeine (Robb-Nicholson 2010: 8). In a health column in the Harvard Women's Health Watch, Dr. Celeste Robb-Nicholson advises a writer of ways to cope with "eyelid twitching":There are several things you can do to ease the spasms. Close the eye and apply a warm compress—or try pulling gently on the lid. Get more sleep, and reduce your caffeine and alcohol intake. If the twitching occurs while you're reading or using a computer, relax your eyes occasionally by focusing on something in the distance. If your eyes are dry or irritated, use lubricant eyedrops (8).Even in the less severe form, eye jumping can still be disruptive (or at the very least, irritating), marked by a fluttering sensation in the eyelid, twitching of the eye, or the repeated closing and reopening of the eyelid. And it can last anywhere from minutes to hours or can occur intermittently over the course of several days. Perhaps its disruptiveness has contributed to its role in superstition. Let's consider the following:Eye jumping may be caused by stress in some form.
Because it is disruptive, it is memorable.
When a negative or otherwise anticipated event occurs following an eye jumping episode, it can be easily connected to eye jumping because the phenomenon sticks in the mind of the afflicted.
Since Trinidadians appear to follow the traditional notions of right = good, left = bad, it may be that they are selecting events following experiences of stress that match the eye afflicted by BEB. So for example, if they are anticipating speaking to a relative who has missed a telephone call, the anticipation may turn to worry and as a result experience BEB as a stress response. When the relative finally calls, the afflicted person may recall that their eye jumped and connect the two. This may also explain the fluidity between assigning events to the eyes. While Trinis largely follow the right/left dichotomy, they have been known to blur the line and simply say "My eye was jumping." It may also be that events that can be tied to the afflicted eye are more readily remembered. Similar to the Caniteel, Trinidadians have connected a real event (BEB) with a superstition (the eye afflicted by BEB can predict or warn of events).
Superstitions, however you view them, can be a source of comfort. They offer a way to take control of a situation and in this case to reaffirm ties—note that the eye jumping superstition is connected to loved ones. They can become deeply ingrained. When my eye jumps, I'm inclined to tell myself quite seriously to just "quit it." Meaning, quit worrying about it. I know that my stress levels are generally elevated when my eye jumps, but invariably, when the phenomenon persists, it opens the door for "What if." The event in itself also adds to my stress levels, creating a nagging sensation of worry that I refuse to openly acknowledge but seem to acknowledge in small ways. For example, my behavior changes slightly. I might call loved ones more frequently. And if I happen to learn of an event that occurred to one of them in this period, I find myself wondering about which eye the was afflicted. Superstitions are persistent. It's one of the reasons they've survived time and travel.
Do you have a family superstition that crops up from time to time? Something your grandmother or mother said or did continuously? Something that you yourself came to believe for no explicable reason? With Halloween just around the corner, let's open the vaults and see what's lurking in the shadows of our minds.
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by Kate Clancy in Context & Variation
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by teofilo in Gambler's House
I've previously discussed water control technologies at Chaco, where they were particularly important given the extreme aridity of that area even by Southwestern standards. There is abundant evidence, however, that water control was a widespread activity throughout the ancient Southwest, even in areas with more reliable water sources. The best-studied water control systems have been [...]... Read more »
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by Dan Bailey in Smells Like Science
A real life Indiana Jones style adventure story (with less whips) about a priceless archaeological discovery deep in the Guatemalan Jungle.... Read more »
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by Jeremy in Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
Over at the Vaviblog is a detailed discussion (though not nearly as detailed as the paper) of a new paper outlining a new theory for the origin of the cultivated banana. Edible bananas have very few seeds. Wild bananas are packed with seeds; there's almost nothing there to eat. So how did edible bananas come [...]... Read more »
De Langhe, E., Hribova, E., Carpentier, S., Dolezel, J., & Swennen, R. (2010) Did backcrossing contribute to the origin of hybrid edible bananas?. Annals of Botany. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq187
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by Jeremy in The Vaviblog
Edible bananas have very few seeds. Wild bananas are packed with seeds; there's almost nothing there to eat. So how did edible bananas come to be cultivated? The standard story is that some smart proto-farmer saw a spontaneous mutation and then propagated it vegetatively. Once the plant was growing, additional mutants would also be seen [...]... Read more »
De Langhe, E., Hribova, E., Carpentier, S., Dolezel, J., & Swennen, R. (2010) Did backcrossing contribute to the origin of hybrid edible bananas?. Annals of Botany. DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcq187
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by Razib Khan in Gene Expression
Food is a fraught topic. In How Pleasure Works Paul Bloom alludes to the thesis that while conservatives fixate on sexual purity, liberals fixate on culinary purity. For example, is it organic? What is the sourcing? Is it "authentic"? Obviously one can take issue with this characterization, especially its general class inflection (large swaths of [...]... Read more »
Anna Revedin, Biancamaria Aranguren, Roberto Becattini, Laura Longo, Emanuele Marconi, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Natalia Skakun, Andrey Sinitsyn, Elena Spiridonova, & Jiří Svoboda. (2010) Thirty thousand-year-old evidence of plant food processing. PNAS. info:/10.1073/pnas.1006993107
by Glialdance in Glial Dance
Humans are a social species, we interact with other people – aided by language- and exchange information on daily basis. The effects of social isolation have been demonstrated and predicted to be very severe and "de-humanising" in many cases with a long list of adverse effects on cognitive abilities and emotional stability. The question often posed when [...]... Read more »
Umberto Castiello, Cristina Becchio, Stefania Zoia, Cristian Nelini, Luisa Sartori, Laura Blason, Giuseppina D'Ottavio, Maria Bulgheroni, & Vittorio Gallese. (2010) Wired to be Social: the ontogeny of human interaction. PLoS ONE. info:/
Studying astronomy in culture should be simple. There's only so much that is visible by the naked eye, and it follows predictable patterns. Modern astronomy means that we can reconstruct what was visible anywhere in the world in human history, within certain boundaries for errors. If we know what happens when, then studying a culture... Read more »
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by Kate Clancy in Context & Variation
A plea to fund DonorsChoose projects that highlights research on sexism in mathematics instruction.... Read more »
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by Greg Fish in weird things
While for most of us, it tends to be a given that the culprit behind the scourge known as the Black Death was the bubonic plague, a number of historians weren't so sure. The reports from the time talked about the kinds of symptoms we'd expect from a bizarre hybrid of bubonic and hemorrhagic plagues, [...]... Read more »
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by Michelle Ziegler in Contagions
An international team has confirmed Yersinia pestis biomolecules in Black Death era* 'plague pits' (Haensch et al., 2010). Ancient DNA (aDNA) specific for Yersinia pestis and the Yersinial F1 antigen were discovered in skeletons from recognized plague pits in the Netherlands, England, and France. German and Italian skeletons tested positive for Y. pestis [...]... Read more »
Haensch, S., Bianucci, R., Signoli, M., Rajerison, M., Schultz, M., Kacki, S., Vermunt, M., Weston, D., Hurst, D., Achtman, M., Carniel, E., and Bramanti, B. (2010) Distinct clones of Yersinia pestis caused the Black Death. PLoS Pathogens, 6(10). info:/
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SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Most Californians will never see a mountain lion at their doorstep, but recent encounters between homeowners and wandering wildlife have prompted the California Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA) to calm pet owners' fears with tips on what to do to prevent an attack and how to react if confronted by a wild animal.
"Drier conditions, fire devastation and increased activity this summer have combined to drive animals out of the hills and into populated areas in search of food and water," said Dr. Jeff Smith, president of the CVMA. "People have a natural affinity for animals, but it's important they understand the difference between domesticated pets and wildlife that appear to be friendly and approachable. Under no circumstance should people take action and put their lives at risk in the event of a visit by a wild animal."
Recent incidents of wild animals being visible in close proximately to humans include mountain lions that have attacked small pets near Los Angeles and Sacramento; a mountain lion that attacked a hiker in Humboldt County; and incidents with bears that have become more aggressive in the Lake Tahoe area. Authorities have even responded to calls about male deer attacking dogs.
"People should be aware that even deer, normally seen as docile and shy, may attack humans and pets," said Smith. "As residential areas expand, wild deer become more accustomed to and less fearful of people. When someone gets too close, a buck could panic and gore them, causing serious injury or even death."
The CVMA urges people to keep wildlife at a safe distance at all times and call 9-1-1 to report any sightings of large wild animals such as mountain lions or bears. Among some of the tips offered:
-- Avoid hiking, biking or jogging alone.
-- Never le
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In terms of literary sensibility and temperament, Rajkamal Chaudhary comes closest to Sa'dat Hasan Manto
He was truly the enfant terrible of Hindi literature. When Ramkamal Chaudhary died on June 19, 1967, he was less than 38. Yet, he had acquired the status of an icon, a veritable cult figure, an awe-inspiring presence in the literary world. There were stories galore of his bohemian, no-holds-barred, utterly unconventional lifestyle, his uncontrolled forays into the world of seamless intoxication aì la Allen Ginsberg, his numerous and varied sexual liaisons, and his insatiable lust for writing in almost every literary genre with explosive creativity. Some of these fables were of his own creation to build a mystique around himself, but most others were true. Little wonder that by the time he bade goodbye to the world, he had penned 143 short stories, a dozen novels, 850 poems, five plays and more than six dozen essays. He had also translated two novels from Bangla besides translating dozens of poems from Bangla, Punjabi and English. He wrote in his mother tongue Maithili as well as in Hindi and emerged as a formidable writer in both the languages. His output was dazzling both in terms of its quantity as well as quality.
In terms of literary sensibility and temperament, Rajkamal Chaudhary comes closest to the great Urdu short story writer Sa'adat Hasan Manto. While in the art of storytelling he may not have reached the peaks touched by Manto but he certainly had a better understanding of how the modern world of capitalism functioned with all the charms and deceit of the bourgeoisie. His short novel "Machhli Mari Huee" (A Dead Fish) is the best example of this. When it appeared in 1966, it took the literary world by storm as it had explicitly dealt with lesbian relationships as well as the capitalist power discourse that poisoned and deformed inter-personal relations and interactions.
It came as a hugely pleasant surprise when Publications Division of the Government of India organised a literary discussion this past week on the occasion of releasing a book on Rajkamal Chaudhary. The book has been written by Deoshankar Naveen who has also edited Chaudhary's collected works. Introducing the book, Naveen drew the audience's attention to the fact that despite Rajkamal Chaudhary's prolific output and iconic writings like the long poem "Mukti Prasang" and novel "Machhli Mari Huee", the Hindi literary world was involved in a conspiracy of silence about him because he did not fit into the accepted moulds, chose to not belong to any literary movement of his time, and shunned all kinds of labels. He earnestly hoped that now, when almost all his writings had been put together in the form of Collected Works, critics would pay attention to this much-neglected and much-maligned writer and make a genuine evaluation of his literary contribution. Naveen also drew attention to the fact that as Chaudhary was critically ill during the last two-and-a-half years of his life, he wrote for only 15 years, of which only 10 could be devoted to really serious writing.
The organisers had invited three panellists to discuss the modern sensibility in Hindi literature in the context of Rajkamal Chaudhary's writings. Initiating the discussion, Om Thanvi, editor of Hindi daily Jansatta underlined the fact that Ramjakamal Chaudhrary did not embrace any explicit ideology or organisation or movement. He recalled that Chaudhary had written a letter to top Hindi writer Agyeya and received a warm and thoughtful reply from him. It showed that Chaudhary had made an impact on the veteran writer who was known for his refined tastes in literature and life.
Well-known poet-critic Ashok Vajpeyi reminded the audience that Hindi as a language was itself an example of plurality. Therefore, it was natural that it had multiple traditions as well as multiple versions of modernity. If there was a modernity that looked up to the West, there was also its counterpart that showed its back to the West. There was a kind of rough and difficult modernity and there was also a rationalist modernity. However, the dominant trend in all these versions of modernity was to engage the Establishment in an adversarial relationship.
Veteran Marxist critic Namwar Singh recalled that those days when the Publications Division and its monthly journal "Aajkal" used to be very active in organising literary meets and publishing literary works. He complimented it for reviving this tradition and taking the initiative to publish a well-researched book on Rajkamal Chaudhary. Singh recalled his meetings with Chaudhary in Calcutta (now Kolkata) where he was in close contact with Bangla poets of the so-called Hungry Generation. He termed Chaudhary's life and sensibility as "anarchic" and admired his ability to write so prolifically despite suffering from many serious diseases.


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Roger Allen is professor of Arabic and comparative literature and chair of the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves as editor for the journal Middle Eastern Literatures. Together with Shawkat M. Toorawa, Roger Allen edited the forthcoming book Islam: A Short Guide to the Faith, which he writes about here.
The area of the world that we currently term "the Middle East" has been the region within which three monotheistic faith-systems have emerged: first Judaism, then Christianity, and finally Islam. The civilizations of the Western world have long been content, so it seems, to link the first two monotheisms; the Bible is perhaps the clearest manifestation of what may be termed the Judeo-Christian tradition. However, almost from the initial appearance of Islam in the seventh century, the third monotheism has been regarded as the proverbial "other," an object of suspicion, fear, and hatred — as any number of confrontations and outright conflicts can attest (the Crusades, for example, and the so-called Reconquista in the Iberian Peninsula).
Today, we may well ask ourselves to what extent a continuation of this traditional posture — based to a large extent on misunderstanding or outright ignorance — is in the best interests of humanity, as we bear in mind the vast extent of the world's regions in which Islam is the predominant faith and take into account the increasing presence of Islam and its adherents in Europe and the Americas.
The impetus for the preparation of this series of articles on aspects of Islamic belief, each one written by a specialist in that particular sub-field, was to provide readers with a brief account of the major principles of Islam and its faith system, presented in as accessible a form as possible. While each essay can stand on its own, the aggregation of the studies included in this volume (and the pictorial images that accompany them) is intended to present as accurate a cross section of Islam and the Muslim communities as possible.


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PicklesAugust 9th, 2013 , by Ruth
The CSA keeps on giving us new varieties of organic, locally grown produce every week. The farmers certainly don't know about the Blood Type Diet, nor that my type B son is away at camp!
We've been getting a bunch of cucumbers. My Mom took some, since she doesn't follow BTD. I gave some to my ex husband, since he's a B. But I got 4 rather large cucumbers this week. My mom still hasn't finished both of the cucumbers from last week, and my ex isn't seeing the girls this week because the girls are too busy with various activities.
I decided to make pickles, so the cucumbers will still be good to eat when Jack gets home from camp.
I spent quite a bit of time online searching for pickle recipes and techniques, and finally settled on one that called for salt, white vinegar, garlic, and dill. I substituted apple cider vinegar for the white vinegar called for in the recipe, and also put in some whole peppercorns. I already had fresh garlic in the house and I bought fresh dill for this purpose.
If I get more cucumbers next week, I think I'll try making bread and butter pickles. Those won't have the probiotics of lacto-fermented pickles, but I can make them with 100% compliant ingredients for a B and I know he'll enjoy them. I'm not sure just how many dill pickles Jack will want to eat. After that, Jack will be home and I may just serve cucumbers fresh- unless he asks me to make more pickles.
Cooking for FourJuly 23rd, 2013 , by Ruth
Leah came home from camp yesterday, and Jack left for camp this morning. I'd grown used to cooking for only 3 of us, and as of today there will be 3 of us again, but last night I made dinner for four.
Jack decided he wanted spaghetti- so I bought a package of brown rice spaghetti. We decided to only buy one package of pasta because we really don't need to have pasta for again any time soon- with 3 Os in the house, all of whom need to lose weight, cutting back on carbs is wise.
I peeled and chopped a whole pound of carrots and boiled them, adding some frozen broccoli to the pot about 10 minutes before serving time. I knew that sautéed or roasted mushrooms and onions would have been a delicious addition to the meal, but I didn't want to heat up the whole oven for one dish, and we didn't have enough space on the stove. Leah made a cream sauce using butter, whole milk, rice flour, and spices. The girls aren't really supposed to have milk, but they don't react badly to it and they're both healthy enough to be less compliant. I didn't have any of the sauce.
We served the pasta, veggies, and sauce with grated parmesan cheese. I mixed in some canned tuna and butter in my portion instead of the cream sauce. I did enjoy the parmesan cheese since it's a black dot; I can have it once in a while.
I felt satisfied after two portions, but Hannah wasn't full by the time the food was finished. I couldn't make more pasta because I hadn't purchased any, and there wasn't time to start cooking rice. I'm just not used to cooking for 4 people anymore! If I make this meal for 4 again, I'll turn on the oven for a dish of rice and a dish (or two) of more vegetables cooked in oil, rather than just the boiled ones on the stovetop.
I made some pizza toast for Hannah after the main meal was over. Made with spelt bread, tomato sauce, and mozzarella cheese, it's perfectly compliant for an O secretor. We were all well fed in the end, but it wasn't fun for her to be hungry after dinner or for me to cook after preparing what I thought was a whole meal.
Meatless Menu for 2 Os and a BJuly 12th, 2013 , by Ruth
Right now we're in the middle of "The 9 Days"- the saddest time in Jewish history. From the first of the Jewish month of Av until the 9th is a period of semi-mourning where, among other things, eating meat is not permitted except for Shabbos. The 9th of Av is the date that the Great Temple in Jerusalem was destroyed- both times, it happened on the same Jewish date. A few other sad things in Jewish history happened on this date as well. The 9th itself is a fast day; no eating or drinking anything from sundown the night before until nightfall of that day.
My kids don't seem to mind the lack of meat for dinner. Jack (type B ) is always perfectly happy to subsist on grains and dairy- the challenge is to get him to eat fruits and veggies. Hannah usually feels better with meat for dinner, but has been doing perfectly fine with eggs, fish, and dairy. She just needs to make sure she gets enough vegetables and protein, and she doesn't have any noticeable reactions to "avoid" dairy products.
As an O nonnie, I need a lot of animal protein to maintain normal function. While I do well on fish and eggs, I also need red meat to feel my best. Needless to say, I haven't been feeling my best this week. I made sure to eat meat every day the prior week, and less fish than usual, to help prepare me for a week without red meat or poultry. But I still couldn't feel satisfied on the first "meatless day" until I ate some cheese, which I'm not supposed to be eating. Too much cheese makes me stuffed up and it can also make me irritable.
After the first day sent me reaching for "avoid" cheeses such as mozzarella and Muenster, I began eating chevre BEFORE the cravings got the better of me. Chevre isn't listed on my SWAMI at all. I could say "It's an avoid for O nonnies, and I'm an O nonnie, so it's an avoid for me." Indeed, that's the stance I take most of the year. But goat dairy has always been easier on my system than cow dairy, so I figured it's my best bet right now. I then decided to look up how chevre is made, and compare that to the cheeses on my neutral and beneficial lists. It's cultured and then strained, not cooked, making it closer to quark cheese than any other cheese on my dairy list. Quark is a "beneficial" food for me. If the cheese is cultured, strained, then cooked in any way, it would make the chevre more like cottage cheese, which is neutral.
I'm still not sure how I feel about consuming chevre on a regular basis, but for this week, I think it's my best choice. Remaining unsatisfied isn't a realistic option either. I'm feeling stuffed up right now, but I don't know if that's from the chevre or a continued reaction from the cow's milk cheeses I ate a few days ago.
For Shabbos, when meat consumption is permitted, I plan to eat meat for most, if not all, of my meals. Normally we make fish and salad for Saturday's lunch, but this week we're serving cold cuts with the salads instead. I'm not doing this to be hedonistic or to have a "meat fest" which would be inappropriate at this time of year; I'm simply making enjoyable Shabbos food while also ensuring that I nourish my body with what it needs to make it through the rest of the week, including the upcoming fast.
Weddings and GraduationsJune 27th, 2013 , by Ruth
June was a busy month for us. Leah graduated from high school, as did many of her friends. There were also numerous weddings this month as well- mostly young women a few years older than my daughters whom they know from camp or their youth group- most of these girls were their counselors and mentors, not their peers. Only the girls were invited to the weddings of acquaintances; not the whole family. But one of Leah's closest friends also got married this month- a girl I knew from the time she was about 13. All 5 of us were invited to this wedding. I can't believe I'm old enough for my daughters' friends to be getting married!
The wedding was scheduled for the exact day and time of Leah's graduation ceremony. After much soul-searching, Leah chose to go to the wedding rather than graduation, so we celebrated her graduation with extended family the Sunday before. Her aunts paid for us to go to a kosher restaurant, and we selected a restaurant that served Middle Eastern food. There were a few salads, several kinds of flavored rice, and we selected kebob trays, family style. Nobody really wanted chicken, which isn't a good choice for the Bs at the table anyway. So we got lamb, salmon, and two kinds of beef. I tasted everything but the pita bread, and everything was delicious. I'm sure it wasn't 100% compliant, but it was a very enjoyable afternoon out, and I can afford to eat imperfectly once or twice a year. I'm not likely to eat in another restaurant until we do this again next year for Hannah's graduation.
Three days later was the wedding. Most of the day was spent getting ready. Hannah had to finish crocheting her gift (bride and groom penguins.) Jack still had school most of the day, and then he had to see if any of the hand-me-down suits actually fit. Leah spent the day preparing little surprises/gag gifts for the bride, to be presented during the dancing. Some of the bride's other friends presented some silly things to the bride as well. I had to do pick up the veggies from the CSA and then their father from the train station. Things ended up quite stressful the last hour or so before we left. I had to rush my clothing and makeup, and ended up wrapping my own gift to the bride on the car ride there!
All that stress was forgotten once we were there. I ate before heading out to the wedding and packed almonds in my purse, but I managed to find enough safe food to eat that I didn't touch the almonds at all. Jack had about 7 cups of soda during the evening, but I drank only seltzer and water. I could have had red wine, but found I really didn't want any. I was too busy dancing to care about much of anything else. We all had a wonderful time- probably a lot more fun than we would have had at the graduation ceremony! It took us all of the next day to recover, and I let Jack miss school the following day. But it was well worth it!
Community Supported Awesomeness!June 12th, 2013 , by Ruth
This year, my family joined a CSA- Community Supported Agriculture. In the beginning of the season, we bought a "farm share", and every week I get to pick up a box of farm-fresh produce. If the harvests are especially good, we'll get more produce each week. If the harvests are only so-so, we get less produce in the box. We don't pay extra for the good harvests, nor do we get a refund for the poorer harvests. We're investing in the farm.
The one we joined comes to about $20 a week and runs for 26 weeks. The farm itself is 50 miles away from us, but the pickup location is only 5 miles away. I pick it up on Wednesday afternoons, and the food is harvested on Wednesday morning- the shares vary slightly for those who pick up on other days of the week, depending on what's ready that day. The farm sends out emails to tell us what's in the box each week, so we can do menu planning.
I'm hoping that having fresh produce in the house will encourage my kids to eat more veggies. Jack enjoyed the kale chips I made last week with half the kale we got in the box- I plan to make another batch later today with the rest of it. We also got bok choy in the last box, which I used to make stir-fries. Hannah REALLY enjoyed those stir-fries. I'll probably make something similar for her with whatever greens we get in this week's box, as bok choy isn't in this week's portion.
The only disadvantage of the CSA is that I have less control over which veggies enter my house. I don't normally buy bok choy because it's a "black dot" for me, but I had some this week anyway. It's organic, grown less than 100 miles from my house, and in limited quantity. I'm going to enjoy it. I even ate one strawberry, even though those are an "avoid" for me. But my kids ate most of both of those. Later in the year, we'll be getting in things like cabbage and cauliflower, which are "avoids" for me but neutral or beneficial for Jack. I'll certainly encourage him to eat lots of those foods when we get them- which will be a definite advantage to having this "forced variety" of foods in the house.
A few weeks ago, when I mentioned that the CSA was going to be starting soon, Jack thought it stood for Community Supported Awesomeness. I think he's right.


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One of the most critical challenges to arise from the 'Arab Spring' has been the need to address a number of migration-related issues across the region. Over the past three and a half years, governments have had to tackle new waves of refugees or political asylum seekers, diasporic empowerment in states' electoral and constitutional processes, transnational political activism, and long debates around questions of citizenship and nationality. While some research is being conducted on aspects of this complex phenomenon (namely its legal, security, and domestic political economy components), scant attention has been paid to the evolving policy framework concerning migration governance within the Middle East. [click to continue…]
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Building a Transparent Firewall with Linux, Part IV
Listing 1. Corrected /etc/config/network
config 'switch' 'eth0' option 'enable' '1' config 'switch_vlan' 'eth0_1' option 'device' 'eth0' option 'vlan' '1' option 'ports' '4 5' config 'switch_vlan' 'eth0_0' option 'device' 'eth0' option 'vlan' '0' option 'ports' '0 1 2 3 5' config 'interface' 'loopback' option 'ifname' 'lo' option 'proto' 'static' option 'ipaddr' '127.0.0.1' option 'netmask' '255.0.0.0' config 'interface' 'lan' option 'type' 'bridge' option 'proto' 'static' option 'netmask' '255.255.255.0' option 'ipaddr' '10.0.0.253' option 'ifname' 'eth0.0 eth0.1'
Note that on your system, sections may be listed "out of order", for example, with one VLAN section near the top and another near the bottom. Commands within a given section need to be in the correct order, but the sections themselves do not, so don't worry!
You also have to disable OpenWrt's native DHCP and iptables systems. The need for disabling DHCP services is obvious: acting as a DHCP server wouldn't be very "transparent" behavior! So, disable it with these two commands:
root@sugartongs# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq disable root@sugartongs# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq stop
OpenWrt's native iptables script (/etc/init.d/firewall) is fine if you want to use OpenWrt as a standard "Layer 3" (routing) firewall. Leaving this script enabled allows you to use the uci command and the file /etc/config/firewall to manage iptables in a manner very similar to how you manage network configuration and other OpenWrt system settings.
However, this system doesn't lend itself very well to running iptables in bridging mode—to use it that way, you'd need to hack the script extensively, which would be a bewildering task given the large number of custom tables it uses beyond "INPUT", "OUTPUT" and "FORWARDING". Therefore, disable it like this:
root@sugartongs# /etc/init.d/firewall disable root@sugartongs# /etc/init.d/firewall stop
Now you can create a custom iptables script more suitable for a transparent firewall.
In order to write a firewall script, you need to consider your network's topology and how the transparent firewall fits in. Figure 1 shows the example home network I sketched out in Part II of this series, with a firewall cabled between the network's Internet uplink (via DSL router or cable modem) and its backbone (which collapses back to a wireless broadband router configured with Internet uplink and LAN on the same logical subnet).
You could use a number of topologies instead. If you have only a few hosts on your internal network, and your Internet uplink device is already providing DHCP services, you could use your transparent firewall as your broadband router (though configuring WLAN on OpenWrt is outside this series' scope). If your cable modem or DSL router includes a switch and/or wireless LAN access point, you could connect some of your network nodes directly to that and use your transparent firewall to protect other devices.
I'm going to stick with the topology in Figure 1, however, for simplicity's sake. It should be clear enough how to customize my sample iptables script for whatever topology you choose. Let's take a closer look at Figure 1.
The first thing you should notice is that everything on this network resides on the same logical subnet (10.0.0.0/24) except, of course, for the cable/DSL modem's WAN interface (the one connected to the Internet), which has the Internet-routable address 220.127.116.11. That WAN address is strictly illustrative; in actual practice, WAN IP addresses in any residential Internet scenario are assigned by your Internet service provider, often automatically, so please don't attempt to set yours to 22.214.171.124!
Another important point is that on this example network, client PCs are assigned IP addresses via DHCP from the pool 10.0.0.2 through 10.0.0.100. My diagram doesn't indicate which host is providing DHCP services. Is it the cable/DSL modem, the broadband router or the Web proxy?
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Jun. 21–Neglected swimming pools from which hordes of mosquitoes are spawned violate city code because they endanger public health, said Harold Adair, the neighborhood abatement coordinator for the city of Tulsa.
"It is a nuisance violation. You can't maintain a pool of stagnant water," he said.
As a health issue, the Tulsa City-County Health Department has joint jurisdiction with the city over such complaints, said John Baker, the agency's manager of environmental services. He suggests calling both the city and the Health Department to report such pools.
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Adair said the city's process for nuisance complaints begins with a person's call to the Mayor's Action Center.
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Once the complaint is assigned, the inspector responds as soon as possible. However, with only seven inspectors to cover the city and an average
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If the inspector finds the complaint valid, the first step is to seek voluntary compliance. If the pool or nuisance is not taken care of within 10 days, the inspector issues a work order and citations. Typically, crews drain the pool, and residents are billed for the cost of the work plus a $300 administrative fee, he said.
"Our goal is always voluntary compliance," Adair said. "We only want a minimum amount of government intrusion into people's lives."
Baker said people also may call the Health Department's Environmental Services Unit and make a complaint.
A health inspector will visit the site within two days and issue a three-day order on the spot for valid nuisances. If residents do not comply with the order, the violation is turned over to the Neighborhood Inspections Department for follow-up, he said.
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Posted: 12/26/2008 - The people who've gathered today to mark the fourth anniversary of a deadly tsunami have been celebrating the progress in rebuilding -- but also remembering the dead.
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Continuing a rather popular theme from this offseason, the latest team to unveil a new set of uniforms is ... (shakes Magic 8-Ball) ... Purdue! The Boilermakers had their old uniform design for five years, so clearly something had to be done. Ladies, and gentlemen, here is that something:
Yeah, that's the same color scheme, and the helmets are essentially the same (different center stripe) too. There's just three different sets of pants and two jerseys now, and the numbers have a new font. Not to be flip about it all, but that merited a press conference?
In fact, if there's one thing to be celebrating here, it's the otherworldly moustache on display by Chris Carlino, a senior backup linebacker who was almost certainly chosen for this unveiling solely for his soup strainer. That is a top-caliber, grade-A, All-American moustache. Let's see it some more.
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Kamal on Thursday said what the students had done was wrong as they should have behaved like sportsmen instead of behaving like politicians and that religion taught one to be faithful to one's own country and not disrespect it.
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Swami Vivekananda Subharti University in Meerut expelled 67 Kashmiri students from the hostel after they had allegedly supported Pakistan cricket team against India in the Asia Cup match between the two sides last week. The students were booked under section 124 A (sedition), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 427 (mischief) of IPC after a compaint by University Chancellor PK Garg.


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"We just used one photo and hoped it would suffice. The free design review was able to lighten up my son's face as he was sandwiched between 2 adults. The multicolored leaves helped our multicolored outfits blend in."
"I LOVE these address labels! I am a print designer, so I get super excited about stationery products. These are SO cute, I can't wait to use them!"
"I was able to personalize this card to my needs and could have done even more. There are NO Thanksgiving invitations available in stores anymore and these did the job with room to write on the back. The paper was pretty basic (not cardstock quality, but fine. Loved them."