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Easy document tagging for Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. XML
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DocTagger is a tagging application that works with Microsoft Office that allows you to tag your documents with relevant keywords. It is to your files what del.icio.us is to websites.
A tag is a keyword assigned to a file so you can easily identify it among hundreds of similar but different files. You can assign several tags to a single file. In other words it is a simple way to keep organized.
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Predictive Technologies Set to Take Center Stage as IDC Announces Latest Installment of IT Security Roadshow
14 Jan 2014
With CIO concerns around security threats growing by the day, IDC today announces the fourth installment of its IT Security Roadshow, which will take place in 11 cities across the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey during the first half of 2014. Bringing senior IDC analysts, expert thought leaders, prominent CIOs, and leading security vendors together under one roof, the roadshow will focus on predictive security as a key topic, while discussions will also take place on pressing issues such as cyberwarfare, hacktivism, next-generation firewalls, managed security services, digital forensics, Web fraud management, and physical security.
IDC's recently released 'Middle East Top 10 ICT Predictions, 2014' highlighted a visible increase in focus from governments on IT security matters, with many looking to strengthen their national ICT security policies. Meanwhile, organizations in several other key verticals, including finance and energy, will join the region's governments in increasing their levels of security spending over the coming years as the IT landscape of the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey continues to evolve.
The last two years have seen organizations in the region become increasingly vulnerable to advanced persistent threats and so-called 'hacktivism', making investments in IT security solutions more critical than ever before. Indeed, a recent IDC survey of Middle East CIOs showed that 43% of them view the need to maintain security as one of the biggest challenges they currently face. The region's CIOs realize that to sustain and protect their infrastructures they need to consider adopting not just a proactive strategy for remaining ahead of threats, but a predictive one as well. Consequently, security policies need to be redefined, and risk-monitoring solutions will play a significant role in the evolution of IT security infrastructure deployments.
"The region has seen a considerable increase in instances of advanced persistent threats over the past two years," says Megha Kumar, research manager for software at Middle East, Africa, and Turkey. "As the use of the hacktivsim for political and economic gain has risen significantly over recent years, organizations in the oil and gas, finance, telecommunications, and government sectors have increased their investments in IT security solutions accordingly. There has been a notable rise in IT security budgets for the year ahead, while spending on governance for data protection and privacy purposes has surged. In the Gulf region, meanwhile, the emphasis on physical security has risen with the UAE and Qatar mandating CCTV installation in public areas."
IDC's IT Security Roadshow 2014 will feature a compelling mix of insightful presentations, real-life case studies, and interactive panel discussions on global best practices, next-generation IT security trends, and the major challenges and opportunities posed by both. The aim of the roadshow is to bring vendors and ICT decision makers together by providing a unique opportunity to develop mindshare with an audience that is responsible for driving IT security investment in the region. IT leaders will be attendance from across the whole vertical spectrum, including banking and finance, telecommunications, government, oil and gas, healthcare, manufacturing, and many more.
The full schedule for the IT Security Roadshow 2014 in the Middle East, Africa, and Turkey is as follows:
Istanbul – February 11
Ankara – February 13
Nairobi – February 20
Lagos – February 26
Cairo – April 2
Abu Dhabi – April 9
Doha – April 28
Dubai – April 30
Muscat – May 6
Kuwait – May 7
Johannesburg – May 15
For more information about IDC's IT Security Roadshow 2014 and to learn about the range of flexible partnership opportunities on offer, please contact Ms. Ronita Bhattacharjee, associate vice president for conferences at IDC Middle East, Africa, and Turkey, at firstname.lastname@example.com or on +971 4 391 2747. Alternatively, you can visit the dedicated event webpage at www.idc-cema.com/itsecurity14.
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Firewall and VPN security appliance products, Network security, Web security
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Email – email@example.com or Norma Harwood – for more information or fill out our Nursery School Application Form.
A Positive Learning Experience in a fun-filled Jewish atmosphere – with two Outdoor Playgrounds, Music, Library, Computers and Tumbling Room
The Beth Shalom Oceanside Jewish Center Nursery School & Summer Camp offers a quality program in a very positive child centered environment. This is far more than just another pre-school program. Your child will begin their school experience in a very warm, friendly environment, carefully geared to the individual and unique needs of each child. The curriculum is structured to provide multiple levels of success, increasing the child's self-esteem.
Children are taught to solve problems independently, to appreciate one another and are encouraged to work and play cooperatively, while living and learning about our rich Jewish heritage.
Playtime is essential in children's lives and through that play they learn about themselves, their culture, and the world in which they live. The school maintains a low student-teacher ratio in order to maximize the individual attention given to each child.
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A stimulating and joyful experience for parents/ care givers and their growing children. Through social interaction we build an atmosphere that fosters close adult/ child bonding. Included in the program are music, crafts, play, and tumbling. Intended for 13 – 22 month old children, this program creates an opportunity to give the children a sense of independence and self-confidence through the development of new skills.
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This specially designed two-day per week pre-nursery experience is geared toward the younger 2-year old. Separation is dealt with in a very gradual, non-pressured way with adults leaving the room only when the children are ready. Children are guided by an experienced teacher and assistant in a variety of creative and stimulating activities.
Separation occurs at such time as the teacher and parent/ care giver feel the child is ready and comfortable. At this point, a third day each week may be added.
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Gives young children a sense of independence and self-confidence through age-appropriate activities in a warm and caring atmosphere. For many children this is an introduction to groups. Every child is unique and develops language, motor, and cognitive skills at different rates. We provide a variety of hands-on experiences and encourage each child to develop at his or her own pace.
Children learn the appreciation of music, art, dance, and movement. We encourage creativity and imagination, social skills and respect for self and others. The children learn Hebrew songs and prayers as they celebrate Shabbat and other Jewish holidays.
In addition we provide support and encouragement for toilet training.
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This fun-filled program encourages each child to develop and perform at his or her fullest potential, stressing conceptual skills and hands-on learning experiences. Self-selected activities allow the children to utilize all their senses to explore their environment. The use of a variety of materials enables the children to enhance their understanding of language and introduces them to number concepts, science, cooking and music. A weekly computer class is also taught. We also provide an introduction to Shabbat services, Jewish celebrations, daily prayers, and Hebrew language.
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This pre-kindergarten program prepares children for success by allowing them to make choices and engage in problem solving activities in order to develop self-confidence and competence. Sharing and participation in groups are some of the social skills encouraged through classroom projects and activities. Snack preparation and classroom clean-up helps develop a sense of responsibly.
Exposure to the Jewish holidays, weekly Shabbat services, and daily prayer give your children an appreciation of religious ritual. weekly meetings with the Rabbi in the Sanctuary feature Jewish songs and stories. Activities in the classroom and on the playground strengthen motor skills, and the religious activities develop and enhance moral and ethical values. Music and computer classes are a special part of our 4-year old program.
This Pre-K curriculum will provide your child with the tools to be successful in kindergarten.
Summer Camp
In addition to our September to June program, our school features a summer day-camp geared to the same age groups. In addition to our regular curriculum the children participate in all the summer-time activities. There are two outdoor play areas (sandy and grassy), water play, sprinklers, arts and crafts, tumbling, music, and lunch in air-conditioned facilities. Throughout the summer, we have featured pony rides, petting zoos, and special theme days. This program lasts seven fun filled weeks. For more information, check out our 2013 Summer Camp Application.


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Creating More Agile Forms: Getting the Forms to Work for You!
Contracting professionals rely on the use of forms and formats to capture important information from which they will act upon. So how can a system improve if the forms and formats are an impediment?
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Where do our thoughts come from?
Have you ever wondered where your thoughts come from? Is it simply a matter of the hard wiring of the brain? For example, when an idea comes to you suddenly, where did it come from? Is there more to this than we currently understand?
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Julie Ann, as promised, I have thought really, really deep about your question (after that cup of coffee), and here's my idea:
-military thoughts come from the military
-linguistic thoughts and expression come from language
-love thoughts come from lovers and love
-thoughts about money come from money
-philosphy comes from the discipline known as philosophy
In short, my answer is that thoughts are tautologies embedded in pre-existing institutions. They create a framework from which our thoughts emerge. The institution (say: language) is already there before we come into this world. We tap into it. The framework precedes our presence. No single individual invents a language. You are born into this. The philosopher Michel Foucault once called these "institutions" and "thought frames": "discourses".
This also means thoughts are "inhereted" or "shared" across generations. We build upon the frameworks of "reality" and of "the possible" which are left to us by previous generations and by society as a whole. Nobody "owns" thoughts. They are borrowed.
So how about "genuine", "innovative", or "authentic" thoughts? I think the connection between different institutions makes for these new and creative thoughts. I think there are no "original" thoughts that spring up from nowhere. The only such thoughts may be absurd, subconscious, stuttering expressions out of context. And, perhaps, art.
P.S.: my thought on your question is probably very "sociological". Which makes sense, because my background is in sociology. A psychologist might have a very different view, derived from... psychology. Thus proving my point about discourses and frameworks... :-)
Mar 12 2011: I totally agree that nothing is original to us. When we use even our imagination we create things that stem from something that already exists. Now if you trace back these thoughts which are merely borrowed from one another you have to come back to an originator of them all. Which is another question in itself, which everyone needs to answer for themselves.Mar 14 2011: Thanks Laurens. I am glad you were able to return. Your comments are very convincing and very valid. Our thoughts appear to be what defines us (apart from the physical self). As a trivial example, some people are happy to walk into a dark room, flip a light switch and proceed with their activities. Another person will flip the light switch and immediately think "Why did that happen" or "How does that work", and proceed to try to find the answer. Our inherent interests seem to define our thoughts, at least in part. Or perhaps we are equipped with our own creativity and the thoughts are a part of the package, bundled together with whatever else we need to realize those creative talents.
Tim Colgan
Mar 4 2011: Consider the universe to be an infinite pool of water (call that god if you wish).
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Now, think of a hula hoop floating in the pool. That's your mind.
Next, imagine a pebble dropped in the pool and the ripples entering into the circle of water enclosed by the hula hoop and bouncing around in that circle of water and merging with the ripples generated from pebbles previously dropped in the water.
That's where thoughts come from.
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Mar 4 2011: Thanks Birdia. Nice running into you here.Mar 4 2011: Great analogy - thanks Tim. So, you are saying that thoughts are not necessarily internal or of one's self. They may be influenced (if not created) by external factors and are integrally tied to another consciousness, perhaps what we believe to be God.
Mar 4 2011: I really don't get hung up on god. If you want to call the totality of the universe god (basic pantheism), I don't have any problem with that. But really in that case "belief in god" is a tautology. If god is everything and anything exists, then god exists. Period. Plus I don't know of any modern religions which don't consider god to be omnipotent. If matter is energy and god is all energy then god is everything.
But yes there is an internal aspect. Our nature and our experience create a situation where even the subtlest of outside stimuli can set up resonances which make it to our consciousness.
Mar 6 2011: even the Buddha remained silent when asked if there was a soul...Mar 6 2011: Sunita, I would like to hear more about this. What do you think his silence meant?Mar 8 2011: dear Julie, I think there are some questions which have different answers depending on the person asking.
For a seeker at a certain level of awareness, he needs to hear that there is a soul and he wants an explanation of how the soul "gets" to heaven. In some ways, it would be irresponsible to deny him this answer because it is the path he needs to travel. Thoughts are the vehicle by which we get to the next stage of awareness.
For some other seekers e.g. Yogis in the Himalayas, they are ready to accept the nature of nothingness and that our perception and manifestation of the universe and the nature are illusory and can be controlled (i.e. they can perform miracles). Ideas and thoughts can be seeded and suggested through their powers.
Some of them would understand that going back, back, back beyond our karmic bundle of memories inclinations attachments, well beyond the soul, beyond consciousness, there is nothingness.
When the Buddha was asked this question, it was almost like a trick question. I found this online, about the doctrine of no-soul, which was very useful: http://www.mahabodhi.org/intro/anatta.htmMar 10 2011: Sunita, very eloquently stated - thank you. I think what this highlights is that our belief systems are important simply because it is the belief that has value - whether it is the reality or not.Mar 11 2011: Could it be that even before our belief systems arose e.g. in the case of young children which haven't developed their sense of self or animals (elephants) who can collaborate to get food or if you so believe, where there was a different belief system as in our past lives, that our thoughts arose from the bundle of memories which is our soul?
Put another way, if we can witness our thoughts arising, who is witnessing this activity? If it is our mind which creates these thoughts, is it our soul which observes this? If so, how does the soul "think"?
If we could unravel our levels of awareness far back enough, when we were just a mass of energy, where did that very first "impulse" come from?
I read once that when in deep meditation, ancient Hindu seekers heard the "noise" of the universe, the planets rushing past each other, which was the universal mantra Om. Was the very first impulse the simple act of observation of this sound? Did this create the distinction between the Listener and That Which Was Being Heard? Was this the genesis of all "thoughts" which only serves to augment our separation from that which we observe?
Our thoughts can influence other beings around us e.g. pets which know when their owner is returning home. If so, is the separation between persons an artificial distinction? Is it possible that from that very first "observation" of something, we wrongly considered it apart from us and ever since then, we have Thought of all differences - people, animals, races, languages - as being separate from us.Mar 6 2011: Sunita: Either you're comparing me to the Buddha, or mocking me, or mockingly comparing me to the Buddha. I can't figure out which. Thanks for stimulating your way into may consciousness in any case.
Mar 8 2011: But Tim, I liked your answer:if God is everything and and everything exists, then God exists.
Because the converse also applies: if everything doesn't exist and has arisen out of our ignorance, then God doesn't exist either. Most of us are not ready for this description of our reality.
I also liked: "the subtleness of outside stimulii" - i believe this was how the universe began..
What is our nature and experience? Or perhaps, what is a reply to the oft-asked Zen question "what is the sound of one hand clapping?" If there is no response to action or thought or stimuli, if there is no Do-er, if there is no Seer, what is there? - there is nothingness.
That is why the Buddha remained silent: yes, people perceive there is a soul because it is our reality which has grown out of our own ignorance but no, there isn't a soul because if there is no ignorance, no sense of "self" would arise.Mar 6 2011: So, a paragraph is a couple of sentences, which are structured from random words, that collide and create several thoughts which in turn form an idea?
I like it TimMar 8 2011: Thoughts come from an infinite pool of water, yes,I agree,but who can explaine, why they've chosen my hula hoop?l
Mar 8 2011: i believe that it depends where your hula hoop is ,how far is it from the source of the ripple,how big is it and how much it's willing to be open to be impacted by the ripples..
so thoughts dont choose the hula hoops,hula hoops find the thoughts : )
Mar 9 2011: Thank you, Ahmad, that's where I led to,we find our thoughts or to be more precise, create them,we shape them via language out of our prior knowledge, experiences, memories...and God knows what else. I think, thoughts don't come from anywhere, they are property of human mind.The image of the pool is compelling though, it's knowing, the void, our minds are floating there circled out by metal frame, hence our ego limitation. To enter the void, the hula hoop must pass out of existence, then you will really know, but there will be no you and there will be no thoughts. "Those who know, can;t speak".....That's what I think inside my hula hoop, of course I could be wrong.Mar 11 2011: I always had the opposite idea. Thoughts and actions emanate from us, creating ripples in the universe. Strong ideas have large ripples and travel farther than weak ideas, which have small ripples. The ripples are constantly running into each other. The stronger ideas are hopefully beneficial to humanity, but obviously this is not always the case.
Mar 12 2011: Hi, Dave, I don't think your idea is opposite, I'm afraid we are talking about different things here. Or different stages of the same interactive course. Human mind is not capable of enventing anything new, I truelly believe so, because everything already is and always has been. Only a few, whose mind is wide open can have a glimpse, a spark of awareness, shape it into a thought and share... and only then,what you've described may happen, though I don't quite agree with the idea of judgment, and , sorry, have no hope for the "beneficial for humanity" ideas gain more chances to survive.
Mar 13 2011: Yes, thoughts do emanate from 'us' because we work on them - give them form and construct. Yet the conscious desire to know came before the thought itself. In this way humans are really just relays - like magnets we attract conscious soup into our sphere and depending on our personal energy equilibrium we then 'attract' through electro magnetic energy the patterns of cosmos or ingredients that can then become 'thought'. Thought is an ownership of a construct - a label. The more we give the construct thought and emotion the more real it becomes. This in turn insights and incites us to take action - to do something about the thought held from the first desire or urge. In this way our thought becomes materialized. Because we are a sub species of Planet Earth and reside within the magnetic shield - all is drawn down in gravitational pull to centre core. As humans we are just receptors of this phenomena - we receive the energy and through desire and urge translate into thought. These are neuron impulses that send signals into the body regarding survivor resilience. So the thought might be around 'eat, love, pray' - or traditionally fight-flight responses. Depending on how much negativity is in our field from prior thoughts we give energy to - they act as obstacles - which is why new age self help books always teach us to clear chakras and think positive. As magnets we attract only one stream of consciousness - but our energy field will help determine the shape that thought forms and builds. If it is negative it can result in physical sickness. At the same time as receiving consciousness that become thoughts through our crown chakra and intellect - we are also receiving energy directly upwards from Gaia's internal magnetic core. This corresponds to life force nourishment that feeds us into adulthood. We are very specialised towards Mother Nature's cycles. We are really just here to serve her as are other plants and species.Mar 4 2011: Our thoughts come from our lifes.
To live is the best way to think.
Those wo don´t think don´t live ... :)
Mar 4 2011: Thanks Armando. So true, but I think that even those who appear not to think do have thoughts - perhaps there is little mental stimulation but I suppose as long as there is life there is thought. They appear as words in our heads but I guess it is the mechanism and the form (ie, what is it) that intrigues me. Appreciate your comments.
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Mar 13 2011: If you want to know the answer to these types of questions, then read Eckhart Tolle Books
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Mar 13 2011: I would advise against that
Mar 14 2011: why?
I see you'r point related to this question. But in general I think there are some very informative and useful aspects in Tolle's work.
Mar 14 2011: I claim Tolle is wrong on a whole lot of things.
Tolle is not a neuroscientist, nor a sociologist or psychologist.
He speaks from experiences, not from facts or scientific observations...
If you want to know how it might "feel" where thoughts come from: go ahead and read Tolle
If you want to know how it factually might happen, given our current knowledge, please read Damasio, Luria, Dennet, Sachs,...
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Mar 14 2011: (@ others: this post is somewhat off topic, so you can skip this)
I strongly disagree with your statement that
"all truth is subjective" Ed.
What a person thinks to be true is subjective.
How would you explain illusions for example?
Let's take for example the muller lyer illusion (www.google.be/images?q=muller+lyer+illusion&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=univ&sa=X&ei=dZp-TfSsFs6WhQfEztSlBw&ved=0CDgQsAQ&biw=1192&bih=901)
You experience that the one line is shorter even if you know (from measuring) that they are of the same length.
That you experience things is true; that you think some of your experiences are true and others false; is quite probable. That there is an actual 1 to 1 correspondence to what you think is true, and what actually is true is utter folly.
That we have found methods to ascertain truth by logic, reason, and good measuring devices is also quite true.
Saying that people are not "ready" is just a non-argument (a fallacy).
Other questions you should need to answer if you deny an objective truth to exist is: what do you feel are virusses, DNA, the workings of modern technology,...
I just wonder how that fits your (in my eyes very solipsist) world-view?
P.S.: I try and discredit the idea you are trying to spread, I'm not discrediting you as a person.
Mar 16 2011: but apart from the whole truth to be subjective or not, I do think Ed and Jag have a point in the complementairy value of Tolle's work to the (limited) Newtonian scientific worldview. In my view the core of Tolle's work is rooted in subjective experience and it builds on the thousands of years of subjective experience that were passed through the ages through the great wisdom traditions (like Christianity, Bhuddism etc).Mar 12 2011: have the ability to create completely new concepts or ideas. The name of the part of the mind that generates said ideas is called the imagination. It has the unique capability to simulate entirely new concepts or ideas. Think of a surrealist landscape, perhaps a Dali. In the tentacion de San Anton (Temptation of Saint Anthony) we see elephant like creatures with impossibly long legs. Now, I'm sure a skeptic will say "case in point! The elephant is not a new entity, it is simply an extension of something in existence." I believe this to be a fair point, imagine then, some landscape from something of Dr. Seuss. It is completely unrecognizable from anything we have ever seen. It is created. The skeptic may further assert "Well yes, however, there is still a landscape though. He cannot escape the context of his worldly preconceived notions." Once again a fair point, and I will refrain from going into any great deal about minds existing outside bodies as an energy with the capability to exist only within the later 6 dimensions that we typically do not interact with within our universe. But you see how the imagination does have the ability to create, at least in a sense, things that do NOT exist, which I believe does qualify as ingenuity. In closing, I will track back to the idea of the Dali painting where what we 'perceive' we see is indeed al elephant, when in actually it is a smudge of pigment on a two dimensional canvas. Amazing how our perceptions ascribe meaning to an otherwise 'meaningless' object.
Mar 14 2011: Thanks Jack. I agree that the various views offered here are all quite valid. I think they represent different layers of the complete answer, whatever that really is. With regards to your comments on human imagination, this is also depicted in some interesting futuristic imagination from people like da Vinci or authors such as Jules Verne.Mar 12 2011: Thoughts come from awareness. Awareness is beyond the physical brain or the physical universe, and pervades everything. Thought is movement. Awareness is stillness. Thought happens on top of this stillness/awareness, but in the end is not separate from it. It is only our own perception/conditioning of separation that separates a thought from the awareness in the end. "I" is the original thought.
I would suggest this website as a good reference which points to this awareness. This website describes this awareness which I speak above as the superconsciousness mind.
Mar 14 2011: Thanks Santhip, very beautiful and profound. Could you elaborate on what you perceive as awareness?Mar 12 2011: I too have wondered this for long, I even asked this question on a blog -
Does an idea or a concept orginate or materializes when it comes in a form of a thought or feeling? Or does it exist independently, using us as only medium or vessel to be expressed?
While conventionally, thoughts and ideas are believed to be a refined manifestation of mental activity, or consciousness, recently a new field of Memetics speaks about how thoughts or ideas transfer and replicate themselves from one being to another via 'memes'. This is analogous to the way genes work. There is a lot of debate and speculation about the credibility of this field. But nonetheless, it is another way of looking and understanding the concept of 'thoughts'.
jamie shear
Mar 8 2011: I have been thinking about this question for a long time. Thanks Julie for bring it up. I think though that before we explore where thoughts come from, we have to explore the nature of a thought. I see that this was touched upon in many of the comments, explaining it with reference to memory, language, experience, imagery, ext. but still, what is a thought? What is the difference between any neuron firing to a neuron that contains a thought. How does a neuron contain a thought? What is the physical characteristic of a thought - any thought including memory? I know nothing of neuroscience, but I have a strong sense that the more we come to understand this if we are able to, the more we will be able to understand consciousness and understand the world better. Descartes proof for his existence was that he was able to "think" I never understood what was so "tangible" about his thinking. Actions are more tangible that thoughts, but actions, we could explain easier. What is a thought?
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Vilgot Huhn
Mar 8 2011: Regarding Descartes "I think, thus I am" I remember someone on youtube talking about this. He said mentioned that we often think that it's the I that does the thinking, he thought it might be the other way round. It's the thinking that created the "I". The self doesn't control the cognition, it is a product of it.
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The alternative statement was "I think 'I', thus I am"
I liked it, thought I might share. :)
Mar 11 2011: I have to agree. Self awareness comes from thought. A lot of animals think, but not all thinkers are self aware.Mar 10 2011: Hi Jaimie. I too have been pondering this question for a long time. You bring up a point which we touched on briefly, earlier in the conversation - what is a thought? Is it physical - if it exists does it mean that it is physical? Is it a form of energy? And if it is energy, can it theoretically be converted to matter? Quite fascinating, really.Mar 10 2011: Maybe a thought is a collection of neurons
Jim Stay
Mar 8 2011: I think the "Eureka" moments of brilliant inventors tell us a great deal about where thoughts come from. These creative people gather all the available information they can about the subject they are studying. They are very curious people, so they also collect information that is outside their area of expertise.
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We know that the brain assembles, organizes, and stores this information at the unconscious or subconscious level. When we are relaxed, this stored information comes to our consciousness in many combinations. Some are familiar and we accept them, some are nonsense and we reject them. Once in a while, the brain send back a new combination of the pieces we have collected. That is the "new" thought.
I think.
Mar 8 2011: Thanks Jim for this succinct explanation It is quite fascinating how this brain "database" processes and outputs information in the form of these things we call our thoughts. This constant interplay between the conscious and subconscious makes me wonder if we control our minds or if our minds control us!
Mar 10 2011: maybe we shouldn't consider ourselves different from our minds
Ram Swaroop
Mar 7 2011: i believe our thoughts are end product of our innner sub conscious mind ,the vital force which never sleeps and keep working all the time..This subconscious mind actually create these thoughts on its own. By ut which thoughts it create depend totally on us as we have the power to guide the inner self to whatever we want.it is like using inner self to control the innerself again.. it sound vry confusing but really true when seen in parlance of how our inner mind work.....
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Mar 8 2011: Thanks Ram.. Many of the conversations here are consistent with your own ideas. The role of the subconscious is believed to be pivotal in assembling or, as you suggest, creating thoughts of its own. Though the concept of the subconscious is abstract, I think there is general consensus that it exists.Mar 7 2011: I read and studied all the theology of Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772) and to paraphrase into a question, "Do you know how to get an angels so angry they leave your presence in a huff? answer, "Tell them the truth and they just can't handle it." which is, "Our thoughts don't come from ourselves. We are not life but recipients of life as forms of love. We receive our thoughts from the angels we bring close to us from our affections for truth or the evil from falsity." Angels get their thoughts from other angels which get . . . life is One the holy One of Israel manifested in the place of time in eternity.
Tim Colgan
Mar 9 2011: I've heard that some say that ganja helps one to perceive it all.
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Petr Frish
Mar 4 2011: Ideas emerge from your unconscious mind. There is a lot of literature about this.
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For example - origin of structural chemistry -- chemical formula for benzne - was revealed to Kekule in a dream.
Mar 4 2011: Hi Petr .. so there is constant exchange of information between the conscious and subconscious minds and perhaps some of our dreams are an expression of subconscious thoughts
Mar 10 2011: can we ever understand our subconscious though?
Colin Xu
Mar 4 2011: Books, movies, travelling and any other social experience, I think.
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Mar 6 2011: These things all influence our thoughts - very true
Sandra Toth
Mar 4 2011: As a new user on TED I was exploring the site and updating my profile. After having posted a reply to a video I found your discussion. My comment was that language is thought. A stimulating environment that contains interactions builds relationships and language.
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Mar 4 2011: Thanks Sandra. I am glad you found the question and appreciate your comment. Maybe language is just the expression of thought. Prior to any significant language development in humans, I imagine that there were thoughts - but without the words. I suppose it would be the way it is for babies, before their language is developed.Mar 4 2011: My first thought: I need to get a cup of coffee to start thinking about this one! :-) Now where did that come from?
Mar 4 2011: Julie Ann has asked such a curious question, I love that my brain has dashed off in several directions of how to respond to it! When I lasso the grey matter into some level of logic, I'll come back and contribute. In the meantime, I hope you have fun thinking about it too :)
Julie Ann
Mar 4 2011: :-) Thanks Laurens and Sherri. Well, I guess some thoughts are more like instincts. For example if I am hungry, I would instinctively find food, even if I could not put the thoughts together. But there is a constant flow of thoughts which we take for granted. They are not physical or are they?
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Mar 6 2011: I consider my constant flow of thoughts to be like a hamster on a wheel, "Hammy" basically stays on the wheel until a force like biology and the need to eat takes over, once its clear that the need is being met, the wheel starts turning again!
I've often wished I had an interface with my thoughts that would allow me to print them in real time or share them telepathically but since that's evaded me these past 30 some years, I consider thoughts to lack a physical-ness.
Now thoughts and action, that's physical!
Mar 6 2011: Hi Sherri. Thanks for coming back and sharing. There has been a lot of brain mapping research recently and we may be getting closer to interfacing with a device and also printing off your thoughts. Scary thought!! Some Mindflex games were developed to use one's mind to control a ball. I haven't used one so I am not sure if it works.Mar 17 2011: Closing thoughts - thanks to everyone who contributed to this discussion. The responses have ranged from physical and material aspects such as the brain and the environment to less empirical aspects such as the conscious and unconscious minds and beyond. The contributions have been inspiring for me and I hope for you too. Complementary discussions on the nature of consciousness on this board have also been exceptional. My kindest regards and best wishes.Mar 15 2011: Yes, our thoughts emerge from the nothingness of creation. I liken it to a radio station tuning in to a channel. Our minds searching for the vibrational energy (frequency) that begets true creativity. As a creative person designing spaces and conceiving new ways of starting things, it is a gift we all have if we pay attention to the present moment.
Mar 15 2011: Hi James, in this scenario, I guess each of us would have a unique range of frequencies to which we are tuned - making our individual creative talents unique. Thanks.Mar 15 2011: We were discussing this exact question in my government class on Friday. That conversation explored environment, only. We explored parents, school, neighbors, and, government. My professor was not thinking about neurology, at all. Both deserve careful examination.
Mar 15 2011: Hi Christina, I bet it was an interesting and animated discussion. The discussion here includes several layers of perceived sources - environment and upbringing, brain, interplay between the conscious and subconscious minds and a larger more encompassing entity or system. I imagine that they are all pieces of the puzzle :-). Thanks for your input.Mar 15 2011: from the willingness to know who I am and what motivates me to keep going...Mar 14 2011: your brains....but where do existence could come from? What would be the definition or better said question if something I see as BLUE is also BLUE to you? It is too difficult to answer....Mar 13 2011: I will defend the case that it is your brain.
No spirits, nothing 'more'... we don't know it exactly, but the hypothesies are there.
I highly suggest reading Damasio (or any other good neuroscientist), or watch his talk when it comes online
1) Information comes from outside through your senses (sensors) or from your genetic material (code).
2) your brain is the place where sensory information gets processed.
- I assume you are referring to thoughts that are conscious, (the ones that you experience) -
3) So thoughts is the neural activity during your non-deep-sleep hours.
4) as new information enters your brain every second, it gets filtered, processed and sometimes stored. New matrices of activation arrise, others fade... synapses form and die,... (ah, the brain at work)
5) some of the information is noticed conscious, and they form your thoughts.
=> standard behavioural thoughts (like hungry, thirsty, horny, need to use toilet,...) are quite pre-wired and might roughly be considered genetic in origin
=> cultural ideas are probably learned from your environment, and I think you are referring to these.
(you might want to read "where ideas come from"
A "sudden" idea is not sudden or out of the blue (that would violate the laws of thermodynamics) but most often new connections made between things that was not there before.
Like using a concept A from field B to field C
Or applying a metaphor
Or putting other ideas together.
Your thinking can be seen as a constant recombining and looking for parallel patterns (making them easy to "zip" or "rar" in your mind). This can happen both conscious and unconscious.
If you then "suddenly" come up with an idea: it might be that your unconsciousness solved the/a problem you could not do with your conscious mind.
Gives a good feeling, element of surprise, and you jump out of your bathtub to announce it to the world!
Hope this clears a lot of the "I don't understand, so nobody does, so it must be magical" errorsMar 13 2011: As a pro simultaneous interpreter I think I can testify that at least my thoughts are not coming from my own knowledge only. The most prominent experience suggesting that to me was when some 10 years ago, I was interpreting at a Bahai conference (on religion and history). My turn coming, unexpectedly, I had to translate a Hungarian scientist's presentation on her latest discoveries on the operation of the human brain, and quantum physics. She didn't know English at all. Imagine how worried I became. I had never dealt with those, not even at the level of curiosity, and this was the first time in my life I first heard the term 'quantum physics'. In Hungarian, save for English! The other reason of worry was that my English was supposed to be used by the other booth to translate the presentation into German. In desperation, I closed my eyes. After a few seconds, however, "something clicked" in my head. I shifted over to a dreamlike state, with very vivid pictures racing through my head at what felt light speed. Another 40 minutes later I was woken up from this state by the German colleagues shaking my hand, saying that they never had experienced before such real-time simultaneity, and accuracy. The topic of the presentation, the way I managed to translate - out of pure desperation -, and similar experiences told by colleagues, make me believe that many thoughts cannot come and are definitely not coming from my own brain. There must be some very physical interconnection among brains, which, in the lack of purely scientific algorithms, we, humans are more willing to accept as a spiritual experience. It taught me the lesson that even if I'm unable to go into the intricate formulae of mathematics/physics I can follow the ideas of contemporary scientists. Some quantum physicists even spell it out that, eventually, one should "feel" quantum physics because the brain is max. 4D but the multiverse is nD. It makes me think that spirituality and science are supportive siblings.
Mar 13 2011: I believe you make some interesting points regarding the 'sharing' of thought and the way that although the oceans may part us - our souls are never divided. If we consider the way the brain functions, transmits signals to a completely sensitive and responsive organism that is made up of a multitude of individual components - all unique in format yet combined and unified in function or as 'type' , organ and so on. We realize that internal body universe is what we are as a species of humanity. Only our external universe is in the realms of Mother Earth. The ancients and enlightened - knew this to be so - that which is now called quantum physics. Outside Earth's shield the 'laws' of Nature do no apply - no longer does life function in reflection at macro and micro cosmic level. This is because everything inside the layers of Earth atmosphere is a part of that single organism - that is the 'soul'. Beyond the soul is pure consciousness and the levels of awareness are outside intellectual capacity - hence the 'nothingness' of Zen. It means that we all just work on the principles of attraction. As part of Gaia organism we might think we are doing really original things - we are in truth serving a function as organs within our own body serve a function to us. It is the Russian Doll affect. Reading your conference reflections - reminded me of a time I was sitting on a bus. It was a long trip and I was deep in meditation. Some people - foreign tourists had come and sat in the seat facing and next to me and were busy talking. Unaware and continuing with my own MUSING I didn't notice their presence until I felt the urgency prompt of a question asked. "How do we get to...." Startled to their awareness I quickly answered - only to see some really strange looks upon their faces. As they were getting off the bus one turned to me and said in English 'thank you - we didn't realize you could speak our language'. I hadn't known I had heard or replied in any languageMar 13 2011: Parapsychological explanation should be banned from TED. Such profundity abounds with nonsence and does not contribute to these discussions in a meaningful way. It appears you were experiencing intuition not quantum physics of the brain. Yielding to an explanation of extra sensory perception is no more advanced than offering a miracle hypothesis for the ineffable. Thoughts are a matter of our perception which is already handicapped before we arrive on scene. Often what we see and feel is just a practical interpretation of things to complicated for us to grasp. A quandary of competing information swirls in the genetically advanced pools of our imaginations where we make inferences and suppositions while reflecting on a diffused number of aspects. We are the source of our own answers and thus the source of thought using intuition to give greater significance to some thoughts over others. Thoughts give us consciousness and consciousness is an invisible and limitless interpretation of everything ripe with mystery and contradiction. Like a fog that we are always trying to look through, our conscious utilizes the same parts of the brain that is shared by our dreams and delusions. It appears you are very capable of higher level thinking, but you would be better off looking for a simple explanation to your experience rather than attributing it to a quantum leap which you just now experienced. Good luck with that.


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Two lots near Mississippi State University's sororities, its Clay Lyle Entomology Lab and Bully Boulevard may become sites for new sorority development, pending sorority representatives' decisions.
The sororities have asked MSU about starting construction at these locations to Sorority Row's north in lieu of previously planned locations to its south on an incomplete circular drive.
Bill Kibler, MSU vice president for student affairs, said these sororities will remain anonymous until they choose between the new location and the originally planned location.
"One is an existing sorority and the other will be a new sorority," Kibler said. "Both groups are still in the process of working through a number of issues in trying to make their decisions. Since no decisions have yet been made about whether to build or where to build, we believe it is premature to provide their names."
Currently, MSU has completed the east end of a circular drive near the Delta Delta Delta house, and MSU Provost Jerry Gilbert said the university's plans were originally to center new sorority development around this circular drive.
"We have two lots on the inside (of this circular drive) we're making available, which would be options for these two sororities, but they want to go to a different location," Gilbert said.
Instead of using two lots in this area, Gilbert said, the sororities approached MSU about developing two lots between the Delta Gamma house to the east and the Clay Lyle building to the west.
A north-south road currently travels through the center of this space, he said, so the new option would require significant alterations to the area's road infrastructure.
"(The road in the center would) be taken out, and then we would have to redo the road that goes by Clay Lyle and reconnect it just before Gast (Boll Weevil Research Lab) to the parking loop," Gilbert said. "We would make that more of a throughput road; we would let (the sororities) develop the area that is split by the current road. The new boundary (of sorority properties) would be the road that goes by Clay Lyle. They would have to put in new substructure."
It was announced at the October MSU Faculty Senate Meeting that the MSU Master Planning Advisory Committee approved the new development plan, but on one condition: The sororities would have to pay the expenses for road redirection themselves with oversight by MSU architect Tim Muzzi.
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Iran and the Gulf States
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- The Persian Gulf states hold some two-thirds of the world's proven oil reserves. Saudi Arabia is the largest Gulf oil producer, Iran a distant second.
- Iran's population of 74.5 million is roughly equal to the seven other Gulf states combined.
- A large population of Iranian nationals lives in the emirate of Dubai, Iran's most important regional trade partner. Smaller populations live and work in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.
- In the post World War II era, Gulf geopolitics have been dominated by a triangular balance of power among Iran, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
- The region has experienced three "Gulf wars": the Iran-Iraq War of 1980-1988 fought to a brutal stalemate, the successful 1991 U.S.-led coalition to roll back Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and the 2003 U.S.-led war to remove Saddam Hussein from power.
- Persian Iran is the only non-Arab country in the Gulf region. Its predominant religion, Shiite Islam, is shared by a majority of Iraqis and Bahrainis and significant minorities in other Gulf states.
Modern Iranian leaders—from shahs to ayatollahs—have sought a dominant role in the Gulf region because of Iran's economic and demographic weight, as well as the value of Persian Gulf oil shipping lanes. In the 1960s and 1970s, Iran was the pre-eminent Gulf power and guarantor of U.S. national interests in the region.
Iran's 1979 revolution dramatically altered Tehran's regional stance. Revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called for the overthrow of existing pro-American monarchs in the Gulf. Iraq's 1980 invasion of Iran pulled the Gulf Arabs and the United States into the brutal eight-year conflict, mostly on Baghdad's side.
The end of the Iran-Iraq War in 1988, the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, and the rise of more pragmatic leadership in Tehran led to an easing of tensions between Iran and the Gulf Arab states. The two subsequent "Gulf wars" in 1991 and 2003 weakened Iraq, thereby strengthening Iran's relative regional power. Iran's relationship with the smaller states of the lower Persian Gulf has historically been centered on trade. The emirate of Dubai has emerged as Iran's most vital Gulf trade partner and an occasional outlet to skirt sanctions.
The monarchy 1941-1979
In 1968, Britain declared its intention to abandon all military outposts in the Persian Gulf. Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi sought to fill the British vacuum and become the "policeman of the Gulf." Washington encouraged Tehran by adopting a "twin pillar" policy, anointing both Saudi Arabia and Iran as guarantors of U.S. national security interests in the region. The Nixon administration opened the floodgates to U.S. arms purchases to Iran.
Although they were all pro-Western regimes, the Persian monarchy had tense exchanges with the Arab sheikhs across the Gulf. In 1968, the shah declared Bahrain a historic Iranian territory, only to pull back after a U. N. mission found that Bahrainis preferred independence. In 1971, Iran seized three strategic Persian Gulf islands—Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunbs—claimed by the newly formed union of seven emirates, known as the United Arab Emirates. The shah also refused to participate in the Arab oil embargoes of 1967 and 1973. He continued to sell oil to the West and Israel, a source of contention between Riyadh and Tehran. The shah also had serious ideological differences with socialist and Soviet-allied Iraq. The two countries had a serious dispute over the Shatt al-Arab waterway that required international mediation to resolve in 1975. Yet the shah's Iran—with its large conventional army, high-tech weapons, large population and strong ties to Washington—seemed like the biggest power on the bloc in the 1970s.
Decade of conflict 1979-1988
Iran's 1979 revolution dramatically altered the regional geo-political balance in the Persian Gulf. Ayatollah Khomeini declared his intent to overthrow Gulf monarchs. Iran was implicated in a coup plot in Bahrain, unrest in Kuwait, and attacks on U.S. facilities in the Gulf states. In 1980, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, sensing weakness from revolutionary chaos, attacked Iran to prevent the newly formed Islamic Republic from inspiring Iraq's own Shiite majority and to gain strategic depth on its border.
The Iran-Iraq War turned out to be a defining feature of Iran-Gulf Arab relations throughout the 1980s. In 1981, the five smaller states of the Gulf—Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)—joined with Saudi Arabia in what was billed a security and political alliance, known as the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The Gulf states sided largely with Iraq, although each state—and even emirates within states—charted their own path regarding Iran.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait underwrote Saddam's war efforts to the tune of an estimated $40 billion. The new UAE federation was split. The emirates of Dubai, Sharjah and Umm Al-Quwain remained neutral, fearful of jeopardizing trade and commercial links with Iran. Indeed, Dubai flourished as a re-supply entrepot (trading post) for the Iranian military. But the UAE capital, Abu Dhabi, supported the Saudi-Kuwaiti position.
After 1984, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were pulled into the war after Iraq struck Iran's main oil export terminal and Iran retaliated by striking at tankers of Gulf nations allied to Iraq. The United States intervened by re-flagging Kuwait and Saudi tankers, which in turn raised tensions between Tehran and Washington. After a U.S.-flagged ship was hit, the U.S. Navy bombarded an Iranian oil platform in October 1987. U.S.-Iran tensions ultimately led to the accidental shooting down of an Iranian civilian passenger plane by the USS Vincennes, killing 290 passengers and crew, in July 1988.
The war finally ended when Iran accepted U.N. Resolution 598 in August1988. Ayatollah Khomeini said accepting the terms was akin to drinking "a poisoned chalice." There was no clear victor, but the triangular balance of power between the Gulf big trio—Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia—largely remained intact.
Rafsanjani's bridge-building 1989-1997
Shortly after he assumed the presidency in 1989, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani proclaimed, "Iran needs to stop making enemies." He signaled a substantive shift in foreign policy from an aggressive revolutionary state to a new pragmatic coexistence. Rafsanjani saw the GCC states not as ripe pawns to be toppled, but as cash-rich investors to entice. Prince Saud al-Faisal, the Saudi foreign minister, suggested shortly thereafter that the two countries could see "a future of positive relations."
But the third piece of the triangular balance of power, Saddam Hussein's Iraq, seethed at the sight of his fellow Arab states making conciliatory gestures to Iran. He also seethed at the war debt that he accrued, which he expected Kuwait to forgive since he had fought the dreaded "Persian menace" and "the scourge of Khomeini" on behalf of all Arabs. Unable to come to terms with Kuwait, Saddam Hussein invaded in August 1990.
President George H. W. Bush organized an international coalition to liberate Kuwait and protect its Saudi ally. Iran treaded a fine line during the 1991 Gulf War, neither siding with Washington nor hindering its war effort, despite U.S.-Iran tensions. Tehran's neutrality in the Gulf War did not sway Washington. In 1993, the Clinton administration announced its policy of "dual containment," targeting both Iraq and Iran. But Rasfanjani's position did alter GCC perceptions of Iran. Trade increased. Direct flight links were restored. And money began flowing more freely across borders. The Rafsanjani era offered Iran and the region a soft landing from the war's ravages and the revolution's zealotry.
Khatami's rapprochement 1997-2005
The 1997 election of Mohammad Khatami introduced a period of outreach in his attempt to launch a "dialogue of civilizations." In December 1997, Tehran hosted the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit. Among the delegates was Crown Prince Abdullah, the de-facto Saudi head of state, and the most senior Saudi visitor to Iran since the 1979 revolution. The Saudi-Iran détente was accelerating. When President Clinton also initiated an outreach to Iran, several GCC states lined up to play intermediary between Washington and Tehran, although a breakthrough never occurred.
The September 11, 2001 terrorist attack on New York City and Washington D.C. altered the dynamics of U.S.-Iran relations. Within the next two years, President George W. Bush launched two wars on Iran's borders—in Afghanistan in 2001 and in Iraq in 2003. The U.S. ouster of Saddam Hussein particularly rocked the region—and ended up dramatically changing the balance of power in Iran's favor.
For Iran, the U.S.-led war knocked out a primary rival. Tehran also sensed an opportunity to shape and influence post-Saddam Iraq. Over the next two years, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and ministry of intelligence began a sophisticated campaign using both hard and soft power. Tehran's growing role distressed the GCC states. In 2005, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal expressed some of the frustration, "We fought a war together to keep Iran from occupying Iraq after Iraq was driven out of Kuwait. Now we are handing the whole country over to Iran without reason."
Rising oil prices also gave Tehran new economic leverage. Flush with new cash, Iranians looked for regional investment opportunities and increasingly turned to Dubai, which emerged as Iran's offshore business center – its Hong Kong.
By the end of Khatami's term in 2005, most of the GCC states were again wary of Iran. Iraq was being shaped more by Iran than any other regional state. Sunni Arab states from as far as Egypt and Jordan began to whisper about fears of a Shiite crescent taking hold of the region. The Gulf was in deep flux.
Ahmadinejad's brinkmanship 2005-
The surprise election of the populist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2005 again changed the dynamics of Iranian foreign policy—this time back to the hardline positions of the early revolution. The regime immediately announced a resumption of uranium enrichment. And Iran's controversial nuclear program immediately became the focal point of its foreign policy and world diplomacy. Iran's Gulf neighbors were at least as alarmed as Israel and the United States.
Saudi Arabia and Iran increasingly found themselves vying for regional influence in proxy battles in Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, Iraq and even Afghanistan. The days of détente seemed a distant memory. In Iraq, Saudi Arabia's Sunni monarchy tried to protect the Sunni minority while Iran worked with an array of Shiite groups and the two major Kurdish parties to influence the budding Iraqi state. Iraq's March 2010 elections seemed to indicate that Iran's efforts had paid off. Immediately after the disputed elections, three of the top four candidates turned up in Tehran for "consultations" with Iranian officials.
A microcosm of the rivalry played out in the United Arab Emirates. For years, Iran's one GCC ally was oil-less Dubai in the UAE, the Gulf's rising commercial center which was home to as many Iranians as Emiratis. Tehran's rival was oil-rich Abu Dhabi, the politically powerful UAE capital allied with the United States. Dubai's 2008 financial crisis and Abu Dhabi's subsequent bail-out of its over-leveraged brother tipped the balance in Abu Dhabi's favor.
- In 2009, Dubai-Iran trade was estimated at $10 billion, a fall from the estimated $12 billion figure in 2008, due to the global financial crisis and tighter controls by U.A.E authorities on Iran trade. New rounds of sanctions and more stringent oversight by Abu Dhabi is expected to lower the trade numbers further in 2010, but Iran remains the U.A.E.'s fourth largest trade partner after China, the United States and India. Most trade represented goods from around the world that land in Dubai ports and are re-exported to Iran.
- Iran and Oman serve as joint "policemen of the Straits of Hormuz," the world's most important oil chokepoint. Some two-fifths of the world's globally traded oil passes through the Strait, which at its narrowest point is only 21 miles wide.
- Iran's threats to "close down the Strait" in the event of U.S. or Israeli strikes ring hollow, as a closure would damage Iran's own oil industry, the most vital source of state revenues.
- Qatar has increasingly reached out to Iran, even discussing ways to bring Tehran into regional security discussions.
- The name of the body of water linking these eight states has occasionally sparked diplomatic spats. For Iranians, it is indisputably the Persian Gulf. For many Arab states, it is either "the Gulf" or, more provocatively, "the Arabian Gulf." Most official atlases refer to the body of water as the Persian Gulf.
The future
- An Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities could spark a wider regional war with dramatic repercussions for the Persian Gulf region, leading to a skyrocketing oil prices, and potential conflict between Iran and America's key Gulf Arab allies, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
- The world's major oil players have largely abandoned Iran, but are active in Iraq. If Iraq achieves its ambitious oil targets, it could surpass Iran as the Gulf's second largest producer within a decade. This would have repercussions for the regional balance of power.
- The Iran-Dubai trade relationship will be tested by sanctions and U.S. pressure. But historic links are too deep to imagine a drastic reduction in trade, even though Iranian merchants may not feel as welcome as in the past.
Afshin Molavi is a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
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Fairing and fender question
I am curious what peoples feelings are on the front ends on ADV bikes. I am planning a 900RR styled replica bike for ADV and off road use. Something that will carry some luggage and be decent on the hiway but also capable in the dirt and even fun without the bags in the desert.
So questions are:
A) What are the pros and cons of
1} high front fender like a dirt bike
2} low front fender like a KTM 990ADV
3} beak style front end like a modern GS/GSA
B) What are the pros and cons of
1} fixed fairing/headlight/gauge set up like a modern R1200GS
2} a gauge/headlight/fairing that is mounted on the forks and turns with the bars like an early R80G/S
In the pics I have accumulated of the 900RR they made one style with a beak and one style with a high fender.
I have some ideas on what I like and what I think are pros and cons, but I want the concensus of the assylum and YOUR feelings and experiences.
My build is still a bit off, but I am getting all of my components planned and ready and amassing parts as we speak. :wink:
Hello Kelly,
a high front fender and a fork-mounted fairing can have some influence on riding-stability, especially on fast road-sections. A high-level fender won't get clogged up with mud leading to a locked wheel in worst case. A fork-mounted fairing with head-light can be turned at a standstill to have a look in different directions in the dark. A frame-mounted version can't do that for you ...
The beak ... riding the grandmother of all beaked adventure-bikes, a 1988 Suzuki DR Big 750 I still can't tell you much about it's influence. Maybe, it offers a bit of stream-lining. Up to 100 mph my bike doesn't develop any instability. At that point, it runs out of steam, too ...
Kind regards, Bambi
PS: in the 60- and 70-ies there was a story going round concerning low-mounted front-fenders here in Germany: top-riders would give a hint to their riding-skills that way, as they had to keep their wheels turning all the time. Coming to a halt, you wouldn't get on the move again as the mud would lock the wheel instantly! Herbert Schek for example on his home-built BMWs still is one of these top-riders - aged over 70.
High fenders can block quite a bit of radiator, they also keep mud off radiator.
Low fenders really keep crap off everything but if you ride in lots of mud they can pack up and lock the front wheel. Rare however. Low fenders usually have built in fork guards if running usd forks. High fenders you need to source plastic fork guards.
Other than that it's looks primarily for an adv bike.
So for you everyone,
What do you prefer?
If you could have ANY combination of these what would you choose?
I agree Bambi with the ability to turn the light with the forks on a fork mounted mask, but why then is the fixed to the frame fairing SO popular?
I think things like hand gaurds on the bars are just as critical as a mask/fairing on the forks or the frame. Everyone runs hand gaurds so I do not personally see a huge deterent for a fork mounted mask over a fixed one....if anyone has some input on that I would like to hear opinions.
Thanks for keeping your replys so far right on with what I asked, not giving the standard, it is whatever YOU like stuff. I am asking for YOUR feelings and opinions....
Is there a feeling that a frame mounted fairing/ mask lightens the steering feeling or is it purely buffeting on the forks and thus to your hand input that is the draw back to fork mounted?
Based the replies thus far it sounds like the KTM 990 ADV style frontend would be ideal over all?
I'd prefer a low fender and no fairing, personally. But if it's a choice between a frame-mounted fairing and a fork-mounted fairing, I'd choose a fork-mounted fairing, especially if we're talking about fairings the size of what I see on most ADV bikes (i.e., small). If I wanted a huge honking fairing it would be better to have it frame mounted, I think.
Hello there,
just to show you what I mean:
This is my Paris-Dakar look-a-like Suzuki DR 750 Big. With it's original low-mounted front-fender and frame-mounted fairing. The bike is capable of something around 100 mph and I think with knobblies on it, a fork-mounted fairing and high fender there would be some influence on stability at that speed. I also own a Triumph Tiger Trail 750 from 1981. This bike has a similiar performance, a few bhp less but same top-speed. In original trim it was equipped with a high-level front-fender that I kept until the mid 90-ies. Then I switched to a low fender. From that day the bike's stability at speed was much better. Although with an old brit-bike you treat yourself to around 60 mph and crack the throttle fully open just from time to time. So there's no fairing on that classic scrambler ... and there's no need for it as you can stand the ton for a few minutes. Then wind and vibration force you back down to 60 mph again.
In my opinion it depends on the bike and your use of it wether you choose one or the other version. The Big is my bike for fast touring on B- and C-roads plus the possibility to leave the tarmac. And if necessary, you can use the motorway at around 90 mph on your trip to the twisty roads mentioned above. The Triumph is better for scratching the B- and C-roads at your door-step. Although I used to do the long trips on it, too, before I got the Suzuki.
Kind regards, Bambi
Thanks for the input.
I am definately planning a smallish fairing, just enough to cover the gauges and headlight and punch a small hole in the wind to keep a bit of it off of my chest. I am getting older and some comfort is nice these days. I am talking about a real Dakar style bike that will be very capable off road, for a 450lb bike anyway, but still have good manners, as good as a 21" wheeled bike can, on the hiway to get me to or from a great ride.
Thanks for that great pic of a very cool bike, other than that discusting sponsor...I HATE smoking. It is SO offensive for me. But other than that I would ride that Suzi till she dies.
Definately not doing a beak unless someone chimes in with some great way that it benefits the bike or the comfort.
I am thinking of a BIG tank, 7-9 gallons, and a nice fork mounted mask, and a high fender that has openings in the rear, basically a supermoto fender. The are not as much of a sail as a full dirtbike style high fender and the rear venting allows air to flow thru for any radiator or oil cooler air flow, but has angled fins to help keep mud from flinging straight up onto your motor or coolers. Think of MX bike radiator fins. But I will keep an open mind to a low fender setup if that still feels like a sail.
Is there a good manufacturer of low front fenders for USD forks? Like a KTM 990 style fender, but not SO expensive.
I will not sacrifice quality or safety for cheap price, but I am very budget oriented and always want a deal if there is a deal to be had. i do alot of my own fab and all of my own welding, carbon or Stainless steel and aluminum and I even can tig Ti, but I doubt I will be using any of that. I need a tubing bender I think, but I do have 2 of them at my availability but they are both about 20 minutes away and only available when the owners are there.
I will start a build thread once I gather most of my parts. My biggest issue right now is airhead or oil head.....I have one of each and am torn on what I want to do. there a ton of Dakar HPN style bikes out there and I prefer conventional forks on those to stick with the era/period correct style. On an oil head build I am not mentally bound to any style or looks. I have a good set of KYB inverted forks and a good front wheel with Excel rim and good spokes. I think that would fit an oil head build better than the airhead. My biggest airhead concern is the rear shock and driveshaft. I can extend the swingarm no problem, but I hear alot of issues with the shaft being welded not being strong unless you friction weld it and even if you get a good strong TIG or MIG weld keeping it straight becomes an issue. Then I am not sure I want to spend $1000-1500.00 bucks for a decent shock. Those are 2 big things I can not do on my own.
KTM Low Fender
Hi ,
Airtech do a replica KTM Low Fender and I think they are based in LA - http://www.airtech-streamlining.com
Hope this helps
another low fender vote...
the bike can get covered with mud even with a low fender. if you add gravel and other junk launched off the front tire, the advantage goes to the low mount. if the forks you select don't have a mounting provision for the low fender, better figure out something solid, that fender has to stay put, or else.
i also like a beak for the additional protection, it's surprising how much mud and other junk gets up that high.
in my case, the bikini fairing and all the lighting are fork mounted. i don't like riding rough roads at night, but i've been caught out there plenty. having all the main and auxiliary lights pointed in the direction i was rolling saved my butt.
Just an fyi its very difficult to get heavy springs on forks other than ktm. I tried with kyb from a yz450 and the cost was prohibitive. Since the same basic forks from ktm are used on lots of bikes big and small you can usually get anything you want with a call to slavens. Been there thats why I only use ktm suspension on my builds.
I know there are triple clamps made for airheads on a custom basis by rdubb check the vendors for his thread. Not cheap, but neither is building a bike.
Having a tubing bender is awesome. I have the jd2 model three and I love it. Dies are very expensive though. So is driving back and forth to your buddies to tweak a bend three more degrees.
I've never converted a shaft drive, chain seems so much easier but love to see your project
Hi Kelly, hi everyone,
just a short reply concerning the Marlboro Design of my Big: I'd still have to try my first smoke, honestly! And I know I won't do that. But I don't have any problems with smoke-companies putting their money into events I love: Marlboro, Gauloises, Lucky Strike, Chesterfield, more? And I think the bike looks great in it's Dakar-design ... first wanted to change the looks to yellow with black decals like the Triumph Tiger Trail. Luckily I realized, that the Marlboro-look was the one of Gaston Rahier's first Dakar-Big! So I kept this style and will refine it (white frame for example).
Kind regards, Bambi
Thanks for the input folks.
I already own the YZ forks and even though KTM forks are not too bad priced, I have been scouring ebay for a while, the cheapest I have seen is about $200.00 USD for a set with triple clamps. I own the YZ forks and the TCs. I LOVE KYB forks. Enzo is not far and they are awesome at KYB stuff and have always valved all of my YZ race bikes. I have looked and researched springs and unless I am missing something, Progressive makes up to 79kg/inch springs for these forks and stock is 48kg....I think that will be plenty if I keep the bike as light as I want to. Especially is Ross' boys at Enzo valve me the way they have in the past, I will be fine. But food for thought for sure.
I do not smoke either and never will. I have a daughter that suffers from asthma and smoke chokes her out bad. We have neighbors that all smoke in their back yard and we have our windows open in the summer and we get choked out everyday. I can not afford to run the AC all of the time nor do I want to, those jackasses piss me the hell off.
I would never and will never support any death stick companies. I do not care if Gaston Raihers trust and BMW gave me the 1st Dakar winning actual bike still with Dakar dirt on, I would peel off those crappy ass stickers or Kilz over the paint and get rid of that crap from my bike.
I do not just dislike cigarettes, I HATE smoking and people that smoke. PERIOD. Sorry smokers, I have never seen one smoke that was responsible with their butts, wrappers, boxes, cellophane, ash, matches and foils liners. They ALL throw some of that stuff in the street, in the toilets, on my lawn, out the window of their car and into my face or lap while riding....I hate you dirty, discusting, polluting, and inconsiderate fools that smoke....
Thanks for you input, off my soap box now and on to my build plan.
Oh yeah,
Glenn, Airtech is in San Diego, less than an hour away. I have bought some stuff for my Cafe bike I am close to completion on. 1965 Yami Ym1 305. 2 Stroke twin.....I do NOT hate that kind of smoke :wink:
I bought some cool old donkey dick grips and my clip ons for my Yami from Airtech.
I never saw a KTM replica style low fender, I will look again.
I love your builds BTW and read most of your build reports. Love your style and detail. That low fender is fine, but it wont work with inverted forks unless it was different and you cut it?
Not too many inverted fork bikes with 21" front wheels and low fenders that I know of, KTM of course.
I have had many KTMs and LOVe them, but I do not want a KTM with a BMW motor in it, I want something different.
I have a 97 DR650 that I bought a couple of years ago and worked around some of the same questions you have.
I don't do any off roading per say so a low mount fender works great for me to use pavement to connect all of the dirt roads. I bought a low mount fender from the Euro DR650 RSE, fabbed up a mount to attach it to my fork brace and it's done. I don't know why, but I like the look of a low mount fender on a 21 inch wheeled dual sport. A low mount fender will likely clog more with mud so heavy off road use might be a problem.
I pulled of the stock headlight and gage cluster and mounted a Lynx fairing with an HID low beam, Halogen high, mounted a Vapor gage set up and a mount for the GPS and I am all set.
I've been very happy with the set-up and get interesting looks from people who try to figure out what kind of bike I am riding. :lol3 It's pretty funny to see the WTF??? look on peoples faces.
I prefer a high fender, fork mounted fairing, light and gauges, and no beak. Much like the first gen KLR. My Goldwing has a frame mounted fairing, a car like dash, and a low front fender. It is also a streetbike. To me this design is far better suited to streetbikes than off road bikes. The first "scramblers" had low front fenders, because they were modified street bikes. High mounted fenders quickly replaced those. And I have no idea where fairings came from. I have owned many dual sport bikes without fairings, to me they just get in the way, and are something else to break if you drop the bike.
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