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April 14, 2010 Investor Comfort? The Pace Of Infrastructure Development In Asia Depends On It Primary Credit Analyst: Ian Greer, Melbourne (61) 3-9631-2032; email@example.com Table Of Contents Diversity across Asia creates different development needs Pension funds are a good litmus test Investor comfort can be enhanced by solid institutional frameworks Early-support mechanisms also have their place www.standardandpoors.com/ratingsdirect 1 789546 | 300017896 Investor Comfort? The Pace Of Infrastructure Development In Asia Depends On It Post crisis, the idea of investor comfort has been much bandied about--hardly surprising in a global market in need of a panacea to soothe frayed nerves and restore confidence. But when it comes to infrastructure, we see investor comfort not so much as panacea but as paramount. In a region as diverse as Asia, in which each country has specific infrastructure needs and faces different challenges, foreign private investment is comparatively low and has been so since the Asian Crisis of more than a decade ago. Investors point to the need for policymakers and regulators to create attractive and rewarding operating environments in which investors can operate. Investors need to know that risk is reasonably balanced against a transparent and consistent regulatory environment that is enforced in a fair manner and that regulators have the resources and policy support needed to meet global-best-practice standards. Diversity across Asia creates different development needs When discussing infrastructure in Asia, it is important to take a granular view of the region from the outset. Asia is not homogeneous, and nor are the development needs and ambitions of its many countries. India urgently requires basics such as roads and power to maintain its strong growth, while more advanced countries such as Japan need to invest in upgrading and replacing existing infrastructure. General attitudes vary, too. China, Japan, and Korea tend to be more outward focused, keen to export their own skills and equipment through investing in infrastructure beyond their own borders. Similarly, some countries have a need for foreign investment if they are to maintain their growth; here, private investment is not an alternate form of procurement but, instead, fills a funding gap and enables much-needed projects. Last year, for example, India accounted for about 9% of all global project finance. Across the region there are also various levels of skills and experience; some countries are more willing to bring in and learn from foreign expertise while others privilege self-sufficiency and prefer to learn from their own mistakes. Finally, countries themselves are granular; in India, for instance, the variations are geographic in that some states such as Gujarat and Maharashtra have more-developed policy environments to support infrastructure spending than others. Instead of dwelling on the existing inadequacies that hamper infrastructure investment in Asian countries to varying degrees, we will focus here on the institutions and practices that investors have said they prefer any country to have--and these are by no means exclusive to Asia--in order for them to feel confident enough to commit funds and to take on risk. The urgency surrounding the need for these conditions cannot be overstated; it is by now a hackneyed truism that infrastructure development in Asia's emerging economies is sorely needed, and lots of it; the Asian Development Bank (ADB) calculates $750 billion is required per year, from 2010 to 2020, to meet Asia's basic infrastructure needs. Megatrends forecasted for the next few generations will see population growth soften in the world's developed countries and rapidly expand in emerging economies such as those in Asia. In many countries, foreign direct investment--and, indeed, active involvement--in projects is essential to support the pace of growth to fuel the development required. The region's public sector, however, may not have the capacity to fund all of it. Pension funds are a good litmus test Because pension funds have long-term needs matched by infrastructure, we believe that a salient question to ask when assessing investor comfort is--would a pension fund invest in this project? Pension funds generally have tightly Standard & Poor's | RatingsDirect on the Global Credit Portal | April 14, 2010 2 789546 | 300017896 Investor Comfort? The Pace Of Infrastructure Development In Asia Depends On It regulated investment limits, very conservative risk tolerances, and will only become involved with soundly creditworthy entities. And it is in pension funds that a lot of Asia's available savings reside; indeed, a key issue for the region is finding ways to unlock this money for sound, long-term infrastructure projects. While they already invest indirectly through deposits with banks, this is limited and being short-term means that it's not an ideal funding mechanism for infrastructure. Creating direct investment will stimulate a domestic capital market, a goal for many Asian countries. Indeed, when fundamentals such as good creditworthiness are in place, funds and infrastructure projects enjoy a very close match of investment horizons. For example, one such fund from Korea is one of several co-investors in a landmark desalination project in the Australian state of Victoria. The attractions of this project for such an investor include: tangible state support, a strong and predictable policy environment; the backing of a diverse, international banking group with experience in desalination and project finance transactions; a similarly well-credentialed equity group; and an experienced and diversified design-construct consortium. Investor comfort can be enhanced by solid institutional frameworks To examine the fundamentals of investor comfort more specifically, we believe that the framework for creating favorable conditions could well start at the institutional level. In a recent working paper, the ADB pointed out that these institutions can be formal (constitutions, laws, regulatory bodies and their mandates) and informal (codes of conduct and cultural norms and the like). A particularly important recent trend is the expanding role local governments are playing, as market facilitators and as regulatory bodies mandated to create fair and level playing fields for infrastructure investors. As investors have said time and again, a project's attractiveness depends heavily on whether local authorities and those appointed to implement regulations are willing and able to do so without fear or favour. No investment environment will ever be free from the concerns of the real and political world, but to attract funds--domestic and foreign alike--investors will want a system in which clarity, fairness, and consistency form the bedrock on which they can make decisions about risk and reasonably predict returns. The promise of recourse to proper legal representation is also crucial; jurisdictions in which contracts, for example, are enforced fairly by the courts are immediately more attractive to outside investors. More broadly, a key question for those contemplating involvement in any project is: who is looking after the interests of investors? Before the global financial crisis, monoline insurance companies--whose sole business was credit enhancement--provided not only credit enhancement but also skills and an alignment of interest with investors. This produced an environment in which pension funds could be unlocked and which saw the creation of a capital market in infrastructure debt. Similar structures are now being investigated in Asia. Investor comfort is obviously premised on those involved in a project being highly expert in their fields, but perhaps less discernable at the outset is how willingly those in authority (government, legal, regulatory) are also prepared and, indeed, mandated to assume ultimate responsibility that lasts for the duration of a project. Perhaps even more fundamental is the question of whether those in authority effectively have the power and processes to make responsible and relevant changes to legislation to create a more enabling investment environment. Also at the institutional level, the involvement of multilaterals such as the ADB and World Bank, and other organisations such as the Japan Bank for International Cooperation and the Australian Agency for International Advancement (AusAID), can be an effective way to attract investors. When these organisations lend their names, their credit quality, and their financing experience to projects--for example, AusAID, the World Bank, and the ADB joining forces to help get a bridge built in Vietnam's Mekong Delta--the financial management capacity of a project www.standardandpoors.com/ratingsdirect 3 789546 | 300017896 Investor Comfort? The Pace Of Infrastructure Development In Asia Depends On It is enhanced along with the level of comfort investors will experience in committing funds. The way a country generally goes about its business, while less clearly defined than codified practices and institutional frameworks, is no less important to investor comfort. How transparent is the bidding process? What are the grey areas? Do government-related and other entities operate at arm's length from one another, or are they inextricably entwined? Investors are looking for environments in which there's a clear demarcation between the private and public sectors, there's adequate transparency around sources of funding, and where entities' good credit standing enables bond issuance to flourish. Early-support mechanisms also have their place A key final point is that, with scarce resources, projects would logically be selected based on carefully-thought-out rationales and conceived of as part of a larger and longer-term plan, rather than at the suggestion of a private investor. This will mean that from time to time projects may need a boost to be commercially viable enough to attract private funds. Investors have found a degree of comfort in early-support mechanisms such as viability-gap funding, a partial government subsidy used widely in India and Korea that allows a project to get off the ground and be commercially attractive. And in Indonesia there's the Indonesia Infrastructure Guarantee Fund, which is funded by the World Bank and set up specifically to guarantee the government's ability to fulfil its obligations to a project. The World Bank also wants the fund to be a central analysis point to ensure that the developments it enables have strong business cases. While the long-term attraction of infrastructure as an asset class hinges on the evolution of sophisticated and lasting institutions, the pragmatics of shorter term solutions such as viability gap funding and guarantee funds cannot be overlooked as emerging economies search for ways to lure investor funds and unlock the region's vast savings. The private-sector funding of infrastructure is not the panacea for all problems, but by creating the right investment environment many countries have found other benefits such as the creation of a domestic capital market. Governments have reported that the processes needed to attract private funding have also improved general government procurement and the efficient allocation of funds. As Asia's policymakers and market participants look for viable and sustainable ways to promote regional growth in the wake of the global economic downturn, policies and practices that increase investor confidence will form an increasingly important part of a shared vision for Asia. Standard & Poor's (Australia) Pty. Ltd. holds Australian financial services licence number 337565 under the Corporations Act 2001. Standard & Poor's credit ratings and related research are not intended for and must not be distributed to any person in Australia other than a wholesale client (as defined in Chapter 7 of the Corporations Act). Standard & Poor's | RatingsDirect on the Global Credit Portal | April 14, 2010 4 789546 | 300017896 Copyright ( c ) 2010 by Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC (S&P), a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. 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Eve Arnold, one of the first woman photojournalists to join the prestigious Magnum Photography Agency in the 1950s and traveled the world for her work but was best known for her candid shots of Hollywood celebrities, has died. She was 99.
Arnold died Wednesday at a London nursing home, Magnum announced. The cause was not specified.
Starting in 1951, when career women were a rarity, Arnold navigated distant countries and cultures, photographing horse trainers in Mongolia, factory workers in China and harem women in Dubai. Her photo essays appeared in feature news magazines and in the many books she compiled.
"Eve was a very good photographer," said Stephen White, who owned the Stephen White photography gallery in Los Angeles from 1975 to 1990. "She was socially significant, as one of a group of women photographers who emerged after World War II."
Arnold began working for Magnum on a freelance basis in 1951 and became a full member of the group in 1957.
The agency's founders included Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, considered the greatest reportage photographers of the time. Most members of the cooperative were men. Arnold's only female colleague at the agency was Inge Morath, who joined Magnum as a full member in 1955.
"I began to haunt the files at Magnum," Arnold recalled in her memoir, "Eve Arnold: In Retrospect" (1995). Studying contact sheets she found there, she learned how each of Magnum's photographers approached an assignment. Cartier-Bresson's photographs, in particular, taught her to tell an entire story in a single image, she wrote.
Arnold made Hollywood a specialty starting in the mid-1950s. Her attraction to the backstage of life gave her a particular angle on the movie business. "Eve used a photojournalistic approach," White said of Arnold's photos of actors and actresses. "Hers was the naturalistic form as opposed to the posed studio photography more often associated with Hollywood at that time."
In several books, including, "Eve Arnold: Film Journal" (2001), she wrote about her experiences in Hollywood. Some of her best known images are candid shots of Marilyn Monroe. On the movie set of "The Misfits," Arnold captured the tension between Monroe and playwright Arthur Miller, her husband at the time and the screenwriter on the 1960 film. One photograph shows them together on a veranda, looking as if they have just cut short an argument. Others show glimpses of Monroe's legendary insecurity. In one photograph she sits at a table with a script in front of her, hands covering her eyes.
"She liked my photographs and was canny enough to realize that they were a fresh approach for presenting her — a looser, more intimate look than the posed studio portraits she was used to in Hollywood," Arnold wrote of Monroe in "Film Journal."
It was a mutually beneficial arrangement. Arnold published several more books, "Marilyn Monroe: An Appreciation" and "Marilyn for Ever," both in 1987. She exhibited and sold the images repeatedly, for decades.
Her photographs of Joan Crawford show the actress in her 50s, near the end of her reign as Hollywood royalty. None is flattering. There are close-ups of Crawford applying makeup to her wrinkled eyelids and evaluating her aged face in a hand mirror.
"The first time I met Joan Crawford she took off all her clothes, stood in front of me nude and insisted I photograph her," Arnold wrote in "Film Journal." They met in a dressing room when Arnold was on assignment for Women's Home Companion magazine. "Sadly," she wrote of Crawford, "something happens to flesh after 50."
After the photo session Crawford demanded that Arnold give her the film of the nudes and Arnold agreed.
Images of Crawford are among the more brutal included in "Film Journal." The book was praised for its "poignant [images], all capturing an off-guard moment full of character" in a 2002 review in the Canadian Review of Books.
One of her most challenging assignments was a photo essay about the Nation of Islam and its leader, Malcolm X, in the early 1960s. In an essay accompanying the photographs, published in Life magazine in 1962, Arnold wrote that she was spat on at one rally and after another she found the back of her sweater covered with burn holes from cigarette butts.
She did her best to avoid "women's pages" assignments but still had to photograph her share of women and children. Whenever possible she worked from a global perspective.
In Zululand, South Africa, 1973, Arnold photographed expectant mothers waiting in line to see a doctor. Each woman is beautifully poised and appears to be lost in daydreams.
On a trip through China in 1979 Arnold took pictures of toddlers in the nursery at a cotton mill, sitting together on a long bench, plump and pink cheeked. They are included in Arnold's 1980 book "In China," which won the National Book Award.
Eve Arnold dies at 99; pioneering photojournalist
The Philadelphia native was one of the first women to join the macho world of Magnum Photography Agency. She was known for the naturalness of her images and for her photos of Marilyn Monroe.
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Geographic Range
Aardvarks are found throughout sub-Saharan Africa, except for the West and Central rain forest regions. (Kingdon, 1997; "Oxford Reference Online", 2009)
Aardvarks occupy grassland and savanna habitats in sub-Saharan Africa, preferring areas that have a large abundance of ants and termites year round. The location of their burrow may differ from where they forage, in which case they walk between the two sites at night. They are rarely found in areas that have hard, compact soil, rocky areas, or areas that frequently flood. They often live in temporary holes that are a few meters in length, but can also live in complex and intricate burrows, which can have eight or more entrances and extend as much as 6 meters underground. Burrow entrances are often plugged with a vent left at the top. (Kingdon, 1997; Lehmann, 2009; "Oxford Reference Online", 2009)
- Habitat Regions
- temperate
- tropical
- terrestrial
- Terrestrial Biomes
- savanna or grassland
Physical Description
Aardvarks are the size of small pigs, but have very thick skin and do not possess a fat layer. They are notable for their long nose, which is wider at the distal end, their squared-off head, and a tail that tapers off toward the tip. The body is massive and they have very muscular limbs ending in thick-nailed digits. The hair is short on the head, neck, and tail, but longer and darker on the rest of the body, especially the limbs. Hair is often worn off in adults, but apparent on the young. The sides of the face and tail are pale colored, lighter in females and darker in males. During the wet season, aardvarks have fat deposits that are likely fueled by termite consumption. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005; "Oxford Reference Online", 2009)
Aardvarks have 4 toes on the forefeet and 5 toes on the hind feet, each ending in a spade-like claw that helps them to dig with great speed and force. Digging is used both to acquire food and as a means of escape. The stance is digitigrade. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005; "Oxford Reference Online", 2009)
Aardvarks have peg-like molars and premolars, but no incisors or canines; the dental formula is 0/0 0/0 2/2 3/3. Their teeth lack enamel and are made up of densely packed tubules, composed of a modified form of dentine. The tubules are contained in a sleeve of dental cement. Embryos and infants have a full set of vestigial milk teeth, including canines. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005; "Oxford Reference Online", 2009)
- Other Physical Features
- endothermic
- homoiothermic
- bilateral symmetry
- Sexual Dimorphism
- male larger
- sexes colored or patterned differently
- Range mass
- 40 to 82 kg
- 88.11 to 180.62 lb
- Range length
- 100 to 158 cm
- 39.37 to 62.20 in
- Average basal metabolic rate
- AnAge
Aardvarks are solitary and territorial, coming together only to breed. They are believed to be polygynous. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005)
- Mating System
- polygynous
Male aardvarks have genitals that secrete a powerful musk and both males and females have glands on their elbows and hips. These glands might help with individual spacing and/or be involved in mating, but obvious scent marking has not been reported. Northern African aardvarks give birth between October and November, while aardvarks in South Africa give birth between May and July. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005)
Usually one young is born after a gestation period of about 7 months. Offspring are born naked and with eyes open. The young begin to follow their mother at 2 weeks. They nurse until 3 months, at which time they begin to eat insects. At about 6 months, they become independent of the mother, and at about 2 years, they become sexually active. Aardvarks live to be about 18 years of age. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005)
- Key Reproductive Features
- iteroparous
- seasonal breeding
- gonochoric/gonochoristic/dioecious (sexes separate)
- sexual
- viviparous
- Breeding interval
- Aardvarks breed once yearly
- Breeding season
- It is believed that aardvarks breed earlier in the year the closer they are to they equator.
- Range number of offspring
- 1 to 2
- Average number of offspring
- 1
- Average number of offspring
- 1
- AnAge
- Average gestation period
- 7 months
- Average gestation period
- 225 days
- AnAge
- Average weaning age
- 3 months
- Average time to independence
- 6 months
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- 2 years
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
Sex: female
- 730 days
- AnAge
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (female)
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
- 2 years
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
Sex: male
- 730 days
- AnAge
- Average age at sexual or reproductive maturity (male)
Female aardvarks give birth in their burrow and the young remain underground for several weeks, while maturing. Offspring are taken care of by the mother until they are independent at about 6 months, after which they dig their own burrows. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005)
- Parental Investment
- altricial
- female parental care
- provisioning
- female
- female
- female
- provisioning
- female
- female
- provisioning
- female
- protecting
Aardvarks live for up to 18 years in the wild. In captivity, aardvarks are expected to live for about 23 years. (Knöthig, 2005)
- Average lifespan
Status: wild
- 18 years
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity
- 23 years
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Sex: male
Status: captivity
- 24.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity
- 10.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: captivity
- 23.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Status: wild
- 23.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
- Average lifespan
Sex: female
Status: captivity
- 18.0 years
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
- Average lifespan
Aardvarks are solitary, except when accompanied by young, and are very shy. Where aardvarks are most common, large and well-established burrows may be used by two or three animals. Aardvarks are rarely seen, rather their presence is indicated by their tracks, burrows, and scratch marks left by their powerful claws. Aardvarks forage at night, covering distances of 2 to 5 km each night. Before foraging, aardvarks leave their den in a ritualistic way. They first stop at the den opening to look for enemies, then run out, jump repeatedly, look around, and jump around more, before finally trotting off to forage. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005; Mutlow and Mutlow, 2008; Taylor and Skinner, 2003; Taylor, et al., 2002)
- Range territory size
- 1 to 5 km^2
- Average territory size
- 3.5 km^2
Home Range
Aardvarks inhabit large home ranges (2 to 5 square kilometers) and are typically found in very low densities. (Kingdon, 1997)
Communication and Perception
The only known sounds made by aardvarks are grunts and, in cases of extreme fear, bleats. Both sexes have glands on their elbows and hips, which may aid in mating or spacing of individuals. However, scent marking has not been observed. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005)
Aardvarks have poor vision because their retinas contain only rods, which allow them to see at night, but leave them colorblind. They have a very acute sense of hearing and long ears that can be moved independently, as well as folded back and closed while tunneling. Aardvarks have an exceptional sense of smell due to structures in the nose that increase turbinal surface area, improving the detection of olfactory signals. The olfactory region of the brain is highly developed in aardvarks, giving the middle profile of the skull a swollen appearance.
- Other Communication Modes
- pheromones
Food Habits
Aardvarks eat at night and are myrmecophagous, i.e. they specialize on ants and termites, with the majority of their diet being ants. They dig rapidly into the sides or center of ant and termite nests or mounds, while feeding at the same time. The ants and termites are swept into their small mouth with their long, sticky tongue. Aardvarks swallow without chewing their food, or after chewing their food very little. The insects are digested in the pyloric region of the muscular, gizzard-like stomach. Some of the predator defenses that ants and termites use against myrmecophagous animals, such as pangolins, anteaters, and echidnas, include biting, stinging, chemical defenses, and building hard mounds. These defenses do not seem to affect aardvarks. Colonies of ants and termites are rarely destroyed after an aardvark feeds and can be built back up and reestablished. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005; Mutlow and Mutlow, 2008; Taylor and Skinner, 2003; Taylor, et al., 2002)
- Primary Diet
- carnivore
- Animal Foods
- insects
If confronted by a predator, an aardvark will attempt to dig a hole in which to hide, taking about 10 minutes to completely cover itself up. If it cannot dig a hole, it will stand upright on its hind legs and tail, or lay on its back, and defend itself with its large front claws. Humans are the primary predator of aardvarks, but lions, hyenas, and leopards are also known to kill them. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005; "Oxford Reference Online", 2009)
- Known Predators
- humans (Homo sapiens)
- lions (Panthera leo)
- hyenas (Hyaenidae)
- leopards (Panthera pardus)
Ecosystem Roles
Aardvarks are important in their ecosystem because the holes they dig are used by a variety of other animals for shelter. These include hyenas, warthogs, squirrels, hedgehogs, mongooses, and bats, as well as birds and reptiles. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005; "Oxford Reference Online", 2009)
- Ecosystem Impact
- creates habitat
- soil aeration
- hyenas (Hyaenidae)
- warthogs (Phacochoerus)
- squirrels (Sciuridae)
- hedgehogs (Erinaceidae)
- mongooses (Herpestidae)
- bats (Chiroptera)
Economic Importance for Humans: Positive
Sometimes humans hunt aardvarks for their meat and hide, although products made out of aardvarks are subject to trade restrictions. Aardvarks may help control termite and ant populations, which are pests to humans. (Knöthig, 2005)
- Positive Impacts
- food
- body parts are source of valuable material
- controls pest population
Economic Importance for Humans: Negative
Aardvark burrows can present a hazard for vehicles. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005)
Conservation Status
Aardvarks are widespread, however, they have been exterminated in many agricultural areas. They are vulnerable in all settled areas and endangered or extinct in areas with a high concentration of people. They are often hunted by farmers and ranchers who find their hole digging inconvenient or dangerous. Cultivation and pesticide use has resulted in the elimination of their food source in some areas. (Kingdon, 1997; Knöthig, 2005)
- IUCN Red List
Least Concern
More information
- US Federal List
- No special status
- No special status
- State of Michigan List
- No special status
Other Comments
Recent studies based on DNA sequence analysis have placed aardvarks in a taxon referred to as Afrotheria. Other animals in this group include elephants, hyraxes, sirenians, elephant-shrews, golden moles, and tenrecs. Afrotherians are thought to have originated and evolved in Africa. Fossil records and morphology are beginning to support the molecular evidence. The order to which aardvarks belong, Tubulidentata, is unique because it is the only mammalian order that is represented by a single species. (Lehmann, 2009; Tabruce, et al., 2008)
Elizabeth Ratzloff (author), Michigan State University, Barbara Lundrigan (editor), Michigan State University, Tanya Dewey (editor), University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.
- Ethiopian
living in sub-Saharan Africa (south of 30 degrees north) and Madagascar.
- acoustic
uses sound to communicate
- altricial
young are born in a relatively underdeveloped state; they are unable to feed or care for themselves or locomote independently for a period of time after birth/hatching. In birds, naked and helpless after hatching.
- bilateral symmetry
having body symmetry such that the animal can be divided in one plane into two mirror-image halves. Animals with bilateral symmetry have dorsal and ventral sides, as well as anterior and posterior ends. Synapomorphy of the Bilateria.
- carnivore
an animal that mainly eats meat
- chemical
uses smells or other chemicals to communicate
- endothermic
animals that use metabolically generated heat to regulate body temperature independently of ambient temperature. Endothermy is a synapomorphy of the Mammalia, although it may have arisen in a (now extinct) synapsid ancestor; the fossil record does not distinguish these possibilities. Convergent in birds.
- female parental care
parental care is carried out by females
- food
A substance that provides both nutrients and energy to a living thing.
- fossorial
Referring to a burrowing life-style or behavior, specialized for digging or burrowing.
- insectivore
An animal that eats mainly insects or spiders.
- iteroparous
offspring are produced in more than one group (litters, clutches, etc.) and across multiple seasons (or other periods hospitable to reproduction). Iteroparous animals must, by definition, survive over multiple seasons (or periodic condition changes).
- motile
having the capacity to move from one place to another.
- native range
the area in which the animal is naturally found, the region in which it is endemic.
- nocturnal
active during the night
- nomadic
generally wanders from place to place, usually within a well-defined range.
- pheromones
chemicals released into air or water that are detected by and responded to by other animals of the same species
- polygynous
having more than one female as a mate at one time
- seasonal breeding
breeding is confined to a particular season
- sexual
reproduction that includes combining the genetic contribution of two individuals, a male and a female
- soil aeration
digs and breaks up soil so air and water can get in
- solitary
lives alone
- tactile
uses touch to communicate
- temperate
that region of the Earth between 23.5 degrees North and 60 degrees North (between the Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle) and between 23.5 degrees South and 60 degrees South (between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Circle).
- terrestrial
Living on the ground.
- territorial
defends an area within the home range, occupied by a single animals or group of animals of the same species and held through overt defense, display, or advertisement
- tropical
the region of the earth that surrounds the equator, from 23.5 degrees north to 23.5 degrees south.
- tropical savanna and grassland
A terrestrial biome. Savannas are grasslands with scattered individual trees that do not form a closed canopy. Extensive savannas are found in parts of subtropical and tropical Africa and South America, and in Australia.
- savanna
A grassland with scattered trees or scattered clumps of trees, a type of community intermediate between grassland and forest. See also Tropical savanna and grassland biome.
- temperate grassland
A terrestrial biome found in temperate latitudes (>23.5° N or S latitude). Vegetation is made up mostly of grasses, the height and species diversity of which depend largely on the amount of moisture available. Fire and grazing are important in the long-term maintenance of grasslands.
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reproduction in which fertilization and development take place within the female body and the developing embryo derives nourishment from the female.
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PG&E Reminds Homeowners, Contractors to Always Call 8-1-1 Before Digging A Free Service Helps to Keep Communities Safe PR Newswire SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2014 SAN FRANCISCO, April 2, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --Every six minutes in America, an underground utility line is damaged because someone decided to dig without first making the free call to 8-1-1. Ahead of the 2014 construction season, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) reminds California homeowners and contractors to make a free call to 8-1-1 at least two business days before any digging project. The free service helps get all underground utility lines properly marked for projects big and small. "Contacting a Regional Notification Center is a state requirement, not an option," said Contractor State License Board (CSLB) Registrar of Contractors, Steve Sands. "We encourage consumers as well as our 300,000 contractors to always call 8-1-1 before beginning any type of digging project to avoid safety and financial risks." April is National Safe Digging Month and serves as a reminder that safe digging prevents serious injuries, repair costs and inconvenient outages. In almost every case, these accidents can be avoided with a simple call. Even when digging only a few inches, the risk of striking an underground utility line still exists. "We're really stepping up our damage prevention efforts this year," said Nick Stavropoulos, Executive Vice President of Gas Operations at PG&E. "In 2013 alone, there more than 2,000 incidents of damages to our gas and electric lines as a result of unsafe digging practices. Calling 8-1-1 before you dig shows a commitment to safety and your community." Whether the project is commercial construction with heavy excavating equipment, a residential fence installation or even a backyard spring planting project, calling 8-1-1 two business days prior to digging enhances public safety. Callers are connected to a local call center, which notifies the appropriate utility companies—such as PG&E— of the intent to dig. Professional locators are then sent to the requested digging site to mark the locations of underground lines. Once lines have been accurately marked, hand digging can begin around marked lines. For more information about 8-1-1 and safe digging practices, visit www.pge.com/digsafely. In keeping with the spirit of National Safe Digging Month, PG&E offers these tips for safe excavation: oCall 8-1-1 at least 2 working days before and up to 14 calendar days in advance of an excavation or digging project. oCustomers will receive a list of notified utilities that may have underground lines in the area. If you believe a utility may not have marked its lines, call 8-1-1 again. oOn paved surfaces, mark the proposed excavation area with white chalk-based paint. Homeowners can also use other white substances such as sugar or flour. oOn unpaved surfaces use flags or stakes to mark the proposed excavation area. oCarefully hand excavate within 24 inches on either side of a utility-marked facility. Digging even a few inches can pose some risks of striking a utility line. oBe careful not to erase facility marks—that were indicated by the professional locator— while working. If you cannot see the markings, call 8-1-1 and request a remarking. o8-1-1 requests are active for 28 days. Call 8-1-1 if work continues beyond that time. oImmediately notify utilities about any type of contact or damage to wires or pipes. oIf there is any damage to PG&E electric wires or gas pipelines, or if there is a possible gas leak, take these steps: oMove to a safe location oCall 9-1-1 oCall PG&E at 1-800-743-5000 Object: application/x-shockwave-flash About PG&E Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E Corporation (NYSE: PCG), is one of the largest combined natural gas and electric utilities in the United States. Based in San Francisco, with more than 20,000 employees, the company delivers some of the nation's cleanest energy to 15 million people in Northern and Central California. For more information, visit www.pge.com/ and http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/. http://www.pgecurrents.com http://www.facebook.com/pacificgasandelectric http://www.twitter.com\pge4me http://www.linkedin.com/company/pacific-gas-and-electric-company http://www.youtube.com/user/pgevideo Video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oyZJk6KjaE SOURCE Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) Website: http://www.pge.com/digsafely Contact: Corporate Relations, 415.973.5930
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Due to redistricting, all five Chisago County Commissioner districts are up for re-election this coming fall. When the filing period ended Tuesday, June 5, the following had filed as candidates: District I: Lora Walker (I), Lyle Johnson, Darrel Trulson District II: Rick Greene (I) District II: Georg...Read More
By Derrick Knutson Some say inaction is a type of action. If that's the case, there was a whole lot of action at the Chisago County Board meeting April 18 when it came time to make a decision about redistricting the county. Following the U.S. Census every 10 years, new legislative lines need to be...Read More
By Derrick Knutson At the beginning of the Chisago County board's worksession on redistricting Wednesday night six options for new districts were on the table for commissioners to consider. By the end of the meeting the board had pared that number to two. County Auditor Dennis Freed passed out a p...Read More
By Derrick Knutson There might not be as much hubbub in Chisago County about redistricting as there has been recently regarding U.S. Congresswoman Michele Bachmann's 6th District, but changes are likely going to be made to boundaries within the county, which could result in politicians representin...Read More


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MINNEAPOLIS -- Twins outfielder Josh Willingham will be sidelined at least a month after having arthroscopic surgery on his left knee Wednesday. The procedure was done to repair a torn meniscus in his knee; he's also letting a bone bruise heal in the meantime. With Willingham out, the door is now open for a few players to see more playing time in his absence. Oswaldo Arcia got the start in left field on Wednesday against the New York Yankees, while Clete Thomas started in right. Outfielder Chris Parmelee also figures to get more playing time in right field as Twins manager Ron Gardenhire shuffles his lineup over the coming weeks. "As I told the outfielders, we're going to kind of do the best we can to keep everybody swinging," Gardenhire said before Wednesday's game. "Arcia's going to get plenty of at-bats. Parms is going to get plenty of at-bats. We'll use Clete. We'll mix and match as best we possibly can. These guys are going to get to play a little bit now and see if they can ...
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I recently installed Linux, and had to put the NVIDIA driver on. And I did it, and everything worked perfect.
Well, basically, something on Linux got screwed up and I had to reinstall it.
I wiped my one drive and installed Mandrake 9.1 again. Everything worked good, except when i tried to install my driver for NVIDIA Geforce2.
I get this error:
Unable to find the system utility 'ld'; please make sure you have the package 'binutils' installed. If you do have 'binutils' installed, then please check that 'ld' is in your PATH.
Please help.
ld is an program that helps tie together pieces of an application while it is being built; in a single word, ld is a linker.
I have not worked with mandrake much but I seem to recall that it supports rpm. You can check to see if you installed ld with the binutils package. Simply type rpm -qv binutils
If this prints a line indicating that binutils is not installed, you will need to install binutils from your Mandrake distrbution. If binutils is installed, you will need to determine where ld was installed and make sure that the directory ld is located in is a part of your path.
well go to console and issue the command:
rpm -qa|grep -i binutils
if you get an output similiar to something like:
then you do have it installed.
and of course your version will be different cause i use RH8 and your using MDK9.1...but if you don't see any output, then just go get the binutils package and install it, and try the nvidia installation again..gl
Ok, that's fine, but now when I try to open up a program that needed it I get this error:
Could not find a compatible OpenGL display resolution. Please check your driver configuration. (Error: Couldn't find matching GLX Visual)
I tried, but to no avail.
So I guess basically how do I configure it.
More than likely this application is requesting a resolution that is not enabled in X. If you can determine what that resolution is, you can add it to the XF86Config file. This can be done by editing the file by hand or if Mandrake has a GUI editor using that.
If you have to do this by hand, the following will give you a general idea of what is required. The file you are looking for is XF86Config (might be XF86Config-4). On my system, this is located in /etc/X11; if it is not here on your system, you can type locate XF86Config to find where it is.
Before going any farther, make a backup copy of this file!
Edit this file in your favorite editor (you will probably need to be root to do this). There should be a line in the file that starts with the word "Modes" (no quotes). This line is the one that lists what resolutions are enabled for the particular screen. Add any resolutions you need here.
Modes "1024x768" "800x600"
could be changed to:
Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
Note that the resolutions do have quotations around them and should be put in the file that way. Save your changes and restart X.
Hopefully this takes care of you.
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Down in the woods today
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I was chatting to my mates over a pint in the pub and was trying to explain t them that, well basically I was frustrated with my wife's lack of interest ins sex.
One of my mates said that I ought to take her out more.
One suggested I get her to dress up in kinky clothes.
I said I had tried everything but when we do fuck she justs lets me get on with it and has no interest at all.
One friend suggested I give her a bit of a fright to heighten her excitement levels. I said how can I do that.
A plan was discussed and my three drinking buddies all decided to help.
I would drive her to a wood and I would walk too fast so she was on her own and then she would get scared. When she found me it would release a vast desire and she will want me to take her to bed. It sounded great to me, well not too clever but I was ready to try anything.
I convinced Pauline to where a long flowing dress and said I was going to take her out for a drive so we could discuss things. She knew I would talk about sex but I knew she thought if she was in the car I wouldn't try anything on.
We drove a few miles out into the countryside and I said I had ran out of petrol. She called me stupid and I said it was not going to be a problem because we could just walk through the small woods to the garage the other side. Or I said you can stay in the car if your prefer.
Pauline did not want to stay in the car and we locked it up and set off for the woods.
After a couple of minutes walking I said we will have to hurry up as the garage will soon be shutting and I ran off calling back to Pauline that she better run.
Pauline had a pair of high heel shoes on and couldn't run so she drifted behind me.
After five minutes had past I hide in the woods as planned and Pauline carried on walking. She tried to run and ended up taking her shoes off. She ran a little and caught her dress on a tree and it slightly ripped. At that moment she her a voice and said is that you john There was no reply and she ran a little further and caught her dress on another sticking out branch and it ripped a little more.
A voice whispered something and Pauline's heart started to pound. She decided to hide behind a tree and wait.
It was dark and John was nowhere in sight. Little did he know but one of his mates Tom fancied his wife and he saw Pauline sat on a log and crept up behind her. He decided to wrap a rag around her eyes so she did not recognise her and wrestled her to the floor.
She started to scream but Tom was a big lad and he soon silenced her with his hand and then ripped at her dress and exposed her bra. She recognised it was Tom. He soon ripped her bra off and she managed to push him off and ran calling him to chase her as she felt quite excited.
She was now bra less and her dress was in shreds exposing her long sexy legs.
Pauline ran a little way and one of John's so called mates stepped in her way and she fell to the floor.
She looked at him and recognised he was John's mate and she secretly fancied him.
Tom arrived and the two looked at her on the floor and then at each other. They know and she knew exactly what was going to happen.
She told them she wanted to be fucked by them but her husband was near by.
They knew he was way off because they planned that he would be back at the car by now and only the three of them were in the woods.
The third accomplice arrived on the scene and they thought they would have a little fun.
Tom said he was going to be first and dived on her while the other two chatted to her about her sexual desires.
Each of them took it in turns fucking Pauline and Pauline panted and moaned with pleasure.
She didn't know why but she really enjoyed being used and fucked by John's mates and at one point told them to fuck her again.
When hey all finished fucking she got up and they told her the plan.
She agreed to go back to the car and took John home and fucked him liked he never been fucked before.
She also agreed to meet the lads and some of their friends for further gang bangs in the woods each month.
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UI seeks public input on community sculptures | Arts & Culture
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The University of Idaho is asking for public input on sculptures that will be installed in the Intermodal transit Center Sculpture Garden. The results of a survey will help narrow the field down to seven or eight, with the final five being selected by UI President Chuck Staben and his wife, Dr. Mary Beth Staben.
The sculptures were created by intermediate and advance sculpture students in the College of Art and Architecture's ART 340 class. They are currently on display along Paradise Path between 6th and College for viewing. Community members can fill out a survey to select their favorite of the 13 sculptures by clicking HERE through Thursday, May 8th.
The surveys will be used to narrow to select seven or eight finalists that will be presented to the Stabens for a final selection of five. The winners will be installed at the Moscow Intermodal Transit Center Sculpture Garden on May 13th.


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How to fight stress?
If you are a kind of person who lives according to modern business standards, getting up early in the morning just to start rushing things all over the working day and don't even stop thinking about work when at night you finally put your head on a pillow, then you might have a problem.
Being a business person himself with investing in real estate, doing estate planing, Walter Helwich is not far from the truth when says that nowadays, working more intensively with each new day, people are more prone to stress. Stress is a term that is commonly used to define our state, when we feel uncomfortable, but it leaves severe consequences, which are hardly recognizable. What is more important to point out is that stress is a quiet killer, which provokes a wide range of diseases such as degenerative diseases, cancer, diabetes etc. The weight gain, mental illness and hair loss are frequent indicators that you have too much stress in your life. But, every human being who wants to live a peaceful and quality mental, physical and emotional life should aim to live stress-free life.
When stressed, the body produces three hormones: adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol. All of them are produced by the adrenal glands and all trigger:
– Suppression of neurotransmitter activity
– Disintegration of the endocrine system
– Weak immunity
– Slow digestion
These hormones influence the body's response to stress. Furthermore, Walter Helwich finds out that the stress causes mood swings, obsessive-compulsive disorders and bipolar hampered hormonal imbalance. It can also cause hair loss and fat accumulation, especially in the abdominal area. In addition, as the stress is becoming a common part of our life, so as the insulin resistance becoming higher, adds Mr. Helwich. When we are constantly in a state of 'threat' or 'emergency', our body releases glucose in order to provide enough fuel to fight or escape. Unfortunately, this is not quite necessary, so the pancreas produces insulin surge to deal with the onslaught of glucose. Over time, this cycle depletes the pancreas and creates resistant-insulin cells.
When the glucose metabolism becomes ineffective, the rest of the organs such as brain, liver, adrenal glands, thyroid and bowel suffer because of the lack of fuel, and after follow some diseases including high blood pressure, arthritis, kidney failure, neurological problems and ulcers, adds Walter M Helwich.
However it is not hard to fight the stress, as long as you do it on a daily basis. Here are some tips Walter Helwich posted on his Twitter account:
Read a book – Even few minutes are enough to read poetry or to retrieve your favorite sonnets.
Go for a walk – Few minutes of walking burns all the negative energy you collect in the office and makes you feel mentally more capable.
Wake up your brain – meditate, pray, communicate with nature, or do what you find most appropriate.
Listen to your favorite song – beats of the right song can change their view of the world in less than 45 seconds.
Organize everything – the best way for someone to get rid of stress is to tidy his working place and get organized.
In the following pages Mr. Helwich will try to cover modern-day issues that trouble very contemporary professional, whether it is certified estate planer, attorney at law, investor and or owner of a company. Walter has also published a book on this matter, which has gained many food reviews from the broad public.


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A favorite local landmark that serves as a departure point for several historic tours, the Mills House is the modern iteration of the original 1853 hotel by the same name, where General Robert E. Lee once slept. The lobby sports an elaborate crystal chandelier and marble floors, while all guest rooms feature antique reproductions that combine Southern charm with Asian accents. Work out in the fitness center, or relax on the deck beside the delightful pool. Lowcountry specialties are served in the Barbados Room, which opens onto the terrace courtyard with its lovely floral mosaic by famed landscape architect Loutrell Briggs.
115 Meeting St., Charleston, South Carolina, 29401, United States
843-577–2400; 800-874–9600
Website: www.millshouse.com
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By teddy724
Oct 15, 2012
The service at the time seemed pretty good. However, we had two bad experiences. One was easily corrected but the expensive damage to our van was not. First, we used the valet the evening we checked in because the parking area at the door is extremely poor. At check out, we picked up our car from the valet early in the morning (5:45AM) when it was still dark outside. Then that afternoon (around 3:30PM) we noticed that the rear quarter of the car
had been scraped and pushed in from the parking garage. Since we had left the hotel, neither they nor their insurance company would accept responsibility of the $1250 damages. Of course, they would not bother looking at any cameras or the parking garage space or do anything to make the situation right with us. Second, the On-Demand or Pay-per-view system was not functioning in our room when we wanted to watch a family movie with our younger kids. They sent up a technician to restore the system, which he did very well. Then he ordered the movie for us (MIB 3). Well, we stopped the movie when there was blood spraying with the sound of a chainsaw in the background! When I asked to have the charge of that particular movie removed, the front desk did so and even removed the charge of the movie that we actually watched! Mistakes happen, and they corrected that one so we were very satisfied the resolution with this hiccup. Just a short note on the rooms...they are on the small side, but more importantly, the walls are pretty thin so you may have trouble sleeping due to outside/hallway noise if you are a light sleeper. The overall lesson to be learned is that the car should be thoroughly checked for damage prior to leaving because they park them in a tight parking garage where damage is likely...especially if you have a mini-van.
By lebekka
Apr 29, 2007
This hotel has great service and a great location. It is just a quick walk to the downtown market, boutiques, and fabulous restaurants. The rooms are clean and comfortable, and this hotel has their own parking, so you don't have to drive around all day looking for a spot.
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I am developing a web app in java. I am thinking of using Spring MVC. But at ORM side, I have a decision to make. I have studied about ORMs like Hibernate,iBatis, Spring JDBC Template etc.
I find iBatis and Spring JDBC Template (using RowMapper) are almost same, where you map each query to an object. So you have to write a class for each query.
In Hibernate, you map each table with a class.It reduces the need to write SQL.
I guess Hibernate is preferable when you are not good in SQL.In my case, I am quite comfortable in SQL, so want to use iBatis or Spring JDBC Template which will give me good control over SQL and these are less complex than Hibernate.
But Hibernate provide caching which other ORMs do not provide.
So my questions:
- Which one to use between iBatis and Spring JDBC Template?
- Is Hibernate caching (or any other Hibernate feature which I do not know) so good that I should go with Hibernate instead of other ORMs?


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I'm using wpDirAuth 1.7.6 to automatically create WordPress users from an OpenLDAP store. Users can login with their LDAP credentials just fine and the WordPress account that is created pulls forward their email address from LDAP. The problem is that email address changes don't appear to be synced from either side. That is, when the mail attribute is changed in LDAP, the WordPress user doesn't update. Likewise, when the WordPress user email is updated, the mail attribute in LDAP doesn't change.
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WALLA WALLA -- There are gang members in prison and gang members out of prison, but not a lot of interaction between the two.
"In conversations with the Walla Walla Police Department, they don't feel there is any significant connections," between gang members in the local community and those in Washington State Penitentiary, said Superintendent Steve Sinclair.
Prison visitor records also "don't reflect that families are relocating and setting up residence locally," to be with gang members who are at the penitentiary, Sinclair said. "We didn't find a direct correlation between (gang members) and families moving here."
In corrections nomenclature, gangs are known as "significant threat groups" or "STGs." According to the Dan Pacholke, state Department of Corrections deputy director of prisons, about 20 percent of the 16,000 people incarcerated in the state prison system are documented gang members.
Pacholke said a breakdown of how many inmates below to any particular gang isn't available. "It's a very wide variety," he said. Members include Latino gangs such as the Norteos, Sureos and Mexican Mafia, black gangs such as the Crips and the Bloods and white gangs such as the Aryan Brotherhood.
Since 2008, as the result of a program aimed at reducing gang violence within the prison system, the penitentiary was designated as the place where members of "significant threat groups" would be incarcerated.
The program has caused about a 5 percent reduction per year in gang-related violence throughout the system, Pacholke said. But the drop is not uniform throughout the system, with some institutions recording very low rates and others higher rates, such as WSP where there was an upswing in incidents of inmate-on-inmate assaults and assaults on staff.
In response to those incidents, Sinclair said prison officials have developed a combination of tactics that pair sanctions with a program of incentives to reward good behavior. The program has been showing results, he said, but "this is an inexact process and we're early in the process."
In general, prisoners identified as active gang members are segregated to try to avoid allowing the group dynamics that lead to violence. But "there's no one right answer on how to manage this problem," Sinclair said. "There's no silver bullet."
Ultimately, he said it boils down to individual choice.
"Our primary approach to handling these offenders is based on their individual behavior," he said. "We don't take the approach that 'I know you are affiliated with that (gang), so I'm going to treat you a certain way.' It's based on individual behavior."
If a person in prison decides he wants to severe his gang ties, corrections staff would work with that person to have him located away from gang members. But, Sinclair noted, in his experience "peer pressure tends to make it difficult.
"Ultimately, that's an individual choice and we'll encourage it as much as we can," he said.
Another tactic is being able to offer prisoners opportunities for rehabilitation. These range from being able to complete basic education to gain their GED to taking vocational training so they can find employment after their release.
"Hopefully, for us, we're just a bus stop, not a destination," Sinclair said.
Andy Porter can be reached at email@example.com or 526-8318. Check out his blog at blogs.ublabs.org/randomthoughts.
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Now that The Simpsons has sold feminism the fuck out, I'd like to give props to one cartoon I can still count on. I'm talking about South Park, which, after 14 seasons, still offers up some of the finest social satire ever to grace the American airwaves.
Okay, so maybe it's not perfect. The main characters, Stan and Kyle, are baby bros who use words like "gay" and "pussy" as derogatory slurs, and Cartman's bigotry would make Archie Bunker blush. But as the boys navigate their world, they encounter a lot of hypocrisy—including sexist behavior. And when the writers bring their social scalpel to these situations, the results can be hilarious, heart-breaking, (potty-mouthed), and yes...feminist.
Pete Campbell is a rapist. On Sunday night's episode, he met a young au pair living in his building and helped her out of a difficult situation with her employers. He propositioned her; she refused. Later that evening, undeterred, he knocked on her door, forced her to let him in to avoid a scene, followed her into her bedroom, closed the door, and kissed her, leading her towards the bed. Apparently, for some people, this wasn't clearly a rape. I'm here to tell them: it was.
Pete Campbell is a rapist. I've heard some people say that Mad Men is a show about nuance, shades of grey, and therefore Pete Campbell Cannot Be A Rapist. (As if there was no such thing as a rapist in serious, well-developed drama.) I think these people are doing a very superficial read of Mad Men. I don't think the writer or director of this episode was the least bit confused. The au pair is slightly afraid of Pete throughout. She doesn't want him in the apartment. She recoils when he kisses her. That she submits, ultimately, is irrelevant to the question of whether Pete rapes her. She didn't want to sleep with him; she made it clear; he didn't care. He wanted to have sex, and she was there, and she owed him, in his mind. So he raped her. End of story.
Pete Campbell is a rapist. What Mad Men is being subtle about, when it shows us an episode in which a character rapes someone for no reason better than boredom, is the fact rape doesn't just happen in alleys. It doesn't just come from total strangers who leap from bushes. It doesn't involve kicking and screaming and clawing his eyeballs out, because that would only get you in even more trouble.
Other than Jon, by and large, I have never been much of a watcher of late-night TV. This is no doubt a function of my demographic. I'm too young - I grew up post-Carson. I'm also entirely too cynical to enjoy most celebrity interviews, because much of the time I'm thinking, "It's really bizarre that Kirsten Dunst is this inarticulate," or, "Why hasn't Jared Leto showered?" There are too many books in the world to read, too many blogs to surf, too much sleep to be gotten for me to watch these people night after night, even in the age of the DVR. And I've written in this space before about my suspicion that there isn't any grand standard of comedy anymore, and it seems to me like the non-Comedy-Central contingent of these shows still seem to harbour delusions on that score, of being the Great American Comedian, and so I just kind of tune them out.
So when this hullabaloo about David Letterman getting his pecker in his payroll started to kick up on Friday, readers, I yawned. Having spewed venom all week over Roman Polanski and his defenders (Pedro, why, why??!!!), I was worn out. Besides which, other than the extortion part, there seemed very little scandal in this scandal; the ladies involved were of age, and none appeared to be claiming coercion. I'm not wild about professional men viewing nubile young women in the workplace as their rightful spoils, but I've been in enough exhausting conversations with male friends about such situations ("why do you want to Stand In the Way of Love?") to know better than to spend much time arguing with them about it. I suppose Regina Lasko, Letterman's longtime girlfriend, feels somewhat differently about it, but I can't see how I or anyone else can be of use to her if we take to the soapbox to pontificate at length about just what a horndog she's married.
The fourth season of Dexter premiered this Sunday, and I was rather more excited about it than I would like to admit. I started watching back in the day because it was Michael C. Hall, and I was a Six Feet Under fan from waaaaayyy back, and I made it my business to ensure that the wonderful actors of that show continued to be employed for the forseeable future. As it turns out, Dexter was about as different a role from David Fisher as one could hope for, and I still loved Hall anyway. And then Dexter turned out to have a fallible narrator, which is a favorite literary device of mine. And then, also, it turned out to be bloody. And it had Julie Benz (Darla from Buffy and Angel)! Also there were Latino actors who were not total background characters! I've been hooked ever since. It's camp, and camp can be thoroughly enjoyable when it's as well-written and acted as Dexter is.
But that aside, I tend to have a lot of difficulty justifying my love of Dexter to myself in feminist terms. The macabre is not terribly woman-friendly, after all. Horror movies tends to feed on the startling contrast between blood and really hot blonde chicks, and there's more titillation in it (pun intended), one supposes, than anyone would like to admit. I don't know what makes us morbid; I do notice, though, that the ratio of men to women of my acquaintance who hate horror, and don't like "dark" themes in their arts and entertainment, is roughly 1:1. So perhaps it's an experience that's less gendered than I might otherwise be inclined to say.
Here's my transparent attempt to segue into an untimely essay about Lost (which won't premiere until January but my guestblogging stint ends next week): the promos for Flashforward were so ubiquitous - I first remember seeing one after the Lost finale in May - that I found myself watching it Thursday night with a sense of obligation rather than pleasure. It was, in fact, so terrible that I turned it off after fifteen minutes of wordy expository dialogue that leapfrogged over any compelling sense of dramatic tension the show might have possessed. Which is funny, because this is the show that's supposed to replace Lost for us, when Lost airs its final episode this spring. And yet, Flashforward is thus almost the mirror opposite of Lost. Lost's watchwords are mystify, obfuscate, contradict. Flashforward's are explain, tell, lecture. And so, other than observing to yourself how much Joseph Fiennes is, as he ages, resembling Ralph ever more, particularly in profile... well, there's very little to get interested or invested in in Flashforward. (Oh, and spotting the Oceanic Airlines billboard.)
In fact the only thing that Flashforward and Lost really have in common is that they both belong to this new generation of mainstream fantasy/science fiction - the kind that has better production values than Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica combined - that has finally made its way into network television in primetime slots. These shows have come up with the mainstreaming of ComicCon and the sudden retroactive chic of comic book culture, which, it seems to me, started emerging around the time Michael Chabon's Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay came out. It's not that we haven't had sci-fi and fantasy in primetime before; it's just that these shows aspire to a sort of network television legitimacy we haven't seen before. They don't just want to be invited to the Emmys; they expect to receive one. And actually, we, the audience, tend to expect that too, on their behalf. And being an obsessive reader of, say, Lostpedia, just doesn't have that stigma attached to Trekkieism, does it? The mainstreaming of fantasy may be good for formerly underdog geek culture, and certainly it seems some people have felt their inner nerd liberated by the trend. But it is still very much the kind of thing that plays out with men, among men, by men and about men. I'm not trying to be dismissive here; I can see that writers of this genre are struggling to find a place for women within it. But they haven't made much headway.
I'll admit that I only really tuned into Eastwick out of a sense of national duty - Paul Gross, like me, is Canadian, and I feel he is owed some serious cash for his talents, wasted though they might be on American network television. (Canadian television has no such riches on offer.) Gross was always a tall drink of water of an actor (he may be known to you as a Mountie), and yet he has what I would call a genuine edge, with a wonderful sense of humor, and there's something about him that for me just feels like home. So whatever he's in, I watch, and so, I watched Eastwick.
To give you an idea of what kind of objections the mere presence of Paul Gross can overcome for me, Eastwick is a loose adaptation of a movie that was a loose adaptation of a John Updike novel. And Updike, regardless of the adulation he sparks in male undergraduate English majors everywhere, hated women. There's really no way to say that gently. He just did. To wit, Eastwick (like the novel itself) is about three outcast women who are brought together by - who else - a dark, mysterious man who understands these women better than they do themselves. The women are, ostensibly, witches, in the sense that they have various powers available to them. These powers are nonetheless heavily rooted in what Updike understands as the bewitching nature of female sexuality - their ability to control men, to make men do as they want. In fact, in the novel, Gross' character, Darryl Van Horne, is the women's own conjuring of the perfect man - and which, apparently, they envision in more or less pure sexual terms.


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Early sunday morning bird concert in a natural forest north of Cologne, Germany, shortly before sunrise. At the end of the recording a chaffinch (fringilla coelebs) singing close to the mic. Vivanco EM35 with preamp into Marantz PMD 671.
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2013-01-24 04:31:46
fuyukikun wrote:
agreed with fazaaa guys...nando u need to pour more emotion in it so the song is more alive, and ceci i like your usual style, always energectic #60
2013-01-24 04:19:13
Fazaa wrote:
ok i'm going to tell you what i really felt ! :ashonestlyasican: both voices are great and this song suits to both ! and both did a nice job so there is no doubt that i reallllllyyyy like this rec ! sync is very good but your volume accordance is not matched as much as it could be ! (ceci's voice is a little lower than nando's) ! and sth especially to Nando : you voice is amazing , but sometimes i feel you doesnt have the enough emotions on the song , for example this song is a full of energy song , and u did d a nice job , but you could start the song with a more energetic start anyway the whole of song is good i meant more about the beginning ! and especial to Maaaa : just can say Eshgh
2013-01-24 04:11:49
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Good job for the both of you.
2013-01-24 02:42:39
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This is so great guys!!! Congrats, Nando u'r voice sound so good on this rec, I like it, Ceci!!!! Ohhh Cecii!!!!!!!!!.... AWESOME GUYS!!!!
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