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When bases, bleachers, dugouts and roads were carried away from Couples Club Recreation Field in Waitsfield during flooding from Tropical Storm Irene, Mad River Valley Little League lost its playing space.
After the flood, Couples Club member Mike Kingsbury met with Little League organizer Logan Cooke to discuss plans for repairing the field, which was covered in a layer of silt a couple of feet deep.
Although the field had been "an icon and home to many baseball players over the years," Cooke said, "we were in a tough spot." He and Kingsbury knew that there wasn't a lot of time to repair the fields before the upcoming season, but at the same time, "we didn't want to try to take away volunteer hours from people who had lost so much more than a baseball field," he said.
Kingsbury decided not to repair the field right away, allowing volunteers to instead focus on helping neighbors get back into their homes and businesses back up and running in the weeks immediately following the flood.
After a couple of months, Couples Club and Little League decided to fix the smallest of their three fields quickly, for immediate use, while they took their time to restore the two larger fields more fully.
"Our goal was to make one field playable by spring," Mike's wife Lynne Kingsbury said. With the help of volunteers and donations, the Kingsburys were able to completely excavate and reseed the field, bringing it back up to playing condition. "We're delighted to see the grass begin to grow," Lynne said.
At the same time, however, Mad River Valley Little League explored other field options in the area, including using fields at the elementary schools in Warren and Moretown, but both fields needed a lot of work before they could be played on. With the help of more volunteers and donations, the Little League was able to fully restore Brooks Field in Warren, and it's still working on the field in Moretown.
For the first time in 40 years, Mad River Valley Little League held its opening day last year at Brooks Field in Warren instead of Couples Club Field, but, according to Cooke, the event was still a "huge success." So now, a year after the flood, Little League has not one but three almost fully restored playing spaces.


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BOONE, N.C. --- Nakevion Leslie's (Powder Springs, Ga.) 28-yard interception return for touchdown lifted Chattanooga (7-2/5-1) to a 35-28 win at Appalachian State (2-7/2-4). The triumph propels the Mocs into first place in the Southern Conference, a half-game lead over Wofford and Samford at 4-1.
Leslie was quick to credit his teammates, Keionta Davis (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Wes Dothard (Carrollton, Ga.) on the pivotal play.
"I followed the quarterback's eyes as he (Davis) got the pressure, the ball came out a little low," Leslie stated. "I was able to catch the ball and get into the end zone behind a great block from Wes (Dothard)."
It was a fight to the end for the Mocs defense. Battered and bruised, UTC was up to the task.
App State took over on its own 14 on the ensuing drive and immediately began to move the ball. Quarterback Kameron Bryant found Simms McElfresh for 14 yards on first down. Marcus Cox ran for 20 yards to the App 48.
An incompletion was followed by Bryant connections of eight, 13, 14 and six yards. Cox got the ball to the Chattanooga nine and two yards were needed for a first down with a mere 53 seconds to play.
The Mocs held strong for their second red zone stop of the game as Bryant could not find an open receiver on third or fourth down. Jacob Huesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.) took a knee twice to run out the final 44 ticks for the program's first win in Boone in 30 years (1983).
"This is the best win I've ever been involved with in my life," Head Coach Russ Huesman said. "Our guys have some guts about them. They're special. They're winners. They just know how to win, and I am so proud of them."
The younger Huesman was fantastic on the day. He ran for 132 yards and a touchdown while throwing for two more on 13 of 19 passing for 127 yards. He linked with seven different receivers as Faysal Shafaat (Orlando, Fla.) and Terrell Robinson (South Pittsburg, Tenn.) led the way with three each.
Cox was the star for the Mountaineers. He ran 29 times for 158 yards and three touchdowns. Bryant threw for 257 yards and a score hitting on 26 of 36 attempts.
Two special teams plays were key to the Mocs win, both fake kicks. The first came early in the second quarter as the elder Huesman gambled. The squad was set for a 24-yard field goal attempt, but kicker Nick Pollard (Nashville, Tenn.) motioned left and holder Jacob Huesman took the snap straight up the middle. He bulled his way in for the seven-yard score.
The latter came early in the fourth quarter. With the fake punt called, Pollard took a high snap around the right end 17 yards on fourth and three to the 50. Two plays later Huesman found Robinson down the right sideline for 31 yards to tie the game at 21-all.
"Before the game, I told the defense that we were going to fake a field goal, fake a punt and probably have an onside kick before it's all said and done," Coach Huesman added. "I told them the only reason we could try it is because I believe in our defense.
"Fortunately, they both worked out."
Huesman's second scoring strike came on the next Mocs possession. He found Shafaat for a first down at the App 29. On the ensuing play, Huesman hit Xavier Borishade (Kennesaw, Ga.) on the left sideline. His catch-and-run for the 29-yard score gave Chattanooga its first lead 28-21 with 9:04 to play.
App answered on its next drive. Bobo Beathard's 44-yard kickoff return gave his team prime field position on the Mocs 49. Bryant found Tony Washington in the back end of the end zone from 20 yards out to tie it setting up Leslie's heroics.
The defensive effort was special. Kadeem Wise (Lawrenceville, Ga.) led the charge with a career-high 14 tackles, while Dothard added another 10. Injuries to linebackers Gunner Miller (Chattanooga, Tenn.) and Muhasibi Wakeel (Decatur, Ga.) gave Leslie, a redshirt freshman, his chance to shine in the end.
The Mocs return home next Saturday for the regular season home finale against Wofford. Kickoff is at 2 p.m., and it is the SoCon Saturday ESPN3 contest. Links to live video, audio and stats are available at GoMocs.com and fans can follow on twitter (@GoMocsFB) for news, stats and notes.
It is Military Appreciation Day. All military personnel, veterans and families are admitted free. Chattanooga will also honor its seniors in their final regular season contest at Finley Stadium.
Play - Quarter/Time/Score
APP – Marcus Cox 4 yard Rush (Drew Stewart Kick) - 1/9:43/0-7
Drive: 9 plays, 90 yards, 3:23
Key Play(s): 2/2/V26 – Cox up the middle for 22 yards
UTC – Jacob Huesman 7 yard Rush (Nick Pollard Kick) - 2/11:51/7-7
Drive: 15 plays, 58 yards, 5:46
Key Play(s): 3/5/H17 – Huesman hits Faysal Shafaat for 9 yards. Score came on fake field goal attempt.
APP – Cox 1 yard Rush (Stewart Kick) - 2/1:32/7-14
Drive: 10 plays, 58 yards, 3:56
Key Play(s): 3/7/V42 – Kameron Bryant 13 yards to Malachi Jones
UTC – Derrick Craine 1 yard Rush (Pollard Kick) - 3/8:42/14-14
Drive: 11 plays, 75 yards, 4:01
Key Play(s): 1/10/V25 – Huesman runs right for 43 yards on 1st play of drive
APP – Cox 1 yard Rush (Stewart Kick) - 3/5:16/14-21
Drive: 11 plays, 68 yards, 3:26
Key Play(s): 3/9/H33 – Bryant to Simms McElfresh for 13 yards
UTC – Terrell Robinson 31 yard pass from Huesman (Pollard Kick) - 4/12:49/21-21
Drive: 7 plays, 85 yards, 2:41
Key Play(s): 4/3/V33 – Nick Pollard runs 17 yards after high snap on punt, 15-yard late hit penalty on App
UTC – Xavier Borishade 29 yard pass from Huesman (Pollard Kick) - 4/9:04/28-21
Drive: 5 plays, 55 yards, 2:07
Key Play(s): 2/10/V45 – Huesman finds Faysal Shafaat for 15-yard reception
APP – Tony Washington 20 yard pass from Kameron Bryant (Stewart Kick) - 4/7:07/28-28
Drive: 5 plays, 49 yards, 1:48
Key Play(s): 3/4/V43 – Bryant scampers 5 yards
UTC – Nakevion Leslie 28 yard Interception Return (Pollard Kick) - 4/2:52/35-28
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Doña Ana County Commissioner Carlos E. Garza, who represents District 1, was notified today that a three-month investigation into his travel reimbursements has been completed by the New Mexico State Police.
Len Caudle has been hired by Doña Ana County Manager David R. King to take the reins of the county's Human Resources Department.
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I don't think the avg. street thug trains in Enshin.
I don't just go for ear slaps or eye gouges straight off, I work them into my Silat SD drills.
If you go to sucker punch me I block and step offline and forward in one movement and as I block your punch and pass you I look for closest target.
I understand all the phrases you used here but what you're saying with certainty is not something that can be done with certainty after a few months.
If that's your ear great, eye great, throat sure. I wouldn't discriminate I improvise as best as I can.
Also, you may want to try boxing for a few months to see the uphill battle of hitting tiny targets like the eye or ear. You'll probably find in sparring, when the other guy can move and hit you, that larger targets like the head, jaw, breadbasket etc are hard enough to hit consistently, without trying to aim at little quarter sized ones. You may also find that a boxer or untrained person under stress will tuck their chin and raise their shoulders, which will make the throat and sides of neck harder to hit and position the head in such a way that it withstands forward force much better than when the head is up and relaxed.
All I care about is ending the attack as quickly as possible.
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I very rarely come out of lurking to post, but you have baited me out. As for advice, I recommend that you decide if you will stay at your current school or not. If you do not like it, move along, don't take up other peoples time with questions and second guessing. Vote with your feet and your dollar, not inane speculation . That part is up to you. But if you do choose to stay, with three whole months of training and a lot of misconceptions about SD, I would pipe down and learn what the guy is teaching. You are at a place where your opinions on techniques are not valid in any art. All of this holds true no matter where or what you train.
Also, don't get hung up on fighting for SD IMO. If you are that worried about it get a gun, knife, or move to the top of a mountain away from the "thugs". Learn an art for the physical and mental challenge, not out of fear of getting beaten up. Enjoy your practice. If you do it this way you will find that you are indeed more confident and physically able to defend yourself should the need arise. At the end of the day martial arts are about beating people up, don't go off the deep end on gouges and nut rakes. They are not magic, and I have been gouged and kicked in the balls tons during rolling and just continued on. Do not build you training around these dirty techs, they will fail you.
And finally, don't look at another Youtube video until you have a basic understanding of what ever art you choose.Either they are useless and fake demos, or you do not have the ability to pick up the technique from them because you do not see the whole picture. I have studied Bjj for four years, and Youtube videos were useless to me until at least 1.5 to 2 years in. I did not understand the whole purpose of the moves shown or their use until I had enough experience to break the move down my self while watching. You are not getting ahead of the curve by watching these. I love nothing more than when we get a Youtube grappler that shows up and thinks he knows more than people with mat time. They usually have a lot of questions during tech demos, followed by why they do it some way or another. Then as soon as we start to roll they have a very bad night. They all seem shocked that Youtube wrasslen in their buddies basement didn't work out how they pictured in a real class. Please do not be that guy. Show up and learn.
In short find an art you like and train hard, spar, and learn. I wish you the best of luck, just remember to STFU and listen. It saves you a lot of pain down the road.


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Monday, November 7, 2011
I Don't Hate Pets: A Polemic
I don't hate pet owners. But I think we too easily slip into treating other animals as means toward our own entertainment and emotional fulfillment. And I hate the culture of pet ownership that encourages us to do this without thinking.
We pay lip service to the needs of pets (we walk them, take them to the vet, pay exorbitantly for their upkeep). But not when it really matters. When our needs come head to head with theirs, who inevitably wins?
Instead of engaging them on their terms, we force animals to fit of the gaps in our lives. Like a bonsai kitty, pressed into a mold for heart-shaped sushi. Collared and neutered and declawed and debarked. In modern cities that are ill-suited for the expression of intrinsic dog-ness and cat-ness.
We can't seem to appreciate nature by simple acknowledgement. We have to go there. We have to own it. We have to own it on our own terms so it's clean and convenient and lives and dies at our behest.
But we're not honoring nature by owning pets. We're choosing one life at the expense of another. We're choosing pets above fellow humans. We spend more on pets in a year than the Gates Foundation has during its entire existence to eradicate poverty and disease.
Raising animals after our own image furthers their extinction in the wild. The more grandiose among us poach parrots and lemurs. More insidiously, we marvel when our children catch turtles and frogs. Taking them home to slowly starve and desiccate. Our cats and dogs make a sport of exterminating local fauna.
Pets are not animals. They are our children who cannot speak and cannot grow up. Upon whom we can freely project our prejudices and gripes and emotional needs without being questioned. This is not what an animal should be.
People are cruel and neglectful and exploitative of other people too. But we can walk away. We can fight back. Our real children will inevitably learn to speak and think for themselves, which compels us to shield them from the worst of ourselves. Pets are children with no rights.
Do I believe that they should have all the rights of human beings? Should Spot be able to sue Bobby for emotional damage? I'm not that crazy.
I surely don't believe that we can or should put all pet owners under surveillance to make sure they treat their animals with respect and humanity. And despite my lingering idealism, I can't envision any awareness campaign that could change our attitudes enough to make pet ownership feel ok to me in this lifetime.
We haven't gotten there with people yet. Peter Singer's "circle of empathy" has a long way to go.
So in the absence of sufficient understanding, respect, and human kindness, and without resorting to outlandish Big Brotherhood, I'm left with only one choice. I have to reject the idea of pet ownership as an ethically tenable, societywide activity.
Organizations like PETA feebly succor the symptom but feed the disease. Instead of those horrible animal shelter commercials starring Sarah McLachlan and Youtube videos of cute cat tricks, I'd be willing to support any measure that makes pet ownership less appealing.
The best way we can love animals is to stay away from them. Please. Help me spread the word.
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I agree with much of this, especially on balance. Little critters like hamster and fish can't be happy stuffed into containers (hamsters walk 7 miles a day in the wild). Pets are abused, neglected. But many are well-cared for and live much longer than they'd live in the wild (not that many of them could live in the wild considering centuries of breeding human-pleasing traits and personalities). Wild animals life rough lives, often far rougher than those of mistreated domestic ones; the comparison obviously isn't to an idyllic life, but simply to a natural one.
- November 7, 2011 at 11:48 AM
- Jialan Wang said...
Thanks for your comment!
It gets into the idea that we express much of our love for animals by trying to rescue them and save them from suffering, as we imagine we would want for ourselves.
This really gets into a deeper question of whether a human-like existence is itself a moral virtue. Is it immoral of us to permit suffering in the natural world? I argue that it isn't.
Nature is neither moral nor immoral. Furthermore, it's not possible to rescue one species without starving another, because nature is interconnected. Prey wouldn't exist, and would quickly perish themselves without predators. Human sentimentality is simply incompatable with ecological balance, so I think our instincts to rescue are understandable but misguided.
By choosing one species over another, we're not reducing total suffering. We're just choosing which animals suffer to suit our own needs.
But it IS immoral for us to use animals as a means to our own end. So arguments that dogs and cats wouldn't exist without us, or that their lives are much better with us than in the wild, are no justification for pet ownership. The latter contention is also both debatable and unconfirmable since animals cannot speak and are unable to consent.
Thus, the only moral stance is to leave nature alone, which preserves the dignity of nonhuman species.
- November 7, 2011 at 5:42 PM
Yes, I still agree with your conclusion, and am surprised and heartened that people ponder these topics so.
If I may nit-pick one thing (b/c it seems like that's how you roll), it would be including pets in the "zero-sum ecosystem" -- yes, which I know was in response to my bringing up suffering domestically vs. in the wild (sorry) -- b/c we're not harvesting our pets from the woods. Nearly all pets are now propagated w/in the bounds of humanity, very much like plants you'd find at a nursery. That's an issue itself, of course.
So, yes, suffering is an essential part of nature, even if modern pets aren't.
Our relationship with and use of animals is bad, if not horrible, in most instances, and at best neutral in others. It's "positive" when we're lessening the degree of pre-existing human-caused suffering, perhaps such as saving a shelter animal or giving up factory-farmed meat.
That said, try playing fetch with a dog sometime... you really will brighten his day :)
- November 7, 2011 at 10:26 PM
- Jialan Wang said...
Dear James,
I think we're generally agreed on all points. My point is that we should consider the entire world when considering whether we're benefiting animals overall when keeping pets, not that pets are taken directly from the wild.
In this tradeoff, I emphasize that we're biased toward focusing on what's in front of us (our happy and clean pets), and forget about what we can't see (the habitats destroyed to make way for Purina factories).
The fact is that a human-like lifestyle is incredibly destructive to nature. By making ourselves and our pets more comfortable, we're extinguishing wildlife. In order for Spot to have a yard to run in, a small piece of forest had to die. In order for Spot to be flea-free, chemical factories have to be built and pollutants leach into the water. Etc etc.
It's not an easy choice to face, but I think we have to confront these costs and not pretend that we're doing an unmitigated good by raising pets.
- November 8, 2011 at 7:39 AM
And please keep up the blog; this stuff is great. The topics and analyses alike are fun to ponder. I'm a shade less militant on some things :-), but appreciate what you do.
I think you've summed up humanity in your comment; we take here-and-now stimuli and run them through heuristics and emotional filters to make decisions. We can't change that, but by circulating more and better info about "stuff," we can improve the inputs (and, hence, the decisions). Maybe I'm jaded.
Thanks again.
- November 9, 2011 at 8:57 PM
- donnacooks said...
I agree with you that owning domestic pets for no working reason is a terrible trend. There is, however, a need for working animals (dogs herding sheep, seeing-eye dogs, drug-sniffing dogs, etc). Unfortunately our idolization of dogs being man's best friend because of their amazing abilities perpetuates the trend and cause problems like animal overpopulation. Then comes that horrible dilemma: do you rescue those shelter animals and have them live a "modified" existence or exterminate them?
However, now that I have a dog, I have to say that it is amazing the psychological effect pet ownership has on people. There have been studies on the emotional benefits of having domestic animals (again, a human benefit, not an animal benefit).
Lastly, in an industrialized society where we don't have the need for manpower for pure labor, is having children (or at least more than 2 children) considered selfish? Particularly in densely populated places? It's hard to argue the need for a larger population. This is a much more emotional debate.
- November 10, 2011 at 1:31 PM
- Jialan Wang said...
Hi Donna!
I think that if we're honest, using any other sentient animal instrumentally is wrong. That includes work animals, or having children as a means for personal fulfillment.
I'm sympathetic to the idea that we're not robots and we have emotional needs. What I struggle with is that technology magnifies our selfish impulses to such an extreme.
Because it costs so little to us, we can breed millions of puppies for brief moments of joy and then abandon them. We not only have to have kids, but burn unsustainable amounts of energy to give them the tiniest benefit.
Our emotional impulses never used to inflict so much damage. But now that we have the technology to give dogs chemotherapy and drive kids to soccer practice, of course we'll use it.
Ethics is more important than ever because we have the power to do so much more harm (and good), but our emotions (and hence actions) haven't caught up to our technology.
So I think we need to be extra conservative about our actions. When there's a dilemma, err on the side of fewer pets and fewer children.
- November 10, 2011 at 2:04 PM
Frankly, I take issue with your first statement: "...many of us who think we love animals...mainly love the way animals make us feel." The same can be said of any manifestation of 'love'.
Do I 'love' my girlfriend, or do I 'love' the way she makes me feel when I look at her, spend time with her, care for her? Is there a difference? I don't believe this is nearly as separable as you seem to think it is; at the very least, it is more of a spectrum of attachment.
Our entire experience of reality is based on our feelings--the biological impulses that make me feel good around my mate, my children, my friends, my pets, it's all the same chemicals (see, e.g., oxytocin), and it's all connected to what we choose to call 'love'.
- November 10, 2011 at 3:14 PM
- donnacooks said...
I can see the logic in most of your argument, but I can't agree with the broad statement that using a sentient animal for instrumental reasons is ethically wrong. Historically, animals have been an important part of transportation (horses), agricultural labor (mules), and other needs. In the modern world, having a working dog for guidance or simple retrieval tasks greatly improves the independence of the visually or physically disadvantaged. Maybe it's because my bus route is heavily used by those attending The Texas School for the Blind and I am exposed to this constantly, but I don't see this type of work as abuse for the dogs. As pack animals, dogs generally respond positively to having routine and companionship. Also, as this documentary on PBS about companion dogs for the disadvantaged points out (http://www.pbs.org/dogs-eyes/), dogs only exist because of humans, they are domesticated wolves bred for specific tasks. For this reason, they are very good at those tasks they are bred for and are able to form closer relationships to humans than gerbils, birds, or any other animal not "created" by man. I think the benefits of confidence and independence working dogs bring to the disadvantaged community greatly outweighs any issues of whether working is fair to the dog.
On the other hand, nonworking pet dogs are a simple indulgence for people. Much like eating meat, it's probably unnecessary.
- November 10, 2011 at 3:21 PM
Also, I believe dogs are a special issue here, because the fact of the matter is that dogs would not exist without humans. They are not 'natural', and the vast majority of them cannot survive on their own, in 'nature'. We created them, and there is evidence that they simultaneously created us.
The dog-human relationship is thus either a purely utilitarian one (if one looks at dogs as a biological tool that we have shaped to our needs, both physical and psychological), or a symbiotic one (if you choose the more 'holistic' view that we shaped each other, in human/dog 'packs').
This is, of course, a separate issue from BS like puppy mills and the like. Whatever their relationship with their pets, many owners are ridiculously irresponsible (both wrt to their pets, and in their lives in general). I question some people's competence as far as riding a bicycle to the corner store, much less driving, owning pets, or having children.
- November 10, 2011 at 3:24 PM
Giving a pet a great life is harder than it seems. But it's possible for some types of cats and dogs (both species largely self-domesticated anyway).
The harder issue is the difficulty of all-in decision making.
a) Everybody *knows* that he/she is going to be the ideal, responsible pet owner, and definitely not like that abusive jerk across the street or the lady who's never home to walk her dog. But most people are worse than they think.
b) If you could quantify all the "magic moments" pets/owners enjoy, would they justify not the collateral suffering? Maybe. But what about the resources? I don't think it's a black-and-white answer... some pets in some places certainly do.. guide dogs do.. guard dogs do.
c) Speaking of resources, what about veterinary medicine specifically? It's a HUGE industry. Doggie MRIs, doggie chemo. But low-cost veterinary treatments are used in third-world countries to help kids, b/c the medicine is affordable (if subject to lower safety standards), presumably thanks to first-world consumers. Doomsday survivalist types also dig veterinary medicine, and they're pretty interesting.
- November 10, 2011 at 5:20 PM
On second thought, probably not guard dogs, based on my limited understanding of their profession. W/o saying "always," I agree that we should use creatures too liberally.
But it's less for utilitarian purposes and more for companionship/accessorizing/other purposes.
Still, the fact that our society has evolved (and prospered) to the point that we're having this discussion is a big positive.
- November 10, 2011 at 5:55 PM
"shouldn't" .. and meant "increasingly less"... sorry
Long day.
- November 10, 2011 at 5:58 PM
Don't know if you're still reading/responding to this, but I read your comments, and have more thoughts...
By choosing one species over another, we're not reducing total suffering. We're just choosing which animals suffer to suit our own needs.
...and? If nature is amoral, it does not care. If, as you say, it is a zero-sum game, and we can/do not reduce total suffering, what's the problem if I decide that my dog will be the one to come out on top, over some other Imaginary Conflicting Forest Creature (ICFC)?
But it IS immoral for us to use animals as a means to our own end.
...debatable and unconfirmable since animals cannot speak and are unable to consent.
...Your argument contains a conflict that I've seen in others. You claim it is 'immoral' for us to use animals, and yet posit that they cannot communicate nor consent. If animals are so 'dumb' as to be speechless and have no valid opinion as to their own place in the world, then why does morality even come into play?
If neither my dog, nor the ICFC that my dog takes resources from can communicate, consent, or hold any opinion on any of this ('amoral') then why is it immoral for me to use them as I please?
If, on the other hand, my dog does communicate, and has made it clear that she prefers her current life to the one where she was wandering through the woods of WV, 20 lbs underweight, then I have no problem with supporting her over ICFC. However, I can (and do) try to live responsibly, shaping our lives such that we conflict as little as possible with the life of ICFC. Just because I prefer the critter I know doesn't mean I want to curbstomp the critters I don't.
What gives me the right to make these choices? Well, I guess being human, and the fact that humans are currently in control of the high-level parts of the world. We may not like the idea of 'might makes right', but in this case it is the truth.
Thus, the only moral stance is to leave nature alone, which preserves the dignity of nonhuman species.
Your view on animals seems to be that they are mindless automatons, painted onto the scenic canvas of 'Nature'. Works of art that we should leave alone so as to not besmirch their pristine 'dignity'.
Humanity would not have come to power without using animals and shaping nature to its own ends. At this point in history, there is no such thing as pristine nature, our very presence on this world has by now touched everything in at least small ways, and usually enormous ways. I agree that nature is amoral, but then nature itself doesn't care about its 'dignity'. It just is. It also doesn't care if it is wiped out.
I agree with your general principle that 'less is good'. It's something we have to come to terms with if we're going to survive: consume less, have fewer children, etc. Nature may not care if it gets wiped out, but we do. Without it, we will probably die too, but beyond that, we can have an aesthetic, emotional, sentimental appreciation for Nature that it does not have for itself.
This does not mean that having pets is immoral, or goes against the greater good, it just means that, as with everything else, humanity as a whole and humans on an individual level need to learn to be more responsible. It is not pet ownership that is immoral, it is the 'pet industry', with its overpopulation, overproduction, abuse, and abandonment, and irresponsible people who support said industry and do not lead responsible lives in general.
- November 16, 2011 at 12:43 AM
- Jialan Wang said...
Dear Wibble et al - Thanks for your comments!
I may not touch on every point you've raised, but here are some thoughts.
1) My moral views have been influenced a lot by Kant, who states that we should "So act as to treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end in itself, never as means only." In fact, I've just checked out several philsophy books to delve back into these ideas that have so shaped my life :-)
Contrary to treating animals as mindless automatons, it's my respect for their dignity as autonomous beings that makes me think it's wrong to use them *purely* as a means toward our own enjoyment. That doesn't mean we can't enjoy animals, we just should not use them ONLY for our own enjoyment.
We can love other people, but Kant says we shouldn't USE them only because of the pleasure they provide to us. Instead, in a relationship based on respect we feel pleasure only THROUGH their own expression of themselves. Treating another person - or as I argue, any other animal with emotional capacity - as a means to an end is tantamount to disregarding their selfhood and treating them as a thing. It's also a violation of the golden rule (treat others as one would like others to treat oneself), since WE wouldn't want to be used as a means to an end.
I agree that our modern understanding of emotion makes distinguishing means from ends tricky, but in principle I still agree with Kant.
2) I don't think the fact that domestic animals wouldn't exist without human intervention excuses our use of them as a means to an end. Our children also wouldn't exist without us, but it's wrong to use them for our own fulfillment. In the past, slaveowners also used the same argument. Past wrongs do not excuse their perpetuation.
3) Nature IS amoral. Which means that I don't think we can fault a lion for killing gazelle, etc. But humans ARE capable of moral choice. So by purposely choosing to bring an animal into the world, using it as a means to an end, all the while destroying the lives of even more animals, we are morally culpable. If we have any moral capacity at all, then clearly it can be immoral for us to do something that nature does all the time.
I can boil down my entire argument into the following: just because we can do something doesn't mean we should.
I think it's extremely human to favor those who are emotionally close to us over those we can't see. This applies not only to pet favortism, but human favortism. Most of us believe that all human lives have equal worth, but we don't act like it. A larger problem weighing on my mind is that current technology gives us tremendous power to affect the lives of people (and animals) we will never see, in both glorious and terrifying ways.
And the problem is that it's not a one-to-one swap. If it's just your dog vs. one wild animal somewhere else, arguably that would be value neutral. But in reality, it's one dog versus hundreds or thousands of other animals.
There's a growing gap between our natural emotional impulses and our power to impact the world. So I think we have to learn to somehow sympathize with the abstract lives we impact but will never touch. We fail to do so only at our own peril (because after all, WE are also the abstract lives affect by OTHER people's actions!).
- November 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- Jialan Wang said...
4) I might seem like I have an extremely absolutist view. That I couldn't tolerate the use of dogs being as companions for the disabled under the most humane possible conditions.
In the grand scheme of things, I'm not out to outlaw pet ownership or all uses of animals. But I want us to ask ourselves - are we treating animals as things, imposing our own needs on them and forcing them to suit our needs without respect for their animal-ness and autonomy? Is there a way to accomplish the same goal without using animals, or are we being lazy about doing whatever is easiest? Do we favor ourselves and our pets to the determinent of other animals?
Taking my arguments to their logical conclusion, there IS a conflict between morality and nature. We feel morally and emotionally driven to improve the lives around us, and to ease even the tiniest suffering. But I argue that we and our pets already have a great deal, and have taken more than our fair share from nature to get it. We cannot "save" all animals from death and suffering, and at a certain point the marginal benefit of helping one creature is vastly outweighted by the destruction of manyfold more others. I think we've long ago passed that point. Even the disabled and elderly in our society enjoy tremendous benefits, so I think it's wrong to morally violate another animal just to give humans even more than we already have. We should help them in any way we can, but first we must not harm.
I think society is becoming more sensitive and empathetic toward the environment and other animals. But sadly, our gradually growing sense of responsibility is overwhelmed by our exponentiating power for destruction. Our wealth and technology make it too easy to do things without thinking through their consequences. And in truth, it's hard for us even to grasp how to make a tradeoff between a fancier dog food that might take more energy and resources to produce, making our dog's coat imperceptibly shinier, versus the unseen costs its production might exact on nature.
Of course it's human and natural then, to be tempted to just do things that benefit us and our immediate animal companions, even if the benefit is tiny or nonexistent. This is exactly the logic that leads us to climate change and the stomach-turning, under-reported mass extinction that's going on right now.
I'm driven to write about these ideas because we can't help but take things too far. Because our actions now have extreme consequences, I feel compelled to counter with an extreme stance.
- November 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- MarkB57 said...
I do so love your intent (i. e. building positive sustainability) in all your entries, Jialan. I fear your approach in most of them. That is: punishing yourself for complicit participation, pointing out the global negative consequences of status quo behaviors. To follow that point to its logical conclusion means anticipating not just a filthy environment, but also the extinction of life as we know it. Help find paradigm-changing extreme green solutions and promote the habits that will integrate green lifestyles into human culture. For your past and present and future actions to that end I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
- January 22, 2012 at 1:30 PM
- Jialan Wang said...
Dear Mark,
Thanks for your comment and interest! This is a question I've been grappling with for a while now - how can I live by my principles while also engaging with those around me (who may feel less adamant about personal responsibility toward the greater good)?
What many philosophies teach us is that achieving satisfaction and peace in life is about seeing beauty and meaning in the small things that the world already offers us, instead of forever reaching for personal gain.
While these philosophies are supposed to lead us toward balance and happiness, humility can become dysfunctional in a society based on individualism, achievement, and market economics.
Based on ideas from philosophers like Kant, Singer, and Rawls, I seek to identify with the worst-off in society. To ask - if they can live with less, why can't I? If I can help someone by giving up some superfluous consumption, aren't I obliged to do so?
Objectively, I think it's altogether sane and reasonable to give up steaks and international travel for the sake of the greater good. It's the least I can do, and I'll still live a great life.
But identification with the worst-off puts me at odds with social norms. And as you say - prevents me from engaging with the greater society that sees these sacrifices as unreasonable and extreme.
I don't know how to square this circle, but I'm experimenting. What I can say is that we live in a time of gross inequality, that deranges the rich as much as it tyrannizes the poor.
- January 22, 2012 at 5:23 PM
I'm so glad to see I'm not the only person who considers this. I guess the real question is how to get other people on board. Even on this page there are a couple people having knee-jerk emotional reactions to the idea because they're personally invested in the idea of pet ownership; they're getting angry because 'pet owner' is part of their identity, so they see this article as a personal attack. With so many people owning pets, what can we do to convince them to stop when even bringing the subject up causes them to recoil reflexively?
- November 22, 2012 at 3:32 PM
Jialan, I completely agree with you. I've felt this way for quite some time. I tried to talk to my boyfriend about this, but he thinks I'm crazy :(
might have an ex-boyfriend in the near future because I feel very strongly about this
- November 27, 2012 at 1:50 PM
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Waterproof winter boot with plenty of warmth and traction. Waterproof leather lined with faux shearling. Zigzag strapping detail in back and full length zips on the side for easy on/off.
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Wile E. Coyote's got nothing on Hal.
After leading dozens of police officers on a two-day chase through New York's Central Park, (Manhattan), the year-old coyote was captured yesterday. The first sightings of the animal-nicknamed Hal by park workers-came early Sunday, and the hunt began on Tuesday. News helicopters filmed police and park rangers in pursuit.
Before his capture, Hal proved a cunning escape artist, leaping over an 8-foot (2.4-meter) fence, ducking under a bridge, and even scrambling across a skating rink.
Officials chased the coyote on foot and in a helicopter before finally slowing him down with a tranquilizer gun near the Belvedere Castle lookout, close to 79th Street and Central Park West. (See photos of Central Park landmarks.)
Piles of feathers left in his wake suggested the hungry critter had been dining on the park's ducks and other birds.
"He's a very adventurous coyote to travel to midtown Manhattan," New York City Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe told reporters.
The tawny-colored, 35-pound (16-kilogram) male will be taken to a wildlife center outside the city, officials said.
Urban Regular
Hal is the second coyote to be captured in Central Park. Another coyote was caught there in 1999.
Wildlife experts say, however, that they were not surprised to find a coyote in the heart of the largest city in the United States. They say coyotes have in some places become habituated to humans and human environments.
"There are coyotes in more places than people know," said Wendy Arjo, a wildlife biologist and coyote expert with the National Wildlife Research Center in Olympia, Washington.
How Hal found his way into Central Park is not known.
Park officials believe the adventurous critter may have slipped into Manhattan from suburban Westchester County to the north or perhaps crossed the Hudson River via a bridge from New Jersey.
A symbol of the U.S. West, coyotes once lived exclusively in the western Plains states. At the turn of the 20th century they began spreading east.
"They're a very, very adaptable species," Arjo said. "They are very flexible in their social system and can hang out as singles, pairs, or form large packs based on food resources."
"They also don't have to have huge home ranges but can fit into smaller neighborhoods," Arjo added.
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Wild coyotes first showed up in northern New York State in the late 1930s. They are now found in every U.S. state except Hawaii.
Suburbs in the eastern U.S. are particularly hospitable for coyotes, which do well in habitat where wooded and cleared areas merge. Coyote sightings in suburban Westchester County are common today.
Martin Main, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Immokalee, says that coyotes have expanded not only throughout the U.S., but also into Canada and Central America.
"It is apparent that they can make use of relatively small parks and probably even vacant lots that provide sufficient cover for denning and hiding during the day, and then capitalize on a wide range of food sources, including small pets," he wrote in an email.
"Coyotes will also eat garbage, unattended pet food, and, of course, the usual assortment of rabbits and rats that can be found in urban areas."
The canines are good swimmers, and they have even colonized offshore islands, such as the Elizabeth Islands of Massachusetts.
Ginger Allen, a University of Florida biologist and a colleague of Main's, says a coyote was spotted this year on Boca Grande, a southwestern Florida island linked to the mainland by a bridge.
She expects more human-coyote encounters on the U.S. East Coast as the coyote population expands.
"They are opportunistic eaters who will look for whatever food they can find," Allen said. "Young animals, in particular, will move into new areas in search for food."
While coyotes are still shy of humans, Allen says, people should take care to avoid the animals.
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Google Trends no longer displays only information about searches, now you can use it to compare the daily unique visitors for two or more sites. To see the actual numbers, you need to log in using a Google account.
It's interesting to find the sources used by Google to estimate the traffic of a web site. According to the help page, "Trends for Websites combines information from a variety of sources, such as aggregated Google search data, aggregated opt-in anonymous Google Analytics data, opt-in consumer panel data, and other third-party market research. (...) Additionally, Google Trends for Websites only shows results for sites that receive a significant amount of traffic, and enforces minimum thresholds for inclusion in the tool."
For example, Google Trends estimates that the number of daily visitors for Facebook.com is 30 million, 3 times bigger than one year ago. You can also find the countries where a site is popular, related sites and searches.
One interesting tidbit: you can't see traffic data for most Google sites, although there are some exceptions. "We have policy of not providing interim financial guidance, and have decided not to release Google numbers in accordance with that policy," explained a Google spokesperson. I don't think this makes sense, as Google wouldn't release its internal traffic data, but only a rough estimation.
Google's blog for webmasters warns that the data may not be very accurate. "Keep in mind that Trends for Websites is a Google Labs product and that we are experimenting with ways to improve the quality of the data. Because data is estimated and aggregated over a variety of sources, it may not match the other data sources you rely on for web traffic information."
There are other services that show web traffic stats: Compete, Quantcast (for US traffic), Alexa, but it's difficult to compare Google's data with the information provided by those services because they use different measures: daily uniques vs monthly uniques, actual numbers vs reach, worldwide visitors vs US visitors.
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Miami Law students will not see an increase in tuition as they enter the 2011-2012 academic year announced Dean Patricia D. White to the class of first-year students on Thursday.
The first annual Gender Justice of the Americas Conference commenced today. The two-day meeting, organized by Miami Law, focuses on revitalizing and challenging the transnational dialogue regarding sexuality, violence, reproductive and human rights.
Last semester, Miami Law students and Student Bar Association (SBA) members Drew Aiken, Chelsey Ziegler, Todd Friedman and Rob Weaver crafted the Language Initiative Proposal, which pushed for students to receive credit toward their J.D. degree from entry-level language courses. Traditionally, non-law UM courses must be at or above the 500 level to count towards the J.D. degree. Miami Law administration recently approved courses at the 200-level for law students interested in learning other languages.
The School of Law's legal publication, The Inter-American Law Review, sponsored a symposium discussing "The Human Element: The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements on Human Rights and the Rule of Law" on February 26. The symposium consisted of the presentation of papers by distinguished law professors from around the country followed by commentary.
Members of Miami Law's Society of Bar & Gavel volunteered to tutor children this past Saturday at the Overtown Youth Center. The Society of Bar & Gravel, which was founded in 1949, is one of Miami Law's most prestigious student organizations. Its members are made up of individuals recognized for contributing to the life of the law school, its local community and beyond.
In recognition of their humanitarianism, two Miami Law alumni – Hilarie Bass and Dr. Rudolph Moise – received the prestigious Silver Medallion from The Miami Coalition of Christians and Jews (MCCJ) on Saturday, February 26 at the Four Seasons Hotel. The award recognizes those individuals whose lives reflect MCCJ's mission – to promote understanding and respect for all faiths, cultures and races.
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) International Program and its partner organizations will speak at Miami Law on February 22 as part of the International Graduate Law Programs Lecture Series. The panel will discuss advocacy, share progress, and knowledge of women's reproductive rights in Latin America and the Caribbean. The lunch event will take place in the Reading Room of the Law Library at 12:30 p.m.
The Faculty Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, March 2 with Professor Mary Doyle. She will present "The Bush Brothers Repudiate the Federal-State Partnership in the Everglades: Restoration Loses Momentum on their Watch" in the Law School's 4th floor faculty meeting room. The lecture begins at 12:35 p.m., following a lunch at noon in the same room. A question and answer session will follow after the lecture.
Miami Law, along with the Human Rights Center of the University of Diego Portales (Chile), the Center for Reproductive Rights, and the Human Rights Institute of Columbia Law School, hosted a conference titled "Gender Justice in the Americas: A Transnational Dialogue on Sexuality, Violence, Reproduction & Human Rights" on February 23-25. Professor Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Director of Miami Law's new Human Rights Clinic, organized the Convening.
The Faculty Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, February 23 with Professor Charlton Copeland. He will present "Sovereignty and Relationship in American Feudalism" in the Law School's 4th floor faculty meeting room. The lecture begins at 12:35 p.m., following a lunch at noon in the same room. A question and answer session will follow after the lecture.
The first annual Fundraising Brunch for Miami Law Women in Need was a success. Hosted by Miami Law, the Black Law Students Association, and Miami Law Women, the event raised $4,000 on Sunday, February 13. Held in Miami's Upper Eastside near Little Haiti, the event included a silent auction with items from Tiffany & Co., Giorgio Armani Beauty, Jaguar Ceviche Spoon and Latam Grill, Calamari in Coconut Grove and Equinox in Coral Gables.
Inspired by the dedication and commitment Miami Law students have demonstrated toward the South Florida community, the Student Bar Association (SBA) has introduced a student-funded scholarship. The scholarship fund will be awarded to individuals who have proven their dedication to public service through their involvement with student organizations.
Dorian Denburg, JD '82, received the Alumni Achievement Award from the Law Alumni Association on Tuesday, February 15 at Miami Law. The award was presented to Denburg by Jerry Markowitz, JD '74, President of the Law Alumni Association.
This past weekend Miami Law students Jason Sosnovsky and Mark Lesorgen placed first at the National Baseball Arbitration Competition hosted by Tulane Law School's Sports Law Society. Thirty-four teams competed including teams from Harvard, Fordham, University of Notre Dame, Duke, and Tulane.
When Ted McNamara and Chris Bogren met in the summer of '09, they knew they would become good friends. They shared the same humor and both had a passion for civil litigation. What they did not know was that by their second year, they would be finding successes together in Moot Court competitions.
The University of Miami Law Review hosted "From the Board Room to the Court Room: The Evolving Legal Status of Corporate Crime," a symposium featuring Robert S. Bennett as the keynote speaker. Mr. Bennett is a partner at Hogan Lovells and has represented corporate clients, including Enron, as well as notable politicians, such as President Bill Clinton and Senator John McCain.
Miami Law students were able to observe the judicial process in action as a panel of Third District Court of Appeal judges held oral arguments at the Storer Auditorium on the Coral Gables campus.
Former state legislator Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat, JD '74, was formally sworn in recently as a Miami-Dade circuit judge. The Havana native served in the state House of Representatives from 1995-1999. He also served as chairman of the joint legislative audition committee and was a certified public accountant at his law firm before joining the bench.
Third-year law student Eli Bilek was honored last week by the Rosemary Barkett Appellate American Inn of Court for being the first student to argue a pro bono appeal for the Inn. Justice Barkett presented a certificate to Bilek who argued last month in front of the Third District Court of Appeal in an employment compensation case.
Miami Law alumnus Senator Marco Rubio, JD '96, attended a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting last week to introduce fellow Miami Law alumna Kathleen Williams, JD '82, for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida in Miami.
Commencement Ceremony: Saturday, May 14, 10:00 a.m. BankUnited Center on campus. Students will report to the Field House at 9:00 a.m. You may invite as many guests as you like – no tickets required, no limit on the numbers you may bring. The Ceremony will last two hours, so you can make your post-graduation plans accordingly. This is only for law graduates, so parking and seating will be adequate.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has joined the growing number of voices urging the United States to halt the deportation of Haitians from the United States. In response to an emergency petition for precautionary measures filed by Miami Law's Immigration and Human Rights Clinics and co-counsel on behalf of detained Haitian nationals who face imminent deportation, the IACHR announced late in the day on Friday, February 4, that it was summoning the U.S. to halt the petitioners' deportations.
First-year law students will have the opportunity to observe the judicial process on Friday, February 11 when the Third District Court of Appeal holds oral arguments at the University of Miami. A panel of Third DCA judges will hear five civil and criminal cases in the Storer Auditorium on the Coral Gables campus.
Miami Law announces its first ever Philanthropy Week in which all the student organizations will come together between March 20 - 26 to support a unified cause.
Jeff Cazeau, JD '02, can be found practicing law, attending board meetings or training for his first marathon, often in the same day. Born in Haiti, he was three when he moved to New York. Accepted to the prestigious Bronx High School of Science, he traveled by train three hours a day because his parents wanted him to have the best possible education.
The Faculty Lecture Series continues on Wednesday, February 16 with Professor Kunal Parker. He will present "Historicizing Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England: Difference and Sameness in Historical Time" in the Law School's 4th floor faculty meeting room. The lecture begins at 12:35 p.m., following a lunch at noon in the same room. A question and answer session will follow after the lecture.
The Miami/Leipzig Seminar successfully completed its 11th year in Miami last week. The exchange program, which began in 2001, is dedicated to increasing international awareness for students at Miami Law who wish to travel to Germany as part of a two-credit program.
On Saturday, January 29, Miami STREET LAW participated in the event "Walk for Witty." The purpose of the walk was to raise awareness about drunk driving and other destructive decisions. The event was created in the name of Helen Marie Witty, a 16-year-old girl who was rollerblading in Miami and was killed by a car full of drunk and stoned teenage girls on June 1, 2000.
Miami Law's International Moot Court team advanced into the semifinal rounds at the Pace/ICC Moot Competition, which took place at Pace Law School in New York last weekend. The team has qualified to participate in the International Criminal Court(ICC) Trial at The Hague on April 10.
Miami Law's Immigration Clinic recently won a life-changing victory for their client, a gay man who feared returning to his home country of Jamaica, a country known for its intolerance of gay people. Students Rita Kapadia, JD '10 and current third-year student Kristen Lee-Williams represented the client in immigration court at the Krome detention center. This success follows in the wake of a spring 2010 case in which Immigration Clinic students Gisela Ades, JD '10 and 3L Randi Nagahori were able to stop the deportation of their client to Kenya – a country in which it is illegal to perform gay sex acts.
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- 1995 (14) (remove)
- heavy ion collisions (8)
- Kollisionen schwerer Ionen (6)
- Kollisionen schwerer Ionen (4)
- Strangelets (2)
- heavy ion collisions (2)
- relativistic quantum molecular dynamics (2)
- strangelets (2)
- Baryon-antibaryon pair production in time-dependent meson fields (1995)
- Strong mean meson fields, which are known to exist in normal nuclei, experience a violent deformation in the course of a heavy-ion collision at relativistic energies. This may give rise to a new collective mechanism of the particle production, not reducible to the superposition of elementary nucleon-nucleon collisions.
- pi-N correlations probe the nuclear equation of state in relativistic heavy ion-collisions (1995)
- We investigate the sensivity of pionic bounce-off and squeeze-out on the density and momentum dependence of the real part of the nucleon optical potential. For the in-plane pion bounce-off we find a strong sensivity on both the density and momentum dependence whereas the out-of-plane pion squeeze-out shows a strong sensivity only towards the momentum dependence but little sensivity towards the density dependence.
- Bose stimulated pion production in relativistic nuclear collisions (1995)
- We demonstrate the importance of the Bose-statistical effects for pion production in relativistic heavy-ion collisions. The evolution of the pion phase-space density in central collisions of ultrarelativistic nuclei is studied in a simple kinetic model taking into account the effect of Bose-simulated pion production by the NN collisions in a dense cloud of mesons.
- Deuteron flow in ultrarelativistic heavy ion reactions (1995)
- Deutron momentum distributions are predicted for nucleus-nucleus reactions at beam energies of 10-15 AGeV. The deutron transverse momentum spectra exhibit a pronounced shoulder-arm shape deviating markedly from thermal distributions due to collective transverse nuclear flow.
- Prominent transverse flow of clusters in stopped Au(150 A MeV)+Au reactions (1995)
- Stopped Au(150 A MeV) + Au collisions have been measured with the FOPI-Detector at GSI by imposing an upper limit on the ratio of the global longitudinal momentum to the collected charge within an event.
- Azimuthal correlations of pions in relativistic heavy ion collisions at 1 GeV/nucl. (1995)
- Triple differential cross sections of pions in heavy ion collisions at 1 GeV/nucl. are studied with the IQMD model. After discussing general properties of resonance and pion production we focus on azimuthal correlations: At projectile- and target-rapidities we observe an anticorrelation in the in-plane transverse momentum between pions and protons. At c.m.-rapidity, however, we find that high pt pions are being preferentially emitted perpendicular to the event-plane. We investigate the causes of those correlations and their sensitivity on the density and momentum dependence of the real and imaginary part of the nucleon and pion optical potential.
- Thermal photons as a measure for the rapidity dependence of the temperature (1995)
- The rapidity distribution of thermal photons produced in Pb+Pb collisions at CERN-SPS energies is calculated within scaling and three- fluid hydrodynamics. It is shown that these scenarios lead to very different rapidity spectra. A measurement of the rapidity dependence of photon radiation can give cleaner insight into the reaction dynamics than pion spectra, especially into the rapidity dependence of the temperature.
- On the impossibility of temperature extraction from heavy ion induced particle spectra (1995)
- Spectra of various particle species have been calculated with the Quantum Molecular Dynamics (QMD) model for very central collisions of Au+Au. They are compatible with the idea of a fully stopped thermal source which exhibits a transversal expansion besides the thermal distribution of an ideal gas. How- ever, the microscopic analyses of the local flow velocities and temperatures indicate much lower temperatures at densities associated with the freeze-out. The results express the overall impossibility of a model-independent determi- nation of nuclear temperatures from heavy ion spectral data, also at other energies (e.g. CERN) or for other species (i.e. pions, kaons, hyperons)
- Antibaryons in massive heavy ion reactions : importance of potentials (1995)
- In the framework of RQMD we investigate antiproton observables in massive heavy ion collisions at AGS energies and compare to preliminary results of the E878 collaboration. We focus here on the considerable influence of the real part of an antinucleon nucleus optical potential on the ¯p momentum spectra. Pacs-numbers: 14.20 Dh, 25.70.-z
- Phasespace Correlations of Antideuterons in Heavy Ion Collisions (1995)
- In the framework of the relativistic quantum molecular dynamics approach (RQMD) we investigate antideuteron (d) observables in Au+Au collisions at 10.7 AGeV. The impact parameter dependence of the formation ratios d/p2 and d/p2 is calculated. In central collisions, the antideuteron formation ratio is predicted to be two orders of magnitude lower than the deuteron formation ratio. The d yield in central Au+Au collisions is one order of magnitude lower than in Si+Al collisions. In semicentral collisions di erent configuration space distributions of p s and d s lead to a large squeeze out e ect for antideuterons, which is not predicted for the p s.


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The Pima County Sheriff's Department's Border Crimes Units are responsible for the enforcement, interdiction and tracking of border-related crimes. Their efforts since inception in 2007 have lead to the apprehension of more than 400 alleged criminals involved in drug, vehicle, weapon and human-trafficking related crimes.
Current and Previous Years Statistics
The Pima County Sheriff's Department strives to provide the most accurate and up-to-date statistical information as possible. The statistics provided on this site pertain only to calls for services administered by the Pima County Sheriff's Department. Our Intel Unit is currently testing new software that will allow for user interaction when requesting certain types of statistics. Please continue to check back periodically for updates to this page. The Pima County Sheriff's Department assumes no liability for inaccuracies.
Background of Uniform Crime Reporting
The Committee on Uniform Crime Records was established in 1930 by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. This committee developed and initiated a voluntary national data collection effort. To best depict total crime and provide the most meaningful data to police administrators, it was determined that the Uniform Crime Reporting program would specifically collect data on known offenses and persons arrested by police departments. The FBI serves as the national clearinghouse for statistical information on crime.
The reporting of offenses was limited to specific crime classifications - crimes that are most likely to be reported and most likely to occur with sufficient frequency - to provide an adequate basis for comparison. These crimes classifications are broken down into two (2) categories, Part I Crimes and Part II Crimes.
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Coral Instruments Tachometer, 6000 RPM, 4" for Inboard Outboards - Faria
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