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Bunny Playing the Lotto by CarriePotterWatch
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Daily DeviationGiven 2010-02-18
Bunny Playing the Lotto by ~CarriePotter. An utterly gorgeous illustration with a creative perspective - I hope he wins! ( Suggested by Avalik and Featured by Pixel-Spotlight )
I Want To Be A Bunny!!!
I Want To Be A Bunny... :3
dear god its a human foot! looks down....ok good i got both mine O-O
cute :3
HAHHAHAHA!!Odear, I want gto huuuuug him!!
Awuhhhhhhhhhhh itssssssss a bunnehhhhhhhhh<333333333333333333333333333333
he cant lose
Hehe This is so cute!
Hope I Bunny well Win - <3 + X's
That looks very nice.
That looks surprisingly cute.
Love this, especially the human charms he owns
OMG So adorable :3
This is just toooo cute!
Aww, rabbits are awesome.
aww! he has a lucky humam's foot!
I hope the bunny is lucky!
XD This is adorable. Love the good luck human food on his waist.
Awesome. Reminds me of a bunny from the Beatrix Potter books.
that's just adorable! I love the human foot.
it reminds me of my bunnies , im such a bad owner for letting them die. (sniffs) T_T
super cute
I have a lucky bunny o my gallery too.. but mine is.. well, not cute at all
I have a lucky bunny o my gallery too.. but mine is.. well, not cute at all
wow really noce idea and very good art dude
1888th fav
He has a lucky human foot xD
I heard the news! Congratulations~
This is an excellent selection. Clever'n absolutely adorable!
This is an excellent selection. Clever'n absolutely adorable!
Cuuute! that really is adorable. I enjoy how you colored it and the little detail of the human foot for luck.
adorable (:
I hope you win, Mr. Bunny~! > 3 <
It is so cute!
I want him to win the lottery:3 <33
I want him to win the lottery:3 <33
This is totally adorable! ^^
I olllllllllllloooooooooooooovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvveeeeeeeeeeeeee it!
Aww how cute :3
Adorable and clever! The little human's foot is just the best. xD
So cute!
if he won 20 grand would he become one of those other rich bunnies all addicted to organically grown carrots? ;-;
How cute :3
The human foot is pretty small.... that must mean... it's a baby's foot!
Now how did it get the money to buy the ticket? Lol....
Nice art!
Nice art!
Wow! Too cute.
awesome pic! and i love the human rabbit foot, LOL
aaww makes me want to lift him up to help him
Like the human foot good luck charm, shamrocks a nice touch too.
Cute and funny! Very nice!
Oh cool, that means I have double any person's luck, I got two lucky human feet >.>
Great job XD
Great job XD
I love it's little lucky "human foot" XDDDD
very creative and original


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Luke 24:32King James Version (KJV)
32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
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No, not unless carried to such an extreme it interferes with the rest of your life
This question is kinda stupid. You are allowed to be interested in whatever you want, you don't need other's approval. Your interests are your own.
I like playing sports, but watching others play it? How dumb and boring.
If they are those people's role models, I don't see anything wrong with it. Why wouldn't you want to watch people you admire? People are allowed to like whatever they like. I guess I am just not one of those people. :)
I am totally about sports, not because I'm a great athlete, but because it has the easy potential to teach so many valuable life lessons.
As an educator I find it interesting that it has been shown that student athletes manage time better than those that do not have extra curriculars but I have heard more than one parent say.. No sports till grades go up. I prefer no games until grades go up..lol
participating or spectating? Being a football obsessed douchebag is stupid.
Why?........who told you that??
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text: Sydney eScholarship Collection: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/6344 2016-02-14T17:08:48Z Electronic Laboratory Notebook Snapshots for paper entitled Open Source Drug Discovery - Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14132 Title: Electronic Laboratory Notebook Snapshots for paper entitled Open Source Drug Discovery - Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles Authors: Todd, Matthew Abstract: The files are zipped snapshots of the electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) used by the Open Source Malaria (OSM) consortium that are relevant to the paper "Open Source Drug Discovery - Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles". The current "live" versions of the ELNs, and ELNs relevant to other parts of OSM, may be found at http://malaria.ourexperiment.org/. Many scientists contributed to these resources, and their names may be found within the ELNs and in the paper authorship list. Description: To browse a notebook, download the relevant file, unzip to a local disk, and click on the "index" file. This will allow the ELN to be navigated in a web browser. Links between lab notebooks may not function correctly. Finding compounds within the lab notebooks may be achieved using the OSM codes mentioned in the research paper, or using cheminformatic strings (e.g. SMILES). When using the search function, tick the "simple text search" for more relevant results. 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Supporting Information - NMR Spectra for Novel Compounds for Open Source Drug Discovery - Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14123 Title: Supporting Information - NMR Spectra for Novel Compounds for Open Source Drug Discovery - Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles Authors: Todd, Matthew; Williamson, Alice Abstract: NMR spectra for novel compounds associated with submission of paper entitled "Open Source Drug Discovery - Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles". Description: Full author list for paper is on cover page of item. 2015-12-08T00:00:00Z Open Source Malaria Consultation http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14110 Title: Open Source Malaria Consultation Authors: Todd, Matthew Abstract: Open online consultation of the Open Source Malaria Consortium. A discussion on the Consortium's Series 1, including decisions on which compounds next to target with chemical synthesis. Relevant structures may be found in http://www.thesynapticleap.org/node/416 Description: This file is supporting information for a publication centered on Open Source Malaria Series 1. 2012-08-20T00:00:00Z Pavlovian conditioning and cumulative reinforcement rate http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13340 Title: Pavlovian conditioning and cumulative reinforcement rate Authors: Harris, Justin; Patterson, Angela; Gharaei, Saba Abstract: In five experiments using delay conditioning of magazine approach with rats, reinforcement rate was varied either by manipulating the mean interval between onset of the conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) or by manipulating the proportion of CS presentations that ended with the US (trial-based reinforcement rate). Both manipulations influenced the acquisition of responding. In each experiment, a specific comparison was made between two CSs that differed in their mean CS-US interval and in their trial-based reinforcement rate, such that the cumulative reinforcement rate—the cumulative duration of the CS between reinforcements—was the same for the two CSs. For example, a CS reinforced on 100% of trials with a mean CS-US interval of 60 s was compared with a CS reinforced on 33% of trials and a mean duration of 20 s. Across the five experiments, conditioning was virtually identical for the two CSs with matched cumulative reinforcement rate. This was true as long as the timing of the US was unpredictable, and thus response rates were uniform across the length of the CS. We conclude that the effects of CS-US interval and of trial-based reinforcement rate are reducible entirely to their common effect on cumulative reinforcement rate. We discuss the implications of this for rate-based, trial-based and real-time associative models of conditioning. 2015-04-01T00:00:00Z NMR Data for Synthesis of Spiro Tuberculosis Drug Leads http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10506 Title: NMR Data for Synthesis of Spiro Tuberculosis Drug Leads Authors: Badiola, Katrina; Todd, Matthew Abstract: NMR data supporting Electronic Lab Notebook for Synthesis of Tuberculosis Drug Leads (http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10461), specifically the paper published based on this work. The NMR spectra/data are for the chemical compounds reported in the published article. Description: The data within this dataset are all contained in the original ELN for this work, but are collected here to act as supporting raw information for the published article. The data are raw, so may be processed. 2014-05-14T00:00:00Z Electronic Lab Notebook for Synthesis of Tuberculosis Drug Leads http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10461 Title: Electronic Lab Notebook for Synthesis of Tuberculosis Drug Leads Authors: Badiola, Katrina; Todd, Matthew Abstract: A snapshot of an electronic laboratory notebook used to record the synthesis of new small molecules intended for the treatment of tuberculosis. The compounds are synthesised using an oxa-Pictet Spengler reaction, and are based on screening hits (the "Spiros" compounds) originally published by GlaxoSmithKline (10.1002/cmdc.201200428) Description: This snapshot of a Labtrove electronic laboratory notebook acts as supporting information for a research paper that is being submitted for publication to a journal. The snapshot (once unzipped) can be browsed, and contains all the relevant experimental data from the original "live" electronic laboratory notebook. 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z Time-Course Proteome Analysis Reveals the Dynamic Response of Cryptococcus gattii Cells to Fluconazole http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10102 Title: Time-Course Proteome Analysis Reveals the Dynamic Response of Cryptococcus gattii Cells to Fluconazole Authors: Chong, Hin Siong; Campbell, Leona; Padula, Matthew; Hill, Cameron; Harry, Elizabeth; Li, Simone; Wilkins, Marc; Herbert, Ben; Carter, Dee Abstract: Cryptococcus gattii is an encapsulated fungus capable of causing fatal disease in immunocompetent humans and animals. As current antifungal therapies are few and limited in efficacy, and resistance is an emerging issue, the development of new treatment strategies is urgently required. The current study undertook a time-course analysis of the proteome of C. gattii during treatment with fluconazole (FLC), which is used widely in prophylactic and maintenance therapies. The aims were to analyze the overall cellular response to FLC, and to find fungal proteins involved in this response that might be useful targets in therapies that augment the antifungal activity of FLC. During FLC treatment, an increase in stress response, ATP synthesis and mitochondrial respiratory chain proteins, and a decrease in most ribosomal proteins was observed, suggesting that ATP-dependent efflux pumps had been initiated for survival and that the maintenance of ribosome synthesis was differentially expressed. Two proteins involved in fungal specific pathways were responsive to FLC. An integrative network analysis revealed co-ordinated processes involved in drug response, and highlighted hubs in the network representing essential proteins that are required for cell viability. This work demonstrates the dynamic cellular response of a typical susceptible isolate of C. gattii to FLC, and identified a number of proteins and pathways that could be targeted to augment the activity of FLC. 2012-08-06T00:00:00Z Crystallization and diffraction of an Isl1-Ldb1 complex. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9921 Title: Crystallization and diffraction of an Isl1-Ldb1 complex. Authors: Gadd, Morgan; Jacques, David; Guss, J Mitchell; Matthews, Jacqueline Abstract: A stable intramolecular complex comprising the LIM domains of the LIM-homeodomain protein Isl1 tethered to a peptide region of Ldb1 has been engineered, purified and crystallized. The orthorhombic crystals belonged to space group P2221, with unit-cell parameters a = 57.2, b = 56.7, c = 179.8 Å, and diffracted to 3.10 Å resolution. 2012-10-30T00:00:00Z Contribution of DEAF1 structural domains to the interaction with the breast cancer oncogene LMO4. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9919 Title: Contribution of DEAF1 structural domains to the interaction with the breast cancer oncogene LMO4. Authors: Cubeddu, Liza; Joseph, Soumya; Richard, D.J.; Matthews, Jacqueline Abstract: The proteins LMO4 and DEAF1 contribute to the proliferation of mammary epithelial cells. During breast cancer LMO4 is upregulated, affecting its interaction with other protein partners. This may set cells on a path to tumour formation. LMO4 and DEAF1 interact, but it is unknown how they cooperate to regulate cell proliferation. In this study, we identify a specific LMO4-binding domain in DEAF1. This domain contains an unstructured region that directly contacts LMO4, and a coiled coil that contains the DEAF1 nuclear export signal (NES). The coiled coil region can form tetramers and has the typical properties of a coiled coil domain. Using a simple cell-based assay, we show that LMO4 modulates the activity of the DEAF NES, causing nuclear accumulation of a construct containing the LMO4-interaction region of DEAF1 2012-06-19T00:00:00Z An Electronic Calendar for Organizing Assessments in a Large Faculty http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9444 Title: An Electronic Calendar for Organizing Assessments in a Large Faculty Authors: Arndell, Michael; Bridgeman, Adam J; Goldsworthy, Rebecca; Taylor, Charlotte E; Tzioumis, Vicky Abstract: Using data from an electronic unit of study outline system, the University of Sydney's Faculty of Science built an assessment calendar to organize assessment schedules and help first-year students transition to university life. The calendar helps students organize and understand their assessments using their preferred computers or mobile calendar applications. The calendar also helps staff in a large faculty compare and rationalize assessment dates and ensure that a variety of assessment modes are used, irrespective of a student's course choices. 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z Embedding Core Information Skills At The Point Of Need In First Year Science http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9391 Title: Embedding Core Information Skills At The Point Of Need In First Year Science Authors: Arndell, Michael; Bridgeman, Adam J; Goldsworthy, Rebecca; Taylor, Charlotte E; Tzioumis, Vicky Abstract: Online information literacy modules have been integrated into semester 1 units of study so that every commencing first year science student is now engaged in developing information skills as part of their disciplinary learning (Kift, 2004). A certificate of completion system has enabled these activities to be easily introduced by staff from a range of disciplines. This methodology has enabled skill development to be introduced with no duplication or overlap in the workload for students despite the range of course choices available and without core units. 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z First year science: when information skills are someone else's business http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9389 Title: First year science: when information skills are someone else's business Authors: Arndell, Michael; Bridgeman, Adam J; Goldsworthy, Rebecca; Taylor, Charlotte E; Tzioumis, Vicky Abstract: The University of Sydney requires all graduates to possess information skills as part of their graduate attributes (http://www.itl.usyd.edu.au/graduateAttributes/policy.htm). This can only be achieved through a close working relationship between the faculties and the library; it's always someone else's business as well as our own. Within first year science, information skills development is challenged by: • lack of compulsory units of study • absence of a foundation unit • separate curricula for each school within the faculty • immediate commencement of subject-based learning • assumed knowledge of some skills • inadequate time spent on skills development. The Library provides integrated information skills sessions in some first year science units, but the 3000 plus student cohort may receive this content multiple times or not at all, depending on which units they choose. A creative solution was required to systematically engage with the cohort in the priority areas of academic honesty and evaluation of scholarly or non-scholarly research. Library staff partnered with concerned academic staff to implement a coordinated information skills program across first year science. Pre-existing iResearch learning objects (http://sydney.edu.au/library/elearning/index.html) were incorporated into a range of units with large enrolments, and were also trialled in conjunction with the University's new ePortfolio system. Four schools in the Faculty of Science made the Plagiarism and Academic Honesty and Scholarly versus Non-Scholarly learning objects compulsory components of their first year assessment program. Because of large numbers of enrolments and overlap between first year science units, virtually every student completed the required online information skills content. We added certificates of completion to the learning objects as evidence of graduate attribute development. Partnerships with unit of study coordinators were essential to complete the project. The use of online learning technology was particularly effective for a large cohort, facilitating the development of information skills outside of the traditional face-to-face classroom context. The end result was a sustainable, low-cost information skills model for first year science. This model could be applied to other faculties and universities, effectively streamlining and sharing the development of information skills. 2012-07-12T00:00:00Z Code for success: a roadmap as an organising device for the transition of first year science students and the development of academic skills http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9388 Title: Code for success: a roadmap as an organising device for the transition of first year science students and the development of academic skills Authors: Arndell, Michael; Bridgeman, Adam J; Goldsworthy, Rebecca; Taylor, Charlotte E; Tzioumis, Vicky Abstract: An online roadmap has been introduced to improve the standard of academic skills by embedding a semester long sequence of stimuli and resources for new students within our large, general science degrees. This device is faculty managed and links administration, curricular and support services to the just-in-time needs of the students. This institution-wide curricular and co-curricular approach extends and supports our existing workshop and mentoring activities. It answers and prompts frequently asked questions, inducts students into the broader culture of the faculty and integrates information literacy and other academic skills which will be taught, practised and assessed during their first semester at university. 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z The role of prolactin in fish reproduction http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9291 Title: The role of prolactin in fish reproduction Authors: Whittington, Camilla M.; Wilson, Anthony B. Abstract: Prolactin (PRL) has one of the broadest ranges of functions of any vertebrate hormone, and plays a critical role in regulating aspects of reproduction in widely divergent lineages. However, while PRL structure, mode of action and functions have been well-characterised in mammals, studies of other vertebrate lin- eages remain incomplete. As the most diverse group of vertebrates, fish offer a particularly valuable model system for the study of the evolution of reproductive endocrine function. Here, we review the cur- rent state of knowledge on the role of prolactin in fish reproduction, which extends to migration, repro- ductive development and cycling, brood care behaviour, pregnancy, and nutrient provisioning to young. We also highlight significant gaps in knowledge and advocate a specific bidirectional research method- ology including both observational and manipulative experiments. Focusing research efforts towards the thorough characterisation of a restricted number of reproductively diverse fish models will help to provide the foundation necessary for a more explicitly evolutionary analysis of PRL function. 2013-07-01T00:00:00Z Magazine approach during a signal for food depends on Pavlovian, not instrumental, conditioning http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9069 Title: Magazine approach during a signal for food depends on Pavlovian, not instrumental, conditioning Authors: Harris, Justin A; Andrew, Benjamin J; Kwok, Dorothy Abstract: In the conditioned magazine approach paradigm, rats are exposed to a contingent relationship between a conditioned stimulus (CS) and the delivery of food (the unconditioned stimulus, US). As the rats learn the CS-US association, they make frequent anticipatory head entries into the food magazine (the conditioned response, CR) during the CS. Conventionally, this is considered to be a Pavlovian paradigm because food is contingent on the CS and not on the performance of CRs during the CS. However, because magazine entries during the CS are reliably followed by food, the increase in frequency of those responses may involve adventitious ("superstitious") instrumental conditioning. The existing evidence, from experiments using an omission schedule to eliminate the possibility of instrumental conditioning (Farwell & Ayres, 1979; Holland, 1979), is ambiguous: rats acquire magazine CRs despite the omission schedule, demonstrating that the response does not depend on instrumental conditioning, but the response rate is greatly depressed compared with that of rats trained on a yoked schedule, consistent with a contribution from instrumental conditioning under normal (non-omission) schedules. Here we describe experiments in which rats were trained on feature-positive or feature-negative type discriminations between trials that were reinforced on an omission schedule versus trials reinforced on a yoked schedule. The experiments show that the difference in responding between omission and yoked schedules is due to suppression of responding under the omission schedule rather than an elevation of responding under the yoked schedule. We conclude that magazine responses during the CS are largely or entirely Pavlovian CRs. 2013-04-01T00:00:00Z Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise Of 8 Beaches In Shoalhaven: A New Multi-Dimensional Assessment Methodology http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8973 Title: Vulnerability to Sea Level Rise Of 8 Beaches In Shoalhaven: A New Multi-Dimensional Assessment Methodology Authors: Tonmoy, Fahim; El-Zein, Abbas; Ghetti, Isabelle; Massie, Ray Abstract: Coastal councils around the world are likely to be affected by future climatic impacts such as sea level rise and extreme flooding. Shoalhaven City Council is responsible for the sustainable management of 165 kilometres of open coast, the longest of any local government area in New South Wales. In order to prepare a comprehensive coastal zone management plan, Council investigated present and expected future coastal risks on its beaches. Detailed studies identified eight beaches where coastal hazards would significantly impact private properties and public assets. In order to help decision-makers in prioritising management actions for the eight areas, an analytical tool is needed that would not only quantify the physical risks to infrastructure but would also be able to integrate social and environmental considerations towards a holistic assessment of the vulnerability of each beach area. Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conceptualisation, the vulnerability of a community to a climate hazard can be seen as determined by the degree of physical exposure to the hazard, as well as the community's sensitivity to its impacts and its ability to cope with, or adapt to, these impacts. Hence, vulnerability assessment presents a number of theoretical and methodological challenges, the most important of which are epitomized by the following questions: 1. how to determine, say whether a community with high exposure and high adaptive capacity is more vulnerable or less vulnerable than a community with lower exposure but lower adaptive capacity? (problem of compensation). 2. how to incorporate the imprecision and value-judgments inevitably present in multistakeholder vulnerability assessments while maintaining a consistent and robust scientific process? (problem of fuzziness). A new methodology has been developed at the University of Sydney that addresses these questions and offers a clear and consistent approach for conducting vulnerability assessments. The paper describes the application of this methodology to the ranking of vulnerabilities to sea level rise of eight beaches in Shoalhaven. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z ARC Open Access Policy Info Session http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8901 Title: ARC Open Access Policy Info Session Authors: Holcombe, Alex; Todd, Matt; Arndell, Michael; Christensen, Sten; Stanton, Kate Abstract: Presentations from the ARC Open Access Policy Info Session for the Faculty of Science at the University of Sydney 2013-01-25T00:00:00Z Tactile Motion Adaptation Reduces Perceived Speed but Shows No Evidence of DIrection Sensitivity http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8648 Title: Tactile Motion Adaptation Reduces Perceived Speed but Shows No Evidence of DIrection Sensitivity Authors: McIntyre, Sarah Abstract: Introduction: While the directionality of tactile motion processing has been studied extensively, tactile speed processing and its relationship to direction is little-researched and poorly understood. We investigated this relationship in humans using the 'tactile speed aftereffect' (tSAE), in which the speed of motion appears slower following prolonged exposure to a moving surface. Method: We used psychophysical methods to test whether the tSAE is direction sensitive. After adapting to a ridged moving surface with one hand, participants compared the speed of test stimuli on the adapted and unadapted hands. We varied the direction of the adapting stimulus relative to the test stimulus. Results: Perceived speed of the surface moving at 81mms-1 was reduced by about 30% regardless of the direction of the adapting stimulus (when adapted in the same direction, Mean reduction = 23mms-1, SD=11; with opposite direction, Mean reduction = 26mms-1, SD=9). In addition to a large reduction in perceived speed due to adaptation, we also report that this effect is not direction sensitive. Conclusions: Tactile motion is susceptible to speed adaptation. This result complements previous reports of reliable direction aftereffects when using a dynamic test stimulus as together they describe how perception of a moving stimulus in touch depends on the immediate history of stimulation. Given that the tSAE is not direction sensitive, we argue that peripheral adaptation does not explain it, because primary afferents are direction sensitive with friction-creating stimuli like ours (thus motion in their preferred direction should result in greater adaptation, and if perceived speed were critically dependent on these afferents' response intensity, the tSAE should be direction sensitive). The adaptation that reduces perceived speed therefore seems to be of central origin. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Okamoto's space for the first Painlevé equation in Boutroux coordinates http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8422 Title: Okamoto's space for the first Painlevé equation in Boutroux coordinates Authors: Duistermaat, Johannes (Hans) J.; Joshi, Nalini Abstract: We study the completeness and connectedness of asymptotic behaviours of solutions of the first Painlev ́e equation d^2 y/ dx^2 = 6 y^2 + x, in the limit x → ∞, x ∈ C. This problem arises in various physical contexts including the critical behaviour near gradient catastrophe for the focusing nonlinear Schrodinger equation. We prove that the complex limit set of solutions is non-empty, compact and invariant under the flow of the limiting autonomous Hamiltonian system, that the infinity set of the vector field is a repellor for the dynamics and obtain new proofs for solutions near the equilibrium points of the autonomous flow. The results rely on a realization of Okamoto's space, i.e., the space of initial values compactified and regularized by embedding in CP2 through an explicit construction of nine blow-ups. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Constructivism for Philosophers (Be it a Remark on Realism) http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7877 Title: Constructivism for Philosophers (Be it a Remark on Realism) Authors: Gal, Ofer Abstract: Bereft of the illusion of an epistemic vantage point external to science, what should be our commitment towards the categories, concepts and terms of that very science? Should we, despaired of the possibility to found these concepts on rock bottom, adopt empiricist skepticism? Or perhaps the inexistence of external foundations implies, rather, immunity for scientific ontology from epistemological criticism? Philosophy's "realism debate" died out without providing a satisfactory answer to the dilemma, which was taken over by the neighboring disciplines. The "symmetry principle" of the "Strong Programme" for the sociology of science-the requirement that truth and error receive the same kind of causal explanations-offered one bold metaphysical answer, under the guise of a methodological decree. Recently, however, it has been argued that this solution is not bold enough, that the social constructivists replaced the naïve presumption of an independent nature which adjudicates our beliefs with a mirror-image presumption of a sui generis society which furnishes these beliefs autonomously. The proper metaphysics for a foundationless epistemology,argues Bruno Latour, is one which grants nature and society, object and subject, equal roles in the success and failure of science and technology; one in which history of society merges with a history of things-in-themselves. The paper analyzes the philosophical and methodological motivations and ramifications of this extraordinary suggestion. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z The 'absolute existence' of phlogiston: the losing party's point of view. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7876 Title: The 'absolute existence' of phlogiston: the losing party's point of view. Authors: Gal, Ofer; Boantza, Victor Abstract: Long after its alleged demise, phlogiston was still presented, discussed and defended by leading chemists. Even some of the leading proponents of the new chemistry admitted its 'absolute existence'. We demonstrate that what was defended under the title 'phlogiston' was no longer a particular hypothesis about combustion and respiration. Rather, it was a set of ontological and epistemological assumptions and the empirical practices associated with them. Lavoisier's gravimetric reduction, in the eyes of the phlogistians, annihilated the autonomy of chemistry together with its peculiar concepts of chemical substance and quality, chemical process and chemical affinity. The defence of phlogiston was the defence of a distinctly chemical conception of matter and its appearances, a conception which rejected the chemist's acquaintance with details and particularities of substances, properties and processes and his skills of adducing causal relations from the interplay between their complexity and uniformity. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge:Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7875 Title: The Body as Object and Instrument of Knowledge:Embodied Empiricism in Early Modern Science Authors: Gal, Ofer; Wolfe, Charles T. Abstract: It was in 1660s England, according to the received view, in the Royal Society of London, that science acquired the form of empirical enquiry we recognize as our own: an open, collaborative experimental practice, mediated by specially-designed instruments, supported by civil discourse, stressing accuracy and replicability. Guided by the philosophy of Francis Bacon, by Protestant ideas of this worldly benevolence, by gentlemanly codes of decorum and by a dominant interest in mechanics and the mechanical structure of the universe, the members of the Royal Society created a novel experimental practice that superseded former modes of empirical inquiry, from Aristotelian observations to alchemical experimentation. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Empiricism Without the Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7874 Title: Empiricism Without the Senses: How the Instrument Replaced the Eye Authors: Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, Raz Abstract: On receiving news of Galileo's observations of the four satellites of Jupiter and the rugged face of the moon through his newly invented perspicillum, Kepler in great excitement exclaimed: Therefore let Galileo take his stand by Kepler's side. Let the former observe the moon with his face turned skyward, while the latter studies the sun by looking down at a screen (lest the lens injure his eyes). Let each employ his own device, and from this partnership may there some day arise an absolutely perfect theory of the distances. This Hollywood-like scene of the two astronomers marching hand in hand toward the dawn of a new scientific era was no attempt by Kepler to appropriate Galileo's success or to diminish the novelty of the telescope. On the contrary, Kepler repeatedly asserted how short sighted he was in misjudging the potential for astronomical observations inherent in lenses, and how radically Galileo's instrument transformed the science of astronomy. It was a deep sense of recognition that beyond their different scientific temperaments and projects, they shared a common agenda of a new mode of empirical engagement with the phenomenal world: the instrument. For Kepler and Galileo, empirical investigation was no longer a direct engagement with nature, but an essentially mediated endeavor. The new instruments were not to assist the human senses, but to replace them. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler's Optics to Descartes' Doubt http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7873 Title: Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler's Optics to Descartes' Doubt Authors: Gal, Ofer; Chen-Morris, Raz Abstract: In the seventeenth century the human observer gradually disappeared from optical treatises. It was a paradoxical process: the naturalization of the eye estranged the mind from its objects. Turned into a material optical instrument, the eye no longer furnished the observer with genuine representations of visible objects. It became a mere screen, on which rested a blurry array of light stains, accidental effects of a purely causal process. It thus befell the intellect to decipher one natural object—a flat image of no inherent epistemic value—as the vague, reversed reflection of another, wholly independent object. In reflecting on and trespassing the boundaries between natural and artificial, orderly and disorderly, this optical paradox was a Baroque intellectual phenomenon; and it was the origin of Descartes' celebrated doubt— whether we know anything at all. 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z Attentional Changes During Implicit Learning: Signal Validity Protects a Target Stimulus from the Attentional Blink http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7869 Title: Attentional Changes During Implicit Learning: Signal Validity Protects a Target Stimulus from the Attentional Blink Authors: Livesey, Evan J; Harris, Irina M; Harris, Justin A Abstract: Participants in two experiments performed two simultaneous tasks: one, a dual-target detection task within a rapid sequence of target and distractor letters; the other, a cued reaction time task requiring participants to make a cued left/right response immediately after each letter sequence. Under these rapid visual presentation conditions, it is usually difficult to identify the second target when it is presented in close temporal proximity of the first target, a phenomenon known as the attentional blink. However, here, participants showed an advantage for detecting a target presented during the attentional blink if that target predicted which response cue would appear at the end of the trial. Participants also showed faster reaction times on trials with a predictive target. Both of these effects were independent of conscious knowledge of the target-response contingencies assessed by post-experiment questionnaires. The results suggest that implicit learning of the association between a predictive target and its outcome can automatically facilitate target recognition during the attentional blink, and therefore shed new light on the relationship between associative learning and attentional mechanisms. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Tracking a single fast-moving object exhausts attentional resources http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7868 Title: Tracking a single fast-moving object exhausts attentional resources Authors: Holcombe, Alex; Chen, Wei-Ying Abstract: Driving on a busy road, eluding a group of predators, or playing a team sport involves keeping track of multiple moving objects. In typical laboratory tasks, the number of visual targets that humans can track is about four. Three types of theories have been advanced to explain this limit. The fixed-limit theory posits a set number of attentional pointers available to follow objects. Spatial interference theory proposes that when targets are near each other, their attentional spotlights mutually interfere. Resource theory asserts that a limited resource is divided among targets, and performance reflects the amount available per target. Utilising widely separated objects to avoid spatial interference, the present experiments validated the predictions of resource theory. The fastest target speed at which two targets could be tracked was much slower than the fastest speed at which one target could be tracked. This speed limit for tracking two targets was approximately that predicted if at high speeds, only a single target could be tracked. This result cannot be accommodated by the fixed-limit or interference theories. Evidently a fast target, if it moves fast enough, can exhaust attentional resources. Description: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Cognition. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. 2011-10-31T00:00:00Z Power and Responsibility: The Mekong River Commission and Lower Mekong mainstream dams http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7865 Title: Power and Responsibility: The Mekong River Commission and Lower Mekong mainstream dams Authors: Lee, Gary; Scurrah, Natalia Abstract: The revival of plans to build up to 11 hydropower dams on the Lower Mekong mainstream focuses attention on the Mekong River Commission (MRC), an international river basin organisation assigned with the task of ensuring the sustainable use and management of water and related resources of the Lower Mekong Basin. Although questions regarding MRC's role have been posed since its inception, the proposed mainstream dams signal an especially critical time for MRC. How MRC addresses key concerns and balances different interests in the basin will have signifi cant bearing on MRC's perceived relevance to its member states, donors and the people of the basin. This report focuses on two aspects of MRC's structure and activities in relation to mainstream dams: its governance role and its role as a knowledge-based organisation. In regard to governance, MRC asserts that it is an intergovernmental organisation, not a supranational one and, as such, its role is primarily to serve its member states. This position calls for a better understanding of MRC power and responsibilities, and whose interests the MRC serves. MRC's governance structure has implications for a river basin organisation that portrays itself as an independent producer of knowledge and science. There are many areas of knowledge in which MRC can use its science to help manage and develop the river more equitably and sustainably. This report reviews MRC's fi sheries research and modelling of development scenarios and examines how MRC acts on its knowledge base to infl uence planning and decision making on mainstream dams. The final section examines the responsiveness of MRC to the wider basin community and the opportunities and challenges arising from its recent efforts to engage various stakeholders more actively. Drawing heavily on MRC's own research and statements, this report seeks to inform and open discussions regarding MRC's role in relation to the proposed lower mainstream dams. 2009-10-01T00:00:00Z Comparing learned predictiveness effects within and across compound discriminations http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7859 Title: Comparing learned predictiveness effects within and across compound discriminations Authors: Livesey, Evan J; Thorwart, Anna; De Fina, Nicole L; Harris, Justin A Abstract: In four human learning experiments, we examined the extent to which learned predictiveness depends upon direct comparison between relatively good and poor predictors. Participants initially solved (1) linear compound discriminations in which one or both of the stimuli in each compound were predictive of the correct outcome, (2) biconditional discriminations where only the configurations of the stimuli were predictive of the correct outcome, or (3) pseudo-discriminations in which no stimulus features were predictive. In each experiment, subsequent learning and test stages were used to assay changes in the associability of each stimulus brought about by its role in the initial discriminations. Although learned predictiveness effects were observed in all experiments (i.e. previously predictive cues were more readily associated with a new outcome than previously non-predictive cues), the same changes in associability were observed regardless of whether the stimulus was initially learned about in the presence of an equally predictive, more predictive, or less predictive stimulus. The results suggest that learned associability is not controlled by competitive allocation of attention, but rather by the absolute predictiveness of each individual cue. 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z Response Rate and Reinforcement Rate in Pavlovian Conditioning http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7857 Title: Response Rate and Reinforcement Rate in Pavlovian Conditioning Authors: Harris, Justin A Abstract: Four experiments used delay conditioning of magazine approach in rats to investigate the relationship between the rate of responding, R, to a conditioned stimulus (CS) and the rate, r, at which the CS is reinforced with the unconditioned stimulus (US). Rats were concurrently trained with four variable-duration CSs with different rs, either as a result of differences in the mean CS-US interval or in the proportion of CS presentations that ended with the US. In each case, R was systematically related to r, and the relationship was very accurately characterized by a hyperbolic function, R = Ar/(r+c). Accordingly, the reciprocal of these two variables – response interval, I (=1/R), and CS-US interval, i (=1/r) – were related by a simple affine (straight line) transformation, I = mi+b. This latter relationship shows that each increment in the time that the rats had to wait for food produced a linear increment in the time they waited between magazine entries. We discuss the close agreement between our findings and the Matching Law (Herrnstein, 1970), and consider their implications for both associative theories (e.g., Rescorla & Wagner, 1972) and non-associative theories (Gallistel & Gibbon, 2000) of conditioning. 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z Summation of reinforcement rates when conditioned stimuli are presented in compound http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7856 Title: Summation of reinforcement rates when conditioned stimuli are presented in compound Authors: Andrew, Benjamin J; Harris, Justin A Abstract: Three experiments used delay conditioning of magazine approach in rats to examine the summation of responding when two conditioned stimuli (CSs) are presented together as a compound. The duration of each CS varied randomly from trial-to-trial around a mean that differed between the CSs. This meant that the rats' response rate to each CS was systematically related to the reinforcement rate of that CS, but remained steady as time elapsed during the CS (Harris & Carpenter, in press; Harris, Gharaei, & Pincham, in press). When the rats were presented with a compound of two CSs that had been conditioned separately, they responded more during the compound than during either of the CSs individually. More significantly, however, in all three experiments, the rats responded to the compound at the same rate as they responded to a third CS that had been reinforced at a rate equal to the sum of the reinforcement rates of the two CSs in compound. We discuss the implications of this finding for associative models (e.g., Rescorla & Wagner, 1972) and rate-based models (Gallistel & Gibbon, 2000) of conditioning. 2011-10-01T00:00:00Z Elemental Representations of Stimuli in Associative Learning http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7796 Title: Elemental Representations of Stimuli in Associative Learning Authors: Harris, Justin A Abstract: This paper reviews evidence and theories concerning the nature of stimulus representations in Pavlovian conditioning. It focuses on the elemental approach developed in Stimulus Sampling Theory (Atkinson & Estes, 1963; Bush & Mosteller, 1951b) and extended by McLaren and Mackintosh (2000; 2002), and contrasts this with models that that invoke notions of configural representations that uniquely code for different patterns of stimulus inputs (e.g., Pearce, 1987, 1994; Rescorla & Wagner, 1972; Wagner & Brandon, 2001). The paper then presents a new elemental model that emphasizes interactions between stimulus elements. This model is shown to explain a range of behavioral findings, including those (e.g., negative patterning and biconditional discriminations) traditionally thought beyond the explanatory capabilities of elemental models. Moreover, the model offers a ready explanation for recent findings reported by Rescorla (2000; 2001; 2002b) concerning the way that stimuli with different conditioning histories acquire associative strength when conditioned in compound 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The arguments of associations http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7793 Title: The arguments of associations Authors: Harris, Justin A Abstract: This chapter considers associative solutions to "non‐linear" discrimination problems, such as negative patterning (A+ and B+ vs AB‐) and the biconditional discrimination (AB+ and CD+ vs AC‐ and BD‐). It is commonly assumed that the solution to these discriminations requires "configural" elements that are added to the compound of two stimuli. However, these discriminations can be solved by assuming that some elements of each stimulus are suppressed when two stimuli are presented in compound. Each of these approaches can solve patterning and biconditional discriminations because they allow some elements, as the arguments of associations, to have differential "presence" on reinforced versus nonreinforced trials, and thus differential associability and control over responding. The chapter then presents a more specific version of one of these models, describing how interactions between stimuli, particularly the competition for attention, provide a mechanism whereby some elements are more suppressed than others when stimuli are presented simultaneously as a compound. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Increasing the frequency of breakfast consumption http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7792 Title: Increasing the frequency of breakfast consumption Authors: Kothe, Emily Jane; Mullan, Barbara A Abstract: Purpose – A number of interventions aimed at increasing breakfast consumption have been designed and implemented in recent years. This paper seeks to review the current research in this area with the aim of identifying common features of successful interventions and strengths and weaknesses in the current research methodology. Design/methodology/approach – A systematic review of interventions aimed at increasing breakfast-eating frequency in a non-clinical sample was conducted. Findings – A total of 11 interventions were identified and reviewed; of these, only three resulted in an increase in breakfast consumption at follow-up. The three studies that were successful in changing breakfast consumption all included a psychosocial component that was successful in increasing positive attitudes towards nutrition in the intervention protocol. Many of the breakfast-eating interventions included in this review have methodological weaknesses, including difficulties in implementing interventions, small sample sizes, and selection biases, which future researchers should consider when designing and evaluating their own interventions. Research limitations/implications – These findings highlight the importance of including psychosocial components in interventions designed to increase breakfast consumption, while also signalling issues that should be addressed when designing and reporting future interventions. Originality/value – This review was the first to investigate the efficacy of interventions aimed at increasing breakfast consumption. The identification of weaknesses in the current body of research, and of successful and unsuccessful intervention practices is an important step in developing successful interventions in the future. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z An attention modulated associative network. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7791 Title: An attention modulated associative network. Authors: Harris, Justin A; Livesey, Evan J Abstract: We present an elemental model of associative learning that describes interactions between stimulus elements as a process of competitive normalization. Building on the assumptions laid out in Harris (2006), stimuli are represented as an array of elements that compete for attention according to the strength of their input. Elements form associations among each other according to temporal correlations in their activation but restricted by their connectivity. The model moves beyond its predecessor by specifying excitatory, inhibitory, and attention processes for each element in real time and describing their interaction as a form of suppressive gain control. Attention is formalized in this model as a network of mutually inhibitory units that moderate the activation of stimulus elements by controlling the level to which the elements are suppressed by their own inhibitory processes. The model is applied to a range of complex discriminations and related phenomena that have been taken as evidence for configural-learning processes. 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The acquisition of conditioned responding http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7782 Title: The acquisition of conditioned responding Authors: Harris, Justin A Abstract: This report analyzes the acquisition of conditioned responses in rats trained in a magazine approach paradigm. Following the suggestion by Gallistel, Fairhurst and Balsam (2004), Weibull functions were fitted to the trial-by-trial response rates of individual rats. These showed that the emergence of responding was often delayed, after which the response rate would increase relatively gradually across trials. The fit of the Weibull function to the behavioral data of each rat was equaled by that of a cumulative exponential function incorporating a response threshold. Thus the growth in conditioning strength on each trial can be modeled by the derivative of the exponential – a difference term of the form used in many models of associative learning (e.g., Rescorla & Wagner, 1972). Further analyses, comparing the acquisition of responding to a continuously reinforced stimulus (CRf) and a partially reinforced stimulus (PRf), provided further evidence in support of the difference term. In conclusion, the results are consistent with conventional models that describe learning as the growth of associative strength, incremented on each trial by an error-correction process. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Response rates track the history of reinforcement times http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7781 Title: Response rates track the history of reinforcement times Authors: Harris, Justin A; Gharaei, Saba; Pincham, Hannah L Abstract: When conditioning involves a consistent temporal relationship between the conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US), the expression of conditioned responses within a trial peaks at the usual time of the US relative to the CS. Here we examine the temporal profile of responses during conditioning with variable CS-US intervals. We conditioned stimuli with either uniformly distributed or exponentially distributed random CS-US intervals. In the former case, the frequency of each CS-US interval within a specified range is uniform but the momentary probability of the US (the hazard function) increases as time elapses during the trial; with the latter distribution, short CS-US intervals are more frequent than longer intervals, but the momentary probability of the US is constant across time within the trial. We report that, in a magazine approach paradigm, rats' response rates remained stable as time elapses during the CS when the CS-US intervals were uniformly distributed, whereas their response rates declined when the CS-US intervals were exponentially distributed. In other words, the profile of responding during the CS matched the frequency distribution of the US times, not the momentary probability of the US during the CS. These results are inconsistent with real-time associative models, which predict that associative strength tracks the momentary probability of the US, but may provide support for timing models of conditioning in which conditioned responding is tied to remembered times of reinforcement. 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing slow and seeing fast: Two limits on perception http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7721 Title: Seeing slow and seeing fast: Two limits on perception Authors: Holcombe, Alex Abstract: Video cameras have a single temporal limit set by the frame rate. The human visual system has multiple temporal limits set by its various constituent mechanisms. These limits appear to form two groups. A fast group comprises specialized mechanisms for extracting perceptual qualities such as motion direction, depth, and edges. The second group, with coarse temporal resolution, includes judgments of the pairing of color and motion, the joint identification of arbitrary spatially separated features, the recognition of words, and high-level motion. These temporally coarse percepts may all be mediated by high-level processes. Working at very different timescales, the two groups of mechanisms collaborate to create our unified visual experience. 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z program code for "Perceiving spatial relations via attentional tracking and shifting" http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7281 Title: program code for "Perceiving spatial relations via attentional tracking and shifting" Authors: Holcombe, Alex; Linares, Daniel; Vaziri-Pashkam, Maryam Abstract: Program code for software associated with "Perceiving spatial relations via attentional tracking and shifting" article by Holcombe, Linares, & Vaziri-Pashkam 2011-04-28T00:00:00Z The Return of Vitalism: http://hdl.handle.net/2123/7216 Title: The Return of Vitalism: Authors: Wolfe, Charles T. Abstract: The eminent French biologist and historian of biology, François Jacob, once notoriously declared "On n'interroge plus la vie dans les laboratoires": laboratory research no longer inquires into the notion of Life'. Nowadays, as David Hull puts it, "both scientists and philosophers take ontological reduction for granted… Organisms are ‗nothing but' atoms, and that is that." In the mid-twentieth century, from the immediate post-war period to the late 1960s, French philosophers of science such as Georges Canguilhem, Raymond Ruyer and Gilbert Simondon returned to Jacob's statement with an odd kind of pathos: they were determined to reverse course. Not by imposing a different kind of research program in laboratories, but by an unusual combination of historical and philosophical inquiry into the foundations of the life sciences (particularly medicine, physiology and the cluster of activities that were termed 'biology' in the early 1800s). Even in as straightforwardly scholarly a work as La formation du concept de réflexe aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles (1955), Canguilhem speaks oddly of "defending vitalist biology," and declares that Life cannot be grasped by logic (or at least, "la vie déconcerte la logique"). Was all this historical and philosophical work merely a reassertion of 'mysterian', magical vitalism? In order to answer this question we need to achieve some perspective on Canguilhem's 'vitalism', notably with respect to its philosophical influences such as Kurt Goldstein. 2011-03-04T00:00:00Z


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Monster keeping a friend warm.
Tools: Dr. Ph. Martin watercolour, Watson paper
Tools: Dr. Ph. Martin watercolour, Watson paper
just beautiful. amazing use of watercolor!!!
I love this series of pictures featuring monsters that you're doing! Despite the dark colors, for some reason, they all still stick out to me! I think they're all done with really careful consideration and I just love the concepts you're using with them. XD Not to mention how cute they all are hahahah
Aww, so cute! Beautiful artwork!
that's adorable ;w;
How cute!
absolutely love the colours! great job
That's cool~!!!
GHJGJGHJG We can comment now! Yays, i've always wanted to tell you how much I love your pictures! Their always soo cute, and well coloured...
brilliant! colours are wonderful
Nice one !
amazing work
You're great!
So sweet and beautiful, really warms my heart!
Beautiful * v *
the monster looks like batman's head O.O
how you make this? ;O AWESOME!
This is awesome, it kinda reminds me of the mothman. Good Job!
hmm kinda like howl and the girl from HMC
i love it..
cute and sweet indeed. Perfect.
Fantastic colours...
I really love your style!!! (>o<)
... it kinda reminds me of Howl's moving Castle xD
... it kinda reminds me of Howl's moving Castle xD
you should have anime T^T
This is beautiful!
good monster..^__^..
I wish I could do something amazing as this.
l love the way you use watercolour.
as always stunning watercolors
It's beautiful i could genuinely cry it has something mesmerizing
Wow, I can actually comment for once
I love your stuff! I just want to favorite everything you make
I love your stuff! I just want to favorite everything you make
Cute! Love the color palette too.
Cute~~~ I quite like this.
Oh, very nice design and color!
ink owl totoro!
Ink owl totoro!
oh wow
it's gorgeous * A *
oh wow
it's gorgeous * A *
Very cool. c:
Awesome concept and beautiful execution! And that could really be said for all of your works.
this is so cool... (cant think of beta word) *angry at self*
* U * amazing .. such a cool monster freand > u <
I'm in love with the colors *-*
so beautiful ......
well done ! ^^
so beautiful ......
well done ! ^^
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This feature film version of the 1970's cop show preserves the most memorable thing about the old television series: Barry DeVorzon's wah-wah crackle theme song. Unfortunately Clark Johnson and a battery of writers have also retained the punitive monotony and barely coherent narrative thinness of the old show as well: it evokes the feeling of wasting a rainy Saturday afternoon. The foreign crime boss Alex Martel (Olivier Martinez) is about to be extradited after leaving a trail of corpses and misery. Following a failed jailbreak — after which Martel inexplicably gets to speak to the television cameras — he offers "one hundred million dollars to whoever gets me out to here." And law and order in Los Angeles suddenly evaporates, with all of the city's thugs, gang-bangers and semi-employed, dangerous-looking actors marshalling their forces to spring Martel. An elite S.W.A.T. team has to transport this prisoner to either a federal pen, the airport or another film remake of an old Aaron Spelling television show. The S.W.A.T. team members — LL Cool J, Michelle Rodriguez, Josh Charles and Brian Van Holt — are so gung ho that in any other city they'd be subjected to steroid testing. Samuel L. Jackson plays the absurdly named team leader Hondo — it comes from the old show — with the Rhythm-Heritage confidence that burbles like the old-school funk of Mr. DeVorzon's theme. And Colin Farrell, employing a wobbly American accent that makes him sound like an international criminal a step ahead of the authorities, stars as the S.W.A.T. officer Jim Street. Much of the by-the-yard martial choreography is strictly by-the-book, as Hondo's martinet captain might say. Mr. Johnson almost seems to be rejecting the fascist politics of the premise, and his discomfort is palpable, like Danny Glover's slight hesitations in the "Lethal Weapon" movies. — Elvis Mitchell


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IDC predicts the worldwide installed base of PS3 consoles will reach 23.8 million this year, up from 8.5 million last year. It projects Xbox 360 hitting 26.3 million, vs. 17.8 million in 2007.
Both, however, will trail Nintendo's value-priced Wii video game console, which is targeting casual gamers instead of the hard-core gamers Sony and Microsoft are pursuing. IDC forecasts the Wii reaching a worldwide installed base this year of 43.7 million, compared with 19.9 million last year.


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If you want something mechanical, get a manual transmission. Oh, I forgot, you can't get that in a macho truck.
Face it, it is an electronic control. You don't have a shift lever for the radio, do you? If you need a truck, this one is probably as good as any. If you to feel macho with a gear shift, buy a sports car. More fun and better mileage.
Lets also bring back that wonderful transfer case lever on 4x4s. Or did we get use to that being gone?
Back in the '50s and early '60s, some Chrysler vehicles has push-button automatic transmissions. The ones I road in had the buttons on the dash on the left side of the steering column.
Obviously the reviewer doesn't know who he's talking to. This is DETROIT, remember?
I agree with you Jonathan..I can see this gimmick vanish quietly and quickly. Some things never make sense to "go digital"...and commanding a 5000 lb beast to move forward, not backward is one of them! Remember the fate of digital speedometers.. and ..why analog dial watches still dominate? It is just biological....fashions come and go.
BTW...changing a radio station or flipping from 4WD to 2WD by accident can't be as deadly as putting the Txm. in the wrong gear! And...the steering wheel won't be replaced by a joystick controller anytime soon..I think.
Most if not all new automatics are shift-by-wire anyways. The days of having a mechanical linkage between the selector and the automatic transmission are well past us.
Can't wait until the plastic teeth on the knob wear out and the vehicle can't be shifted between gears.
As long as you're driving a modern automatic, what's the difference? Unless you are physically (i.e. mechanically) shifting through gears, you don't need a lever. As others have said, if you want that kind of control, buy a car or truck with standard transmission.
In the 90s AT&T started making a new handset. People said it was cheep. So they but in a metal bar to make it heavier and every one said this is good. The 8-speed is completely electronic controlled. So for you guys they should have put the 4-position switch in the console and connected it to a big lever. Throw in a metal bar and some springs to make it feel better and you would be saying this is GOOD.
I have a 2013 and love the shift knob. The feel is "solid" with resitance between the settings. There is a manual lever overide under the dash if it ever fails. The 8spd is silky smooth.....
Dodge girly-man knob..
I don't like the knob either. Go back to the console shift Dodge!!!!!!!
For me, an a/t shifter should be anything EXCEPT a lever. I find the levers (either column or console) to be awkward, and I've been driving for nearly 50 years. I still own my '64 Imperial with push-button shift; my daily driver is a Dodge Caliber with 6-speed manual, and I'm happy with both of those.
Just plain junk if you have a problem on the road you need a tow truck again junk
you wont wind up in park or reverse going forward. I have purposely switched my knob to park and reverse and it wont engage. I love the knob. the levers are electric any way so what differene does the knob make?
waah! wahhh!. dodge haters. the knob is super cool and I love it. I agree with Virgil that an automatic should be anything but a lever. lever and sticks are for manual transmissions. the reason they went to lever shifts so wannabes could pretend they were cool and have a lever. WOW!!!. if you want a lever, drive a manual, but that's a dying breed to find a girl ( and lots of guys) to drive a manual transmission. want to have a big bad diesel to pull traier with a dumb automatic transmission. get a manual to pull trailer. itll last way longer.
I have mixed feelings about this knob. My biggest concern is how to get it into neutral without the key. What happens if the battery dies and you need a tow? I have also found myself going for a knob and worrying I will turn the wrong one. If it was located somewhere other than next to the stereo/climate knobs it would be better. I did some experimental scenario's and noticed it is very easy to put it into park instead of reverse from drive, then you just end up revving the engine when you think you should be backing up. Once you do that it won't let you shift out of park (or neutral) until the electronics catches up with the "error". It just seems to hesitate too long and I don't want to be dependent on something electronic in an emergency. How does one "rock back and forth" if stuck? Seems like a pain in the ass. Also, it doesn't like it when you try to turn off the engine while in gear and once again have to wait for it go into park automatically so you can remove the key or turn the truck back on and then off.
I just hope Ford and Chevy do not get any ideas. If Jeep went this way there sales would fall apart
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