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Princess 60 Flybridge MotoryachtBy Capt. Richard Thiel
World Boat
Designed and built in England (with a shot of American DNA)
The history of Princess Yachts in the United States is an often-told saga, but still an interesting and instructive. one. The English builder started life in 1965 with a luxurious (for the day) 31-footer and quickly grew into one of the U.K.'s most successful shipyards. By the 1980s, Princesses were fixtures in marinas all over Europe, and not much later, all over the world—with one notable exception. It never established a foothold in what is arguably the most lucrative boating market in the world: the United States.
That changed in 1995 when Princess combined forces with Viking Yachts, the powerhouse convertible builder that until then had enjoyed only mixed success building motoryachts. The partnership, which spawned a new and separate division of Viking, was unique in that Princess continued to design and build the boats in the U.K. but modified them—quite extensively in some cases—to suit American tastes as delineated by Viking. There was real synergy, with both sides learning from the other, and it was not about just fabric swatches and color samples. These boats were truly Americanized thanks in large part to shipping containers full of U.S.-sourced equipment that regularly made their way from New Gretna, New Jersey, to Plymouth, England. The strategy was risky but it paid almost immediate dividends: Viking Sport Cruisers, sold mostly through the established Viking Yacht dealership network, were an almost immediate hit.
But in the fall of 2010 the name on the boats changed from Viking Sport Cruisers to Princess. (The U.S. company's name has not changed.) Why? A big reason is simply that the world had come around to America's way of thinking. That is to say, most of those modifications to boats bound for America worked so well, they ended up being popular with European boaters to the point that they became standard or optional equipment on all Princess models. Viking still ships containers to Plymouth, but far fewer and mostly full of things like electrical appliances and TVs, which are designed to run on 60-Hz U.S. juice, as well as some fabrics and interior materials. In short, the joint venture has produced a single line of yachts that can be spec'd to suit most of the world's buyers.
If you want to see just how American an English yacht can feel, step aboard the new Princess 60. She replaces the 58, which was introduced in late 2007 as a 2008 model. There are two big differences between the pair. One is the galley: On the 58 it's down and to port while on the 60 it's up and to starboard, right aft of the helm. Americans have always preferred their galleys up, mainly because they want the cook (who's usually an owner, not a crewmember) to be part of the social scene and enjoy the same views and conversation as other passengers.
What makes this change noteworthy is that Princess moved the galley up without disrupting two key main-deck areas: the saloon and the port-side U-shape dinette. The 60 has only one U-shape sofa, where the 58 had two facing each other. But there's still enough seating to accommodate a party of eight, and now the main seating is focused on the port-side retractable TV, arguably more practical than facing an opposite settee as on the 58.
The second difference is on the lower deck. After removing the port-side galley from here, Princess designers could have tried replacing it with another stateroom, making this a four-cabin yacht. Thankfully they did not, perhaps recalling a lesson about American tastes drummed into them by Viking: Better to have fewer roomy spaces than more cramped ones. So they added a third head and enlarged the one in the master, giving it and the other two staterooms big enclosed showers. Now each cabin has en suite facilities. (The port-side head can have one door for just private access to the VIP, or two doors and access to the VIP and lower atrium, making it a day head.)
So by parceling out an additional 2'5" of length (beam and draft are unchanged) in exactly the right places and increasing the glass area on both levels, Princess created a vessel that feels spacious and offers real American-class elbowroom. Likewise on the bridge they replaced the very European centerline helm with a port-side arrangement, which allows for a larger U-shape settee, table, and aft sunpad and makes the space a lot easier to walk around in.
One final area of improvement is the cockpit. It's marginally longer but the big difference is port and starboard access to the swim platform instead of just port-side access. The trade-off is a smaller aft settee (the 58's extended to the starboard gunwale) but one still big enough to comfortably hold four adults.
What hasn't changed? Performance. I tested the 58 and 60 with identical engines—865-hp C15 CATs—and their test numbers are virtually identical. The 60's about two mph slower and gets about ten percent less fuel economy above 1750 rpm, but a difference that small could be due to most anything, including the snotty weather on the 60's test day. Both boats also were equipped with Sleipner electronic steering, and I am delighted to report that the annoying ratcheting and kick-back that I saw on the 58 are gone, and feedback and response are even better.
The idea of building one boat that can suit everyone in the world is obviously unrealistic. Tastes vary, even among boaters in the same country, and there will always be those who for whatever reason want a galley down or more, smaller staterooms. But this 60-footer has the kinds of features that more boaters in more places are looking for today, and that should be enough to make her a hit no matter what nameplate she bears.
Viking Sport Cruisers
(877) 846-9874.
This article originally appeared in the February 2012 issue of Power & Motoryacht magazine.


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Sea Cider - Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada - Rumrunner 2007
Ah Sea Cider... My first and only visit to Sea Cider so far was during the cidery tour of Vancouver Island we took during Peter Mitchell's 2008 Cider Class in Mount Vernon, WA. Their organic heirloom and cider apple orchard, the old English style farmhouse tasting room and cider house built new, the gorgeous view from the property looking down towards Washington's San Juan Islands. It is all very picturesque. Perfect I might say. Besides all that they make a really great cider too. Their whole line is robust and very flavorful.
When I visiting they were sold clean out of this very cider in the tasting room. We were informed that some was still lingering around at various beer and wine shops on Vancouver Island and mainland British Colombia. This bottle came to me nearly a year after my visit and for close to another year we have been sitting on this same bottle waiting for a great opportunity to taste, take notes and enjoy.
If you care to look I've got a number of pictures of Sea Cider's facility up in my Flickr account.
Sea Cider Rumrunner '07 Vintage
Somewhere along the way I guess I had forgotten this was a 14.2% cider. Considering ciders naturally ferment out to around 5-8% this is a mighty strong cider indeed. I don't recall them telling us how they reached that percentage nor does their website say, but for me it is hard to imagine the used Rum Barrel they age this cider in contributed 6-7% alcohol. Mysterious.
The Rumrunner '07 cider was a rich gold with a slight amber hue, fairly bright. The clarity was clear but not brilliant, but it was a couple years old mind you and had survived a car ride out to the ocean earlier that day. It was a nicely carbonated cider. An almost perfect level of bubble sensation and flavor accessibility.
Rumrunner's aroma was remarkably intense, warm, dark, very cidery and of a high quality; demonstrating it's woodiness combined with spicy notes of Rum (go figure), dried cherry, and apple of all things.
Sea Cider's Rumrunner has the same intensity in flavor as it does in it's aroma. Very intense, yet at the same time very balanced. We found to be sweet but not too sweet for the blend, it had a nice acidic edge that was just enough, letting Rumrunner's sweetness play the lead. However this cider had a terrific bitterness from the apple phenolics (tannins) and surely from the used oak rum barrels. The Rumrunner starts off surprisingly hot but assuredly and quickly melts away and shows a true earthiness and spice with accompanying flavors of raisin, rum (mysterious I know), leather, toffee, and even hints of clove in the finish.
Rumrunner '07 was complex, unique, and unlike any other cider I've had before. I'm not a light weight but I have to admit this cider is a scorcher has a serious kick. More like a port or dessert wine in strength and flavor intensity. At 14.25% it is also not for the faint of heart. You feel the warmth let's say. Perfect for fireside sipping on a cold Winter's night... Only if you don't have anywhere else to go for the evening.
Mouthfeel was just as pleasant as the rest. A slight astringency, moderate body and length and again off the charts in the balance department. A well blended friendly monster of a cider.
We thought a smaller bottle would have offered a different presentation more in line with ports and dessert wines, That undoubtedly would have changed our preconceived notions of what this cider would be like. Would I drink it again? Surely. It was not a taste you often experience in cider. So chock-full of flavor. I look forward to it but will be waiting for that cold Winter night, the fireplace, and nowhere else to go.

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Thanks to Down the Line! reader Nathan for sending me this image of the Nike Striking Court Day Dress from the Striking Clothing Collection that Maria Sharapova will likely wear at the U.S. Open according to this piece of marketing material from the sports apparel brand:
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The Striking Clothing Collection is a gorgeous feminine range to be worn by Maria Sharapova during the last two Grand Slams of 2010. Featuring unique style and beautiful colours bound to make a statement on the court.I usually like to take the wait-and-see approach on these dresses because sometimes they pull a switch-a-roo last minute and other times the flat doesn't look as good (or horrific) as it does on her and in motion. That being said, it seems Nike design was watching too many repeats of Mad Men in preparation for last night's season premiere - which was FANTASTIC - and got a bit too inspired by Betty Draper (who can blame them really.) But again, WAIT-AND-SEE.
An eyecatching Court Day Dress as worn by Maria, this dress is a beautiful new colour and a fantastic new style with lots of attractive assymetrical features. The button plackets on the chest and right hem are non-functional, providing an eye-catching style to this dress. The black hem of the dress is delicately ruffled with a pop of colour shimmer under the dress.
Of course, the next logical question would be: Which character will Shieka play for her night matches - Joan Harris or Peggy Olson? She'll need double 'D' chicken cutlets for the former while this could work just fine for the latter. But, good question indeed.
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Hair Battle Spectacular: A Wedding Inspired Challenge Exposes A Cheater!
August 17, 2010 08:33 PM by Jennifer
It's another crazy night of head to head competition on Hair Battle Spectacular on Oxygen! As the designers face back to back wedding inspired challenges, one of them is revealed as a cheater! Keep reading to find out who thought they would get away with it!
Cajmonet attacked Lexi telling her that she should have been the one sent home last week, and not Roo. So Minista starts to chime in saying she is going to win the competition, while Tsunami gets fed up with all of their negative garbage. As they walk into the salon for their challenge, Brooke points out that Malibu is not there, that there is a medical problem and she needed to leave! What a bummer! This Check Up From The Neck Up challenge involves them making a fantasy hair bouquet for a weddingusing flowers! Then in walks Derek J, who tells them they better use some imagination with this challenge. They have two hours to create an outrageous look. These are not your normal run of the mill styles only using the models hair, but crazy colored hair extensions and materials.
With 20 minutes left on the clock, Fingaz is having a hard time keeping her models hair up. Everyone was running around complaining that two hours was not enough time on this episode of Hair Battle Spectacular on Oxygen! . Fingaz didn't even get to finish. But when time is up, they must stop working and be judged by Derek J. Lexi got judged first, with yellow hair extensions to resemble flowers, which Derek J said was awful. J Rok made a great bouquet with a huge fan of hair in front of it. Minista made a style hanging off the side of the head with two red and yellow balls. Cajmonet had a huge pink track of hair hanging off her model's face with some flowers on top. Boss tried to make an arm holding a bouquet with wires sticking out, but Derek J said it was still a beautiful piece. Fingaz had green, purple and yellow extensions just hanging on her models hair.
Derek J calls Cajmonet, J Rok, Fingaz and Minista out of the designers group. He criticized Minista and Fingaz, saying he would have thrown Fingaz's style into a wood chipper. He liked J Rok's design, and also Cajmonet's, but he named J Rok the winner. He receives a freeze pass for the Glam Slam Challenge, which means he can freeze another designers work for an hour!! That can really hurt them in this competition.
But all of a sudden Fingaz says there is a rat in the room on tonight's Hair Battle Spectacular on Oxygen! One of the designers cheated and bought a bridal magazine at the store the night before! This is totally against the rules. So Boss says that the person who did it should just step forward and admit it, and e steps away. The second person to step away was Cajmonet, and as soon as she did, the others started to look in disbelief, and Cajmonet starts denying it even before they accused her of anything. To me that proved she was guilt right there! So Minista steps up and says she saw Cajmonet with a bridal magazine that she tucked under her shirt. Sneaky!! So Brooke and Derek J tell them that they will look into it, and there will be serious repercussions to the cheater.
So now it is time for the Glam Slam, which involves a wedding cake. They have a guest judge, celebrity wedding planner Jess Gordon. She tells the designers they better look at every angle when they create a wedding cake fantasy design style. Since Malibu won last time and is gone, the runner up from last week gets to select partners. This happens to be Minista. After she picks everyone's opponents, the designers go back to the house to rest up for the night. On the morning of the Glam Slam, the designer start their creations, using things like Styrofoam. Then J Rok busts out the Freeze Pass, which makes one designer have to stop working for one hour. So he decides to freeze Cajmonet. Could it be in revenge for the magazine incident, or was he threatened by her? The other designers just sit back and laugh. Then in walks Derek J, who tells them that they discovered Cajmonet purchased the magazine, and they penalized her for an extra hour, making her sit out for two hours! So she yells at Valley Girl, calling her a liar and a whore, and storms out of the room crying! Then she walks back in, and has to sit there staring at Valley Girl during her two hour time out.
As the clock winds down, Derek J walks in and tells Cajmonet her two hours are up and she can start working. But she said she works well under pressure, and thinks she will be done. The first battle is Fingaz versus Cajmonet. Fingaz had a red and black style that looked just like a cake, but Cajmonet's model looked a little trashy, and the judges, made up of Lyndsay Albanese, Derek J, and Jess Gordon, picked Fingaz as the winner. Making Cajmonet up for elimination. Next was J Rok versus Sexi Lexi. J Rock did a traditional three tiered cake. Lexi made a red and white striped cake with yellow flowers. It kind of looked like a kids birthday cake to me. The judges chose J Rok as the winner of that battle. The third battle was Tsunami versus Valley Girl. Tsunami had his model under a table, with her head only sticking out as the cake. Valley Girl had a red and ivory tiered cake. The judges picked Tsunami to win that one. Minista is facing off against Boss, and just when she thought her male inspired cake was the best, the whole top of the style fell off the model's head as she walked away! But they still picked her to win the battle! Unbelievable!
Tsunami, Fingaz, J Rok and Minista are all in the Hair Do category, and Derek J announces that Fingaz is the winner of this Glam Slam. Now the desgners up for elimination, Boss, Cajmonet, Valley Girl and Sexi Lexi. But before they announce who is going home, Boss mouths off to Derek J, saying that he keeps bashing his work. It escalates into a yelling battle, and Brooke stops it and says the elimination must go on. Cajmonet and Valley Girl are told they are safe this week, and the judges tell Boss that he has lost this battle, and he is eliminated. I don't think anyone is surprised, after all he did yell at Derek J!
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Duncan Jones
Birth Name: Duncan Jones
Born: 05/30/1971
Birth Place: Bromley, England, GB
Born: 05/30/1971
Birth Place: Bromley, England, GB
The son of protean British rock legend David Bowie, Duncan Jones chose to avoid both his father's profession and the tragic choices made by many children of celebrities, focusing instead on a directorial career that yielded a critical hit with his debut, "Moon" (2009) and a box office winner with the more action-oriented "Source Code" (2011). Raised in the volatile, drug-fueled relationship between Bowie and his mother, Angela Bowie, Jones found solace in film and science fiction, which would become his primary interests when he pursued a career as a cameraman and director as an adult. After working on several high-profile projects, including concert films for his father and a polarizing ... Continue Bio >>
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- Syngenta at a Glance
- Pesticides
- Agricultural Biotechnology
- Focus: Paraquat
- Focus: Atrazine
- Focus: Suppressing Evidence
- Undue Influence
- A Wide Range of Impacts
- Resources for Action
Syngenta AG
In December 1999, Novartis Agribusiness and AstraZeneca Agrochemicals merged to form Syngenta. Earlier that year, AstraZeneca was formed when Zeneca, a British lifesciences company, acquired Astra AB, a Swedish pharmaceutical corporation. Only four years earlier, Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz merged to form Novartis.
Today Syngenta is the world's largest agrochemical producer.Furthermore, the company is the world's leading agricultural biotechnology corporation, third largest owner of plant biotechnology patents, and third largest seed supplier.[1] In 2009, the company's sales totaled almost US$ 11 billion. [2]
Syngenta at a Glance
Headquarters Basel, Switzerland
Key subsidiaries Tomono Agrica (Japan), Agra (Italy), Agrosem (France), Koipesol Semillas (Spain), Crop protection business of Oriental Chemical Industries (South Korea), Sturdy Grow Hybrids (United States), Wilson Seeds (United States), Agritrading (Italy), American Sunmelon (United States), Ishirara Sangyo Kaisha Ltd. (Japan), Mogen (Netherlands), New Farm Crops (United Kingdom), Hilleshog NK (Sweden), Stauffer Chemical BV (Netherlands), Sluis & Grut (Netherlands), Northrup King Co. (United States), Rogers (United States), Funk Seeds International (United States),Golden Harvest (United States), Dia-Engei (Japan), Dulcinea Farms, LLC (United States), Advanta BV (Netherlands), GreenLeaf Genetics LLC (United States), Conrad Fafard, Inc (United States), Zeraim Gedera (Israel), Goldsmith Seeds (United States), SPS Argentina (South America), Synergene Seed & Technology, Inc. (United States), Pybas Vegetable Seed Co., Inc. (United States), Maribo Seed (Denmark) [3]
Product sectors In 2009, Selective Herbicides (US$2.22 billion in sales), Non-Selective Herbicides (US$1.14 billion), Fungicides (US$2.44 billion), Insecticides (US$1.31 billion), Professional Products (US$458 million), Other (96 million) [2]
Employees About 25,900 employees worldwide [4]
Sales distribution Syngenta operates in over 90 countries. Its regional revenue distribution in 2008 was as follows: Europe, Africa and the Middle East (US$4.3 billion or37% of total global sales), NAFTA (US $3.6 billion or 31% of total), Latin America ($2.2 billion or 19% of total), and Asia Pacific (US $1.5 billion or 13% of total). [5]
Revenues [6]
2009 revenue was $10.99 billion.
2008 revenue was US$11.6 billion.
2007 revenue was US$ 9.2 billion.
2006 revenue was US$ 8 billion
2005 revenue was US$ 8.1 billion
2004 revenue was US$ 7.3 billion
Net income In 2008, Syngenta's net income was CHF 1.6 billion (about US $1.5 billion today) . In 2007, the company made almost CHF 1.2 billion (about US$ 1.14 billion today) in net income. [5]
Executive compensation In 2009, Chairman of the Board Martin Taylor received $2,510,380 ($1.9 million of which was in cash). Other members of the Board (9 people in all) were paid a total of $2.5 million, while members of the Executive Committee (8 people in all) were paid a total of $16.955 million, including in-kind benefits. [2]
Type of corporation Public, traded on the Swiss Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange.
Syngenta says it "is committed to sustainable agriculture through innovative research and technology."Its pesticides, however, tell a different story, and include active ingredients such as:
Acetochlor Acetochlor is a known carcinogen [7] granted conditional registration by the U.S. EPA in 1994. A 1995 study found acetochlor in tap water in 52% of 29 major U.S. cities tested. [8] The state of New York has refused to register acetochlor. [9]
Avermectin Avermectin is known to increase the risk of birth defects and affect the brain and central nervous system. [10] It is a PAN Bad Actor chemical.
Chlorothalonil A known carcinogen, a possible groundwater contaminant and a toxin to aquatic organisms and beneficial soil microorganisms, Chlorotahlonil is an acutely toxic PAN Bad Actor Chemical. [11]
Clodinafop Clodinafop is classified as "likely to be carcinogen to humans" and is suspected to cause prostate, ovarian, liver and blood cancer. [12] Furthermore, it is known to be highly toxic to freshwater fish, is persistent and has the potential to contaminate drinking water. [13]
Diazinon Diazinon is an organophosphate pesticide (a class of pesticides that were orginially developed as nerve agents in WWII) and was the second top seller in the home and garden insecticide market until EPA was forced to severly restrict its use due to health concerns [14] Studies found it present at levels of up to 3,500 times those deemed safe by EPA. [8] Diazinon is a cholinesterase inhibitor and a PAN Bad Actor chemical. [15]
DDT The Swiss multinational Ciba-Geigy, later Syngenta, developed and marketed DDT between 1942 and 1962.Between 1988 and 1990, Ciba-Geigy shipped 405,000 liters of DDT to Tanzania in violation of stated company policy and FAO standards.[16]
Lambda-cyhalothrin A restricted use insecticide belonging to the pyrethroid class of chemicals, lambda-cyhalohrin is extremely toxic to aquatic organisms and bees.[17]
Metolachlor Metolachlor is a groundwater contaminant, suspected endocrine disrupter and possible human carcinogen. [18] Metolachlor was found in the water supplies of 19 of 29 major U.S. cities tested.[8] Due to its prevalence in groundwater and its human health effects, it is a PAN Bad Actor chemical.
Profenofos Another organophosphate insecticide, Profenofos is also a cholinesterase inhibiter, which means that it interferes in the transmission of nerve impulses. This could lead to tremors and nausea at low doses; paralysis and death at high doses. [19]
Simazine Herbicide functionally and molecularly similar to atrazine. See "Focus: Atrazine" below.
Agricultural Biotechnology
By 2000 Syngenta had positioned itself as the third largest holder of biotech patents.Some of Syngenta's agricultural biotechnology products include insect-resistant Bt corn; herbicide-tolerant soybean, engineered for resistance to Roundup herbicide; and genetically modifiied cotton. [20] The company is also a leading developer of Genetic Use Restriction Technologies, or GURTs, in which organisms are genetically engineered to limit user benefits—such as the inability of so-called "Terminator" plants to produce seeds for replanting. [21]Genetically engineered crops pose serious risks to public health and the environment, increase reliance on pesticides, deepen agribusiness control over farmers, and undermine food security and sovereignty. Most biotech seeds are licensed to farmers, not sold: making it illegal to replant, save, trade, share or breed them as farmers have done for millennia. Global food security requires access to land; small-scale, ecologically based farming systems; and ample crop diversity to respond to varied and changing environments. Genetically engineered crops, in contrast, are an extension of industrial agricultural practices that concentrate land ownership, rely on synthetic pesticides, fertilizers and other off-farm inputs, and dramatically reduce crop biodiversity.
Focus: Paraquat
"Because Syngenta values its customers and firmly believes in the safety of its products, it is working hard to keep paraquat on the market. Syngenta wants farmers to have that choice not only for their own sake, but for the sake of agriculture itself – and for the environment too."– Syngenta Corporation
Paraquat is the active ingredient of Gramoxone, one of Syngenta's most prominent products and the second highest selling non-selective herbicide in the world [22]. In the U.S., paraquat is a restricted use pesticide.[23]The World Health Organization called paraquat "the only highly toxic herbicide of the post-war years." [1]As little as one teaspoonful constitutes a fatal dose for humans.
Syngenta claims that Gramoxone's "physical properties make it safe to handle, when used according to directions, with the required protective clothing." Unfortunately, up to 70% of paraquat is applied in developing countries, where protective equipment is often lacking and many applicators cannot read label directions and warnings. [23] Consequently, studies have revealed that ill-equipped applicators commonly suffer from reduced lung capacity and poor health in general.Other commonly reported occupational effects resulting from paraquat exposure include damage to nails, skin, eyes and nose.Non-fatal exposure may result in "thirst, shortness of breath, rapid heart rate, kidney failure, lung sores and liver injury." [22] The frequency and severity of paraquat-related injuries have led civil rights groups to say "It is not right for a human to be handling it" [24]
Focus: Atrazine
"Atrazine has been subject to the most stringent regulatory and scientific evaluation, and Syngenta has submitted more than 100 scientific studies in recent years to EPA to support atrazine's safety."– Syngenta Corporation
Atrazine is a non-selective herbicide and the second most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. It is a known carcinogen and widespread groundwater contaminant. [25] Atrazine was present in the tap water of 28 out of 29 major U.S. cities tested. [8]In fact, EWG reported that "cancer risks from atrazine and simazine in tap water [were] ten times the new FQPA benchmark in 60 Midwestern towns."[26]
Multiple studies conducted by Dr. Tyrone Hayes, professor of developmental endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley, highlight the hazards posed by Atrazine. In extensive research over several years, Dr. Hayes has shown that atrazine causes sexual abnormalities – including hermaphroditism and "chemical castration" – in frogs at levels 30 times less than the EPA maximum contaminant level. [27] The Syngenta Corporation has devoted considerable energies to suppressing Dr. Hayes' findings. See "Focus: Suppressing Evidence," below.
Focus: Suppressing Evidence
When Dr. Hayes made his results known to the company, funding for his experiments suddenly dried up and there were delays in approving guidelines for continued research.[28] Despite these obstacles, Dr. Hayes continued his research, but when his studies were complete, Syngenta refused to let him publish his data, reminding him that his contract included a clause that made his findings their private property. (LSP/PANNA) When Dr. Hayes ended his contract Syngenta attempted to buy his silence: He was offered US$2 million in laboratory support and asked to continue his research "in a private setting," where unfavorable results could more easily be suppressed. Hayes, however, refused to abandon his studies, his data, or his principles.[28]
In June 2002, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), citing Hayes' research, petitioned the EPA to withdraw atrazine from the market.Meanwhile, Syngenta spent US$260,000 lobbying the EPA and attempting to discredit the results of Hayes' work.[29] EPA gave the green light to re-registration by issuing an interim re-registration eligibility decision in favor of atrazine. The agency reported that there is insufficient evidence "to show that atrazine produces a consistent, reproducible effect on amphibian development."[30]
Undue influence
To advance their interests, powerhouses like Syngenta invest heavily in political and social influence. Some of Syngenta's efforts to influence policy and public opinion include:
Trade organizations and think tanks Some of the trade and policy organizations in which Syngenta participates include:
- British Society of Plant Breeders (http://www.bspb.co.uk/)
- Business Action for Sustainable Development (http://basd.free.fr/)
- Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (http://www.cgiar.org/)
- Council for Biotechnology Information (http://www.cast-science.org/)
- CropGen (http://www.cropgen.org/)
- CropLife International (http://www.croplife.org/)
- EuropaBio (http://www.europabio.org/)
- European Crop Protection Association (http://www.ecpa.be/)
- International Chamber of Commerce (http://www.iccwbo.org/)
- Supply Chain Initiative on Modified Agricultural Crops (http://www.scimac.org.uk/)
Campaign contributions Syngenta and its predecessors contributed a total of US$1,274,345 to U.S. federal candidates through Political Action Committees (PACs) from 1994 to 2002 (72.1% to Republicans)— nearly US$255,000 per election cycle.[37]In 2002, Syngenta donated US$261,318 to both major U.S. political parties (62.5% to the Republican Party).[38]
Corporate science In 1998, Novartis and University of California, Berkeley, agreed to a five-year US$25 million research alliance that granted significant influence for the company. As a part of this agreement, Novartis secured first rights to negotiate licenses on about a third of all innovations and to place two representatives on the committee that assesses research proposals and allocates funding.[39]
A Wide Range of Impacts
Hazardous wastes Syngenta and its subsidiaries are responsible for pollution resulting in 18 Superfund sites.[31] Three of Syngenta's five industrial facilities in the U.S. rank amongst the worst 30% of comparable facilities in total toxic releases.[32]
Use of human subjects In an effort to prevent deregistration of the pesticide diazinon for home and garden uses, Syngenta orally dosed healthy human subjects with the neurotoxic chemical.[32] In 1975, Ciba-Geigy sprayed monocrotophos, a hazardous organophosphate and neurotoxicant, on 40 Indian children and adult volunteers.[33]
Fraud In 2003, AstraZeneca settled a case for US$355 million regarding charges of fraud and bribery that were exposed in 1996 by a whistleblower.[34]
Polluting the Rhine River In 1986 a fire at the Sandoz chemical plant released 30 tons of pesticide into the Rhine River causing extensive downstream damage and necessitating one of the most extensive river clean-ups in the world."An estimated half a million fish were killed, and some species were wiped out entirely. ." according to a BBC report. [35]
AdvertisementsIn Malaysia, Syngenta is fighting a government decision to ban the herbicide paraquat. The company, along with other chemical companies, has worked to influence the media, plantation workers and their trade union, fruit growers and rice farmers as part of its campaign to revoke the ban.[36]
Resources for action
Groups and individuals are taking action to hold Syngenta accountable for its impacts. The following resources are good starting points for more information about Syngenta and how you can help in these efforts.
Syngenta (http://www.syngenta.com)
Syngenta's Web site.
Scorecard (http://www.scorecard.org)
Environmental Defense's toxic release information Web site. You can look up Syngenta's toxic release information and locations of its U.S. facilities.
Hoovers online
Provides financial information about Syngenta and links to detailed reports and filings.
Corporate watch
Corporate Watch's corporate profile of Syngenta.
PAN Pesticides Database
Pesticide Action Network North America's pesticide database allows you to search for toxicity, regulatory and other information by chemical or product.
Berne Declaration's Stop Paraquat Web page
The "Stop Paraquat" campaign, conducted by NGOs, trade unions, and scientists around the world, calls to end the production, and ban the use, of the highly toxic herbicide, Paraquat.
[1] "Syngenta: A Corporate Profile," Corporate Watch UK, November 2002, http://archive.corporatewatch.org/profiles/syngenta/syngenta1.htm on 29 July 2010.
[2] Syngenta 2009 Annual Report
[3] Syngenta Company History: http://www2.syngenta.com/en/about_syngenta/companyhistory.html on 29 July 2009
[4] Hoover's Report: http://www.hoovers.com/company/Syngenta_AG/rftjjci-1.html
[5] Syngenta 2008 Annual Report
[6] Syngenta Annual Reports, various years.
[7] Proposition 65 list of known: http://oehha.ca.gov/prop65/prop65_list/files/P65single061110.pdf
[8] Brian Cohen et al, "Weed Killers by the Glass: A Citizens' Tap Water Monitoring Project in 29 Cities," Environmental Working Group, 17 August 1995, http://www.ewg.org/reports/weed_killer on 29 July 2010.
[9]Audrey Thier, "The Toxic Treadmill: Pesticide Use and Sales in New York State 1997-1998," Environmental Advocates New York Public Interest Research Group, October 2000, http://www.eany.org/issues/reports/Toxic%20Treadmill_full%20report.html on 29 July 2010
[10] EPA Avermectin Factsheet: http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/insect-mite/abamectin-bufencarb/avermectin/insect-prof-avermectin.html
[11] PAN Pesticide Information Database: http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Summary_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC34550
[12] EPA Clodinafop factsheet: http://www.epa.gov/opprd001/factsheets/clodinafop.pdf
[13] PAN Pesticide Information Database: http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC41361
[14]Press Release, "EPA Phasing Out Pesticide Diazinon" Environmental Working Group. 5 Dec 2000, http://www.ewg.org/node/15646 on 29 July 2010.
[15] PAN Pesticide Information Database: http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35079#Regulatory
[16] "The Syngenta Corporation & Atrazine: The Cost to the Land, People, and Democracy", Land Stewardship Project, Pesticide Action Network North America, Jan 2010. Print.
[17] "Pesticide Information Profiles: Lambda Cyhalothrin," Extension Toxicology Network, http://ace.ace.orst.edu/info/extoxnet/pips/lambdacy.htm on 29 July 2010.
[18] PAN Pesticide Information Database: http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Summary_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC34759
[19] PAN Pesticide Information Database: http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Summary_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC34257
[20] Syngenta Website: http://www2.syngenta.com/en/products_brands/index.html
[21] "New Terminator Patent Goes to Syngenta", ETC Group, 12 March 2001, http://www.etcgroup.org/en/node/277 on 30 July 2010.
[22] John Madely, "Paraquat-Syngenta's Controversial Herbicide," April 2002, http://www.evb.ch/cm_data/Syngenta_paraquat.pdf on 30 July 2010.
[23] "Facts About Paraquat," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 8 May 2003, http://www.bt.cdc.gov/agent/paraquat/basics/facts.asp on 30 July 2010.
[24] "Asian Plantation Workers Face Weedkiller Health Threat", Reuters, 2 Feb 2009, http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSP42744020090202 on 30 July 2010.
[25] PAN Pesticide Information Database: http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_Chemical.jsp?Rec_Id=PC35042
[26] "Federal Cancer Risk Level Routinely Exceeded," Environmental Working Group, 12 August 1997, http://www.ewg.org/node/7845 on 30 July 2010.
[27] Tyrone B. Hayes. "There Is No Denying This: Defusing the Confusion About Atrazine", BioScience.December 2004 / Vol. 54 No. 12. on 30 July 2010. Available through JStor at: http://www.jstor.org/pss/3333908
[28] Goldie Bulumensytk, "The Story of Syngenta & Tyrone Hayes at UC Berkeley: The Price of Research," The Chronicle of Higher Education, 31 October 2003, http://www.mindfully.org/Pesticide/2003/Syngenta-Tyrone-Hayes31oct03.htm on 7 March 2004.
[29]"Syngenta's Massive Lobbying Keeps Carcinogenic Corn Pesticide on Market", Organic Consumers Association, 27 October 2004, http://www.organicconsumers.org/foodsafety/syngenta110104.cfm on 30 July 2010.
[30] EPA Website: http://www.epa.gov/pesticides/factsheets/atrazine_addendum.htm
[32] See http://www.scorecard.org.
[32] "Syngneta (Novartis) Doses Humans with Diazinon in an Effort to Save the Pesticide," Environmental Working Group, http://www.ewg.org/node/8068 on 31 July 2010.
[33] Holly Knaus, "Ciba-Geigy Pushing Pills and Pesticides," Multinational Monitor, http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1993/04/mm0493_11.html on 31 July 2010.
[34] "Pharmaceutical Giant to Pay Fines," Health Supreme, 21 June 2003, http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/06/21/pharmaceutical_giant_to_pay_fines.htm on 31 July 2010.
[35] "1986: Chemical spill turns Rhine red" British Broadcasting Corporation, http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/1/newsid_4679000/4679789.stm on 31 July 2010
[36] Baradan Kuppusamy, "Malaysia: Government Pulled in Opposite Direction on Pesticide Use," InterPress Service, 23 July 2003, http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=7714 on 31 July 2010.
[37] Online searchable database of FEC PAC filings at http://www.politicalmoneyline.com on 26 December 2003.
[38] Online searchable records at http://www.opensecrets.org on 26 December 2003.
[39] Spitzer, Skip, "Industrial Agriculture and Corporate Power," Pesticide Action Network North America, June 2003, http://www.panna.org/campaigns/docsGe/indAgAndCorpPower.pdf on 31 July 2010.
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Which is probably better for a new machine running Ubuntu?
In terms of hardware, I think at this moment ATI is providing more bang for your buck, with many cheap cards outperforming NVIDIA cards of the same value.
However, while ATI's open-source drivers are continuing to improve, I don't think they (nor the binary fglrx driver) compare with NVIDIA's proprietary driver -- yet. If you're using a typical desktop/office machine, you may be okay with a nice ATI card and either set of drivers. However, if you plan on doing any gaming, I think you may have less of a hassle using NVIDIA. So, at this point in time, I'd say an NVIDIA video card may be your best bet purely because of the drivers.
I have an NVIDIA GTS 250 and it's been running without issue, except for a text rendering bug in 10.10 (which is still beta) which has already been fixed in a newer driver.
After an entire year with this card, I will not be using ATI in the future. Both the proprietary and open source drivers have serious, albeit very different, issues. In fact, the experience has been so frustrating that I will make an effort to never use hardware that needs restricted drivers ever again.
Certain nVidia cards have no Free Software Driver (edit to add: Nouveau doesn't support all nvidia cards). When a security upgrade to Xorg breaks ABI compatibility and therefore breaks your driver, you're stuck on SVGA...well, that's if you're lucky.
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Philadelphia, PA (Sports Network) - Memorial Day is two and a half weeks away,
but it's already getting kind of late if you're a baseball team that is
I know, I know, we're not supposed to be looking at the standings in earnest
until the Fourth of July.
Well, that's fine if you're in first place and all is well with the world.
Your team is happy.
Your fans are happy.
Tickets are selling.
And the sun shines 24 hours a day.
But how 'bout for the teams that were supposed to be good and find themselves
stuck in the cellar?
It's not a happy place.
By Sunday, every major league team will have played at least 35 games. Sounds
like nothing, really, when a season is comprised of 162 games, but look a
little closer.
We're not that far away from the season being 25 percent over. To put that
number in perspective, let's say your favorite football team started 0-4. Well,
they aren't making the playoffs if they do. And four games is 25 percent of an
NFL season.
All right, enough math. Let's look at the teams that thought only a little over
a month ago they'd be stylin' by now.
Where to start, where to start? Ah, that's easy.
Let's go to L.A. and look at the Angels of Anaheim. All they did in the
offseason was spend a king's ransom on the top free agent available, slugger
Josh Hamilton.
And Hamilton hasn't delivered. The average isn't there - hello, Mario Mendoza -
and neither is the power. Add in Albert Pujols, who looks like a player in
decline, and Mike Trout, who had a wondrous rookie season in 2012 - jeez, he
just missed winning the AL MVP - but is far off that pace now, and the recipe
for the Angels slipping away is apparent.
Yes, Hamilton and Pujols have proven track records, and if they both are able
to turn things around, it wouldn't be a shocker. And Trout is just too good to
have a season-long sophomore slump.
But it needs to start happening and happening soon. The Texas Rangers are
soaring in the AL West and the Oakland A's look better than many thought. In
other words, having one team to jump over is tough, but having two to get past,
which the Angels are going to have to do, is really rough.
And if you shift over to the AL East, things look like they always seem to look
except they weren't supposed to look this way.
The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees are playing like they usually play, and
let's not discount the Tampa Bay Rays (who always seem to have a run in them)
and the Baltimore Orioles. All four look like they want to win the division.
The catch is the Toronto Blue Jays. After an offseason bonanza of trades, the
Jays were supposed to be atop of the AL East, not buried in the cellar next to
the Christmas decorations.
Is it too early to panic in Toronto? Absolutely not. With four inspired teams
ahead of you in the standings, good luck.
Shift over to the National League and we can stay in L.A. to find struggles.
The Dodgers are doing their best just to get to .500, and Matt Kemp and Zack
Greinke are leading the way.
Kemp, a perennial MVP candidate, has lost his power stroke and Greinke, a big
bucks free agent, has just one win and one lost fight that has him on the
disabled list.
The Dodgers, and their fans, have watched too many World Series parades held in
San Francisco and they need to reverse this thing.
And over in the NL East, the Washington Nationals have found their footing and
the Atlanta Braves (despite a woeful start from B.J. Upton) are hanging in
The team that's not is the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phils simply got old and
need to tear everything down and try to rebuild.
Who knows if Roy Halladay will ever be close to being Roy Halladay again and
the same for Ryan Howard. There are too many questions and not enough answers
in Philly, which means they will soon fade away.
We'll come back to this discussion in a few weeks to see who, if anybody,
turned things around. We'll also look at the biggest surprises to date.
Ah, the joy of the baseball season. Months and months of things to talk about.
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The Brewster Inn is on the National Register of Historic Places and was the family home of former Maine Governor and Senator Owen Brewster. If you ever saw the 3-time "Golden Globe" and 5-time Oscar award-winning film "The Aviator" starring Leonardo De Caprio as Howard Hughes, then you will have seen Alan Alda from MASH playing Senator Owen Brewster, who was in charge of the Government task force that tried to bring Howard Hughes down. Presidents Truman and Taft, 7 Senators (that we're aware of), and Louis B Mayer, the founder of MGM Films, have all been and stayed here. The house was remodeled in 1934 by Maine's (and quite possibly New England's) most famous architect, John Calvin Stevens. Our home was shown on TV across the USA on HGTV in June 2008 on "If Walls Could Talk" and has been replayed numerous times since then. We are proud to be part of such fascinating history! DESTINATION DEXTER!! Our location is pretty much the geographical centre point of Maine, hence the term "Destination Dexter.". Guests use The Brewster Inn as a home base for their Maine vacations, providing them with the perfect starting point in which to enjoy day trips to destinations such as: Moosehead Lake: - 1-hour drive (38 miles), Camden: - 1 hour and 42-minute drive (67 miles), Bar Harbor: - 2-hour drive (87 miles), Freeport and LLBean: - 1 hour and 40-minute drive (99 miles), Portland: - 2-hour drive (115 miles), Canada: - (3 hours).» Read More Explore the area and all of its quaint charm while lodging with us at The Brewster Inn. Walk to shops in Dexter, where you will find a variety of shopping for antiques and Maine-made items. Take a drive or bicycle ride around the area and experience an abundance of scenic views from Lake Wassookeag to charming farms and beautiful countryside. » Read More about Dexter Maine
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Actress Jennifer Lawrence has edged out singer Miley Cyrus by one vote to be named 2013's Entertainer of the Year by editors at The Associated Press.
A total of 70 votes were cast by U.S. staff to determine who had the "most influence" on pop culture in 2013.
Oscar winner Lawrence topped the poll with 15 votes, while Cyrus trailed with 14.
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I work tracking radio-collared elk in the mountains of western Wyoming all summer long, last year I could never think of anything good to eat for lunch, this winter I read Backcountry Bowhunting and have been alternating between PB & bacon on bagels and hard salami and cheese on a bagel. It really fills me up and gives me a lot more energy for the long hikes and big climbs I do everyday. Plus they taste a lot better than freeze dried food. I will definitely be eating them through hunting season this year as well. I've had both sandwiches go as long as 5 days and it was fine even in hot July temps, so I think it could go even longer in September when it's cooler.
"I made one and it was actually good and I am now planning on taking them with me while elk hunting this year!!"
My Son turned up his nose at my Peanut Butter/Bacon/Honey sandwiches......until he tried one last weekend on our scouting trip.
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Happy Valentine's Day, Revengers! In the Hamptons, we celebrate holidays of love with murder ... and clams. Natch.
While you all are celebrating the holiday of love with a beachside brunch à la Nolan Ross, we're busy trying to uncover any and all spoilers surrounding the death in Episode 14, "Sacrifice."
"After every wedding, you must have a death, so someone's dying," actress Ashley Madekwe (Ashley Davenport) told E! News.
So who will lose their life aboard The Amanda when it explodes in Sunday's episode? We have our predictions, but the cast has known from day one.
"The life expectancy on that show is insane," Ashley said. "In the first season, we didn't know who was dying. We just knew somebody was dying, because we had that body on the beach. But in this season, we knew in advance who was dying."
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Bartter syndrome
Other Names for this Disease
- Potassium wasting
- Bartter's syndrome
- Hypokalemic alkalosis with hypercalciuria
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potassium, sodium, chloride, and other molecules in the body. In some cases, the condition manifests before birth with increased amniotic fluid surrounding the affected fetus (polyhydramnios). Affected infants typically do not grow and gain wait as expected. Dehydration, constipation and increased urine production result from losing too much salt (sodium chloride) in the urine, and weakening of the bones can occur due to excess loss of calcium. Low levels of potassium in the blood (hypokalemia) can cause muscle weakness, cramping, and fatigue.[1] It is caused by mutations in any one of at least 5 genes and is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.[2] The different types of Bartter syndrome are classified according to the specific gene that causes the condition.[1] Treatment depends on the type of the syndrome present but chiefly focuses on preventing the loss of too much potassium from the body.[3]Bartter syndrome is a group of similar kidney disorders that cause an imbalance of
Last updated: 11/7/2011
- Bartter syndrome. Genetics Home Reference. February 2011; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/bartter-syndrome. Accessed 11/5/2011.
- G. Colussi. Bartter syndrome. Orphanet. July 2007; http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=EN&Expert=112. Accessed 11/5/2011.
- Bartter's syndrome. NORD. September 23, 2007; http://www.rarediseases.org/rare-disease-information/rare-diseases/byID/589/viewAbstract. Accessed 11/5/2011.
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- Genetics Home Reference (GHR) contains information on Bartter syndrome. This website is maintained by the National Library of Medicine.
- MedlinePlus was designed by the National Library of Medicine to help you research your health questions, and it provides more information about this topic.
- The Merck Manuals Online Medical Library provides information on this condition for patients and caregivers.
- The National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD) is a federation of more than 130 nonprofit voluntary health organizations serving people with rare disorders. Click on the link to view information on this topic.
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- Medscape Reference provides information on this topic. You may need to register to view the medical textbook, but registration is free.
- Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) is a catalog of human genes and genetic disorders. Each entry has a summary of related medical articles. It is meant for health care professionals and researchers. OMIM is maintained by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Antenatal Bartter syndrome type I
Antenatal Bartter syndrome type II
Bartter syndrome type III
Bartter syndrome type IV A
Bartter syndrome type IV B
- Orphanet is a European reference portal for information on rare diseases and orphan drugs. Access to this database is free of charge.
- PubMed is a searchable database of medical literature and lists journal articles that discuss Bartter syndrome. Click on the link to view a sample search on this topic.
Other Names for this Disease
- Potassium wasting
- Bartter's syndrome
- Hypokalemic alkalosis with hypercalciuria
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I've never knowingly heard a song by 'Insane Clown Posse' before, but this song is largely admirable in its sentiments.
It is very easy to be cynical and just take the world for granted, seeing it as hard, cold, material, prosaic, merely 'scientifically explainable'. However it also possible to see the world as a wonderful, amazing place. As a miracle. You do not have to adopt a theistic stance – there is no intimation of theism in the song. Keats and Wordsworth did not need to cite God in order draw attention to the wonder of the world, either. And Keats famously criticized those whose scientism makes them unable to appreciate the wonder of the natural world, & who attempt to 'unweave the rainbow'.
It is great that a band like Insane Clown Posse is drawing kids' attention to the wonder of the world. Trying to get them to look at it afresh with open, innocent eyes. Rather than the tired, taking-for-granted cynicism of people who think they are clever.
Of course, that people think they are clever, does not mean they are. The person who put up the above Facebook page thinks that the page that he linked to http://www.howmagnetswork.com/ explains how magnets work. It does not. Here is the nearest it gets
'How is a magnetic field created? When current flows in a wire, a magnetic field is created around the wire. From this it has been inferred that magnetic fields are produced by the motion of electrical charges. A magnetic field of a bar magnet thus results from the motion of negatively charged electrons in the magnet.'
This runs together electromagnets and bar magnets. An electromagnet is produced when a current flows through a wire; but there is no such current flow in a bar magnet – so what is going on there? Furthermore, with regard to an electromagnet the text does not explain how (by what process) the motion of electrical charges creates a magnet field. I'm not sure whether even scientists fully understand this. Anyone reading this know? No I thought not.
- April 10, 2010 at 8:51 PM
I'm more concerned with Pelicans that eat cell phones.
and the sentiment that 'scientists are lying' and you should simply believe in miracles/magic is NOT a good one. As in, which makes more sense for believing in miracles? Creationism or real science?
- April 10, 2010 at 9:10 PM
How the earth's magnetic field is generated, and why the north and south poles periodically switch, certainly is not understood.
Though even if it were, it would still be possible to see the earth's magnetic field as 'wonderful' or 'miraculous' in the sense intended above. Just as it is possible to see the rainbow as wonderful, beautiful & miraculous, yet still, when in a different frame of mind, explain how it is generated.
- April 10, 2010 at 9:15 PM
I know someone who saw a pelican eat a pigeon in St James Park (which adjoins Buckingham Palace).
I hadn't caught the line about scientists, and concede that it detracts from the song. Shame. However the rest of the song still seems admirable; and given the aim of the song is to encourage the listener to appreciate the world and see its wonder in contrast to having a cynical scientistic worldview, maybe we can cut Insane Clown Posse some slack for attacking scientists – just as we do Keats.
I don't hear anything connected to creationism.
- April 10, 2010 at 9:46 PM
I love blackened swordfish. And I love chocolate chip cheesecake. I do not like them put together into a blender.
Fiddy Cent meets Pagliacci. Now THAT is DOOM!
- April 10, 2010 at 10:21 PM
- English Jerk said...
I beg you in the name of my entire discipline, please stop comparing Insane Clown Posse to Keats!
- April 10, 2010 at 10:23 PM
- 729 said...
(also why the internet exists)
If you want a better poet to compare to ICP, stick with William McGonagall.
- April 10, 2010 at 10:34 PM
I humbly recommend for an illustrative contrast ICP's masterpiece "Fuck the World".
- April 10, 2010 at 10:54 PM
English Jerk & 729,
What's wrong with comparing ICP to Keats (even supposing Keats is great and ICP is repellent, as it plainly is)?
- April 11, 2010 at 12:41 AM
English Jerk, your post had me in stitches! :-)
I of course make no comment on the respective artistic merits of Insane Clown Posse and Keats.
I just think having a sense of wonder at the world is really important - fundamental. And it is good that a band – especially a band like ICP – is encouraging it.
Considering how important wonder is, there seems to be very little philosophical work on it. I have just started reading 'Wonder, the rainbow and the aesthetics of rare experiences' by Philip Fisher, which is good so far. And I have read a bit by Robert Fuller on Wonder. Anyone got any other recommendations?
- April 11, 2010 at 12:44 AM
- 729 said...
Meno, you got a problem with William McGonagall?
- April 11, 2010 at 2:57 AM
Meno, you got a problem with William McGonagall?
Lol. Not at all.
- April 11, 2010 at 8:51 AM
Insane Wordsworth Posse:
The world is too much with us, late and soon -- so fuck the world.
- April 11, 2010 at 9:53 AM
- English Jerk said...
O Meno:
What's wrong with comparing ICP and Keats is that it results in a gratuitously charitable reading of ICP (elevating them to the level of a Hallmark card) and a catastrophically reductive reading of Keats (dragging him down the level of a hallmark card). People always seem tempted to extract lines like "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever" or "More happy love, more happy happy love" and to take them as pearls of wisdom. But any careful attention at all to the poems from which these lines are taken will reveal them to be fraught with bewildering tensions and complexities. Keats is one of those poets who gets more and more perplexing the closer you examine him. Attention to those perplexities is part of what it means to read a poem as a poem, not as a communicative act. To do otherwise is simply a category mistake.
To put it another way, it's a bit like quoting "To thine own self be true" at people as a piece of advice. Whatever the virtues of the sentiment, it surely matters that these words are part of a string of platitudes from Polonius, who is a blowhard, a schemer, a pretentious twit--in short, the Fool.
- April 11, 2010 at 10:50 AM
taking things out of context is also why the internet exists.
Honestly, ICP (and this argument) is a reason to abandon the Principle of Charity, if there ever was one. But for those who want to pursue the ICP corpus, as J says, the Dark Carnival is your invitation. So go do some more digging. If you want to maintain that ridiculous position that this song is anything but stupid.
I find it interesting that it qualifies as a miracle that Violent J's son looks just like him...when you paint his face.
- April 11, 2010 at 11:43 AM
Maybe the sentiment is a good one, but if everything is a miracle, then who cares? And I never learned about miracles in school:
(@2:20- seems relevant to the Keats/ICP dispute)
- April 11, 2010 at 11:50 AM
- Bryan said...
Dan: viewing the world as "scientifically explainable" *is* viewing it as a wonderful, amazing place. A teacher of mine liked to say that the real world is much wilder and more beautiful than any invention of a magic mongerer. How better draw kids' attention to the wonder of the world than through science? Ok, maybe you're interested in aesthetics, since you're citing Keats -- but part of appreciating beauty certainly involves seeking to understand its source. Just crowing that the world is an unexplainable-innocent-miracle is counter-productive, no matter who you are.
I'd suggest you do a little more reading about electromagnetism before you complain too much. EM effects are arguably the best-understood phenomena in all of physics. Electromagnetism admits various candidate ontologies, which I assume is what you want when you ask "by what process" an electromagnetic field is created. For example, on a QED account, EM fields fundamentally express the statistical behavior of interactions involving the exchange of photons. The question of the *correct* ontology for electromagnetism is an important open question being debated by philosophers and philosophers of physics -- and I suspect most other readers of this blog *do* already know that.
- April 11, 2010 at 12:02 PM
- 729 said...
@Meno: Drats! You got a lot out of those lessons with Gorgias.
- April 11, 2010 at 1:13 PM
I second abandoning the Principle of Charity.
An excerpt: "OK," he said. "You want to be looking to the front and to the back the whole time. You're going to be getting slammed with bottles of Faygo from the stage and shit from the rest of the crowd behind you at the same time, and people are going to be riding up on top of you. It's pretty much going to be a full-on warzone." He was literally dancing in place with excitement.
- April 11, 2010 at 1:40 PM
In other news, Hitch and Dawkins are gonna arrest the Pope.
- April 11, 2010 at 9:31 PM
Bryan, yes, science is wonderful. But to do science is not (per se) to see science as wonderful. You can do science without seeing science as wonderful. Likewise to scientifically analyse a rainbow is not (per se) to see the rainbow as wonderful. And I take it that experiencing the beauty of science is different to seeing science as wonderful.
In my post I was simply trying to emphasis the importance of wonder. And to say that it is good if those who influence pop culture encourage wonder. Even if (as I am now informed is the case with ICP) they have done other things which are detrimental to pop culture.
Finally, I know that we can make excellent predictions of electromagnetic phenomena. However, my point in the last part of my original post was that the question 'Magnets, how the fuck do they work' (a lyric that had been poked fun of in the page linked to in Spiros first post) is not an unreasonable one. Magnets are pretty amazing. And most people, including most philosophers, do not know that according to Quantum Electrodynamics (as you report) 'EM fields fundamentally express the statistical behavior of interactions involving the exchange of photons', and as you say, no one knows the correct ontology.
- April 11, 2010 at 10:47 PM
I don't see that a sense of wonder is intrinsically valuable. If it's wonder experienced after one has made a good faith effort to understand what there is to understand, then that's cool. But the deliberate cultivation of ignorance just to sustain a sensation of whoa-dude-far-out-ness strikes me as something we need a lot less of.
In summary: fuck the insane clown posse.
- April 12, 2010 at 9:21 AM
NOTE: the title of Spiros' blog post was "Why the Internet Exists" not "Why ICP Exists."
- April 12, 2010 at 12:20 PM
English Jerk,
Ah, I see. Yeah, that makes good sense.
- April 13, 2010 at 9:12 AM
English Jerk,
Ah, I see. Yeah, that makes sense.
- April 13, 2010 at 3:22 PM
- English Jerk said...
It didn't sound good the second time round?
- April 13, 2010 at 5:53 PM
English J.,
You know Meno. He's always getting that deja vu feeling.
- April 13, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- 729 said...
English J: Anadiplosis
- April 13, 2010 at 7:58 PM
- English Jerk said...
Why is it that all rhetorical terms sound like diseases? Like
"Oh, I've got an antimetabole in my left knee--or was it my right?"
"I caught syllepsis from my roommate, and now nothing agrees with me."
Let's hope that Meno doesn't succumb to this anadiplosis, or we'll have to make a bumper-ribbon in his honor.
- April 14, 2010 at 7:48 AM
"It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too, e.g. about the changes of the moon and of the sun, about the stars and about the origin of the universe. . ."
* * *
"It is necessary, however, for the possession of it [i.e., knowledge] for us to settle in a certain way into the opposite of the strivings with which it began. For everyone begins, as we are saying, from wondering whether things are as they seem, such as the self-moving marvels, or about the reversals of the sun or the incommensurability of the diagonal… But it is necessary to end in what is opposite and better, as the saying goes…"
-Aristotle, Meta., 982b & 983a
- April 14, 2010 at 2:09 PM
But does the internet REALLY exist?
- April 15, 2010 at 7:51 PM
Reduced: whether the "miraculous" is a miracle (in the sense of an unexplainable phenomenon) or a miracle (in the sense of wonder). In other words, shall we look at this exchange between the artists and the philosopher/scientists as a disagreement, or as alternate definitions of the same terms "wonder" and "miracle"? Should we understand how the artist looks at the scientist, or how the scientist looks at the artist?
The artists say in this work "I don't want to talk to a scientist" to explain what, without explanation, is "wonder-full" and the scientists say "it's not wonder-full, it's explainable." They're talking past each other.
I agree with Dan that the sense of wonder, or the miraculous, is an admirable trait to promote in the general population (especially in a scientific culture). It brings balance against the view that the only reasonable response to a magnificent event is to explain it, and once it's explained, there is no further dimension to consider such as its aesthetic beauty or sheer magnificence, as if there is no such thing as magnificence (or awe and wonder). The artists are rebelling (too anti-intellectually, but that is poetic license as much as anything) against a strictly utilitarian or functional view of nature. And the phi/scientist who lampoons that is rebelling against the anti-intellectualism rampant across the voxpop culture.
What's interesting is that "wonder" survives a 400-year march of science into modern human consciousness, and still "wonder" surfaces repeatedly and irrepressibly in our culture as a yearning for enjoyment of nature, rather than explanation. Science, strictly done, is spare and acerbic, minimalist and unembellished. Art, strictly done, is effusive, receptive, and mythical. If we ever lose the mythical aspect of our vision of the world, our respect for nature will disappear -- it IS disappearing -- into the dry sand of utility, in which anything not "useful" to human beings has little value and need not be preserved (much less venerated). So what's a few eagles, compared to a lice-free humanity? On that measure, what are a few million people, compared to preserving all the scientists? Reverence, awe and wonder are not rational, but they may be crucial to our survival as a species. Let the artists celebrate "wonder." They are only asking for some space for human spirit in a world where "spirit" is called, scientifically, nothing real.
- April 15, 2010 at 8:35 PM
Wow, a hot new volume in the "Philosophy and Popular Culture" series is materializing right in front of us. Make sure Spiros gets the credit he deserves!
- April 17, 2010 at 2:09 PM
And Spiros just demonstrated something f***** miraculous about the internet. His kickoff post consists of exactly three words. LOL.
- April 17, 2010 at 8:36 PM
And only TWO types....
- April 17, 2010 at 9:41 PM
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Originally Posted By: hondo

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I got loaded and Coe and I mouthed off to each other.
About 1500 bikers got pissed. I apologised quickly to Coe.
Best concert I ever saw. 2 and a half hours of hard drivin Outlaw, classic country, and country rock.

YOU GOT LOADED ! Now here i thought that you were a teacher.That is terrible.
YOU GOT LOADED!A supposed sunday school teacher got loaded.What kind of example of a person are you for the children?
Inglorious hypocrite.
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Orlando, FL (Sports Network) - Georgia was left completely out of the BCS after coming up five yards shy to Alabama in the SEC Championship Game and of playing in the BCS title game.
Aaron Murray made sure there'd be no letdown in the Capital One Bowl.
Murray threw five touchdown passes in the sixth-ranked Bulldogs' 45-31 triumph over No. 23 Nebraska.
The senior signal-caller tallied 428 yards through the air on 19-of-34 efficiency for Georgia (12-2), which reached 12 wins for the third time in program history.
Rex Burkhead had 140 yards rushing and a score on 24 carries for the Cornhuskers (10-4), who suffered a 70-31 loss to Wisconsin in the Big Ten title game.
Nebraska closed the campaign with back-to-back losses on the heels of a six- game winning streak.
The Sports Network


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