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My 5 month old adjusted, almost 8 month old actual baby has been panting like crazy all day. He has tons of energy, and when he does it he seems extremely excited and happy. I would'nt worry except he was on oxygen until a week before he came home from the NICU, 10 days before his due date. He has had no breathing issues at all, and has a clean bill of health other than the fact that he was born at 28 weeks at 1 pound 15 ounces. He doesn't seem sick at all. Is this normal?
Identical twin boys born at 28 weeks 4days.� Ronald� and Alexander. Very little but very healthy.
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Definitely ask your pedi -- but, I can tell you that my 10-month old (he's a "termie" though...so not sure if it applies) pants all the time, particularly when he's excited. I think it's harmless, but ask your pedi just to be sure. Today, he was grunting quite a bit -- I think he likes the sound.
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My DS pants when he is excited. Never thought anything about it...Does not seem for lack of oxygen, though. And it's not really panting (his tongue is not out or anything) -- it's more pant-like sounds -- and it's not inhale-exhale panting, but panting on exhale only...If that makes sense...I guess it is kind of weird, though I never thought about it, so now I'm relieved other kids do it too.
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Thank you so much. I'll ask my doctor. It does seem harmless, I think he likes it and only does it when he's already being silly. The exhale thing makes perfect sense, that's what my guy seems to be doing. Thank you again!
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The only thing is is that mine still rides in the buggy?? So it makes me think a sit and stnad is best, but I don't want to spend the money and not use it?
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I bought a sit n stand when my daughter was 2 and we had #2... she sat in it for about 6 months and then she never wanted to sit in it and it was more of a hassel then a help so we started using a single stroller for #2.. If I was having a baby with her being 4, I wouldn't waste my money, but thats just me.
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I bought a sit n stand and we're in the same boat as you. We have our May 08 baby and due in October. My 4yo is 40 lbs and the one we got will last until he's 50 lbs. He wants to ride in it all the time now. The biggest reason I got it was for when I'm out with both of them by myself- I can have them both in one place. GL!
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I have a 4 yr old (and a 23 mo old and a 6 yr old, so a bit different) If i were due in oct (i'm due in feb) I would not do a sit and stand, it would be awkward and hard to push.. i would get a good baby carrier and plan to wear the baby when you need the 4 yr old int he stroller you already have (or put the baby in the stroller if its a short trip and the 4yr old can walk)- if that doesn't work you can always order a sit and stand later... i know how it is to be nesting and preparing, but i try relaly hard not to buy things like this until i need them..
-staci, mommy to mollie (3/06), jamie (5/08) annie (9/10) and bently (2/13) and our little tie breaker due 11/14/15
I had bought one when we were having our Aug 2010 baby... then my may 08 was just over two. I loved it then... it was my lifesavor in stores right when baby #2 was born...we seldomly use it now, if we do it is when we are on a long walk around neighbor hood and it is end of day kinda thing... I was just telling Dh that when we have # 2, hopefully baby would be born next summer around July ish... that I don't know if we'll even need it then as number 2 child will be almost 3...
if your may 08 still is in stroller might be a good thing for you, as you can still buckle the child in and have a spot for carseat or infant in front... or they can stand ... I have a Baby trend one and it is really easy to manover and turn..
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The internet is fighting back against … cats!
Cats are colonizers: this is what they do. They have colonized the internet just as they have colonized so many other habitats, always with the help of humans. This is the lesson of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer, a new book by conservation scientist Peter P. Marra and travel writer Chris Santella. From remote islands in the Pacific to the marshes of Galveston Bay, Cat Wars traces the various ways in which felines have infiltrated new landscapes, inevitably sowing death and devastation wherever they go.
Perhaps the most famous case of genocide-by-cat is that of the remote Stephens Island in New Zealand. Before the end of the 19th century, it was home to a unique species: the Stephens Island wren. One of only a few species of flightless songbirds, the wren ran low to the ground, looking more like a mouse than a bird. After a lighthouse was built on the island in 1894, a small human settlement was established; and with humans, invariably, come pets. At some point a pregnant cat, brought over from the mainland, escaped and roamed wild. The island's wrens, unused to facing such a skillful predator, were no match for the feral cats that spread throughout the island. Within a year, the Stephens Island wren was extinct. It would take another 30 years to eradicate the feral cats.
This is not an isolated incident. Cats have contributed to species decline and habitat reduction in dozens of other cases. Because they're so cute and beloved, we have little conception of — and little incentive to find out — how much damage cats are doing to our environment. When researcher Scott Loss tallied up the number of animals killed by North American housecats in a single year, the results were absolutely staggering: between 6.3 and 22.3 billion mammals, between 1.3 and 4 billion birds, between 95 and 299 million amphibians, and between 258 and 822 million reptiles.
Most books that get multiple reviews on Amazon get around four stars out of five, on average, because most of the reviews are from admirers and there are just a few from detractors. This book gets a star average of one and a bit.
I've been suffering from something a lot like hay fever. Yesterday, the doctor gave me some anti-hay-fever spray to spray it with, up my nose, which I hate. My symptoms are: aches and pains that wander around all over the left side of my head. I knew you'd be excited.
But, from the same doctor who wants me to spray chemical effluent up my nose I learned that if you get something stuck in your throat, which is what set all this off, they recommend: coca cola. I did not know that. So last night, when I went out for drinks, someone offered me a drink, and I though, no I've had enough (what with the headaches and so forth), but then I thought: yes, get me a coca cola. Apparently it clears out stuff in your throat by dissolving it. How come it doesn't dissolve your entire mouth? (Maybe it does.) But whatever, it felt like it worked, and I'm drinking more coke now.
Last night, at that drinks gathering, I heard something else diverting.
We were having a coolness competition. What's the coolest thing you've done lately? That kind of thing. I contributed the fact that my niece is about to become the published author of a work of crime fiction, which is not bad, and which I will surely be saying more about when this book materialises. It will be published by a real publisher, with an office in London and a name you've heard of, which intends to make money from the book and thinks it might. More about that when I get to read it. I usually promise nothing but I do promise that, here or somewhere I'll link to from here. It would be a lot cooler if it was me who had accomplished this myself, but it is pretty cool even from a moderately close relative.
But another friend from way back whom I hadn't seen for years trumped this, with something which in my opinion made him the winner, not least because he did the thing in question himself.
Remember the Concorde crash in Paris, back whenever it was, just before 9/11. And remember how the other Concordes all got grounded for ever after that crash. What you may not recall quite so clearly is that the other Concordes were not grounded for ever immediately after the crash. That only happened a few weeks later. And my friend told us that he took a trip on Concorde, on the day after the Concorde crash. How cool is that? Very, I would say. There were many cancellations, apparently, but he was made of sterner stuff, which is all part of what made it so cool.
I know, a bit of a ramble. It comes of me being somewhat ill. Illnesses can be cool, I suppose. But this one, which is just uncomfortable enough to be uncomfortable, but which hasn't actually stopped me from doing things, merely from doing them energetically and enthusiastically, definitely isn't cool.
Yes, I've been continuing to photo taxis with adverts. Here are half a dozen of the most recent such snaps.
First up, further proof, if you need it, that the internet has not abolished television. People still like to be passively entertained, surprise surprise. But the internet is in the process of swallowing television, so that they end up being the same thing:
Next, become an accountant! Note how they include the word "taxi" in the advertised website, presumably to see whether advertising on taxis is worth it. Note to LSBF: I have no plans to become an accountant.
Note also the Big Things picture of London, something I always like to show pictures of here, and note also how out of date this picture is. No Cheesegrater, for a start:
Next up, a taxi advertising a book. I do not remember seeing this before, although I'm sure it has happened before:
Next, Discover America. I thought it already had been:
Visit a beach. I didn't crop this photo at all, because I like how I tracked the taxi and its advert, and got the background all blurry, and I want you to see all that blurriness. Nice contrast between that and the bright colours of the advert. A little bit of summer in the grey old February of London:
Finally, a snap I took last night, in the Earls Court area. And now we're back in the exciting world of accountancy, this time in the form of its Beautiful accounting software:
As you can see, it was pitch dark by the time I took this. But give my Lumix FZ200 even a sliver of artificial light and something solid to focus on, and it does okay, I think. A decade ago, that photo would have been an unusable mess.
I am finding that taxi advertising changes very fast these days. All of the above photos, apart from the one with the beaches, was of an advert I had not noticed before.
Which means that in future years, these taxi photos will have period value, because the adverts will have changed over and over again with the passing of only a handful of years.
I am greatly enjoying the progress of Soon-To-Be President Trump. File under: guilty pleasures. My libertarian friends mostly express horror at Trump's irresistible rise, and his terrible opinions, and his terrible hair, but surely you never really know what you'll get with a new President. During the Thatcher years some of the people who most agreed with me did very little that I liked, while others, impeccably governmental sorts, who were just doing what seemed sensible to them, did quite a lot of good things. See: privatisation. Maybe Trump will turn out like that. Maybe he will even decide to have dignified hair.
Trump seems to me like he's going to be the USA's first Television President, by which I mean someone who got to be President via television. Didn't they have one of them in Brazil not so long ago? Some guy who had got well known by being some kind of TV talent show host, or some such thing, and then, to the horror of the Horrified Classes parlayed that into being President. It was probably a disaster, but Brazil usually is. And now, Brazil has one of the strongest libertarian movements in the world, does it not? Maybe that's how libertarianism wins. First you have a crazy TV guy, and then libertarianism. I can hope.
Anyway, Trump. This piece about Trump by Scott Adams is a good laugh, as are comments on it like this:
I liked the one in Arkansas when the manager of the facility announced that Trump broke the all time attendance record set by ZZ Top in 1978. lol
He is certainly a canny operator, as Adams explains very cannily, cataloguing Trump's many previous successes, such as a best selling book on how to negotiate.
Part of the skill of getting the Republican nomination is to behave like a guy the Mainstream Media are confident they can easily destroy, in due course. Which means that instead of destroying you straight away, they destroy all the other fellows, who they thought were stronger than you, which by definition they can't have been, can they? You have to be like Russia, and look either much weaker than you are, so the media don't bother with you, and then much stronger than you are, so the media then grovel, as they do when they face a force of nature, in other words a force bigger than them.
I could of course be quite wrong, but I reckon Trump is going to walk it, when he gets around to dealing with whichever car crash of a candidate the Dems stick in front of him. And it will either be Clinton or that old socialist guy, the ones already in the race. Nobody else will want to join, because the prize for winning the Dem nomination will be getting Trumped all over, and who needs that? Those two old crocks both joined the race while Trump was still in his ridiculous phase.
No wonder the Chinese are nervous. They surely know a true son of Sun Tzu when they see one.
Oliver Wainwright of the Guardian can be grumpy but informative. Of facadism, which I have here been calling keeping up appearances, Wainwright says this:
The practice of facadism emerged in the 1980s, when construction technology made it possible to retain a mere sliver of a frontage, and as the rise of the conservation movement increased pressure to preserve the historic streetscape – even if it didn't care much for what happened beyond the surface.
And more to the point, there are some great photos. Photos like this:
Wainwright is of course angry about this unequal style collision. He writes for the Guardian, and being angry about capitalism (aka everything except Guardianism) comes with the job. But I actually quite like it when big modernism rises up behind smaller ancientism. To put it another way, in Ayn Rand's novel, The Fountainhead, the architect-hero Howard Roark is disgusted when a committee seeks to stick an ancientist front door at the bottom of his modernist skyscraper. But I think this front door, at any rate as shown in the film they made of The Fountainhead, improved things. It certainly made it easier to see where the front door actually was, which is often hard with totally modernist buildings, and used for about a decade to be impossible. Ancientism evolved a way of handling front doors in a way that makes sense to all, and there is no more virtue in destroying these ground-level conventions than there is in abolishing English and trying to replace it with Esperanto.
Besides which, buildings are often hated, to begin with, for the very thing that causes them at a later date to be loved, namely their distinctiveness and their oddity. Think of the Eiffel Tower, which at first was greatly disliked. My guess is that much the same will apply to the above Cardiff oddity.
I also believe that the Carbuncle-Cup-winning Walkie Talkie will in the fullness of time mutate from Carbuncle to National Treasure. I visited that building today. More about that visit Real Soon Now, maybe, I promise nothing.
Fascinating point made in this piece at Libertarian Home by Simon Gibbs, about how and how not to educate computer programmers:
I am skeptical of whether formal education teaches programming, or whether programming is an innate aptitude. My computer science education is certainly a part of what made me a good programmer and I have met very good people who have retrained from other industries and become successful programmers. I have also met people who have had years of training and still lack the fundamental skill of breaking a process down into steps, despite passing various exams and tests. I graduated with such people and not with dramatically higher grades either. Formal education seems ill suited to capture, transmit, and assess the nuances of this particular skill. The ease with which code is plagiarised is one factor, as is the process of mugging up for exams, but the real problem is that the skill itself is a form of implicit knowledge which you cannot simply write down.
Further, learning to program is not an easy process. It is damned hard and no single resource or bootcamp or whatever will help you navigate a route by which you can deliver value. You have to get there on your own and that is, by definition, not something that anyone else can easily help with.
I can remember that, when I education-blogged, the above rumination was the kind of thing I would seize upon.
What Gibbs says sounds like the point that I have recently been making, generally and in particular in connection with this book (about PR (by another friend of mine (Alex Singleton))), that learning how to do something like play the violin (or do PR (or computer programming)) is fundamentally different from merely reading a book about how to play the violin (or reading a book like this one about how to do PR). Most people will never be able to play the violin well (or do PR well), no matter how much else they are able to learn about playing the violin (or doing PR). By writing a mere book about how to do PR, Singleton has not given away his personal-professional crown jewels by teaching thousands of others how to replace him. On the contrary, his crown jewels are his "innate aptitude" (honed by much practising) for combining and deploying all the PR techniques he knows of and knows how to do, when solving a PR problem. He has turned himself into a PR industry go-to media guru (which means he gets to advertise himself free) and made himself even more employable, in a kind of PR positive feedback loop. After all, the better Singleton is at doing his own PR the better he'll probably be at doing yours.
Gibbs also makes it very clear that he reckons himself to be a good programmer, in a way that many rivals, clever in all sorts of other ways, will never be. He too does some good PR for himself, even though it's incidental to the main point of his piece. To learn which, read it in full, by clicking on the link at the top of this posting.
At his blog, Capitalism's Cradle, Anton Howes writes about Matt Ridley's latest book. Is innovation, asks Howes, autonomous? Yes, but not because of what Ridley says:
Today, however, it's practically in the air. I could flick through a copy of em>Wired magazine in a supermarket, or see the statue of James Watt in St Paul's Cathedral. Innovation is unstoppable, but not because the Internet has innumerable nodes of useful information, as Ridley claims. It's unstoppable because across the world, innovation is so deeply rooted in our speech, thought and culture. And we don't even know it.
Innovation is, at root, the idea of innovation! And the idea that innovation is a good idea!
Anton Howes is making good progress as a scholar, his latest little victory being that he has been invited to present his findings at this event at Columbia University. My thanks to Simon Gibbs for alerting me to this latter happy circumstance.
A lot of my postings just now involve me showing you photos I took quite a while back, and this one is also one of those.
What happens is, I rootle through all my past photos, and then sometimes get an idea for a posting about a certain category of thing or human conduct or mode of transport or some such thing, and I start gathering photos to illustrate this, in a separate directory. I am careful to copy photos into the new directory, rather than just transfer them there. One of my rules is, keep all the photos you took on a certain day on a certain expedition all in one place. But, no harm in copying from those directories into other ones which are about particular things rather than particular trips or particular times.
However, what often then happens is that I forget about it all. So, the directory sits there, sometimes for years, and then years later I come across it again. This happened last night, when I encountered a collection of photographs, assembled in 2010, of photographers who were also holding guide books. I could tell that I had never used them in a blog posting, because when I do that, I always give photos different names.
Here are four of those photographers-holding-guide-books photos, all of which involve guide books with the word "Londres" on them:
Click to get the bigger pictures.
I'm guessing that both the French and the Hispanics spell London as Londres, with the French calling it Londr and the Hispanics calling it Lon Drez. But that's only a gez.
And, yes (google google), I gezzed right:
Londres, the French, Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Filipino language name for London, capital of the United Kingdom and England
The guide book while photoing thing always appealed to me, not least because even then I was looking for ways to not photo people's faces, and guide books often achieved that outcome for me very nicely. But the phenomenon is also interesting because, slowly, it is fading away. You do still see photographers flaunting guide books, but it is rarer now.
Instead, the smartphone is the new guidebook. And, of course, increasingly, the new camera, for people like those shown above. Makes perfect sense.
As for the lady above (in the picture bottom right) whose face I do here display (if you click), well, she was wearing a T-shirt saying, in London's own language and therefore to attract the attention of Londoners like me: "believe me… i'm incredible". Somehow I don't think it was "incredulous". Ergo, she was attracting attention with her own attention-attracting behaviour, ergo she was and is fair game for her face to go up, totally recognisably, (but nearly a decade later) on my blog.
Nearly a decade later because these photos were taken by me in 2006 and 2007.
The more I read of Telling Lies About Hitler (from which I have already posted an untypically amusing excerpt), the more engrossing I am finding it.
In it, Richard J. Evans criticised some of the more casual observers of the libel case that his book described, for arguing that David Irving ought to be allowed to write what he wanted, as if the case was all about David Irving's right to be heard. But it was not. It was about whether David Irving could silence one of his more prominent critics, Deborah Lipstadt, who had called him a bad historian and a Holocaust denier.
Yet, there was a reason why this error kept getting made by less than conscientious observers of this case, as Evans himself explained (p. 201):
Yet as the trial got under way, it quickly became apparent that lrving was going to find it difficult to set the agenda. The bias of the English law of defamation brings its own perils for the unwary Plaintiff. By placing the entire burden of proof on the defence, it allows them to turn the tables and devote the action to destroying the reputation of their accuser. Indeed, once the defence has admitted, as Lipstadt's did without hesitation, that the words complained of mean what they say and are clearly defamatory, justifying them in detail and with chapter and verse is the only option left to them. A successful libel defence therefore has to concentrate, in effect, on massively defaming the person and character of the Plaintiff, the only restriction being that the defamation undertaken in court has to be along the same lines as the defamation that gave rise to the case in the first place, and that it has, of course, to be true. The defence had to prove that Lipstadt's accusations of Holocaust denial and historical falsification were justified in Irving's case. Thus it was lrving, not Lipstadt, whose reputation was on the line. By the end of the third week of the trial, as Neal Ascherson observed, the defence had thus succeeded in turning the tables, 'as if David lrving were the defendant and Deborah Lipstadt the plaintiff', an observation shared by other commentators too. 'In the relentless focus on Irving's beliefs,' wrote Jenny Booth in the Scotsman, 'it was easy to forget that it was actually Lipstadt's book which was on trial. Increasingly it seemed that it was Irving himself.'
Having thus put himself on trial, Irving was then found to be guilty as charged.
This posting is not so much me passing on advice as me seeking to solidify some ludicrously overdue advice from me to myself, about how to photograph speakers.
Don't try to do it when they're speaking.
Last night I took about two dozen photos of Dominic Frisby, who was addressing the Libertarian Home crowd at the Two Chairmen pub in Westminster. Almost all these photos were useless. This was because Frisby was talking, and when people talk, they move. The indoor light was very scarce, so the slightest motion meant a blur, and a succession of blurs was accordingly all that I got. My only photographic successes during the Frisby talk were when I switched my attention to the people listening to him. They were keeping still.
People like Richard Carey:
And Rob Waller, who was the "organising fascist", as he put it, of the meeting, i.e. he set it up and did the introducing:
I think Rob clocked me, don't you?
The only half-decent Frisby photos I got were during the Q&A, when, just like the two persons featured above, he too was listening rather than talking:
Doesn't he look adorkable.
As to what Frisby said (on the subject of Bitcoin), well, it was all videoed, although the video camera was being hand-held, as this further snap of Richard Carey, helping out with that, illustrates:
I include that snap also because of the John Lilburne reference, Lilburne being a man whom we libertarians should be bigging up every chance we get.
Finally, a book photo. On account of Frisby's talk beginning a few minutes earlier than I had been expecting it to, I arrived a few minutes late, and the only seat I could find was the one with Frisby's books on it, which he had presumably earlier been sitting at. That explains the odd angle of this photo:
Both books highly recommended. More about Frisby by me (+ further links) in this Samizdata posting. In this I mentioned that Frisby was working on a Bitcoin book. As you can see, that book has now materialised.
It helps that books, like people who are listening, or for that matter doing photography, and unlike people who are talking, do not move.
You can tell that the bridge is Blackfriars Bridge because it has that written on it.
And then, moments later, I photoed someone else with the same combination of ideas:
Both photoed at that magic hour in the evening when everything is lit like it's in a movie and when pictures on other people's cameras show up in my pictures . Movie people call this magic hour "Magic Hour", or so said a book I read a while back called Magic Hour.
Around ten days ago, I took lots of rest (the medical term for sleeping) during the day, and then couldn't sleep properly at night. Since then the lurgy has persisted and I haven't really got back to sane hours.
In the meantime, what did not help - did not help at all - was the latest from Madame Harry Potter, who now, some of the time, goes by the name of Robert Galbraith. I read the first Cormoran Strike tale when it came out, and a few days back I was awake all night reading number two. It was daylight when I finished it.
One of the many things I like about Cormoran Strike is that he operates in London. His lair is a flat on top of one of the shops in Denmark Street, which is London's pop musical instrument street.
Here is a clutch of Denmark Street photos I took recently:
Lots of amateurish reflections there, in among the occasional deliberate ones, but what the hell? I am an amateur. (Spot the selfie.)
That grey-blue front door (on the right of the picture bottom middle) is how I imagine/presume Strike's front door to look.
Having kept up with all the Rebus books, I found it much more fun actually knowing a lot of the places haunted by The Detective. And with this in mind, I have now started on this first crime novel by Tony Parsons. All this searching has just told me that it is the first of three. This is (these are) also set in London. This morning I was reading about The Detective visiting something called Westminster Public Mortuary in Horseferry Road, which is a five minute walk away from where I live. (The Tony Parsons detective is called DC "Max Wolfe". Why can't fictional detectives ever be called something like Colin Snail or Brian Sludge or John Watson?)
"Robert Galbraith"'s Cormoran Strike is a freelance, but Max Wolfe is regular police, so he often visits New Scotland Yard, which is not much further away from me than that Mortuary, another five minutes walk in the same direction. Here is a photo I took of New Scotland Yard from the roof of my block, in 2006:
London possesses roof clutter arrays that are denser and more voluminous, but none that I know of is more elegant.
Nothing from me here today, other than this. But, I posted a review earlier today at Amazon, here, of the book Inflation Matters, by Pete Comley. Five stars.
The other day (to be more exact: on this day) I described England as a "dead team walking", in the currently unfolding Cricket World Cup. So, if England now turn around and start winning and winning well, well, that's good because hurrah England. But if England carry on losing, and losing badly, then hurrah me for being right.
How to snatch happiness out of thin air: be a prophet of doom proved right. There are other ways to place a bet besides spending money.
This explains a lot about the world, I think. Basically, as Steven Pinker has pointed out in the first half of that excellent (because of its first half) book of his, everything (approximately speaking) is getting better, slowly and with many back-trackings, but surely. Yet to listen to publicly expressed opinion, both public and posh, you'd think that everything was getting worse, all the time. And it's been like that throughout most of recorded history. But people are not really that pessimistic. All that is really happening is that people are predicting the worst in order to be happy if the worst happens, and also happy if the worst does not happen.
This coming Friday I have another of my Last Friday of the Month meetings at my home in London SW1. This coming Friday is, after all, the last Friday of the month, so the logic is inexorable. Every Friday (even if the last Friday of, say, December 2014, happened to be Boxing Day, as it was) there is a Last Friday of the Month meeting at my home.
I have been having email problems, in the form of people using gmail suddenly not receiving my emails, so even if you thought you were on my list but hear nothing via email, be assured that this meeting will happen. Try emailing me (which should work) and then telling your spam filter not to reject my reply, which you will have to do despite it being a particular individual reply. I know, crazy. I hope to write more about this problem in a posting at Samizdata, Real Soon Now.
Or, if you intend coming to this particular meeting, you could leave a comment below, and I will respond saying message received and look forward to greeting you.
Anyway, this coming Friday (Feb 27), Pete Comley will be talking about inflation. He has recently published a book on the subject, which you can learn about in this posting at Comley's website. And you can hear what Comley sounds like and a little of how he thinks by listening to this short interview with Simon Rose of Share Radio.
The thing about Comley is that he takes a long-term - very long-term - view of inflation. He began a recent talk I attended by discussing inflation at the time of the Roman Empire.
And in the long-term, there are not one but two major influences on inflation. There is, of course, the supply of money, by the powers that be who have always insisted upon supplying money. And when they make too many coins, too many bank notes or create too much bank credit, the price of regular stuff in shops goes creeping, or rocketing, up. But there is also the demand for that regular stuff. In particular, human population fluctuates. At some moments in history, population shoots up. At other times it falls, or at the very least the rate at which it increases falls. Just now, in country after country, the birthrate is falling, and that has consequences for inflation.
Before you say it, I'll say if for you. Many simply define inflation as the first of these two processes but not the second. Inflation is what money issuers do to the money supply. A price rise caused by rising demand is simply not inflation. It is a mere price rise. Fair enough. It certainly makes sense to distinguish these two processes from each other, however hard it may be for consumers to do this when both are happening to them. And if you do that by restricting the definition of inflation in this way, then be aware that Pete Comley's talk will be about inflation thus defined and about price rises sparked by rising demand, and for that matter about price stability caused by static demand. (He says, by the way, that we might be about to enjoy just such a period of price stability. And although you can never be sure about such things, better handling of the recent financial crisis, and we might have got there already.)
There is also the question of what causes money issuers to inflate, in the second and more restricted sense of inflation. They seem to do this more at certain historical junctures than at others. Inflation, restrictively defined, does not just cause bad economic experiences; it is itself caused, more at some times than at others.
All very interesting, or so I think. Libertarians like me tend to be quite well informed about recent monetary history and about the evils of fiat currencies, the Fed, the Bank of England, and so on and so forth. We tend to know a lot less about similar episodes in the more distant past to what he have recently experienced. In general, we are more interested in the fluctuating supply of money than in the way that population fluctuations influence prices.
Pete Comley has a small but particular soft spot for me, on account of me having been the one who drew his attention to this book about the long-term history of prices (The Great Wave by David Hackett Fischer), which seems to have had quite a big influence on his latest book, which is called Inflation Matters. It certainly does.


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Increasing air pollution in the coal-rich district has led to increasing threat of accidents. The coal dust hinders the drivers' vision leading to accidents. District police report stated that 249 accidents cases were reported in 2013. While 98 persons died, 133 were seriously injured.
Jharsuguda has been placed at the eighth position among critically polluted districts of India. According to a survey, the district also tops in the State in spreading pollution. The measures taken by the district administration have failed to solve the problem.
Brajrajnagar MLA Anup Sai along with his supporters staged a protest on NH-49 on Thursday, demanding measures to check pollution levels. The stir was called off after Sub-Collector assured of taking corrective measures.
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April is almost always the most difficult month to project in fantasy basketball. It's a month dominated by youth movements and shutdowns. Teams that are out of playoff contention will often decide to give their younger players more playing time in the season's final frame as they look to evaluate talent for next season. Conversely, teams that are locked into the postseason may give their star players some extra rest to help keep them fresh for the playoff run. These scenarios can be awfully frustrating (particularly in head-to-head leagues), but they also leave the door open with an incredible opportunity to find unheralded breakout players.
The Top 130
"Note: Brian McKitish's top 130 players are ranked for their fantasy value from this point forward in the 2012-13 NBA season. Previous rank is indicated in parentheses.
1. Kevin Durant, OKC (1)
2. LeBron James, MIA (2)
3. Chris Paul, LAC (3)
4. James Harden, HOU (4)
5. Stephen Curry, GS (6)
6. Russell Westbrook, OKC (5)
7. Paul George, IND (8)
8. Dwyane Wade, MIA (7)
9. Kobe Bryant, LAL (9)
10. Kyrie Irving, CLE (NR)
11. Carmelo Anthony, NY (11)
12. Deron Williams, BKN (10)
13. Ricky Rubio, MIN (14)
14. Serge Ibaka, OKC (15)
15. Paul Pierce, BOS (16)
16. Al Horford, ATL (20)
17. Josh Smith, ATL (19)
18. Dirk Nowitzki, DAL (18)
19. Damian Lillard, POR (17)
20. Larry Sanders, MIL (23)
21. John Wall, WSH (29)
22. Brandon Jennings, MIL (13)
23. Brook Lopez, BKN (21)
24. Jrue Holiday, PHI (24)
25. Jeff Teague, ATL (26)
26. Nicolas Batum, POR (28)
27. Mike Conley, MEM (32)
28. Ersan Ilyasova, MIL (31)
29. Marc Gasol, MEM (NR)
30. Ty Lawson, DEN (12)
31. LaMarcus Aldridge, POR (22)
32. David Lee, GS (27)
33. Tim Duncan, SA (41)
34. Al Jefferson, UTAH (35)
35. Blake Griffin, LAC (30)
36. Dwight Howard, LAL (34)
37. J.R. Smith, NY (39)
38. Kemba Walker, CHA (36)
39. Monta Ellis, MIL (37)
40. Tony Parker, SA (46)
41. Anthony Davis, NO (40)
42. Greg Monroe, DET (42)
43. Klay Thompson, GS (43)
44. Isaiah Thomas, SAC (51)
45. Roy Hibbert, IND (58)
46. Zach Randolph, MEM (44)
47. Greivis Vasquez, NO (33)
48. Ryan Anderson, NO (45)
49. Danilo Gallinari, DEN (48)
50. DeMarcus Cousins, SAC (50)
51. Rudy Gay, TOR (57)
52. Jameer Nelson, ORL (49)
53. Tyreke Evans, SAC (56)
54. Wesley Matthews, POR (53)
55. Chris Bosh, MIA (54)
56. Nikola Vucevic, ORL (47)
57. Thaddeus Young, PHI (52)
58. Joakim Noah, CHI (25)
59. Luol Deng, CHI (64)
60. Spencer Hawes, PHI (103)
61. Andre Iguodala, DEN (61)
62. Jeff Green, BOS (76)
63. Chandler Parsons, HOU (62)
64. Jose Calderon, DET (63)
65. Tobias Harris, ORL (63)
66. Bradley Beal, WSH (NR)
67. George Hill, IND (55)
68. Moe Harkless, ORL (89)
69. J.J. Hickson, POR (70)
70. Carlos Boozer, CHI (71)
71. Gerald Henderson, CHA (90)
72. Steve Nash, LAL (73)
73. Goran Dragic, PHO (38)
74. Jeremy Lin, HOU (65)
75. Omer Asik, HOU (66)
76. Jamal Crawford, LAC (67)
77. Paul Millsap, UTAH (74)
78. David West, IND (77)
79. Nikola Pekovic, MIN (83)
80. Kyle Lowry, TOR (68)
81. Kenneth Faried, DEN (59)
82. Tristan Thompson, CLE (69)
83. Pau Gasol, LAL (87)
84. Mo Williams, UTAH (101)
85. Kawhi Leonard, SA (80)
86. Jarrett Jack, GS (82)
87. Amir Johnson, TOR (78)
88. Andrei Kirilenko, MIN (88)
89. Daniel Green, SA (84)
90. Nate Robinson, CHI (102)
91. O.J. Mayo, DAL (79)
92. Andre Drummond, DET (NR)
93. Kevin Martin, OKC (81)
94. Raymond Felton, NY (85)
95. Joe Johnson, BKN (75)
96. Tyson Chandler, NY (86)
97. Gordon Hayward, UTAH (91)
98. Evan Turner, PHI (93)
99. DeMar DeRozan, TOR (94)
100. Emeka Okafor, WSH (97)
101. Eric Gordon, NO (99)
102. Jonas Valanciunas, TOR (108)
103. Shawn Marion, DAL (105)
104. Reggie Evans, BKN (116)
105. Andrew Bogut, GS (110)
106. Manu Ginobili, SA (72)
107. Kevin Garnett, BOS (60)
108. Martell Webster, WSH (107)
109. Jerryd Bayless, MEM (122)
110. Vince Carter, DAL (113)
111. Dorell Wright, PHI (115)
112. Derrick Favors, UTAH (123)
113. Derrick Williams, MIN (92)
114. Mario Chalmers, MIA (112)
115. Luis Scola, PHO (127)
116. Wesley Johnson, PHO (129)
117. Carlos Delfino, HOU (114)
118. C.J. Miles, CLE (NR)
119. Brandon Bass, BOS (NR)
120. Jason Terry, BOS (121)
121. Devin Harris, ATL (119)
122. Wilson Chandler, DEN (NR)
123. Tony Allen, MEM (126)
124. Trevor Ariza, WSH (117)
125. Josh McRoberts, CHA (120)
126. Andre Miller, DEN (130)
127. Brandon Knight, DET (NR)
128. Brandan Wright, DAL (NR)
129. Jimmy Butler, CHI (NR)
130. Beno Udrih, ORL (NR)
With that said, let's take a look at some players who fit the above criteria and have the upside to break out in the season's final month:
We'll start with Andre Drummond, who returned to action Friday night after missing 22 games with a back injury. Drummond is a per-minute warrior, averaging a brilliant 7.5 points, 7.4 rebounds, 1.0 steals and 1.7 blocks in just 19.7 minutes per game. In his first game back, he put up a 17-point, 2-steal, 2-block game in 19 minutes. The 24-49 Detroit Pistons are expected to let Drummond loose as the season winds down, which makes him a must-add for the stretch run. Drummond's upside is absolutely off the charts if he's able to secure 25-30 minutes per game.
The Utah Jazz are still fighting to hold onto the last playoff spot in the Western Conference, but that doesn't mean that Derrick Favors can't find a way to earn additional minutes in the season's final month, particularly with Enes Kanter likely out for the year. He has been terrific in recent action with 9.6 points, 9.2 rebounds, 0.8 steals and 1.8 blocks in just 22.6 minutes over his past five games. Favors is a dynamic talent when he's getting minutes, and he'll be a big force in boards and blocks the rest of the way now that Kanter's injury has cleared some room for additional playing time.
We spoke about Jonas Valanciunas last week, but it looks like the fantasy community has been a little slow to react to his breakout, as evidenced by the fact that he's owned in just 41.2 percent of ESPN.com leagues. With 13.2 points, 7.7 rebounds and 1.1 blocks while shooting 69.6 percent from the floor over his past 10 games, Valanciunas needs to be owned in all fantasy leagues at this point. Expect him to continue to post big numbers as his minutes should remain stable the rest of the way.
As the debate over Derrick Rose's potential return continues, Nate Robinson is quietly on fire with 16.1 points, 6.2 assists, 1.1 steals and 2.2 3-pointers in the month of March. Robinson has always been a streaky player who can be incredibly valuable in the fantasy game when he has it going. And he sure has it going right now. On Saturday, Robinson went 7-for-7 from the 3-point line, finishing with 25 points and six assists on the day. Oh, and he's also shooting 56.3 percent from the floor over his past 10 contests. Rose's status is still much of a mystery, and Robinson should continue to pay major dividends at least until Rose is back on the court.
If Robinson is already taken in your league, Jerryd Bayless might be a nice consolation prize. Bayless is another high-upside, instant-offense type of player who's getting hot at the right time for the Memphis Grizzlies with 17.2 points, 4.2 assists, 0.8 steals and 2.0 3-pointers over his past five games. His quality play has earned him some additional run in the Grizzlies rotation, and Bayless should prove to be a quality pickup option for the duration of the season.
I hesitate to get too excited about Wesley Johnson's 15.0 points, 1.4 steals and 2.6 3-pointers over his past five games, but he is exactly the type of player described in the intro who has the potential to come out of nowhere to have a big month of April. With the 23-51 Phoenix Suns in full youth movement mode, fantasy owners need to give Johnson a look, particularly now that he's gotten hot from downtown. Johnson has underperformed in his short career, but he still has some talent, and he should continue to put up numbers as long as he's seeing 30-plus minutes per game.
Brandan Wright has quietly become a viable fantasy option, posting 11.6 points, 6.1 rebounds and 1.4 blocks in just 24.4 minutes per game over his past 13 contests. His solid play has earned him some additional run in Rick Carlisle's rotation, and you can bet that Carlisle will continue to roll with the hot hand with the Dallas Mavericks only two games back for the final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
Roy Hibbert doesn't truly fit into the theme of this article, but he has had an absolutely disastrous season on the offensive end, averaging 11.4 points while shooting just 43.6 percent from the floor on the year. How a 7-footer can shoot sub-45 percent is beyond me, but the big man has suddenly found his touch and is shooting 47.9 percent from the floor in 13 games this month. His improved efficiency on the offensive end has given head coach Frank Vogel an opportunity to increase his minutes in recent action. Hibbert has responded well with 19.8 points, 11.2 rebounds and 2.0 blocks over his past five contests. Hibbert owners have endured a long season, but it looks like the big man is peaking at the right moment, and he should be able to give his owners a nice boost in points, boards and blocks for the stretch run.
We'll finish things off this week by taking a look back at the best pickups and my top 5 most underrated players for the month of March:
1. Spencer Hawes, C/PF, Philadelphia 76ers: 51.0 FG%, 84.2 FT%, 14.2 points, 9.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists, 1.9 blocks.
2. Tobias Harris, SF/PF, Orlando Magic: 43.1 FG%, 76.8 FT%, 16.0 points, 8.3 rebounds, 0.9 steals, 1.4 blocks, 1.2 3-pointers.
3. Jeff Green, SF/PF, Boston Celtics: 47.2 FG%, 80.6 FT%, 16.9 points, 4.8 rebounds, 0.9 steals, 1.3 blocks, 1.2 3-pointers.
4. Maurice Harkless, SF, Orlando Magic: 46.4 FG%, 57.1 FT%, 13.1 points, 5.6 rebounds, 2.2 steals, 0.9 blocks, 1.2 3-pointers.
5. Gerald Henderson, SG/SF, Charlotte Bobcats: 47.2 FG%, 83.9 FT%, 20.1 points, 4.1 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 0.9 steals, 0.5 3-pointers.


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After finding 7.62x54R is beginning to dry up, I placed an order with SOG for a couple of 250 rd tins. Anyone know the country of origin of this ammo. I know the Bulgarian usually came in 300 rd tins. Anyone have any recent-decent prices on this ammo?


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Whether we like it or not, life imitates Storage Wars. And since fantasy baseball imitates life, it's reasonable to conclude that fantasy baseball imitates Storage Wars.
If you come across an auction for an abandoned storage unit filled with things worth far more than you're willing to pay, your best strategy is to pretend everything inside is awful, since it's human nature for other people to convince themselves they want something more once they realize someone else wants it. The same goes for used cars, real estate and potential mates. (Perhaps this explains why I'm still single.)
Following that logic, the key to buying a fantasy player low is to make an offer for him when his value is at its lowest.
Guys like who? Glad you asked. Here are 10 players who are under-performing now but are packed to the rafters with potential profit. You've just got to pretend you're not all that interested; otherwise it blows the whole thing.


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TBY talks to Zeynep Erkunt Armağan, Vice-Chair & General Manager of Erkunt Traktör, on the export challenge for Turkish tractor manufacturers.
BIOGRAPHYZeynep Armağan graduated from Hacettepe University's Finance Department in 1982, and was given the responsibility of founding of the ICT department in Erkunt Industries, Inc. Casting and Machining Factories. She continued as the Manager of this department until 1990, and then served as Manager of the Sales Department until 1998. She then became Assistant General Manager responsible for Finance from 1998 to 2005. She is currently the General Manager of Erkunt Tractor Industries, Inc., which she helped found in 2004.
Turkey's tractor sector is dominated by international brands. What challenges did you face while building a Turkish brand in the sector?
Erkunt Industries is actually 60 years old and is one of the major suppliers of cast and machined parts to the engine and tractor manufacturers in Europe and Turkey. We started manufacturing our tractors in 2004. Erkunt is a Turkish brand totally designed by Turkish engineers. It is not licensed production. The first challenge was, of course, to be recognized and accepted by the farmers, as it was the first and only Turkish-branded product. The second challenge was competing among the long established and well-known brands in a very competitive sector.
What distinguishes Erkunt tractors?
Our tractors are known for their low fuel consumption compared to the competition. This is a plus factor when buying a tractor, which is actually a working device. We conducted tests that were witnessed by public notaries and the professors from agricultural faculties of universities in seven different geographical regions of Turkey, each region with different climate and soil conditions. The second factor is being strong and reliable. This can be attributed to the transaxle and the engine we use.
Was your goal always for Erkunt to become an exporter?
We had exports in mind, but not starting from the very first year. We thought that the first five years would be for the domestic market and gradually we would start to move toward exporting to neighboring countries. There was a lack of self-confidence in the beginning. We didn't know what the farmers' reactions would be toward a Turkish brand. The second question on our minds was whether we would be able to provide the proper services. We first started exporting to Bulgaria in 2007, and later to 26 different countries, such as Iraq, Poland, Australia, and Peru. I must admit I am not yet satisfied with our performance. We are now approaching the subject with a different attitude. We will concentrate on a limited number of countries. We need to build the perception of a new brand and grow within our means.
How have you worked to meet the needs of farmers in designing your tractors?
During the design stage, we visited roughly 10,000 farmers in all regions. We tried to understand what made them happy or unhappy with their choice of tractors. We wanted to know what kind of improvements they were looking for, and how much extra they would accept to pay for these improvements. We used all this feedback when we were designing tractors. At Erkunt, we are still following the same method for our new models. We know that Turkish farmers want better tractors. If they are using a tractor with a canopy, they want to switch to a new one with a cabin. If they are farming in a hot region, they want air-conditioning. They want four-wheel drive tractors. They want compressors to provide the air for flat tires, and cleaning system for their blocked filters or radiators after a hard day's work in the field.


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GRUVER — Annie Marie Douglas Bell, 83, of Gruver died Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013.
Services will be 2 p.m. Friday in Gruver Church of Christ with Jim York officiating. Burial will follow in Gruver Cemetery. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home Inc. of Spearman.
Marie was born March 24, 1929, in Chillicothe to Aaron Douglas and Jessie Ford Douglas. She married Hugh Bell on May 31, 1946, in Chillicothe.
Marie was a devoted and faithful member of Gruver Church of Christ. Marie was known for being a grandmother to many and helped raise about 15 school teachers' children. She influenced these children to grow up to be teachers, nurses, hospital administrators, cowboys and lovely fathers and mothers, but her pride and joy is her one and only grandson, Kale. She enjoyed watching Kale grow up and participate in sports and become the fine young man and sportscaster that he is.
She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and two children, Glenda Steed and infant daughter Tina Marie Bell.
Survivors include a grandson, Kale Steed and wife Serena of Amarillo; a sister-in-law, Bonnie Douglas of Shepherd; and several nieces and nephews.
The family suggests memorials be to Church of Christ, P.O. Box 342, Gruver, TX 79040.
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Present at the Creation
Richard Fortey has always found it amusing that centenarians, asked why they've survived so long, tend to credit their habits. The secret to longevity, they'll tell the local newspaper, is a glass of whiskey every day, or hard work and crossword puzzles. None ever ventures that it's a matter of genes and luck.
It's easy to turn survival into a virtue, but Mr. Fortey, a paleontologist specializing in marine organisms that thrived for hundreds of millions of years and then died off in mass extinctions, has a harder-nosed perspective. While the last of his beloved trilobites sank to their muddy graves beneath oxygen-deprived seas about 250 million years ago, horseshoe crabs, their relatives, somehow made it through. Was it thanks to superior adaptation or because the crabs happened to like shallower waters, which afforded them oxygen at that critical time? Mr. Fortey prefers to think of horseshoe crabs as having belonged to some lucky battalion with access to safety, while trilobites were forced to the front line.
The author of some masterly paleontological narratives, including "Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth" (1997) and "Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution" (2000), Mr. Fortey retired from London's Natural History Museum in 2006. After nearly four decades spent looking at creatures "thoroughly dead," he decided that it was time to visit some that weren't and set off on a grand world tour with a list of "living fossils" to investigate in the field.
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
By Richard Fortey
Knopf, 332 pages, $28.95
In "Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms," Mr. Fortey presents his observations on a diverse collection of organisms, from bacteria to musk oxen, that share a conspicuous number of features with the earliest of their fossil ancestors. While no animal or plant is truly identical to its fossil ancestor, these survivors carry "a precious legacy of information from distant days and vanished worlds," having endured the meteorites, ice ages and changes to the chemical environment that claimed so many of their contemporaries.
Mr. Fortey's journey starts on a late spring night in Delaware Bay, where thousands of horseshoe crabs are scrambling to mate in the tidal darkness. Standing barefoot in the middle of the scrimmage, "with my notebook and a fluttering heart," Mr. Fortey cannot help thinking of trilobites, whose legs "would have scraped against my mammal flesh with just the same spikiness." Some time later he arrives at a quarry in Portugal to consider the remains of large clusters of trilobites whose bodies are partially overlapping, just like the mating crabs'. Mr. Fortey wonders whether the fossils could represent a similar scenario, "as if some catastrophe had killed and preserved the crabs at the height of their nuptials," though he departs less than fully convinced.
There is something compelling about a horseshoe crab—or any other primeval creature—that has come this far at least superficially unaltered. Mr. Fortey takes pains to argue that unaltered does not mean outmoded. Horseshoe crabs (not truly crabs but members of a genus of arthropod called Limulus) may look just like their Paleozoic ancestors. But their genes have changed and so have the ecosystems they live and function in. They persist among new predators, including humans. Migrating birds that evolved millions of years later now depend on their eggs for sustenance. The horseshoe crab is so well suited to modern life, Mr. Fortey says, that to call it a living fossil seems disparaging, "as if the poor old organism was just about tottering along on its last legs."
Mr. Fortey finds his next survivors in a New Zealand forest. Velvet worms, which vaguely resemble caterpillars, live inside rotting trees, give live birth, eat termites and can squirt gluey slime in self-defense. They are former sea dwellers that learned to make do with the humidity and food to be found in dead conifers. Confronted with recent molecular evidence that velvet worms share a common ancestor with the arthropods and are older still than trilobites, Mr. Fortey feels compelled to visit a 565-million-year-old sea floor in Newfoundland. There he eats a cheese sandwich and contemplates a lack of fossil evidence for velvet worms in one of the rare spots on earth to preserve soft-bodied fossils so ancient. The molecular record says that they ought to have been there; the petrified sediments offer no trace of them.
Australia, Mr. Fortey discovers, is full of survivors, from bacterial mounds to lungfish and echidnas, spiny egg-laying mammals with cool body temperatures, as though they were "arrested in the process of 'warming up' from the reptilian state." In an Ecuadorean forest he hears the haunting call of the tawny-breasted tinamou, whose primitive palate bones give away its low spot on the avian evolutionary tree. He forages for a humble Norwegian herb that could claim to be the link between early plants and trees.
When Mr. Fortey finds himself a stranger to a species or genus, he asks other researchers to guide him. The global scope and frequent-flier pace of "Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms," added to the fact that Mr. Fortey is reduced to being a reporter now and then, can make for a more frenetic read than his previous, more meditative works on creatures he knows intimately, and from rocks, no less.
Still, half the book is taken up with single-celled organisms and invertebrates, which is a good thing. Mr. Fortey does his lyrical best with the life-forms that some might call "lower." His attachment to them is profound and often surprisingly sensual. When Mr. Fortey is wandering among stromatolites, rounded structures formed by blue-green bacteria that hold clues to the oxygenation of the earth and the emergence of life as we know it, his writing slows to accommodate the intensity of his feeling. "When you touch a brown mat, blistered and glistening beneath a veneer of slime, you are communing with the deepest part of your own history: deeper than mind, deeper than sex," he writes. "Now you know where you came from."
What makes a survivor? It is something Mr. Fortey has thought about since 1967, he says, when he was a young geologist on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen hammering for fossil trilobites in the freezing cold while terns circled overhead and moss and lichens thrived in the hollows. Trilobites, one of the sturdiest and most successful life-forms ever, were mysteriously and forever gone, yet life itself persisted overhead and underfoot, seemingly indestructible. In Spitsbergen, he writes, "I wondered at the capacity for life to survive almost anywhere."
Mr. Fortey's 1997 book, "Life," began with his account of that same youthful fossil-hunting expedition, in the middle of which Mr. Fortey learned that he had passed an exam that would allow him to pursue a museum job he coveted. His expedition colleague, meanwhile, had not. What if his colleague had passed in his stead? He has since wondered. Similarly, what would the world look like today had the bony fish died out and trilobites been spared?
'Some 'lower' life-forms are in fact among nature's most remarkable survivors. A few hardy species, like the velvet worm, have barely changed across millions of years. '
"Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms" not only explores the same themes of chance, accident and survival that "Life" and "Trilobite" did but also revisits several of the memories. The bleak frozen beaches of Spitsbergen reappear, as do the cliffs in Western Wales to which a 14-year-old Mr. Fortey once applied his geological hammer to expose his first trilobite. He even recalls his unpleasant experience eating horseshoe crab eggs in Thailand for the third time in as many books—a survivor among anecdotes. Amazingly, none of this feels repetitive. With each book Mr. Fortey continues to put together what he once described as his "jigsaw puzzle fabricated of scraps and dreams," rearranging the pieces in light of new published research and his own evolving thoughts.
Survival, Mr. Fortey writes, "is a matter of carrying on a line of inheritance through the rebuffs thrown up by history, where luck may well play a part, but will be of no avail unless the enduring organism has appropriate qualities." Yet for all the survivors he encounters, he has a difficult time discerning what qualities besides chance connect them. Many, he finds, have benefited from living in mud flats. Others have very long life spans and are late to reproduce or lay big nourishing eggs. Then again, the most accomplished of all survivors are bacteria, which, he feels confident, "will be there to rot down the last bodies of the last humans."
Years ago Mr. Fortey harbored hope that a submersible would one day dredge up a living trilobite from the depths of the sea, to dazzle the world and make headlines. He has since resigned himself to the likelihood that this will never happen and that 300 million years was survival enough. DNA may be sturdier than mountains, he finds, but no type of organism is ever invulnerable, the horseshoe crab included. "In the very long term, we are all finally dead, even Limulus. Even the velvet worm."
—Ms. Smith is the author of "Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skulduggery."


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TakeAway Ordering System
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Project Description
I wish to make contact with a Java Script/Java Programmer who is familiar with MYSQL and producing traditional printed reports.
I have a fully functional system, written in COBOL & a GUI interface as a demonstration.
What I can offer:
(a) A fully functional demonstration system running in batch mode;
(b) HTML/Javascript screen modules of each screen produced by a conversion module supplied by the GUI developers;
(c) MYSQL database design for the system, 95% complete;
(d) Full program specifications of the system;
(e) Final pre-production testing of the system;
I have written the specifications in three stages and propose payment in three equal parts, on completion and testing of each stage.
Brief Description of the Application:
This system allows Restaurants to display their TakeAway Menus on the website. Clients can order a takeaway meal on our system from a range of participating restaurants in their geographic area, for Home Delivery or Pickup. When the order has been received, it will be available for downloading to the respective restaurant for them to prepare & deliver. This system does not specifically advertise the restaurants, it enables clients the service of being able to have a selection of restaurants to choose from and to order a takeaway meal via the internet.
Restaurants are not charged for participating in this website but are billed a percentage of the value of each order received, so we operate on the philosophy of no results, no cost.
About Myself
I am a retired IT professional who started this project two years ago with the expectation of being able to get the project to completion without needing to have other than my present skills (which has not worked out to be the case). I am presently living in Thailand however would re-locate back to Australia once the system begins to create sufficient marketing acceptance in the Australian/New Zealand marketplace.
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