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Skip to comments.U.S. Weekly Jobless Claims Unexpectedly Rise To 372,000
Posted on 08/23/2012 6:06:15 AM PDT by xzins
E-MAIL SHARE FONT-SIZE 8/23/2012 8:37 AM ET (RTTNews) - First-time claims for U.S. unemployment benefits unexpectedly showed a modest increase in the week ended August 18th, according to a report released by the Labor Department on Thursday.
The report showed that initial jobless claims edged up to 372,000 from the previous week's revised figure of 368,000. The modest increase came as a surprise to economists, who had expected jobless claims to slip to 365,000 from the 366,000 originally reported for the previous week.
Additionally, the Labor Department said the less volatile four-week moving average crept up to 368,000 from the previous week's revised average of 364,250.
by RTT Staff Writer
IOW, just LAST WEEK 372,000 poor souls lost jobs with NO replacement job, so they had to file for unemployment benefits.
Aw Jeez, where's my pic of Jack Carson.
playing the 'unexpected' game, I'm gonna be drunk by noon.
Unexspec....hic. Unesphect...hic Unex...hic
- The Kingfish
ROFLMAO....that was funny!
As expected, Bush's fault.
...have you ever seen such a surprised group of media financial guru's....they are always surprised "unexpectedly"
when bad numbers for Odungo appear
More Serfs for obastard.
More rot for America.
The jobs aren't coming back without fundamental change back to some of our former principles of economy, business, trade, government and God.
With all the bad press the word "unexpected" has gained over the last 3 years, I was amused they had the nerve to put it in their headline!
I just HAD to post it. I couldn't help myself. LOL.
Dear Media: Numbers going DOWN would be unexpected. Numbers going UP are the norm. Get it right or hand in your "observer of what's happening" license!
Republican President = EXPLODED!
Democrat President = crept up
Republican President = LEAPED!
They keep doing the same $hit week after week expecting things to improve when the boat anchor is still in the White House.
There's a definition in there, somewhere, of insanity.
I know we all sort of laugh about these reports, but there is something very unseemly, even sinister, in a Bureau of Labor Statistics that is so blatantly political.
Once upon a time, soon after AlGore invented the Internet, children in school were taught the only websites to be trusted had a ".gov" or ".edu" suffix. Now we know that, with a few exceptions (eg, NIH, CDC and others in the public health arena) we cannot trust a lot of ".gov" or ".edu" websites to provide impartial information.
I remember when the BLS was viewed as an apolitical, reliable source of information. Not any longer. The BLS has become a de facto propaganda arm of the Obama Campaign, something we here feared when the Obama White House tried to take control of the census last year.
To which the Democrats will say, it's much better than the almost 800,000/mo. when BO took office.
Of course, they don't explain to the uninformed that the ONLY month that unemployment was that high was Jan. '08, when business owners realized that the clueless voters had elected a Marxist as president, and he was taking office Jan. 21. They knew they would have a very tough time with Leftists in charge, and they were right.
Trending up .....any bets on when it gets to 400,000....
My pick....last week of October.
And the deficit grew by another 1.1 Trillion dollars for the year! How Obama's poll numbers stay as good as they are is a complete mystery. I suppose his propaganda team really is that good. Meanwhile the GOP is stepping in every bit of quicksand they can find.
It must be Thursday!
previous week's revised figure of 368,000
Along with "unexpectedly" comes the usual revised figure without any mention it is UP from the official figure dispensed last week which was unexpected at that time.
One news article, AP I believe, said this shows there is an indicator of a slow employment recovery. They are wrong, it is a further piece of evidence the press is so far up the backside of this president they may as well be his naval.
Cutter: Obama Has Created More Jobs Than the Reagan Recovery
Hopefully this isn't a cause for more easing by the fed. They seem to have a hair trigger. You hear me Fed? Stay off the crack!
If, every time the word "unexpectedly" was used when describing the "rise in jobless claims", everyone in the country were expected to drink a shot, we'd be one wasted nation right about now.
Seriously, isn't that MEME becoming tired by now, even for the MSM?
Just a "modest" increase. They'll have to resurrect the old "GOP in White House" style book for after January 20, 2013.
Democrats have trillion+ dollar deficits cause they can't do math.
372,000/wk = ~1,500,000/mo.
I am so shocked ... didn't see this coming!
When it goes up, it's unexpected.
When it goes down, it's unexpected.
When it stays the same, it's unexpected.
These 'econo-misseds' never expect to get it right, I suppose...........
I just read someplace — gotta find it — that at some meeting they indicate they will do another QE.
A Republican president would have been hounded from office more than a year ago with this economic record.
Near term: don't spend ten cents on ANYTHING that you don't need until the end of October. Every retail sale of ANY item is just another vote for Obama.
For the past three years they've been using the same old tired terms to try to put a positive spin on a never ending stream of bad economic news: healing, recovery, modest improvement, postive trend, momentum, etc. It's all window dressing for their guy in the White Hut.
I've got too many friends either own small businesses, including stores, or work for them.
However, I don't think a bad economy needs anything more to remain bad than Obama's promise to let the Bush tax cuts expire.
We have a new Qualifier too.....'modestly increased'.
So sick of the media in this country.
"clueless voters had elected a Marxist as president"
Man....I hate being right all time (only joking). But......I am right about this, as gasoline prices rise, unemployment goes up. That is the way Obama continues to destroy the USA economy and new job increases. That any sane American can vote for this America hater, Obama is far beyond me!!!
These gub mint projectors are worse than the weather man.
"Aw Jeez, wheres my pic of Jack Carson."
If you are referring to the pix of the guy with his head in his hand saying "Jeez, not this **** again", I don't think that is Jack Carson. I have been trying to figure just who it is though.
I just spent $300 repairing my dryer and I bought some Romney/Ryan window stickers, is that allowed? ;o)
Oh, wait, that was last summer. This was supposed to be "Recovery Summer II: Electric Boogaloo".
Why would anyone think the polls showing him ahead or close are any more legitimate than these BLS numbers?
Great points!
Where are the reporters pointing out the hourly rise in the cost of gas...oh right, there's a RAT in office. That "reporting" only occurs when a GOP is POTUS.
Just wait until Romney/Ryan win and watch the sudden re-emergence of...THE HOMELESS AT THANKSGIVING!
And speaking of bias....ever notice the news reports of a shooting always picture a gun in the corner of the screen but if there is a stabbing they never picture a knife?
Unexpectedly? That's unprecedented!
Try watching the news on ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS and your question will be answered. The ability of the media to "shape the news" is still very strong. The difference between Drudge and my local liberal newspaper is stunning.
The media is Obama's propaganda machine.
The only reason to keep up with these jobless claims is to get drunk!
Preious week claims were 366,000 and revised up to 368,000. Expect the new number to be revised up to 375,000...at the very least.
"Yahoo headline is that "Jobless claims rise as labor market HEALS slowly"."
My headline would be that "Yahoo eggheads can't admit that they have been on the unintellectual side of the issues all along now, and are generally clueless about reality".
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Waiting in KuwaitNovember 04, 2010 | Lieutenant Colonel Kendall Mower
We spent some time in Kuwait completing some additional training and catching up on some much needed rest. I was amazed by the things that were available to us at the base.
These tents were pretty cool. They had plenty of room, were air conditioned, and were used for multiple purposes around the base.
Since there weren't drinking fountains, water points were everywhere with plenty of bottled water.
Outside view of the commonly used tents.
There were also recreational tents run by both the USO and the MWR. These provided Soldiers with DVDs, books, games, sports, etc...
In addition to the great selection of meals, the dining facilities also offered a wide selection of deserts - including Baskin Robins ice cream
It was also here that we were exposed to our first MRAPs
We also went out to the range and "familiarized" ourselves with our weapons again (look at the backdrop - all the sand you could ever want)
Desert sunrise
Training on how to escape from a Humvee roll-over
Training on how to escape from a MRAP roll-over
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23 July 2013
Also, not for nothing, Crimson Tide is the first time that Scott worked with Denzel Washington, who'd end up anchoring the director's late-career run of movies, and is frequently the best thing about any of them. It wouldn't be for another nine years that the two would collaborate again, so it's not really possible to argue that this movie has any kind of continuity with their later projects together. But it's surely not an accident that Washington appeared in more Scott films than any other leading man, and just as the relationship between the director and producers seems to be "right" on some deep level, because they were so closely aligned in what they wanted their movies to be, the relationship between the director and actor is equally as right, though for a largely opposite reason: Washington's considerable authority and the gravity he brings to every role, just by virtue of his screen presence, have the tendency to add a sense of sobriety and human solidity to a filmmaking aesthetic that does, after all, tend to thrive on shallow style with no real interest in character or emotions.
All of this adds up to Crimson Tide being, in my estimation, just about the best of all Tony Scott's films, with the possible exception of the singularly uncharacteristic The Hunger. It's just one of those glossy popcorn movies where everything goes right: on a purely experiential level, it's exciting and zippy, it's as much eye candy as you could possibly force out of a movie that's set, for easily 80% of its running time, on a submarine, and it raises interesting moral questions that actually require you to walk into the movie willing to think about what's going on, not just passively receive it as vigorous spectacle. It's just the right mix of smart about its subject and enthusiastically shallow about its presentation to hit the best kind of sweet spot for intense summertime fun that you don't have to feel even a little bit embarrassed about liking; it's a sleek, perfectly-tuned machine that hums along so sharply that it doesn't even register what an all-around boys' club it is (the last time we see a woman, let alone hear one speak, is around the seven-minute mark), or how wildly implausible the central conflict is, so far afield of anything that might actually occur onboard a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine that the Navy refused to provide the filmmakers with any resources whatsoever, no matter what a tongue-bath the film ends up being to the manliness and technical potency of that agency.
The film's plot, wildly implausible though it be, is admirably straightforward and cleanly expressed - there are few things indeed I've come to appreciate more as the years go by than a popcorn movie with a nice clean narrative. Lt. Cmdr. Ron Hunter (Washington) has just been assigned to the nuclear sub U.S.S. Alabama, as executive officer underneath the well-respected Capt. Frank Ramsey (Gene Hackman). The two men are both very capable and respectful of each other, though they have somewhat different views on appropriate military behavior, with Ramsey preferring a strictly hierarchal, "no questions asked" approach to discipline, while Hunter - who has never served in combat, unlike his new boss - takes a much more questioning, democratic approach ("We're here to preserve democracy, not practice it", Ramsey tartly explains at one point, in the film's best line). This would ordinarily not be a problem, except that tensions are high right now with some unrest in Chechnya and a rebel leader blaming the United States for the miserable state of post-Soviet Russia, and wouldn't you know it, but he might have control of his country's nukes. So the Alabama is ordered to launch a nuclear strike against Russia, and even this isn't the problem: Hunter is visibly unhappy to be part of the command structure making that attack, but he's willing to follow unambiguous orders.
The problem happens about halfway through the movie: a communication about the nuclear attack starts to come through, but a rebel-controlled Russian sub has been giving the Alabama some grief, and it's right at this moment that the communications link goes dead. Hunter, aware of the gravity of launching a nuclear strike, wants to reestablish communications to find out whether their orders were just countermanded, while Ramsey, aware of the potential gravity of notlaunching a nuclear strike, does not want to wait a single minute. So does the simmering, but ultimately inoffensive tension between the two officers spill over into an act of mutiny, with Hunter relieving the increasingly raging Ramsey from command and the crew of the Alabama splitting along any number of fractures into two camps.
There is one thing the movie does poorly - two, actually; the emphasis on the Chechen rebels in the opening scene is entirely disproportionate to the amount of actual narrative importance they serve; they're a MacGuffin, and the film starts out like it wants to stake a for-real political claim that it never remotely follows through with. The big flaw is that we know exactly what kind of movie we're in for, and we know what happens when you cast Denzel Washington in this role and Gene Hackman in that role, and so there is not a drop of tension that it might actually prove to be case that the Alabama is still under orders to launch nukes. But even with that massive caveat in place, the film plays an exquisitely modulated game of comparing both sides: Ramsey is surely the more personally unpleasant of the two men, but he's never made "the bad guy" in any melodramatic sense, and the movie gets a great deal out of mileage from the simple question of which man, given all the knowledge they have at their diposal, is acting in the right. The film itself answers that explicitly as both, and neither, and that's part of what makes Crimson Tide such a uniquely thought-provoking mindless submarine thriller: it allows the "other" side to seem completely reasonable and well-judged, if you accept the basic principles that Ramsey works under.
And so we end up with an unusually sophisticated and beautifully-acted two-hander about strong-willed, aggressive men facing each other down and refusing to budge; and I do not want to denigrate the contributions of a nicely-packed ensemble cast with some particularly fine character performances (including one of the best of James Gandolfini's pre-stardom roles, more subtle but maybe even better than his work with Scott on True Romance) by calling the film a two-hander. But really, that's where Crimson Tide thrives: in its dramatisation of the clash between to men in a tight space that grows tighter by the moment. Everything is ultimately driven towards that, as the inside of the Alabama, colored in searing primary colors by Dariusz Wolski and framed in many uncomfortably shallow medium shots, becomes as suffocating as any movie submarine this side of Das Boot, both an extension of the struggle between the two men and even, to an extent, an explanation for it; we get a real sense of how much it costs them to be crammed in together simply because we're crammed right in with them.
It's awfully direct, even spare: one conflict, the stakes are nuclear Armageddon, ready, set, go. For good and not as good, everything in the movie is designed to heighten the impact of that conflict, from Hans Zimmer's Wagner-indebted score (right at the dawn of the period where he became much too content to recycle clichés, with none of the creativity of his earliest and newest work), to the abrasively harsh sound design (rightfully nominated for Sound and Sound Effects Editing Oscars). It is not a movie with unimagined depths, or nuances that you only pick up slowly: it puts everything out there, and gets us tremendously worked up in knots just like the crew watching this situation reach the boiling point, while demanding that we think about it, rather than just have that feeling of tension for the sake of it. By God, it works beautifully; it's as good a thriller as 1995 produced, keeping things as simple and direct as possible and trusting that the interplay of two great actors at their most frayed will keep the movie alert and alive and intense. And boy, is it ever those things, all of them.
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- Not Fenimore said...
My favourite thing about Crimson Tide is that John McCain used it for his concession in 2008.
"Also, I am embarrassed to report that I know for a fact that John McCain's exit music comes from the movie "Crimson Tide," in which a grizzled old sub captain, a career Navy man, is fought and bested by a younger, Harvard-educated black executive officer."
(cf http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/11/there_can_be_only_one)
- KingKubrick said...
Also noteworthy: this film is the second Tarantino/Scott collaboration in as many films as QT contributed dialogue to the screenplay(uncredited).
- Tim said...
I can't believe I didn't mention it. It's tremendously obvious which lines QT wrote, too, one of which is terrific (Star Trek), one of which is dreadful (Silver Surfer), the rest of them just kind of eh. It's not really a screenplay movie.


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C3 Presents and MCP Presents have joined forces to bring CounterPoint, a new two-day music and arts festival, to Atlanta, Georgia this September 28 and 29, 2012. The multi-stage festival with camping options will be held at the location of 2007's The Echo Project, a 350-acre, scenic Chattahoochee river front property just south of metropolitan Atlanta. Partnering with local businesses, restaurants, artists and more, CounterPoint is expanding upon the format of its predecessor with the inclusion of interactive elements throughout the festival grounds. In addition to a stellar music lineup, planned environments include an arts village, extreme sports demonstrations, a beer garden featuring local breweries, a food truck component, local chefs, and a college football viewing area. Detailed information and performers will be released in the coming weeks.
Produced by C3 Presents (Austin City Limits Music Festival, Lollapalooza) and MCP Presents (Camp Bisco, Lights All Night, The Echo Project), CounterPoint marks the first partnership for the two companies.
"As the Southeast's beacon of culture and diversity, Atlanta is the ideal location to launch CounterPoint." states CounterPoint Co-Producer and MCP Partner Brett Keber. "We are partnering with local vendors, restaurants, chefs, breweries, artists and musicians in order to create a world-class event that is also uniquely Atlanta."
Located approximately 30 minutes travel time from Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, CounterPoint plans on bringing the city to the pristine festival site. Elements such as preferred viewing areas, VIP table service, multiple VIP levels, and car service will be available. Daily express shuttle service to and from Atlanta as well as day parking will also be offered for those guests not wishing to camp onsite.
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Brandon Wright: Boiling Point
The opening riff of "Free Man," played by Wright and trumpeter Alex Sipiagin, starts things off with a real bangit's hard hitting, emphatic and swinging. "Boiling Point" is in a similar hard bop veinthis time Wright's tenor takes the lead line on its own while the rhythm section drives the tune forward. "Drift" is, by contrast, a smooth and gorgeous tune on which all of the musicians demonstrate real mastery of their instrumentscontrolled yet emotive performances across the board here, especially from bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Matt Wilson.
Wright's arrangements of two jazz standards are excellent. Jimmy Van Heusen's "Here's That Rainy Day" and Harry Warren's "You're My Everything" are beautifully played, with Wright's warm and confident tenor playing to the foreDavid Kikoski's piano solos are also extremely impressive, showing a delicate and sympathetic touch.
Wright is not simply locked into the jazz traditionhe also has an ear for the music of other genres as he ably demonstrates with a version of "Interstate Love Song," written by Robert DeLeo of hard rock band Stone Temple Pilots. Wright takes the tuneoriginally on the band's 1994 album Purple (Atlantic) and voted 58th in VH-1's 100 Top Hard Rock Songsand performs it on his own terms, investing the tune with a real straight-ahead jazz feel rather than attempting to "rock out." The result is a successa fluid, melodic, arrangement that retains some of the song's hard edge but is recognizably a jazz performance.
Boiling Point is an intriguing album, with some exceptional playing from all of the musicians. Wright clearly demonstrates his writing and playing talents while his version of "Interstate Love Song" shows that he is willing to step out of the jazz mainstream in search of interesting and adaptable tunesit's an exploration that more jazz musicians should be willing to undertake and sets Wright up as a talented innovator of great promise.
Track Listing: Free Man; Drift; Odd Man Out; Boiling Point; Here's That Rainy Day; Castaway; Interstate Love Song; You're My Everything.
Personnel: Brandon Wright: tenor saxophone; Alex Sipiagin: trumpet; David Kikoski: Piano; Hans Glawischnig: bass; Matt Wilson: drums.
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Did Health Care Reform Help Massachusetts?
Ezra Klein has a post up trumpeting a new paper from MIT economist Jon Gruber which purports to show that Massachusetts significantly reduced individual health care premiums through its 2006 health care reform bill — which in many ways was similar to the Democratic proposals currently moving forward in congress. (Needless to say, this would be contrary to what most people who have actually experienced health care in Mass., even this liberal speech writer, have experienced.) However, looking at all the findings is key:
In their December 2007 report, AHIP reported that the average single premium at the end of 2006 for a nongroup product in the United States was $2,613. In a report issued just this week, AHIP found that the average single premium in mid-2009 was $2,985, or a 14 percent increase. That same report presents results for the nongroup markets in a set of states. One of those states is Massachusetts, which passed health-care reform similar to the one contemplated at the federal level in mid-2006. The major aspects of this reform took place in 2007, notably the introduction of large subsidies for low-income populations, a merged nongroup and small group insurance market, and a mandate on individuals to purchase health insurance. And the results have been an enormous reduction in the cost of nongroup insurance in the state: The average individual premium in the state fell from $8,537 at the end of 2006 to $5,143 in mid-2009, a 40 percent reduction, while the rest of the nation was seeing a 14 percent increase.
So while it's true that individual premiums have fallen in Massachusetts, they're still 70% higher than the national average — they've only become less outrageous. Why? It turns out that the 2006 bill was the second half of a health care reform effort that started in the mid '90s. Back then, the state passed a law requiring guaranteed issue and community rating: that health insurance companies have to accept people regardless of their health condition, and that they had to charge them according to their zip code not their individual health. This drove up the cost of health care insurance in the state drastically, with the result that healthy people dropped coverage, driving up the cost even more by making the pool worse.
In 2006, Massachusetts passed law requiring that everyone buy health insurance, and requiring that health insurance policies hit certain minimum levels of coverage. If you didn't buy the required insurance, you had to pay a hefty fine. By forcing healthy people back into the insurance market, this started to drive costs down again. However, it seems unlikely, given the rate of change so far, that this will drive them down to below the national average. We can be virtually certain from these results that the cost of medical coverage will go up significantly under the current Democratic proposals, it's just a question of how much.
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We can be virtually certain from these results that the cost of medical coverage will go up significantly under the current Democratic proposals, it's just a question of how much.
Depends. It'll go down for the sick. I'll go up for the healthy. On average, it'll go up because more sick people than healthy people will buy insurance. But then guaranteed issue will naturally lead to a mandate. So under the current Democratic proposal, it's virtually certain that in the long term the cost of medical coverage will not be affected.
You're just pointing out the poor results and insane cost because you want sick people to die!
I'm not sure I follow your logic. Let's be simple-minded for a moment and assume that health insurance is subject to the law of supply and demand (ridiculous, I know, but bear with me). A mandate means a increase in the demand for health insurance (since people who wouldn't otherwise have bought insurance are now forced to do so). Shouldn't we expect this increase in demand to lead to an increase in the price of insurance?
Insurance isn't like a manufactured product or service with finite supply, in a sense. A company can make only so many widgets; lawyers can only provide X amount of hours per day (theoretically). A health insurer can write as many insurance policies as the law will allow. There may be some regulatory issues wrt reserves and financial health, so that may restrict the supplyside somewhat, but if the Govt wants universal coverage, they will have to allow adjustment for it.
So, with a potentially unlimited (or near unlimited) supply, an increase in demand should not affect price. Change in risk pool, however, would.
Oh, and for those who think tort reform will help – Texas has had tort reform for 30 years. One of the larger health insurers (Unicare) is now calling it quits in Texas. So much for tort reform.
I'm not sure that increasing the demand would increase the cost of health insurance, since it doesn't seem to me that coverage itself would necessarily be a supply constrained product. (If this resulted in the total consumption of health care services significantly increasing, which is certainly possible, that might result in a temporary cost of care increase as contrained provider supply resulted in higher prices to slow demand and fund building new infrastructure, training new people, etc.)
More to the point, though, is this: Unlike the proposals that center around high deductible insurance combined with funded health care spending accounts — the proposals being pushed by the Democrats do nothing to increase price competition among medical providers, and nothing to encourage people to avoid unnecessary treatment.
That said, it's main effects will be guaranteeing issue to those with medical problems that current have them outside the individual insurance market and forcing into the market those who are currently staying out voluntarily. (Employer insurance generally doesn't have this problem, so this is really just an issue for about 10% of Americans.) It will probably do a lot more of the former than the latter, because for people who are being kept out of the insurance market by costs, the fine for not getting health insurance will almost always be a lot less than the amount you'd be required to pay out of pocket for getting health insurance (even after government subsidies.) On top of this, the CBO is projecting that the "public option" will actually cost more than the average individual plan currently does.
I do know health care has shown remarkable improvement in Ohio. In no small part, thanks to non-profit health management companies that are serving many many people. Here's just one. http://cli.gs/z3AtaY/


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Nile -- West Springfield, VA -- March 6th, 2013
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Acid Deth Kvlt- sludgy black metal that I found unremarkable
Mikhail- younger death metal that seemed to go all over the place, but has potential.
Cannabis Corpse dropped off (at least this night) at the last minute, so I was disappointed because I kind of wanted to see them. But Nile's 2 sets more than made up for it, IMO.
I was expecting them to do a 'Night with Nile' a ala Amon Amarth and play their new album, then some old songs. I believe they played songs from every album, and it seemed like a nice variety. I'm not a hardcore Nile fan, so they can weigh in on that, but IMO it sounded good.
Sonically, Nile sounded very good. Sometimes the lead was a bit conflicting with the drums, but other than that it was fine. The crowd had some pits going, as expected- pretty wild. There were a couple guys in Hawaiian shirts AND SHORTS that seemed a bit intoxicated and were constantly in the pit.
[B]Nile (9:36- 10:21)[/B]
[LIST][*]Sacrifice Unto Sebek[*]Kafir[*]Hittite Dung Incantation[*]Enduring the Eternal Molestation of Flame[*]Supreme Humanism of Megalomania[*]Ithyphallic[*]The Inevitable Degradation of Flesh[*]Papyrus[*]Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld[*]4th Arra of Dagon[/LIST]
[B]Nile (10:33- 11:35)[/B]
[LIST][*]The Blessed Dead[*]Defiling the Gates of Ishtar[*]Cast Down the heretic[*]The Howling of the Jinn[*]Kheftiu Asar Butchiu[*]Serpent Headed Mask[*]black hand[*]Smashing the Antiu[*]The Black Flame[*]Unas Slayer of the Gods[*]Sarcophagus[*]Lashed to the Slave Stick[*]Black Seeds of Vengeance[/LIST]
Daaaaaaaaaamn those are some good sets
Some people I know are going to Worcester for this on Friday. Those sets just made me regret declining their offer to take me with them (due low budget, but still, THOSE SETS).
Unas Slayer of the Gods! :drool: I'm glad that there are only three songs from the new album. I wish Annihilation of the Wicked or User-Maat-Re was in there, but those are still great sets! :rocker: I don't know how they (especially George Kollias) can play for that long without collapsing from exhaustion.
Those sets are sick! I'm kinda regretting not taking the night off from work for this... it would have been worth having the managers pissed at me haha.
Bring this double setted goodness to Australia!!!
"black hand" is "The Black Hand Of Set" from their debut EP, 'Festivals Of Atonement'. Very underrated part of Nile's discography. Also of note, they only played the last part of "4th Arra Of Dagon." It would've been nice if they played the whole song, but I've seen them play it the last time I saw them.
Like the OP, I was a bit bummed that Cannabis Corpse cancelled last minute. I was really looking forward to seeing them with Landphil on vocals. Nile was AMAZING though, totally made up for their absence and then some.
Ive yet to see Nile and sorta lost intrest after Annihilation Of The Wicked came out BUT, I would pay to see this show for sure.
Damn, I'm surprised they only took a 12 minute break between sets.
I've got videos of 4 songs from the second set that you are all welcome to check out. Killer sets, Karl Sanders was cool and hung out at the merch booth most of the night. After the show he stayed on stage talking to fans and signing stuff until he had talked to every fan who wanted to. Also, Empire had $3 beers from Port City Brewery all night! In all it was a kick ass time.
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N: Rich sweet malty peat. Smoked bbq meats, crisp spice of cracked peppers and some floral notes.
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Okay, now that the title has grabbed your attention, I just wanted to share my sheer joy over all the greens coming up in my raised greenhouse bed. Every morning when I go out to water, I see new green leafy things pushing up out of the dark, rich soil and unfolding into luscious salad greens. Lettuces, mustards, kales, arugula, and cilantro are on their way to becoming many delicious, fresh meals. I was excited to find that Territorial Seed Company had some wild green seed mix varieties this year, and I had to try them out. They seem very hardy so far, and I can't wait to eat them.
Here are a few close up shots of what's coming up.
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Now on to potatoes and seedlings. With a busy life and lots of rain, I'm feeling a little behind in the homesteading area of my life, but little by little it's coming together. This summer I'll sit out on my deck with my banjo and look down upon my garden, chickens clucking and scratching, quail coo-ing, drink some delicious iced herbal nettle tea and just enjoy the life I'm building.


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This is a new format a local tourney is going to try. What do you guys think?
If you are shot out in the RED ZONE you are able to enter the RE-SPAWN box where you will be able to re-spawn when a team mate hits the buzzer.
Located behind the start gate this where REDZONE players go when they are shot out and wait for a team member to hit that buzzer and get back into the game.
In the box there will be a team pod tech wiping down and reloading the player and extra air tanks, paint, pods and markers are allowed.
The coach of the team will be able to either keep the same player on the field or send in a sub in his place.
The Buzzer
-One hit of the buzzer one player is released from the re-spawn box.
-After each hit of the buzzer it will be disabled for 10 seconds and after the 10 seconds the buzzer will be active again.
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-8min matches
-The most points scored within the time limit wins.
-2min break between total elimination points.
-Total elimination of opposing team 10pts
-Hit the buzzer releasing a teammate from the Re-Spawn Box 2pts.
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Mikulicz Syndrome
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- Dacryosialoadenopathia
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- Mikulicz Syndrome
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General Discussion
Mikulicz syndrome is a chronic condition characterized by the abnormal enlargement of glands in the head and neck, including those near the ears (parotids) and those around the eyes (lacrimal) and mouth (salivary). The tonsils and other glands in the soft tissue of the face and neck may also be involved. Although the disorder is almost always described as benign, it always occurs in association with another underlying disorder such as tuberculosis, leukemia, syphilis, Hodgkin's disease, lymphosarcoma, Sjögren syndrome, or lupus (SLE). People who have Mikulicz syndrome are at heightened risk for developing lymphomas.
Some people with Mikulicz syndrome may experience recurring fevers. The fever may be accompanied by dry eyes, diminished tear production (lacrimation), and inflammation of various parts of the eyes (uveitis). Lacrimal gland enlargement, parotid gland enlargement, dry mouth and dry eyes are the classic signs.
The exact cause of Mikulicz syndrome is not known. Some scientists believe that Mikulicz syndrome should be considered a form of Sjögren syndrome.
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|In September 2006, the Beloit Chapter had a party. With food, favors, and skits, the members celebrated their 110 year history. From Mrs. Isabelle Cole's work to organize the chapter in 1896, pulling together the needed twelve applications … to the knitting and rolling bandages, helping the veterans and adopting a French girl during WWI and II … to celebrating over 500 members who have joined through the years, the Beloit Chapter continues to support the efforts of the NSDAR.
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Pledge StudentThe Pledge Student program for the chapter began in September 2001 when Lynn Skinner became the Beloit Chapter Regent and she continues as Chairman of the Pledge Committee. Each chapter meeting has a Pledge Student leading the chapter in the Pledge of Allegiance.
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Volume 28, Issue 2, 01 February 1957
Study of Boiling in Short Narrow Channels and Its Application to Design of Magnets Cooled by Liquid H2 and N228(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722696View Description Hide Description
A study has been made of the critical heat input, Q̇c, to liquid H2 and N2 boiling in an annular gap, of cross‐section area, A, between a vertical cylindrical heater of height, Z, and various concentric plugs. The data are in approximate agreement with calculations based on an assumption of homogeneous and frictionless two phase flow. The pressuredrop across the channel is spent primarily to accelerate the vapor being formed and the liquid carried with it. The derived relation does not contain any empirical coefficients or exponents. For ρv,2≪ρL the general equation reduces to ,where L is the latent heat of vaporization, ρv,2 the exit vapor density, ρL the liquid density, g the gravitational acceleration, Ze the hydrostatic head equivalent to the pressuredrop across the heater, and f 2 the mass fraction of vapor in the fluid leaving the heater.
Forced flow experiments give f 2. At Q̇c equal to that found in natural convection boiling, f 2=̇0.5 for both liquids. For Z=3 or 6 in. and a channel thickness of 0.022 in. the ratio of observed to calculated Q̇ is 0.95 for N2 and 0.70 for H2. The calculation is equally good for critical natural convection experiments, Ze =Z, and for subcritical as well as critical forced flow measurements, which extend up to Ze =70 Z.
The optimum operating vapor pressure is discussed for magnets cooled by ideal natural convection boiling. A simple roll‐type of coil is discussed and is shown to be superior in some respects to more conventional windings.
Special Theory of Ultrasonic Machining28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722698View Description Hide Description
A model is proposed for the mechanism of material removal in ultrasonicmachining. From this model and fundamental physical principles, a machining rate equation is derived for the special case where solid, circular tools are used in conjunction with a puddled slurry. A comparison of the predictions of the theory with the experimental data shows that the theory gives the correct relationship between the machining rate and the variables involved in the machining process. Suggestions for the improvement of the ultrasonicmachining process are presented, and the method to be used in generalizing the theory is outlined. The poor reproducibility of the machining rate measurements is explained on the basis of the machining rate equation.
Studies on the Mechanism of Operation of the L Cathode. I28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722699View Description Hide Description
Performance characteristics of the Lcathode, including emission, evaporation rate, and evaporant composition, are presented, followed by an investigation of the constitution of the emitting surface. Activation of the external tungstensurface is effected by the migration thereover of strongly adsorbed BaO issuing from the pores. The active surface, which is continuously renewed during life, comprises a nearly complete oxygen monolayer on tungsten covered in turn by a complete bariummonolayer. The oxygen in the dipole layer enhances emission and drastically increases the sticking time of barium. The cathode emission is close to the maximum that can be expected from a barium activated tungsten dispenser cathode.
Studies on the Mechanism of Operation of the L Cathode. II28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722700View Description Hide Description
An experimental study of the L cathode is presented, including the chemistry of carbonate decomposition and barium generation, the origin of BaO in the evaporant, the barium transport mechanism through the porous plug, and the factors determining cathode life. Carbonate decomposition is accompanied in low porosity cathodes by the deleterious reaction
Work‐Function Studies of Germanium Crystals Cleaned by Ion Bombardment28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722701View Description Hide Description
The work functions of germaniumsingle crystals have been obtained by measuring the contact potential differences between the germanium crystals and a gold reference whose work function was measured by the Fowler method. Work function values for the bombardment‐cleaned surfaces of three samples having comparable resistivities were the same within experimental error (4.78±0.015 ev). Variation in the doping concentration resulted in work‐function changes smaller than those predicted by a simple Fermi level shift. Adsorption of oxygen at pressures of about 1×10−7 mm Hg resulted in work‐function increases of about 0.20 ev. The clean surface work‐function values could be restored after O2adsorption by heating at 500°C for 15 min. For those cases in which changes were noted, adsorption of hydrogen and nitrogen at higher pressures (10−3 mm Hg) resulted in decreases of work function, while CO adsorption increased the work function. Measurements of the effects of strong electric fields and intense illumination on the work function suggested that these effects were associated with rather thick surface layers which could be removed by vacuum heating or ion‐bombardment cleaning. The photoelectric‐threshold level was near or slightly above the Fermi level for the ion‐bombardment cleanedsurfaces. After oxygen adsorption the threshold level was below the Fermi level.
Angular Averages in the Scattering of Slow Neutrons by Gases28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722702View Description Hide Description
A procedure is developed for averaging over the thermal translational motion of a gas scatterer in order to obtain observed angular averages from a knowledge of the differential cross section in the center‐of‐mass system. The results are applied to the simple case of spherically symmetrical elasticscattering with constant cross section.
Dependence of the Ferromagnetic Resonance Line Width on the Shape of the Specimen28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722703View Description Hide Description
The dependence of line width of the ferromagnetic resonance on the shape of the sample is examined on phenomenological grounds. If a damping term of the Bloch‐Bloembergen type is assumed in the equation of motion of the magnetization, the line width for an ellipsoidal sample is given by . The Landau‐Lifshitz form of damping leads to a line width which is independent of the shape of the specimen.
Dislocation Damping at High Temperatures28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722704View Description Hide Description
An unpinned dislocation damping model (based on the Mott‐Nabarro solution hardening theory) was previously used to explain internal friction at room temperature and is now extended into the high‐temperature range. With the model it is possible to explain the high‐temperature internal friction which has been observed in the kilocycle frequency range for measurements made at very low strain amplitudes. In addition, the damping due to dislocation climb is considered.
Compressional Creep of Tin Single Crystals28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722705View Description Hide Description
Compressional creep tests were run on single crystals oriented so that the direction of compression was along the c axis. Two activation energies of creep were found: approximately 24 500 cal/mole above 120°C and 12 000 cal/mole below this temperature.
Annealing of Cold‐Worked Copper by Electron Irradiation28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722706View Description Hide Description
Copper wires were cold worked at room temperature to approximately a 15% reduction in area and were then irradiated at temperatures between 100° and 150°C with 1.25‐Mev electrons. The residual resistivity was observed to decrease as a function of exposure at temperatures above 100°C. The higher the temperature at which the irradiation was performed, the greater was the rate of resistivity decrease. From these data, it is concluded that one of the primary defects produced by electron irradiation becomes mobile in the temperature range, 100°–150°C. It is suggested that interstitials and vacancies produced by the irradiation initiate a process which results in the annihilation of dislocations. From an analysis of the temperature dependence of the rate of decrease, a value for the activation energy for vacancy migration in copper has been deduced: 1.28±0.10 ev.
Linear Dissipation in Solids28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722707View Description Hide Description
In solid materials the properties of transient creep, internal friction and dispersion can be correlated on the basis of a linear theory, if the strains are small throughout. The theory, first given by Boltzmann, is developed in some detail. Dissipative properties of the material are shown to depend on a function of time called the ``creep function'' φ(t).
The general condition 1/Q≅constant is examined. This condition is compatible with a creep function of logarithmic type. Velocity dispersion of plane or spherical waves is very small in such a medium. Graphs of 1/Q, phase and group velocities vs frequency are given, and a quantitative relationship between creep and internal friction constants is derived. The results are substantially applicable to the problem of losses in dielectrics, by carrying out the electromechanical analogy.
Air Bubbles in Water28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722708View Description Hide Description
The solubility of air bubbles is observed in a variety of experiments. Freely rising bubbles exhibit a solution rate more than twice that of bubbles which are stationary: i.e., trapped on the walls of the container. The theory of solution of stationary bubbles is given but the theory of a free bubble is difficult and has not been solved. Stationary bubble observations lead to a determination of the coefficient of diffusivity: 2.9×10−5 cm2/sec at 27°C; the temperature dependence is considerable, obeying Einstein's equation relating diffusion and viscosity. The effect of surface contamination on diffusion is analyzed; bubble solution in the presence of contaminants is not greatly altered. Experiments are described showing that air bubbles of dimension less than 1μ lodged on hydrophobic particles are not soluble and can exist indefinitely. It is shown that hydrophobic particle residues frequently remain after bubble solution, even in relatively pure water. These residues function as bubble nuclei for boiling or for cavitation.
Maser Oscillators28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722709View Description Hide Description
Two maseroscillators have been constructed and operated. The behavior of one maser has been observed under various operating conditions by comparing it with the second maser which is used as a reference standard. The expeimental setup is shown and experimental results are given. The frequency‐pulling effects of the beam and the oscillation amplitude as a function of cavity‐tuning are compared with the theoretically expected behavior. It is shown that the simple behavior predicted by theory exists only for oscillation frequencies which are well removed from line center.
The theoretical curves are obtained from a new analysis which includes the velocity distribution in the beam. A comparison is made between the velocity‐distributed and uni‐velocity theories. It is shown that the introduction of the velocity distribution drops the maximum beam efficiency from 1 to 0.76 and causes a region of stability to appear in the beam frequency‐pulling function.
Reflection of Plane‐Polarized, Electromagnetic Radiation from an Echelette Diffraction Grating28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722710View Description Hide Description
A variational method is used to calculate the distribution of energy reflected from an echelette diffraction grating. Experiments performed using a klystron generating 3.2‐cm electromagnetic waves which impinge upon a large scale grating agree with the calculations to within a few percent, the error being that expected from the variational formulation.
Ferrite Slabs in Transverse Electric Mode Wave Guide28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722711View Description Hide Description
The transversely magnetized slab operating in a parallel‐plane‐type transverse electric mode may be examined from an operational viewpoint. Characteristics of the wave‐guide mode emerge from considerations of symmetry and some results are derived that are not evident from a first‐order perturbation theory. Operators are developed associated with various transverse strata of the wave‐guide cross section corresponding to slabs of different media within the guide. The use of these operators is systematized in application to propagation problems in both rectangular and coaxial type transmission lines. Ferromagnetic resonance is explored in ferrites obeying a reactive Polder tensor‐type description and some features of resonance are discussed.
Electrostatic Considerations in BaTiO3 Domain Formation during Polarization Reversal28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722712View Description Hide Description
Merz's picture of spike‐shaped domains of reversed polarization emerging from an electrode is analyzed with particular attention to its electrostatic aspects, taking into account the inhomogeneous piezoelectric distortions which accompany domain formation. The depolarization energy of a domain is evaluated. The interaction energy of the applied field and the depolarization field is shown to be negligible. The charge flowing into the electrodes as a domain expands is shown to be related primarily to the reversal of spontaneous polarization, rather than to the changes of the depolarization field. Our final results are similar in form to the expression originally given by Merz. Although a detailed domain wall theory is not yet available, we have combined an existing domain wall estimate with our electrostatic expressions, and this results in an implausibly large critical nucleus. Some effects of nonlinearities in the dielectric behavior and of internal charge distributions are discussed.
Rectification Properties of Metal‐Silicon Contacts28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722713View Description Hide Description
Area contacts of twenty different metals were made on n and psilicon. The contacts were applied by the use of jet plating techniques, with the exception of alkali metal contacts which were pressure contact or mercury amalgam contact. A qualitative correlation is shown to exist between the work function of the metals and the rectification of these metals on n and psilicon. I–V characteristics taken on eleven of these metal‐silicon contacts lend further support to this picture. Consideration of a quantitative work function model is made difficult due to the many errors and interpretations involved in using metalwork function values.
Transistor structures were made and studied for several of the metal‐silicon contacts. From analysis of this transistor data it is found that an excess current three orders of magnitude greater than theory predicts, must be present in the diodes made from these metals. This excess current is not adequately explained by any presently known mechanism.
Grain Boundaries for Field Emission Microscopy28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722715View Description Hide Description
Heretofore the observation of grain boundaries with the field emission microscope has been limited by the accidental and infrequent appearance of suitable specimens. A process for preparing polycrystallinetungsten samples by bending a tungsten wire, etching a tip at the bend and heating is described. Both large and small angle grain boundaries result. As many as five tungsten grains may share a cross section of less than one micron in diameter. All the parameters required to describe the geometry of the boundaries may be obtained experimentally. Detailed observations on the dislocation structure of boundaries with angles as great as 6° are potentially possible. However, the field emission intensity from the region immediately adjoining and including the grain boundary must first be increased appreciably. Possible methods for achieving improved electron emission from the grain boundary region are discussed.
Buildup of Electroluminescent Brightness28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722716View Description Hide Description
The buildup of electroluminescent brightness is compared to the buildup of photoluminescence under various conditions which affect the electron population in traps. A qualitative explanation is proposed as to the mechanism of buildup and conclusions are drawn which confirm the observation that electroluminescence is confined to small regions in the phosphor crystals.
Resonance Absorption of Neutrons by Uranium Cylinders28(1957); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1722717View Description Hide Description
The integrated effective resonance neutron absorption cross section of uranium‐238 cylinders has been experimentally investigated in the Hanford Test Pile. The results of reactivity measurements were interpreted to yield the effective resonance integral as a function of the surface‐to‐mass ratio of the uranium cylinders. The experiments were extended to determine the Doppler coefficients resulting from heating the uranium in a constant neutron spectrum in the reactor. The effective resonance integral, , can be approximated as a function of the surface‐to‐mass ratio by .The Doppler coefficient of resonance escape probability for the reactor is ,and the value assigned to the coefficient of the volume absorption of the resonance integral is .


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Finally! A contender! Click here to see how we got to the benchmark score of 26.5 as the minimum average score for a serious contender on DWTS. Until now, no one's gotten over the hump. This week, Olympic ice dancer Meryl Davis surpassed her partner Charlie White to move into the rarefied air above the yellow line.
Also … throwaway Stat of the Week, this Season 18 cast has edged ahead of the Season 14 cast as the cast with the best average aggregate score through four weeks.
Please note, I'm separating out the guest judge scores from the regular three judges so that I'm able to normalize and compare casts season over season.
The real story this week
This week was the long awaited "Switch Up," the much anticipated week when each couple switched pro partners for a single week. There was much drama and many accusations that the Twitter vote ended up not meaning anything (common sense and a passing familiarity with Twitter analytics tells me that would not be surprising,) that the pairings were produced, not elected.
The Twitterverse was pretty quiet all week since the couples were supposed to be surprises, but the pairs leaked along with spoilers about how the couples were faring together. No real drama played out onstage and I strongly felt like none of the pros did less than their best. Several things of note before the world gets set to rights and the stars go back to their original partners next week:
- Julianne Hough accused Maksim Chmerkovskiy of mailing it in so he could get back to his beloved Meryl. I didn't think that was the case, but I must admit … if I had been Danica McKellar (who Maks danced with), I would have absolutely felt like the new girlfriend who would never, ever, ever measure up to the ex-wife. Maks wears his big Russian heart on his sleeve where Meryl is concerned. I think he likes her, but I think he really wants to win too.
- Charlie White and Peta Murgatroyd got jobbed. Their rumba was dubbed not a rumba by two of the judges and the best rumba ever by the other two, and Charlie got his lowest score of the season.
- Derek Hough and Mark Ballas switched partners (sound produced?) Without minimizing what Amy Purdy is doing, which is extraordinary (and it was actually fascinating to listen in as Hough and Ballas have a fedora discussion about the physics of dancing with someone on two prosthetic feet), I wasn't so impressed with her salsa. If she sneaks up on Charlie and Meryl, it won't be because she's a better dancer. Nene's jazz number meanwhile, was more like a cheerleading routine–a lot of side by side arm motions that lasted full counts of eight. I also was constantly distracted by the lack of unison between Nene and Derek. I thought both Amy and Nene were overscored.
- Maks and his brother Val Chmerkovskiy switched partners (sound produced?) and while Maks saw Danica slide down the leaderboard, Val continued Meryl's ascent past Charlie and into serious contender land.
- James Maslow is quietly becoming the most underrated dancer this season. He didn't miss a step this week in his tango with Cheryl Burke. Or sadly for him, make much noise as he was buried in the number two slot. But he's hanging in there. There's not a doubt in my mind that he'll outlast Danica.
- Candace Bure is falling off a cliff. She might have another big spike one week, but she won't be a factor.
All in all, I would say the Switch Up gimmick was a success!
With regard to my pre-season predictions, I think I'm going to have to let go of my idea that Leakes is going to go much further. She's only outscoring Carey by a single point (total) over the course of four weeks. She's a closer comparable to Carey, I fear, than Maslow or even Cody Simpson, who REALLY loves himself in the mirror.


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Super Mario will be making an appearance on the 3DS and the upcoming game will be using its two greatest titles(in my humble opinion) as inspiration. Shigeru Miyamoto told the attendees of a press event that the next Mario game for the 3DS will be a combination of Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario 64. If you're going to look at past games to help shape your next title, these aren't bad choices. He went on to promise the game would be "completely original, and coming this year."
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Super Mario 3DS was first announced at GDC with the promise we'd be able to see more at E3. Miyamoto confirmed we'd see more in just a few months, "It won't convey the message if I talk to you today, but if you play it at E3 that will give you more understanding of what I'm talking about. For example, the floors floating in space: in 2D it's difficult to judge the distance, but in 3D it's really easy."
I guess we'll have to wait 46 more days, not that I'm counting.
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The controversy over Bill Clinton's conduct wasn't just the product of a "vast right-wing conspiracy," it was the result of his habit of lying and obfuscation.
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The Olympics have a doping problem, and it doesn't have anything to do with getting hopped up on steroids or tinkering with genetics. The problem is "technology doping."
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In what is being called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into a news organization, the Department of Justice has admitted that it seized two months' worth of phone records from the Associated Press. That's bad.
The Australian Football League, one of the most popular sports leagues in the world, was rocked by scandal last week when it came out that its most successful club is apparently pumping players full of performance-enhancing drugs.
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Trail of the Pink Panther
Release Date: December 17th, 1982
PG|1 hr. 35 min.
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This sequel finds Chief Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) being summoned to the country of Lugash to investigate another robbery of the eponymous diamond. After developing some disguises, Clouseau embarks by plane and mysteriously vanishes en route. Hoping to solve the conundrum, enterprising journalist Marie Jouvet (Joanna Lumley) interviews those closest to Clouseau, including his father (Richard Mulligan), his boss (Herbert Lom) and his old nemesis, Sir Charles Litton (David Niven).
Cast: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Joanna Lumley, Herbert Lom, Richard Mulligan, Robert Wagner, Capucine, Robert Loggia
Director: Blake Edwards
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Using some of the fat from the pancetta, plus olive oil, balsamic vinegar and a dash of sugar, we softened the chopped red onion and let it gently caramelize.
After a quick swim in boiling water, the corn cobs were stripped of their kernels.
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Mixing everything together (the pancetta patiently awaits it turn at stage left).
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The ingredients: eggs, corn, butter, milk, cheddar cheese, honey, scallions, basil, cayenne and flour.
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Stripping corn -- the adventurous way.
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As I mentioned in a previous post, Darren Naish of the Scientific American Tetrapod Zoology blog has recently argued that cryptozoology "cannot and should not be considered a pseudoscience." This post will respond to that claim.
There are several issues in play here, and I have tried to compress things somewhat for the sake of length. Naish has actually written extensively on cryptozoology at the various incarnations of his blog, and in addressing one assertion, I don't want to oversimplify what he has to say on the subject. His posts on cryptozoology in general can be found here, here, and here, and examples of his analyses of specific cryptid claims here and here.
Naish is a trained paleontologist, which I am not, and I bear that humbly in mind while nonetheless disagreeing with him. His blog covers a range of fascinating subjects and is worth visiting.
I. Cryptozoology as Ordinary Science
Here is Naish's statement in context:
"However… while being careful (as always) to make clear the point that an interest in cryptozoology does not demonstrate 'belief' in, or acceptance of, specific cryptozoological 'targets', I still maintain that cryptozoology cannot and should not be considered a pseudoscience. Why? Mostly because there is no contradiction whatsoever between the scepticism, hypothesis-testing, self-correction and need for autoptic evidence typical of 'proper' science with analyses of cryptozoological data, nor does investigation of cryptozoological data hinge on the assumption that there are always real, flesh-and-blood animals at the bottom of eyewitness reports." [emphases in original]
As far as I can see, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the final sentence above. The problem is that it doesn't make cryptozoology a scientific field.
There is, as Naish demonstrates, quite a bit that can be said about this question, and the issue may not be as clear as it sometimes seems. The Journal of Cryptozoology, as I have pointed out elsewhere, accepts submissions on everything from animals not recognized by science to recognized animals occurring outside of their accepted ranges, which means that, according to its standards, research into the re-expansion of the jaguar into the Southwestern US would be cryptozoological. But there is no helpful reason to classify it this way: such research, scientifically conducted, falls well within the purview of ordinary biology. There is no more need to call it cryptozoology than there is to call the efforts to find black holes cryptoastronomy.
To a large extent, as Naish himself has recognized, the terminology problem is one of overlap. Naish writes: "If cryptozoology is imagined as the investigation of 'target' animals whose existence is supported by circumstantial and/or anecdotal evidence (eyewitness accounts forming the bulk of such evidence), then one might argue (as I have) that cryptozoology is practised far and wide by 'ordinary', technically qualified biologists." Again, one might argue such a thing, but to what purpose? If the investigation of such animals is practiced by "'ordinary', technically qualified biologists," why do we need to identify what they are doing as a separate science?
The same argument applies to any other field that might engage in research that coincides with so-called cryptozoological subjects, such as folklore, sociology, or psychology.
To be clear, there are times when recently discovered phenomena and new modes of thinking cause the overlap between existing disciplines to coalesce into a new discipline – for instance, with the advent of chaos theory. But there is no reason to think that this is one of those times.
To put it succinctly, the reason that cryptozoology cannot be classified as a separate scientific discipline is that it doesn't deal with a single issue that isn't already dealt with by an established science. And if we cannot classify it as its own field, we are halfway to finding it unnecessary, and have taken at least a step towards classifying it as pseudoscience.
II. Finding Bigfoot
The same point can be made in a different way by doing a thought experiment:
Suppose an anthropologist unearths remains indicating that at one point in the recent past there was a large, non-human primate living in North America. Intrigued, a wildlife biologist constructs a hypothesis about the habitat of this primate, and finds that his projected habitat overlaps nicely with areas where Bigfoot sightings have been reported. His results are published and attract the interest of another biologist, who sets up a series of camera traps in the relevant locations, and eventually obtains clear photos of an unidentified hominid. A multidisciplinary scientific team travels to the place where the photos were taken, uses footprints and hair to track the path of the animal, and eventually manages to capture a live Bigfoot.
Or, to simplify things, a hunter in Oregon shoots what he believes to be a black bear, but which turns out to be a Bigfoot. He contacts the police, who turn the carcass over to a lab for testing.
In which of these scenarios does cryptozoology play any role at all? The first is various scientific disciplines working together, and the second a combination of science and luck (to be fair, luck often plays a role in science). But we can make the point a third way with a final scenario:
Suppose a team from the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization comes stumbling out of the woods one day, proudly carrying a bigfoot carcass, a film of its discovery, and a map to a bigfoot burial ground. What would happen then? Either the body would be turned over to scientists, who would analyze it and autopsy it and sequence its DNA and give it a taxonomic classification, or it would disappear in a maze of brinksmanship and shady claims, mummifying in someone's basement, never the subject of real science and therefore never taken seriously as hard evidence. Even if one of the members of BFRO team were a trained zoologist, it would not change the nature of the scenario.
In all three of these cases, the people who believed in Bigfoot turn out to have been right. But that doesn't mean that their belief was in any way scientific to begin with, or that the academic community would or should suddenly sit up and recognize cryptozoology as a science. In each scenario, Bigfoot becomes accepted reality only when it enters the purview of established scientific fields. There is no need for a separate term for the process by which that happens.
III. Discovered Cryptids
Naish and other defenders of cryptozoology point to the discovery of animals previously dismissed as mythical, like the mountain and lowland gorillas, as evidence that cryptozoology should be taken more seriously. This argument, however, in this context, is a canard. At one point every animal now known to science was imprecisely described, unknown, or known only through hearsay. This fact does not place the entire history of zoology squarely in the realm of cryptozoology.
It might be helpful to remember that there was a time, not very long ago, when cutting-edge research in natural sciences from botany to ornithology consisted of finding, describing and naming new species. Explorers swarmed into the interiors of North and South America, some motivated by scientific passion, others by more commercial concerns, and found countless previously undescribed species. John James Audubon discovered 25 species of bird unknown to science, and of course we would not call him a cryptozoologist – at least not in any way that would be a useful application of the term. As recently as the mid-twentieth century, Richard Evans Schultes was travelling into the remote Amazon and collecting hundreds of new plant species, many of which he found after consulting with native tribes. There is no need to describe what he was doing as cryptobotany (or, more amusing lexigraphically, cryptoethnobotany). He was just doing a physically adventurous form of ordinary science.
Audubon, Schultes and others like them had good reason to believe that undiscovered species existed – just as, today, we still have good reason to believe that undiscovered species exist. Seven years ago year researchers ventured into a remote region of Papua New Guinea and returned with hundreds of new species. They were not cryptozoologists.
Once again, this activity of searching for new animals falls well within the purview of 'ordinary' science, and has no bearing on the legitimacy of efforts to find Bigfoot or a local lake monster.
IV. Researching What Does Not Exist
Cryptozoology then, in the above contexts, is an unhelpful term that fails to distinguish unique research. But there is one sense in which cryptozoology means something distinct from other words, and that is its most cotroversial sense – the one used by camera-toting amateurs in the woods, and hosts on jejune cable shows, and dismissive skeptics. In this sense, cryptozoology is the attempt to prove the existence of animals for which there is no compelling evidence, and whose existence is considered unlikely by science. And for the most part, this attempt is sheer pseudoscience.
To be sure, even if we can comfortably dismiss the chupacabra or mokele-mbembe, there may be large undiscovered animals out there about which cryptozoologists happen to be right, and they might one day be discovered by a camera crew crashing through the forest and scaring one another. In such an event, as I have said, that crew will not retroactively have been engaging in rigorous science. They will simply have won the lottery.
The reason that 'mainstream' science rejects the existence of such creatures as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster, or the survival of the thylacine, is not that those creatures would, if they were real, be unfit objects of study. It is that the evidence for their existence is slim to nonexistent, and the arguments against their existence are copious and persuasive. Having looked at the claims, science has seen nothing to overturn the null hypothesis. Any attempt to overturn the null hypothesis on flimsy grounds is, by definition, pseudoscience. It may be fun, and adventurous, and every once in a great while it may lead to a real discovery, but none of those things make it science.
In this context, cryptozoology is a field without a proper object of study – perfectly exemplified by the recent, ludicrous, much-publicized claim that Sasquatch DNA has been sequenced.
V. Conclusion
Although by some estimates only around one-quarter of the total number of plant and animal species in the world have been described by science, the days of heading into the bush without any idea of what you might find are long gone. With their passage we lost part of our collective imagination.
The penetration of the last frontiers in the habitable world was proportionate to the loss of the capacity for dramatic biological discovery and the romance that accompanied it. Now the intrepid biologist seeks the unexpected hunched over laboratory equipment, an activity that strikes many laypeople as prosaic, while the exploration of the deep ocean is reserved for those with access to large sums of money.
In such a world, the appeal of cryptozoology is not hard to understand. I cannot fault anyone for wishing that it were a legitimate science, even as I wish that the excitement and passion of more ostensibly mundane pursuits were more widely understood.
In the end, though, I can only conclude that the sole sense in which cryptozoology is a useful term is the sense in which it refers to a set of pseudoscientific beliefs and pursuits. In all other contexts in which the search for a rumored animal, or the study of the belief in rumored animals, is legitimately conducted, it falls within an established scientific field and requires no name of its own.
There is certainly room for many of the kinds of research that Naish or the Journal of Cryptozoology might call cryptozoology – and science and pseudoscience may sometimes exist in elbow-jostling proximity to one another, as they did so famously in the mind of Isaac Newton. But pseudoscience will never lose its moniker simply by contact with hard science, and in the matter of mystery animals, hard science has enough fields to speak for it already.


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"Wish You Were Here" is the sixtieth episode of Bear in the Big Blue House. It aired on December 1, 1998.