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This subject already seems to have come up, so let's discuss it.
I love scientific studies. I have read many of them on many subjects from cover to cover. There is much to be learned by them. I often disagree with the conclusions drawn by the researchers though.
"Post hoc ergo procto hoc" (After this therefore because of this) is the primary error in logic and is a trap fallen into by humans and animals alike. The big temptation of this error is that "Post hoc erog procto hoc" is a good basis for a theory. The error isn't using it for a theory it's using it as proof.
Let's examine the error of this, first. Every morning at my house, the roosters crow. Every morning after the roosters crow, the sun comes up. Does this mean that the roosters cause the sun to come up? Because we can't see any mechanism to connect them other than the sequence of events, most of us would assume that the roosters are not the cause.
Every culture I know of has folk tales and or jokes to make fun of this error. One in our culture is "pull my finger". Because you pull the finger and immediately afterwards something happens, your brain makes a connection and for a second you fall prey to this error. Then after a second or two you brain catches up with itÂs processing and the absurdity of that connection hits you and you laugh. The Africans often tell the Âroosters causing the sun to come up story and the Lakota tell it as the horses whinnying. Foolish anthropologists often record these stories as if the people telling them believe this connection, but my experience with primitive cultures is that they tell these stories to teach the error of that way of thinking. Of course they watch to see if the anthropologists believe the foolish conclusion and after watching them diligently write it down without so much as a comment, or a chuckle the natives shake their heads at the foolishness.
I have done things while driving that were immediately followed by some noise. My first conclusion is that I caused the noise and IÂm wondering what it is IÂve caused. After trying a couple of more times and the noise does not follow it, I find out it was one of my children making the noise. It was mere coincidence that they happened simultaneously.
Any Âstatistical proof really constitutes no proof. As I collect a larger and larger sample it becomes more and more likely that what IÂm seeing statistically is an actual connection and not a coincidence, but it never constitutes analytical proof. Unless I have a mechanism and can prove that mechanism is the cause, by some means other than simple statistics, then I only have an increasing likelihood.
I can prove this to anyone who understands basic probability. What are the odds that if I flip this quarter it will land on heads? 50/50. So I flip it and it comes up heads. What are the odds if I flip this quarter again that it will come up heads again? 50/50 same as before. So I flip it and it comes up heads. I personally have flipped a quarter 27 times in a row and got heads every time. Does this prove that the odds are not 50/50? No it proves my sample was too small to be statistically valid. How many times to I have to flip it before my results are an absolute fact? No matter how many times I do it, I only get closer and closer to the actual answer. It is not a matter of absolute proof but a matter of accumulating large enough sample. The larger the sample the closer I get to the answer, but itÂs like the old math problem of going half way and half the remaining way and half of that and so on. When will I get to the end? Never. I can only get closer and closer.
This was just trying to prove that flipping a quarter has odds of 50/50. The life cycle of any organism is infinitely more complex than flipping a quarter and affected by more things than we can know. If I do a certain thing and get a certain result how many times will it take to prove absolutely that what I did contributed to that result? If I have a very large sample and I have a very large success rate compared to a very large control group with a very small success rate, it is very likely that my theory is correct. The smaller the sample, the smaller the difference in success rate and the more other variables that could contribute to success or failure, or even worse, the more skewed those variables are in favour of either group, the less valid my results are.
This is all assuming a lack of prejudice on the part of the researcher. As one of my teachers (he was a carpenter with a lot of wisdom, not a professor) once said, Âeveryone thinks their idea is better because they thought of itÂ. This seems intuitively obvious, but it is important. I have a natural prejudice to my ideas because they fit my way of thinking. If they didnÂt, I wouldnÂt have thought of them! This is why in the scientific community it is important to be able to reproduce the results. Reproducibility is a good test, especially if someone else is doing the second or third study than did the first. I may eliminate some of the prejudice and also it may change some of the other unmeasured and unaccounted for variables.
The second problem with research is the motivation for doing it. The motivation for doing research is almost (but not always) personal gain. A few actual altruistic people have a love of some fellow creature, or some fellow humans and is actually involved because they want to reduce suffering or solve someoneÂs problems. Unfortunately these people are not well funded and their research is usually not well received.
Most research is funded by and prejudiced by some entity that has an agenda to prove their solution and that solution has to be something they can market and sell, preferable with a patent of copyright or some other protection to provide them with a monopoly. There is no profit in, and therefore no money for, research into simple common solutions to problems.
IÂm sure some will disagree with me, but I think some entities, such as the USDA, have their own agenda that has been revealed by observing them over time. The big agenda of any government agency is to get more money, more power and try to appear that they are serving the purpose they were put there for. In the case of the USDA, itÂs obvious they have favored chemicals over natural solutions. They favor anything that appears to help the economy of agribusiness. This doesnÂt mean just the small farmer/beekeeper etc. but the whole of agribusiness. They seem to like to see money changing hands because it helps the economy.
Just because research was done on a subject and the researchers came to some conclusion, does not make that conclusion the truth.
Now, while we are talking about facts, letÂs talk about one of the reasons some people do not like science and prefer their own opinions. I covered one above, which is that we always like our own ideas because they fit our way of thinking, but the other is that people are fond of saying that something has not been proven scientifically as if that means it is NOT true because it has NOT been proven. Anything we have not proven is simply something that has not been proven. Because I have not proven it true does not make it false.
In 1847 Dr. Ignaz Philipp Semmelwis instituted the practice of hand washing before delivering babies. He came to this conclusion simply by the statistical evidence that mothers and babies who were attended by doctors who washed had less mortality than ones attended by doctors who did not wash. This was "Post hoc ergo procto hoc" . The doctors washed and less babies died. This is not scientific proof and therfore his colleages did not consider it scientific proof. Why? Because he could not provide a mechanism to explain it nor an experiment to prove that mechanism. Because he was a proponent of something he would not prove absolutely, he was driven out of the medical community as a quack. This is an example of something that had not been proven scientifically.
In the 1850Âs when Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch created the science of microbiology and the Âgerm theory of disease Dr SemmelwisÂs theory finally was proven scientifically. Now there was a mechanism and they were able to create experiments to prove that mechanism. My point is, that it was true before they proved it and it was true after they proved it. The truth did not change because they proved it. There was, previous to this proof, evidence that would lead to the practice of hand washing, but not proof.
We live our lives and make decisions all the time based on our view of the world. This view is not truth, but it is based on our experience and our learning. Sometimes something comes along to change that view and we accept it because the evidence is strong enough. To ignore evidence that fits the pattern of what we see around us because it has not been proven is foolish. To ignorantly hang on to things that are proven to not be true is equally foolish. But just because the majority believe something to be proven does not mean has been. Just because the majority of people believe something is true does not make it true.
In conclusion, I would say, read research with a grain of salt. Look at their methods. Think about the contributing issues that they have overlooked. Pay attention to anything that would skew the population they are studying or the population of the control group. Look into whether or not the study has been duplicated and were the results similar or contrary. What was the size of the population? What was the difference in success? If there is only a small difference it may not be statistically important. Even if there is a large difference, was it duplicated at that large a difference? Also what might be the prejudices of the people doing the research?


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He liked the Devils , then the Bruins, then the Canadiens and now the Blackhawks, this guy is a Flyers Beltrante.
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Kuschel resigns from city position
The Ride With Us Bus will soon seek applicants to fill two positions following the resignation of Valarie Kuschel and the retirement of bus driver Curt Peterson.
Kuschel submitted her resignation at the May 14 Pine River City Council meeting. She has accepted a Cass County position and her resignation is effective May 31.
The council approved Kuschel's resignation and thanked her for her service. Council member Patty Melby said she appreciated Kuschel's work with the city, and City Clerk Wanda Mongan said Kuschel has brought the city bus a long way.
At the same time, Peterson, a driver with the bus for 14 years, is soon retiring, and when he leaves he takes with him all that experience. Because Peterson knows all the different routes through town and uses that knowledge to improve travel time, training in a replacement will take some time.
In her monthly report, Kuschel said the Ride With Us Bus had 560 riders in April and is holding strong at 43 riders a day. Kuschel asked for permission to advertise to fill Peterson's position, saying Peterson has a knack for customer service, volunteers many hours to the city and keeps a regular maintenance schedule for the bus. Kuschel said it will be difficult to replace him. She suggested it could take three weeks to train a replacement, so it might be wise to advertise soon.
Mongan said the city could save money if it advertised the open driver position with the open assistant clerk position. Mayor Jim Sabas said that hiring would need to be done with the future of the bus service in mind.
The council also discussed advertisement for Kuschel's position. The pay amount was of particular interest to some members.
"I think it should go back to before her probationary pay, because she earned that extra income and I think the person coming in should," council member Tamara Hansen said.
The proposed advertisement offers 40 hours a week at the same wages Kuschel earns now, which was being considered as a way for the city to catch up on wage levels. No decision was made on this subject.


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Every minute of every day, the world is trying to kill you. Do you know which threats are most likely to cause your untimely demise?
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Question 1 of 30
Which of these is the greatest killer in the United States?
Heart disease
Heart disease is the No. 1 killer in the world and claimed more than 600,000 lives in the United States in 2013.
Question 2 of 30
In the United States, which of these professions is most likely to kill you?
Aircraft pilot
Being a cop is much safer than being a pilot.
Mining machine operator
Police work
Question 3 of 30
In the U.S., which of these factors is more likely to kill you?
Allergic reactions to insect bites and stings
Perhaps 100 people die each year from the effects of bug bites and stings.
Snake bites
Poisonous plants
Question 4 of 30
In 2014, in the United States, which type of construction job was deadliest?
Residential building construction
Trips, slips and falls are a significant danger on any kind of construction site.
Utility system construction
Highway construction
Question 5 of 30
Which killed the most Americans in 2013?
Vehicle accidents
Motor vehicles are convenient, fun … and dangerous.
Question 6 of 30
In the U.S. you are more likely to die from which of these?
Violence kills thousands of people each year.
smoking in bed
Question 7 of 30
In the United States in 2014, it was SAFER to be which one of the following?
drywall worker
Electricians were more than twice as likely to die on the job than drywallers.
Question 8 of 30
Worldwide, which of these is deadliest every year?
In both rich and poor countries, TB kills many people annually.
stomach cancer
Question 9 of 30
In 2014, which of the agriculture-related jobs was most likely to kill you in the U.S.?
Cattle ranching
With more than 100 deaths, it's proven that cattle ranching can be deadly.
Corn farming
Hog farming
Question 10 of 30
Which of the following is more likely to kill you?
Shark attack
Falling out of bed
It's such a boring (but perhaps peaceful) way to kick the bucket.
Swing sets
Question 11 of 30
During which activity are you most likely to be struck by lightning (and possibly killed)?
Open water and fishing poles do not mix nicely with lightning.
Question 12 of 30
Which occupation is more likely to kill you?
In 2014, nearly 100 American loggers died.
Question 13 of 30
In the United States which of the following food production jobs is the most hazardous?
Tobacco production
Animal slaughtering
Meatpacking plants aren't just hard on animals … they can hurt people, too
Question 14 of 30
In one year, about 75 people in the United States succumb to what?
TV sets
Lawn mowers
This has to be one of the most gruesome ways to go.
Question 15 of 30
In 2013, in the United States, you were most likely to die from which of the following?
Motor vehicles
A lot of the poisonings happen due to prescription drugs.
Question 16 of 30
In 2012, what was the bigger killer around the world?
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
With 6.7 million victims, strokes were right behind heart disease as a major killer.
Lower respiratory infection
Question 17 of 30
Worldwide, in 2010, which type of food poisoning was most likely to kill you?
This type of food poisoning can kick in anywhere from 12 to 72 hours after infection.
E. coli
Question 18 of 30
In the United States, which of the following is more likely to end you?
Car accidents
Air pollution
The pollution you breathe is statistically much more likely to hurt you than cars and guns.
Question 19 of 30
What source of air pollution is most likely to contribute to factors that ultimately kill you?
Road traffic pollution
That's right, sitting in gridlock sucking tailpipe emissions is really, really bad for you.
Pollution related to the generation of electricity
Industrial emissions
Question 20 of 30
Which of these is more likely to kill you in the United States?
Lightning strikes
Vending machines
Just another reason to avoid these death-dealing machines.
Falling televisions
Question 21 of 30
Which of these everyday things is more likely to cause your untimely end?
With more than 1,500 annual deaths, stairs are far deadlier than tubs or ladders.
Question 22 of 30
Which American job is most likely to end in your death?
In 2013, nearly 40 workers per 100,000 wound up dying on the job.
Truck driving
Question 23 of 30
In India, you're more likely to die from which of the following?
Diarrheal diseases
In developing countries, these diseases affect young people in particular.
Pneumonia and flu
Question 24 of 30
In the United States, which traffic-related situation is most likely to kill you?
Walking near roads continues to be a dangerous activity.
Distracted driving
Question 25 of 30
What's the most dangerous food item to consume while driving?
Hot coffee is one of the most common items that contribute to car accidents.
Soft drinks
Question 26 of 30
In 2014, in the United States, which type of animal was most likely to kill you?
Large mammal
Cows and horses are a menace to many.
Crocodile or alligator
Question 27 of 30
You are more likely to be murdered by someone who is under the influence of what?
Some estimates say that perhaps 40% of murderers in the U.S. are drunk when they kill.
Question 28 of 30
In America, which driving hazard is most likely to kill you?
Distracted driving
Drowsy driving
Drunk driving
Alcohol-related crashes killed nearly 10,000 people in 2014.
Question 29 of 30
On the job in America, which profession is most likely to end with your murder?
Police work
Taxi driver
Best be careful who you take for a ride.
Truck driver
Question 30 of 30
Around the world, what was more likely to kill you in 2014?
Sadly, terrorism killed more than 30,000 people that year.
Snake bites
Lightning strikes


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Briscoe Raises Awareness for CO Poisoning at NYC Conference
The president of the Long Island firm is involved in multiple efforts to reduce injuries, deaths caused by carbon monoxide.
By SSI Staff · July 3, 2014
NEW YORK CITY — Briscoe Protective Systems, a provider of fire/life-safety systems and services, co-sponsored the New York Nonprofit Press Facilities Day Conference to promote awareness of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning.
During the conference, held here June 12 at Baruch College, Briscoe honored Ken and Kim Hansen for their advocacy efforts leading to the passage of Amanda's Law, which requires the installation of CO detectors in all homes in New York State. The law is named in honor of their daughter, Amanda Hanson, who died in 2009 from CO poisoning while sleeping at a friend's house. Amanda's Law set a record for the fastest legislation passed by New York State. The Amanda Hansen Foundation continues to educate the public by promoting awareness of CO poisoning and providing detectors for low income families.
Bob Williams, Briscoe's president, bestowed the Bert Briscoe Award — named after Williams' grandfather — to the Hansens at a special awards presentation to kick-off the conference.
"Briscoe's family oriented philosophy has been passed down from my grandfather, Bert Briscoe, and is at the core of everything we do," Williams says. "We are committed to carrying out his vision in our work and continue the push for CO legislation to prevent any further tragedies from happening."
In the last few months, Williams has been attending and speaking at many of the public hearings on CO legislation throughout Long Island to help make a difference by advising local legislative officials to implement stricter CO laws for commercial facilities. He also founded the Just One Life program where CO devices are distributed to Long Island residents in partnership with local fire districts and then installed by Briscoe staff members.
The conference also featured nonprofit representatives who discussed fire safety issues and FDNY certification training, planning for disasters, electronic security systems, among other topics.


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Pulaski Technical College will host a reception and opening gallery talk on Thursday, Nov. 1, with artist Warren Criswell whose exhibit It's About Time will be display through Dec. 15. The reception begins at 10 a.m. in Ottenheimer Library's Bank of the Ozarks Gallery. At 12:30 p.m., Criswell will give a lecture and animation presentation in the RJ Wills Lecture Hall, located on the second floor of the Campus Center.Both are free and open to the public. Criswell, primarily a self-taught painter, is also a printmaker, sculptor and filmmaker. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad. He has works in the permanent collections at the Arkansas Arts Center, the McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina, UALR, UCA, Hendrix College, the Historic Arkansas Museum, the Central Arkansas Library System and other private and corporate collections.
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Original post made by Danville Voter, Danville, on Jun 4, 2012
She also claims this is not a partisan office so it makes no difference that she is a conservative Republican who is personally against a woman's right of choice and personally against marriage equality. But yet as a Republican, I received in the mail a campaign brochure from her people that I should vote for her because she is a Republican. She can not have it both ways. Be honest and admit you are a Republican, and don't try to hide it to get elected.
Although I am a Republican, I will not vote for her, due to allowance of the illegal development at Magee Ranch, and her lack of candor and lack of honesty about her political party and about allegedly being in favor of open spaces.
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on Jun 4, 2012 at 9:09 pm
I'm very disappointed in this piece of attack propaganda, especially since it's a flat out lie.
as Mayor allowed the illegal Summerhill development at Magee Ranch - lie. That development hasn't even gone to the planning commission, let alone the Town Council.
It's ok to not vote for someone, but at least be truthful about why you're doing it.
a resident of Danville
on Jun 5, 2012 at 7:41 am
Mrs. Andersen is the best of the candidates for Supervisor. Her positions on marriage equality or women's choice are completely outside her role as Mayor or Supervisor and she has a right to have and express her own opinions as we all do. The development approval (or non-approval) process is extensive, involves anyone who wishes to be heard, and includes environmental impact studies that are open to public review and debate. One person does not and cannot control an outcome, which can be a great frustration to developers. The traffic at the schools is primarily composed of single occupant vehicles in the case of Monte Vista, and parents taking their kids to school in the cases of elementary and middle schools. Yes, it would be nice of everyone to carpool but we live in a car-centric society and our kids go to school. Mrs. Andersen didn't invent that, we did. Lastly, a quick fact check will show that we enjoy the largest urban open space area in California, but not surprisingly, most of us ignore it. If a person goes for a hike in Las Trampas, Diablo, Walnut Creek Open Space, or East Bay MUD areas that surround us he or she will find few other hikers out there. Mrs. Andersen is a person who has demonstrated honesty in all her dealings, and is a tireless worker for us. She is a person of great character, and I'm happy to support her regardless of political party. My advise to you is to ignore disgruntled property owners, hit pieces and misinformation propaganda.


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right get too enthusiastic they might consider the source that clearly inspired
the catchy trailer. The rapid fire editing, the manipulative linking of
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text: I know you guys might be doing this: but hear me out. I see a lot of posters pointing to these guys as recent draft successes, but are they really? Does it matter how talented they are if they can't get on the field? See Miles Austin. All three of these guys came in injured and have missed significant time here. We are going to have some tough choices to make. Lee expires at the end of next season Carter and Murray expire at the end of the 2014 season I realized we have to take the wait and see mentality, but there is a definite risk in drafted injured players with a ton of talent. Let's hope it works out. I would hate to lock up Lee long term only to see him turn into Miles Austin.


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Faculty, staff, students and community supporters can help The Pulaski Technical College Foundation raise money simply by eating at Applebee's on Tuesday, Aug. 28.
Through Applebee's Dining to Donate program, Applebee's will donate 15% of its proceeds from sales that day to the PTC foundation. The promotion runs from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at the Applebee's at 4333 Warden Road in North Little Rock and the one at 12110 Chenal Parkway in west Little Rock.
To ensure that PTC Foundation receives the proceeds, diners must give their server one of Pulaski Tech's promotions flyer letting them know they are with PTC. Fliers can be printed by clicking here or by calling Kristy Perryman at (501) 812-2728 or e-mailing her at email@example.com
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Wi-Fi is available at this spacious apartment, which consists of 2 double bedrooms. There is also a study with a single sofa bed and a bright living room which offers a dining area. The apartment comes complete with a fully equipped kitchen featuring appliances such as a coffee machine and blender.
The apartment is located in the peaceful Campo de Ourique neighbourhood, close to a number of excellent amenities including cafes, authentic restaurants and a number of Fado music bars. A supermarket and a traditional fruit and vegetable market are within 500 metres of the apartment.
Several bus stops as well at the tram offers speedy links around the city. The famous Belem Tower can be reached in under 40 minutes via bus. The bustling Bairro Alto district, where the city's best nightlife can be found, is just a 25-minute bus journey away.
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Smoking is only permitted on the balcony.
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We had a good time in Alfonso's nicely refurbished apartment. Alfonso gave us lots of tips. The apartment is nice and bright with fully equipped new kitchen en bathroom. De location is good for site-seeing (tram 28 on walking distance). Don't forget to walk to Amoureiras shopping mall too! The nearby marketplace is a good place to go out in the evening (especially Friday-Sunday) and meet other people with a good glass of wine! Be aware that the apartment is on the 3rd floor. The stairs are not high and do-able for every average healthy person. We loved being in Lisbon for some days. We'll be back!
Our stay in Afonso's apartment was great, his friend Filippa and her husband took good care of us for him, and Afonso who couldn't be there in person kept us busy with lots of tips on what to see and do in Lisbon. The apartment itself was beautifully furnished and located in a very nice area.
Super 5* Apartment, super Lage, super Gastgeber.
Wonderful 5* Apartment, Top position, top host.
I am sure we will come back!
Afonso was very welcoming and attentive. Many thanks to him.
The apartment is very pleasant in all respects.
Campo de Ourique is a nice quarter, peaceful and pleasant.
We had a very nice stay in Lisbon and in this apartment.
It's a cozy apartment. It has a sweet decoration and is full of facilities. There is nothing lacking there!! And everything is completely new and clean.
Afonso is a great host. He gave us a lot of information about Lisboa. He was concerned about us having a nice time.
We really enjoyed ourselves. Thank you so much.
I have rarely rented a vacation flar wghich was so well equipped as the case is with the flat of Afonso. we often xperience a flat with two tea spoons and 10 different coffee cups. Not the case at Afonso's. The kitchen was truely very well equiped. Location and neighbourhood was great too. Afonso had even taken the effort to describe where to go and where to eat out of his personal experience - good thinking Afonso. We can only recommend it. A piece of good advice. If you intend to only visit Lisbon and outskirts of Lisbon - then don't rent a car. Public transportation and taxis are very inexpensive.
We had a wonderful time here! Afonso is a very nice host, the appartment is really great, with lots of lovely details! only one thing that was a bit disturbing: airplanes fly very low, so there is a lot of noise. I didn't mind that a lot, but I think it's worth knowing. My friends and I would always come back here anyway! Afonso provided us with very usefull tips, like how to move around, nice restaurants, great views and day trips. thanks a lot!
Visited Lisbon with a friend, apartment was very cosy and had everything we needed for the stay. Located in a calm neighbourhood so we had no trouble for falling asleep. Afonso welcomed us with great care, he even had bought some pastéis de Nata to bring us in Portuguese mood! He showed us around and gave helpful information about the surroundings, public transportation and the city itself so I would definately recommend this place to friends if they are planning to visit Lisbon.
We stayed in this wonderful apartment in July this year. We were actually the first guests. Afonso the owner could not be more helpful, he met us as the bus station and brought us to the apartment. The apartment is very modern / quirky decor, with all the appliances you need to make your stay even more comfortable. There is plenty and light and bedrooms are quite spacious. There is a large balcony to the back of the apartment. Everything was beautiful, new, neat and tidy.
Afonso left lovely fresh fruit, water and even a few beers in the fridge as a welcome gift which we thought was a lovely touch.
In the immediate location there are restaurants, small shops etc. The bus or tram stop is about 8-10min walk. A taxi from the town centre was about 6 euro, and a taxi to airport is about 7euro.
Lisbon is a beautiful city to explore. We would recommend the 3 wheel car with the tour guide, as these little cars can go to streets and places where tour buses cannot go. We visited Bairro Alto on the Saturday night, its a bit mad, but lovely restaurants atmosphere. We also did the red bus hop on hop off tour which is nice but not the hi-light of the holiday. We took a spin on the cable cars which was great, and did all the main attractions such as the Castle, Museums, stadium etc.
We will return some day.
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Brian Hayes
Most of the machines we encounter in everyday life are one-way
devices. Kitchen appliances turn bread into toast and cabbage into
cole slaw, but they cannot perform the opposite transformations.
Even machines that claim to be reversible adopt a very shallow
notion of what it means to go backwards. The drill in my tool box
has settings marked "forward" and "reverse," but
no matter which I choose, I cannot undrill a hole. The gearshift in
my car also has a position labeled R, but when I back up,
the engine keeps turning in the same direction; if the car were
truly reversed, it would suck in pollution through the
tailpipe, converting it into gasoline and air.
Computers, too, are mostly irreversible machines. When a program is
running, there's no way to turn it around and have it step through
the same instructions in the opposite order. Even if that were
feasible, the backward-running program would not uncompute an
answer. Some of the individual instructions would also have to be
reversed, or inverted; for example, undoing addition requires
subtraction. For computers of the current generation, such reversals
of logic and arithmetic are simply not possible.
In the case of toasters and gasoline engines, full reversibility is
too much to ask, but no fundamental law forbids reversible
computing. The theoretical possibility of a digital computer that
can run forward and backward with equal ease has been recognized for
more than 30 years. A few silicon prototypes have been built and
shown to work. Still, up to now, reversible computing has been a toy
technology, more of interest to theorists than to engineers. Only a
small community of devotees believed it would ever be anything more.
That attitude is changing now. The reason is that reversible
computing holds out the promise of dramatically lower power
consumption, which is becoming an urgent need. Also, any computer
based on quantum technology will necessarily be a reversible
machine. As a result, forward-thinking chip designers are thinking
backwards too. It's not too soon to ask what it might be like to
have a reversible computer on your desk, or to write programs that
can run in either direction.
Computational Fuel Economy
Why is power consumption so important, and what does it have to do
with reversibility? The chain of reasoning that links these concepts
is a fairly long and tangled one, but the individual steps are easy
enough to follow.
In the past two decades the performance of microprocessors has
improved by a factor of 1,000, but the trends that have made
computers more powerful have also made them more power-hungry. Some
chips dissipate more than 100 watts and require elaborate fans, heat
sinks and even liquid cooling. Designers would welcome another
thousandfold gain in performance, but they cannot cope with any
further increase in power density. Single chips that consume
electricity by the kilowatt are just not a practical option.
Where does all the energy go? Much power is lost because neither
conductors nor insulators are perfect; electrons meet resistance
where they ought to pass unopposed, and they leak through materials
where current ought to be blocked. Both of these problems will get
more severe as silicon devices continue to shrink. Another energy
drain is the need to accelerate and decelerate electric charges as
signals move through the circuitry; this cost goes up along with
processor speed. And it always takes energy to push electrons
"uphill" against a voltage gradient.
Some of the strategies for reducing the energy demands of a computer
are much like measures to improve the fuel economy of an automobile.
To get better gas mileage, you make a car lighter and
aerodynamically sleeker; likewise in digital circuits, you can
reduce inertia by using fewer electrons to represent each bit of
information, and you can cut resistive losses with better
conductors. In the car, you drive slower and more smoothly; in the
computer you operate at lower voltage and avoid abrupt swings in
voltage. For even greater savings in an automobile, you might try a
hybrid design, with a battery or a flywheel to recapture energy
invested in acceleration and hill-climbing; the electronic
counterpart is an experimental technology called charge recovery.
In the world of chipmaking, some of these energy-conserving measures
are already well-established tools, and others are likely to be
adopted soon. For example, copper is replacing aluminum in the metal
interconnections on some chips to improve conductivity. The voltage
levels of on-chip signals have fallen from 5 volts to as little as 1
volt. Further steps of the same general kind may well avert a
silicon energy crisis for another decade or two. But then what? If
the number of operations per second is to increase by a factor of
1,000 without raising power consumption, then the average energy per
operation must be reduced to a thousandth of its present value. Is
that possible, even in principle? What about a millionth?
For a long time it was taken for granted that storing, manipulating
and transmitting information would always necessarily dissipate some
nonzero quantity of energy. Engineering prowess might lower the
energy cost somewhat, but there was a threshold level, a lower limit
we could never cross. A device that could compute without loss of
energy was seen as the information equivalent of a perpetual-motion machine.
John von Neumann, in a 1949 lecture, set the minimum price of
"an elementary act of information" at kT ln 2. In
this formula k is Boltzmann's constant, which is the
conversion factor for expressing temperature in energy units; its
numerical value is 1.4 x 10-23 joules per kelvin.
T is the absolute temperature, and ln 2 is the natural
logarithm of 2, a number that appears here because it corresponds to
one bit of information—the amount of information needed to
distinguish between two equally likely alternatives. At room
temperature (300 kelvins), kT ln 2 works out to about 3 x
10-21 joule, or 3 zeptojoules. This is a minuscule amount
of energy; Ralph C. Merkle of the Georgia Institute of Technology
estimates that it is the average kinetic energy of a single air
molecule at room temperature.
Von Neumann's pronouncement was based on a thermodynamic argument.
Consider a computation that answers a single
yes/no question, where the two possible outcomes
appear equally likely at the outset. Once the question has been
settled, we know one bit more than we did beforehand, and so the
computational process reduces the uncertainty or entropy of the
computing system by one bit. But the second law of thermodynamics
says that total entropy can never decrease, and so the reduction
inside the computer must be compensated by an entropy increase
elsewhere. Specifically, the computer must stir up at least one
bit's worth of disorder in its surroundings by expelling an amount
of heat equal to kT ln 2. Von Neumann—along with
everyone else at the time—assumed that every
"elementary act of information" has the effect of settling
at least one yes/no question, and thus it seemed
that each step in the computer's operation inevitably dissipates at
least three zeptojoules of energy.
Von Neumann's ideas on the thermodynamics of computation were widely
accepted but never formally proved. In the early 1960s Rolf Landauer
set out to supply such a proof and found that he couldn't. He
discovered that only a certain subclass of computational events have
an unavoidable three-zeptojoule cost. Ironically, these expensive
operations are not those that produce information but rather those
that destroy it, such as erasing a bit from a memory cell.
Landauer's work on the cost of forgetting was counter-intuitive, and
initially it got a frosty reception. Now the idea has been
thoroughly assimilated, and it's hard to see what the controversy
was all about. Erasing a memory cell amounts to ignoring its present
contents—which may in fact be unknown—and resetting the
cell to some standardized state (usually 0). Thus an indeterminate
bit becomes a fully specified one, and the entropy of the machine is
diminished accordingly. For this reason the corresponding amount of
heat energy (kT ln 2) has to be rejected into the
environment. The consequences are even clearer if you think about
erasing the entire memory of a computer, so that the system goes
from a random state to a highly ordered one; this is a process of
refrigeration, and so it obviously gives off heat.
An Unturing Machine
Although erasing takes energy, Landauer found that not all computer
operations are subject to the three-zeptojoule stricture. The
simplest counterexample is the logical NOT gate, which inverts the
state of a single bit, changing 1 to 0 or 0 to 1. No information is
lost in this process; the state of the bit is completely known both
before and after. Thus there is no fundamental reason for a NOT gate
to be dissipating energy. Present-day implementations of the NOT
function may very well produce just as much heat as erasing a memory
cell, but that energy loss is not required by the laws of thermodynamics.
A notable property of the NOT function is its
reversibility. When bit A is transformed into NOT
A, all that's needed to undo the action and restore the
original state is a second application of the NOT
function—(NOT (NOT A)) = A. The erasure of a
bit is quite different; it can't be undone because there's no way of
knowing whether the previous state was a 0 or a 1.
Functions such as AND are also logically irreversible. A two-input
AND gate produces an output of 1 if and only if both inputs are 1;
otherwise the output is 0. Thus if the output happens to be 1, we
know that both inputs were also 1, but when the output is 0, we
can't distinguish between three alternative pairs of inputs (0 and
1, 1 and 0, 0 and 0). A similar analysis applies to OR. At a higher
level, standard arithmetic operations such as +, -, x and ÷
also throw away information and are therefore irreversible. Take the
equation 5 + 3 = 8; given the left side, it's easy to regenerate the
right, but you can't go the other way.
Landauer showed that only the logically irreversible steps in a
computation carry an unavoidable energy penalty. If we could compute
entirely with reversible operations, there would be no lower limit
on energy consumption. We could run a supercomputer on a watch battery.
The question remained: Is it possible to build a fully capable
computer out of nothing but logically reversible components?
Initially, Landauer himself thought the answer was no. After all,
most of the familiar building blocks of computers, such as AND and
OR gates, are irreversible devices. Then in 1973 Charles H. Bennett,
now of IBM Research, came up with a remarkably direct demonstration
that any computation by an irreversible computer can also be done reversibly.
Bennett presented his idea in terms of a Turing machine, the
abstract model of a computer that reads, writes and erases symbols
on a tape. Erasures make the standard Turing machine irreversible,
so Bennett added a second tape, called the history tape, where the
machine keeps notes about erased or overwritten data. At the end of
a computation, the final answer can be copied onto yet another tape
for safekeeping. Then the machine is put in reverse gear, and with
the help of the history tape, all the operations are undone, one by
one, until the system returns to its initial condition.
The latter half of this operating cycle strikes many people as
bizarrely counterproductive. How can you save energy by running the
machine for twice as long, regardless of whether it's going forward
or backward? Wouldn't it be better just to throw away the extra
tape? Experience with ordinary machines in everyday life does not
prepare us to answer these questions. When you drive a car 10 miles
down the road, you can't recover the fuel you burned by backing up
over the same route. But suppose the car had a history tape that
kept track of all the molecules involved in the combustion process;
then, in principle, you could unburn the gasoline by bringing those
molecules back together in the right order. This is not a feasible
scheme in automotive engineering, but in the tidier, discrete
universe of digital computers, the history-tape trick does work.
Maybe even the reverse-combustion process isn't quite as outlandish
as it seems. Bennett, who began his career as a chemist, also
described a biochemical model of a reversible computation. When the
enzyme RNA polymerase reads off the sequence of bases in a strand of
DNA and assembles a corresponding molecule of RNA, the RNA is
conceptually equivalent to the history tape in Bennett's Turing
machine. The same enzyme can then work in reverse to disassemble the
RNA, base by base—but only for RNA that matches the DNA
template. Bennett points out that this orderly reversal of the
assembly process is energetically more efficient than disposing of
the RNA with enzymes that degrade any such molecule.
Reversible Logic
A Turing machine is fine for reasoning about computers, but it's not
an ideal model for building them. Some more practical components of
reversible logic were introduced in the 1980s by Edward F. Fredkin
and Tommaso Toffoli, who were then working together at MIT. (Fredkin
is now at Carnegie Mellon University, Toffoli at Boston University.)
The components are logic gates, somewhat like AND and OR gates but
designed for reversibility.
In any reversible gate the number of inputs must equal the number of
outputs. Moreover, each possible set of inputs must yield a distinct
set of outputs. If this were not the case—that is, if two or
more input patterns had the same output—then the reverse
action of the gate would be ambiguous.
The devices now known as the Fredkin gate and the Toffoli gate
(see illustration on page 109) both have three inputs
and three outputs; and, as required for reversibility, each input
pattern maps to a unique output. In the Fredkin gate, one signal
controls whether the other two data lines pass straight through the
gate or else have their positions swapped. In the Toffoli gate, two
of the signals control the third; if the first two bits are both 1,
then the third bit is inverted.
Like the NOT gate, both the Fredkin and the Toffoli gates are their
own inverses: No matter what the values of the three input signals,
running them through two successive copies of the same gate will
return the signals to their original values. Both gates are also
computationally universal, meaning that a computer assembled from
multiple Fredkin or Toffoli gates (and no other components) could
simulate a Turing machine or any other device of equivalent
computational power. Thus the gates might be considered candidates
for a real reversible computer.
Of course logic gates are still just abstract devices; they have to
be given some physical implementation with transistors or other
kinds of hardware. Starting in the early 1990s, several groups have
been designing and building prototypes of reversible (or nearly
reversible) digital circuits. For example, at MIT a group including
Michael Frank and Thomas F. Knight, Jr., fabricated a series of
small but complete processor chips based on a reversible technology;
Frank continues this work at Florida State University. At the
University of Gent in Belgium, Alexis De Vos and his colleagues have
built several reversible adders and other circuits.
It's important to note that building a computer according to a
reversible logic diagram does not guarantee low-power operation.
Reversibility removes the thermodynamic floor at kT ln 2,
but the circuit must still be designed to attain that level of
energy savings. The current state of the art is far above the
theoretical floor; even the most efficient chips, reversible or not,
dissipate somewhere between 10,000 and 10 million times kT
ln 2 for each logical operation. Thus it will be some years before
reversible technology can be put to the ultimate test of challenging
the three-zeptojoule barrier. In the meantime, however, it turns out
that some concepts derived from reversible logic are already useful
in low-power circuits. One of these is charge recovery, which
attempts to recycle packets of electric charge rather than let them
drain to ground. Another is adiabatic switching, which avoids
wasteful current surges by closing switches only after voltages have
had a chance to equalize.
Back to the Future
Making a computer run backwards is not just a problem for hardware
hackers and logic designers. There are also issues at higher levels
of abstraction. What will it be like to write and run a program on a
machine that can bounce back and forth in time?
Most of us already have some experience with a rudimentary form of
reversibility—namely the undo command. Even this
simple facility for unwinding a computation has its semantic
hazards. (Should "undo undo" leave you two steps
back, or none?) In many programs, undo is a bit of a sham;
it doesn't turn the program around but just revisits saved
snapshots. Software that really runs in reverse has some
harder problems to solve.
Consider the matter of rounding. Most numerical calculations are
done with limited precision; all numbers have to fit into 32 bits,
say. When that's not enough room, the least-significant digits are
discarded. But dropping digits is a no-no in the world of reversible
computing. If 1/3 gets converted into 0.33333, then reversing the
process must somehow yield exactly 1/3 again.
Even arithmetic with exact numbers can get us into trouble, if one
of those numbers happens to be zero. Division by zero is forbidden
everywhere in civil society; in a reversible machine, we might also
have to outlaw multiplication by zero, because it amounts to
erasure, yielding a result of zero no matter what the value of the
multiplicand. Personally, I rather like this idea of treating
division and multiplication symmetrically, but it runs counter to
hundreds of years of habit.
Henry G. Baker, in a thoughtful essay that touches on several issues
of reversibility, cites another example: Newton's method for
approximating square roots. In Newton's algorithm, you approach the
square root of N by starting with an arbitrary guess,
x, and then calculating (x + N/x)/2. The result of this
expression becomes a new guess, and you repeat the procedure until
you reach the desired accuracy. Almost any guess will converge on
the true root; in other words, the algorithm "exemplifies a
large class of computations in which the output appears to be
independent of the input." The method also appears to be highly
irreversible, since all those different inputs lead to the same
output. If the computation were reversed, how could the algorithm
find its way back from the one output to each of the many possible
inputs? But in fact it can (at least if the initial x is
greater than the square root of N). If the computation is
done without rounding or truncating intermediate results, all of the
information needed to reverse the process is preserved in the
"insignificant" decimal places of the answers. Each
initial guess can be reconstructed exactly.
Baker and others also point out that a reversible computer would be
a wonderful device for debugging programs. With conventional
hardware, you can set a breakpoint to stop a program when it goes
off the rails, but then it's a struggle to figure out what path
brought it to the trouble spot. With a reversible device, you can
just back it up. Running a compiler in reverse might also be fun.
Generating source code from an executable program is a handy trick
(which the vendors of commercial software would no doubt want to disable).
Let's Get Physical
Landauer, who died in 1999, championed the slogan "Information
is physical." He meant, first of all, that information cannot
exist in the abstract but has to be embodied somehow—in
electrons, photons, chalk marks, neural excitations. But the slogan
can also be taken as a call to heed the laws of physics when dealing
with information, just as one must with matter and energy. In this
respect irreversible computers are notorious scofflaws. They make
bits appear out of nothing and then disappear into the void again
when they're no longer needed. They obey no conservation laws.
A reversible computer is a better-behaved device, more at home in
the universe we live in. As Toffoli wrote in 1982:
"Computation—whether by man or by machine—is a
physical activity. If we want to compute more, faster, better, more
efficiently, and more intelligently, we will have to learn more
about nature. In a sense, nature has been continually computing the
'next state' of the universe for billions of years; all we have to
do—and, actually, all we can do—is 'hitch a
ride' on this huge ongoing computation, and try to discover which
parts of it happen to go near to where we want."
(See Brian Hayes' weblog, bit-player.org, for two related items, "Swapping lies" and "Newton and Notwen". An extended
bibliography is also available.)
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Father Bruce Engen, farmer priest, mourned
Lake Country Parishes' Father Bruce Engen will be remembered for a quick wit and a down-to-earth demeanor.
Engen, 74, died Tuesday morning, April 9, of complications from heart issues after being taken to Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd on Sunday morning, April 7.
Engen came to the Lake Country Parishes in July of 2003. He presided primarily over Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church in Pine River, though he also presided over Mass at St. Alice Catholic Church in Pequot Lakes and St. Christopher's Catholic Church in Nisswa. Engen presided over many weddings in the area, including that of Daniel Soukup, son of Kathy Soukup.
"I liked that he was very ordinary. If you would see him walk down the street you wouldn't realize he was a priest. He just looked like an ordinary farmer that just came in off his tractor and came to town for a part," said parishioner Kathy Soukup.
Engen was a man of many regular interests. He liked old cars and tractors and used to discuss them with parishioners. With the help of parishioners he grew and harvested hay near Deerfield Township and even raised honey bees. This everyday demeanor likely stemmed from his past.
"Everybody who knows Father Bruce has very fond memories of him. He was very down to earth. The fact that he wasn't ordained until he was 50, he had so many life experiences," said Mary Bruemmer, good friend and parishioner. "He could really relate to people and everybody loved him."
Parishioners from Our Lady of Lourdes know that Engen used a quick wit to amuse and engage his parishioners, especially the children. He is known for his love of children.
"He was a jolly fellow. He liked to tell jokes. He very often had a joke at the end of Mass and he enjoyed the kids," Soukup said. "He used to have a joke or riddle for the kids and if they could answer the joke or riddle they could either get a dollar or a jar of honey because he raised honey bees."
He was not afraid of being the butt of a joke, either. Following a case of mistaken identity with police in 2004, Engen happily shared the story with his congregation.
"When the Backus bank got robbed, the guy that took off was using a red van and Father Bruce at that time was driving a red van. Later in that day he was driving down 371 and the cops pulled him over," Bruemmer said. "They had him spread eagle on the outside of the van because they thought he was a bank robber. It got to be a pretty good joke."
Engen was well known to his congregation, and finished most Sunday Masses by walking out of the church, row by row, shaking hands with people as he passed. He often worked alongside parishioners doing repairs on his tractors or other machinery and sometimes even hired youth from the area to help him with work in his field, among other things.
"If he had something that needed done where he kept his tractors he would get some of the younger kids that needed a job and give them a little extra money," Soukup said.
"A very loving man, very kind to everyone. I never ran into anyone that didn't like him," Bruemmer said. "He's going to be missed very much."
Engen was ordained in 1989 at age 50. Before being ordained, he ran a hardware store in Remer, acted as a foster parent and farmed on the side. People always told him he should become a priest. He presided over Masses in various places, including Cass Lake and Walker, before coming to Pine River.
The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, April 13, 2013, at 10 a.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Pine River. Visitation will be on Friday evening from 5-7 p.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Church. Burial will follow the funeral at Fairview Cemetery in Remer.


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Rawlings WCC Baseball Player of the Week: April 28, 2014
College Sports Madness West Coast Baseball Player of the Week: April 28, 2014
FRESHMAN (2014): Led the team with 30 walks and a .433 on-base percentage — both good for fourth in the WCC — while finishing in the top three of several Bronco offensive categories, including batting average (.322), runs scored (35), doubles (13), total bases (84) slugging percentage (.459) and home runs (4) … went 1-for-4 in his collegiate debut Feb. 14 vs. Nevada ... went 1-for-3 with a walk Feb. 15 vs. Boston College ... went 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored Feb. 16 vs. Boston College ... hit 2-for-4 with a walk Feb. 21 vs. Incarnate Word ... went 2-for-3 with a walk Feb. 22 vs. Gonzaga ... went 2-for-2 with a double, RBI, run scored and two walks Feb. 23 vs. Notre Dame ... hit 1-for-3 with a run scored Feb. 27 vs. Arizona State ... went 2-for-4 with a run scored Feb. 28 vs. Oklahoma ... walked three times and hit 1-for-2 with an RBI March 2 vs. Manhattan ... added a walk March 4 at Cal Poly ... notched a hit and a run scored March 6 vs. Washington … collected two hits March 7 vs. UC Davis … went 2-for-5 with a double, an RBI and a run scored March 8 vs. Pacific … went 2-for-3 with a double, three runs scored, a walks and a stolen base March 14 vs. Penn State … doubled, drove in two runs and scored a run March 15 vs. Penn State … recorded his first collegiate home run March 22 vs. Pepperdine … went 1-for-4 with a run scored March 26 at San Diego State … added a hit, a walk and a run scored March 28 at Pacific … went 1-for-3 March 30 at Pacific … went 1-for-3 with a walk and a run scored March 30 at Pacific … recorded a double, RBI, run scored and a walk April 5 vs. Portland … added a walk and a run scored April 6 vs. Portland … recorded a hit and walked twice April 11 at Gonzaga … went 2-for-4 with a double April 12 at Gonzaga … went 3-for-4 with a double and two RBIs April 15 vs. San Jose State … collected two hits and scored two runs April 17 at San Diego … went 2-for-5 with an RBI, a run scored and a walk April 19 at San Diego … hit his second collegiate home run — a three-run shot to left — April 22 vs. Stanford … homered in his first two at-bats and went 3-for-3 with four runs scored, two walks and a stolen base April 26 vs. LMU … went 2-for-4 with a double, two RBIs, a run scored and a walk April 27 vs. LMU … singled, drove in a run and scored a run April 29 vs. San Jose State … went 2-for-4 with a double, an RBI, a run scored and a walk May 2 at San Francisco … doubled, walked twice and scored three runs May 3 at San Francisco … walked May 4 at San Francisco … went 2-for-5 with a double, an RBI and a run scored May 8 at BYU … went 3-for-5 with a walk May 10 at BYU … singled, drove in a run, scored a run and walked May 17 vs. Saint Mary's … went 2-for-3 with a double, two runs scored and two walks May 18 vs. Saint Mary's … singled and was hit by a pitch May 22 vs. Pepperdine at the WCC Baseball Championship … went 2-for-3 with a double, two RBIs, a run scored and a walk May 23 vs. Gonzaga at the WCC Baseball Championship.
HIGH SCHOOL: Attended Saratoga High School in Saratoga, Calif. ... played baseball and basketball … in 2013 hit .474 with 10 home runs and a 1.671 OPS en route to League Championship, League MVP, Second Team All-State and All-Mercury News honors in baseball ... All-League and Team MVP in basketball … in 2012, was named All-League, "Toughest Out" and All-CCS Honorable Mention in baseball ... won the League Championship and League MVP honors in basketball … was a member of Kali Baseball, Trosky Baseball, and the San Francisco Giants Scout team.
PERSONAL: Son of Gary and Kelly Berman … Dad played baseball at UCLA and in the Phillies system for three years … Mom played volleyball at Cal State Dominguez Hills … has one sibling, Andy (20) … volunteered for Saratoga Sub Acute Hospital, Family Giving Tree, Relay for Life, Operation Comfort & Care, Saratoga Presbyterian Garden and San Jose Buddhist Temple Obon Festival … hobbies include, music, basketball, video games and hanging out with friends.


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Michael Glawogger does for documentary film what Ryszard Kapuściński did for journalism: He reinvents it as something immersive, meditative, and poetic. His films condense themes of staggering complexity—economics, labor, sex—into meticulous vignettes of everyday life. Although he has occasionally been derided for aestheticizing poverty, there's little doubt that his audacious style is compelling. Nobody who has seen Megacities, his 1998 film about globalization, can forget those feverish New York City scenes of a hustler shooting dope and robbing his john at knifepoint, just as nobody who has watched Workingman's Death (2005), his portrait of contemporary physical labor, can shake its images of a Nigerian slaughterhouse awash in blood.
His latest film, Whores' Glory, is a virtuoso triptych that captures the economic and spiritual tumult of prostitutes across cultures. In Thailand, women sit patiently on display inside the Fish Tank, a glass room where men can browse before buying. In Bangladesh's City of Joy, more than 600 women compete for customers in a labyrinthine compound that doubles as both brothel and home. And in northern Mexico, La Zona is a decaying motel where women catwalk among doorways, sharply silhouetted, vying to catch the eyes of men cruising by in the dark. Glawogger has described brothels as "ghettos of desire," but, as his film makes clear, they are also shadowlands where ancient dramas of love, lust, beauty, and despair are enacted night after night.
I recently spoke with Michael Glawogger about the challenges of capturing such a clandestine subculture. The accompanying photographs are from the companion book to Whores' Glory, published by Orange Press.
Mother Jones: The locations you filmed pose intense logistical challenges for a documentarian, let alone one who is also taking photographs. How did you balance the two?
Michael Glawogger: Mostly I take photographs in times of research. Whores' Glory was shot in 30 days, 10 days for each segment, but the research for each part lasted a couple of months.
MJ: Did the women respond differently to being photographed than to being filmed?
MG: Sometimes the presence of a camera is like opening a door, because many people want what Andy Warhol called "15 minutes of fame." But prostitutes don't want that. They know about the internet, they know their boyfriend can see them, or their parents, so overcoming those boundaries is very tough. I've made many documentaries, but prostitution was the hardest in terms of gaining the trust of the people being filmed.
MJ: How did you do that?
MG: I had to first convince them that I wasn't a journalist who would yet again put out a notion about them they wouldn't necessarily care for or who would victimize them. You know, journalists come and go. If they come twice, it's a lot. But I come 10 times and hang out with them and share stuff. If you connect with someone just once, that's something. But if you can connect twice, that's something else.
MJ: The film is so lush and cinematic. Is it your ambition as a documentarian to restore beauty to lives that many outsiders might see as ugly?
MG: As a filmmaker I cannot make anything beautiful. I'm Platonic in that sense. I think beauty is the splendor of truth, so if the people I portray think they're beautiful, they're beautiful. I don't make them that way. I don't aestheticize anything. I don't even use lights. The working girls do one thing all day: They make themselves pretty. That's their job and their money. In a way, I had the best makeup artists, hairdressers, and art designers in the world.
MJ: How does being a man change the way these women respond to you?
MG: Whenever a man enters the realm of prostitutes he's always regarded as a possible customer. If you enter as a woman, you're regarded as somebody who could be in the same place. Being a man brings the perspective of flirtation.
MJ: Some of the women in Whores' Glory talk about the burdens of being women, hardships that have nothing to do with being prostitutes but with being born female in their society. How did their moral attitude towards sex work play into this larger issue?
MG: On one hand, they don't struggle because it's simply their life. In Mexico and elsewhere, once they get out of these places [brothels] they have a pretty square life. In Bangladesh it's different because they live in the brothel, it's sort of a prison, but still there are two sides. When they think of their religion and their upbringing, they can be very moralistic. They're moralistic about giving blow jobs. On the other hand, they have an everyday life where there's no room for shame.
MJ: Are drugs and alcohol common ways to numb shame? In Mexico, for instance, you filmed the women smoking crack.
MG: You can become an alcoholic working in an office in Los Angeles. It's very easy to say because I do this shameful job I take drugs or drink, but the real reason prostitutes take drugs and drink is because prostitution is a party area. It's not about desperation, it's the surroundings.
MJ: Prostitution also seems like a zone of often crushing boredom.
MG: If you're a prostitute, this is your day: You party, you have customers until four or six in the morning, then you sleep. You wake at noon, watch soaps on TV, take two or three hours to fancy up yourself, and then you start waiting for customers. That's your life. And some days no customers come. There's no party. There's nothing. You sit there and wait. If you're educated you can read books, but in Bangladesh and most other places you watch TV or listen to music or cook.
MJ: What is the typical arc of a woman's life in a brothel?
MG: In Bangladesh there are between 600 and 800 girls in the compound. You're either young, or when you become 40 you acquire your own girls and become a pimp mother. If you got fucked over by a guy who stole all your money or something, then you become a cleaning lady. Sometimes you become a protector girl with her wooden stick who takes care of customers who don't behave properly. You never leave the compound though. You stay there, grow old there, and die there.
In Thailand, it's totally free. You're a self-entrepreneur. As a young prostitute something like 90 percent of the money stays with the girls. It's a pretty fair trade. It's interesting because the Thai king says there's no prostitution in Thailand, it doesn't exist, so the prostitutes don't pay taxes. They can work other jobs if they want and put away money, maybe leave when they're 40.
MJ: Did the women ever talk about how their lives might be different if prostitution were legalized?
MG: I heard them talk about organizations in Europe or America where they're very aware of legal status. Look, prostitution will always exist in every society, so I believe in a fair trade. Open the doors for women to earn their money without having pimps. The worst thing is to criminalize it, because then you open the doors for pimps, criminals, and trading.
MJ: The prostitutes in Bangladesh have often been aggressive about defending their homes and their way of life against government intervention. It seems there's a real lack of insight about the communities inside the brothels, as well as the social function they serve.
MG: Yes, there's always this problem in society where people know they need these places for social peace, but the fundamentalists want to shut them down. Sometimes that's for economic reasons, because they want to build a supermarket there. The imam will hold a prayer and say let's get rid of the girls, but on the other hand they're all going there.
There are so many compounds in Bangladesh, and they all have like a thousand girls. Where would the girls go if they got shut down? Where would the customers go? A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.
MJ: Has the internet changed the way in which men in these societies seek out women for sex?
MG: They know about YouPorn and all that. The prostitutes hate it. They say the young boys get all these ideas and come there wanting blow jobs and wanting to fuck them in the ass. In a way it's bad for business because men ask for a lot more than they used to. In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds. In the Bengali language, there's not a real word for blow job. They call it "doing the ice cream."
MJ: What part of the film do you feel the deepest connection with?
MG: For sure Mexico. La Zona is such a closed area, a dangerous, outlaw area. My time in the Zona was a time outside of society, almost out of the real world. And the girls there had such a sense of irony and sarcasm. They were also really interested in my film. They'd be like, "Thank God we live in Mexico, because our kind of prostitution has a heart. We wouldn't want to sit behind a glass cage or be sold by our own mothers. We have free will."


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One of the inherent problems with BeeSource and other Internet forums is that people responding to posts have little hard information to go on. There are lots of posts by people who want to keep bees without using treatments that unfortunately are scared to open their hives and see what is in there.
It is good to know that you have thought about the potential consequences of being treatment free.
I have a state bee inspector coming here in about an hour to look over the yards here (two) - and while I will be interested to know the Nosema counts, I am much more interested if there are virus signs that I have missed. I make no pretense at knowing everything there is to know about bees and welcome additional (knowledgeable) eyes. I do hope the temp rises a bit in the next hour.
My yard without treatments was started this spring from packages from BeeWeaver. I have found them feisty on occasion - we'll see what the state inspector has to say. They look healthy enough to me but with insufficient stores to over winter successfully.


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This is similar to one that I make. We call it Dad's Fruit Salad. I like taking it to potlucks because the pudding thickens the juice and doesn't run all over the plate! I use pineapple tidbits and fruitcocktail and drain a can of mandarin oranges. Lots of options for this salad and it looks pretty too. I have also taken it to camping potlucks because if everything is chilled all I have to do is open cans and mix!
what is the vanilla instant pudding mix? We do not have that over here in the UK so what is it, and what can we use instead of it please?
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instead of the pudding mix, i drain the fruit, and use a jar of baby food bananas (or two, depending oh how much fruit is there) as the "binder". works great, and you can lick out the jar... i'm going to try the pudding mix, next time. sounds great!
"life is a banquet, and most poor fools are out there, starving to death!"--"auntie mame"
Looks and sounds delicious. Thanks for sharing.
>>what is the vanilla instant pudding mix? We do not have that over here in the UK so what is it, and what can we use instead of it please?<<
My mom makes a similar fruit salad with whipped cream as the base. Sometime she will use cool whip instead. She always adds miniature marshmallows. It was served many Sunday evenings and Holiday evenings.
Also similar is Waldorf Salad which uses mayonnaise as the base.
The ingredients in an instant pudding mix (I pulled out a sugar-free Cheesecake flavor pudding) are
modified food starch, maltodextrin, tetrasodium pyrophosphate, disodium phosphate (for thickening), non-fat milk, natural and artificial flavor, salt, calcium phosphate, xanthan gum, mono- and di-glycerides, aspartame, and acesulfame potassium (sweeteners) and coloring.
So, it's basically starch, sugar or sweetener, and a little milk, plus flavor.
Instant pudding is different from cooked pudding in that it does not develop a crust on top after making it, and it's ready to eat in 5 minutes.
Aspartame is nasty stuff....
>>Aspartame is nasty stuff....<<
I'm aware of that, and we're trying to get it out of our diet. This pudding package had been in the cupboard for some time.
Our pudding is like your custard.
Looks wonderful!!! Looove fruit! Wonder if you can use a dollop of greek yogurt instead???


text: Get it? Pickup games ... pickups games. They're driving a pickup and they're playing pickup basketball games. Get it? Well, the videos are put together pretty well, and they've got a lot of traffic. Would be better if they could bring guns and moving targets into play. Of course, after watching them, if they're real then they're pretty good shots.


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Used some new skin today and it worked . Some did peel off but it stayed over the cut which was important. It reminded me of super glue but it has antibiotics in it. thanks Chris for the suggestion. I like it. I was able to work with a nasty cut on my index finger.
I keep New Skin in my classroom, as it does work well, when protecting the wound, while working with clay. It is like super glue, especially in the fact, it will burn like crazy right when you put it on. It will peel off after a while, as it isn't nearly as elastic as your skin. The other downside, it takes a couple minutes to dry fully, which can be annoying. Though, as Marcia stated, it does have antibiotics in it, so that's a nice bonus you won't get from super glue.
When I was in college, I had an abrasion on my centering hand, from the constant wearing from the grog. So I used Liquid Band-Aid. It is a two part product, with a swab, and some drops you put on the swab to activate it, then wipe it on. It doesn't sting like New Skin, and makes a nice little temporary seal. However, only so many of the swabs come with the kit, and you end up with more of the liquid drops, than swabs....It's like the hot dog/ hot dog bun conspiracy.
Also, the Liquid Band-Aid did not hold up very long against the grog either. Still, it was better than dealing with the discomfort, from having a tender spot on my hand, continually assaulted by what is essentially tiny bits of broken glass.
About the hot dog and bun issue, ...... does any one here have a similar problem with mugs and plates? I know I have way more mugs than plates.....just thinking aloud.


text: Why argue with this idiots!! 49ER fans are in the same class as the New England, Philly and Cowgirl fans! Can't accept the fact when their teams get outplayed and lose. I can kind of understand the Cowgirl fans because they have had nothing to be proud of in the last 15 years but they are still D-bags like the rest of them. The fact that they spend more time and effort on our forum rather then their teams should tell you something.


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I look forward to seeing what the outcome is of your nuc survival based on the different times you started them. What were your earliest and latest dates of startup?
I look forward to seeing what the outcome is of your nuc survival based on the different times you started them. What were your earliest and latest dates of startup?
John, the earliest ones have not had a brood break - unless they requeened themselves. The latest ones were made on June 17th. The mid ones were made the last week of May. All were taking cleansing flights today.
Adrian, it will be interesting how this all comes out, next year I will be doing early ones as you did plus later ones also(late July/early Aug.)that will give us a longer time span to compare wintering results from. Was full sun here today and no wind, but temps were still a little cold for much flying, supposed to warm more this weekend.
I hope they pull through for you, sounds like they will. I do the same 5 over 5, my splits were 2-3 frame but kept them in the same yard and didn't move them away. I kept them confined for a few days hoping that would minimize bees going back, I think it helped some. John
Don, forgot to ask how you are protecting them this winter? John
I'm protecting them in 2 ways;
1. Pushed them together in groups of 2 and 3
2. They are on the south end of my home with privacy fence on both ends of them. No wind, no people, and they still get about 4-5 hours of good sun. The brick wall they are facing seems to heat up as well. Haven't decided on further insulation yet. I'd like to spend any further protection making styro nucs for next year. From what I've learned here, they will pay for themselves.
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At what temperatures do nucs or full size hives for that matter need protection. We have very mild winters here and I have not added anything to my hives yet. Bright sunny days through out the winter I am a bit reluctant to ad anything that absorbs heat. This morning it is 41 degrees by this afternoon it could be in the 70's. this happens all winter. Coldest day so far has been 19 in the morning got into the 60's during the day.
So far my only thought on winter prep has been to wedge the inner covers for ventilation. And even with that not much as we have a very dry climate.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
Don, sounds like a good wintering spot, they may not need further protection or if anything just tarpaper them for more heat absorption. I too have been reading about styro nucs and how they winter bees real good. The white expanded styrofoam has an r-value of 3.8 per inch, the blue and pink extruded has r-value of 5, wood is r-value of 1, so there is a big difference. I like to make my own stuff as much as possible so I am looking forward to building some of these for next winter, wish I would have thought about it sooner to try it out this winter. John
Daniel Y, you can get by without protection with those kinds of temperatures every day, ventilation is always important though. John
Just to contrast, MP doesn't make early spring splits. Mel's plan relies on it.
Mel says to make 2 frame splits one week before swarm season. We still get some intermittent chilly days here at that time. I tried a few early splits and witnessed chilled brood being hauled out after a cold snap. I'll wait until night temps are warmer next time.
I make my own parts as well John. Looking for a good styro plan. There would have to be wood strips at the top and bottom and in the frame rests.
Daniel Y, Sounds like you need hive protection in the summer rather than in winter.
What if you just cut some styrofoam, and tacked all around your nucs for the winter, and then took it off come spring?
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sfisher, this has worked for me in Wisconsin. The nucs are squeezed together on their stand. Each individual nuc's styofoam cover is on top of a FBIC, and the two outside nucs have a panel of styro. on the outside. I covered it with a wrap of pond liner and tied it all down.
I suspect that if you overwinter in SC you probably don't need to do this much work.
Don, you make a good point about building the same box twice, using a styro nuc would eliminate that and still would give you about the same insulating value. Storing all that foam board is another downside I have to contend with every year too, besides being labor intensive, its getting where I dread going out to put the foam on every winter, there has to be a better way. John
Adrian, I did my nucs exactly the same as you except for the pond liner a couple years ago. Unfortunately I didn't have good success that winter, wasn't the lack of insulation though. John
John, time will tell whether or not it consistently works. The previous year I divided a hive, and half of it died out early - I don't know why - but the remaining half survived with little insulation and no close neighbors. All it had was a piece of styro on the top and a piece of tar paper.
I don't know if all the insulation is necessary, but it makes me feel better. I might experiment with less insulation on a group another year to see if it makes a difference.
My apiary is inconvenient for me, it is on quite a slope. Yet the slope is south-facing, and I have natural windbreaks from all other directions.
Adrian, I am fairly confident that a full size (at least two story) hive doesn't need packing in the U.S. as long as they go into winter the way they should, especially with a good sized cluster, they can handle alot of cold just fine. Anything less than the ideal full size colony and nucs I feel would benefit from some additional insulation. I just don't see how a stand alone 5 frame nuc can make it in a northern winter without some help, I'm sure there are some that have done it though, as for me I will take the time to improve my odds. John
John, I wasn't clear. My surviving nuc was 2 storeys of 5 frames. I am not brave enough to attempt wintering a nuc with only 5 frames.


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I spoke last week at The Big Money's Untethered 2010 conference in NYC. I couldn't stay for the whole event, but I really enjoyed seeing Phil McKinney, CTO of the Personal Systems Group at HP, interviewed by James Ledbetter. He wowed the audience with a little show-and-tell: a flexible screen display printed on a mylar scroll that's bi-stable (meaning that, like an E Ink screen, it can use very little power to display text) but can also display video at 60 hertz.
[Photo courtesy of ZDNet UK (not from Untethered, but it's the same demo)]
According to McKinney, we're about 24 to 36 months away from seeing this display make it into products on the market. Imagine walls papered with the stuff, furniture covered with it. Your "device" would be your portable connectivity, which would trigger your data to appear on one of these screens in your home, office, or public space as you approach. I'm envisioning something that looks like the world in "Splinter Cell," which my gamer husband has been playing on our Xbox 360:


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Legislature's synthetic drug committee to hold hearing Thursday in Brainerd
The Select Committee on Controlled Substances and Synthetic Drugs will hold a hearing at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, in the Chalberg Theatre at Central Lakes College in Brainerd.
Reps. John Ward, DFL-Baxter, and Joe Radinovich, DFL-Crosby, will attend the meeting.
The committee is studying the issue of the growing synthetic drug problem. Members of the committee were appointed by House Speaker Paul Thissen.
Synthetic drugs are chemicals designed to mimic the effects of drugs such as marijuana, cocaine and methamphetamines. However, they are completely different substances with completely different – and very dangerous – side effects.
There has been difficulty banning these drugs because the manufacturers change the chemical compounds just enough to evade the law and so quickly that the law cannot keep up. This has posed a serious threat to the health of individuals who use and safety of the community.
Public testimony is welcomed. Anyone interested in testifying in front of the committee should contact the committee administrator, Laura Taken-Holtze, at 651-296-8826 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Airbus Americas has named Jennifer Ogle, 49, as the new Director of Human Resources (HR) for its Mobile, Alabama assembly line. Ogle will join Airbus on April 15 and report to Linda Herbert, Vice President of HR for Airbus Americas.
During the construction phase of the assembly line in Mobile, Ogle will be responsible for optimal coordination of all HR-related activities, including compensation and benefits, expatriation, recruiting and training (in conjunction with the Alabama Industrial Development and Training organization) and employee relations. Once construction is complete, she will be responsible for the day-to-day HR operations within the manufacturing facility.
She comes to Airbus Americas from Taylor-Wharton Cryogenics in Theodore, Alabama, where she has been the Human Resources Director since July 2011.
She brings more than 20 years of experience with organization development and design, labor and employee relations, manufacturing management and leadership development and coaching in a manufacturing environment. Prior to Taylor-Wharton, she was with Armstrong World Industries in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for 13 years in various HR roles; Allied-Signal in Maryville, Tennessee for three years; and A.E. Staley Manufacturing in Loudon, Tennessee for five years.
Ogle graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville with a B.S. degree in Human Ecology in 1985. She received her certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR®) in 2000.
Ogle is originally from Knoxville. She and her family reside in Fairhope, Alabama, and she has lived in the Mobile area for 13 years.On July 2, 2012, Airbus announced it would build an assembly line for its A320 Family of aircraft in Mobile. The groundbreaking for the assembly line is in April and major construction will begin in the summer. Hiring for manufacturing jobs at the assembly line will begin during the fourth quarter of 2013 and continue into 2014.
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When available, open positions for employment at the Mobile Assembly Line are available on www.airbusalabama.com
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Airbus Americas appoints Jennifer Ogle as HR Director for Mobile assembly line
Airbus Americas has named Jennifer Ogle, 49, as the new Director of Human Resources (HR) for its Mobile, Alabama assembly line. Ogle will join Airbus on April 15 and report to Linda Herbert, Vice President of HR for Airbus Americas.
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Jennifer Ogle was named the Director of Human Resources for Airbus Americas' new Mobile, Alabama A320 Family final assembly line, effective April 2013. She will coordinate all human resources-related activities during this U.S. facility's construction phase, and oversee such day-to-day operations once the final assembly line is completed